this is r t coming to you live from moscow with the latest news in the week's top stories now in our weekly update the keep hours of asia in the pacific rim agreed to start working on a free trade so it could be relations the russian and u.s. presidents also use the apec summit for a meeting on the sidelines to discuss missile defense and russia's membership of the world trade organization. new government and prime ministers the rise of greece and italy as both nations raced back from the financial abyss have to approve new austerity measures to steer clear of bankruptcy and the disaster in the euro zone. and also reporting this hour a u.n.

report claims iran might be seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon. to iran slams the allegations of a u.s. backed smear campaign raney lawmakers and are considering their country's cooperation with the i.a.e.a. which they're calling a disappointment. to bring up to date for the moment what is the north stream gas and europe for the first time we sit down with a man who's been in charge of the ambitious project for my german chancellor gerhard schroeder tells us why it's so important for all sides involved that's an especially if you're next on the team. gerhard schroeder was told sort of germany from ninety 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 and europe is to further why should they even increase its dependence on gazprom is good news or. a prescribed was done so we're not talking

about russia's dependence we're talking about cooperation between russia on the one side and the european union only 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 is just a ross and for more patient part i meant were informed that the energy minister to north korean pipelines have already been laid what thoughts of the third one will be added or what will be its capacity be had me yet still stunned by it survive we currently have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic me arts critic me the question of whether a third reflag like mine will be living there to be answered by european stock holders alpha's as you know you have gazprom in the order and holland's got sunni france's g.d.s. suez and germany on the a yes if we're just on the only life there's decided to

build a third and fourth pipeline through a privately finals my young guy we're not talking about stink finally india could get out i don't know whether they will make such a decision as it was not part of my work mind of god. all russian energy companies not just the problem to be allowed to export gas to europe what are the implications of that for gas problem and europe. regulation reification 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 in world wars so there's a. who didn't get it is a good thing rigi how to be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up there wasn't a company that is a good free market economy does is good for the marketer what do you think of the recent new raids on gazprom and its partners in europe where you think about just the all the pay i gasped i think europeans need gas to feel it has many years it

with a political uncertainty in north africa but also good to have a stable partner that you can rely on for russia is one of this you know better than anyone else griz place that had written recently switched from export to your old partner europe needs a gas applied to maintain a stable mix of energy sources and it's climatic conditions but why for him to get into norway is going outside but also russia's give us therefore i think opening the market up to much and companies would be all right some of it was a shorter name so if there is some e.u. officials oppose russia whatever it does get us is for the best most mind i guess it is so we have to admit that i worry and i hope we will get over it it's understandable it says 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 the ideological differences yet again that is for the could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility is unknown as it were to your

little minds of which is in a situation where it could ship gas to china and all of asia and europe but i hope russia never has to make a choice of these of the russian government is evidently pro european agoura cannot keep pushing russia away it hurts russians pride 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 look only improved if it manages to enter a plea hard to ship with russia on and at the same time front all us session to turkey it would never be a sound strategy aimed into the future the rest. yesterday's debate to be alice and . the battle for the guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean a shortfall for your side as voters need to know whether or not happy russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about accurately what you're going to see again that you are at heart it is incredibly important for russia to keep its budget balance among other things i therefore

we're not talking about the conduct here at the other code and it was a good progress in shipping liquefied natural gas. makes europe less dependent on pipelines can that affect this project and if they're safe. i didn't think it would have a negative effect on the project because europe liquefied gas market is quite limited number because there's no way to sell it in germany or poland has a developing market important so it's in no way a danger of yours and that's not the reason i'm criticizing it's the indication that there are alternative sources and the low spot prices on their g.p.s. spot deals can be of no more gain the long term supply agreements in the short run but they do not offer stability very for sticking for a pretty 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 damaged mind consider this me and my team or the people who are gradually negotiated that deal with our energy suppliers we have agreed to

make a sensible exit out of nuclear strategy that was followed by a short period when the federal government fought our agreement should be overturned and 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 for the reason we need to build a gas power station run morse. with this e.u. debt crisis mr sarkozy says no euro no europe surely europe with a point without the euro so that there's an a and a formal english is a quote from my successor in office which of course europe's going to have problems if the euro has dropped. but there's one thing you can be sure of i think the euro is going to survive as a common currency there even it theoretically things turn out differently which is

very very important we will still have a united europe which is vital and or pluggable you would child slow when greece cooked its books to join the euro should you have stopped athens from joining the single car company. on those it was your environment 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 is a session on ourselves and it was a purely preparing for a mission conducted by the european commission the national governments if we had made the decision to take greece in we could not claim without having the firm proof that the information we got then was a diplomatically speaking not entirely correct various people might keep in mind that the european parliament voted in favor of greece is a 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 universal and there are . other the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since they tended which which is it's not their keynesian roshi through really are it's pointless to talk about how things were in the past we're talking of other things you can burn i hope we manage to keep greece in the euro zone that's one of the new greek government would have to be nonpartizan uninfluenced by debate provoked by right we don't number that's on for me i hope the package of aid agreements that european leaders have got real it implement package 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 or there is one point i would like to make a country should not be broken down i'm not only does greece need a budget discipline which is of course trivia should what greece needs new york city or investment post and invest it would be good to see wealthy greek citizens. you're currently investing abroad just pay taxes in their own country i go instead of looking for investment opportunities or strolling was

