welcome back you're watching our t.v. live from moscow here's a recap of all our top stories the world's a longest subsidy pipeline is about to start pumping russian gas to warm up the western europe without having to rely on transit countries just a few minutes president medvedev and his rupee and colleagues will flick the switch in germany and we'll bring you the launch live right here on our team. it's a race for the rescue funds in greece where the prime minister and the leader of the opposition's groundling to form a government with about power to resolve the crisis the euro zone's given fifteen

weeks to sort out making the necessary cuts. threatens a strike on iran on top of the recent ground invasion of lebanon and gaza itself people are increasingly turning their backs on the army and many have told our to other countries now too severe for them to enter sort of. the lead of nordstrom's first gas liveries we talked to a man who was behind the ambitious project from the start is former german chancellor gerhard schroeder who is now chairman of the tree and he tells us why the fuel route is 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 north stream russia's new gas pipeline under the baltic sea to europe further why should the e.u. increase its dependence on gazprom is good news i know. we're

not talking about a dependence on russia we're talking about cooperation between russia on the one side and the european union on the other in the energy sector. the north stream is viewed as a priority project by both russia and the e.u. because it's been part of europe's energy networks since two thousand and six is recognized by the european parliament and the e.u. council of energy ministers or some form or passion part i meant went from that interview minister to nordstrom pipelines have already been laid what's what's the third one will be added and what will be its capacity we have to get it we currently have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic metres 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 story and hollande a sunni france's g.d.s. who is in germany is iran and the s.f. winterson on the other if investors decide to build

a third and fourth pipeline privately financed mind you we're not talking about state financing in the us then it could be done i do not know whether they will make such a decision as it was not part of my word of god. and us 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 and europe. regulator is not the issue the e.u. germany and the rest of the nations need gas to sensibly reform their energy policy with russia on the other hand has to sell gas to keep its budget in order so there's a. co-dependency 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 is a good fresh marketer what do you think of the recent new raids on gazprom and its partners in europe 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 one of them you know better than anyone else for instance that written recently switched from export to imperial power europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources and it's climatic conditions require them to get its norway together side but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to the russian companies would be wise and of. the name to do some e.u. officials oppose russia whatever it does or does is for it or just most the moment i guess it so we have to admit that way but i hope we will get over it or it's understandable the european union needs russia geopolitically but the reverse is also true there's no question about it the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back at ideological differences are you agreeing that it was for the could russia switch supply ethe the troika if brussels keeps up its hostility was

that it is a known as it caught your hormones 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 the gear it 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 with europe's geopolitical position will only improve if it manages to enter a tidy partnership with russia when under the same time grand sessions of turkey that would be a sound strategy and into the future of the rest. yesterday's debate. you're watching r t on the back to our top story in a few minutes russian gas will start its. western europe right president medvedev and germany's chancellor merkel are among those ready to supply and you're looking at live pictures of it that's event well that said do try to cross over there and

listen and to what president dimitri medvedev has to say so. much stuff from young ladies into. the new day which is we have a very symbolic event which we have here and. we can set into operation the first part of the north stream pipeline which is a new page from the partnership between russia and. the i.c.c. peaches which we heard before all bear witness to this. is for the first time coming through the e.u. member states on the direct way you can enter the sub see a pipeline which is one thousand two hundred twenty four kilometers long. along the touches the territories of baltics you states and we have the largest companies of germany the netherlands and france involved in this project which are very actively

involved and i would like to thank all of them the gas from russia and the electricity generated from this sort of country you would want to be a reliable energy supply of the european consumers so we will strengthen the energy reliability in europe and it make life much more pleasant for many people in europe and this is the crucial point for the construction of the pipeline was preceded by a very complex approval process and face we already heard this from. into. also you know when i was chairman of custom and i was involved and many meetings and talks in this respect and in the. hands of the notational so we had to handle all sorts of problems but today it seems the plan is we can now see that these tasks were going on and i guess i've read pragmatic and economically

efficient way and if we can definitely say that the new pipeline is state of the earth in the terms of environmental protection. as we just saw in this presentation a very clearly the new pipeline. supplying the increasing came on for fluid and i think next year when the second part converts will be said to the operation consumers can receive as much as twenty five billion cubic meters of gas additionally for their richest quite an impressive volume and we. are confident that the companies will manage to overcome all the difficulties and that they will recall sustainable growth and the additional. dollar for partners in trying to train people. which can be increased to.

