if you're just joining us a very warm welcomes you this is from moscow and other top stories now today and a review of the week in the weekly political and economic heavyweights of the pacific rim europe's debt crisis from spreading the presidents of russia and the u.s. to meet on the sidelines of the apec summit to discuss missile defense syria and russia's future and the w t o. two countries watched their governments fall of the height of the crisis with italy's prime minister silvio berlusconi resigning and swearing in

a new head of cabinet. tomic watchdog releases satellite images and letters which allegedly prove it could be building a bomb iran says the accusations are fabricated and politicized. and police investigate fresh clashes in northern cause of the nato peacekeepers fired tear gas and ethnic serbs disputed border crossing. with the north stream a gas pipeline now entering europe for the first time we sit down with the man who headed the ambitious project for much chancellor at the beginning of the millennium schroeder tells us why the route is so important for all involved. gautreaux there was tells of germany from one thousand nine hundred 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 has to further why should the e.u. increase its dependence on gazprom. 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 new 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 states which rawson from our peers from prada meant inform that minister pipelines have already been laid what top 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 great big me the question of whether a third or even likely believe it would have to be answered by european stockholders cultures as you know they have gazprom in the order and hollins get sunni over

france's g.d.s. suez gemini on and vs if we understand earlier investors decide to build a third and fourth place finals might be ok we're not talking about state of mind there's a and b. i couldn't know i don't know whether they would make such a decision as it was not part of my worry mind of god. 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 evolution is not the issue but actually you are not germany and the rest of us need gas to sensibly reform that and in a deeply russia on the other hand has to sell gas to keep its budget in wood or slow and so there's a. coding and getting a culture is a good thing of how to be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up there was an company that is a good free market economy does as good for them are better what do you think of

the recent raids on gazprom and its partners in europe they think about just the overpay i gasped i think europeans need gas to feel less as many years it's a dog with a political uncertainty in north africa also good to have a stable partner that you could rely on for a russia is one of this you know better than anyone else for a space that had written recently switched from export to europe part of europe will need to gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources and that it's climatic conditions with more items and to get its norway's going outside but also russia's give us and therefore i think opening the market up generation companies would be a geyser of water short by name so if we do some e.u. officials oppose russia or whatever it got us is for it or just 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 or the reverse is also true it's not a question but with the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back to

the ideological differences yet again that is for the could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility was a listen and as it puts 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 it sure is nice of the russian government is evidently pro european but europe cannot keep pushing a mushroom way it hurts russians pride and we have to keep in mind that while russia has the alternative of the shipping to asia europe has no such alternative and europe's geopolitical position look only improved if it manages to enter a tiny harbor ship with russia on and at the same time grant only recession to turkey and now would be a sound strategy aimed into the future to get the rest. yesterday's debate unless under is good bye to for the best or if russia does decide to go east could that mean against short war or europe i guess with a sniff you know whether or not happen russia was an exceptionally reliable

supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about accurately what you want to say again that you're a canard it is incredibly important for russia to keep it logic balancing what other things i guess they're for we're not talking about the kind of code and the saying that a good progress in shipping liquefied natural gas. makes europe less dependent on pipelines can that affect this project well let's go over it and if there's a third a nuke i think it would have a negative effect on the project it is europe liquefied gas a market is quite limited on the move there's no way to sell is in germany or poland has a developing market and poured it in no way dangerous and that's not the reason i'm criticizing the indication that there are alternative sources and the low spot prices on gas led you to assume support deals can be of no more gain the long term supply agreements in the short run but they do not offer stability for theatre for play a good record in the wake of the fukushima disaster germany is closing all its nuclear power plants do you support that and how will it change your minnie's energy mix

rather have been in your mid mind consider this me and my team or the people who originally negotiated that deal with our energy suppliers and we had agreed to make a sensible exit out of nuclear strategy that was followed by a short period when the federal government for our agreement should be overturned out of that and of course they've since gone the other way and started supporting what i have negotiated with 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 that's more. with this e.u. debt crisis mr sarkozy says no euro no europe surely you're worth a point without the euro so it does and i know for more you this is a quote from a successor in office likes to go to because europe is going to have problems if

