>> lit rain yeah, latvia, estonia. >> how many people died? >> one out of every seven, half a million people all told. >> how did they die? >> starvation, worked to death in the gulag. >> how did we know what was going on? >> we knew what we wanted to know. it is extraordinary how much was known the soviets were our allies and also there was a real desire on the part of a lot of people in the united states to want to put the best face on stalin. >> where are those countries today? >> they are democratic republics. >> okay so do you have friends over there? >> oh, yeah. >> we will see some of your film. we will take a break and come back. we are here with father o arourke. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back. today we are here with dominican father david o'rourke. recap for us what we are talking about. what is this film about? what is captured about humanity? >> what this picture is about, is the soviets use of state sponsored terror as a normal means of government policy, begun with lennon and throughout the entire history of the soviet system used to int

one man in latvia taught his birds to tweet. since the social networking trend is named after them he figured a way to fashion pork fat and prompts the birds to peck away tweets. over 200 followers try and decipher their messages which would be complicated with 140 characters of abckj. >> i have yet to do any twitter stuff and i really was hoping it would kind of just go away and something new and cool would replace it. that's not happening. >> you can't avoid it. get on the bandwagon. we're missing you. time now for an early look at the stories we'll follow throughout the day here on nbc. >>> flags on national u.s. buildings will fly at half-staff today as our last world war i veterans frank buckles is laid to rest at arlington national cemetery. the 110-year-old west virginiaan outlived every other american that served in the first world war before passing away last month. >>> in rhode island lawmakers from a task force studying the problem of cyber bullying. the panel is set to address legislation to address online bullying a

underway in ladislaw and some petersburg times is what the team placed surprise package to narrow riga latviaside showed their mettle by dispatching early favorites and i lost out in the opening round that's the thing to watch for lucky me avoid the still says this is the strongest side but i'll swear her child dream team scar welcome want to be all spartak moscow and decent conference semifinals face off on wednesday a couple defending champions x. bounced up against the far power must sell about three wires to both teams get to lose during this postseason and regular season winners haven't gone if i misled by this ago as having god like the last life move into the quarterfinals part of having listened to make seven straight lines. so the second round of the playoffs gets underway in just a few minutes time and after scar loss and some about july have cruised through to the last eight let's take a look at the rest of the garden cup quarter final list about highlights on the first round. live live live. live . and that's all this was nice this wasn't. bringing you the latest in science and te

final period to school three goals and roll out five three winners and beyond the series now moves to latvia in the meantime blonde also level of their tie against strong beating them for you won in game two in st petersburg and southern yester of open for the moscow region team seventeen minutes into the game. and beginning of the second period mark simkin i get enough time to game one over this power for a shop. seven minutes later eager musard of gave the visitors a two one lead scoring on the rebound. and by doing high minsky made it three one with long minutes left in the second no girls in the final period so we down to three one of the clubs will had to the most original game for your own senses. to the n.b.a. now where the mavericks abandoned the next three game winning streak by beating their want twenty seven two one zero nine at home carmelo anthony scored two of these eighteen points splitting new york eight seven are early in the opening chords. to believe that a few minutes later shawn marion would be done plus a foul on his way to making it twenty two fourteen the map setting

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down in the final period to school three goals an all out flyers through the series now moves to latvia while at last to be women st petersburg as follows leading full with it see ya remains out the injured moscow region club sealing a confident three one win on the night to all sold out all their best of seven series. to the n.b.a. now where the mavericks have ended the next three game winning streak by beating their want twenty seven to one zero nine at home carmelo anthony scored two these eighteen points putting new york eight to seven up early in the opening quarter of their dallas to the lead a few minutes later shawn marion with a gun plus a foul on his way to making twenty fourteen the matter of setting a season high four points in a quarter with forty one in the second to open up an amazing seventy two to fifty one lead at half time and he's a joke after that as dallas firmly held on to their advantage to eventually finish eighteen points i had one twenty seven one online the finals cory dallas. saying states. but moving to florida where the start of the cadillac championship w

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spending even further now that even applies to states outside the troubled eurozone places like poland latvia denmark will also participate so you get a sense of the crisis spreading across the european union i've met with some of the protesters out on the streets and asked them why they're fighting the plans. no more layoffs no to pay cuts no retirement a message from twenty thousand angry demonstrators pushed back with water cannons and pepper spray by riot police the protesters tried to get through to e.u. leaders meeting in brussels to slash spending this money was made. to be used for social security was meant to be used for the. not broke the bank so when you. move to take brand because of the prison there goes across europe voters are saying no to malls there it's the measures portugal's prime minister has quit after parliament voted down a fresh round of cuts we contrast three months left to repay almost ten billion euro at a time when its sovereign credit rating has been caught and the only option left is national fault to tell does the country called pay back its loans or accept an

spending even further now that even applies to states outside the troubled euro zone places like poland latvia will also participate but the sum has been totally overshadowed by the crisis in portugal we have the parliament saying that it won't pass or thirty measures that's force the prime minister of the country to resign the trouble is the country is swimming in it which makes it increasingly likely country will have to declare national default which basically means saying we called we won't pay bag it's our obligation to banks and lenders and even increasing talk of leaving the euro altogether in ireland another troubled state next week we'll find the results of the stress tests which will tell us just how bad their banks really are so you get a sense of the crisis spreading across the european union and then we have we've seen some just through matter pictures here in the past couple of days about police using water cannons to disperse crowds are protesting against these austerity cuts tell me why or why are people across europe so angry with. it was basically shut down by clashes violenc