right to two hundred billion cubic meters of russia has always. great length fulfilling its obligations in the energy sector and we would still say this is still our most important big ational even at times when economic situation in russia was definitely difficult but we endeavored to continue our gas supplies without interruption to europe and we will continue to do so when the future with our european partners in order to attract investment for these parts of the projects and i'm convinced that such a. involvement with risks along the entire energy supply and what this very off the beginning with the phase of gas i am to say electricity supplies to end consumers in german french companies are actively involved in the

production of them from russian gas fields and we are interested in the development of the gas distribution infrastructure and in the style bushmen and of state of the art and ecologically sound power generation capacity including steam gas generators in the body in the appropriate power stations and we hope. there will be no artificial barriers to this cooperation out of whole though i appreciate that there are different approaches that can be adopted which were already mentioned because. there is no economically sound alternative to cooperation which is to the mutual benefit of all the parties involved and i would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all those who were involved in the construction of this pipeline which was a very big and very important work and i am confident. russia and the. contrariness will have many excellent and outstanding projects only from

both in the energy sector and in other areas as well and we will manage to overcome all the problems we have a bright future and i would like to thank the people broke of the everybody once again thanks christine it's good to have many. ladies and gentlemen please welcome uncle americal chancellor of the federal republic of germany. thank. you dear mr president if you have been prime minister fees on mr president what sort of. commission are going to ettinger. minister for selling anything. you can always. hear representatives from the energy companies and they are guests of those events it is

a great honor for us today to be here and look me in the sparrow's state off mic and book western pomerania and. it is a great honor for us to you in uk your rate of project off such as to touch it i mention a particular case an example for the corporation between russia and the european union and in a field. that is still a precondition for the functioning in the street states the energy supply to the countries this project shows the presence of obviously many representatives from different countries we so that we can build on the basis offer a reliable partnership between the european union and russia and i think this protect us. paramount example for. not stream is a milestone in european energy partnerships. as we could see in the film it is one

of the biggest infrastructure projects energy infrastructure projects of our time but at the pillar just sixty construction of the pipes positioning in the baltic sea all this demanded by technical standards that fulfills strict environmental rules. all. respect it and despite any difficulties in terms of the weather and also in terms of the way approval procedure we managed to complete the. part of the. project can already be launched today not related to today this is a major achievement and i would like to thank all the passages that contributed to this achievement you took over our major responsibility and times of the technical demands but also you in respect to the interests of all the baltic sea state and i

can say that there was good cooperation between politics and the economic and industrial interests not stream in cooperation with the authorities able to find a balance solutions and this shows that the industry is capable of creating complex projects responsible. despite all the political support one has to say that all the stream. industrial projects and therefore the response ability is with the industry and they were able to do it in this way but of course we as politicians are also interested in getting reliable energy supply and the not stream pipeline is an example for it the second one pipeline up the twin pipelines is under construction at the moment fifty five good

. miscast you can see the immense share that this has in the german supply and european energy supply when speaking about security of supply we also speak about the topic of diversification but we can say that despite all that is diversification russia is one of the most participants most important for us on the supply sources have to be safe. from europe it's also a very guaranteed one because we need it for the economic development of our country and this means that for decades to come we will our closely be closely linked to each other so that the. consumer countries as well as russia benefit by the project it is a project that will be working on a long term basis and therefore i want to thank all the fathers and mothers of this project thing authorities those who supported the party but also the

experts who made it possible to use the. state of the arctic knowledge see i wish to all of us that we. can be put into operation shortly and i think the gas molecules are already. flowing through the pipeline and so not stream will contribute to the fact that europe will have a secure supply of gas also in the future and not stream it will also. work for the coal that the energy partnership between the european union and russia can be continuous we will certainly have some critical discussions. in a market project is not easily understandable for everyone but i am confident that we will manage to do. maybe we will have to do make my the changers. ladies and

gentleman. this i wish to all of us are very. partnership and cooperation and i thank all of those who made it possible to have realized the high technology project and so let's begin. thank you very much transfer america indeed you may stay put you may take your place at the wheel ladies and gentlemen excellencies we come to the high point of our ceremony we're going to turn the wheel of history we need lots of hands to do it so i will ask all of the heads of states government representatives and shareholders of the consortium to have all of you here almost please may i ask you to take your places around that wheel and if you're not sure where you're supposed to be you should have placed markers there.

