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russian icebreakers have begun a rescue operation for the first of a fleet of ships trapped by ice off the country's far east coast some five hundred people are believed to be stranded in the second in bay with weather conditions worsening. crossing the line in cyberspace the israeli army is trying to control its military leaks as an internet wise generation of soldiers post secret contacts and pictures on social networks. as washington spends hundreds of billions of dollars abroad to maintain its war in afghanistan experts say much of that money would be better spent on.

the news from russia and around the world this is r.t. here in moscow good to have you with us the. one of the fleet of vessels stranded off russia for east coasters that last being towed to safety but the remaining ships will have to wait for a few more hours the vessels have been locked in ice for days in the bay of succulent with some five hundred people on board. has this report. three vessels were stuck in the ice on thursday and after that the right of the country's transport ministry has warned the sailors about the weather conditions india 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 trap vessels and the ice breakers that are 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. 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 helicopters of the russia's emergency ministry are on standby to evacuate the people from the vessels if that is needed the telling over the reporting there massive leaks of secret files of 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 war time their phrasing of. it communication 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 bin c. gruber 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 now floating around cyberspace they have in the. in this moment although. i don't think that this is for facebook or from my pov of this i think this is insane a form of them but it's not just deliberately 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 i'm 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 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 and commander i am disgusted by such acts but as a. i.d.f. spokesperson i can assure you that this in no way shape or form reflects the spirit of the idea our ethical code to which we all aspire these soldiers spend their army service keeping track of what's happening online but keeping

a lid on their own colleagues is proving to be a cyber battle too far people are expected to. behave with common sense and they're also not supposed to use their facebook to show themselves there are technically are not even supposed to have pictures of yourself up for especially not on the basis 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. this is in moscow still ahead for you this hour a much bigger problem say the world health organization is underestimating the death rate from malaria in india and the real think it could be ten times higher. and. we visit a russian man who chooses to live while in the forest braving the elements these are. the stories still to come the first ten years america's war in afghanistan has

billions of dollars critics say washington can't afford the funds abroad when they very much needed that 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. has more 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. says washington is the furiously ok but it feels flushed down the drain of. one big dream 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 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 quite the u.s. into afghanistan don't end up where intended there's

a significant portion of this 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 millions of dollars in cash which is of course not not that i don't. 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 but it

looks likely to last for at least three to four more years where billions more of taxpayer dollars and up nothing 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 shady record keeping 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. with 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 the money that's put

into the pentagon in this country can become part of a so-called black budget that we never really get to see much about there is no one more upset about the situation than those americans that are flat out broke and jobless one out of millions of people to ask is larry heels who has been unemployed for over a year and a half it's infuriating because we're the ones are always left out in the cold while we're bombing and murdering people and afghanistan a poorest country in the world this is also what setting to countless experts who say that the u.s. afghan strategy. as a bit flawed all together what we need is not a surge of money of troops we need a surge of diplomacy in the region because to begin with i think it's a misguided war i think we need a quick and responsible and exit from that country but until that happens the question of why the u.s. can afford to waste so much money abroad when so many have nothing but a whole may never be answered and. new york. while the u.s.

sends cash abroad millions at home remain without health insurance next cars or and speculate how the money ends up financing terrorists well that's coming up in about twenty minutes from now here on r.t. . if you bought fifty five billion dollars spent allegedly odd balance sheet by the way so you know it 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 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 a lot of do you want to be used 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 mouth.

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 root pool who are most at risk and seeing reports. in india's eastern state of bihar one more victim succumbs to malaria it's a treatable infection yet it's dudek small knives in india. this family's loss is just another statistic in the country's battle against the disease. means. that malaria has spread everywhere near our village no medical teams come to help us and hospitals are far away poor people like us a dying at this hospital and but many patients believe they have the parasite to infection down kind of 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 toad deemed the number of people caught in d.s. to me to buy the world health organization since many malaria deaths occurred at home and he moved lydia's they don't get recorded so researchers with did 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 flown symptoms it is true that you can confuse malaria deaths with other causes of fever and that

is a problem with the burble out. however the w.h.o. accepts the use of verbal autopsy and for estimating childhood deaths from malaria in africa so bit puzzled why they would think a method would work in one continent and not three thousand miles away in another most medical stuff and indeed hospitals agree the number of malaria deaths is far more than the w.h.o. figure. they had also seen the sharp raids in the cases of drug resistant. plan b. hill center said the baby food is not that much to handle this. because the treatment needs to be. treatment and also there are costly injections and we just sometimes. because of that all of them want to do becomes hate as india faces

this killer disease it's important for the government and the double. 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 but in seeing. when out of some other international stories this hour in our world update the stands punjab province has been shot dead in the country's capital islamabad someone to see 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 asif ali zardari reports say that god was angry with the sea as opposition to the country's blasphemy and three days of mourning would be different. to australia now the military there 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 daily later this week roads and airports are being closed in over two hundred thousand people affected. iran

has confirmed its invited foreign powers to tour its nuclear sites ahead of talks over its atomic program envoys from russia china and the e.u. are included in the offer but it's not yet clear whether officials from the u.s. are being asked international concerns over iran's nuclear ambitions which tehran insists a peaceful. and it was a t. in the moscow region is said to be fully restored within twenty four hours as emergency teams are said to have made big progress following the new year blackouts at the moment just under fifteen thousand the left without energy supplies which is less than half the amount compared to the day before the outages began before the new year after rare freezing rain brought down power lines disrupting supplies in entire districts on sunday the authorities declared an emergency in the region i see by the force hundreds of villages to welcome in two thousand and eleven in darkness due to the power chaos moscow's busiest airport also suffered serious disruption last week with travelers left stranded. well

