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destructive rides said london ablaze man i believe the issues that so far the unrest have yet to be addressed one nurse feel unemployment and biting hysteria in poor areas could cause a repeat at any time. of us with headlines here in r t next i want are you with us congressman dana rohrabacher has some strong criticism of washington's foreign policy especially towards china. we are saying that one congressman dana rohrbacher u.s. representative from california forty sixth district also a former official with president reagan's administration congressman thank you so much for sitting down with us i want to focus today on some foreign policy issues so let's start right away with china i know you've been a staunch critic of the way the u.s. relationship with china has evolved how would you rate that relationship today well

we're getting our just rewards for having those stupid policy we have built china into a major economic power without demanding to any type of political reforms we've given the most favored nation status when we want a free trade we permitted them to steal our technology they get away with murder quite literally economically or figures certainly economically but quite literally . you know in reality when they're murdering dissidents and taking the people religious dissenters like the falun gong and throwing them in their prison so what we've got is we've created a monster what was a very weak country before we are permitted to build into a massive economic power with the course are a lot of our own industrial leaders making a profit by doing that well i was just about to say you know along those lines

china was only one of a handful of countries actually exempt from u.s. sanctions these are countries who were importing crude oil from iran china doing that but was example why is that why you know these policies how do they benefit the u.s. well i think it. is a horrible double standard that we have what. we have heaped on russia all kinds of requirements and restrictions and mandates if they're going to get anything. you know if it's the repeal of jackson van eyck which should have been done twenty years ago which less most favored nation status while china has had no liberalization at all and russia's had enormous liberalization their churches are fold aoun you have opposition groups in opposition papers and russia you have nothing like that in china whatsoever but let's be honest china has in many cases taken up the debt of the u.s. has come to lend it helping hand i'm always ready to mouth but also to be very

aware that we bend over backwards for these people before they had our debt we have we are the ones who created them into an economic power and which they could. loan money back to the united states so it is there are there is a certain member of big business that in this country who have profited greatly by the china trade the average working people have lost out greatly because the jobs that they should have in manufacturing have gone over to china and the technology that they paid for in their taxes the r. and d. has gone to china for free who specifically has benefited in this country well you've got some very big businesses who've established manufacturing units in china and they do so thinking that they're going to go from my ten percent profit to a twenty percent profit well in the long run. the people who own the stock get it so lose out because the chinese confiscate some of the properties over there and

our own working people because they lose manufacturing jobs and then there's maybe the c.e.o. puts a couple million dollars in his pocket as a bonus and then after a year or two fades away even though the long term result has been catastrophic for for his company what is your concern if these policies continue are you worried that it could have a negative impact on the u.s. i think it to be a negative impact on the whole world to have the world's. worse human rights abuse are which china is. to have enormous economic power and transferring that to military power and i think you will find that china is becoming is already becoming much more aggressive than it was twenty years ago and i think you'll find that places whether it's russia will find for example that china will start making claims again to territories that were taken at the time of the czars from china

china now claims all of the south china sea they claim huge areas in the india that's the size of texas this is a regime that's made arrogant land claims and i might say frightening lie and claim flat land claims because if they try to move forward based on those claims nobody's will come close to a war and i think russia and all the other countries surrounding china had better start thinking about the future and realizing when as they gets more powerful it's going to become a much greater threat to them let's switch over to afghanistan i know you recently had a trip planned there president karzai thought ah congressman rohrabacher is not welcome here what had you planned to do when you went and why do you think president hart i don't want to see you well president karzai is a stooge of the pakistanis all right he is their boy in afghanistan and by the way our state department. just kisses up the pakistanis and has been doing so for

the last thirty years which is one of the major reasons we've had problems down there but isn't that one of the major reasons that that the us needs to do that is to keep the borders open to be able to get you know the flow of goods to afghanistan where the troops. who wants to be in afghanistan i mean why should anybody the russians should understand how that that is a rotten place for people to station their foreign troops. there. they're not going to make any friends and the afghans traditionally when they open their eyes and they see foreign troops around them they say i don't like them and i don't want them here in my country and. what we've god is afghanistan has been manipulated policy has been reliably manipulated by pakistan and i think that my recognition that the government that this was a stablished after nine eleven and afghanistan does not reflect. the values of the

afghan people themselves and so it's a totally different structure it's a centralized system where afghans demand more centralized authority in their village and tribal leaders and karzai of course has no basis support so as i'm pointing those things out and the fact that he's so tied into the pakistanis. cars i didn't want me around so he exercised is just to be clear you think that you the u.s. should not be in afghanistan at all i think that right now we should get our butts out of afghanistan as quickly as we can so that as few americans are lose their lives in afghanistan as is. as as possible if you have some perspective on this i know that you you know when you worked with reagan back in the late night plane eighty four in afghanistan against you or as it was over watching from russian t.v. i mean i i think that i was there with the mujahideen and where you also said the

