and record unemployment painful sterett he and the loveliest regimes in recent french history fronts all around mom's the end of the town first year as president.

and recession raging on a rise in the perinatal death is becoming a gruesome indicator of the harsh sterett he measures the rise in fetal and newborn metallics he is being blamed on poor health care and a lack of access to medical services artie's tessa sawyer reports. in a new you or paris study it shows that fetal mortality brussels is at an alarming rate eleven point six per thousand babies die here now experts do say that one has to be wary of looking at the information presented in the study as brussels city is compared with other countries for example iceland that level is at a four point seven portugal a four point eight a cyprus a four point two experts do also say that the infant mortality situation in brussels is the cause for concern it's an indicator of an increased poverty in some parts of the city on the poor neighborhoods in the migrant neighborhoods it's more than fifty percent unemployment. in those neighborhoods of course the living conditions on the very not very healthy and that shows also indeed the figures now this is an addition to a recent o.e.c.d. report which looks

financial doldrums and toughening of sterett he had been. huling the satisfaction with the policy across the continent researchers reveal many people in the bloc are losing faith in the european project starting to thing to do every batter off on their own he says are silly and has been gauging the mood among e.u. members. oh if you're talking about the gloomy situation here in europe it's no longer just the naysayers of a so-called euro skeptics who are voicing their pessimism ordinary citizens across europe have now been starting to change their minds really on this entire european project if you look at a couple of recent surveys one is the pew study it shows that right now less than half of the european citizens support this entire a european project that they're even optimistic about it it's at forty five percent right now down from sixty percent a last year and this of course has largely to do with the entire economic situation we've seen dismal numbers come out this week putting nine out of seventeen euro zone countries in a recession

and record unemployment painful sterett he and the loveliest ratings in recent french history fronts all around marks the end of a tough first year as president. international news and comment live from moscow this is our c. with me you know hello and welcome to the program. a leading u.n. investigator says there are strong suspicions rebels in syria have used the deadly nerve gas sarin during this civil war but carla del ponte a also says she has seen no evidence the government has resorted to the use of chemical weapons those claims are in contrast to an earlier statement by the u. arts who has accused president assad's forces of using them and threatened to take action and she's going there to check on reports now from washington. you want human rights investigators say based on the evidence that they have the rebels in syria have used the nerve agent sorry this is a major development which comes at a time when the assad government is being accused of having used chemical weapons and so this investigation which says that in all likelihood the rebels have used chemical weapons chal

calls to ease up on the whole the sterett. you know mantra kicking and screaming really but it's probably just as well you know fiscal policy is playing some part in cushioning the negative economic impact post financial crisis because you know my view would be that the e.c.b. is likely to be essentially on hold for the for the next few months. you know there has to be some stimulus from somewhere so it might as well come from fiscal policy there's a lot of talk about a year of being on a very very slow path to recovery and some even say it'll be a lost decade which side are you on are you an optimist when it comes to that or do you really agree that it'll be a very slow way out i'm probably the latter camp in large parts of europe a deep structural problems as the e.c.p.a. have highlighted on numerous occasions you know much of the banking system within the eurozone remains in trouble as we've seen with you know the markets beating the bank here in spain got this week and you know there's going to be a long long haul before s