the outlook on the e.u.'s credit rating is switching negative as the relentless rounds of euro zone meetings so probably provide solutions to the long lasting crisis plaids. turkey has closed its borders with syria saying the country is filled to the brim with refugees well and really is asking the united nations to create a buffer zone sparking fears of foreign intervention join me police here in a few moments for an update. and some prison break in the running as the economic and social problems dominate regional elections the voting underway in kind of as mainly french speaking to give back.

twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is r.t. first the latest financial blow to the e.u. comes from moody's the ratings agency has changed the block's outlook from stable to negative wanting it faces being downgraded merely said the decision reflected the issues eased key budget contributors are dealing with earlier this year other regions of germany france of bridge and their lands were also switched to a negative outlook that's just by relentless meetings between e.u. leaders which have so far failed to deliver any solutions and a link to email suggests that the troika of international lenders want greenies one of the most adept stricken countries to work six days a week and longer hours to fulfill their financial obligations want to know mr smith the danish i mean be a 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 that more political decisions are to be taken by people who are not elected for instance in greece but political decisions being on post in the greeks by people who are not elected they are that's the first political point which is important the second one and that's the more sad one actually is that it's not going to work because the differences between the north and the south in the euro zone i simply sube so big that even though you make the greeks work six days a week the depth 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 coming currency so even though that you 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 or 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 curbed its enthusiasm and shelved its plans despite finally having qualified to join tesla celia reports and why the poorest member state decided to turn its back on the single currency bulgaria is opposing the latest blow to the embattled currency know 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 of consistently met mention by german chancellor angela merkel but now that they've actually qualified that 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 their 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 of the crisis and secondly and i think importantly for the leaders of that country is that changing the public opinion in bulgaria people there asking the very same questions that the citizens of creditor euro zone countries are asking who else are going to bail out 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 and wages and we know for the last year especially the term a stair it is almost a key word when discussing the euro zone or the euro from the outsider's point of view this is what they see they see countries in trouble needing bailouts and you have creditor countries imposing conditions and then you have a stary 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. now of course of following the euro zone turmoil on our website in cardiff you were asking you what the euro crisis hit rock bottom had to argy dot com to cost you your vote

and so far this is what it looks like the majority of things that prices will hit rock bottom when the single currency is scrapped twenty seven percent of you think germany is the one to decide and join the one percent believe the weak links of the euro zone have to drop out of the crisis to be over and only nineteen percent want to put pressure on the banks saying that the euro crisis will hit rock bottom when banks get enough bailout cash these are the results of this hour don't forget to go online and tell us what you think. but meanwhile brussels is looking to delve deep into the dealings of guess problems the russian energy giant from which the e.u. gets most of its guess that's close to a business jets can get more on this of from marina. so marina any chance of a scandal here well to have it's hard to say but we did hear this is not the first time this has happened now what are we talking about here exactly the european

commission basically launched an investigation into the dealings of gas problem and what exactly this entails it's it has pretty much a dominant position in central and eastern europe now of course we know that the imports eighty percent of its gas needs and a third of our comes from russia a server very important player there and also we know that all this has to do with their concerns about unfair prices their production of gas supply diversification so they're looking into all of that and later on that will have expert analysis on that avoid here what they have to say for now that's it for me back to you in the studio tapi. clashes between rebel militia shoes and government troops continue in syria with opposition fighters turning to capital damascus and the commercial hub aleppo as their main targets activists claim violence in a level field more than one hundred people on monday. the free syrian army says thing its forces are controlling the ground battle the syrian government and says

they'll be learning gauche ations with the opposition before security is achieved everywhere a steady stream of refugees is pouring into neighboring states turkey being the main destination but the authorities they have close the borders saying they just can't cope with the numbers artie's policy or reports. at least ten thousand syrian refugees for at least a 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 half a million now and 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 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 nod 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 this 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 hours waiting for food there are not enough tense to go around people are speaking on the streets i spoke to a number of women who were complaining of sexual harassment one person to have put it the best 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 analysts paul are all forney's turkey's initiative to introduce a buffer zones inside syria requiring military intervention could backfire on her of course the cost for turkey would be quite hard to move in that direction and we

