and who's been in charge of the ambitious project former german chancellor gerhard schroeder tells us why it's so important for all sides to be involved. gerhard schroeder was charles love 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 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 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 with its debts which was and 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 the total capacity of fifty five billion cubic me outscored big me the question of whether a third or even fact like climate living or that should be answered by european stock holders of as you know we have gazprom in the order and hollins get sunni from. germany and yes if when to sell and when they like the 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 as. regulator repetition 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. handgun culture is a good thing for jay now to be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up there wasn't a company that it's a good free market economy does is good for marc rich what do you think of the recent you raids on gazprom and its partners in europe. just your p.r. gasper i think europeans need gas to feel as has 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 and russia is one but just you know better than anyone else for a space that had written it 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 but i want them to get any to norway to go outside but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up different companies would be a wiser more of. the name to do some e.u.

officials oppose russia whatever it does get us is for though that's most money i guess it 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 and it's not a question with the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back at an ideological difference yet again that misrata could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility was i listen as it were to your involvements of which is in a situation where it could ship gas to china and all of asia and europe i hope russia never has to make a choice of the russian government is evidently pro european but europe cannot keep pushing russia away it hurts russians pride about me 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 not only improved if it manages to

enter a tiny heart a ship with russia on and at the same time grant only recession to turkey it 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 and i deserters need 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 arc it is incredibly important for russia to keep it logic balance you know other things therefore we're not talking about the kind of code and it was a good 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 because europe signified gas market is quite limited on the move because there's nowhere to sell it in germany or poland has a developing market important 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 of the low spot prices on gas their support deals can be of no more gain than long term supply agreements in a short run but they do not offer stability for us to go for a player because in the wake of the fukushima disaster germany is closing all its nuclear power plants do you support that and how will it change germany's energy mix. have been in your mid mind consider this me and my team of other people who would rigidly 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 out of court 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 that 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 new debt crisis mr sarkozy says no hero no europe surely europe will survive without the euro so it does and i know formerly this is a quote my successor in office likes to work 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 even it theoretically things turn out differently which i find very approachable you think we will still have a united europe it is friday and or 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 invite i do not think that was our situation of the european commission its employees that had to conduct 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 various people might 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 understand either the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since it ended which which is it ends in. it's pointless to talk about how things were going past we're talking about him 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 nonpartisan uninfluenced by debate provoked by

right wing number that's on for me i hope the package of aid agreements that european leaders have agreed on is implement package if that's the case then i think we can start taking care of stabilizing the market. well a great deal of help from greece are 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 trivial should what greece needs mostly are investments and invest it would be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently investing abroad with pay taxes in their own country instead of looking for investment opportunity or so on was a good us thought to bring 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 bit to europe has from it's been they're getting a bad debt i'm not against discussing a red line the problem is that if you start to talk about a red line then you'd eventually have to be corrected in germany's interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe at the economic interest is easily explainable you get 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 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 certainly 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 u.s. that this 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. 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 actual year if markets around us crumble it harms us we have to explain to our people the new generation that the prospect for long lasting. peace allies in europe adore the secular 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 get out 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 a vague. but that's only the case if we stay better stay more innovative when we fulfill our agenda of twenty two 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. 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 about lloyd 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 hard the mission this goes for everyone not just the same old bus 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. . from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand supermom is not enough in-patient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses to members that's 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 be a mask i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire department is medical i've had to rescue a couple weeks i waited for hours for a bit i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a safe francis and we went for four hours and fifty minutes staring at a wall of 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. wealthy british.

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hello welcome to the sports updates this sunday evening and here's what's coming up . a model too far sebastian vettel crashes out of the abu dhabi grand prix missing the chance to equal michael schumacher record of thirteen season wins when the dying stages yes marino. plus three lead down under local boy greg trauma survives a fine late run by tiger woods in a gripping last round to clinch his second prostrate you know a. while hungry for victory captain frank lombard says and desire was the key to story england's where nothing maybe one nil victory over world champions spain. relief in manila found celebrate his money i care retains his w.b.i. welterweight title with another narrow lens went for juan manuel marquez. but we start with formula one and newly crowned champion sebastian vettel has blown the chance to equal michael schumacher as record of thirteen victories in one season after crashing out with a puncture in the opening lap of the abu dhabi grand prix the red bull driver had

started first on the devastating last lap in qualifying. rounds lewis hamilton thank the twenty three year old equal nigel mansell the full time record of fourteen hold positions in season seven and two how about schumacher landmark will in due to miss a special needed to secure the dance circuit until the final race in brazil to equal his compatriot in our final laps the race in the derby. moving on to tennis and world number four roger federer is playing in his first ever paris masters final against two thousand and eight winner joe wilfried tsonga well this meeting is the pairs a six this year with federer at narrative easing three. so far and so far in this match as refugees we won the first set six one into this. well federer reached the final after a comprehensive win of the commercial burdick the thirty year old racked up an

impressive six four six three victory in just eighty one minutes without facing a single great point it's the first time the sixteen time grand slam winner has gone through to the final of a masters event since shanghai last october on friday federal became only the seventh man in history he supplies the eight hundred career when mark if you find one of the quarterfinals. on the second seven final sort of song got comeback to clore at his place in the final after a tough three set win over john isner the unseated american won the first set six three but frenchman song got charged up by the home crowd managed to get back into contention for two sets seven six seven six after saving three match points in the final set. golf now and local man greg chalmers survived a tiger woods fight back in a thrilling final round to win his second australian open by a single shot while woods finished third behind johnson despite

