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the u.s. force billions into afghanistan but asked for it say there is no way to tell what the massive war bill is paying for made huge corruption and a lack of transparency. top secret online israel's military fights to keep its own soldiers from the facebook generation leaking sensitive information on the web . and a russian man of the forest has his isolation interrupted after becoming an internet sensation would pay a visit to new zealand made home and avoids outside. which

are to live from moscow eleven am here in marina joshie welcome to the program of ghana state is turning into a black hole for america's finances experts say it's sucking in billions of dollars dollars the u.s. simply can't afford and what's worse it's not clear exactly words all going to use this is your 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. says washington is the fuse we hate with it being flushed down the drain. one big dream 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 in the future of what this amount also doesn't include is the cash 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 to us into afghanistan don't end up where intended there's a significant portion for 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 relatives of karzai traveling with unspeakable billion 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 they figured out about ten million dollars a day was simply leaving from kabul airport the afghan g.d.p. gross domestic product is 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 anytime 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 at 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 mis man. and she the recordkeeping have been going on for quite a while to see the east. 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 dream 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 the 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 than 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 and afghanistan the poorest country in the world this is also upsetting to countless experts who say 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. and our new york. afghan and pakistani officials are urging the u.s. president to appoint a replacement for richard holbrooke who passed away last month and he was washington special envoy to the war stricken region which is also the world's main supplier of opium artie's military contributor says it's high time obama listen to secretary of state and address the root of afghanistan's 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 their night it 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 going to the better world and this question and responsibility should be squarely placed on the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton because it was hillary clinton who was the first openly admit it 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 that afghanistan is an arc a state or she could finally pass this information through this secretary of defense and encourage him to take

a drastic and decisive action the sooner the better then you all kim harvest this coming there is no time for vacillation and leap service but it's high time to act better later than never. our military contributor getting there and on the way under reported crisis why some experts think the world health organization is downplaying the magnitude of india's malaria problem. two militants have been killed in a counterterror operation in russia's southern republic of dagestan and the man refused to surrender when special forces encircled the private house they were hiding in on the outskirts of the capital much call nearby buildings were evacuated before the militants opened fire the two were reportedly part of a gang that has targeted police officers in the region the southern republican is the center for terrorist attacks in russia with authorities saying several were

averted in the last week alone. massive leaks of classified information was a phenomenon twenty ten where the israeli army among the worst affected and some of the nation's secrets are finding their way online through its own soldiers looks at israel struggle to keep it 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 lot of. it communication in the hours is that we are 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 with 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 a city is ready colonel been see group received this straight in the post it accuses him of killing children in gaza his name is 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 the in the side more than two other names i don't think that this is for facebook or from my space or stuff like this 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 savvy society and of course a generation of people who are serving in the military or young people they are the most high tech internet savvy of all just like for me israeli soldier even our visual who updated her facebook profile with pictures of herself in uniform posing in front of blindfolded palestinians and emirates tell us too much as 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. these way the army was quick to condemn 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'm disgusted by such acts but as an i.d.f. spokesperson i can assure you that this in no way shape or form reflects the spirit of the idea 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 battle 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 for especially not on a base secrecy has always been a top priority for military forces but when i was in the past it might have meant

hiding documents or photographs today the challenge is that much bigger. israel and two russian icebreakers are rushing to rescue an entire fleet of vessels stranded off the country's far east coast five ships have been locked in ice for days in the bay of sally one of the vessels is now in danger of running ashore as the ice surrounding the ship drags it towards the coast intelligible there's around five hundred people stranded aboard the fleet and the captain say the lives of their crews are not in any immediate danger work is still going on to fully restore electricity supplies across the moscow region after a new year of blackouts an emergency situation was declared on sunday after a power was lost in hundreds of homes massive blackouts began before the new year after an ice storm brought down power cables the extreme weather forced more than

