the fight of the georgia people against poverty, corruption, injustice, destruction always suckers. vitti was swiftly arrested after he secretly returned to georgia last month, found guilty in absentia of abuses of power in office. he faces 6 years in prison. he's been on hunger strike for 2 weeks. to his supporters, he's a political prisoner of george's governing party and they remember him for what he achieved in office. i sent us back into the country. misha's time made an unprecedented economic and social leap in 10 years. this is what people remember. the opposition united national movement has been boyd bites, are casualties returned from exile. they hope this rally will give them the medicine in forthcoming marrow elections. oh, they keep asking. what is your plan? how plan is only one and there will be no 2nd plan. it is victory, victory, nothing else. but the party still lags behind the government in poles. there are many georgians who would rather forget sacrifice really. but his supporters wants him to give him, even from prison, he retains a powerful influence over this countr

the vote to place a day off to former president, macau shaka vittie was arrested. he had returned from exalt to support the opposition and 8 municipal vote and seen as a crucial test for the governing party. such really was convicted in 2018 for abuse of power, but insist the case was politically motivated. tropical sy, parent shaheen is making landfill in the gulf. state of oman authorities are urging thousands of people to flee coastal areas and head to emergency shelters. all flights to and from the capitol muskets have been postponed or canceled. shaheen is expected to bring high winds on the heavy rain. it is the 1st cyclone in modern history to come close to the northern coast of oman, emergency response teams and the canary islands, said the combo via her volcano on the palmer is becoming much more aggressive. you streams of lava half and flowing from 2 cracks, which broke open on friday so far more than a 1000 buildings, including holmes and farming infrastructure have been destroyed. okay, there's a headlights coming up. next. talked out there a representa

then it stopped. increasingly, locals are blaming the practice of fracking for this is miguel to vittie. fracking uses thousands of liters of water and sand that are injected in the soil at high pressure to push out the oil and gas. scientists continue to debate whether the practice can provoke earthquakes. although i recent studying argentina says, there is a direct link between fracking and sysmic activity right across this river. there is at least 90 sites where oil and gas are being extracted using fracking. people living in the area say that the fis mc activity here began. when oil company started operating in this area, there's reports off, i'd leased at 36 small earthquake of happening in just one weekend to release her go be sent. this house has several cracks because of the tremors. he says he's hoping or thought he will help him and his neighbors fortify their homes for what is likely to become a regular thing. not any, emily, this is we're not denying. there is an increase in activity. the importance is how strong the earthquakes are and how to prepare the population. we need

and we've now seen a smiling recall sack us vittie being taken into prison. we understand that prison is an rou savvy. it's the town and not far from the, from tbilisi itself. i really, that just kept an extraordinary dain george in politics because mickle sec s v a has made disappearance on the eve of municipal and merrill elections, which the opposition consider is really important because they hope that georgia public will come out to more and vote decisively against the georgia dream government. so me, cough secretary has picked this moment. now finally, after all these years to return and shake up the georgian political seat and tell us something about the political climate currently in georgia in the run up to this . so the selection it's been a poisonous one, i think on all sides a can. it can agree on one thing that, that this paulette politics in georgia as in many places of course. but here in particular it is extremely polarized and, and it's personality driven. so on the one hand, you've got the george and dream governments that for all these year

but mister sac cash vitti says now is the time to, to show the georgia public have had enough of these governments. and he's really seizing this moment coming in just at the eve of this election and important election for georgia to, to really mix things up and a to create some kind of big question mark over. exactly how his, how the results gonna turn out tomorrow. because his, his presence in georgia could have the stabilizing influence here. ok, robin forest walker in tbilisi. thank you. it's time for the weather. his kara hello there for the middle east and live and it's hot and it's dry and it is relatively settled about from northern areas of iran. we are seen some rain trickle down on a bit of a brisk, a wind blowing across the caspian sea. but for the south of this, it is very hot and dry temperatures above average for iraq and q 8 as well as katina. we got a bit of a shamal wind that's going to come into play, kicking up a bit of dust, some hazy sunshine, but the temperatures are going to dip down slightly. it is going to feel a little bit cooler in this area. i just want to b

in saturday's election, robin for astir walker reports from tbilisi prime minister iraqi got about vittie came on air and told georgians that, that the president of georgia because suckers really had been detained. we're hearing some details about this or may.