backs of the army and many have told are to other countries now too severe for them to enter. the lead of nordstrom's first gas a livery as we talk to a man who was behind the ambitious project from the start his former german chancellor gerhard schroeder who is now chairman of the well he tells us why the fuel route is important all over. 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. 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. 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 last and from all appears from problem and ordered from that the energy minister to nordstrom's pipelines have already been laid what top of the third one will be added and what will be its capacity we haven't yet that we currently have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic meters would 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 holland's 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 stink 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 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 gazprom and europe. regulator reprovision is not the issue the e.u. 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 is good for the mark picture what do you think of the recent you raids on gazprom and its partners in europe think about the or p.r. guys i think europeans need gas 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 written 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 national companies would be a wise move of. the name to do some officials oppose russia whatever it does get us is for though that's most i guess it so we have to admit that way but i hope we will get over it 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 if that is for the could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility was that isn't as it towards your involvements of wishes 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 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 geo political position will only improve if it manages to enter a tiny hard to ship with russia one and at the same time grant a session to turkey that would be a sound strategy and into the future of the rest. yesterday's debate. you're watching are to back to my top story in a few minutes russian gas will start its flow into western europe president medvedev and germany's chancellor merkel are among those ready to launch the supply and you're looking at live pictures of that event well that said do try to cross in there and listen in to what president dmitri medvedev has to say. most of them young ladies and gentlemen. let me today. we have a very symbolic event which we have. today. we're going to set into operation

the first part of the north stream pipeline which is a new page from the partnership between russia. and. the. teachers which we heard before all bear witness to. for the first time coming through the e.u. member states on the direct way you can and the sub see a pipeline which is one thousand two hundred twenty four kilometers long. 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 from russia and the electricity generated from this where contribute to want to be a reliable energy supply of the european consumers so we will strengthen the energy

reliability in europe of any of make life much more pleasant for many people in europe and this is a crucial point for the construction of the pipeline that was preceded by a very complex approval process and face we already heard this from. into. all see above when i was chairman of gus plum and i was involved in many meetings and talks in this respect and in the. comments of the notation so we had to handle also holds off problems but today it seems. we can no seely that these were men and i've urged pragmatical to economically efficient way and if we can definitely say that the new pipeline is the state of the both in terms of environmental protection. as we just smile in this presentation that very clearly the new pipeline. of

supply and the increasingly mond for fluid and i think next year when the second pipeline bird said to be set into operation consumers can receive as much as twenty five billion cubic metres of gaza dition to leave for their riches 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 addition. of all partners in twenty twenty. which can be increased to. to two hundred billion cubic meters of gas russia has always. gone much greater length fulfilling its obligations in the energy sector and we would still say this is still our most important obligation even at times when you cannot because the 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 in the future with our european partners in order to attract investment for the parts of the projects and i am convinced that such a network involvement with many mines risks along the entire energy supply and there's a certain very often beginning with the phase of gas and to supply electricity supplies to end consumers and german french companies are actively involved in the production and from russian gas fields and we are interested in the development of the gas distribution infrastructure and in the establishment of state of the art and ecologically sound power generation capacity including steam gas generators and

a body in the appropriate power stations and we hope. that there will be no artificial barriers to this cooperation out of them although i appreciate that there are different approaches that can be adopted which were already mentioned because. there is no economy clissold alternative to cooperation which is to the mutual benefit of all the parties involved and i would like to take this opportunity to come forward to 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 be. contributions have many excellent and outstanding projects so from both in the energy sector and in other areas as well and we will manage through overcome all the problems we have a bright future and i would like to thank to congratulate everybody once again.

with christmas would fit you with many. ladies and gentlemen please welcome uncle america's chancellor of the federal republic of germany. with. me to you mr president and prime minister fiona minister present. to your commission are going to ettinger. minister for sending anything. to. chancellor schroeder so close to representatives from the energy companies and their guests of those events it is a great honor for us today to be here and look me in the sparrows stayed off and become book western pomerania and and germany. and it is a great honor for us to you. rate a project off such as to touch a dimension

a project at this an example for the corporation between russia and the european union and in the fields for also that is the precondition for the functioning of industry states the energy i supply to the countries this project you know you show the presence of so many representatives from different countries we show you 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 thought this boy not stream is a milestone and european and actually partnership. as we could see in the film it is one of the. biggest infrastructure projects energy infrastructure projects of our time. there are just sixty or construction of the pipes positioning in the baltic sea all this demanded by technical standards that were fulfilled and strict