a good and the thought of lingering is there a red line beyond which germans play we're not going to bail out southern europe anymore or those germany have a historic it or europe has probably. been there giving a bad i'm not against discussing a red line the problem is that if you start to talk about a red line then you'd eventually have to correctly in the region is interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe but that economic interest is easily explained will be that forty percent of our exports goes to the european union and beyond that is there if those countries are hit by a crisis and 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 of any game where the u.s. is one superpower and an asian leader and what's good in this case china is the other new european standards and 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 the sake of our citizens future of good will come from the laudable to small question many germans many people many in are angry at having to pay. have a role that's enough for it 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's a nation that relies hugely on actually here if markets around us crumble it harms us we have to explain to our people the new generation of the prospects for long lasting peace lies in europe but we do in effect liane when you serve the german chancellor there was no question of receiving financial aid from china or russia directly or indirectly through the i.m.f. do you regret that's happening potentially and what would be the implication i think it doesn't. i do not think we should feel bad about other nations get have stronger be they russians chinese brazilians south africans or indians it should

not concern us because these countries offer as more opportunity to export our products as they develop. but that's only the case if we stay got to stay more innovative when we fulfill our agenda of twenty canada and sort out our social policies germany is the only country that understood back in two thousand and three different aging countries to maintain prosperity it must provide for change i think about i wonder if the rest of the e.u. states having understood this a decade later i'll manage to take 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 to floyd has problems over that so. we started taking care of our problems in time if the rest will regret it only to be forced to take on hard aleutian this goes for everyone not just the sound of all persons but if they've been ignored ghostwrote a sample of the board for the north stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking

about the. 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 some 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 bury your ass so i started out going to just do firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire department is medical but they had a rescue couple weeks ago waited for hours for a bit i've waited sometimes three hours but i would just say it's a frances and then wait for four hours or fifteen minutes staring at the wall of the basement and we have a federal law that mandates that if you can turn no one away who seeks care and

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cooperation with the eighty eight which they're calling it disappointment. fifteen minutes from now in the meantime case is next with. thank you for joining me for the latest quarter and here are the headlines does it delight mclaren's lewis hamilton brings the abu dhabi grown grief of car is fernando alonso to succeed but retires with a first run punch up. lots of local boy great charmers survives a fine late one by tiger woods in unclipping last round when she second australian open. and relief in manila on celebrate as many krakow retains his w b o welterweight title after another narrow points when i took my love mark this.

restart was formula one where my parents lewis hamilton returned to fall to claim his third win of the season with victory at the abu dhabi ground free after sebastian vettel retired on the first lap red bull's world champion picked up punch at the second corner respect his first retirement since korea last year ended his role as the only drive at this season to finish every race as well as blowing this transcends the michael schumacher record thirty this morning season oh meanwhile ferrari's alonzo tries to take the lead the final pitstop in nine seconds before you come out and climbs jenson button six records mark webber hours sleep a low so this fits. and it's now and while before roger federer has won his first ever paris masters final with a straight sets win over frenchman joe wilfried tsonga federer survived two break points in the opening game of the two thousand and eight champion before racing through the first set six one in just half an hour to thirteen then to eight for

love leave in the second set tie break wrapping up his eighteenth monsters title in an hour and twenty five minutes it was also thirty year old plagiarism sixteen lives tournament success well before all that federer had reached the finals thanks to a comprehensive win over it washed burdick swiss maestro wrapped up an impressive six four six three victory just eighty one minutes about facing exit rate point it was the first time the sixteen time grand slam winner had gone through to the final of a loss as event since shanghai last october previously on friday federer had become only the seventh man in history to surpass the eight hundred career we mark the region on monaco you quarterfinals. the second semifinal had seen song come back to claim his place in the final after a tough three set win over john isner the unseeded american won the first set six three but frenchman song got charged up by the home crowd and had to get back into contention on one following two sets seven six seven six after saving three match

points in the final set. so i saw him now where russia have won the kiowa cup in finland after coming from behind to snatch a two one victory in the dying seconds and with the czech republic the czechs took the lead in the second period with a wrist shot from a thirty nine year old bed informally play for canada not the red machine managed to level in the closing period as alexander i love scored his fourth goal of the tournament and with just ten seconds to go until the final buzzer curio world champion left any pretense of snatching a winner so russia will win the title regardless of the result with the hosts and defending champions finland and sweden are playing for moments with the swedes currently use tendency. to golf now a local man greg sharma survived a tiger woods fight back in a thrilling final round to win his second destroyed and opened by

