it was a different story when they were stopped at the airport in tanzania. >> they said you are going to jail. i said, what? you poached this animal. >> reporter: it was on a draft bone. poaching carries a 20 year prison sentence. the couple was jailed, release, and jailed again. after nearly a month thousands of dollars in fines, appeals from the ambassador, and congresswoman, wrote and asked them to return to the united states. but first paying a $30,000 fine. >> i will not go back to tanzania again. >> reporter: she says her traveling days are over. she loves to see the world but she will never again risk which she has right here at home. >> you appreciate the united states. you appreciate the freedom we have. you have no idea how much you should appreciate that until you were in a situation like we were in. >> many of john grants trips have been with delivering wheelchairs to different countries including tanzania. >>> as you start your work week, guess what? they are working to fix an electrical problem, bart, on the north line. right now, the only option is hopping on one of the

a couple jailed in tanzania for a souvenir.what it finally took to get them back home and what they are warning other travelers about. ,, >>> memories of a fatal fire, yet in oakland hills we found a dozen hydrants buried under storm debris. >>> plus after four dry years this sonoma reservoir is finally releasing water. expect original reporting from kpix5 news. expect more. ,,,,,,,, iraq. staff sergeant louis cardind >>> in southern california family members are mourning a 27-year-old marine who was killed in iraq. staff sergeant lewis cardon died saturday when his unit was hit by rocket fire, according to the department of defense. the temecula man was based at camp lejeune. >>> start to the week for san jose residents. an early rning blaze on sunday forced 14 people from their homes. firefighters say the fire started on a shed on mt. mckinley drive and spread to two homes. no one was injured but the homes suffered smoke damage. no word on a cause of that fire. >>> a foster city couple is home after their african vacation tur

. >> this was group of lion cubs in tanzania, one of the last stops we made before we were picked up. >> reporter: so they went on a is a fear. they were in a gift shop in south africa and bought a hand carved giraffe bone much like this one selling on ebay. >> my first question to him was, this legal? can i take this home? can i bring this into the united states through customs? absolutely, it's in the a problem. >> reporter: about 10 days later as they tried to leave tanzania, airport security saw the sue of '94 and called anti- poaching officials, and the nightmare began. >> told us we were arrested, and to get in the van. >> reporter: they were taken to jail and later prisoned charged with poaching, punishable by 20 years in prison and a stiff fine. >> that was very scary because we were in with real criminals, you know, and they were just lined up in the waiting room, or whatever you call it, the backing area. >> reporter: john grant is 72- year-old retired dentist and his wife would end up paying thousands of dollars he says to bribe a judge and other foirns to get the charges r

. >> a different kind of elephant tanzania tanzania. there is a very large pachyderm. >> now he's coming for us. so do we close the roof? >> they start backing up. but they back up to a point, and the elephant has a straight but slow trajectory to that car. so they have a lot of time to think about what's coming their way. but it's not charging at them, you know. his behavior is not necessarily aggressive. he is just curious about them. >> remember the part in jurassic inside the vehicle? >> that woman says, yeah, this is where we had that similar >> great. >> huge! >> the thing is, you know the elephants are huge, but this puts it in perspective. he just walks right on by like, i see you, hello, good-bye. >> beautiful shot. man. you see him dragging this street. she is holding on to her bag. we believe there is money in there. even though what he's doing is wrong, all i want to shout at her is let it go. it's not worth it. he got away with her cellphone, cash, personal belongings. at the end she gets up. people come to help her, and th

assured that it was legal, but it was a different story when they were stopped at an airport in tanzania. >> they said you're going to jail. we said what? they said we are very serious, you know, poaching, poaching the animals. >> carving was on the giraffe bone, tanzania's national animal as they carry a mandatory 20-year prison sentence. >> you appreciate the united states, the freedoms we have. that you have no idea how much we should appreciate that until you're in a situation that we were in. >>> a look at sierra with the fresh -- with fresh snow falling. that's what some showers will be like. gusty winds with us tomorrow. the wide view will show you where it is all coming from with the low pressure from the pacific northwest, that it is going to continue right through tuesday morning. not a lot in the way of rain, but turn distinctly cooler tomorrow and tuesday. and it will all translate to snow in the mountains, whether they will post the snow levels down to 2,500 feet. and gusty winds with snow on the roads. likely if you're heading out towards the mountains that they will show y

