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00:00:19those who have a, well,
00:02:00Lithuanian basketball, community divided,
00:02:03and results getting worse. National team
00:02:06fans' hearts are warmed only by past
00:02:09victories.
00:02:12What's the solution? What do the candidates for the country's basketball
00:02:16leaders propose? Discussion on LRT Forum tonight
00:02:20live immediately after
00:02:21Panorama.
00:03:37in the news. The European Union has approved the largest package of
00:03:40sanctions against Russia to date. It has added over 1,500 military industry
00:03:43figures responsible for ballistic missile production to the blacklist.
00:03:47The Lithuanian Prime Minister proposes to attack more data
00:03:50centers in Russia, but as the confrontation with Donald Trump continues,
00:03:54European leaders no longer hide that they do not believe in his announced energy
00:03:58truce. After a Russian strike, Volodymyr Zelenskyy stung that
00:04:02Vladimir Putin does not read Trump's posts on social
00:04:05networks.
00:04:07"The reality in Ukraine is not changed by Donald Trump's posts on social media,"
00:04:10says Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as Kyiv admitted that it
00:04:14learned about the American President's announced immediate ceasefire from
00:04:17the media. Immediately after the post, Russia targeted
00:04:21a power plant in Kharkiv, causing even more damage to our energy
00:04:25system. It is clear that Putin does not read True
00:04:28Social.
00:04:31The French leader says he has not noticed any energy truce,
00:04:34so Europe's position will not change as long as Russia
00:04:37bombs civilians and energy.
00:04:41So yes, to seek an energy truce, I would add, and in the
00:04:44Black Sea, and to restore peace talks, but
00:04:48essentially to surrender to the Russian threat. But when
00:04:51the Financial Times announced that American officials threatened European
00:04:55capitals over the weekend that they would stop selling weapons to Ukraine for
00:04:59European money.
00:05:14interested in ceasefires, de-escalation or peace, it is interested only in domination.
00:05:17This is why I will travel to Brussels to urge European partners to seriously
00:05:21consider tightening sanctions against Russia.
00:05:25The Lithuanian Prime Minister proposes a tougher step. We should
00:05:28ask Mr. Zelenskyy to attack more data centers
00:05:32in Russia, that could help. So
00:05:35far, the European Union has approved new sanctions. The largest expansion of the blacklist to date,
00:05:39over 1500 individuals and companies.
00:05:42According to the community's diplomatic chief, it will significantly complicate
00:05:45Russia's ability to produce weapons to
00:05:47kill Ukrainians.
00:05:50"We want to end this war? The only way is to put more pressure on Russia,
00:05:53we will also invite the United States to impose sanctions so that we can
00:05:57truly end the war," that whole effect, like
00:06:00attacking processing plants, would not be necessary if the war were
00:06:03ended. But when Donald Trump complains about Ukrainian
00:06:07strikes on processing plants and announced a deal to get diesel
00:06:11from Russia, representatives no longer try to hide
00:06:14the division, where there is a dangerous direction, that is, to
00:06:17conclude agreements with Russia
00:06:20at the same time, without seeing any changes in Russia's behavior
00:06:24towards Ukraine, and if these two paths
00:06:27diverge, we can enter a very bumpy
00:06:30and difficult period, therefore Europe
00:06:34must remain very firm and clear and
00:06:37communicate very precisely. Trump's former secretary, in an interview
00:06:40with Fox & Friends, accused Europe.
00:06:44"Europeans have given Russia more money since the beginning of the war, more
00:06:47than to Ukraine, because they cannot disconnect from Russian
00:06:51energy. Their energy policy has failed, and they
00:06:54continue to finance Vladimir Putin, so it is
00:06:57hypocritical to explain to them that we cannot get
00:07:01a diesel price break." The Kremlin, even when asked,
00:07:04does not comment on Trump's statement about the energy truce, says
00:07:07it maintains contacts, but rejects Zelenskyy's proposal to cease
00:07:11fire for two months to hold the elections
00:07:13Trump wants. The Kremlin and President Putin, and
00:07:17representatives at other levels, have repeatedly stated that we want,
00:07:21not just a ceasefire, we want long-term peace and are
00:07:24ready to do everything to
00:07:26achieve it.
