Ossetia

Guest: Matthew Collin, BBC World Service correspondent, in Tbilisi, Georgia

James Traub, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine says the hostilities between Georgia and Russia over the breakaway region South Ossetia should not come as a surprise. Guest: James Traub, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine

The BBC’s Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports that the tensions that started the conflict between Russia and Georgia are still at a boiling point in South Osettia.

Vice President Dick Cheney so far is NOT scheduled to appear at the Republican National Convention. He’ll be in Europe. The World’s Alex Gallafent tells us what’s on the Vice President’s itinerary.

Russia continues to defend its actions in the former Soviet state of Georgia. Meanwhile international condemnation mounted over Russia’s recognition of Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.