and. you're watching r t three thirty in the morning here in moscow and now let's have a look at our top stories this hour as ministers meet in brussels to consider boosting the. struggling economy it's euro skeptics say the single currency is broken beyond repair with several eurozone members broken. forms a new national unity government violence top old exile the president look at why urgent economic development is seen as key to restoring the country as a beacon of stability in the region. toxic tourist claims that

nato is dumping poison including depleted uranium in the talbot adriatic sea meets with silence from. government locals and fishermen deadly health risks. and coming up next a special report on the effort to bring afghanistan back on track after years of conflict stay with us. the red carpet and t.v. cameras the lights are on. june two thousand and eight the countries of the coalition are presenting their spending program for the reconstruction of afghanistan. the friendly side of the war. americans french germans afghan politicians congratulating each other.

after the photo they all disappear behind a partition. it's access is closely guarded so journalists are welcome to attend the conference on television if france is not only acting as the host in power the president as usual has planned a spectacular announcement. simple question and that is why i am announcing off an increase of french aid for reconstruction so french aid to the afghans will be more than doubled. more than doubled just ahead of the aga khan private foundation france is now the twenty first donor. the first donor being the united states. displayed to the press put the emphasis on the positive results of reconstruction especially for schools for which the u.s. government announces impressive figures. in education under the taliban seven years ago there were less than one million

children in school now there are six million children in school in the u.s. government has been pleased to be able to help the government of afghanistan to achieve these quick results by reconstructing or building a new six hundred eighty schools. barnard cushiony the french minister for foreign affairs tribes he's just announced a very high figure and so we weren't expecting such a large sum of twenty million dollars in fact. a for a country such as afghanistan twenty billion dollars is a lot of money but how will it be spent. when members of the conference dare cross the partition that separates them from the press unpleasant questions start flying around. why will corruption and opium trafficking be found mr president first c n n what kind of guarantees you offer in the international community we will we would

all for all they're going to see that d.c. go for us as far as your commitment no it is the job of old with just a little on this is to kill people to deliver the goods services to get out of corruption that interruption and drug trafficking condom only be followed by us the afghans also have to be and also to. have a genocide was to make good use of this assistance we must to give it to the afghan people by bringing them at the receiving end of concrete examples there are coaches in the past or you know wasn't these things not so much in a stand that could stand back stand that queensland stand that. winter two thousand and nine we have come to afghanistan to follow the dollar train . the billions in international aid the mysterious fortune of an upstart caste

living in dollar a step to the dollars come from where do they go how much is really can vested in schools and hospitals. we are about to discover a country where an ever poor population has lost all confidence in the authorities . a country where the taliban gain ground every day. this morning in a secured zone an american convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber. the marines have lost one man they're panicking. and. they seem afraid of being attacked by someone in the crowd for passers by were killed by the blast. eighty percent of the victims of the taliban are innocent civilians. war is becoming more intense and poverty

time high afghanistan remains one of the four poorest countries in the world and people in the streets do not believe the billions of international aid will change their fate. that good omens even that that money what money money does not reach the people who pulled out it stays out there out to us that it's in the pockets of the government was there for you where is the money that. starving out of work people meet every morning on this cross roads they wait here for days hoping to earn three dollars for a day's work. to do work yesterday and the day before. i haven't worked in a week so money john's times web editor in the wall would die from bullets today they die of hunger let them about their my children and i haven't eaten anything in two days i swear i haven't eaten anything in two days that's

a good girl is ya buddy fish people are dying of hunger who's going to help us anyway if i tell you i'm starving will you help me. where are the achievements put forward by the donating countries who want to see the schools that were a priority of international aid. here is what sounded random in a working class neighborhood of the capital. it is roll call for the girls in the south of the country girls are attacked by the taliban but they can. when you to flock to school they are determined and come in numbers in large numbers here a few minor details missing from the situation to be perfect. details like walls and a roof. sat up was that. these. little fish. that had. no working environment

if you didn't want it you idiot that has nothing more to add a bit where outside ok now that there are no chairs no tables just them the hell can the girls learn anything in the schools and you know bottom line that you know i still only want to stay one not to listen to the teacher i didn't ask was. do you want them to listen to grow by step how can they be happy. winter is coming in the morning is cold. a light snow started to fall. i say as he goes on will have to leave to notify now it's not much it's alright when the snow falls like this we stay outside of it. you can you study under the snow. you know what it is but we don't have a choice. you have it and it in for. learning. all of the afghan people want to do our country good to pour goodness dickering in

