just as well i'm not one tunnel all of its inmates and bring them to syria to do the fighting they're practically the same kind of people bloody me uprooted speaks exclusively to our t.v. . yup look on that he use credit rating as a switch to negative as a rental as wrongs of euro zone reading so far failed to provide solutions to the long lasting crisis clubs. turkey has closed its borders with syria saying the country is full to the brim with wifi g.'s while and who is asking the united nations to create a buffer zone sparking fears of foreign intervention join me for a sneer in a few moments for an update. and a separatist to make the running as economic and social problems dominate regional elections with voting underway in one of those mainly french speaking back.

it's eleven pm here in moscow you're watching r t with me let's say the latest financial blow to the e.u. comes from moody's the ratings agency has changed the blocks outlook from stable to negative warning it faces being downgraded moody's or said the decision reflected the issues in the e.u. ski budget contributors are dealing with earlier this year the ratings of germany france and britain adding that the lens will also switch to a negative outlook that's despite relentless meetings between the e.u. leaders which have so far failed to deliver any solutions and a lead to email suggested that the troika all of international lenders want greece one of the most debt stricken countries to work six days a week and longer hours to fulfill their financial obligations martin messerschmitt

a danish and member of the freedom and democracy group in the european parliament believes the greeks should exit the eurozone 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 imposed on the greeks by people who are not elected there 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 in the euro zone are simply too 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 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 or polish the country from the euro zone. right and we're of course following the eurozone turmoil on a website then current you were asking you when will the euro crisis hit rock bottom had to come to cause you over so you know here's what it looks like the majority of you things are the prices will hit rock bottom the single currency is grab slightly less of using germany is the one to decide and twenty one percent believe the weekly of the euro zone have to drop out of the crisis to be over and finally the minority wants 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. meanwhile brussels is looking to delve deep into the dealings of gas problem the russian energy giant from which the e.u.

gets most of its gas let's cross over now to our task and get more on this oil from marina the marina any chance of this becoming a scandal well to have a this is highly unlikely we know that this has happened before and this is a mainly about gas from its position in the market europe gets basically eighty percent of all its gas supplies from abroad the one third of that comes from russia so it's very a significant partner there was basically the european commission is concerned about is unfair pricing a lack of gas supply there was of occasion there is even one common here that said that gas from has reportedly been stopped countries from trying to diversify their supplies as well as a lot more which i will tell you about in the business a bulletin shortly but for the back to the studio right mary and i will definitely be looking forward to that and we'll see you later. now we move to syria now where clashes between rebel militias and government troops continue with opposition

fighters turning to the capital damascus and the commercial hub aleppo as their main targets actually. as claimed violence in the last more than a hundred kilometers day the free syrian. forces are controlling the ground battle the syrian government says there'll be no negotiations with the opposition before security is achieved everywhere a steady stream of refugees is now pouring into neighboring states and turkey being the main destination but the authorities there have closed the borders saying they just can't cope with the numbers as archie's policy reports. at least ten thousand syrian refugees for the easter 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 they are already eighty thousand syrian refugees inside turkey and who was afraid that these figures could swell to at least 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 there 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 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 and 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 that's 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 an even further bigger humanitarian catastrophe right and in his first exclusive interview to r t the

russian president gave his use on the syrian crisis you can watch the full conversation with bloody murder putin right here this thursday. in his first t.v. interview since his inauguration. just as well only one tunnel all of it's going mates and bring them to syria to do the fighting there practically the same kind of people love to be uprooted speaks exclusively to our team. and the united nations says around one hundred thousand escaped to the syrian conflict last month the largest number of refugees or so far turkish mediator me to prepare the draft of all the coffee and on six point peace plan so the u.n. kemah give a green light to the buffer zone in syria without violating the cease fire deal. all this united nations shades to end the i'm not plan they cannot take the

decision to make it better to. try to make another bluff and. psychological pressure on syria united nations must be obvious they have to calm down terrorist elements which are taken to a civil context and actually can years ago a car that was the story is true but it was conduct might not be. a democracy politics leading from the so to this ridiculous focus while you got pretty close close and all stood down to supporting various elements and i called it. down because the first step on the way the battle for the white house and republicans laguerre says the u.s. presidential race descends into a verbal duel. and the pro-democracy activists in buffering lose another legal fight against the ruling monarchy we've got the details in just a few minutes. to canada now where latest opinion poll suggests the pro

independence party cuba qua as a frontrunner in kickbacks regional government election voting is now underway and with people costing their ballots artie's honest the scene is should look said what's driving separatist movements and the french speaking region. gloomy economic times attract 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 combats 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 province's population would support a split the new found was over could back comes after months of student 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 how canada and come back 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. to bahrain now a civilian court has upheld a ministry ruling that found twenty opposition leaders guilty of plotting to overthrow the government defense lawyers for the activists say they may still i feel they had it was handed down eight life sentences but rain has been shaken by pro-democracy protests since having lost their way through these crackdowns allegedly leaving at least sixty people killed. and prominent members of the train's largest opposition party says the ruling monarchs are determined to keep all the reins of power. there's just complete care the situation and. work have been started in fourteen february with no better by search. just two more

