the plan was that i will stage a play they're twenty twelve. today stewart has to stage his productions abroad the international association of theater critics is up in arms over his exile. it was. then dismissed it. was the kind of political demonstration the next day after he was forced to resign thousands of people joined a rally in central tbilisi in front of the theater the company released a statement saying they can be no other artist directed them steward of the theater . in one of his earlier comments president saakashvili said the intelligentsia should be flushed you know just like when you flush the toilet the leaders of many state sponsored theatres were dismissed under mikheil saakashvili nearly the entire faculty of the conservatoire and the academy of ops were placed. professors in almost every university were forced to retire.

the town of gori capital of the georgian province of she to contemplate. gori intellectuals have been discussing saakashvili latest decision. now to bitches fairly a young and ambitious journalist is filming another story about robert stewart george's independent media has been focused on his expansion. the trial of the t.v. company was founded in one thousand nine hundred nine. john doe not yet just really

started the venture with only a video recorder and a transmitter borrowed from a friend. he had barely any money and even less experience. john doe did everything with his own two hands sheer enthusiasm kept driving him forward. ten years later everybody in georgia had heard of the small t.v. company. we began experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three. in the following year defense minister really tried to talk us into selling the company to him but we turned the request down that was when the problems began piling up the interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often based not been humiliated in public. in the summer of two thousand and ten the government decided to remove a monument to stalin from the town's central square journalists wanted to cover the story when both supporters and opponents of the demolition gathered on the square.

reporters wanted to present an objective story by filming both sides but they stood no chance. of plainclothes policemen came up to us not to film anything where they prevented us from performing our professional activities they attacked me and my camera we were detained and our camera was confiscated. after the square was cleared of demonstrators opposing the demolition the camera was handed back to the journalists and released from the police station . we were able to film this part. of the camera back to us something was missing they had to leave the footage of the rally against the monuments demolition. the only part left was of these pro-government activists applauding that it was never john doe motive to make trial

a position media but for several years now government officials have steered clear of his talk show. we make no distinction between the two sides we enjoyed both of them to go on but the fact is that the opposition comes here and the government keeps away that's why the government claims that we're an opposition channel but that's not true local officials turn down or imitation because they've been told by higher ups not to give interviews to our journalists or appear on our programs. journalists from this regional t.v. company even from the building housing the local administration they are denied interviews and accreditation to important events. despite all the problems the t.v. company is still in operation with news bulletins going out daily the arrival of a new political scene has thrown georgia's authorities into total confusion.

has invested a great deal of money in the georgian economy but soon after he announced his intention to stand in the next presidential election the country's government stripped him of his citizenship the following is an excerpt from the first formal press conference held on november the first twenty eleven. he'd really dull the need for the people to regain a lost sense of justice is of crucial importance now even sack inner circle is stricken with terror there is no trace of self-government everything is in the hands of one man. incidentally there was actually a time when those young people who are now in the government were in the pay of ivanishvili. essentially he funded the state machinery he has built theatres

among many other things. seventy year old. great expectations on a vanished billie he also has a serious topic with the present day or forty's. was unceremoniously fired from the academy of fine arts after a professional period lasting many years. i spoke out against the regime in public i gave interviews i didn't keep silent. in the chancellor this is what he said to me afterwards you don't let us live this is because i was there. may have decided that giving me the sack was the easiest way of resolving the problem. lost his job but not his work so he began to devote more time to painting however there's hardly a place in today's georgia where he can show his paintings to the public. is not

a wealthy country and there just isn't enough money to support. museums can barely make ends meet. your campaign seek to create the impression that all is well in the country. do you know what kind of a nation is in the making. of people of well everyone else lives to ensure. a cushy existence. his wife marina is an actress she's employed. the director for decades. this is one of the latest newspapers robert still writes in an article that dina ivanishvili will emerge victorious. oppositionists he writes that unless saakashvili leaves his post of

his own free will he will face the same fate as colonel gaddafi and i write that really took his stance in the right place at the right time. when george's ministry of culture. took to the streets. five thousand people turned out to express support for the favor of director. traffic in the avenue in front of the playhouse. we met face to face with the spectators who had adored. all this time the actors were wearing such t. shirts as the fs. these words mean i'm fired i like the expression on his face he seems to be saying i'm fired so what after all his work lives on.

