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(11 Jul 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide exterior shot of parliament building
2. Wide top shot of parliament session
3. Wide shot of speaker
4. Wide shot of the session
5. Mid shot of deputies
6. SOUNDBITE (Georgian) Nikolas Rurua, deputy chairman of Georgia's National Security Commission:
"We are very seriously preparing our armed forces; they are able to unequivocally repel any such aggressive steps. And if Russia continues to act in this way, it will have to collect the shattered fragments of its planes."
7. Set up of David Zhvania, head of Georgia's Foreign Affairs Committee
8. SOUNDBITE (English) David Zhvania, Head of Georgia's Foreign Affairs Committee:
"Yesterday's statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation states, in a sense, a message to the world community that Russia is a kind of monopolist of using their military forces in the region and can act whatever Russia would consider favourable to herself. So it is very strong message and those actions of military intervention to Georgia should be prevented and this president should also be prevented by the international community".
9. Wide shot of the parliament lobby
10. Wide shot protestor outside Russian embassy
11. Protesters waving flags and placards (reads in English: "Russian Aggression out of Georgia")
12. Protester waving national flag, holding placards in Russian
13. Mid shot of protester with placards
14. Wide shot of protesters
STORYLINE:
Georgia's parliament met in session on Friday amid rising tensions with Russia, who it accuses of aiming to annex the province.
Russia has confirmed that four of its planes circled over the Georgian breakaway province of South Ossetia late on Wednesday for about 40 minutes, and said the mission was ordered to head off a possible "invasion" of the region by Georgian troops.
Georgia said the mission was an illegal invasion of Georgian airspace.
Nikoloz Rurua, deputy chairman of Georgia's national security commission, said on Friday that further overflights would not be tolerated, and warned Russia that it will have to "collect the shattered fragments" of its planes if they intrude on Georgian airspace again.
The head of Georgia's Foreign Affairs committee called on the international community to intervene.
The planes flew over separatist-controlled South Ossetia, whose de facto border with Georgia is around 30 miles (50 kilometres) from Tbilisi, where US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was on a visit.
Hours earlier, officials in breakaway Abkhazia accused Georgian officials of plotting a blast that killed four there on Sunday.
Georgia dismissed the initial accusations as "absurd and groundless."
Both South Ossetia and another province, Abkhazia, have been outside the Georgian government's control since the end of separatist wars in the mid-1990s.
Russia does not formally recognise either region's separatist government, but it maintains close contacts with them and has granted passports to most of the regions' residents.
Russia has peacekeeping forces in both regions; Georgia accuses the Russian forces of supporting the separatists.
Georgia has said it suspects Russia of using peacekeeping troops as a cover to bring artillery and other heavy weapons into Abkhazia, and has flown pilotless reconnaissance drones over the breakaway region.

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