selves thing now fears grow that italy is next in financial firing life or death star probably a bit of a record for reports. of his north stream gas enters europe for the first time we sit down with a man who has had to be ambitious project the very person who used to lead germany at the beginning of the millennium as its chancellor gerhard schroeder you know he tells us why it's so important for all sides involved that interview is. 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 to 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 and from or part i meant or and from that the energy 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 meters 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 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 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 e permission is not the issue that the e.u. germany and the rest of the e.u. 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 a marketer what do you think of the recent you raids on gazprom and its partners in europe think about the or gasp 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 the you know better than anyone else for instance that britain recently switched from export to implode

europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources but it's climatic conditions require and it needs norway to gaslight but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to goshen companies would be a wise move of. the name to do some e.u. officials oppose russia whatever it does get us is for though that's most money i guess it's 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 because that is for the could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility was there and is unknown as it were to your evil minds 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 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 tightly heartless ship with russia 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 alice and it did but of 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 drinking but i will say again that europe market is incredibly important for russia to keep its budget balance among other things therefore we're not talking about dependency here but a codependency vertigo and 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 snitched funds i can i've not heard about such plans you want to have long since been rumors about it but so far the talk has been detached from reality i doubt the plans will ever be realized but ultimately it's up to the pipelines owners not the chairman of the stockholders committee would 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 think of the trigger 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. binyam it mind light and consider this me and my team with the people who originally 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 thought our agreement should be. overturned of what 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 we need gas as an interim energy source for the sake of energy security that's the reason we need to buy gas from norway from other countries but primarily from russia and the reason we need to build gas power stations and more so. with this huge debt crisis mr sarkozy says no euro no europe surely europe will survive without the euro so that there's

and i know for more this is a quote my successor in office likes to use of course europe is 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 even if erotically things turn out differently which i find very improbable youth we will still have a united europe it is right in or prague you would chancellor when greece cooked its books to join the euro should you have stopped athens from joining the single currency club nicholas on the as it towards your own via i do not think that was our situation of the european commission its employees that had to conduct an inspections they had let us know that we could take the responsibility for greece's e.u. a session on ourselves because it was a purely preparatory mission conducted by the european commission the national governments we had made the decision to take greece in we could not claim without having firm proof 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. unless either the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since it ended which which is it. matter kensi in the it's pointless to talk about how things were in the past we're talking about the future i hope we manage to keep greece in the eurozone for that to happen the new greek government would have to be nonpartizan uninfluenced by debate provoked by right wing party that i hope the package of aid agreements that european leaders have agreed on is implement eckerd 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 yours there is one point i would like to make of the country should not be broken down not only does greece need budget

discipline which is of course true but what greece needs most are investments and this will be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently investing abroad pay taxes in their own country instead of looking for investment opportunities for on was a good enough for doubling 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 correct it in germany's interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe that the economic interest is easily explained 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 is only a united europe can take on a role like that if that's why germany is interested in a night in the u.s. that is not just because of the past but for the sake of our citizens future that will come from a lot of being to small question many germans many dutch people many finns are angry. at having to pay. of a role that's the thought see 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 is a nation that relies hugely on axl here if markets around us crumble it harms us we have to explain it to our people the new generation but the prospect for long lasting peace allies in europe. 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 implication if 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 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 it must provide for change 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 high 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 sort. we

started taking care of our problems in time and the rest will regret it and be forced to take on a harder mission this goes for everyone not just the sound will bust this but if the been ignored in. chairman of the board for the north stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking with l.t. . mission . critical three. four charges three. three. three stooges three. three blood canceling videos for your media project a free media oh darn hard time you.

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top stories on our team putting the wheels in motion that moscow ushers in a new era of energy security for western europe as a lot of market boards dream pipelines because russian gas straight to germany and beyond the new supply route rules out energy rallies with transit countries which had previously left european consumers and russian gas in the cold. russia issues another served warning against a western attack on iraq as president to refute it says it could spell catastrophe for the middle east and while the weather watchdog is about to release a report on nuclear activities. greek politicians scramble to save the country as they inch towards deciding a new crisis leader r.t. had sort of streets of athens to find out what greeks themselves playing now fears grow that italy is next in line in the financial firing line with debts are piling up record pauline costs. billions here now of all the latest in sports and we hear the final bell has run for one of the greatest boxers of all

time tell us about that yeah that's right fraser he was sixty seven and davy was one of the greatest lino lest his first ever defeat we're going to have a look at the story in just a moment. thanks for joining us this is plenty ahead over the next ten minutes or so including the following. death of a legend boxing great joe frazier loses his last fight with cancer dying up the age of sixty seven. future starts now the russian ice hockey team with a new coaching to prepare for the starting tournament of this season's euro campaign the party young. mothers the one constant of russian

olympic success in the years has been risk making gymnastics we examine how the talent supply on the mouth is this covered here. and we begin with some sad news former world heavyweight boxing champion joe frazier has died following brief bottle with liver cancer he was sixty seven the american passing away at his home in philadelphia surrounded by his family fraser will be remembered as one of the sporting icon this of the past century jew and part of three titanic clashes with muhammad ali smoking joe the first man in fact to be to ali in a bottle of the fight of the century in one nine hundred seventy one he would lose the next two against his old fool but great respect in doing so the hard hitting fraser also one of them picked gold in nineteen sixty four. 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 this is