00:07:29Zelenskyy says if Russia wants Ukraine's long-range strikes to stop,
00:07:33let it stop targeting energy facilities and killing
00:07:37its people. This winter, if Russia does not agree to
00:07:40an energy truce, we will respond, that's why yesterday
00:07:44the American President's post generated real interest and
00:07:48we believe that an energy truce can truly
00:07:50work. In Ukraine, we immediately supported this
00:07:54idea. He says that such a truce requires American
00:07:57pressure on Russia, not the lifting of sanctions or concessions, but
00:08:01it must be done in reality, not just on Truth
00:08:04Social social network.
00:08:08For the second time, the Vilnius District Council meeting did not take place, as representatives
00:08:12of the Lithuanian Polish Electoral Action Christian Families Union faction
00:08:15did not attend. Today, the meeting was supposed to discuss the renaming of streets
00:08:18named after the Polish clergyman Henryk Gulbinowicz, who was punished for pedophilia.
00:08:22According to the Council Secretary, the mayor was not properly
00:08:25informed about the non-attendance of Council members. Also, some representatives of the Polish
00:08:29Electoral Action faction had attended the previous Ethics Committee meeting.
00:08:33The municipal council had already discussed the street renaming issue
00:08:37in February and April of this year, but in both cases, the proposals
00:08:39were not approved.
00:08:42They don't come to the most important thing, that is, the council member's meeting. Well, everyone took
00:08:45an oath, so meetings should be attended if you can. So,
00:08:48maliciously intentionally doesn't come. Well, you know, that
00:08:52boycotting, what can
00:08:56to evaluate it, this is
00:08:59simply a strategic
00:09:02oversight when meetings are supposed to take place, and
00:09:06if one faction (not naming which one) but
00:09:09announces appropriately
00:09:13that the council members will not gather,
00:09:17that also needs to be evaluated. I think that this is
00:09:20simply a lack of communication and unwillingness
00:09:24to truly listen.
00:09:28Vilnius University Santaros Clinics announce that the health
00:09:31condition of former President Valdas Adamkus is improving. Treatment continues, and he
00:09:35remains in the medical institution, where necessary medical
00:09:39care is ensured. A week ago, Valdas Adamkus underwent surgery. According to the president's
00:09:42office, due to an acute health disorder, Adamkus was admitted to the clinic on September
00:09:4626th. After examinations and evaluation of his health condition, the president
00:09:50underwent surgical operation. It was successful. Adamkus was also admitted
00:09:53to Santaros Clinics at the beginning of the year, where he underwent a procedure
00:09:56to restore blood circulation
00:09:57in his legs.
00:10:01According to the Chamber of Agriculture, the almost 20 million euros in aid allocated by the European
00:10:04Commission and the government, due to increased fuel and fertilizer prices,
00:10:08is intended to be distributed opaquely. The chair of the Chamber says that the aid is foreseen
00:10:12only for the grain and dairy sectors, while those growing vegetables, fruits,
00:10:16and meat will be left out. The Chamber of Agriculture states that it is missing
00:10:20dialogue with the Ministry of Agriculture and an explanation for the aid distribution. At that
00:10:23time, the Minister of Agriculture, Kęstutis Mažeika, asserts that the aid will also
00:10:27be received by the vegetable and fruit growing sectors. He says
00:10:30that such talk about supposedly opaque aid distribution is an attempt
00:10:33to mislead the public. Especially those smaller
00:10:37regional, whether family farms, or newly established, or
00:10:40no matter if older,
00:10:44less ability to generate income, they are completely
00:10:48losers, but they also had rain, they had
00:10:51no electricity, also.
