welcome back here with our team here is a look at the day's top stories and a review of the week political and economic heavyweights of the pacific or imbalance to prevent europe's debt crisis from spreading the presidents of russia and the u.s. meet on the sidelines of the apec summit to discuss missile the fans syria and russia's future in the w t o. two countries watched their governments fall at the height of the desk crisis with italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi resigning i am greece wearing in a new head of cabbage at. the u.n.

atomic watchdog released a satellite images and letters which allegedly prove an iran could be building a bomb iran says the accusations are fabricated and politicized. and police investigated fresh clashes in northern possible after a nato peacekeepers fired tear gas at as makes serves at a disputed border crossing. so was the north stream gas and when you were for the first time we sat down with a man who had a big project germany's former chancellor at the beginning of the laney and got her trotter tells us why the rudest so important for all sides involved. gerhard schroeder was charles love germany from nineteen 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 so europe why should the e.u.

increase its dependence on gazprom its good. opinion. 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 and the upstream 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. which wasn't from your peers from problem and went from that interview minister to an old flame pipelines have already been laid what's what's the third one will be added and what will be its capacity we have yet still stand by it survive economically have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic meters of big me the question of whether a third or even five like minded living or that could be answered by european stock holders as you know i have gazprom in the order and hollins consuming france's

g.d.s. so as in germany and you see as if we just haven't really like to get investors decided to build a third and fourth place through a privately finals might you like i we're not talking about states mindlessly and any could be done i do not know whether they will make such a decision as it was not part of my work and i know 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 international is not the issue you are jealous of the rest of the equations and your gas to sensibly reform that and. russia on the other hand has to sell gas to keep its budget in water so there's a. codependency culture is a good thing for g.e. how to be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up for what and companies it's a good free market economy that isn't good for marc rich or what do you think of the recent raids on gazprom and its partners in europe if you think about just your

p.r. guy i think europeans need to get his feelers his many years it's a dog with a political uncertainty in north africa also good to have a stable partner that you can rely on for a russia is one of this you know better than anyone else for a space that i've written recently switched from exports i think it will partly europe believes in gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources and its climatic conditions where it wants them to get its norway's demand side but also russia's give us therefore i think opening the market up generation companies would be a geyser of water for the name so if we do some e.u. officials oppose russia or whatever it does is for the us most known i guess it is so we have to admit that i very well i hope we will get over it it's understandable it says the european union needs russia geopolitically but the reverse is also true it's not a question but with that the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back at it ideologically difference here to go that is for the could russia switch

supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility is unknown as it were your evil minds of which is in a situation where it could ship gas to china and all of asia and europe and i hope russia never has to make it or is it these of the russian government is evidently pro european but europe cannot keep pushing the mushroom way it hurts russians pride to me that we have to keep in mind that while russia has the alternative or the shipping to asia europe has no such alternative and europe's geopolitical position look only improved if it manages to enter a tightly heartless ship with russia on under the same time grant only a recession to turkey it would not be a sound strategy aimed into the future the rest. yesterday's debate unless and. for the guest if russia does decide to go east could that mean a shortfall for europe divestment or sniff you know whether or not happen russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry

about that trantor we're going to see again that you are at home market is incredibly important for russia to keep its budget balance in the other things therefore we're not talking about dependency here at the other code and there's a good progress in shipping liquefied natural gas in. europe less dependent on pipelines can that affect this project and that's why we can if there's a first i don't think it will have a negative effect on the project as europe liquefied gas market is quite limited i'm going to move there's nowhere to sell it in germany or poland has a developing market and board is that it's in no way a danger for us now so the reason i'm criticized by for the indication that there are alternatives also is the low spot prices and gas their duty in the first spot deals can be of no more gain than long term supply agreements in a short run leaving not over stability for think of for playable problems 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 transit have been

damaged mind lloyd and consider this me and my team or the people who originally negotiated that deal with our energy suppliers we had agreed to make a sensible exit out of nuclear strategy site that was followed by a short period when the federal government thought our agreement should be overturned i don't know what they've since gone the other way and started supporting what i've 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 for the reason we need to build gas power stations and morse. affair with this crisis mr sarkozy says no euro no europe surely europe worth of oil without the euro zone. and a former and this is a quote from my successor in office weeks ago of course europe's going to have

