t. their country is now too severe for them to enter service. and ahead of nordstrom's at first gas deliveries we talked to a man who was behind the ambitious project from the start he is a former german chancellor gerhard schroeder who's now chairman of north stream he tells us why the fuel route is so important all around. gerhard schroeder was chancellor of germany from one nine hundred ninety eight to two thousand and five he's now chairman of the board at nordstrom's russia's new gas pipeline under the baltic sea europe mr further why should the e.u. increase its dependence on gazprom. i know. we're not talking about russia's dependence we're talking about cooperation between russia on the one side and the european union on the other in the energy sector stream is viewed as a priority project both by russia and the because it's been part of europe's energy

networks since two thousand and six not recognized by the european parliament and the e.u. council of energy minister which was an informal appears from problem end or and from that interview minister to nordstrom pipelines have already been laid what top of the third one will be added and what will be its capacity we haven't yet i don't know that we currently have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic metres will be the question of whether a third or even fourth pipeline will be laid that should be answered by european stock holders of as you know we have gazprom on the one side and hollins got sunni france's g.d.s. suez and germany's on and b.s.f. windowsill on the other if investors decide to build a third and fourth pipeline privately financed mind you we're not talking about think financing then it could be done i do not know whether they will make such a decision as it was not part of my work line of. brussels wants all russian energy companies not just gazprom to be allowed to export gas to europe what are

the implications of that for gas problem and europe. regulator reprovision is not the issue the e.u. or germany and the rest of the nations need gas to sensibly reform their energy policy russia on the other hand has to sell gas to keep its budget in order so there's a. co-dependency which is a good thing now to be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up to russian companies it's a good free market economy that is good for the market truck what do you think of the recent in your raids on gazprom and its partners in europe think about the or p.r. guys i think europeans need gas field gas has many uses with the political uncertainty in north africa it's good to have a stable partner that you can rely on and russia is one of these you know better than anyone else for a space that britain recently switched from export to india old europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources but it's climatic conditions require them to get it

needs norway to go outside but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to goshen companies would be a wiser man of. the name to do some officials oppose russia whatever it does get us is for it or just most money i guess it is so we have to admit that what i hope we will get over it it's understandable and says the european union needs russia geopolitically but the reverse is also true it's not a question but with the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back at ideological differences yet again that is for the could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility towards that is unknown as it towards your informant's of which is in a situation where it could ship gas to china and all of asia and europe i hope russia never has to make a choice of the russian government is evidently pro european but europe cannot keep pushing russia or away it hurts russians pride and we have to keep in mind that

while russia has the alternative of shipping to asia europe has no such alternative and europe's geopolitical position will only improve if it manages to enter a tiny heartless ship with russia one and at the same time grant only u.s. session to turkey that would be a sound strategy and into the future of the rest. yesterday's debate alice and. guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean the gas shortfall for europe does vitter sneak no that will not happen russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that junction but i will say again that you are at home market is incredibly important for russia to keep it a budget balance among other things therefore we're not talking about dependency here but a codependency to go that we've heard plans to lay an electricity route alongside the nord stream project could germany and european in your opinion be interested in importing electricity from russia if i sneak funds i can play i have heard about

such plans i have long since been rumors about it but so far the talk has been detached from reality i don't the plans will ever be realized here but ultimately it's up to the pipelines owners not the chairman of the stockholders committee to share with the committee's progress in shipping liquefied natural gas. makes europe less dependent on pipelines can that affect this project and. i don't think it would have a negative effect on the project as europe's liquefied gas market is quite limited to move there's nowhere to sell it in germany or poland has a developing market important is that it's in no way a danger for us and that's not the reason i'm criticizing is the indication that there are alternative sources the low spot prices on gas their support deals can be of no more gain than long term supply agreements in the short run but they do not offer stability for us to go for twitter because in the wake of the fukushima disaster germany is closing all its nuclear power plants do you support that and

how will it change germany's energy mix. have been damaged mind lloyd and consider this me and my team were the people who would rigidly negotiated that deal with our energy suppliers that we had agreed to make a sensible exit out of nuclear strategy that was followed by a short period when the federal gov. i thought our agreement should be overturned and they've since gone the other way and started to plotting what i had negotiated on this does not mean bridge technologies like nuclear energy cannot be used until energy efficiency is sufficiently developed but we need gas as an interim energy source for the sake of energy security that's the reason we need to buy gas from new york from other cultures but primarily from russia and the reason we need to build a gas power station. with this huge debt crisis mr sarkozy says no hero no europe surely europe will survive without the euro so that there's i know i know former english as

