it's a breakthrough ahead of the meeting. and the russian military is trying to restore its former glory with the kremlin came to reform the armed forces the military industrial complex has fallen behind technologically and become brittle with corruption. next we talked to former german chancellor and current chairman of the nord stream gas pipeline 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. go through 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 is kidney. 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 three million north 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 not 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 as. regulator reprovision 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 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 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 these you know better than anyone else for instance that written recently switched from export to imperial europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources but it's climatic conditions require it you need to norway to get outside but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to question companies would be a wise and of course a shorter name to do some e.u. officials oppose russia whatever it does get us is for it or just most moan i guess it is so we have to admit that our very own 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 an ideological difference here 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 heartless ship with russia on and at the same time grant 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 dead but haven't guessed that if russia does decide to go east could that mean a gas shortfall for europe does voters need to know that no not happened russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that changing what i will say again that europe hallmark it is incredibly important

for russia to keep it a budget 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 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 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 their dubious spot deals can be of no more gain than long term supply agreements in the short run but they do. not office debility very first think of fair play 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. ability amid mind 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 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 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 and the reason we need to build a gas power station. with this debt crisis mr sarkozy says no euro no europe surely europe 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 of course europe's 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. you were 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 own via 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. mation 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. and lots. of the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since it ended which which is a matter kensi in the it's pointless to talk about how things were in the past we're talking about the future you can go i hope we manage to keep greece in the euro zone so that to help us 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 if 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 on our investment 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 says they we're not going to bail out southern

europe anymore or does germany have a historic bet to europe has from it's been they're getting 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 germany is 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. ok 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 is not just because of the pastors but for the sake of our citizens future out there to 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 i think it does in the 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 stay back to stay more innovative when we fulfill our agenda of twenty ten down 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 i wonder if the rest of the e.u. states having understood this a decade later will 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 it is the rest will regret it and be forced to take on harder mission this goes for everyone not just the sound of all plus this but if they've been ignored including chairman of the board for the north stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking with healthy.

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in motion would be soo much brighter than if you knew me by some from phones to permission is so. nice for instance on t.v. don't come. turning up the attention of friends calls for tough new e.u. sanctions against iran targeting the country's financial and energy sectors it's accusing to a problem of developing nuclear weapons even as iran says it's ready to talk with the west about its atomic program. israel and the palestinians headed back to the negotiating table for the first time since peace talks broke down more than a year ago but both sides have played down expectations of a breakthrough ahead of the meeting. that the russian military is trying to restore its former glory with the kremlin king to reform the armed forces the military industrial complex has fallen behind technologically and has become riddled with

corruption. it's tuesday evening here in the russian capital time now for sports with the union and it seems like all is going according to plan for the favorites at the car rally so far. this is sports today plenty head over the next ten minutes or so including these stories of. cream rising day two at the car rally sees the reaming champions move to the top of the standings in argentina. late starters detroit basketball fans may have to wait for games to witness a victory this n.b.a. season but the pistons are now on a winning streak. i'm hitting the heights it was world record breaking time and some of the evil of this week with motorcycles snowmobiles no less flying higher on

longer but never. great stuff more on not coming up but let's get underway a little soft of there in argentina where it hasn't taken long for the car rally royalty to get into gear after stage two it is reaming champion. who leads in the car section while in the saddle three time winner more coma is the mom to catch a two hundred ninety kilometers stretch lay in wait for the competitors from mar del plata to santa rosa. nine time champion behind the wheel stephanie well he looked a reward to the top of the standings after a quite brilliant drive but. finished a disappointing twelve on day one would be better the frenchman a fifty four second advantage of the in line the perfect response from the holder while you're in the bike's normal service resumed after the tragic death of local rider. on sunday. finishing the round on top after coming home and second during

the opening round they are reeling champion leaving veteran several depreciate in his just by almost a minute. now during twenty eleven we profiled one of the most promising russian racing. drivers to emerge over the last few years mikail had been a teammate of reigning tomorrow formula one champion sebastian vettel in their younger track days but as constantine but top off reports their careers have taken very different paths today. behala lashon is a well known driver in his homeland the twenty three year old's progress over the past few years has been impressive he became the first ever russian to win an international championship at the arena world serious and last year it looked like he was ready to take on the biggest challenge and sit behind a n f one wheel but then the support of his sponsor stopped and the lesson last you see it you want to get the from a one way ticket not only but hearing it also some financial support.

it's not a secret that anybody in the formal on. his way there also reading the project that pilots also will bring so. this case. it was very difficult for us to get a home on this here i lash and launch his racing career in classical style by starting out in courting which acts like a training cumin garden for drivers and lays a foundation that many future world champions used to transform themselves into successful f one drivers among them the likes of reigning champions of us m. vettel who used to be a lucian's teammate in randal's world serious. and we're glad that we. have with often. you know one team and one championship at the same time i know that i was meeting him quite often and though he is a formal one champ and so it also makes you feel better.