problems if the euro has problems but there's one thing you can be sure of and if the euro is going to survive as a common currency there even if erotically things turn out differently which would for a very important do you think we will still have a united europe it is right in or program you would childs a lot when greece cooked its books to join the euro should you have stopped the things from joining the single currency. on the drugs your i do not think that was our situation of the european commission its employees that had to conduct inspections and they had let us know that we could take the responsibility for greece's intercession on ourselves yes 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 cannot claim without having a firm proof that the information we got then was on diplomatically speaking not entirely correct very much keep in mind that the european parliament voted in favor of greece are 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 to do actually happening view of us months and lots of other the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since they tend which which is of their currency in a bogus shift to the upper lot it's pointless to talk about how things were going past we're talking about for the future i hope we manage to keep greece in the eurozone that's one of the new greek government will have to be nonpartisan uninfluenced by debates provoked by right wing hunger that's on for me i hope the package of aid agreements that european leaders have got real is implement package if that's the case then i think we can start taking care of stabilizing my lucky. with a great deal of help from the greens to give or there is one point i would like to make a free country should not be broken down not only does greece need budget discipline or which is of course trigger should what is needed mostly in our investments to invest it would be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently besting

abroad to pay taxes in their own country i go instead of looking for investment opportunities or stalin was a good enough for doubling is there a red line beyond which german thursday we're not going to bail out southern europe any more or does germany have a historic that europe has from it and they're going about 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 correctly germany's interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe economic interest is easily explained that forty percent of our exports goes to the european union and beyond if it's there if those countries ahead by a crisis and so is germany if you're secondly or the lesson we learned in the past and our prospects for the future dictates that germany is not strong enough geopolitical 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

a new european state is from the i'm only a united europe can take on a role like that if that's why germany is interested in a night of us that is not just because of the past with you know for the sake of our citizens future conference a lot of being to small question many german people many in are angry at having to pay. are they wrong that's enough for it seems i can understand that but i have to explain it very consistently to the current generation of political leaders clearly it's within our own interests to maintain stability in other countries as germany's a nation that relies hugely on x. here if markets around us crumble it harms us we have to explain it to our people and you get a racial and the prospects for long lasting. peace allies in europe a good word here clearly 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 attention lee and what would be the implication i

think it doesn't make a dollar i do not think we should feel bad about other nations that have 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 vick. but that's only the case if we stay to stay more innovative when we fulfill our agenda of twenty china and sort out our social policies and 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 think of our i wonder if the rest of the e.u. states i mean understood there's 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 of that so it will be a movie so we started taking care of our problems in time as the rest will aggressively be forced to take on a harder mission this goes for everyone not just the sound of all posts this part

of the nuclear war didn't go soeda chairman of the board for the gold stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking with r.t. . from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand three hundred one is not enough in-patient beds not enough heard mercy department beds and not enough nurses to members there to take care of all the people who are here the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture as a firefighter i didn't want to get your ass so i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire department is medical but they had a rescue a couple weeks ago waited four hours for a bit i waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say it's

a frances and we were for four hours and fifty minutes steady as all the patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. are you sure we can cure all the phone calls from the. lights on the. video. and omissions for you with the palm of your. machine. twenty years ago largest country in. the seventy's which was.

one of the true. where did it take. days off stories and a review of the week political and economic carry weight of the pacific. europe's debt crisis from spreading the presidents of russia and the u.s. meet on the sidelines of the apec summit to discuss missile the fans syria and russia's future in the w t o. two countries watch their governments fall at the height of the debt crisis with italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi resigning and greece wary and a new head of cabinet. an atomic watchdog releases satellite images and letters which allegedly prove iran could be building a bomb iran says the accusations are fabricated and politicized.

and police investigated fresh clashes in northern caso after nato peacekeepers fired tear gas and asked serbs at a disputed border crossing. but next the sports news. well welcome to the sport on r t coming to live from moscow with me wrong cause for of our top stories this hour. a red bull flies again sebastian that's all tips lewis hamilton's acclaim a record equalling fourteenth pole position this season for the odds of the grand prix. raising the bar russian men dominates the hundred and five k. division at the world weightlifting championships in paris taking the medal tally to four goals silver and one bronze. and europhile russia had gaucher dicom for caught speaks to r.t.

after his side were held to a one one friendly draw by greece and athens. first to formula one and red bull's sebastian vettel has once again denied my client's lewis hamilton pole position by producing a stunning final lap in qualifying for the albert dhabi grand prix michael had dominated every practice session actually awesome arena but like so many times this season that's all found some extra pace when it counts its acclaimed his twenty ninth career pole he also equalled nigel mansell all time record of fourteen pole positions in a season sets in one thousand nine hundred so mclaren's jenson button will start third on the grid ahead of red bull's mark webber and ferrari's fernando alonso rushes its other patrol isn't well. 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 trying myself a little bit of a cushion in the last sector which was a bit trickier towards the end of the evening so but all in all enough just enough

