serbs at a disputed border crossing the u.n. secretary general says the situation has been caused by cost of those attempts to extend its control over the area. so with the word stream gas entering you are up for the first time we sit down with a man who had of the ambitious project germany's foreign chancellor at the beginning of a millennial. 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. i know. 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 stream is

viewed as a priority project both by russia and the 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. from all appears from problem meant. 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 me outside could be me the question of whether a third or even like climate living or that should be answered by european stock holders of as you know we have gazprom in the one florida and holland get sunni. and germany on and c.s.f. winterson and only you know their investors decide to build a third and fourth pipeline through a privately finals mine we're not talking about things like that then it could be done i do not know whether they will make such a decision as it was not part of my will and mine 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 one is not the issue. and the rest of the nations need gas to sensibly reform that and. russia on the other hand has to sell gas to keep its budget and so there's a. co-dependency culture is a good thing how to be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up there wasn't a company it's a good free market economy does is good for the market truck what do you think of the recent you raids on gazprom and its partners in europe think about just the all appear gasp i think europeans need gas to feel just as many years is a dog with a political uncertainty in north africa also good to have a stable partner that you can rely on for russia is one of these you know better

than anyone else or is less that written recently switched from export to your old partner europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources but it's climatic conditions where you want them to get any norway's going outside but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up different companies would be wise and of course a shorter name to do some e.u. officials oppose russia whatever it does get us is for though that's most money i guess it is so we have to admit that what i hope we will get over it it's understandable and says 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 yet again that is for the could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility towards their listeners it towards your involvement 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 is the use of the russian government is evidently pro european but europe cannot keep pushing russia away it hurts russians pride about me 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 not only improved if it manages to enter a tiny heartless ship with russia one under the same time grant only a recession to turkey that that would be a sound strategy aimed into the future the rest. yesterday's debate alice and is from guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean the gas shortfall for europe now doesn't it is nice to know whether or not happy russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that juncture i will say again that europe on our it is incredibly important for russia to keep it logic balance you're not other things therefore we're not talking about the kind of a code and it was a good progress in shipping liquefied natural gas. makes europe less dependent on

pipelines can that affect this project now that's. i mean i think it would have a negative effect on the project as europe's liquefied gas market is quite limited on the move because there's nowhere to sell it in germany or poland has a developing market in porn is that it's in no way a danger for us that's not the reason i'm criticizing is the indication that there are alternative sources of the low spot prices on their g.p.s. spot deals can be of no more gain than long term supply agreements in a short run they do not offer stability for us to go for playing 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 damaged mind consider this me and my team or the people who originally negotiated that deal with our energy suppliers that 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 at the end 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 but we need gas as an interim energy source for the sake of energy security that's the reason we need to buy gas from new york from other cultures but primarily from russia and the reason we need to build a gas power station. morse. with this debt crisis mr sarkozy says no hero no europe surely europe will survive without the euro so on that. and a former english is a quote my successor in office like the works of course europe is going to have problems if the euro has problems but there's one thing you can be sure of at the end of the euro is going to survive as a common currency there even it theoretically things turn out differently which i find very important you think we will still have a united europe it is vital in all pugging you would chancellor when greece cooked

its books to join the euro should you have stopped athens from joining the single currency. on those it towards your invalid 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 and it was a purely preparatory mission conducted by the european commission and the national governments if we had made the decision to take greece in we could not claim without having the firm proof that the information we got then was on 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 and lost either the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since it ended which which is

a matter kenzie in. 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 euro zone so that's one of the new greek government would have to be nonpartisan uninfluenced by debates provoked by right wouldn't under threat on for me i hope the package of aid agreements that european leaders have agreed on is implemented 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 here for or there is one point i would like to make the country should not be broken down not only does greece need budget discipline which is of course trigger should what greece needs are investments and invest it would be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently vesting abroad with 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 german thursday we're not going to bail out southern europe anymore or does germany have

a historic debt to europe as 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 have economic interest is easily explained that forty percent of our export goes to the european union and beyond if it's your eyes 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 and 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 in the us that is not just because of the past with you 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. or they roll 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 x. here if markets around us crumble it harms us we have to explain it to our the new generation the prospects for long lasting. peace allies in europe are good and 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 implications if think it doesn't have a dollar do not think we should feel bad about other nations getting stronger be they russians chinese brazilians south africans all indians are 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 back to stay more innovative

when we fulfill our agenda of twenty eight and up 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. i wonder if the rest of the e.u. states having understood this a decade later we'll 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 over that so it will be a mistake that we started taking care of our problems in time the rest will aggressively be forced to take on a harder mission this goes for everyone not just the sound of all posts this but if they've been ignored and. chairman of the board for the north stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking with l.t. .

