you come out here and live in my house for a week. i have no rights. it is a half past the hour here in the russian capital t. here are your headlines president assad's prime minister is signing up to flee to jordan with more defections from for the some bomb blast went off inside the headquarters of the state t.v. and radio station in damascus i want a final battle is. a serious second city in the. gulf states seeking closer ties its crackdown on protesters gather force with dozens injured and detained brain she also demanding the release of political prisoners detained

by the sunni leaders. the local authorities in russia's republic of chechnya say two suicide bombers carried out a terror attack that killed four servicemen in the capital grozny while in a separate incident three servicemen were killed when their military vehicle was blown up. and it's a year after riots and looting on london's streets which police were unable to bring under control for almost a week but locals in this summer's olympic. make a comeback. interview with a u.s. congressman. strong opinions about washington's foreign policy is specially toward china you watching. we're sitting down with 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 giving 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 or really 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 and 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's. 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 do liberal is a shit at all and russia's had enormous liberalization their churches are fold aoun

. opposition groups in opposition papers and russia got nothing like that in china whatsoever but let's be honest china has in many cases i've taken up the debt of the us has come to lend it helping hand i'm always ready to move but also to be very aware that we bend over backwards for those people before they had our debt we have we are the ones who created them into an economic power in 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 benefit in this country while you've got some very big businesses of established manufacturing units in china and

they do so thinking that they're going to go for my ten percent profit to a twenty percent profit while 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 and the india that's the size of texas this is a regime that's made arrogant land claims and i might say frightening lying 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 that 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 it that one of the major reasons that the u.s. 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 you know 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. 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 really really 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 his prerogative so 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 were 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 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 oppose 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 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 us and reporting on this are ready preparing their training they're putting up weapons and then it's going to be back to you know 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 i think groups of know 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 when the taliban 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 tele bomb 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. nuclear. site. radioactive

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mike stronger. the global financial headlines. the headlines on a president. with more defections. inside the headquarters of the state t.v. and radio channel and all of this while the final battle is set for a serious second city over the. gulf states. as crackdowns on protesters gather for dozens injured and detained in. the political prison and detain by the sunni leadership. conflicting reports coming from russia's republic of chechnya. terror attack that killed four. i was still working to clarify the details of exactly what happened in

a separate incident. killed when their military vehicle was. leaping on london streets which bring on the control for almost a week. in the summer the limping along. the sporting headlines in particular the olympics with paul. thank you very much laurie welcome along to the sports headlines here's what's coming up. finish. celebrating russia's a fool's gold at the big games in london. playing you saying ball wins the blue ribbon event of the games in men's one hundred meters the table is

a mimic title in the process. and capital punishment pressure mounts on the number of monitors. for an old ali defeat to spot in the premier league rock bottom of the table. but there is obviously no other place to start but at the olympics where team russia have played their fourth gold in london it came in the wrestling elsewhere there was a silver and five bronze medals for the country's athletes on sunday as andre farmer reports. roman blastoff winning gold in greco-roman seventy four kilogram category beating armenia's ass and on points to add to his world title before that russian minion seminar took bronze in the fifty five kilogram section so not a bad day on the mat overall russian now have four gold medals it might not sound like an awful lot with just a week to go but russian olympic chiefs remain calm and confident.

everything is going according to our medal plan at the same stage in beijing we have five gold and twenty three medals overall so the results are pretty much the same four years ago we had twenty three gold medals by the end of the games so our aim is to gain at least as many again while russia did come within touching distance of another gold medal weightlifter tatiana broke our own world record in the snatch to lead the women's over seventy five kilogram competition but china's losing then setting a limp it record in the clean and jerk to claim the gold by a single kilogram. but elsewhere the bronze medals were floating in tatiana patro came third in the women's marathon maria pesca got on the podium in the women's vote in artistic you nasty x. and then is albanians in took a bronze in the men's floor exercise while up at wimbledon russia got a bronze in the women's doubles maria kirilenko and coming away with a medal after beating americans and these arraignment however it isn't all good

news poor performances have seen head coaches resign in fencing and shooting igor's alethea of quitting after the shooters picked up just a bronze during the whole of the games and former olympic fencing champ pavlovitch also threw in the towel after his squad failed to win a gold although the silver medalist severe has him to stay. sharp i think it's a primitive decision the head coach was just emotionally overwhelmed when he decided to quit and hopefully there will be some negotiations and stay the teams perform well especially the full team probably the results didn't meet expectations . well elsewhere it's sweet because you doubted me those are the words of you saying bolt after the jamaican sprinter successfully defended his one hundred meter crown on sunday evening the most anticipated event at the games was billed as jamaica versus the united states bolt and compadre yohan blake aiming to show their

