i tell you this is. the default crisis huddles north america will make is of less than forty eight hours on something should before the impact is felt in one of washington's biggest lenders china criticises the us jeopardizing the world economy. the polish pope reluctant to acknowledge his pilot error was lost his presidential plane crash in western russia amid concerns politics played a pivotal role in the borstal based investigation. and i am spraying tons into

israeli soil the tens of thousands called streets and squares in major israeli cities to the prime minister benjamin netanyahu undertakes economical it's. next all special report about the few rainy it which gained independence from the us and ninety one has been trying to get soviet past behind ever since. the news is the capital of lithuania the city changed hands many times during the twentieth century after 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 couple months again of the country join the soviet union. they like saying in russia we liberated the lithuanian people from that see germany let's go to that

i add the following yes you did but you didn't bother to leave afterwards do we. get that when perestroika go to underway in the late one nine hundred eighty s. if you are a neo was one of the first soviet republics to demand independence. was for as we are concerned only uses the count so no small school passed away 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. things that the town came to hold to in my leg was caught between the caterpillar tracks and i realized then that there was no escape other than death. if you ano won its independence in one thousand nine hundred one small baltic republic then desperately try to join european structures and leave its soviet past behind as fast as possible.

if you any and business some of the you must know now suppose lives in the village of groups 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. and 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 you must to sort of a park dedicated to let you and his son teach history. this open and museum well consistence is only iran and there's no shortage of them for. foreigners and lithuanian 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 . the iron curtain weighed 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 if you in his parliament led by the tout as landsburg has declared the republics independence samson's back to the decision rallies became

a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize with you a new statehood. at first the speaker said emotional words apart freedom then the phrase 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 hired. fear. moscow sold the developments in lithuania as a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent to leaders. the kremlin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to compel the godson of the republican to backing down. and this was the only we told him we had no right to rejoin the soviet union we have not been elected to three dots in the world. a massacre followed no.

television century until news was assaulted on the night of january fourteenth thinking much of. the building scenes within a short time as he went his independent television. i know most. of you know we had been attacked. and given i can hear shots from all science and they have seized the earth when his radio center. was done on a budget later as an anchor for a state run t.v. channel but live report was a moment of triumph for the young journalists but a moment of glory came with a price. i knew. they used access to break the dogs hear these bats 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 it 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 at the end yet. now the former bookkeeper has to use a wheelchair and receives a disability grant. new freedom was worth that sacrifice and i have no regrets i believe it's my destiny it will be mine 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 ninth the date marked by soviet republics for the victory of a fascist germany is seen as just another ordinary day by most live un eons developed in lithuania 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 the russian politicians sometimes say we liberated the lithuanian people from nazi germany my response is 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

a new 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. or government has created an atmosphere where war veterans are called occupiers. the current propaganda slant is that lithuania was all kept by a second time in one nine hundred forty four when soviet troops entered the country to drive the germans it's now that young people have been brainwashed into believing that war veterans are ok pires the fake friends don't feel like demonstrating in the streets you. may even like 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 but. people with nationalistic slogans lined the streets some but sometimes. on flores 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 there and people lay a lot of flowers up. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology the symbols are not the only things affected by the campaign against in the few anya's soviet legacy. you know they call december thirty first one thousand nine hundred eighty three ten so if pm that was when the first

power generating unit was officially links to the country's power grid. this footage is from the film marking the anniversary of the eight million a nuclear power plant. the station metal the electrical needs of miss usa and two major in 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 good stead after independence the country itself would have a plentiful supply of electricity and also be able to sell a surplus to others at a premium. in their commitments with supplies to lithuania were cutting in those years because of an economic slump but this nuclear power plants provided of uninterrupted supplies of electricity to customers unless they really are bellary. consumers at the lowest prices we pretty

much build very deliberately an economy during that period of transition in fact we pave the way for the country's further economic development. off the list you and he left the u.s.s.r. it's all to join the european union and if you're a new was told that it could acquire a you membership on the condition that it shuts down the eight million a nuclear power plant. and even received from 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 joining 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. if you will 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. and valarie good newton were made redundant when the station was shut down but there was no other work for them to go to. they 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. the allowance we were entitled syria after decision shocked i was four hundred dollars for when the so-called crisis set in was almost cuts own to three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get paid no . the decommissioning of the power plant instantly led to higher utility costs over the last 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 to slash their family budgets. but he 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 quite a lot so i'll say it's there for we have to pay five times as much as we delete

when you have five back in december two thousand and nine it's. the former employees of the beginning of our plans will have to survive on their social welfare packages until they become pensioners unemployment is at over fifteen percent if you ain't officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your rush to ask if u.n. yet is one of the five poorest countries in the european union. on. the on. the little.

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and. a restitution law was passed in a few a year after a declared independence collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to some of its former owners. and jay under the care of each received sixty hectares

of land that used to belong to his father and jay's an engineer his wife neo leah is an accountant they became fun as 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. 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 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 one nine hundred ninety s. was entirely wrong collective farms were braced to the ground and now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production that only large farms have real prospects. but to farmers in 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 writing's our banks were primarily concerned about experience banks in stockholm copenhagen or always slow this intrusion in

living it was of secondary importance to them they started issuing loans and started exporting capital to help parents buy and of course all violence has an effect on the situation here. is two hundred years old but much of her life has passed without her father he's been working in germany to make a living. brother and sister live in this un near the top where is he is that he. has no daddy let's look for him. luis a picture of him oh here. oh no no. 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 so that the questions we get at school are real mindblower it's good 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. now to something more to the point he sent us the money. yesterday yes ok that'll help oh they'll sign the rental rates. 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. servants and retired people struggled for survival. for example my pension is two hundred and forty dollars in winter basic extra money for heating my flat. if i were to pay for it in fuel i'd have to pay forty dollars over and above my pension. when. are you nuts learned about government plans to tax pensions on top of other taxes he decided to join protestors despite his age and poor health. generally the sixteenth to think. this. meetings took place in vilnius the apartment building. seven fans and people

gathered. police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstrators. when one of the bullets hit and seen us in the leg he was taken to an ambulance. who we were going to fill it for all sites when they cross 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 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. one of them the government bowed to pressure to make some concessions in several unpopular measures were canceled 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 politician as. the founder and owner of the park featuring the history of soviet lift u.n. year 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 polygamous is 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 of 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 mess you.

lou mrs plame with the idea of expanding his pocket. more than they exhibits may soon be added to the collection. the trouble is this nobody yet knows who will was and will become a symbol of this un his 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 that. this work is being carried out into 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 and for by. david cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and 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 have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraqi survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true

patriots takes the unpopular course that helps the country where the stakes and even if they come this way at least three times 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 the terror boy international security situation that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. challenge corporation to rule the day.

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