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Occupation, to present day problems with reconstruction and the taliban. if you read a book you can put it down. if you read a newspaper you can turn the page. if you see some television you can switch channels. with a play, you re stuck there for some time. in this case, for a whole day. reporter: when britain s chief of defense staff came to see the performance, he was so struck by what he learned, he said, he wished he come to see it before he was first deployed to afghanistan in 2005, saying it would have made me a much better commander. the taliban. reporter: now almost two years after the show s humble beginnings of this tiny playhouse, it s about to be seen by, perhaps, its most influential audience yet. pentagon officials, wounded veterans, and soldiers. nicolas kent is hoping it will make a difference. if people start to think ....
Cnn s taking you to a new country each month. highlighting the innovation that s changing the world. people and ideas that are influencing business, industry and culture. we call it our i-list. this week we are in ukraine. it s been called the bread baskets of europe, thanks to its rich black soil. but there is a lot more to ukraine than bread. cnn s diana magna gives us this report on chicken from kiev. reporter: it looks a bit like a wintry version of chicken run. but for these chicks, it s a one-way road to the supermarket shelf. leading agri business mhp produces some 200,000 tons of poultry here each year. it s one of europe s largest and most modern poultry production ....
Facilities. this little chick is just a day old. it was brought from the hatchery nearby yesterday. it s going to spend the next 42 to 45 days here, eating sunflower cake and grain that the company produces in the fields near here, and then unfortunately, he ll go to the slaughter house. producing in the neighboring fields reduces costs. they don t believe in outsourcing. the 300,000 hectors of farming land all over ukraine, he has the space to produce whatever he wants and other meat products from sausages to foie gras. translator: subcontractors are risk zones. we decided to develop a different business motto. our motto if you want something done right, do it yourself. reporter: he floated 25% of the company s stock on the london stock exchange in 2008 to ....
From 38 to 50 million tons of grain and we can double that production just by introducing modern technologies and that, of course, makes our market very attractive. reporter: mhp is a home-grown company making the most of ukraine s fertile soil to keep its costs low. there are around 1500 foreign investors operating in the agricultural sector and the country s promising significant reforms to make the investment climate more attractive. ukraine knows that at a time of global food shortages it has the potential to feed many more mouths than its own. diana magna, cnn, kiev. it s been a pretty busy day, too, at the grand slam tennis tournament of 2011. here s john with all the details from the australian open. how is it going. pretty good. thanks very much. it s one down, six to go for raphael madle in his pursuit of a tennis slam. the world number one had an easy match against marcos daniel. ....
Taking their latest show to the pentagon. nic robertson takes a look at the play that could end up saving lives. you come from a very small country to stop you and your neighbors for being at each other s throats. reporter: what can the pentagon learn from these british actors? maybe enough to save lives in afghanistan. you are putting yourself in someone else s boots, you re empathizing, you re sympathizing with people. you re thinking, what you would do in their situation. reporter: nick class, director of the tricycle theater in london, is thrilled the 12-part performance he conceived a few years ago to throw a spotlight on the afghan conflict has finally caught the attention of the pentagon. it is our job to fight. reporter: the great game, afghanistan, traces the afghan history of international intervention from the british defeat in 1842 through soviet ....