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what i'm terry martin good to have you with this opposition leaders and western nations have denounced a so called for an influence bill passed by george's national parliament. thousands of demonstrators have blocked a major traffic junction and the capital police. a critics fear the proposed law will be used to step out the sent in with dent georgia's hopes of joining the european union. legislation requires media and other groups to register as pursuing the interest of a foreign power. if they get more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad, in your opinion, this ends us have criticized a bill saying if it takes effect it could jeopardize relations testers class with riot police outside the parliament. and to please see the difference of people took to the streets to denounce the latest development and to come to the new se, se pushes georgia, of course,

to membership into this fear of the kremlin influence. i don't know why still seen all those lots in the funded the government officials sitting in the parliament saying that they are going to be the ones to take out freedom away from us. because we georgia, we are, appear never always fights for freedom. the if the for an agent, no pulses, any media come to and yet that gets 20 percent more of its funding from abroad will be obliged to register assuming the interest of a foreign power opponents cooler to search harry and

that george's prime minister at rock creek about, he'd say, defended the bill, put forward by his georgian dream party. going to the office today is the most important day in terms of strengthening the independence and sovereignty of our country. the adoption of the law on transparency of foreign influence, great, strong guarantees of long term peace and tranquility in georgia, and to overcome so called polarization. it is a necessary condition for georgia integration into the european union. beautiful at the georgian, see, it has exactly the opposite. large demonstration slipping, taking place 2 weeks on the streets of the blue sea. and purchase to say they went stilton to below it says a ton georgias, former president yorkie mark bettis,

bailey used to be an ally of the ruling george and dream party. but his now joined the protest. our reporter maria caught up on se, asked him yesterday on the streets of the police, see about the parties, billionaire becker and his legs to the kremlin. i don't know where he is least and what is his message, but i have been his friend and he's a lie when we will fight to good as the previous government. but now he has definitely it. i don't know the reasons actually why he change this and i don't, i don't care about the reasons, but the change that he started developing to my country, that's it. blank. i don't care about anymore. i mean, she has changed. we are and what we, what we are, you see a process politician in georgia. he has done abroad, definitely the pro russian move. this is a progressive move. so yeah, he has, he has committed himself to soviet guys in georgia to use the vacation, georgia. so yeah, that's, that's why he is unfortunately. well, for more of this,

i'm joined now by our correspondent rosie birch out in brussels. rosie, how is the e you reacting to this development in georgia as well? terry, it took the quite a while to get a statement together. we were waiting since these little past, for an official on the record quote from brussels, but we know have one and they seem isn't quite unequivocal in their condemnation of this law. this is a statement from the use hi representative for foreign affairs and the ears t for enlargement. so expanding, look, i'm gonna read you some of the statement which is really just hold off the press. no. the, these 2 officials say that's the us clearly repeatedly stated that the spirit and content of this little are not in line with you, core norms and values. and that's, it will undermine the work of civil society. and they go on to say the choice on the way forward is in george's hands, and of the earth, the george and authorities to withdraw the lo and uphold their commitments to their new pass. now, what's interesting here is harry is that,

that certainly does seem to me to be quite an unequivocal condemnation. however, what we did not get is a statement from the 27 you members. instead we got it from these 2 high ranking you officials and my understanding is that because there was division among the years 27 members on exactly how to proceed or personally due to some opposition from hungary. it's not the 1st time that budapest is at all with brussels on this. so given those divisions so that you can pretty much impact this state of relations with georgia will get taught billing when a foreign ministers meet later this month. can you explain for us, rosie how this bill could impact george's prospect of joining the e u in concrete terms? because it's a, it's a bit confusing with the prime minister of georgia saying it's necessary for the countries integration into you protests or say it would rec jeep yeah. join his chances will be coming into you remember? so what's the case? as yeah, indeed it like side is confusing with those 2 different points of view, but the engine has been pretty clear that this is taken georgia off course in the

past and it's past a were joining the european union. now, georgia is officially a candidate for you. membership at applied back in early 2020, to hold on the heels of ukraine to stuff for that full scale russian invasion. and then late last year, you members decided to grad georgia candidate status, but it came with strings attached. they said that in order to move forward and really be seen as a candidate and moving toward the your opinion, that includes an expectation that georgia continues with performs, for example, curves on corruption and measures to try and really double down on democratic institutions in the country. now we've heard from the you saying this is clearly an obstacle on that path and i should be clear to say that showing the youth is never a swift process. it usually takes years if not decades. but it seems that with this new law, which the use urging the george and government to withdraw that indeed that could be an even bigger deviation on what is likely to be in any case, a very long roads to where to see to the table here in brussels, rosie,

