welcome back here's a recap of the main stories you're on our team that's moreas american security firm blackwater and goes on trial but for overbilling the government and not for killing civilians in iraq despite claims of atrocities against innocent people the u.s. resorts to using more contractors on foreign missions. the region intelligence says the far right suspect would mitigate deadly terrorist attacks that claimed seventy six lives acted alone but europe's growing nationalistic mood

is heating fierce of nor violence elsewhere. britain is officially recognizing libya's opposition as the country's legitimate leaders and is stepping up the diplomatic offensive against colonel gadhafi it's also on freezing one hundred fifty million dollars of libya or lost that's to help fund the rebels. r.t. now it takes you to a corner of the baltics that spent the past two decades tackling its soviet legacy that's coming up next. vilnius is the capital of lithuania the city changed hands many times during the twentieth century the world war one the poles were in charge then during the second world war nazi germany took control when the soviet army drove the fascists out of the baltics the city became if you raise capital mons again in the country join the

soviet union where they like saying in russia we liberated the lithuanian people from that see germany go to that i add the following yes you did but you didn't bother to leave afterwards did we. get that when perestroika go under way in the late one nine hundred eighty s. if you are a neo was one of the first soviet republics to demand independence. was far as we're concerned felonious is the capital no it's moscow that's the way it has been and will it be in the future. the confrontation between the soviet empire is weakening center of the rebellious baltic republic resulted in street clashes. fourteen people were crushed by tanks hundreds were tipped. off that as a town came to hold when my leg was called between the caterpillar tracks i realized then that there was no escape other than death. if you a new one its independence in one thousand nine hundred one small baltic republics

then desperately try to join european structures and leave its soviet past behind as fast as possible. if you any in business money the humans will announce because lives in the village a group has one hundred twenty kilometers from vilnius he runs a lucrative business selling the mushrooms and berries that grow on his land but another source of income is also his hobby. you know if you walk around the whole park you'll cover to cologne matters the park contains one hundred thirteen different open air sculptures.

in soviet times the sculptures held pride of place and if you end in cities and towns. after the fall of the soviet union they were taken down and fell into neglect. that prompted the you must to set up a cock dedicated to let you ania's sunday of history. this open and museum welcomes visitors or year round and there's no shortage of them in for. foreigners and lithuanians and large come here to get a glimpse into the country's relatively recent past. here people learn something about socialism and what we went through in those times . the iron curtain weighed down very heavily on the soviet union the outside world knew little about this country. in one thousand nine hundred if you decided to split from the soviet union if you were in his parliament that by the tout as

landsburg is declared the republics independence samson's back to the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize this un to statehood. first the speech or said emotional words about freedom. then the craze began singing literally as anthem many people how to reason their eyes they couldn't sing along because they were so overcome with emotion they saw that something was indeed changing they felt they could no speak up wizards fear. moscow saw the developments in this way as a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent to filmmakers i think. the kremlin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to compel the gumption of the republican to backing down.

we told him we had no right to rejoin the soviet union we have not said you know elected to tell you that you think. a massacre followed. the television center until this was assaulted on the night before taking. the building seats within a short time is when his independent television. i'm no more. you know we are being attacked. i can see is shots thermal science and they have seized the sweeney's radio center . is an anchor for a state run t.v. channel. but live report was a moment of triumph for the young journalist but her moment of glory came with a price. and they used accents to break the dogs

these patches in left here is a reminder of those events. that night fountains of people resolve to stop the troops by acting as a human shield. in order for moscow said the troops with the fire blank shells. and gallia police it was among the residents who protected the television center when the troops began firing bangali i was injured. yeah i think i managed to crawl away i thought that i had been able to get away from that town after all and that very moment my leg was caught between the caterpillar tracks where the sound came to hold. now the former bookkeeper has to use a wheelchair and receives a disability grant i mean freedom was worth at sacrifice and i have no

