the outlook on the e.u.'s credit rating is switched to negative the relentless rounds of euro zone readings over twelve bailed to provide solutions to the long lasting crisis plus. turkey has closed its borders with syria saying the country is full to the brim with refugees now and gray is asking the united nations to create a buffer zone sparking fears of foreign intervention join me pulis here in a few moments for an update. and the president make the running as economic and social problems dominate regional elections voting underway in capitals mainly french speaking back.

there watching r d a live from moscow with me to ban would say first the latest financial blow to the e.u. comes out from moody's the ratings agency has changed the blocks outlook from stable to negative warning it faces being downgraded really said the decision reflected the issues the e.u.'s key budget contributors are dealing with earlier this year the ratings for germany france britain and other lands were switched to a negative outlook that's despite relentless meetings between e.u. leaders which have so far failed to deliver any solutions and a lead to e-mails are just that the droid of international lenders want greece one of the most dead stricken countries to work six days a week and longer hours to fulfill their financial obligations martin messerschmitt danish and me and member of the freedom and democracy group in the european parliament believes greeks should exit the euro zone to save themselves. this just

proves once again what the euro is about but more political decisions are to be taken by people who are not elected for instance in greece but political decisions being imposed on the greeks by people not only that they are that's the first political point which is important the second one and that's the most stark one actually is that it's not going to work because the differences between the north and the south in the euro zone are simply too big that even though you make the greeks work six days a week the level and the differences in level of competition between the countries are not of a degree where it makes sense to have a common exchange rate and that's what you have when you have a common currency so even though that you might might push the greeks into these dramatic reforms it's not going to rescue the euro the only thing that's going to rescue the greeks is to abolish the euro up polish the country from the euro zone. in the meantime one of the countries which has been longing to join the euro bowl

garia has curb its enthusiasm and shelved its plans despite finally having qualified to join tesco still your reports on why that is poorest member state decided to turn its back on the single currency bulgaria is posing the latest blow to the embattled currency now it has put on hold its long held plans of joining the euro bloc an interesting we bulgaria in contrast to a lot of bigger economies has managed to reduce its budget deficit to two point one percent of its g.d.p. and that is safely within the three percent rule set by the e.u. a number consistently met mentioned by german chancellor angela merkel but now that they've actually qualified that about all the rules they don't they want to back down and put this on hold of the prime minister of bulgaria as well as the finance minister had both said that there are two main reasons for this one is the increasing vulnerability and uncertainty of the future of the euro in the block it's clear it's been going on for

a couple of years now and also the deteriorating economic conditions are still the clear way out. the crisis and secondly and i think importantly for the leaders of that country is the changing of public opinion in bulgaria people there asking the very same questions that the citizens of credit euro zone countries are asking who else are going to be allowed and for bulgaria's point of view who are we going to bail out once we join the euro and also the country has been through three years already it was staring measures cuts in pensions it wages and we know for the last year especially the term a stereo is almost a key word when discussing the eurozone or the euro and now bulgaria is not the only country it's just the latest in the string of countries lithuania last week the prime minister had said that it will only join the euro when quote unquote europe was ready and of course that that is at this point very unclear when this state will be coming and also latvia has lost and boozy as it's changed its tone in terms of looking at the process of joining the euro now what this all underlies

it goes back to the same point the vulnerabilities the weaknesses that we see in the euro and from the outsider's point of view this is what they see they see contras in trouble needing bailouts and you have creditor countries imposed on the people and you have angry and desperate citizens of those countries and with that kind of a picture it's not entirely surprising that bulgaria made that decision in syria the ongoing bloodshed is provoking in large scale humanitarian crisis in the city stream of refugees pouring in the neighboring states most of them are now in turkey but the authorities of close the border to those with no possible it's saying they just don't cope with the numbers i just want to see a reports. at least ten thousand syrian refugees for these two week have been stuck on the syrian side of the syrian turkish border and this is because ankara is simply unable to process the growing numbers of people who are fleeing syria to turkey there are already eighty thousand syrian refugees inside turkey and because of frayed that these figures could swell to at least a half

