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 europe mr further why should the e.u. increase its dependence on gazprom. i know. we're not talking about a dependence on russia we're talking about cooperation between russia on the one side and the european union on the other in the energy sector. north stream is viewed as a priority project by both russia and the e.u. because it's been part of europe's energy networks since two thousand and six is recognized by the european parliament and the e.u. council of energy ministers and for more patient part i meant ordered from the energy minister to nordstrom pipelines have already been laid what top of the third one will be added and what will be its capacity we haven't yet that we currently

have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic meters the question of whether a third or even fourth pipeline will be laid should be answered by european stock holders of as you know we have gazprom on the one side and hollins got sunni france's g.d.s. suez and germany's on and b.s.f. windowsill on the other if investors decide to build a third and fourth pipeline privately financed mind you we're not talking about think financing india then it could be done i do not know whether they will make such a decision as it was not part of my work line of. 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 e permission is not the issue that the e.u. germany and the rest of the e.u. 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. co-dependency 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 is good for marc rich or what do you think of the recent interview raids on gazprom and its partners in europe think about the or p.r. guys i think europeans need gas gas has many uses 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 the you know better than anyone else for instance that britain recently switched from export to implode europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources that it's climatic conditions require and it needs norway to gaslight but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to russian companies would be a wise move of. the name to do some e.u. officials oppose russia whatever it does get us is for though that's most mon i

guess it so we have to admit that way but i hope we will get over it or it's understandable that the european union needs russia geopolitically but the reverse is also true there's no question about it the time has come to start cooperating and stop looking back at ideological differences. that misread the could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility was there and is unknown as it were to your involvements 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 the russian government is evidently pro european but europe cannot keep pushing russia or away it hurts russians pride we have to keep in mind that while russia has the alternative of shipping to asia europe has no such alternative with europe's geopolitical position will only improve if it manages to enter a tiny hard to ship with russia one and at the same time grant a session to turkey that would be a sound strategy aimed into the future of the rest. yesterday's debate alice and it

did but a fun guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean the gas shortfall for europe wide as if it is new no that will not happen russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that drinking i will say again that europe market is incredibly important for russia to keep its budget balance among other things therefore we're not talking about dependence here but a codependency vertigo that we've heard plans to lay an electricity route alongside the nord stream project could germany and european in your opinion be interested in importing electricity from russia if i sniffed i've not heard about such plans you want to have long since been rumors about it but so far the talk has been detached from reality i doubt the plans will ever be realized but ultimately it's up to the pipelines owners not the chairman of the stockholders committee that 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 there's no way to sell it in germany or poland has a developing market important is that it's in no way a danger for us that's not the reason i'm criticizing it 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 for think of for 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. been damaged mind consider this me and my team with the people who originally negotiated that deal with our energy suppliers 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 of what 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 norway from other countries but primarily from russia and the reason we need to build gas power stations and more so. with this huge 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 for more this is a quote my successor in office next to yours 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 even if erotically things turn out differently which i find very improbable 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 government does. your environment 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 it was a purely preparatory mission conducted by the european commission the national governments we had made the decision to take greece in we could not claim without having firm proof that the information we got then was 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. unless either the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since it ended

which which it. matter kensi in vegas if the upgrade of 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 the new greek government would have to be nonpartizan uninfluenced by debate provoked by right wing party that i hope the package of aid agreements that european leaders have agreed on is implement eckerd and if that's the case then i think we can start taking care of stabilizing the market with a great deal of help from greece of course that there is one point i would like to make of the country should not be broken down not only does greece need budget discipline which is of course true but what greece needs most are investments that this would be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently investing abroad pay taxes in their own country instead of looking for investment opportunity or so on was a good i don't want to bring 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 bet to europe has from 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 the economic interest is easily explained 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 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 case china is the other new european state 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 but for the sake of our citizens future that will come from a lot of being to small question many germans many dutch people many finns are

angry. at having to pay. of a roll 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 that the prospect for long lasting peace lies 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 of it doesn't have a dollar 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 better stay more innovative when we fulfill our agenda of twenty town 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 high on the other hand we have an understanding that an aging society with a decreasing number of people who are a ploy that has problems of that sort of your. so we started taking care of our problems in time the rest will aggressively be forced to take the mission this goes for everyone not just the sound will post this but if to but he wouldn't go soeda chairman of the board for the north stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking with l.t. . from

los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses to man those that take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to be a mask i started out i want to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the far the problem is medical i've had a rescue couple weeks ago waited for hours for a bit i've waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say it's a francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with a patient and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in the emergency room.

we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.

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thanks for joining us this is sports a plenty ahead over the next ten minutes or so in excluding the following. death of a legend boxing great joe frazier loses his last fight with cancer dying up the age of sixty seven. future starts now the russian ice hockey team with a new coaching to prepare for the starting tournaments of this season's euro sure campaign the. mother is the wall in constant of russian olympic success to in the years has been respected gymnastics week tell me how the talent supply on the must is this is covered here. and we begin with some sad news former world heavyweight boxing champion joe frazier has died following brief bottle with liver cancer he was sixty seven the american passing away at his home in philadelphia surrounded by his family fraser will be remembered as one of the sporting icon this of the past century jew and sort of titanic clashes with

muhammad ali smoking joe the first man in fact to be tallying up by two of the fight of the century in one nine hundred seventy one he would lose the next two against his old fool but great respect in doing so the hard hitting fraser also one of them picked gold in nineteen sixty four. to football where it's been confirmed that the second stage of the longest ever russian premier league season will kick off on the eighteenth of november this is the group rising the top eight regular season teams much they will see defending champions on this year's table toppers meets home something which was on cheat in st petersburg the second play a serious case of a tough clash ahead with routine visit among while there are two. between sports. each team will be one another with the champions constantly. prove to be their relegation half of the table starts off like this the rust off entertain the team