party has dominated tanzania's politics since the 1960s. his father led the country to independence. >> c.c.m. is the only party that i believe can hold this country together. his tore a.m.ly to improve that any other party comes to power here cannot control this country. >> reporter: opposition leaders say the c.c.m. party is controlling it by intimidation and not through the ballot box. the leading opposition party known as cuf has documented dozens of cases of members being shot, beaten or stabbed with screwdrivers. cuf says police and military are responsible. they're allegations the c.c.m. party denies. >> it has prepared already all the method of grabbing this election, to make sure the c.c.m. wins. this is very dangerous to our people. c.c.m. is using government, security, police army. >> reporter: officials showed us this party office that they say was ransacked by armed men. many opposition supporters are angry. the government is not taking any chances. police and soldiers have been deployed across the islands during the polls. the

. >>> tanzania's president is attracting attention.ing party has been in power for more than 50 years, so there's plenty of scepticism that he will be able to stamp out corruption and cut wasteful public spending. malcolm webb reports now. ♪ >> reporter: since winning tanzania's presidential elections in october last year, this man has caused a stir. we saw him addressing judges and lawyers in the capitol. he has declared an unprecedented crackdown on corruption and wasteful spending. >> reporter: there are people using public money the way they want. yet there are very poor people in this country. there are officials who cannot find a suitable hotel in this country, so they opt to go to europe for a board meeting. >> reporter: just days after being sworn in, in november, he played a surprise visit to the main hospital. we found broken equipment and patientings sleeping on the floor, so he fired the director. the government says it was losing millions of dollars of revenue here ever year. he fired top officials and ordered the lost rev

mainland tanzania has a mix of muslims and christians.lmost everyone here supports the opposition. >> translation: it is better country that brought democracy here. if they don't defend it, then we will have to find our own means and defend ourselves against those intimidating us. >> reporter: the groups close to the african continent but previously it was ruled by aman. the political divide reflects the two influences. the two factions have just about got along to a succession of agreements and power sharing government. now the main opposition party has withdrawn from what it skez it is now-- says is now an illegal government. people hope that won't jeopardize the peace >>> plans are underway to repatriate around 50,000 somali refugees who have been living in kenya. since a voluntary program began two years ago, thousands of returned home. many thousands still remain in a camp. >> reporter: under the mid-morning sun 249 somalis collect what may be their last aid package as refugees in north-east yern camp. they receive money to start the

. >> born in tanzania to ghanaian parents, his multinational upbringing inspires his work as an architect. but he's has little in the way of formal training. >> when i did my research into how architecture was being taught at that time, and what the big voices were, i found that i just disagreed. because i felt that the discussion had become very formal. had become about architects naval-gazing, in a way. >> adjaye's brother, who was hit with an illness that left him disabled, has inspired his creations. >> public space was, was curated, as it were, to literally use that word "curated" for able-bodied people. or for a sort of image of a certain citizenry. which i think maybe mattered several hundred years ago. but seemed grossly, just difficult for me. >> and now as a new father, he's obsessed with another design. >> the baby bjorn, which i've given [laughs] a lot of attention to. men have a lot of difficulty holding children [laughs]. >> i spoke to david adjaye in washington, d.c. >> there is a lot of racial tension in america right now. how do you integrate past, present, and future int

