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i'm come out santa maria welcome to the news grid calls for national spanish unity in barcelona yes catalonia voted for independence and the threat to break away as soon as this week is still there but this sunday we see a reminder there are still plenty of people in the province who say that madrid's will also on the grid of the free syrian army advances on it les abend turkey waits and support the rebels are promising a fierce battle against anyone entering their territory but the rebels have also lost a lot of ground this year we can show you just how much and what chance they have of holding on and the end of an era approaches in liberia africa's first female leader ellen johnson sirleaf has been president for twelve years now and so twenty candidates are campaigning to replace her in tuesday's election he'll be looking at just what matters to those liberian versus. a giant fireball bills that live in for five dollars capital. after an explosion africa station and it's not the first time

such an action has happened do you think the government is doing enough to increase safety we got to hear from you connect. you with the news on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and al jazeera dot com a week now since catalonia voted to split from spain in that controversial referendum and it's been a week dominated by not only the political crisis but also around these from the millions in favor of catalonian independence but in the streets of boston on sunday there were those who say that they are the silent majority and they filled the streets some three hundred fifty thousand of them are the ones who oppose catalan independence and they came from all over spain to call for national unity let's go live to barcelona jonah how following developments for us from that jonah.

thank you it's been quite a remarkable day really here in barcelona in catalonia historian a little earlier on in the day told us that likely not since the late nineteenth century is there been such an openly show of support on the streets for the unity of space since then of course calls for independence of grown steadily slowly read to get crescendo last weekend but does all of catalonia really want to secede from the rest of spain do its leaders even speak for a decisive majority of them when they talk of unilaterally declaring independence possibly in the week to come while on the evidence of the march of the rally that we've seen here on sunday the answer to that question is no. barcelona has seen plenty of huge demonstrations but not like this one see red and yellow the conference and you know flying alongside the spanish national flag.

ripped off calls for independence this is a highly unusual show of national unity. some have come from other parts of spain but most from catalonia itself tony roll down is a compliment politician opposed to independence and we have made about the best video of the prosperity of these. last forty years in new jersey boys when it was over and we have monies the been the framework that works for everyone i think and the future belongs but you know i just think that we need to be in better times national language to govern ourselves in the world the globalization doesn't make sense to well but they call themselves the silent majority of those who don't know represented in the banks but we still have not been heard well silent no mo and so on in this day oh. oh oh yeah he's behind

one woman described an atmosphere of hope. still a teaching loads of those who disagree with the push for independence day i was in my spanish i'm glad. that it was. right to buy. my. rights. and given the opportunity to speak out many embraced it really tired of being in my diary d. and the people to say that we're not we're going to because the union has a force and come on he's common sense independent schools in this region with its distinct culture and language a centuries old mistakes of never been higher in the dritte prime minister money on a run wholly warns he may use special powers to revoke catalonia tanami the regional government meanwhile is considering a unilateral declaration of independence in the weeks to come but who will hold

them these people seem to have found their voices. well they'll likely be arguments in the ostomy of this march about the precise size some people say the police say three hundred fifty thousand the organizers say nine hundred fifty thousand you can probably put the accurate figure somewhere in the middle of the arguments about how many people came in from outside of catalonia and certainly a lot of people did come here from places like the capital madrid but everyone we spoke to was catalan and it did feel as if it was a genuine outpouring of feeling here by people who have long felt unable to speak their minds on able to be heard i'll leave you with the words of the nobel literature prize winner mario vargas your son from peru who addressed the crowd at the end of the march he said nationalism has filled our history with wars we're here to stop it. great stuff from john holl and the team in barcelona thank you

jonah. now if you want to get in touch with us on that topic or any of the other ones that are coming up we're already seeing some comments on ghana we'd be talking about that a little later hash tag great whichever way you choose to correspond with us and maybe on twitter you can have a look at the call that's an i.j. english and rich respond to the threads there at facebook dot com slash a.j. news grid the live stream up and running as always produces back in the news your monitoring your comments there and the what's that line is plus an uncivil find the one triple one four nine maybe you are in spain you know someone they can send us in some pictures from the middle of those rallies today or your thoughts. so let's move on now syria of course closely monitoring developments in this new military operation there to retake the province of idlib from an alliance led by former al qaeda linked fighters hiatt. is the group that's promising a fierce battle against those who are into the territory the free syrian army or the f.s.a.

