market finance come the. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars report on or keep. watching out in the headlights. thousands of angry greeks are taking a fury to the streets to protest against the approval of the highly unpopular austerity package measures will see more cuts in order to secure the money out which the country is going bankrupt within weeks. a massive strike of public sector workers threatens to wreak havoc in the u.k. schools son transport networks teachers to air traffic controllers around three

quarters of a million civil servants are staging a walkout against government plans to cut their pensions and freeze pay. u.s. secretary defense robert gates is leaving the pentagon after almost five years at the helm of the country's military for the cia chief taking over critics question whether he'll end the wars currently thriving on an expanding defense budget and. the next we explore how life in georgia has changed two decades ultra gained independence mr. a pool ninth nine hundred ninety one georgia achieved independence from the u.s.s.r. to know before a violent standoff with the rapidly disintegrating soviet empire. we did get independence but it resulted in much blood and destruction. a civil war broke out in georgia he was to susie came solvency to this day the nation has been unable to

overcome its aftermath the country's infrastructure is in ruins tens of thousands of people fled the country in the top of the soviet union georgia was one of the wealthiest republics today one third of the population lives below the poverty line twenty years have passed but people here enjoy less freedom than i did during the soviet period. back in one nine hundred eighty eight. really was just a student he joined a mass hunger strike outside government headquarters at that time the country was still cool to the georgian soviet socialist republic. that hunger strike which lasted eight or nine days triggered a movement of liberation i often sat on the steps with my friends. the number of

protesters good day by day somebody then a young historian lend his support to the coolers. if independence was my watchword at that time i didn't miss a single public action all right. in april listening thousands of people gathered in tbilisi from an open ended rally outside government held courses they wanted independence for the republican georgia. the gamsakhurdia leader of a nationalist movement with the speaker who made the most extremist remarks in an intensely dramatic speech. in the early hours of april ninth the soviet government dispatched armored vehicles and soldiers against peaceful demonstrators sixteen people died and hundreds were injured. say a mathematician would be magnets of georgia was lucky enough to evade even injury. we were in too much of

a hurry we was trying to study history to help move it forward what happened then had to happen but of course the thought the georgian might become independent is ninety ninety one never crossed my mind back in the late one nine hundred eighty s. . the against or for the became the first president of the sovereign georgia in april one thousand nine hundred one after an election campaign where independence was the catchphrase but as soon as he came to power he didn't expect that independence from georgia or from this regions or the south assessor would demand sovereignty into ethnic conflicts began. georgia responded by sending troops to self assess here. than a year later because. people were once neighbors became bitter enemies thousands of refugees fled to georgia. through longer as far as i know years ago this building was meant to be

a hospital. but there is no hospital in it now this is a building is used as a shelter for refugee. thousands of the georgians who have left up since the early one nine hundred ninety s. still live in makeshift shelters they have lost everything their homes jobs and even the hope to return to their home country georgians and abkhazians alike have gone through a lot of suffering such as the horrors of war and loss of loved ones and yet they don't blame one another for that conflict i leave it at his inability sions have toned people apart there was no animosity between individuals my neighbor said to me what am i supposed to do one of my sons in law is in a pansy and that means my grandsons are peasants aren't they need another daughter's marriage to a georgian so her children are georgians do i need to tell my grandsons apart what am i supposed to do in this situation after the. bitter fighting between georgia's

standing army and of cause and insurgents cost thousands of lives on both sides. tomorrow is not because young woman four of her five sons died in the war the youngest was seventeen when he volunteered to fight his grave is close to his father's. you have an opinion of that i would really like to have the word war confined to the history books. to be my one new body to ever arteries again i wanted to be forgotten altogether. tomorrow and a husband wanted the new house to have enough room for all the children and their future families but now it's almost uninhabited one of the rooms houses a memorial museum to the family it features their son's medals they received and

the letters they sent from the front line tamara especially treasures objects made by her children i want in this is the root of a pine tree they made a heart out of it. you know. when my second son enjoyed making such things here he died in a battle on the same day as my youngest son. many georgian opposition parties and even spirit gamsakhurdia as former associates demonstrated their discontent with the rule georgian intellectuals sent numerous letters to the president asking him to come to his senses her da responded by imposing censorship. and ninety ninety one lawyer even denied registration for all political parties it was indorsed by people who would serve terms and soviet prisons and campaign for georgia's freedom and independence. those people did what they themselves have been opposed to. they

trained to become a mathematician in the early one nine hundred ninety s. he left university and went into business his elder brother chose the career of an actor today he is very popular in georgia. his songs in short films have an uncanny bearing on the country's present day situation. i had no desire to get involved in the war in a cause here i'm such a war were brothers were killing brothers so i decided to stay away from georgia for a time there because there were. those who were displeased with the first president

