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a day out in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie afghanistan is turning into a black hole for america's finances experts say it's sucking and billions of dollars the u.s. simply can't afford and what's worse it's not clear exactly where it's all going. reports. money money money money money money money money money money money money coming up with money must be the easiest thing for the u.s. since washington is apparently ok with it being flushed down the drain. one big drain it's been washing down is that get a stamp about three hundred seventy five billion dollars has already been spent on the afghan war this doesn't include basic things like like care for soldiers and the future of what this amount also doesn't include is the carriage that simply goes missing into the abyss from never completed ghost construction projects to

arms that end up in the wrong hands billions of dollars talked by the u.s. into afghanistan don't end up where intended there's a significant portion of since reconstruction money that actually comes back doesn't ever make it to afghanistan it goes into the pockets of the experts. corruption is one of the mead you reasons for the u.s. dollar not finding its way to where it's actually headed according to transparency international afghanistan comes second only to somalia as the most corrupt country in the world i mean the relatives of karzai traveling with unspeakable millions of dollars in cash which is of course not not that i know any details but not the stuff that makes people not wonder about corruption the wall street journal the other day had a piece sigurd about ten million dollars a day was simply leaving from kabul airport d f g.d.p. gross domestic product it's only about thirteen billion dollars that's

a quarter of the g.d.p. going out a year just out of kabul airport with the war not going away any time soon but it looks likely to last for at least three to four more years where we'll billions more of taxpayer dollars and up i think we're going to see them in the gambling tables of abu dhabi by the sound of it i mean this is not situation where the money is going to be traceable the cash fraud mismanagement and sheedy record keeping have been going on for quite a while to see the least the u.s. has already been fighting in afghanistan longer than it was involved in the second world war accidentally losing a few boxes here or there can happen to anyone. but consistently sending enormous amounts down the drain takes real effort and persistence. moreover this is far from the only war that has seen billions of dollars gone missing simply swallowed up by the shadows the united states had nine billion and then

a little bit later another nine billion that simply went missing in iraq so you know this is old stuff that money disappears and it's old stuff the money that's put into the pentagon in this country can become part of a so-called black budget that we never really get to see much about there is no one more upset about the situation. those americans that are flat out broke and jobless one out of millions of people to ask is larry heels who has been unemployed for over a year and a half it's infuriating because we're the ones are always left out in the cold while we're bombing and murdering people afghanistan the poorest country in the world this is also upsetting to countless experts who see that the u.s. afghan strategy has been flawed all together what we need is not a surge of money of troops we need a surge of diplomacy in the region because to begin with i think it's a misguided war i think we need a quick and responsible exit from that country but until that happens the question

of why the u.s. can afford to waste so much money abroad when so many have nothing but hold may never be answered and r.t. new york. afghan and pakistani officials are urging the u.s. president to appoint a replacement for richard holbrooke a passed away last month he was washington special envoy to the war stricken region which is also the world's main supplier of opium are his military contributors says it's high time obama listen to his secretary of state and address the root of ghana stance troubles. after yet another review and all review of the us policy in afghanistan the issue of the drug cancer has been completely ignored and relegated to the benefit of political expediency despite the consistent efforts and pressure from the russian federation the united states has done it best to ignore the most and crucial issue for afghanistan and its neighbors that

is there no aggression that comes from the southern part of this country and now we have the afghan drug being special envoy gonta the better world this question and responsibility should be squarely placed on the us secretary of state hillary clinton because it was hillary clinton who was the first openly admitted and recognized afghanistan officially as a narco state in effect implying that that's where the main challenge to the world security comes from now the u.s. secretary of state has two options first she could descend big your previous statement afghanistan is an arc a state or she could finally pass this information through the secretary of defense and encourage him to take a drastic and decisive action the sooner the better they need you all to him