crossed into the area from turkey on saturday they are being backed by turkish soldiers which have been massing at the border turkey's president reject type advances it's all part of a deal with russia and iran to establish a deescalation zone there and he says so far the mission is having no problems at all. before we get into a latest development though i do want to pause for a moment and refocus outthinking on syria because it's really easy to say well this is a war that's just gone on for six and a half years and nothing has changed a lot has changed actually so we're going to start with this map which is one of our who controls what maps you know these ones but this is from april and look at how fractured syria is you've got a lot of iceland marked in black right across the country you've got these red and black stripey areas contested areas disputed areas even close down to the capital damascus and then the green areas they are strong in the south and there are an up and it lives as well those are the rebels contrast all of that to this this is the more recent map and syria is now largely under government control you cannot dispute that eisel melting away towards the east they haven't got much of

a foothold anymore. the kurds in yellow up they are holding on to their positions and the rebel areas those green ones of their eyes gone from down there it's just the border areas and everything else has been squeezed up into a it'll be even now when you look at them side by side let's take it full frame and have a look this is the full picture remember this is a pro on the left and now on the right and the story is in those red areas the ones under government control there is a huge increase in government control this is increasingly becoming a syria once again after six years of war so that's just a little bit of background to keep in mind as we speak to hash borrow who's in gaziantep near turkey's border with syria and with all that in mind this battle for italy becomes so important because it's pretty much all the rebels have got lift. indeed it's important for all the parties turkish president of player as well and so this is quite crucial for turkey because he wants to ensure that the northern

part of syria is free of groups like. i said earlier of the taxpayer to have a their share of the y p g a which is one of the most powerful kurdish factions operating within the the the syrian democratic forces but there are many issues at stake there now in this military operation which is most likely going to be the most important cross border operation for the turkish military they want to take on here at the hague i shan't in italy for them to be able to do so they have to break their defense lines and will be deeper into the province of idlib to monitor the escalation zone now we don't know what the hay at the heavier shell will ultimately pull out from that area as it is side to put up fighting against turkish military we're expecting some heavy fighting over the next coming days session is there any update on the actual operation itself because i note that we're pretty much saying

what we said twenty four hours ago that the f.s.a. is backed by turkey but the turkey is still hanging back at that the border it's not necessarily going in yet. the buildup continues there is definitely something happening in a buffer zone in an area under the control of the free syrian army early in the day was in as it turkish artillery shelling here to have sham positions inside syria that are called voice which have crossed into syria apparently it seems that the turkish government is providing logistics and preparing the ground for the free syrian army to start its offensive the problem is that the free syrian army cannot on its own defeat hate at the head of their sound therefore they will have to rely heavily on my sisters from the turkish government and from right. asked rice the only problem with this is if you have civilian casualties the sentiment of the.

international coalition and to russian sentiment could be on the rise in the. tank so we won't start we have to. thank you i guess tanker explosion in ghana has killed at least seven people and injured thirty five others in the capital a crime we're not just talking about an explosion look at it it's an absolute fireball which then triggered a second explosion. and has our report. too much in the film nobody would know the blast was overpowering witnesses look at the towering flames and disbelief and more forward. than us government says a tanker caught fire at a gas really see. the flames spread across the street to another gas station triggering a second explosion. a lot of fear at the fusion people ran to safety oh . look at my hands this witness was injured as he made his escape for the bank was

