hello you watching our. top story tonight. twenty eight football's governing body. the world's biggest country success. stories that made the news this week plans to reconstruct the. plane crash which killed. members of the country's. official report leaves unanswered questions. from the region and. the presidents of both countries also the flow of drugs during the first visit

to moscow in. new york he's charged with conspiring to kill americans and supporting terrorism. billions of dollars have been pumped into afghanistan from the u.s. and europe but many afghans are yet to see a penny next for you. the invisible investment. 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. such as office. empty.

so. people. feel again chips i had some foods heartlands for people to be calling a case fail or they see something going on and about me asking people for pride and ones that tell. flight ensued coolness. is a number that are better numbers which we have a matter of mary production. cases to the fabs which is nigeria see. oddly enough the commission never investigated the ship or district. it was. all the same this whole says these. are serious. charges out of the fish which has imposed this was a park and has been built by people to the majority of the people all the people

they put their worship in that demonstration office and. say that this is that they were the generator it was. your body our he knew to show the poor and he was off to them touching it and just making it like. a scapegoat out a fit. the chief untouchable had to leave his post precipitously. according 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 are sent out again if i don't talk out by the. hour and you are a part of france and where else you sure it's a moment ago drug in the water that's the minute i'm about this question once upon a time when i was in america nineteen could say eighty four eighty five i

learned on vacation with some friends and other people but there was not a drug trafficking or drug selling when i came there is were some friends together and some accident happened just in the last vegas of course but integration they were in for some party and that is it i read the case and. in fact mr was 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 then speak as much as you can if this is the case somebody accident happened is that some. careful about. what is given us that his government thing 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 war 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 hundreds of brand new has u.v.'s in the streets. just. for by. the anticorruption deputy this sudden wealth is only the fruit of the order 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 what are. you going to go.

to that it is just really only these people of the richest people will pull his have access to the pub in a wealthy way and. 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 his ministers business is doing his job engineer of the united nations department heads so goes beyond this quest 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 schools. that are the money went into the pockets of the government in the behind sales the luxury hotel to tell do. go away if you can see with your nice how your money is wasted but it's something americans different

people don't usually see. what do you see because they are there with all that your money. is that if. you gave them a list if you can see what they could. 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. met in film of the hidden camera u.s. p.-i mercenaries they say that they were trapped by the f.b.i. . investigate it. in the states all across the line is these are personal that. 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. 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 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 this and 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 . woman has noticed the poor quality of buildings on 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 a wall. they were using low quality sand for the cement to build the walls also the walls were crumbling. we requested that they stop using this type of sand or didn't take our request into consideration they ignored our request. because they have friends in high places. with the. two party i bet it is you and i have seen publicly declared that if you show me one building i repeat just one building that was built correctly

a clinic. a school. see almost. surely one was completed the way it was supposed to be this with respect to international norms. for afghans the best example is they came to come to hospital. the building is located in a working class suburb of compost it serves one point five million people. you see the pontiff crowded this building is told all 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 story today it is falling apart. you can see everything is the shadow of.

the toilets and bathrooms are closed because of leaks they're currently being used to store broken furniture or case sensitive things because the shell is no sleeping a lot if you. just have just so you can see there watch atop this little fake way to help me if we used to tap hair then if they're destroyed the first story the first of the roof of the. building his of the earliest make up for that yes. there was there used to be this flu still to this is the for a second tour of the road and if we used it up it will leak to the first floor you see that's where it leaks. as you see it's all the kind of systems probably. this is the are leaks the story

is that back. as you see it is the low quality tells that they have to be used if it is it's an destruction the site. is. the tiles are broken the electrical outlets thing from their case it. as you see as the operation 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 with draws a two hundred seventy thousand dollar 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 boles 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 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. for 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. interests headquarters are in rome they have not been back to kabul. their water is leaking in it's we couldn't waterproof it because we didn't have the equipment so we did what we could. the tiles are broken but that happens but i still can understand if you're. still the fact that it's still running amazes me i was sure that it was closed. she is the head of interest he did not oversee the hospital building site himself his 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 generally 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. this is the field engineer who was in charge of operations he claims a lack of maintenance of the building among other things. this is like this and one that they have to make and if they. do. you know. that's not enough you know it's not that 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 this is where it was built by us a contractor four years ago communication and you can see it's falling down and it's very cement but this is a mess this is for the. that's of the extent of. the star system of this. there is no oil that should fold but you have never never seen. this time you think there's a that's the it's or 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. investigating prosecutor because one of the few officials genuinely fighting

against corruption. on the morning we met him he was trying to get back salaries owed to teachers from a distant province. yes it's the government he told me teachers salaries. yes six thousand dollars. at the prosecutor's request a control commission started looking into the n.g.o.s books. i mean. quality control as. 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. fits into this is the whole communications network. expansion that salaries computers travel furniture television at rugs for their offices and we can allocate those expenses to be

original budget for the reconstruction even these items cannot be considered part of their mission but rolled out why the need for the heads of interest their normal operating costs for a western ngo of course he never reproach it to be due to all n.g.o.s that there is a complete over. the so-called supporting costs spotted their communication courses the pickups for the material there are so few computers a song that obviously a percentage of the all supporting c. is founded on a geo should it should and should use it to to get to work. as you can only five percent is ok. 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 and they saw the lamps in pakistan was a classic bathtubs in italy was all i did it in muscle that all this while the

markets in afghanistan a field with them that why in italy they have all us others just a couple who is it so and economically to good to italy to bring some w.c. this is merely was impossible to fill in by only look at is there that extent we have no bank. people come from italy with their money in their pocket to get to pay the there was no no one bank in the. interval. finally and that's the main problem the afghan subcontractor that performed nine hundred thousand dollars worth of work simply vanished. or that ecowas the company never existed as well it doesn't have an address but other children did. when i was able to join it at this company which is called children rehabilitation it's not like c.s.i. nation has suffered as that so how can they make so much money as the.

parent lead 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 receipts which surprises. he is that you continue to trust a subcontractor matter like a bandit. for it was a bird it was really. correct men and they were good because they were to. 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 are not capable of giving me skill for longer for example which if number was provided to the attorney general i was unable to find in the prosecutors go the the home how could a truck with a mobile phone and he was a thinking man's those 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. 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 as you all know. trust towards the reconstruction sector 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 you never get i stop the majority ninety percent a local. leader one thousand nine hundred and thirty five outright leaves which openly waste the fountains that they are allocating loves the public funds internationally. plus from people seventy percent of their budget is spent on logistics to stick cooks busy body to come over to. we requested was it easy to just be clipped just dealing with your decisions which

is usually done only three hundred twenty to be honest see on show us if we kick out the corrupt to the thieves to to to. give you the honest organizations a chance to work through e.g. . bashardost was never able to carry out his plan. he had to resign from the government after his proposition. 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 afghanistan means one meal per day and learning how to read and write. stores have to give me the

mark they got on the market which is made up i used to look at other children going to school and i'd be frustrated i'm jealous but right now that i'm going myself i feel better. lack. oh in financial year i had to work because my father could not provide for the family i didn't have a choice i do it all year i feel much better now that i come to the center an earnings box i'm learning to regional lighter who was a star. york city. chaos and corruption are the taliban's best allies. creasing number of afghans are regretting although not openly the islamists iron hand. moves 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 it is today it's become a widespread system systems that i'm

a new 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. than. this was. in two thousand and one it took only a few weeks to the house of the taliban from kabul. but already instant mortality and violence still remains. how can one be surprised that eight years later the taliban are coming back.

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