let's speak to tinatinjaparidze, who is a geopolitical risk analyst at eurasia group. hello there andthe end of the matter, do you think? good evenina. the matter, do you think? good evening- i _ the matter, do you think? good evening. i wish _ the matter, do you think? good evening. iwish i _ the matter, do you think? good evening. i wish i could - the matter, do you think? good evening. i wish i could agree i evening. i wish i could agree with something, that this is it, this is the reality on the cards that the georgian people have been dealt and now that we are awakening in this new reality, we have to accept it. if nothing else, we observed earlier was a split screen reality in motion. on one side, we have the georgian dream's de facto parliament that conducted a closed—door ceremony to inaugurate its candidate, mikael kavelashvili, which is a vivid, real—life example of the party puzzling current isolation, and then on the other hand, we see hundreds of georgians steadfastly taking to the streets, proclaiming their unwavering support for president zourabichvili as their sole leg

a short time ago, i spoke to tinatinjaparidze, who is a geopolitical risk analyst at eurasia group.next for georgia. i wish i could agree with... that this is it, this is the reality and the cards that the georgian people have been dealt and now that we are awakening in this new reality, we have to accept it. if nothing else, what we observed earlier was a split screen reality in motion. on one side we have the georgian dream's de facto parliament that conducted a closed—door ceremony to... its candidate, mikhail kavelashvili, which is a real life... of its... and on the other hand we see thousands of children steadfastly taking to the streets proclaiming their unwavering support for president salome zourabichvili as their sole representative both at home and abroad. i'm afraid that this reality will continue over the coming weeks, which makes all this very difficult and a very painful pill to swallow, but ultimately georgia's isolation from the west is no longer a looming threat, but a reality orchestrated by mikheil kavelashvili and his cabinet. in this situation many pro—western

i run africa for eurasia group.t has been very refreshing for me to hear you talk about this shift from what i call value promotion to focusing more on economic transformation in terms of u.s. policy towards a lot of developing countries so i focus a lot on africa so i think about this a lot and you hit the nail on the head when he talked about the constituencies. especially for africa, because there's not a lot of u.s. business engagement in africa, the people that tend to control u.s. policy with africa is the human rights lobby. my question for you is what advice you have for people who want to see that shift continue. focus on economic transformation given the fact that there are fewer champions. what advice do you have to really help advocate for continuing that shift to focus more on investment. thanks. >> thank you. a couple things first and then come back to your point about value promotion. usaid has been fortunate to become the home for prosper africa and if british robinson were here, somebody you can con

. >> global affairs analyst and founder of eurasia group, ian bremmer, says putin is keen to recoup the political losses after assad's fall from power. >> i'm sure there's no love right now for, for for assad in the kremlin. this guy is he's embarrassing putin mightily. but but putin plays the long game, of course. >> and that's what he's doing here. >> this is an important ally that's been with russia for decades and decades. >> two military bases that they had to flee from. >> this there's a reason why putin is not talking about this domestically. this is a major embarrassment for him. >> well, still to come, a british court reveals the identity of an alleged chinese spy who was said to have an unusual degree of trust with prince andrew and a u.s. school getting ready for festive christmas activities is instead reeling from a mass shooting. we'll have the latest on that investigation. >> can't fool myself. it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life has extremely joyful moments and some really difficult moments. >> you only come across an artist like luther vandross once i

and let's go to ian bremmer, renowned global affairs analyst, founder of eurasia group and gzero media. he's kind of amazing. ian, if this is accurate, what they say $100,000 in a passport and look at how it ended for this guy. if he is the perpetrator, how emboldened is ukraine? they pulled this off. however it happened. whether the russian version of this is true or not, they did it. they successfully did it. the guy in charge of nuclear, biological, chemical weapons top general in russia, and they assassinated him on the streets of moscow. do you think they'll try to do another one? >> well, first of all, let's let's look at this on the other side. >> the russians have been doing this at scale instead of $100,000 in a passport, they're using telegram and they're offering ÷50 to deface a monument. >> you know, 500 to 5000 to commit arson, all sorts of other crimes. and they're doing it not just in ukraine, but also in the baltic states, in the nordic states, in poland. >> i mean, these are nato allies, right? so you you have all sorts of asymmetric warfare where these countries are a

. >> and ian bremmer, renowned global affairs analyst, founder of eurasia group, is outfront now. so, ian, you know, when you hear fred talking about the situation here with assad and moscow, um, assad failed in syria for putin, obviously. but i know that you believe that putin will protect assad, even though, of course, we haven't seen him yet in moscow. right? we're now hearing from him on this post, but we haven't actually seen him. but tell me why you think putin will protect him. >> well, putin doesn't have that many friends around the world, and he does want to show that if you're going to line up with the russian dictator, if you're going to, you know, sort of provide sort of the diplomatic engagement, the space for military bases and things go badly. >> well, your country might not do very well, but putin will take care of you. putin will take care of your family. that's an important message for someone like kim jong un in north korea. that's an important message for the irgc and the supreme leader in iran. it's a very important message for president lukashenko. for exampl

let's speak to matthew orr, eurasia analyst at the geopolitical risk group rane.alk to you. obviously another night of protest, the fifth night in a row now. it would seem the demonstrators are not yet ready to stand down and demonstrate peacefully. give us your take on what is happening at the moment. that is exactly right _ happening at the moment. that is exactly right and _ happening at the moment. twat is exactly right and there will definitely be a small kadri that will never completely give up. —— cadre. they are willing to go to prison and so forth. it does remain to be seen how long process can continue at the side they have been recently. after the contested october election, there was this period where the government probably was lulled into a sense of security that the protest movement had been somewhat overwhelming but the size of literally these past five days has grown immensely and now gets to level the government might perceive as a bigger threat than it did in the past. bigger threat than it did in the ast. bigger threat than it did in the past-—