like a sound overflight like but man oh yeah like this isn't the first time ghana has gone through a similar situation in two thousand and fifteen a blast at a gas station killed at least ninety people al jazeera is corresponded amma boateng covers the region she says these type of explosions are not uncommon this deadly blasts could lead to changes. what. i feel kind of. made to go to look it's a question that's been asked before but this tragedy could make the issue a priority got him up as well the young al-jazeera. first chat with sorrow on today's great and you have been speaking to people in ghana about this they must be well. furious i have spoken to quite a few actually come on and it's been one of sadness of course but also of outrage now people are mostly posting messages of support and prayers for ghana and the

main hashtag us trending for this is atomic explosion which refers the name of the junction where it happened not because it looks like an atomic explosion but it happened in madeira in coaches the capital now the president of ghana has been tweeting about it and apart from of course his condolences he says the government is resolved now more than ever to ensure that an incident does not occur again but it seems to fall in on a few death is because on social media many gone and all fed up and say they've heard it all before in fact this using here says never will it happen again they said but of course the reality is actually fall from that and that's because this isn't the first time that explosion like this have happened in gone or of course at a petrol station in fact this info graphic just behind me is showing it's being shot several times and it's showing you eight different gas stations of happened since twenty fourteen now many going ains all blaming the government for not doing enough to prevent such explosions especially of course off the one that happened in

twenty fifteen where i think are almost one hundred people were killed now for coffee says anybody who uses the atomic junction it seems my i pod has slightly disconnected but that see if that works again. knows that it was a time bomb waiting to happen now the petrol station is in a busy area and close to university of course a lot of people tweeting about this say there are no adequate health and safety checks by being carried out at these pester stations and many people have blamed poor been planning for building these petrol stations in highly congested areas and i'm going to try and connect again to my. i pod that is it what yet ok i've been told that it works and i need to get back on track there but anyway. one of many people who has been tweeting the thing. that people are concerned about is this saying that they don't even know what emergency number to call and president say using their billboards to congratulate themselves of course for all the successful

buildings and infrastructure that's happening in the capital but i did speak to quite a few people in ghana one of them's called desmond i call in touch with him through twitter which of course many of you at home can do as well and he actually works near the scene of explosion and he sent me a video from that. i don't see people i really got to express their frustrations with government foresight in a. by strong region and i still don't follow. this is that it's time to stop even four years ago the people of how to love and do so will just have to be the concern of the god made people are really good people in the crowd this morning and. i was not being discreet so this is all trying to. salvage what about because. my connection might fail me here but not everyone agrees with the fact that the government many people saying is entirely to blame

and one of them is chris he posted on facebook saying that on a ng to threaten the government when it strengthens its institutions to deal with certain things and i think he's referring to corruption which many people are saying is an issue that some guy named he says also quick to complain and blame them when something bad happens and jeff is another person who's been talking about this on line he says we never politicize the explosion we never move on without fixing it maybe we can be proactive as people and some of the gas stations were not in residential areas some years back is too congested and doesn't who we heard from want to say that maybe we should change its location and that's something that many people have been resonating with now one last thing i want to show you is a petition that people have already put together they're aware that some of the you know it says they are aware that some of you know make his own some of these filling stations all just go to that park off their make a little bit bigger for you and have some shame and decency and set up rules and

regulations to say for filling stations away from businesses schools and residential areas which was the situation of course with this one i haven't spoken to a number of connie is today many of them resonate with of course as always we want to hear from you at home who's watching us to desmond send news video through social media and so you can use to get in touch with me or come out and. you wanted it seen on twitter or facebook yes things are in fact sent a message on facebook live already saying the gun a government is lazy and their only response to blasts like this is to talk about it to send in your views as cyrus is now so we're going to go back to spain now the secession vote in catalonia protests going on today demonstrations on both sides i'm going to talk to alfred bosch now he's joining us from. he is with the republican left's posse supporting independence and it's lovely to have you with us so how did you feel today seeing all those pro madrid flags out in the streets of barcelona today well it's fine. i

