to use to come close in a cruise, geo political conflict. when, oh, you lost the run starts december 18th, on dw, the, and this is the, the new is coming to live from berlin. georgia is government suspends, it's bids and joining the european union protests to erupt in the capital tbilisi and other cities with police using water, canada, and tear gas to disperse demonstrators. pay angry at decision also coming up piri in ukraine as russia threatened to use this new ballistic missile to hit the government, the district and keep and other key decision making sign the hello, i'm terry martin. good heavy with those police in the george and capital typically

. so you have clashed with protesters after the government said it was suspending negotiations to join the european union. thousands of people gathered near the parliament building protests. the governments move armed police use water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowd. several protesters were arrested. the government stopped. it's each entry bid following a decision by the european parliament to reject the results of georgia's election last month, alleging significant irregularities. george's prime minister accused the e. u. a blackmail. demonstrators assembled outside george's parliament building in tbilisi, as well as the governing parties. headquarters protests were also reported to north or george and cities, georgia, seeing several anti government protest this year, but they grew following an election and october. the opposition claims the criminal intent to fusion. the campaign in favor of the governing georgia dream party. critics say it has been moving georgia in the north are tearing direction for

months, but the thursday marked a watershed moment. i'm very devastated because we were not expecting this thing to go so soon and for a ever met to make the statements that they say today. and i think that this makes us feel very hopeless. but at the same time, i think that we're becoming stronger because of that sort of senior. because what sparked the protests was an announcement by george's prime minister. so he said he was suspending the bid to join the youth on the grounds. the brussels had disrespected george and values thomas let's, let's move i believe it is categorically unacceptable for us to view you integration as an active charity that the european union must ground to us for their asking from georgia not reforms. this is not the steps that would mean the rejection of our dignity. most business outside parliament,

thorough barricades to prevent protesters from gaining entry. opinion polls indicate the vast majority of georgia and still want to join the b. u and georgia. dream says it intends to do that one day. but for the moment, the divide between the government and the georgian people's aspirations looks set to grow. wider, dw corresponded, maria cut the months. it was at the protest in tbilisi last night. she told me what she witnessed. yeah, it was definitely a very long, tough and violent night. instantly see the police as a stated before use the 2 guys pappas phrase, want to kind of just bear in mind that it's quite cold. now into the seed was around one degrees above the celsius and people still wouldn't leave the parliament square when the police were, was directing this streams of water as um. now we've seen that the police uh has

been uh, was violently attacking some of the protests. this individual protesters and uh, they also attempt to uh, press the local press um to john and as were bitten, the ones on those. we saw that she was in blogs and she was later and she'd have to seek the medical attention. so it was definitely very brutal, crack dogs that were witness. so people are hiding in the pharmacy shop in the pharmacies in the shops, but the police would storm those shops as well as we understand that around $43.00 people have been detained as of now, according to the official information of the ministry of internal affairs. so if, if the approach has continued and they are set to continue, we assume the this is, i think not the last time when we are seeing this sort of cracks on, on police,

the streets. the george's prime minister says he suspending the country's bid to join the european union. what does that mean for the future of georgia? well, the you aspirations are in trying to, in the countries constitution and many protests so, so it is an unconstitutional move from the, from the government. now it's very hard to find someone you know, instantly see who does support you according to the polls. indeed, more than 80 percent of people's georgia support dot uh, cost. but uh, you know, they are increasingly distrustful. um, in regards to the government issues, you know, which they don't see to be pro europe. and it's not just the development that we see now, but it's been growing. you know, this sort of distrust over the past 2 years, especially after the government introduce the us. the critics would say,

russian style, oppressive rule laws, such as for nations. well, for instance, on the we've been seeing that there is a huge sort of gap between what's really the government wants, especially after the full scale invasion of ukraine trying to 6 closer called you know, ties with. most people don't seem to see the us idea of very uh sort of the popular. 8 here it's, it's, it's definitely not. uh, so we're going to see how it's gonna develop from here, but thinks then looks very, very, sort of positive at this point. also we have to keep in mind that the legitimacy of the dispute is the lock. so, so it's still under uh question. so um it's going to be interesting to see whether the pros houses will be able to pressure the government to challenge those elections and to have it in you a lock sense. but the government's insist that there is no way they gonna have new