let's more ahead on the al jazeera news hour including tanzania attracting attention for a crack downcorruption but will he succeed. and in mexico where this woman is using an unique way to fight sexual harassment. >> 18 years, 18 is a good number. >> reporter: in sport one of the n fchlfnfl's greatest playe farewell to the sport. ♪ first it's the second anniversary of the biggest ever aviation mystery, the disappearance of 239 passengers and crew aboard malaysia air flight 317 and held a somber visual in kuala-lumpur and in beijing families demanded answers as they protested outside a buddhist temple and many chinese passengers were on board and took off from the capitol bound for beijing in the early hours of march the 8th, 2014. about an hour later communications from the crew seized and the aircraft disappeared from civilian radar. military radar tracked it for another hour as it turned through the route and vietnamese and vanished over the sea and transmissions from one of the aircraft systems said it possibly flew for hours to the southern indian ocean on this arc off of austral

and tanzania new president has people across africa says what would magafuli do and in sport find outountries made a winning start at cricket t20 world cup. ♪ >>it's crazy money that you can make here. it's a ticking time bomb. >>do you know what chemicals have been in that tank? >> my big brother didn't wake up the next day. al jazeera america's... >> today they will be arrested. >>they're firing canisters of gas at us. >> we have to get out of here. reminder of the stop stories on al jazeera, u.n. is questioning the legality of an agreement that could see refugees and migrants in europe sent back to turkey, refugees particularly wants to know more about the safeguards in place to protect them. palestinians and american have been killed after a wave of violence in occupied east jerusalem. number of u.s. states are holding democratic and republic primaries including michigan and faced a serious water crisis and the city of flint was contaminated with lead. let's take a closer look at our top story, the proposal sent to -- to send refugees and migrants back to turkey, at the moment the

they were told it was legal and they flew from kenya to tanzania they were arrested and face 20 years in prison. she thinks they were targeted because they are americans and look like they have money. it cost them $62,000 to get out of tanzania. >> the sheriff is investigating a body found in a car outside a fire station blocked in the driveway of fire station 93 yesterday morning. investigators do not suspect foul play. it is possible the opinion may have suffered from a pre-existing medical condition. >> dozen of campus works at uc berkeley will receive job offers from the university. u.k. berkeley reached a labor agreement so there will be job offers to all contractors, including parking attendants and custodians part of the producter of the to support fair wages requiring all workers schedule more than 20 hours to be paid $1 an hour at least by october 1. >> salt could be the solution to california's future of clean energy goal. a everyone so california company released this video showing the first of a kind solar power plant creating and stores electricity using salt. it creates

. >> a different kind of elephant encounter in neighboring tanzania knee. there is a very largechyderm. >> now he's coming for us. so do we close the roof? >> they start backing up. but they back up to a point, and the elephant has aslow trajectory to that car. so they have a lot of time to think about what's coming their way. >> but it's not charging at them. you know? his behavior aggressive. he's just curious about them. >> remember that part in "jurassic park" where the t red soxide the vehicle? that woman says yeah, this is where we had that similar moment. >> the thing is, you know that elephants are huge, but this i see you. hello, goodbye. >> what a beautiful shot. we see somes on this show. this one left me with my mouth hanging open. this woman in down the street with her sister and her 16-year-old daughter when suddenly her ex runs up over her. >> oh! >> no! ychopath. >> yes, he then runs away and you see the woman holding herself in pure agony. suddenly, another person comes running into the the man down, and tackle him until police come. >> how

.>> this pair was stopped in tanzania after a bone carving they bought at a gift shop.they were originally told it was legal. they were jailed, release, and then jailed again accused of approaching. thousands of dollars in bribes in fines, the government would reduce the charges to return to the united states. >> i appreciate united states. i appreciate the freedoms we have. you have no idea on how much you should appreciate that if you have not been to some we have been through.>> they normally travel but they plan to stay put for now. >>> hikers found a human skull yesterday afternoon not far from the famous hollywood sign. the remains appear to be very old. they found it when they took a detour from the canyon trail. no other body parts were found and the skull was 40 feet from the hollywood sign. >>> a camera was rolling when a funnel cloud took shape. >>> a chilly start to the week ahead. we will be looking live right here over santa fe. we have big changes coming. the forecast is coming after the break. ,,,,,, >>>kpix weather. sponsored by sleep world. waterspout