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we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. from the. video. palm of your. today's top stories and a review of the week political and economic heavyweights of the pacific rim come together in hawaii vowing to. golfing in the pacific the presidents of russia and the u.s. meet on the sidelines of the apec summit to discuss. syria and russia's future.

to. watch their governments fall at the height of the death crisis with italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi resigning and swearing in a new hat of cabinet but critics now suspect brussels of palling the strings of newly appointed and elected officials. knew 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 iran dismisses the findings saying the accusations are fabricated and politicized. and police investigate fresh clashes in northern ca so after a nato peacekeepers fire tear gas at. the border crossing the un secretary general says the situation has been caused by. its control over the area. next to him. with.

hello and welcome to sport an artsy comment to live from moscow with me room on calls for of our top stories this hour. the red bull flies against sebastian. to claim a record equalling fourteenth ball position this season for the album darby grand prix. raising the bar russian. one hundred five k. division at the world weightlifting championships in paris taking the medal tally for gold silver and bronze. and the euro for russia head coach a call it speaks to or to see after his side were healthy one war one friend to drop by greece in athens. first to formula one and red bull's sebastian vettel has

once again lose hamilton pole position by producing a stunning final lap and qualifying for the grand prix mclaren had dominated every practice session at. its like so many times this season that's all found some extra pace when it counted to claim his twenty ninth career paul he also equalled nigel mansell all time record all fourteen pole positions in the season said back in one thousand nine hundred two jenson button will start third on the grid ahead of a red bull's mark webber and curry's. rushes out of control isn't twelve. i was not so happy with my first run in q three but the second run much happier especially the first two sectors and with that i was buying myself a little bit of a cushion in the last six which was a bit trickier towards the end of the evening so but all in all enough just enough to to to jump ahead of lewis. moving on so ice hockey and russia have claimed their

second straight day on their new coach is in it. with a four one victory over sweden in finland after winning their opening match. up in the shootout against reigning world champions finland's russia secured a more than comfortable victory over the swedes a brace of powerplay goals by alexander rhodes all up in the first period gave the russians a confident lead and vulture a car pulled one back in the second. and sergei added their names to the scoreboard in the third to seal the final score meanwhile holds to be the czech republic for nail. tennis now and world number four federer has reached the final of the paris masters for the first time in his career after a comprehensive win over burdick the thirty year old wrapped up an impressive six four six three victory in just eighty one minutes without facing a single break points it's the first time the sixteen grand slam winner has gone through to the final of a masters event since shanghai last october all friday federer became only the

seventh mat in history to surpass the eight hundred career with mark by beating one mana call in the paris quarter finals. knows very well played today. well it was a pretty good match i think he did actually well to hang with me because i didn't have more chances to maybe even extend the lead from the start i was able to take control and they were really able to give it away. it was. the second semifinal saw the two thousand and eight paris champions. kalat his place in the final after a soft three set win over american john eisener the on seeded eyes or one of the six three but some got charged up by the home crowd managed to get back into consensual and one of the following two sets seven six seven six having saved three match points in the final set the local players will now face that are in the final . they encountered being there six career meeting this year with the swiss players

coming on all three times and the frenchmen whites. and let's stay in france where russian weightlifters one individual gold and silver medals and the hundred five go around category at the world championships which are being held at the french disneyland in paris this year's european champion. lifted a combined sold so off four hundred thirty kilograms in the snatch and clean and jerk for top place on the podium while his team mate the beijing olympic silver medalist the meat recall call was just too close behind with four hundred twenty eight the third place finisher from ukraine was a full eighteen field grounds behind so the convincing one to finish for the russians in the hundred five k. division could establish domination at the london olympics. moving on to football where russia were held to a one one draw by greece in a friendly in athens on friday night because of a cots men continue their preparations for next summer's european championships and