taliban wanted to form and wanted to establish a disciplined moral society what happens but now that quote what happened was i was opposing the taleban every step of the way and the taliban were not the mujahideen who defeated the soviet union the the the tell about a creation of pakistan's military intelligence so you cannot support the taliban and never. never but there's a couple two or three quotes that have come out. because i was opposing them and then it was a fait accompli they took over kabul and i tried to put. the most hopeful about clothes as they could be out for two or three weeks and then the back of the taliban started acting the way i always knew they would i had opposed them every step of the way they got power i tried to put the best face on it for

a couple weeks but after that i went to work in the one nine hundred ninety s. creating the coalition against the taliban based on the king of afghanistan and what later became the northern alliance so all of this nonsense about according to interviews i did and was trying to be optimistic but it didn't turn out well things change certainly as far as afghanistan goes i mean you said that we should get our butts out as fast as possible a lot of people are starting to be concerned that when if and when that happens there's just going to be a crazy ridiculous civil war that all the factions are already preparing their reporting on this are ready preparing their training they're putting up weapons and then it's going to be back to the soviet. afghanistan and has a very. wise culture and decentralized system of power and they have ethics. groups that have lived next to one another for centuries and the think groups of no they have to have be have arms because they

call them warlords but in fact what they are armed ethnic leaders who protect their people from attacks from other ethnic groups that's why it's been for century after century after century so there's nothing wrong with these people having arms they always will that's their culture but what's happened is that you have pakistan trying to working through an alliance with one ethnic group the push to trying to. and all of afghanistan that's what the taliban were all about wouldn't tell them and took over kabul thirty thousand of these quote taliban were actually pakistani troops dressed up as taleban and yeah if when the united states leaves the most important thing is that those people who have opposed the telly are not left vulnerable and we can do that we can do that very easily could make sure that. we do not leave for example we can work with those in the northern alliance that

defeated the taliban originally and make sure they can defend themselves all right congressman dana rohrabacher from california forty six thanks and that's right. and claude how can the truth be revealed if. there was a very bright day to the servicemen who were given no problem protection to the

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a darn about anything to change mission to teach music reason why it should care about humans in. this is why you should care only. a mass of syrian military forces allegedly preparing a final assault to crush the defiant rebel stronghold and aleppo the city is seen sporadic fighting in shelling over the past week with the insurgency claiming to hold more than half of its districts. the trial the female pussy riot and secondly whether the fans expected to continue making its case the three women are facing up to seven years in prison after pulling an anti putting stunt in russia's main orthodox cathedral. and a year since last august destructive riots said london a man i believe the issues that sparked the unrest have yet to be addressed one

a nurse feel on employed and buying a system employment rather than buying a stereo good cars at repeat at a time. also the top stories here on ars he'll be back at the top of the hour with more in the meantime let's take a look what's happening in sports. hello welcome along to the sports headlines is what we call for you a limp in revenge andy murray wins gold for great britain has he beat roger federer in straight sets to avenge last month's defeats in the wimbledon final. comeback a career sought often leave it late to secure all three points against cuba on cross nadar with a come from behind three one win in the russian premier league. and russian roulette. while his irish audiences with a thrilling routine at

a later stage of the cliff diving world series. but first british tennis player andy murray has won a limpid gold roger federer in straight sets six two six one six four to win the men's singles title at wimbledon it was a rematch of the wimbledon final just four weeks ago that day a federal one in four sets to lift his seventeenth the grand slam trophy however on sunday it was a different story as marie inspired by the home crowd dominated from start to finish six two six one six four the dominant school line against the world number one who despite his extensive list of titles has yet to win an olympic singles gold . meanwhile in the bronze medal much allergan time when martin del potro big novak djokovic in straight sets seven five six for del potro showing no ill effect of his

record breaking marathon semifinal defeat to federer. meanwhile serena williams won her second gold in as many days the day after becoming singles champion williams along with her sister venus won the women's doubles the american so often check you out. andrea how close to see her in straight sets six four six four. pound the russian pad not be apart for over a maria kirilenko however playing the brahms of american jew of least i'm going down leaves all future in three sets the americans took the first set six four but the russians bounce back to secure a place on the podium winning four six six pool six one. meanwhile elsewhere even a world record performance from tatyana catch i mean i wasn't enough for her to climb gold in the women seventy five killer weightlifting category the russians bring the world record twice in the snatch discipline lifting an unprecedented one hundred fifty one kilograms however she came up short in the clean and allowing

