(14 Aug 2008) SHOTLIST
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of presidential residence in Tbilisi
2. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili approaching podium at news conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian President:
"Right now Russian troops physically control around one third of my country. We are talking about more than a thousand armour. We are talking about numerous air force detachments, but we are also talking about thousands and thousands of irregulars that the Russian army brought in. This army travels around with irregulars, this army travels around with murderers, this army travels around with rapists, this army travels around with arsonists, with robbers and with looters."
4. Close-up of European Union and Georgian flags
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian President:
"In front of the eyes of mankind, Russia troops are perpetrating ethnic cleansing, brutally, mercilessly in my country and in my territory, and we cannot do anything about it."
6. Cutaway of camera crew
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian President:
"We've been trying to reach out to the world, but I think the world should also think very carefully of what's really going on here, and help. I appeal for the help, maybe for many people it's too late. But I appeal for the help of every civilised person in the world to stop this uncivilised, barbarian, inhuman, treacherous, absolutely outrageous behaviour."
8. Close-up of dome at presidential residence with the Georgian flag at half mast
STORYLINE:
Georgia's president, Mikhail Saakashvili, said during a news conference on Thursday that Russian forces already control a third of Georgian territory.
Speaking to reporters in the Georgian capital Tiblisi, Saakashvili said a convoy was about halfway between the western cities of Senaki and Kutaisi and appealed for international help.
"We are talking about more than a thousand armour. We are talking about numerous air force detachments, but we are also talking about thousands and thousands of irregulars that the Russian army have brought in," Saakashvili told journalists.
"This army travels around with irregulars, this army travels around with murders, this army travels around with rapists, this army travels around with arsonists, with robbers and with looters," he said, without elaborating further.
Kutaisi, the country's No. 2 city, is toward central Georgia - not near the separatist provinces if Abkhazia and South Ossetia where fighting has erupted in recent days. Senaki sits some 60 kilometres (35 miles) from Kutaisi.
Saakashvili appealed to the world for more help.
"I appeal for the help of every civilised person in the world to stop this uncivilised, barbarian, inhuman, treacherous, absolutely outrageous behaviour," Saakashvili said.
His appeal came soon after Russian troops searched selected cities, forests and fields in Georgia on Thursday, looking for military equipment abandoned by Georgian forces during the week-old war.
Thursday's events presented a huge challenge to the EU-sponsored cease-fire agreement designed to end seven days of fighting that began after Georgia tried to regain control of South Ossetia.
The accord had envisioned Russian and Georgian forces returning to their original positions.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice headed to Georgia to ask the US ally to sign a cease-fire agreement with Russia that includes apparent concessions to Moscow but preserves Georgian borders, a US official said.
Still, analysts said there were holes in the EU plan to end the war between Georgia and Russia.
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