the euro has problems but there's one thing you can be sure of i think the euro is going to survive as a common currency there even if erotically things turn out differently which i find very appropriate we will still have a united europe it is vibrating or programming you would chance a lot when greece cooked its books to join the euro should you have stopped athens from joining the single currency probably need. on those records your own via i do not think that was our situation of the european commission its employees that had to conduct the inspections they had letters know that we could take the responsibility for greece is a session on ourselves and 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 cannot claim without having the firm proof that the information we got then was on diplomatically a 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 that was of the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since they tend to which which is a matter kenzie in going to see through it's pointless to talk about how things were in the last we're talking of other the injury i hope we manage to keep greece in the euro zone that's a that's a new greek government would have to be nonpartizan uninfluenced by debates provoked by right when under that someone from the i hope the package of aid agreements that european leaders have agreed on it implement package if that's the case then i think we can start taking care of stabilizing by locking. well a great deal of help from greece here for or there is one point i would like to make a recovery should not be broken down i'm not only does greece need budget discipline which is of course trivial should what greece needs misty are investments that

invest in would be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently resting or broadest pay taxes in their own country i go instead of looking for investment opportunities or thrown was a good enough forward opening is there a red line beyond which germans say we're not going to bail out southern europe anymore or does germany have a historic pit that europe has front. and again 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 in the region is interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe or do it that economic interest is easily explained will be that forty percent of our exports goes to the european union and beyond the theory if those countries are hit by a crisis then so is germany your 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 any game where the u.s. is one superpower and an asian leader of the right in this case china is the other

in 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 was not just because of the past with you but for the sake of our citizens future of the conference a lot of the small question many germans many people many friends are angry at having to pay. of a role that's kind of an effort see here 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 is a nation that relies hugely on actually here if markets around us crumble it harms us we have to explain it to our people a new generation of the prospects for long lasting. allies in europe during the second 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 and what would be the implication i think

it emans or doesn't do you not think we should feel bad about other nations that have stronger be they russians chinese brazilians south africans all indians or it should not consume us because these countries offer us more opportunity to export our products as they develop. well that's only the case if we stayed better stay more innovative when we fulfill our agenda of twenty 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 chiang think about i wonder if the rest of the e.u. states i mean 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 about lloyd has problems over that so. we started taking care of our problems in time with the rest will aggressively be forced to take on harder mission this goes for everyone not just the same old

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today's top stories and a review of the week see the political and economic heavyweights over the pacific rim to prevent europe's debt crisis from spreading the presidents of russia and the u.s. to meet on the sidelines of the apec summit to discuss missile defense syria and russia's future in the world trade organization. and to e.u. countries watch their governments full of the height of the debt crisis as prime minister silvio berlusconi resigning and greece swearing in a new head of. the u.n. atomic watchdog releases satellite images and lexus which allegedly prove iran could be building a bomb iran says the accusations are politicized. and the

e.u. police investigate fresh clashes in northern kosovo after nato peacekeepers fired tear gas and ethnic serbs of a disputed border crosser. ok so you have to stay with us the sports is next with. hello welcome to sport on ard see comments eli from moscow with me ramon cost for our top stories this hour. red bull flies again subash and that's all it slows hamilton to claim a record equalling fourteenth pole position this season for the op with the grand prix. raising the bar russian men dominate the hundred five k. division at the world weightlifting championships in paris taking the medal tally to four gold silver and one bronze. and europhile russia

head coach to take up a card speaks to r.t. after his side were held to a one one friended go by greece in athens. the first to formula one and red bull sebastian vettel has once again denied my client's lewis hamilton pole position by producing a stunning final lap in qualifying for the albert darby grand prix mclaren had dominated every practice session at yasser rena but 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 in one thousand nine hundred two clients jenson boss of all star third on the grid had a red bull's mark webber after our eastern on the alonso rushes gets out at the trough is twelfth. 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 playing

myself a little bit of a cushion in the last which was a bit trickier towards the end of the evening so but all in all enough just enough to you know to jump ahead of lewis. moving on to ice hockey and russia have claimed their second straight makes three hundred new coaches and it's a lot bigger that a deal with a four one victory over sweden and finland after winning their opening match in that car you like caught in a shootout against the reigning world champion spin with russia secured a more comfortable victory over the swedes a brace of power play goals by alexander rubbed off in the first period gave the russians a confident leads and. pulled one back in the second alexander three jörgen and sergei sure rocco added their names to the scoreboard in the third to seal the final score meanwhile hosts finland beat the czech republic for no. tennis and world number four was jeff federer has reached the final of the paris