they finished off m f c f c cross the dark take on sports like no chick terakhir up against. him week thirty two will also be played in november before the teams have their winter break to championship their resumes in spring. today took the time to set out the reasons behind such a drastic switch in the form of the premier league being able to break for global international competitions during the summer his main point. is that we made the switch to this new system because we had to plan our previous calendar around the world cup and the european championships we would schedule a full calendar for one year then a two month summer break for the next this is them allows us to create a uniform schedule where there's always that summer break since there's a three month break in the winter and a two month break in the summer why not switch them around and bring it into line

with the european calender. now top european ice hockey nations will begin a four stage continental tournament this weekend euro hockey tour also acting as a preparation stage for russia finland sweden and the czech republic ahead of the annual world championships that car yella cup starting things off in helsinki team russia finished second at the world championships last season that led to a new mom at the helm and then a to dean off taking over the reins from just laugh it off who secured. world gold three years ago the hopes are now that the leadin off will be in charge all the way to the lympics in twenty fourteen the fast approaching finished page of the euro tour though his first big test. pics are a very serious and interesting it for me personally as a coach this words in building i want to develop my roster here in russia using primarily k. job players the upcoming international tournaments including the world cup should

reveal their capabilities and then we can start thinking about it in the big. promise to give youth a chance at the opening stage in helsinki and indeed his team is loaded with promising talent experience though also looms large at both ends of the rink you know i afford alexander right to left one of the most grizzled veterans the former n.h.l. or already has two world championship gold medals in his pocket but is hungry for more of his presence sure to be vital in jelling together the squad. a lot of us. are the talent and the. jury was. really good. in that. because they think they already. played. with us it's not surprising at all swimming nowhere

a five time olympic. gold medalist in thorpe said he needs to shake off more of the pool rust after a disappointing this play at the world cup in beijing these trillion who has set thirteen individual global records not to worry though the spike the london olympics fast approaching. it's almost a given thing you know you can return to the polls. five years and expect to be winning things you know it wasn't my intention and based proposition the series of competitions for me is kind of the first stepping stone of make me back into this competitive mode you know really learning what it's like to be. ready to rise so you know so far i've been pretty happy in the n.f.l. the chicago burbs weathered the storm to fight back and beat the eagles on philadelphia turf last night jay cutler the key man for the bears in monday night saw a fixture the eagles heavily criticized linebacker for. the early in this one rookie

bryan road stripping the ball from for take take it back for six on tie the game at ten apiece the bears then overcame two four take turnovers thanks the. quarterback running the bennett for twenty seven twenty four lead the goal field goal made it thirty twenty four meaningfully could still win with all the two minutes left in the fourth. play in full and short of the first on the when it mattered moshe carr the win it by six. tiger woods has been no stranger to controversy of late but this week the former world number one golfer took the high ground in an incident involving his former county steve williams derogatory remark about tiger causing an i try the wood says he believes the new zealander isn't a racist has accepted williams' apology stevie's certainly not a racist. i think it was a comment that should have been made and you know.

he was shouldn't he did apologize if it was hurtful certainly but you know. one of cricket's greatest bowlers will lend his expertise to the melbourne stars in the upcoming big league twenty twenty tournament shane warne back from a short lived. tyrant i will first see action on the seventy eight the forty two year old is widely regarded as one of the game's best ever players for me it was something that i thought let's do this probably figure that i've ever been. and i the next sort of month really getting to the bowling and doing things and involved in. something that sort of excited me as something that we're going to try to start something new now i finally gone through the just a bad car and t.v. rushes arithmetike gymnast's returning from the olympic games with gold wing and their luggage a global dominance the country is at pains to continue even sikorsky reports.

for eight hundred kilometers away from moscow but a long journey didn't stop team russia from paying a visit the message be telling across the basque country will be left undiscovered with. a brand new. top class instructors are helping young talent blossom into transcendent performers on the biggest stage these students ages three to seven years old watching in horror as the current crop of rhythmic gymnasts put on the show and the school's opening ceremony one of the sport's main figures in russia believes it's the most complete lineup she's seen in a while in business the cream of the crop of global rhythmic gymnastics all gathered here we haven't even had to back many people at the world championships and this time we brought our entire golden reserve her gymnastic here of. always stood head and shoulders above the competition. three straight gymnastics world championships and at the beijing olympics the twenty one year old remaining home

despite clearly being russia's main hope for london two thousand and twelve and beyond that is great for up and coming and hopefully it will be used in preparation for the upcoming russian championships i didn't have such fancy facilities and man . when i started so i'm happy for these kids i have no plans for the olympics yet because i'm still in the process of qualification the soviet union and russia have always been the world's mecca of rhythmic gymnastics winning sixty one world championship medals over the entire course of history the russians have also won gold in individual and team events during the past three olympics but everybody at the world's gymnastics stronghold are aware that maintaining the title as the greatest in the world won't be easy come next summer. party. and that is where we have to leave the sport for a world weather is coming up in just a tech i'll see you shortly. in

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him tonight quoting the wheels in motion in moscow ushers in a new era of energy security for western europe as the old stream pipeline begins pumping russian gas straight to germany and beyond. the new supply route rules energy rolls the transit countries which at previous european consumers of russian gas in the cold will have the details in just a few moments. russia issues israel with a stern warning not to take military action against iran as president dmitri medvedev says it could spell catastrophe for the middle east. the italian prime minister is under heavy pressure to resign tonight after losing his majority support in parliament as the country moves closer to the epicenter of the queue of the debt crisis.