iran's missile tests in the gulf draw western condemnation tehran also paladin exercise simulating the shutting down of a key oil route but said it had no immediate intention of actually doing so critics say the u.s. is provoking to iran by slapping down ever more crippling sanctions. so they had lines next we talked to former german chancellor and current chairman of the north stream gas pipeline gary hart schroeder tells r.t. about the benefits of energy cooperation between russia and the un discusses ways for the eurozone to escape its debt crisis. gerhard schroeder was 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 to europe mr further why should the e.u. increase its dependence on gazprom. opinion. 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 minister 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 reprovision is not the issue the e.u. germany and the rest of the e.u. nations need gas to sensibly reform their energy policy that people rush on the other hand has to sell gas to keep its budget in order so there's a codependency which is a good thing now to be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up to russian companies it's a good free market economy that's easy and i think europeans need gas or gas has

many uses here with the political uncertainty in north africa it's good to have a stable partner that you can rely on and russia is one of them you know better than anyone else for a space that written recently switched from export to india europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources but it's climatic conditions before we get any to norway to get outside but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to goshen companies would be a wiser man of. the name to do some e.u. officials opposed russia whatever it does get us is for it or just most money. i guess it is so we have to admit that are very odd i hope we will get over it it's understandable 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 or to. misread the could russia switch supply to china if brussels keeps up its hostility it's

a known as it were to your informants 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 and then 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 will only improve if it manages to enter a tiny hard to ship with russia on and at the same time grant all you a session to turkey and that would be a sound strategy aimed into the future the rest is yesterday's debate alice and a. lot of fun guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean the gas shortfall for europe now doesn't it us need to know that no not happened russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that drenching you will see 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 conduct here but a codependency to 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's liquefied gas market is quite limited to move there's nowhere to sell it 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 the low spot prices on gas. their support deals can be of no more gain than long term supply agreements in the short run but they do not offer stability than first think of the trigger because 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. bindy i made mine consider this me and my team were the people who originally negotiated that deal with our energy

suppliers and 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 and of course 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 but 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. with this debt crisis mr sarkozy says no euro no europe surely you're worth of oil without the euro so that there's i know i know former english as a quote my successor in office likes to go to of course europe is going to have problems if the euro has problems but there's one thing you can be sure of the euro is going to survive as a common currency there even it theoretically things turn out differently which i

find very improbable you think we will still have a united europe it is vital in or prague you would chancellor when greece cooked its books to join the euro should you have stopped athens from joining the single currency club. 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's e.u. a session on ourselves and it was a purely preparatory mission conducted by the european commission and the national government. if we had made the decision to take greece in we could not claim without having firm proof that the information we got then was on 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 unless either the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since it ended which which is it ends in. it's pointless to talk about how things were in the past we're talking about the future him don't i hope we manage to keep greece in the eurozone for that to happen you know i hope the package of aid agreements that european leaders have agreed on is implemented if that's the case that i think we can start taking care of so they have allies in the markets because it was a great deal of help from greece of course there is one point i would like to make the country should not be broken down not only does greece need a budget discipline also which is of course true but what greece needs most on our investments and it would be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently investing abroad pay taxes in their own country instead of looking for investment opportunities is there a red line beyond which germans as they we're not going to bail out southern europe anymore or does germany have

a historic debt to europe as france put it 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 germany is interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe that have economic interest is easily explained that forty percent of our export goes to the european union and beyond that if those countries are hit by a crisis then so is germany your secondly or the lesson we learned in the past and our prospects for the future dictate that germany is not strong enough geo politically to play a sig. if we can rope in a game where the u.s. is one superpower and an asian leader. in this case china is the other new european state isn't the 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 does not just because of the past but for the sake of our citizens future after two conference a lot of being to small question many germans many dutch people many finns are

angry at having to pay. are they wrong 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 interest to maintain stability in other countries as germany's 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. 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 but i do not think we should feel bad about other nations getting stronger be they russians chinese brazilians south africans or indians 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 stayed back to stay

more innovative when we fulfill our agenda of twenty ten and sort out our social policies germany is the only country that understood back in two thousand and three that for an aging country to maintain prosperity it must provide for change about 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 of that so it will be a mistake that we started taking care of our problems in time for the rest will regret it and be forced to take on a harder mission this goes for everyone not just the sound of all past this but if they've been ignored and. chairman of the board for the north stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking with r.t. .

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is provoking to iran by slapping down ever war crippling sanctions. we have lines here in r.t. and the sports next with here. thanks for joining us this is sport today plenty ahead over the next ten minutes or so including these stories in brief. deadly dozen the twelve playoff spots in the n.f.l. are decided with the new york giants claiming the final berth at the expense of dallas. no mercy one of the favorites for n.b.a. glory this year chicago goes to town of memphis rushing the grizzlies by a forty point. nice tell you nice when you think of milan's sport images of football and formula one on deniability come to mind but

could i saw. it to the mix. we'll get to grips with that shortly but we begin with some sad news day one of the prestigious off road event that a car rally has been marred by the death of a rider jorge martinez borrero seen here at the start line in mortal plata argentina died after running off course tragically crushing into an open sewer line where a local was thirty eight years old the trunk should be overshadowing a memorable day for lead the more sections of the russian winning the opening staged by five seconds from veteran polish star christophe how off chits while in the bike francisco lopez is them on the couch after day one the chilean up thriller writer holding off reaming champion mark of spain by. we now know all twelve squads in the n.f.l. the last of the dozen to replace the new york giants doing so thanks to

