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meridia leader should be the children's church in new delhi who took him over the here in connection with the clothes and. made. believe that the leader medicine was punished but they were transplants. welcome back here's a recap of the stories we have free you on our team soaring unemployment and a sturdy measures nationwide protest in spain but the country rumored to be next in line for a bailout to save the ailing euro. tear gas a broader bullets are the reply from the georgian authorities to thousands of average administrators calling for president saakashvili to step down a second day of rallies in the capital tbilisi is in full swing with government forces reportedly infiltrating the debt. plus the russian president veers
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away from confirming a real action bid it's going to be twelve during an unprecedented q. and a session with hundreds of journalists. now a special report exposing corruption and criminality in afghanistan where billions of dollars earmarked for schools and anti drug initiatives have ended up in the wrong hat so that's next on our. the anti-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 this was. the second shelf. empty.
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so these people. if you can hear chips i had some foods heartlands for people to be calling in case they fell or they see something going on in tibet me asking people for pride and what is the telephone like in food coupons only. as a number of records are numbers which we have a matter of mary production. the cases to the fabs which is nigeria see. oddly enough the commission never investigated the ship or district. was this all this. is. really. a charge of the cooked fish which has in callista's was if it is done better by the people to the majority of the people are the people there working in that construction office and these youngsters say that this is that they were the
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generator was. that your body power had looted showed poor us off to them charging it in just making it like. this kid had a fit. look 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 risk for drug abuse. which i came across in afghanistan an attack of by the crossfire khoury on any are about france and where else you sure it's neutral a moment ago during the quarter that's the one time about this question once upon a time when i was in america nineteen out to can say eighty four eighty five island on vacation with some friends and a lot of people but there was not
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a drug trafficking or drug selling right until those were some friends together and some acts that are not on the las vegas of course urban generation do and for some part. that is that 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 make sure there were a good video for use of them speak as much as you can if this is a case somebody's accident happened just get some down and heave careful about. what is given us that has done the 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 gold speculators.
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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 telltale sign hundreds of brand new has u.v.'s in the streets. but this. could be. the anticorruption deputy this sudden wealth is only the fruit of the coaching job 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 capital are attending want to. go to go. go to night he teaches english only proof these people are the richest people
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mainly for little boys have axes so but they're not welcome here. just show this is how international aid is managed it's catastrophic. settled only where does the money end up. in the pockets of those close to power the deputies the senate is this just business it will be doing heads of engineer the few noted nations to come and heads who goes beyond this squeeze the food or the jury's meal is killed by a french american english taxpayer. the same one he thought he was playing for the construction of roads of electric facilities schools. etc the money went into the pockets of the government and the bill sales the luxury hotel to tell you. how it was you can see with your nice how your money is wasted but it's something americans different people they usually see. what you feel you see because they go well it's your money
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if the symbol is that if you gave them this if you can't they would take it. 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 going to american companies and that some funds were misappropriated. for instance us texas based companies that provide security for road construction sites is being sued by the american government for forging invoices. a u.s.b.
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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 over 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.b. i mercenaries they say that they were tracked by the f.b.i. the word to me is. that it was a. if you investigate it crossing the life they are in the sea so crossing the line is these are personal and the. corruption is largely endemic to the reconstruction sector. unscrupulous subcontractors sell contracts to each other. they take
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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 and nowadays they share can represent up to thirty percent of the budget if you don't pay you don't get a contract. and this is the result that's why the quality of materials is so bad here and the definition 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 hole but they don't. know the materials come from pakistan everyone knows that look at the u.s. and that's why you see so many building schools bridges and roads falling apart so
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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 said a lot. of they were using low quality sand for the cement to build the walls of and also the walls were crumbling. we requested that they stop using this type of sand or well i think didn't take our request into consideration that you're willing they ignored our request why it was a militant because they have friends in high places. most of them over the. country i bet if you and i have seen publicly to clear that if see you show me one building i repeat just one building that was built correctly clinic. the way a school. see almost one should only one job it was completely the way it was
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supposed to be this international norms. quit politics. for afghans the best example is they came to come to hospital. the building is located in a working class suburb of companies it serves one point five million people. you see because i wanted a good quality of this building is so low you can see everything is destroyed for us a.c.s. five years ago thanks to a gift from the international community hospitals religious leaders and a new wing added this building is not working speciated the second stores today it is falling apart. you can see everything is the size of it.
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the toilets and about terms are closed up because of leaks they're currently being used to store broken furniture or cases if they take on addition there is nothing like getting a dose. of it just because if they want to top this. way to cut off the if we used to tap hair then it was tried to first story first of the roof of the out of the building his of the earliest make up off of us. there was there is some food is still to us this is the first second or third of the body and if we use the top it will leak through the first floor you see that's where it leaks. as you see it's all because the existence of some of. this is our leaks history says that back good so you see these the low quality tells that they have been used
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if it is it's in distrust of the site. is. the tiles or broken the electrical outlets hang from their casing us. as you see as the operation you can see it was a try. you can see right through. we have studied the hospitals reconstruction budget. total budget is two point two million dollars millions that will soon not the way. 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.s that will supervise the work the in-joke keeps one million dollars to buy wash boles
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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 i thought 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 especially for a worn down building. who is responsible to tell you n.g.o.s or the afghan subcontractor. the prosecutor's office in kabul has launched an investigation to answer that question. to tell you an ngo in a show goodwill accepted to meet with us.
