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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 the increase of french aid for reconstruction as so french aid to the afghans will be more than double. 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. has 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. into creation under the taliban seven years ago there were less than one million children in school now there are six million children in school and 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. the french minister for foreign affairs triumphs 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. with my will corruption and opium trafficking we found mr president first c n n what kind of guarantees you offer in the international community we really would call for all that going to. do you see go for us as far as you may know it is a job well we can just do it on this is to kill people to deliver the goods services to get out of that interruption and drug trafficking condom to be filled

by us the afghans also have to be also to. have a genocide was to make good use of this assistance you must've today afghan people by saying if it was going to concrete examples there are coaches in the past or you don't present these things so what you need and that is 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 game 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 is an all 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. the good of it is even that that money what money

the 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 that maybe now. starving out of work people meet every morning on this crossroads 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 that keep them about your 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 we want to see the schools that

were a priority of international aid. here is what sounded random you know working class neighborhood of the camp. 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 that sat up i guess that. these. little fish. that nobody. was going to know working in baghdad if you didn't want it you if that is nothing more to activities 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 google my dad you know i still only want to steal one not to listen to the teacher i. want him to lose maybe i want

to grow my stuff how can they be happy. winter is coming in the morning is cold. a light snow started to fall. i say if he goes on we'll have to leave but for now it's not much at all but 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. how is anything for. learning. all of the afghan people want to do our country good to forget us figuring in here for making go was dangerous or who i dis. it's rare. but now we are trying to make these are for the schools because it's really

important news expensive for the schools. 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 . was prince of. however i spotted a piece of land where the school could settle and expand. because 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. a 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 but where the school is the hundreds of schools allegedly built thanks to international. 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 our. own. i. 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 that gives. you board where. all you know are that.

many of the boards been here for one and a half years out of my wall that will double that when they put it up and they promised that construction would start and everything would be completed. this all is local it's almost two years now and still nothing. 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. so far the american donors have only built 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 for the more 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 things that construction must go faster ok it's really necessary yes going too slow but as amok we lack so much space in our school that we have to refuse no admissions that is more of us an occupation is very high end of a set. 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 is the taliban threat but that's not all. sheer poor is at the heart of the conflict with 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. in the middle to stop for maybe. going to these people coming with the americans with others and it wasn't for their planes and tanks with them at all they would have never made it here you know quite well but i don't like going to have a moment when i mean they should have built public housing for everyone but they

would instead like if they took the area by force with weapons but i didn't like my saying the truth on the only significant. to climb out of a well yes it happened 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. i mean i did about ship the so the . work here. was a great problem that's what he said. we meet with a man who is having his house built. you'll be. one of the architects who has designed the neighborhood surveillance. is rich clients have paid him in full now it is his turn to have his own palace built. and.

altogether 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. it will all become a bit sad that these old houses are illegal i mean these people will leave the state will relocate them elsewhere next year that's the way it is but if the government wants to build a road on a house on the path that is the house is raised and the land requisition. to speed up the evictions the chief of police showed up one morning in two thousand and six with a bulldozer. and up on the lead but it was that i mean how about on the bulldozers came without warning. on the top on aiken's they came to demolish the houses that were on the path of the road that i started raising here. that i got them and then we were told

we had to leave them on the topic on the. thread if you don't leave we'll be back tomorrow and we'll. make up. then a man comes out of one of the villas is he one of the mysterious owners. know 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 the city this is the new. this stupid thing in this latest model called the facilities came with the security guards appear there on the 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. 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 there just a building you did in this thing many houses and they're giving that in because it is very high note in google. in europe all much as it was like this this. may be trained. twenty thousand euro as though it was money. 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. just. especially in this

because this is the area which was. taken by people you know just a lot of people from women in the poor people who are skipped from the cd. and you see him in despair that they discuss his. push this man who was one of the very first to inform on the sheer poor situation a member of parliament who is waging a war against corruption. just by a little nationalist 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 but i decided today he's going to create quite a stir in parliament. indeed winter is here and with it comes famine and extreme urgency as he has just discovered that the food aid hasn't reached the villages yet . it was too much. to go it was sort of i protest that for the same reasons as last year. your remember i was expelled asked

you this moment if i'm not mistaken with 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 blood pressure just goes. on 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 see we can check it right now i mean 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 thought it was that people are dying from hunger and here you are talking about millions of dollars i cannot believe this these are nothing but life. but it. 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 granted review so the first time i saw this document i was the plan he was at this i opened it you i was alone and i became terrorized i could not believe the mafia was so powerful to be so seductive clearly show biz amount of public funding that the fraud and the outrageous privileges easy it's the first scandal of the cars i had ministration exorbitant syrup or risk of those. cars i. sit. 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 of course. is the governor of a province official here this is the son of the general. general here and

ambassador isidore president of public radio and television. four hundred fifty square meters. is the chief of police. is a journalist for afghan television afghan. people but you're right they can't be critical of the government up with the news. how can they. eat it up with it was also pretty i'm laughing but i should really be crying because you look at this specifically those gifts or did they still have to pay. because they paid something like two or three hundred dollars some people got 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 motion for him who is defense minister and littlest vice president. one of the most powerful and feared men in the country. who are 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 fayed. flame and other afghan war chiefs become the best allies of donald rumsfeld also known as mr war in america. they risk. millions of dollars to oust the taliban. after the fall of kabul in two thousand and two fame the former war chief is named defense minister then marshal. disallows 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. both. of them area where does the money for the palaces come from from the mother's belly. yet if they 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 no avail the subject is way too sensitive.

only much goes for you if you show it makes everybody as a bridge. not more than two thousand dollars or. close the trio. well some of those houses are a million dollar. there it is and that's the big question there is no base these people are. only a part of. that indicates something else 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 but when i look to some of these expensive houses it can be. even the idea of corruption because one million dollars just building for industry. is very high. corruption and embezzler.

but also drugs. it's impossible not to think about opium trafficking when you come across ask a new will reach. 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 and why don't i just as i should have. heard. is there. a child has 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 and mr. purcel can include we can also afford to not come at a great all 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 of the law says we need proof so if someone provides that proof then yes we work at it with no problems going to kill a. person 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 what of it and we can't touch that everyone is allowed tallahassee our city.