tv [untitled] January 18, 2011 5:30am-6:00am EST
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welcome back you're watching live from moscow these are the top stories u.k. banks bailed out by taxpayer money prepare to hand out bumper bonuses you know why a sturdy cuts in public pressure to limit the payouts. president advantage was doing in the palestinian territories and a middle east visit aimed at reviving the stalled peace talks with israel but he won't be needing any israeli officials because of a strike in that country's foreign ministry. family of late polish president lech kaczynski says he was assassinated by russia rejecting the findings of the official investigation into the plane crash that killed him. coming up next part two of our
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special report on the effort to bring war torn afghanistan back on track. drug official never attempted to find out how those quick fortunes were made. so who could do it. why not the anti-corruption commission. it was led by a childhood friend of president karzai. a few months ago in september two thousand and eight the commission was dissolved when something went very wrong this was a psychiatrist office. empty. so. people. really game it chips i had some phones heartlands for people to be calling in a case date or they see something going on and about me asking people for upright and where is the telephone. ensued coolness. is
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a number that ritter numbers which we have a matter of mary production fake what the case is to the fabs which is nigeria see . oddly enough the commission never investigated the sheer poor district. all this in this poll says these. are serious. charges with the fish which has imposed this was if and it's been built by people to the majority of the people all the people they were there working in that demonstration office. say that because they say that they were the generator it was. probably. your body our he knew to show the poor and he was off to them touching it and just making it like. a skid out a fit. the chief untouchable had to leave his post precipitously. according
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to the american press was he spent three years in jail in the united states because of some shady business. see the receipt for jury duty. check and across an afghanistan on talk of buy the. car and you are about france and where else you sure it's a moment ago drug. that's the minute i'm about this question once upon a time when i was an american and to not could say eighty four eighty five i learned on vacation with some friends and other people but there was not a shelf a king or a jug setting what i wanted there is were some friends together and some apps that are now bundled up in the las vegas of course for about integration they were in for some party. that is that the case and. in fact mr was
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he had the bad idea of selling six hundred fifty grams of heroin to an undercover f.b.i. agent. and for you if you want to make it to make sure there were a good video for your sofas speak as much as you can if this is the case somebody had an accident happen to is that son and he careful about. what is given us that he has done nothing and then he cannot work for his nation. it is estimated that four billion dollars circulating in the country's economy come from heroin trafficking. another four billion comes from internationally. this massive influx of money has triggered the arrival of bold speculators. afghanistan attracts more investors like sound business men that has made a fortune in the emirates. they're building these gilded shopping malls hoping to take advantage of the country's simmering opulence. a tell tale sign
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hundreds of brand new has u.v.'s in the streets. for by. the anticorruption deputy this sudden wealth is only the fruit. to prove his point he takes us somewhere to lunch. this is not an s.u.v. dealership it is a banquet organized in the owner of a member of parliament who was assassinated all those who count in kabul are attending want to. wanted to. be tastefully surely these people are the richest people will pull his have axes. they're not welcome here. just show this is how international aid is managed it's catastrophic. said to the only way does the money end up. in the pockets of those close to power the deputies the senate is ministers business is doing his job
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engineer of the united nations department heads still goes beyond this scope waste of food or meal is paid for by a french or american english taxpayer. the same one who thought he was paying for the construction of roads of electric facilities if the school. said to the money went into the pockets of the government in the behind sales the luxury hotel there is little to do. so if you can see with your nice how your money is wasted by something americans different people don't usually see. what you are you see because they are the couple that your money simple is that if. you gave them up this is your country they would be kids.
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you know in fairness international aid has succeeded in many sectors. in health for instance the french alliance for children and the aga khan foundation have financed medical equipment that compared to what can be found in europe. even if the price of certain services like scanners are out of reach of many afghans. as for the americans they have built hundreds of kilometers of roads in record time. although it must be said that the first contracts went to american companies and that some funds were misappropriated. for instance the us a texas based company that provides security for road construction sites is being sued by the american government for forging invoices. a u.s. p.-i employee is accused of issuing false invoices for gas employees and current according to an f.b.i. investigation american taxpayers paid three million dollars for two years for services that were never rendered for managers of the company have been detained.
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met in film of the hidden camera u.s.p. i mercenaries they say that they were trapped by the f.b.i. . i mean these. they. investigated. they the same so. these are the first of all the. corruption is largely endemic to the reconstruction sector. unscrupulous subcontractors sell contracts to each other. they take a commission for the sale and this leads to the reduction of the original budget. an employee for a construction company has accepted to describe the scheme under conditions of anonymity.