the ministry of culture sufficient excuse for his sacking xenophobia. still ahead ask why he made a secret of his armenian groups. to work. through the man who keeps his father's nationality a secret. so the big question is who is more xena far be. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. someone asking him why did you make a secret out of it. during a theatre festival in georgia in september twentieth levon members of the international association of theatre critics interviewed robert stewart for an hour

asking him about all the details their conclusion about his misfortune was made in an open letter and supporter robert stewart of. f. numbers of the theater and supporters of freedom of expression we have been. by. with this throughout from his post by the georgian government like so many people around them but we feared that the government had used certain statements attributed to the through as a pretext to put punish a critical voice from within their teeth the community. would need the protests in old letters by the theatres actors nor a direct appeal by international organizations could make the georgian government budge. saakashvili never forgave the director he saw as undesirable. in the system or think it was

a very good old boy and more involvement with this theater. typical for the theater . director out of the tradition stands and now its mark turned to be good and i'm glad that i was kicked out by the government not by the actors there would have been a real catastrophe for me. today robert stewart works abroad he had plans to stage shakespeare's tempest in moscow's at center a theater six months before he was exiled. one of the problems you are but this is the problem a man expelled from his home together with his daughter moved. out of his senses so fulfills. many reviewers thinks his production is actually about himself. the play's main

character is an avid reader scholar and artist. expels him from his hometown because he fears the prosper will strip him of power. that is the key to cried to deceive the brewer to us to son to the winds whose pity sighing back again did us but loving wrong. hopes he'll be allowed to stage productions in georgia. but this is impossible for the time being. george's best theatres are run by the government the ministry of culture has no intention of finding stewart as productions. i won't give up so easily i will survive this trial. mission free critic asian free transport charges free. range and

free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media. dot com in. georgia's capital tbilisi has acquired a new look in recent years the city's spirit and its unique architecture has been restored central tblisi attracts many tourists however several streets are still

massive construction sites. come here to see the city's historical center. they don't really care about its outskirts. is one of georgia's most successful restoration architects the old central areas of several towns have been revamped. began his restoration work in the ancient town of signal. the job was nowhere near the scale of tbilisi but back then it was the first time that several neighborhoods were restored simple cheney asli. the amount of work and its intensity were overwhelming in the beginning.

the project took nearly nine months of continuous work. where he slept three or four hours a day. but despite all the difficulties we completed the job successfully. signal today is one of george's tourist attractions while architects were trying to improve the town's appearance the residents had no idea of what was really going on behind their backs. before restoration work began a small shop in central signal was taking in a small but stable income for. order to shoot it's a restoration started in two thousand and seven india internationally was mayor at the time she came to us and said that they needed our facilities and that we have to go. and then thirty officers from the financial police came to our store and

said that unless my husband and i give up the fight we would drop in prison for the rest of our lives. georgians stand no chance of winning a fight against the while old machinery of the state the fifty square meters of this shop no longer belong to its forma owners. we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living and i have gone to their originals of all the papers to see if they let elias the ownership rights on the basis of comp is up to me so far we've been unable to find justice but we don't give up hope. renovation work began in the historical part of gori in the early autumn of two thousand and eleven some of the residents are worried by the prospect of being barred from their homes are after the renovation but others still have trust in the promises made by the local administration alexander lives and works in the same house.

as you have at the moment my driving school and my home are one in the series. both of us are going to move out soon of what will stay in a new place only for a time after their innovation will return here the part of. our renovation is in full swing in nearby houses all the tenants have already been evicted alexander expects to be forced out any time now he hopes his students will get their licenses before work begins on his house. this. street in the neighborhood will look much nicer i don't know what may have happened somewhere once i'm not responsible for that anyway. but i know for sure that i'll continue to be master here as long as. and no doubt my descendants will be to.

