since those are about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of. good to have you would see just like your moscow top stories now the u.n. forges ahead of its efforts to mediate peace in syria with russia backing the push for a diplomatic solution for the syrian opposition admits it being on from abroad while some countries continue their calls for military intervention. the e.u. approves a second bailout for greece which will see the country stave off bankruptcy for the time being but while the eurozone crisis rages on the flow of regulations from brussels continues forcing firms out of business. and after government

delegation visiting the site sixteen civilians were killed by a rampaging u.s. soldier leaving one dead and three injured we can massacre is led to widespread fury with anti-american rallies across the country. with another update from fifteen minutes. afghanistan's finance minister on the cost of war for the country and its people. thank you. mr afghanistan's finest minister it's great to have you with us glad to be with you so it's been a decade since afghanistan has become the front stage for the war on terror led by the united states how much it cost the nation the war has cost the nation

a lot it's not i don't think you can put a dollar figure on this and if you three hundred billion one hundred billion three hundred billion is still a given while the devastation of thought goes beyond economics. diversity's the force in public public often nation and diverse states many state institutions putting growth together. it's not an easy ten years ago after the taliban when we come back and i think it's a start it's not just the infrastructure vote but the government did not exist the system did not exist but with the support of the international community with their participation a number of fronts we believe did meet me in our most progress but we're still a long way to a goal towards the nation we can rely on its own institutions to survive in

this sort of four and eight accounts about ninety percent ninety five percent of the afghan g.d.p. we all know that two thousand and fourteen is the deadline for poster was drawn of the international forces plus the reduction of aid money how well against and sustain its economy after two thousand and fourteen we did after and did not want the international forces to be in afghanistan fighting for us. even in our longer needed from the video outset we have to believe the prime responsibility of taking on security should be. does not every day of afghans and you think they will be ready by two thousand and four we are already if you if you go into again afghanistan if. any of the operations in different parts of the countries are carried out by afghan forces and our forces. because they are close to sensitive because they are part of the afghan nation. their. rules

will be much more effective in much more positive than the role of an international force or what is the economics of this there is no doubt this it will have some impact on our economy but there is no nation in the world there can indifferently rely on foreign aid. so when we are talking about transition we are not thinking only about our vision but also economic plans even if in the shorter term there is a downturn for the economy and the longer term there will be. good with with with proper after institution for peace i think upsurge 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 time eight stone or drunk and as far as they are concerned right after two thousand and fourteen it's hard it is not towards an economic disaster or definitely

a very sharp economic crisis that will not be the fortunate thing is that you have three years true to complain about this and to prepare ourselves for. right in front of we had just a few moments ago we had the bond conference in which we got the commitment from the international community for its long term financial commitment to afghanistan both economic and security. couple of months we will have the chicago event and it'll 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 that in july we will have a conference on afghanistan focusing on economics and develop in tokyo and that's where we use it 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 after four and a 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 rebuild the economy or is it really a question of pumping money from one pocket another well this is a new force for an ear. not everything that spins on a country in the end that country. it is it goes into the country or it doesn't even go into the country is it more acute of a problem in your country it is certainly a year then that is again the focus of our recent discussions three years ago we had a couple conference that was the prime focus that we need to see more spend through our constituents we need to see more aligned after priorities that we would like to see you more spend in afghanistan if this spending should generate that's not true

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 head back to their countries and of course the opium economy which is always a huge topic for afghanistan and correct me if i'm wrong from what i understand it a bounce to about thirty five to fifty percent of afghanistan right now not not not not really how much. you see. the there is what it generates is accurate for example it generates income for farmers and 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 the countries. in europe and russia and everywhere else its. value or some one hundred billion dollars. but

what what gets to the producers the farmers is no more than five hundred two hundred million dollars they're disfigured in timmins in afghanistan so it hundred million dollars as part of sixteen billion dollars worth of g.d.p. this past year or could be seventeen years is a small percentage. is not represented there is about twenty two for two point five billion dollars that goes to the middle men some of them are afghan some of them are non afghan good money does not strange not understand the money goes into regional countries to regional hubs and with the nations so the actual struggle that remains in afghanistan is quite smart ok but here is my question as this financial aid money the kinds do you think you're going to see more and more of your people rely on help in qana 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 you