a quote my successor in office likes to go to of course europe is going to have problems if the euro has problems but there's one thing you can be sure of at the end of the euro is going to survive as a common currency even it theoretically things turn out differently which i find very improbable you think we will still have a united europe it is vital in orpah gave you were chancellor when greece cooked its books to join the euro should you have stopped athens from joining the single currency club an if there's. a i do not think that was our situation of the european commission its employees that had to conduct inspections they had let us know that we could take the responsibility for greece's e.u. a session on ourselves but it was a purely preparatory mission conducted by the european commission and the national government we had made the decision to take greece in we could not claim without having firm proof that the information we got then was on diplomatically speaking not entirely correct a very much keep in mind that the european parliament voted in favor of greece's

membership almost unanimously including the conservatives who are now trying to distance themselves from that decision sometimes in politics you don't want to believe things that he wants condoned or actually happening. unless either the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since they tend. which which is it ends in the it's pointless to talk about how things were in the past we're talking about the future you can go i hope we manage to keep greece in the eurozone for that to happen as the new greek government would have to be nonpartizan uninfluenced by debate provoked by right wing party guests on what i hope the package of aid agreements that european leaders have agreed on is implement if that's the case then i think we can start taking care of stabilizing the market with a great deal of help from greece of you. there is one point i would like to make the country should not be broken down not only does greece need budget discipline which is of course trivial should what greece needs most are investments that

invest it would be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently investing a broader pay taxes in their own country instead of looking for investment opportunity or so on was a good i don't want to bring is there a red line beyond which germans as they we're not going to bail out southern europe anymore or does germany have a historic debt to europe has from it's been they're getting a bad debt i'm not against discussing a red line the problem is that if you start to talk about a red line then you'd eventually have to correctly germany's interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe that the economic interest is easily explainable you get forty percent of our export goes to the european union and beyond that if those countries are hit by a crisis then so is germany secondly or the lesson we learned in the past and our prospects for the future dictate that germany is not strong enough geo politically to play a significant role in a game where the u.s. is one superpower and an asian leader. in this case china is the other new european

state it is only a united europe can take on a role like that if that's why germany is interested in a night in the us that is not just because of the past with you but for the sake of our citizens future that will come from a lot of being to small question many germans many people in. finns are angry at having to pay. or they roll that's enough for it see and i can understand that but i have to explain it very consistently to the current generation of political leaders that it's within our own interest to maintain stability in other countries as germany's a nation that relies hugely on actual year if markets around us crumble it harms us we have to explain it to our people the new generation the prospects for long lasting peace allies in europe goodwill and when you serve the german chancellor there was no question of receiving financial aid from china or russia directly or indirectly through the i.m.f. do you regret that's happening potentially and what would be the implications i

think it doesn't have but i do not think we should feel bad about other nations getting stronger be they russians chinese brazilians south africans or indians it should not concern us because these countries offer us more opportunity to export our products as they develop a vague. but that's only the case if we stay better stay more innovative when we fulfill our agenda of twenty town and sort out our social policies germany is the only country that understood back in two thousand and three that for an aging country to maintain prosperity was it must provide for change i think it i wonder if the rest of the e.u. states having understood this a decade later will manage to take the action needed to maintain prosperity eyes on the other hand we have an understanding that an aging society with a decreasing number of people who are deployed has problems of that so. we started taking care of our problems in time or the rest will regret it and be forced to

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longest subs pipeline is set to start pumping russian gas to warm up western europe without relying on transit countries president germany ready to flick the switch to receive supplies later on tuesday. it is a race for the rescue funds in greece with the prime minister and the leader of the opposition scrambling to form a government with enough power to resolve the crisis the euro zone's given them fifteen weeks to sort out making the necessary cuts. and as israel threatens a strike on iran on top of the recent ground invasion of lebanon and gaza its young people are increasingly turning their backs on the army many have told r.t. their country is now too severe for them to enter service. in fifteen minutes time next though it's a sports update with dmitri. hello

there this is the sports. thanks for joining us this hour let's take a quick look at what's making the sporting headlines around the world. their first international tournament under their new head coach seem to lobby. for the first stage of the euro hockey to. developing young skills anyway in the country of russia's top world rhythmic journalists visit their remote region to find tomorrow's talents. and goals go on the face of the longest ever russian football season is over see all the strikes which the nets in the final week. we start with said news that former world heavyweight boxing champion joe frazier has died the legend was diagnosed with liver cancer just last month he passed away at home in philadelphia surrounded by his family in ninety six a full length big gold medalist who was also included in the international boxing

