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for the full slate we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. of stories in review of the week from r.t. massive antigovernment protests rock speight with a fifth of the population unemployed the country could now follow in the financial footsteps of greece ireland and portugal. but the future of troubled economies could be compromised by the rest of us carbon the next head of the international monetary fund led the e.u. bailouts even in the face of resistance from richer states. in georgia thousands of protesters take their anger at president saakashvili onto the streets of the capital tbilisi this is the head of the opposition tells r.t.
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that a revolution has truly start. and there are some question marks hovering over to meet with various plans for the presidency and twenty twelve the russian leader doj giving a definitive answer of his recent q. and a sessions with the media. straight ahead a special report no exposing corruption and criminality in afghanistan with billions of dollars earmarked for schools and anti drug initiatives have ended up in the wrong hands. 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 my. second church office. empty.
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so these people. if you'll give tips i had some foods heartland sell for people to be calling a case did fail or they see something going on and if i'm asking people for pray and what does that tell goats like in food could cause me this is a number that ritter numbers which we have a matter of mary production five which the case is to the fabs which is naturally see them. oddly enough the commission never investigated the sheer poor district. was this all those else's kids. costs were going. to charge it out because this risk a simple space was if and has been built by the people to the majority of the people are the people that are there watching him administration office and news
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services say that this is that they were the generator was. probably. your body our ingenuity it should for them he was off to them touching it and just making it like. a skid out of it. lit 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 receipt for jury duty. check and there are seven again if i'm stuck out by the . car and we are from france i'm going to royals you. a moment ago during the minute that's the minutes i'm about to scratch once upon a time when i was an american and can say eighty four eighty five i
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lived on vacation with some friends and other people but there was not a drug trafficking or drug selling right until there is some friends together or some accident that gives them the last vegas of course about integration new and for some part. that is that ok city. 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 your way good video for your socialist to speak as much as you can if this is the case somebody accident happened just let some. air flow but. what is given us that he is going to miss 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 international aid. this massive influx of money has
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triggered the arrival of build speculators. afghanistan attracts war investors exiled businessmen 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 tell tale sign hundreds of brand new has u.v.'s in the streets. this. for by. the anticorruption deputy this sudden wealth is only the food eligible. to this 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 income or attending want to. go to jail. if. this is really only if these people of the richest people believe for people
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who are his have axes so but they're not welcome here. just show this is how international aid is managed it's catastrophic just. said you don't where does the money end up. in the pockets of those close to power the deputies the senate is ministers business is good is doing heads of india of the united nations department heads who goes beyond this squeeze the food or the jury is meal is killed by a french or american english taxpayer. yup you. can see one who thought he was paying for the construction of roads of electric facilities schools. that are the money went into the pockets of the government and the build sells the luxury hotel to tell you. the way you can see with your nice how your money is wasted by something americans the french people they usually see. what you are you see because they are the couple that your
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money if simple as that was that if you'll give them up this is your country 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 went to american companies and that some funds were misappropriated. for instance the u.s. be on a texas based company that provides security for road construction sites is being
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sued by the american government for forging invoices. a u.s.b. i employee because it used to be issuing false invoices for gas employees and current according to an f.b.i. investigation american taxpayers paid three million dollars for two years for services that were never rendered for managers of the company have been detained. him in film to the hidden camera u.s.b. i mercenaries they say that they were trapped by the f.b.i. the word to me is. that it was a. if be investigated girl's life. in the states across the line is these are personal the. book. 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 especially nowadays it can represent up to thirty percent of the budget was if you don't pay you don't get the contract. this year. that's why the quality of materials is so bad here and. all the people who work in this field used poor quality products really tricky in this and they say they're going to use turkish french or german products but they don't you. know the materials come from pakistan everyone knows that look at us that's why you see so many
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building schools bridges and roads falling apart so 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 had to walk. through this. and of a 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 but i think didn't take our request into consideration they ignored our request why i was among them because they have friends in high places. that allowed it. to kindy i bet if you and i have seen publicly to clear that is see you show me one building i repeat just one building that was built correctly clinic the. highway
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a school. see almost surely one job it was completed all the way it was supposed to be this week is paid to international norms. quickly. developed. for afghans the best example is the case 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 want to do. this but it is so you can see anything is just tried for a six years five years ago thanks to a gift from the international community hospitals renovated and a new wing and in this building is not working speciated the second story today it is falling apart. you can see everything is this i thought that.
