back you are with our t. here's a look at the top stories this year in opposition wants for military forces to step in and its weapons are coming from abroad u.n. security council foreign ministers met to try to break the deadlock and it reports of escalating violence. the u.s. rushes to apologize for what it calls an isolated incident after an american soldier ships down sixteen afghans most of them children but president obama says there is no rush for american troops to leave due to the murderous. greece holds

its breath for rescue cash as the euro zone's finance years give the next bailout a green light by the lack of e.u. help and matters like illegal immigration take a toll on the indebted nation. next we assessed the cost of the afghan war with the country's finance minister and i was special injury. it. mr afghanistan's finest minister it's great to have you with us to be with you so it's been a decade since of grandstanding has become the front stage for the war on terror let the united states how much it costs the nation the water has cost only a lot it's not i don't think you can put a dollar figure on this and if you see

a billion two hundred billion three hundred billion it's still a year in. the difference for it was beyond economic. diversity to the public public information give us streets the street institutions putting together . his arteries pin years ago all after the taliban when we come back nothing existed it's not just the. infrastructure but what the government did not exist the system did not exist but with the support of the international community with their participation the number of fronts we believe me enormous progress but we're still a long way to go towards any nation and rely on its own institutions to survive in. pursuit of foreign aid accounts about ninety percent ninety five percent of afghans well know that's two thousand and fourteen is to deadline for post there was through all of the international forces plus the reduction of aid money how we

love going east and sustain its economy after two thousand and fourteen we did after and did not launch the international forces to be in afghanistan fighting for us. even in power longer than the are needed from the video our simply have to believe the prime responsibility of taking all security should be. there's a possibility of afton and you think there will be ready by two thousand and one we are ready if you if you go into afghanistan if. many of the our preparations in different parts of the country that are by afghan forces and our forces in the end. because they are culturally sensitive without they're part of the afghan nation. their. role will be much more effective in much more positive than the role of international forces which is that the economics of this there is no doubt. it will have some impact on our economy

but there's no nation in the world and there can indifferently rely on foreign aid . so when you're talking about transition we're not thinking only about securitization but also economics transition even if we're in the shorter term there is a downturn to the economy in the longer term if there will be. again with with with proper afghanistan commissions and with peace. i think absolutely an economy that would be more sustainable dignitas but exactly how bad will the downturn be because you know there are people who believe that afghan economy is war time it's donor drunk and as far as they are concerned right after two thousand and fourteen it's had its if not towards an economic disaster definitely a very sharp economic crisis it will not be the fortunate thing is there you have three years to think about this in to prepare ourselves for right in front of us we

had just a few months ago we had the bonn conference in which we've got the commitment and a pledge from the international community for its long term financial commitment to afghanistan both economic and security and in a couple of months we will have a chicago event and it will summit was one of the g. eight summit and was there will be a specific commitment to. our security forces for a longer term financial commitment and right after that in july we will have a conference on afghanistan focusing on economics and development look you and that's where we've secured. a longer term commitment financial commitment significant commitment a law it will come down over time but it will not come down in twenty four as for foreign aid they say that there's a huge difference between money spent on afghanistan and the money spent in afghanistan dollars for institutions that operate in your country really help

reboot the economy or is it really a question of pumping money from one pocket to another well this is the need for any. and not everything strains on a country spending in that country. it is it goes into the country or it doesn't even go into that country it's more acute of a problem in your country. focus of our recent discussions three years ago we had a kabul conference that was the prime focus and therefore we need to see more spend through an institution and if we need to see more aligned through afghan priorities that we would like to see more strain in afghanistan this this spending should generate opportunities within the country and then big dollars going into companies that spend a portion of it in afghanistan and a big portion of it has back to their country and of course the opium economy which

is always a hits topic for afghanistan and correct me if i'm wrong from what i understand it bounce to about thirty five to fifty percent of afghans brakeman i know not not really how much it's not really you see. the there is what it generates is accurate for example it generates income for thought and it's a generates income for the middlemen the businesspeople who connect the international market with the production and it generates again it has a huge market in the countries. in europe in russia everywhere else it's in value or some one hundred billion dollars. but what what gets to the produce of the farmers is no more than five hundred to eight hundred million dollars did they figure with remains in afghanistan so eight hundred million dollars as part of sixteen billion dollars worth of g.d.p.

