in union on the other in the energy sector new stream is viewed as a priority project both by russia and the e.u. because it's been part of europe's energy networks since two thousand and six recognized by the european parliament and the e.u. council of energy ministers 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 skitt any. regulator a position is not the issue but the e.u. germany and the rest of the nations need gas to sensibly reform their energy policy to get russia on the other hand has to sell gas to keep its budget in order so there's a codependency which is a good thing i would be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up to russian companies it's a good free market economy 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 these you know better

than anyone else for instance 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 require it needs norway's gas but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to question companies would be a wise move of or to short their name to do some e.u. officials oppose russia whatever it does get us is for the best 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 but with the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back at ideological differences yet again that misrata could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility was that it's a known as it towards your involvement of wishes in a situation where it could ship gas to china and all of asia and you. i hope russia

never has to make a choice the russian government is evidently pro european but europe cannot keep pushing russia away it hurts russians pride 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 will only improve if it manages to enter a tiny hard to ship with russia on and at the same time grant only u.s. session to turkey that would be a sound strategy aimed into the future the rest is yesterday's debate unless and is from guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean the gas shortfall for europe wide as it is need to know whether or not happy russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that ranting but 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 dependence here but a codependency to get 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's liquefied gas market is quite limited to move 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 not the reason i'm criticizing is the indication that there are alternative sources the low spot prices on gas there dubious support deals can be of no more gain than long term supply agreements in the short run but they do not offer stability for think of for player 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. have been in your mid mind lloyd and consider this me and my team were the people who originally 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 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 we need gas as an interim energy source for the sake of energy security that's the reason we need to buy gas from normally from other cultures but primarily from russia and the reason we need to build a gas power station. with this in your debt crisis mr sarkozy says no hero no europe surely your will survive without the euro so that there's i know i know for more this is 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 even if erotically things turn out differently which i find very improbable of youth we will still have a united europe it is vital and or prague you would chancellor when greece cooked

its books to join the euro should you have stopped athens from joining the single currency govern it. 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 but it was a purely preparatory mission conducted by the european commission the national government 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 very 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 under either the commission was wrong or the handling of gray. this 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 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 then i think we can start taking care of stabilizing the market 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 the budget discipline which is of course true but what greece needs most are investments of agree that 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 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 the 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 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 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 u.s. that is not just because of the pastors 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 seemed like an. stand 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 next 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 the door 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 take 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 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 as it must provide for change 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. we started taking care of our problems in time as the rest will aggressively be forced to take on a harder mission this goes for everyone not just the sound of 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. . tragically it goes. squandered morning.

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for a no holds barred global financial headlines kaiser report on. the close up team has been to. plays to the most ambitious football club in the world. if. not all party goes to the far east where the timber industry attracts the legendary siberian tigers where the ancient native community loses its way in the modern world. and where the country's mineral wealth starts its way across the ocean. to the. more news today. these are the images the world has been seeing

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on t.v. don't comb. iran warns the united states it will take action if an american warship returns to its base in the gulf where tech crunch has been tough firing missiles there is criticism that the u.s. is provoking teheran must lopping down ever more crippling sanctions. intentions had to the polls in the third round of parliamentary elections with the vote expected to be dominated by islamist groups but with the recent raids on foreign n.g.o.s it's feared the military's grip on power could remain as strong as ever. and the arab league observers say syrian leaders have to hold heavy weapons out of three cities and release prisoners but the group is still looking for ways to end the ongoing violence meanwhile syria's state run news agency says a new explosion has hit a gas pipeline in the west of politics that's. next it's time for all the

latest sports news with. thanks for joining us this is sport today plenty ahead over the next ten minutes or so including these stories and very. deadly does in the twelve spots in the n.f.l. are decided with the new york giants claiming the final berth at the expense of. no mercy one of the favorites for n.b.a. glory this year chicago. rushing the grizzlies by a forty point. nice. nice when you think of milan's sport images of football and formula one on deniability come to mind but could i say. 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 the car rally has been marred by the death of a rider horror game 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 to be overshadowing a memorable day for. winning the opening stage by five seconds from veteran polish star christophe how off chits while in the bike francisco lopez is them on the couch. the chilean up for a ride or 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. the home side started as they meant to continue giants quarterback eli manning instrumental all day long though victor cruz still have plenty to do after this pass 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 thanks to. charge thirty one fourteen how would eventually end your make it into the knockout stages for the first time since two thousand and eight dallas or less through a second straight season with i.p.l. football. things stateside but attending to n.b.a. basketball now or chicago are living up to their preseason billing the bowls winning their third straight game in blistering fashion seeing off memphis by a forty point margin in their home opener the hosts truly taking the bull by the