don't see the production of them that is only in where we do not have control over so so that if we focus again on helping us can institution to secure our country and if we held in and put pressure. on the outside elements that come in create insecurity in afghanistan we believe that with huge instability the opium issue will be dealt with in a more sustainable in a more real manner but again if as long as there is security as long as there are out of reach there will be the opium of the production of opium and some of that money goes again to the traffickers some of this even goes to the insurgents it finances insurgents so it's in the interest interest of insurgents as well to allow production as well as in the environment for the production of opening

a can. you know over sixty percent of afghanistan's population is under the age of twenty five it's their every stacked if labor market for these people to otherwise they're really easy subjects for terrorist recruiters this is the biggest challenge and that's why we see this we need to focus on more sustainable. employment generation and all that in that exist exist and focusing on our green culture that exists in focusing on infrastructure upgrade and stranded there exists in the. indeed. they used to have concert before intercourse and so again opportunities for education for higher education this can provide again. callen trade labor for production within afghanistan in some could 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 project no one is interested has it changed change you first of all we must acknowledge a. big piece of infrastructure have happened the range of afghanistan which connects our major cities is worth right now our billion dollars worth of infrastructure if and not. small amount of interest and that has happened the institution cities billy crystal no major cities have electricity in a couple of your vehicle before that expanded the first time of understand how the railway which will be expanded upon. for the first time again afghanistan we have the development of telecom. industry with private investment of some billion dollars it is for therapeutic by the environment the increase. and

this woman by by others in the mineral resources and in the chinese coming investing some five billion plus. dollars in one mine in the car for mining the indians into new units coming in and visiting 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 picking intell for the first time and i want another does also did exist ten years ago twenty years ago twenty five years ago but today we have much more interested in this and our all in gas with little thought of things i think there are what are the support of the international community and without the achievements of the. present as those governments in the past ten years or not have happened to do things that happen 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 fill three lines in self-sufficiency and that is again infrastructure of the it will focus on what it becomes a circle of warthe into food security as well as a commercial or transport sector which is good for expanding or on. trade with others as well as transit through afghanistan they are critically which is good for again industrial sector as well as for commercial. railway connection which again will facilitate. better environment for our mineral resources as well as for transit and freight for those are sort of some of the key focus is that we will have in the next decade afghan finest mr mr sahin while we were all the best in achieving our goals for the development of your country thank you very much thank you very much for this approach and. thank you.

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out of. doors in. great to have your company at sports time these are some of the stories we're covering this hour. quarterfinal crest states champions league time again with european heavyweights byron munich and inter both needing to overcome first leg deficits to make the last eight. sending the all russian not be approved sees off u.s. open champion some stores are following one application calling church going well. and hitting new heights find out who finished top of the pile when eastern europe

schools until supported snowboarding event touched on in sin. but let's take this hour with football words last chance saloon for a couple of big guns in the champions league tonight byron munich and inter overcome last sixteen first leg losses to make a quarter finals twenty ten winners enter there in france take on more say the syria giants lost one nil last time march up the sun ciro not exactly a picture of health for the fast approaching clash key defender christian chief who is through suspension well mike could be on the sidelines with a knee injury the nerves jury are whoever boosted by their first win intend games of the weekend interbreeding keevil to know a result but reportedly movements are close. to tears. and munich i'm not sure you pine kids also must play catch up tonight the abundance

league a side lost the way to suicide for basel three weeks ago good news for the germans is that influential midfielder schweinsteiger could start for the first time since early. february after recovering from ligament which. muslim full blown we have to believe in ourselves and use our strength that's home which would have shown up to this season would it not something great trust announcing and with the support of the thousands we can be to see vance on. ok let's stay with football where the first emerged the side door b. of twenty twelve gets going in a few hours in england sliver pool hosting everton for the two hundred seventeen time in their history the hosts heading to the game after losing three in a row in the league a run which leads kenny dalglish's charges sitting seventh ever to be two spots below their cross-town rivals but haven't been beaten in over two months victory for the toughies mean little leapfrogged liverpool. fourth. of the forty.