a no nonsense display against dallas after less than stellar regular seasons to date both teams entered the clash knowing it was do or die time on. the home side started as they meant to continue giants quarterback eli manning instrumental all day long though victor cruz still plenty to do after this past the speedster taking at home four yards for the opening touched on two more big scores would follow before the end of the second quarter new york twenty one points to the new york times to. charge thirty one fourteen how it would eventually end new york and make it into the knockout stages for the first time since two thousand and eight dallas are left through a second straight season with i.p.o. for. staying stateside but attending to n.b.a. basketball now where chicago are living up to their preseason billing the bulls are winning their third straight game in blistering fashion seeing off memphis by a massive forty point margin in their home opener the host truly taking the bull by

the horns in the first quarter screwing their opponents twenty five twelve the next couple of periods would bring gets more misery for the grizzlies. carlos boozer ronnie brewer top scoring with seventeen points of pace at the united center. for brewer making it so easy for forty four bowls in the search forty point advantage that they would firmly hold on to one zero four six before the final warm side it's . now ice hockey is normally a sport readily associated with milan but that could be set to change this year when milan no rush so blue joins the kontinental hockey league europe's premier competition robert for done the and travel to italy in twenty eleven to find out more. these game moments are twenty years old the goal scored with no end of skill in

essence they gave us hokey played in a high level the surprising part it's not canada. or russia it's italy. it's a similar in a players claiming one of their numerous domestic titles in style from the early ninety's. when almost famous as a building i mean we have a very long history about hockey and in milan or in milan or at the very very long because we started in the nineteen twenty three the first being there was built in milan zero zero zero zero and when we were one of the first you know i'm right here on the hockey fans here in milan love the game so are excited by this game and probably there's some people being fired a bit sick of football for other reasons there are some kind of research for new motions and i believe i saw case it's perfect for that nevertheless i still keep

still some distance from topping phil both in terms of popularity here a sentiment echoed by a person from the homeland of the game canada now calls me on the phone it's play would love but because it's it's still very under appreciated you don't get the same emotion you know and so you can be mad for a minute but it passes very quickly as opposed to a canadian hockey match it's talked about for you know for months if not for the whole season and so it's that is a huge difference in watching a comedian game versus an italian game this is the steady olympic into room one of the main venues for the two thousand and six winter olympic program five years own and there is barely a reminder. of the epic hockey battles that to place here the ice rink was removed soon after the games finished allowing the stadium to become the new home for the

event those and three no food book clubs one hundred miles east however things brighter outfit milan there are some blue are set to join the kontinental hockey league in twenty twelve i believe a group that we have been agreed that we have a couple minutes in terms of the organization to join the league of course is not going to be a very big deal but. we have time to to develop. she called in two thousand and six winter olympics didn't affect the popularity of fucking the country at all of course the games were a great event for the telling people and the stadiums are renovated and a lot of infrastructure developed so some local clubs did get a lot in but not the telling game as a whole in this respect the kitchen was another chance for us not only for milan but for the entire country to take a significant step forward. for the much the additional verses blue may seem like a small step for the cake but for the club itself it is quite simply and message

fully. robert gordon r.t. milan italy. on a tell you was our correspondent robert was a busy man this year he is not here to remind us about one of the most thrilling events of the year the yalta stage of the cliff diving world series the last stop of the season turning into a breath taking spectacle on one which put a russian daredevil very much in the spotlight take a look at this. please seek out of this world fillings that's why the sport's most prestigious competition the red blue world series keeps traveling all across the planet to discover new locations to hose their breathtaking events for the final stage of the season thirteen high flyers made their way to the swallows nest castle one of ukraine's main places of interest on the crimean shore of the black sea. the following pair

englishman gary hunt who entered the event as the newly crowned champion for stage wins in a row seeing the briton retain his world title two weeks ago in boston and the men who see it second in the overall standings russia still feel. who is looking to claim their first event when gary hahn or yes' and oh yeah he really shines with the more typical dives. you have somebody like our tim you know how beautiful diver it was susan mcdougal leads up to the first three rounds of the competition flawless execution putting the bonus native ahead of punt and then to the fun's the top six now left to do battle in the shadow of the castle and retirement once again he's facing the back

the so-called triple quad although it was soon who stole the show at sunday's event demonstrating one of the hardest dives the sport has ever seen it become stand with blunt entry the russian entering the water with his head held high the outcome clear before the judges at. their scores at first till. placed podium finish of the season but the twenty seven year old and force of his career however it turned out to be more than just a win suit claiming the high still didn't score the competition has ever seen. mostly it's not my first win but it's definitely the most precious one for me i'm second in the overall standings but here i've proved to be the best it's a very happy moment for me i've been here before you all to is an incredible place this time i had my family

a lot of my friends and my trainers came over to support me so i was a little nervous at first but up there in the platform which i lifted told how humans and just concentrated my diet was while i was. preparing for my dives it was kind of strange knowing that the pressure of the series was off everyone else is fighting for places and and i was just taken as an individual competition autumn just perfectly today he's got ten's on throughout his dives that's as good as it gets is scored the highest score ever gary has never scored so not even his big dives and he's diving got so out of him didn't win big time in that it didn't matter if gary was diving good or not when after winning the first two stages this year nine time world champion ireland the kid was forced to leave the conclusion due to injury but he's now recovered meaning the twenty twelve season is gearing out to be one of the most thrilling on record. the world cleat diving series twenty

eleven have just come to an end with all the best athletes of the sport having taken their owners but the point is that each of those who take part in this miss no rising competition can be safely called an outstanding sportsman robert's mother known r.t. ukraine. simply amazing pictures while all the world weather is next here on twenty four hour r.t. . the admission of free credit patients free. for charges free. free. free. free.

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