. >> a different kind of elephant encounter in neighboring tanzania knee. there is a very large pachyderm. >> now he's coming for us. so do we close the roof? >> they start backing up. butup. but they back up to a point, and the elephant has a straight but slow trajectory to that car. so they have a lot of time to way. >> but it's not charging at them. you know? his behavior isn't necessarily aggressive. he's just curious about them. >> remember that part in "jurassic park" where the t red sox is looking inside the vehicle? that woman says yeah, this is where we had that similar moment. >> the thing is, you know that elephants are huge, but this puts it in perspective. he just walks right on by, like, i see you. hello, goodbye. we see some pretty brutal crimes on this show. this one left me with my mouth hanging open. this woman in ecuador is walking down the street with her sister and her 16-year-old daughter when suddenly her ex runs up behind her and pours acid all over her. >> oh! >> no! >> psychopath. >> yes, he then runs away and you see the woman hol

jane: when you think of a safari kenya or tanzania may come to mind. what about the u.k.?0 years ago businesses were carsed to drive their own among a pride of lions in the west of england. boasts annow impressive collection of animals. we are taken into the lions den. den.' >> this is the biggest thing that has ever been done. never in europe or the world. this started when the aristocrat met the man from the big -- what followed was the creation of the world's first safari park. 50 years on and the lions are still one of the main attractions. steak.t when i first come running to the vehicle, they licked their lips and fix you with unblinking eyes. you wonder if it is that meat or this meat. another of the park's ,istinguished residence is niko who enjoys watching television. >> it was something that they brought over for him when he had to to quarantine in the 1980's. he had to stay in the house for six months. we heard people with chimpanzees that television kept them calm. it works really well, and we never took it away. correspondent: his favorite program's wildlife d

turned into a nightmare, in africa earlier this year and the trouble started when they tried to leave tanzania. the airport security saw the souvenir of the handcarved giraffe tall and the couple was taken to jail. they bought it during the stop in south africa and the seller assured her it was legal. >> it cost us a $30,000 fine for buying that souvenir, plus an additional $30,000 in bribes and lawyers fees to get out of there. >> the grants work detained for three weeks and believed to be on, but still have nightmares about the ordeal. >>> a flight attendant on the run, they found 70 pounds of cocaine in her carry-on luggage, and she ran after being selected for a random screening, and the flight attendant left her bags and the drugs behind and they have and unable to find her. at the lax, pilots and flight crew members are not subject to the same search as passengers, and they air force -- airport police say that is why all airline employees should be fully screened. >>> no cause of death given by -- but rove was the intel first hire and led the widely recognized brand and became the ceo in

opposition boycotting the vote, incumbent is more than likely to get a second term, while people in tanzania saw to know must region are heading back to the polls for a controversial rerun of presidential elections and in senegal, a referendum is held on constitutional reforms, which include reducing presidential terms from seven to five years, let's take a more in-depth look now starting with the republic of congo. the government there has order add complete shut down of communications for the next 48 hours and it's pretty widespread, including television, radio, mobile phone and on line information. it's also closed its land borders and stopped voters using cars, telling them to walk to polling stations instead. we have this report. >>> when the referendum took place a few months ago when the president wanted people to vote for him to have a third term, people didn't come out in big numbers, but now look at it. people are slowly coming out, looking for their names on the voters roll. if the name is on the list you see, they would then go inside to vote. this is a contingent election. the o

migration patterns show that when he leaves the national park, he never goes farther than the border to tanzaniathen he turns back, as if he knew elephant hunting is allowed there. at just 390 square kilometres, the park is relatively small, but the ecosystem in which the animals from amboseli move about is twenty times larger. about 1,400 elephants live in the amboseli basin. in the evening they leave the park to find food. in the morning they return to the watering holes. the same goes for the cattle of the maasai people. evan: elephants and livestock tended to go together. they are both grazers. they walk together and i've seen, personally, i've seen livestock grazing together very harmoniously without a problem. the lives of the maasai revolve around their cattle. -- wiebke: the lives of the maasai revolve around their cattle. a family's wealth is measured by the size of its herd. even their houses are made of cow dung mixed with clay. after heavy rainfalls, the roofs have to be resealed. times are hard. gideon is 16 and would like to continue going to school, but there's not enough money. g

