etc renowned georgian artistic director robert stewart or is presiding over addressing of shakespeare's the tempest not so long ago he was forced to resign from his post as a director of a leading state in tbilisi. the british invited me to london to see. the plan was that i will stage a play their game two thousand and twelve. today stewart has to stage his productions abroad the international association of theatre critics is up in arms over his exile. it was. dismissed with this 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 artistic director than 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. nearly the entire faculty of the conservatoire and the academy of ops were placed. professors in almost every university forced to retire. the town of gori capital of the georgian province of she to contemplate. gori intellectuals have been discussing second latest decision. other bitches villi

a young and ambitious journalist is filming another story about robots who are 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 beaten up and 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 but when they gave the camera back to us something was missing they had to leave did the footage of the rally against the monuments demolition. the only part left was of these pro-government activists applauding so that it was never. released 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 invited 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 in 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. philly 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 it's not easy. 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. he also has a serious topic with the present day or forty's. was unceremoniously fired from the academy of fine arts after professional period lasting many years. i spoke out against the regime in public i gave interviews i didn't keep silent. in the chancellor and 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 job he can show his paintings to the public. 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. and full of people of well everyone else lives to ensure a cushy existence. his wife marina is an actress she's employed.

director for decades. this is one of the latest newspapers roberts 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 qadhafi and i write sad really took his stance in the right place at the right time. when george's ministry of culture. and her fellow actors of the theatre took to the streets about five thousand people turned out to express support for their favorite director. traffic in the avenue in front of the playhouse was brought to a halt. we met face to face with the spectators who had

adored. all this time the actors were wearing such t. shirts as the. 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 moore's enough fardy. 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 a. f never saw the theatre at the portress of freedom of expression we have been deep it is by him overlap with the from his post by the georgian government like so many people around them but we feared that the government had used certain statements at emitted to us that there were a pretext to put punish a critical voice from within their teeth the community. would need the protests no

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 last think it was a very good way to end more involvement with this theater. in syria typical for the theater. director out of the tradition stance and now it's more turn 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 a 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 being driven out of his senses of. many reviewers think stewart his production is actually about himself prosperous the play's main character is an avid reader scholar and artist the juke of melanic spells him from his home town because he fears the prosper will strip him of power . this is the he cried to deceive the brewer to us to son i to the winds whose pity sighing back again did us but loving wrong. stuart a hopes he'll be allowed to stage productions in georgia. but this is impossible for the time being. george's best theaters are run by the government the

ministry of culture has no intention of founding stewardess productions. i won't give up so easily i will survive this trial. this is claude. nolen sitting on the edge of past and present. mixing reality as nothingness. but if you enter this talk of. the mystery of supernatural creatures. shaman of siberia on. wealthy british style insults and passed out on the.

market why not scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on r g. georgia's capital tbilisi has acquired a new look in recent years the city's spirit and its unique architecture of being restored central tblisi attracts many tourists however several streets are still massive construction sites. forests come here to see the

city's historical center it would be good if they don't really care about its outskirts. give e.s.d. is one of george's most successful restoration architects of the old central areas of some. tiles have been revamped. began as 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 a slate. the amount of work and its intensity were overwhelming in the beginning. of the project and 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 time out of. order to shoot it's a restoration started in two thousand and seven. was mayor at the time she came to us and said that they needed our facilities and that we have to go to one of. them thirty officers from the financial police came to a store and said that unless my husband and i gave up the fight we would drop in prison for the rest of our alliance. 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 form a owners. we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living and i have gone to their originals of all the papers want to see their little eyes the ownership rights on the basis of companies. to be 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 of at the bottom of my driving school in my home are one in the series. both

of us are going to move out soon after what will stay in the new place only for a time after their innovation will return here of a lot of. renovation is in full swing in nearby houses all the tenants have already been evicted. alexander expects to be for santa 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. to municipal council has been stripped of its rights a situation where everything depends on mikhail saakashvili is 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 of. college. 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. who is a local deputy was less optimistic he felt government p.r. campaigns have pulled the wool. people's eyes and those people who were suspicious of the work were simply afraid to speak out. i think most of the people in georgia today are against the president and his men i hate us for many many people they all say we don't like sack. but we won't speak out because we have families mothers fathers children and other relatives. and yet it 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 broadcasts for the

company as a thorn in the side of the country's leaders in the autumn of two thousand and ten . was asked 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 stormed 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 for 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. 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 come clean to 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. like most georgian intellectuals actress marina from the. theater has a vital stake in seeing code to banks continued prosperity. the bank funded research yours actors and directors at many theaters it also provided money for maintenance of this 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 underway 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. his ground and be able to continue financing scientists artists writers and actors. it is a long lived piece i doubt there we are free people are afraid of that actress in philly found employment at the show. when she was twenty one years old she thinks of robert stuart as a second father. he was the one who saw her talent and made her the lead actress. this. these 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 prefer the stage of one of george's oldest fitters 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 george in fisa and george and don see it as it's simple that's what makes our country popular in the wild west that is since my cherished hope is to see everything change for the better. actors of the show taught us to valley 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. arab

league officials say their observer mission in syria will be extended for another month despite criticism from the syrian opposition that wants to see the u.n. step in. croatia votes in favor of joining the debt stricken you despite the issue having sparked protests and violent clashes in the country's capital. and other stories that shape the week tensions around toronto nuclear program stirred further by plans to impose an embargo on iranian oil and the us building its warship presence in the gulf. and the power of internet in action the massive

online backlash over u.s. plans to expand web censorship lead to this is to pending anti-piracy bills. midnight in moscow mattresses or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t our top story arab league officials say the group has decided it's team of monitors will carry on helping suddenly crisis in syria saudi arabia says it will though withdraw its monitors from the extended mission because it failed to stop the bloodshed as artists our fourth reports were damascus there is a desperate need for professional mediators in the region conflict crucially was also expected to happen is that they're going to be bolstering this mission by increasing the number analysts say by providing training by the u.n. to these officials.