everybody found his or her place. so now i will ask you to put your hands on the wheel but don't turn it yet ok don't turn it yet so all of the members of the press who wish to take photos please exactly down to the front wonderful. ladies and gentleman countless people including many of you here in the room have been striving for years to make this moment possible immense creativity and commitment to the construction of a pipeline that is going to enhance energy security for millions of europeans the gas flowing through this pipeline right now began its journey ten days ago in siberia in a stream to all the way across russia through twelve hundred twenty four kilometers of pipe i'm at the bottom of the baltic sea to make landfall here in the mean and

in just a moment we're going to feed it into the european grid excellencies get ready to turn the wheel we're going to turn it please when we finish the countdown ladies and gentlemen can i get your help now half hour. erin. many many thanks to all of our dignitaries for the hard work turning the wheel. well there you have it we just saw

a live pictures of the opening ceremony of the nord stream a gas project it's not officially on the european grid of heating gas to european countries directly from russia now at this event we saw president had to get it you have been chancellor angela merkel and the prime ministers of france fossil fuel and the netherlands some are there in the german coastal town of lumina for this momentous momentous event. the baltics which this will start the uninterrupted flow of gas from russia into western europe again straight without going through any transit nations all leaders again stressing if the importance of this cooperation for and their families security and. he said no economic sound alternative to ration care and the angela merkel say calling it one of the most important energy infrastructure projects of our time again we just saw all that unfolding live a very big moments indeed for all those involved all right well you are watching

our team at this moment and for now let's go to the sports test for all the latest with you don. thanks tessa great to have you with us this is sports day we begin with some sad news former world heavyweight boxing champion joe frazier has died aged sixty seven following a brief battle with liver cancer the legend was diagnosed with cancer just last month he passed away at home in philadelphia surrounded by his family in one nine hundred sixty four olympic gold medalist he was also included in the international boxing hall of fame. joe he became the first man to greet how modally that was in one thousand six hundred seventy one in what was called the fight of the century drew fraser was sixty seven.

let's move on to football where it's been confirmed that the second stage of the longest ever russian premier league season will kick off on the eighteenth of november following is group a which comprises the top eight regular season teams match the one we'll see defending champions of this year's table toppers need to take on some real and to lose instant petersburg second place serious stuff clash ahead with routine in round one visit dino my while there also be a mosque between sports committee each team will play one another with the champions probably didn't meet ok group b. that is the relegation half of all the table this is what looks like they will play their games on the same dates were rushed off entertain the team who finished bottom of their seats from f.c. cross the door take on star technology. are up against chris i'll be out off while vulgate play hard that's game week thirty one game week thirty two will also be

played in november be for the teams have a. winter break the championship then resumes answering. russia painting all necessary steps to try and maintain their dominance in the world of rest and gymnastics even in the country's remote regions like a ton of corrupts getting a visit from the national team with impressive efforts to develop young talent no well underway events of course he takes up the story. of hero skis a full eighteen hundred kilometers away from moscow but a long journey didn't stop the russian from paying a visit the message being no challenge across the basque country will be left on discovered 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 is 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 the real venier believes it's the most complete line up she's seen in a while and business the cream of the crop of global rhythmic gymnastics all got us here we haven't even have that many people at the world championships and this time we brought our entire goal the result from gymnastic europe's. cannot have always stood head and shoulders above the complication when the all around gold in three straight gymnastics world championships and the beijing olympics the twenty one year old remaining home will despite clearly be russia's main hope for london two thousand and twelve and beyond that is great for up and coming out points and who fully it will be used in preparation for the upcoming russian championships i didn't have such nancy facilities and that's when i started so i'm happy for these kids i have no plans for the olympics yet because i'm still in the process of the occasion 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 won gold in individual and team events during the past three olympics but everybody at the world gymnastics stronghold are aware that maintaining the title as the greatest in the world won't be easy come next summer. our team. ok finally let's move to american football on the n.f.l. where the chicago bears weathered the storm to fight back and beat the eagles up their own nest in philadelphia jay cutler key for the birds in the thirty to twenty four road victory over the stumbling preseason favorites the eagles heavily criticized linebacker for up to the task of early in this one rookie brian ross stripping the ball from a fourth say effective but for six knots tied the game at ten a pace the birdies overcame to force a turnover spanx think that none cutler the quarterback finding bennett's for

a twenty seven twenty four leads are a big goal field goal then made it thirty twenty four philly could still win with that's were lined with other two minutes left in the fourth. plane fell short of the first on the what it mattered most score thirty twenty four was the final. that is old sports now i'll be back in the next hour for more sports see you get. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers of close since two thousand three hundred one is not enough in-patient beds not in the third emergency department beds and not enough nurses from nando's 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 impact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to be harassed so i started out going to just do fire

fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire the problem is medical but they had a rescue couple weeks and i waited for hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis and we went for four hours and fifteen minutes getting us a wall of patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in the emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

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