we. welcome back a summary now about top stories of the week case in reality. the euro brews a twelve billion euro bailout package to timecode the greek debt crisis van and demonstrations rocked the country and russia's at a high cost helpful bracelet the dance of the year is one of the stand which marches demonstrators clashed with police and three of the government's decision to approve the radical cuts. also public sector workers in the u.k. take part in a national day of strikes and attempt to defy the government's plans to change that

sunshine state schools were closed and the traffic disrupted during the biggest industrial action the country has seen and decades. actually it's from a humanitarian thirteen that destined for gaza demanding authorities explain why the cold war has been a bunch of leading greek made objects history and these are exiles afghans offered to deliver the aid to the un crave on behalf of the campaign its. army begins in fear of a bad law is as nato steps up and stripes a warning that its console mates any time defined over duffy's threatening to retaliate against europe and realize their alliances felt it. says georgia's independence following the collapse of the u.s.s.r. thousands of people have fled the country next to talk to politicians and always has from the country has find out what's happening that attack. april ninth one thousand nine hundred one george are achieved independence from the

u.s.s.r. . before a violent standoff with a rapidly disintegrating the soviet empire. we did get independence but it resulted in much blood in the structure. of the civil war broke out in georgia he has to sue music a insolvency to this day the nation has been unable to overcome its aftermath the country's infrastructure is in ruins tens of thousands of people have fled the country in the trial of the soviet union georgia was one of the wealthiest republics today one third of the population lives below the poverty line twenty years of past people here enjoy less freedom than i did during the soviet period. back in one thousand nine hundred eighty kids mellish really was just a student enjoying the mass hunger strike outside government headquarters at that

time the country was still cool 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 of my friends. the number of protests is good day by day says the then a young historian lend his support to that cools. the independence was my watchword at that time i didn't miss a single public action all right. in april listening celss of people gathered in tbilisi from an open ended rally outside government headquarters they wanted independence for the republican georgia. comes to foot the 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. a mathematician and 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 ninety's and. be against the for the became the first president of a sovereign georgia in april one thousand nine hundred one after an election campaign where independence was the catch phrase. but as soon as he came to power he didn't expect that independence motto georgian or from this regions of south ossetia with them on the sovereignty into as nick conflicts began. to do responded

by sending troops to south or says here. than a year later to a because the. people were once neighbors became bitter enemies thousands of refugees fled to georgia where. 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 refugees. thousands of the georgians who have left since the early one nine hundred ninety s. still live in makeshift shelters they have lost everything homes jobs and even the hope to return to their home country georgians and cousins 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 think it is nobility sions have told

the people apart there was no amity between individuals my neighbor said to me what am i supposed to do one of my sons in law isn't a pansy and that means my grandsons are peasants aren't they need another daughter's marriage and a georgian says her children are georgians join me to tell my grandsons apart what am i supposed to do in this situation. it's a fighting between georgia standing army and a cause the insurgents cause 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. governable move there i would dearly like to have the word war confined to the history books. i want new body to ever arteries again i wanted to be forgotten altogether radio.

tomorrow and the 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 their family it features their son's medals they received and the letters they sent from the front line to more especially treasures objects made by her children i want and this is the root of a pine tree they made a heart out of it will give. my second son enjoyed may consider things here she died in the battle on the same day as my youngest son. many georgian opposition parties and even viet gamsakhurdia former associates demonstrated their discontent with the rule georgian intellectuals and numerous letters to the president asking him to come to his senses gamsakhurdia

responded by imposing censorship. the ninety ninety one law even denied registration for all political parties it was indorsed by people who had served terms in soviet prisons and campaigned for georgia's freedom and independence. those people did what they themselves had been opposed to. leventon chitralada they trained to become a mathematician in the early one nine hundred ninety s. he left university and went into business his elder brother if you'll be chose the career of an actor today he is very popular in georgia. his soul is 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 or in such a war where brothers were killing brothers so i decided to stay away from georgia for a time 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 erupt into street fighting involving all chilean tanks. gamsakhurdia had to flee the country. six and was shot at those it was george the second president the experience political heavyweight and back michelle goldberg 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 and 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 of the country's new leaders including president eduard shevardnadze and was focused on runaway corruption. sure corruption in the economic sphere was enormous after seven knots or came to power but on the other hand business man learns new skills in tune with modern times 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 it didn't exist then. independent t.v. channel worst of it too became a so-called platform for the opposition and had great political weight but president shevardnadze who declared freedom of speech as

a principle made no attempt to sway the channel's editorial policy. the rest of the two t.v. channels and other georgian media paved the way for radical political transformations november two thousand and three saw a bloodless coup in georgia dubbed the rose revolution. the second is really a young and ambitious person came to power. when i turned 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 no doubt the army was of defeated them then the ofter bloodbath i make no distinction between the two sides all of them and georgian citizens. mikhail saakashvili 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. to. download the official anti allocation q i phone i pod touch from the i.q. saps to. watch r.t. life on the go. video on demand. policies in line broadcasts and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the job com spending the year in iraq as a military journalist. in some ways going at the u.s. contractors there's kind of wasting their time trying to get killed for you.