seven hundred villages to welcome in two thousand and eleven and darkness authorities managed to restore the supply in most areas with fresh snow and gales are still causing problems. new statistics suggest malaria is a much bigger problem in india than first thought the study calculates the number of people killed by the disease could be over ten times higher than official figures many blame the country's health care system for failing the 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 treatable infection yet it's due dates more lives in the media than ha seen this family's loss is just another statistic in the country's battle against the disease . that malaria has spread everywhere around religion no medical teams come to help us and hospitals are far away poor people like us a dying at this hospital and but not many patients believe they have the put aside

to infection in general because the south thinking 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 currently estimated by the world health organization since many one area deaths occurred at home and you need to larry as 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 topsy 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 it's specially compared to the world health organization's

estimate of just fifteen houses and then work for down the genes it disputes the studies saying the responders could mistake moody is called the foam symptoms it is true that you can confuse malaria deaths with other causes of fever and that's that is a. problem with the verbal autopsy method however. when we look where the malaria occurred they were the same places where malaya transmission occurred i would also. accept the use of verbal autopsy and for estimating childhood deaths from malaria in africa so bit puzzled why they would think a method would work in one function and not treat cousin miles away in another most medical stuff and indeed hospitals. will figure they had also seen the shop in the cases of drug resistant. brandy centers

and the baby food is not that much to handle. because the treatment needs to be. treatment and also costly injections and the just sometimes not to. because of. them want to do becomes as india faces this killer disease it's important for the government down the w way through 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 and seeing. and you're watching r t live from moscow stay with us because there's more coming up including forest al kassam we have chosen isolated live in a russian forest find out how the outside world is taken and how well compatriots that's a happened shortly. let's take a look now at some of the stories making news around the world in australia's

military is flying medical aid and food supplies to the queensland floods continue to devastate the country's northeast roads and airports up close marooning more than twenty towns and affecting over two hundred thousand people hundreds of homes are being evacuated have been expect to peak and flooding later. weekend prime minister julia guillard says the damage will cost the economy billions of dollars. and a senior european diplomat says iran is invited of foreign ambassadors to tour its nuclear sites ahead of talks with world powers over the country's top program and was from russia china and the e.u. are included in the offer but not the u.s. there's international concern over iran's nuclear ambitions which country insist are peaceful iraq is yet to confirm the invitation. up to 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 the europeans overturned in the red sea while another went down in the gulf of aden rescuers have found three survivors believed to be from somalia thousands of africans try to reach yemen every year in shabby and overcrowded boats run by smugglers. out of egypt's coptic church has urged for calm about his followers after days of protest 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 in a van branch an iraq war and an increase in attacks against christians in egypt. a partial solar eclipse has begun in the skies over northern africa and the middle east and will be visible for three hours with the best views coming later in

northeastern sweden the moon's shadow hides between a half and two thirds of the sun's surface turning it into a yellow or red crescent much of your work it starts at sunrise whereas in russia and china it occurs at sunset observers are warned not to look directly at the sun . are real life russian man of the forest has become an internet sensation but that wasn't what victor was hoping for when he decided to make a hole for himself in wards close to moscow after failing to settle in the city he chose to live in isolation prefer to stay away from people artists are first went to see for herself. we've come to a freezing forest in the mosque a village and 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 go and give him the water truth that we bought for him. but. a troubled upbringing caused him to flee his home on the other side of russia. he knew he was arrested by new bern yet since the age of seven i felt i had to run away from hardline 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 shelter is surprisingly k.z. it's a simple life 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 can walk this way of life suits me better than you're. an impressive

craftsman fixes even built his own generator to power electrical equipment i have good hands and i love to build and create these things. vic so when viral after pictures of his handiwork were posted online since then he's had trouble from people who've come to track down his cabin themselves morgan the people who come there are sometimes rude and threatening that they go through my things and take photos of themselves then they post them only internet and write off nasty things about me. when you pull of the q now i came across victims story she tried to help him. but if. the house which here exempted from was a warm gas heater of house with a power supply and then return he did help out with manual labor but he decided not to this day and i think he just had been urged to be back before the. conventional