superiority over the u.s. pairing of justin gatlin and tyson gay and despite a less than stellar start it was both two bullets to cross the line in an olympic record time of nine point six three seconds. while gallon it had a four year plan for typing secure as. i came here thirty five my legend my legend c. and i started out good stuff happy myself now know not to push on people to go to work hard this whole london experience mean to you it's a great experience for me it's wonderful crowd is just amazing i knew was going to be when you were a car my name to be here what do with thing to be the energy there is this wonderful. history was made at the games on sunday russia. winning the first women's boxing match at the olympics and years of male dominance beating north korean kim gye song twelve nine in the fifty one kilogram four i won category.

well on monday in the men's olympic basketball tournament russia have secured top spot in group a despite losing to australia eighty two points to david plotz men were leading with six seconds to go it was australia three pointer before the conflict russia's first defeat so far in the competition. while in the volleyball their compactness managed to finish the group stage with a victory i was meant to carry three sets however because of a previous defeat russia could qualify for the quarterfinals from second place rather than the usa when their fixture against. so midway through the ninth day of the games on the medal table is not looking very bright. for russia right now the country is currently in ninth place with only four goals so far while it's china usa and great britain who are leading the way. so russia may have dominated the judo and already have

a golden wrestling but elsewhere perhaps hasn't gone to plan most notably in the poor is team usa who were the dominant force but can russia learn anything from their state side opposition is which of the important america's dominance in the swimming pool has been clear for all to see sixteen golds and a total of thirty medals overall rusher in comparison were only able to come home with a couple of silvers and bronzes and rushes on to see is all we ever claimed a second place finish in the women's two hundred metres backstroke believes america's approach gives them a key advantage. when you get out and go to the american swim is amazing they're just so confident they're always laughing and joking amongst themselves and not for one minute what you think that they have an important final in just a few minutes this approach is just fantastic as they're always so relaxed going into a big race i wish i was as relaxed sitting on you are on me and andrew of his comments seem to be backed up by legendary swimmer michael phelps there's one an incredible

eighteen olympic gold medals and a twenty seven year old stated that there's a constant desire within the american camp to improve as an american and we. just do whatever you know we had we train as hard as we can to make areas they are you know this you know obviously the people that made changes and you know ryan's made changes both in and out of order to make himself on faster and you know missy is has you know thought out her events and you know try to plan out her routine and you know i think it's more that we're always thinking about it we're always trying to be the best that we can however it's not just the americans relaxed attitude in the poll which gives them a massive advantage according to sue it is a competitive nature of swimming in the usa which sets from a parts list to dos but overall we don't have a collegiate system set up in russia tool there's a good children's program and adult system in place but there is nothing in between

in the u.s. everything is so different missy franklin is only seventeen years old while the girl who won the eight hundred meters katie diski is even younger just fifteen even though they are so young they have no fear they would like a competition for russia's top swimmers is clearly evident as they really challenge the squad is almost exactly the same as who won the competed in beijing something but joy the laments is just that state of god that over the last four years i could count the number of new swimmers or not team on one hand the americans. chinese have completely new squads in i don't even know the majority of the names they have such great strength in depth of america's dominance and spin phenomenon and it's evident russia need to make drastic changes to their setup a day even going to have a chance of competing with such a dominant force in the future. richard dancy london.

well away from the games and sports at moscow i remain hot on the heels of sending some pages in the early stages of the new russian premier league season they move joint top and maintain their one hundred percent start to the season with a four nil demolition of struggling to now spot uk travelling to their city rivals after two wins in the opening couple of games and after a cagey opening period the game came to life twenty three minutes in the dean of hitting the back of the net after some lackluster goalkeeping fair to say sparta not getting a taste for goals after that the manager you know i am saying his man fired home three more times in the second period a brilliant free kick from nicklaus player four minutes after the break was followed by a super move and finished by ya know. the icing on the cake coming right at the death rafael picking his spot for a final school line of four now so he spots out move alongside reigning champions

into the summit both with three wins from three while the number stay rooted to the bottom without a single point. or also looking solid in the league so far i know when i am card leading them to seven points after three games despite having a team filled with star talent it was he who come. through on his side only three points the. past plus side now six. while in sunday is only up again clearly so it's all thanks from behind so they could run two one and move to the top of the table. and finally the last big job to gain weight has changed from late on monday will be travel to boulder with both sides drawn away that would move them into the talk. about his own from the world of sport for now but is plenty more in just under two hours time here and i'll say to you or me that. it is.

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