mean they have my deepest respect obviously and even my lovers as citizen fellow citizens of this country so and i love freedom of expression so that's that's that's it although i think that rather than count people in the street it's better to count people in the ballot boxes and that's what we did last sunday despite all the disruption and the police violence right so then you would you would disagree then with their claim that they are actually the silent majority. well they were not all that silent anyway no i mean it's it's all right the people express themselves what i'm saying is that if you know it we want to know who's the majority the best thing you can do is vote because that's the way of counting people out of the muck recy that's why we had a vote everybody was free to vote and please please bear in mind that everybody was

free to vote yes and no in fact eight percent of the voters voted no which is quite a lot of people but the other ninety percent of voters voted yes so now we have to proceed with a yes and that's something we promised we stipulated very clearly before the referendum was held so you've used the word there we have to proceed how do you think things will proceed this week because there is this i won't say threats but there is this possibility of declaring independence this week which would oversee cause all sorts of problems with madrid how is the best way to proceed how do you think things will proceed this week politically well it see once you've held a referendum where you can't do is punish the victim and the victim clearly was the voters the peaceful citizens in catalonia who went to the ballot boxes you got to respect them and we said very clearly those who are in favor of independence and the catalan government that organize the vote they said very clearly what would

happen if they guess one of them know one another yes and one so what we have to carry on and the promise was that republic would be created so we have to proceed with that catalan republic and for once that politicians deliver i think that deserves some respect let politicians deliver with their promises. for bush pleasure talking to you thank you so much for your time and your views as we have a look here at the live wall and you can still see so many of these pictures coming in town here it is quite amazing seeing all of this problem of dread support in barcelona and a very good reminder that there is plenty of that support out there as well ok let's go to london now first time on the newsgroup with me with bob or sara hello barbara. hello there come on let's start in the democratic republic of congo the army there say that rebel fighters have ambushed a bus and attacked villages in the country's east it's unclear how many have been

killed what is clear is that the fighting is continuing in the beni territory in north kivu province security forces blame the attack on ugandan rebels called the allied democratic forces or the a.d.f. congolese soldiers have been trying for years to wipe out numerous groups in the area well malcolm web joins us live now from a viewer and that the r.c. malcolm what is the latest that you're hearing. we've heard still fighting going on right now this began saturday afternoon when a bus was by the attackers by the rebels the billions inside were killed four army post time fighting has been going on ever since there were plenty made a statement a short while ago he said had witnesses he escaped from the area said they saw the attackers killing people with machetes hello corrected and reported twenty two people missing and that several vehicles have been stopped there are people killed in the vehicles as well this comes following three years of massacres around the

town of benny but in the past typically the attackers would come at night to a village kill some civilians and then disappear about seven hundred people to be killed since twenty fourteen the army's always blame the a.d.f. the democratic forces which is an old ugandan rebel group that was hiding out in eastern congo for many years have been a lot of rights activists and researches say that that's not right they say that it's not clear exactly who is behind it but some elements of the congolese army are involved in these attacks that's something that the army itself tonight will this comes in the context of a simmering rising conflict across the country from there was due to have presidential elections in december last year they weren't held. it says that they don't have enough money and they're still trying to put an election together but the opposition say that president joseph kabila is trying to overstate power a lot of. the rate is not lists think that this could threaten to bring back the

kind of states of conflict it was in the ninety's ninety's and other people who are critical think that those people who don't want to be in action have a vested interest in fueling conflicts at the moment so the country could be in this in which possible to hold a whole anyway tense situation when oh you'll be following developments for us for the moment now from when thank you. north korean leader kim jong un has told government officials that the nation's nuclear weapons program is a quote powerful the terror and the guarantees the country sovereignty kim jong il and also refer to relations with the united states as a complicated international situation hours earlier u.s. president donald trump took to twitter to say that only one thing would work in dealing with north korea after years of talks no results trying to not actually specify what that one thing was more than one hundred thousand residents in

