go deep behind the scenes at aljazeera.com/techknow. is. >> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories. president obama visits fort hood to owner those killed in last week's shooting. and troops on the border raising fears that russia will invade ukraine. and a flaw in security that could effect more than half of the sites that you use.

>> president obama visited fort hood today to honor those killed in last week's shooting. he and the first lady attended a momentamemorial service for thot at motor to do. >> today four american soldiers are gone, four army families are devastated. as command center chief i'm determined that we will continue to step up our efforts to, reach our troops and veterans who are hurting, to deliver to them the care that they need and to make sure that we never stigmatize those who seek help. >> mike viqueira is live for us in washington, d.c. mike, i have to tell you that i was watching the ceremony, i was

as well. if you didn't feel something in that ceremony today you just don't have a pulse. that was really moving stuff. >> reporter: and it's a bitter symmetry for president obama. the first time he attended one of these firmal services, and he's up to 15 now, unfortunately becoming a familiar ritual if not a routine after the mass shooting in it colorado, arizona, connecticut, the first one he attended in fort hood, the president saying part of what makes this so painful is that we've been there before. the president, the speakers before him, the chief of staff of the army, all praising the individuals, the fallen individuals, the three who died at the hands of this specialist, this individual who was under care for mental health issues, who had just had a big fight with members of his unit about some leaves he had requested,

and the shooting ensued lasting eight minutes leaving three dead. sergeant danny ferguson, sergeant carlos rodriguez, and sergeant timothy owens, they did what they could to save their fellow soldiers. here's more of what the president had to say. >> we have to remember this they are a generation who has borne our security for more than a decade of war. now our troops are coming hope. by the end of this year our war in afghanistan will finally be over. in an era where fewer americans know someone in uniform, every american must see these men and these women, our 9/11 generation, the extraordinary citizens that they are. >> reporter: the president stayed away from the political

maelstrom that follows an incident like this. many members of congress think that members of the army and the military should be able to carry firearms on base. they're currently prohibited from doing so. the thought is that this could have ended sooner if more soldiers were armed. there are also more calls for gun control specifically background checks against people with a record of mental health problem. even speaker boehner has come out for that, but that's going nowhere as well. >> mike viqueira for us at the white house. thank you. let's bring in a psychiatrist who serve at fort hood as part of a crisis team after the november 2009 shooting.

what does it mean for those at fort hood, the families of those who were wounded, the president there sharing this day, this memorial service with them on base? >> i think it's very important for both the president and the first lady to memorial eyes these soldiers, and to come in and support the community, and to start them on a road of healing. here he is the commander of chief. he's highly respected and recognized for that. to know that he is concerned about them means a lot and touches them in so many ways. >> i mentioned that you were part of the task force in fort hood in november 2009, after that shooting. tell us what you remember about

the early days, what the mission was and what you were trying to do in terms of getting an early assessment. >> well, we had to recover from the shock of that incident, and help the community again, and all the people, the helping professions, the providers, the leadership to support healing with the soldiers and families. we had to collect as much information as we could to identify what the lessons learned were, and then to proceed with what would be programs and outreach with this kind of thing not to happen again even though we no in an army under the pressure and stress that it has been it can as it has. >> what were maybe you can share with us a few of the lessons that were learned. i'm wondering if any of the things that you're reading about

in this recent case echo back to 2009. >> a couple of things is that individuals will get into crisis. in fact, they will lose control at a time. they may or may not reach out around them to people who could help, and it's really important for the circle that's working with them or their families to astute and attentive to that kind of crisis as it's developing, and then to take positive measures to protect themselves and protect the individual, who in this case ends up being the perpetrator. we felt, and the recommendation was almost in a separate way the healthcare system and the leadership needed to take positive action to mitigate

dangerousness. and to teach people and prepare them for the kinds of circumstances they were going to face, and the crisis they may find themselves in not to go over the ledge. >> general, appreciate it. thanks for your time, and thank you for sticking around for us. retired brigadier general, a psychiatrist who served at fort hood as part of a crisis team there after the november 2009 shooting. general, again, thank you. as tensions rice in eastern ukraine protesters seize government buildings in the region, there are kne new fearst russia is planning an invasion. they say these this is proof that they're building force near the border of ukraine. phil ittner live for us, phil, you've been telling us for weeks