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the toilets and bathrooms are closed because of leaks they're currently being used to store broken furniture or case specifically because on addition there is nothing that ought to be. on that list because if there was a top this from the way to help me if we used a tap heck then it was destroyed the first story first of the roof of god of removing his a week earlier this week a father yes. there was rebuking this food is the this is this is the for a second tour of their body and if you used it out it will leak to the first floor you see that's where it leads. you to. as you see it's all become resistant systems from. this yar leaks the story
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is that back good. as you see these the low quality of the day have been used if it is it's and distrust of the site. is. the tiles are broken the electrical outlets going from there chasing us. as you see as the operation you can see it was a. you can see right through. we have studied the hospitals reconstruction budget. total budget is two point two million dollars million is that will soon not the way. first the united nations agency that hands out the project withdraws a two hundred seventy thousand dollars operating expense commission. that leaves one point nine million this money is allocated to an italian n.-g. o.
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that will supervise the work in-joke each one million dollars to buy wash walls 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 four 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 to specially for a worn down building. who is responsible the italian n.-g. o. the afghan subcontractor. the prosecutor's office in kabul has launched an investigation to answer that question. the italian n.-g. o. initial goodwill accepted to meet with us.
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interests headquarters are in rome they have not been back to come. their water is leaking and since we couldn't water prove it because we didn't have the equipment we did what we could. a tal's a broken but that happens but i still can't understand its. still the fact that it's still running amazes me i was sure that it was closed as it. is the head of intercepts he did not oversee the hospital building site himself his n.g.o.s specializes in. and in two thousand to have ghana stand was a rough place and no companies were capable. so we accepted the job when i saw the report describing the final results oh i could say it was great you
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did a good job the report was leaked enemy written by specialists. from the afghan government no no no from you know international technicians they should say to me and that's what i'm saying so if you see this is this something that's not right faith in ecclesia top. this is the field engineer who was in charge of operations he claims a lack of maintenance of the building among other things. and this is like someone that they have to make and if they didn't follow up to look. at some of their nothing but it's not it is and it's supposedly be a lot of years old but it's a very no is going to be no no that's. one of the. yes no no no again we're going back to the reality this is the part that was built by you this is these parts here
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so this part will destroy this where it was built. by your subcontractor four years ago i should administer and you can see it's falling down and it's very bad it's nuts to this year is that i missed this segment to use for the combat so that it takes. a specialist in of the same rank. very noble actions fall like this but you have no never seen. because time you think there's a stiff price for her story. there was a major earthquake in two thousand and four in afghanistan but it's epicenter was three hundred kilometers away from a company that no damages were reported in kabul. for afghan authorities the explanation is far more trivial the hospital is falling apart because of poor quality materials for you. the investigating prosecutor is one of the few fishel genuinely fighting against corruption. on the morning we met him he
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was trying to get back salaries owed to teachers from a distant province to say that while many would yes it's the government he took the teachers' salaries salaries are yes six thousand dollars. at the prosecutor's request the control commission started looking into the n.g.o.s books. he added i mean there are new policy controllers one of them as they came across lots of expenses that had nothing to do with the hospital he's refusing to say that well you must and i can only tell him they were properly. the prosecutor keeps invoices of the ngos operating expenses in this plastic bag for him they're simply too high. fitted to this is the whole communications network. expansion that salaries computers travel furniture television rugs for their offices in addition we cannot allocate those expenses to be original budget
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for the reconstruction in these items cannot be considered part of their mission at all doubt whether any of it but for the heads of interest also their normal operating costs for a western n.-g. o. of course he never be productive if you do that all n.g.o.s do there is a complete over. the so called supporting course spotted their communication courses the pick ups for the material there are so few computers and so on obviously a person pager of the all supporting c. standard should. and should use it to the poor. because you can only focus it is. afghan authorities are also surprised by the high cost of materials imported from italy. they said they had to buy materials in italy. windows in italy lands in pakistan water could. bathtubs and if something was off i did it in my cellar the whole place while the markets in afghanistan are filled