hall of fame known as smoking he became the first man to beat mama dolly that was in ninety seven to one in what was called the fight of the century. sixty seven years. to other stories not europeanized talking nations will settle to know for stage continental tournament which starts in finland this weekend the euro hockey is widely considered as a preparation stage for russia finland sweden and the czech republic ahead of the new world championships to russia worth far from impressive last season after failing to reach the world championship finals the result a new man of the house since added enough took over the reins from the just love but get through security right. back to back world gold three years ago but it's interface hoped they'd russia all the way to the soft shell lympics in twenty fourteen but that coming finnish stage of the euro turn will be his first real test

as head coach of the national team where the next winter games a little over two years away bella donna will have plenty of time to come up with an ultimate approach to. the olympics are a very serious and interesting a very for me personally as a coach his words in building i want to develop my roster here in russia using primarily cage old players the upcoming international tournaments including the world cup should reveal their capabilities and then we can start thinking about it in the big city. well badin of decided to give you think chance at the opening stage in helsinki with his team loaded with promising talent federal victory there is always this court's primary objective so it's experience at both ends of the rink that the coach will rely on forward. former n.h.l. that already has two world championship gold medals and his experience will be unbearable for getting the place up to speed. a lot of long here and now on

the real talent and the you know someone who won a world during the last really good and. i think. in the team because the young they really. play good and. it's not it's not surprising at all. let me turn to the russian under twenty's beat quebec's junior league side in the first clash of the twenty seven super serious the russians managed to find a twice killer scans of open the scoring seventeen minutes in while bogged down by double rushes late midway through the game and despite the canadians having had this many ice for to do shots on target i guess that is just twelve very bright man managed to keep the goal intact. because dividends has ended this season on a low note as the russian question out of the final eight to be event of the year in paris has suffered a first round defeat by under

a separate telling qualifier took the open in a tie break seemed the second set to go to a tie breakers rope with a double fault and gave the win to separate. in other matches for another dusky book took place in the second round the spaniard faced lara church of gracious and had to come from a said to beat his opponent to each one the opening set six three eight but then dusk stormed back in with second and third shots taking them six two six three respectively. another first round winner was germany's foreign czech radek stepanek seven five six three next faces not official united states who is trying to make it to the world two finals if you play suits eight in the rankings and is determined to make it to london. i've never been in this was before. you know from what i hear you know everything and. everything that you do with the

files is pretty amazing. and i love to. experience it for myself and not only for myself as a lot of people who put a lot of work and. you know are pretty emotionally and physically invested in mars also friends and family and coaches and trainers and things like that so they're the ones i want to do it for as well. russia has been taking all necessary steps to try and maintain in the world of rhythmic gymnastics even the countries are not regions like the town of care of sketching a visit from the national team with impressive efforts to develop young talent now well underway has a story. here of skills a full eight hundred kilometers away from moscow but a long journey didn't stop team russia from pain a visit the message be telling across the basque country will be left undiscovered with a remote mormon screeching in a brand new gymnastic school top class instructors are helping young talent blossom

into transcendent performers on the biggest stage these students aged three to seven years old washington or as the current crop of rhythmic gymnasts put on a show at the school's opening ceremony one of the sport's main figures in russia irina venier believes it's the most complete lineup she's seen in a while because that's the cream of the crop of global rhythmic gymnastics all gathered here we haven't even had that many people at the world championships and this time we brought our entire golden results gymnastic europe's. connive always stood head and shoulders above the competition with the all round gold at three straight gymnastics world championships and at the beijing olympics the twenty one year old remaining humble despite clearly being russia's main hope. for london two thousand and twelve and beyond that the gym is great for up and coming athletes and hopefully it will be used in preparation for the upcoming russian championships i

didn't have such fancy facilities and that's when i started so i'm happy for these kids i have no plans for in the index yet because i'm still in the process of qualification the soviet union and russia have always been the world's mecca of rhythmic gymnastics winning sixty one world championship medals over the entire course of history the russians have also one goal that individual and team events during the past three olympics but everybody at the world gymnastics stronghold are aware that maintaining the title is the greatest in the world won't be easy come next summer evander gorski r t. it's official this time kallis later is the eleven time space surfing world champ and the thirty nine year old finally able to rightful to claim the title after. twenty seven where prematurely the american was initially annoyed to champion on november the second but it will soon discovered that slater would have to win one hates to claim the crown and he did just that slater not able to enjoy the fruits of his labor over in california so it

appears pretty incredible that he did occur on the beach just holding court on it and with football the regular season in the russian premier league now wrapped up so let's take a look at all nineteen strikes that crossed the line in a game with thirty so it's goals the time. live. live. live live.

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