did garibashvili's resignation come as a surprise to you?>> no, rumor of this has been going on for quite wall. there are elections in the fall, and it was felt among the leadership of the georgia dream and many of georgia that garibashvili was not the person they wanted at the top of the ticket. this was a change that they select an at some point, and it wouldn't have been good to do it two months before. but i didn't wake up this morning saying, i think garibashvili will resign today, so the timing was a bit of a surprise. >> the timing was a surprise. you're linking it to up coming parliamentary elections. why has his coalition popularity decline recently? >> well, the georgian dream's popularity has declined primarily because the economy has not done well at all. the georgian dream came in and overpromised. right now they and the opposition party are in a statistical dead heat. >> and to how much work do they have to do, and of course, all ice will be on garibashvili's successor. >> yes, the new prime minister, he's in a tough situation,

that's the resignation of the prime minister of georgia irakly garibashvili.have a russian analyst live now via skype. thank you so much for being with us on the program. many newspapers and wire copies i've been reading say this is a surprise, this resignation. is it a surprise to you? >> i don't think it's very surprising. there have been rifts emerging between the ruling coalition for some time. and the prime minister has been under pressure both for political reasons and economic reasons. the political reasons i think that the current coalition is really showing the weakness that it had in the first place. this is a coalition put together by a billionaire georgian, who was actually first prime minister, but then decided to relinquish his post. this is the georgian dream, who managed to unseat the outspoken very well-known former georgian president, who is now a wanted man in georgia, and he carried out the revolution. but this current coalition was actually founded on a principle of being against being against bidzina ivanishvili. we see the resignation th

. >> georgia's prime minister irakly garibashvili has resigned.e has been prime minister since 2013. only three days ago he gave a press conference outlining his plans for next year. >> positions are temporary while motherland and god are eternal. that's why i decided to resign as prime minister. now when our home and foreign policies and our countries' development is assured i would like to wish our future prime minister the best. >> a 19-year-old has been pulled alive from the republic of sunday's landslide in shenzhen. more than 70 people are missing, though, after a huge pile of construction waste smashed into buildings in an industrial park. adrian brown reports from beijing. >> alive against all the odds. trapped under debris for 60 days. his pulse and voice were feeble when rescuers finally reached him. >> it's at miracle. a man was rescued alive. we were so happy when we heard about it. very happy. >> tien had been in the office of a factory on sunday morning when the mudslide came down. the man next to him was found dead. >> he's severely

. >> now georgia's prime minister irakly garibashvili has resigned.e said he would remain a local soldier of his motherland. he has been prime minister since 2013. only three days ago he gave the press conference outlining his plans for next year. >> positions are temporary while motherland and god are eternal. that's why i decided to resign as prime minister now when our home and foreign policies and our country's development is assured i would like to wish our future prime minister the best. >> a russian analyst at ihs. she said there have been divisions within the ruling coalition for some time. >> this current coalition was actually founded on a principal of being against mikheil saakashvili. they didn't really streamline their views, and that has come to surface now. also, the georgian party are preparing for the upcoming parliamentary elections, i think his resignation is a sign that there is some reassignment going on, talking about economic side of things. this is probably much more serious and probably much more tangible and explains more why