(11 Apr 2009)
1. Wide opposition supporters marching in Tbilisi street towards the Georgian Public Broadcasting building
2. Opposition supporters marching some with faces covered with masks
3. Opposition supporters marching
4. Mid of opposition leader Irakli Alasania addressing the crowd
5. Wide of people applauding
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Irakli Alasania, opposition leader:
"Beginning Monday we are going to have a new wave of protest, peaceful, organised so we're not going to solicit any more irrational behaviour from law enforcement or other agencies. It will be well organised and I believe that in future if these protest rallies will be enough for the president to hear the people's will. That will have an effect of course on developments in the future."
7. Wide of opposition supporters gathered in front of the Georgian Public Broadcasting building
8. Mid opposition supporters preventing car from advancing
9. Wide pan of crowd at the residence of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili
10. Protesters throwing carrots
11. Close up of man throwing carrots
12. Mid of people jumping like rabbits
13. Close up of man holding a rabbit with a red tie symbolising Saakashvili, zoom out he puts the rabbit behind fence
14. Carrots on ground (seen through fence)
++NIGHT SHOTS++
15. Wide of crowd in front of parliament
16. Various of opposition leader addressing protesters
17. Pan across people in audience with candles
18. Close-up of hands cupping candle
19. Wide pan of cheering crowd
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nino Burdzhanadze, opposition leader:
"I'm sure that lots of people not only from Tbilisi but also from the regions will be here (on Monday) despite of the pressure which comes from the government. They are trying to stop the people, to threaten the people and not to allow them to join us. We are going to stay here until (the) president will step down."
21. Wide of people under plastic covers
22. Man under umbrella
23. Wide pan of rally
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people marched through Georgia's capital Tbilisi on Saturday - the third day of peaceful protests calling for President Mikhail Saakashvili to step down.
The largest rallies were held outside national television stations, where protesters called for the demonstrations to be shown live.
About 10-thousand demonstrators protested on Saturday in three locations: in front of parliament, outside Saakashvili's residence and at the headquarters of the main state television channel.
Several thousand protesters then marched towards another national television station.
Saakashvili has vowed to complete his second five-year term, which runs through 2013, and he has called for talks with the opposition.
The protests are being led by a coalition of more than a dozen opposition parties whose leaders have long shunned dialogue.
But on Friday they said they were willing to talk to the president, if certain conditions were met.
No talks have yet been scheduled.
The protesters are most angry with Saakashvili over his handling of the brief war last summer with Russia.
The Georgian army fled ahead of invading Russian troops, and the country lost territory as separatists and their Russian allies took full control of two breakaway Georgian regions.
Protesters outside Saakashvili's residence on Saturday likened him to a frightened rabbit and threw carrots over the fence, a reference to the opposition's accusation that Saakashvili behaved in cowardly fashion during last summer's war with Russia.
In a further act of symbolism, protesters also dressed a live rabbit in a red tie before putting in through the fence.
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