because. hello this is r t international monitors kevin owen in moscow tonight on our top stories for you the u.n. security council is holding an emergency closed meeting of the fresh violence the disputed border area between serbia and kosovo claimed the kosovo authorities are imposing unilateral moves to stoking ethnic tensions. washington is refusing to stop its reconnaissance flights near china despite beijing's outrage over violating chinese sovereignty experts say the asian countries rapid minute revises are heading for the pentagon which is losing its world don't. plan

a heat waves breaking russia right now and it's raising fears that deadly small cannot return to the capital the wildfire season is underway along with underground i think twelve fires which cause choking smoke to blanket most of last year. to take out a quarter of the baltics that spent the last two decades tackling its legacy. to me as is the capital of live uranium the city changed hands many times during the twentieth century of 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 a nice capital most again of the country joining the soviet union. they like saying in russia we liberated the lithuanian people from that see germany that i add the following yes you did but you didn't bother to leave afterwards do we. when

perestroika got under way in the late one nine hundred eighty s. if you are a neo was one of the first soviet republics to the month independence. was far as we are concerned a phone use is the capital no small sco but that's the way as has been on whale a b. 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 hit. that the town came to hold to in my legless call 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 both agree public then desperately try to join european structures and leave it soviet past behind as fast as possible.

if you any in business among the you must 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. if you walk around the full park you'll cover two colors 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 volumes to set up

a park dedicated to let you in his sunday history. this open air museum well consider this is only around and there's no shortage of them in for. foreigners and if you any and tonight 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 . they are the curtain way down very heavily on the soviet union the outside world knew little about this country. in one nine hundred ninety if you decided to split from the soviet union if you as parliament led by the tout as landsburg has declared the republics independence thousands back to the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demanding that moscow

recognize this you when you stated that. first the speaker said emotional words about freedom. then the craze began singing literally as i'm from many people how to raise in their eyes they couldn't sing along for this they were so overcome with emotion this or that something was indeed changing they felt they could no speak up wizards fear. moscow so all the developments of this one year as a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent only as. 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 do that you say. a massacre followed.

the television center until this was assaulted on the night of january fourteenth. the building was sicced within a short time is when his independent television. i know more. where being attacked was. given i can see is shots trimmel science and they have seized the swingingest 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. i knew that they used accents to break the dogs these patches in that here is a reminder of those events. that

night phone thousands of people resolve to stop the troops by acting as a human shield. in order for moscow said the troops were to fire blank shells. and get it was among the residents who protected the television center when the troops began firing and galileo was injured. yes oh i think i managed to crawl away i thought that i had been able to get away from that town after all and at that very moment my leg was caught between a caterpillar tracks and the sound came to holt. now the former bookkeeper has to use a wheelchair and receives a disability grant i mean freedom was worth at sacrifice i have no regrets and i believe it's my destiny that every demand i have.

fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives for the few and his independence in one thousand nine hundred one. and you states government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy a mobile school gym that equated soviet symbols to nazi ones. nowadays made ninth the date an all boys soviet republics for the victory of a fascist germany is seen as just another ordinary day by most of the few aliens. developed in lithuania made a name for it is no occasion for festivities yes some people here did fight for out when it has nothing to do with the russian politicians sometimes say we liberated the lithuanian people from nazi germany by responses the following yes you did but then you didn't bother to leave afterwards the patient had given way to another. the fall is humane you got its independence veterans used to march through central

vilnius on victory day but now they can only mark that holiday as a military cemetery. her government has creases an atmosphere where war veterans are called occupiers. the current propaganda slant is that lithuania was all tied 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 demonstrating in the streets yet. may the ninth twenty ten each of the fifty 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 infusing us to

musicians accompany them as they march through the streets. supply comes from minutes it's holding flowers and colorful believe. people with nationalistic slogans lining the streets some but sometimes. the war 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 their tombstones their 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 me as soviet legacy. do you think you know the call december thirty first one thousand nine hundred eighty free ten zero zero eight pm that was when the first power generating unit was officially linked to the country's power grid. this footage is from the film marking the anniversary of the

