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00:00:42time to know everything.
00:00:46It is proposed that Lithuania, Russians and Belarusians should not be able to buy
00:00:49real estate properties near strategically important
00:00:52infrastructure,
00:00:54near military territories, so as not to create additional risks.
00:00:58Should the acquisition of property be limited at all? Yes, I
00:01:02my, my position
00:01:03is principled.
00:01:07The United States and Denmark announced an agreement
00:01:10on Greenland's security
00:01:12control.
00:01:15Free electric car charging at municipal stations is ending.
00:01:19The Competition Council urges municipalities not to create local
00:01:23monopolies when transitioning to paid
00:01:25budget. Well, charging. When we don't determine the actual
00:01:28cost, so that we continue to encourage the use
00:01:31of non-polluting
00:01:32transport vehicles.
00:01:36A colorful Roma cultural festival in the capital aims
00:01:39to combat stereotypes.
00:01:56Good evening, I'm Jovita Vitkauskė, thank you for watching.
00:02:00The new national sanctions package
00:02:03prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs includes restrictions for Russian and Belarusian
00:02:07citizens to acquire real estate.
00:02:10It is proposed that they should not be able to buy properties near strategically important
00:02:14infrastructure. The opposition says this is
00:02:17a compromise option, but sanctions could be even
00:02:20stricter.
00:02:23Russian and Belarusian citizens in Lithuania own about
00:02:2614 real estate properties, mostly
00:02:30in big cities and border municipalities. The Ministry of Foreign
00:02:33Affairs is initiating changes, proposing to restrict
00:02:36the ability of Russians and Belarusians to acquire real
00:02:39estate. Such real estate acquisition should be restricted,
00:02:42which would be near objects, facilities
00:02:45important for national security near military territories, so as
00:02:49not to create additional risks for the activities carried out there
00:02:53or the functioning of those objects.
00:02:55Opposition conservatives say that real estate near
00:02:59strategic objects can be exploited for intelligence
00:03:02purposes, therefore restrictions are necessary. Should the acquisition of property be restricted
00:03:06at all? Yes, my, my
00:03:09position is principled, yes, it should be restricted for all citizens of the Russian Federation
00:03:13and citizens of the Republic of Belarus to acquire
00:03:16real estate in Lithuania, but as a compromise, that it could be
00:03:20a ban valid near critical infrastructure is also, in
00:03:23my opinion, necessary. Latvia last year
00:03:26banned Russian and Belarusian citizens from acquiring real estate
00:03:30throughout the country, the ban also applies to companies where citizens
00:03:34of these countries hold at least a quarter of the capital or are
00:03:37the true beneficiaries. In Latvia, a broader risk was
00:03:40assessed, that real estate could become
00:03:44a tool of Russian and Belarusian economic, political and other influence.
00:03:48And there was talk about possible
00:03:51circumvention of sanctions, use of capital to strengthen influence
00:03:54and broader hybrid
00:03:57risks. In 2022, 24
00:04:00real estate properties within 10 kilometers of important infrastructure
00:04:04objects in Lithuania were acquired by almost
00:04:061,900 Russians and over 100 Belarusians, some
00:04:10of whom only had temporary residence permits in Lithuania. It's good that
00:04:13national security is being taken care of at all, but I'm
00:04:17not sure if this is the best way to do it.
00:04:20This is, well, first of all,
00:04:24let's say, pro-Russian Lithuanian
00:04:27citizens probably pose no less
00:04:30of a threat if they acquire that property near one or
00:04:33another strategically important object. The ministry's
00:04:36expanded sanctions also stipulate that Russian and Belarusian
00:04:40citizens in Lithuania may be prohibited from activities in
00:04:43education, culture, sports, and entertainment
00:04:46sectors. Restrictions would be applied if individuals support
00:04:49Russia's war, contribute to occupation or human rights
00:04:53violations, and pose a threat to democracy. We believe that it is
00:04:56necessary to detail, not just evaluate by fact,
00:04:59that someone performed or
00:05:03engaged in other artistic activities in Russia or
00:05:06Belarus or occupied territories, but there should also be other
00:05:10factors, the same periodicity, scale, influence, overall
00:05:13propaganda message. Conservatives say that temporary permits
00:05:16should also not be issued to Belarusians who come to Lithuania
00:05:19to work. The numbers of Belarusian citizens here in Lithuania, with temporary permits, who
00:05:23regularly return to Belarus to visit
00:05:26relatives, or perhaps to handle some other matters, which means they
00:05:30become potential objects of Belarusian intelligence services
00:05:33operating there. Well, they are a problem in a counterintelligence
00:05:37sense. Columnist Marius Laurinavičius says
00:05:40it would be enough to limit how often Belarusians return to their homeland
00:05:43and emphasizes that although the proposals strengthen national security, the government
00:05:47lacks a systemic approach to security problems. Sometimes
00:05:50it seems that without that systemic approach, it's
00:05:53more of a show for voters,
00:05:56a desire to show something, not
00:06:00to fundamentally solve national security problems.
