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 gas problem and europe is key to any. regulator reprovision is not the issue but the e.u. germany and the rest of the nations need gas to sensibly reform that 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 gasoline but also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to goshen 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 money i guess it is so we have to admit that what i hope we will get over it it's understandable is 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 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 level man's of which is in a situation where it could ship gas to china and all of asia and europe i. 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 one 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 or less and is better from guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean the gas shortfall for europe now does a better sneak no that no not happy russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that junction but 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 as 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 for us to go for twitter 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 damaged 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. 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 countries but primarily from russia and the reason we need to build gas power stations. with this in your debt crisis mr sarkozy says no hero no europe surely you're worth of oil without the euro so that there's i know i know 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 that if the euro is going to survive as a common currency even if erotically things turn out differently which i find very improbable you think we will still have a united europe it is vital in or plug you would chancellor when greece cooked its

books to join the euro should you have stopped athens from joining the single currency govern it does. 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 because it was a purely preparatory mission conducted by the european commission or not 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 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 is

a matter kinds in the 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 on our investments that would be good to see wealthy greek citizens who are currently investing abroad pay taxes in their own countries 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 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 in germany's interested both politically and economically in a functioning europe that the economic interest is easily explained will get 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 us that is not just because of the past 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 see and i can understand that but i have to. splay need

very consistently to the current generation of political leaders that it's within our own interests 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. and 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 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 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 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 i have only 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 matter that we started taking care of our problems in time or the rest will regret it and be forced to take on a harder mission this goes for everyone not just the sound or bust this but if they've been ignored and gerhard schroder chairman of the board for the north stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking with l.t. .

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turning our attention to france calls for tough new sanctions against iran targeting the country's financial and energy sectors it's accusing top brown of developing nuclear weapons even as around says it's ready to talk with the west about its atomic program. 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 claimed down expectations of a breakthrough at head of the meeting. and the russian military is trying to restore its former glory with the kremlin being to reform the armed forces the military industrial complex has fallen behind technologically and become brittle to with corruption. prompts tuesday afternoon here in the russian capital time now for a sport with you and it's all going according to plan for the favorites at the

deckard rally so far and it's certainly the guys who know how the when they have taken control in argentina more on day two in just a second. this is sports today plenty head over the next ten minutes or so including the stories of. cream rising day two at the car rally seems to remain champions moved to the top of the standings in argentina. late starters detroit boston poll finds me of how 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. no less flying higher on longer but for the. 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 cars section while in the saddle three time winner more coma is the amount of 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 stephan peter how well he looked reward to the top of the standings after a quite brilliant but. finished a disappointing twelve on day one would bettered 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 in second year in the opening round they are reeling champion leaving veteran cyril 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 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 how will the past three years has been impressive he became the first of a 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 sponsors stopped and the lesson last you see it you want to get the from a one way ticket and you've not only thought on but hearing it also some financial support. it's not a secret any budget

a formal one. is made also reading the budget that pilots sponsor or will bring so. in this case. it was very difficult for us to get a home on this year 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 him vettel who used to be a lotions teammate in randal's world serious. and were glad that we met up with dolphins. in the one team and one championship at the same time i know that i was beating him quite often and though he is a formal one the world champion so it also makes it makes me feel better.

i lash 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 can. rear isn't john pretty however it seems he's getting back on track as he starts the season in the carling g.p. two teen from england they must go i didn't take part in the test drives and hasn't signed in concert with the team so he's still anxious about competing in the upcoming serious g.p. two from the us here is quite an interesting car because it's brand new and nothing the same so. you get a faster yes yes convert their brand new design. and it's quite a bit faster than it was before i left and will hit the track at the opening one printer working on the six took me thirty three formula one drivers have come through the g.p. two series in 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 exam by the above r g. it continues to be a busy post lockout holiday season in the n.b.a. but detroit funs 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 league all-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 interest other gear tayshaun prince fourteen points from the eighty nine seventy. over the tennis where spain remain unbeaten in the group phase of the hopman cup on a bell 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 letting her stride against twenty seven . 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 tie to want to roll mario batali and richard gustier fronts up next for the world. russian kickboxing starbucks in just a cough is now a fully fledged member of the fight game elite but to count who first beat albert krauss earlier last year went on to claim victory over another k. one grid might some be this in november artie's robert downey watch the action from ringside. treat every fight as if is the fight over

a life that freed by a witch but the bicycle has lived his entire career that culminating in the biggest bud of all in moscow and settling russia still welterweight he bucks are against one of the toughest men in the business mags and bettis the reigning w. chant them to greet the second one legend to death the thirty one year old. in march possible made his way up the letter by bidding i've been browse a unanimous decision the stand around he didn't wait around somebodies is also known as i ring mike but the gun to be made of something even stronger in the night one of his dangerous knees forcings embarrassed to give up the fight due to fracture early in the first round explodes it would clear when the pistol heats 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 not 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 met himself knows what he wants. to view isn't the very best k. one fighter 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 lost enough and the same native was quick to show why she deserved the favorite stat claiming a unanimous decision when a hugely skillful fly there and done doubled that a lady it is a good deciding not to speak to archie until she fresh. and up

a little slice of the cigarettes i had to do took when food rules which are not quite suitable for me just pay a lot of attention to kiki here while my forte's books though tonight i focused on wrestling and that's what gave me the edge meanwhile the clash between russia. and china. so real must look less of. the man from the martial arts homeland however schooled by the local was simply better in all aspects of the clash over archie moscow. 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 that will be allowed and motorcycle helmets leave the love valley. and the brave men ready to hit me right the vehicles fearing the want to kowtow to run one hundred sixty kilometers per

hour the effort brilliantly executed by the perth volley going a distance of a hundred thirty meters in managed ten more both jumps a 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. . wealthy

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attention france calls for tough new e.u. sanctions against iran accusing it of developing nuclear weapons says it's ready for dialogue. israel and the palestinians head 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 don't need this new in television. and the russian military is on the march to restore its former glory with the kremlin to reboot the armed forces and corruption. thanks for being with us five o'clock here in moscow i'm karen terror. around the

house war in the united states it will take action if an american warship returns to the persian gulf and left the area when iran started its ten day naval war games during which they successfully test fired a number of different missiles but russia's defense ministry says that despite the latest military exercise they're rainy and don't have the technology to make intercontinental ballistic missiles meanwhile france is pushing for stricter sanctions as it says its short tech plan is developing nuclear weapons it's urged e.u. countries to follow the u.s. in freezing iranian central bank assets and imposing an embargo on oil exports to iran has been threatening to block the strait of hormuz one of the world's most important oil routes if the west stepped up its sanctions james corbet editor of the corvette report website says tensions in the region will only rise if the u.s. and its allies continue to pressure iran i think it's quite remarkable.