look at the top of. the street still. feel the finals. now where a mosque a this is also a lot of tunnel it happens and boys come from moscow to meet russia's foreign minister resulting an end to the fighting and to observe the un's resolution want to libya itself aggression nato airstrike hit several government buildings including not to corruption they see. russian tanks officials are accused of mass investment linked to a boy who died in the city over a year ago sergei magnitsky a dass calls

a public outcry and it's speculation that he has medical treatment balik claim that . some china is planning ambitions moundsville that same space station it's all it's not unkind all the models within decades beijing documents that it wants cooperation with the team car and space to cause there's a war he could lead to a new international bible. next we go in search of the fruits of afghanistan's a billion dollar aid package a need to find luxury villages where schools and hospitals should be. the red carpets 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 is still france is not only acting as those in power the president as usual has planned a spectacular announcement. a simple question and that is why i am announcing off an increase of french aid for reconstruction and so french aid to the afghans will be more than double 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 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. bernard cushier the french minister for foreign affairs triumphs that he's just announced a very high figure in 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 there 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 offering the international community we will we would all for all they're going to say that these people fuss is just a myth no it is the cold cold which just a little on this is to kill people to deliver the goods services to get you to grow food that you corruption and drug trafficking condom to be followed by us the afghans also have to be also. going to focus on was to make good use of this assistance we must give it to the afghan people by putting you putting it on a concrete examples that are more appropriate sulfurous in the past or be more comfy don't present these things so we can extend that it is and that stand that concerted stand back.

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 a sad way to the dollars come from where do they go how much is really can vested in schools and 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 last. time the 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 gloom is even there put that money what money the money does not reach the people who pulled out it stays up there. that it's in the pockets of the government 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 john times web editor in the wall full would die from bullets today

they die of hunger that montage or my children and i haven't eaten anything in two days i swear i haven't eaten anything in two days that's in your earnings ya buddy fish 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 one sound of random you know working class neighborhood of the capital. it is wrong calls for the girls in the south of the country girls are attacked by the taliban but they can. new 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 wolves

and a roof that sat up i don't know how these. little fish. that might have caused them to go missing no working environment if you didn't want it to if that is nothing more to that movie if we're outside ok now there are no chairs no table list just some of the coconut girls learn anything in school and you know who might you know i feel really want to stay was not to listen to the teacher i was. just the man she wants him to lose big time to grow my stuff how can they be happy. winter is coming in the morning is cold. a light snow started to fall. i say goes on we'll 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.

you know you live in it but we don't have a choice. because i'm eating for. learning. all of the afghan people want to hear our country go to organise the caring here for making i would things for who i decide. it's really all. right now we are frightened you may think these are for the school because it's really important news expensive for the 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 ships. princes. 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. but most of it was seized by people who have

friends in high places where the rest of it belongs to the ministry of defense. put in a request of the school. off camera a school official since 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 where the school 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 who is calling you because i would love to have some addresses of schools to be able to feel much. you put the address on it right. don't drink. enough. grateful that. 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. for. the school the kids. who board where. oh you know are that. the board's been here for one and a half years. when they put it up 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. to me i've been calling saying the girls are freezing to death yes i've been here since six o'clock this morning we're going to get lots of my hands are completely dry from the cold but us has most of the state of that show.

so far the american donors have only billed restrooms and the school surrounding walls and have 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 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 campbell is the. the place where schools are needed the most . i guess we need so many things construction must go faster it's really necessary it's going to slow but as we lack so much space in our school

that we have to refuse our admissions that is more of us is not elations very high headed of our set. 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 conses and mushrooms in shipley. each still has its own private security. of course there's the taliban threat but that's not a. sheer force 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'll find them interesting for maybe. they're going to build these people came with the americans the police and it wasn't for their planes and tanks but the minute they would have never made it here you know quite well by michael mccann going to it make it well michael and i mean they should have built public housing for everyone but they would instead i guess they took the area by force with weapons but other didn't like my saying the truth on the look on it when it went. in front of us oh yeah yep and 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 plenty of your own private security firm you cannot fill me up. with all my books and i mean i did about septa so the

