all sides involved that's in a special interview next on. go through there was chancellor of germany from one nine hundred ninety eight to two thousand and five he's now chairman of the board at north stream russia's new gas pipeline under the baltic sea europe mr further why should the e.u. increase its dependence on gazprom or. 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 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 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 outside could be me the question of whether a third or even like climate living or there should be answered by european stock holders of as you know we have gazprom in the order and holland's got sunni. in germany and yes if we understand only like investors decided to build a third and fourth pipeline that we find that was my guy we're not talking about things like that then it could be done i do not know whether they would 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 gazprom and europe. regulator reprovision when it's 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. codependency 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 the market chuck what do you think of the recent new raids on gazprom and its partners in europe think of just your p.r. gasp 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 of these you know better than anyone else for insulation that written recently switched from export to your old partner europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources but it's climatic conditions but i want them to get any norway's going outside but also russia's give us therefore i think opening the market up generation companies would be a wiser man of. the name to do some officials oppose russia whatever it does

get 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 but the reverse is also true it's not a question the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back at an ideological difference he had to get that was for the could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility listeners it towards your informant's 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 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 hard to ship with russia on under the same time grant only recession to turkey

it would be a sound strategy aimed into the future the rest. yesterday's debate i lost and. did better from guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean a gas shortfall for europe now doesn't it a snake know whether or not happy russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that trying to i will say again that europe hallmark it is incredibly important for russia to keep it logic balance among other things i guess 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 now let's go. i don't think it would have a negative effect on the project as europe liquefied gas market is quite limited on the move because there's nowhere to sell it in germany or poland has a developing a market important is it in no way a danger for us that's not the reason i'm criticizing is the indication that there

are alternative sources of the low spot prices that's there g.p.s. unit sport deals can be of no more gain than long term supply agreements in the short run but they do not offer stability for us to go for play in the wake of the fukushima disaster germany is closing all its nuclear power plants do you support that and how will it change germany's energy mix. have been damaged mind consider this me and my team or the people who originally negotiated that deal with our energy suppliers 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 to plotting 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 your will survive without the euro so on. and a former english is a quote my successor in office likes to of course europe's going to have problems if the euro has problems but there's one thing you can be sure of at the end of the euro is going to survive as a common currency there even it theoretically things turn out differently which i find very improper of you think we will still have a united europe it is vital in all pugging if you were 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 own via i do not think that was our situation of the european commission its employees that had to conduct inspections they had letters 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 a firm proof that the information we got then was on diplomatically speaking not entirely correct or give people much keep in mind that the european parliament voted in favor of greece's membership almost unanimously including the conservatives who are now trying to distance themselves from that decision sometimes in politics you don't want to believe things that he wants condoned or actually happening. for understand either the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since it ended which which it ends in. it's pointless to talk about how things were in the past we're talking about those who carried him down i hope we manage to keep greece in the euro zone so that a half of the new greek government would have to be nonpartisan uninfluenced by debate provoked by right wing pundits on for me i hope the package of aid agreements that european leaders have agreed on is implement 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 greats of hoover or there is one point i would like to make that the country should not be broken down not only does greece need budget discipline which is of course trivial should what greece needs most are investments and invest it would be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently vesting abroad with pay taxes in their own country instead of looking for investment opportunity or so on was a good enough for doubling is there a red line beyond which german thursday we're not going to bail out southern europe anymore or does germany have a historic debt to europe has from it's been there gave about debt i'm not against discussing a red line the problem is that if you start to talk about a red line then you'd eventually have to correct it in germany's interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe that have economic interest is easily explainable in that forty percent of our export goes to the european union and beyond it is 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 dictates that germany is not strong enough geo politically to play a significant role in a game where the u.s. is one superpower and an asian leader. in this case china is the other new european state and in the i'm only a united europe can take on a role like that if that's why germany is interested in a night in the u.s. out 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 x. here if markets around us crumble it harms us we have to explain to our people the

new generation the prospects for long lasting. peace allies in europe. 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 no it should not concern us because these countries offer us more opportunity to export our products as they develop a vehicle. but that's only the case if we stay better stay more innovative when we fulfill our agenda of twenty eight and up and sort out our social policies in germany is the only country that understood back in two thousand and three that for an aging country to maintain prosperity as it must provide for change i think i wonder if the rest of the e.u. states having understood this a decade later we'll manage to take the action needed to maintain prosperity eyes

on the other hand we have an understanding that an aging society with a decreasing number of people who are deployed has problems over that so it will be a mistake that we started taking care of our problems in time as the rest will aggressively be forced to take on harder 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 standing against 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 expensive health care system in the world and it's probably the least. wealthy british.

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a first one puncture. last year the local boy greg chalmers survives a fine late run by tiger woods in encrypting last round when she second australian open. and relief in manila can celebrate as manny pacquiao retains his w.b.i. welterweight title after another narrow points when a man well mark this. restart was formula one where by terence lewis hamilton returned to fall to claim his third win of the season with victory at the abu dhabi grand prix after sebastian vettel retired on the first lap red bulls a world champion picked up the coach at the second corner it was bettles first retirement since korea last year ended his run as the only drive at this season to finish every race as well as blowing his chances to beat a michael schumacher record thirty this morning seasoned pro meanwhile ferrari's alonzo tries to take the lead to the final pitstop finished nine seconds behind