a group comprising the top eight regular season teams so much they will see defending champions on this year's table toppers beats home something like it was on g eight in some petersburg second place a tough clash ahead with the group being on a visit while their school. between sports talk. each team will be one another with the champions trying to make. group b. their relegation half of the table starts off like this the rust off entertain the team who finished bottom f.c. chelm f.c. krasnodar take on sports no chick terakhir are up against criticize. call game week thirty two so we played in november before the teams have their winter break the championship then resumes in spring. russian football's made. today took the time to set out the reasons behind such a drastic switch in the form of the premier league being able to brick for global international competition is during the summer his main point. we made the switch

to this new system because we had to plan our previous calendar around the world cup on the european championships we would schedule a full calendar for one year then a two month summer break for the next this is them allows us to create a uniform schedule where there's always that to some a break since there's a three month break in the winter and a two month break in the summer why not switch them around and bring it into line with the european calendar. european ice hockey nations will begin a four stage continental tournament this weekend the euro hockey tour also acting as a preparation stage for russia finland sweden on the czech republic ahead of the annual world championships that car yella cup starting things off in helsinki team russia finished second at the world championships last season that led to a new mom at the helm as in a two dean off taking over the reins from just laugh it off who secured to world gold three years ago the hopes are now that the latino will be in charge all the

way to the source lympics in twenty fourteen the fast approaching finished age of the euro tour though his first big test. the olympics are a very serious and interesting affair for me personally as a coach his words in building i want to develop my roster here in russia using primarily k. job 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. not polite enough promise to give youth a chance at the opening stage in helsinki and indeed his team is loaded with promising talent experience though also looms large at both ends of the rink. afford alexander right to life one of the most grizzled veterans the former n.h.l. or already has two world championship gold medals in his pocket but is hungry for more his present sure to be vital in jelling together the squad. a lot of

us there right now are the talent and you know. a little during the last really good and. i think. in the team because they're young they think they are ready and. play good dishes. it's not so with us it's not surprising at all swimming now where five time a limpid gold medalist in thorpe said he needs to shake off more of the pool rust after a disappointing this play at the world cup in beijing the australian who has set thirteen individual global records not too worried though the spot the london olympics fast approaching. it's almost absurd to even think that you know you can return to the poll after. five years and expect to be winning things you know it wasn't my intention and based competition the series of competitions for me is kind

of the first stepping stone of making him back into this competitive mode you know really learning what it's like to be match fit and ready to rise so you know so far i've been pretty happy in the n.f.l. the chicago burbs weathered the storm to fight back and beat the eagles on philadelphia turf last night jay cutler the key man for the bears in monday night saw a fixture the eagles heavily criticized linebacker for up to the task early in this one rookie bryan roll stripping the ball from the four take to take it back for six sun tie the game at ten after peace the bears then overcame two four take turnovers thanks to that man cutler the quarterback finding bennett for a twenty seven twenty four lead or a big goal field goal made a thirty twenty four meaningfully could still win with under two minutes left in the fourth germy mock landfalling short of the first on the when it mattered moshe carr the win it by six. tiger woods has been no stranger to

controversy of late but this week the former world number one golfer took the high ground in an incident involving his former cabbie steve williams derogatory remark about tiger causing an i try the wood says he believes the new zealander isn't a racist and has accepted williams' apology. steve you're certainly not a racist there's no doubt. i think it was a comment that should have been made and you know it's certainly one that he was shouldn't make he did apologize it was hurtful certainly but you know life goes forward. one of cricket's greatest bowlers will lend his expertise to the melbourne stars in the upcoming big bash league twenty twenty tournament shane warne back from a short lived retirement and will first see action on the sandberg seven date the forty two year old is widely regarded as one of the game's best ever players to me it was something that i thought well let's do this properly fitted on everybody. and i have the next sort of month of really getting to the bowling and doing

a lot of things and involved in the melbourne stuff was something that sort of excited me as something that we were going to try to start something new. now i finally time through the years you could just a part guarantee russia's rhythmic gymnastics returning from their limp games with a gold wing and their luggage a global dominance the country is at pains to continue as even reports. here ask is a full eight hundred kilometers away from moscow but a long journey didn't stop team russia from paying a visit the message being challenged 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 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 that's the cream of the crop of global rhythmic gymnastics all gathered here we haven't even had about 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 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 mats when i started so i'm happy for these kids i have no plans for in the olympics 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 worlds. i'm nasty stronghold are aware that maintaining the title as the greatest in the world won't be easy come next summer if i'm the gorski r t. and that is where we have to leave the sports world whether it is coming up in just a tech i'll see you shortly. we'll . bring you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future covered.

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stories on our team putting the wheels in moscow ushers in a new era of energy security for western europe as a landmark north stream pipeline begins pumping gas straight to germany. the new supply route pulls. transit countries which previous significant european consumers of russian gas in the cold with just a few moments. russia issues in israel with a stern warning not to take military action against iraq as president needs to make a good spell feat for the middle east. in greece politicians scramble to save the country as they inch towards deciding on a new crisis leader. with greeks themselves thing and now fears grow that italy is next of the national firing line where debts are piling up amid record borrowing costs. and the rush of the markets have.