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to. see. a facebook wall here israeli army seeks to capture internal leaks as young tech savvy soldiers to flood the social media with classified contacts damaging pictures . lead to a russian icebreaker racing to rescue some five hundred people trapped off the country's a far east coast. an entire fleet is waiting to be released from the icy prison from the for the details join me in the program. and the money down the drain for us is pouring billions of dollars into the afghan war but experts say

there's no telling where the cash. while this is are you coming to you live from moscow welcome to the program. massive leaks of secret files have recently been shaking many governments and israel is no exception but for the nation's army the problem appears to be coming from its own ranks with soldiers posting secrets on social networks artie's poor looks at the israeli defense forces struggle to keep it skeletons in the closet. 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 will be an occasion in the hours is this who we are for 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. is really could all been see gruber received this threat 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 they have in the. in this moment although i don't think that this is for facebook or 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 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 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. the israeli 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 in command are 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 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 show themselves there are. supposed to have pictures of yourself up for especially not on a base secrecy has always been a top priority for military forces but whereas in the past it might have meant hiding documents or photographs today the challenge is that much bigger. r t israel. russian icebreakers are rushing to save a fleet of vessels stranded off the country's far east coast several ships have been locked in ice for days and the mean with some of five hundred people on board for more on this one are joined by. let's get some details here on how the rescue operation is going high natalia so when one considers the harsh climate where the ships are stranded this is bound to be a treacherous rescue mission tom what stage is it in right now. well currently the

ice breakers are heading towards the vessels there is stuck in the ice meanwhile the prime minister vladimir putin has is monitoring the situation is promised to help the sailors he's spoken to the country's transport minister who reported on the situation with the vessel that they're stuck in the ice prime minister putin also over the phone has spoken to both captains over the trap vessels and ice breakers that a heading to release them now three vessels were stuck in the ice on thursday and after that there was the country's transport ministry has warned the sailors about the weather conditions in the area nonetheless another vessel still had it in the direction of the icy waters and was also stuck and that is why the ice breakers that were initially had things release the three stuck on thursday had to change their direction to the one stuck on monday as it was in the most dangerous situation as it was being dragged by the ice towards the coast so once so the ice

breakers are over with. that last vessel they are going to head to the first three stock. stories they know just to give you an idea how difficult weather conditions in the area are at the moment the ice is about two meters thick and initially a smaller icebreaker of thirteen thousand horsepower was. released at three vessels but it couldn't get through the icy water so another one three times more powerful one had to be sent down to help them and according to the. russian transport ministry the vessels will be released on wednesday morning g.m.t. hard to tell you well you know you can sort of a broad range of the spectrum of dangers here miles of solid ice frigid temperatures some of those on board the ships in any immediate danger. the crew members were in no danger from the start as they have about seventy five days worth of food and energy supplies they have water they have everything they need but

experts are saying that said the rescue mission might take a little bit longer as another very strong cycling is heading those waters and it's going to bring strong and heavy winds in the area so it might slow down the rescue mission a little bit but in a worst case scenario for helicopters of that washes emergency ministry are on standby to evacuate the people from the vessels if that is needed. life in moscow thank you well you are with oughts he and still ahead for you this hour a much bigger problem some say the health organization is estimating the death rate from malaria in india claiming the real figure could be ten times higher. and later we visit a russian who chooses to live wild in the forest braving the elements. all over ten years now america's war in afghanistan has swallowed billions of

dollars critics say washington can't afford the funds of broadway very much needed back at home but it seems the problem is even deeper with reports that much of the money spent on the afghan campaign does not ever reach its proper destination. 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 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 pumped 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 major 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 media 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 d.f.d. and 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 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 and 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 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 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 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 a whole may never be answered and our new york. new research

shows that malaria could be a much bigger problem than the world health organization currently says in india the death rate is thought to be massively underestimated many also blame the country's health care system for failing the rural poor who are most at risk artie's charan singh investigates. india's eastern state of bihar one more victim succumbs to malaria it's a treatable infection yet it still takes more lives in india than in each i.v. 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. and then for so thinking i have a very high temperature and i think i have malaria 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. to me to buy the world health organization since many malaria deaths occurred at home and in rural areas they don't get recorded so researchers with good 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. 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 then more fatalities if disputes the study saying the responders could mistake muti is commonly shown symptoms it is true that you

can confused with other causes of fever and that is a. problem with. however the w.h.o. accepts the use of verbal autopsy and for estimating childhood deaths from malaria you know for. so a bit puzzled why they would think a method would work in one continent and not. miles away in another most medical staff in indian hospitals the number of malaria deaths is far more than the w.h.o. figure they had also seen a sharp rise in the cases of drug resistant. brandy hill centers and the belief it is not of that much to handle this. because the treatment needs to be hones the delays treatment and also there are costly injections and we just sometimes not to

because of. them want to do becomes hate as in their face is this killer disease it's important for the government than the w. we 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 god and seeing r.d. new delhi and r.t. is coming to you live from moscow where it's now just turning quarter past the hour and bear in mind our web site is just a click away to keep you up to date twenty four hours a day here's a taste of what's waiting for you online right now dot com georgia sends over one hundred policemen to disperse some twenty veteran from hunger strike what they claim is neglect by the government. and of our shall not rock n roll the u.s. army is under fire for choosing their soldiers and music for them as commanders make troops attend a christian concerts and punish those who decide to opt out. let's

