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around the world this is. good to have you with us this russian icebreakers a hollering to save a fleet of vessels stranded off the country's east coast several ships have been locked in ice for days in the bay with some five hundred people on board. brings us the latest. 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 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 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 mr putin 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 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. 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. 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. you have a massive leaks of secret files have recently been shaking many governments and israel is no exception for the nation's army the problem appears to come from its own ranks with soldiers posting secrets on 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 wartime there is a lot of. it communication in our system and we are preparing ourselves. for those threats 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. is ready could not 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 the side. i don't think that this is for facebook or from my space or stuff 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 the generation of people who are serving in the military are young people they are the most high tech internet savvy

of all just like for me israeli soldier even our visual who updated her facebook profile with pictures of herself in uniform posing in front of blindfolded palestinians and 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 not only on the list thank you cheers of the same people in handcuffs why can't i see the israeli army was quick to condemn but the damage was done tens of thousands around the world saw the pictures before the i.d.f. could react as an officer and commander i am disgusted by such acts but as an i.d.f. spokes for. 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 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 when i was in the past it might have meant hiding documents. today the challenge is that much bigger. is wrong. here with r t we're with you live twenty four hours a day here in moscow still ahead for you this hour a much bigger problem some experts say the world health organization is underestimating 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. a story still to come over ten years america's war in afghanistan has swallowed billions of dollars critics say washington can't afford the funds abroad 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 did not even reach its proper destination. as more. money money money money money money money money money money money money coming up with money must be the easiest thing for the u.s. says washington is the seriously ok but they feel 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 by the u.s. into afghanistan don't end up where i intended there's a significant portion of christmas 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 you have 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 any time soon that 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 this man. and sheedy record keeping have been going on for quite a while. 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 drain takes real effort and persistence. moreover this is far from the only war that has 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 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 in the cold while we're bombing and murdering people and afghanistan the poorest country in the world this is also what setting experts will say that the u.s. afghan strategy flawed together 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 quick and responsible and exit from that country but until that happens the question of why the west can afford to waste so much money abroad when so many have nothing to hold may never be. and. new york. has vowed to stall bridging relations with kosovo off to the regions

breakaway two years ago. president told the tension in the balkans is still a problem. people are not thinking of the course. so is there not a problem anymore of course always existing on the problem not only between sort of single binion's motos when the original policy globally thinking because of carrying in the mind the real possible press of the can create many many turmoil sold around the world that is the reason that only sixty countries three companies closely independence until today we have more than one hundred ninety countries so that the member states of the united nations said they did this is also fate that we have to take into consideration. and the full interview with the serbian president is on there in about twenty minutes from now here on. 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 will say blame the country's health care system for failing the rural poor who most at risk but he's current singh has this report. in india as 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've seen this family's loss is just another statistic in the country's battle against the disease. that malaria has spread everywhere around religion no medical teams come to help us and hospitals are far away for people like us a dying at this hospital and many patients believe they have the parasite to infection down to kind of thinking i have a very high temperature and i think i have no larry 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 thirteen dimes the number of

people currently estimated by the world health organization since many malaria deaths occurred at home and you need lydia's they don't get recorded so research just visited families and asked them to describe what had happened to the victims a method known as the autopsy we estimated something like four percent of the deaths between one life and sixty nine years of age were due to malaria and if you multiply that percentage by the national number of deaths at those eight if you get two hundred thousand deaths before age seventy in india it's a staggering number especially compared to the world health organization's estimate of just fifteen houses and work for thousands if disputes the study saying the response to the good will stick muti is on the phone symptoms it is true that you can confuse malaria. it's with other causes of fever and that is a problem with that. however the w.h.o.

accepts the use of verbal autopsy and for estimating childhood deaths from malaria in africa so big puzzled why they would big a method would work in one function into knocked three thousand miles away in another most medical stuff and in good hospitals agreed to a number of deaths is far more than. they had also seen in the shop right in the cases of drug resistant about a malaria plan b. hill center said to be fifty is not that much to handle this offensive but i'm ready to go because the treatment needs to be hospitalized treatment and also there are costly injections and we just sometimes not to. because of that all of them want to do becomes tight as india faces this killer disease it's important for the government and the w.h.o. of knowledge the scale of the problem only then can they upgrade their disease