00:06:03Recently, 22 Belarusians working in a technology
00:06:07company in Lithuania were declared a threat to national security, and their
00:06:10residence permits in Lithuania were revoked.
00:06:14"Denmark and Greenland say that together with the United States
00:06:18they have reached an agreement on Greenland, and it will not violate its
00:06:21sovereignty. The content of the agreement is unclear for now,
00:06:25but Donald Trump stated that under it, Washington will be able
00:06:28to provide military bases on the island indefinitely or without
00:06:31restrictions, and America's rivals will not be able to
00:06:35transfer forces or invest in sensitive projects without its
00:06:38consent. The agreement was welcomed by NATO today."
00:06:45Signs that the crisis that has been ongoing since the beginning of the year is moving
00:06:48atom Gosling this week were not alone, but
00:06:52few dared to speculate how it would end, if it would end.
00:06:55Even now, when Donald Trump confirmed
00:06:59the agreement, distrust prevails among
00:07:01critics.
00:07:04I will believe it only when I see it, it sounds absurd and unlikely, I think he
00:07:08is just blowing smoke, as always. But for Greenlanders
00:07:11exhausted by worry, commotion and media attention,
00:07:14it is a sign that the crisis is coming to an end. Negotiations between Americans, Danes and
00:07:18Greenlanders lasted eight months.
00:07:22It took a long time, there was a lot of noise in the media, the work lasted from
00:07:25January, I'm glad that finally there will be a result, it's
00:07:28high time. Trump, who threatened to claim
00:07:31Greenland, even by force if necessary,
00:07:35calls the agreement a dream come true, because, as
00:07:38he replies, by signing it, America will forever acquire
00:07:42complete freedom to do what it has planned
00:07:45to ensure its own and the island's security. What exactly this means and whether this
00:07:49freedom to do what is necessary will have limits is unclear, but
00:07:53both the Danish and Greenlandic governments have stated that the essential condition,
00:07:56sovereignty, will not be violated.
00:08:00I hope peace will come, for us it was an insecure
00:08:03period. As details are not public, it is
00:08:06unclear how much this agreement, which prohibits America's rivals
00:08:10from building bases on the island and without its
00:08:12permission to invest in resource projects, will differ from
00:08:15the previous one, which, after all, granted broad
00:08:18rights. At one point, they had
00:08:2217 military facilities in Greenland, they left one. We did not
00:08:25ask for it, they did it themselves. And whatever
00:08:29the result, for Denmark it means
00:08:31a breather. Essentially, nothing has changed, everyone
00:08:35is happy, even Trump thinks he won a great victory.
00:08:39Denmark said from the very beginning that a discussion about Americans.
00:08:46I think the United States will get what it could have gotten at any time, if only it had politely
00:08:49asked, so in that sense, everything will be fine.
00:08:53Threats to annex territory belonging to a NATO
00:08:56ally could have been the factor that would have completely
00:09:00crushed the alliance's unity. Today,
00:09:02after announcing the agreement, the head of NATO's Military Committee does
00:09:06not comment on its content. This is an agreement, we welcome it very much, we
00:09:10will not elaborate on this topic.
00:09:12is a heightened alert zone, called the Arctic Sentinel. Denmark
00:09:16conducts exercises and, of course, we cooperate with the United States
00:09:19military. From this NATO perspective, we will continue
00:09:22our cooperation further. So perhaps the greatest
00:09:26expectation is that Trump will withdraw from claiming
00:09:30territory. Although observers say it's not time
00:09:33for fanfare yet. I wouldn't pop champagne yet, there's no
00:09:37agreement until it's signed, but I also think we should
00:09:40relax a bit and wait some more.
00:09:43The expectation of Denmark and Greenland is that the agreement will be sealed
00:09:47next
00:09:48week.
00:09:51About the agreement, we are now talking with LRT correspondent in Washington
00:09:55Augustinas Šemelis. Good evening, Augustinas, how is this American agreement on
00:09:59Greenland viewed in the United States?
00:10:00Grenlandijos?
