you come out here and live in my house for a week. i have no rights. my from moscow this is top stories not exactly half past the hour in the russian capital syrian rebels threaten to kill forty eight iranian hostages they kidnapped on saturday if the assad regime doesn't stop it shedding. gulf states close of ties as crackdowns and protests as gather force with dozens injured and detained in bahrain charged activists are also demanding the release of political prisoners that tainted by the sunni leadership. also reporting that conflicting reports coming from russia's republic of chechnya now say that two suicide bombers carried out a terror attack that killed four servicemen in the capital grozny one of the separate

incidents three servicemen were killed when the military vehicle was blown up. but to bring it up to date for the moment i'll be back with another summary in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime interview with u.s. congressman rohrabacher who has some strong opinions on washington's foreign policy especially towards china. 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 when we want a 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 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 exempt 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 where. 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 wood liberalization at all and russia has 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 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 these 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 or there is a certain number of big business men 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 while you got some very big businesses of established manufacturing units in china and they do so thinking that they are going to go for my ten percent profit to a twenty percent profit well in the long run the the people who own the stock get. 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 flat land claims because if they try to move forward based on those claims all bees 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 i thought 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 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. 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 you know 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 how 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 you know the soviet. afghanistan and has a very. decent lives 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 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 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 averagely and make sure they can defend themselves all right congressman

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top stories this are not the president sounds prime minister is sacked after fleeing to jordan with more defections reported as a bomb blast went off inside the headquarters of the state t.v. and radio channel in damascus one final battle is set for syria's second city of aleppo. goal state seek closer ties this crackdowns of protesters gather force with dozens injured and detained in bahrain shiite activists are also demanding the release of political prisoners detained by the sunni leadership. also reporting that conflicting reports coming from russia's republic of chechnya now say that choose to assad bomb has 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. with more of their stories for fifteen minutes from now with the news

team in the meantime paula is next with the latest sport news. thank you very much bill welcome along with to the world of sports here is what we've got coming up. gold rush after russia's a golden success in the wrestling monday says jim not tough enough finish on top of the podium and she claims gold in the uneven bars. blink and you miss him with you saying bold wins the blue ribbon event at the games the men's one hundred meters retaining his olympic title in the process. capital punishment pressure mounts on deny manager in after a four nil darby defeat to spartak in the premier league gave them the rock bottom of the table. but starting at

the olympics where russia have won the gold medal number five claiming gold in the artistic gymnastics in the women's uneven bars in london. the seventeen year old making a phenomenal return to the sport after a career threatening knee injury which will her out of last year's world championships but she was too strong for the rest of the field creating china's connection harry and britain's beth tweddle and the silver and bronze positions respectively compared to victoria come over finished fifth meanwhile in the men's vault tennis of blazin added silver to the bronze he won on the floor event on sunday he saw off the challenge of ukraine's ego dr devi love but was unable to surpass the school of gold medal winner on young from the republic of korea. but also on monday in the men's olympic basketball tournament russia have secured top spot in group eight despite losing to australia eighty two points to eighty david plotz men were leading with six seconds remaining but it was australia who

knows the three pointer before the buzzer to inflict russia's first defeat in the competition. while in the volleyball that compadres managed to finish the group stage with a victory. i let no man took care of serbia in three sets however because of a previous defeat russia could qualify for the quarterfinals from second place rather than first should be usa when their fixture against tunisia. now elsewhere it is a sweeter 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 a yohan blake aiming to show their superiority over the usa pairing of justin gatlin and tyson gang on despite a less than stellar start it was bold to cross the line in an olympic record time of nine point six three seconds like silver while gatlin. typing

offense secure. i came here thirty five my legend my legend c. and i started out good stuff happy myself now. no not to push our people to go to work hard what is this whole experience me it's a great experience for me it's one of the crowd it's just amazing i knew was going to be going to record my name to be here what you would think to be the energy there is just wonderful now the chairman of the london twenty organizing committee in order sebastian coe says officials will take a zero tolerance approach to incidents similar to the one which saw a bottle thrown onto the athletics track on sunday night a man has been arrested following the incident head of the men's one hundred meter final well there are no charges have yet been brought. to both of them to the field of play is unacceptable and it will be. not just any sensible person living games is an exception to the lease was leg. and. because it

was removed and anybody that does that in future will leave so. if there is a zero tolerance to anything like that ok let's have a look at the medals table how it stands right now russia are currently in a position with those five gold medals so far and of course the silver they picked up as well while it's china the usa and great britain who continue to lead the way . it has been a hugely disappointing lympics 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 that they currently lie eleven places behind arch rivals new zealand. look i think now to catch j.b. is. paternally r.t. is 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 rio. 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 golden wrestling on gymnastics but elsewhere it perhaps hasn't gone to plan most noticeably in the pool whereas team usa who were the dominant force but can russia learn anything from their stateside opposition has which of important. america's dominance in a 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 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 got out and grabbed history american swimmers are amazing

they're just so confident they're always laughing and joking amongst themselves and not for one minute to just 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 sit out 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 is a constant desire within the american camp to improve as an american and we. just do whatever we are you know we train as hard as we can to make sure we stay on you know this you know if you see you know the people that made changes and you know brian's made changes both in and out of order to make himself strong fast there are you know messi is has you know thought out her events and you know try to play about 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 pool which gives them a massive advantage according to sue it is a competitive nature of swimming in the usa which sets from the parts to dos but all those we don't have a collegiate system set up in russia tool there's a good children's program and adult system in place 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 the diski is even younger just fifteen not 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 school it is almost exactly the same as we want to compete in beijing something in the joy of the laments this is just the state of god that over the last four years i could count the number of new swimmers are not team and one hand the americans. chinese have completely new sports and i don't even know the majority of

their needs they have such great strength in depth you know with the america's dominance of spain phenomenal and it's evident russia need to make drastic changes to their set up if they even going to have a chance of competing with such a dominant force in the future richard dancy london. now away from the olympic games and to football west spartak moscow remain hot on the heels of the knicks in petersburg in the early stages of the new russian at premier league season they say after sunday's action they move joint top and maintain their one hundred percent start to the season with a four nil demolition of struggling sparta travelling to their city rivals after two wins in their opening to games and after a cagey opening period the game came to life twenty three minutes in the bin laden of hitting the back of the net after some rather lackluster goalkeeping it has to be said sparta getting a taste for goals after that the manager emery saying his men to fire him three

more times in the second half a brilliant free kick from nicklaus prayer four minutes after the break was followed by a super move and an equally as wonderful finish by ya know. the icing on the cake coming right out there rafael carioca picking his spot for a final school line of four nil spot move alongside growing champions in it then at the summit both with three wins from three matches stay rooted to the bottom without a single point. on monday were being scored to a second half goals as they came from behind to beat the volga a two one victory helped carbone birdie halves side to leapfrog lokomotiv up to fifth place. but that is all from the world of sport for now but i'll have plenty more for you including an update on the latest at the olympics in just under two hours time the world weather is next here on r.t. followed by the headlines with.

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