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a section hundreds of journalists. time now for a special report. 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 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 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 the

increase of french aid for reconstruction and so french aid to the afghans will be more than double d's 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 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 tribes that is 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 if ghana stand 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. with what will corruption and opium trafficking we found mr president first c n n what kind of guarantees you offering the international community we will do it all for all to get into the city that you see go for us short as you may know it is a joke only just a little while mr downs you know people should never get services to get out of corruption that you corruption and drug trafficking condom to be followed by us yes

guns also have to be and also to be the way of a garrison was to make good use of the systems we must give it to the afghan people by putting in everything in a concrete examples there are quote self was in the past already more comfy clothes and these things are not so what you need and that is stand back stand that things stand that one. 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 step 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 blast. on. time bt percent of the victims of the taliban are innocent civilians or. 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. that couldn't even that good that money what money

the money does not reach the people stays out there. that is in the pockets of the government for the 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 the money junk times were better during the war would die from bullets today they died of hunger but more about your 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 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 who want to see the schools that were a priority of international aid. here's what sounded 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 for they can. she knew to flock to school they're 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. sat up was that i met this. young woman who had no clothes no working environment is even more that she was if that is nothing more to activity without sniping out of her no chairs no table just just them the hell can the girls learn anything in this tell me no problem i'm dead you know i still i want to stay want not to listen to the teacher i was. the one

to lose big time to grow my stuff how can they be happy. winter is coming the morning is cold. a light snow is starting to fall. i say goes on we'll have to leave but for now it's not much it's all right when the snow falls like this we stay outside of it if you did you study under the snow. you know what it is but we don't have a choice. your home is anything for. learning really good clothes of who want to do our country good support this bickering here for making things worse who i dis cover its rear. but now we are tried to make think these are stories who because it's really important expensive

for the school. one thing is certain funds for meter national they were not invested here. because there aren't enough classrooms this small school welcomes its ten thousand students over three ships i. like the princes. however respond to 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 i long to the ministry of defense i mean we put in a request of the school through the. 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 war 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 schools the hundreds of schools allegedly built thanks to the international. reconstructing who are building a new six hundred eighty school. we contacted usaid 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 always calling you

because i would love to have some addresses of schools to be able to feel much. to put the address on it right. now on trying to find. grateful. 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 the kids. who forward oh you know what that.

means the board's been here for one and a half years sort of although when they put it up they promised the construction starts and everything would be completed until the sun is it's almost two years now and still nothing. carefully i've been calling saying the girls are freezing to death or they have a clue that i've been here since six o'clock this morning we're going to play with my hands are completely dry from the cold but us house was empty this early to. go . so far the american donors have only build restrooms and the school surrounding walls kind 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 the more 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 now. 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 a mark we let so much space in our school that we have to refuse her admissions that this was an occupation is very high her liver set up. at. yet there is one neighborhood in kabul where construction is thriving where there are no delays. welcome to ship school the stronghold of afghanistan's new lords. for the past

three years fortified conses a mushroom to ensure. each still has its own time and security. of course there is the taliban threat but that's not a. cheer for is 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. now you'll have an image to stop for maybe. you're going to go these people came with the americans with elvis and it wasn't for their planes and tanks the minute they would have never made it here you avoid by michael mcdonald your bank of america and i mean they should have built public housing for everyone but they

would instead take if they took the area by force with which. i say the truth on the negative wouldn't like. to come over here sharing what happened one house isn't 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 owner of private security firm you cannot fill me up. with postage i mean about it about the so the mother might say. we're here to be. a great problem that's what he said. we meet with a man who is having his house built. he's one of the architects who has designed the neighborhood still and. his rich clients have paid him in full and now it is his turn to have his own palace built. as they discussed to be

a. child together 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 avoid this poor says it all but. these old houses are illegal only that 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 and a house is on the path that is the house is raised and the land requisition. to speed up the elections the kabul 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 how about on the bulldozers came without warning. on the top bomb maker and they came to demolish the houses that were on the road they started racing here. and then we were told we had to leave them

