channel rushed at the country's new leaders including president eduard shevardnadze and was focused on runaway corruption. corruption in the economic sphere was enormous off the shevardnadze came to power but on the other hand businessmen learned 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 the 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 but president shevardnadze who declared freedom of speech as a principle made no attempt to sway the channels editorial policy. to t.v. channel and other georgian media pave the way for radical political transformations november two thousand and three saw a bloodless coup in georgia dubbed the rose revolution mikhail saakashvili a young and ambitious person came to power. it was a bus when i attended my resignation of my own free will to prevent bloodshed when they burst into the house of parliame

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and challenges on earth to those challenges and space are few sophie shevardnadze sits down to interview one of the first men to step foot on the moon buzz aldrin he tells r t that the lunar landing is one of the most important parts of the astronaut mission interview coming up next. and it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us here today thanks so i always wanted to ask you are we alone out there. there's no evidence that says that. we're not alone but i really think to get to the question of are they out there of course they are where there are no there's no evidence but you think if you. go you know that's that's a. jumping to bizarre results with incomplete information we were very careful not to excite the people who would jump to the conclusion that an observation immediately meant some thing that. was from somewhere else either in the testing of unusual objects or something from beyond the earth. there are many many explanations for things that are unidentified and it talks many of those explanations are in your backyard there's something that you just don't know was th

we already see well known and rather influential people in georgia including next president mr shevardnadze saying that a cause a should be recognized right now there are obstacles to that but i think as time goes by there will be an understanding that it is better to be friends with the crowd and to remain in a permanent conflict for that and confront that's when we see we are ready to have a dialogue was georgia right now but it's impossible since they passed laws that don't allow us to get behind the negotiations table. as they claim that causes an occupied country well we don't regard ourselves as occupied so they secretly have an agreement with russia polish there is a russian military base in the process. somehow as he is about as much occupied by russia is georgia is occupied by the united states well yes we may continue talking to each other like that forever. georgia says that it won't be able to talk with us unless of course it is the occupied. while in this case they have to wait for a long time and change their mind in the end anyway so if i get it correctly it is possible but n

sophie shevardnadze interviews one of the first humans to step foot on the moon was our friend and he told r.t. about the a lunar landing is the most important part of an astronaut special well his interview is coming up next. it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us here today thanks so i always went to ask you are we alone out there and. there's no evidence that says that. we're not alone. i really think to get to the question of are they out there of course they are where there are no there's no evidence you've seen if you look. you know that's that's a. jumping to bizarre results with incomplete information and we were very careful not to excite the people who would jump to the conclusion that an observation immediately meant some thing that. was from somewhere else either in testing. unusual object or something from beyond the earth. there are many many explanations for things that are i'm not identified and it talks many of those explanations are in your backyard there's something that you just don't know was there it got there for some reason that's very logical very

well shortly legendary queen guitarist and songwriter brian may he talks to sophie shevardnadze about life with the stars and not only working alongside frontman freddie mercury but also his other life as an experience astrophysicist well that's after a short break. it's great to have you with us today sir thank you so so recently i was going through the glass bead and about music and what it says about music is that except it's art form it's also true power over nations and souls and then many people say that exactly why music is compared to exact sciences like math. so i never really got that because i finished kind of conservatory and i always failed my math class now you as a man of music and science can't tell me how music is related with science or exact science like math for example it's a hard question. there are all mathematical things in music but ironically i think the most important things in music are be instinctive things so i don't know quite how that works out except maybe it gives you a balance but yes i love pure science and i love music and they're not the same sure