a million has been complaining that the international community is not doing enough to help it and to this indeed it is calling for a so-called safe zone or a buffer zone to be created inside syria and what we understand is that such as zone would extend some twenty kilometers inside syrian territory but the problem is that to create any kind of humanitarian zone you need first to have a no fly zone in which it certainly suggests foreign intervention and there has been a lot of criticism about this from the international community certainly the united nations security council has not given its not when and clipboard to stop in the past but we do understand that anchor is going to ask the u.n. security council later this month to create a buffer zone it is highly unlikely that russia and china will give its nod but certainly we are witnessing a growing humanitarian crisis at the same time we know that the head of the international committee for the red cross is in damascus they are meeting with

syrian officials who are trying to find together some kind of way of assisting these refugees and resolving the situation has been quite some time in those camps talking to some of these refugees and i can back up from firsthand experience what they as well as what humanitarian organizations are saying what the refugees told me is that the sanitation is far from satisfactory that very often they are standing in queues for hour was waiting for food there are not enough tends to go around people are sleeping on the streets i spoke to a number of women who were complaining of sexual harassment one person perhaps it's what at the base he told me that him and his family had fled syria to escape it did but here in the rift. camps they were dying a slow death at the same time there are concerns that you just need a spark to erupt into flames there are concerns particularly from the jordanian authorities that they could be rioting we heard this morning go out today there are also concerns that they could be further clashes so the main concern at the moment is that the situation is so volatile you could lead to even further bigger

humanitarian catastrophe and political analyst power of forney's says that turkey's initiative to introduce buffer zones inside syria requiring military intervention could backfire on. of course the cost for turkey would be quite hard to move in that direction we have to remember that your story is very much under the grip of the united states being made to remember about. turkey has to go to the side effects. it has shifted its policy now is to work. as a policy of the united states and its much. as it was before so it's clear that there is big the reaction which was not a while. on the way the battle for the white house

democrats had a very public blockheads as the u.s. presidential race descends into a verbal duel. and pro-democracy activists in bahrain lose another legal fight against the ruling more likely if the details just in a few minutes. like this opinion poll suggests the pro independence a particular chua is the front runner in the regional government election in and of its key bag voting has opened and with people casting their ballots artie's on us to see it should look said what's driving separators moves in the french speaking region. gloomy economic times attracts social instability and uncertainty and what tomorrow will bring for canada's mostly french speaking province of quebec that means agitation for separation is stirring yet again as voters head to the polls it's a three way fight to be the dominant force in convex parliament with emotions running high come back as one hundred eighty four billion dollars in debt and has an

economy that has grown by a mere one point seven percent in the last year falling behind canada as a whole competing at the ballot box are the incumbent liberals the firstly form coalition for the future of combat and the separatist war and it's the latter which is proving most popular at the polls marching ahead of the others at around thirty three percent this means the issue of convex breakaway from canada could return to the forefront of the decade long reign of the liberals comes to a close it's the latest example of separatism spreading its wings globally in troublesome economic times the separatists leading in the polls claim their short term priority would be picking the economy up of its knees instead of pushing for a separation vote straight away the party leader says a referendum on convex independence would only be held if there was complete confidence in a win for now opinion polls suggest less than forty percent of the provinces population would support

a split the new found was over could back comes after months of student and union protests raging amid summer and spring tens of thousands of students have made their ways out onto the streets and shown their public outrage with clashes with police making news headlines across the world canada in quebec would fare without each other is a matter of fierce debate among experts we might now be much closer to finding out if they see churkin or moscow. canadian reporter michael farr and says kim bagley is growing in strays from the rest of canada and people left with little alternative than a separate fate i think what it really comes down to is that backers will be choosing the lesser of three evils and for many people especially people the younger popular population they feel that that helps you get back why is a move in the step forward maybe towards more of a progressive message in the province but i think a lot of the polit party politics you seem between the three parties they have very very many of the same policies in a sense people are just making

a choice based upon dissatisfaction with the with all of the three major parties and when it comes to i mean austerity measures well yeah there have been cutbacks and but i mean i think that's been across the board for most canadian provinces in the sense in terms of you know the support of separatism across the board of people really just don't care anymore i mean canadians used to care we used to care or you know if it was somebody in a bird or in terror we had family out there friends and they'd say to us you know are you guys really going to be voting to leave and i think even in the past few months we saw polls it was a poll done asking canadians you know do you care for kickback leaves and half of canadians said no we don't care. still ahead for you in the program hanging high. heeled ventures in front of her to me it's a new level of ability to become a kind of super extreme exploits are the latest death defying sport craze in russia we find out why from the very people who do it. to bahrain

