8pm news showing speech of Georgian ambassador to UN Security Council. Standoff between Russia and Georgia. Russians are saying it is a joint US/Georgia plot. It's too hard to hear the English behind the angry sounding Georgian interpreter.
I wonder if the Russians are showing what the Georgians are saying about the Russian actions?
Civil.ge and rustavi2 websites inaccessible.
The Russians are apparently collecting evidence about Georgian genocide. Now which court were they thinking of trying that in? Setting up a war crimes court in Russia would open a whole can of worms for Chechnya. And their evidence would probably never stand up at the ICC and that also would be a precedent.
I can't imagine they can do anything other than make a lot of propaganda.
TV is now showing the airport with smoke in the distance, presumably where the latest bombing was. The airport is OK with people milling around.
Civil.ge says this:
A repeat air strike was carried out against the aircraft factory, TbilAviaMsheni (TAM), in the suburb of the capital Tbilisi at about 7pm local time, the Interior Ministry official said.
Eyewitnesses said that the bomb was dropped in the vicinity of the factory on an unpopulated area.
Russian aircraft dropped three bombs on the TAM's runaway early this morning, at about 5:40am local time.
An interview with the Ukrainian Foreign minister who has just arrived. He says he is unhappy with Russian ships joining in the conflict, but he is here to help negotiate peace.
The Patriarch's message or prayer for peace (I can't understand Georgian apart from a few words), he looks in marginally better shape than the last pope.
A meeting of ambassadors in Tbilisi: US, OSCE, Ukrainian (don't recognise the rest) with the Georgian government.
So far we have had 45 minutes of news without showing any hysteria or any wounded, just people interviewed in the countryside rather bemused about how this can be happening.
Now a series of clips from the US, Uk and the pope appealing for peace. Now Angela Merkel and Sarkozy.
Plus a website poll in which 85% said that the international community should intervene. Protests in Turkey.