are those are the headlines here a nazi but now alabama and sophie shevardnadze meets a nasa astronaut who was part of the first u.s. mission to the moon on that historic flight bill and those took a celebrated photograph that inspired the environmental movement across the globe and talks about the bigger picture behind the shop next. thank you very much for being with us today it's a great pleasure and an honor nice to be with you sort of all right so apollo eight commander frank berman and common command module pilot jim lovell have flown more hours than any other ostinato when they tap on you well i was the rookie. but it turns out that none of us had ridden on the saturn five so we were all right rookies for saturn five and we were all rookies for a trip away from the earth with a lot of screaming and shouting during this incident how to know not the screaming and shouting you didn't have to win a spacecraft to reach out our jobs rubble was basically the navigator and i was the systems engineer copilot let's have a shot actually frank borman no. i think it's been. definitely proven

former georgian president had words shevardnadze speaks out against poor living conditions in the country saying if things don't improve soon there will be mass protests all the details of life plus. fifteen million dollars for a matter wrongly imprisoned in the u.s. but only after losing his wife and more than a decade in court. a recent meeting between the foreign ministers of north and south korea has been met with cautious optimism after a three year gap the two sides have agreed to renew six party talks over pyongyang's nuclear program. but the u.s. secretary of state says washington won't back negotiations unless north korea first starts dismantling its atomic facilities erik's iraq and co-founder of the national campaign to end the korean war thinks the u.s. shouldn't stand in the way of an attempt at a peaceful solution. we forget that you know you can reach agreements even with people you have profound differences with the word exercises where we see simulate landing two hundred thousand troops and taking over a young yang and defending against each other types of attacks only se

sophie shevardnadze interviews one of the first humans to step foot on the moon. when he told r.t. that the lunar landing is the most important part of an astronauts mission well his interview is coming up next. and it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us here today thanks so i always wanted to ask you are we alone out there. there's no evidence that is that. we're not alone. i really think to get to the question of. are they out there of course they are. where i don't there's no evidence but you think you. know that's that's a. a jumping to bizarre results with incomplete information we were very careful not to excite the people who would jump to the conclusion that an observation immediately meant some thing that. was from somewhere else either in a testing of unusual.

up next artie's sophie shevardnadze interviews legendary queen guitarist and songwriter brian may she caught up with the maestro who also happens to be an astrophysicist after a symposium of astronomers in the canary islands all next he shares his memories of working with freddie mercury and gives insight into how music and the stars help wife here on earth. it's great to have you with us today sir thank you for being so recently i was going through the glass bead game and your eyes about music and what he says about music is that except it's art it's also true power over nations and human souls and then many people say that exactly why music is compared to exact sciences like math . so i never really got there because i finished product conservatory and i always failed my math class now you as a man of music and science can you tell me how music is related with science or exact science like math for example it's a hard question. there are all mathematical things in music but ironically i think the most important things in music are the instinctive things so i don't know quite how tha

sophie shevardnadze discusses the prospects of economic cooperation between paris and moscow the french president's special representative to russia just ahead for you. after the last special representative of the french president on corporation on russian and french business relations thank you very much for being with us today so you come to russia every fifteen days what is your primary mission now poignant heure golf you my first mission given by presidents are cozy in line with president medvedev is to report and scope out the establishment of your russian economic zone and the second part of this mission is to strengthen economic cooperation in all possible areas between our countries. now you have responsibility also developing that trade between french france and russia which sectors of the russian economy do you think are most attractive for business leaders in france. today for france it is of course raw materials in trade we have gas oil is essential but there is much more. alstom is doing with trans march holding building locomotives for export across the world look at what'

sophie shevardnadze and shares his thoughts about working alongside frontman freddie mercury and reveals his alter ego as an astrophysicist no less our interview is on the. it's great to have you with us today sir for example so recently i was going through the glass. and your eyes about music and what he says about music is that except it's art it's also true power over nations and human souls and then many people say that exactly why music is compared to science is like math. so i never really got that because i finished conservatory and i always failed my math class you as a man of music and science can you tell me how music is related with science or exact science like math for example it's a hard question. obviously there are mathematical things in music but ironically i think the most important things in music will be instinctive things so i don't acquire how that works out except maybe gives you a balance but yes i love pure science and i love music and they're not pursuing sure but. certainly throughout history there have been connections and people who were immersed in both of t