Thank you for downloading from the BBC. For details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to bbcworldservice.com/podcasts.

Welcome to the latest global news recorded at 1500 GMT on Wednesday, the 13th of August. I am James Manadath with the selection of highlights from across BBC World Service news today.

Coming up, after Russia and Georgia agree a ceasefire, we get the view from Tbilisi, where there’re bitter feelings at seeing Russian tanks on Georgian soil once again.

I blame Mikhail Sakashvili. He is a good guy and I agree with what he says, but what was he thinking trying to fight the Russians? Even the Nazis lost to them. How can our tiny nation win over this monster?

We’ll also hear from our correspondent who has just arrived in South Ossetia itself. Also in the podcast, we report from South Africa where victims of recent xenophobic attacks have been told they must vacate the government camps in which they have been taking refuge. We hear from the funeral of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

“Oh, our Palestinian people and our Arab and Muslim nations. Oh, lovers of peace and justice around the world. Today we all bid farewell to a star we loved so much that we adored him.”

Plus, the tale of the Iranian government minister who has been accused of faking an Oxford University degree. But first there is meant to be a ceasefire in place in Georgia. Late on Tuesday night after more than five days of fighting over the breakaway region of South Ossetia, both Russia and Georgia signed up to a draft peace plan put forward by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. And yet although the fighting has clearly died down, the embers of their short but brutal conflict are still burning. There has been shooting and looting in the town of Gori, and a heavy Russian military presence in the area. So how are Georgians feeling about this peace agreement. Our correspondent Natalia Antelava has been gauging the mood in the capital Tbilisi.

In Georgia’s national Cathedral, a prayer for the dead. Across town, in the intensive care unit of the Gudashauri hospital, the wounded are battling for survival. This doctor showed me around.

These patients are citizens or state officers, journalists, your colleague.

This is a, is really a journalist?

Yes.

Have you had another....?

He was wounded today morning in Gori, city Gori.

So it is not just the soldiers and the military, you have civilians...

No, no no, we have civilians, a lot of civilians.

So…

This woman also is a civilian. She also was wounded in city of Gori.

The emergency rooms are full here. This hospital alone received 500 patients in the last five days.

"Russians will not calm down until they get the whole of Georgia. They just won’t let us go”, Roman told me.

I met him at Gudashauri hospital. The seventy-year-old, he was hit by a shrapnel when the Russian warplanes bombed his village just outside Gori. I asked him who he blamed for the crisis.

I blame Mikhail Saakashvili. He is a good guy and I agree with what he says, but what was he thinking trying to fight the Russians? Even the Nazis lost to them. How can our tiny nation win over this monster?

But on Tuesday, thousands came to the Tbilisi’s main square to back President Mikhail Saakashvili. Mariam told me she didn’t like many of his policies, but she didn’t want to be told by the Russians who she should be voting for.

I had some problems with my president and the ways he was elected here but,  today, I think that we choose our president. I want her to defense my president and only Georgian people has [have] the right to replace or to choose them, its president, and nobody else has this right.

Thousands of people have gathered in Tbilisi’s main square in front of parliament. They are waving the red and white, the Georgian flags. But despite the colorful scene and the loud music, the mood here is very grim.

There were tears and a long minute of silence to honor those who have died. Young boys distributed flyers calling on people to donate food and clothes for thousands who have fled the violence. Then President Mikhail Saakashvili came out to speak.

It was a long passionate speech. And at one point, he reminded the Georgians how Russian tanks rolled into the square in 1991. "Never again", the Georgian president said, "should we allow the Russians to run us over." But Georgia has lost this war. It took the country 20 years to get rid of the Russian troops. Now they are back on the Georgian soil.

They are just making us to become braver, stronger, to stand here and defend our country. And we will never do other thing, never.