we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've. covered. a facebook war the israeli army seeks to cap been turned over leaks as young tech savvy soldiers flood the social media with classified contacts and damaging pictures. to the russian icebreakers are racing to rescue some five hundred people trapped off the country's a far east coast. and entire fleet is waiting to be released from the icy prison for the details joining me that later in the program. and the money down the drain us pouring billions of dollars into the

afghan war but experts say there's no telling where the cash really ends up. global news live from moscow this is a 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 come from its own ranks with soldiers posting secret song social networks. looks at the israeli defense forces struggle to keep its 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 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 simultaneously israeli colonel been see group 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 experience of liberals 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 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 i mean it's i did nothing wrong 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 and commander i'm disgusted by such acts but as an i.d.f. spokesperson i can assure you that this act 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 show 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 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 in the bay of sutter lean with some five hundred people on board and brings us the latest. the ice breakers are heading towards the vessels there is stuck in the ice meanwhile prime minister vladimir putin is monitoring the situation is promised to help the sailors he's spoken to the country's transport minister who reported on the situation prime minister putin all this so over the

phone has spoken to both captains over the trap vessels and ice breakers that are heading to release them now three vessels were stuck in the ice on thursday and after that 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 to 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 just to give you an idea how difficult weather conditions in the area are at the movements of the ice is about two meters thick and initially a smaller icebreaker of thirteen thousand horsepower was to release it 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. 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 over 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 the worst scenario for how the copters of the russia's emergency ministry are on standby to evacuate the people from the vessels if that is needed. that was our reporting where you are with r.t. still ahead for you this hour a much bigger problem some say that the world health organization is under estimating the death rate from malaria in india claiming the real figure could be ten times higher. than. what we visit

a russian man who chooses to live wild in the forest braving the elements all alone . what over ten years now america's war in afghanistan has swallowed billions of dollars critics say washington can't afford the funds of broadway and 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 never reaches the proper destination. reports on this. 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 it getting 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 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 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 media 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 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 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 mismanagement and sheedy recordkeeping 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 that 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 who are always left out in the cold while we're bombing and murdering people in afghanistan the poorest country in the world. all of 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 a hole may never be answered and especially if you're going to new york. while the u.s. sends buckets of cash abroad millions of home remain without health insurance later states you hope would speculate how the money ends up financing terrorists they've lost fifty five billion dollars spent allegedly on balance sheet by the way so you know if fifty five billion spent and lost in afghanistan to rebuild the country any protest about that you know what's amazing it doesn't make any sense because of course you don't give your neighbor health care so there's no way you can say let's say a virus you're putting your own health a risk by not insuring health for the rest of the communities meanwhile the money is going to mercenaries in afghanistan who are breeding terrorists and training

terrorists to attack americans on airplanes so you know so you're you're using a lot of do you want to do is to protect yourself with the help that you give and it's a terrorist attack you in the air you are free to get out of your mouth. and you can watch because a report in just over an hour's time right here on alt. well new research shows 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 charan singh reports. in 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. 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 in what many patients believe they have the parasite infection. 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. the number of people caught in the estimated by the world health organization since many malaria deaths occurred at home and in rural areas they don't get recorded so researchers visited families and asked them to describe what had happened to the victims 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 it disputes the studies saying the responders could mistake muti is commonly shown symptoms it is too. you can confused with other causes of fever and that is a problem with the verbal autopsy however. the use of verbal o. talk c and for estimating childhood deaths from malaria in africa so bit puzzled why they would think a man could work in one continent and not three thousand miles away in another most medical staff in india hospitals agree 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 better malaria plan b.

