and look just like there right from our studios in central moscow this is our team glad to have you with us. the world's longest subsidy pipeline is said to start pumping russian gas to warm up western europe without relying on transit countries president to get up in germany ready to flick the switch to receive supplies later on tuesday. and it is a race for the rescue funds in greece with the prime minister and of the leader of the opposition scrambling to form a government with enough power to resolve the crisis the eurozone is given the fifteen weeks to sort out making the necessary cuts. and as israel threatens

a strike on iran on top of recent ground invasions of lebanon and gaza it's that young people are increasingly turning their backs on the army army but many have told our team their country is now too severe for them to enter service. ahead of the streams first gas deliveries we talked to a man who was behind the ambitious project from the start he's a former german chancellor gerhard schroeder who's now chairman of north stream he tells us why the fuel round is so important all around. gerhard schroeder was charles love germany from nineteen 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 so europe is further why should the e.u. increase its hands on gazprom as good. a period. 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 and the stream is viewed as a priority project both by russia and the e.u. 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 wasn't for more patient but i meant one form that if you minister to north korean pipelines have already been laid what's the third one will be added and what will be its capacity we had to get it 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 living that should be answered by european stock holders of as you know we have gazprom on the one side and holland's got sunni france's g.d.'s who is germany's on and vs if we're just along the other investors decided to build a third and fourth pipeline through

a privately financed mine we're not talking about state financing and any could be done i do not know whether they will make such a decision as it was not part of my work and i know of. all russian energy companies not just goes to be allowed to export gas to europe what are the implications of that for gazprom and europe. regulator evolution is not the issue which germany and the rest of the e.u. nations need gas to sensibly reform their energy policy will 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 i would 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 isn't good for the marc rich what do you think of the recent raids on gazprom and its partners in europe if you think about the or p.r. guys i think europeans need gas field as 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 what would be you know better than anyone else for instance the bit written recently switched from export to imperial europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources and it's climatic conditions require him to get it needs norway to go outside but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to mission companies would be a wise move what if it were named surf and do some e.u. officials opposed whatever it does is for the us most known i guess it is so we have to admit that i hope we will get over it it's understandable that 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 an ideological difference here again. it was for the could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility was that is unknown as it were

your evil mines of which is in a situation where it could ship gas to china and all of asia and europe but i hope russia never has to make a choice of the russian government is evidently pro european but europe cannot keep pushing russia 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 tightly heartless ship with russia on and at the same time grant you a session to turkey that would be a sound strategy aimed into the future good of the rest of yesterday's debate making a list and it's the rebuttal from guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean a shortfall for europe divestment the snake you know whether or not happened russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that john king would never see again that you're a canard it is incredibly important for russia to keep its budget balance among other things. therefore we're not talking about the conduct here but

a codependency to go with her plans to lay an electricity route alongside the north stream project could germany and europe in your opinion be interested in importing every person from russia if i sniff funds a conflict i have heard about such clams they 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 but ultimately it's up to the pipelines owners not the chairman of the stockholders committee when the shelter committees progress in shipping liquefied natural gas. makes europe less dependent on pipelines can that affect this project then just grab it and if they're safe i don't think it would have a negative effect on the project as europe's liquefied gas market is quite limited and remember there's no way to sell it in germany or poland has a developing market and orders that it's in no way a danger for us that's not the reason i'm criticizing the indication that there are alternative sources and the low spot prices on gas their g.p.s.

spot deals can be of no more gain long term supply agreements in the short run but they do not offer stability for snigger for playing a big problem 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 transit would be in your mid mind light and so consider this me and my team of other people who would rigidly negotiated that deal with our energy suppliers we had agreed to make a sensible exit out of nuclear strategy that was followed by a short period when the federal government fought our agreement should be overturned and they've since gone the other way and started supporting what i had negotiated on as does not mean bridge technologies like nuclear energy cannot be used until energy efficiency is sufficiently developed we need gas as an interim energy source for the sake of energy security and that's the reason we need to buy gas from new york from other cultures but primarily from russia of. and the reason

we need to build gas power stations and more so. with this crisis mr sarkozy says no euro no europe surely europe will survive without the euro so and that's i know i know from all this is a quote from a successor in office for example of course europe's going to have problems if the euro has problems but there's one thing you can be sure of the euro is going to survive as a common currency there even it theoretically things turn out differently which i find very improbable you think we will still have a united europe it is vital and or probably able you were chancellor when greece cooked its books to join the euro should you have stopped athens from joining the single currency company. on those it towards your own via i do not think that was our situation of the european commission its employees that had to conduct inspections and they had letters know that we could take the responsibility for greece is a us national marcel but he was a purely preparatory mission conducted by the european commission and the national