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with them she's out of that why in italy never does that as you sit up of a group who is it sound economically too good for you to leave to bring some w.c.s. maybe this is merely was impossible to find in various areas that are just and we have no bank. people come from italy with the money in their pocket this is good to pay the there was no no went back in. and for food. finally and that's the main problem the afghan subcontractor that performed on hundred thousand dollars worth of work simply vanished. from us happily middle of the asteroid that i was the company never existed as well it doesn't have an address but i will show people the cool president of motion. this company which is called children rehabilitation is not like this suffrage so how can it make so much money i thought is the. currently contractor seems to
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overbuild some services like the demolition of an old 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 fled to me don't secure visit which surprises me is that you continue to trust the subcontractor matters like a bandit we are very astute also very secret for it was regarded straight really. correct men would work because they were concerned of their own is no way they were nuts and they're nuts capable of giving the name of the guy who built the ospital you subcontracted him are not capable of giving me skill for longer for example which there is a number was provided to determine frazier was unable to find in the it was a caterer told me this home how the content truck wouldn't. by the foam he was a thinking man's this last c c and there is
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a beer in the truck is full yet this is worth it don't go there if you can only believe. then a few months after this interview tonight it nations launched an investigation against the american official from un o.p.'s who had supervised the hospital budget apparently he had embezzled no less than five hundred thousand dollars. so how can you not be disappointed but you know when the world asked us for help against the soviets we were there. and we have made so many sacrifices for us with these countries they came to help afghanistan reconstruct itself so they said unfortunately and stead of that is what we faced with loss but if as your. trust towards the reconstruction sector is to inflict within the afghan population . expatriates are now synonymous with overblown salaries. and
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afghan n.g.o.s are suspected of running shady operations. when 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. there are two thousand three hundred fifty five n.g.o.s in afghanistan so if you're of the ninety percent a local. leader one thousand nine hundred and thirty five outright thieves which openly obviously waste the phones that they are allocating the public funds it internationally your people did not tell us. first from seventy percent of their budget is spent on logistics to stick cooks busy body guards cars and over to what. we requested was these two just. be clear the feeling with you on this it was a what you wish you to listen i found only through hard work trivial to be honest
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see on show us if we kick out the corrupt to the thieves true but. it'll give you the honest organizations to charge who would do e.g. how i feel. special post was never able to carry out his plan. he had to resign from the government after his proposition. among the few n.g.o.s that had the approval of the minister was afghanistan them out 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 means one meal per day and learning how to read and write. stories that matter to me even my god oh my god she's me i used to look at other children going to school and i'd
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be frustrated and jealous but right now i'm going myself i feel better and i'm glad to get out oh in financial year i had to work because my father could not provide for the family i didn't have a choice i had to work all your i feel much better now that i've come to the center on earnings and learning to regional lights who was the stars of the moment you know a good state. chaos and corruption are the taliban's best allies. an increasing number of afghans are regretting although not openly the islamists iron hand. on the muslims on each under the taliban you didn't see such high levels of corruption go well you did come up with what you said in the newly candidates today it's become a widespread system systems that i'm under sort of because it's true we didn't always argue with their politics but when it came to economics there was less
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corruption and we had fewer problems just didn't focus on. it. in two thousand and one it took only a few weeks to oust the taliban from couple. but already incent more talented and violence still remains. how can one be surprised that eight years later the taliban are coming back.
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