life centered around the rice paddy and family. was a time when home was a self-contained universe. governed by ancient laws of harmony with men in nature. happy, serene, and peaceful. when they first viet cong tax collector appeared. when the first viet cong agitator, backed by guns, brought a new world through the village gate. the villagers tried to be neutral and not take sides. not taking sides is a luxury in vietnam. and luxury the rice farmer is denied because he is a prize in the four. -- in this war. a mother worries about her children. will the family ever be together again? these refugees are now strangers in their own land. most have never traveled as far as five miles from their homes. is a part ofow their souls. they have spent so long in the lands killed by generations byore them -- tilled generations before them. there are some things that are even stronger and more -- in war, in vietnam, the most important is the family. if families are separated by the fortunes of war, they do not rest until they are reunited. the

. ♪ >>> last ride, a few miles out of town, whip across the rice paddies.meeting my friends for a country lunch. what's the specialty at this restaurant? you're saying chicken baked in clay? >> yes. >> another friend from the past, ha pham, lin, of course, lon and a new friend tan. a last meal, some good-byes. >> i have a question. what make you stay so long? because normally travelers come and stay only one or two nights. what's your impressions about it? >> it's very laid back. >> uh-huh. >> the food's great. it's pretty. there's a lot to see. it's a perfect place to go if you want to take your time. it's beautiful to me. ♪ food's coming. >> out here, there are a lot of dishes like this. fill a chicken with lemongrass, wrap it in banana leaves and cover it with clay from the rice paddies. cook in a burning pile of straw, if you like. unwrap carefully tableside. section with shears. >> smells so good. make me hungry. >> serve with a little lime and salt, maybe some chili sauce. [ laughter ] >> squash, bitter melon and morning glory greens for veggies. >> l

farmers are most suffering from the water loss as the drought crisis, rice paddy fields are left uncultivated. >> an essential lifeline in remote districts, since local reservoirs dried up late last year, villages lineup every morning for cooking and drinking water. >> translator: i know that april is time, and every year, we try to have a little fun. but not this year. we just don't have any water. >> the entering prime minister is urging people to think about marking the new year in a more traditional style. he is suggesting the thais by keep the practice and gently sprinkling water as a blessing and good luck wish. >> this year, we all know we're having water shortages. we a may not ban the festival, but it depending on how people behave. we have to safe water by our safes. >> the festival is much loved by both thais and tourists. the drought is forcing everyone to strike a balance between celebration and saving precious water. nhk world. bangkok. >>> that wraps up "eye on asia." >>> belgian investigators say two more people have been arrested for the suspected involvement in the brussels

[laughter] there were these pitchfork paddies, starving irish. meagher said i underestimated how weak the people would be. they couldn't storm the barricades. the british empire, the flag of england is flying over one-fourth of the everett's land mass, and the most troublesome part is -- earth's land mass, and the most troublesome part of it is little ireland. he urges the hungry masses to storm the ports. let's stop the food from leaving ireland. symptom the food, storm -- stop the food, storm the ports. he's arrested, and he's sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered and his remains disposed of as her majesty shall see fit. >> i was a little surprised to see oscar wilde pop up in this book. could you talk about who these people were? >> i'm glad you asked that. one of meagher's lovers, i think based on the papers, she went on to become the mother of oscar wilde. and whenever he toured, he said i am better known as the son of speranza. she wrote these powerful, powerful poems about what the british were doing to the starving irish. she has th

. >> freddie was conscious when he was loaded into a paddy wagon. when it arrived at the police station 45 minutes later -- he was not. >> the question is why? he didn't do it to himself, he didn't have those injuries before he came in contact. i mean why? >> a week later, freddie gray died of a severed spine. baltimore erupted in protest -- and then flames. the national guard rolled in while the mayor imposed a curfew. freddie gray's death sparked an anger that captured national attention. but that anger was rooted in a fractured relationship with police that goes back decades. >> where he at? he's dead! and where you at? y'all wanna kill us. >> we're running back, they just threw some tear gas towards us. >> as calls for accountability grew, fault lines traveled to baltimore to investigate its long history of police violence. >> i might be the next one. >> does that make you scared? >> it makes me scared for everyone. the cops is a legalized gang. who's going to judge them when they kill somebody? can we find justice? can we? >> for weeks, baltimo

it happened at the paddy whacks puck in february.uspect speaks with the victim and then hits the man in the head way glass and punched him several times, an employee ran in to stop the attack and the suspect ran off. if you recognize him you are asked to call police. >>> and philadelphia police are looking for the gunman that shot another man following a fight at a logan parking lot yesterday. this was taken after 11:00 a.m. at sunny's deli in carlyle. deputies say the suspect and victim got into a struggle before the shooting and the victim was rushed to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm. and an employee of a 5 below store was stabbed after trying to stop two thieves, look at the women in these two pictures they were the suspects, they stole merchandise from the store and walked out. and when the employee went after them, the duo allegedly pulled out knives and stabbed that worker in the neck and back and ran off. if you who the women are police want to hear from you. >>> slick roads may have contributed to the crash in f

step out of the way and show you the area where freddie gray was picked up roughly a year ago, the paddytween those two buildings picked him up, sustained injuries while in police custody. died actually a year ago yesterday. this community came together for a community cookout, for a candlelight vigil last night to remember freddie gray. gray has become, if you will, an unlikely civil rights icon here, not just in the baltimore community where he lived but all over the state and all over this country for lots of folks. among the people who spoke last night at the candlelight vigil, at that cookout that i just mentioned, a woman named gina best. gina best lost her daughter in virginia beach. she is one of the half dozen or so mothers who gathered last night who insist that police killed their loved ones. take a listen. >> i find that as a mother of a murdered 27-year-old woman in her car with my 4-month-old grandson in the back seat, there's no words. it's far beyond insulting, it's egro egregio egregious. we're in the middle of a very strong political case with bernie sanders and hillary

paddy wagon between the buildings and we know that the 25-year-old injured in police custody.o yesterday. as you can see here, the 25-year-old gray has become an unlikely hero in this community, not just here in this community, as well. i've spent a fair amount of time yesterday talking to people who live here. there was a community cookout, a candle light vigil to remember freddie gray last night and i talked to folks about the upcoming presidential election. there's a hotly contested may mayoral race here. i wanted to talk to people about the politics. that's not what they wanted to talk about at all. take a listen. >> but then there's another piece of it, too, man. the other piece. >> media motivation as a whole in general. >> when we are looking at them to change our city, it doesn't ever change. we've been looking at politicians to change our city for decades and decades. the people on the ground changing the city, we don't get the coverage we need and we're changing the city every day. the story that gets untold is the story of tawanda jones, me, boom and other people in

unfortunately could not have our presentation slides but we had many different examples theh patti said showed paddy said- which showed the relationship with listeners. painting.e, a susan sanders used to share every thanksgiving a relish recipe hand a listener painted a picture of somebody making that recipe. also, we had a pair of slippers with the npr logo on them sent to us by our listeners. somebody had to keep all of these items. decide within our organization. we had to find people who supported our mission. people who had already been keeping their own little archives and convince them to share it with us and give it to us. we found that looking for allies in unexpected places often yielded incredible results. get 24 boxes from our engineering department which describe the whole department andory, function, importance. they trusted us and gave all of that to us. people trusted us with confidential information. people trusted us with sensitive information that otherwise they would not have shared with others and we also received 14 boxes of photos which, at that point, as established our phot