to jump ahead of lewis. moving on to ice hockey and russia have claimed their second straight day serie underneath coach isn't it allowed to lead dean off with a four one victory over sweden in finland after winning their opening match in the car you lock off in a shootout against the reigning world champion spillages russia secured a more comfortable victory over the swedes a brace of powerplay goals by alexander rhodes wolf in the first period gave the russians a confident lead and a vulture acorn are pulled one back in the second alexander peter george and sergei she added their names to the scoreboard and the third to seal the final score in while hosts beat the czech republic for nothing. 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 with all writs almost burdick the thirty year old wraps off an impressive six four sixty three victory in just eighty one minutes without facing

a single break points it's the first time they sixteenth grand slam winner has gone through to the final of the masters at bent's since shanghai last october on friday federer became only the seventh man in history to surpass eight hundred career when marked by beating who want marco in the paris quarter finals. knows very pleased that we have played today. was it was pretty good match i think we did actually well to do something with me because i didn't have more chances to maybe even extend the lead but from the story that i was able to take control and never really gave it away it was a it was not much of a second semifinal so the two thousand and eight paris champion show will for its own god clo out his place in the final after its all three set win over american john i is there a bit on seeded eyes i won the first set six three but sun-god charged up by the home crowd managed to get back into contention and won the following to set seven six seven six having saved three match points in the final set so the local players

will now face that are in the final thank ounce for being there so. career meeting this year with a swiss player coming on sell three times the french whites. and stay in france where russia weightlifters one individual gold and silver medals and one hundred five kilogram category at the world championships which are being held at the french disneyland in paris this year's european champion kaji more i lifted a combined total of four hundred thirty kilograms in the snatch and clean and jerk for top place on the podium while his teammate the beijing olympics silver medalist music local was just too close behind with four hundred twenty eight the third place finisher from ukraine was a full eighteen kilograms behind so convincing once it finished for the russians in the five k. division could establish domination at the london olympics. and some track and field news now where the international association of athletics federations has

named its once eleven athletes of the year at the annual awards ceremony announcer carlo jamaica's same ball go to the owner on the men's side for the third sinus was recognized for the risk for retaining its two hundred meter individual world title along with helping his country when the field by one hundred metres relay at a world record pace. this is about our promise next year will be better. than the time before the. season really appreciate what is coming out and supporting all people. i know much of me thanks for everything. and on the lady's side the accolades went to sally pearson of us really a record of the fourth class this time in the history of the one hundred meter hurdles and an impressive ten victories out of eleven races this season. and you can thank you everyone for coming tonight it chilly means

a lot to all the athletes here because we work so hard for what we get in our results in this sport and to have not said this means a lot to us it feels that our results have been appreciated the announcer thought well where russia were held so why one draw by greece in a friendly in athens on friday night they come because men continue their preparations for next summer's european championships and the head coach spoke with artie's richardson portly after the match increase i think was a really good test for us today i mean you probably learn a lot from series much the very comfortable reasonable you know a lot of said if you take the we point out of the team we can play a part in the game will be. a very physical team like. i mean how impressed we i mean if you'd have written something. press we could see that they were a part of the team it was always important they were not alone there were no. good

results i was pleased with i've seen the first game is always difficult i mean i am also i mean you've said you've got three games the head 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 james. chances . for chances for. three goals. you have have items 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 the last few years because your basic is based your small yeah definitely. the majority of the players knows what i want ac they're doing in the games. and we can only do better still

on a semi high i mean obviously the likes of a sharp end of change can get figureheads if your team i mean how disappointing is it for years head coach that they're not getting a lot of game time in the moment that we can get a look like today ninety minutes was good i didn't want to take a risk with roman with his back because it is important to fit again. still time and of. course you can i have a long break until next year when you play obvious here camomile friendlies i mean which seems you looking to play in my time or do you not assign decided there's a possibility of play against turkey and. i don't know what's going to happen there after a result. of a loss for you know tonight against croatia probably one. of you and mr. it was a request so we will see if we can do that but sometimes the. tributes

can sing it's a role in for former world heavyweight boxing champion joe frazier who died and she was the age sixty seven following a short battle with liver cancer the legendary boxer with a trademark sledgehammer left who was the olympic and undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion has a professional career spanned from madden sixty five to nine hundred seventy six as was a great comeback in mice in eighty one frazier's infamous rivalry with muhammad ali was one of the biggest in the history of the sport smokin joe knocked down early in their first ballots in the madison square garden seventy one but then still lost the next to his last world title challenge came in one hundred seventy five when he was beaten by ali in arguably one of the most famous boxing clashes in history but in manila. one of the greatest things to happen in this philadelphia area and that was seen joe frazier very. early on 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 people and he always wanted to be a band and i'll remember that about them all so. 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 carried us from a bin laden at sea meanwhile it's ten days to build the onboard arena and it won't take another four they say good sound presence of mom and his wife the shelf where the v.i.p.'s visitors at the makeshift courts and sought some france north carolina beat michigan state sixty seven fifty five. i'll be back with number of days in a couple hours and don't forget that some of the stories seen here are also

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