news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. china operations to rule the day. the top story this week of this is the weekly as syria knocks one year since its bloody conflict began the violence shows no sign of abating and in the media war raging methods have been exposed that are used to shape targeted public opinion. iran comes under further isolation as the country's banks get out of the global payment system the fear is growing the e.u. sanctions against iran could shape back on its most exposed members.

more violence more excuses the u.s. is making profuse apologies for the latest deaths of civilians in afghanistan from a shooting spree by an american soldier but experts warn washington will have to brace itself for a backlash. will be back with some of the main news stories in about fifteen minutes from now afghanistan's finance minister is told r.t. that it's hard to assess just how much damage and devastation the war has brought to his country and its people that interview is coming up now. it. mr secondly afghanistan's finest minister it's great to have you with us to be with you so it's been a decade since i've gotten stan has become the front stage for the war on terror by

the united states how much it costs the nation and the water has cost the nation a lot it's not i don't think you can put a god or figure on this and if you see hundred billion two hundred billion three hundred billion it's still here in. the diverse station of what goes beyond economics. give us to use the public public often mission and give us streets on the street institutions putting doors together. is not easy ten years ago after the taliban when we come back and 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 and with their participation the number of fronts we moved there to meet me in our most progress but we're still a long way to go towards the nation there and rely on its own institutions to

survive and to make progress or sort of for an eight accounts about ninety percent ninety five percent of the afghan g.d.p. we all know that two thousand and fourteen is to deadline for post there was draw of the international forces plus the reduction of aid money how will against and sustain its economy after two thousand and fourteen we do after all do not want international forces to be in afghanistan fighting for us. even in our longer india . from the very outset we have to believe the prime responsibility of taking over security should be. there's a possibility of afghans and you think they 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 afghan forces and our forces begin. because they are called truce of that of because they are part of

the after nation. their. rule will be much more effectively much more positive than the role of an international force or with konami thought that there is no dark if it will have some impact on our economy but there is no nation in the world with an indifferently of the law and order in it. so when you are talking about transition we are not thinking only about security of our vision but also economic transition even if in the shorter term there is a downturn in the economy and the longer term if there will be. good with what with proper afghan institutions and with peace i think upsurge an economy that would be more sustainable did it but exactly how bad will the downturn be because you know there are people who believe that afghan economy is war time eight stone are drunk and as far as they're concerned right after two thousand and fourteen it's had it

if not towards an economic disaster definitely a very sharp economic crisis but it will not be the fortunate thing is that you have three years think about this and to prepare ourselves for. right in front of we had just a few moments ago we had the a bomb conference and which we got the commitment and a pledge from the international community for its long term financial commitment to afghanistan both economic and security in a couple of months we will have a chicago event an airport summit as well of the g. eight summit and which 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 in tokyo and that's where we expect to secure. a longer term commitment financial commitment

significant commitment. 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 plus for institutions that operate in your country with the help reboot the economy or is it really a question of comping money from one pocket and other well this is a nice word for a need that not everything that strains are in a country spain of india the 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 thirteen years and it is again the focus of our recent discussions two years ago we had the kabul conference that was the prime focus and therefore we need to see more spread through afghan institutions if we need to see more aligned through afghan priorities that we would like to see you

more spend in afghanistan this training should generate opportunities 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. it's topic for afghanistan and correct me if i'm wrong from what i understand it mounts to about thirty five to fifty percent of afghans chipping right now not 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 and it generates income for the middlemen the business people who connect the international market with the afghan production and it generates a unit has a huge market in that he can countries. in europe in russia in everywhere else it's in again value or some one hundred billion dollars.

but what what gets to the produce of the farmers is no more than five hundred two hundred million dollars that's the figure little means in afghanistan so a hundred million dollars as part of sixteen 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 two point 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 in the afghanistan that money goes into regional countries to regional hubs in the traditions so the actual figure of their remains in afghanistan is quite small given here is my question as this financial aid money declines to 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 there are secure that are within our hands you know see the production of opium that is only in. where we do not have control over saw so that if we foreclose again on helping afghanistan and to secure our country and if we help us and put pressure. on outside elements that come in create insecurity in afghanistan we believe that was acute and stability the 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 areas 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 its finances and surgeons so it's in the interest interests of insurgents as well to allow production as well as the environment for the production of food and.

