(20 Aug 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Russian checkpoint, with Russian military vehicles arriving from Gori, pan to right of screen and Russian tank with troops on top driving across road
2. Yellow buses of Georgian Red Cross passing checkpoint and making their way into Gori
3. Various of troops at checkpoint
4. Blue van arriving from Tbilisi, white car arriving from Gori, stopping at checkpoint
5. Cutaway tank by side of checkpoint
6. More of blue van and white car being checked and driving away
7. Russian tank driving onto road from right side of the road, driving off towards Gori
STORYLINE
Russian troops were seen still manning a checkpoint outside the Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday morning.
The checkpoint is located some six kilometres (3.7 miles) outside the central city which straddles the vital west-east highway to Tbilisi.
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.
The Kremlin said President Dmitry Medvedev told French President Nicolas Sarkozy by phone that troops would withdraw from most of Georgia by Friday - some to Russia, others to South Ossetia and a surrounding "security zone" set in 1999.
His call came as NATO allies met in emergency session in Belgium and demanded Russia fulfil its promise to withdraw its forces from the small former Soviet republic of Georgia.

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