as always you can e-mail me adam at adam goodes is the man dot com and after the broadcast i visit airs at r.t. about consulate usa and i'm you can focus from washington d.c. you live in a glass house and here is a local stone's not. repairing a broken. highway construction and humanitarian aid. but says she officials will get the spoils of war and it's the people who pay the price. cheering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking the afghanistan the told.

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admission free credit patient free lance for charges free. range and three cameras free. free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video god r.t. dot com. swords drawn a 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 and 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 in power the president as usual has planned a spectacular announcement. the sequel question and that is why i am announcing over the increase of french aid for reconstruction as so french aid to the afghans will be more than double does 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. has displayed to the press but the emphasis on the positive results of reconstruction especially for schools for which the u.s. government announces impressive figures. and

into cation 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 quickly goals by reconstructing or building a new six hundred eighty schools. paddick. bernard crucially of the french minister for foreign affairs triumphs just announced a very high figure in so we weren't expecting such a large sum only 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 of the father of my will corruption and opium trafficking before mr president first c n n what kind of guarantees you offering the international

community we will we would all for all the good. that you see go for us or is it a myth no it is the gold gold we can just have a little fun this is today don't be fooled to deliver the goods services to get rid of corruption that interruption and drug trafficking condom to be filled by us the afghans also have to be and also to be a way for innocent was to make good use of the systems we must to give it to the afghan people by firing in everything that concrete examples that are marketed sell for the cost or the local you know was in these things so what you need and that is stand back stand that things stand that. 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 dollar status where do the dollars come from where do they go how much is really confessed 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 game ground every day. this morning in the 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 much. higher eighty percent of the victims of the taliban are innocent civilians. war is becoming more intense and poverty

is at 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 now stays up there aka us 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. do you work yesterday and the day before. i haven't worked in a week so money counts times were better during the war or die from bullets today they died of hunger that keep them about their my children and i haven't eaten anything in two days i swear i haven't even eat anything in two days that's in your

earnings your body please people are dying of hunger but who's going to help us anyway and them if i tell you i'm starving will you help me. where are the achievements put forward by the donating countries who want to see the schools that were a priority of international aid. here is one sounded random you know working class neighborhood of the camp. it 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 walls and a roof that sat up was up this. respect . that no one had. to go no working environment even

from monday to if that is nothing more to that if it were outside ok now there are no chairs no table list system the hell can the girls learn anything in the schools and you know come on you know i still only want to stay one not to listen to the teacher i was. to them how do you want them 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 guess as it goes on we'll have to leave but for now it's not much it's alright when the snow falls like this we stay outside of it if you can you study under the snow. it is good we don't have choice. your home is anything for. learning the. code of gun who want to do our

country good support this the caring here for making go woo things were who i dis. it's rare. but now we are try to make think these are stories school because it is really important news friends are for are you school. 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 i. was the 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 that it was most of it was seized by people who have friends in high places where the rest of it belongs to the ministry of defense i mean we put in a request to the schools. 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 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 where the school has 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 those calling in because i live to have some addresses of schools to be able to feel much. to put the address on it right. now on i. don't drink. enough. i. prayed at that. ten days to get the address of a school in kabul a girls' high school that is under construction. we rushed to it. and 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. who forward. oh you know what that. means the board's been here for one and a half years sort of i was there when they put it up but they promised the construction would start and everything would be completed until the sun is up it's almost two years now and still nothing. to me i've been calling saying the girls are freezing to death yet i've been here since six o'clock this morning we could look at what my hands are completely dry from the cold but us as well as i mean. so far the american donors have only build restrooms and the school surrounding walls and of inaugurated a beautiful billboard. we call back usaid and this time we insist where the

schools 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 tell about sometimes growing the schools down and often should know 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 campbell is the. place where schools are needed the most. i guess we need so many things that construction must go faster it's really necessary it's going to slow but as we let so much space in our school that we have to refuse now admissions that is more of us an operations very high her liver set.

yet there is one neighborhood in kabul where construction is thriving where there are no delays. welcome to ship two of the strongholds of afghanistan's new lords. for the past three years fortified houses of mushrooms ensure. each still has its own time and security. of course there's the taliban threat but that's not a. sheer force at the heart of a conflict that 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.

that you have been in the forest for maybe. going to these people came with the americans most of this and it wasn't for their planes and tanks but the minute they would have never made it here to avoid what michael mcclinton were make of america when i mean they should have built all big housing for everyone but good instead they took the area by force which meant to put it in i say the truth all known and it wouldn't like. to come out of what happened one house isn't enough some really have three old fool. 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 tell me a. book but i mean about it about the soviets and the. more of the. great problem for you safe.