three or sixty percent of afghanistan's population is under the age of twenty five it's their respective labor market for these people otherwise they're really easy subjects for terrorists. this is the biggest challenge and that's why we see with we need to focus on more sustainable. employment generation and all that. exist exist and focusing on i would be culturally exist in focusing on the infrastructure of trade and transit there exists in the middle of the. case. they use the afghans that footage occasion so again opportunity for education for higher education this can provide again the 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 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 that the big pieces of infrastructure that have happened. during the road of clinics our major cities is worth right now. billion dollars worth of infrastructure it has been built not a nice small amount of investment that has happened the institutions. no major cities have electricity in the next couple of years there will be for that expanded the first time of understand how the railway 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 it's

unclear. and vestment by by others in the mineral resources and in the chinese coming investing some five billion plus. dollars in one mine in a copper mine in the indians and canadians coming in and visiting anywhere between ten to fifteen billion dollars in the next three to five years in another minute deposit in iron ore and of course other. investors as well for the first time and i would remember it is also that exist twenty years ago twenty years ago twenty five years ago but today they are much more interested in this you know we're all in glass little 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 cloud formation ticket is to

focus on some other transformational foundational investment that will put us on a path of self-reliance and self-sufficiency and that is again infrastructure that will focus on a lot of nickel just sector of warthe going to food security as well as a commercial on our transport sector which is good for expanding a lot on. trade with others as well as transit through afghanistan hello chris if you would just good for again industrial sector as well as for commercial. railway connection which again wolf i fell asleep he better environment for our minister forces as well as for transit and great for those are sort of some of the key focus is there you will have in the next decade afghan finest mr mr sighing a while we wish you all the best in achieving your goals and for the development of your country thank you very much thank you very much for the support and. thank you

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top stories a lot for you this week because syria marks one year since this bloody conflict began the volunteer has no sign of a place in the media war also raging methods have been exposed to shape public opinion. iran comes on the father isolation of the country out of a global payment system the fear is growing the actions against tehran could ricocheted back on its most exposed member. more excuses the u.s. is making for a few support for the latest deaths of civilians in afghanistan following a shooting spree by an american soldier but experts will have to brace itself for

a backlash. stories in full in about fifteen minutes from now with me next it's the latest full. hello there thanks for watching good to have you company and these are the headlines fighting for his life bolton midfielder for breach who is in a critical condition after suffering an apparent heart attack during a match. class call guessing closer to the relegation zone are to defeat to crowds who are in the russian primarily. jolly giant john is now stuns world number one novak djokovic in the semifinals at indian wells. the first in english premier league football is in a critical condition in hospital after collapsing during a match bolton midfielder fabrice muamba appeared to suffer

a heart attack during the f.a. cup quarter final tottenham white hart lane the twenty three year old received extensive treatment on the pitch before being taken to hospital where he is in intensive care he fell in the center circle with no players around him just before half time of the game tied at one one referee howard webb called off the match after consulting both teams who am i was born in the democratic republic of congo but had represented england under twenty one level many players have shown their support via twitter. so not much was suspended but there was one other quarter final on saturday everton coming from behind to grab a one one draw with sunderland and the league's phones acknowledge that there were no match the city last week for the three days when at full and the welsh side an hour eight from the table while wigan remained bottom after drawing one one with west brom. still holed above the relegation zone in the russian premier league

after their two one defeat to grass and present a dark africa goal is first half were awarded a penalty in the second half yuri says ian julie converting however minutes later told the world back level shorter bit below of on target but probably the most surprised after crossing dark curly creek really failed to clear what you like a harmless long range this is c.n.n. did for that. alexander not one of each noting in that winner with twenty minutes to go all the remaining four points about the danger zone present are nine seven points clear of terek. and the other guy in there then the terek but rostov one nail in all of it and kept grabbing his a hell of the campaign right after the race he says erik's to win from three after the winter break. to the.

playoffs now we're told p.t.i. go right have taken a two one series played against an hour in the last eight to create a clearing and a dramatic four three of a time when in the slightest encounter as constantine but now reports. did now are produced a quick starts in their first home of the serious and threw everything at their foods marico bill fired from the blue line and cleared his phone himself one more can little bone to send it home one thing after just two minutes of play the muscovites took total control and should have doubled their lead but their pants netminder entirely call it was brewing between the pipes while jeannot was goaltender had to deny just one shot and they're all going to. meet him back out of the gutter pan or even at one each at the end of the second football play go but the host responded in a minute and a half the blue eyed stop scoring a halo neeson to dinner in front scoring his seventh goal in as many matches in the

playoffs convey to one off to forty minutes there bellows marking four hundred level matters again six minutes into the third do norma scored what looked like the winner five minutes before the final buzzer but then usually no good side came from behind again to make it all square and nothing separated the teams after three periods and into overtime where their better close out the winner on a bold way on the seventy seventh minute for three the final score i think is. hard work the whole game. where you. have answered. we played the whole game. we have a good feeling to just work order for it still. we lost again despite playing well enough to win i think we'll let some work who played better about two peter one again in overtime. the belo came from behind