harvest this coming there is no time for vacillation and leap service but it's high time to act better later than never artie's military contributor and current any course of their. and on the way here in our under reported crisis why some experts think the world health organization is downplaying the magnitude of india's malaria problem. the work is still going on to fully restore electricity supplies across the moscow region after a new year blackouts an emergency situation was declared on sunday after power was lost in hundreds of homes massive blackouts began before the new year after an ice storm broad downed power cables the extreme weather forced more than seven hundred villages to welcome in two thousand and eleven in darkness authorities managed to restore the supply in most areas with fresh snow and gales are still causing

problems. massive leaks of classified information was a phenomenon of twenty tandem with israeli army among the worst affected and some of the nation's secrets are finding their way online through its own soldiers obviously your looks at israel's struggle to keep its skeletons in the closet in a world of social media. the israeli army showing off its cyber unit telling the world's media how it connects the nation by phone radio and internet during war time they're facing a loaf of bread is it going acacia in the hours is this who we are preparing ourselves. for those threads but perhaps the i.d.f. should look closer to home israeli army secrets are beaming around the world some deliberate some unwittingly and they're coming from the inside now it's just one click anything and everything that a few years ago might have been off limits is available to millions of people some of taney asli israeli colonel been sea group received this threat in the post it

accuses him of killing children in gaza his name was on a website listing the phone numbers and other personal details of his radio soldiers involved in the last gaza war he's worried they're now floating around cyberspace as they have in the. in this moment although i don't think that this is for phone call from my lovelies i think this is inside information but it's not just deliberately the connected generation finds it hard not to cross the line and that's a major military headache we're a high tech internet service society and of course the generation of people who are serving in the military or young people they are the most high tech internet of all just like for me israeli soldiers even our visual who updated her facebook profile with pictures of herself in uniform posing in front of blindfolded palestinians and them it's tell us too much and i did nothing i have nothing to be sorry about the

whole thing's been blown out of proportion you journalists take pictures of the same people in handcuffs why can't i see these really army was quick to condemn a visual but the damage was done tens of thousands around the world saw the pictures before the i.d.f. could react as an officer and commander i am disgusted by such acts but as a. i.d.f. spokesperson i can assure you that this act in no way shape or form reflects the spirit of the i.d.f. our ethical code to which we all aspire these soldiers spend their army service keeping track of what's happening online but keeping a lid on the own colleagues is proving to be a cyber bashful too far people are expected to. behave with common sense and they're also not supposed to use their facebook to you know themselves their army or not it was supposed to have pictures of yourself up in uniform especially not on the base secrecy has always been a top priority for military forces but when i was in the pasta it might have meant

tiding documents cross today the challenge is that much bigger. is wrong. and later this hour our exclusive interview with a serbian president who talks about the situation two years after cost of a self-proclaimed in the pants for a start it's told r.t. tension is still in the air. people are not thinking that the course always are not the problem anymore of course always existing on the problem not only between sort of signal being as but also in the regional policy globally thinking because of living in the mind the real possible press of the can create many many turmoil sold around the world that is the reason that only sixty countries recognize corso independence until today we have more than one hundred ninety countries so that the member states are united nations and it is this is also fate that we have to take into consideration. more thoughts from our started on serbia's relations with the e.u.

russia and the us are coming your way in about twenty minutes time and these statistics suggest malaria is a much bigger problem in india as a first thought a study calculates the number of people killed by the disease could be over ten times higher than official figures and many blame the country's health care system for failing to. rural poor who are most at risk are just current seeing reports. in india's eastern state of bihar one more victim succumbs to malaria it's a tubal infection yet it's due dates more lives i mean via than each i mean this family's loss is just another statistic in the country's battle against the disease . malaria has spread everywhere near our village no medical teams come to help us and hospitals are far away poor people like us a dying at this hospital and but many patients believe they have the parasite to confection gaddafi and then for so thank him i have a very high temperature and i think i have no larry and i've come to the doctor for

treatment because many people in my neighborhood have malaria i suspect i've got it to a new study has found that malaria kills more than thirteen dimes the number of people caught in the estimated by the world health organization since many malaria deaths occurred at home and you need lydia's they don't get recorded so researchers was did families and asked them to describe what had happened to the victims a method known as the autopsy we estimated that something like four percent of the deaths between one life and sixty nine years of age were due to malaria and if you multiply that percentage by the national number of deaths at those ages you get two hundred thousand deaths before age seventy in india it's a staggering number is specially compared to the world health organization's estimate of just fifteen thousand and one fatalities it disputes the studies saying

