and arab league observers say syrian leaders have pulled heavy weapons out of the cities and released 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 had a gas pipe pipeline in the rest of homes probably. next we talk to former german chancellor and current chairman of the north stream gas pipeline gary hall schroeder he tells r.t. about the benefits of energy cooperation between russia and the e.u. and discusses ways for the eurozone to escape its debt crisis stay with us. gautreaux there was charles love germany from one thousand nine hundred to two thousand and five he's now chairman of the board at nordstrom's russia's new gas pipeline under the baltic sea in europe mr further why should the e.u. increase its dependence on gazprom is good nick i know. 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 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 gazprom and europe as. regulator reposition is not the issue but 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 instance that written recently switched from export to in gold europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources but it's climatic conditions require you need 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 more of or so short a name to do some e.u. officials oppose russia whatever it does get us is for it or just most money i guess it is so we have to admit that i very well i hope we will get over it it's understandable and his class. 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 ideological differences yet again. misread the could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility was that it's

a known as it were to your evil mans of wishes 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 only you a session to turkey and 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 and i deserters need to know that no not happened russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that ranting i will say again that europe kamarck it is incredibly important for russia to keep it

a budget balance among other things therefore we're not talking about dependency 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 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 there judy assume the spot 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 playing 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 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 and they've since gone the other way and started to porting 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 normally from other countries but primarily from russia and the reason we need to build gas power stations. with this crisis mr sarkozy says no euro no europe surely you're worth of oil without the euro so on that there's an a and a former well 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 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 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. 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 we had made the decision to take greece in we cannot claim without having firm proof that the. the nation 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 and lost cause of 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 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 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 a budget discipline which is of course true but what greece needs most are investments about 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 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 in germany's interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe that have economic interest is easily explained what it is 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 significant role in a game where the u.s. is one superpower and an asian leader. in this. 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 or future 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 x. here 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 indians or 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 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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mine. too much brighter than if you knew me. from phones to. start on t.v. don't come. around warns the united states it will take action if an american warship returns to its base in the gulf where attack or on has been test firing missiles there is criticism that the us is provoking terror from us laughing down evermore crippling sanctions. interruptions head 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 arab league observers say syrian leaders have to hold heavy weapons out of three cities and release close in ours 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 rest of politics all that's. up 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 in very. deadly doesn't the twelve 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 china 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. 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 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 in the game our section. 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 after day one the chilean up for a rider holding off reigning 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 york twenty one points to the new york times to. charge thirty one fourteen how would eventually end new york and make it into the knockout stages for the first time since two thousand and eight dollars or less through a second straight season with i.p.l. football. things stateside tending to n.b.a. basketball now or 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 yet more misery for the grizzlies. carlos boozer ronnie brewer top scoring with seventeen points of pace at the united center has done for brewer making it easy for forty four bowls in the church a forty point advantage that they would firmly hold on to one zero four sixty four 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 in 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 at a high level the surprising part it's not canada. or russia it's italy. it's a similar on a players claiming one of their numerous domestic titles in style from the early ninety's. when almost famous of the 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 the first. year of 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 saw there some kind of research for new

motions and i believe i saw case this effort 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 it because it's it's still very under preceded 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 standard olympic into room one of the main venues for the two thousand and six winter olympic program of 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 move 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 a new ship called a 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 there but not the telling game as a whole in this respect the kitchen is another chance for us not only for milan but for the entire country to take a significant step forward the mother and putative father must follow the additional versus blue may seem like a small step for the kids 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 don't do this world's 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 breath 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. and 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. are don't see who is looking to claim their first event when harry han chinese or yes' and oh yeah he really shines with the more typical dives. oh yeah 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. execution putting the bonus native ahead of punt and then to the finals the top six now left to do battle

in the shadow of the castle retirement once again wishing he's facing the pack 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 to. 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 to 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'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 which i lifted told how humans you know and just concentrated 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 was fighting for places and and i was just taking it as an individual competition autumn just perfectly today he's got tens 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 and it didn't matter if gary was diving good or not out of tune when after winning the first two stages this year nine time world champion ireland didn't get 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 the record. the world clean delving 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 the rising competition can be safely called an outstanding sportsman robert's mother known r.t. ukraine. simply amazing pictures well all the world weather is next here on twenty four hour r.t. .

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around russia we've dumped a few jerks hubbard. our own 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 votes in the country's third round of parliamentary elections but with recent rains on foreign n.g.o.s it's fear 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.