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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 so french aid to the afghans will be more

than double does have got. 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. 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 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. bernard cushiony of 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. 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 be with all for all they're going to. do siegel for us as you may know is the. old we can just go on this is to kill people to deliver the goods services to get out of corruption that interruption and drug trafficking condom to 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 give it to the afghan

people by bringing everything about concrete examples there are coaches in the past or those into the seats things are not so good a tent that could stand back stand that concerted stand that. winter two thousand and nine we have come to afghanistan to follow the dollar train . the billions in international aid the mysterious fortunate enough star cast living in dollars step away to the dollars come from where do they go how much is really can vested in schools in 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 gained 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 money money does not reach the people 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 now maybe not

. 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 or die from bullets today they die of hunger they keep 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 been a good girl is your body peace people are dying of hunger but 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 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 are missing from the situation to be perfect. details like walls and a roof that sat up was that. these. little fish were. not. going out working in bad ideas you didn't want it to as if that is nothing more to activities where outside of the now there are no chairs no table is just them the hell can the girls learn anything in this cold and noble mind that you know i still only want to stay one not to listen to the teacher i did ask which. do you want them to lose be to grow by step how can they be happy. winter is coming in the morning is cold.

a light snow started to fall. i guess if he goes on will have to leave now but for now it's not much it's all right when the snow falls like this we stay outside of it. you can you study under the snow. and ice but we don't have a choice. how did anything for. learning. all of the afghan people want to do our country good to forget us the caring here for making things work who i dis. it's rare. but now we are trying to make vision for the school because it is really important expensive for the schools. one thing is certain the funds from international 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. it 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 i mean we put in a request to 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 has 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 it right. on our. own. i. great that's. ten days to get the address of a school in kabul a girls' high school that is under construction. we rushed 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 board where. you know are that clue that. many of the boards been here for one and a half years out of my will that will double that when they put it up and they promised that construction would start and everything would be completed. this all

is well 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 the city to. go. 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 received 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 them or 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 obvious going too slow but as a monk we lack so much space in our school that we have to refuse no admissions that this was an occupation very high level of us that. 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. now you have been a metro stop for maybe. going to these people coming with the american it's a solution even wasn't for their planes and tanks but the minute they would have never made it here you know quite well but i don't like going to have a good moment when i mean they should have built public housing for everyone but they would instead that if they took the area by force with weapons put i didn't like my saying the truth on the only significant. to point out about what 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 if i did that upset the so the. more of you he was a great problem that's what he said. we meet with a man who is having his house built. good. 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. 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. says 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 that's the way it is but if the government wants to build a road and a house is on the path that is the houses raised on the land requisition. to speed up the evictions the police showed up one morning in two thousand and six with a bulldozer. and up on the lead but it was that i mean a lot of the bulldozers came without warning. on the top on make and they came to demolish the houses that were on 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. 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. the stupid thing in this latest model called the facilities came with the security guards appear they're on edge what is the problem this is the middle of the street to supply the experience 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 house is 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 journalists want to show that there are rich people also in kabul ok or take a video. don't film the house. because of the people there just a building that investing money and houses and they're giving it in because it is very high note in europe. and europe all much as it was say this this is. the twenty thousand twenty thousand u.s. dollar was worth. 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 this is because this is the area which was. taken by 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 make this. push that this man 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 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 . my mantra. it was. because i protest for the same reasons as last year are going to be remembered 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 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 about it but if you want to we can check it right 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 it when it. is exactly the same as last year thought they had lived and they continue to do so thoughtful that people are dying from hunger and here you are talking about millions of dollars that 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 you i was alone and i became terrorized just so i could not believe the maffia was so powerful to be so seductive clearly show biz amount of public funding that the fraud and the outrageous craven agency it's the first scandal of the cars i'd ministration exorbitant sin reformists got of those. cars i. see less of this in the area nine hundred twenty four square meters 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 just a 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. afghan. people but they can't be critical of the government. how can they put. up with it she was also pretty 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 metres 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 sit this all this land was given by a national for him who is defense minister and the first vice president is.

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 commander must sued against the taliban in september two thousand and one 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. 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. well above zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero to them area and 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 newell's else the subject is way too sensitive. only much goes for you if you should it makes everybody as it were. not more than two thousand dollars or. close the trio.

well some of those houses are a million dollar. and that's the big question there's no base these people are. only a part of. that indicates something 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 done and even the idea of corruption because one million dollars is just building for industry. is very much. corruption and embezzlement. but also drugs. it's impossible not to think about opium trafficking when you come

across afghan nouveau riche. the country produces ninety percent of the world's heroin. seven thousand tons per year. sure the taliban profit from the drug 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 or by you know much as i should have. heard. is there. a child he 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. official seems rather reluctant to talk to one of it in was that the left had a little bit input so going in could we can also afford to not call that a great all well and awesome people how they go that housing but if someone comes up with proof that i insist if anyone can prove that a 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 good vibes that proof then yes we work at it with no problems going to. those who is looking for the evidence if it's not you and the coning to the law we don't have the right to investigate people's private property wanted on him but we can't touch them everyone is allowed to have asio sit . down the official auntie application on the phone on pod touch from the saps to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand. in mind the old

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