living just doesn't see he's clearly extremely self-sufficient but he does rely on help to feed and equipment supplies. you know for the first time in my life i have a home my own home i few happy here i'm a lone wolf if you like. amongst the trees and the big just found a way of life to be enjoying. that now other people respect. so if. i were also in line to be twenty four hours a day with plenty more stories for you to explore here's some a while you'll find right now at our tea dot com i. think gradually appealing to turn all those i want is to be officially open to tourists in two thousand and eleven but before you plan a trip to gather details about the city's past present or a website. plus if you're feeling lonely this holiday season and in need of

a friend now simply hire one find out more about the drinking buddy service on our website at party dot com. and i'll bring a recap our top story shortly followed by a look at the scandals behind if i actual news headlines our weekly kaiser reports but before that here's some business update with your ear. the big. thing.

hello this is artist business update welcome to the program a year since its launch the trilateral customs union proved a success according to all its members it also had some unexpected affects it stirred up a long lasting to go seychelles on russia's entry into the w t o after russia said it will seek the accession together with belarus and kazakhstan but as a valid reports there still has been a fly in the ointment. russia belarus and kazakstan are speeding up the next phase of the customs union the single economic space with a free trade area and a common external policy the trilateral union was launched at the beginning of twenty ten just simplify the movement of goods and capital between its members stupid. we are creating the terms for fair competition for all the member countries to help the producers be competitive on the external markets the simple economics piece one of unified regulation rules and single economic policy russia belarus and

kazakstan with a combined population of one hundred seventy million account for more than eighty percent of the former soviet union's economic output the combined g.d.p. is worth two trillion dollars annually according to the prime minister of kazakhstan together the three countries may gain a prominent position on the global market i think the possibility to set up a new enterprise system to turn it off for the benefit of customers good incomes of time and their what it if you will into the. rest of the first year of the customs union has revealed some teething problems that arose imports russian oil at a preferential price we exporting most of it to europe at a high price in response russia introduced export duties and that almost brought the countries to an oil war only after valorous ratified the agreements on the single economic space russia agreed on a duty free oil delivery this will eventually benefit all of the union members and

provides a springboard for the next stage of integration the political of a business. one of the most significant portion and acquisition deals in russia in twenty turn was retail giant x five purchasing the walmart targeted supermarket chain of pekin effectively pushing the u.s. for taylor after russian market in style from match report told r.t. how this will help to boost a month for stocks in the retail sector in twenty eleven. it's far just acquired the kopeck a retail chain which is just called to return to training that gave x five much more clout x. far as it is a very well established retailer while the market leaders and the segment operates and is slightly above the economist segment where we're coming out of the crisis and early imports prices environment i think their mid level retailers are going to really well they're the next one in the line to show strong growth.

through a bull has hit a two and a half months higher last december and continue to grow and less predict the strengthening of the currency as oil prices remain high with market watchers confident in the global stock exchanges but in a question of reports. the russian ruble strength in two point eight percent against the us dollar and nine point four percent against the euro between january end of the twenty ten december has drugget more games rising oil prices and returning confidence in russia after the crisis are fueling the rally of the forecast for the ruble remains flat even though it's hard to make predictions i believe the ruble will strengthen in twenty eleven and remain stable in the central bank of russia says it may relax controls on the ruble further next yeah i said aims to make the currency free floating. this is key in realize the the government's ambition to promote it is an international reserve currency the

importance of the ruble has also recently been giving a boost by the start of trading against the chinese yuan on the my six given all this practice you get a sloppy sub or live chief economist from do each a bank thinks the ruble has chances to strengthen into an eleven four c. a complete. free float for the bull in the next several years i think given the dependency on oil prices given the. the volatility that we see in the markets the central bank is likely to be cautious although i have to say that the flexibility of the ruble the volatility in rubles movements will certainly increase in the coming years but when it gets down to it the ruble is still have a lead depended on commodity prices to diversify the economy and slow in bearing fruit that sent many analysts expect commodity price inflation in twenty eleven particularly as u.s. .