Russian Euronews biased in coverage of Russian-Georgian war (Video)

• 11.08.2008, 13:05

Footage of a helpless wounded woman in Gori, injured during Russian air strike’, was commented as following by the Russian editorial office of the EuroNews channel: “More than 2000 dwellers of Tskhinvali were killed, the leader of the republic South Ossetia Kokojty said”.

This inconsistence was notices by blogger romanik.livejournal.com.

“The TV channel Euronews is broadcast according to the principle: “one live coverage, different comments”. “Isn’t mean to “confirm” lies of one person by suffering of another?” the blogger asks.

Here is the news item in English:

http://www.euronews.net/en/article/09/08/2008/thousands-dead-in-south-ossetia-fighting/

The first images show Gori. The first paragraph of the comment: "The civilian death toll continues to mount as fighting escalates between Georgia and Russia over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia. Georgian officials said 60 people had died in the town of Gori when Russian planes attacking a nearby military base hit two apartment buildings."

At about 40th second of the news item EuroNews journalists show footage from Tskhinvali (a Georgian tank casualty) and say: "Russia’s ambassador to Georgia said that at least 2,000 civilians have died in South Ossetia’s provincial capital..."

Here is the news item in Russian:

http://www.euronews.net/ru/article/09/08/2008/thousands-dead-in-south-ossetia-fighting/

The first images show Gori. The first paragraph of the comments: “At least 2,000 civilians in Tskhinvali have died over the two days military conflict in South Ossetia. These are figures reported by Russian Ambassador to Georgia Vyacheslav Kovalenko on Saturday.”

When the Georgian shot-up tank is demonstrated, it is said: “In the evening South Ossetia president Eduard Kokojty said to Interfax news agency that Georgian troops attempted a second storm of Tskhinvali at daytime, but it was fought off.”