00:10:03Hello Jovita, well, it depends on whether you ask Donald Trump's allies or
00:10:07Donald Trump's critics? If you ask Donald Trump's allies, they
00:10:11call this American agreement with Denmark a historical, strategic achievement
00:10:15for the United States, because, according to Donald Trump, this agreement
00:10:19ensures unlimited military access for the United
00:10:22States to Greenland and also prevents America's opponents
00:10:26from military presence, military presence in Greenland and from
00:10:29investing in sensitive sectors of Greenland's economy. However,
00:10:33if you listen to Donald Trump's critics, they raise
00:10:37the question of how much this agreement actually differs from
00:10:40the 1951
00:10:43United States and Kingdom of Denmark agreement, which
00:10:46was in force until now and had already secured
00:10:49practically unlimited military access for the United States
00:10:53to Greenland, and those Donald Trump's critics then raise the question: was
00:10:57it really worth quarreling with the Kingdom of Denmark, was it really worth
00:11:00quarreling with Europe, was it really worth America starting
00:11:04a, at least rhetorical precedent, that the United States
00:11:07can threaten its allies with force to
00:11:10take territory from them, if the outcome of all this is
00:11:14a compromise agreement, which Washington could probably very easily
00:11:18negotiate with Copenhagen without this conflict,
00:11:21however, both sides agree that this is
00:11:25good news for the transatlantic community,
00:11:28because it is an obvious de-escalation, because Donald
00:11:32Trump himself, yesterday announcing this agreement on Truth Social, said that America
00:11:35essentially no longer has claims against Denmark and apparently
00:11:39will no longer threaten. Jovita. Another
00:11:42piece of news is that Donald Trump has today banned three
00:11:45large media outlets he dislikes, television CNN, Politico and
00:11:49MSNBC from working at the White
00:11:52House, and Trump accuses them of spreading
00:11:55fake news. How has this decision been received in America, especially since
00:11:59the country's freedom of the press is ensured by the first amendment of the Constitution?
00:12:02pataisa.
00:12:05Yes, Jovita, indeed, this story is the biggest and most
00:12:09important today in the United States. Donald Trump
00:12:12announced that news yesterday at the White House, and yesterday it
00:12:16was just words. I was here yesterday at the White House observing
00:12:19the CNN journalists working here, and I am currently in the White House courtyard
00:12:23and today these words have turned into actions. As of today,
00:12:26CNN, MSNBC and Politico, which is read
00:12:30on both sides of the Atlantic as a political news outlet,
00:12:33were not allowed into the White House courtyard today, their
00:12:37White House accreditations were deactivated, and
00:12:40this story is so big in the United States precisely because of what you
00:12:44mentioned, the United States Constitution and
00:12:47its first amendment have for two and a half centuries
00:12:51guaranteed freedom of speech, and it was universally understood
00:12:55that freedom of speech means that no matter what
00:12:57tone media outlets use when talking about the American
00:13:01administration's policy, they all have, should have, equal
00:13:05access to the White House and other American government
00:13:07institutions. We can listen to what the President himself said yesterday about this.
00:13:11prezidentas.
00:13:15Every president swears to defend the Constitution, which includes
00:13:18the First Amendment, how do you justify this
00:13:21ban?
00:13:23They are fake news. Yes, I'm tired of reading and seeing
00:13:27fake news, when you watch CNN, it's
00:13:29lies. Are you trying to intimidate the media
00:13:33so they don't do their
00:13:34job?
00:13:38No, no, no, I don't like unfair media, like
00:13:41you, I think you're terrible, something is wrong with
00:13:44a country that allows people to write knowingly negative
00:13:47stories. If they want to write, fine, but I don't have to
00:13:51let them into my, into the nation's home.
00:13:59"We can be sure that this story will end up in court, and
00:14:02it may be that these statements by Donald Trump, which you just heard,
00:14:06will greatly harm the administration in court, because Donald Trump doesn't even try
00:14:10to find legal arguments for this ban,
00:14:13which probably don't exist, but simply says that these media
00:14:16outlets are being banned because of their negative stories. Jovita,
00:14:20thank you, Augustinas Šemelis, live from the White House courtyard, where
00:14:24since today, reporters from three
00:14:27media outlets cannot work. We continue
00:14:30Panorama.
00:14:32As Russians continue air attacks against Ukraine, seeking to protect
00:14:36its airspace, neighboring Poland this morning briefly scrambled fighter jets
00:14:39and activated air defense systems and airspace
00:14:43monitoring radars. The preventive operation lasted more than
00:14:46an hour and, having found no airspace violations, was suspended
00:14:50before noon. Donald Tusk warned this week that
00:14:54to test NATO's unity, in the coming weeks
00:14:57and months, Russia might try to direct drones or missiles
00:15:01to Eastern flank countries. In the past week, when shelling
00:15:04Ukraine, Moscow targeted areas close to the border, which led to air
00:15:08raid sirens being activated in Polish regions bordering Ukraine,
00:15:11and fighter jets taking off.