a fine round of sixty seven well after a disappointing third round of seventy five that saw woods drop to join date the for what was number one k. roaring back close to clinching his first win in two years carving an eagle and five birdies in a five on the prowl around but that wasn't quite enough to win as a stray and charmers enjoyed a confident performance finishing with three straight parents for a final round of sixty nine however the thirty eight year old was forced to watch nervously as overnight lead ascended and went close with a thirty five birdie putts eighteen which would take it into a playoff but this effort just missed to give an emotional traumas the second destroyer title in three years. i got the short straw i got the really hard one to travel with my wife got me out you're all back in dallas starting school but i got my five year old boy and it be great if everyone could be here but. when i think

that's great. football now frank says desire was the major factor as the midfielder celebrated claiming rank and captain's armband by scoring his side second in the one though victory over world and european champions spain at wembley he was england's first victory over spain for ten years and first time the three lions i think in the reigning world champions since one thousand nine hundred eighty featured argentina also one day down part of that his country in the absence of the rest of john terry headed into the close ranks in the forty nine minutes and the stretch of the world right spain dominated possession for long periods almost equalized late on in time to be struck a substitute test fabregas placed is a chance i think the president held on great confidence feasting with. his little guy he didn't know my spine but we think we have to understand this crime right same problem free we defended their commitment not to go on the grass over

the line route because. we. cared whether so we know that the day we got a one off which i should have done. i was very proud i'm very proud to leave a trace amount is going to go but i'm very proud of the film but for the fact that we're going to france we've got months and i for one night we can celebrate the world champions. same with football and right here at twenty twelve preparations now well on the way says russia are improving with every game they play after trying one one in a friendly with greece in athens on friday night and have coached by which if i'm poor feet. i think is a really good test for russia today i mean you probably learn a lot from say as much the very comfortable very reasonable you know a lot of said you every day do we pointed out of the team we can play the part in the game what we did well we showed you guys are very physical team like. the looks very good for the future i mean how impressed we i mean had a few debits and some in court in person we could see that they were

a part of the team and as always supporting they were not alone there in the world the socks off to get good results on that well 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 free 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 the team looks very good civilized and jens is the first we had to go through four four four chances before we had to go two or three goals for voters to be improving yes but you have cords how have items as a coach be have a sample scored because i mean very few coaches around europe can call on such a few group of players would you have done over the last few years does your basic is base your squad yeah that definitely. the majority of the players knows what i want is see the big in the games that simply doesn't that's

a border i'm going to do better i think still i'm a semi high i mean obviously the likes of a shot in public. can get figureheads of your team i mean how disappointing is it for years ahead coach but they're not getting a lot of game time in the moment. reading that only played today ninety minutes and does good but i didn't want to tell you is was wrong when it was back because it is a border to fit a job again so we are still time enough to bring everybody in the right job loss you cannot go on break until the next year when you play over second number friendlies i mean which seems you are looking to play in my time and if you notice i decided but there's a possibility of play against turkey in the if ever but i don't know what's going to have a day off the result of so much of a loss for a now tonight against gracious i probably won't be the shame of you and mr getting . a dozen requests for take so we will see if we can do that exactly.

boxing and there was relief for fans in manila after money packing defended his w b a welterweight title in a controversial majority decision over mexico squad manuel marquez in las vegas the outcome was identical to the puzzler spacing in two thousand and eight despite a strong finish from locke as two of the street judges ruled in pakistan's favor while the third couldn't separate the pair after the end of the final round both finals adopted a victory post but patchy have got the notes to the fury of the sellout crowd and marcus who stormed out of the ring back and back as a native philippines victory was a litmus test. the fight was equally but more his last minute by much used to seeing money must function so much that she's more i am surprised that she won but i am happy. that's me back to france now russia's weightlifters have won gold and silver medals in the one hundred five kilogram

category at the world championships at disneyland in paris european champion a k f lifted a combined total of four hundred thirty kilograms in the snatch time to train and take the gold wrong to mount olympus silver medalist mexico with just two kilos behind. one hundred twenty eight so if you can't alexy product the eighteen grams behind in third result bodes well for the russian jew of the forthcoming london olympics. well meanwhile despite mixed fortunes at this year's world championships to make as you say in bold has been named as the twenty levon male athlete of the year for the time by the international athletics federations despite being the overwhelming favorite but was eliminated all in one go that route is a diety for the whole start of however cruised to gold in the two hundred meters and also help to make you set a world record for if i one hundred meters we like. it was in the best season but i promise next year will be better and definitely done

before. taking me to her if she's not really appreciate everybody for coming out and support in the tall people in t.v. . and i want to make kids dunks for everything. and funny on the women's side the accolades went to sally pearson of australia who recorded the force fastest time in the history of the one hundred meter hurdles and ten victories wherever he races this season. again thank you everyone for coming tonight it truly means a lot to all the athletes here i'm sure because we work so hard for what we get you know results in the sport and to have nights like this means a lot to us it feels that our results have been appreciated. that's all the sport for now i'll be back with more in two hours including the results of the wrong pre and the tennis in paris that.

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