people more. long that will bring the stability dollar think they're. the only thing that will make people normally what the state. 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 with the current they want to have in the kremlin to be sure so that they don't get. the question like this they want to be for security so that security is not used against them one hundred give it doesn't want to more solution because the ruling family wants to control the whole world the whole decision making is that they want to continue ruling response and this is all from the past you cannot you cannot implement that want. in america the pre-election wall of war is between republicans and democrats is heating up ahead of november's presidential vote rock obama's

party's convening to form a new nominee to him as a candidate and hit back against criticism from their opponents republican mitt romney's camp has accused the incumbent leader of a failing to deliver the promised results on high unemployment and recovering from recession but the democrats claim the country is better off now than when obama stepped into office the president's current be tied with his challenger in public polls let's not get some reaction from wes benedicts a member of the third largest political force in america terry and. that's about it they don't think very much for joining us here on our team that mitt romney and barack obama are going to great lengths to point out the differences in their policies but how much of a choice will americans really have when they head to the polls in november. well most of them will select the same choice which is either the republicans or democrats that's unfortunate because while they talk like you know they blame each

other for being in radical or extreme the two major parties are very this are very much the same on all the important issues when it comes to spending more money than we have engaged in in florida conflicts that we can't afford to me there is one great choice just a libertarian gary johnson i wish a lot of people would. join his campaign and vote for him of course and you know i'm a libertarian and a supporter. but in the end a lot of the bagley to the new democrat or republican states they can there's a big difference between the two when there is really not ok let's go back to the democrats came in that americans are now better off now than they were when obama took over from george w. bush is that's really the case. oh i'd say we're about the same as we were i don't know if you remember the exact timing but the big economic crash that happened in the us was actually while president bush was in office and republicans were in

control of the house republicans are now trying to blame president obama for everything that ails our country the state of the states and it seems to be sticking to it but in reality we're about the same as we were and are still bush and president obama have had nearly the same policy and the libertarian perspective they are now in now romney's ratings in opinion polls have risen in the past few months and he's now tied with obama while the republican candidate becoming so popular after being so unpopular in the polls in the past. well the economy's not doing well and often people blame whoever the incumbents are at the time for whatever the problems are additionally there's been quite a bit of publicity with the republican national convention but now that the democrats are coming in having their convention things will probably level out again and i think it's going to be

a very close race in the end and both republicans and democrats will say oh it's so important to vote for us this is the most important election ever the future of our country depends on it and yet there's a huge difference between the two when in reality you're libertarians and sometimes independents are the ones who have different ideas that that are good ideas such as bring our troops home from the middle east bring him home from around the world by this article about a little bit about that some argue that the bipartisan system of congress needs to be reformed to give other parties a big a say like us but is there a listing way and indeed a plan to make that even happen. well it's certainly possible to. the libertarian party or others could catch on and people would join in and in start voting for me you know the option is there however republicans and democrats do put up roadblocks that make it harder for us currently republicans are trying to

challenge gary johnson's ballot access in virginia they try to knock him off the ballot in ohio as well and you know for a party that gets a half of one percent in a national election for republicans to try and kick them off the ballot is very undemocratic it's very unfair but another thing there is something about the electoral system in other countries you do have a proportional representation system so that if you get five percent of the vote perhaps five percent of the legislators would be for that political party we have a winner take all system in the u.s. where it's not a proportional thing so whoever has the highest percentage gets all the representatives in that district so there are structural things that make it harder for third party but what third parties can do is get as many votes as they can and when people vote for a certain way for a third party in particular it's in so loud message and that's what happened when

ross perot was on the ballot in the ninety's when he got as high as eighteen percent in one election he was running against a huge debt and a huge deficits and that put a big focus on it in the deficits went down for the first time with president clinton a democrat in power i think if a lot of people started voting for gary johnson you would see more attention to the deficit and the biggest thing driving the deficit right now that's easily correctable is to bring our troops home and stop wasting so much money on the military. let's leave it right they must always benedict live from the u.s. from the libertarian party giving his thoughts on that the upcoming elections in the u.s. . thank you well in the upcoming exclusive interview he has given to see the russian president also spoke about the u.s. election you can watch the full conversation with led me to putin right here this