acknowledge the nuclear power plant. the station metals the electrical needs of the few ways and two neighboring soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commission the plans for a more powerful and advanced than any of the reactors at the time of the same that this technological model inherited from the soviet union might stand if you even good stead after independence the country itself would have a plentiful supply of electricity and also be able to sell a surplus to others as a pretty. major. supply still etherial we're cutting in those years because of an economic slump but this nuclear power plants provided money interrupted supplies are barely tricity to customers in lithuania deloris i'm glad. theory in consumers it's not the lowest prices we pretty much

build a delivery in economy during that period of transition in fact we paved the way for the countries further economic development gets. off the list you any left the u.s.s.r. it's all to join the european union and if you a knew was told that it could acquire a human the ship on the condition that it shuts down the egg million a 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 i heard him say 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. with if you will 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. you'd miller and valarie did newton were made redundant when the station was shut down and there was no other work for them to go to so we were nice people working at the plants i enjoy 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 for you are entitled to after

decisions shops are in was four hundred dollars with no one 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 overall if you any used 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 of had to slash their family budgets. but you 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 thats it. that's course a lot so i have to say still we have to pay five times as much as we delete when we

were fine it's back and december two thousand and nine it is. the former employees of the original mean apollo plans will have to survive on less social welfare packages until they become pensioners unemployment is it over fifteen percent of if you bring it officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your or staffed this u.n. yet is one of the five poorest countries in the european union. wealthy british style. that's not on the title of much of that.

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. a restitution role was passed and if you ania after a declared independence collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to some of its former owners thing and jay under the cabbage received sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his father third and jay's an engineer his wife is an accountant they became famous against their will. a severe economic slump began off to 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 and now i'm pretty certain our farm has no prospects. their farm could well cease to exist at any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin a 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 man nine hundred ninety s. was entirely wrong collective farms were traced to the ground and now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production of 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 writings of our vines were primarily concerned about parents banks in stockholm copenhagen were always slow this intrusion in living it was of secondary importance to them they stopped issuing loans and started exporting capital to help parents environment 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 elder sister live in a few a near the top where is your daddy. no daddy let's look for him. lose the picture of him oh here. oh well oh no no you're better oh you know whenever she sees a man in the street the first thing she says is mom this is a man and 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. the questions we get at school are real mind blowers again you go 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 all out they'll sign the rental resident. in january two thousand and nine thousand of protesters crowded the main squares of most provincial towns and if you wait 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. and retired people struggled for survival. for example my pension is two

hundred and forty dollars in winter a basic extra money for heating my flat. if i were to pay for it in through i'd have to pay forty dollars over and above my pension. when our 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 sixty minutes two 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. when one of the bullets hit anson us in the leg he was taken to an ambulance.

we were at the village for all sites when the cuts my trousers open it was a rubber billet it's got stuck in a song i can't see it as a souvenir of sorts. but. the police brutality in 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. one of the government bowed to pressure to make some concessions several unpopular 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 you know so have all of our politicians. the founder and owner of the park featuring the history of soviet if

you ania 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 and you mrs 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 for even fifty years but 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. blue mrs plame with the idea of expanding his pocket. modern day exhibits may soon be added to the collection. the trouble is this nobody yet knows who will watch and will become a symbol of this un his new era. if

you while on the phone my. brother the. car sort of a throwback to the current kid codified law. and it goes back to a time when people would lie down in their forces in the wild lands and pick up these fugitives and for him to mention the sheriff for prosecution there's no money the company may fold. when they come out there he's come weapons. and you have to hope that nothing can. move.

forward facing killers and you feel to keep that in mind of the two million dollar bill because the risks. were not superheroes we can be killed to you know and i'm going to die. those who have been you know never go back to hunt anything else. comes.

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