the head coach spoke with our it sees richard one port lead 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 ooh if we take the we pointed out of the team we can play the part in the game will be good because a very physical team is. 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 are no words to get good results on that where i was pleased with have seen the first game is always difficult i mean i am also i mean you've said you've got three games ahead of the european championships in two thousand and twelve has a team progressing you did look very good tonight well we're progressing already from 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 creating chances. for chances for you to go to three goals if the rest of the improving yes you have how you have items as a coach do you have a sample scored because i mean very few coaches around europe can call in such a few group of players would you have done the last few years your basic is based your score 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 think still and examine how you i mean obviously the likes of a shot in. kind of get figureheads of your team i mean how disappointing is if you use a head coach that they're not getting a lot of game time in. this region that only played today ninety minutes. which i didn't want to tell us was wrong and this is back because this is important that

you become fit and sharp again well we are still timing of you have a body in the right loves you can i go. break until the next year when you play more friendlies i mean which seems you're looking to play in my time or if you notice i decided there's a possibility. i don't know what the result. of a loss for you know tonight against croatia probably one. of you and mr keating. we will see if we can do. exams on. it's gulf now and halfway leader tiger woods has dropped to joints eighth place after a disappointing three over par round of seventy five straight open while local man john senden fired and nine on the par sixty three to equal the course record and say a one shot lead going into the final day woods leaderboard answered two rounds and

it seemed like the former world number one and found his swing by the thirty five year old american made a poor start with three straight bogeys eventually ending his round with a seventy five to light side for eight while the highest ranked australian jason day celebrated his twenty fourth birthday with a round of sixty eight playing a number of impressive shots to put himself into contention finishing the day on the eleven under for second spot while i watch this shot where local hopeful john senden who won this tournament in two thousand and six finished his round. after a magnificent six two three to take a one shot lead into the final day but while it was joy for sens and it had been a frustrating day for woods with struggles on the par five holes through two consistent days. on all just starting out the three if i look at the first time home. here is were way way firmer than what

they were the first two days and then you know instinctively i was playing more break but the greens were breaking and i left early on the high side so i'm going to search effort to take more low lines on the back nine i missed everything low so . just frustrating. meanwhile tributes continue to roll in full former world heavyweight boxing champion joe frazier who died and she was they aged sixty seven following a short battle with liver cancer the legendary boxer with a trademark sledgehammer left hook was the olympic and undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion whose professional career spanned from nine hundred sixty five to nine hundred seventy six as well as a brief comeback in one thousand eighty one for. infamous rivalry with muhammad ali was one of the biggest in the history of sports smoking joe. in their first ballots in madison square garden in nine hundred 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 thriller in manila

. one of the greatest things to happen in this philadelphia area and that was. and that was one of the highlights of my life he didn't let money or anything like that get into his in his way he was close to the people and he always wanted to give back and i'll remember that about you. find the basketball and so while the n.b.a. lockout is still in force u.s. president barack obama and his wife or on hand to witness a unique college game on the flight deck of a u.s. aircraft carrier it's three years to plan this one off game on the fly called the u.s.s. carl vinson which six mass murder had buried a solemn bin laden at sea meanwhile it's ten days to build the border and it will take another four days since they could sound president obama and his wife michelle

where they be of visitors at the makeshift courts and north carolina michigan state's sixty seven fifty five. i'll be back with a couple of hours for gets some of the stories seen here are also available on our youtube channel at our. enjoy and thanks for watching. well for. science technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

today's top stories and a review of the we global powers come together in hawaii vowing to amend europe's debt crisis from engulfing the pacific. the russian and american presidents hold talks on the sidelines of the apec summit in hawaii to focus missile defense and

russia's future at the w t o we bring you all the latest from honolulu just ahead in the program. both greece and italy watch their governments fall at the high end of the debt crisis but many are wary of the newly appointed unelected 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 the iran says the allegations are fabricated and politicized. and the police investigate fresh clashes in breakaway cost of oil as we report on firas serve resistance to what they say are o'bannon attempts to control their lives. this.