governments we had made the decision to take greece in we cannot claim without having firm kreutz that the information we got then was diplomatically speaking not entirely correct 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 of us and for any of us that either the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since it ended which which is a matter of cones in the is the up it's pointless to talk about how things were in the past we're talking about the future but i hope we manage to keep greece in the euro zone for that to happen as the new greek government will have to be nonpartizan uninfluenced by debates provoked by right we don't publish it so funny i hope the package of aid agreements that european leaders have agreed on is implement tech and if that's the. ok so then i think we can start taking care of

stabilizing our markets but a great deal of help from greece if you were there is one point i would like to made out of the country should not be broken down not only does greece need budget discipline which is of course trigger but what greece needs mostly are investments that invest it would be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently investing abroad with pay taxes in their own country instead of looking for investment opportunities or stroll on with their gold and i thought doubling is there a red line beyond which germans play we're not going to bail out southern europe anymore or does germany have a historic depth if europe has fraud or if 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 they need eventually have to correctly germany's interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe and economic interest is easily explained that forty percent of our exports goes to the european union and beyond it is if those countries ahead

by a crisis and 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 geopolitically to play a significant role in a game where the u.s. is one superpower and an asian leader of the right in this case china is the other in new european state is in the i'm only a united europe can take on a role like that if that's why germany is interested in a night of us out not just because of the pastors or for the sake of our citizens future conference a lot of being to small question many germans many people many fins are angry at having to pay. or they roll that's not for it seeing i can understand that but i have to explain it very consistently to the current generation of political leaders sleeps with in our own interests to maintain stability in other countries as germany's a nation that relies hugely on actual here if markets around us crumble it harms us we have to explain it to. people the new generation of the prospects for long

lasting peace allies in europe. when you serve the job of charles live 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 and what would be the implication i think a month or doesn't make a dollar i do not think we should feel bad about other nations get out stronger be they russians chinese brazilians south africans or indians should not concern us because these countries offer us more opportunity to export our products as they develop but that's only the case if we stay better stay more innovative when we fulfill our agenda of twenty and sort out our social policies in germany is the only country that understood back in two thousand and three that for an aging country to maintain prosperity as it must provide for change think about i wonder if the rest of the e.u. states having understood this is a decade later i'll manage to take the action needed to maintain prosperity i on

the other hand we have an understanding that an aging society with a decreasing number of people who are about lloyd has problems of that sort it will be a bit that we started taking care of our problems in time or with the rest will regret it be forced to take on a harder mission this goes for everyone not just the sound of all posts this but if the band you can order. chairman of the board for the nordstrom gas pipeline thank you for speaking with r.t. . from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand three hundred one is not enough in patient beds not enough department beds and not enough the nurses some members that's to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is

a firefighter i didn't want to be a mask i started out i want to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire department is medical i've got a rescue we still waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis only way for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care and emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. the official antti hopefully keisha. called touch from the.

video on demand. minefield costs and all registry now in the palm of your. call. the world's longest to some seed pipeline is said to start pumping the russian gas to warm up western europe without one lying on transit countries president but yet it is in germany ready to flick a switch to receive supplies later on tuesday. it's 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 college a result the crisis in the euro zone has given them fifteen weeks to sort out making the necessary cuts. and this is a real friends a strike on iran on top of recent ground invasions of lebanon and gaza its young people are increasingly turning their backs on the army and they have told our to their countries and now it's too severe for them to enter service more news in

around fifteen minutes time but next though if the sports update with. i know that this is this sports update turn out to have a company again first let's take a quick look at what's making this whole thing headlines. the first international tournament on the new head coach into the i believe in of the man prepare for the first stage of the year hope it's a big. developing young skills anyway in the country russia's top walled rhythmic gymnast visit a remote region to find tomorrow's talent. and game over. exists the final phase of prevention of the year following

a first round picks. but was not with the said news that film a world heavyweight boxing champion joe fraser has died the legend was diagnosed with liver cancer just last month after way of homophobes alpha surrounded for his family nine hundred sixty four olympic gold medalist was also included in the international teams hall of fame and i smoking a joint he became the first man to use and how dairy it was announcing santa once i'm not really close so i took a century job raising six to seven. but. other stories now top european i saw the nations will suck out on their fourth stage concerts tournaments which starts in finland they say can be euro hawk and so is widely considered as a preparation stage for russia finland sweden and the czech republic ahead of the annual well championships to russia were thought from the price of last season after failing to reach the world championship finals result on you man of the

