everything is. on target welcome to the big. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow since our own sean thomas these are headlines. as the u.n. prepares for its humanitarian mission in syria the violence in the country intensifies with a deadly attack on the country's second city and capital several blasts in the last two days have claimed the lives of twenty nine people and injured scores may. be the hard luck story of a loving father caught in a tragedy that's how the u.s. media is portraying the american soldier accused of slaughtering sixteen afghan villagers in a nighttime shooting spree an investigation by the afghan parliament claims as many

as twenty other soldiers may have been involved in the killings slightly contradicting washington's version of the of them. and the dozens are arrested in new york as occupy wall street movement remarks six months since it needed stand against corporate greed and injustice in america the police moved in to clear as a county park after activists refused to stop pitching tents and leave the area. afghanistan's finance minister has 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 right here at r.t. . it. mr afghanistan's finest

minister it's great to have you with us sir glad to be with you so it's been a decade since afghanistan has become the front stage for the war on terror 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 it's still a game while the devastation of thought goes beyond cannot because. diversity is the public public often mission diversity it's the state institutions putting those together. is not easy when years ago after the taliban when we come back and i think it's a strict it's not just the woman infrastructure but 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 me enormous progress but we have still a long way to go or towards the nation and rely on its own institutions to survive in. so therefore an 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 postal withdrawal of the international forces plus the reduction of aid money how will of grandstand sustain its economy after two thousand and fourteen we do not want the international forces to be in afghanistan fighting for us. even in our longer being the only idiot from the video outfit we have the believe the prime responsibility of taking over on security should be. definitively of afghans and you think they will be ready right two thousand and three are already if you if you go into afghanistan and. many of the operations in different parts of the countries are

carried out by afghan forces and our forces again. because they are culturally sensitive because they are part of the afghan nation. their. rule will be much more effective in much more positive than the role of an international force that poses the economics of this there is no doubt. it will have some impact on our economy but there is no nation in the world can indifferently rely on thought in it. so when we are talking about transition we are not thinking only about management but also economic transition 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 institutions and with peace i think absolutely an economy that will be more sustainable in the midst of it but exactly how bad will the downturn be because you know there are people who believe that afghan economy is wartime eight

stone or drunk and as far as they are concerned right after two thousand and fourteen it's had it if not towards an economic disaster definitely a very sharp economic crisis it will not be the fortunate thing is that we have three years think about this in to prepare ourselves for. right in front of us we had just a few moments ago we had the bonn conference and we got the commitment and a pledge from the international community for its long term financial commitment to afghanistan with economic insecurity a couple of months we will have the chicago event and it will 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 economic and developing nuclear and that's

where we have to secure. a longer term commitment financial commitment a significant commitment of law it will come down over time but it will not work of sharply come down in twenty four q. 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 really help reboot the economy or is it really a question of pumping money from one pocket to another well this is a nice war thought only. not everything that spends our countries but in the end a country. it is good in for that country or it doesn't even go into the country it's more acute of a problem in your country thirteen years and there it is again the focus of our recent discussions two years ago we had the kabul conference that was the prime focus therefore we need to see more spend through afghan institutions if we need to

see more aligned through afghan priorities that we would like to see a more spain in afghanistan if this printing should generate opportunities within the country then dollars going into companies that spend a portion of it in afghanistan and a big portion of it had 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 pounds to about thirty five to fifty percent of afghans g.d.p. right now not not not not really how much is not really you see. the there is what it generates is accurate for example it generates income for foreigners a general reads 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 if you can countries. in europe in russia

in everywhere else it's in value or some one hundred billion dollars. but what gets to the produce of the farmers is not more than five hundred two hundred million dollars that's the figure little means 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 a big percentage there is about total poof two point five billion dollars there goes to the middlemen some of them are asked and some of them are none after and that money does not stay in plot understand the money goes into regional countries the regional haves and the financials so the actual figure that remains in afghanistan is quite smart what about here is my question as this financial aid money declines do you think you can

a similar and more of your people rely on helping the economy there is certainly a possibility but the thing is this if you look into afghanistan it is closely correlated with insecurity places there are secure that are within our hands you don't see the production of opium that is only in some where we do not have control of all for the if we fought us again on helping the afghan institution to secure our country and if we house and put pressure. on ourselves elements come in create insecurity in afghanistan we believe that for security and stability the the nuclear issue will be done dealt with in a more sustainable in a more 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 finances

