5 Days of War Page #4

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- I can't hear you.|- No bites. I'm sorry.

The networks are|all covering the Olympics.

The opening ceremony started today.

Did you mention a war started here?

taking the Kremlin line.

Medvedev is saying|the Georgians fired first,

and their troops|are just protecting their citizens.

in South Ossetia

suddenly have Russian passports.

Protecting them|by cluster-bombing villages

miles outside the conflict zone!

I know, Anders. I'm on your side.|You know what these people are like.

They barely find the time|to cover the war we're in.

You need to just... Hold on.

Putin's on from Beijing.

Actually, there is no secret about it.

We had considered all scenarios,

by the Georgian leadership.

about how to provide

and of Russian citizens

who are residents of South Ossetia.

neighbours, with all of our partners.

they can come and kill us,

that our place is at the cemetery,

such a policy will have for them.

What?

I said I wonder|what that will look like!

- Wait. That's it?

Where's the Georgian side?|No questions even?

F***ing unbelievable! Karin?

The networks|want something more personal?

Hey, Tatia! Everyone make it out OK?

I can't reach Sofi or my father.

The phones are not working in Variani.

- Look, I mean...|- Hey.

I think you need to take five.|Come on. Let's get some air.

Thank you.

- So, you studied in the States?|- Yeah.

Where?

New York. Political science.

Thought about staying,|but came back here to teach.

What is this? An interview now?

OK.

Where's the US?

We were there for you with Iraq,|and you're nowhere to be seen.

No. I... I agree with you.

My aunt and her husband got out OK|before the army closed the roads.

She said everybody else had to go|to nearby villages for shelter, so...

I gotta get back up there.

- We're going back north.|- Really?

Thanks for the offer.

I'm gonna go to my cousirs|and see my aunt.

Call us later.

What the hell was that?

Seriously, man, you mind|f***ing consulting me next time?

I don't want her coming north.|For her own good.

We need her. She needs us.

This is exactly the kind of story|the networks care about.

Missing family, reunion.

I don't want someone along|I gotta protect.

What, you believe|in your own reputation now?

Why? Because of Miriam? Giorgi?

Hey, check out this living hotness.

You've been the best|life insurance policy I ever got.

You are also a crazy motherf***er,|but we always come out OK.

And that's the way I like it.

I don't want complications and|entanglements. That's what I'm saying.

Tatia is not Miriam.

Anders, you've gotta let that go.

We came here to cover a war.

If we don't get a story,|this will all unfold unseen.

Yeah? OK.

You really think this is gonna work?

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