sputum border crossing the u.n. secretary general says the situation has been caused by cost was champ's to extend its control over the area. so with north stream gas and for the first time we sat down with a man who had the bishes project germany's former chancellor at the beginning of the millennium guard trotter tells us why the route is so important for all sides involved. 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 north stream 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 russia's dependence we're talking about cooperation between russia on the one side and the european union on the other in the energy sectors stream is

viewed as a priority project both by russia and the oil 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 and its debts which was and from all appears from problem end or and from the energy minister to nordstrom pipelines have already been laid what thoughts of the third one will be added and what will be its capacity we haven't yet started by it we currently have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic meters could be me the question of whether a third or even first like line will be linear that should be answered by european stock holders of as you know we have gazprom on the one story and holland's got sunni france's g.d.s. suez in germany and the s.f. winterson on the other if investors decide to build a third and fourth pipeline through a privately financed mine 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 working mind 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. germany and the rest of the nations need gas to sensibly reform their energy policy and 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 for g.e. how to be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up to what and companies it's a good free market economy that is good for marc rich or what do you think of the recent you raids on gazprom and its partners in europe think of the or p. i guess 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 and it needs norway to gaslight but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to question companies would be a wise move or to short the name to do some officials oppose russia whatever it does get us is for though that's most man i guess it is so we have to admit that what i hope we will get over it of it's understandable is 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 that destroy 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 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 tiny hard to 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 unless and is from guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean the gas shortfall for europe does vetter sneak no that will not happen russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about patronage and i will say again that europe kamarck it is incredibly important for russia to keep it a budget balance among other things therefore we're not talking about dependence here but a codependency to get 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 there judy as you 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 for plague of course 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 in your mid mind consider this me and my team were 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 and of course they've since gone the other way and started supporting

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 a gas power station. and morse. with this debt crisis mr sarkozy says no euro no europe surely you're worth avoid without the euro so that there's i know i know for more this is 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 the euro is going to survive as a common currency even if erotically things turn out differently which i find very improbable you think we will still have a united europe it is vital in or plug you would chancellor when greece cooked its books to join the euro should you have stopped athens from joining the single

currency. 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 if we had made the decision to take greece in we could not claim without having firm proof that the information we got then was a diplomatically speaking not entirely correct or give people 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. for unless either the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since it ended 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 don't 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 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 made out of the country should not be broken down not only does greece need budget discipline which is of course trigger 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 enough for doubling is there a red line beyond which germans that they we're not going to bail out southern europe anymore or does germany have a historic debt to europe has from putting its been there getting

a bad 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 explainable that forty percent of our export goes to the european union and beyond a fifth year 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 dictates 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 us that is not just because of the past but for the sake of our citizens future of that conference a lot of being to small question many germans many people many finns are angry at

having to pay. of a role 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 interests to maintain stability in other countries as germany is a nation that relies hugely on axel here 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 you could do in effect liane 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 make it 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 ten down 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 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 it will be a matter that we started taking care of our problems in time that the rest will regret it and be forced to take on a harder mission this goes for everyone not just the sound of or bust us but if they've been ignored and. chairman of the board for the north stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking with r.t. .

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governments fall at the height of the debt crisis with italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi resigning and greece wearing in a new head of cabinet critics now suspect brussels of pulling the strings of newly appointed and an elected officials. you an atomic watchdog zeroes in on iran's nuclear ambitions by releasing satellite images and letters which allegedly prove the country could be building. a bomb dismisses the findings saying the accusations are fabricated and politicized. and investigates fresh clashes and or from hospital after nato peacekeepers fired tear gas and ethnic serbs at a disputed border crossing the line said the situation has been caused by qassam as it stands control over the area. to see what's happening in sports whether amman where russians continue winning medals at the world weightlifting championship and friends you're such a bearer of good news. russia's men have established a. five k.

division following their once a finish in paris. plus much more on the way. hello and welcome to sport on the live from the russian capital with the calls for our top stories this hour. the red bull flies again sebastian fed sold pip's close hamilton to claim a record equalling fourteenth pole position this season for the big grand prix. while tiger troubles halfway leader woods fires a disappointing three over par seventy five to trail leader by six shots after round three straight open. europhile russia had to go in because it speaks to his side were held still want to one friend

a droll by greece in athens. first where russia claimed their second straight makes three under new coaches and with a four one victory all wrists weeden in finland after winning their opening match in the cargo a cop in a shootout against reigning world champions villains russia secured a more comfortable victory over the st a brace all power play goals by alexander rhodes who looked in the first period gave the russians a confident lead and go over the trade in our cold one back in the second alexander . added their names to the scoreboard in the third to see a look final score meanwhile hosts beat the czech republic for. world number four was yet federer has reached the final of the paris masters for the first time in his career after a comprehensive win over it's almost burdick the thirty year old wrapped up impressive six four six three big three in just eighty one minutes without facing

a single breakpoint it's the first time the sixteen grand slam winner has gone through to the final of the masters events since shanghai last october on friday federer became only the seventh man. history has surpassed eight hundred career women mark. to call in the paris quarter finals. the second semifinal seoul the two thousand and eight paris champion threads through alex misplacing final after itself three set win over american john eisner seated in the first set six three but sun-god charged by the home crowd managed to get back into concession and won the following two sets seven six seven six having saved three match points in the final set so the local players are faced better in the final counter being their six korea meeting this year with the swiss player coming three times and the frenchmen whites. and let's say in france where russia weightlifters one individual gold and silver medals in the hundred five kilogram