five before him to save them for. more optimistic before we put them in a condition. to see if you just take it as it comes from what i want to give me a job. now another english premier league side see if they will bid for a russian forward pavol pogrebnyak during the summer transfer window aston villa the team courting me in form for a man who grabbed me and has lived up to west london since joining the club in january scoring five goals in four games the best day of use for a player in the club's history however his current contract expires at the end of the season meaning there's a chance to grab that big striker something villa today said he would try to do. ok let's talk tennis and reached for up of us pursuit of the first title this season is picking up some pace the russian comfortably into the fourth round at indian

wells at the expense of simona halep the second seed who is one of three players still in the draw to have previously won the tournament taking the opening set six three the match was the first ever meeting between her and the rimini and simply had no answer to this year's astri in open finalist in the second us are up for a race to a five love lead then one four straight games in a topsy turvy set before twenty four year old shrub of a secure victory on a six three six four scoreline italia but the vinci. compartment now the air patrol over meanwhile holiday to remember the twenty nine year old taking care of us open champion son studer in another epic encounter between her six one six seven seven six how it ended this time around the jew hold the record for the longest ever women's match of last year's us open wonders in culture was equally as gruelling with ty bricks deciding the second and third set

the decisive long going to true his way in a match which lasted two hours and forty six minutes of press a victory for the thirty eight seed who know meets fellow russian reoccur. and in the men's game world number one the backdrop of which is through the fourth round in california joker claiming eight straight sets victory over kevin anderson of south africa six two six three hundred finished in favor of top seeded serb up next the spaniard. prince's along to pass the ball on the n.b.a. where minnesota finally reason to smile the temple of snapping a nine game losing streak folding a noro away when phoenix was the host the who had scored their opponents in the first quarter thirty four twenty eight. but in the second the timberwolves stormed by told a seven point advantage and sign kevin love getting

a game high thirty for the visitors including a three pointer early in the fourth quarter to make it ninety eight ninety two in favor of minnesota this is known as the holder nurse to eventually take it one hundred twenty seven two hundred twenty four results however means neither side are currently yet in the post season just north eastern europe biggest snowboarding competition was held over the weekend just outside vs second city some petersburg apart from bringing together the brightest young winter sports talents it was only the second time such a high caliber event has been held in russia. but something for us. petersburg region is not famed for its skiing snowboarding slopes but tucked away in the russia's northern capital is a snowboarding even in the making it's here the second annual quicksilver neustar snowboarding and was held part of a season long competition called a ticket to ride twelve and which riders from all over the world compete in various

locations worldwide couple to me as he or or take it to ride 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 then out of prize money and level of infrastructure etc so far everything is quality i have been to four and five story bands 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 snowboarding event for russians this winter season as it's only the second time of the all star events of the tickets right so it's being held in russia now that means there's a whole lot more at stake which is attracted a whole bunch of international and local snowboarders seeking glory the events of great star status means riders were vying for the fifteen thousand dollars first prize last year's winner finn felix mobarak was back to defend his title and only

have normal it's the same about russia. i think it's it's great that so many people . get involved in snowboarding in russia so that it develops and get something. yeah i think it's great i think just well coming us european riders just come here to competition. and it is every time. this year old's 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. this will ensure a gathering pace but it wasn't just the snowboarders thrilling the thousands of spectators. russian shop giants come as masters race team selling of them most of them she says something beats in a room with lines at the back all rally it was also time for some the buying stunts

but first time going to kill a two time exclaims medalist i don't think russia could be a huge player in an extreme sport so that that's about it yeah i don't think there's too many russian athletes that come out of the states for the x. games but they would be awesome just about but it's very common and pretty crappy competitors in crowds meant it was a good day for the sport but the organizers say 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 with the city because if we can get the ball to be good for skiers we also can get cold feet to one hundred in the seeded winter doesn't last forever meaning this event's the last big one in russia this season but bigger and better is to come in the school avalanche in popularity in russia and beyond my comprehension can be seen in his big region. finally heavyweight boxing world

champions flood senior unfair tally churchgoer were out in kiev on monday for the premiere of a new film about their lives the documentary simply an title which celebrates the brothers on their rise from all mature status in ukraine to the current dominance of the heavyweight division it features interviews with those who know them best including family and friends the telly admitted at the premiere that condition of the scotians about a possible fight with britain david haye had taken place all bloody near confirm the intensity of his next challengers will. will make sure that they're ready for the next event. or july is going to be in story thompson and accordingly i will do anything possible to win and defend my titles as impressive as possible and that is all your support for whether it's next year and twenty four hour.

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