namibia and tanzania makes 30 million euros, and botswana and zimbabwe, 20 million a piece. only a tiny part of gdp, trophy hunting is an important source of income for specialized tour operators. governments also cash into hunting licenses and export permits. but studies show that local communities benefit very little. the 8 biggest african hunting countries have a combined population of 140 million, but only around 15,000 locals earn a livelihood through the wealthy hunters, mainly working as guides and assistants. daniel: that is a for your business is for now, but brent, you are tackling sports for us. brent: to football now and the europa league's round of 16. the german club absently dominated the play. -- actually dominated the play. pierre puts the home team up 30 minutes in. thrashing. one of the best-known athletes in history is about to put thousands of pieces of career memorabilia up for sale. brazilian football great pele has donated a good chunk of his collection to the city of santos, where he spent most of his career. he will give up even more when a london a

. >> reporter: since winning tanzania's presidential elections last year, he has caused a stir. you saw him addressing judges and officials. he has declared an unprecedented crackdown >> translation: there are people who are using money the way they want. there are officials who when they decide to sit as a board cannot find a suitable hotel in this country so they opt to go to europe for a board meeting. >> reporter: days after being sworn in, he paid a surprise visit to the main government hospital. he found broken medical machines and patients sleeping on the floor. so he fired the managing director. next came the container port. it serves the woel region. the government says it was losing millions of dollars of revenue here every year because of corruption and tax evasion. he fired top officials and ordered the lost revenue to be recovered. he caught the attention of social media users all over the continent and beyond. his hashtag has been a vehicle for saving thousands of money. analyst says it shows a longing for better governance >> i would like to see his teamwork along

. >> reporter: the area here forms tanzania. some islanders want more autonomy.they see the ruling ccn party as a mainland institution. it has dominated the politics since 1960s. we were told that the election rerun will be free and fair. >> it is everything. how it comes to be fixed? i think everything could be clear and fair and the election will be very good condition with nobody claim, no problems with that today. >> reporter: this office of the ruling c.c.m. party still decorated with flags and posters following the election. people meeting here are older than their counterparts on the other side. if the main opposition party don't enter the rerun, the ruling party's victory is almost guaranteed. that would mean this man will remain in power. many supporters may not accept the result. malcolm webb >>> when south korea's president came to power three years ago, she called for a miracle. park geun-hye wanted levels of happiness to match the political and economic stage it had reached. >> reporter: it is a busy evening here. a young crowd is hanging out in one

he heads the semiautonomous government in tanzania. his ruling party is said to have rigged the rerun. officials deny it. the c.c.m. party has dominated the politics since independence from british rule in the 1960s. his father led the country to independence. >> c.c.m. is the only party that i believe can hold this country together. any other party comes to power cannot control this country. >> reporter: opposition leaders say the parties controlling it by intimidation and not through the ballot box. the opposition party known as cuf has documented dozens of cases from the last yeah of its members being shot, beaten or stabbed with screwdrivers. cuf says police and military are responsible. they're allegations the c.c.m. party denies. >> c.c.m. has prepared all the method of grabbing this election, to make sure the c.c.m. wins, and this is very dangerous to our people. c.c.m. is using government orders, security police, army. >> reporter: cuf officials showed us this party office that they say was ransacked by armed men. many supporte