the electricity cost may be causing stress for many in the moscow region but one russian isn't worried about blackouts victor lives in the woods and as you can build his own power generator it's brought him internet fame although that wasn't what he was hoping for the sort of first went to meet him. we've come to a freezing forest in the mosque a village and it can be a treacherous play. but one man has taken on the elements we've tracked down victor he 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 home on the other side of russia. she knew he was

just born your brain yet since the age of seven i felt i had to run away from hardline women 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 when you put on this way of life suits me better than your will and. an impressive craftsman it is even built as a 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 who've 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 on them they post them only internet and write with lawsuit things about me. when you pull of the king i came across victim's story she tried to help him and. her executor a house which here except at first nobody 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 this day because i think he just had been 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 feed and equipment supplies out there 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. the amongst the trees and the snow you picked

is found a way of life that he enjoys. the ne else that now other people respect that. surface. region. a web site just a click away to keep you up to date here's a taste of what's online right now at our dot com georgia more than one hundred police dispersant twenty veterans on hunger strike at what they claim is neglect by the government. and. the u.s. army is on the soldiers music for them as commanders make troops attend christian concerts and punish those who decide to opt out. america's most popular resort of aspen could soon be welcoming a high profile pair of skiers person to be preventive as 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

a time to go skiing together with him a video is known as a lover of the sport he's often been spotted on the pieced with prime minister vladimir putin among his favorite ski spots is the site of the twenty fourteen winter olympics russia's black sea results of such. but up to date for the moment i'll be back over the look at our headlines shortly first though a bid for e.u. membership in bridging relations with closer among top priorities for twenty eleven . of the country's president to him more about belgrade's road toward europe and the challenges the nation faces that interview on its way next.

what is that they teach serbian president thank you very much for being with us today thanks a lot mr president it's been two years since kosovo's independence was recognized and back then there was a lot of talk about the don't know a fact about the threat of destabilisation in the region and that none of that happened why do you think was it right to make such a fuss in the first place in the beginning of the domino effect is still existing as a threat for everybody not only in the region of southeast europe but those so everywhere and from the reason i have a real concerns both to take into consideration of how we react to the united auto

declaration of independence i think that we are trying to prevent problems. i mean should be a consistent policy that means we are totally against partition of all contradict the member states of united nations that means against partition of the countries that the existing in the region in that respect your fully supporting for example integrity integrity of other countries. and in that respect we are contributing to disability even though we are very much affected because if you look through the caribbean of independence just recently kosovo as prime minister suggested starting relations from scratch ways. is that possible i mean what would it take for serbia to actually i think dialogue i think the dialogue is a very important that look can bring some solution i mean we have a confrontation between serbs and albanians not between should be and costs because we don't trick when i score so in the us we have a confrontation between serbs and albanians for almost. fifty

years and then the end of the day we have to solve that kind of conflict. blocking not only sort of serbs and albanians but also whole region in terms of progress and development. look we can achieve some sort of you shine that can be acceptable for great so the prettiest foreign minister with a mistake sat that surveys actually putting in chances of joining the e.u. under threat by refusing to cooperate with kosovo and you're facing a really tough choice what's your priority kosovo are the membership i'm not making that kind of difference is. participating on elections the last time and the first time when i was elected for president of serbia having a mind to mean so digitals to become a member state the future premium to be found to be totally into consideration to my country i'm going to continue my efforts in that direction you have to know that

serbia is a very much affected because if economical crisis and in that respect the old serbian people and the citizens of thinking that economic crises. unemployment and the kind of problems the talk before are joined and this is a totally true strong economy and the real development you cannot defend your state and the national interests and that is why we are trying to solve the problems like all other countries all around the world but people are not thinking that costs always are not the problem anymore costs always existing on the problem not only between sort of snow binion's but those are in regional policy globally thinking because of having in the mind the real possible press of the can create many many turmoil sold around the world but you're absolutely right the international court of justice in the hague recognized the legitimacy of course of this independence and this is a first president now that what do you think are the consequences for some other

european countries in decision of international court of justice has been legitimizing you know that through a declaration of independence not independence of course. being in the mind the group of the. the people that the car or the unilaterally independence didn't have a right to do that they came to the consideration all legal framework which was adopted on course so before and there is very controversial decision but we are not going to interfere in decision so for international court of justice we accept that and we are going to continue all efforts in a direction to defend territorial integrity and sovereignty over serbia but that cannot be really achieved the. without dialogue between serbs and albanians between both great and we have to have some kind of compromise on the end of the day solution is not one sided to me is kosovo i mean

is it getting everything and the other serbia and serbian people losing everything i'm totally sure that we have to have a some compromise where you have always stronger promoted the pro-american mention of your government and then when the cost of the issue emerged on it came down to it turned out that russia was your only ally to ally how did that happen and i'm pro serbian. president this government is going to be old if i'm going to be leader of this country i'm sure that i'm going to continue my work serbian government we want to have the best possible relations we deny the states even though we are facing with real challenges for especially because of course we do not want to become member states or for united states we want to become a member state of european union we are leaving a europe and we are going to continue our efforts in that direction but no one can make a very strange or not official condition symptom so frequent as in kosovo so this is a quote from your interview that balkan.