hummels and returns jenson button took third for record as mark webber four hours sleep a lot so this fits. and is now and well done before roger federer has won his first ever paris masters final with a straight set win over frenchman joe wilfried tsonga federer survived two great 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 the third seed then took a four lovely lead in the second set tie break wrapping up his eighteenth monsters title in our twenty five minutes it was also thirty year old federer's sixteen. knives tournament success well before all that federer had reached the finals thanks to a comprehensive win over thomas burdick the swiss maestro wrapped up an impressive six four six three victory just eighty one minutes without facing fixing breakpoint 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 when mark beating plan want to serve in the quarterfinals. that the second the semifinal had seen tsonga 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 managed to get back into contention among the following two sets seven six seven six after saving three match points in the final set. to ice hockey now where russia have won the cup in finland after coming from behind to snatch a two one victory in the dying seconds over the czech republic the czechs took the lead in the second period with a wrist shot from a thirty nine year old veteran that informally play for canada not the red machine managed to level in the closing period as alexander that i do love scored his

fourth goal of the tournament and with just ten seconds to go until the final buzzer world champion left any presence of snatch the winner so russia win the title regardless of the result of the hosts defending champions finland and sweden are playing at the moment with the swedes currently live standards in. the gulf now a local man greg charmer 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 john senden despite a fire under sixty seven well after a disappointing third round of seventy five that's all. woods dropped and joined eighth the former world number one came rolling 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 pass for a final round of sixty nine however the thirty eight year old was forced to watch

nervously as overnight leader send and went close with a thirty five foot birdie putt at the eighteenth which would have taken it into a playoff but his effort just missed to give an emotional charmers the second australian open title in three years. i got the short straw i got the really hard one to travel with my watch got me out you're all back in dallas and be at the starting school that i got my five year old boy and it be great if everyone could be here but not have much time and money gets great. football now and frank lampard says desire was the major factor as the midfielder celebrated claiming the england captain zamboni by scoring his side second in their 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 nine hundred eighty nine hundred eighty argentina at wembley long

pause to lead his country in the absence of the rest of john terry and headed in from close range in forty nights minutes after darren bent had struck the woodwork spain dominated possession for long periods and almost equalise late on. substitute . to chance that england present monthly visit and even held on a confidence boosting when. it was a difficult game plan we didn't know my spine but we think we have to understand this morning it's a great shame for being free and there we defended their commitment not to go on the grass over the long route regarding. what we've done i mean you cared whether soap or not it was very very wide open just at a time. that we're very proud i'm very proud to live in st petersburg i'm very proud of that for the fact that many fans think i'm so not just for one night we can celebrate the world champions. staying with the will and with a year at twenty two off preparations now well on the way to count the cost says russia are improving with every game they play after drawing one one in

a friendly with greece in athens on friday night coached by could not but a phone call from i think is a really good test for russia today i mean you probably learn a lot from today's march a very comfortable very reasonable you know a lot of said they would take do we pointed out of the team and we can play the part in the game will be good at the end of the show to get a very physical team like. the loser who for the future i mean how impressed we i mean had a few debates in some encoding and. you could see that they were a part of the team and as always a port and they were not alone there in the world of social to good results so that where 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 the head 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

football wise that and quitting jens is the first we had to go through for the full four ten just before we had to go two or three goals but for voters to be improving yes but if you have how you have items as a coach do you have a sample scored because i mean very few coaches around europe can call on such a few group of players would 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 a see the big in the games that simple doesn't that's important i'm going to do better i think still. 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 england a moment. i played today ninety minutes and good i didn't want to do is was wrong when it was back because this is the border to fit the job again so we are still

time enough to bring everybody in the right job looks you cannot get a long break until the next year when you're playing over second novel friendlies i mean which seems you're looking to play in my time or if you notice i don't know decided but there's a possibility 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 you know tonight against gracious i probably won't be written the shame of you and mr hitting. it was a request we'll see if we can do that for exams writing. books and now and there was relief for fans of miller off to manny pacquiao defended his w b o welterweight title in a controversial majority decision over mexico's juan manuel marquez in las vegas this outcome was identical to the pez last meeting in two thousand and eight despite a strong finish from marcus two of the three judges now really back as favor while the third couldn't separate the two the end of the final round both fighters

adopted a victory pose that pacquiao got the knowledge to the fear of the sellout crowd and marquez who stormed out of the ring but back in pakistan native philippines victory was a one man says. the fight was equal but mark has watched a minute by much used to see money much punch and so much that is why i am surprised that he won but i am happy. and finally despite mixed fortunes at this year's world championships jamaica's hussain gold has been named as male athlete of the year for the so time by the international athletics federations well despite being the overwhelming favorite bolt was eliminated from the one hundred meters in the diet the first full stars however cruised to gold in the two hundred meters and also helped to make a second world record in the four by one hundred meters really real. i know it wasn't the best season but i promise next year will be better. than that on the thought about taking the tour of season i really appreciate everybody for coming

out and supporting the tall people in t.v. . and i want to make and stands for everything. on the women's side the accolades went to sally pearson of australia who recorded the fourth fastest time in the history of the one hundred metres hurdles and ten victories out of eleven races this one is. 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 this boy and to have not said this means a lot to us it feels that our results have been appreciated. and that's all for now more sport into our space join me again. twenty years ago largest country.

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the focus missile defense and russia's future at the w t o we bring you all the latest from honolulu just ahead in the program. rewriting history in europe new governments being formed the prime ministers were placed in. both nations raced to pull back from the. un report. on nuclear weapons but. as a u.s. backed smear campaign top stories. back at the past seven days top stories are the latest developments this is the weekly. the creation of a landmark free trade zone dominated talks at this year's apec summit which brings together the leaders of asian and pacific rim.