now that the russian are indeliberately sparking tensions, and russia is responding tit for tat saying american mercenaries are involved. what can you make, what can we make of this escalation? >> tony, a little bit of finger pointing today. the west and the united states, it's n.a.t.o. allies, the european union and kiev itself saying that they have no doubt that it is actually russian agent provocateurs in the east of the country in an orchestra orchestrated calculated move to destabilize that region, to make the ethnic returns in that part of the country to rise up and voice the opinion of wanting to join the steps of crimea. they say this is a falsehood. this is not a natural

occurrence. russia counters that and says actually it is western interests, and security contractors from a group that actually has some ties with the infamous blackwater group that are doing this. the question, tony, is this a natural occurrence? are these residents of cities east of the country who really do have a grievance and they're rising up, or is this being manipulated? >> absolutely, the russian prime minister said they'll talk with officials from ukraine. what, if anything, should we expect from those talks? >> well, first and foremost we don't know when those talks will happen. they're being discussed somewhere in europe, but we don't know exactly. it is interesting to see the components, the participat parto

have put ahead to that. secretary of state john kerry, of course, the russian foreign minister, secretary lavrov, and of course the ukrainian foreign minister. that will be an interesting mix because moscow still has a problem acknowledging ukraine's ministry. they said that they will consider talks but only if kiev considers all regional groups. >> phil ittner for us in london. thank you. support for russia is not just rising in the east. how moldova on ukraine's western border is dealing with its own small province that wants to return to russia. most people there feel more aligned to the kremlin than they do to europe. >> history has driven many paths through the region, but tanks

were needed to reclaim it from moscow. the welcome sign shows the language is used here turkish, moldovaen and russian. the priest in this church hold it in all these. the president made this turkish coffee before explaining why he's so opposed to joining the european union. >> for the last 20 years the leaders of the capitol have been robbing people blind while they're screaming they're moving towards europe. the e.u. pat them on the southern and tell them they are doing a good job. this is a story of corruption, thievery, and discrimination against ethnic minorities. >> in a referendum here in february, 98.5% of the people voted to join the eurasian

custom union, reintegrate the trade roots of the old soviet union. and this shows why, imports go to countries that already signed up for putin's plan. these wine toasters are toasting the president. >> laboring in the heat of midday preparing the ground these women earn just $10 a day. >> our bosses want us to join the e.u. but they make us work for pennies. ththe prices here are as high as in the west, but the salaries are moldovaen. europe is not for us. >> the storks here find plenty to feed on, but that was not the case of a 93-year-old woman begging on the side of the road.

she didn't want our money, she wanted food. she couldn't reach the village shop. her daughter had left her alone. despair and poverty on the door step of the european union. al jazeera, moldova. >> secretary of state john kerry is trying to prevent the collapse of peace talks. pushing for talks to continue despite moves on both sides that have complicated the process lisa stark with more. what did kerry and lieberman discuss? >> this is meeting scheduled for some time. they're talking about a wide range of issues regarding iran and syria and the stalled mideast peace talks. secretary kerry insisted that those talks are going to continue, or he wants them to continue, and here's what the secretary said. >> i'm really happy to welcome

them. we're working hard to find a way forward. both parties indicate a way forward, we obviously want to see that happen. >> reporter: and israeli foreign minister lieberman said that israel has a desire for peace and this is not lip service, this is nine months after talks ban, publicly no one is saying let's throw in the towel. >> what did kerry say? what did he blame the israelis for that he is now back peddl pg on? >> this was yesterday. he did in fairness say that both the israelis and the palestinians have made unhelpful moves, as he put it. but then he zeroed in on israel.