horns in the first quarter of. 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 this church a forty point advantage that they would firmly hold on to one zero four sixty four the final of one 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 joins the kontinental hockey league europe's premier competition robert for dummy and travel to italy in twenty eleven to find out more. these game moments are twenty years old the goal scored with no wind of skill in the game to us hokey played at

a high level the surprising part it's not canada. or russia it's italy. it's the players claiming one of their numerous domestic titles in style from the early ninety's. been almost famous as the big 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 a nineteen twenty three in the first being there was built in milan and when we were one of the the first you know out here on the hockey fans here in milan love the game are excited by this game and probably there's some people being fired a bit sick of football for other reasons saw there 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 moment of the game canada now calls me on the phone it's played with 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 canadian game versus an italian game this is the steady olympic dream one of the main venues for the two thousand and six week or olympic program one of your resume 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 u. vent those and three enough food book clubs one hundred miles east however things brighter

outfit milan there are some blue are set to join the continental how he league in twenty twelve i believe they are 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 develop a new ship 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 stadiums are renovated and a lot of infrastructure developed so some local clubs did get a lot 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 you know that olympian of the match the addition of versus blue may seem like a small step for the kid 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. to 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 the hose they're taking 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 sure of the black sea. their englishman

count 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 . in the overall standings russia still. are. looking to claim their first event when gary hahn is and. he really shines with the more typical dives. you have somebody like our tim you know how beautiful diver it was who took the lead up to the first three rounds of the can petition flawless execution putting the. ahead of punt and then to the finals 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 still the show at sunday's event demonstrating one of

the hardest dives the sport has ever seen. with blank entry the russian entering the water with his head held high the outcome clear before the judges even showed their scores at first. least boredom finish of the season but the twenty seven year old and force of his career high over it turned out to be more than just a win suit claiming the high still didn't score the competition has ever seen the. most but 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'm not 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 out there on the platform when i left it all behind

me and just concentrated on my diary 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 i was just taken as an individual competition out of them just perfectly today he's got ten's on two of his sides 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 but so often didn't win big time and 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 completion due to injury but he's now recovered meaning the twenty twelve season is gearing out to be one of the most thrilling on the record. the world clean delving series twenty

eleven have just come to an end with all the best efforts of the sport having taken their owners but the point is that each of those who take part in this miss the rising competition can be safely called an outstanding sportsman. r.t. ukraine. simply amazing pictures all the sport for world weather is next here on twenty four hour r.t. .

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warns washington that will take action if a u.s. warship returns to the gulf where iran has recently test fired missiles. egyptians are counting their own votes in the country's third round of parliamentary elections but with recently foreign n.g.o.s it's clear the military's grip on power could remain as strong as ever. and arab league observers say syrian leaders have pulled heavy weapons out of the cities and release prisoners but the group is still looking for ways to end the ongoing violence. using common law and broadcasting to you from the heart of moscow and karen thanks for being with us around the house war in the united states will take action if an

american warship returns to its base in the gulf that left the area when iran started its ten day naval workings during which they successfully test fired a selection of different missiles iran also held an exercise that simulated shutting down the strait of foremost although it said it had no immediate intention of actually doing so earlier to threaten to block the world's most important oil route if the stepped up sanctions against the country is clear program friend says it's sure rand is developing nuclear weapons and is pushing for stricter sanctions on saturday u.s. president barack obama signed a bill targeting iran's oil and financial sectors cited mohammad marandi from the university of america is still kicking up tensions with iran. it is really the americans that are being provocative they are trying to make ordinary iranians soft for at the same time you see senior american officials and politicians caught.