welcome back this is all see a quick check of the headlines and. thousands have turned out across israel demanding the resignation of prime minister binyamin netanyahu in protestants some observers say never the demonstrations which have swept the arab world this is yet . another plan to avoid a u.s. debt default fails as the republican controlled house of representatives rejects a bill proconsul opposed by the democrats from taking part three hundred eight

hundred continues to try to reach a deal before tuesday's deadline with president obama urging congress to come said it before and. says veterans have gathered for that march in hysteria but it's once again caused outrage among us and it is a turning a blind eye to such meetings that can lead to more tragedies similar to what happened in norway. and there's the headlines up next it's our special report about its rainiest which gained independence from the u.s. the sinai nine hundred ninety one has been trying to leave its soviet past behind since that. julius is the capital if you wait in the city changed hands many times during the twentieth century the world will want 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 a few manias capital most again of the country joining the soviet union. they like

saying in russia we liberated the lithuanian people from that see germany at the should i add the following yes you did but you didn't bother to leave afterwards it was. you 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. it was far as we're concerned phone use is the capital notes moscow as the way is has been and i'm swale it be in the future. the confrontation between the soviet empire is weakening senta of the rebellious baltic republics resulted in street clashes. fourteen people were crushed by tanks hundreds were. things 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 the 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 and business of the you must know now scots lives in the village a group has one hundred twenty kilometers from vilnius he runs a nuke. it is 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 two color matters the park contains one hundred thirteen different open air sculptures.

in soviet times the sculptures held pride of place and if you any in cities and towns. after the fall of the soviet union they were taken down and fell into neglect. that prompted the humans to sort of a park dedicated to let you and his son teach history. this open a museum welcomes visitors or year round and there's no shortage of them in the. foreigners and with you any and some might 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 way down very heavily on the soviet union the outside world knew little about this country. in one nine hundred ninety decided to split from the soviet union. in his parliament that by the town just landsberg is declared the

republics independence thousands back to the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius these demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize this you when you stated that. at first the speaker said emotional words about freedom then the craze began singing literally as anthem many people had tears in 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 with ayers. dear. moscow soul the developments of this hearing it was a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent to leaders. the kremlin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to tell the gulf senate republicans are backing down.

when we will meet we told them we had no right to rejoin the soviet union we have not seen elected to do that you think. was a massacre followed. the television century until news was assaulted on the night of january fourteenth sneaking into. the building the scenes within a short time as you a news independent television. and are more. aware being attacked. i can hear shots from on science and they have seized the earth when his radio center. was not actually to as 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 never thought on they used access to break the dogs

if these patch has been left here as 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 were to fire blank shells. and jelly aplenty to was among the residents who protected the television center when the troops began firing and galileo was injured. yeah i think i managed to crawl away i thought that i had been able to get away from that sound after all and at that very moment my leg was caught between the caterpillar tracks and the sound came to holt of and yet. now the former bookkeeper has to use a wheelchair and receives a disability grant i need the freedom was worth the sacrifice and i have no

regrets i believe it's my destiny and i have. fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives from if you and his independence in one thousand nine hundred one. the states government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy a mobile school gym but equated soviet symbols to nazi ones. nowadays made the night a day to mark myself with republics for the victory of a fascist germany is seen as just another ordinary day by most of the few any of us without a little we made a name for it is no occasion for festivities yes some people here did fight for that but this way has nothing to do with it russian politicians sometimes say we liberated the lithuanian people from nancy 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 if you a new gauntlets independence trends used to march through central vilnius on victory day but now they can only mark that holiday at a military cemetery. yes there you are government has creases about miss fear where war veterans are called occupiers humen the current propaganda slant is that lithuania was a second time in one thousand nine hundred eighty four when soviet troops entered the country to drive the germans i see now that young people have been brainwashed into believing that war veterans are ok priors the french are in stone feel like demonstrating in the streets you. may have a 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 infusing our stick musicians company them as they marched through the streets. supply comes from minutes it's holding flowers and colorful but. people with nationalistic slogans lined the streets on both sides. one floor of 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. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology the symbols are not the only things affected by the campaign against the few anya's soviet legacy. this is december thirty