china's lose your hour to claim gold. meanwhile there was a surprise bronze medal for russia in the women's mara thing tatiana throws up. around the right of her life to come in third in a time of two hours twenty three minutes and twenty nine seconds as a new personal best the gold went to to keep the loan of ethiopia who also set a new olympic record while silver went to kenya as prisco up to the. mall it was a good day for russia in the gymnastics tennis players in has won bronze in the men's floor event has retained the scoring and now from the judges to finish on the podium it was china's kajal he won gold with japan's kohei uchimura claiming silver time not to be outdone maria also finished on the podium in kind of bronze medal in the women's revolt event. last sunday was also a good day for russia's women in team sports league volleyball team produced the

best result of the day the reigning world champions came on strong late talking to men from two sets to one down to celebrate a five set victory over italy russia now ahead into the quarter finals unbeaten in the group stages. meanwhile russia's fema. basketball team have secured third place in group b. on a place in the quarterfinals this despite a sixty five before the big difference in their last group stage fixture russia starting well claiming the first quarter fifteen ten but the french then took control to see all the win. for russia's female humble team picked up a slightly better result by doing twenty five all with montenegro it was also the final group picture for russia who will progress to the knockout stages of the second door from group a. however there was disappointing news for russia in team sports on sunday the female water polo team failed to get past hungry in the quarter final they were trailing throughout most of the match but moved to within

just one goal with a minutes ago however their final attack failed to produce an equaliser eleven ten to hungary which sends them into the semifinals. now the so-called face of the twenty twelve games jessica ennis has been speaking after being crowned head tackle on champion the british athlete claimed gold on saturday to the delight of the home crowd but admits there have been times in the build up where the pressure has begun to tell. if you. my fiance were you know wondering if it is all going to go the way i wanted it to or whether it would happen full of . huge amount of pressure but again just such a unique position i was in to make the most of. it just make sure that i. did well elsewhere the most decorated olympian of all time has been speaking on his first day of retirement american swimmer michael phelps bowed out of the sport

winning gold for the usa in the four by one hundred meter medley relay on saturday it was a fitting end for the twenty seven year old who has won more limpid medals than any other person in history it was remarkably his eighteenth gold medal his twenty second overall phelps now says he's looking forward to coming to measure. i think the biggest thing is i really want to travel and see a bunch of the world and you know do some things that i've always wanted to do you know whether it's cage diving or you know learning the proper way. not just go out there and taking a couple hacks a little while. i have a lot of things that i want to do and. now one positive fourteen russia so far has been success on the judo mat three gold one silver and one bronze medal put them on top of the sports medal table in the returning stars arrive back in the

russian capital hoping their success can act as a springboard for other russian athletes. very specific historical achievement for russian judo there is no doubt about it very proud to be the first afterwards to win this medals at the olympics and hopefully it may help our country mates do better in other sports. for me personally the success of our juicy means a lot especially in terms of bringing this sport to the masses i really really hope that after these olympic games many kids in russia will start practicing judo. now moving away from the olympics into the russian premier league really a soviet off came from behind to be two one on sunday it was actually the away side who struck. the deadlock after just twenty two minutes the delightful volley said the visitors on their way however they weren't ahead for long was an equally as

spectacular strike which pulled the home side level of thirty minutes. firing home for one one before. scored the winner four minutes from time. well later in the day i'm going temporarily moved second with a win seven points from three matches that's after beating on car one nil in stone for the team from has stayed there for a couple of hours a spot of leapfrog victory over rock bottom we were made without a point from three matches. now to cycling where spaniard alberto contador returns to the sport on monday following a six month drugs ban the twenty nine year old returns for the opening stage of the an eco tour through the netherlands and belgium his claims that the test result was caused by contaminated meat was thrown out by the court of arbitration for sport. well you know it's been a difficult six months that i'll remember forever i never thought about stopping i wanted to keep training i've been to lots of different places to train some days it

was hard to find the motivation but others i was easily motivated and because of the amount of training i think i'm at the same level as i've been before my biggest motivation was to support i got from my family friends and fans they kept me thinking of this moment. and finally jumping off the perilous rock faces for a living is something that might not appeal to many but for athletes competing in the cliff diving world series it is all part of the day job this is more a small island off the west coast all violent the stunning area played host to stage five of the red bull world series on saturday. the competition champion orlando duque a show just why he's dominated the sport for so long but even that was not enough to earn the colombian top spot instead he had to play second fiddle to. the russian claiming back to back wins for the all in the competition for the first time with an electrifying new dive a black arm stand with

a blind entry on him tens across the board means he sits third in the standings. almost now ten years or so for the penultimate stage. well that is all from the world of sport for now but there's plenty more later here on r.t. the world weather is next. wealthy

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