insurgents so it's in the interests of interests of insurgents as well to allow production as well as the environment for the production of food in a can. you know over sixty percent of afghanistan's population is under the age of twenty five it's their respective labor market for these people otherwise there really is a subject for terrorist recruiters this is the biggest challenge and therefore i we see this we need to focus on more sustainable. employment generation in our that in that exist exist and focusing on our because of that exist and focusing on infrastructure trade and transit there exists in the mineral resources. they use the africans that footage of kids and so again opportunity for education for higher education this can provide again the 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 and saying 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 that the big pieces of infrastructure have up and. the range of afghanistan which connects our major cities is worth some billion dollars worth of infrastructure that had been dealt not he's a small amount of investment that has happened the institution of cities billy crystal no major cities have electricity in the next couple of years there will be further expanded the first time of understand how the roof which will be expanded upon. for the first time again in afghanistan we have the development of

telecom. industry with private investment of some probability and dollars it is for therapy by the environment the increase. and this woman by by others in the middle of forces going in the chinese coming investing some pride billion plus. dollars in one minute in the copper mine in the indians and canadians coming in and vesting 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 are taking in for the first round and i would remember it as was it exist ten years ago twenty of the world twenty five years ago but today they have that much more interested in this and i were all in gas i would have thought of things i think this 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 plan formation ticket is to focus on some other transformational foundational investment that will put us on a path to full three lines and self-sufficiency and that is again infrastructure of the it will focus on a lot of the cultural sort of warfare and going to food security as well as the commercial. transport sector which is good for expanding our own. trade with others as well as transit through afghanistan crissy deal which is good for him again industrial sector as well as for commercial. railway connection which again will facilitate the better environment for our ministers forces as well as for transit uncrate so those are sort of some of the key focus is that we will have in the next decade afghan finance minister mr sacking while we were all the best in

achieving your goals and further development of your country thank you very much thank you very much for this important. mission. couldn't take three days for charges three. three. three stooges three.

old free born killers live in video for your media project free media and on to our tetons tom. the day's top headlines and the stories that shape the way here on our team as the u.n. prepares for its humanitarian mission in syria the violence in the country intensifies with deadly attacks on the country's second city and capital from the hard luck story of a loving father caught in a tragedy that's how the u.s. media is portraying the american soldier accused of slaughtering sixteen afghan villagers in a nighttime shooting spree. dozens are arrested in new york as occupy wall street movement marched six months since it made its stand against corporate greed and justice in america. more news at r.t. dot com twenty four seven and a roman is here now with the latest in sports. hello

and welcome to sport on r.g.p. and remind koester of and these are your headlines. getting headache and she stumbled through their first of these on their new coach good hitting after losing als and in four blocking would save one nail. plus leaving it late twice for mckay chill champions al gore's call from behind to snatch a vital overtime win against tracks are in the category called playoffs. and jubilant xander jenson button at shine sebastian that's also when the season opening grand prix in melbourne. let's start with the russian premier league where a goose getting past a said his first defeat at the helm of g.e. after his new side lost at the hands of luck might save one nil right here in

moscow philippic i said it came close to opening for the home side right before the interval but on g. keeper a blood smeared the bull health terms of parikh i said it was effort from close range and the ecuador striker should have scored soon after the restored but shot just inches high a blow for n.g.k. midway through the second hand defender of the country bekoff was stretchered off the field with a suspected concussion and for a clumsy tackle bites he made chris samba while that is difficult was in the thick of it for the committee throughout the match and his perseverance finally paid off as he nets of the only goal of the game after seventy three minutes i set a setting up this one while angy star striker samuel its all will miss their next game at home to combine after picking out one yellow courts in many commits iraq to third engineer remain in seventh. grade before advanced twice former champions are being failed to break into the european qualification places following

a one nothing to feed and the trespass combine. armenia forward marcus said the nets in the only goal to mark his debut match for combine in the design minutes of the first half despite closing out the crust and so are now only two points behind dungy while rubin stay six. elsewhere rock bottom so i'm avoided that sense straight away defeat the side from siberia holes in concord so goal is draw in a snowy match last week some snap their sixteen game losing streak by deeds and bowled a one nil at home but they're still deep in relation to trouble after surviving a major bankruptcy scare earlier this year and car stay in the safe haven of its wild spot. grid is offensive moved further away from the drop zone following the one in the x. ray over sparks up tonight cheek remains second from bottom of the scored for the summer aside two minutes into the second half. now it's the quarter final stage and i saw his cage all play all sense wise for

