gautreaux the was chancellor of germany from one nine hundred ninety eight to two thousand and five he's now chairman of the board at nordstrom 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 and the 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. 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 us could be me the question of whether a third or even like climate living or that should be answered by european stock holders of as you know we have gazprom in the order and hollins got sunni. and germany on and yes if we understand only like the investors decide to build a third and fourth pipeline through a privately finals might we're not talking about stinks 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. regulator reprovision one is not the issue. germany and the rest of the nations that 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. co-dependency culture is a good thing how 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 truck what do you think of the recent you raids on gazprom and its partners in europe think about adjusting 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 russia is one of these you know better than anyone else or is less that it 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 it wants them to get any norway's going outside but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up different companies would be a wiser man 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 i weigh 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 but with the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back at an ideological difference he had to get that misrata could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility was i listen as it were to your evil man's 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 a recession to turkey but that would be a sound strategy aimed into the future the rest. yesterday's debate unless and.

guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean the shortfall for europe now doesn't it is nice to know we're not happy russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that trantor i will say again that you are at all market 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 and. i don't think it would have a negative effect on the project as europe liquefied gas market is quite limited to move there's nowhere to sell is 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 then support 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. 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 of other people who would rigidly negotiated that deal with our energy suppliers that 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 with 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. morse. with this debt crisis mr sarkozy says no hero no europe surely europe will survive without the euro so on that. and a former english is a quote my successor in office likes to work of course europe is 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 if theoretically things turn out differently which i find very important you think we will still have a united europe it is vital in or plug 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 own via 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

government 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 bag of 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 is a matter kensi in. it's pointless to talk about how things were in the past we're talking about the future i hope we manage to keep greece in the euro zone so that a half of the new greek government would have to be nonpartizan uninfluenced by debate provoked by right with a number that's 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 the market. with 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 are investments that 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 that 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 correctly germany's interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe that have economic interest is easily explainable you get 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 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 actual year if markets around us crumble it harms us we have to explain it 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 make you not think we should feel bad about other nations getting stronger be they russians chinese brazilians south africans or indians are it should not concern us because these countries offer us more opportunity to export our products as they develop. but that's only the case if we stay 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 chang. 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 we will be able to we started taking care of our problems in time the rest will aggressively be forced to take on a harder mission this goes for everyone not just the sound of all plus this but if they've been ignored and gerhard schroder 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 and three home is not enough in-patient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses to manvers that 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 the problem is medical but they had a rescue a couple weeks ago 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 us all in the patient and we have a federal law that mandates that if you can 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. of nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the want to. test yourself and become free.

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part of greece and italy as both nations raced to pull back from the financial abyss that have to approve new austerity measures to steer clear of bankruptcy and avert disaster in the euro zone. plus you want to import claims if iran might be seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon that iran slammed the allegations as u.s. backed smear campaign for a new lawmakers and now reconsidering their country's cooperation with the i.a.e.a. which that calling a disappointment. i'll have more on those stories for in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime kate is next with all the latest action from the world of sport . hello and welcome to the sports news and these are the top stories does it delights mclaren's lewis hamilton wins the abu dhabi grand prix from ferrari's fernando

alonso after sebastian vettel retires with a first lap point. while thriller down under local boy greg chill in the survives a fine late run by tiger woods in a gripping last round in his second australian open. and relief in manila found celebrate his money back yeah retains his w.b. a welterweight title with a controversial points when the planet my mum office. the start was for real water where mclaren's lewis hamilton returned to form to claim his third win of the season with a victory at the abu dhabi grand prix after sebastian vettel retired on the first lap red bulls newly crowned world champion picked up the second corner it was bettles first retirement since korea last year and ended his run as the only driver this season to finish every race is wrong is going on since michael schumacher his record of thirteen victories mormon season one meanwhile ferrari's fernando alonso

tried to take the lead at the final pitstop finished nine seconds behind tomlinson mclaren's jenson button took surfer red bulls mark webber from pretty massive misfits. and is now in world on before roger federer has won his first ever paris masters spinal with a straight set win over frenchman joe wilfried tsonga federer survived two breakpoints the opening game from that see thousands champion before racing through the first set six ones in just half an hour the third seed then took a four level lead in the second set tie break before wrapping up his eighteenth monsters title in an. in twenty five minutes it was also thirty year old federer is a sixty minutes twenty eight success and victory number eight hundred two in his career. to ice hockey now russia have won the cardiac cup in finland after coming from behind to snatch a vital two one victory in the dying seconds of the czech republic the czechs took