now where civilian court has upheld a military ruling that found twenty opposition leaders guilty of plotting to overthrow the government defense lawyers for the activist say they may still appeal the verdict was handed down eight life sentences the rain has been shaken by pro-democracy protests it's very last year the police crackdowns allegedly leaving at least sixty people killed. in a prominent member of the reins largest opposition party says the ruling monarchs are determined to keep all the reins of power. this just complete the situation and . what have been the started and put the input really would know better and by such it's not just to more of a position to be more composed. that will stand to lose the only thing that. the only thing that will make people normally the state is that when they get their

demands that demands of the people is to be part of the system the political system to be part of the executive don't think need to be part of the not just the they want to have in their convention for show so that they don't. have to shit like this they want to be part of security so that. if used against them the one who gave it doesn't want to more political solution because the ruling family wants to control the whole world the whole decision making is that they want to continue in this function and this. from the past you cannot you cannot implement it wants. so more international stories in brief now cambodia says your guide got freed was a co-founder of the file sharing website the pirate bay he was arrested there last week and international war engine was name was issued in general by his native sweden after he failed to show up for the start of his one year jail term organised

pirate bay colleagues were sentenced in two thousand and nine and ordered to pay for a half million dollars to entertainment giants for copyright theft. lives of sectarian clashes and not the red belfast have left this chief police officer heard violence erupted on sunday after a catholic republicans paraded districts of the city's mainly inhabited by protestants writers threw bottles bricks and fireworks forcing police to fire rubber bullets into water cannons interest spawns sectarian violence tends to break out annually in northern ireland in reaction to the two communities holding traditional parades. in the azerbaijan pardons a soldier who murdered an armenian all set back the regional peace process the organization for security and cooperation in europe and as a result or got a life sentence in hungary for the killing of a now maybe an officer during nato training in two thousand and four but was later

sent back to azerbaijan i mania i reacted by suspending diplomatic relations with hungary a mania and as a region have been at odds is a war between the ethnic nations in one thousand nine hundred one over the now gone a car about and played. a suicide bomb attack at a funeral has left at least twenty five people dead and more than thirty injured in the village eastern afghanistan there that reportedly targeted the local district chief who attended the service but survived the bloss no one has claimed responsibility so far for the attack there has been a series of similar diets throughout afghanistan most of them have been blamed on taliban militants. and america the action wall of words between republicans and democrats is heating up ahead of november's presidential vote for obama is pontius convening to formally nominate him as a candidate and his bagging is criticism from their opponents republican mitt

romney's campaign has accused the incumbent leader of failing to deliver the promise results on tackling high employment unemployment and recovering from recession and the democrats claim the country is better off now than it was when obama stepped into office the president's kind he tied with his challenger in public polls some observers doubt even men can change things for the better at. the way to think about what's happening to america and essentially the north atlantic coalition in general is that things are getting very very much worse somewhat slow and if president obama were elected they would get much worse continued slow rate and if president if there were a president romney that would get much worse at a quicker rate i mean that's essentially the way to look at it the shift of money and power from the bottom to the top would accelerate under romney the condition for working people for women for. you know communities of color that are subject to

massive incarceration for. countries abroad that are plagued by drone strikes would get much worse under mitt romney and they're already going to get quite bad under president obama. don't forget you can always find all those stories at our t.v. dot com more news and in-depth analysis is available twenty four seven including some to watch in stunning video of a massive explosion on the sun and find out how it affected us here on earth. and does go online to join the like you visitors of liveris in the czech republic as rare why bangle tyga triplet make up for his public and viral appearance and how to calm.

down. the. stream. and enjoy your favorite. t.v. it's not required to watch on t.v. only you need. any time and. you're watching our gee thanks for being with us now day devils russians are risking life and limb to feed their appetite for the extreme adrenaline junkies up pushing themselves to perform superhuman feat scoring millions of fans on the

internet in the process artie's servers took the only off eight. risking it all for a thrill the young the brave and the downright dangerous appropriately dubbed suicide sports uploading videos and images of yourself performing things of a stunt is a fast that's taken russia by storm marina's adrenaline fueled stunt attracted millions of hits online. it was not something you planned i decided to go on the rooftop and ask my friends to join i looked around and i felt i needed something more my friend was of course very worried about me but i said that everything was under control and decided to take a walk i think a lot of people like it because it provokes sincere emotions real and drive and happening i was doing what i had wanted to do for such a long time but still i was very surprised. to hear.

