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over the. country's finance minister. it. mr afghanistan's finest minister it's great to have you with us sir glad to be with him so it's been a decade since of ghana's stan has become the front stage for the war on terror by

the united states how much does it cost the nation the war has cost the nation a lot it's not i don't think you can put a god forgot on this and if you see hundred billion two hundred billion three hundred billion it's still here and while you get a petition i thought it was beyond economic it gave us a little social public public often give us treats me straight institutions putting those together. it's not an easy ten years ago after the taliban when we come back and i think existed it's not just the infrastructure but we're going to government does not exist the system did not exist but with the support of the international community with their participation on numerous fronts we believe there to meet me in our most progress but we're still a long way to go towards the nation there can rely on its own institutions to

survive and to make progress for so that four and eight accounts about ninety first that ninety five percent of the afghan g.d.p. well no that's two thousand and fourteen is the deadline for poster was drawn of the international forces plus the reduction of aid money how will it going east and sustain its economy after two thousand and fourteen we do after all do not want the international forces to be in afghanistan fighting for us. even in our longer be an edict from the very outset we have to believe that the prime responsibility of taking over security should be. there's a possibility of afghans and you think there will be ready by two thousand and four we are already if you if you go into afghanistan if. any of the operations in different parts of the countries are carried out by. our forces again . because they are close to sensitive because they are part of the afghan nation.

there. will be much more effectively and much more positive in the role of an international force that was the economics of this there is no doubt if it will have some impact on already economy but there is no nation in the world they can indifferently rely on foreign aid. so when we are talking about transition we are not thinking only about security function but also economic transition even if in the shorter term there is a downturn in the economy and the longer term in there will be. again with with with proper afghan institutions and with peace i think absolutely an economy that will be more sustainable than it is today but exactly how bad will the downturn be because you know there are people who believe that afghan economy is wartime it's donor drunk and as far as they're concerned right after two thousand and fourteen

it's had it it's not towards an economic disaster but definitely a very sharp economic crisis it will not be the fortunate thing is that we have three years to complete think about this and to prepare ourselves for. right in front of us we had just a few moments ago we had the bomb conference in which we got the commitment and a pledge from the international community for it's not true financial commitment to afghanistan both economic and security. and a couple of months we will have a chicago event a nato summit as well as the g. eight summit and i wish there would be a specific commitment to. our security forces for a longer term financial commitment and right after they can july we will have a conference on afghanistan focusing on economics and development in tokyo and that's where we have staff to secure. a longer term commitment financial commitment significant commitment although it will come down over time but it will not sort of

sharply 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 just for institutions that operate in your country if we help rebuild the economy or is it really a question of pumping money from one pocket to another well this is a new forward foreign aid that not everything that spends on a country spends in that country. it is and goes into the country or it doesn't even go into that country is it more acute a problem in your country it is certainly or than there is a game the forecasts of our recent discussions three years ago we had a cover conference that was a prime focus there so we need to see more went through afghan institutions that we need to see more aligned after and we would like to see more spin in afghanistan

there this spending should generate support and is within the country 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 huge topic for afghanistan correct me if i'm wrong from what i understand it a bounce to about thirty five to fifty percent of afghans chipping right now and i'm not not not really how much is not really you see. there is what it generates is accurate for example it generates income for farmers a generates income for the middlemen the business people who connect the international market with the afghan production and it generates again it has a huge market in that you can countries. in europe and russia everywhere else its. value or some hundred billion dollars but

what what gets to the producer of farmers is no more than five hundred to eight hundred million dollars then it's big and little means in afghanistan. so it hundred million dollars as part of fifteen billion dollars worth of g.d.p. this task to europe could be seventeen years is a small percentage. is not a big percentage there is about people who can five billion dollars that goes to the middle men some of them are afghans some of them are not afghans but money does not stay into afghanistan that money goes into regional countries to regional haven't destinations so the actual figure that remains in afghanistan is quite smart ok but here is my question as this financial aid money declines to do you think we're going to see more and more of your people rely on iraq in kind of me there is certainly a possibility but the thing is that if you look into afghanistan it is closely

correlated with insecurity places that are secure that are within our hands we don't see the production of opium that is only in where we do not have control of our source if we've caught them again on helping us constitution to secure open free and if we have. put pressure. on ousted elements this coming create insecurity in afghanistan we believe that with the cute instability the the opium issue 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 out of reach there would be the opium of the production of opium and some of that money goes again to the traffic well some of this even goes to the insurgents finances and surgeons so it's in the interest of the interests of insurgents as well to allow production as well as again the environment for the production of