elections. they say that they will invest. what is, is that election? and i think we're going to see more sort of current jones in the future looks like . and that was our corresponding maria cut their monthly reporting from george's capital tbilisi. now, russia's president vladimir putin has threatened to attack government buildings and other decision making centers in ukraine with a new hypersonic missile it tested last week. the threat came after russia launched a mass of attack on ukraine's energy grid. the kremlin describe it as a response to keeps use of longer range western missiles. vive powered by generators. after russia struck ki energy and infrastructure, leaving a 1000000 residents in western ukraine without power. while a generator keeps things running at this bar, there are concerns. moscow will once again ramp up the tax on key facilities as the

winter sets in the codes. i don't think there will be any blackouts, but we'll see. life is complicated. anything could happen and i hope they won't be a situation like in previous use when powell was out for a very long time. i think it will be easy and now power and water cuts also hit other parts of you cream. the salt also targeted odessa damaging several residential buildings. a sudden you literally debris was falling on my head to the but i threw it all on the floor . one breakeven to hit me directly in the face. all this, the kremlin size is retaliation after you crane hit targets inside russian territory. with us the new k made long range missiles president flooded. mir

putin is now threatening to launch new hypersonic missiles at keys and elsewhere in ukraine. no, it's not you to have to when you put in it for significant target. and so we will use those means that are at our disposal. yeah. but some sort of causal restrict, james, we do not reality use division missiles against the military, the military industrial facilities. you have to be of them for any problem loosely, city or decision making. center executives including kias. if keystone keys is urging the international community to react to the threats and we expect those countries that have search everyone to a very expanding of the war to react to this statements waste by putting today. it is very important if we, if we are treated fairly and these are the statements,

these blackmail is the expense on the floor. and the threats of expansion or for unacceptable. ukraine says it's all the more reason for allies to ensure faster military aid ukraine's president blood res landscape, described blood, me pollutants, comments over missiles, as saber rattling and disrupting efforts to bring the war and ukraine to an end. we just know what are the last so that i couldn't once again promote to dismiss styles, his readiness to kill and destroy the liberal grain to because of mr. has the authority structure you train, booting clearly wants to at 1000 small tv. me. he has no interest in ending this will put you over who wants to prevent the others from ending. this was his current state, but a reckoning with arrest. nick is named solely disrupting the efforts of president trump, that a shot to follow his integration to should have moved to dc and the who rides. earlier i spoke with military analyst frank language about this. i asked him what

he makes a poor teams threat to use hypersonic missiles. there are unknowns here. the me solid, which is a r s 26. the rest of the week we saw use last week is a, it's, it's not necessarily a, it's a new development essentially of a rather old design. and you said that on the screen rather frightening me. and what you see that are multiple, multiple, a targeted warheads and those on precision guided what they are designed is actually designed to hold nuclear warheads. you kind of put high explosives into the problem for the crated perspective. is that the west of perspective? because these are, these massages are designed to be used in europe. i'd have to write said any talk, it took me up to the equivalent to the old michelle's, we used to talk about the cold war, intermediate range, ballistic my sons. the problem is a very, very difficult to shoot down, however, that not precision guided so those will head to so that targeted onto the pro what not hitting targets within meters as other kinds of me solves. com. is there any

kind of defense for it against this kind of missile frank could the us maybe provide ukraine with the technology needed to defend itself against these missiles? is still the technology which might be able to come to the school that side, which was one battery, which we still deployed to as well. recently. that will be a significant uplifted us out. there are on the, i think 7 boxes of sides that will be used successfully. but because this kind of target in a, in the middle east, in the past, i think it unlikely the us with, with the transfer them to your problem for the simple reason that these are always on the us control that come on to me. so i'll come on, nothing to the line, all the forces as it, but technically they kind of do these down, but they have to hit them before those will heads up released which presents of the problem. so the answer your question is it will likely go to no, it's very unlikely you credit is going to get any kind of capability which will

challenge the rest of it. however, it also must be said, we don't know that the russians have any more of these. it is, as i say, it was said in your report, an experiment told me, saw, because we saw it experimented infiniti pro. how many of these the russians have? we don't know. frank, thank you very much. as always, our military analyst prank lead, which there sketch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today . thousands of people have 11. these people are still returning to their homes. in the south of the country as a shaky truce between israel and has paula enters his 3rd day. israel's military says, any violation of the cease fire will be met with force to all the visit to north korea, russian defense minister andre fellow. solve as the ties with north korea are expanding in all areas. that's according to russia. media reports. hello. so isn't feeling young to meet with military and political officials. north korea has reportedly

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