(15 Aug 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Russian checkpoint with tank and trucks
2. Russian soldiers and dogs
3. Various of tank in bushes
4. Wide of two old women walking along road
5. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Internally displaced person, no name given:
"Who will help us, the whole region is destroyed. I am not crying for myself, but for my children and grandchildren - how are they going to live?"
6. Russian soldiers inside military vehicle driving through centre of Gori filmed inside vehicle
7. Damaged apartment block
8. Tracking shot of central square with statue of Stalin
9. Mid of Russian soldiers at checkpoint
10. Wide of Russian tanks at checkpoint
11. Mid of soldiers eating apples
12. Mid of tank in bushes
13. Wide of Russian soldiers walking by checkpoint
STORYLINE:
Russian troops on Friday allowed some humanitarian supplies into the strategic city of Gori but continued their blockade, raising doubts about Russian intentions in the war-battered country.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Tblisi, the Georgian capital, for talks with the president.
Gori, about 75 kilometres (45 miles) Tbilisi, is key to when, or if, Russia will honour the terms of a cease-fire that calls for both sides to pull their forces back to the positions they held before fighting broke out last week in the separatist region of South Ossetia.
Russian forces also are in several other cities deep in Georgia, officials say.
By holding Gori, Russian forces effectively cut the country in half because the city sits along Georgia's only significant east-west highway.
Russian military vehicles were blocking the eastern road into the city on Friday, although they allowed in one Georgia bus filled with loaves of bread.
AP Television filmed footage of Russian troops in and around Gori, and spoke to some of the estimated 100-thousand internally displaced persons.
"Who will help us, the whole region is destroyed. I am not crying for myself, but for my children and grandchildren - how are they going to live," said one woman.
Diplomats are focused on finalising a fragile cease-fire between the two nations and clear the way for Russian withdrawal.
Rice was to press Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to sign the deal, which would require major Georgian concessions.
The French-brokered plan calls for the immediate withdrawal of Russian combat troops from Georgia, but allows Russian "peacekeepers" who were in South Ossetia violence erupted of
violence to remain and take a greater role there.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was also travelling to the Russian Black Sea port of Sochi to see President Dmitry Medvedev with plans to discuss a resolution to the conflict.
In a report released Friday, Human Rights Watch said it has collected evidence of Russian warplanes using cluster bomb against civilian areas in Georgia.
The international rights group urged Russia to stop using the weapons, which more than 100 nations have agreed to outlaw.
The group said Russian military aircraft killed at least 11 civilians and injured dozens in the town of Gori and the village of Ruisi.
Russia's Defence Ministry denied the claim, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported, citing an unnamed official who complained that the organisation gathered the information from biased witnesses.
On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Georgia could "forget about" getting back South Ossetia and its other breakaway province Abkhazia; the former Soviet republic remained on edge as Russia sent tank columns to search out and destroy Georgian military equipment.
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