regrets i believe it's my destiny. fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives feel if you a news independence in one thousand nine hundred one. the new states government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy a lot was built in that equated soviet symbols to nazi ones. nowadays maven and the data not by soviet republics for the victory of a fascist germany is seen as just another ordinary day by most of the few aliens. in lithuania made a name for it is no occasion for festivities yes some people here did fight for the . way it has nothing to do with it russian politicians sometimes say we liberated the lithuanian people from nazi germany goodbye responses the following yes you did but then you didn't bother to leave afterwards one occupation had given way to

another. the fall if you when you got its independence veterans used to march through central vilnius on victory day but now they can only mark their holiday at a military cemetery. her government has creases an atmosphere where war veterans are called occupiers. occurrence propaganda slimes is that lithuania was a second time in one nine hundred forty four when soviet troops entered the country to try for germans i. know that young people have been brainwashed into believing that war veterans are ok pyres the veterans don't feel like they're mistreating in the streets yet. may the month twenty ten each of the fifteen veterans here for the sake of victory in the.

despite each of them being over eighty years old they've decided to march to the city center just as they used to in the old days. a band of enthusiastic musicians accompany them as they marched through the streets. supply comes from relatives holding flowers and colorful believe. people with nationalistic slogans like the streets but sometimes. the word came to an end when the last soviet soldier left the country in one thousand nine hundred ninety three. those soviet veterans can mark their victory and commemorate fallen heroes at a cemetery there tombstones there and people a lot of flowers at them. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology the symbols are not the only things affected by the campaign against lift u.a.d. had soviet legacy. it's

a december thirty first one thousand nine hundred eighty three ten so it's pm that was when the first power generating unit was officially linked to the country's power grid. this footage is from a film marking the anniversary of the eight million a nuclear power plant. the station metal the electrical needs of miss usa and to neighboring soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commission the plans for more powerful than any of the reactors at the time it would seem that this technological inherited from the soviet union might stand a few enduring good stead after independence the country itself would have a plentiful supply of electricity and also be able to sell a surplus to others it's a pretty. good year for making sure the gas supply still etherial were cut down in those years because of an economic slump like this nuclear power plant

provided of uninterrupted supplies of tricity to customers in lithuania valorise i'm glad re-opens theory in consumers bosses have the lowest prices which we pretty much failed idyllic syrian economy during that period of transition in fact we paved the way for the countries further economic development. of the. gulf to lift you and he left the u.s.s.r. it's all to join the european union with you a new was told that it could acquire e.u. membership on the condition that it shuts down the ignalina nuclear power plant. and even received funds to help dismantle the plants equipment and build storage for nuclear waste. the first reactor was closed in two thousand and four the other in two thousand and nine if you any of them join the e.u. . when. we were in the reactor room of the first unit nuclear fuel used to be

stored underneath. it was used to generate heat and electricity and. many of those who built the station and worked at it had to be trained in how to dismantle it. i put a turbine together with my own hands after it went into service my job was to maintain and repair it but in the past seven years i've been taking all that apart again with my own hands it's a pity creating something is much better if you ask me. and you'd miller and valarie good newton were made redundant when the station was shut down and there was no other work for them to go to. they were nice people working at the plants i enjoys working there we still keep in touch with them. to certificates a photo album and the film showing the jubilee celebrations and the only mementos

from those years. the european union funded the station's closure some of the money was earmarked for severance pay. says the allowance we were entitled to after decisions shop sign was four hundred dollars with no thought when the so-called crisis set in the summer was cut to three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get peeved. with. the decommissioning of the power plant instantly led to higher utility costs although lift you any accused to sell electricity to other countries today it buys it from them energy bills grow with each passing month those who worked at the station have had to slash their family budgets. and you've got the readings yes put them down fifty to three hundred forty seven writes how about the water hot water is ninety cold water is

eighty four that's it that's quite a lot so i have to say still we have to pay five times as much as we'd eat when we were fine it's back and december two thousand and nine it is. the former employees of the vehicle nina power plant will have to survive on their social welfare packages until they become pensioners unemployment is at over fifteen percent of its uranium officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your staff if u.n. yet is one of the five poorest countries in the european union. welcome to the. what makes a big splash in the world of high tech business what turns events science into i