00:15:13naikintuvai.
00:15:17Police have launched a pre-trial investigation into hooliganism regarding a Quran burned
00:15:20in Vilnius. The incident was recorded last
00:15:24weekend, when it was reported that a Quran was being burned
00:15:27on one of the Old Town streets at night. The Quran is
00:15:30the main religious book of Islam and the holiest scripture
00:15:34of Muslims.
00:15:38Free electric vehicle charging at municipal stations
00:15:41is ending. In some cities, it is still possible to use this
00:15:45benefit, but even here the days of free charging are
00:15:48numbered. The Competition Council emphasized
00:15:51that when municipalities transition to paid charging,
00:15:55it is important not to create local monopolies, as this could raise prices for
00:15:58drivers. I'll sit for another 10 minutes and
00:16:02then I'm off. Tomas from Panevėžys charges his electric car every third
00:16:06day. There are 12 free charging stations in the city,
00:16:09which the man always tries to use as much as possible,
00:16:13as much as possible, when having lunch somewhere in the city, while they are
00:16:16still available, it's very convenient, they could even leave it,
00:16:19but they won't, the municipality is already looking for someone to transfer the charging
00:16:23stations to, they will become paid, most of them
00:16:26were installed using European Union funds, the requirement
00:16:29not to charge for at least five years.
00:16:33In Pasvalys, the five-year term
00:16:37expired this year. During this period, the use of charging stations
00:16:40increased tenfold, and expenses for the municipality
00:16:43also increased. In the first years, maintaining such a station
00:16:47cost only €200, last year €6,000.
00:16:50Everything costs money, and eventually
00:16:53those €6,000 were for electricity for the sports school, because it was connected to the sports
00:16:57school. Of course, the municipality compensated it from the municipal
00:17:02compared to a €52 million
00:17:05budget, of course it's not a lot. But 100 times 100 adds
00:17:09up, maybe it's better to do a piece of sidewalk.
00:17:11padaryti.
00:17:13Biržai municipality is one of those where you can still charge
00:17:17an electric car for free. However,
00:17:19the benefit will not last much longer, from November a fixed
00:17:22tariff of 20 euro cents per kilowatt
00:17:25will be established. Those who drive diesel, gasoline cars, they
00:17:29pay for their fuel. So in this case, when that program ended, we
00:17:32are also moving towards ensuring that those using
00:17:36non-polluting transport also pay for their travel
00:17:39expenses at a realistically calculated cost, so that we
00:17:43continue to encourage the use of non-polluting transport
00:17:47vehicles. According to the Chairwoman of the Competition Council,
00:17:50the era of free electric vehicle charging in Lithuania has ended,
00:17:53and now another stage begins, and according to her,
00:17:57municipalities should now hand over charging stations to the market
00:18:00and ensure competition. We recommended that
00:18:04municipalities perhaps consider dividing
00:18:07the object of the tender into separate parts,
00:18:11so that a local monopoly does not form,
00:18:14because that has already happened, some
00:18:17countries that started this process earlier are already facing problems, we can learn from these mistakes and
00:18:21not repeat them. The Competition Council emphasized that improperly
00:18:24organized tenders can create conditions for one or
00:18:27several large players to occupy the entire market, which
00:18:31would result in higher prices and poorer service
00:18:35quality for consumers.