look, they were supposed to release another batch of prisoners. they didn't do that. then they announced they're building more settlements. that has the israelis very upset and they have told "the new york times" that they're deeply disappointed. >> 20 people were injured today in a stabbing spree in a school near pittsburgh. it was just as classes were set to begin. all injured are expected to survive. police took the suspect in custody after a school police officer and assistant principal subdued him. we talked to a student about the alleged attacker. >> he was a quiet kid. he was nice. i mean, i don't know him on a personal level, but we were on the hockey team together.

you there is nothing that would lead me to believe that this could happen. >> investigators don't know what led to the stabbing, but police say they're looking into reports of a threatening phone call between the suspect and another student the night before. one day after equal payday senate republicans derailed a bill aimed at curbing paycheck discrimination against women. this is the third time that it would advance in the senate. it the bill would make it harder for employers to pay women less than men in comparable jobs and make it easier for people who feel they have been discriminated against to sue their employer. in today's power politics if democrats keep control of the u.s. senate this fall, they may owe senator elizabeth owen, m massachusetts democrat has become a fundraising tour de force, and she's getting a lot of attention from party activi activists looking ahead to 2014.

>> reporter: tony, elizabeth warren has been traveling across the country every week and she has raised more money for other democratic candidates in this election cycle than any other member of congress. the calls are growing louder for her to take her star power beyond midterm. she is the potential 2016 democratic presidential candidate that hillary clinton fears the most. >> i'm fighting to give every child a chance to build something extraordinary, and i want you to fight along beside me. we are in this together. >> reporter: this past weekend in that same speech in mississippi warren hammered two of the republican parties biggest stars. she accused paul ryan of caring only about the rich. >> that my be paul ryan's vision of hour america works, but that's not our vision of this great country.

>> reporter: and she ridiculed ted cruz who led last year's government shutdown. >> the shutdown sucked $24 billion out of the economy. talk about a financial genius. [ laughter ] >> reporter: born and raised in oklahoma, 64-year-old warren spent most of her life working as a law professor, recently at harvard. in 2012 warren ran for u.s. senate. one grainy video for speaking inside a home got more than a million views on youtube. >> there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. nobody. you built a factory out there, good for you, but i want to be clear you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. >> reporter: warren then received $40 million in campaign contributions and han handily

defeated scott brown. in her only second year in the senate warren raised over $2 million for democrati democrc candidates and senators up for re-election this year. that's more than anybody except for president obama. warren's exceptional liberal policy reviews set her apart. she thinks that the minimum wage should be raised to $22 an hour and created legislation that would make student loans interest free. watching warren with nervousness is hillary clinton's team. the political right of warren on most issues and democratic presidential voters tend to be more liberal than democrat as a whole. >> liz warren said she has no plans to run for president in 2016 and insists she's barn storming the country helping democrats keep control of the u.s. senate. she's building up a lot of political i.o.u.s.

>> she's a star. no doubt about it. david shuster, thank you. a tremendous boost today in the search for malaysia airline 370, a ship detected two more signals in the same area of than ocean. now the official said that the signals are consistent with pings emitted by the plane's flight recorders. crews hope to find the device before their batteries die out. an online bug that could make half a million website vulnerable. what you need to know to protect yourself. and the merger between comcast and cable. comcast and time warner cable. some say it's bad news.

>> take a look at these numbers. a good day on wall street. that's a nice day.

stocks soaring with the dow jumping 181 points encouraged by the minutes of the last fed meeting that showed policymakers don't want to even suggest interest rates will be going up any time soon. and toyota announcing the second largest recall in its history. 6.5 million vehicles worldwide spanning 27 models. 1.8 million are here in the united states. there are five separate problems from airbags that may not deploy to defective seat springs. toyota said it does not know any oofany crashes resulting from te glitches. and the merging of comcast and time warner cable. the marriage of the two cable giants will give consumers fewer options, raise prices and reduce service, but the companies say that is not so. >> this is not a challenging

transaction from an antitrust perspective. our companies serve distinct jeer graphic areas. we don't compete for customers anywhere. it will not lead to reduction of consumer choice in any market. let's go to technology reporter with the "washington post," good to talk to you. you were there for a lot of this. my concern would be, and i think i'm channeling a lot of folks when i tick off this list. too much consolidation of this business in the hands of comcast. i like competition but it keeps the governor on prices. i'm concerned if the merger goes forward, the cost of the service is going to go up. how did comcast address those concerns today? >> reporter: well, interestingly

