Georgia protesters intensify action

Opposition leaders in Georgia have said they will protest around-the-clock in an effort to push their country's president from power, as demonstrations continued into a fifth day.Thousands of people gathered outside the parliament in Tbilisi, the capital, for Monday's protest, demanding the resignation of Mikheil Saakashvili.Protest leaders said they would move their demonstration to outside the president's offices in an attempt to increase pressure on Saakashvili, who has flatly refused to give in to his opponents' demands."Unfortunately our large-scale protests have not been enough for the president to resign," Kakha Kukava, a leader of the Conservative Party, said on Monday."So we have taken a decision to move towards the presidency where a protest will continue on a round-the-clock basis," he said.Helena Bedwell, a journalist in Tbilisi, told that protesters plan "to continue a permanent rally outside the presidential palace and the parliament"."They decided to put up some tents here [outside the presidential offices] meaning they want to stay overnight. They also plan to put up so-called 'prison cages' to symbolise imprisoned democracy," she said. 

Demonstrators are angry at Saakashvili's handling of last year's Russia-Georgia war and accuse him of failing to run a democratic government.