have to remember that your story is very much the grief of the united states being made to remember. the. you know the side effects so. it is always seen. as a policy of the united states and. its much. god. as it was before so it's clear that there is a billion to the rich in which it was not a while. on the way of the battle for the white house double play public as well as the u.s. presidential race descends into a verbal duel. and pro-democracy activists in battle rein lose another legal fight against the ruling one i think we've got the details in just a few minutes. later the opinion polls suggest the pro

independence a particular quar is the front runner in the reasonal government election in canada's key bag voting has opened and with people casting their votes what is an associate should looks at what's driving separates moods and 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 florian says key back is going as stranger from the rest of canada but people left with little out tentative than a separate thing 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 pollitt party politics you seem between the three parties they have very very many of the same policies on this and 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 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 this program hanging on high. the adventurism trying to opera to me it's supposed to some new level of ability to become a kind of superman and extreme exploits of the latest death defying spot craze in russia we find out why from the very people who do it. to bahrain now with civilian court has upheld a military ruling that found twenty opposition leaders guilty of plotting to overthrow the government defense lawyers for the actual verses say they may still appeal the verdict which ended down eight life sentences but rain has been shaken

by pro-democracy protests since very last year with police crackdowns allegedly leaving at least sixty people killed a little i mustn't think prominent member of the friends largest opposition party says a really more nuts are determined to keep all the reins of power. just complete the tuition and. have been taught that in fourth the input really would know that and. that's not just. a deficiency that people. have gone to that we believe the only thing that will have been good said bill if you the only thing that will make people normally the state is that when they get there. then those that people need to be part of the system the political system seems to be part of the executive zines they need to be part of the logistics in a sense they want to have interest and then just a show so that they don't get. pushy like this they want to be false security so

that's because it is not used against them so the hunger games doesn't want to move them to solutions because the ruling family want to control the whole world the whole decision making the whole of that is that they want to continue leading this country and this. from the you cannot you cannot implement them. s'more international strong views in brief and now cambodia is that jackson died a gulf war the co-founder of a file sharing website the pirate bay who was arrested the last week in international warrant in the wilds name was issued in general by his native sweden after you failed to show up for the start of his one year jail term work and his colleagues were sentenced in two thousand and nine in order to pay for the half million dollars to entertainment giants for copyright theft. two nights of their tearing clashes an altar in belfast to have left within sixty police officers heard

violence erupted on sunday after a catholic republicans paraded near districts of the city's mainly inhabited by protestant writers threw bottles brigs and fireworks forcing police to fire rubber bullets and water cannons in response to terror and violence tends to break out and really in northern ireland in reaction to the two communities holding traditional parades. if a server john part is a soldier who murdered in a many in it will set back the regional peace process says the organization for security and cooperation in europe and i very soldier got a life sentence in hungary for the killing of a mainly an officer during a training in two thousand and four but was later sent back to azerbaijan a mania reacted by suspending diplomatic relations with hungry hm a mania and as ever john have been there was the war between ethnic nations over that current car about enclave in the early ninety's night. i saw

a side bomb attack at a funeral has left at least twenty five people dead and more than thirty injured in a village in eastern afghanistan the attack reportedly targeted the local district chief who attended the service but survived the blast no one has claimed responsibility so far there has been a series of similar ties throughout afghanistan recently most of them are being blamed on taliban militants. now in america the pre election wall of words between republicans and democrats as heating up ahead of november's presidential vote back obama's policies convening to formally dominate him as a candidate and hit back against criticism from their opponents republican mitt romney's camp has accused the incumbent leader of failing to deliver the promise results on tackling high unemployment and recovering from recession but the democrats claim the country is better off now than it was when obama stepped into

office the president's currency tied with his challenger in public polls they some of those delegates even men can change things for the better. 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 slower 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 of bra's that are plagued by drone strikes we get much worse under mitt romney and they're already going to get quite bad under president obama. right don't forget you can always find all our stories

at our dot com more news and in-depth analysis of a will for you twenty four seven including a summary so stunning video of a massive explosion on the sun then find out how it affected us on their. class go online to join the lucky visit of liberals is really in the czech republic as well why bangle tyga triplets make their first public then birol appearance there and there aren't. daredevil russians are risking life and limb to feed the epa tide for the extreme adrenaline junkies pushing themselves to perform superhuman feat scoring millions of fans on the internet in the process. took the only way. risking it all for a thrill the young the brave and the downright dangerous appropriately dubbed

