this also is news review of the week from r.t. massive protests in space were soaring unemployment threatens to put the country in line financially with greece ireland and portugal. georgia's opposition leader tells r.t. a revolution has begun as the streets of tbilisi have turned into a battlefield but people demanding president saakashvili steps down. the question over dimitri preventives plans for another term in office remains unanswered as the russian president holds back to q. and a session. next to take a look at how billions invested in building schools and hospitals in afghanistan

ended up paying for luxury villas instead in the first part of our special report this hour. draw a 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 and germans afghan politicians congratulating each other. after the photo they all disappeared behind a partition of its access is closely guarded so journalists are welcome to attend the conference on television it is france is not only acting as those doing power the president as usual has planned

a spectacular announcement. a simple question and that is why i am announcing the increase of french aid for reconstruction as so french aid to the afghans will be more than double it will see if 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. 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. the french minister for foreign affairs tribes 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. 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. with my will corruption and opium trafficking will be fucked mr president first c n n what kind of guarantees you offering the international community we will be would call for all they're going to say that these people must try to defend it no it is the job of holding just a political mistress you know people deserve a good services to get out of corruption that interruption and drug trafficking

condom to be followed by us yes guns also have to be and also do a lot of innocent was to make good use of the systems we must to give it to the afghan people by putting it in everything in a concrete examples that are about both to sell for us and the cost to remove from those in these things so what you need and that is standing back stand that concerted stand that. 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 dollar a step way to the dollars come from where do they go how much is really can best in schools in 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 a secured zone an american convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber ah. 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 to the percent of the victims of the taliban or 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 google is even that good that money what money

the money does not reach the people who know us and stays out there. that it's in the pockets of the government there for you where is the money that do not need it 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 the money junk times were better during the war would die from bullets today they died of hunger that teach them about their my children and i haven't eaten anything in two days i swear i hadn't eaten at anything in two days that's a good girl is your buddy fish people are dying of hunger but who's going to help us anyway and 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 is what sounded random you know working class neighborhood of the camp. it is rule 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'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. on these. little fish. that had. no working environment is it didn't want it to if it was nothing more to add a bit where outside ok now there are no chairs no table list just some the hell can the girls learn anything in the schools and you know google my dad you know i still only want to steal one not to listen to the teacher i was. she was going to lose

big time to grow my stuff how can they be happy. winter is coming in the morning is cool. a light snow is starting to fall. i say if he goes on we'll have to leave not phenolics not much it's all right when the snow falls like this we stay outside of it if you study under the snow i don't know what it is but we don't have a choice. how is anything for. learning really good clothes of good will 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 nationally were not invested here. because there aren't enough classrooms this small school welcomes its ten thousand students over three shifts. prince. however respond to a piece of land where the school could settle and expand. because. this piece of land is owned by the state. but most of it was seized by people who have friends in high places well the rest of it belongs to the ministry of defense them you know 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. 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 school has hundreds of schools allegedly built thanks to international. reconstruction work 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 those calling you because i live to have some

addresses of schools to be able to feel much. ok you put the address on it right. on i. don't drink. enough. i. great that's just. 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 were. all you know are that.

the board's been here for one and a half years. when they put it up they promised the construction starts and everything would be completed. the sun is up for it's almost two years now and still nothing. carefully 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 from the cold but that's how it was and the food. so far the american donors have only build restrooms and the schools surrounding walls and have inaugurated a beautiful build what. 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 received one last email from the agency it states that most of the schools were built in rule districts. too bad for us and for the afghan pits. the rural

districts are swarming with tell about sometimes growing the schools down and often should not journalists 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 is 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 up but as a mark we let so much space in our school that we have to refuse marriage missions that this was an occupation is very high end of affect. that. 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 houses have mushroomed ensured. 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 a 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 an image of the stuff from the. people who did these people came with the american system and most of this i mean wasn't for their planes and tanks but the minute they would have never made it here you avoid by my filmic going to have a moment when i mean they should have built public housing for everyone but they