this past year and could be seventeen years is a small percentage. is not a big percentage there is the. two point five billion dollars that goes to the middle men some of them are afghan some of them are not afghans they had money does not stay into afghanistan that money goes into regional countries to return to have them distributions for the actual figure that remains in afghanistan is quite small but here is my question as to financial aid money to clients do you think you're going to see more and more of your people rely on help in kind of me there is certainly a possibility but the thing is if you look into afghanistan it is closely correlated with insecurity places that are secure that are within our hands you don't see the production of opium that is only in where we do not have control of thought so that

if we foreclose again on helping afghan institution to secure our country and if we held and put pressure. on our third elements that come in creating the security in afghanistan we believed it was to kill the instability the the will be dealt with in a more sustainable in a more real manner but again if as long as they're in security as long as there are areas out of reach there would be it would be i'm of the production of opium and some of that money goes to the traffic and some of this even to to the insurgents it finances insurgents so it's in the interest of interest of insurgents as well to allow production as well as the environment for the production of food an american . you know or sixty percent of afghanistan's population is under the age of twenty five it's their respective labor market for these people because otherwise they're really easy subjects for terrorist recruiters this is the biggest challenge in the

earth why we see this we need to focus on more sustainable. employment generation and all that. exist and focus in an orderly culture that exists and forth with a gun infrastructure trade and transit that exists in the. case and they use the afghans that. so again opportunity for education for higher education this can provide again he talented labor for production within afghanistan in some good even be exported now in two thousand two hundred cars i who is now the president of afghanistan said if the international community is really serious in saying afghanistan secure it must help begin reconstruction of infrastructure projects when we speak about this project no one is interested has

it changed. first of all we must acknowledge the big pieces of infrastructure that have happened the range of afghanistan we can it's our major cities is worth right now. billion dollars worth of infrastructure that has been built it's not in this small amount of investment that has happened in. the cities the early christians you know major cities have electricity in the next couple of years there will be for that the first time of understand has the but which would be expanded upon. for the first time again in afghanistan we have the development of telecom. industry with private investment of some billion dollars. by the environment an increase. and dismayed by by others in the middle of forces and in the chinese coming investing some five billion plus. dollars in one mine in

a copper mine in the indian canadians coming in and listing anywhere between ten to fifteen billion dollars in the next three to five years in another mineral deposit in iron ore and of course other. investors as well taking interest for the first time and i would remember it as sorted it existed ten years ago twenty years ago twenty five years ago but today they are that much more interested in this or oil and gas who would have thought of things i think did a without the support of the international community and without the achievements of the. present government in the past twenty years would not have happened so do things that happen in addition to that of course there are particularly what we call it the cloud formation ticket is to focus on some other transformational foundational investment there for porters on a path to self reliance and self-sufficiency and that is again infrastructure of

the it will focus on a word in the culture sector of warthe in the food security as well as a commercial on our transport sector which is good for expanding the war on. trade with others as well as transit through afghanistan hello chris if you would just good for you again industrial sector as well as for commercial. railway connection which again wolf i salute it. better environment for our mineral resources as well as thought transit in trade for those are sort of some of the key focus is there if you will have in the next decade afghan finance minister mr. well wishes all of the best in achieving your goals for that outlet on your country thank you very much thank you very much for the support and. thank you.

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hello welcome along to the sports headlines here's what we've got coming out. as you were going on g become a full of the top eight packs a draw that russian premier league match over the weekend following a stalemate in dhaka start. on the art league snowboarders gather just outside st petersburg face to europe's biggest competition. and the klitschko brothers in cinema the heavyweight boxing world champions present a new film about their lives in the ukrainian capital. but let's start with the russian a perennially where three matches were played on monday and the top a group who's heading failed to make it two wins from two in charge of ranji following a goal a strong home to spots act no sky but sites created chances but struggle to convert

if they sold out to namur stadium in the haskell our sports x. nigerian striker manual and many case threats in donkey's goal a couple of times for the home side's difference to. two settings men also had a couple of decent opportunities the best of which fell to the hash in the second half but he plays his shots over the bar in the all male the final score it means after the weekend's action it's as you were in the top eight with spots in fourth eight points behind leaders and eat. well earlier base inside tom from their first victory in almost eight months the men from siberia edging visiting gold the one male tennis player in itself slicing her. cross for tom's first go in knowing matches however thomas still be in relegation trouble three points behind sparta melchett. could have stretched that gap but lost at home to one's

ankle it's a decreasing open. for the visitors with a powerful left foot on the twenty first minute second half substitute sneaky to mr of standard now chick keeper alexander protocol for with half an hour to go to put daylight between the two sides the home team pulled one back nine minutes from time serbian midfielder the over college admission of a corner from close range it was too little too late for an l.j. to remain second bottom without pulling themselves further away from the drop zone . this well in the champions league two thousand and ten winners into milan are looking to overturn a one nil better since from the first leg of their last sixteen tie with french club marsay the french team arrived in italy with the advantage thanks to a solitary goal from andre iow they said giants will be without suspended defender christian t.v. paul center back on the rare around archaea and with phil ricardo alvarez injured

