the syrian regime has russian parts to get its draft resolution accepted at the u.n. that solving the crisis peacefully. plus the wait is finally over sure is accepted as a police action and of the world trade organization of the eighteen years of tough talks. and next we talk to the e.u. trade commissioner for his perspective on russia's deputy image. the e.u. trade commissioner called the goodies in geneva to welcome russia into the world trade organization he warns it comes at a time when the euro crisis threaten the world with recession mr de gucht leaders are insulting each other the euro's fall into new lows how worried are you about this stage of the euro debt crisis i see that. people some people continue to fing that. sooner or later we will have serious problems with the euro. and that's

obviously influencing the debate but this is simply not true i mean the euro is going to continue there to stay and europe will do everything that's a see to preserve the european union it's not a matter of choice you know it's not a matter of having different turn of this that is one very clear cut political decision the you know is there to say full stop nicolas sarkozy's just call david cameron an obstinate kid while e.u. leaders getting personal it's not up to me to make comments on what president sarkozy is saying but generally i think one should avoid to become personal in that kind of discussions these are difficult discussions for everybody we're going through a tough time and so let's keep cool i mean. i would say don't get personal francis said britain's credit rating should be downgraded before it's do you agree with them when you look at the financial position. of great britain it's

a lot better than the let's say consolidated position off of the european monetary union obviously not. the difference is of course that there you have a state with a central bank that is a lender of last resort and that makes the difference look at what the situation of of the dollar is i mean and look at the debt situation in the united states it's also certainly not better than the european one nevertheless they don't have problems to borrow money on the international financial markets for exactly the same reason you know and i think we should learn from that and go in the direction of. mutual izing did that then you will see the interest rates going down if the us to see the european central bank should also intervene vigorously and make it clear to the financial markets that only speculation it's also fear that banks that is in the markets there is no reason for that was promised at least ten billion dollars

through the i.m.f. to help the e.u. with its debt crisis what role could play in the e.u. to me these are fears that everybody so old states have an interest that. nothing dramatic happens with the euro. because europe is the biggest economy in the world you know so everybody has a clear interest in that so it's not by accident that for example a couple of weeks ago the fed the reason the. the british national bank. switzerland japan. were taking together with you to be in central bank were taking concerted efforts to put liquidity in the market coincide some by accident because obviously this is of major concern to everybody in the world and russia being only our neighbor but

also. being the major source of energy to europe which means that you are their biggest and probably also their best clients they have an obvious interest in not letting degrading the european economy the united states thinks exports to russia can double over the next five years off through joint. how much can you expose to russia will also go up i see several big advantages in russia becoming a member of the w t o. for example that is part of those accession conditions it's. a completely new set of rules which respect to spears which respect to fit a sedentary norms for for food is also very important what we having concluded perspecta the automotive sector where russia had been taking. measures and well that we have come to and to a compromise on the that will certainly contribute to more trade although that

vantage i see is that russia it will be possible to attract more foreign capital because. their access into the w.t. oh we'll. give them assurances they were in a. legal environment that is more transparent so than it was so that it was before so i expect to. trade with russia to rise considerably some economists think countries have put in meaningless barriers to stop russia joining the w how fair has the process been i haven't been active in this file for the last eighteen years have been. steering the process for the last six months let's say. and this or i believe fair negotiations yes i mean some time stuff and they go about with a view by both parties to get to results and they're also major interests at stake

you know it's not a chat of course it's a negotiation but i believe that they were fairly treated and they were also asking us to be year let's say lenient a name for example in the automotive sector was not easy to come to you decision because there was this new scheme with very high level of local content and so on so it was not easy i think it's a fair deal you know and once you have a concluded a deal you should stop discussing the content of the ones that is a deal is a deal and then you execute it many russians think they've made too many concessions in agricultural industry to join the how can you show them that's not the case it's certainly not true that they made. too many concessions. we know we already know. russia is a big market for our agriculture products and that has to see also with the fact that they cannot. answer the demands on their own they cannot so they do not

produce the necessary fruits and vegetables and be for their own population but there is no reason that they could not develop that industry no the same with cars they have to renovate their whole automotive industry because it had become outdated so i believe that it is agreement that we have been making will result in the modern. industry but of course we have been negotiating in a way that also our own interests are protected that's where they go sation is about you have to negotiate having in mind your own interest but also having and by then also the other party needs to find its interest in the negotiation because if not. even if you were to conclude a negotiation it would never be a fruit off america's jaxon van dijk amendment bulls favorable trade relations with russia has been called a relic of the cold war should washington now get rid of it it's up to the united states to decide that but. i believe such a move. would have quite some traction on the hill is the european union along with

