The video for this story is not available, but you can still read the transcript below.
No image

Russia, Georgia Agree to Terms of Cease-fire Deal

The presidents of Russia and Georgia agreed Tuesday to the terms of a cease-fire deal aimed at ending the fighting over Georgia's breakaway province, South Ossetia. Vitaly Churkin, Russia's envoy to the U.N., discusses the crisis, and regional experts offer insight.

Read the Full Transcript

  • GEORGIAN CITIZEN (through translator):

    Saakashvili is to blame for all this. What he's done is kill a lot of people. We've lost some close friends in this war.

  • JULIAN MANYON:

    It is the old who have remained in this town under the bombing and deserted by their own army. I asked one old man why he had stayed.

  • GEORGIAN CITIZEN (through translator):

    I couldn't leave this town. I was born here. My family comes from here, and I will die here. I'm 70 years old. I've always lived here. How can I leave?

  • JULIAN MANYON:

    The man crossed himself. It's a prayer that his town badly needs.