however into received a timely pushed by b. by beating carried over to nil domestically on friday it was their first win in ten games in all competitions a move coach cloudier ranieri to tease me feel today and stand courageous prepare for a tough encounter. very early but it won't be an easy match we know marci had more points away than of home of the group stage so we have to keep a strong heart and a cool head against them we have to be patient and controlled much and to be able to store at any moment. elsewhere in munich and manager you are hoping to overcome a one nil deficit against f.c. bars all well and seen stocker scored the only goal of the game for the swiss side in the first leg influential midfielder bastian schweinsteiger could start for the first time since early february after recovering from a ligament damage. the most in full blown we have to believe in ourselves and use our strength at hand which we have shown often this season like we did last

saturday i trust in our team and with the support of our friends we can beat seed and so on. elsewhere if a player of the alien or messi to set a new champions league record by striking five times in barcelona seven one drubbing apply leverkusen the argentina forward went on to pose a double impasses toodle winner asking some time there in the league on sunday that grace moved him to within just five goals of an all time scoring record for the catalan club but the modest twenty four year old says he wants the focus to shift to his club and country instead of himself. no. i don't play to become the best some history or even the best in the present time nothing like that i play trying to do things right first for the team bead class alone or the international side then for the people and lastly for myself. now eastern europe's biggest snowboarding competition was held over the weekend just outside russia's northern

city of st petersburg a part and bringing together the brightest young snowboarding talents it was only the second time such a high caliber event has been held in russia. braved the slopes to bring us the story. the st petersburg region is not famed for its skiing snowboarding slopes but tucked away near russia's northern capital is a snowboarding haven in the making and it's here the second annual quicksilver neustar snowboarding event was held part of a season long petition called the ticket to ride tour and which riders from all over the world compete in various locations worldwide. t.t. or ord think it's a ride it is an international association and they have certain great syria for the level of competition if you want your event to have four star status you need to have these great theory in place the amounts of prize money level of infrastructure etc so far everything is quality i have been to four and five star events so i would even venture to say that it looks like

a five star event the highest rating an event carries the more points and hence the bigger attraction for competitors this has to be the snow boarding event for russians this winter season as it's only the second time of the all star events of the tickets the right tool is being held in russia but that means there's a whole lot more at stake which has attracted a whole bunch of international and local snowboarders seeking glory the events of greatest star status means riders were vying for the fifteen thousand dollars first prize last year's winner in felix was back to depend his title and only had warm words to say about russ. i think it's it's great that so many people you know get involved in snowboarding in russia so that it develops and get something more out of. yeah i think it's great i think that just coming us european riders does come here to competition with and it is every time last year

was so great this year also really great unfortunately felix didn't make the final and had to pass his crown to russia's alex a symbol of the russian beat writers from finland norway and austria proving that snowboarding in russia is will ensure a gathering pace but it wasn't just the snowboarders truly the thousands of spectators. russian struck giants come as masters race team showing of them was the machine also famed feats in woman climbs up the dakar rally it was also time for some death defying stunts by first time writer caleb moore at teatime x. games medalist i think russia could be a huge player in an extreme sports of that of that status so yeah i don't think there's too many russian i think over the states for the x. games but i think would be awesome just about place for conan and her being happy competitors in crowds meant it was a good day for the sport with the organizers saying he's got big plans for the future we started about four years ago to organize a contest and now we have

a biggest event in most of europe so i think it's a good progress and for the next year we have a plan to move to the city because if we can get about themselves as dictators here we also can get about fifty or one hundred in the city winter doesn't last forever meaning this events the last big one in russia this season but bigger and better is to come into sport avalanching in popularity in russia and beyond michael christian r.t. seen in his big region. now from the snow to the ice with a second round of the k h l playoffs gets underway later on she. day and the western conference semifinals the regular season runners up scar take on atlanta in st petersburg the late c. torpedo entertained in a moscow who are yet to lose it when they season's playoffs the eastern conference starts on wednesday where to try and get our cup holders at bars by track two of the second pairs of any god bless his metal magnets of course. is now elsewhere

heavyweight boxing world champions vitali and valley make let's go wow think they have on monday for the premiere of a new film about their lives the documentary simply inside of klitschko celebrates the brothers' lives from amateurs in ukraine to their current dominance of the heavyweight division it features interviews with those who know them best including friends and family it's only admitted at the premier that initial discussions about a possible fight with pay would have had taken place his last five you'll remember was against another great perishes euro where he successfully defended his w.b.c. heavyweight title and points of law to make confirm the identity of his next challenger. will make sure that i'm ready for the next event june or july is going to be against really council. cordingley i will do anything possible to win and defend my titles. as impressive as possible well that's all the support from alan moore in a couple of hours' time singing it. the

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