so someone in hanoi decided they needed to go ahead and get some information. so a gentleman showed up. the pows never knew any of the names of their captors or their interrogators. they nicknamed them so there was paid a high and there was rabbig hug. there was direct and aviators can tell you what that means. i was one of the most famous because he was the one that administered a lot of the torture. i want everybody to sit forward in your seats a little bit except for the former pows. i want you to put your arms behind your back and clasp your hands together. that was the first thing they did and they would ask you before this gets bad don't you want to sign this statement? don't you want to say that america is an imperialist power? do you want to say that this is an immoral for? that you want to say you were announced what america is doing? if you do we will give you some good food. we will let you play volleyball. we may let you go home early. you are an american fighter pilot so you are competitive and there is no way that you are going do these things. yo

look where the green goes, all the way south towards hong kong, hanoi, even taipei, temps drop to belowrage. upper teens returning in this region. the temperature trend takes you above average, 26 degrees celsius, roughly 80 degrees or so fahrenheit and drops it back down into the 60s. so changes in the temperature department there. take you back out towards netherlands where very mild temperatures have been in place here. we know a flower festival taking place across portions of the nether labds. flowers in full bloom because of this unseasonably mild weather pattern that was in place. but you notice an active feature here beginning to push in. that storm system going to bring the temperatures downhill rather quickly. also introduce some rain showers in the region as well. an area around london, for example, no significant rains have come down in about 2 1/2 weeks. now we have temperatures go from 18 to 14 down to 12. berlin, though, at the end of the spectrum. it warms up to well above the average of 8. temperatures going down about 70 degrees fahrenheit down to the mid 50s frarn hiet

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inspired by the civil society activists i've met within many of the countries i've been to, and hanoi, for instance, people standing up for their fundamental rights to speak out and associate freely. i am -- i am inspired by the human rights pioneer i met in moscow who spent a lifetime fighting for the basic rights we take for granted here in the united states. i'm inspired by a group of young -- southeasta and asian land rights activist i met last year who understand societal problems are best solved when the government works with civil society not against it. the truth is, some of the greatest accomplishments in expanding the cause of human rights have come not because of legislative decree or judicial fiat, but they came through the awesomely courageous act of whether it is fighting government transparency alex demanding justice and transparency and accountability in belarus. an activists wrapping for greater political freedom in cuba or someone writing for freedom of expression in ethiopia, every single one of these people are demonstrating a brand of moral courage that we need no

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s called hanoi hilton, the zoo, and alcatraz. he endured merciless beatings as well as solitary confinement for four years. as a senior officer, he was a leader among the prisoners and rebelled against their brutal efforts to extract propaganda. he refused, explained in an interview to "the new york times" -- quote -- "i put out the policy that they were not to succumb to threats but must stand up and say no. we forced them to be brutal to us" -- close quote. he wrote a memoir "when hell was in session" which is a fabulous book. too little appreciated, really. recounting his time as a p.o.w. he describes a torture session in which his captors placed him in a nine foot cement-filled -- placed a nine-foot cement-filled bar across his shins. he wrote that his captors stood on him and took turns jumping up and down and rolling it across my legs. then they lifted my arms behind my back, by the cuffs, raising the top part of my body off the floor and dragging me around and around. this went on for hours. they were in a frenzy, alternat

joining us via scope is digital globe director dr hanoy. appreciate you being with us. give us a light run-down on what you are asking from the crowd sourcing contributors. what are they doing? >> absolutely, we have been fortunate to deploit satellites to capture loads of imagy, we captured 25,000 square kilometres of images. we are asking the government to analyse the situation. >> what is analyse in this context mean. >> you are asking them to look through the images that you have. >> exactly. we need people to identify what is going on inside it. >> what are they say. what are they reporting in? we are asking people to identify oil slicks, boats, and we are finding all of that throughout the search area. >> what's with the information once you have it from your contributors. what do you do with it? >> we have contributions from 2 million people. we are putting that together, trying to aggravate to have them both and identify who is reliable and who is not. what is going on in the image. it's a computer program, converting 700,000 tags or clues into a handful that co

hanoi said it is willing to help out swear if asked.known location was midway across the gulf of thailand just before it was due to enter vietnamese airspace. pilot is 50 three years old. friends describe him as an aviation addict. he and his copilot had not requested to fly together. the two men are being investigated and police have searched their homes and question their families. ground staff are also being checked. from to come, the threat all the debt on where the bad loans are. ♪ >> it is monday, march 17, and these are the top stories. the government of ukraine has moved troops near to the border as the region voted to join russia. exit polls show more than 93% of the voters want to leave ukraine . the deepening crisis is the worst between west and russia since the cold war. in the autonomous republic of crimea, there is a circus going on. the so-called referendum, 21,000 electric personnel are safeguarding the so-called referendum. wants to pour money into rundown urban districts to spur growth. 100government will invest $63 bi

. >> about the situation in vietnam -- i heard mention about hanoi. the upr in geneva, the harassment against the and civil society in vietnam become alarming. my question is what made you the u.s. would improve the situation to respect human rights of the people. underscore we continue to call on the government of vietnam at the highest levels to make ryegrass and comply with its international human rights obligations and commitments. we have made clear doing so will allow us to further the bilateral relationship. part of these include what you mentioned -- the inability of vietnamese civil society activists to travel to geneva with respect to vietnam's universal periodic review. we also underscored our concerns over political prisoners. we are continuing to engage on all these issues. we were very concerned and noted in the report that the november conviction of 13 roman catholic bloggers with prison terms ranging from three to 13 years -- i would underscore this point. the restriction on freedom of expression and imprisonment of dissidents using va

vietnam briefly suspended its operations, hanoi accusing malaysia of providing confusing information over the path of the aircraft. malaysia accused vietnam of prematurely releasing photos of possible debris. it came as families accused all parties of posturing. lisa stark is in washington with more on the story. it has got to be tough for the families. is this investigation closer to finding the plane? >> it remains a puzzle, the shame puzzle we had the day the plane went down. this morning malaysian officials said they are expanding the search area to 27,000 nautical miles, and 13 countries are involved in hunting for the plane, trying to figure out where it went down. so far no hint of this jumpo jet. >> the search for malaysian flight 370 entered its fifth day. the mystery heightens and so, too, the confusion of pinpointing the lotion. >> it's the largest search. >> the hunt has done a u-turn. search and rescue ships mimicking the original rout have turned their attention to the malaka strait after a malaysian air force chief was quoted as saying signals were picked up over an is