gathered to openly demand his resignation the nine hundred ninety two standoff between protesters and the regime erupted into street fighting involving all tillery and tags. gamsakhurdia had to flee the country. six and was shot at those it was george the second president the experience political heavyweights the fact michel goodrich office perestroika soon after he took office he lifted the ban on opposition political parties and allowed independent media when i did it after i went into business in nine hundred ninety three i launched a project called. over ten years i turned the small studio in the provincial town of the study into a leading national broadcaster. the first study to t.v. channel rushed out at the country's new leaders intruding president eduard shevardnadze and was focused on runaway corruption. corruption in the economic

sphere was enormous off the seven knots or came to power but on the other hand businessmen learns new skills in tune with modern times and a real market economy took shape true there was pervasive corruption from top to bottom but there was also freedom of speech and individual liberty a sort of quagmire that we have now didn't exist then. independent t.v. channel two became a so-called platform for the opposition and had great political weight the president shevardnadze who declared freedom of speech as a principle made no attempt to sway the channel's editorial policy. the worst of it to t.v. channel and other georgian media pave the way for radical political transformations in november two thousand and three saw a bloodless coup in georgia dubbed the rose revolution michel a second it's really

a young and ambitious person came to power. as it was when i tended my resignation of my own free will to prevent bloodshed when they burst into the house of parliament i went out into the street to meet my followers of any order coming from me is the law for the army you know down the army was a defeated them then the author of blood cause i make no distinction between see signs and all of them and georgian citizens. believe have promised to beat corruption and lead the nation to prosperity however it was the press that was the first victim of his law and order.

i was just thinking about my future before the foreign company scam i dreamed of owning a can cutting factory. but we have less garbage now. somebody that or so you come here make fun of me. figure out garbage boy i'm not bad like people think. i'm a good person that it's just the people don't see me. but i feel it with time people like me have. them on. that i feel people will start to appreciate us.

as soon as the second really took power he attempted to take control of the editorial policy of the country's leading independent t.v. channel or a study to its owner skits mellish really realize that his window of opportunity was quite narrow. the authorities ambition to take control of the channel it goes back to two thousand and four when the new system of government simply weak we thought we needed to build a viable state first and then take care of the rest of us because of dark as it turned out the regime's aim was to take control of the channels i think the blame for what i did because i gave away restudy to i didn't want to rock the boat. as about the same time george's media was going out of its way to report on mikhail seconds released police reforms on face value the changes look quite impressive

petty crime had been stamped out people know. felt more secure on the streets of the towns of the us traffic patrols that stopped taking bribes. it goes. through the country's traffic police are totally free from corruption but you can get your license within a day after pain right through official channels instead of line in somebody's sockets. for many years nino burjanadze speaker of the country's parliament and one of my. closest associates in two thousand and eight she resigned from the post parliamentary speaker and founded an opposition party. in the us there is a very serious problem my god it's corruption in the elite it has grown even larger compared to what it was like in the last years of shevardnadze is through when everybody was talking about corruption in georgia's government. it was always an

opposition moderates to saakashvili as the owner of a major medical insurance company he knows all too well the meaning of so-called elite corruption. assume the circus really in his inner circle came to how they set about collecting taxes and so-called dirty money which was that they sent very many people to prison it was business men as well as former officials among them and people realize they had better pay as much as they were expected to pay its all the property they ceded their shares and businesses to members of suckers release party prosecutors office and the interior ministry kept a close eye on the deals this man of. contempt discontent on erupted into a mass rally in november two thousand and seven according to various estimates fifty to one hundred thousand opposition supporters came to the house a problem to d.c. . for several days they kept around the clock vigil on nov seventh police

dispersed the peaceful rally hundreds of demonstrators were injured please take us . police detail people lying on the ground if patterns. in the only remaining independent t.v. channel showed these events in tblisi to a nationwide audience it was like shut down while it was on the air with a regular news bulletin. the madam of the meeting of things i don't like closing the channels the government is violating the constitution this means that this is a dictatorship regime ot some standards coming into the studio i want to say thank you i hear shouts in the control room to get over it and i hope our employees won't be injured here are our guests. the independent journalist of the time coma he'd say became popular in georgia in the mid one nine hundred ninety s.