see responder's could mistake muti is commonly found symptoms it is true that you can confused with other causes of fever and that is a. problem with the verbal autopsy however. when we look where the malaria deaths occurred they were the same places where transmission occurred i would also. accept the use of verbal autopsy and for estimating childhood deaths from malaria in africa so puzzled why they would think a method would work in one continent and not three dozen miles away in another most medical stuff and indeed hospitals agreed the number of malaria deaths is far more than. they had also seen the shop in the cases of drug resistant. brandy centers and the baby food is not that much to handle this is the fence you

put in because the treatment needs to be hones the delays to treatment and also the costly injections and we just sometimes not to do them because of that all of them want to be becomes high as in their face is this killer disease it's important for the government down the w a a true knowledge the scale of the problem only then can they upgrade their disease control strategies and resources to fight malaria effectively in all its forms gotten saying r d. anyone care to live from moscow stay with us because there's more coming up including forest outcasts we meet a man who has chosen isolated live in a russian forest find out how the outside world is taking around documentaries that's ahead shortly. and before that let's take a look some other stories from around the world in australia's military supplying medical aid and food supplies to queensland as major floods continue to devastate the country's northeast roads and airports of close marooning more than twenty

towns and affecting over two hundred thousand people hundreds of homes are being evacuated ahead of an expected peak in flooding later this week prime minister julia guillard says the damage will cost the economy bill. dollars. and eighty african migrants including women and children are feared to have drowned after their boats capsized off the yemeni coast the first vessel carrying mostly europeans overturned in the red sea while another went down the gulf of aden rescuers have found three survivors believed to be from somalia thousands of africans try to reach yemen every year xabi an overcrowded boats run by smugglers. coptic church has urged calm and among his followers after days of christian protests against religious discrimination in the country thousands of demonstrators took to the streets demanding more protection from the government riots were

sparked by a car bombing outside a church in alexandria on saturday which killed twenty one people and of amber branch in iraq warned of an increase in attacks against christians in egypt. and to realize russian man of the forest has become an internet sensation but that wasn't what bloody murder was hoping for when he decided to make a home for himself in woods close to moscow after failing to settle in the city he chose to live in isolation preferring to stay away from people r.t. sara firth went to see for herself. we've come to a freezing forest in the musky region it can be a treacherous place. but one man has taken on the elements we've tracked down victor his secret shelter here has made him an internet sensation will be walking about fifteen minutes from the main road through the

forest we can see where victor staying just up ahead in the clearing so we're going to going if in the water and batteries that we bought for him. as. a troubled upbringing caused him to feel his home on the other side of russia. she knew he was just born your brain yet since the age of seven i felt i had to run away from hard life and bad luck so i came to moscow but i lost my documents i couldn't work or travel anywhere else because of this i choose to live in the woods and build a shelter inside the shelters surprisingly k.z. it's a simple life here and also perhaps a bit of a lonely one. i'm not a sociable person i never drink and i don't like noisy policies when you put all this way of life suits me better than your one. and impressive craftsman because even built his own generator to power electrical equipment i have

good hands and i love to build and create these things. so went viral after pictures of his handiwork were posted online since then he's had trouble from people who've come to track down his cab in themselves. the people who come are sometimes rude and threatening to go through my things and take photos of themselves then they post them on the internet and write with nasty things about me . when you pull of the look you know came across victor's story she tried to help and. offer exact to her house which here accepted at first nobody thought was a warm gas he did house with a power supply and then return he did help out with manual labor but he decided not to stay because i think he just had urged to be back in the forest. conventional living just doesn't suit he's clearly extremely self-sufficient but he does rely on