00:18:40Some residents of Kaunas district are concerned about the planned
00:18:43expansion of the Kaunas Free Economic Zone. People are already
00:18:47complaining about pollution and noise. The Kaunas
00:18:50district municipality disagrees if several hundred hectares of forest
00:18:54were to be cut down. According to the head of the Free Economic Zone,
00:18:57it's too early to worry, plots needed for expansion are still
00:19:00being sought. Here they plan to do,
00:19:03that the elder shows where the Kaunas Free Economic
00:19:07Zone might expand. This small triangle goes along
00:19:11the A1 road, it's about 67.2
00:19:13hectares. The Free Economic Zone, and now in the neighborhood
00:19:17of Ramučiai residents, the elder says there were promises for protective
00:19:20zones, which apparently have not been kept. You can't imagine how many
00:19:24companies come here. It's not just the FEZ, there are also non-FEZ
00:19:27territories. Polluting, construction
00:19:30waste sorting and planning to sort large
00:19:33quantities, secondary packaging even to this level
00:19:37here. Here somewhere a warehouse
00:19:40working around the clock logistics, so when they load goods, that thud thud thud thud, if
00:19:44the wind is in that direction, in the middle of Ramučiai you can hear it perfectly, and here
00:19:47Sergeičiukai village, also in the neighborhood of the free economic
00:19:50zone, expansion for residents is planned here as well,
00:19:54the elder says it hurts her heart for the ambition to cut about 200
00:19:57hectares of forest, so this whole green zone they want to cut down
00:20:01and eliminate, actually we are then imprisoned
00:20:04in the FEZ, although actually not... how
00:20:07to say, we didn't come to the FEZ, but the FEZ
00:20:11came to us, actually we settled here first, they allowed us
00:20:14to build and create our homes. Anxiety in Neveroniai
00:20:18town too, on the other side of the forest. The residents' representative says that trees have already
00:20:22been cut here for the planned Rail Baltica railway
00:20:25section. We are standing here in the place where, according to the environmental
00:20:29impact assessment, it is a red zone, because here
00:20:32both the street and the railway
00:20:35lines are already present. All noise limits have been
00:20:39exceeded, and now the FEZ territory with
00:20:42all its infrastructure is getting closer. Currently,
00:20:45the territory of the Kaunas Free Economic Zone is more than 500
00:20:48hectares. An law adopted three years ago stipulated
00:20:52that a similar amount should be added, the government's draft resolution
00:20:55now proposes to add a part, more than 300 hectares
00:20:59of state land, the government is currently
00:21:02looking for territories that could be included
00:21:06in the Kaunas FEZ, so today
00:21:10we cannot say how much forest will be cut, nor if any
00:21:13forest will be cut at all, when
00:21:17the territories are determined by government resolutions, but
00:21:20there will be still quite long
00:21:23processes. According to the Vice-Mayor of Kaunas district,
00:21:26the municipality does not support plans to cut down forests,
00:21:30our word is decisive in this, because I
00:21:33see that indeed both the community and
00:21:36the Ministry of Environment, as far as I've seen, have opposed such a
00:21:40decision, both foresters also expressed their opinion,
00:21:44so I see that they will be forced to look for other
00:21:47territories in order for the project to continue. It
00:21:51must be where it was originally, that is, in the Kaunas
00:21:54region, the closer to the current
00:21:56Kaunas FEZ territory, the more
00:22:00successful it will be. The Ministry of Economy and Renovation
00:22:03estimates that by expanding the territory to more than 100 hectares by
00:22:072039, almost 17,000 jobs
00:22:10would be created, and the state budget would be supplemented by more than
00:22:14four billion euros in
00:22:15taxes.
00:22:19In Vilnius. The annual international Roma culture festival,
00:22:22this year already the tenth. The theatrical procession features
00:22:26not only Roma song and dance groups from various countries, but also bikers
00:22:30accompanying them. The event, which is one of
00:22:32the most colorful accents of this year's Nations' Fair, aims to combat
00:22:36stereotypes and invites people to get to know each other.
00:22:40The head of the Lithuanian Roma community says this promotes dialogue with
00:22:44those around them. The Roma festival is included in Lithuania's
00:22:47intangible cultural heritage value.
00:22:52We have to meet, get to know
00:22:55each other and not be afraid of each other, because we are all people
00:22:59and we all have to talk and communicate and create
00:23:03our Lithuania, when we know a person,
00:23:06then he looks different to us, so our
00:23:10task is exactly that, that we have to
00:23:14change those stereotypes, that people, people always
00:23:17want to be with Roma, I don't know why. "But they are always
00:23:21interested in our nation, they sing, not one Lithuanian
00:23:24song is sung, right, the so-called
00:23:27Gypsy, yes, there was and there is nothing wrong with that
00:23:31actually, but now I see that there are
00:23:35huge changes, and that is very
00:27:19weather forecast, have a pleasant
00:27:21evening.
00:27:30The closest night will be cloudy... with clearings in many places, mostly
00:27:34in northwestern Lithuania, it will rain briefly, it will be about
00:27:3711-16 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow the day
00:27:40will be cloudy with clearings, in many places it will rain, short
00:27:44showers will prevail, in some places it will rain heavily with possible thunderstorms. The day
00:27:47will warm up to 16-21 degrees. On Monday,
00:27:51intermittent rain, at night in some places heavy, with possible thunderstorms.
00:27:55Temperature at night 9-14, during the day
00:27:5813-18 degrees Celsius. On Tuesday night,
00:28:02in some places. During the day, it will rain briefly in many places, temperature at night
00:28:055-10, on the coast 11-13,
00:28:08during the day 14-19 degrees Celsius.