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That the 16 air assault brigade had delivered a decade earlier, it was lying there next to the dam itself, still in its bubble wrap. it hadnt been put in position to provide electricity, which would have been game—changing for the people of helmand. and projects like that, or the absence of completion of projects, was right across the board in afghanistan. we didnt do enough in the time that we were there. it took us five years before we even started training an afghan force in 2005. thats whe...

Up local capabilities. every time i went there, i was very saddened to see that the good work that we were doing, the umbrella of security that we provided, was not being leveraged with proper development programmes to get the economy working, to build infrastructure and so forth, and thats absolutely critical to win over the hearts and minds of the local people. and the consequence of that is i rememberflying over the kajaki dam a few years ago, seeing the very turbine that the 16 air assault b...

That area around the dam after a hole was found inç a spill way devastating flood could be unleashed if that hole gets worse. officials say they are making progress as they work toç redu the danger and they say there is no risk that the dam itself will fail, but they want the public to note, this is still a÷ú very risky situation. >> we have water coming over the top of the emergency spill way, it was beginnifg!to erode the ground. when you start to erode the ground, it starts to under min...

Damaged because of erosion. but adam wanted to report as people left, he saw 25 miles of traffic as people were leaving the area as he droifnt area to give -- as he drove into the area to give us more details. but getting back to the point, he went on to mention that police have been putting up roadblocks to make sure no one can get into those areas. but he was -- which was surprising was concern about the crime, he was reporting about the crime element that exists. criminals, every opportunity ...

Broken sinkhole concrete gutter and see how long it holds. it started off as a 300 foot long gash, its kept on spreading and spreading, look. they say presumably it will split down to the bed rook. but what are you going to do? they have to keep running water down that thing. they dont have a choice so theyre running the destroyed spillway. theyre running it to complete failure. hope for the best, the best option. pray for dry days. this happened to be the drinking water source for more than 20 ...

It sever will fa itself will fail, but this is still a risky situation. >> we had water coming over the top of the emergency spillway. it was beginning to erode the ground. it starts to undermine itself. but when its doing that, it starts working its way back towards the emergency spillway. that portion of it has nothing to do with the dam itself, a large portion, but if that is not addressed and we dont tarah ta -- take care of that and mitigate it properly, what we are looking at is a 30-foot ...

Get overtopped and run instead down the hillside all the way downstream and see what happens to california or you keep thundering water down that broken sinkhole concrete gutter and see how long it holds. it started off as a 300 foot long gash, its kept on spreading and spreading, look. they say presumably it will split down to the bed rook. but what are you going to do? they have to keep running water down that thing. they dont have a choice so theyre running the destroyed spillway. theyre runn...