here for making go. for who i dis. it's rare. but now we have tried to make things better for the school because it is really important expensive for the school. one thing is certain funds for major national aid were not invested here. because there aren't enough classrooms this small school welcomes its ten thousand students over three ships i . princes. however i spotted a piece of land where the school could settle and expand. was i mean. this piece of land is owned by the state. but most of it was seized by people who have friends in high places well the rest of it belongs to the ministry of defense. put in a request of the school. off camera a school official hints that the man who confiscated this land that is vital to the

school is a commander in chief a warlord. the school official remain silent in front of the camera because he fears the warlord. this is his house it overlooks the slumps. to make the situation clear the warlord has put up military barbed wire even around the small garden on the sidewalk in front of the house. it's true afghan students are back in huge numbers where the school has hundreds of schools allegedly built thanks to international aid. reconstructing or building a new six hundred eighty school. we contact the u.s. a united states agency for international development. their offices are located behind these walls. a perimeter reserved to those holding the bag for those outside

the walls it's traffic jams and danger. we want to see with our own eyes one of the six hundred eighty schools. we've been talking to julia the press agent for ten days. she's having trouble finding one not always calling you because i live to have some addresses of schools too to be able to feel much. you put the address on it right. on. down. great. ten days to get the address of a school in kabul a girls' high school that is under construction. we rush to it. we find ourselves in front of a magnificent billboard picturing a truly beautiful building. ok so where is the school.

the school the kids. who forward oh you know what that. means the board's been here for one and a half years side of my wall that will double that when they put it up and they promised the construction would start and everything would be completed. this all is well it's almost two years now and still nothing. good to me i've been calling saying the girls are freezing to death or they have the flu i've been here since six o'clock this morning we couldn't get my hands are completely dry from the cold but that's how it was i mean the survey to. show. so far the american donors have only build restrooms and the school surrounding walls and of inaugurated a beautiful billboard. we call back usaid and this time we insist where the

school's out of the six hundred eighty there has to be one in kabul we receive one last email from the agency it states that most of the schools were built in rural districts. too bad for us and for the afghan kids. the rural districts are swarming with taliban who sometimes burn the schools down and often kidnap journalists furthermore because of the war many villages have been deserted their inhabitants fleeing to the capital whose population has doubled to about four million. case in point is the. place where schools are needed the most. i guess we need so many have a construction must go faster ok it's really necessary obvious going too slow but as a mark we lack so much space in our school that we have to refuse now admissions this move as an occupation is very high her liver said.

yet there is one neighborhood in kabul where construction is thriving where there are no delays. welcome to ship to the stronghold of afghanistan's new lords. for the past three years fortified thomases have mushroomed ensured. each still has its own private security. of course there was the taliban threat but that's not a. sure pool is at the heart of a conflict that the new authorities would like to conceal. a war between those who are close to power and thousands of poor people who have lived in the area for several generations.

of an immigrant to stop for maybe. going to these people who came would be americans before this i mean wasn't for their planes and tanks the minute they would have never made it here you know quite well but i don't like going to it make a moment when i mean they should have built public housing for everyone but do it instead so if they took the area by force with weapons put out it would i say the truth on the negativity and. oh yeah yep and one house as well enough some really have three or four. who are the owners of these houses the secret is well kept by guards armed with machine guns. you got by the way or a private security firm you cannot fill me out. and i mean about did that upset the so the. already there. was a great problem that's what is saved. we meet with

a man who is having his house built. he's one of the architects who has designed the neighborhoods villains. his rich clients have paid him in full now it is his turn to have his own palace built. all together it can't afford a five hundred thousand dollars from the top of the villa a splendid panoramic view over the slums which are scheduled to be demolished. but. these old houses are illegal i mean these people will leave the state will relocate them elsewhere that's the way it is but if the government wants to build a road and houses on the path that is the house is raised and the land requisition . to speed up the evictions the police showed up one morning in two thousand and six with a bulldozer. does

that i mean how about on the bulldozers came without warning. and they came to demolish the houses that were on the road that i started raising here. that i got him and then we were told we had to leave. if you don't leave we'll be back tomorrow and we'll. make. a man comes out of one of the villas is he one of the mysterious owners. he's a businessman back from exile he rents one of the palaces and uses it as an office for his company. that you see. this is the new. this new building in this latest model called

the facilities came with security guards appear there on edge what is the problem this is the middle of the street isopropyl express why don't you want us to film explain to this is a house this is a street this is public this is i'm sorry this is this is trade this is public this houses don't own the streets you know we are regular generalists we're doing our job we're in the middle of the street i'm sorry i'm not doing anything wrong tell them to shut the camera down because the journalist want to show that there are rich people also in kabul ok ok ok if you. don't film the house ok. because of the people here it is just a building that in this thing many and houses hundred giving it in because it is very high loading util. going in europe all much as it was like this this is. the twenty thousand twenty thousand year as though it was.

