day. despite all the difficulties we completed the job successfully. signal again 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 only 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 our store and said that unless my husband and i give up the fight we would drop in prison for the rest of all why it's. old and rejoice and 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. is that we have been deprived of the only means of earning a living and i have got their originals of all the papers i want to see if they lend alliance to the ownership rights on the basis of coppice. 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 most villages and lives and works in the same house. you know you a bit of the me my driving school and my home are one in the series. most of us are

going to move out soon after what will stay in a new place only for a time after their innovation will return here with the love of the put out of uni for 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. would that this street in the neighborhood will look much nicer to you is god 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. know the 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 me kyle saakashvili is good will is wrong. that is what people in every family think. alexander was among those who called the talk show. circuit this proving that this is a project suggested by the government and the municipal authorities why do you doubt that it will be carried out. out of our under the work. 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 had pulled the wool over 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 man i here is for many many people they all say we don't like sack i feel his policies but we won't speak out because. we have families mothers fathers children and other relatives. john boehner and yet officially is the owner and director general of trial at e.t.v. he can't be fired from his job he can't be prevented from inviting the opposition

to take part in live broadcast but the company is a thorn in the side of the country's leaders in the autumn of two thousand and ten and then yet it was asked to sell it to a government controlled construction firm for six million dollars. all t.v. 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 stop john doe while he was driving to a bank. i was stopped the policeman demanded i produce my papers after the us they pulled me and. handcuffed me and forced me to the ground then four more police cars turned up they punched and kicked me when passers by 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 john doe not yet it's merely for obstructing the police for outdoor 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 seems some of the intimidation of the press is unprecedented amounts of time actually 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 van is

a drop in the ocean what is more important is the fact that several major georgian companies withdrew their account from his car to the 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 bank is under way in georgia thousands of people across the country have opened accounts in the bank branches

they deposit whatever money they have georgian intellectuals hope that event will stand his ground and be able to continue financing scientists artists writers and actors. was a long lived piece was there we are free people who are afraid of that actress yasuko tears philly found employment at the chatah ghost of the alley theatre when she was twenty one years old she thinks of robert stuart a as a second father. he was the one who saw her talent and made her the lead actress. this book on the this theater has a history of celebrated directors. but the big question is who will be the next one . he's actually if you have

a splinter in your skin you need to pull it out if you don't want it to rot there are politics and the arts don't go together in this way is such a pressurized an artist's trying to control them is totally wrong. meanwhile actors prefer 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. after i lost my job at trinity at the georgian feeds the and georgian dons it has it's shown quick that's what makes our country popular in the wild west as she is since my cherished hope is to see everything change for the better. actors that the shah taught us the 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. store a 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 iran the 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 a pensioner to pending anti-piracy bills. midnight in moscow why mattresses are 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 its team of monitors will carry on helping sudden the crisis in syria saudi arabia says it will though withdraw its moderators 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 it was also expected to happen is that they're going to be bolstering this mission by increasing the numbers and also by providing training by the u.n.

to these officials now we've actually been following them for the past five days and what's become extremely clear is that certainly what is needed now it is more facilitation of dialogue between all these different groups that you see now in the country between the opposition between the government the arab league mission has come under criticism during the time he's been in the country because this conflict continues we've seen it escalating we've seen it becoming increasingly arms of course in syria at the moment you've got very different narratives it depends on he speak see where you go in the country is very very hard to get a grasp on exactly what is happening. that is going to prevent increase sure that they're going to be able to get people in now to train me observers to be able to start building structures from the ground up with these people to stop promoting genuine dialogue now between different sides new clearer really was the need to bridge these widening gaps than in the town of zabadani we actually visited there

yesterday with the observers he remained in the country this is the area that you see in the so-called free syrian army take control of it in the last few days a temporary ceasefire because between the government forces and free syrian army so we've seen in sadr city to see what's been happening certainly it's an area extremely divided on one side you've got the government in control on the other side the free syrian army that is actually in actual fact very very difficult to know exactly who is in charge of the people's houses that we were showing in the city center had been absolutely devastated by the fighting with the children who have been showing us some of the bullet casings that they've found around the area all the houses in this part you can see the destruction from the fighting there. being going out of that i see i see mad as it was and this i have done nothing with extremely consigning the people who if they're living heretics in the dangerous