three times to win this second straight game in overtime and take it to one lead in the best of seven series well genomics suffered their first home defeat in the playoffs this season. bertie. but in saturday's other game atlanta pulled a game back against scart a child their best of seven series to one that lost their region side enjoying a two one victory in math match on home ice had scored eleven goals to afghans one in the first two games and paid just their scoring spray came to an end just outside moscow feed off the door of it open for them midway through the first a bit in the third afghan had a number of chances. sackless and set and match into overtime finished defend again this then struck the long range to hand approach to one victory that they still trail sees she won. we were not thinking that it would be easy we won the first two games at home to leave soused to know so we congratulated

those leaders group through the first period we controlled but in the second we give the initiative to labs and they had a number of chances and gain confidence in the third we went in front of some chances with field to score a little too good vantage a little time the school had a very very discreet and from my point. let's switch to tennis where there has been a major upset at indian wells eleven c. johnny is now world number one novak djokovic to reach the final of the b.n.p. perry open is there is a giant six foot nine inches and to hand it times djokovic struggle to cope with this volley game the american winning a tight first set on a tie break djokovic should be king is now in three previous meetings did respond taking the next step with the sixth grade and it looked like breeze through the decider but that turned out to be as tight as the first is now winning the tiebreaker with his twenty eighth of the match and he will now face roger federer

in the final after he left out in straight sets. form f one champion lewis hamilton will start in pole position for sunday season opening melbourne grand prix the brit finished one tenth of a second ahead of mclaren team mate jenson button at the albert park so it will remind us a surprise third follow this sadie's michael schumacher came in fourth ahead of the red sebastian vettel a mark webber while the ferrari gio and along there and felipe massa could only qualify outside the top ten two time former champion along the way spun off into a sand pit and has since urged the team to alter the car once all give up any title hopes and rushing the tally petroff will start the grid in twenty position to his new team caterham back in from pole to walton was a with an. incredible feeling to be back here. to get off to such a good. start think this is my intent since first i want to believe at least on the

qualify and so it's fantastic to start to see in this way and proud of the team you know working incredibly hard as it. but just to see that it's never give up this is the result of. rugby wales have won the six nations with a perfect record after beating france sixteen points to nine the victory avenging their defeat the french in the semifinals of the world but also handing them their third grand slam in eight years england finished second after beating ireland thirty points to nine and scotland take the wooden spoon after their defeat to italy for wales that their six nations success proves the point. there's also a comparable instances where the real difficulty in the book i think you know better and. should you have been involved was called you got the moment i think the solution to all the players coaches staff every suggesting struggle more a moment. was easily the most enjoyable camping up involved so far and that the

physical just water the hardened criminals that are such moves now double olympic champion shaun white has once again proved he is the favorite for a medal swipe at the sochi games in two thousand and fourteen and the snowboard have dominated the latest winter x. games in france and american top the podium for a second time in as many days with a standout performance in the slope style event his run featured gobble corks in a row more than enough to give the twenty five year old his first slopestyle win in three years it is a plane will be introduced into the program in sochi a chance then for white to take a different type of gold after his two half pipe triumph in cheering and vancouver ski slopestyle is also set to make its debut in the russian black sea resort and that was won by another american torrent he's just sixteen and was the youngest to compete in france. and lastly the annual international fencing competition moscow saber is currently underway in the russian capital the

three day event involves fences from all over the world in both individual and team bats michael crowd change it was on hand to see who came out on top. and one of his players friends comic playwright seasonal year summed up fencing as the art of giving without receiving and certainly a noble notion and with one hundred thirty men and one hundred fourteen women participating in the thirty seventh annual moscow saber fencing tournament it's no wonder there then continues to grow in popularity year by year preliminary rounds were held throughout saturday in order to determine this year's individual champions italians and the french have always had a penchant for the sports but there were a plethora of other nations represented as well. as anyone else and sometimes i think that. this is the last chance for the answers to all of us for the upcoming summer that's . in the women's final rushed the field leak and managed to defend

a twenty eleven title but took the time to overcome a chinese opponent afterwards she was pleased with the women but said a lot more needs to be done pride and olympics and my training and i were pleased with the performance i put in today but it was still needs to be done in preparation for the olympics especially psychologically as does the most difficult aspect in the men's final rushes nicol like a lot of the managed to get francis zillion player in a hard for about the win brought the cup back into russian hands once again after fences from hungary and south korea claimed victory in twenty ten and twenty eleven respectively but today's victory doesn't mean i'm in some super form right now there's still a few months left until the olympic games so any such form could vanish by then so for me this event is simply just another phase in our preparations on sunday russia's fencing team will also get a chance to prove themselves against the world's best and hopefully do enough to

ensure qualification for the sport's premier event in august michael kocher incl r.t. moscow. i'm bad as all the sports. world . and science technology innovation all the elements from around russia we've got the future covered.