he with r.t. and i from around moscow has to recount the top stories and international war crimes prosecutors are requesting be arrest of colonel gadhafi for crimes against humanity it comes as the head of britain's armed forces says nato should intensify its campaign in libya progressing on attacks against the regime and. the e.u. might need to scrape together more cash as greece and portugal are now possibly spain or line up for financial support a fifth of the spanish population is unemployed with no signs of improvement on the

scene. and demonstrations marking the day palestinians were expelled by the foundation of israel time to deadly after israeli troops are shot at least sixteen dead the country's borders for a storm as thousands try to cross over on what's known as the annual not. so well the billions of dollars in aid going in afghanistan up next our special report on how corruption in afghanistan is helping to bolster the ranks of the taliban it's the search for the dollar coming up now. 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 it is still france is not only acting as those to empower the president as usual has planned a spectacular announcement. and simple question and that is why i am announcing an increase of french aid for reconstruction and so french aid to the afghans will be more than double d's of course. 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. oh sure 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 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. batek. bernard cushier the french minister for foreign affairs triumphs that 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 there across the partition that separates them from the press unpleasant questions start flying around. with my will corruption and opium trafficking to be found mr

president first c n n what kind of guarantees you offering the international community we will we would all for all they're going to. do siegel for us as you may know it is the job of old with just a little bit on this is to kill people to live a good services to get rid of corruption that interruption and drug trafficking condom to be followed by us the afghans also have to be an awful. lot of innocent ones to make good use of the systems we must to give it to the afghan people by bringing in everything in a concrete examples they're all coated sulfurous and the cost to the local locals in these things so we can extend that it is sandbags and a concession stand that would.

couple 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 dollars where the dollars come from where do they go how much is really can best in schools and hospitals. we are about to discover a country where in every 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 might. be the percent of the victims of the taliban or innocent civilians. who are 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 club is even that put that money what money the money does not reach the people it stays up there. that it's in the pockets of the government fired up for you where is the money that do not need enough. 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 junks times web editor in the wall full would 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 even anything in today's lesson. is young people are dying of hunger who's going to help us anyway and 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 one sound of random you know working class neighborhood of the county. that is rule calls 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 and a roof. sat up. on these.

little fish. yet. not. going out working in baghdad if you didn't know that she was if that is nothing more to that. you know that there are no chairs no table just a system the hell can the girls learn anything in this tell them to no problem and that you know i still only want to steal one not to listen to the teacher i was. just the man she wants him to lose big time 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 not for now it's not much it's all right when the snow falls like this we stay outside of it. you study under the snow. you know what it is but we don't have a choice. to how is anything for. learning really good

ole us of going to want to tear our country good support this bickering here for making things worse who i dis cover its rear. but now we are fried from making these are for the schools because it's really important news group plans are 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 shifts. prince. 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 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 award. the school official remain silent in front of the camera because he fears the warlord. this is his house it overlooks the swamps. to make the situation clear the war has put a 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 schools the hundreds of schools allegedly built thanks to international. reconstructing or building a new six hundred eighty school. we

contacted us 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 of those calling you because i live to have some addresses of schools to be able to feel much. kate ok you put the address on it right. now. great success. 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 go are that. the board's been here for one and a half years. when they put it up that they promised the construction would start and everything would be completed. the sun is up but it's almost two years now and still nothing. really i've been calling saying the girls are freezing to death yes i've been here since six o'clock this morning we could have at once my hands are completely dried on the clothes but that's how it was and. so far the american donors have only build restrooms and the schools surrounding

walls and have 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 tell about sometimes growing the schools down and often kidnapped 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. the place where schools are needed the most. modern we need so many things construction must go faster it's really necessary obvious going too slow but as a mark we let so much space in our school that we have to refuse nominations this

move as an occupation is very high hurdle of us at. yet there is one neighborhood in kabul where construction is thriving where there are no delays. welcome to ship two of the strongholds of tough ghana stans new lords. for the past three years fortified thomases and mushrooms ensure. each village has its own private security. of course there is the taliban threat but that's not a. cheer for us at the heart of the conflict is 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 is tough for me. to go to these people came with the american system and most of this i mean wasn't for their planes and tanks but the minute they would have never made it here you avoid them i don't like going to have a good moment when i mean they should have built a big housing for everyone but do it instead ok if they took the area by thoughts with weapons put i didn't like my saying the truth on the negative and let. people know what you're fighting oh yes definitely 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 know but where a private security firm you cannot fill me out. with both i mean if i did i bust up the so the two mothers say they. were here he was

a great problem for you safe. we meet with a man who is having his house built. good. he's one of the architects who has designed the neighborhood still it's. his rich clients and paid him in full now it is his turn to have his own palace built. to be of that. altogether it came to fall to five hundred thousand dollars from the top of the villa a splendid panoramic view over the slums which are scheduled to be demolished. to about his poor says it will all become a bit sad these old houses are illegal i mean these people will leave the state will relocate them elsewhere the next day that's the way it is but if the government wants to build a road on the houses on the path that is the house is raised and the land