a champions prague bourse have cut the deficit in their best of seven series against the regular season winners traktor this side from cousin came from a goal down in the second period thanks to a power play effort by give gainey scotchgard regulation and one all but i got barcena shin for nicole cotton and scored the winner in the second minute of overtime so to want to track her in that series well earlier on having guard also came from a goal down to beat us a work computer was three one and as you had in their time. while saturdays are better nizhny novgorod have taken at c one series lead against the now more in the last eight or better grab the dramatic four three overs i went in their latest encounter and watching it for us was constantly in parts of. dinara produced a quick starts in their first home match of the serious and threw everything at their furrows marico bill fired from the blue line and cleared his throat himself on marking little bone to send it home one more thing off to just two minutes of

play the muscovites took total control and should have doubled their lead but their bet it was netminder to dial a call it was brilliant between the pipes while jeannot was goal santa had to deny just one shots and they'll. need a marker of guts or pin or even at one each at the end of the second with a ball play go but the host responded in a minute and a half the blue and white stop score and the hail are nice and good you know in front scoring his seventh goal in as many matches in the playoffs convey to one off to forty minutes there beddoes martin four hundred level matters again six minutes into the third dynamics' court what looked like the winner five minutes before the final buzzer but then usually no good sign came from behind again to make it all square and nothing separated the teams up to three periods and into overtime where they're better close out the winner on

a power play on the seventy seventh minute for three the final score i think is what it was the hard work the whole game we never have and the play we play the whole game. we have a good feeling in the thing we just work hard for it still. we lost again despite playing well enough to win and i think we like some luck we played better but to repeat a one again in overtime. there beto came from behind three times to win this second straight game lowered sign and take a two one lead in the best of seven series well denounce suffered their first home defeat in the playoffs this season was named out of a bird seed. jenson button has won formula one's a season opening grand prix after a crash strewn race in melbourne the mclaren driver finishing just ahead of reigning world champion sebastian vettel for his third triumph down under in four

years button started in seconds but over to pole sitter and teammate lewis hamilton at the very first corner butts and kept pulling away while behind him drivers kept crashing out remained version from los and mercedes driver michael schumacher were among those suffering well rushes to tell the troubles the retard after his new caterer and car stops in the middle of the track and this caused a safety course had been deployed with that's all taken full advantage to overtake hamilton in second there are recently been masa did not finish after colliding with fellow brazilian bruno senna and to complete the accident that day williams' pastor maldonado crashed out on the final lap but no such problems for button and his mclaren team who seem fully prepared for this season. every win means they look to you. for us you know as a team i think. it really shows how important the winter is you know we've had a strong winter yesterday's qualifying going to show. so it's nice to come away

with a victory today for a trace of the new season. in rugby wales have won the six nations with a perfect record after beating france sixteen points tonight the big three avenging their defeat to the french in the semifinals of the world cup and also handing them their third grand slam in eight years england finished second after beating parlance thirty points tonight and scotland take the wooden spoon after their defeats if it's only for wales though their six nations success proves a point. yes also. the people he's concerned with revealed the fact that within the world cup i think you prove to me no different than not and. i have to be looking involved was called to go at the moment i think the survey should train all the players coaches stuff everything just seems to go mad at the moment and. it was easily the most adorable campaign focus so far it has been physical just waterlow to an end of the last six months now there will be no fairytale comeback for

swimming great for the five time and i think champion failing to qualify for the london games. and perfect performance at the strelley in trials but it's one in a year old says he's not given up just yet. i want to get back in the pool i want to start racing again i want to be competitive again and you know i want to go to be with. you know i still want to do all of those things. you know i i've missed out you know what was a huge go. for me to accomplish you know i mean it's kind of short period of time. but you know it's still the desire that i had previously it's still there you know i still i still want to swim. and finally this weekend represents a chance for fencers to grab a place in russia as the limbic scene in moscow saber event attracts some predators from all over the world and includes a few names to look out for at the london games this summer with more here is

michael crabtree. in one of his plays french comic playwright seasonally have summed up then same 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 the event continues to grow in popularity year by year preliminary rounds were hell throughout saturday in order to determine this year's individual champions italians and the french have always had a penchant for the sport but there were a plethora of other nations represented as well. that's never announced and sometimes. i. mean this is the last chance for fences to qualify for the upcoming summer gas. and women's final rushes to feel that he can manage the defender twenty eleven title but took the time to overcome

a chinese opponent after what she was pleased with the women but said a lot more needs to be done to try to the olympics. and i were pleased with the performance they put in today but it was still needs to be done and people ration for the olympics especially psychologically because that's the most difficult aspect in the men's final rushes nicholai corelli of the managed to get france's ileum pillay in the heart for doubt the wind 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 and 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 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 schenker.

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