in the soviet files. for the film we've got. the biggest issues get an invoice face to face with the news makers. welcome back here's a recap of the main stories on r.t. thousand strong antigovernment protests have been amassing in spain for a week now the country's highest unemployment rate in the e.u. raises fears it could be next in line for a bailout after greece arlen's portugal. and the question of whether dimitri forget it will be running for the presidency in two thousand and twelve remains unanswered the russian leader sidestepped the issue at his two hour long he won a session with journalists. and in georgia angry protesters take to the streets

demanding president saakashvili steps down claiming they've been robbed of their freedom but their calls are grabbed with tear gas rubber bullets. and i would take a look at how billions invested into building schools and hospitals in afghanistan and set up pay for luxury villa us instead the first part of our special report is next. 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 as planned a spectacular announcement. a simple 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 it 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. 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. were not clear 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. for a country such as if i'm going to 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 unfrozen questions start flying around. why will corruption and opium trafficking be fucked mr president first c n n what kind of guarantees you offering the international community we

will we would all for holding on to say that the sequel for as far as you may know is the cold cold which is a political mistress you know people should deliver their services to get out of corruption that eruption and drug trafficking condom to be followed by us the afghans also have to be also to save the lives of innocent was to make good use of the systems we must deliver to the afghan people by firing and everything in a concrete examples there are coaches so what is the cost to the local locals into these things so we can extend that it is and that stand a concerted stand back on. kabul 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 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 game ground every day. this morning in the secured zone an american convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber ah. the marines have lost one man they're panicking. they seem afraid of being attacked by someone in the crowd for passers by were killed by the blast. time eighty percent of the victims of the taliban are innocent civilians or. 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. is even that low that money what money the money does not reach the people pulling us stays out there us that it's in the pockets of the government was there for you where is the money now needed now. starving out of work people meet every morning on this crossroads 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 junks times were better during 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 eaten anything in two days that's in. your

body piss 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 a couple. that is roll call for the girls in the south of the country girls are attacked by the taliban but they continue to flock to school they are determined and come in numbers in large numbers. here are a few minor details missing from the situation to be perfect. details like low and a roof. sat up so i got up this. little fish. that had. no working

environment is it didn't want you as it was nothing more to that if it were outside of you now that there are no chairs no table list system the hell can the girls learn anything in the schools and you know god oh my god you know i still only want to stay one not to listen to the teacher i was. just the man she wanted him to listen to grow my stuff how can they be happy. winter is coming in the morning is cool. a light snow started to fall. i guess as he goes on will have to me it's not 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 what it is that we don't have a choice. you how could anything for. learning be a good cause of gun people want to hear our country good support this bickering

here for making go would things work who eyed this car for its very own. but now we are trying to make these are for the schools because there's room for. 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. but the principal however has 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 i mean not that you put in a request of 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 a warlord. 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 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 to 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 not always calling you because i would love to have some addresses of schools to be able to feel. you put the address on it right. now. trying to find ok i'm. grateful that. ten days to get. address of a school in kabul a girls' high school that is under construction. we rush to it. we find ourselves in front of a magnificent billboard picturing a truly beautiful building. ok so where is the school.

the school that it's you. who boarded where. all you know are that. the board's been here for one and a half years sort of i was little that when they put it up they promised the construction starts and everything would be completed don't the sun is up and 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 a quick look at what's in my hands are completely dried in the cold but that's how it was and said it yet oh. 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 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 who sometimes grow in the schools down and often kidnapped journalist 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 don't. we need so many things that construction must go faster it's really necessary it's going to slow but as a rock we lack so much space in our school that we have to refuse our admissions that this was an occupation is very high handed of us from. apple.

