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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 hadn't 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 didn't do enough in the time that we were there. it took us five years before we even started training an afghan force in 2005. that's when we began in earnest. we wasted four years. by that time, the taliban had gone across the border...

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 that's 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 brigade had delivered a decade earlier, it was lying there next to the dam itself, still in its bubb...

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 mine itself. when it's doing that. itç starts working itself back towards that portion of it. it has ...

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 they can possibly get their hands on. as a result some of the homes have been reported to be looted....

Broken sinkhole concrete gutter and see how long it holds. it started off as a 300 foot long gash, it's 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 don't have a choice so they're running the destroyed spillway. they're 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 million people in the state of california. now, the dam itself, they say the dam itself is safe....