on the tough economy. they threaten them with if you don't leave this i will be back tomorrow and will destroy everything that and i was just on a fight that i wish to make and. then a man comes out of one of the villas to see one of the mysterious owners. know he's a businessman back from exile he rinse one of the palaces and uses it as an office for his company. it's really the most is. that you see a couple city this is the new. came in. just being in this latest model caused him to think he's came with security guards appear there on the edge but what is the problem this is the middle of the street it's a public space well it's what is the film it's plain to see this is ours this is the street this is public. i'm sorry this is this is the street says public

this 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 ok if you. don't film the house ok. because of the people are just a building. houses and they're giving because it is very high not in you. know in europe all much is it for this this is. only. twenty thousand twenty thousand u.s. dollars was one. 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. just. especially this is because this is which was. taken by

a woman people in the us or some other people from women in the poor people who are trying to see the truck in the same industry that make this all just. 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 is a gandhi like character modest and extremely popular some call him a populist and terms of number of votes his number three in the country already settled 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. case was too much. because it was my protest from what the for the same

reasons as last year are going to be remembered i was expelled last year this moment if i noticed the money you asked for last year has not been cleared by the budget all of this is illegal but to avoid a scandal the president of the assembly cut his microphone but better just goes. through this to me thoughts i thought if you think i know we've heard the figures you're quoting dozens of times i mean i thought a lot but if you want to get right now i'm of the school villages and the local authorities to see if the food supplies have arrived at the rate they get when it. is exactly the same as last year thought they have lived and they continue to do so thoughtful that people are dying from hunger and here you are talking about millions of dollars i cannot believe this but these are nothing but lies. bashardost 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 it in the first time i saw this document i was the plan to use it if this i open it to you i was alone till i became terrorized i could not believe the math here was so powerful and more precise seebach clearly shows the invisible the public funding the fraud and the outrageous privileges easy it's the first scandal of the cars i've ministration exorbitant sunoco risk of those who did cause i. suggest this is the area nine hundred twenty four square metres to do a shift 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 the general he an ambassador is it

a president of public radio and television. four hundred fifty square meters sushi's is the chief of police. this is a journalist for afghan soldiers an afghan. says this is your people but you're right if they can't be critical of the government up with the news that way sadly how can they put. up with it she was also able to take i'm laughing but i should really be crying because she can fulfill if it is physically with those gifts or do they still have to hide to the us because they paid something like two or three hundred dollars some people like chris 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 most of the. the military. research and all this all this man who's given my emotion for he who is defense minister look asked

vice president. musharraf lead one of the most powerful and feared men in the country. who are chiefs 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 for a. moment fame 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. 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. the question looming in the streets of kabul. 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 become suspicious the role of the human rights commission is to monitor the government the commission's lawyers have officially requested that ship or was wealthy be investigated. toodles alles the subject is way too sensitive. or should goes

for you if you show it makes everybody as it were. not more than i can tell from daughter called is good enough. to cause the trio. was one of those a million dollar. there it is and that's the big question there is no base these people. form own legal. reno that indicates something yes there is a high level of corruption and misuse of public property and misuse of those monies to develop it and at the same time there are. discussions about truck traffic when i looked at some of these expensive houses it can't be that many even the many of corruption because one million dollars is just building for in this time though the other thought is very much high. corruption and investment.

but also drugs. it's impossible not to think about opium trafficking when you come across afghan nouvel reach. 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 of mine and i was actually . very serious. shopping even as that i need to see a good opium money fine and some of the luxurious villas of share to us. 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 monitored and mystical had a little bit impulse opening we can also afford to not come at a door and ask people how they got that housing clothing 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 all the law says we need proof so if someone that rides that proof then yes we work at it with no problems but clinical nollywood those 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 wanted on him but we can't touch that everyone is allowed tallahassee orson. welles'.

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