the executive vice president, who is testifying in the senate, did not make assurances that prices would not go up. and the way he said it, he said i just can't promise that that's not going to happen. that was a question that was in answer to a question directly asked by senate lawmakers. that is the nub of the concern that many of the lawmakers addressed today which is how could we give our endorsement of a merger of two companies that really have a tract record of consistently raising prices about three times the rate of inflation over the last several years, and also has a pretty poor track record of customer service. both companies rank dead last in customer satisfaction surveys, plural, not one or two, but most customer satisfaction surveys. the suggestions that lawmakers had, and critic groups, well,

these are two companies that have not particularly served consumers well in terms of their satisfaction in terms of billing, what is to say that if you remove one competitor of this market, and as you said, competition keeps people in check, people were skeptical on the hill. >> i understand why. i don't want to be completely negative, but at some point the guys at the witness table made aan affirm affirmative statemenr this deal. >> reporter: they said if the two companies are combined in force they'll have many more resources. in terms of power to invest more in future technology, to make their networks faster, to invest more in technology of the

future, and to bring higher speeds to more people in the u.s. they also talked about how in general the deal itself is not anti-competitive. they were prepared to go into a deep antitrust analysis because the firms don't compete in the same cities, in the same geographies. there is comcast in d.c. but not time warner. >> i'm out of time, but i want to have you back because i think there are a lot of questions that need to be asked here. are they promising to cover more of the country? there are still large swaths of the country that don't have access to the worldwide web. i'm hoping that someone is asking that kind of a question before the panel today. but i'm out of time. cecilia, it was great talking to you. >> thank you. >> cecilia cogg, technological

reporter for the "washington post." looking at the unprecedented details released about billing practices across the country, and why it could make a big difference in comparing doctors and treatment, and why the louisiana bayous coast line is disappearing.

>> the internet that made us feel safe online may have a security flaw. your sensitive information may be at risk. they're working on a fix before the flaw causes serious damage. jake ward joins us with more. jake, tell us about all of this. >> reporter: sure, so tony, when you and i are hanging out with,

let's say, firemen or policemen, if they start running that's when you worry. network engineers are starting to run. they're freaking out. that's because as you say one of the basic pad locks of the internet have shown not to work any more. let me show you what i'm looking at on my screen. when you see the http in any website go from http to https. if you type in http and then twitter, it automatically goes from http to https. that s is what is so vitally important. that "s" means your information going back and forth between your computer and a server out there is doing so in an encrypted way. this new break through, this flaw basically allows anybody to

step in and grab that encryption, user names, passwords, e-mails, credit card information, all the stuff you expect to be transfer securely. all that is up for grabs. typically it's locked behind a private encryption lee. bukey, but a hacker would be able to hack in and take all that information and there is no trace of it. >> well, what the heck are we to do now? at this point? >> yes, well, right. that's the great question on everyone's mind. the problem is if you go in and change your password now you're feeding it into a compromised system. google, facebook, other companies that i've talked to said if you have one password

for multi it will sites, you should wait a couple of days and update it. >> you have something else that you wanted to mention here. >> well, that's right. basically tomorrow tomorrow i'm going to be --turns out if that bridge were to fall in to the bay bridge which dropped $6 billion on to, that would be a serious problem. this is a race against time to get this bridge disassembled before an earthquake can strike the area. >> that's tomorrow. jake, let's have you back here at 6:00 eastern time here to talk more about the security thing. this is a hot-button issue for a lot of folks. jake, appreciate it. >> okay. >> for the first time ever the public can see how much doctors

