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last night's break is have we got a rescue operation for the past a plate of ships trapped by isotopic country's far east coast some five hundred people are believed to be stranded in this struggling day with weather conditions worsening. crossing the line in cyberspace the israeli army is trying to control its military leaks i think that was generation of soldiers supposed secret contacts and pictures on social networks. as washington suns hundreds of billions of dollars of brought to maintain its would afghanistan experts say much of that money would be better spent at home.

from russia under around the world this is an see with me you dash above our thanks for joining it's one of the fleet of vessels stranded over russia's far east coast is a clause being towed to safety but the remaining ships will have to wait for a few more hours the vessels have been looks in ice for days in the bay of suddenly with some five hundred people on board and that's how they know they call in a report. 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 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 prime minister putin also over the phone has spoken to both captains over the trapped vessels and the ice breakers that are 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 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 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 helicopters of the russia's emergency ministry are on standby to evacuate the people from the vessels if that is needed. you know with our c.e.o.'s and i had figured this out i misjudged threat well look at reports the world over that i think most amazing the number of people killed by the roaring with claims the real figure more current us. all to the wild with visit a russian modeling joys a self-sufficient life in the forest braving the elements on. any secrets have been recently shopping the news around the world and its row has come a cause the so her take some of it's all the files being made available to millions

but this time the exposures came from soldiers posting secrets and networks like facebook reports. 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 are stories in the local. in the community in the hours is that we are preparing ourselves. for those threads but perhaps not 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 taney asli 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 wall he's worried they're now floating around

cyberspace they have in the in the list and in the side more than two of them and i don't think that this is from facebook or from my space or stuff like this i think this is inside information but it's not just deliberately the connected generation finds it hard not to cross the line and that's a major military headache we're a high tech internet service society. and of course the generation of people who are serving in the military or young people they are the most high tech internet service of all just like for me israeli soldiers even our visual who updated her facebook profile with pictures of herself in uniform posing in front of blindfolded palestinians and 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 you journalists take pictures of the same people in handcuffs why can't i see 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 an i.d.f. spokesperson i can assure you that this in no way shape or form reflects the spirit of the i.d.f. our ethical code to which we all aspire these soldiers spend their army service keeping track of what's happening online but keeping a lid on their own colleagues is proving to be a cyber battle too far people are expected to. behave with common sense and they're also not supposed to use their facebook to you know show themselves 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 whereas in the past it might have meant hiding documents or photographs today the challenge is that much bigger policy r.t. is wrong. with the u.s. government talking about trying journalists spoil our nine hundred seventeen many

we can make supporters are worried about what it could mean for the future of american democracy also spoke to one of them robert miracle whose parents were both executed under the espionage act in the nine hundred fifty. if you want to go back to a case that occurred about twenty or thirty years ago or perhaps a little further than that the daniel ellsberg case the pentagon papers the new york times published papers in some ways wiki leaks is basically in the same position this is fine but nobody's talking about prosecuting the new york fine. they're. there so we have on possible at this point but i think that if we go down the first we attacked. we also involved before army privates being involved solitary confinement we provided some of this is a serial. we don't know where it's going to end up next. will be if you believe

this is the soundings you also have to put in the sunset the broadly the piece of american general all the government has to do is say it's secret and then if you produce the secrets even if it's the truth. that's one of the maison things about this guy's guilty of the sons threatened with prosecution for publishing the truth the idea that obviously the truth is illegal is antithetical to a democratic government tyrannies there's. a mocker sea floor issues on that are open. every year americans who are in afghanistan hold those hundreds of billions of dollars critics say washington can't afford to continue dumping money abroad when it's a bombing needed that higher but it seems the problem runs even deeper with our poll and much of the money spent on the afghan campaign never even met that that the teacher can have all. 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 a few weeks ok but it feels flushed down the drain. 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 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 talked quite 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 i mean the relatives of karzai traveling with unspeakable billion millions of dollars in cash which is of course not not that i know any details but not the stuff that makes people not wonder about corruption the wall street journal the other day had a piece they figured out about ten million dollars a day was simply leaving from kabul airport 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 anytime 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 to cash fraud and it's man. and she the recordkeeping have been

going on for quite a while to see the east. the u.s. has already been fighting in afghanistan longer than it was involved in the second world war accidentally losing a few bucks 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 who 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 see that the u.s. afghan strategy has been flawed all together what we need is not a surge of money of troops we need a surge of diplomacy in the region because to begin with i think it's a misguided war i think we need a quick and responsible and exit from that country but until that happens the question of why the u.s. can afford to waste so much money abroad when so many have nothing but hold may never be answered and. new york. don't forget there is plenty more waiting for you on line that's how a website called you can even become just upload. so let's have a look at some of what's currently online georgia deployed. to dispel some. to veterans on hunger strike that's what they claim is made not by the government.

not. picking the music you like the freedom your soldiers no longer enjoy it's commanders force troops to turn christian concepts and if you opt out you'll be cleaning the barracks all the details at. the lariat could be a much bigger problem than the world health organization currently says any of the das writers thought they must have underestimated then he also blamed the country's health care system for failing the rebel poor most of triscuit also his current reports. in india's eastern state of bihar one more victim succumbs to malaria it's a treatable infection yet it's doing dick small lives in india than ha ve 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 are dying at this hospital and many

patients believe they have the parasite to confection. and then for so thinking i have a very high temperature and i think i have no leiria 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 knew the areas they don't get recorded so researchers with good families and asked them to describe what had happened to the victims. 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. 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 and more fatalities it disputes the study saying verbal autopsy responders could mistake muti is commonly found symptoms it is true that you can confuse malaria deaths with other causes of fever and that is a problem with the verbal autopsy 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 knocked three thousand miles away in another most medical staff and indeed hospitals agreed the number of malaria deaths is far more than the w.h.o. figure they had also seen a sharp rise in the cases of drug resistant better malaria brandy hill centers and the belief that it is not that much to handle this offensive but i'm ready to go