they say. in his first t.v. interview since his inauguration what if what if mitt romney gets in a quote from just a month or two ago could you work with him. will work with whoever gets elected as president by the american people but if it will only be as efficient as our partners allow it to be demure putin speaks exclusively to r.t. . some more international stories in brief right now cambodia is that the guy got freed the war co-founder of the file sharing website the pirate bay who was arrested the last week and international weren't in walks 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 was sentenced in two thousand and nine in order to pay for one a half million dollars to entertainment giants for copyright theft. through the eyes of sectarian clashes in norway in belfast that left sixty police officers

heard miles erupted on sunday after a catholic republicans paraded real districts of cities mainly inhabited by protestants writers' room bottles breaks and fireworks forcing police to fire rubber bullets and water cannons in response to terry in violence as you break out and really in northern ireland in reaction to that you communities holding traditional parades. a suicide 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's been a series of similar times throughout afghanistan recently and most of them are being blamed on taliban militants. america's number one diplomat is in china for talks and secretary of state hillary clinton's visit was that preceded by a firm

a warning from beijing china washington to stay out of the country's territorial disputes with four other nations in the south china sea the u.s. has been backing its regional allies on the issue which is the fueling tensions in the region. system that it's at the n.t. wardell calm things washington is only homey its own interest in a zip pacific. washington has been noticing that china's economic and military rise has led to some local superiority and washington views superiority in the geopolitical sense as its own prerogative and they don't want to allow china to get any of that prerogative so what the u.s. has been doing in the last year president obama announced a strategic shift into asia pacific so-called asia pivot which is an aggressive policy that involves surging american military presence throughout the region and this isn't just possibly laying the groundwork for

a future war in asia but it's also preventing very productive international economic exchange between our two countries which is desperately needed especially in the down economy of the united states. well let's get a final review of the day right now from a business that marina was at all bad news well friday march it was i have to say in the final blow was of course the european commission which launched its competition province of russia's energy giant gas from and some of their concerns include unfair prices the prevention of gas supply diversification and also the hindering of a free flow of gas across europe now the e.u. of course we do know that it imports eighty percent of its gas needs one third of which comes from russia this isn't the first time gas from is investigated by european authorities and some experts believe there is no quick solution to all of this here's what i learned gas analyst bradley 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 get his palms 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 does 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. you know national markets i should say wall street is the only one trader right now and there we have a little bit of a change because the nasdaq has made a u. turn and it's going higher than i almost half a percent in the black this hour when it comes to the dow's shutting just not all of this is coming from weak manufacturing data and also we had

a weak performance of the asian markets as well as concerns over the euro zone let's take a look at europe and i'll tell you what happened there first of all moody's investor service then of course downgrade its outlook as we've been reporting all these years about also warned that if he goes on could lose its triple a rating and of course some analysts are saying that maybe this is what is needed to get some action from the european central bank to maybe activate some of the stimulus measures that's what investors want to hear about this that both the pussy and the dax lost over one percent today now moving though on to switzerland saying we'll be up there after months of surprising resilience to the economic downturn in the region so let's look at the peers to be on the brink of recession after a strong performance earlier this year this was the economy contracted zero point one percent for the second quarter and that's that supports the eurozone well this is the first drop since the third quarter of two thousand and eleven when the first national bank imposed the franc ceiling to help decide the economy. and when it

comes to currencies we see the euro is still weakening against the u.s. dollar when it comes to the ruble again against both major currencies these are the close of figures the russian markets are also closed and basically we had a ball that's well performance where we saw gains or losses of in the end we had a mixed picture which is what you see on the screen right now the r.t.s. five and my six that in just the knowledge of oil prices were again and so the heloc by then they start to decline and as well all i want to talk about these threats and secular and that's because a flight from london to moscow or even sing petersburg could soon become cheaper and that's as britain's easy jet aims to turn its wings to brush up the low cost carrier plans to launch regular flights between the cities as soon as next year however it still needs to win the time before that routes with virgin atlantic and british airways among other bidders and will know their results of all this in about a month. and i was about russia's membership in the world trade organization because free market rules means that still makers will have

a harder line for had because they'll have to reduce prices to compete with foreign companies this of course will need to lower profitability amid rising local tariffs of energy and transportation but we spoke to. who is the c.e.o. of one of the biggest still makers in the world that civil style and he said that at the end of the day what take time but a would be beneficial for russian companies we believe that steel industries. russians doing business growth can both you know of course. it's reasonable and the question is still. there are some specific issues food you saw for example in birth of. cuba or goods from ukraine or an export of or toward the united states which were specific decisions and also it's important to mention that exertion. doesn't believe big immediate role for actions do mystery but it could be on

a longer run strong facilitator of russian a global economy grows which will generate additional amount was due to our going to. have a black screen behind me that is a sign that i need to go home even the computers are telling me that that said it's time we wrapped it up for the day to have a bag you know you read to the very nicely for. tomorrow have a good evening. ride i'll be back go with a recap of today's top news in just a couple of moments and right after that we'll cut through the economic spin in the kinds of reports.

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