charge medicare for their services. president jimmy carter was the first to try to get the information released but was blocked by legal challenges. last year a federal judge ordered that the data be made public. what it shows about the 880,000 medicare doctors that could change the industry. >> reporter: yes, for years this information was secretive, and it's stunning now that we're learning. it has not been available since the late 1970s. medicare spends $600 billion a year. but we're talking about the 10% that goes to doctors and other providers, the rest is spent on hospitals, medicines and things like that. that's $64 billion paid to nearly 900,000 doctors just in 2012. now what this all revealed is that a small fraction of doctors is getting a big share of the pay off. the top 2% of doctors collected a quarter of the payments from

medicare. that's 17,000 physicians getting $15 billion from the government. the one who got the most, this man, a florida ophthalmologist, medicare paid him $21 million just in 2012. half of that money came from a specific type of eye injection just for the elderly. he billed 37,000 of them in one year each cost an average of $318. this doctor has been under investigation but his lawyers insists he plays by the rules and blames the high cost of the money. then another doctor, the country's highest paid o oncologists. cancer doctors collected more from medicare than any other. he's in michigan. he collected $10 million. he has been charged with fraud. he's in jail waiting for tried. he is pleading not guilty. but many are now seeing what

doctors do and how much they're getting from medicare to do it. >> well, the figures are there. web do the deep dive. >> reporter: and thousands of dollars get more $1 million a year. thousands. >> staggering. at the border of mexico and the united states, about 1% of potential depour tees are released because they are u.s. citizens. that's according to a recent study. it sounds like a small number but there are 400,000 deportations a year. adam rainy has report of men fighting to stay on u.s. soil. >> reporter: he is caught in an endless cycle. he gets deported, crosses back and lands in yale. he insists he is an u.s. citizen. once smugglers broke his hand. another time he was kidnapped only escaping with the help of a stranger. >> get out of here. she told me. if not they'll be looking for you. >> the u.s. government could not

prove that he is not a citizen. he can't convince them he is. this is his father's arizona state birth certificate. usually proof an of father and son are american citizens. but not fores not for esteban. a judge deported him to his "native mexico." >> esteban takes us to central arizona the place where he has lived three of his 40 years. the only place he calls home. 12,348 at 83 she has little time left with her son. >> i'm really worried about esteban, that he's out there alone, whether he's eating, what he's eating, where he's sleeping, if something happens to him. >> reporter: with nearly 2 million people deported under

president obama, many mothers share her troubles. deported from louisiana to mexico in 2008. immigration officers did not believe he was a citizen despite records showing his father was. it took him three years to prove them wrong. now he is suing the u.s. government to wipe his record clean of any mention of depourtation. >> i'm afraid of police officers. they look at me and see i'm hispanic, i might end up going through the same thing again because my social security number is not accurate. it shows that i'm deported. >> reporter: the government told us that as a convicted alien, he was a deportation priority. in 2012 they finally gave him this document which states he became a citizen in 2002, six years before he was deported.

asked if they mistakenly deported an u.s. season the government did not respond. back in arizona esteban will be released any day only to be deported once again. despite the dangers he'll cross back as soon as he can. he says he only has one home. >> a reminder for you, al jazeera america is proud to present "border land" it remears this sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, that is 6:00 pacific here on al jazeera america. in kenya 82 somali nationals have been deported as part of a government's campaign to prevent future attacks. more than 400 people are being detained under the country's anti-terror law. the recent attacks have been linked to al-shabaab, a somali group. police are working to make sure none of the 3,000 are refugees

fleeing violence from somalia. in syria an ambulance that was set off half an hour apart during a busy part of the day. the area has a large population of alawite, a group closely tied to president bashar al-assad. and searching for missing people afte yearly a week aftere bankfloodwaters. >> there are 14 in each classroom. some try to sleep during the day. some here lost their homes. some have lost members of their family. hudson's youngest son was washed away. hudson found him in the morgue

two days after the flood. >> when i saw my son, i don't know what to say. he is someone in my family that i will miss. i lost everything. i lost my house, i lost all my belongings, and even my son. >> there were more tears on hudson's first trip back to where his house had once stood. he had been working in a shop a kilometer away when he had a frantic call from his wife. she was marooned in the middle of a torrent. >> reporter: hudson managed to get to that side of the river but this was all underwater. virtually all the houses were gone. this one remained, and his son was clinging to that. in that tree was his wife,