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kids are sauce headquarters are in rome they have not been back to kabul. it's. sick. the water is leaking and since we couldn't prove it because we didn't have the equipment we did what we could. tiles are broken but that happens but i still can't understand it you're. still the fact that it's still running amazes me i was sure that it was closed. she is the head of intercepts he did not oversee the hospital building site himself his n.g.o.s specializes in mine clearance. and in two thousand to 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. from the afghan
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government no no no from you know international technicians. and that's what i'm saying so if you see this is 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 but among other things. this is like this and one that they have to make and if they. do a book. that's not enough and it's not. it's a whole day we'll know years old it's a very i know it will get. more than ten years no no no again we're going back to the reality and this is the part that was built by you this is this part here so this part all destroyed this where it was built by your
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subcontractor four years ago i should sort of communication and you can see it now it's very it's moments but this is a myth this is political. that's of the extent of the surfacing of the same thing. there is no action full of this but you have no never seen. it because time you think there's a that's the truth or her story. there was a major earthquake in two thousand and four in afghanistan but it's epicenter was three hundred kilometers away from the capital and no damages were reported in kabul. for afghan authorities the explanation is for more trivial the hospital is falling apart because of poor quality materials for use. the investigating prosecutor is one of the few fishelson genuinely fighting against corruption. on the morning we met him he was trying to get back salaries owed to
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teachers from a distant province side if other many would yes it's the governor he took the teachers' salaries. yes six thousand dollars. at the prosecutor's request the control commission started looking into the n.g.o.s books. i mean they are the only controllers. they came across a long time expenses that had nothing to do with the hospital he's refusing to say that most about everything. the prosecutor keeps invoices of the ngos operating expenses in this plastic bag for him there's simply too high. a fitted to this is the whole communications network. expansion that salaries computers travel furniture television rugs for their offices in addition we can allocate those expenses to the original budget for the reconstruction even these
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items cannot be considered part of their mission but all doubt whether any of it but for the heads of interest also their normal operating costs for a western ngo of course he never project to do the injuries do there is a company. the so called supporting course those who spotted their communication courses the pickups for the material there are so few computers and so on obviously a percentage of the all supporting c. standard n.g.o.s should. and should use it to to go to war. as you can only five percent is the. afghan authorities are also surprised by the high cost of materials imported from italy. the admitting they said they had to vinatieri else in italy to clean up windows in a saudi lands in pakistan water closets bathtubs in italy was all i needed to get in my cellar hole is while the markets in afghanistan who filled with the jews are that hard line italy that want us that is just
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a pitiful who is its own economically could contribute to bring some google uses maybe this is merely was impossible to fill in very low values there are just and we have no bank. people can probably tell you with the money in the pocket this will be to pay the there was no no i'm back in a limited. interval. finally and that's the main problem the afghan subcontractor that performed nine hundred thousand dollars worth of work simply vanished. from us after the middle of the astro that ecowas the company never existed as well it doesn't have an address and another child even the cool president of the notion that it showed it at this company which is called children rehabilitation is not likely as a nation is suffering so how can they make so much money i thought as the. currently this a contractor seems to overbuild some services like the demolition of an old
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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 flat don't secure really what surprises me. is that you continue to trust the subcontractor magid michael bennett we realize move all the very secret for it was upgraded straight so it's really. correct men and they were good because they were going to. know what they were nuts and they're not capable of giving the name of the guy who will be asked will you work so contracted in i look capable of giving me scale for longer for example which if number was provided to determine if you're a good radio was unable to find in the prosecutors told me that it is somehow the content truck with the mobility foam and he was a thinking man's or there's almost sane and they disappear in the truck is full yet
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this is what it. can only. then a few months after this interview the united nations launched an investigation against the american official from un o.p.'s who had supervised the hospital budget apparently get 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 from these countries they came to help afghanistan reconstruct itself so they said unfortunately instead of that is what we faced with loss but it is almost as if the world. trusts towards the reconstruction sector it 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
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he was planning minister basho those confirmed that these operations were dishonest after investigating these n.g.o.s he requested that eight out of ten be closed. he yelled to me there are two thousand three hundred fifty five engineers in afghanistan the majority ninety percent a local. leader one thousand nine hundred and thirty five outright thieves which openly waste the phones that they are allocating loved the public funds that internationally of gore could be. the. first one to seventy percent of their budget is spent on religious just to stay cooks busy body the costs of a two. we requested was a good as n.g.o.s be clipped a film which will be suitable with you to listen i found only four hundred twenty of them to be honest see on show us if we don't kick out the corrupt to the thieves
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to the to. it will give the honest organizations a chance to work through e.g. . bashardost was never able to carry out his plans. he had to resign from the government after his proposition. among the few n.g.o.s that had the approval of the minister it was afghanistan the mothers of afghanistan tomorrow the school run by a french afghan national. budget is ridiculously low but it provides an education to five hundred street kids that never went to school. for these children and afghanistan duma means one meal per day and learning how to read and write. distaso matic me to mark the car on my car 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 i'm going myself i feel
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better. but. i had to work because my father could not provide for the family problem i didn't have a choice i do it all year i feel much better now that i've come to the center and learning and learning to regional lighter who was a star the other woman here are still. and corruption of the taliban's best allies. and increasing number of afghans are regretting also not openly the islamists iron hand. of the muslims in which under the taliban you didn't see such high levels of corruption so well you did come up to come and say newly to today it's become a widespread system systems that i'm under 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
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