Guest: Andrew Walker, BBC economics & business correspondent
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Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday the U.S. has a "deep and abiding interest " in keeping Georgia and other neighboring states free from Russian domination and condemned what he said was Russia's attempt to change Georgian borders. The Vice President's visit comes a day after the White House announced a billion-dollar aid package to help rebuild the country following its conflict last month with Russia.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is holding talks today with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Tajikistan. Medvedev says China and four Central Asian republics have expressed understanding for Russia's actions in Georgia. Meanwhile, seven Western countries, including the United States, issued a joint statement condemning Russia’s decision to recognize Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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Yesterday Russia further stoked the fire of the Georgia conflict by announcing that is was recognizing the regions of South Ossettia and Abkhazia as independent states. Next, on The Takeaway, The Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist, Edward Lucas seems to think we are looking at the beginning of a long and bumpy road.
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Britain's Foreign Minister is headed to Ukraine attempting to build a coalition against what he's called Russian aggression, referring to the Russian military incursion into in another former Soviet state, Georgia. Ukraine's president Viktor Yushchenko -- who, like Georgian leaders, wants to join NATO -- has described his country as a hostage in a war waged by Russia.
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In the world of fashion, you get what you pay for, and that’s exactly the point Britain’s House of Lords has taken issue with. Clothing chains like H and M, or Forever 21 epitomize this trend of “Fast Fashion”- where it’s in one day and out the next. Does this simply foster a culture of irresponsible waste- or is this what being “fashion forward” means in the year 2008. The Takeaway talks to their own personal shopper of sorts, The Takeaway contributor Mary Elizabeth Williams.
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Guest: Madeline Albright, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1993-1997) and Secretary of State (1997-2001).
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Guests: Clifford Levy, The New York Times, in Moscow
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Guest: Richard Holbrooke, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton Administration and chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. He is currently vice chairman of Perseus LLC, a private equity firm.
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Guests: Peter Semneby, the European Union’s special representative for the South Caucasus
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Guest: "Bjorn Turoque" (Dan Crane), "Master of Air-Emonies" at this year’s Air Guitar World Championships
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Guest: Pascal Meige-Wagner, from the Eastern European Desk of the International Committee of the Red Cross
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Guest: Nick Childs, BBC, in London
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Guest: Chrystia Freeland, U.S. Managing Editor for the Financial Times
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Guest: Ivan Soltanovsky, Russia's deputy ambassador to NATO
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Guest: Nick Childs, BBC
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Guest: Jad Mouawad, The New York Times, covers the energy industry
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Guest: Clifford Levy, The New York Times, in Moscow
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Guest: Clifford Levy, New York Times Moscow bureau chief
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President Bush is accusing Russia of "bullying and intimidation" against Georgia, saying that the people in the former Soviet republic chose freedom and "we will not cast them aside." Bush, preparing to travel to his Texas ranch, said in a statement on the White House grounds this morning that he will keep in close touch with both Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice amid the continuing showdown between Moscow and Tbilisi over two separatist provinces in Georgia.
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Attention today is focused on the diplomatic moves by American, German and Russian officials. Meanwhile, Russia is continuing to consolidate positions inside Georgia. The separatist region of South Ossetia is under full Russian control, where Moscow appears to be moving to make its presence permanent.
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Guest: Dr. Gregg Hall, chair of The Department of Political Science at Morehouse College
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Guest: Jonathan Marcus, BBC News Diplomatic Correspondent, in London
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President Bush says Moscow's apparent violation of a cease-fire agreement puts its aspirations for global acceptance at risk. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is visiting Tbilisi but not Moscow, while President Bush is promising to "rally the free world in the defense of a free Georgia."
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Guest: Yuri Shafarenko, communications delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross, speaking from North Ossetia
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Guest: NATALIA ANTELAVA, BBC correspondent, reporting from Georgia
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Heavy fighting in the Republic of Georgia has displaced about 100,000 people. And that number could grow. After a week of heavy fighting, aid groups say they can't reach thousands of vulnerable people in South Ossetia.
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Guest: Jeffrey Mankoff, Adjunct Fellow for Russia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
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