so important for all sides involved. gautreaux the world chancellor of germany from one nine hundred 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 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. 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 a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic me article big 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 holland's got sunni g.d.s. suez in germany and the s.f. winter certainly 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. a culture is a good thing with how to be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up for what and companies that it's a good free market economy does is good for the market truck what do you think of the recent new 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 and russia is one of the you know better than anyone else for at least the bit 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 we want them to get any to norway to go outside but also russia's give us therefore i think opening the market up different companies would be the right amount of water short to 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 it's not a question that the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back at an ideological difference yet again that is for the could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility towards their listeners it towards your involvement 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 these of the russian government is evidently pro european but europe cannot keep pushing a natural way it hurts russians pride about me 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 tiny hard to ship with russia on and at the same time grant only recession to

turkey that that would be a sound strategy aimed into the future the rest. yesterday's debate unless and. did better from guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean the 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 hallmark it is incredibly important for russia to keep it logic balance among other things therefore we're not talking about the kind of a 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 liquefied gas market is quite limited on the move because there's nowhere to sell is in germany or poland has a developing market important is that it's in no way a danger for us and that's all the reason i'm criticizing is the indication that there are alternative sources of the low spot prices on their g.p.s.

unit support deals can be of no more gain than long term supply agreements in a short run 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 or the people who would rigidly negotiated that deal with our energy suppliers when 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 a 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. i know former english is a quote my successor in office like 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 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 invalid 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 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'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 and us thought was of the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since it ended which which is it ends in a bogus if the it's pointless to talk about how things were in the past we're talking about the to carry him down i hope we manage to keep greece in the euro zone so that's one of the new greek government would have to be nonpartisan uninfluenced by debate provoked by right we don't under threat on front 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 . with a great deal of help from greece 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 and invest it would be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently besting abroad with pay taxes in their own country instead of looking for investment opportunity or so on was a good us forward to bring is there a red line beyond which german so they 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 correct it in germany's interested both politically and economically in a functioning in 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 dictate that germany is not strong enough geopolitical 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 it is 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 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 adore the heckler 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 a dollar do not think we should feel bad about other nations get have 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 vague. 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 and 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 wonder if the rest of the e.u. states from having understood this a decade later will manage to take the action needed to maintain prosperity highs

on the other hand we have an understanding that an aging society with a decreasing number of people who are deployed has problems of that so it will be a matter that we started taking care of our problems in time or the rest will regret it and be forced to take on a harder mission when this goes for everyone not just the sound or bus the specific i've been ignored and gerhard schroder chairman of the board for the north stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking with l.t. . a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on a false scent they have.

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presidential election. the prime ministers of both italy and greece fall a new governments are appointed as their countries drowning in debt mario monti has taken over in italy and lucas papademos and greece both are likely to head out tough technocratic governments and implement unpopular economic reforms. plus a un report claims around might be seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon but slams the allegations as if it was back to smear campaign iranian lawmakers are now reconsidering their country's cooperation with the i.a.e.a. which they're calling a disappointment. i'll be back with an update in around fifteen minutes but first here is kate with all the latest sports news don't go away. hello and welcome to the sports news and these are the top stories desert 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 celebrators money pack your retains his w b a welterweight title with a controversial points when the planet my mum office. 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 as well as going on since the michael schumacher record thirteen victories more seasoned pro meanwhile ferrari's fernando alonso tried to take the lead at the final pitstop finished nine seconds behind tomlinson mclaren stenson 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 went over frenchman joe wilfried song that federer survived two breakpoints the opening game from the two thousand and eight champion before racing through the first set six ones in just half an hour the third seed then took a four love lead in the second set tie break before wrapping up his eighteenth monsters title in an hour. in twenty five minutes it was also thirty year old federer's sixty minutes twenty eight success and victory number eight hundred two in his career. to ice hockey now russia have won the 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 zero that are not bad if only played to canada then the red machine managed to level in the closing period and an exam that 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 stand and despite a fine round of sixty seven after a disappointing third round of seventy five that saw wood struck 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 leader sending away 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 straight and open title in three years i got the short straw i got the really hard won the treble my wife got me out you were all back in dallas at the starting school that day i got my five year old boy. would be great if everyone could be here but not very much german not because greg. 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 winner in their one though