the lead in the second period with a wrist shot from thirty nine year old that are not ready to formally play to canada then the red machine managed to level in the closing period and alexander i do not scored his fourth goal of the tournament and with just ten seconds to go until the final buzzer junior champion yet again because the soft snaps the winner so russia one of the title regardless of the later result between the defending champions finland and sweden which the swedes won four three. gulf 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 john senden the spider final round of sixty seven after a disappointing third round of seventy five that saw woods drop to joint eighth the former while the number one came roaring back close to clinching his first win in two years carving an eagle and five birdies five under par round but that wasn't

quite enough to win as australian charmers enjoyed a confident performance finishing three straight pass for a final round of sixty nine however the thirty eight year old was forced to watch nervously as overnight lead a second 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 traumas the second the stray and i can 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 be at the starting school that day i got my five year old boy. it be great if everyone could be here but not terrible. but not because it's great. football now and frank lampard says desire was the major factor as the midfielder celebrated claiming the england captain's armband by scoring his side's second half when in their one their victory over world and european champions spain the wembley it was a man's first victory over spain for ten years and the first time just three lines

before the reigning world champion since one thousand nine hundred defeated argentina also wembley led his country in the absence of the rest of john terry headed in from close range fourteen minutes to darren bent and struck bloodwork spine dominated possession for long periods of almost a quiet place only about his b.s. struck up a post and substitute excess fabric as place to the chants but england resolutely held on for a confidence boosting with. his little game plan we didn't know my spine but we think we have to understand this morning it's a great time for being free and we defended their commitment not to go on the grass over the large crowd because. we've done i mean do you care to go over so we know that we've got one of these or sort of. that we're very proud i'm very proud to be able to take the sort of god i'm very proud of for the fact that we're going to try and figure out how to not just the one that we can save in the world champions. staying with the will and with

a year i twenty twelve preparations now well underway to get the car says russia are improving with every game i play off the drawing one one in a friendly with greece in athens on friday night as head coach spoke with our teams which are important i think is a really good test for russia today i mean you probably learn a lot from ses mij 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 impressively i mean had a few debits in some encoding and. you could see that they were a part of the team and as always supporting they were not alone there in the to get good result 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 three 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. the team looks very good football wise and quitting jens is the first to go through four four four chances before we have to go two or three goals for voters to be improving yes but if you have have itis 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 that definitely. the majority of the players knows what i want is see the big in the games that simple doesn't that's important and we can only do better i think still. high i mean obviously the likes of a shot in public. can get figureheads if your team i mean how disappointing is it for you as a head coach but they're not getting a lot of game time in england a moment that's doing that alone. played today ninety minutes and those good i

didn't want to tell you this was wrong when it was back because this is the border to fit the job again so we're still time enough to bring everybody in the right loves you can i get a long break until next year when you're playing over second number friendlies i mean which seems you're looking to play in my time or if you notice i 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 probably one. of you and mr hitting. it was a request we will see if we can do that for example. money package is convinced he was the winner after the thirty two year old filipino defended his w b a welterweight title due to a controversial majority decision of the mexico's one man was marcus in las vegas. but it's bigger than i want to fight in it's very clear in you know i love most of

the artists of marcus. you said you wanted to leave absolutely no doubt however the audience has a doubt do you think that you really left no doubt this time around that you marcus but we had to achieve that marcus is that is your point it is goodbye there about you know i won the fight. you know that. well meanwhile there was relief back as fans in manila after the outcome was identical to the pez last meeting in two thousand and eight despite a strong finish from thirty eight year old mexican luck has two of the three judges now already ruled in the filipinos favor although third couldn't separate the two after the final round by fighters adopting a victory pose but the nonce to the fury of the sellout crowd and marcus who stormed out of the ring but in the philippines victory was a limited. the fight was equal but more kids watched a minute by much used to see money much punching so much that is why i am surprised

that she won but i am happy. and sunny despite mixed fortunes at this year's world championships jamaica's you saying bolt has been named as male athlete of the year for the search by the international affairs expectoration well despite being the overwhelming favorite both was eliminated from the one hundred meters in diameter for full start however he cruised to gold in the two hundred meters and there's a help to make a second world record in the field by one hundred meters we like. and it was the best season but i promise next year will be better and that's when the time to fight about taking mature of season and i really appreciate everybody for coming out and supporting the top people in t.v. . and i want to make and stands for everything. and on the women's side the accolades went to your sally pearson of australia who recorded the fourth fastest time in the history of the one hundred meter hurdles and an impressive 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 in our results in this boy and to have nots what this means a lot to us it feels that our results have been appreciated. and that's all the sports news by. twenty years ago largest country. began a journey. where did it take. right

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the focus missile defense and russia's future. we bring you all the latest from honolulu just ahead of the program. rewriting history in europe new governments being full of prime ministers replaced and. both nations race to pull back from the financial abyss. plus a u.n. report claims of. nuclear weapons. as a u.s. backed smear campaign. but look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. 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 countries barack obama has to.