situation it's not really clear who exactly is in charlotte he's being killing hate and that makes the situation very very dangerous indeed the seeming cost of the conflict in syria has been devastatingly high and absolutely essential for everyone right now is to find some kind of resolution that this is an end to the invited. by the ira but that is done in a area. meanwhile the opposition syrian national council says it plans to press the u.n. security council for intervention in the country torn apart by an arrest the council things are oblique observers have been useless at ending the crisis and insists that foreign involvement maybe the only way out or he's worried if an ocean reports though there are some doubts about the opposition leader's motives. howlett ho jeff from the syrian national council the country's main official opposition body says making the people's voice louder and bring in an end to the violence is what the essence he was created for our main goal is to help the syrian people there

present them and their two national community in order to reach this syrian people's freedom and although it's been run by paris based exile that hamdani in the absence he has been recognized as the country's legitimate government by the new libyan authorities and supported by some and nato countries which has made some doubt the council's innocent intentions with regards to libya the promise that nato made to the national transitional council perspective leaders was that they be given a major seat at the table in a new libya so there is power broking going on behind the scenes and i absolutely wager that the same thing is happening with syria they've either been bought off financially or they've been promised a major role in a new syrian regime libya's national transitional council and the syrian national council and it's not just their names they have in common supported and sponsored

from abroad think he writes opposition forces and their major goal is to overthrow the regime but there is a difference to the absences huts cortez are not in damascus but here in istanbul we are not talking about democratic regime if i go to syria now we have. you know we have to be executed there howlett says he spent fifteen years in jail in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's just because his father supported the opposition he claims nothing has changed since then and the oppression has to stop the town is another matter claiming they're only going to rely on political and diplomatic pressure the asson see to is. now cooperating with the free syrian army fighters who have defected from a star's military in was a clear shift from the essences initial entirely known armed peaceful stance. the council says sees humanitarian corridors and buffer zones as options to protect

civilians in syria even though these might mean foreign troops arriving this isn't made to istanbul paris operation where the syrian national council speak is to add to visit i said that they need to look at that because they don't want they want to destabilize syria because they want syria to be part of nato at least lead to label the opposition claims is just a matter of time before the joint after his soon only turn will force president assad out on his attorneys to stay but the question remains exactly how long should these people have to wait for the bloodshed to stop and how many of them will actually see the end of it brief notion asti turkey. the deputy leader of libya's ruling national transitional council says he's stepping down after series of protests against the country's new rulers saturday crowd stormed the council's headquarters in benghazi angry at the slow pace of democratic reform and demanding

the government's resignation protesters threw stones and metal bars at the building in the first acts of violence against libya's interim leaders demonstrators have been rallying for weeks in benghazi the epicenter of last year's revolution against the khadafi regime the leadership of lacking transparency and want to know how libya's assets are being spent for more and where the country is headed i'm joined by some kind of spokesman for the british civilians for peace in libya. thanks for your time so we see that the first n.p.c. official are leaving moving his post after the latest protests are we going to see others give up as well and quit on demand by the people what do you think. absolutely i think so i think in his afterlife marma good off he is having the last laugh in relation to nato and the and the n t c i mean this has been a revolution of sort of misers and the lynchers of black i mean they turn libya into a war and of the hunting of black skins they have they're selling off their oil and natural resources and sovereignty to nato and now the thieves that is the rebels

they're all falling out with each other they can't even be paid by their own masters in what they've done which is actually perform regime change on behalf of the former colonialists of libya that's the italians the french and the british and the americans now my sources on the ground tell me it's confirmed that there is a benghazi representative to the m.t.c. called mrs sam who has resigned and she had said that others are to follow and as you mentioned the deputy head has resigned after a violent protest against him now if you don't want to believe what gadhafi said about what was going to happen after the regime fell and everything that i would say that he said has come to pass then listen to the georgia or listen to the georgia saying libya is descending into depravity and hatred i mean the object neil who is probably about to resign if he's not assassinated like the military head of the thought that yunus has said libya is in danger of descending into a bottomless pit so really this is the chief of freedom and democracy by nato it's

all become very clear so in the event that there are members of the m.d.c. who do step down who do you think will step in to replace them. it's you know who is a whoever can have the dog you know you think it's. the thing is with the new electoral law anyone who has any real association or loyalty to the previous regime of moammar gadhafi the gadhafi regime could control the whole of libya could find peace amongst all the tribes the new regime cannot even control something in one town or one area now the b.b.c. is reporting from carry on about the secret prisons about the torture torturing that's going on the b.b.c. is framing surprise that this would be that this is the outcome of the nato enterprise in libya everyone knew this everyone with a little bit of political mouse and pragmatic reality could see that this is this was coming to pass but what about what about. tortured in these you tube videos of him being tortured what about khalid came what about what about mr dawoud the