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when foreigners hand out a construction project to an afghan company they become partners and they want their share. they request a commission for each job as they. can represent up to thirty percent of the budget if you don't pay you don't get the contract. that's why the quality of materials is so bad here. all the people who work in this field used poor quality products really to keep in they say they're going to use turkish french or german products but they don't you. know the materials come from pakistan everyone knows that that's why you see so many building schools bridges and roads falling apart so that . moment has noticed the poor quality of buildings and more than one occasion part of. his job is to control the quality of construction for the government has seen lots of substandard buildings but when he tried to denounce a shady company he hit
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a wall. they were using low quality sand for the cement to build a wall also the walls were crumbling. we requested that they stop using this type of sand they didn't take our request into consideration they ignored our request why because they have friends in high places. over the. country i bet if you and i have to publicly declare that if you show me one building i repeat just one building that was built correctly clinic the. school. should only one job was completed the way it was supposed to be this week respecting the international norms. for afghans the best example is the case the hospital.
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building is located in a working class suburb of compost it serves one point five million people. you see because i want to do. this building is so you can see everything is destroyed for us a.c.s. five years ago thanks to a gift from the international community hospital was renovated and a new wing added this building is not working speciated the second stores today it is falling apart. you can see everything is a struggle but. the toilets and bathrooms are closed because of leaks they're currently being used to store broken furniture or cases if you think the colonization is no seasonal it ought to. have just because he
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they want to tell this is the right way to help me if we used the tap hair then if they're destroyed the first story the first thing the roof of the. building because of the earliest make up for the yes. there was there are these i mean there's some food still to this is the for a second tour of the road if we used it out it will leak to the first floor you see that's where it leaks. it's. as you see it's all of the coalition systems from. this yar leaks this story is about back good. as you see it is the low quality of the day have to be used if it is it's and destruction the stuff. is. the tiles are broken the electrical outlets thing from there casey. as you see as the operation
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you can see. you can see right through. we have studied the hospital's reconstruction budget. total budget is two point two million dollars millions that will soon melt away. first the united nations agency that hands out the project withdraws a two hundred seventy thousand dollars operating expense commission. that leaves one point nine million this money is allocated to an italian n.-g. o. that will supervise the work in-joke keeps one million dollars to buy wash bowls electrical wire and washtubs. it pays nine hundred thousand dollars to an afghan company that will carry out the actual job. two million dollars is a staggering amount for afghanistan. as
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a point of comparison how much does it cost to build a palace in the ship or district. altogether four hundred thousand dollars. yet two million dollars will be spent to renovate an old building and add a new wing. a lot of money for the afghans to specially for a worn down building. who is responsible italian n.-g. o. the afghan subcontractor. the prosecutor's office in kabul has launched an investigation to answer that question. did tell you an ngo in a show goodwill accepted to meet with us. interservice headquarters are in rome they have not been back to come. the water is leaking in it's we couldn't waterproof it because we didn't have the
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equipment so we did what we could. the tiles are broken but that happens but i still can't understand why you're. still the fact that it's still running amazes me i was sure that it was closed. he is the head of interest he did not oversee the hospital building site himself because n.g.o.s specializes in mine clearance. didn't do that in two thousand and two afghanistan was a rough place and no companies were capable of rebuilding the hospital so we accepted the job when i saw the report describing the final results oh i could see it was great you did a good job the report was written by specialists at least from the afghan government no no no from you know international technicians. and that's what i'm saying so if you see this this something that's not right.