because the treatment needs to be hones the delays to treatment and also there are costly injections and we just sometimes not available and because of that and still don't want to do becomes high as india faces this killer disease it's important for the government down the w way to the 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 got and seeing r.d. new delhi. let's not talk let's look at some more headlines from around the world has made the change to food supplies to queensland as massive floods continue to cause chaos in north east of the country and flooding in the region has killed at least ten people since november hundreds of homes are being about playing to the head of an expected peak until later this week arrives and apples have been closed and over two hundred thousand people affected. an area larger than from us and germany combined. the governor of pakistan's been drug problems has been shot dead

in the country's capital islamabad and in what seems to be another islamist radical are tied salmond to c.e.o. was assassinated by his own bodyguard the governor was a senior member of the ruling pakistan people's party under strong opponent of the country's blasphemy nor which can carry a death sentence for those attending on three days of mourning have been declared. electricity in the moscow region is said to be fully restored within twenty four hours as emergency teams are said to have made a big growth progress following the year blackouts at the moment just under fifteen thousand are left without energy supplies which was then hauled the amount compared to the day before the outages began before the new year after around freezing rain brought down power lines disrupting supplies in entire districts on sunday the authorities declared an emergency in the moscow region the icy weather forced hundreds of villages to welcome to welcoming twenty eleven in darkness due to the

power chaos more schools busiest airport also suffered serious disruption last week with thousands of travelers left stranded. well the tricity counts may be causing stress for many in the moscow region but one russian isn't worried about blackouts takes a lives in their words and has even built his own power generator it brought him into it saying although that wasn't what he was hoping for her father went in with him. we've come to a freezing forest in the mosque a village and it can be a treacherous place. 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 truth that we bought for him. but. a troubled

upbringing caused him to flee his home on the other side of russia. community was arrested by new bern yet since the age of seven i felt i had to run away from hard life and bad luck so i came to moscow but i lost my documents i couldn't work or travel anywhere else because of this i choose to live in the woods and build a shelter inside the shelter is surprisingly k.z. it's a simple life 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 you will and. an impressive craftsman it is even built his own generator to power electrical equipment i have good hands and i love to build and create these things. victor went

viral after pictures of his handiwork were posted online since then he's had trouble from people who've come to track down his cab in themselves were you the people who come are sometimes rude and threatening to go through my things and take photos of themselves and then they post them on the internet and write off nasty things about me. when little of the canal came across victor's story she tried to help him and. offered victor a house which here accepted at first it was a warm gas he did 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 been urged to be back in the forest. conventional living just doesn't suit he's clearly extremely self-sufficient but he does rely on healthy and equipment supplies and you're going to need 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. your lungs the trees and the snow you picked is found a way of life that he enjoying. the ne i ask that now other people respect that. so if there was a legion. i'll be back with the headlines shortly but first a bit for e.u. membership and bridging relations with. top twenty seven down with the country's president boris tadic to him more about belgrade's road towards europe the challenges the nation faces.

but is that the church serbian president thank you very much for being with us today about that mr president it's been two years since kosovo independence was recognized and back then there was a lot of talk about the don't you 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 when i think he's still existing as a threat for everybody not only in the region of southeast europe but also everywhere and. her real concerns both to take into consideration of

probably the reality of the army unit about the declaration of independence so 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 countries of the member states of united nations. that means we are against partition of the countries that the existing in the region in the three. specter you are fully supporting for example integrity integrity of other countries. and in that respect to be a contributing to the stability even though we are very much affected because if you look through the caribbean of the pen just like this prime minister suggested starting relations from scratch ways. is that possible i mean what would it take for serbia to actually i think 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 cause so

because we don't preclude a score so in the pan this we have a confrontation between serbs and albanians for almost. fifty years and then the end of the day we have to sold that kind of call for the. blocking not only sort of sort of single being is but also whole region in terms of progress and development only trade dialogue we can achieve some sort of that can be acceptable for agreed so the prettiest foreign minister with a mistake set that serbia is 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 differences between. participating on elections the last time and the first time when i was elected for president of serbia having in the mind to mean so digitals to become embassy to future putin and to defend that he took 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 of economical crisis and in that respect the old serbian people and the citizens of thinking that economic crises. unemployment and that kind of problems to talk before and this is a totally true strong economy. 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 the costs always are not the problem anymore costs always existing on the problem not only between sort of signal binion's but those with regional policy globally thinking because of caving in the mind the real possible press of the can create many many turmoil sold around the world you are 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 in relation to that what do you think are the consequences for some other european countries in the decision of the 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 people that the car or the you know not truly independence didn't have the rights to do that they came to the consideration all legal framework which was adopted on course so before. there is very controversial decision but we are not going to interfere in this issue and so for international court of justice we accept that and we are going to continue all efforts in the erection to defend territorial integrity and sovereignty over serbia but that cannot be really achieved the. without dialogue between serbs and albanians between prishtina

both agreed and we have to hear some kind of compromise on the end of the day solution is not one sided to mean score so i mean is it getting everything then the other serbian sort of serbian people are losing everything i'm totally sure that we have to have a some compromise where you have always stronger promote the pro-american image of your government and then when the cost of the issue merged on it came down to it turned out that russia was your only ally ally to. how did that happen and i'm beyond. president the government is going to be old is 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 so if united states we want to become a member state of european union we are leaving the europe and we are going to continue our efforts in that direction but no one can make very strange or not to feel.