00:10:54those fertilizers and all other things, if you keep a lot of those
00:10:58cows, they buy your milk at higher prices, if you have few,
00:11:01then few, but exactly the same cost, that
00:11:05basket is also not smaller for anyone, right, and the prices are
00:11:09also the same, gardeners and vegetable growers will also receive,
00:11:12just of the same size, as everyone, according
00:11:15to the established methodology, we focus on small and medium-sized farms, which
00:11:19means from one hectare to 300 hectares, who
00:11:22well grow various crops
00:11:26and from one to 300 milking cows
00:11:29are also supported, we understand that larger farms
00:11:32over 300 hectares and animal farms over
00:11:36300 hectares are indeed economically
00:11:39stronger, their bargaining power
00:11:41is greater.
00:11:44This year's Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to American economists
00:11:47Robert Hall and Michael Woodford. According to the Royal Swedish
00:11:51Academy of Sciences, the professors of Stanford and Columbia Universities
00:11:55were awarded for the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization,
00:11:58revealing how economic models can be reformed and thus
00:12:02revitalize stabilization policy. Unlike other Nobel
00:12:05prizes awarded since 1901 according to
00:12:08Alfred Nobel's will, the economics prize
00:12:12was additionally established in 1968 by the Swedish
00:12:16Central Bank on the occasion of its 300th anniversary. This year,
00:12:19the monetary value of the prize reached 12 million Swedish kronor, a million more
00:12:23than in previous years. Just over one million
00:12:26euros.
00:12:30At the age of 78, journalist, editor
00:12:34Henrikas Vaitiekūnas passed away. Throughout his career, he worked in various newspapers,
00:12:38magazines, and lectured at Vilnius University. Henrikas
00:12:41Vaitiekūnas was a long-time LRT employee. Expressing condolences,
00:12:44state leaders say the legendary journalist's ability to notice
00:12:48people, hear their stories, and share his experience left
00:12:51a clear mark and enriched Lithuanian journalism.
00:12:56In 1949,
00:13:00the future journalist was born there, who had many fans on television for his
00:13:03masterful words and wit. However, when Henrikas
00:13:06Vaitekūnas was three months old, his family moved to Klaipėda, which
00:13:10he called a holy city, without which he could not live.
00:13:14Sociologists say, and even present surveys,
00:13:17that as many as 95%
00:13:20of Lithuanian residents, if they had to change their place
00:13:23of residence, their own and...
00:13:29Vaitėkūnas graduated from secondary and music schools, and worked as a loader
00:13:33in a knitwear factory. Vaitiekūnas laughs saying that after becoming
00:13:36a Klaipėda resident, he still learned to swim in Pakruojis, in the
00:13:39Kruoja River, although at that time all the children compared him to a real sailor.
00:13:43Later, Vaitėkūnas worked and studied in Vilnius, Kaunas, and after more than
00:13:4740 years, he returned to Klaipėda, because, as he replied,
00:13:50he became the captain of the show, began to host Lithuania, a maritime
00:13:54state. "If I tell you Mars,
00:13:57you will probably think that I am talking about the planet,
00:14:01that red Mars. That is not the case, we are
00:14:05at sea, almost at sea, and therefore
00:14:08Mars is an observation
00:14:11platform on a ship's
00:14:14mast." The show started airing
00:14:17in 2012, but Henrikas Vaitiekūnas became a well-known television
00:14:20face much earlier. We get
00:14:23skimmed milk."
00:14:25In 1977, he worked at LRT
00:14:28Panorama, as a correspondent for the agriculture and
00:14:30industry department. Tell me, are there still disputes about milk
00:14:34fat content? Of course, it happens, it didn't happen
00:14:37to me personally, but for some,
00:14:40this question, he solves it
00:14:44together, with people participating and with the
00:15:05Vaitiekūnas was the deputy director of Kaunas Program
00:15:08Directorate, later he started managing the directorate and creating the show Laisvės
00:15:12alėja. When I, you see, drove to a gas
00:15:16station in Kaunas, and the station was closed,
00:15:18I
00:15:21knocked, saying: give me gas. Well, they
00:15:25said, Laisvės alėja will end now, then you can
00:15:28fill up. People sit and watch Laisvės alėja and
00:15:32say, no gas. It's a normal show from which
00:15:35all later Lithuanian television
00:15:38kakadu and all sorts of other frivolous news
00:15:42shows developed. Vaitiekūnas's path to journalism was winding. After
00:15:46unfinished journalism studies, he had to delve into
00:15:49librarianship, law, Lithuanian language, and
00:15:52literature. But the master of words was stubborn and
00:15:55in 2000, being 50 years old, he still finished
00:15:58journalism. Being a lecturer at Vilnius College,
00:16:02Vilnius University, the higher school of international law and
00:16:04business, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University,
00:16:08he did not attach great importance to education. When we received those
00:16:12diplomas, Martynas, you probably remember, they were huge, they were very
00:16:15big. I still manage to lose them. How much I needed them, I don't know,
00:16:19where I always tuck them away somewhere. That day, when they presented them to us, we
00:16:23went somewhere to drink beer, I think.