i thought all was going to do please be my friend in my. day with his team of twenty seven days a new point of publicizing the inviting market making the whole fleet speaking people started the base of the dialogue is just. changing the slogan waiting sleeps in space. and. as soon as really took power he attempted to take control of the editorial policy of the country's leading independent t.v. channel. to its own skits mellish really realize that his window of opportunity

was quite snare a. whole fish. to take control of the channel it goes back to two thousand and four where the new system of government seemed to be weak we thought we needed to build a viable state first and then take care of the rest of us because of our work as it turned out the regime's aim was to take a. troll 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 second billie's police reforms on face value the changes look quite impressive petty crime had been stamped out people now felt more secure on the streets of the towns of the. traffic patrols that stopped taking frights. true 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 flying in somebody's sockets. for many years nino burjanadze was speaker of the country's parliament and one of my hail. closest associates in two thousand and eight she resigned from the post parliamentary speaker and founded an opposition party and you know there is a very serious problem by its corruption in the elite it has grown even larger compact than what it was like in the last years of shevardnadze through when everybody was talking about corruption in georgia's government. there. 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. as soon as suckers really in his inner circle came to power they

set about collecting taxes and so-called dirty money with that they sent very many people to prison ever businessmen as well as former officials among them people realize they had better pay off as much as they were expected to pay they sold the property they ceded their shares in businesses to members of suckers billie's party the prosecutor's office and the interior ministry. kept a close eye on the deals. tens of 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 and in tbilisi. for several days they kept around the clock vigil on nov seventh police barlinnie dispersed a peaceful rally hundreds of demonstrators were injured oh please check us. police beat up people lying on the ground of passengers. in the

only remaining independent t.v. channel showed these events in tbilisi to a nationwide audience it was like shut down while it was on the air with a regular news bulletin. the medium of the middle seems by closing the channels the government is violating the constitution this means that this is a dictatorship regime over its misdemeanors english coming into the studio i want to say thank you i hear shouts in the control room over to help our employees will be injured here our guests. the independent journalist of us turn comet he'd say became popular in georgia in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. he enjoys all skiing 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 the city in two thousand and eight. on the

form. of no journalists who would not have wanted to get a scandal to get the facts. because all the state media summed up my work there is high treason. the self-proclaimed republic of south asia hasn't been under georgia's direct rule since nine hundred ninety two. really repeated many times the republic had to return to georgia and he promised to settle the situation through diplomacy. with a strong we don't need a war there has been a sense and people don't need one either there is a force that wants the defeat of the georgian that has an assyrian people i promise they won't let it happen. but in the early hours of august the altering repeated showed symbolic from georgian territory in the morning troops were sent into the republic. it was the start of the military

operation described by saakashvili as the introduction of constitutional order in the tertiary south and said. i was woken up by a little noise everything was for. that shaking we went outside was screaming and crying it was as if all of us had landed in hell after a volcanic eruption and everybody stayed awake throughout the night the noise never died down but even for a second. color man put a lot of lives in an old house on the outskirts of the village of kalak cooler fifteen kilometers from the border with south a thirty year he's not interested in politics and doesn't know the first f'ing about international relations but artists from around the world for his home to display their works one of the art 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 from around here it isn't places like this the georgians traditionally make wine in artists of different nationalities are going to consciously 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 were going to jointly made products a wine brand called liquid aren't. in the spring of two thousand and eight carom and began building a pavilion for the exhibition it was still constructing it in august when another war broke out between south setia and georgia. i went on building the prevailing during the war fighting was going on right behind the mountain fifteen kilometers from here i saw the flashes and heard the bombings i also saw helicopters up in the air the.

hostilities came to an end nine days later when russia sent troops into south ossetia to separate the warring parties georgia subsequently broke off diplomatic relations with russia. when vest 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 reveal them for. a he day lives in a swiss hostel for political refugees friends keeping abreast of events by. i here are going to switzerland. that's right you know it's over by that time we must complete all formalities concerning immigration chances are i myself will return home by then there is a regime change. did she say regime change yes why not that's a possibility. although we hope so. left hanging and so is us somebody have been friends ever since they went to school together when parliament appointed to the post of he gave his friend a job in his office when his first term of office came to an end parliament annoyed him a second term and now the journalist is in hiding in a foreign country the ex is unemployed it's going to be

a while if i praise the 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 around the church allowed say was officially the runner up his party's headquarters supplied the zero s c e commission with evidence documenting scores of irregularities some of them made public in the commission's conclusions but the final report ultimately described the election as a valid. deal he gets to let's say is a famous georgian musician in protest against the second really regime he decided to barricade 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 just. today george remains present all of georgia as a present a georgian people made a mistake by electing what i call an illegitimate curse. politician sportsman and artists who visit his cell to support the musician. heads the leading opposition party revisit 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 saint out of me. is one man prison show again of the eleven pm and last till morning the following day the whole country would discuss what had been said during the night after two months of self confinement the only

good church i love they took time out for a public appearance at the b.c. stadium leaving a cage in the midst of a show as a strikingly symbolic act the people who had filled the stadium and jason robards turned to church law to show into what amounted to a protest rally. and they combined two thousand and nine leaders of all opposition parties as their followers to take to the streets in tbilisi. get out get out second street get out saakashvili get down gets out and you feel a the opposition 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 coming into a party. our aim is to create a party that is without parallel and 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 its mother is 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 affection as an honest woman. fun for the soldiers rulers in recent years have been so different a woman behind quick 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 an old warehouses turned into studios in moscow they were all says who are keen to participate in an international project that was to take place in the home of. the will this is

a remarkably explicit european style project but i think we need to make slight changes to emphasize a note of sorrow in it very making is out of place after what happened you don't do that at a funeral the funeral still goes on. the russian artists didn't visit the georgian friends in either two thousand and eight or later they have decided against going to georgia for the trying to be for they do not travel in politics they believe that in their beautiful country of long traditions funerals will give way to weddings and the street protests else to buy projects concerts and theatre festivals. twenty years ago the largest country. to see.

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