At a press conference just hours before the live broadcast of the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards , he shocked local and international journalists in Lisbon , Portugal , by bringing a bag of birds from Romania ( the first European country to detect avian influenza ) as a gift , then proceeded to say he was sorry that they had all died . At a news conference for the press just hours before the live broadcast of the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards , he shocked local and international journalists in Lisbon , Portugal , by bringing a bag of birds from Romania ( the first European country to detect avian influenza ) as a gift , then proceeded to say he was sorry that they had all died .