in india all she's afraid of is the movie joyce be vigils the home of villas the grief we go to the grand imperial truly the torch was the torch coromandel you can a little closer the show good to see dodi to go on a clear road as the colonel was hotel to retreat. hello is kevin owen here tonight r.t. these are our top stories another plan to avoid a u.s. debt default fallen flat after a vital senate vote the clock's ticking down now the countdown to choose days deadline as lawmakers are trying to hammer out a compromise deal. with top stories in the week for most colons admitted responsibility for the plane crash that killed president kaczynski last year but the published report still tries to shift some of the play to russia. for the two hundred fifty thousand anti-government protesters the fall of the streets and

squares of israeli cities some hear an echo of the arab spring in the chants calling on prime minister netanyahu to step down. it's supposed to leaven pm moscow time for the next year an r t a special report for you about lithuania which gained independence from the u.s.s.r. in one thousand nine hundred one and has been trying to leave its past behind at the sids. to me as is the capital if you ain't in 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 the humane is capital most again of the country joining the soviet union. they like saying in russia we liberated the lithuanian people from that see germany if you go to that i add the following yes you did but

you didn't bother to leave afterwards should we. 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 for as we are concerned with their own uses the capital notes moscow does 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 tipped. off that the town came to hold to in my leg was caught 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 trying to join european structures and leave it soviet past behind as fast as possible.

if you any in business for the humans will announce because lives in the village of groups 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 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 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 park dedicated to lift you a news sunday of history. this open air museum welcomes visitors only iran and there's no shortage of them in the. foreigners and if you enter into night 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 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 demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize

that you are a new statehood that. first the speaker said emotional words about freedom. then the craze began singing literally as. many people how to reason their eyes they couldn't sing along for the resort 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 the illness ah. the kremlin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to compel the gulps in the group public and to backing down. as. we told them we had no right to rejoin the soviet union we have not been elected to do that you think. a massacre followed.

the television century film as was assaulted on the night of january fourteenth. the building seems within a short time is when his independent television. i know more. you know we're being attacked. i can see is shot stromal science and they have seized the sweeney's radio center. 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 know that they used access to break the dogs you could hear these patches in left here is a reminder of those events. that

night 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 that 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 town after all and at that very moment my leg was caught between the caterpillar tracks and the sound came to holt. now the former bookkeeper has to use a wheelchair and receives a disability grant. freedom was worth that sacrifice i have no regrets i believe it's my destiny by the demand i have.

fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives from if you ania's independence in one thousand nine hundred one. a new stage government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy a lot was built in that equated soviet symbols to nothing ones. nowadays mavin on the date not myself it republics for the victory of a fascist germany is seen as just another ordinary day by most of you eons. in lithuania made a name for it is no occasion for festivities yes some people here did fight for. a way that has nothing to do with it with russian politicians sometimes say we liberated the lithuanian people from the nazi germany by 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 a new 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. our government has created an atmosphere where war veterans are called occupiers. the current propaganda slant is that lithuania was ok pied a second time in one nine hundred forty four when soviet troops entered the country to try for germans it's now that young people have been brainwashed into believing that war veterans are ok pires the veterans don't 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 eighteen 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 march through the streets. supply comes from relatives holding flowers and colorful but. people with nationalistic slogans lined the streets but sometimes. i. 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 at the. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology the symbols are not the only things affected by the campaign against live un years soviet legacy. that's it you know the december thirty first nineteen eighty three ten so if 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 eight million a nuclear power plant. the station metals the electrical needs of misuse and to neighboring soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commission the plans for more powerful. than any other reactors of the time and the same that this technological model inherited from the soviet union might stand you and you're in 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. with the oil and gas supply still if the radio were cutting in those years because of an economic slump but this new fair car plant provided of uninterrupted supplies ability tricity to customers in lithuania bellary a lot of. consumers at the lowest prices we pretty much bailed

idyllic theory and economy during that period of transition in fact we paved the way for the country's further economic development it's. off the list you any left the u.s.s.r. it's all to join the european union if you a new was told that it could acquire e.u. membership on the condition that it shuts down the egg million a nuclear power plant. and even received funds to help dismantle the plant's 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. . 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. would be able to 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 millar 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. for the work the allowance we were entitled to after decision shop sign was four hundred dollars for one the so-called crisis set in the sun was cut during two three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get paid not. 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 to slash their family budgets. have you got the readings yes put them down fifty to three hundred forty seven writes the water hot water is ninety cold water is eighty four thats it. that's quite a lot so i have to say since we have to pay five times as much as we delete when

you have finance back and december two thousand and nine it's just. the former employees of the becoming a power plant will have to survive on best social welfare packages until they become pensioners unemployment isn't over fifteen percent if you're a man officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your a staff if u.n. yet is one of the five poorest countries in the european union.

movement. to say it's. just so. up. on. the. last time the close of team was in the cool gum region the four men flock from all over the world saga few centimeters to their self-confidence. this time archie goes to the amore region. for the cold war still gets people hyped up. current ancien shy fights to save its culture. where cranes are protected in the first ten dollars on official nature reserve. to come to the average of. bush

a close up on the r g. again it's easy to get. a restitution law was passed in with us after a declared independence collective farms were disbanded the 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 in the earlier 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 of course now i'm pretty certain our farmer has no prospects. their farm could well cease to exist at any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin a policed 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. and 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. collective farms were braced to the ground. and now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production of only large farms have real prospects . to follow 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 and copenhagen were always slow this intrusion in living it

was of secondary importance to them they started issuing loans and started exporting capital to help parents in buying 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 brother and elder sister live in the few a near the top where is your daddy. you know dad to you let's look for him. there is a picture of him here right well don i know most of you know whenever she sees a man in the street the first thing she says is this is a man ad in daddy. says that just in case the man responds.

each friday off to work so gay visits an internet cafe in germany to speak to his family by making a video call. the questions we get at school are real mindblower it's a game 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 how he sent us the money. yesterday yes ok that'll help those are in the rental agent.

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 civil servants and retired people struggled for survival. you know. 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 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 protesters despite his age and health. generally the sixteenth two thousand. this. meeting 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 and to nasa in the leg he was taken to an ambulance. to a we were the bullet for all doubts when the cuts my trousers open it was a rubber gurlitz 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. and unprecedented number of people joining the opposition within a short period of numerous protests rallies and demonstrations were held. for both the government bowed to pressure to make some concessions several popular

measures were cancelled but the move deepened the budget deficit. to 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 so obviously a few 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 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 for even fifty years ago 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. more than they exhibits may soon be added to the collection. the trouble is this nobody yet knows who won't last 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 limits there. this we're just being carried out in 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 we 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 kay he 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 a 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 takes the unpopular course but helps the country of origin stakes and even if they come this way at least from china 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. download the official publication i phone called touch from the i choose our still . life. video on demand keys and mine comes and says feeds now in the palm of your.

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