the united states this fall the most complaints against china since it joined the world trade organization we should be treated any differently we treat everybody exactly in the same way i mean. when we get the complaints. we analyze it very carefully and then you take a decision and whether it's china or russia or even the u.s. that doesn't make a difference i mean once there is a problem we take action and i think we should do that and we do it in i would i say almost. i wouldn't call it automatic but very much. rules based approach you know so we are not. looking for four victims all enemies i mean we are not interested in that game so for us it's the same whether it's china or russia or they run the us when china's trade with the jump it's almost three hundred percent in the ten years that it says it joined. how much do you expect

russia's trade with you to go up by isn't exactly the same i believe. because. the chinese have been doing. from a historical point of view this is tremendous is developing an economy which is very much across the board. russia's economy yes and much more focused on a more limited number of sectors and i think it really depends upon russia which direction they take and they take that action off more than lies and get economy off being involved whole so in new sectors and probably the agreements to get into the euro will be more food for them but that's up to them energy prices in russia are much lower than in the e.u. how this despondence be resolved we have. a scheme in accession. whereby they will have to call to to market prices over time. so that is not only is only

a trust by the way but once you are member of that you know you have to go to market prices and you cannot have a double pricing you trade commissioner karel de gucht thank you for speaking with l.t. . i . think.

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one question you could be uncertain and you might or might not be able to publish it but that for you end of your career. breaking news story a russian oil rig off the country's far east coast has gone down during a storm with more than sixty people on board the search operation will continue throughout the night fourteen people have so far being rescued poor others. fresh clashes for up in western kazakhstan just days after demonstration by all workers ended up with eleven people dead in. the west and its allies mount pressure on the syrian regime as russia fights to get its draft resolution accepted that you and aimed at solving the crisis peacefully. plus the wait is finally over russia is accepted as a fully fledged member of the world trade organization eighteen years of tough

talks. and i was sunday sports. thanks carrie great to have your company this is indeed sport today i'm you know male and these are tops. streak smushed after five games in charge of russia's new ice hockey coach is eager to lob the lead enough surfaces first the fate of the channel one cup. best of the best football giant barcelona and santos meet later on sunday in the final of the world club cup. bound over canada the north american nation dominates the slopes at the opening skate course world cup stage in italy winning gold in both the men's and women's events. russian ice hockey team head coach zuma to billet severed his first defeat since taking over the reins in

june the red machine going down to sweden in the second game of their home euro hockey tour tournament the channel one cup constantine to top off watch this one for us. but russia and sweden started the clash cautiously however isn't a lot of small and didn't seem to be as solid in the fans as they were in the opening match of the tournament the swedes won't piling on the pressure and finally broke the deadlock midway through the first period stuff from cornwell sent them back home after a week of share converting a powerplay one thing and the guests headed to the dressing room in the right frame of mind in the middle period sweden's defenseman cornwell doubled his tally after a powerful shot from the blueline the russians pulled one back having one man up alexander our goal of made it in point pass and sergei should all go found himself a marked on the far poorest and set it to the net three minutes into the third period and the red machine levelled mannerism a power play to the delights of the full back mega sport arena. managed to fire it

into the top corner and there are recreated one more assist the crowd was still cheering. the home favorite but crooner took the lead again in just a minute carl cost and dick ochs also include his name on the scoreboard three to. superstar defenseman cuomo two goal lead with his third scoring with a four distance left shot with ten minutes to go russia threw everything into the final minutes of the game and pulled the goaltender for an extra player but failed to cut the deficit for two was how it finished. her skating time. this is a big key to success and we were fortunate to my win a lot of parts down deep in there and create a lot of chances for that as well it's really it's hard to name the reasons for our defeat right now we have to analyze our mistakes we shouldn't be too disappointed so we just have to work hard to improve our play so russia suffered their first

defeat with the help however the head coach was optimistic about the lessons his chargers can learn from this loss i think we deserve this defeat sweden played really well aggressively and put constant pressure on our defensemen that's why we made so many mistakes we didn't expect the swedes to play like this we have to draw the right conclusions we understand that from now on all our opponents will play in the same manner. russia will be eager to finish the home tournament on a winning note as they face the czech republic on sunday because they bought out of our team. in the days of their class the czech republic went to town on the world champions finland beating the nordic side five one the czechs now take on russia in the final game of the competition and a couple of times. it's been a hot topic with two football legends pele and maradona another world is about to find out if some toss striker neymar is indeed a more complete player barcelona's messi just like pele claimed the team is meeting