food in the country or a sixty percent of afghanistan's population is under the age of twenty five it's her respective labor market for this type. otherwise there really is a subject for a terrorist recruiter this is the biggest challenge and that's why we say this we need to focus on more sustainable. employment generation another and that exist exist and focusing on i would be cultural that exist and focusing on infrastructural trade and transit their existing in the middle of all things with their. they use the afghans a person for the depletion thought again opportunity for education for higher education and this can provide again the talented labor for production within afghanistan in some good even be exported now in two thousand and two hundred cars i who is now the president of afghanistan said if the international community is

really serious in seeing afghanistan secure it must help begin reconstruction of infrastructure projects when we speak about this projects no one is interested has it changed. first of all we must acknowledge the big piece of infrastructure that have happened the ring road of understand it connects our major cities is worth right now are in india and all of worth of infrastructure it. is not. smart money investment. institution cities did a christie right now we have in a couple of years before that. the first time of understand how the road with you 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

it is facilitated by the environment that's been created and vestment by by others in the mineral resources in the chinese coming investing some five billion plus. dollars in one mine in a car for mining the indians and canadians coming in and listing anywhere between ten and fifteen billion dollars in the next three to five years in another mineral deposit in iron ore and of course other. investors was picking entrails for the first time and i would miller those who did exist ten years ago twenty years ago twenty five years ago but today they're much more interested in our oil and gas those are the sort of things i think this without the support of the international community and without the achievements of the. present government in the past ten years would not have happened so those things have happened in addition to that of course there are particularly what we call it the transformation ticket is to focus

on some other transformational foundational investment that will put us on a path to self-reliance and self-sufficiency and that is again infrastructure that will focus on i would agree culture sector morphs into food security as well as a commercial and our transport sector which is good for expanding our own. brain with others as well as transit through afghanistan chris if you were just good for in industrial sector as well as for commercial. railway connection which again will facilitate. better environment for our minimalist forces as well as for transit and great for those sort of some of the key focuses that we will have in the next decade afghan finance minister mr sighing a while we wish you all the best in achieving your goals for the development of your country thank you very much thank you very much for the support and. thank

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which bryson if you need someone from feinstein christian movies. whose friends stance on t.v. don't come. to headlines on odds and the syrian opposition wants foreign military forces to step in and admits that weapons are coming in from abroad meantime u.n. security council foreign ministers a met to try and break the deadlock amid reports of escalating violence. militants attack a government delegation visiting one of two afghan villages where u.s. soldier a legibly went on a shooting rampage over the weekend the incident prompted a raft of apologies from the u.s. but also a pledge that it would not leave troops to leave sooner than class. and greece

holds its breath for rescue cash as the euro zone's a financier as it gives the next fail out a green light for the lack of e.u. help in matters like illegal immigration take a toll on me and destination. tie those are the headlines here on out see what do stay with us for all the sporting action with paul. thanks very much a rural welcome to the sports headlines here's what we've got coming up. as you watch spalls and angie become the fourth top aipac to draw their russian premier league match over the weekend following a stalemate in the back is strong. a good day for russia not be a trophy a big u.s. open champion sounds in an epic encounter in indian wells as three russians make it through to round four in california. on the klitschko brothers in cinema the

heavyweight boxing world champions it's and the premier of a fail all about their lives in the ukrainian capital. let's start with the russian premier league where three matches were played on monday and the top a group conceding failed to make it two wins from two and charge around j. following a goalless draw one hundred spots out more sky both sides created good chances but struggled to convert to the sold out the number of stadium in the high school sports arts nigerian strike a manual any case threatened on g.'s go a couple of times but i'm size depends still on the settings man also had decent opportunities themselves the best of which falls on the hash ghaziabad in the second half but he plays his shots over the ball and we all know the final score winning spot steyn fourth eight points behind lee does that mean. well bottom side told by methodist betrayed almost eight months the man from siberia edging

this is a goal goal one nail in a spy once the sauce was in her new slot on the who shelves cross which on his first home goal in nine matches however thomas still deep in relegation trouble three points behind spot hocknull checked. well knowledge it could have stretched. gap but lost at home two runs and car recently grecian open for the visit is with this an effort it shuts off the twenty one minutes second half substitute nikita bar missed drop stun people alexander broke off with half an hour's drive to put daylight between the so sides nineteen point one back nine minutes from time serbian midfielder yohan goalie finishing off from close range but it was too little too late for l.j. during second blossom run toppling themselves for the away from the drop zone. now in the champions league two thousand and ten winners enter milan and looking to overturn a one nil deficit from the first leg of their last sixteen tie with moss

a french club arrive in italy with the advantage thanks to a solitary goal from andre i hope they sorry our giants will be without suspended defender christiane caver both sense about the route on ok i feel ricardo alvarez injured however ends i have received a timely boost by beating create oteri along friday it was their first win intend games in all competitions a result that apparently made not to carry around the area today is. elsewhere part munich and manager you pint this are hoping to overcome a one deficit against f.c. flozell analysing stoke a school the only goal of the game for the suicide in the first like influential and we feel that bastion schweinsteiger a good start for the first time since early february after recovering from ligament damage. in the forward with on we have to believe in ourselves and use our strengths at a time which was not shown often this season like with it not such a date i trust you know seen it with a supposed

