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secrets online israel's military fights to keep its own soldiers from the facebook generation leaking sensitive information on the web. you asked for billions into the data stand but experts say there's no way to tell why the massive war bill is paying for and future corruption a lack of transparency. and a russian man of the forest cassie's isolation interrupted after becoming an internet sensation we pay a visit to use handmade hold in a woods outside moscow. you're

watching r t coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie a massive leaks of classified information was a phenomenon of twenty tanh where the israeli army among worst affected some of the nation's secrets are finding their way online through its own soldiers policy looks at israel's struggle to keep its skeletons in the closet and 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 their phrasing of. it will be an occasion 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 it's just one

click anything and everything that a few years ago might have been off limits is available to millions of people simultaneously is really could all been see 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 facebook or from my pov of this i think this is insane a form of them 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 a 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 as i did nothing i have nothing to be sorry about the whole thing's been blown out of proportion you know 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. 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 their 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 they're only

technically or not even supposed to have pictures of yourself up for especially not on a base secrecy has always been a top priority for military forces but we was in the past it might have meant hiding documents or photographs today the challenge is that much bigger. israel. afghanistan is turning into a black hole for america's finances experts say it's sucking in billions of dollars the u.s. simply can't afford and what's worse it's not clear exactly where it's all going are just us here in our 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 opaque 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 in the

future of what this amount of 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 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 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. with 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 but 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 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 and 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. new york and watching r.t. live from moscow stay with us because there's more coming up including forced outcast we just chose an isolated life in a russian forest find out how the outside world is taking a welcome interest that's a have shortly. two russian icebreakers are rushing to rescue an entire fleet of vessels stranded off the country's far east coast five ships have been logged in ice for days of the bay of saudi and one of the vessels is now in danger of running ashore as the ice surrounding the ship drags it towards the coast in total there's around five hundred people stranded aboard the fleet and the captain save 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 and hundreds of homes massive blackouts began before the new year after an ice storm brought down power cables extreme weather forced more than seven hundred villages to welcome in twenty eleven in darkness authorities managed to restore the supply in most areas but fresh snow and gales are still causing problems. i realize russian man of the forest has become an internet sensation but that wasn't what victoria was hoping for when he decided to make a hole for himself in the woods close to moscow after failing to settle in the city he chose to live in isolation preferring to stay away from people artists or first 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 well we're 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've bought for him. a troubled upbringing caused him to flee his home on the other side of russia. he 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 shelter is 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 parties when you walk this way of life suits me better then 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. that victor went viral after pictures of his handiwork were posted online since then he's had trouble from people he's come to track down his cabin themselves we're going 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 off nasty things about me . when you pull of the look you know came across victor's story she tried to help her and. we offered victor a house which here accepted at first it was

a warm gas you do have house with a power supply and then return he did help out with manual labor but he decided not to stay and i think he just had been urged to be back in the forest. 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 if you happy here i'm a lone wolf if you like. the monks the trees and the snow has found a way of life that he enjoys. he any of that now other people respect the. surf. and find out why some experts think the world health organization is downplaying the magnitude of india's malaria problem to. have been killed and

a counter terror operation in russia's southern republic of dagestan. sorry for this mismatch while the man refused to surrender when special forces encircled the private house they were hiding in on the outskirts of the capital maha to go on nearby buildings were evacuated before the militants opened fire and the two were part of a gang that has targeted police officers in the region the southern republic is the sandal for terrorist attacks in russia with authorities saying several were averted in the last week alone. and afghan and pakistani officials are urging the u.s. president to appoint a replacement for richard holbrooke who passed away last month he was a washington special envoy to the war stricken region which is also the world's main supplier of opium artie's military contributors as its hi tom obama listened

