the who's in the room the we went to afghanistan twice in the last 6 months to record this footage. many people warned us that filming the opium crop being eradicated, just wasn't realistic. and that our chances of finding villages willing to show us that crops were next to 0. they said we'd never be able to find out who's backing

the drug trafficking business in a country that had a nato military presence for 14 years. that's what they said, but it wasn't easy, but we did manage to achieve our objective. my chair. so i did this in 2009. it was our team, but zora documentary, commemorating the 20th anniversary of soviet troops withdrawing from afghanistan this time. but we flew in local people warned us that

a lot has changed in the country. and not always for the better way the the, the last in a series of operations to eradicate the opium crop enough canister was a failure. the money just got to spend on the presidential campaign. the countries budget ran dry. investigative reporting is a serious challenge. you're expected to oil, the wheels a little by paying back sheesh before you can fill anything. the bottom of the you know, the new movie,

the driver and translator amolla said they were not going to go back to this. is there any time you want to be shown in yellow junior to show you that but let me pull it up. would it be a come on june, but she will see many more just because she didn't leave a come on at the police, which basically means burned. money has become a local attraction. we're always traffic gems here. and pedestrian stop by just to stand on top of the bridge. and look at the denizens beneath. we were told that

anything like this would have been unsinkable when the soviet union was here. or even under the taliban. ah, we had to pay a private gun to make sure we could fill me safely. the get to my neighbor. john, john, come out on my down there. they want us not to touch anything beneath the bridge. under any circumstances. it's very easy to get infected here. most of the drug use as a terminal. yeah. the my local standards. we enjoyed a warm welcome. just the day before, and i've got a colleague had his lin smashed, and he took a few punches the

under the bridge, a heroine fixed cost $6.00. that was how much one local user awful. he called himself saying it all in here. they have a good job job. they had agreed to appear on camera in return for money. he volunteered to show us how he shoots up drugs, but we refuse that and instead offered him an alternative suggestion. but we will get it booked. it looked like there are several state sponsored drug rehabilitation hospitals and couple we're planning to visit one to find out if they are able to admit

a patient from the street. or if it's a time consuming process that involves tons of paperwork, people to see if it was the up again since the middle of august, despite having proper accreditation, we were soon detained by the state security service. we were accused of filming classified subjects and possibly for working for the extremists, specifically the taliban. yet that we thought most left for the

main camera was confiscated. but luckily they didn't see a 2nd. we're going to look it up in a minimum of them all my stuff in the end we weren't taken to a police station and we refuse to pay back sage. we were forced to delete the material. we filmed on the main camera and then they let us go and get that said, i don't know lucky time ago. i didn't look back either come interview them or not, but they don't go that. what is the luckily, that was our only brush with the law as we later discovered, one of the police generals, remember,

the words should be very well. that means soviet the police immediately let us go with them on a raid. the question is, what is the phone ship? someone sent a couple me. could you please? can you put you put me on hold on. i don't you know, i don't know what to do to get the movie on june. i'm going to call you normal love to do one of the last 2 of you or did you want? i don't know more than happy to do it. you got did all of them by going you know, you're,

you're going to be monday. we're going, you're going, you're going to place in it, and you are pretty sure you watch it on the, on the police are well aware of all the places where locals can buy drugs. most of the time they're sold from inside expensive houses secured behind high walls. no one can get in without a warrant. but the minute word gets out that a raid has been planned. information seeps through to the drug dealers themselves, making it impossible to catch them read and it

does not want to bring him, i guess issue with him. i was switched media. so you've got a quick scan. i'm not going to like you to be able to send it to you, but just gives you know, well those will be nice to, to be submitted to the all of the uses arrested during the re with soon released by local standards. they didn't possess a big enough quantity to justify a jail term. the police say there are about 700000 people like them in the city. that's almost 18 sense of couple of population. the