the knowledge. already here he was a great problem that's what he said. we meet with a man who is having his house built. going to be. he's one of the architects who has designed the neighborhoods phillips. is rich clients have paid him in full and now it is his turn to have his own house built. as they discussed a. child together 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 what do you do about this poor house is all but. 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

a house is on the path that is the house is raised and the land requisition. to speed up given the couple chief of police showed up one morning in two thousand and six with a bulldozer. and up on the lead but does that i mean how about on the bulldozers came without warning. on ottawa macon's they came to demolish the houses that were on the path of the road to start racing here. and then we were told we had to leave them on the tough economy. they threaten them if you don't leave we'll be back tomorrow . and i just cannot afford it i wish to make. 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 a rinse one of the promises and uses it as an office for his company. it's really

the most is just cooked that you see the city it really this is the new. ministers who came in. this you can think in this latest model caused him to think this came with security guards appear they're on edge but what is the problem this is a middle of the street it's a public space why don't you want us to film explain to this is ours this is a street this is public this is nude i'm sorry this is this is trade says public this houses don't own the street you know we're 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. most of the people are just a building very interesting many houses and they're getting it in because it is

really high note in google. go in europe all much as say this this is. the. twenty thousand euro as though it was. 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. 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 this man was one of the very first to inform on the ship or situation a member of parliament who was waging a war against corruption. just by bashing those who is

a gandhi like character modest and extremely popular some call him a populist in terms of number of votes his 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 the food aid hasn't reached the villages you want . to monitor. it all so much. because it was i protest it was some of us for the same reasons as last year are going to be remembered i was expelled last year stop it 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 that the basher just goes. through this to see any faults i think if you dig up this now we've heard the figures you're quoting dozens of times i mean i thought a lot but if you want to see 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 own i

think it would if. it's exactly the same as last year thought they had lived out and they continue to do so thought that people are dying from hunger and here you are talking about millions of dollars i cannot believe this these are nothing but life. nationalist 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 quantity of use the first time i saw this document i was the planet he was there because i opened it to you i was alone and i became terrorized just so i could not believe the matthew was so powerful and more precise seebach clearly shows was visible to

public funding that the fraud and the outrageous religious see it is the first scandal of the cars administration exorbitant sin reform risk of those who did karzai. celestial this is the area nine hundred twenty four square meters to do shift this is the foreign secretary is chief of staff is a figure of course it. is the governor of a province official here this is the son of the general. the general here and ambassador luke isidore president of public radio and television you know people are four hundred fifty square meters stuff it does seem to show is the chief of police. this is a journalist back until it is an afghan. this is your people but you're right they can't be critical of the government up with the news that the exactly how can they actually eat it up with you can see we also will think i'm laughing but i should really be crying because you can fool proof it is basically with those gifts or do

they still have to pay particular. because it was they paid something like two or three hundred dollars or something like that crew 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. military. search owns this own this man who is given by enough of a he who is defense minister to look at best buy's 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 against the taliban in september two thousand and one my suit is assassinated by al qaeda and is replaced by fate.

fame 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 the former war chief is named defense minister then. this allows him to distribute land in a ship or district. we tried to contact marshall same 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. the question looming in the streets of kabul. 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 become suspicious the role of the human rights commission is to monitor the government the commission's lawyers have officially requested that cher poor as wealthy be investigated. tools the subject is way too sensitive. only much goes for you officially makes everybody a bridge. not more than two thousand dollars or. is that close. well some of those houses are a million dollar. there it is there and that's the big question there is no base these people. for only ever read off that indicates something there is

a high level of corruption and misuse of public property and misuse of those monies the development and at the same time there are. discussions about truck traffic when i look to some of these expensive housing it can't be demand even though many of corruption because one million dollars is just building up for industry and the promise is very much. 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 drug trafficking but according to the american press so do how 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 were shown the tricks used by drug mules that were caught by the police of my job was there sure. are. is there. a shot that he has that i need to see a good 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 fighting money laundering. deficient seems rather reluctant to talk a little in which the killer had a little bit in poland and we cannot afford to not come at it all well and ask people how they got the house but if someone comes up with proof i insist if anyone can prove that a 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 provides that proof then yes we work at it with no problem. and the person who is looking for the evidence if it's not you and the according to the law we don't have the right to investigate people's private property all of it and we can't touch that everyone is allowed to have asked us.

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