russian. rescue some five hundred people trapped in a prison off the country's. internet young soldier. pictures on social networking sites. say the money. is being wasted.

with news from russia and around the world this is all in moscow good to have you with us this russian icebreakers a hearting 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 second with some five hundred people on board. this report. 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 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 traps 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 a 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 and so 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. the reporting there passive 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 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 there's a lot of. it communication ours is there and we are preparing ourselves. for those threats but perhaps the i.d.f.

should look closer to home israeli army secrets on 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 ready could not been see bluebell received this trait 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 he's ready soldiers involved in the last gaza wall he's worried they're now floating around cyberspace they have him. in the side. i don't think that this is for facebook or from my space for 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 who updated her facebook profile with pictures of her soften uniform posing in front of blindfolded palestinians and them it's tell us to much short of i did nothing i have nothing to be sorry about. things been blown out of proportion when not only on the future as are the same people in handcuffs like in time these were the 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. 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 the 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 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 across today the challenge is that much bigger. is wrong. live from the russian capital this is with you twenty four hours a day 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 the real figure could be ten times higher. listen to this is a russian man who chooses to live wild in the forest braving the elements on his own. there story still to come but first over ten years 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 could not even reach its proper destination. has 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 physically 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 also doesn't include is the cash that simply goes missing into the abyss from never completed ghost construction projects to arms that end up in the wrong hands billions of dollars talked by the u.s. into afghanistan don't end up where 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 had 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 by the 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 and it's man. and she the recordkeeping 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. 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 but 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 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 what setting to countless experts who say that the u.s. afghan strategy has been flawed all 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. new york. while the u.s. sends cash abroad millions of home remain without health insurance. speculate how

the money ends up financing terrorists. they 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 yet what's amazing it doesn't like i said 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 at risk by not insuring health for the rest of the community and 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 the let me tell you what it 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 mind. because a report with all the latest financial scandal is coming our way in just twenty minutes from now here on. malaria could be

a much bigger problem than the world health organization carney says in india the death rate is thought to be massively underestimated many also blame the country's health care system for failing the real pool who are most at risk not as consing reports. in india's eastern state of bihar one more victim succumbs to malaria it's a treatable infection yet it still dicks more lives of india than. this family's loss is just another statistic in the country's battle against the disease. malaria disparate everywhere in your own religion no medical teams come to help us and hospitals are far away for people like a dog. at this hospital and many patients believe they have the better side to infection because without 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 they've got it to. a study has found that when the area killed small the the number of people

couldn't be estimated by the world health organization since may. anyone area deaths occurred at school many moving lydia's they don't get recorded so research as was did families and asked them to describe what had happened to the victims a method known as north topsy we estimated that 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 ages you get two hundred thousand deaths before age seventy in india it's a staggering number especially compared to was health organizations estimate of just fifteen houses and were fatalities it disputes the study saying see responsible mistake when it is commonly known symptoms it is true that you can confuse malaria deaths with other causes of fever and that's that is

a problem with the verbal autopsy method 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 think a method would work in one continent and not three thousand miles away in another most medical stuff in the indian hospitals agreed the number of malaria deaths is far more than the w.h.o. figure they had also seen the shoprite in the cases of drug resistant fallacies about a malaria man to his centers and the belief that he is not that much good to handle this offensive but in media because the treatment needs to be hones the delays to treatment and also the costly injections and the just sometimes not available and because of that and still don't want to do becomes tight as india faces this killer disease it's important for the government than the w.h.o.

of knowledge just scale the problem only then can they upgrade their disease control strategies and resources to. white. in all its faults thing. rapidly approaching a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital now to some other international stories this hour in. the governor of pakistan's punjab province has been shot dead in the country's capital islamabad summoned to see it was killed by his own bodyguard near 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 reports say that god was angry with the seers opposition to the country's blasphemy in three days of mourning have been declared. 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 are being closed in over two hundred thousand people i think to. iran has

confirmed it hasn't pointed foreign powers to towards nuclear sites ahead of talks over its atomic program and whether it's russia or china included in the offer it's not yet clear whether officials from the u.s. would be lost or international concerns over iran's nuclear ambitions which tehran insists a peaceful. sky watchers across the globe and been treated to the sight of a partial solar eclipse seen over algeria before spreading across the middle east and europe and egypt the pyramids were dropped from lucky tourists. between hot and two thirds of the sun's surface turning into a yellow red crescent. petersburg are among the city's treated to a spectacular. was staying here in russia tens of thousands of people across central parts of the country is 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 a noise storm brought down power cables extreme weather forced hundreds of villages to well. in darkness authorities managed to restore supply most areas of 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 even built his own power generator brought in internet fame although that wasn't what he was hoping for or he sarah first went to meeting. 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 go and give him the water that we bought for him. but. a troubled upbringing caused him to feel his fame on the other side of russia. she was just born your brain yet since the age of seven i felt i had to run away from hard line and bad luck so i came to moscow but i lost my documents from i couldn't work or travel anywhere else because i choose to live alone and build a shelter. inside the shelter is surprisingly crazy it's the simple life here and little safer have a bit of a lonely one. i'm not so sure i never drink and i don't like noisy policy this way of life suits me better than you. and impressive craftsman it is even built as a generator to our electrical equipment. i have good hands and i love to build and

create these things. vic so 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. the people who come there are sometimes rude and threatening that they go through my things and take photos of themselves then they. can write off nasty things about me. when people of the came across victims story she tried to help and. for example the house which here except it 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 and i think he just had been urged to be back and forth. conventional living just doesn't see he's clearly extremely self-sufficient but he does rely on

help 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. amongst the trees and sleep just found a way of life be enjoying. that now other people respect. so after. just a reminder websites just a click away to keep you up to date here's a taste of what's online right now in. georgia deployed several hundred policemen dispersed and twenty veterans on hunger strike and what they claim is neglect by the government. for the website of the moment rock n roll the u.s. army is under fire for choosing their soldiers music for them as commandos make troops attend christian concerts punish those who decide to tell those stories and

stories and features for your valuable knowledge. america's most popular mountain resort of aspen could soon be welcoming a high profile pair of skiers prison dimitri medvedev has agreed to hit the slopes with former california governor arnold schwarzenegger the two exchanged messages on the social networking site twitter and decided to fix a time to go skiing together to be to make that announcement as a lover of the sport has often been spotted on the pieced with prime minister vladimir putin among his favorite ski spots as the twenty four team returning to russia's black sea resort of sochi. i'll be back with a recap of our main stories in eight minutes from now on the meantime the business news is next with sharon. hello welcome to our business program i'm sure on a qian 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 safety a session together with bellerose 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 stooping into grids 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 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 has the possibility to set up a new. members of course to know. what if you think of it from the. investors the first year of the customs union has revealed some teething problems that arose imports russian oil and a preferential prize we export the most of it to europe at a high price in response russia introduced export duties and that almost brought the countries to an oil war only after valorous ratified the 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. that you gave x five much more clout far as it is a very well established retailer on the market leaders and this segment operates and is slightly above the economy segment when we come in out of the crisis and early imports crisis environment i think there are mid-level retailers are going to do really well there 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 and of them by twenty ten december has drugget more games rising oil prices and returning confidence in russia after the crisis fuelling 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 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 afterwards to diversify the economy and 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

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