A taste of whats to come. Now could i tell ya that. I got off on the wrong song but. This is. It. On a commune was a thing or two to try to. More on that film coming up a little later in the program but first he used to be the president of georgia then Mikhail Saakashvili joined the Ukrainian Government fell out with the government became a protest leader and now he has been deported to poland unidentified men in Army Uniforms reportedly grabbed him from a restaurant in kiev earlier on monday he was then taken to an airport and put on a plane to poland the country from which he illegally entered ukraine last year his supporters are crying foul saying it is just the latest corrupt action of Petro Poroshenko government who are we to believe our correspondent in kiev weighs in in just a moment first this report. I a sudden interruption of the usually come lunchtime at a georgian restaurant in kiev guess start filming the scene with their phones as a number of masked men and kemah flush enter and detain one of the guests his name because the former president of georgia over there wonder its a kidnapping and not a detention because detention should be based on either a Court Decision or some other proceeding documents that was not the case. It looks like someone is trying to illegally send mikhail out of ukraine with you know my heart that was. What i really was indeed taken into custody and transported to the airport the Ukrainian BorderGuard Service says he was illegally in the country. Really moved to ukraine in two thousand and fourteen as an advisor to his student friend and the countrys president Petro Poroshenko back then he traded his georgian citizenship for a ukrainian one but soon the two allies had a fall out when saakashvili started criticizing poroshenko government and launched a nationwide Anti Corruption campaign he lost his office and became a stateless person after his passport was rescinded last september he returned to kiev despite being far from welcomed. His deportation now comes as no surprise only last week a Ukrainian Court rejected his appeal to be given special protection against a possible extradition. Really is now in poland the country from which he left crossed the border into ukraine forced or agreed to take him because he is married to an e. U. Citizen. And for more lets bring in w correspondent Nicholas Connelly who is standing by with the latest from kiev so nicolas what more do we know about this mysterious case. Well sarah as you saw in that report its been an eventful few years for me cause second civilian today was no exception we got word mid afternoon that this detention was going on you know happened very quickly. And within a matter of minutes his supporters would rushing to airports and roads leading west trying to stop him being taken out of the country they have successfully stopped his arrest intention to petition for christmas but this time they werent fast enough it seems like ukrainian authorities said look they had a lesson and it was all very fast these people who werent wearing official uniforms who were just in camouflage who turned out later to be members of ukraines Border Guard Service had taken him to an airport where a private jet was waiting for him taking him to war so where he is now lets talk a little bit more about his position there in ukraine because we know we actually have footage from earlier this month of saakashvili parading through the streets of kiev saying that he wanted to quote dismantle this rotten and corrupt system calling for Petro Poroshenko as resignation saying that that is only the first step essential these two men they were once political allies walk us through what happened. Well even more than political allies these were friends from their student days theyve managed their very long time since the late eightys when sex really was studying here in kiev at the same time the pushing towards so twenty fourteen a year off to leaving office in georgia has to be said that he did leave office peacefully off the losing an election in georgia something thats not necessary given in this part of the world. Really came to ukraine at the time of the mud on uprising against the then president in a coachs time where ukraine was striving reactively towards integration with europe and towards fighting the corruption that has dogged this country for the last two decades and he was brought in as someone with experience of carrying out radical and she corruption reforms back in his time in georgia and he was given the position of governor of a desa region desa one of ukraines most important cities and the region surrounds it also one with the population so this was an important job he was given the task of trying to clean up the port particularly the deficit which was historic a big source of illegal income of. People bringing think things through without paying customs juju cheese it was a big sense of corruption but he got very disappointed very quickly about a year into the job he said the present course wasnt really interested in change he wasnt giving him the back up to really change things to go off the people who were preventing change and that was the time they fell out and that billy went from being the government insider here to being an opposition an opposition figure out in the streets. Tell us a little bit more nicholas about that that progress and how much support saakashvili has in the country i mean he says that hes campaigning against corruption is he really or is this really just a power grab on his part. Of course i think he this is definitely someone with ambitions this is someone who wouldnt say no to becoming president himself hes being a president already having said that i think one doesnt exclude the other he has this track record of pretty radical reform in georgia and its certainly something that would appeal to people here in ukraine something seeming a lot more easily understood by people here than maybe more abstract talk about. Democratic reforms corruption saying that people have to deal with on a daily basis it has to be said that he hasnt