mother-in-law, father-in-law, and one of his other children. for an hour they hung before they tried to swim. hudson's wife and eight-year-old son made it. his five-year-old son did not make it. his body was washed away with the flood. >> this flood, it takes everything that we own, and then changed our lives. >> reporter: the area has flood before, but it was more like a tsunami ripping up an entire tree and ripping up everything in its path. in the cemetery they're digging graves. hudson buried his son rex saturday. andrew thomas, al jazeera. >> the military said a shooting at camp lejeune was probably an accident. we have more on this story with other headlines across america. >> reporter: tony in north

carolina the fatal shooting of a marine was likely, quote, a negligent discharge. it will take several weeks to confirm that it was an accident. the marine who fired the single shot at the main gate of camp lejeune is in custody. in florida development in the case of the pregnant woman who drove a minivan with her three children into the ocean. the charges against her have been reduced to attempted second-degree murder. tourists and lifeguards rescued her children when she drove her car into the ocean. she also faces several charges of child abuse. no. san francisco more people have become sick on board a crown princess cruise ship. many are now isolated in their cabins. that's up from 37 people who reported being sick on monday. officials believe a norovirus is

the culprit, an illness that causes nausea and diarrhea. the ship is due to dock monday. university of massachusetts basketball player derek warden said's gay. he's the first openly gay player in division one basketball. he said he was inspired by nba athlete jason collins and make sams. he said he has never felt happier in his 22 years, and he said no more hiding. >> living in the open. >> reporter: that's right. living in the open. >> shadows lifted. >> reporter: yes. >> marie y we'll see you later in the program. thank you. since the 1930s nearly 33 miles of louisiana coast line has nearly disappeared. the loss is so significant that maps have been redrawn to reflect the new coast line.

kimberly halkett has the story. >> reporter: for more than two decades ross has been fishing the louisiana bayou. as a boy he remembers searching these wetlands along the gulf of mexico in search of crab, shrimp, fish, a way of life he's not sure will last. >> in the five years i've seen places where i used to fish completely gone. it's crazy. >> reporter: the city of new orleans along with the rest of the region is built upon a delta created over centuries by sentiment but it's vulnerable to hurricanes which more than devastated the area. in the 1930s engineers built a system of levies. ten years ago all of this water behind me was once marsh land.

but now it's gone. and in its place the bamboo poles mark where the west lands used to be. from the air you can see the erosion made worse by the state's oil and gas industry. the marsh lands knocks and crannies have been carved into straight edge canals. this allows see water to flood the fresh water he i estuaries. >> it brings in a lot of saltwater intrusion into the fresh water marsh. that saltwater is poison for that marsh. >> reporter: permit agreements are supposed to require oil and gas temperatures to restore the wetlands once work is complete, but it's legislation which has been poorly enforced in a historically poverty stricken state industry jobs are the priority. roughly 90% of louisiana's coast line has been eroaded. plans now in place to stop the

land loss but it's expected to cost more than $50 billion the state doesn't have, the u.s. congress has yet to finance. >> i just mainly want to see it come back that way when i have kids they can enjoy what i'm enjoying. >> reporter: but that's uncertain. without urgent preservation what took nature thousands of years to create now faces extinction in a single lifetime. kimberly halkett, al jazeera america on the louisiana bayou. >> coming up on al jazeera america, a campaign to prevent a lesbian from being deported to uganda where new strict anti-gay laws are in effect.