but it's hard to know who receives the money and in this case you know who the owner is is someone from the government or. especially. because this is the area which was. taken by a woman people in the us or some other people from women in the poor people who are skipped from the cd. and the same in this case that may discusses. bush this man was one of the very first to inform on the ship or situation a member of parliament who is waging a war against corruption. just by bashing those who is a gandhi like character modest and extremely popular some call him a populist in terms of number of votes he's number three in the country today he's going to create quite a stir in parliament. indeed winter is here and with it comes famine and extreme

urgency he has just discovered that the food aid hasn't reached the villages yet. my mantra. it was. because i protest for the same reasons as last year our george you're a member i was expelled asked you if i'm not mistaken the money you asked for last year has not been cleared by the budget divide this is illegal. to avoid a scandal the president of the assembly cut his microphone. any thoughts i thought after the go fish that we've heard the figures you're quoting dozens of times i mean i had thought a lot but if you want to we can take it live now and that's cool villages and the local authorities to see if the food supplies have arrived at your i would like to get one if. it's exactly the same as last year thought they had lived and they continue to do so caught up with that people are dying from hunger and here you are

talking about millions of dollars i cannot believe this these are nothing but a life. that. is a former minister four years ago he resigned to protest against the squandering of international aid. from his stint as minister he's kept a highly sensitive document concerning the ship or district. the list of all those who were sold land for almost nothing. for quandary if you saw the first time i saw this document i was the plan he was at this i opened it to you i was alone and i became terrorized just so i could not believe the mafia was so power. seems clearly show biz amount of public funding that the fraud and the outrageous privileges easy it's the first scandal of the cars i'd ministration exorbitant syrup or risk of those. cars i. don't.

know if this is the area nine hundred twenty four square meters to do a shift this is the foreign secretary is chief of staff is a figure. is the governor of a province official here this is the son of. the general he an ambassador. president of public radio and television. four hundred fifty square meters. is the chief of police. is a journalist for afghan television. in afghan. people but they can't be critical of the government up which. how can they put. up with it was also bullshit i'm laughing but i should really be crying because you know if it is specifically those gifts or do they still have to pay. because they paid something like two or three hundred dollars or something but i get three hundred dollars for nine hundred square meters just about. who had enough power to ward such gifts to

friends of the regime. since the land officially belongs to the defense ministry the generous donor must have been a military. to search this all this land was given by a national for him who is defense minister and littlest vice president. one of the most powerful and feared men in the country. attention war chief who first came to light during the soviet war which he fought alongside come under my suit then against the taliban in september two thousand and one suit is assassinated by al qaeda and is replaced by fate. and other afghan war chiefs become the best allies of donald rumsfeld also known as mr war in america. they received millions of dollars to oust the

taliban. after the fall of kabul in two thousand and two flame the former war chief is named defense minister then. this allows him to distribute land in the ship or district. we tried to contact marshall fame several times he did not wish to give us his side of the story. one question remains. how do you earn five hundred thousand dollars when you're a civil servant. a question looming in the streets of kabul. well from both. of them betty where does the money for the palaces come from from the mother's belly. you wanted to get the money to build it they will fall like me. how did they do it people in the streets are not the only ones who have become suspicious the role of the human rights commission is to monitor the

government the commission's lawyers have officially requested that share poor is wealthy be investigated. to newell's nails the subject is way too sensitive. should goes for you if you show it makes everybody as it were. not more than two thousand dollars are. going to be that close. well some of those houses are a million dollar. and that's the big question there is no base that these people run. for only. that indicates something good there is a high level of corruption and misuse of public property and misuse of those monies all the development and at the same time there are discussions about truck traffic

when i look to some of these expensive houses it can't be that many even the idea of corruption because one million dollars just building. in this town is very high. corruption and embezzlement. but also drugs. it's impossible not to think about opium trafficking when you come across ask a new full rich. the country produces ninety percent of the world's heroin. seven thousand tons per year. sure the taliban profit from the drugs trafficking but according to the american press so do afghan government officials inside the administration. under the pressure of the international community the government has set up an anti narcotic special unit its means are considerable for such a country. even in the area of public relations in this laboratory we are shown the

tricks used by drug mules that were caught by the police supply and i'm sure. where . is there. a shot as that i need to see did opium money find in some of the luxurious villas of sure. that's a question no one wants to answer. we meet with the prosecutor in charge of finding money laundering. deficient seems rather reluctant to talk. of it unless that. can include we can also afford to not come at a ball well and ask people how they go that house but if someone comes up with proof i insist if anyone can prove that our house was built thanks to drug money then we go at it one hundred percent but the law says we need proof so if someone provides that proof then yes we work at it with no problems going in. who is looking for the evidence if it's not you we're going to the law we don't have the

right to investigate people's private property one of it we can't touch them everyone is allowed tallahassee our city.