00:16:26I lifted the Mini Cooper's trunk and under
00:16:30the lid there, so it wouldn't wrinkle, I put it there. Yes, so
00:16:33eight years later, when I was selling that
00:16:35Mini Cooper, it was already almost gone when I remembered that
00:16:39the diploma was there. Vaitiekūnas's reports were always witty,
00:16:43with a hint of irony. He also conducted social
00:16:46experiments. From 2012,
00:16:49Vaitiekūnas was one of the presenters of the LRT show Laba Diena, Lietuva.
00:16:53At first, regarding the current affairs show broadcast during the day, Vaitiekūnas said
00:16:57he was asked if it would feature so-called "light news".
00:17:00The journalist replied that he and his colleagues worked hard
00:17:04to make it easy to watch. After some time, he left the show. There
00:17:08comes a time when you can
00:17:12work, there comes a time when you have to leave,
00:17:16not everyone on television
00:17:17understands that.
00:17:20I am not interrupting my journalistic activity. You only leave
00:17:23journalism when the coffin is carried out, then you also
00:17:27withdraw from journalism. I
00:17:29love journalism, I love television. After leaving
00:17:33television, Vaitiekūnas returned to Klaipėda, where he often visited
00:17:36his parents' home, where he grew up. After finishing his work in television, Vaitiekūnas
00:17:40continued to write his memoirs about it, which he had also done previously while working in the press, in
00:17:43Komjaunimo tiesa, Valstiečių laikraštis sportas, Gimtajame
00:17:47krašte, editing the publication Kalba Vilnius.
00:17:51I don't regret not working in television.
00:17:54On the other hand, I like to write a little about television and
00:17:58I always broke certain rules
00:18:02in recent years, can you really write about
00:18:05it when you yourself work?
00:18:08On the other hand, those opinions of ours, of old
00:18:11journalists, are also not really needed by anyone.
00:18:14Life moves at a cruel pace
00:18:17and I would not want to remain an old
00:18:21grumbler, for whom everything is bad and disliked.
00:18:24Vaitiekūnas also disliked the Lithuanian weather, as he said,
00:18:28the sky as gray as cement and the frowning faces of people. At those
00:18:31moments, the journalist said, he didn't want to see Lithuania or
00:18:35live here, but as soon as he left, for even a few days, he couldn't
00:18:39do without Lithuania. He always wanted to return, why,
00:20:32with occasional light rain in some places, and heavy fog. Temperatures will be
00:20:3616 degrees, in some places 7-9 degrees Celsius,
00:20:39with ground frost in some areas down to three degrees below zero. Tomorrow
00:20:43during the day, partly cloudy, with scattered light rain, and heavy fog in the morning.
00:20:47Temperatures will rise to 10-15 degrees.
00:21:03The United States administration warns Ukraine and its allies
00:21:07in Europe that Washington may cut off intelligence sharing
00:21:10and prevent European countries from buying American
00:21:14weapons for Ukraine if Kyiv continues to attack Russian
00:21:17energy facilities. This threat
00:21:21came after Donald Trump announced a supposed energy
00:21:24truce, about which, at least for Ukrainians, the news was
00:21:27unexpected. In recent days, Trump
00:21:31has surprised the world with more than one statement, from a decision
00:21:34to conclude a diesel supply deal with the Kremlin to
00:21:37a demand to change the Ukrainian president. So today
00:21:40we ask you, how do you rate Trump's agreement with Putin
00:21:44on diesel? Logical, after all, America is
00:21:47first. This is an alliance with the devil, or
00:21:50who knows where it will lead. All three
00:21:53answer options are on the screen. You can scan the QR
00:21:57code or vote below the live stream window.