masters for the first time in his career after a comprehensive win over it so much burdick the thirty year old wraps up an impressive six four six three big three in just eighty one minutes without facing a single break point it's the first time the sixteen time grand slam winner has called fruits of the final of the masters events since shanghai last october on friday federer became only the seventh man in history to surpass eight hundred career when mark beating one monaco in the paris quarter finals. played. well it was very good match i think he did actually well to hang with me because i did have more chances to maybe even extend a lead from the start that was able to take control and i really could get away. with. the second semifinal saw the two thousand and eight paris champion. close out his place in this final after its all three set went over american john eyes

are they on seeded eyes or won the first set six three but some god charged by the home crowd managed to get back in second century and want to follow its sets seven six seven six having saved three match points in the final set so the local players are god will now face that are in the final thing counts for being there a sixth meeting this year with the swiss player coming on all three times the frenchman writes. let's say in france where russian weightlifters one individual gold and silver medals in the one hundred five kilogram category at the world championships which are being held at the french this new lands in paris this year's european champion. lifted a combined total of four hundred thirty kilograms in the snatch and clean and jerk for place on the podium while his teammates at the beijing olympic silver medalist beat the clock off was just too close behind with four hundred twenty eight the third place finisher from his crane was

a full eighteen kilograms behind so the convincing once a finish for the russians in the five k. division would 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 in monte carlo jamaica's those same bolt got the honor on the men's side for the third time as he was recognized for retaining that two hundred meter individual world title along with helping his country with the four by one hundred meters relay at a world record pace. it was the season but i promise next year will be better than some of the time before the. season really appreciate everybody coming out and supporting people and. i know much americans thanks for everything. and on the ladies' side the accolades way to set it piers and all but three of you

who recorded the fourth best this time in the history of the one hundred meter hurdles and ends an impressive ten victories out of eleven races this season. and you can thank you everyone for coming tonight it surely means a lot to all the athletes here because we work so hard for what we get in you know results in the school and to have nights like this means a let's was it true that our results had been appreciated of an ounce of football where russia were held so one one draw by greece in a friendly in athens on friday nights dick advocaat cement continue their preparations for next summer's european championships and the head coach spoke with parties richard one portly 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 point that out of the team we can play to

departing the game will be good because a very physical team like. the future i mean how impressed we i mean had a few division something koreans you. know you could see that they were a part of the team and as always important they were not alone there no way to get a good result i was pleased with arsene the first game is always difficult but 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 as well we're progressing already from the from the beginning it is a real team and there's a reason i have also some problems to change because it looks very good football wise and creating chances. for ten's is we have three goals of voter recipe improving yes you have poured so how have whites as a as a coach do you have a sample scored because i mean very few coaches run 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 to begin the games. that's important and we can only do better still i'm becoming high i mean obviously the likes of a shot in. country he can't figure out if your team i mean how disappointing is it a few years ahead coach has been all getting a lot of game time in the moment. played today ninety minutes. i didn't want to take a risk with roman is back because this is important to get fit again so we are still timing of have a good in the right loves you cannot go. break until next year when you play friendlies i mean machines you're looking to play in my time not to sign no decided but there's

a possibility. but i don't know what's going to happen if the result of so much of a loss for you know some guys against gracious i probably won't be. reviewing. it was a request we will see if we can do that exhaustive. tributes continue to roll in for former world heavyweight boxing champion joe frazier who died on tuesday age sixty seven following a short battle with liver cancer the legendary boxer with a trademark sledgehammer left hook was the olympics and on disputed the world heavyweight boxing champion his professional career spanned from i think sixty five seventy six as well as a brief com back in one thousand eight hundred one frazier's infamous rivalry with the home of the levy was one of the biggest in the history of the sport smokin joe knock down early in their first ballot in madison square garden tonight in seventy one but then he lost the next to his last world title challenge came in one hundred

seventy five when he was beaten by a arguably one of the most famous boxing clashes in history the thriller in manila . one of the greatest things to happen in this. area and that was seeing joe frazier. 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 them. finally over it's a 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 to call for a u.s. aircraft carrier it's three years to plan this one of game on the flight they called the u.s.s. carl vinson which is six months earlier had buried out some of bin laden at sea meanwhile it's ten days to build the old border reno it will take another four day

since they could sound presidents obama and his wife michelle were the v.i.p.'s visitors and the makeshift courts and so it's all cranked north carolina beach and michigan state sixty seven fifty five. and you. are with us. talking about. ok we'll be here with another odds eight and a couple of hours from now and don't forget that some of the stories seen here are also available on our you tube channel and our team sport news so enjoy and thanks for watching.