a lot friends we can beat the players eight months alone launce. now and tennis russia's maria sharapova has comfortably booked her place in the fourth round of the indian wells open after a straight sets win over some on how look of romania six three six four the number two saved who is one of three players still in the draw to a previously won the tournament took me a ring set six three this was the first ever career meeting between the pair and the romanian had no answer to the australian open final is in the second set as she wrapped her raced to a five lovely howler then won four straight games in a top to be set before the twenty four year old russian secured the sixty sixth floor when she now faces a three zero but the n.c. in the next round. meanwhile there was a big victory for chirac of his compadre at nadi a patrol she beat us open champion sam stosur and another epic encounter six one six seven seven six was the final school the pair held the record for the longest

ever women's match since the tie break was introduced that was stows his win against detroit in the us open last year and this match was equally as gruelling with high breaks deciding the second and third sets a decisive one going to throw his way in a match which lasted two hours and forty six minutes i mean first victory for the thirty eighth seed who is now up against a fellow russian reoccur men and women throughout. i mean well in the men's game well no one knows about djokovic she is through to the fourth round that's after claiming a straight sets victory over kevin anderson of south africa six two six three hundred finished in favor of the top seeds next up ahead as problem of space. now in basketball and in the n.b.a. minnesota have snapped a nine game losing streak following a narrow away one hundred twenty seven one hundred twenty four without phoenix the

hosts actually outscored their opponents in the first quarter thirty four points to twenty eight. but in the second the to move school back to a seven point advantage of time sixty three fifty six kevin no school again for the visit is including this freeze warnings out early in the fourth quarter to make it ninety eight ninety two when they were of minnesota the visitors managed to hold enough so eventually claim a one hundred twenty seven one hundred twenty four. the result is not inside the current in the postseason places. raisa europe's biggest snowboarding competition was held over the weekend just outside russia's northern city of st peters but apart from bringing together the brightest young snowboarding talents it was only the second time such a high caliber event has been held in russia michael kravchenko braved the slopes to bring us a story. the st petersburg region is not famed for its skiing snowboarding slopes but tucked away near russia's northern capital is this new building even in the

making and it's here the second annual quicksilver neustar snowboarding event was held part of a season long competition called the ticket to ride talk and which riders from all over the world compete in various locations worldwide. think it's a ride it is an international association and they have certain criteria 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 infrastructure and so far everything is quality i have been through for example by a story that is so old even venture to say that it looks like five star is. the highest rating an event carries some will call its and hence the bigger traction for competitors this has to be the snowboarding event for russians this winter season as it's only the second time a star events of the tickets are right tool is being held in russia and that means there's a whole lot more at stake which has attracted

a whole bunch of international and local snowboarders seeking low. henri the events of british star status means writers were vying for the fifteen thousand dollars prize last year's winner in phoenix mubarak was back to depend his title and only had more to say about russia. 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 it but. yes i think it's great i think just welcoming us european riders does come here to our competition they were far 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 well and surely gathering pace but it wasn't just the snowboarders thrilling the thousands of spectators. russian shop giants come as

masters race team chilling and then most of them she is a famed seats in a room of clients at the back of a rally it was also time for some death by stunts but first time writer caleb moon at teatime exclaims medalist i definitely think russia could be a huge player in an extreme sports so that that side of yeah i don't think there's too many russian i think are the states for the x. games but they would be awesome best athletes are coming in and competing happy competitors in crowds meant it was a good day for the sport but the organizers say he's going big plans for the future we started about four years ago to organize a contest and now we have a biggest event in muslim europa soul i think it's a good progress and for the next year we have a plan to move it to the city because if we can get about ten thousand spectators here we also can get called 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 in the sports avalanche and popping. in russia and beyond my control jacob. simply has the region. now from the sniper to the ice where the second round of the cage playoffs get underway on choose day in the western conference semifinals regular season runners up scar take on it lance is and keep his broad plates the torpedo and strength in a moscow who are yet to lose a game in this season's playoffs the eastern conference semi starts on wednesday. and finally heavyweight boxing world champions batali in front of me klitschko were out in kiev on monday for the premiere of a new film about their lives the documentary simply entitled klitschko celebrates the brothers on the rise from amateur status in ukraine to the 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 premiere that initial discussions about a possible fight with david haye have taken place he's lost by you remember it was

a gates another brit there it is or where he successfully defended his w.b.c. heavyweight title and points over to may confirm the identity of his next challenger. i will make sure that they're ready from the next event either june or july is going to be against it alston and accordingly i will do anything possible to win and defend my titles as impressive as possible for a lot of the score for now years and will be here in a little under two hours time join in that.

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