requisitioned. to speed up the evictions the couple chief of police showed up one morning in two thousand and six with a bulldozer. and up on the lead but those that i mean about on the bulldozers came without warning. on the top and they can still they came to demolish the houses that were on the road they started racing here. like them and then we were told we had to leave them on the tough economy. they threatened me if you don't leave i will be back tomorrow and will destroy everything that i was just on a follicle i wish to make. then the 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. it's really the new hoses. that you see the

couple city really this is the new. came in. this new building in this latest model called in within just came with the security guards appear there on the edge what is the problem this is the middle of the street it's a public space why don't you want us to film explain to this is a house this is a street this is public this is new i'm sorry this is this is trade this is public this house is don't own the street you know we are regular journalists we 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 ok ok if you. don't film the house. because of the people are just building. houses and they're giving that in because it is very high note in you. know in

europe all much as it is like this this is. twenty thousand twenty thousand u.s. dollars was meant. but it's hard to know who receives the money but in this case you know who the owner is is someone from the government or. just. especially this is because this is the area which was. taken by people in the us or some other people from coming in the poor people was to escape from the cd and the truck and the swimming escape that legacy. pushed this man who was one of the very first to inform on the ship or situation like a member of parliament was waging a war against corruption. just by the nationalist is a gandhi like character modest and extremely popular some common populist in terms

of number of votes he's number three in the country today'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 the food aid hasn't reached the villages yet. my mantra. is there was too much. to go it was i protest that for the same reasons as last year i get your ear remember i was expelled last year if i'm not mistaken the money you ask will last year has not been cleared by the budget did i this is illegal. they don't to avoid a scandal the president of the assembly cut his microphone and the better the list goes on there was. any thoughts i thought after the operation we've heard the figures you're quoting dozens of times i mean thought a lot but if you want to see it we can check it right now i'm of the school villages and the local authorities to see if the food supplies have arrived at their i would like to get one if. it's exactly the same as last year thought they

had lived and continue to do so. 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. nationalist 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 a quandary if you saw the first time i saw this document i was the plan is use it if this i open it to you i was alone and i became terrorized just so i could not believe the matthew was so powerful film a priest so simple quick clearly shows the invisible the public funding the fraud and the outrageous privileges easy it's the first scandal of the cars i'd

ministration exorbitant scenario for risk of those who didn't care if i. see this or if this is the area nine hundred or four square metres to do sure if this is the foreign secretary is chief of staff is a figure of course it. is the governor of a province city official here this is the son of a general just a general he an ambassador isidor president of how degraded on television you know people are four hundred fifty square meters sushi's is the chief of police. this is a journalist for afghans. it is an afghan. people but you're right they can't be critical of the government up it's new news that way certainly how can they put. it up with you can see we also think i'm laughing but i should really be crying because you can look it is specifically those gifts or do they still have to pay. because they paid something like two or three hundred dollars something chris three

hundred dollars for nine hundred square meters just about. who had enough power to award such gifts to friends of the regime. since the land officially belongs to the defense ministry the generous donor must have been a military. research and all this all this land was given by a motion for him who is defense minister and look at us twice president. musharraf one of the most powerful and feared men in the country. i take for 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 my 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 receive 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 martial. 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 zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero where does the money for the palaces come from from the mother's belly got a first of the modern birth of the united they get the money to build it they will

call like me. how did they do it people in the streets are not the only ones who become suspicious the rule of the human rights commission is to monitor the government the commission's lawyers have officially requested that sheer poor as wealthy be investigated. to newell's else the subject is way too sensitive. for lunch. for you if you show it makes everybody as it were. not more than two thousand of our own but it was that close trio. well some of those million dollar. there is that and that's the big question there is no place these people. form own legal. we know that indicates something good there is. evil of corruption and misuse of public

property misuse of those monies for the development and at the same time there are. discussions about truck traffic so when i look to some of these expensive houses it can't be the bank even the idea of corruption because one million dollars is just building up or in this town is very high. corruption and investment. but also drugs. it's impossible not to think about opium trafficking when you come across ask a neutral reach. 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 deals that were caught by the police of my own much as i should have. heard their. shopping even as that i need to see a good opium money sign in some of the luxurious villas i'm sure. that's a question no one wants to answer. we meet with the prosecutor in charge of finding money laundering. the official seems rather reluctant to talk more limited in with the tele had a little bit impartial and we cannot afford to not come at it and all well and ask people how they got the housing clothing but if someone comes up and prove i insist if anyone can prove that our house was built thanks to drug money then we've got 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 at all no newton the person who is looking for the evidence if it's not you and they're calling to the law we don't have the right to investigate people's private property wanted in but we can't touch them everyone is allowed tallahassee awsome. i'm.