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this is the field engineer who was in charge of operations he claims a lack of maintenance of the building among other things. like this and one that they have to make and if they're going to look to the book. that's not enough to know it's not the it's a. it's a pretty no no no. no no no again we're going back to the reality this is the part that was built by you this is this part here so this part all destroyed is where it was built by us a contractor four years ago. and you can see it's falling down and it's very bad cement but this is a mess this is for the. that's of the extent of. the stress this enough is
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simmering. you know all that should follow but you have never never seen. this time you think there's a that's the truth to her story. there was a major earthquake in two thousand and four in afghanistan but it's epicenter was three hundred kilometers away from the competition and no damages were reported in kabul. for afghan authorities the explanation is far more trivial the hospital is falling apart because of poor quality materials for use. the investigating prosecutor is one of the few officials genuinely fighting against corruption. on the morning we met him he was trying to get back salaries to teachers from a distant province side yes it's the government he told me teachers salaries. yes six thousand dollars. at the prosecutor's request
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a control commission started looking into the n.g.o.s books. policy controllers. they came across a lot of expenses that had nothing to do with the hospital. and everything. the prosecutor keeps invoices of the ngos operating expenses in this plastic bank for him there are simply too high. to fix it too does the whole communications network. expansion at salaries computers travel funny television at rugs for their offices and we can all allocate those expenses to the original budget for the reconstruction in these items cannot be considered part of their mission but rolled out wildly but for the heads of interest their normal operating costs for a western in geo of course he never be productive if you do that. there is a company. the so-called supporting costs those who spotted their communication
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courses there be cups for the material there are so few computers a song that obviously a percentage of the all deceased and of n.g.o.s should should they should use it to do war. because you can only five percent is a. afghan authorities are also surprised by the high cost of materials imported from italy. the admitting they said they had to find a tiriel in italy. windows in it and the lamps in pakistan water closet bathtubs in italy was all i didn't get him myself all this while the markets in afghanistan who filled with them cheese out that hard line italy on us that is just a pitiful group who is its own economically to good to eat to leave to bring some w.c. this is merely was impossible to find by only live as they have artist and we have no bank. people from italy with their money in their pocket this will be to pay the
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there was no no went back you know they needed. interval. finally and that's the main problem the afghan subcontractor that performed nine hundred thousand dollars worth of work simply vanished. after all that ecowas the company never existed as well it doesn't have an address one other child even. when i was able to join in this company which is called rehabilitation it's not like a certain age has suffered as that so how can they make so much money. he. apparently the subcontractor seems to overbuild some services like the demolition of an old building for eighty thousand dollars. that's three times the regular amount but the italian in geo continues to side with the afghan contractor even though it is flooded don't secure residual surprises. me is that you continue to trust the subcontractor magid like
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a bandit. for it wasn't brought it straight soon so they really. were good because they were. schooled know what they were nuts and they're not capable of giving the name of the guy who built the ospital you look so contracted him i'm not capable of giving me a phrase of which there is a number was provided to the attorney general i was unable to find in the prosecutor's go the the home how the truck would be moved by the phone and he was a thinking man's are the last seen and they disappear the truck is full yet this is what it. can only delete. then a few months after this interview tonight it nations launched an investigation against the american official from un o.p.'s who had supervised the hospital budget apparently he had embezzled no less than five hundred thousand dollars.
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so how can you not be disappointed when the world asked us for help against the soviets we were there. and we have made so many sacrifices for us with these countries they came to help afghanistan reconstruct itself so they said unfortunately instead of that is what we faced with loss but it is almost as a. trust towards the reconstruction sector it is dwindling within the afghan population. expatriates are now synonymous with overblown salaries. and afghan n.g.o.s are suspected of running shady operations. when he was planning minister bashardost confirmed that these operations were dishonest after investigating these n.g.o.s he requested that eight out of ten be closed. there are two thousand three hundred and fifty five n.g.o.s in afghanistan people
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so majority ninety percent a local. one thousand nine hundred and thirty five outright thieves which openly waste the fountains that they are allocating the public funds internationally. plus from seventy percent of their budget is spent on logistics to city cooks because it buddy the cost of a two. we requested was easy to just be clear a film which will decide which is usually found only three hundred twenty to be honest see on show us if we don't kick out a corrupt to the thieves to. give the honest organizations a chance to work the e.g. . bashardost was never able to carry out his plan. he had to resign from the government after his proposition.
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among the few n.g.o.s that had the approval of the minister was afghanistan them out of afghanistan tomorrow a school run by a french afghan national. geo budget is ridiculously low but it provides an education to five hundred street kids that never went to school. for these children and afghanistan means one meal per day and learning how to read and write. stasiak to me even my god oh my god she's made after i used to look at other children going to school and i'd be frustrated and jealous now that i'm going myself a field that is unique and i'm glad they got out oh in financial year i had to look because my thought there cannot provide for the family i wasn't by that and i didn't have a choice i had to look all young i feel like better now than i am to the center i
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know turning i'm learning to read tonight sarah was astonished but he also made the good est. chaos and corruption of the taliban's best allies. and increasing number of afghans are regretting also not openly the islamists iron hand. to someone which under the taliban you didn't see such high levels of corruption go well you did come up to nuke went to sit in the newly that it is today it's become a widespread system systems that i'm under sort of it's true we didn't always argue with their politics but when it came to economics there was less corruption and we had fewer problems. with them vocals because of these with. this. in two thousand and one it took only a few weeks to house the taliban from kabul. but poverty incent mortality and
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