green works part time at the appropriately named mad a group that offers the opportunity to do harness jumps in moscow a tennis balls like bungee jumping and great jumping have become a really popular pastime him in russia so we're going to give it a go. well that was certainly an adrenaline rush but for some people even that kind of sport is not enough and there's a lot of people many of those in the team here have gone even further while many of the activities to tell you on the edge of legality some of the other stunts simply leap past the boundaries of the law. so you're listening. to me it's of the song new level of ability to become a kind of superman doesn't provide a may play

a role but as luck and on numerous occasions these have been without it lost their lives. as the arena have friends and a growing number of like minded russians it seems that's a risk a willing to take served our city. but let's cross to all business desk now with a major story development from what i understand now what is happening exactly right basically a couple of hours ago i did mention that russia's guys john gasper almost in talks with argentina to supply liquefied natural gas well right now we just found out that the european commission has a launched competition probe into the energy giants and basically this investigation will scrutinize where the gas from is abusing its dominance market position in central and eastern europe the brussels based competition watchdog says their concerns include prevention of gas supply diversification unfair prices and

him during a free flow of gas across europe the e.u. imports eighty percent of its gas needs and one third of which comes from russia. right now let's continue taking a look at international stock markets wall street is the only one trading right now and there it's a sea of red you see the dow is shed and over half a percent similarly with the nasdaq all of this comes from weak manufacturing data coming out from the year was also a weak performance will be asian markets and concerns in europe let's take a look at what's happening there the trade is the action there is now over and it was a sea of red there as well before the end the dax lost over one percent and all of this after moody's investor services downgraded south look in the euro zone and also suggests that warned in fact that it could downgrade strip the euro zone off its triple way that the ratings now it's staying with your opponent talk about switzerland and that's because of the months of surprise or resilience to the economic downturn in europe the country appears to be on the brink of recession

after a strong performance earlier this year the swiss economy contracted zero point one percent in the second quarter and not so exports to the euro zone fell that's the first drop since the third quarter of two thousand and eleven when the swiss national bank composed of francs the link to help protect the economy. let's continue with the currencies and see what's happening with the euro when it comes to the ruble of course it's now close then the ruble gained against both major currencies when it comes to the it's a weaker and against the u.s. dollar and actually but let's take a look at how the transaction then look here in russia it's all closed because a ball of an across the board i have to say but you know we saw gains and losses and in the end this is the final picture and makes one r.t.s. for odds and the mindsets slightly lower as i said the same factors influencing russian investors as a user of the performance there wall street of course the manufacturing data and concerns over the euro zone now let's talk about oil which always has

a major fight on the board and there we see the price of the climb in there is still relatively high and that often ism comes from the fact that some analysts predict that basically central banks will spur economic growth and drive back energy demand drive it higher now and stay in the way the oil people are particular i want to talk about flights and that's because of. basically problem going to moscow or even saying peter's work could soon become cheaper britain's easy jet aims to turn its wings to brush up on the low cost carrier plans to launch a regular flies between the cities assume this next year however it still needs to win the tender for that virgin atlantic and british airways among the other bidders will know the results in about a month. while free market rules will soon make life harder for steel makers and the contras will have to reduce prices to compete with foreign companies and of course talking about russia's membership in the world trade organization all of this were lower profits ability for the steel makers and also

a rise in local tires for energy and transportation haven't sat all of that we spoke to the c.e.o. one of the biggest steel companies in the world and he said in the long term this could actually be beneficial for the russian companies. we believe that steel industry. you want us to score a comparative of course it was regular it's reasonable and the question still. says there are some specific issues for example in birth of. your goods from ukraine or an export of hardware and the united states which require specific decision and also it's important to mention that exertion. doesn't believe the immediate role for us in the university but it could be on a longer run strong facilitator of russian economy economy growth which will generate additional demand was due to our benefit sure. and right now it's taken to

analysts and experts to find out more about that gas from problem we'll have that for you next hour for now back to you to have a well thanks for that update marina now i'll be back with the headlines after the break you're watching r.t. stay with us.

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