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a restitution will hold his post and if you a after declared independence collective farms were disbanded the land was handed over to some of its former i would as far and j understand each received sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his father third. on jay's an engineer his wife is an accountant but they became farmers against their will. a severe economic slump began after lithuania declared independence unemployment had read its head for the first time in the post soviet region. we had to go into farming simply because we had no other source of income now i'm pretty certain our farm has no prospects you. could well cease to exist at any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin the least some of the crops and produce

all of their efforts to nothing there's no scope for the farm to grow the reluctant farmers don't have the money to say for a rainy day. most small farms here face a similar bleak situation. the government lost interest in large scale farming such as collective farms its policy in the early one nine hundred ninety s. was entirely wrong collective farms were raised to the ground and now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production only large farms have real prospects. and the two farmers enjoyed very hard times during the two thousand and eight economic crisis and jay and his wife were on the brink of bankruptcy their farm survived only because they had been working on it without hired help they had also managed without bank loans.

the influence of international capital in our banking sector amounts to nearly ninety percent when the crisis came right into our banks were primarily concerned about experience banks in stockholm copenhagen or always lou this is a tradition in lithuania was of secondary importance to them they stopped issuing loans and started exporting capital to help parents environ of course all violence has an effect on the situation here. is two and a half years old but much of her life has passed without her father he's been working in germany to make a living. meanwhile mother brother and sister live in the few a near the top where is your daddy. no daddy let's look for him. where is picture of him oh here. well don i know no

better you know whenever she sees a man in the street the first thing she says is mom this is and then add in daddy. she says that just in case the man responds. each friday off to work so dave visits an internet cafe in germany to speak to his family by making a video call so that the questions we get at school are real mind blowers again you cope with them yeah this five minutes of internet chatter keeps the family in contact until so gay can be with them for real again and that could be six months away. this is typical for lithuania which is joining the club of leading suppliers of manpower to western european countries. and now to something more to the point he sent us the money. yesterday yes

ok that will help the all star in the rental rate. in january two thousand and nine thousand of protesters crowded the main squares of most provincial towns in the few in here as well as its capital since the start of the crisis the government has been raising taxes and cutting social benefits farmers found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy civil servants and retired people struggled for survival. for example my pension is two hundred and forty dollars. extra money for hitting my flat. if i were to pay for it in through i'd have to pay forty dollars over and above my pension. when her eunice learned about government plans to

tax pensions on top of other taxes he decided to join protesters despite his age and poor health. generally the sixteenth to think. this. treating took place in vilnius near the parliament building. seven thousand people gathered. police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstrators. and when one of the bullets hit and seen us in the leg he was taken to an ambulance. who were the privileged rules outs when the cuts my trousers open it was a rubber bullets it's got stuck in a song i can't see it as a souvenir of sorts. of. the police brutality and dealing with the demonstrators spurred the public into action . an unprecedented number of people joined the opposition within

a short period. of numerous protests rallies and demonstrations were held. with people from the government bow to pressure to make some concessions several popular measures were cancelled but the move deepened the budget deficit. you get more democracy will set in only after several generations those who once had any idea of democracy have become soviet people in spirit and also have all of our politicians. the founder and owner of the park featuring the history of soviet lift ewing it says he's lucky that he's lived in a free country for the past twenty years but he notes the growing nostalgia for the soviet period lou misses pessimistic about his country's future and he's skeptical about the government's political decisions. i don't think the european union will last or even fifty years ago so it will break up in the same way as the soviet

union did the two are very similar in that they have both been a complete mass. of the. loomis says playing with the idea of expanding his park. modern day exhibits may soon be added to the collection. the trouble is this nobody yet knows who won't watch and will become a symbol of this un his new era. wealthy british scientists. let's. let.

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