suicide sports uploading videos and images to yourself performing painter stunts is a fad that's taken russia by storm the rain is adrenaline fuelled stunt attracted millions of hits online but about your suspicions 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 moved my friend was a coup was 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 your emotions dr unhappiness i was doing what i had wanted to do for such a long time but still i was very surprised that. green works part time at the appropriately named mad a group that offers the opportunity to do harness jumps in moscow attendance falls like bungee jumping and great jumping have become

a really popular pastime here 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. that's the elision of an all or to me it's of the some new level of ability to become a kind of superman. preferred 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 willing to take surf. right let's get more now on that gas problem story from the arena at our business desk marina what can you tell us all just for anyone who joined us right now i want to remind you that it basically the european commission has launched a probe into russia's energy giant gas from and there are concerns involved on for prices the hindering of the free flow of gas across europe as well as the production of gas supply the ever sophistication now the e.u. of course imports eighty percent of its gas needs one third of which comes from russia and this isn't the first time gas from ice investigated by european authorities by the way and some experts believe there's no quick solution to all this here's what oil and gas analysts broadly way had to say. gazprom has a desire in a right to try to be as present as possible in its end user markets and the e.u.

is trying to prevent monopolies from from controlling sensitive areas so it's not been the first time i don't think it's going to be the last time this latest probe hasn't yet fully played out at the moment i don't think it's a push on prices i think it's more a push back to gas pumps total presence and desire to get more diversified supply i don't think we can say that the e.u. is pushing for a particular price per se but more just control of the markets both sides have a very clear right to for gazprom to be in europe in large scale and for europe to try to diversify its supply so i don't think you get a cut and dry conclusion to this right away. now let's take a look at international markets wall street is the only one trade right now and their voices are still dropping we can see the dow and the fact that they're over half a percent this hour and their eyes that they're slightly behind and what we do know is that there was weak manufacturing data that came out of the u.s. the week before months on the asian markets and uncertainty over the euro zone

let's talk about the euro zone markets on our clothes and they closed in red and you can see the footsie and the overall percentage and basically all this comes after moody's investor service over grew more and the eurozone could lose its aaa rating and also many people hope that this will be avoided is needed to push the european central bank to take action and activate those stimulus measures that's what investors want to hear about now let's move on to switzerland same with the euro zone there after months of surprising resilience to the economic downturn in europe switzerland 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 that's as 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 imposed the franc ceiling to help protect the economy. now let's take a look i currencies and see where the euro dollar ruble stands when it comes to the

euro it is still dropping against the us dollar weakening when it comes to the ruble again against both major currencies when it comes to the russian markets. throughout that there was so gains the losses and all resulted in the makes picture as you can see there on the screen and all of this comes of course of what i mentioned earlier happened in asia the u.s. and the euro zone now let's talk i did mention the oil prices earlier let's talk about fuel though and lines because now they might become cheaper when we're talking about from london to moscow or st petersburg as britain's easyjet aims to. turned its wings to russia now according to a local newspaper the local cost carrier plans to launch regular flies between the cities as soon as next year however it still needs to win the tender for that round with virgin atlantic am british airways among other bettors well another result in about a month. of russia's membership in the world trade organization as the free market

rules are basically will make life harder for still makers as they'll have to reduce prices to compete with foreign companies all this of course for results a law professor ability amid a rise in local towers for energy and transportation we spoke to alexander the shop who's the c.e.o. of one of the biggest steel makers in the world service and he said that in the long term this will be beneficial for russian companies do believe that steel industries. russians doing business growth numbers you've now of course. there is a movement of russians do you. there are some specific issues for example in birth of. your bill of goods from ukraine or an export of. the united states. a decision and all soon it's important to mention the two accession. doesn't believe big immediate role for russians to mystery but it could be on

a longer run strong facilitator of russian a global economy grows which will generate additional demand which due to our ability to show. gas still flies we have it all today to have well thanks for that update very noble check up on you again in an hour i'll be back with a recap of today's and news after a short break a stay with us. well

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