own restoration and the way people legalize their claim to renovated houses were the subject of a talk show with a local t.v. company try lettie the show lasted one and a half hours none of the officials invited to the program turned up this is what an independent lawyer representing the opposition of the local municipal council had to say. the municipal council has been stripped of its rights a situation where everything depends on mikheil saakashvili good will is wrong. that is what people in every family think. alexander was among those who called the talk show. this group yes this is a project suggested by the government and the municipal authorities why do you

doubt that it will be carried out. comic book. or did you only have an all agreements or did you see the papers saying you own the place. their papers are ready i'm told they invited us in we had an understanding we signed the papers and they will explain to us what will happen next. is a local deputy was less optimistic he felt government p.r. campaigns have pulled the wool over people's eyes and those people who were suspicious of the work was simply afraid to speak out. because i think most of the people in georgia today. against the president and his men for many many people they all say we don't like sack policies but we will speak out because we have families mothers fathers children and other relatives. and yet is the owner and director general of trial. he can't be fired from his job he

can't be prevented from inviting the opposition to take part in live broadcast for the company is a thorn in the side of the country's leaders in the autumn of two thousand and ten . to sell it to a government controlled construction firm for six million dollars. company has already earned a reputation. and that's quite an asset in itself. i might have sold it if they hadn't told me i must leave the country and never come back. at noon three days later a police patrol stumped john doe while he was driving to a bank. i was stopped the policeman demanded i produce my papers after the us. can come to me and force me to the ground then four more police cars turned up they punched and kicked

me one passes by i gathered on the scene the cops picked me up from the ground my clothes all had boot prints on them they cleaned me out. and wished me away to court. three hours later the judge slapped a three hundred dollar fine on not yet for obstructing the police for video cameras mounted on a nearby bank of the shop and recorded the moment when the director general of the prominent t.v. company was beaten up but the film was not filed or used in the case. that all of this pressure and complete monopoly of the media caused by sack ash really is absolutely unheard of. the intimidation of the press is unprecedented. there is daily pressure on my employees associates and relatives to the seizure of

a cash in transit vehicle belonging to my bank was totally against the law. but all of this woman told me back. for a billionaire the arrest of one cash fan is a drop in the ocean what is more important is the fact that several major georgian companies withdrew their account from his bank within days there were financial inspections in some of its branches. actress marina from the show. has a vital stake in seeing to banks continued prosperity. the bank funded research yours actors and directors at many theaters it also provided money for maintenance of the salaries paid to actors and other theater employees are not high enough to know no matter how high they may be the bank paid actors twice or three times as much. a protest in support of is under way in georgia

thousands of people across the country have opened accounts in the bank branches they deposit whatever money they have george and intellectuals hope that if stand his ground and be able to continue financing scientists artists writers and actors . their long lived piece was out there we are free people were afraid of. that actress in philly found employment at the show. when she was twenty one years old she thinks of as a second father. he was the one who saw her talent and made her the lead actress. says. this theater has a history of celebrated directors. but the big question is who will be the next one

. if you have a splinter in your skin you need to pull it out if you don't want it to rot their politics and the arts don't go together in this way is that a pressurized an artist's trying to control them is totally wrong. meanwhile actors persist on the stage of one of george's oldest theaters but without an artistic director to guide them. the international shakespeare society ranks robert stewart as london production of hamlet as one of the ten best productions in the past fifty years. i lost my job at twentieth the judge in fisa and george and don says it's. that's what makes our country popular in the wild west this is my cherished hope is to see everything change for the better.

actors at the. theatre still perform vintage plays in front of a full house every day. but at the same time a world renowned georgian director cannot work in his home country. can now only see his own productions as a regular theatregoer rather than as its leading light. russia

would be soo much brighter if you knew about some move from funds to pressure form. these firms start on t.v. don't come. in

them game. russia's new peace resolution on syria is up for debate at the u.n. with moscow critical of the opposition's on the willingness to enter talks for clashes in the troubled country continue. iran says it won't retaliate over the death of one of its nuclear scientist richard claims on israel by many israelis feel a secret war against tehran has long been under way. and occupy protesters are set to march on capitol hill in what promises to be their largest gathering today we explore what's driving young americans to take their grievances to the top.

live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching are two with me and you so now it's two pm here in the russian capital twelve noon in damascus russia has circulated a new draft of its resolution on syria to the u.n. calling on all sides to halt the violence security council members will discuss the text later on tuesday but western diplomats say it fails to condemn president also its crackdown on protesters strongly enough meanwhile those are two sorry for a first reports from syria those caught in the middle of the conflict are living a life of fear. it's been less than a month since we were last in holmes in that time the situation's become even more dangerous and the pressure on the people living here. were people numbers. the tragic death of four engine this here in homs recently.