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 houses in a mushroom ensure. each still has its own private security. of course there is the taliban threat but that's not a. sheer force at the heart of the 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.

of intimate trust for me the. people who do these people came would be americans before this and it wasn't for their planes and tanks but the minute they would have never made it here you avoid well by michael mcmillan who are bigger but michael and i mean they should have built something housing for everyone but do it instead ok if they took the area by force with weapons put a little bit i say the truth on the next level and right. in front of us oh yeah that the one house isn't enough some room has real fool. 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 out. with a fake i mean i did upset the so the. right fit. work here he was 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 neighborhoods villains. his rich clients and paid him in full now it is his turn to have his own palace built. as i discussed at length. all together it came to four to five hundred thousand dollars from the top of the villa a splendid panoramic view over the slums which are scheduled to be demolished. this poor says it will all become a sad these old houses are illegal only that these people will leave the state will relocate them elsewhere then actually that's the way it is but every government wants to build a road and a house is on the path that if the house is raised and the land requisition. to speed up the evictions the couple sheeple 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 the top on aiken's they came to demolish the houses that were on the road thought he started racing here. and then we were told we had to leave them on the top like them. they threaten them if you don't leave i will be back tomorrow and will destroy everything i've done as jonathan out of my league i wish to make. then a man comes out of one of the villas is he one of the mysterious owners. no 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 good. that you see the city really this is the new. came in. just think

in this latest model because in the sixty's came with the security guards appear they're on edge what is the problem this is a middle of the street it's a public space where you don't want us to feel its way into this is ours this is a street this is public this isn't it i'm sorry this is this is trade this is public this houses don't own the street you know we are 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 the journalist 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 living because it is very high loading google. going in europe all much as it say this this. twenty. 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 a woman people you know some other people from women in the poor people who are from the syrian and the same in this case that they just also. pushed this man who 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 a little nationalist is a gandhi like character modest and extremely popular some call him a populist in terms of number of votes he's 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 yet. to monitor. it was too much. because it was i protest for the same reasons as last year our go to remember i was expelled asked you if i'm not mistaken the money you ask will last year has not been cleared by the budget department this is illegal. they don't to avoid a scandal the president of the assembly cuts his microphone and blood pressure just goes. by therapy they go first and we've heard the figures dozens of times i mean i thought a lot but if you want to see it we can treat it like now i'm of the school villages and the local authorities to see if the food supplies have a right to get it when it. is 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 country if you saw the first time i saw this document i was the plan issue as it is i open if you i was alone and i became terrorized just so i could not believe the matthew was so calm and more precise seebach clearly shows we see the business of the public funding the fraud and the outrageous privileges easy it's the first scandal of the cars administration exorbitant cinephile risk of those who did. sinister for us so this is the area nine hundred four square meters us

a douche if this is the foreign secretary is chief of staff is offended or should. see who he is the governor of a province superficial here this is the son of the general. the general he an ambassador is it or president of public radio and television. four hundred fifty square meters it does seem to show this is the chief of police. this is a journalist that against. it is an afghan. this is should people be right if they can't be critical of the government up with. it's crazy how can they. eat it up with see it would also be interesting i'm laughing but i should really be crying because you can look at. specifically those gifts or do they still have to pay. because they paid something like two or three hundred dollars or something to get three hundred dollars for nine hundred square meters just a cop. 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. search and all this all this man was given by musharraf a he who is defense minister and the first vice president. musharraf one of the most powerful and feared men in the country. who are 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. 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. this fall from zero. zero zero zero zero where does the money for the palaces come from from the mother's belly the thought of us all to muddle through the united to get the money to build it there were paul 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 shear poor as wealthy be investigated. tools or else the subject is way too sensitive. or should goes for you if you should it makes everybody as it were. not more than two thousand dollars. but it was that close trio. was one of those how a million dollar. there it is and that's the big question there is no base these people run. for only. we know that indicates something good there is a high level of corruption. misuse of public property 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 housing it can't be the man even the idea of corruption because one million dollars is just building up or in this town the other is very much high. corruption and investment. but also drugs. it's impossible not to think about opium trafficking when you come across afghan nouveau riche. 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 mules that were caught by the police of my own much as i should have. heard their. shelf even as that i need to see a good opium money fine 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 finding money laundering. the official seems rather reluctant to talk more limited in which the bell has a little bit in kosovo and we cannot afford to not come at a door and ask people how they got the housing 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 provides that proof then yes we work at it with no problems but clinical knowledge into the person who is looking for the evidence if it's not you and the calling to the law

we don't have the right to investigate people's private property what we can touch them and everyone is allowed to have asked us.