to his secretary of state an address the root of gad a stance troubles. after yet another review an overview of the u.s. 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. being special envoy gon to the better world 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 her 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 pym harvest this coming there is no time for vacillation and leap service but it's high time to act better later than never. and that was or to use military contributor colonel dave get a crush of their. now some other stories from around the world the end of rail years military's flying 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 out of an expected peak and flooding later this week prime minister says the damage will cost the economy billions of dollars. iran has invited foreign investors to tour its nuclear sites to have talks with world powers over the country's atomic program and voice from russia china and you are included in the offer but it's not yet clear whether officials from the west have been asked to join them and there is international concern over iran's nuclear ambitions which the country insists are peaceful. 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 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 every year and at overcrowded boats run by smugglers. they have egypt's coptic church has urged her called followers after days of shouldn't 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 alexandria on saturday which killed twenty one people in a valley branch in iraq war and of an increase in attacks against christians in egypt. a partial solar eclipse has begun in the skies over northern africa and the middle east will be visible for three hours with the best news coming later in northeastern sweden the moon's shadow hides between a half and two thirds of the sun's surface turning it into yellow or red crescent from much of europe it starts at sunrise whereas in russia and china it occurs at

sunset observers are warned not to look directly at the sun. and new statistics jazz malaria as a much bigger problem in india than 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 the rural poor who are most at risk are these current same reports. india's eastern state of bihar one more victim succumbs to malaria it's a treatable infection yet it still takes more lives amenia than each i.v. this family's loss is just another statistic in the country's battle against the disease. that 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 now many patients believe they have the parasite to infection. and then for so 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 thirty mm dime's the number of people caught in d.s. committed by the world health organization since many malaria deaths occurred at home and he moved 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 verbal autopsy we estimated that something like four percent of the deaths between one 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

verbal autopsy responders could mistake muti is commonly shown symptoms it is true that you can confuse malaria deaths with other causes of fever and that is a problem with the burble out. however. when we look at the where the malaria deaths occurred they were the same places where malaya transmission occurred i would also. except 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. miles away in another most medical stuff and indeed hospitals the number of malaria deaths is far more than the w.h.o. 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 this the friends who

couldn't leave because of the treatment needs to be hospitalized treatment and also there are costly injections and we just sometimes knocked over the bill because of that both of them want to be becomes high as in their face is this killer disease it's important for the government down the w.h.o. 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 new delhi. and we're also mine for twenty four hours a day with plenty more stories for you to explore and hear a song of what you'll find right now at r.t. dot com. naturally appealing to turn novel zone is to be officially open to tourists in two thousand and eleven but before you plan a trip get the details about the city's past and present at our website. plus if you are feeling lonely this holiday season and in need of fran you can now simply hire one find out more about the drinking body service on our website r.t.

dot com. and it's time now for a business update with. this is our business update welcome to the program here sense says launch the trilateral customs union proved a success according to all its members it also had some unexpected effects it stirred up the long lasting negotiations on russia's entry to the w t o off to russia said it will seek that session together with better rules and kazakhstan but as methodical quote reports there's still has been a fly in the ointment. russia belarus and kazakhstan are speeding up the next phase

of their 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 stooping into growth we are creating the terms for fair competition for all the member countries to help the producers be competitive on 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 that gives the possibility to set up a new enterprise system to turn it off for the better but of course the good cause of time and what it is through this interest from 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 export the 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 agreement on the single economic space run. agreed on a duty free oil delivery this will eventually benefit all of the union members and provide the springboard for the next stage of a degree. of a business r.t. . one of the most significant portion and acquisition deals in russia in twenty ten was retail giant x five purchasing the walmart targeted supermarket chain of pekin effectively pushing the u.s. retailers after russian market in style from metropole 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 comparative retail chain which is just called the return to train and that gave x five much more clout it's far as it is a very well established retailer while the market leaders and this segment operates and is slightly above the economy segment where we're coming out of the crisis and early imports crisis environment i think the 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 confidence 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 and of and the twenty ten december has drugget more games rising oil prices and

returning confidence in russia after the crisis fuelling the rally of some of the forecasts for the rupee 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 just love use of oil if the chief economist from do each a bank thinks the ruble has chances to strengthen in twenty eleven do not foresee 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 will ball the volatility of rubles movements will certainly increase in the coming years but when it gets down to it the ruble is still have a depended on commodity prices to diversify the economy and slow in bearing fruit many analysts expect commodity price inflation in twenty eleven particularly as u.s. authorities print more dollars and that bloats well for the ruble mines in the business r.t. . that's your update for this hour but there's always more on our website r.t. dot com slash business. thank. you.