most of the big fish didn't wait for the police in town, but at the checkpoint on the road into the city, the police call it the gates to couple. they have their own procedures and hardly ever used a special equipment that was purchased recently with us money than laura customs to old school methods. looking for stashes in the more unlikely locations. and following their instincts, one of the most surprising weapons against drugs we found was what they call the veracity test. they presume that a real help at heart will give him away. you simply lay your hand on the suspects chest and feel his pulse. we were a little skeptical at 1st enough

moments later the officers did find a stash of hashish in his shoes. off before the in a little over in that same recipe to us through a shadow of a one man who driven his car to cabal from joanna back in the east of the country around 1 o'clock that could be out of pocket in the photo. she's about my father, tell me like this because this is for something to them without a chance because i'm with you more that should be so much you got those are the thinking is that this is commonly used trig for

trafficking drugs. the game showed that the tank was full, but there was actually no gas at all. in its place. a 21 kilo stash of opium, bobby's that is by no means a large quantity by today's standards. as staggering, 50 tons of opium and heroine confiscated at this check point alone each year. hefty prices are put on the heads of the most zealous police officers. i found my way to the shaft miller definition to get charged on us on this of others. and they have a bunch of other supports over on the me,

the civic leg over around the world. expedition 5000 miles round the clock and the dead. com, spanish and english as we been, every country, the crew, gavin's food and water harbor to go to north also literally. i know i said it's got everybody locked down or almost no food and no water about that. only give them up to somebody in the cove. it you're living like the theme and of own. but in the 21st century,

the war on drugs started as a way to come back. a great problem. what's the one? it's part of the attitude of the nation, not just of north dakota. and it got to be something that you could get elected. this time, the fight against drugs took a tragic. he told us that andrew was competent short term. this is way too dangerous for him to be doing. clearly they put him in harm's way. a rural college student does interest get shot in the head and found in a river like that. something else had to be happening. i the

next morning and we're back to the doctor. the place where drug use is get together . this time were accompanied by the doctors who have agreed to admit and to the hospital. not coming up. we still need to see him, but he was saying it was nowhere to be found. his phone number was blocked and the when no police to guard us this time. we were just about ready to leave empty handed when 5 minutes later sired reappeared out of the blue. about this time he wasn't happy to see as accompanied by doctors when he learned that the treatment would take almost one and a half months. he tried to back out to find

the water on the 25th of july for him. i'm in the morning, they got my food and got him to put them down while i do that, move on formula. my net is that in my college for them to be able to 10 minutes of convincing, we finally told sign it into going out for them. i know that you're making we'll give you the demo

of muscle. maybe we'll go over 200 patients from around afghanistan. are currently undergoing treatment in this hospital. it's considered to be one of the best in couple a strip search is conducted before people are allowed in. there was a time when dealers disguised his visitors, came to smuggle drugs into the facility on a case that the body alone multiple and online did with him. in 10 minutes later we barely recognized say he'd been required to part company

with his hair. that's compulsory for anyone who's admitted to the hospital. the 1st 15 days of treatment of the toughest. he'll be in quarantine because this is when patients go through what's called arrow and withdraw him on the phone with him. he caught one of the other version. actually more money in your function. space for either kayla maddie, maddie demario laxity. workshop. michelle formulation. right. so the way i work on, as i mean, i got about him, so i made on up to move on to any of the water in what is it i do show

now i'm sure that everything's been behalf of my children because that's the only thing which is going to come up, kids which can move, this is moving company at associated with with the apartment does not match it. if you can do that, you can read that to the quote and i wanted to talk with me i

just the following morning, we had agreed to meet a fellow citizen for several years. russia has been sharing satellite data with afghan, has done about the whereabouts of undercover hello and navarro trees within its borders. there was an operation recently to destroy and illegal a heroine lab. they promised that we'd be able to see the police footage 3 of them already, but i thought it was 0. so which one to which the quote you could give them a report from the federal prison workers. because when you go to the level of the well for your records, if you wish that the must be,