>> a lesbian asylum seeker in england is on a plane deported back to uganda just a couple of hours ago. supporters lost trying to stop

that deportation because uganda passed a controversial anti-gay law in february which imposes strict penalties for homosexuality. and there is widespread domestic support for it. supporters of the woman seeking asylum said that her life will be at risk if she returns. we were talking about this earlier. there was really an attempt to stop the plane, right? >> there was, tony. let me give you a little bit of the back store. she's 45 years old. she has been held up at an immigration center in england for the past four months. her supporters launched a campaign on social media called save ann. they also launched a facebook page where people like jay wrote, britain has a responsibility to save lgbt refugees from certain persecution and probably death in uganda. people have been going on twitter saying please do not let

her fly out. her flight was tonight going to uganda villa kenya airlines. mia said, please don't allow ann to board the flight. don't take her to a country where she faces violence as a lesbian, and another writes kenya air ways you're not legally required to deport asylum seekers. two supporters went to the airport to try to stop the flight from happening. one of them writes, passengers on the flight are screaming murder, please show solidarity #save ann. maxwell tweeted this, i'm not an activist but save ann. and lakowen writes, ann's plane is taking off. thank you to everyone who fought to save her. >> did you see video of that? i would imagine at some point

we'll probably get some cell phone video. >> yes, she's going to be e-mailing me shortly. >> will you keep us posted on that? i want to know what happens when she lands and where the story goes from there. appreciate it. thank you. >> ivory smuggled into belgium has been publicly destroyed in an effort to fight against endangered trade in endangered wide life. but elephant ivory is revered among some shop owners. we have the details now from brussels. >> reporter: crushed, crunched, and pat out from roaming the planes of africa to plastic bins on the outskirts of brussels. this rifery has traveled many miles to meet such an illegal fate. >> smugglers put it in huge wooden statute to yous, in standing clocks, in luggage with

double cases. >> reporter: the international ivory trade was banned in 1989 but still it comes through europe's ports and airports en route to the far east where it is in high demand. ivory in its raw form it can be turned into any number of different shapes. these pieces are made to look like wood so they're easier to smuggle. then down here we have these to be used in necklaces, bracelets or any other sort of jewelry. and then these cylindercal pieces look like steel. they are in hopes of destroying so much ivory it will send a message to traffickers. >> we no longer are dealing de h

petty criminals. we're dealing with organized groups, some terrorists and they finances themselves with illegal trade in ivory. >> reporter: but in a part of brussels where antique shops line the pretty streets and ivory can be found legally it's not hard to find dissenting voices. >> what i'm afraid of is the word destruction, especially when we're talking about a noble material. and i'm convinced that we're attacking this evil in the wrong way. using the ivory is better than destroying it. >> reporter: the countries that have destroyed the ivory don't want it to be mobile. they want it to be shameful. they say only when consumer demand dice will the problem be solved. >> how about the university of kentucky? really, the epicenter, right, of

ncaa basketball for the second time in ten years. a crowd in stores from new york city, what do you think, alisha, a two and a half hour drive, and there is a big crowd there. you don't see it from this shot, but that's the coach of the women's team, but a big crowd has shown up to celebrate the women's team after it won it's ninth championship, defeating notre dame last night really sort of muzzling notre dame and blew them' away. the huskies took both the men's and the women's basketball titles this year. last time the school did that a that was in 2004. and the school that did that, connecticut. a look at headlines coming up. a break through television event borderland... six strangers... >> let's just send them back to mexico >> experience illegal immigration up close and personal. >> it's overwhelming to see this many people that have perished.

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>> this is al jazeera america line from new york city. i'm tony harris with a look at today's top stories. president obama visited fort hood honoring the three soldiers killed and 16 others injured in last week's shooting. there the president and first

lady joined some 2,000 soldiers and families of the victims at the military post. >> obama: we must honor these men by recognizing they were members of a generation that is born the burden of our security in more than a decade of war. now our troops are coming home. by the end of this year our war in afghanistan will finally be over. in an era where fewer americans know someone in uniform, every american must see these men and see these women, our 9/11 generation, the extraordinary citizens that they are. >> ukraine said it will remove demonstrators by force if needed. the demonstrators seized government buildings tuesday in three eastern cities. today the police forced protesters out of a building. and search crews for malaysian

flight 370 has heard two more signals. they hope to find devices before their batteries run out. inside story is next on al jazeera. >> the government lifts the veil on how much medicare pays doctor. the deep data dive and what it means for you is the inside story. hello, i'm libby casey. millions of dollars are going to a handful of doctors. do they deserve it for treating america's elderly, or are