| Kettle boiling | Music | 00:00 |
| cup filled with boiling water | ||
| Narrator | While most people pray for stability and a | 00:009 |
| more prosperous future the countries political | ||
| elite has delivered fresh turmoil.Mina Torintilas | ||
| Cut to Mina Torintila | son sent her a letter when he found out the army | 00:23 |
| was sending him to chcechnya | ||
| Mina siiting at a coffee table | 00:38 | |
| reading the letter out loud | 00:57 | |
| pictures of her son | ||
| She hasn’t heard news of him since the army | ||
| information service hasn’t told her were her | ||
| son is or whether hes alive or dead | 01:04 | |
| Back to Mina | ||
| Mina watching television | 01:23 | |
| where a military officer is | ||
| making a public speech | she watches television hoping for a clue and | 01:34 |
| time expecting the worse | ||
| News footage of war ridden | 01:57 | |
| town | This is Russias first television war in Dramatic | 02:08 |
| reporters speaking in | Contrast of the Soviet times Russian soldiers | |
| Russian | are appearing on news programs critisizing | |
| their commanders.State controled Channels | ||
| Cut to inside HTP news o | give sanitized versions of opinions but the | 02:31 |
| studio | indipendent network HTP is showing Chechnya | |
| in all its horror and feeling the heat for its trouble | ||
| There has been a threat to the owners | ||
| license and the accusations for the senior | ||
| government figures puts its journalists in the | ||
| pay of rebel Chechnans . | ||
| Russian news reporter | Translation | 03:00 |
| speaking to camera | The war in Chechnya has demonstrated that | |
| the Russian media are genuinly free to say and | ||
| print what it likes most russians gains access | ||
| to a range of newspapers and television | ||
| programs given them a balanced account of | ||
| events This media coverage of Chechnya is | ||
| just a reminder of just how out of touch | ||
| Chechnyan political leaders are with public | ||
| interviews of Chechnyan | opinions even more omnesly perhaps even if | 03:31 |
| residents on television | they wouldn’t care about pubic opinions | |
| young reporter on | Thers a new generation of journalists reporting | 03:38 |
| Television | war A generation that has never worked | |
| for the state controlled media and isnt afraid to | ||
| report what it sees | ||
| Cut to Tv studio | 03:45 | |
| Editors sound mixers | ||
| and journalists at work | 04:07 | |
| Sergei is reporting the war for independent | ||
| Sergei interviewd | television | 04:11 |
| mother reuniting with her | 04:46 | |
| son | ||
| clips of mothers and sons | The Chechnyans quickly recognized the power | 05:00 |
| of television in this war they quickly set up a | ||
| mother searching for her | reunion with Russian soldiers and their mothers | 05:11 |
| son in a crowd of hundreds | ||
| Thousands of Russians headed to the warzone | 05:27 | |
| in search of their sons most get no further than | ||
| the town of muzdoc just outside chechnya | ||
| were the old Soviet sign which means We need | ||
| peace offers just as much hope as the armys | ||
| beaurocracy | ||
| mothers enquiring about | 05:45 | |
| their sons to soviet soldiers | ||
| the highlight of a long and unusual day is the | ||
| cut to inside of | mail bag | 06:19 |
| car onlooking at | ||
| tanks passing by | ||
| but when ther are no letters the army cant | ||
| exterior shot of car in | or wont say what happened some mothers try | |
| road | to get to the front to find out for themselves | |
| int.car elderly woman | 06:39 | |
| Vera Seragrova came with us to the | ||
| Chechnyan capital to try to look for her 18 | ||
| year old son Alex The Russian troops are still on | ||
| Soldiers checking | a war and movement in and out is still tightly | 07:02 |
| civilians for weapons | controlled. Mines have been set at the road b | |
| blocks and there are other hazaards to deter | ||
| for those thinking of cue jumping | ||
| Tanks in the streets | Having cleared Grozni of most Chechnyan | 07:25 |
| passing by Vera looking | Fighters Russian troops are trying to make | |
| dissapointed and sad not | sure no more weapons come back in | |
| finding her son | ||
| Pictures of Veras son | Veras son is in a parachute regiment and | 07:34 |
| she knows that he and some men from the same | ||
| Vera and 2 men | town spent time in Grozny | 07:40 |
| Vera aproaching a gate | Theres Even less hope at our next stop | 08:06 |
| asking soldiers | ||
| questions and no one has | ||
| answers | ||
| Vera and to Reporter | ||
| 08:55 | ||
| Shots of the ruined city | ||
| music | 09:06 | |
| elderly couple | 09:22 | |
| military vehicle aproaching | Isa and his wife Senaida are Chechens they | 09:33 |
| left when the bombing began and theyre | ||
| heading back to find out whats has happened to | 09:56 | |
| elderly couple discovered | their house they know its been hit just how | |
| their destroyed house | badly | |
| Isa enetering the rubble | As children they would have deported along | 10:00 |
| wich was once his house | with the entire Chechen nation 50 years | |
| on politics has once again driven them from | ||
| their home | ||
| Isa and his wife and reporter | 10:15 | |
| Translating | ||
| I have no time for the Chechen Independence | 10:25 | |
| leader to take the country into chaos nor the | ||
| russians | ||
| Soldiers in military truck | 10:32 | |
| more than 20 soldiers | music | 10:41 |
| sitting on a tank | ||
| soldiers chatting | Krozny is a soldiers town now any 18yr old | 10:49 |
| with a kalashnikov thinks hes in charge.Theres | ||
| reporter walking through | no real law here at the moment it was never a | |
| run down Krozny | beautiful place but when I was here a few months | |
| ago it still had some life about it there were shops | ||
| and a market.Tlooking at the city now there is | ||
| nothing left.It hasn’t just been bombed its been | ||
| oblitherated | ||
| Its possible of course to impose a government | ||
| and of course its possible to rebuild cities | ||
| here in the Chechnyan capital Krozny they are | ||
| gonna have to do both around that new buildings | ||
| only cost money but the Russians have used | ||
| so much force in Chechnya and the loss of life | ||
| has been so heavy they are alienating some | ||
| Chechnyans that opposed to Dyer and | ||
| looked to moscow for aid | ||
| int house | ||
| Reporter and zaindi | Zaindi was a member of the Chechen | 11:53 |
| provisional council the body Moscow says that | ||
| will form the core of a new administration | ||
| end interview | 12:39 | |
| military | 13:02 | |
| almost from the time this war began Moscow | ||
| been saying that its just on the verge of | ||
| creating a new civilian government in Chechnya | ||
| To restore a law and order its so obviously | ||
| lacking under the dyer of reshingf | ||
| end | 13:47 |