healthy and equipment supplies and you you know for the first time in my life i have a home my own home i feel happy here i'm a lone wolf if you like. to amongst the trees and the snow you picked is found a way of life that he enjoys. the ne else that now other people respect that. surf. a legion. well we're also online three twenty four hours a day with play more stories for you to explore here is some what you'll find there right now. drat for you appealing to turn out was own. to be officially open to tourists in two thousand and eleven but before you. get the details about the city's past and present at our website. if you are feeling lonely this holiday season in need of a friend you could now simply hire one find out more about the drinking buddy

service on our website dot com. time now for a business update. hello welcome to our business program. russia has delivered forty two thousand tons of crude oil in its first delivery via the newly opened chinese section of the eastern siberia and pacific ocean crude oil pipeline. pipeline which began operating on the first of january is designed to pump oil produced in west and east siberia to the asian pacific markets russia plans to transport fifteen million metric tons of oil annually to china until two thousand and thirty. according to analysts the project

makes a huge strategic shift for russia's energy exports having previously been heavily dependent on european markets. and russia has set a new oil output record with last year beating even pre-crisis heights the energy ministries figures show it was the only country to produce more than ten million barrels of oil per day as going prices stimulated output. the next biggest producer saudi arabia provided only a quarter million barrels per day in recent months russian oil output rose in total by more than two percent throughout the year far outstripping analysts forecasts. and the economic ministry has cut two thousand and eleven expectations for russia's g.d.p. from four percent to three point eight percent while performance has been slightly disappointing i think merrill lynch believes the economy is accelerating. growth will accelerate into two thousand and eleven within the growth will be

around four and a half percent from a little bit less than four percent in two thousand and ten in fact globally bank of america merrill lynch russia is one of the four economies that do prefer the most going into two thousand and eleven trigona mr china india indonesia but definitely russia is one of the economies that you like the most. and mergers and acquisitions were among the top drivers last year with russia's tourist market catching investors' eyes european tour giant thomas cook took control of russians all this vacation business interest the forty five million dollars deal gives the european firm just over fifty percent of an iconic brand with a large retail chain as well as getting an option over the remainder russians are known as big holiday spenders the joint operation will help thomas cook capitalize on strong russian demand for beach breaks and diversify away from the saturated european markets. russia's natural gas monopoly is among the top picks for

investors who expect its shares to rise by up to twenty five percent in two thousand and eleven low gas prices in europe in the first half of the year have been holding gasp from strong financial reports now prices are on the up which are likely to help the energy giant outperform the market this year we're going to see on farm renaissance capital says that an expected improvement in corporate governance will also add to the stock's potential. is the cheapest store. version market universe people. offered to. the studio portable girls. to. grow. this is going to be. for.

and russia's entry to the world trade organization is slowly becoming a reality the country's security back in last year after lowering export taxes and real fees next comes agreeing on limits for farming subsidies and meat quotas but some in the industry see trouble ahead tatyana political reports on how the end is in sight for russia's seventeen year journey to joining. it was very very tough tempers are flaring meetin vegetable growers say that russia is too big and too cold to compete with foreign agriculture on the level playing field they want their industry protected over the consequences if the rules are changed because the good look if we enter the w. my congolese will shut down because my potato will always cost twice as much as there is because they harvested three times a year and i do it only once. just to

test for agriculture it will impact the average sector of the economy productivity in russia is several times lower than in many western countries it makes up for the lack of technical efficiency margin numbers off low paid workers it's a legacy of the soviet era just as the poor logistics. management w c o membership will provide extra incentive to change in the major this mean unemployment rate simply because people look at the business maybe even structural employment so people will have to. go to start thinking of just getting a new profession to getting you told by the special that you. know that there will be full to the coupon and after that the russian economy pulls itself compared to you for the station and innovation. to be fully planted told to rush into russian soil and actually the russian economy will benefit as

a whole this will be different because the reason one group of russians that will almost certainly benefit that's consumers will get imports of goods at lower prices as judah's decrees membership will also open doors wider from multinationals but this will test the ability of domestic firms to survive and prosper that's your business are to. and that's all the business news for this hour you can always find more stories on our website that's archie dot com slash business stay with us.