would instead so i guess they took the area by force with weapons but i didn't like my saying the truth on only three billion right. in front of us but yet happened one house isn't enough some really have three. 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. and i mean what i did about the so the knowledge. already here he was a great problem for you so. we meet with a man who is having his house built. he's one of the architects who is designing the neighborhood still it's. his rich clients have paid him in full and now it is his turn to have his own palace built although it still. has to

be a. child together again 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 what do you do about those poor aussies coming out 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 requisitioned. to speed up the couple chief of police showed up one morning in two thousand and six with a bulldozer. down and up on the lead but those 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 they started racing here. like them and then we were told we had to leave them

on us up and. down if you don't leave we'll be back tomorrow and we'll destroy everything i've done i was just on a holiday i wish to make. this then a man comes out of one of the fellows is he one of the mysterious owners. know 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 the most is. that you see the couple city really this is the new. came in. just think in this latest model cause in other cities came with security guards appear there on edge 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 a house this is a street this is public this is i'm sorry this is this is the streets is public

this house is 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 because 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 here there's just a building here in this thing many houses and they're giving living because it is very high looting you. know in europe all much as it was like this this. twenty. twenty thousand year as though it 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.

because this is which was. taken by people in the us or some other people from women in the poor people who are from the syrian industry in this state that make this also. push h. 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 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. but i took. it all so much. because it was sort of my protest for the same reasons

as last year are going to be remembered i was expelled last year it was for me if i'm not mistaken it's the money you asked for last year has not been cleared by the budget department this is illegal. to avoid a scandal the president of the assembly cut his microphone the better the list goes on. the enemy thoughts. kristie we've heard the figures you're quoting dozens of times i mean i have thought about it but if you want to reconstruct it 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 had lived and it continued it is a lot of that people are dying from hunger and here you are talking about millions of dollars i cannot believe this these are nothing but life. emotionalist 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 just in the first time i saw this document i was the plan he was there to get this i open 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 the imprisonment of public funding the fraud and the outrageous really juicy it's the first scandal of the cars i'd ministration exorbitant several quick scan of those who did care as i. suggested this is the area nine hundred twenty four square meters us to do a shift this is the foreign secretary is chief of staff is a figure of course it. is the governor of a province city official here this is the son of. the general he an ambassador

is it a president of public radio and television eagle four hundred fifty square meters see who she's the chief of police. this is a journalist for afghan villagers an afghan. says this is your people but you're right they can't be critical of the government up with the news that it weighs it how can they be. eat it up we see it's impossible to think i'm laughing but i should really be crying because you can look it is basically with those gifts or do they still have to hide to. us because they paid something like two or three hundred dollars some people because three hundred dollars for nine hundred square meters just a couple. who had enough power to ward such gifts to friends of the regime. since the land officially belongs to the defense ministry generous donor most of the. the military. search and all this all this land was given by in russia for he who is defense minister and the first ice

president. musharraf one of the most powerful and feared men in the country. attention for 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 for a. moment flame 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 marshal. this allows him to distribute land in the ship or district. we tried to contact marshal fane 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. where does the money for the palaces come from from the mother's belly because of a model for the un 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 have become suspicious of the role of the human rights commission is to monitor the government the commission's lawyers have officially requested that ship or as well be investigated. to north wales the subject is way too sensitive.

much goes for you for sure it makes everybody as it were. not more than two thousand dollars or called is what it was that close the trio. was one of those houses are a million are. there it is there and that's the big question there is no base that these people. own legal. we know that indicates something there is a high level of corruption and misuse of public property and misuse of those monies for the development and at the same time there are discussions about truck traffic so when i spoke to some of these expensive how's it it can't be. even the idea of corruption because one million dollars is just building or in this town.

is very 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 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 knowledge i was a. very serious. shop and 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 to one of it and was stuck on the head of one of the but impulse opening we cannot afford to not come at it all well and ask people how they got that 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 who bites that proof then yes we work at it with no problems. but 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 what of it and we can't touch them and everyone is allowed to have asked us.

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