00:22:01We will review the results at the end of the show. Now I will speak with
00:22:04Vytautas Magnus University professor Gintautas Mažeikis. Good
00:22:07day. Good day, Mr. Mažeika.
00:22:10In what world have we found ourselves
00:22:14when the United States imposes sanctions on Russia so that it
00:22:17would not have money for war, and after a few weeks, its president
00:22:21himself agrees with Putin on Russian diesel? We
00:22:24have found ourselves in the world of the corrupt
00:22:27far-right. The corrupt far-right
00:22:31concludes all sorts of deals and ignores
00:22:34democracy, democratic laws, those very laws
00:22:38that have already been adopted in the United States, approved by the Senate and
00:22:41Congress, or signed by previous
00:22:44presidents. In other words, for Donald Trump
00:22:48and his entourage, money
00:22:50is far more important than human
00:22:53lives, personal gain than
00:22:56democracy, fame than
00:22:58justice, and here, at this point, it is entirely
00:23:02understandable that he always wanted and intended, and
00:23:06never hid, to be friends with Putin and to fawn
00:23:10over him in every way, but he would also like
00:23:13to communicate with Chinese leader Xi Jinping
00:23:16or praises and worships North
00:23:20Korean Kim Jong-un, that is his choice,
00:23:23and he also wants to split the European Union
00:23:26in every way, by financing, supporting, openly speaking
00:23:30for the far-right or populist
00:23:33right, accordingly ignoring
00:23:36and cursing all others, calling them communists,
00:23:40pro-communist, or some kind of traitors, and in this
00:23:44way he is constructing a completely new world that America has not
00:23:47yet seen.
00:23:50the upcoming congressional elections, and Americans are clearly dissatisfied with the current
00:23:54economic situation, are we witnessing a situation
00:23:57where domestic political interests begin
00:24:00to dictate decisions about the survival of another state,
00:24:04because we hear exactly the same demands from Trump to replace
00:24:08the Ukrainian president?
00:24:10Well, all this, that he thinks that he will ask
00:24:14Putin this month for 3,000
00:24:17tons of diesel, that it will change American
00:24:21prices stronger, quite
00:24:24strongly, he is deeply mistaken, the United States itself
00:24:27exports about 5 million barrels
00:24:30of diesel per year, they are one of the
00:24:34largest exporters, and this is just business, to buy
00:24:37cheaper, sell more expensive, nothing else than
00:24:41speculation, the probability that it will help him solve
00:24:44domestic problems is close to zero, but he is not very
00:24:48worried about the Republican party either, the only
00:24:51thing that worries him is his personal safety and his
00:24:55family's safety, he will take care of them, well, and he has
00:24:58some fantasies, not listening to anyone else,
00:25:02and those fantasies, in his opinion, should lead him somewhere
00:25:06to his imagined world, he
00:25:09fantasizes that he has already won the war against Iran, he
00:25:12fantasizes that peace has emerged between Russia and
00:25:16Ukraine in the energy sector.
00:25:20He fantasizes that he has ended eight or
00:25:23nine, eight or nine wars, well, he lives in such a
00:25:27cosmos, and those around him, most importantly, the
00:25:30surrounding services that help him every day and
00:25:33every moment indulge in his irrationality
00:25:37and this destroys the world order. What do you
00:25:40think, professor, what is more dangerous, Trump's
00:25:44deal with Putin, or the fact that such decisions
00:25:47are becoming normal? I
00:25:50think that this Trump's relationship with Putin
00:25:53is just the tip of the iceberg.
00:25:56It is clear that no one would have discussed such
00:25:59a trifle. At first, this month, when the elections...