first one nine hundred eighty three ten so it's pm that was when the first power generating unit was officially links to the country's power grid. this footage is from a film marking the anniversary of the ignalina nuclear power plant. the station metal the electrical needs of miss usa and two favoring soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commissioned at the plant were more powerful. than any other reactors of the time in the same that this technological inherited from the soviet union might stand to endure in good stead after independence the country itself would have a plentiful supply of electricity and also be able to sell a surplus of its pretty. good. gas supplies to lithuania we're cutting in those years because of an economic slump but this nuclear power plant provided uninterrupted supplies of electricity to

customers in living really bellary. less european consumers the lowest prices we pretty much failed very deliberately an economy during that period of transition in fact we paved the way for the countries further economic development . of. off the list you and he left the u.s.s.r. its all to join the european union if you a knew was told that it could acquire a u. membership on the condition that it shuts down the eight million a nuclear power plant. even receive funds to help dismantle the plant 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 joining the e.u. . when. we were in the reactor room of the first unit nuclear fuel used to be

stored underneath. yet in the book it was used to generate heat and electricity and that. many of those who built the station and worked at it had to be trained in how to dismantle it. with a chemical but 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. you'd miller and valarie good newton were made redundant when the station was shut down but there was no other work for them to go to so we were nice people working at the plants i enjoyed 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. but the allowance we were entitled to after the station shut daryn was four hundred dollars for when the so-called crisis set in the summer was cut starting to three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get paid no. the decommissioning of the power plant instantly lead to higher utility costs although let 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 had to slash their family budgets. so he got the readings yes put them down fifty to three hundred forty seven rights over 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 cook we have to pay five times as much as we did when we were five it's back in december two thousand and nine it was. the former employees of the because you know power plant will have to survive on their social welfare packages until they become pensioners unemployment is it over fifteen percent if you bring it officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your a stat if u.n. yet is one of the five poorest countries in the european union. the last time the close of team was in the cool down region where men flock from

all over the world to have a few centimeters to their self-confidence. this time are to go to the are more region. for the gold rush still gets people high joke. for an asian tribe fights to save its culture. for cranes are protected in the first and only on official major reserves. of the our region. bush a close up of the artsy. well we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered.

i've. a restitution role was passed and if you after a declared independence collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to some of its former owners. and jay under the cabbage received sixty hectares of

land that used to belong to his father on jay's an engineer his wife and he olia is an accountant 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 and now i'm pretty certain our farm has no prospects. for. their farm could well cease to exist at any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin at least some of the crops and reduce 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. where 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 braced to the ground but 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 remains to nearly ninety percent when the crisis came. for primarily concerned about experience banks in stockholm copenhagen were always slow this intrusion was of secondary importance

to them they stopped issuing loans and started exporting capital to help parents and banks of course that has an effect on the situation here. is two and a half years old was much of her life is passed without her father he's been working in germany to make a living. meanwhile mother brother and sister live in this un near the top where is your daddy. you know daddy let's look for him. there is a picture of him oh here. well down oh no not here 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 that the questions we get at school are real mindblower it's again you go with them yeah this five minutes of internet chatter keeps the family in contact until sergei can be with them for real again and that could be six months away. this is typical for. 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 oh they'll sign the rental raising. in january two thousand and nine thousand of protesters crowded the main squares of

most provincial towns and with us 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 struggle 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 two think. this. meetings 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 the bullet for all sites 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. but. the police brutality in dealing with the demonstrators spurred the public into action. an unprecedented number of people joining the opposition within a short period of numerous protests rallies and demonstrations well. one of the government bowed to pressure to make some concessions several unpopular measures were cancelled but the move deepened the budget deficit.

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 so obviously a few in here 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 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 you. know. the

you mrs plame with the idea of expanding his pa. 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 yes new era. the people of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder his regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no

doubt about we know for a fact there are going to say. this we're just being carried out under the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart you have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets of the intelligence community can provide. data cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund the continuing search we have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true

patriots take the unpopular course that helps the country avoid stakes and even if they come this way is from trying to patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation and i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others. the same as it is easy to free the. elite.