a single shot while woods finished third behind john senden despite a fire under sixty seven well after a disappointing third round of seventy five that saw woods drop to joint eighth with former world number one k. rory back and was close to clinching his first win in two years adding an eagle and five birdies in the five under par round but that wasn't quite enough to win as a strain charmers enjoyed a confident performance with three straight hours for a final round of sixteen i however thirty eight are all the sports to watch nervously as overnight leader senden went close with a thirty five foot birdie putt at the eighteenth which roared of taking it into a playoff but his effort just missed to give an emotional traumas the second australian open title in three years. i got the short straw i got the really hard one to travel with my wife got my i.q. we're all back in dallas and the abstains bill the dog about five year old boy and

it be great if everyone could be here but their term assignment cannot be kept secret. for a while now and frank ron paul says desire was the major factor as the midfielder celebrated claiming the england captaincy and by scoring his science in the one zero victory over world and european champions spain at wembley it was england's first victory over spain for ten years and the first time the three lions have beaten the reigning world champion since ninety nine eighty six he argentina friendly. lead his country in the absence of the rest of john terry and headed in from close range in forty nights minister datuk seri and woodwork spain dominated possession for long periods and almost equalized late on and probably be a substitute for life to the chance that england present monthly visit and even held on a confidence boosting with. his little game plan we didn't outplay spine but we think we have to understand this time the right same problem free there we defended

their commitment to the grass over the line of the crowd because. by no means think i'd rather stay overnight it was every day one of the difficult times. that we're very proud i'm very proud of a victory which is good i'm very proud of their affiliates and the fact that in the france we got on tonight one might reconsider if it was happy. staying with football and with a year at twenty two our preparations are well underway to come because says russia are improving with every game like play after going one one in a friendly with greece in athens on friday night the coach spoke with which a couple feet i think is a really good test for russia today i mean you probably learn a lot from series much live very comfortable very somebody here well as i do every day do we point it out of the team so we can play a part in the game will be. there will be show diggers a very physical team. their lives very well for the future i mean high in price

three i mean had a few debutants i mean kerkorian zuba persuaded with you could see that they were a part of the team and as always important there were no tone there and there would just socks off to get the good result so that when i was pleased with arsene the first game is always difficult i mean i am also i mean you've said you've got three games to head of the european championships in two thousand and twelve has a team progressing as you did look very good tonight as well be progressing already from the from the beginning it is a real team and there's a reason i have also some problems to change. the team looks very good football wise and creating chances. for tenses. three goals for voters to be improving yes you have had whiteness as a coach but you have a simple score because i mean very few coaches around europe can call on such a few group of players would you have done the last few years because your basic is based your sport yeah definitely. the majority of the players knows what i

want a see the big in the games that simple that's important and we can only do better i think still a semi high i mean obviously the likes of a shah in. country can't figure out if your team i mean how disappointing is it the years ahead coach have been all getting all the game time in england and i'm going to. play today ninety minutes and. i didn't want to tell you this was wrong when it was back because it is important to get fit again so we are still timing of have a good in the right loves you can i get a long break until the next seven weeks here when you play over there camomile friendlies i mean which seems you looking to play in my time or do you not decide oh no decided that there's a possibility that we played in the if ever where abouts. i don't know what's going to have a day off the result of too much of a loss for a no tonight against gray sure so probably won't be the shame of you getting.

closer we graduate exam we'll see if we can do that exactly. boxing now and there was relief for fans even a lot of money back yeah defended his w b o welterweight sidle in a controversial majority decision over what's going on manuel marquez in las vegas but our cover was identical to the last meeting in two thousand and eight despite a strong finish from marcus two of the three judges now early. while the third couldn't separate the two off the end of the final round both fighters adopted a victory pose the pack you know got the nod to the fear of the sellout crowd and marquez were stoned out of the ring but back in packers native philippines victory was all that matters. the point was equal but mark has watched a minute by much used to see money not scansion so much but she's more i am surprised that she won but i am happy. and finally despite mixed fortunes at this

year's world championships tonight as you saying gold has been named as male athlete of the year for the third time by the international athletics federations well despite being the overwhelming favorite both was eliminated from the one hundred writers in that i gave her full stars however cruised to gold in the two hundred meters and also helped to make it such a world record for one hundred meters really like. it was in the best season but i promise next year will be better and definitely done before about taking me to a season that i really appreciate everybody for coming out and supporting tall people and. i'm going to make and it's going through everything. on the women's side the accolades went to sally pearson of australia the record of a fourth fastest time in the history of the one hundred metres hurdles and now cross it ten. victories out of eleven 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 it you know results in the sport and to have not said this means a lot to us it feels that our results have been appreciated. and that's often i was a strong again. twenty years ago largest country. to switch places. where did it take.

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