WRAP Checkpoints, stranded lorry drivers ADDS Tbilisi reax

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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." Igoeti 7. Georgian police checkpoint 8. Close-up Georgian policemen carrying machine guns 9.Georgian man riding in a three mule carriage 10. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Koba (full name unavailable), local resident: "I haven't seen any Russians around today and life is quiet here for the moment." 11. Wide of Koba leaving Outskirts of Igoeti 12. Russian check point 13. Van driving through checkpoint 14. Army hat on the side of the road 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. Yellow buses of Georgian Red Cross passing Russian checkpoint and making their way into Gori 20. Russian soldiers in APC drive past checkpoint Road to Gori (6 km from Gori) 21. Journalist cars trying to go into Gori being turned back, zoom in to Russian soldiers Tbilisi 22. Wide of main square 23. Mid of fountain in main square 24. Mid of two Georgian flags 25. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Zurab, local resident: "Georgia is only a small country and how can we hit back against Russia? It takes ten hours to travel from one end to the other. We need to strike Red Square right at the heart of the Kremlin." 26. Various of newspaper stand 27. 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." 28. 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. 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 the Georgian city of 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. 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. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/34312d14091c1d5f0cf7594cb8d0dda9 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork