Walid Phares, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who has written about Georgia and its breakaway republics joined RT to give his comment on the media coverage of Georgian - South Ossetian conflict.

A former British Diplomat in Moscow, Christopher Granville, discusses how the  Georgia–South Ossetia conflict might affect the often-fragile relationship between Russia and the West.

In a discussion of the Ossetian crisis with RT's political commentator Peter Lavelle, deputy editor-in-chief of the Zavtra magazine, Aleksandr Nagorny, said negative reaction and criticism of the West would not lead to any breakthroughs.

Russia should limit the use of military force against Georgia to avoid drawing other countries into the conflict, says military expert Ruslan Pukhov from the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.

Tbilisi is turning the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict into a propaganda tug-of-war. Kirill Bessonov, a journalist with the Moscow News newspaper, has been looking at the issue.

Giulietto Chiesa, an Italian member of the European Parliament, said to RT Georgian president Saakashvili had no legal right to have a European flag behind his back declaring war to South Ossetia.

Natalya Narochnitskaya, Head of the European branch of the Democracy and Cooperation institute, shared with RT her view of the situation in South Ossetia.

Mahmoud Kanbar, a reporter for RT's Arabic network who has just returned from South Ossetia to Russia, spoke to RT about the bombing of Tskhinvali. He says Georgians were firing at everyone they saw there.