and here in tbilisi, there were between 500—800, but that doesn't matter.is a part of the society that is not in agreement, i think that compromise has to be which were the allegation of frauds. just now, the osce has published its final report on the elections, which doesn't say anything like that and doesn't put under any form of question the legitimacy of the elections. so, i think it's a very, very dangerous precedent, not only for georgia, but for many other countries. we are seeing that in other countries, that, in advance, frauds are announced, that when the elections happen, and even when they are not contested by the international observers or by the majority of the population, then there is a questioning of the legitimacy of the elections when the party that has lost does not recognise the results of the elections. i think that all of that are very preoccupying trends for not only, again, georgia as a small democracy, but also for other much stronger countries. so, i think we shouldn't take at face value the declarations of any opponent, qualifyin

president salome zourabichvili in tbilisi. thank you for having me on hardtalk.t is a great pleasure having you on the show. let me ask you a question about your own past. not so long ago, you were the french ambassador in tbilisi, representing france. in that position, what do you think you would have made of the politics of georgia today? first of all, it was 15 years ago that i was the french ambassador to georgia, after having been a daughter of a georgian emigre family in france and having been raised in france and in the french diplomatic area. and i would have made out of this political crisis, i think, the same thing as we're seeing in many parts of the world, which is that we are looking today at polarisation as being one of the dominant characteristics that we see everywhere, unfortunately. and as a french ambassador, but i'm no longer a french ambassador, i would have tried what some of the ambassadors, the european union ambassador and the american ambassador, have been doing over the past few months, which is to try to facilitate surpassing this pola

this team 1000 fans were allowed into the stadium in georgia's capital tbilisi. all hoping to see the home team cause an upset against spain and the side ranked 83 places below spain had their chances to continue actually after losing to sweden in their opening match a goal just before half time set georgia up with a chance of a famous victory. somewhere spain were aiming to maintain their record of not having lost a world cup qualifier for 28 years manchester city's ferran torres scored an equaliser early in the 2nd half. in stoppage time danny almost grabbed the winner and with back spain back on track with 4 points from 2 games. yes i am worried very worried ahead of the course of a match but we need to find a solution a matter what if we are missing accuracy clarity the players are tired we must win with our head or heart but spain must be in the next world cup and we are not thinking otherwise lovely job by blasio after being held to a draw in their 1st group game against ukraine france were 2 no winners against kazakstan the reigning world champions are bac

but the preparations haven't exactly been going to plan the stadium lights at the dynamo arena and tbilisihen touts during their training session the team consequently have to cut it short and hope they've done enough to prepare for that great big game the hosts of the world cup cats all played international friendly with azerbaijan and they got a 2nd victory in a week katsav came from behind to into it with both goals from house on i'll hate us they play in the republic of ireland next tuesday. much the staff and it will start from pole position. i wish i was for sunday's season opening of formula one race in bahrain the dutchman a pasted the fastest lap for his red bull team in qualifying at the socket circuit earlier champion at lewis hamilton will start alongside him on the grid off to going 2nd quickest houghton's sadie's teammate but ask the guys from 3rd is the 1st time red bull have been on pole for the opening race since 2013 the week so far i think the cars be working really well and just been really enjoyable to drive of course with the wind changing the laws around every sessio