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russian icebreakers dog racing to rescue five hundred people trapped in an icy the country's a far east coast. a facebook wall the israeli army seeks to cap in a tunnel the young tech savvy soldiers the social media with classified contacts and damaging pictures. and money down the drain the u.s. is pouring billions of dollars into the afghan war but experts say there's no telling when the.

worldwide news around the clock you with r.t. the russian icebreakers are hiring to save a fleet of vessels stranded off the country's far east coast several ships have been a locked in ice for days in the bay of with some five hundred people on board. can bring us up to date. 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 things released 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 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 from it is to put an also over the phone has spoken to both captains over the trapped vessels and the ice breakers that a heading to release them just to give you an idea how difficult the weather conditions in the area are at the moment ice is about two meters thick and initially a smaller icebreaker of thirteen thousand horsepower was to release 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. 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 the worst scenario for how it copters of the russia's emergency ministry are on standby to evacuate the people from the vessels if that is needed. artesian entirely in the work of reporting now 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 secrets on social networks artie's looks at the israeli defense forces struggle to keep 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 their phrasing. it will be an occasion in the hours is that

we are preparing ourselves. for those threads but perhaps the i.d.f. should look closer to home israeli army secrets are beaming around the world some deliberate some unwittingly and they're coming from the inside now with just one click anything and everything that a few years ago knowledge has been off limits is available to millions of people some of the israeli colonel 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 not 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 like 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 former 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 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. 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 in commander i'm disgusted by such acts but as an. 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 they're running around it was supposed to have pictures of yourself up in uniform especially not on the base secrecy has always been a top priority for military forces but when i was in the past it might have meant hiding documents or photographs today the challenge is that much bigger. r t israel. you all with you it's good of you to join us today and still ahead for you this hour a much bigger problem some experts say the world health organization is under estimating the death rate from malaria in india claiming the real figure could be as much as ten times higher. and later we visit a russian man who chooses to live a wild in the forest braving the elements. well over ten

years now america's war in afghanistan has swallowed billions of dollars critics say washington can't afford the funds abroad when they're very much needed at home but it seems the problem is even deeper with reports that much of the money spent on the afghan campaign doesn't even reach its proper destination. i 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 again 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 have made cars are 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 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 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 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 hales 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 all. so 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 as 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. new york and while the u.s. sends more cash abroad millions of homes remain without health insurance. and the 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 to contain let's say a virus you're putting your own health the 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 and you giving it to terrorist attack you in the air you are free to get out of your money.

in the name. of the cause a report with the latest financial scandal that's coming your way in about twenty minutes time right here on r.t. well 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 the most at risk to use 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 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 many patients believe they have the parasite to

infection. and i'm 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 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 was due to 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 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 then more fatalities it disputes the studies saying verbal autopsy responders could mistake when it is commonly found symptoms it is true that you can confused with other causes of fever and that is a. problem with the verbal autopsy however. except the use of talk c and for estimating childhood deaths from malaria. so bit puzzled why they were big america could work in one continent and not true goes miles away in another most medical staff in the 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. tb he'll be free 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 harvey. just now tony quarter past the hour here in moscow you are with us here now to some other international stories making headlines this hour and the government pakistani province has been shot dead in the country's capital islamabad police say solomon was killed by its 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 and the suspected

assailant was taken into custody. iran has confirmed it has invited foreign powers to nuclear sites ahead of talks over its atomic program and boys 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 wish to iran insists are peaceful. radio'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. 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 at the four story structure in the city of runaway firefighters are at the scene battling the massive

blaze and it's not yet known what caused the fire in the first place. 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 that massive cut outs began before the new year after an ice storm brought down power cables extreme weather forced hundreds of villages 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 too worried about blackouts victor 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 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 to stop the heads in the clearing so we're going to going if in the water that we bought for him. a true good upbringing caused him to flee his home on the other side of russia. he was arrested by new bern yet since the age of seven i felt i had to run away from hard lives 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 this way of life suits me better than your born. and 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'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 you pull of the 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 of house with a power supply and then return he did help out with manual labor but he decided not to stay i think he just had been urged 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 and you know 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. here amongst the trees and the snow you pick has found a way of life that he enjoys he any asked that now other people respect. so if there are to a legion. while our website is just a click away to keep you up to date here's a taste of what waiting for you online right now. georgia sends over one hundred

policeman to disperse some twenty. veterans on the hunger strike and what they claim is neglect by the government. not rock n roll the u.s. army is under fire but using their soldiers music for them to come out is make troops attend 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 skiis president the retreatment vega has agreed to hit the slopes with now former california governor arnold schwarzenegger the two exchanged messages on the social networking site twitter and decided to fix the time to go skiing together to retrain india that is known as a love of the sport he's often been spotted on the piece with prime minister vladimir putin among his favorite ski spots the site of the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics of course that's russia's black sea resort of sochi. and

time now for the business news with sure. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure in. a year since its last a trilateral customs union proved a success according to all of its members though it also had some unexpected effects let's start out the long lasting negotiations on russia's entry to the world trade organization after russia said it was safety a session together with ballerinas in kazakhstan but as natalia hospital the 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. we are creating the terms for fair competition for all the member countries to help

the producers be competitive on the external markets the single 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 process. for the brambles of customs in kazakhstan and what it is through the interest from the. investors but 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 higher 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

singular comic 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 ritual giant x five purchasing the walmart target supermarket chain called pick 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 the stocks in the retail sector in two thousand and eleven x. farms just acquired the compared retail chain which is just to retail chain and that gave x five much more clout its far as it is a very well established retailer while the market leaders and this segment operates and is slightly above the economy segment when we come out of the crisis and early imports crisis environment i think there are mid-level retailers are going to do

really well they're the next one in the line to show strong growth. 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 exchanges but in a cochon 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 event the twenty ten december has drugget more games rising oil prices and returning confidence in russia after the crisis fuelling the rally to the forecast for the rupee 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 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 those factors you know. chief economist from deutsche bank thinks the ruble has chances to strengthen into an 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 years 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 my dinner which no business r.t. . and that's all the business update for this hour but you can always find more stories on our website that's our two dot com slash business stay with us.