thank you very much. that was our correspondent, rosie birch. out in brussels. let's catch up on a few other stores making headlines around the world today. a massive man hodges underway in northern france after armed gunman ambushed a prison van to free a high profile inmate, being transported to prison. guards were killed and 3 wounded when they were attacked. passing through a told the guards of staged a protest outside a prison near bordeaux, demanding virgin measures to swiftly to improve stuff. safety is really military says it's killed, a senior commander of the hezbollah, milton group. and a striking southern 11 on he ran back melisha has confirmed the death of one of his fighters without specifying the role is real and hezbollah have exchanged almost daily fire since the outbreak of the war in cost as well. israel is

continuing with some of its fiercest fighting in months in northern gaza. meanwhile was really tanks of reach some residential areas of rafa in the south. hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled the city ahead of the threatened ground defense. israel's allies have repeatedly warned against the major assault on rafa. but is really military forces have stepped up their activity. they say they are targeting several homeless battalions. still hold up. there is really apache helicopters on route to gaza. smoke rises overhead. some of the most intense fighting in weeks rages between how boss militants and these really defense forces. the idea of says it currently has 3 divisions deployed across the gaza strip diploma and the south guys are forced us under a 100 and 62nd division. continue operations against saturday target oil. and i'm a salt spots and the rest of the area since the beginning of the operation now

forces have eliminated about $100.00 terrorist. good. now i'm incomplete. as the intensity of fighting increases, the death toll has skyrocketed as well, according to how much lead health officials in gaza. tuesday was one of the deadliest days and weeks. they say more than 35000 color stadiums have been killed since the beginning of the war. israel defensive in and around rough uh, has forced hundreds of thousands of palestinians to flee, and continues to draw start criticism from the international community. the secretary general is appalled by the escalation military activity in and around rough uh by this really defense forces. to these developments are further impeding humanitarian access and worsening and already dire situation. at the same time, how must militants continue to fire rockets into israel? the group which has been declared to a terrorist organization by the us and you has published propaganda,

videos of insurgents attacking israel, the forces from hidden positions by the tunnels. as the funding continues, the key border crossing and rough uh remains shut, preventing vital 8 deliveries entering gaza as it relates to aid that has been flowing this week. we've seen 50 trucks enter gaza on may 12th. this is not nearly enough more needs to be done, and it's another example of why the rough uh, border crossing needs to be open. so we can see further sustained, documented hearing aids flowing through gaza. according to the united nations over 1000000 palestinians face catastrophic levels. of hunger and on the brink of starvation, us secretary of state, tennessee, blinking is in key to reaffirm the by the ministration support for ukraine blinking has acknowledge that delays in congress passing and military aid package have made

ukraine more butterball to russian attacks. americans talk to them that also insisted that the kremlin pay for the destruction its invasion has caused, as this is not the image most expected to see, but the us secretary of state, as he visited ukraine. lincoln ended a day of meetings by joining a local bond on staging keys to play a version of neil young's rocking in the free weld earlier he had also tried to lift the spirits of the ukrainians by reassuring them that more aid was coming. all of us admire your extraordinary resilience, your endurance, your strength, your leadership, and we know this is a challenging time. but we also know that in the near term, the assistance is now on the way. some of this already arrived,

more of that will be arriving. and that's going to make a real difference against the ongoing russian aggression morning. president zalinski signed the americans to the aid package with over $60000000000.00, but said ukraine's defenses was still in need of a boost the really we need to day to pet through us $4400.00 can region because the people on their attack, civilians and where is everybody there? russians fee is cross border attack when you cranes how have region is boasting $1000.00 stiffly. it's heather. so lensky says us made patriots surface to miss all systems could help protect civilians in the city of ha, have more than a dozen people reported injured when the russian guided me so hate a residential building. this smell of burning, there was a burning smell and everything was like in slow motion. like in some film it took

me awhile to realize what's it happened? i don't know. miraculously, nothing goes on me because it must have been my 2nd birthday today. a fucking keys. urgent. a to ha, hey. this holly on the agenda. money hope more timely assistance can help you, cranes, outgoing the out numbered forces, pipe of rushes, ground defense of canadian rider, hellas, monroe, a winner of the nobel prize in literature has died at the age of 90. 2. the row was best known for her tales of small town women in her native province of ontario. she was labeled to master the contemporary short story by the swedish academy which awards the nobel prize. it was only later in life that her reputation began to rise for under stated stories of every day. people in under methics, small town canada, amassing a raft international awards that included the 2013 nobel prize. you're

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