eyelash untested an f one car at the young drivers test in abu dhabi last year and made a good impression but it will now driving practice in the support of sponsorship the promising russians career is in jeopardy however it seems he's getting back on track as he starts the season in the carling g.p. two team from england they must go i didn't take part in the test drives and hasn't signing contracts with the team so he's still anxious about competing in the upcoming serious chikatilo car from the us here is quite an interesting car because it's brand new and nothing the same so. the beautiful thing yes yes come back their brand new design. and it's quite a bit faster than it was before. the track at the opening one printer working on the six okami thirty three formula one drivers have come through the g.p.

to see reason the past four years and the lushin issue are to make the most of his chance and prove he's worthy of an f one driver because a bite out of archie. it continues to be a busy post lockout holiday season in the n.b.a. but detroit fans aren't complaining the pistons notching their second straight win after starting the season with three consecutive losses the home side showing their fighting spirit early on ben gordon winning a vicious scramble for the loose ball before getting a three for an eight six lead big ben finishing up with twenty six points but detroit's hit a roadblock in the form of orlando's dwight howard the five time legal star ending with nineteen point seven five steals howard however fall died late in the fourth just about the time the pistons kicked their game into another gear tayshaun prince fourteen points from the evening nine seventy eight. over the tennis where spain remain unbeaten in the group phase of the help link up on

a bell at medina for numbed over dusk doing the necessary against their chinese counterparts. in perth it was china who struck first though in the women's portion of the season of the time world number five that in her stride against twenty seven greek is to take them out six three six. to go put the three time champion right back into contention in the next flush the spaniard a six three six three winner over which meant a mixed doubles rubber would decide the hunter spain not messing around here wrapping up the mounts six six to the time. mario batali and richard ghastlier fronts up next for the world. russian kickboxing star but in just a cough is now a fully fledged member of the fight game elite but you can who first beat albert krauss earlier last year went on to claim victory over another k. one might some be this in november artie's robert downey watch the action from

ringside. to eat every fight as if is the fight over life that greed by which but the bicycle has lived his entire career that culminating in the biggest bud of all in moscow on saturday russia still welterweight he boxer against one of the toughest men in the business by jim bettis the reigning w. chant them to greet the second day one legend to death the thirty one year old. in march made his way up the letter by bidding i bet rouse a unanimous decision to stand around he didn't wait around some bit is also known as iron mike but but the move to be made of something even stronger in the night one of his dangerous nice forcings and that is to give up the fight due to fracture early in the first round though it slowed zyklon clear when the full heat came.

my plan for the fight was to make mike constantly move and not let him stay firm on his feet that's where he's extremely dangerous punching very hard but when it comes to knees and kicks well that's where i'm strongest. so who's next will but the front that question is yet to be answered although the man who self knows what he wants. my point of view is that the very best k one fighters should keep coming to russia to show what they have to offer now i can fight on my own terms and not have to travel to. the main event of the night was preceded by a number of exciting fights russia's mixed martial arts. to go on ukraine's you've caused enough and this ain't visible native was quick to show why she deserved the favorite stat claiming a unanimous decision when a hugely skillful fighter and on top of that a lady it is akin to deciding not to speak to archie until she freshened up

a little slice of the cigarettes and i had to dope to can fool rules which are not quite suitable for me judges pay a lot of attention to kiki here while my forte is book sing though tonight i focused on wrestling and that's what gave me they age. meanwhile the clearance between russia. and china. so real must look less of. the man from the martial arts moment however schooled by the local was simply better in aspects of the clash over archie monster. and finally it's not too often that i for one anyway see a snowmobile fly thoughts essentially what happened in san diego this week embarcadero marina park playing host to a couple of world record attempts for the longest snowmobile motorcycle films to leave the valley. and the brave men ready to hit you right the vehicles fearing the

water cow how to run one hundred sixty kilometers per hour the effort brilliantly executed by the perth volley going a distance of a hundred thirty meters while modest and managed ten more both jumps good enough to make the guinness book of world records the event was the latest in the red bull new year no limit series which continues this. extraordinary stuff all your sports world weather is here next on twenty four hour r.t. . mission

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turning up the tension in france calls for tough new sanctions against iran accusing it of developing nuclear weapons well tucker says it's ready for dialogue . and. israel and the palestinians had back to the negotiating table for the first time since peace talks broke down more than a year ago. but both sides have played down expectations of a breakthrough ahead of the meeting tony pulis new in tel aviv for more. on the russian military is on the march to restore its former glory with the kremlin to reboot the armed forces and cut out corruption.