RTANEWS — broadcast 20260811 110000 UTC 18 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:22:32] overall from the government at a [00:22:34] high [00:22:43] level [00:30:02] Herat met and discussed the latest developments of the TAPI project and economic [00:30:06] cooperation between the two countries. In this meeting, the two sides emphasized [00:30:10] solving the remaining issues of the TAPI project, creating a gas distribution [00:30:13] network in Herat, and increasing job opportunities for Afghans. [00:30:17] Also, the establishment of a joint technical committee to follow up on [00:30:20] the TAPI projects, the optical fiber [00:30:23] and railway lines, was another topic of this [00:30:26] meeting. [00:30:34] A memorandum of understanding for the establishment of a gas network in Herat was signed between the officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and [00:30:38] Turkmenistan. The Deputy Prime Minister for Economic [00:30:41] Affairs and the national leader of Turkmenistan were also present at this meeting. [00:30:45] According to officials, the practical work of establishing a gas network in the industrial [00:30:48] town and Herat city will be started by Turkmengas in cooperation with the private [00:30:52] sector. According to officials, with the start of the gas pipeline [00:30:56] network, job opportunities will be provided for thousands of people.