hill centers and the belief that he is not of that much to handle this. because the treatment needs to be hones the delays to treatment and also there are costly injections and we just sometimes not deal with it because of that old school and want to do becomes hate as india faces this killer disease it's important for the government and the w. we are true to our 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 while r.t. is coming here live from moscow where it's now just after quarter past the hour let's get to some other international stories making headlines. the governor of pakistan punjab province has been shot dead in the country's capital islamabad police say it. 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

zardari several other people were wounded during the attack the suspected assailant has been taken into custody. iran has confirmed it has invited foreign powers to tour its nuclear sites ahead of talks over its atomic program and boys from russia china and the e.u. are. 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. and australia's 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. by watchers across the globe have been treated to the sight of a partial solar eclipse it was first seen over algeria before spreading across the

middle east and europe in egypt the pyramids were a backdrop for lucky tourists there the moon's shadow hid between a half and two thirds of the sun's surface turning it into a yellow or red crescent moscow and st petersburg were among the city's treated to a spectacular view. almost forty thousand people across central russia are still without electricity after new year's 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 now the extreme weather forced hundreds of villages to welcome in two thousand and eleven in total darkness of origin has managed to restore supply in most areas but fresh snow and gales are still causing problems. while the electricity cuts may be causing stress for many in the moscow region but one russian isn't worried about the blackouts lives in the woods and has

even built his own power generator it brought him internet fame although that wasn't what he was hoping for sarah first went to meet him. we've come to a freezing forest in the muskie 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 that we bought for him that is. a true good upbringing caused him to flee his home on the other side of russia. community was arrested by new bern 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 go on. an impressive classman it is even built his own generator to power electrical equipment i have good hands and i love to build and create these things. 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 morgan 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 came across victor's story she tried to help him. we offered free a house which here accepted at first it was a warm gas you do 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 been urged to be back in the forests. of 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 feel happy here i'm a lone wolf if you like the. monks the trees in the snow you found a way of life. that now other people respect and. so

after. all our websites just a click away to keep you up to date on all of our stories and here's a taste of what's online for you right now at our dot com georgia fans over one hundred policemen dispersed some twenty veterans on hunger strike what they claim is neglect by the government. shall not rock n roll the u.s. army is under fire for choosing their soldiers music for them as commanders make troops attend christian concerts and punish those who decide not to attend. america's most popular mountain resort of aspen could soon be welcoming a high profile pair of skiers president dmitri medvedev has agreed to hit the slopes with now former california governor arnold schwarzenegger at the two exchanged messages on the social networking site twitter decided to fix the time to go skiing together to retrieve their known lover of sport has often been spotted on

the p.c. with prime minister vladimir putin among here's a favorite ski sports is the site of the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics of course russia has seen resort of such. and i wash around us now here with the business news. i. will welcome to our business program i'm sure only. 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 to long lasting negotiations on russia's entry to the world trade organization after russia said it was seek the ascension together with belarus and kazakhstan but as an italian law about reports there may still be some problems ahead. russia belarus and kazakstan 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 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 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. members of caste a new group in kazakhstan and what it is through the internet 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 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 the union members and provide the springboard for the next stage of integration not only a couple of our business r.t. . and one of the most significant merger and acquisition deals in russia in two thousand and ten was retail giant x five purchasing the walmart target supermarket chain called break up effectively pushing the u.s. retailer out of russia mark rubenstein for metropol told r.t. how this will help to boost demand for stocks in the retail sector in two thousand and eleven. just acquired the. retail chain which is just.

that. much more clout it's far as it is a very well established retailer one of the market leaders and this segment operates slightly above the economy segment when we come in all of the crisis and early employees crisis environment i think there are mid-level retailers are going to do really well there the next one in the law and to show strong growth. 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 let's take a quick look at some european stocks trading today the footsie has surged over two and a quarter percent on this first day of trading that's led by b.p. which is up over six and three quarter percent its highest gain since july on reports that shell is still interested in a merger and in frankfurt the dax is trading marginally in the black bucking the trend is siemens down one and a quarter percent despite news that it plans to invest three hundred million dollars in their factory in turkey over the next five years. meanwhile u.s. stocks have swung between gains and losses as

a drop in the consumer staples companies and utilities tempered a rally in technology and energy companies meanwhile investors expect reports that they will show whether the economic recovery is picking up its pace carmakers including general motors ford and toyota will report year end sales figures later in the day the commerce department is also to issue its report on the november factory orders. 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 confidence in the global stock exchanges but reports. two point eight percent against the u.s. don't know and nine point four percent against the euro between january and of them go to a need ten drug. 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. the central bank of russia says it may relax controls on the ruble further next year i said 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 sex given all this practice to get us life use of the chief economist from deutsche bank thinks the ruble has chances to strengthen into an eleven four c. a complete. free float for the full 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.