i'm going to limit the distribute on the but in it is my buddy. both of them are up on the credit for from a minimum of the various. so what are still with me? so i don't know the question got the was i would say this is what we're looking for money for me to confirm. what am i going to school? i need to get a look of what i made across. give you what you were still get a and you will be nipple supply. thought it on the face for me to green us. americans for literally. i mean you got it. didn't get done, i woke up with the district, but it also seems an important question remains. why do

international forces that have fought tell about radicals and chemist on for more than 14 years continually overlook their main source of income, namely, and drugs. we wanted to arrange a meeting with a former field commander who started to fight the taliban even before the nato military arrived in the country. none of the men of the house, aided by a relative who act his interpreter, shows us pictures of his former fellow soldiers. each one has died a mysterious death in recent years, as almost as will told me and told me he will be late. and because he will be the total be we need to because because she knew something was to stick. would it be lets you see it because it just says in the eighty's field commander had to

come, fought alongside the merger deem against the soviet forces. years later, even treats his former enemies with respect. unlike his current ones, we went with one state to do what it, on the other hand, how did it and all who i made on the john guy that i've ordered on, on the me from all of you call by the song. but you don't about them a 100, a 100 i'm you've got to make and i will and middle going to joe. so will don't show ownership. kind of in the car, mr. john, burn them all. feels good, which is nicholas. when you go on general, how becomes advice we drove out to a couple where we tried to find people who actually witness nato soldiers working with the taliban. i'll be talking to you. what did you

a business that is usually a uniform dental and vision. it was pretty close to the jewish been there when you pushed the vision to the couple. what's more complex and what were the several dozen families survived. the nato air strikes the crowd were bombing the taliban. that had ordinary working people's homes. even though everything was documented, several years later, these people have still been unable to secure any compensation data sheet down. she would rather do, she was gonna try to jump over. you could, if you were almost bad there was ones in american military base where these people used to live. they

could see poppy fields flowering in the distance. but even though the crop was then close to a nato base, no one seemed to be to bob. and i'm just, what i could. that was what you meant was ellen's up. how about him, janet the via judy from curly did auditor both other all day. so my, me, the jealous of the look to see that the, what the, what you does that you know, that you deal with, john, you will just solve the mind me out to jot. i do sort out of the hardest thing for anyone visiting afghanistan to figure out these days is where the $7000000000.00 that the us allocated to combating african heroine has gone since 2001 if what we saw in central cabal today is the pinnacle of the anti drug campaign, and it's very clear why the overall acreage of poppy fields in the country continues to grow each year. just as

we were about to finish filling the anti drug wall or phone read. it was cya later, the man we'd help get into a drug rehabilitation program the previous day. yes. waiting for you. nobody evidence of the brother, no show for one year with coca cola. my firm mooney kind of this is our 3rd time visiting body. so it's where couples drug users get together. say it had said he didn't want us to interview him this time he'd run away from rehab. and the only thing he was asking for now was money. presumably to pay for him to get home. we had to be honest and face very planned, helps i get treatment for his addiction. had simply ended in failure. he returned

to where he'd come from and with joined his old buddies. mm mm mm ah, the only one main thing is important for not as an internationally speaking that is a nation's allowed to do anything. all the master races. and then you have the mind, the nations who are the slave, the americans, brock obama, and others have had

a concept of american exceptionalism. international law exists as long as it serves american interest. if it doesn't, it doesn't exist by turning this russian into this dangerous man that wants to take over the world. that was a culture strategy. so some of it on your own. i english v i v. i not leashed off in one interpret lock nato to it's our we move east. the reason us had jimmy, it's a dangerous, is it the live, the sovereignty of other countries? the exceptionalism that america uses. and it's international. war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if nature, what is founded, shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in large companies would lose millions and millions, or is this business is good? and that is the reality of what we're facing,

which is fascist. the, the news the this week, the top doors and all have the us and it's 20 minutes campaign that kind of started leaving the country in the hands of the same kind of bond. they vowed to defeat a generation ago talking gifts, the american forces webpage cobble international app for that final refuge. all the helicopters and there are a lot of them that were abandoned. the was to be the various various electrical blogs, remove the.