we meet with a man who is having his house built. you'll need. is one of the architects who has designed the neighborhood still it's. his rich clients have paid him in full now it is his turn to have his own palace built. to build a. child together it came to four or five hundred thousand dollars from the top of the villa a splendid panoramic view over the slums which are scheduled to be demolished what do you do about this poor says it will all become. these old houses are illegal i mean these people will leave the state will relocate them elsewhere then actually that's the way it is but if the government wants to build a road and houses on the path that is the house is raised and the land requisition . to speed up the elections the couple cheatle police showed up one morning in two thousand and six with a bulldozer. and

up on ballot bowl does that i mean how about on the bulldozers came without warning . on ottawa macon's they came to demolish the houses that were in the path of the road i started racing here. like them and then we were told we had to leave them on us a bike on the. other was that they threatened if you don't leave this i will be back tomorrow and will destroy everything i've done i just on a holiday i wish to make and. then a man comes out of one of the fellows to see 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 most is a little scope but you see the city really this is the new.

came in. to see you building in this latest model caused him to think he's came with 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 ours this is the street this is public this seems i'm sorry this is this is trade says public these houses don't own the street you know we regular journalists 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 david you. don't film the house. because of the people there just a building very interesting many houses giving it in because it is very high note in you to. go in europe all much is it for this this is.

twenty thousand twenty thousand u.s. dollars was one. but it's hard to know who receives the money in this case you know who the owner is someone from the government or. just. especially. 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 trying to see the talk and to see him in this state that maybe so says. push this man was one of the very first to inform on the ship or situation a member of parliament was waging a war against corruption. just by nationalist gandhi like character modest and extremely popular some common populist in terms of number of votes his 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 the food aid hasn't reached the villages yet. to monitor. 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 with the money you ask will last year has not been cleared by the budget get out of this is illegal. they don't to avoid a scandal the president of the assembly cuts his microphone and the better the list goes on to. see any fuss by therapy they go based on we've heard the figures you're quoting dozens of times i may have thought of that but if you want to contribute right now i'm of the school villages and the local authorities to see if the food supplies have arrived at. is exactly the same as last year thought they had lived and they 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 life. is a former minister four years ago he resigned to protest against the squandering of internationally. 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 to use it with this i opened it to you i was alone and i became terrorized i could not believe the mafia was so calm and more precise see clearly shows the business of the public funding the fraud and the outrageous religious see it's the first scandal of the cars i'd ministration exorbitant silkworm risk of those. cars i.

suggest this is the area nine hundred twenty four square meters solution of this is the foreign secretary is chief of staff is a fitted washer. see who is the governor of a province and those who feel here this is the son of a general just a general he an ambassador his ego the president of public radio and television people four hundred fifty square meters perfect solution is the chief of police. this is a journalist for afghans. it is an afghan. that's this is your people but you're right they can't be critical of the government up with the news that way exactly how can they. eat it up or see if he was also guilty i'm laughing but i should really be crying because you can't focus off it specifically those gifts or do they still have to pay high tech more that they were given so much because they paid something like two or three hundred dollars or something because 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. search and all this all this land was given by a national for him who is defense minister look at us twice president. musharraf one of the most powerful and feared men in the country. occasion for chief who first came to light during the soviet war which he fought alongside commander must then against the taliban in september two thousand and one 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 receive 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. 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. flow from zero. zero zero zero zero zero. without them area and where does the money for their palaces come from from their mothers belly. the modern middle of the united they get the money to build it there were people like me. how did they do it people in the streets are not the only ones who have become suspicious of the

rule of the human rights commission is to monitor the government the commissions lawyers have officially requested they share poor as wealthy be investigated. in all sales the subject is way too sensitive. only much goes for you if you show it makes everybody as it were. not more than can tell from daughter oh this is what it was that was the trio written for. well some of those a million dollar. fire is there and that's the big question there is no base these people. for own legal. we know that it is something new there is a high level of corruption and misuse of probably prophecy 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 how's that if it can't be made even though many of corruption because one million dollars just building. industry. is very much hard. corruption and embezzlement. but also drugs. it's impossible not to think about opium trafficking when you come across ask a new full range. 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 or my knowledge was actually a. very serious. shock to me as that i need to see the good opium money fine and some of the luxuries villas of shirtless. 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 this that they will have a little bit impartial going in we cannot afford to not comment adequate all well and ask people how they got 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 but the law says we need proof so if someone abides that proof then yes we work at it with no problems kokanee will know a new version 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 and when we can't touch them everyone is allowed tallahassee or city. culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money for me to take an exit ever really created what you mean to use the word west is a place a state of mind or even a specific time in history also. if. the.