hounds in from out of the dinner took over the reins from the slot because for security rushes back to back world gold for years ago who did. fay's hope to lead russia all the way so they have such olympics in twenty four teams but coming fairly straight over a year or so will be his first trail tasks are said coach of the national team well the next winter games are a little over two years away but then it will have plenty of time to come up with an ultimate roast. it's very. deliberate sort of very serious and interesting it varied for me personally as a coach is for a team building i want to develop my roster here in russia using primarily gauge ill glares at the upcoming international tournaments including what the world cup should reveal their capabilities and then to start thinking about fixing them. well bill didn't have decided to give us a chance at the opening stage in helsinki it with steyn loaded with promising talents like it's always this court's primary objective so it's experienced at both

ends of the rink the coach will rely so much a rifle with ice on the other with a minor child away has two world championship gold medals and his experience will be priceless getting the bookies just paid. a lot of the longest here right now and really the towns and the you know someone won the whole world during the last year and they're really good. at doing the day in the gym not because they on the day i think they really. play good this year and. it's not in the buff it's not surprising at all. in the meantime the russian under twenty's beats go back to junior league sides in the first question of the turn to eleven super serious the russians managed to for the next twice the us has a hope in this scoring seventeen minutes in well goddamn partaken doubled russia's lead went through it again and despite the canadians having his many as forty two

shots on target against the visitors twelve for their drugs meant mischief if they go. we go i do was and has ended this season on a low note as the russian question out of the final eight at the event of the in paris suffered a first round defeat under a separate plates at a fourth line through the tiebreaker saying that the second set would go try try to break again to double fault from dividends given it's a separate. another match just another just good book took place in the second round. of creation and come from which sat down treaties opponents to each one the opening set six three but spendthrift stormed back in the second and third snaps six two six three responsibly in the first round without rules germany's foreign. czech radek stepanek seven five six three my next race is not a feature of the united states who is trying to make it through the world to finals

he's concrete. in the rankings and is determined to make it so london. never been this was him before. you know from what i hear you know everything in the zero two arena everything as if you were the world tour finals is pretty amazing. and i love to open experience it for myself and not only for myself there's a lot of people behind me and put a lot of work into. it. you know or pretty emotionally and physically invested in our results and friends and family and coaches and trainers and things like that sort of they're the ones i want to do it for as well. in what world number three and in mari who has won the two previous nasty series events in twenty eleven in cincinnati and shanghai starts his campaign on wednesday and he's not expecting an easy ride so enjoy. it is

just fun first the. worst on record great atmosphere. so of course i don't know him as good as some of the other mostly but the center has grown and. looking at the draw of the other to lose very few matches you know is very strong. you know it was pretty much the exception of rough. everyone's blowing so it's certainly up there with one of. the strongest most. informal on jenson button and lewis hamilton anticipate some thrilling action i think that ultimate race of the season in abu dhabi with the drivers' championship the road to rep tom price the best invest so the two mcclaren drivers are both looking to consolidate their positions in the overall standings lots of crowd sits second there thirteen points ahead of them on the long for and once the how their position on sunday hamilton has thirty eight points behind his teammates and the scheme to replace mark webber

in fourth in a race the brits promise will deliver. a good deal. of beasts of thought before we have to hear a sound so overtaking and the too long gone straight so i think it was taken very good there think it would be a great spectacle sure it's a circuit it's very stop start i would obviously need a car as this very good under braking really good traction it's also say it's very difficult overtakes. running overtaking of chinese is going very tough there so we've got to qualify well pretty well for a row is pretty much a must. russia has been taking all necessary steps to try and maintain its dominance in the world of rhythmic gymnastics even in the country's remote regions like the town of curious getting a visit from the national team with impressive efforts to develop young talent and now well underway it has of course has a story. here ask is a full eight hundred kilometers away from moscow

a long journey didn't start team russia from pain a visit the message being no talent across the basque country will be left undiscovered with a remote mormon screech an opening 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 line up she's seen in a while in business the rim of the crop of global rhythmic gymnastics. we haven't even had to that many people at the world championships and this time we rode our entire gold in reserve for gymnastic here. gania connive always stood head and shoulders above the competition winning all round gold the 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 he did you is great for us in coming out for us and fulfilling it will be used in preparation for the upcoming russian championships i don't have such fancy facilities and that's when i started so i'm happy for these kids i have no plans bundling picks 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 when sixty one world champion should medals over the entire course of history the russians have also one goal the individual and team events during the past three olympics put everybody at the world's gymnastics stronghold are aware that maintaining the title as the greatest in the world won't be easy come next summer. our team. world champion the thirty nine year old finally able to write for the claim the title. arrow builds him as the twenty seven winner prematurely the american was

initially anointed champion november the second but it was soon discovered that slater would have to win one more paint to claim the crown and did just that slates an able to enjoy the fruits of his day that doesn't colorful. ok that's it for me and the sports desk and i'll be back and toss time with more. i'm discovering.

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