Georgian lawmakers brawl as parliament set to pass 'foreign agent' bill

Georgian lawmakers brawled in parliament on Tuesday during a debate on the third and final reading of a bill on "foreign agents" that has plunged the South Caucasus country into an extended political crisis and sparked mass protests. Georgia television broadcast scuffles between ruling party and opposition lawmakers, who pushed each other and gesticulated angrily during debates on the bill, which government critics and Western countries have criticised as authoritarian and Russian-inspired. If the bill passes on Tuesday, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has said she will veto it.