(20 Aug 2008) SHOTLIST
Near Tbilisi, on road between Tbilisi and Gori (25km away from Tbilisi)
1. Various of Georgian police checkpoint
2. Car transporting furniture on the roof racks driving through checkpoint
3. Close-up of road sign directing traffic to Gori and Sokhumi
4. Long convoy of parked Turkish trucks (gathered together in the hope to cross Gori today to go home to Turkey)
5. Close up of drivers sitting together talking by the highway
6. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Unidentified man, Vox pop, Turkish driver:
"We have been stopped here for 7-10 days already, we are hoping that the Russians will leave today and that we can go back to Turkey."
7. Driver walking alongside truck
Igoeti
8. Georgian police checkpoint
9. Close-up Georgian policemen carrying machine guns
10. Georgian man riding in a carriage pulled by mule
11. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Koba (full name unavailable), local resident:
"I haven't seen any Russians around today and life is quiet here for the moment."
12. Wide of Koba leaving pulling three cows behind carriage
Outskirts of Igoeti
13. Russian check point
14. Van driving through checkpoint
15. Armoured personnel carrier (APC) hidden in shrub
16. Two Russian soldiers sitting on side of the road
Near Gori
17. Russian checkpoint, with Russian military vehicles arriving from Gori,
Road to Gori (6 km from Gori)
18. Pan down to reveal APC at Russian checkpoint
Near Gori
19. Red Cross vans driving through checkpoints
Near Gori
20. Russian soldiers in APC drive past checkpoint
Near Gori
21. Tank in field with animals
Tbilisi
22. Wide of main square
23. Mid of fountain in main square
24. Mid of two Georgian flags
25. Various of newspaper stand
26. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Yuri Vachadze, local resident:
"The Georgian nation cannot believe what has happened. We are very worried. We will never let Georgia be denigrated in this way. We have done what we can and we will never be under Russia's control."
27. Wide of square
STORYLINE:
Russia began moving some troops back from Georgia but checkpoints established by both sides continued to stop traffic on the roads in and out of Georgia's main cities on Wednesday morning.
On the road between Tbilisi and Gori, about 25 kilometres (15 miles) away from the Georgian capital, truck drivers waited on the side of the road for permission to pass a Georgian police checkpoint.
A Turkish driver told AP Television he had been stopped there for more than a week but was hoping that the Russians would pull out on Wednesday so that he could return to Turkey.
A convoy of flatbed trucks carrying badly needed food aid to war-beleaguered Georgians has rumbled through a Russian checkpoint, waved past by soldiers who showed no signs of moving to fulfill the Russian president's promise of a pullback within two days.
Russia on Tuesday took the first steps toward a troop pullback from Georgia, with a small column - including three tanks, three trucks, five armoured personnel carriers and a rocket-launcher - leaving Gori.
But Russian troops were still seen on Wednesday morning manning a checkpoint outside Gori.
Journalists wanting to enter Gori were turned away at the checkpoint located some six kilometres (3.7 miles) outside the central city which straddles the vital west-east highway to the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
Russian control of the road has effectively split the country in half.
Some residents in Tbilisi believe it is time that Georgia take more decisive action against Russia.
"We need to strike Red Square right at the heart of the Kremlin," said Zurab a local resident of the capital.
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