mission to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only. we are coming to you live from the heart of. these so you had president assad's prime minister. with more defections being reported as a bomb blast went off inside the headquarters of the state t.v. and radio channel in damascus all of this while the final battle is set for syria's second city of. the gulf states. as crackdowns on protesters gather for a dozen. activists are also demanding the release of political prisoners detained by the sunni leadership. and conflicting reports coming from russia's republic of

chechnya say two suicide bombers carried out a terror attack that killed four servicemen in the capital grozny in a separate incident three servicemen were killed when their military vehicle was blown up. and it is 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 capital are not sure the violence won't make a comeback. interview with u.s. congressman dana rohrabacher who has some strong opinions on washington's foreign policy especially towards china this is art. we are sitting down 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 one will free trade we permitted them to steal our technology they get away with murder quite literally economically or figuratively 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 the 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 exempt 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 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 or 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 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 well in the long run. to the people who own the stock it. 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 lying claim client 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. 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 whoever 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 depose 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 ethnics. 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 where 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 taliban 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 that's jack thanks so much right. now.

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will. be a. the headlines on our t.v. . prime minister is sacked after fleeing to jordan with more defections being reported a bomb blast went off inside the headquarters of the state t.v. and radio channel in damascus all of this while a final battle is set for syria's second city on the. gulf states are seeking closer ties as crackdowns on protesters gather forces with dozens injured and detained in bahrain shiite activists are also demanding the release of political prisoners detained by the sunni leadership. conflicting reports coming from russia's republic of chechnya now say two suicide bombers carried out a terror attack that killed four servicemen in the capital grozny this while in

a separate incident three servicemen were killed when their military vehicle was blown up. and it's a year after riots looting on london's streets which police were unable to bring under control for almost a week but locals in the summer's olympic capital i don't sure the violence won't make a comeback. so i wanted to get some of those updates paul joins us now. thank you very much rory welcome along to the world of schools here is what's coming up gold rush in the last few moments on the most stuff enough as one rushes fix gold medal at the london olympics after wrestling romana basketball finished top of the podium on sunday. and you mention you saying bold wins the blue ribbon event at the games in men's one hundred meters retaining his and then pick title in the process

. and capital punishment pressure mounts song to nominate just still going after four nil dobby defeat to spots like in the permian a piece them rock bottom of the table. but starting at the olympics where in the last few moments russia have won a gold medal number five mostafa now claiming gold in the women's on even bars in london the seventeen year old making a phenomenal with her into the sport after a career threatening knee injury but she was just too strong for the rest of the field beating china's catching hay and britons back in the silver and bronze positions respectively. victoria come over finished. well also on monday in the men's olympic basketball tournament russia have secured top spot in group b. despite losing to australia eighty two point two eighty david plotz men were leading with six seconds remaining but it was australia who not the three pointer

before the buzzer to inflict russia's first defeat in the competition. while in the volleyball their compatriots managed to finish the group stage with a victory carrying those men took care of three set however because of a previous to think russia could qualify for the quarter finals from second place rather than first should the usa win their picture later against tunisia. so gold in the gymnastics added to sunday's gold in the wrestling means russia are slowly working their way up the medals table winding up all of sunday's action has andrew farmer. ramon blastoff winning gold in greco-roman seventy four kilogram category beating armenia's arson and points to add to his world title and before that russian minion semyonov took bronze in a 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 at the same stage in beijing we had five gold and twenty three medals overall so the results are pretty much the same four years ago we had twenty three gold. by the end of the games so our aim is to gain at least as many again well 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 limpid record in the clean and jerk to claim the gold by a single kilogram. but elsewhere the bronze medals were floating in tatiana but rover he 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 his album hands 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 legal hoops 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 howl 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 he'll stay the team's performed 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 metres crown on sunday evening the most anticipated event at the games was

billed as jamaica versus the united states bolt and compared to yohan blake aiming to show their superiority over the u.s. pairing of justin gatlin and tyson gay despite a less than stellar start it was both to blitz to cross the line in an olympic record time of nine point six three seconds plake took silver while carolyn who had the food for security brown says i came here to thirty five my legend my legend c. and i started out good stuff happy myself now know how to push on people to work hard what is this whole london experience mean to you it's a great experience for me it's wonderful the crowd is just amazing i knew was going to be out but when you're a car my name are going to be here what it was thing to be the energy there is just wonderful and history was also made of the games on sunday russia. winning the first women's boxing match of the union takes twenty years of male dominance

seventy aver dating north korean kim jong twelve nine in the fifty one kilogram flyway category. so on the ninth day of the olympics russia edging their way up the table currently in a position with five goals so far was china usa and great britain to continue to lead the way. meanwhile it's been a hugely disappointing olympics so far for australia they currently lie in twenty fifth place in the medals table with just one gold they finished sixth in beijing four years ago with fourteen goals to their name and further humiliation is being caused by the fact they currently lie eleven places behind arch rivals new zealand look i think now to catch j.b. is. we don't need our to use the words nigh on impossible but it's going to be extremely difficult. new zealand we don't want to suffer jokes for the next three years and fifty wakes until radio. so hopefully we can we can overcome them they've

had a fantastic start so russia may have dominated the judo and already have a gold in the wrestling and now the gymnastics but elsewhere perhaps hasn't gone to plan most notably in the pool where it was team usa who were the dominant force but can russia learn anything from their state side opposition is richer than portly. 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 up and go as the tree american swimmers are 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 a hundred 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 if you see other people over major changes and you know ryan has made changes both in and out of order to make himself strong faster and you know messi is has you know thought out her events and you know try to plan out her routine and. 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're so young they have no fear would the lack of 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 just the studio that over the last four years i could count the number of new swimmers on all team on one hand the americans. chinese have completely new sports in i don't even know the majority of their needs they have such great strength in depth. america's dominance and speed for the moment and it's evident russia need to make drastic changes to their sets up if they even going to have a chance of competing with such

a dominant force in the future richard dancy london. well away from the olympics and spartak moscow remain hot on the heels of zen it's in pieces in the early stages of the new russian a 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 number up spartak travelling to their city rivals after two wins in their opening couple of games and after a cagey opening period the game came into life twenty three minutes in the dean of hitting the back of the net after seven i think it's fair to say lackluster goalkeeping spot are getting a taste for goals after that with new manager you know i am racing his men fire home three more times in the second half a brilliant free kick from nicklaus prayer four minutes after the break was followed up by a superpower move and finish by iana the icing on the cake coming right at the death however rafael picking his spot for a school line

a final score four nil spartak move alongside reigning champions into the summit both with three wins from three will deny my stay rooted to the bottom without a single point. meanwhile the last fixture of game week three is underway right now volga hosting rubin with both sides knowing a win would move them into the top five and after the first half halftime was one nil to the hosts thanks to a strike from alexander cut a total. that is all from the world of sport for now but i'll be back with plenty more in just under two hours time to join it.