she came from the center of tosia, from the volga river riga, latvia as the wife of a soviet and militaryfficer. i was the son of the occupant. -- in veryvery early early years of my life that we are not invited here. it is not my country. it is not my language. -- we are in this country because of joseph stalin sent us right here and he just occupied these three baltic countries. estonia., latvia, on the streets, it was -- everything was very evident. i was walking with my father and mother and he was wearing military garb. people look at us, what the hell are they doing here, why are you here? i do not have any answers but i knew something is wrong here. it is later on. now i am looking, i am glad that stalin sent us there. i look into the politics of russian politics from a childhood's eyes. i really understand already certain things, what anti-semitism is, what is the situation between latvians and the russians, what our army is doing their. -- there. there is a statue of freedom which actually probably was facing west which is an interesting dichotomy. my motherou know, passed away w

joe lynam, bbc news, riga. >>> the owner of the l.a.tball team has been banned from the sport for life. and fined $2.5 million for making racist remarks. the billionaire donald sterling has been at the center of a storm of controversy over comments he made in a phone call asking a woman not to bring black people to matches. the head of the nba explained why the decision had been made. >> i will urge the board of governors to exercise its authority to force a sale of the team and will do everything in my power to ensure that that happens. >> a lifetime ban is a lifetime ban. so i think that's already been decided. and, yes, i do think that's the right decision. the next step is where do we go? you know, you think about i'm coaching a team right now, and i actually don't know, you know, who to call if i need something. you know? and so the quicker that this is done, the better for everyone. >>> royal news now. britain's prince harry has split with his girlfriend of two years, cressida bonas. the news ends rumors of a wedding which was spa

the duke of courlande and of the cities of riga, ravel, and mitau. oh, very good. i shall ask the lot. that's all? get down the hatch. what's your name, number four? prince of podolia. what's your income? i'm bankrupt. take that for disobedience. now get down the hatch. number five, what's your name? margrave of thorn, count palatine of pollock. that's not very much. are you sure that's all you are? it's been good enough for me. well, it's better than nothing, i suppose. get down the hatch. what's eating you, ma ubu? you're too bloodthirsty, pa ubu. i'm getting rich. now i'm going to have him read out the list of what i've got. registrar, read out my list and my titles and possessions. count of sandomir, count... the princedoms first, stupid bugger. princedom of podolia, grand-duchy of posen, duchy of courlande, county of sandomir, county of vitepsk, palatinate of pollock, margravate of thorn. - go on. - that's the lot. what do you mean that's the lot? oh, well, i'm going to make some laws next. hmm, that will be worth watching. i shall begin by reforming the judic

i was very keen in riga. i think if anything i was knitting more considered and she was at times. with me did a test takers but it's only because it was used historians also sought to explain text messages in which teams come said she was afraid of him. she admitted to having had felt insecure and jealous to order then the story is recounted for the courts the night that he shot his girlfriend at that point of this political committee that is the moment that we're in good terms there was the third minute instead the ancients month i thirst. his students are moments when it's all muscle needed to. to be done on that it needs to get much done the stories broke down in sobs after the testimony she said prompting the judge received us to adjourn the hearing for the day iran's president has begun an historic visit to britain it's the first official visit by an irish head of state as followers. and it follows the queen's trip to ireland three years ago. well the improved relations have been made possible by the ongoing peace process in northern island king and said it would be possible

staying interesting one is the son of god to become independent of state and all the new boss nation in riga for my own website up to go home. i knew a school children to be in for a show that diet is set to drastically change find out what will be on the menu not to go home. the indices of everyone from previously been lavished on to shift western companies event went ahead despite my criticism of the nation's human rights record. the gold king has been waging a three year long crackdown against pro democracy protests last month eleven thirteen boundaries including teenagers with jail for life after being found guilty of attacking police and criticize big heavy handed but in another move what they considered is overly heavy handed twenty eight protests and court sentences of up to ten years for a similar offences. it's all part of its clampdown on dissent be country's government reportedly ordered one point six million teargas canisters that over this in the week with the rhythm of one point three million is now the size of population in bahrain you could save one of the bedouin of the kill

there is a lot with the policy making of riga. >> guest: there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic. it prohibits discrimination based on genetic information. it is president. -- president but understand the information in you create that once you acknowledge that then you also open yourself up to do a much better. having said that i am alarmed that we are about to increase the capability of the local police department to enforce more laws. this gives me a lot of claus with a lot of destruction with the simple municipal issues and also broadly speaking national issues. this is part of the reason why we feel right now as though we give away information through our devices to what we cannot hear or see. of revelations that june through 2013 from that and a say russia posted another outlet but ultimately it speaks to what i talk about. the time to have this conversation is right now and i am hopeful but it will be constructive. >> host: we only have the few minutes left you interviewed hackers, police hackers, police, what surprises did you encounter during the process? >> i interviewed

there are a lot of russians in live in riga and lithuania. a lot of people are nervous. do you favor more nato troops in the baltics in the event russians move into ukraine? >> i have no doubt we are heading in that direction. i think it is a question of what presents and what the modalities are. at this point, regardless of -- if the tragedy does not come to pass, which we all hope. in terms of no full-scale military intervention. there will be any number of baltico reassure the countries. as well, the romanians and bulgarians are the most exposed. worry a little bit that we in the west are setting the bar so high for triggering a response from us. full-scale invasion of ukraine. is able to destabilize ukraine well short of sending tanks across the border -- we are seeing it right now. we cannot set the bar so high that we may say if he does this we will not do anything. he is already doing it. there are other means for him to do it. we absolutely have to protect these countries. the nato alliance is meaningless. israel will question our reliability. our allies around t