representative united nations everyone in the united nations knows mr he is today being tortured he is being tortured and many other former senior regime people where is the red cross where is the united nations are they facilitate is to a nato project in libya or are they actually there to provide some semblance of humanitarian support so in terms of who's going to step in i mean who is going to step in to do what what can they actually manage in libya it's a complete farce and the people of syria and the people of lebanon and the people of the global south have to see about what's happening in libya is coming to them if they're not able to defend themselves and stop this western aggression i guess the national transitional council is failing to cover the basic needs of the people why do you think this is happening when there is so much oil wealth there. this is this is happening because this is the business of the west is to absolutely devastate and knock out any country that's an obstacle to their total domination in the world you know it's no coincidence you wouldn't want to use the as

a reason to be in the west advantage to rebuild the infrastructure there to keep it going so that in case their primary desire there is oil to have a functioning country that can keep providing it. a great chinese revolutionary said that the west only picks up a heavy rock need to drop it back on its feet you know they've they've picked up the enormous rock which is libya and isn't and is dropping constantly into the feet of nato meaning that they just alliances the political ones that they've made they're in a catch twenty two because the political winds of they've made these allies of the libya are absolutely just steep the deep into tribal into tribal conflict and into political fratricide of conflict so there really is no way out really for any type of order in libya perhaps and this is the this is the main strategy that the west want to knock out libya as a resistant nation the global south and try to secure in terms of security and western mercenaries etc the oil wealth of libya but it remains to be seen whether the resistance in libya can can allow that to happen or not already have to leave

it there is a spokesman for the british civilians for peace in libya thanks for your time. croatia has voted in favor of joining the e.u. the initial results were announced by the state referendum commission this after a third of the ballots had been counted saturday police clashed with protesters who tried to pull down a new flag ahead of the referendum almost half the population opposed the move according to surveys taken just before the vote croatia will join the block by july of next year its membership is approved by all twenty seven states the best way divisor patrick young says there is nothing to gain though within a block. people like slovakia slovenia is stony up all coming to the year of european union they join the euro zone and they find the worst poisoned chalice imaginable because slovakia nurses and pensioners are not getting paid a third of what they would get paid if they were working in greece and to add insult to injury they're actually paying money to the greeks in order to support their euro zone bailout we have clear examples of the german government trying very

very hard to manipulate the politics of serbia serbia and its state kosovo you've got all sorts of issues arising through like the european union work when things seem to go against the european union's viewpoint they're dropping in technocrats we could argue that this is all because of huge economic problems in terms of the technocratic elements but of course what's happening is the groundswell on this on the streets the people in bucharest for example in rumania are protesting because what they see is a european union that is not delivering its side of the deen and the deal is free trade and jobs and ultimately there is economic chaos within the european union at the moment driven from the euro zone and that is not to the advantage of croatian citizens. anger reaches a boiling point in romania which saw its worst violence in years as anti austerity protesters clashed with police for the second week running people have been demanding the president and government step aside is against a backdrop of wage cuts and tax hikes in the e.u.

second poorest country struggling to meet the demands of its international creditors artie's tom barton has the latest from bucharest. night and day they come to screen defiance by single stare at sea and the feeling the government isn't listening have spilled over into anger even violence. our youth has no future they have no jobs. motive water is sixty she's worked all her life in a textile factory in bucharest but now she is forced to pay social security out of her small pension when they need to give us a fair pension and not tell us they're boring the money because they don't have it had the water is not just here for herself her son left rumania put it to me to try and find work young rumanians feel trapped into directing most of that around the president. protesters accuse him of trampling over democracy and presiding

over a political elite riddled with corruption. who wants to take dissent screwed down down with the sask who has parents left us with a heritage and we're losing our children as debt and international monetary fund loan in two thousand and nine came with tough conditions the remaining in government has tried to force its financial house into water budget benefit cuts slashed pay pension freezes falling living standards but some say it's the people who are now being forced to pay for the mistakes of the few who steered the country to economic disaster. this was done at the expense of there are many in state and now those who hadn't been guilty for the situation they didn't even profited from it had to pay for those who had profited the government blames international economic conditions however for the country's worse doings let's not forget that

we're in the eye of a storm of an economic european storm all around us unfortunately is a mighty tempest with economic consequences that inevitably affect us too it's not good enough said the opposition who argue of course that they could do better or more every day discourage inefficient government stays in power as a dane last for rumania or judy is to shorten the period as much as we can honest fast as we can by fair elections with many that accepting there is no escape economically politics for them offers the only hope of change and that leads straight back out onto the streets here these. are not the words of the foundation of the well don't like elements present leave them there was tara to ratchet down the spirit of the president a little about her here and you can see why when many of them want to tear it all down.