today in the final of the club world cup in japan the couple and giants have been peppered with questions about how they're going to stop brazilian young guns nineteen year old name or twenty two year old attacker paulo henrik again so true to form barcelona manager pep guardiola was keen to play down his team status is hard favorites despite going for their second global title in just three years they'll be up against a team who could only manage a ten place finish this season domestically despite that santos is star man is relishing the chance to go up against the best. but she's the most important but i mean i think it's going to be a story game not only for me but also for my santos team me it will be a very important match but i'm not nervous i'm very calm now of course our opponents are a formidable team but as i always see no matter who we played against or where we're playing we'll just play your own game. watching the clash in tokyo will be free for president sepp blatter the swiss also stating he has to meet government

officials from brazil as the country deals with criticism over the rate of progress regarding world cup twenty fourteen. but the executive committee is very. good we are not so much very devoted to construction because in order of world cups everybody said they would not be ready. i would myself now take up. on a presidential level and then the first month or second month of this year we go and meet the heads of state let's talk english football where the top two are in premier league duty on sunday at manchester city host arsenal in the march of the day but it is their across time rivals united who open proceedings away to new boys q.p.r. after a less than stellar november domestically alex ferguson's side look to be parked on track this month they're seeking a third straight league win in london after villa pull spurs will be eyeing up third spot at home to sunderland their main course wrapping up sunday's games table

topping manchester city at home to fifth seeded arsenal acknowledge though in cold for the mood being able to pull seven wins from the previous eight. we had one turning point you know. before. the second big to steer us away from us. we know. what you want to be at your best but. we are prepared. to give between. now and going into this weekend and reward howden last in the boxing ring since he was fourteen years old on the american kept the streak alive on saturday taking the w.b.c. middleweight bell from carl froch the twenty seven year old w.b. a title holder doing so by winning the years in the making super six world boxing classic with plenty of support in the atlantic city crowd and he could also boast

a longer reach than as opponents the thirty four year old though unable to land his best shots and ward who smartly stayed on the inside throughout two thousand and four olympic gold medalist ward frustrating for off towards the latter raw and landing a very impressive forty two percent of his punches that start helping the judges award the bye to ward off the season the fighters however left with plenty of respect for each other afterwards. some of the shots are very tricky and close one . i want to work on that michelle is going to push towards him when he was tiring. shots together he moves his head very low and slips and slides it was just a tough hard night karl is a great fighter all these fighters are great fighters what you never give me disrespect to before the fight i know what i'm getting into i just want to be a little better than them on the night of the fight great news again for. the russian veteran claiming her second gold at the same tournaments the season's third stage and hutch filson zeiss voting top spot in the women's pursuit race and style

leading from start to finish on the austrian slopes there must be fighting thirty one minutes fifty two seconds to complete the ten kilometer distance sight of us joining the so named club zero imperfectly in all four shooting ranges at home of sweden finished second almost half a minute behind the winner of the russian. played at the podium. it's been a great start to this. cross world cup season for team canada bradley leaman. climbing on top of the podium in both the men's and women's events following the opener in italy the men's event seeing leaman get off to a great start against russia's yevgeny court off cough sylvie in my ear made a nuisance of himself trying to take a second spot but the freshman he would crush leaving the russian with silver another canadian david duncan was third slippery slopes meanwhile in the women's portion three skiers colliding early on before morial thompson crushed i later was

out of that store all alone to take talks. and finally interest in tennis this year has exploded in china the reason attributed to lean on expected triumph at wimbledon during the summer of former players have been popping up all over the country to help bolster its stature their biggest star names touching down in chinese soil to help the cold some they don't come much bigger than pete sampras the fourteen time grand slam champion joining up with former world number one carlos moya sabine lisicki on li for an exhibition match in the central chinese city of american some pretty showing he still got it steaming up with lee who was the first ever asian to ever win major tennis title and they won the doubles. and that is all the sport for now i'll see you in under two hours time whether she's next.

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breaking news on a russian oil rig off the country. during a storm with more than sixty people on board. in the water. and just three were plucked to safety by helicopter. this is r t with continuing updates on the tragedy in the sea of a hot skin the country's far east where russian oil rig has gone down in a storm let's get the latest details now tom tom capsized seven hours ago how is the rescue operation going.