category at the world championships which are being held at the french disneyland in paris this year's european champion. a combined total of four hundred thirty kilograms in the snatch and clean injured four top place on the boat while his teammate the beijing olympics silver medalist dimitri clock was just suki behind with four hundred twenty eight the third place finisher from ukraine was a full eighty kilograms behind so the convincing one to finish for the russians in one hundred five kids a vision could establish domination at the london olympics next year. to go all fan halfway leader tiger woods has dropped to joint eighth place after a disappointing three over par round of seventy five at the australian open while john senden fired and nine on three to equal course record and take a one shot lead going into the final date woods the leaderboard after two rounds

and it seemed like the former world number one had found his swing but the thirty five year old american made a poor start with three straight bogeys of his round with a seventy five. light side for eight while the highest ranked us freddy and jason day celebrated his twenty fourth birthday with a round of sixty eight playing a number of impressive firing shots but himself and second sanction finishing the day on eleven under for a second spot while watching the shots of. local whole full john sens in who won this tournament in two thousand and six finished his round on twelve under after a magnificent six to three conseco in one shot of the final day while it was a joy for sendin it had been a frustrating day for woods has struggled on the par five holes after it see consistency. i don't just starting out before if i look up the first time homes. were way way firmer than what they were the first two days and then you know

instinctively i was playing more brake but the greens were breaking and i left early on the high side so i'm a concerted effort to take more low lines on the back nine i missed everything low so. just frustrating. football where russia were held so one one draw by greece in a friendly in athens on friday night dick advocaat smen continue their preparations for next summer's european championships and the head coach spoke with richard porte leet after the match in greece. i think it's a really good test for us today i mean you probably learn a lot from say as much the very comfortable very reasonable you know a lot of said do every day do we pointed out of the team we can play the part in the game will be good to get a very physical team. for the future i mean how impressed we i mean had a few debits and some in. press we could see that they were a part of the team and as always supporting they were not alone there is no way to

get good results on that where i was pleased with have seen the first game is always difficult but i mean i am also i mean you've said you've got three games said of the european championships in two thousand and twelve has a team progressing you did look very good tonight. from the beginning it is a real team and there's a reason i have also some problems to change because the team looks very good and jens is the first we had to go through four four four chances for you to go to three goals for the rest of the improving yes you have have whitens as a coach do you have a sample scored because i mean very few coaches around europe can call on such a few group of players which you have done over the last few years does your basic is base your squad yeah definitely. the majority of the players knows what i want is see the big in the games that simple doesn't that's important and we can

only do better still and examine how i mean obviously the likes of a shot in. kind of get figureheads of your team i mean how disappointing is it for years head coach have been not getting a lot of game time in this region that only played today ninety minutes. which i didn't want to take the risk was wrong when i was back because it is important that you become fit as. well we are still time enough to really have a good in the right loves you can i go. break until next year when you play friendlies i mean was she was you looking to play in my time. there's a possibility. but i don't know what's going to happen after a result of so much of a loss for you know some larger consideration or so probably one. of us. we will see if we can do that but sometimes. also formula one now where

red bull sebastian vettel has once again denied my. position by producing a stunning final lap and qualifying for the grand prix and had dominated every practice session. like so many times this season that's all found some extra pace when it counted to claim his twenty ninth career pole he also equalled nigel mansell all time record of fourteen pole positions in a season set back to. start third on the grid ahead of breadboards mark webber and ferrari along russia's metallic control is. in wild tributes continue to roll in for former world heavyweight boxing champion joe frazier who died on tuesday aged sixty seven following a short battle with liver cancer the legendary boxer with a trademark sledgehammer left hook was the. world heavyweight boxing champion his

professional career spanned from sixty five and seventy six as well as a brief come back in eighty one frazier's infamous rivalry with muhammad ali was one of the biggest in the history of the sport smokin joe not in their first ballot in madison square garden and i think seventy one but then he lost the next to his last world title challenge game in one hundred seventy five when he was beaten by arguably one of the most famous boxing clashes in history the through. one of the greatest things that happened in this philadelphia area and that was seen joe frazier financially not only. and that was one of the highlights of my life he didn't let money or anything like that get into his in his wage he was close to the people and he always wanted to give back and i'll remember that about him also. finally over to basketball and while the n.b.a.

lockout is still in force us president barack obama and his wife were on hand to witness a unique college game on the flight deck of a u.s. aircraft carrier it took three years to plan this one off game on the flight deck of the u.s.s. carl vinson which six months earlier had some of been a lot in that sea when while it's a ten days to build the on board and it will take another four days to take it down president obama and his wife michelle were they visitors at the makeshift court and salt franks north carolina beat michigan state sixty seven fifty five. talked about passing i'll be back with another update in a couple of hours and don't forget that some of the story seen here are also available on our youtube channel at our team sport you so enjoy and thanks for watching.

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latest from honolulu just ahead of the program. both greece and italy watched their governments fall at the height of the debt crisis but many are wary of the newly appointed on elected officials and their links to brussels. the un atomic watchdog zeroes in on iran's nuclear ambitions and began claiming the country could be building a bomb but to iran says the allegations are fabricated and politicized. and police investigated fresh clashes in break with possible as we report on the nearest serb resistance to what they say are obeyed attempts to control their lives. watching and you live from moscow nine am here on marino joshie the political and economic have the weights of the pacific rim are meeting under hawaii's.