been able to bring out huge crowds in recent months his most recent demonstrations last week and he have brought out only about two off thousand people he was organizing a big demonstration in kiev this coming weekend and across ukraine in several cities. The big test i think will be to see how far hes able to mobilize that support from outside the country his allies or none of them have the same standing the same. Publicist the he has had so that really will be the crucial test if hes enjoying popularity whether or not he can actually bring more people out on the streets now following his deputation and and the scandal surrounding that or whether this fizzles out yeah the big question is will he be able to do that especially from poland where where he is now located given that he is in poland nicolas do you think that ukraine has seen the back of him i mean last time he simply marched back in across the polish border into ukraine. Well exactly i mean some because its really is nothing if not brave in december he was running across the roofs just behind me here on kievs my don square trying to delay his detention by peoples income a flawed as this time around that time he was able to prevent his detention his supporters turned up in big numbers and were able to free him. I think he said we can definitely i can expect some exciting and very colorful stunts from and the last time around he was able to get some fairly senior ukrainian figures to wait for him at the border and to bring him across so i think thats definitely one of the options i think hell be taking stock of his support he definitely has very good connections historically to polands current government they were very much on his side of the time of the two thousand and eight war with russia because his flight flew to tbilisi to give them their support his give him their support back then he will be looking to the u. S. Where he has historically had close ties to john mccain and other republican politicians so i think you know this is definitely the last chapter in the second really story hes only fifty hes not old he has a lot of energy someone who thrives on the adrenaline rush and this is also a personal story hes rivalry with fortune who is not just about politics this is a personal friendship that sense hour and he said very much today that he sees himself coming back to ukraine coming back to georgia and that he will carry on fighting Nicolas Connelly and thank you. Turkey has been digging in for its offensive against kurdish fighters in syria and it is also looking to shore up support on the home front most turks back Operation Olive Branch as its called a military incursion launched last month into syrias afrin region turkey views kurdish militias stationed there as terrorists and a threat to its southern border president branch of type pair to one has warned of a heavy price for anyone who speaks out against the deployment davies turkey correspondent yulia hunt reports. They are knitting for the soldiers in the battle server all times a week these women meet in istanbul district they make national haps to be sent to the turkish Syrian Border a gift for the troops at war. Often the a scout leader we want our soldiers in our printer know that we support them as their mothers and sisters they have everything they need but this is our way to show that we are with them. To see us us i hope our soldiers will return home safely they shouldnt have to freeze thats why were sending them these hats and our prayers. And that is he has a license and. The mayor of this could just set up the project hes a member of the ruling a k party and believes every turkish citizen should stand unconditionally behind the military operation in syria. We dont have any problem with those who say no to war but if our country is being drawn into war we need to fight. Those who say no to war have a hidden agenda they are actually supporting the terrorists and this is something we cannot tolerate him. For satirists. Public support is strong with polls suggesting more than eighty percent of turks back the operation criticism is not well come president and one is the blunt he calls those who oppose the war terrorists love us. Samit mean good she knows what that feels like he represents turkeys biggest medical association surely after the military offensive began the doctors had published a declaration saying no to war peace now a few days later in the event of his colleagues were detained on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda they have since been released but the authorities reaction shocked me which which. Is why were those doctors detained. First and foremost because of the Political Climate in this country most of them. We are going through a time with no tolerance for dissenting voices or contrary opinions. We stand by our position that saying no to war is not a crime it shouldnt be a crime in this country. Which almost. Within the first two weeks of the operation nearly six hundred people have been detained here in turkey on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda even if many are released just after a few days the message just clear whoever opposes the turkish offensive in Northern Syria should think twice before saying any criticism in public. Medium it virally also believes the operation should not be criticised quite the opposite to support the offensive he decorated his next stall in istanbuls conservative neighborhood with turkish flags and hes donating some of his takings to the soldiers. Everybody can support the party they want i wouldnt judge. But when National Security is at stake you have to back your country. You dont question why we go into africa. Well we can see on television why its necessary to be there. The operation will go on until after it is freed from terra just as the government says theres a month because that those on the garlic has one thousand five hundred euros to send to the frontline and he wants to continue with his project for the moment there is no end in sight to turkeys military offensives in syria. And as we just heard there