unfortunately it doesn't give a darn about any. mission to teach the creation or why it should care about humans . this is why you should care. because you live from new center here in central moscow this is our top stories now syrian rebels threaten to kill forty eight iranian hostages say kidnapped on saturday if he. doesn't stop at shelling the opposition fighters claim three have already died in. spain's government faces the flak for cracking down on the scent it's accuse of second journalists failing to toe the party line of the sweeping cuts being piled on the people in return for an e.u. bank bailout. and conflicting reports coming from russia's republic of chechnya and a. suicide bombers carried out

a terror attack that killed four servicemen in the capital grozny one in a separate incident three servicemen were killed when their military vehicle was blown up. but brings up the date for the moment i'll be back with another update for in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime our interview with u.s. congressman dana rohrabacher who has some strong opinions on washington's foreign policy especially towards china that in-depth interview next. we're 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 promoted 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'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 wood liberalization at all and russia has had enormous liberalization their churches are fold aoun you have opposition groups and opposition papers in russia you've 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

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 in which they could. loan money back to the united states so it is there are there is a certain member of big businessmen 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. the people who own the stock get 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 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 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 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 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 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 ethnic 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 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. congressman dana rohrabacher from california. thanks and that's right.

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thank you very much bill will come along to the world of sports here is what we've got for you best seventeen year old russian. claims the country's fifth gold medal at the london olympics and she finishes top of the podium in the women's are even bars. blink and you miss him you say involve says he is edging towards becoming a sporting legend after retaining his and then pick one hundred meter title. but straight to the olympics where russian yelena isinbayeva is in action in the final of the women's pole vault the thirty year old is the two time defending champion having plain gold in both athens and beijing she's also broken the world record in pole vaulting a phenomenal twenty eight times widely regarded as the greatest female of all to

over all the time she had to go with her first round with the final just getting underway in london. and while russia will be hoping for another gold in the men's eighty. kilogram wrestling russia's alan krueger have is about to take on egypt carried mohammed abraham in the final. modern made of won bronze in the sixty kilogram category. while elsewhere on monday russia have already won gold in gymnastics allium was tough enough finishing top of the podium in the women's an even bars the seventeen year old making a phenomenal return to the sport after a career threatening knee injury which ruled her around to last year's world championships but she was too strong for the rest of the field beating china's connection haye and britain's beth tweddle into silver bronze positions respectively compadre and victoria come over finished fifth meanwhile in the men's vault blood's in added silver to the bronze he won in the floor event on sunday he

saw off the challenge of ukraine's ego already know but was unable to surpass the school of gold medal winner on yarning from the republic of korea and. also monday in the men's olympic basketball tournament russia have secured top spot in group play despite losing to australia eighty two points to eighty david plotz men were leading with six seconds remaining but it was australia not the three pointer before the buzzer to inflict russia's first defeat in the competition. up next in the last eight. while in the volley ball their compatriots managed to finish the group stage with a victory i let you know those men 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 to the usa with their fixture later against you lazio. it's 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 bolton patrick blake aiming to show their superiority over the usa impairing have just begun. an enticing date and despite a less than stellar start it was bolting blitzed across the line in an olympic record time of nine point six three seconds blake took silver gatlin who had a four year ban for doping offense took from us. i came here to thirty five my legend my legend c. and i started out good stuff happy myself now now got a push on people to go 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 were a car my name i couldn't be here what you would think that to be the energy that is just wonderful now the chairman of the london twenty twelve organizing committee notes a bastion kerry 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 ahead of the men's one hundred meter final although no charges have yet been brought to turn you both on to the field placings. and that will be. not just an essential to living games isn't to the least lengthy. and. because it was removed and anybody that does in future. so. it is easier and all of this to anything. well let's see how the medal table looks right now russia are currently in a position with five goals so far and of course there are underachieving it would perhaps be fair to say while it's china the usa and great britain who continue to lead the way. in well 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 a further humiliation is being caused by the fact they currently live i live in places behind arch rivals new zealand look i think now to catch j.b. is. it out late are to use the word on impossible but it's going to be extremely difficult. 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 gold in wrestling and gymnastics but elsewhere it perhaps hasn't gone to plan most noticeably in the pool where it was team usa who were the dominant force but can russia learn anything from their stateside opposition has written about 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 rushes on to see as we were quick to 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 destroy american swim is amazing they're just so confident they're always laughing and joking amongst themselves and not for one minute which 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 sidney said out of court on mia and joy of his comments seem to be backed up by legendary swimmer michael phelps has won an incredible eight seen him pick 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 sure we stay on you

know this you know if you see the people that made changes and you know brian's made changes both in and out of order to make himself strong faster you know mishears has no 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 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 we won the competed in beijing something but it's really the laments just the studio 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 sports and i don't even know the majority of their needs they have such great strength in depth. america's dominance of spin phenomenon and it's evident russia need to make drastic changes to their sets up if they're even going to have a chance of competing with such a dominant force in the future richard dancy london now we heard from michael phelps in richard's package became the most decorated olympian of all time during these games now has twenty two medals to his name eighteen of which are gold it was former soviet gymnasts a latina whose record he broke. to gather in new york about a month ago. you know being able just to be with such an icon and

a legend was it was something i was very special to me and you know being a part of history and. you know having her support through the whole thing you know definitely mentally. away from the olympics and finally to football in the russian premier li ten man. two one ounce of gold in the second half to come from behind to be vulgar two one on monday i was on the cover a ton of actually open for the hosts on sixty minutes but with half an hour remaining the visitors leveled through got down this kind of dennis and just over ten minutes later they struck the decisive blow with romano. on the net with seventeen minutes remaining the way side managed to hold on despite seeing all the men sent off on the stroke of ninety minutes the wintec three being up to. it is all from the world of sport for now but there's plenty more later here on r.t. the world weather is next followed by the headlines with bill.

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