screen of the king of the third period copies a lot more of these how surprised i caved in on my riga latvia side showed their mettle by just watching early favorites and i know moscow in the opening round was blocking much of coach bloodied me out wojciech still says he is the stronger side elsewhere pecial dream team scar welcome that lands after sweeping past that moscow . and eastern conference semifinals face off the line is a double defending champions and pass up against the final power has to follow that you live with both teams and yet to lose during this postseason regular season winners i'm going to play resolute my desire god's love and god with the last side to move into the quarter finals after trancing if they can make seven three one home ice. and finally two extreme winter sports where the free rider world's top of the slopes of sortie this weekend and our own cousin thing but after trying to peak especially for us. the resort that will stage the alpine ski events of the twenty fourteen winter olympics is becoming a brand name that resonates around the world however these gu

had really bagged her and said for the sake of medical history, for the sake of medical science, latvia finished idea. she said fine, do it. and she said elliott, she told me this decision had haunted her for decades. it was the wrong decision. i think the finest praise who indirectly said to me that the proper story to a close. she said no proper sandler has found a rightful place in medical history. it was left deferred ducted gong member had come to an end. it is in some ways a finer phrase than anything i've personally received and perhaps the most moving thing that happened to me. i think i have time for one more passage that i'm going to need this from the end of the book in which takes is a very different kind of challenge. the first kind of challenge i describe to you is the challenge of story making, which is how to populate a boat. it is the challenge that appears in the content. a book like this faces a different kind of challenge that is the challenge of summary making commotion at the end of the book on how to summarize for a thousand years of history? how does one prepare

guest: well a smaller country, close to the russian border called latvia which went through an enormouslynful reform process. the same government was re-elected after. host: chris on our independent's line. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: fwoong. caller: my alarm over libya and the middle east goes back to the shaw of iran, what's going on with the military takeover in egypt. and now what's going on in libya. and also to what's going on in afghanistan. we've been over in afghanistan longer than we fought world war i and world war ii. my alarm is that we don't wind up in libya with troops after being -- by the -- promised by the current prth that we were going to get out of iraq and out of afghanistan. guest: well, again i don't want to want prejudge on certainly american decisions on this particular case of libya. again, my message is i believe clear. we need to pass a clear message to colonel gaddafi, and we are doing that today. we cannot accept the swafplgtse but we are doing this together. the u.s. is not alone. and i would like the american listeners to be clea

west have become successful, prosperous democracies, but tragically, while poland, lithuania and latvia have broken the chains of tyranny and joined the flagship institutions of the euroatlantic world, nato and the european union, byelorussia and its people have been left behind, held behind by its despotic ruler alexander luckashenko who has ruled his country in rigged elections for nearly two decades. some in the united states and europe had hoped in recent years that luckashenko might be prepared to open up byelorussia and change his ways. these hopes, however, came to an abrupt end on december 19 of last year when byelorussia held presidential elections, and thousands -- as it quickly became clear that the vote in those elections was neither free nor fair, thousands of byelorussian people took to the streets of minsk in protest and the luckashenko regime responded with violence and brutality. this resolution would put the united states senate on record in response to the crackdown launched in byelorussia on december 19, a crackdown, i would add, mr. president, that continues in sign

an advertising executive in latvia taught his backyard birds to tweet by attaching pieces of their favoritee films them so they can be seen live online. let's go back to meredith and matt. i think we'll try a similar technique to get you tweeting. >> it's a little bit loud out here. say it again? >> we'll try a similar technique to get you tweeting. >> and we have another new tweeter here. >> one day i tweeted. >> that was it? it's over? >> i may go back to it when you do. >> i have to start to go back. >> right. >> let's go to the other end of the plaza to check out mr. roker. >> it's texas moms gone wild. where are you from? >> ft. worth. >> what have you done here? >> everything. >> that certainly encompasses a lot. as far as your weather is concerned, nbc 3 wkyc-hd,le hello cleveland. afternoon rain and 46 degrees. we have a stom snysteow d to the southeast bringing heavy rain to northern georgia. that will spread up into the northeast today into the night. we have heavy rain and wind in the pacific northwest. high surf advisories southern california. beautiful weather texas into the ce

latvia has shown its commitment to shared values as a strong new member of the nato alliance.nshrined among the helsinki accords, ten guiding principles is a commitment to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech and peaceful assembly. the helsinki process is committed to the full participation of civil society. these aspects of the helsinki process, political dialogue and public participation, are critical in the middle east, and we are watching these principles in action today, in egypt and tunisia. the principles contained in the helsinki accords have proven their worth over three decades. these principles take on increasing importance as the people of the middle east demand accountability from their leaders. whether countries of the region choose to create their own conference for security and cooperation or as some have suggested the current osce partners and their neighbors seek full membership in the osce, i believe such an endeavor would offer a path for governments in the region to respect human rights, establish free press and instit