from our correspondent no end in sight to turkeys offensive for more lets bring in now to allow darkie a syrian film director of kurdish descent who lives in exile here in berlin thank you so much for joining us here on the day for but we know that you worked as a freelance camera man for c. N. N. For Thomson Reuters youre quite familiar with war zones in fact youve done a lot of your work there when you see images like like we saw in our piece there from turkey when you see the clampdown on antiwar voices in turkey do you think that peace will ever return to syria mean its its quite complicated no because its more like a Global Global news the local people in there are there so you cant exactly when theyre when their book it become empty or when they when something so all all the all the people who have power or in the garment even like the government or the opposition or the jihadist together or the kurdish they they still not clear about what is the future if the syrian agree about what is the future and they have the power to bring it to the whole to the United Nation together. And this is this is like the legacy of it still there are people still want to fight still want to get to revenge and like the wars have been also between like. Opposition. And the army who. Are its also like most dangerous thing because if you look there are twenty five million screwed into the war there both to their lives and their wounded were not to be entered in the civil war in the future because theyre exposed. And we dont know if they know how to start a they never know but did know how to end the war and youve managed to tap into and show firsthand that legacy of hate between various different groups you know across borders within syria i want to turn to your latest work this is a film you recently won actually the grand jury prize the twenty eighteen Sundance Film Festival in the world cinema documentary competition so first of all congratulations to you the documentary is called fathers and sons and id like to play a short clip and then we can get your take there after. Move over. This incredible footage that you shot in this film you were embedded in fact with the nose for front thats of course the army there in syria what awaits those boys in this film. I mean they are they belong to the third maybe who believe in god he fought the father and theyre their uncles there or like waiting to come to the profits from the as what mohamed saved when the physics not clear if he said that but anyway so they say they want their kids to fall of the jihad very early to just. Be barred from the fight since before they become a teenager even so so i was there to understand more of those people. In the closing groom what make you become what you are how the legacy of utter legacy of violence its transferred from father to his son. To their generation who dont have any background about life except war so they dont know that there is theres a possibility for peace or normal life or opening lives or. These do have the brainwashed and its quite interesting to see the love that is intertwined with the violence we actually see at some point the father he brings his newborn son on to be aaron says that he named him osama after osama bin ladin because he happened to be born here nine eleven something that he was really quite quite proud of what sort of love is this this is like the love like also local even in normal relationship love somebody to limits you you want to to learn it to to bend to the future what you should speak who should think what you should do so this is also what. Was happening to this society to a many society in the middle east and the more so the kids they dont have the chance to decide what they should do be in future and they did they do still there is a vibe in this. In the dedication they use hands to to indicates theyre. Not only in families. Also in schools the field of violence which and if you look to a kids where they are so much sensitive they are innocent if they are brought like the glasses this is would never be fixed again it would be someone else and this is what the theme is about being something you need never to be like that. And these children i mean they were born into this situation in your other film that also won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival that was returned to homs and you show a progression actually of mentality between the two figures the two characters that you follow in the documentary tell us a little bit more about that i mean they are they are from this generation that. Moved the demonstration and they move this movement against the assad regime because of like killing a lot of people in the street because of the political stew issue and because of the economy its too ation because like im one of pretty the authority since forty years when bottom inability everything on me economy everything its there therefore its country becomes too far people still who some of people reach so much reach and the others are totally who and this is what those are the ration like to decide to to to figures like a singular and one is a commitment one get killed in the get arrested and get killed by this of the regime becoming divots he did get under torture there are those that lost you his family that their sons get killed and the other still fight in the north of syria well and they went from just Peaceful Protesters on who gets killed that he was he wasnt of the n. B. C. Poll and he was against are against use equip and against fighting. Well how have you seen the progression because we know that now homs has been taken of course by the assad regime you know the these people who you were following who have gone from Peaceful Protesters to rebel insurgents the others what has happened to them i mean whats happened to the city its still like ruins they are no city anymore especially the area where where it was the. Conflicts must fight two wars at big. Its like every other blaze destroyed during this war and its taken back to the City Government they didnt did anything its just still like for were going