00:26:02will be determined by this person. 300,000, as I
00:26:06mentioned, barrels, nothing, uh, diesel, it will mean nothing,
00:26:09it will change nothing, but most likely he has bigger
00:26:13agreements, more significant ones,
00:26:16e, going much further,
00:26:19and Ukraine in this place is just an obstacle, by the way,
00:26:23the European Union is also an obstacle, it is undeniable that after
00:26:26Ukraine, from America, the European
00:26:30Union will also suffer, ways will be sought how to harm them, how to
00:26:33destroy them, and to use the internal
00:26:36contradictions of the European Union,
00:26:39but when Russia is encouraged for its aggression, and
00:26:43Ukraine is forced to explain and justify why it
00:26:47defends itself, isn't such a precedent
00:26:50being formed, when the stronger
00:26:54imposes its will on the weaker, and
00:26:57what does that say at all then about international law, about
00:27:01international order. One should read those thinkers
00:27:05and philosophers who surround Trump
00:27:08or the so-called MAGA movement, they all say
00:27:11the same thing, that the strongest, smartest, and
00:27:14richest must survive, an incredibly cynical view
00:27:18of the remaining democracy and its self-organization methods,
00:27:21and Trump represents this cynical
00:27:24view, for him, his personal
00:27:28income and pleasant conversations with Putin are
00:27:32much more important than hundreds or thousands
00:27:35of peaceful Ukrainian residents who died at that time,
00:27:39and he doesn't care about them at all, just as Putin probably
00:27:42doesn't care about his soldiers dying on the front
00:27:46line, thus two cynical individuals
00:27:49meet and enjoy talking,
00:27:53Professor, briefly, because time is up, but what
00:27:56does this situation, this behavior of the United
00:28:00States president, teach others?
00:28:03uh, I mean Chinese, North Korean
00:28:05leaders? Well, I don't think China and
00:28:09North Korea will be as cynical as
00:28:12Trump, they still do not represent that, let's say,
00:28:16oligarchic or corrupt capitalism, both
00:28:19these, North Korean and Chinese leaders, are still
00:28:23communist party or local,
00:28:26Korean or not, party e
00:28:30implementers, they have a certain different
00:28:32vision of the world and probably in their hearts deeply despise
00:28:35Trump e, but on the other hand, they gladly want to
00:28:39use him. Vytautas Magnus University
00:28:43Professor Mr. Mažeikis, thank you for being
00:28:46with us. In four days, Ukrainian drones
00:28:49damaged three Russian Google called technology
00:28:53giants Yandex data centers, disrupting
00:28:56services for millions of users. In Russia, there were
00:28:59problems with ordering taxis, food, using payment
00:29:02systems and artificial intelligence services, while
00:29:06on social networks, internet users rejoice that after the Ukrainian
00:29:10strikes, Russian bots almost disappeared overnight,
00:29:13internet traffic monitoring data indeed
00:29:16shows significantly reduced automated Yandex network
00:29:20activity, although this does not yet prove that the Kremlin's propaganda
00:29:23bots have disappeared. Information security expert Vytautas Krekys
00:29:27in the studio, good day, good day, what do we generally know about
00:29:30uh Russian bot
00:29:34centers? First of all, one should understand what these bot centers
00:29:38and bot farms are, they are usually unsanctioned
00:29:41state-
00:29:44sponsored organizations that operate
00:29:47for state purposes, and those
00:29:51three purposes are such that they are either moving
00:29:54the political environment, implanting
00:29:57certain narratives, and
00:29:59fraud. From fraud, bot farms earn
00:30:03directly, from the first two, they probably have to receive some subsidies from
00:30:06states, so one way or another, such bot
00:30:09centers can operate only
00:30:12in shadow states like Russia, China,
00:30:16North Korea, and of course in those
00:30:20countries where the standard of living is low, such centers
00:30:23can also operate there,
00:30:26it is worth remembering that in 2025, one bot center
00:30:29was also stopped in Lithuania. "In Latvia,
00:30:335000 uh bots were caught
00:30:37in one criminal investigation.
00:30:40E, that Yandex data
00:30:43centers were damaged does not yet confirm
00:30:47the fact that bot farms are also destroyed, it can
00:30:50be assumed that Yandex data centers act as
00:30:54servers."