go to some other international stories making headlines at this hour and the governor of pakistan's punjab province has been shot dead in the country's capital islamabad police say. was killed by his own bodyguard near a market as he was getting out of a car the governor was a senior member of the ruling pakistan people's party and was close to president asif ali zardari. several other people were wounded during the attack and the suspected assailant has been taken into custody. now iran has confirmed it has invited foreign powers to tour its nuclear sites ahead of talks over its atomic program envoys from russia china and the e.u. are included in the offer but it's not yet clear whether officials from the u.s. have been asked there are international concerns over iran's nuclear ambitions which tehran insists are peaceful. military is sending food supplies to queensland as massive floods continue to cause chaos in the north east

of the country hundreds of homes are being evacuated ahead of an expected peak in the deluge later this week roads and airports have been closed and over two hundred thousand people affected. a fire has broken out at a large apartment complex under construction in the u.s. state of new jersey the inferno erupted early in the morning a four story structure in the city of rahway firefighters are at the scene battling this massive blaze and it's not yet known what caused the fire. but almost forty thousand people across central russia are still without electricity after new year blackouts an emergency situation was declared on sunday in the moscow region the massive cutouts began before the new year after an ice storm brought down power cables extreme weather forced hundreds of villages to welcome in two thousand and eleven in total darkness authorities managed to restore supply in most areas but

fresh snow and gales are still causing problems. well the electricity cuts may be causing stress for many in the moscow region but one russian isn't worried about blackouts viktor lives in the woods and has built his own power generator and even allows him to keep an internet blog that has made him an unwitting a weapons sensation artie's sarah firth went to meet him. 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. a

tribute upbringing caused him to flee his home on the other side of russia. he was arrested when you bring up 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 mood and build the 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 this way of life suits me better go then you're. an impressive craftsman it is 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'd come to track down his cabin themselves were you 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 nasty things about me. when little 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 heater house with a power supply and then return he'd help out with manual labor but he decided not to stay and i think he just had the urge to be back in the forest. conventional living just doesn't suit fix he's clearly extremely self-sufficient but he does rely on healthy and equipment supplies. 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. your lungs the trees and the snow you picked is found a way of life that he enjoys he any asked that now other people respect that. so if there are to ask a legion. america's most popular mountain resort of aspirin could soon be welcoming a high profile pair of skiis president dmitri medvedev has agreed to hit the slopes with now former california governor arnold schwarzenegger but you exchanged messages on the social networking site twitter and decided to fix a time to go skiing together dmitri medvedev who is known as a lover of the sport he's often been spotted on the p.c. with prime minister vladimir putin among his favorite ski spots is the site of the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics of course russia's black sea resort of sochi. or it will be in ten minutes time we meet

a russian artist whose work has caused a sensation on both sides of the atlantic but first it's the business with sure. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure on a key on a year since its launch the trilateral customs union proved a success according to all of its members though it also had some unexpected effects it stirred up the long lasting negotiations on russia's entry to the world trade organization after russia said it was seeking a session together with bellows and kazakhstan but as an italian reports there may still be some problems ahead. christabel a recent 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.

we are creating new 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 that gives the possibility to set up a new. member of customs in kazakhstan and what it is to the 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 prize we exports 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 belarus ratified the agreement on the single economic space russia agreed on a duty free oil delivery this will eventually benefit all the union members and provide the springboard for the next stage of integration not only a couple of our business r.t. . now let's take a look at the markets in russia the markets are closed to the tenth of january for the russian new year holiday break but let's take a quick walk etc here stocks trading today thirty has surged over two percent on its first day of trading it's led by b.p. which is up over five and a half percent its highest. since july on reports that shell is still interested in a merger and in frankfurt the dax is trading marginally in the black box and the trend is siemens down just under one percent despite news that it plans to invest three hundred million dollars in their factory in turkey over the next five years.

and the ruble has hit a two and a half month high last december and continues to grow analysts predict further strengthening of the currency as all prices remain high with market watchers confident in the global stock exchange medina cochon of all reports. the russian ruble strengthen two point eight percent against the us dollar and nine point four percent against the euro between january and twenty ten december has drug get more games rising oil prices and returning confidence in russia after the crisis are fueling the rally. for the ruble remains flat even though it's hard to make predictions i believe the ruble be strengthening twenty level and remain stable. the central bank of russia says it may relax controls on the ruble further next year as it aims to make the currency free floating. this is key in realize the the government's ambition to promote it as 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 those factors you know. chief economist from do each a bank thinks the ruble has chances to strengthen in two thousand and eleven do not foresee a complete. free float for the ball in the next several years i think given the dependency on oil prices given the volatility that we see in the markets the central bank is likely to be cautious although i have to say the flexibility of the ruble the volatility of rubles movements will certainly increase in the coming year but when it gets down to it the ruble is still have really depended on commodity prices to diversify the economy are slow in bearing fruit that so many analysts expect commodity price inflation in twenty eleven particularly as u.s. authorities print more dollars and that bodes well for the ruble minds in the

business r.t. . and one of the most significant merger and acquisition deals in russia in two thousand and ten was ritual giant x five purchasing the walmart target a supermarket chain copy eka effectively pushing the u.s. retailer out of russia mark rubenstein from metropole told r.t. how this will help boost demand for stocks in the retail sector in two thousand and eleven. x five just acquired the kopeikin retail chain which is a discount to retail chain and that gave x five much more clout x five as it is a very well established retailer while the market leaders and the segment it operates in is slightly above the economy segment when we coming out of the crisis and early in post crisis environment i think the mid-level retailers are going to do really well they're the next one in the line to show strong growth.