victory over world and european champions spain the wembley it was a first victory for spain for ten years and the first time the three lions 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 forty nine minutes after darren bent and struck the woodwork spain dominated possession for long periods of almost a quiet place only got his b.s. struck up a post and substitute excess fabric as a place to the chance but england resolutely held on for a confidence boosting with. little guys we didn't now my spine but we think we have to understand we're starting to break same problem free there we defended their commitment not to go on the grass over the line of route return. with by no means think out of ever so we know that we've got a world of digital sound. that we're very proud i'm very proud of the libertarian route which is going to go i'm very proud of that for the fact that we're going to

france to go on to not one night we can celebrate the world championship. starting with vocal and with a euro two thousand and twelve preparations now well underway to gather the cars says russia are improving with every game they play off the drawing one one in a friendly with greece in athens on friday night as the head coach spoke with artie's which example fleet i think is a really good test for russia today i mean you probably learn a lot from series much very comfortable very somebody here well as i do every day do we point out of the team that we can play departing the game will be good there will be showed you guys a very physical team like. the loser who for the future i mean home pressure i mean had a few divisions so i mean. you had personally very very well you could see that they were a part of the team and there's always a portly they were not alone there and there were just so close to. good result so that where i was please with i've 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. in gensis. we had three goals but for voters to be improving yes you have how you have itis as a coach you have a sample scored because i mean very few coaches around europe can call on such a few group of players which you have done over the last few years does your basic is base your squad yeah that definitely. the majority of the players knows what i want a 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 have been all getting a lot of game time in england a moment. played today ninety minutes as good a didn't want to tell you this was wrong when it was back because as is important you become fit as sharp again so we are still timing of to really have a body in the right loves you can i got a long break until the next seven weeks here when you play over second normal friendlies i mean which seems you looking to play in my time or do you not decide decided but there's a possibility that we play against turkey in the in february but i don't know what's going to have a day off the result. of a loss for you know tonight against croatia so probably won't be written the shame of you and mr keating. requests what we will see if we can do that exactly. boxing manny pacquiao is convinced he was the winner after the thirty two year old filipino defended his w.b.i. welterweight title due to a controversial majority decision of the mexico one manuel marquez in las vegas.

but it's bigger than i want to fight it now is very clear and you know i go most of the artists mark i saw. you said you wanted to leave absolutely no doubt however the audience has a doubt do you think that you really love no doubt this time around that you beat marcus but we had our share of that market is that if you're born it is good bye there but you know i won the fight. you know the dodgers. well meanwhile there was relief for backyards fans in manila after the outcome was identical to the pairs last meeting in two thousand and eight despite a strong finish from thirty eight year old mexican law two of the three judges narrowly ruled in the filipinos favor of the third couldn't separate the two after the final round both fighters adopted a victory pose but got the nuance to the fury of the sellout crowd and marcus who stormed out of the ring but in the philippines victory was all that mattered. 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 jamaica set a world record in the four by one hundred meters really like. i mean it was the best season but i promise next year will be better and definitely done before. taking me to says no no really appreciate everybody for coming out support in. told people in t.v. . i don't want to make constructs for everything. and on the women's side accolades went to sally pearson of australia who recorded the fourth fastest time in the

history of the one hundred metre hurdles and 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 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 all the sports news bison.

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a un report claims around could be seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon but tapper and slams the allegations as a u.s. backed smear campaign. very warm welcome to karen tara 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 hosted the get together in hawaii and met up with to meet that image video to churn over some pretty hot topics are going up brings us more from honolulu. the final day of the apec summit a two day gathering here in honolulu and the state is really bringing the most important meeting of the whole affair is when the.