he enjoys also king unpleasant questions no matter who is in power he says now in hiding in switzerland his latest piece of investigative journalism concerns the armed conflict between georgia and south a city in two thousand and eight. on this for me when i live no journalist who would not have wanted to get a scandal to get the facts before it was all the state media summed up my work there is high treason. the self-proclaimed republic of south setia hasn't been under george's direct rule since nine hundred ninety two. has really repeated many times the republic had to return to georgia and he promised to settle the situation through diplomacy. we don't need a war and there has been an ascension people don't need one either there is a force that wants the feet of the georgian and it has an assyrian people i promise they won't let it happen. but in the early

hours of august the altering repeated showed symbol from georgian territory in the morning troops were sent into the republic. it was the start of the military operation described by seconds really of the introduction of constitutional order in the territory south ossetia. i was woken up by a little noise everything was for. and shaking we went outside was screaming and crying it was as if all of us had landed in hell after it all came corruption everybody stayed awake throughout the night the noise never died down but even for a second. cut a man could hurt a lot of the lives in an old house on the outskirts of the village of kalak cooler fifteen kilometers from the border with the thirty year he's not interested in

politics and doesn't know the first thing about international relations but is from around the world flocked to his home to display their works one of the projects was called liquid art it was to have been implemented jointly with russian artists in late september two thousand and eight. the georgian word for this place is maharani year it isn't places like this that georgians traditionally make wine in artists of different nationalities are going to contribute to georgian traditions they will get in the press grapes with their feet just as it was done in the old days a year later we will get a jointly made product a wine brand called liquid art. in the spring of two thousand and eight carom and began building a pavilion for the exhibition he was still constructing it in august when another war broke out between south of setia and georgia. oh dear no i went on

building the pavilion during the war fighting was going on right behind the mountain fifteen kilometers from here i sort of flashes and heard the bombings i also saw helicopters up in the air this. hostilities came to an end knowing days later when russia sent troops into south and said here to separate the warring parties georgia subsequently broke off diplomatic relations with russia. when both turn come a he was working on a film about the georgian city and conflict he made arrangements for an interview with european human rights campaigners to be held in geneva shortly before he was due to go the journalist received

a tip off that he had better stay in switzerland. all sorts of problems cropped up after my return from senegal because i won't talk about them because my words may get in the way of the investigation. i can only tell you that i received open threats and heard something so humiliating that i can't repeat them for. no comma he'd say lives in a swiss hostel for political refugees friends keep them abreast of events by. i here again just which ones. ok i'll go to town with you that's right in october but that time you must complete all formalities concerning immigration chances are i myself will return home by then there is a regime change. that you say regime change yes why not that's a possibility. although we hope so. vegetating and so is us somebody have been friends ever since they went to school

together when parliament appointed ceasar to the post. he gave his friend a job in his office when his first term of office came to an end the noid him a second term and now the journalist is in hiding in a foreign country the ex is unemployed would be a while if i had crazy authorities i would have been elected. they would even have changed the law to let me for ten terms. in the last presidential election live and get church allowed say it was officially the runner up his party's headquarters supplied the zero s. c.e. commission with evidence documenting scores every regularities some of them made public in the commission's conclusions but the final report ultimately described the election as a valid. deal

he gets at a let's say is a famous georgian musician in protest against the second really regime he decided to barricaded himself in a television studio made up to look like a prison cell for several months he stayed in the room with four t.v. cameras tracking his every move. today georgia means prison all of georgia as a present georgian people made a mistake by electing what i call an illegitimate person. politician sportsman and artist who visited his cell to support the musician gets at a lot say heads the leading opposition party the visit his brother three times during his self-imposed imprisonment. how are you so so what are you i get loads of letters to castles are full of them already the guy's a nuts they've made a saying time to make. you his one man prison show again at

eleven pm and last until morning the following day the whole country would discuss what is being said during the night after two months of self confinement you only get such a love they took time out for a public appearance at the b.b.c. stadium leaving a cage in the midst of the show was a strikingly symbolic act the people who would fill the stadium and jason robards term you'll get such a lot to show into what amounted to a protest rally. from a poor man's two thousand and nine leaders of all opposition parties ows their followers to take to the streets and tbilisi. just felt get out second street get out saakashvili guess now gets out and you see you know it all visitation has never said saakashvili is our president we call him

a de facto rather than does your president. today the former participants in the rallies for georgia's independence come united into a party. with our aim is to create a party that is without power of a georgian history it should be a party based on genuine national values shared by most people in our country. the leader of the new party is live and. a former magnets in the wine industry he has the support of eros he could smell it's really the architect of the country's leading television company and george's last ambassador to russia the party's third leader is a historian who has won the nation's a fictional as an honest woman. come for the soldiers rulers in recent years have been so different from the movie hard put to say which of them is fully to blame for the present day situation there are no independent courts of law democratic institutions are not allowed to develop and the country's people are intimidated in

the autumn of two thousand and eight a group of friends met in old warehouses turned into studios in moscow they were artists who are keen to participate in an international project that was to take place in the home of qatar malcontents. this is a remarkably exquisite european style project and i think we need to make slight changes to emphasize a note of sorrow in it merry making is out of place after what happened when you don't do that at a funeral the funeral still goes on and on. the russian artists didn't visit their georgian friends in either two thousand and eight or later they have decided against going to georgia for the trying be for they do not fall in politics they believe that in the beautiful country of long traditions funerals will give way to weddings and the street protests will be else to buy projects concerts and seattle festivals.

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