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 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 gas problem and europe. regulator e permission 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 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 them you know better than anyone else for instance that written recently switched from export to engel europe needs a gas supply to maintain

a stable mix of energy sources that it's climatic conditions require it needs norway's gasoline 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 yet as is ford's or just most man i guess it is so we have to admit that what i hope we will get over it of 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 an ideological difference yet again that misrata could russia switch supply east to china if brussels keeps up its hostility was there listen as it were to your level minds 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 the russian government is evidently pro european but europe cannot keep pushing. sure 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 heartless 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 or less and is but a from guess that if russia does decide to go east could that mean the gas shortfall for europe wide as if it is nick no that will not happen russia was an exceptionally reliable supplier during soviet times so no one has to worry about that drenching i will say again that europe hallmark it is incredibly important for russia to keep its 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 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 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 judy as you spot deals can be of no more gain than long term supply agreements in the short run but they do not offer stability for three to five 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 damaged mind lloyd and 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 supporting one. 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 new york from other cultures but primarily from russia and the reason we need to build gas power stations. with this huge debt crisis mr sarkozy says no euro no europe surely europe with a void 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 and if the euro is going to survive as a common currency even if erratic leigh 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 were chancellor when greece cooked its books to join the euro should you have stopped athens from joining the single

currency club or nick. 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 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 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 unless either 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 chaos then i think we can start taking care of stabilizing the markets 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 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 germans that they we're not going to bail out southern europe anymore or does germany have a historic debt to europe has from putting its 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 that the economic interest is easily explainable 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 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 explain it very consistently to the current generation of political leaders that it's within our own interests to maine. 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 a door that 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 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 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 sort or be a mother 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 of or bust us but if they've been ignored and gerhard schroder chairman of the board for the north stream gas pipeline thank you for speaking with r.t. . this is our time. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we all want that one we breathe the we hope. to me the american

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for instance on t.v. don't come. the headlines on our t.v. ratcheting up the tension the pentagon says a u.s. warships will continue to sail in the gulf despite an iranian a warning to stay away from the area where the iran has recently testified mr. israel and the palestinians return to the negotiating table for the first time since peace talks are broke down a more than a year ago but both sides have played down expectations of a breakthrough ahead of the meeting. of the russian military is trying to restore its former glory with the kremlin that keen to reform the armed forces the military industrial complex has fallen behind technologically and become riddled with corruption. are those your headlines here and to stay with us next it's union the latest action from the world of sport.

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 sees the reaming champions move to the top of the standings in argentina. late starters detroit's boston poll finds me 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 eagles this week with motorcycles. 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

car section while in the saddle three time winner more coma is the amount of couch a two hundred ninety kilometer stretch lay in wait for the competitors from mar del plata to santa rosa. nine time champion behind the wheel stephanie 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 french a fifty four second advantage of 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 during 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 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 will but then the support of his sponsor stopped and the lesson last you see it if you want to get the from a one way ticket to new. materials some support. it's not a secret any budget the formal one. is way also reading the budget that pilots

sponsor or will bring so. this case. it was very difficult for us to get a formal one this year. launched 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 who knows him vettel who used to be a lucian's teammate in randall's world serious. and were i glad that we met with often. in one team and one championship at the same time i know that i was beating him quite often and now he is a formal one. so it also makes her feel better. eyelash untested an f one car at the young driver's test in abu dhabi last year and made a good impression but it was our driving practice and the support of sponsorship

that 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. to 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. car from the us here is quite an interesting car because it's brand new and nothing the same so. it's a fast thing yes yes compared 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 orkney thirty three formula one drivers have come through the g.p. two series in the past four years in the lushin issue 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 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 legal 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 into another gear tayshaun prince stopping fourteen points from the eighty nine seventy eight. over the tennis where spain remain unbeaten in the group phase of the hopman cup on a bell at medina for a number for duff school 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. go put the three time champions 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 current tour spain not messing around here he is wrapping up the mounts six six to tie to one of royal mario batali and richard gustier fronts up next for the world. russian kickboxing star button hasa cough is now a fully fledged member of the fight game elite but to count who first beat albert kraus earlier last year went on to claim victory over another k. one might some be this in november artie's robert downey in watch the action from ringside. to eat every fight as if is the fight over a life that fried 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 minds and bettis the reigning champ them to greet the second one legend to death the thirty one year old. in march bicycle made his way up the letter by beating rouse but even then in a decision the stand around he didn't wait around some bit is also known as iron mike but the move to be made of something even stronger in the night one of his dangerous nice forcings embarrassed to give up the fight due to fracture early in the first round explodes it would clear the people he came. up with 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 is that the very best 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 he began it cost enough and the same native was quick to show why she deserved the favorite stat claiming a unanimous decision when a hugely skilful fly there and done double that a lady that is going to deciding not to speak to archie until she fresh. up a little slice of the two dollars and i had to drop chicken food rules which are not quite usable for me just pay a lot of attention to kiki here while my forte is books and though tonight i

focused on wrestling and that's what gave me the age meanwhile the clash between russia. and china. so a real master class of. the man from the martial arts homeland however schooled by the local was simply better in all aspects of the clash over archie mostly. 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 head to new heights the vehicles fearing the water kowtow to run one hundred sixty kilometers per hour the effort brilliantly executed by the perth love valley going a distance of

a hundred and thirty meters while madison 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 and not as all your sports world weather is here next on twenty four hour r.t. . well. science technology innovation all the least developed from around russia we've got the future covered.

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ratcheting up the tension. says the u.s. warships will continue to sail in the. warning to stay away from an area where. israel and the palestinians return to the negotiating table for the first 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 near in television for more. on the russian military is on the march to restore its former glory with the kremlin keen to reboot the armed forces and cut out corruption.

a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow i'm rule research the u.s. has responded to a warning from iran to keep its aircraft carriers out of the persian gulf by saying that its was shipped will continue to sail that the american navy has pulled out of an area where iran was holding ten days of naval wargames during which it successfully test fired a number of different missiles but russia as a defense ministry says that despite the latest military exercise the iranians don't have the technology to make intercontinental ballistic missiles meanwhile france is pushing for stricter sanctions saying it's sure to iran is developing nuclear weapons into 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.