sorts that indicates peace keepers mainly from several african and european countries, like burundi, tanzania, france, canada. these are reports like up said are coming out from countries that have people there who desperately need the u.n. peacekeepers for their safety, a country like haiti, reports of sexual abusers there, mali, congo, ivory coast and car where we have 22 reported sexual abuse cases in the democratic republic of congo. there are 16 cases that have been reported. it is a very serious report, very embarrassing to the u.n. and i have been speaking to a human rights campaigner who has been following these incidents and he said that he accused the u.n. of what he termed gross institutional failure. so the u.n. is under a lot of pressure to act decisively on some of these cases >>> a lot of people, of course the first question that will spring to mind is why are we seeing this again. not only are we seeing it again but we're seeing the numbers rides. >> reporter: absolutely. -- rise. >> reporter: absolutely. you hear the civilians complaining about the missions that are there say

as leaders call for independence from tanzania, and for their interpretation of islamic law to be applied. two churches were burned. its leaders were tried and sent to prison. this man says he is worried some people could now be pushed back towards radicalism. >> this exercise of hijacking democracy, really may lead some people to say that we have to resort to other means. that's my feel. >> reporter: most people here are muslim. almost everyone at this mosque in the capitol supports the opposition. >> translator: it is [ inaudible ] country that brought democracy here, but if they don't defend it, then we will have to find our own means and defend ourselves. >> reporter: the archipelago is close to the afghan content, but previously it was ruled by an iman. the two actions more recent list have just about got along. but now the main opposition party has withdrawn from what it says is an illegal government. malcolm webb, al jazeera. >>> the republic of congo has partially lifted a communications blackout it imposed during presidential elections. the opposition is planning new protests har

between 1996 and 2014, reveals there may be only two major hotspots for poaching in africa: southern tanzania and a place known as the tridem. >> and when you say hotspots you mean hotspots of poaching activity, hotspots of seizure activity? what are you referring to? a hotspot is a place where you are able to provide multiple tons of ivory repeatedly over multiple years. then we have a place we can focus law enforcement on, take those out and perhaps choke the source of the ivory from entering the network. and unravel it. so that's the big plan. >> coming up next: how the atomic bomb could save the elephants and bust up the syndicates trafficking illegal ivory. >> we want to hear what you think about these stories. join the conversation by following us on twitter and at aljazeera.com/techknow. a techknow crew member is on vacation in thailand, when he comes across this all too common display. he's told they are ivory pieces offered up for sale for a price. the sale of ivory to foreigners is illegal in thailand yet as our camera shows, it goes on. as this old newsreel footage shows ivory was

[ laughter ] wildlife officials in tanzania announced this week that they found a rare, all white giraffe, here's a photo. [ laughter ] german. german too. [ laughter ] and finally a brooklyn artist is planning an exhibition this weekend where she will sit naked on a toilet for ten hours in the middle of a gallery. and will invite patrons to sit on a second toilet across from her. the exhibition is called "my worst nightmare." [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen we have a great show for you tonight. [ cheers and applause ] we'll be talking to the upcoming 2016 election with republican senator john mccain. [ cheers and applause ] also from the msg network, "four courses with j.b. smoove" comedian j.b. smoove joins us. [ cheers and applause ] and we'll have music from a great danish band, singer/songwriter lukas graham. now as some of you might know, i used to work on "saturday night live" and i was an anchor on "weekend update." i did it with amy poehler. and one of the favorite things we got to do in that time was something called "really with seth and amy." and it was always exciting for m

to clickting statistics as a foundation to say whether life is getting better for women in tanzania, europe, the united states. we look at women in business, are they having entrepreneurial success, able to do the things they want to do, so we >> will use the data to measure. you have done such great work for women and girls, do you feel satisfied and fulfill that so are still frustrated? >> i am frustrated. i call myself an inpatient optimist. the world is getting better for women, but not quickly enough. we need to do a lot to move forward. >> we blame corporate america, but is a corporate america or the society? when it comes time to take my child to the doctor, the school calls me, the doctor's office calls the woman, and i do consider myself the primary caregiver. is it the corporations, government, or us holding us back? >> it is all of the above. we don't have a great hate family leave policy at the federal, state, and corporate level. we need a policy change, but also recognizing that this is and as a society we want to a change that you can , but the it, reduce it third one