environmental rules. respected it and despite many difficulties in terms of the weather and also in terms of the approval process we managed to complete the. part of the. project can already be. launched today inaugurated today this is a major achievement and i would like to thank all the policies that contributed to this achievement you took over our major responsibility and times of the technical demands but also 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 stream. industrial project they have fought 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 of the twin pipelines is under construction at the moment fifty five. in cubic meters gas you can see the immense share that this has in the german energy supply and european energy supply when speaking about security of supply them we also speak about the topic of diversification but we can say that despite all that is diversification russia is one of the most of the partners of utmost importance

for us the supply sources have to be safe and 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 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 the authorities those who supported the party but also the experts who made it possible to use the. state of the arctic know that i wish to all of us that the second pipeline can be put into operation shortly and

i think the gas molecules are already. flowing through the pipeline and so not she will contribute to the fact that europe will have a secure supply of gas also in the future and not stream will also. work for the coal that the energy partnership between the european union and russia can be continued 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 it maybe we will have to do make minor changes. ladies and gentleman. wish to all of us very good partnership and cooperation and i thank all of those who made it possible to realize this technology project. so let's begin.

thank you very much faster america indeed you may stay put you may take your place at the wheel ladies and gentlemen excellences with 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 i have all of you here almost please may i ask you to take your places around the wheel and if you're not sure where you are supposed to be you should have a place 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 it has streamed all the way across russia through twelve hundred twenty four kilometers of pipeline at the bottom of the baltic sea to make landfall. here and let me in 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 with. these.

turn out. good. many many thanks to all of our dignitaries for the hard work turning the wheel. well there you have it we just saw live pictures of the opening ceremony of the nord stream gas we project it's now officially on the european grid of feeding gas to the european countries directly from russia now at this event we saw president medvedev a german chancellor angela merkel and the prime minister so fran fossil

fuels and another lend some margaret are there in the german coastal town of lumina for this momentous momentous event symbolic switch this will start the uninterrupted flow of gas from russia into western europe again straight without going through any transit nations all leaders again a stressing the importance of this cooperation for energy security and quoting mr been dead if he said no economic sound alternative to cooperation bear and 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 desk for all the latest with you then.

thanks tessa great to have you with us this is sports today we begin with some news former world heavyweight boxing champion joe frazier has died at age 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 the one nine hundred sixty four olympic gold medalist he was also included in the international boxing hall of fame smokin joe he became the first man to beat. in one thousand six thousand nine hundred seventy one in what was called the fight of the century drew fraser was sixty seven years. 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 the following is a group which comprises the top eight regular season teams. will see defending

champions this year's table toppers and a take on some. in simply second place c.s.k. i have a soft plush ahead with routine and run one visit while there also be a month between. each team will play one another but the champions probably didn't make the case group b. that is the relegation half of all the table this is what it looks like they will play their games on the same dates were rushed off entertain the team who finished bottom. f.c. cross the door to technology they are up against. play card 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 in spring. russia have been taking all necessary steps to try to maintain their dominance in the world of gymnastics

even in the country's remote regions like the ton of corrupt getting a visit from the national team with impressive efforts to develop young talent well on the events of course he takes up the story. for eight hundred kilometers away from moscow but a long journey didn't stop team russia from paying a visit the message being no talent across the vast 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 top 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 and business the cream of the crop of global rhythmic gymnastics all got us

here we haven't even had that many people at the world championships and this time we brought our entire gold in reserve for gymnastic europe's. connive always stood head and shoulders above the competition winning all round gold and three straight gymnastics world championships and at the beijing olympics the twenty one year old remaining home will despite clearly being russia's main hope for london two thousand and twelve and beyond that 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 math when i started so i'm happy for these kids i have no plans for and ellen 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 winning sixty one world championship 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 fine let's move to american football and the n.f.l. where the chicago bears weathered this. storm to fight back and beat the eagles up their own nest in philadelphia jay cutler key for the bears in the thirty to twenty four road victory over the stumbling preseason favorites the eagles heavily criticized linebacker for up to the top early in this one rookie brian roy stripping the ball from a fourth say six o'clock or six not tied the game at ten apiece the version which came to force a turnover spanx the man cutler the quarterback finding bennett's for a twenty seven twenty four lead or of a goal field goal then made it thirty twenty four philly could still win with that scoreline with under two minutes left in the fourth jeremy mock plane fell short of the first on though when it mattered most i'm not score thirty twenty four was the

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top stories on our t.v. of putting the wheels in motion moscow ushers in a new era of energy security for western europe as a landmark and more stream pipeline begins pumping russian gas break to germany. the new supply roseville strong and energy roles for transit countries which a previous says left european consumers of russian gas in the cold without the details in just a few moments. russia issues another stern warning against israeli military action against iran as president dmitry medvedev says it could spell catastrophe for the netherlands. the creek and deadlock politicians scramble to save the country as they inch towards a deal over a crisis leader r.t. types in the streets of athens to find out what greeks themselves thank. you.