control strategies and resources to fight malaria in all its forms thing. when autism other international stories and this 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 unexplained ahead of an expected peak can be later this week roads and airports are being closed and over two hundred thousand people affected. the governor of punjab province has been shown dead in the country's capital islamabad song at the scene was killed by his own body guard near a market as he was getting out of a car the governor was a senior member of the ruling pakistan people's party it was close to president. ford say that god was angry with to see his opposition to the country's blasphemy laws three days of mourning have been to cuba. you're wrong on the countries confirmed that his head has invited foreign powers to torch nuclear sites ahead of

talks over its atomic program from russia china and the e.u. included in the offer but it's not yet clear whether officials from the u.s. are being asked for international concerns over iran's nuclear ambitions which to run insists that peaceful. sky watchers across the globe are being treated to the sight of a partial solar eclipse it was first seen over geria before spreading across the middle east and europe and egypt the pyramids were backdrop lucky tourists. 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. almost forty thousand people across central russia are still without electricity after new year blackouts and emergency situation was declared on sunday in the moscow region the massive cartels 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 darkness authorities minister restore supply most areas but fresh known 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 is even built his own power generator it brought him internet fame although that wasn't what he was hoping for first went to meet him. we've come to a freezing forest in the musk a village and it can be a treacherous place. but one man has taken on the elements we've tracked down victor his secret shelter here has made him an internet sensation will be walking about fifteen minutes from the main road through the forest we can see where victor staying just up ahead in the clearing so we're going to go and give him the water that we bought for him. that's. a true

good upbringing caused him to feel his fame on the other side of russia. she knew he was just born you bring out since the age of seven i felt i had to run away from hardline and bad luck so i came to moscow but i lost my documents i couldn't work or travel anywhere else because of this i choose to live in and build a shelter. inside the shelter is surprisingly k.z. it's a simple life here and all safe perhaps a bit of a lonely one. i'm more social than i never growing and i don't like noisy policy this way of life suits me better and you go than you're. an impressive craftsman it is even built as a generator how electrical equipment. i have good hands and i love to build and create these things. so went viral after pictures of his handiwork

were posted online since then he's had trouble from people that come to track down his cabin themselves. the people who call them sometimes rude and threatening that they go through my things don't take the photos of themselves on them they post a link to their thoughts and write with nasty things about me. when you pull of the canal came across victims story she tried to help and. the house which has absolute first was a warm gas heater of house with a power supply and then returned he did help out with manual labor but he decided not to stay because i think he just had urged to be back again before the. conventional living just doesn't see he's clearly extremely self-sufficient but he does rely on help the feed and equipment supplies and you 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. and sleep pictures found a way of life that he enjoyed. that now other people respect that. so after. a legion. just remind your website it's just a click away to keep you up to date here's a taste of what's online right now dot com georgia sent over one hundred policemen to this person twenty veterans on hunger strike. ms neglects. rock n roll the u.s. army is on the fast but using their soldiers music for them is going on to make troops attend christian concerts and punish those who decide to tell. or not available and plenty more on website america's most popular mountain resort of aspen could soon be welcoming a high profile pair of school is present dimitri medvedev has agreed to hit the

slopes with no former california governor arnold schwarzenegger the two exchanged messages on the social networking site twitter and decided to fix a time to go skiing to get me to move it is known as a lover of small things and been spotted on the priest with prime minister vladimir putin. says these sorts of the forthcoming twenty fourteen winter olympics russia's black sea resort of sochi. well that brings up today for the moment i'll be back with a recap of our main news stories in a few minutes from now in the meantime sharon is next with the business news. 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 not 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 new 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 the possibility to set up

a new. members of course to know. what it is through the interest from. 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 the political over 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 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. far just acquired the compared to retail chain which is just calm to retail chain and that gave x five much more clout it's far as there is a very well established retailer on the market leaders and this segment operates and is slightly above the economy segment when we're coming out of the crisis and early in post prices 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 global has had a two and a half month high last december and it 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 coach reports. the russian ruble strength in two point eight percent against the

us dollar and nine point four percent against the euro between january end of them by twenty ten december drugget more games rising oil prices and returning confidence in russia after the crisis fueling the rally. 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 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 this practice you know. the 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 that the flexibility of the will ball the volatility of horribles 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 afterwards to diversify the economy and slow in bearing fruit that sound many analysts expect commodity price inflation in twenty eleven particularly as u.s. authorities print more dollars and that bloats 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 watch stories on our web site that's archie dot com slash business stay with us.