mississippi and alabama are without power as tropical storm nate moved inland from the u.s. gulf coast nate was a hurricane when it made a second u.s. landfall in mississippi and was later downgraded to a tropical storm warnings of dangerous storm surges still remain across the u.s. nato has already killed at least thirty people in central america and no schwimmer has more now from new orleans i am in a neighborhood which was hit very hard by hurricane katrina in two thousand and five when something like a thousand eight hundred people were killed and billions of dollars worth of damage was done almost no sign of damage here the levees the investment put in the flood defenses seems to have held out here and there have been power cuts in many parts of the region in louisiana mississippi. alabama but it does seem as though the flood damage was minimal a smaller storm caused far greater damage in central america i mean there is still a tropical storm here moving inland but the been issuing its speed as it goes.

there have been ten new cases of dengue fever in the indian city. so far seven people have died and more than eight hundred have tested positive for the tropical disease hospitals are full due to the outbreak with patients having to share beds or lie on the floor is common in india and the number of cases generally peaks during monsoon rains scotland's first minister says she's not currently seeking another referendum on leaving the united kingdom members of nicolas sturgeon's scottish nationalist party had called on her to delay demanding a new vote until the twenty twenties that wouldn't give any further consideration to the timing and toe brakes and the thames of bricks it become clear to weave a clear line of say about all that means for scotland it doesn't mean i will stop making the case for scotland being independent that's all from me i'm going to have more news for you at the top of the hour from london now though it's back to come

out in doha thank you barbara lovely to see you again as well now last day of campaigning in liberia as the country gets ready to pick its next leader first round of voting is on tuesday when people will be true things success of course and then johnson sirleaf who has been in power now for twelve years the nobel peace prize winner has helped rebuild the economy critics say she didn't do enough for ordinary liberians let's check in with our midriffs is live in monrovia for a zombie. well basically it came on like you said campaigning has and that most of the political parties have ended their campaigning and in the matter of hours it will be illegal to do anything of that nature and many people from the capital here have moved to their various counties people who went to their villages to register for the vote have actually left in order to participate in the vote the streets of monrovia almost empty the agency responsible for the elections the national election commission said it's

ready and election materials have been successfully delivered with help especially from the united nations mission in liberia but basically the politicians now focused more on into possible contacts to get things done before the election day campaigning has been relatively peaceful except for a few incidents. as witnessed in the past few weeks or so. candid it has presidential and parliamentary elections resign a last minute effort to win over voters there range from the flamboyant to the everyday person. one thing they have in common though is that they stand on issues look and sound the same. and this is forcing many voters to narrow their choices down to old allegiances try region and personality. facts. not. candid developmental.

and all with. many political observers believe that voters are not asking the right questions we really. are. democracy. to corney is a product of the country's broken education system. she and her neighbor take turns teaching their children the little the know this let's not use. my children the sick. literacy rate here is about thirty percent. some candidates have promised better life and ideas from poverty reduction to education and providing infrastructure one

thing that drives what the one so far is a campaign. only for the court itself. that emerged from. election holds. the election commission is confident of successful elections that could lead to a transition from one democratic government to another for the first time in more than forty as one of the challenges we had of course were. so in part of our country are difficult to reach because our role conative are there but we were blessed to have the all male here who graciously agreed to provide air support to transport how much here's a presidential aspirant more than fifty percent of the bill to avoid a run for legislators though a simple majority. interesting opinion piece we've got here down to zero dot com to

show us where this was written by two liberian writers they questioned if ellen johnson sirleaf promise to support female candidates is all a little bit too little too late in fact they go on to say the over glorification of solace as a feminist icon is particularly troubling since her twelve year presidency is actually serve the interests of a small elite group of women and men in politics and that's up held longstanding patriarchal norms in liberia interesting sort of opinion you can read for yourself if you search for service in the opinion section at al-jazeera dot com you'll find that ms plenty more on liberia as well that now shake of his name his image symbols of rebellion and revolution and now fifty years it is since his death they argentine born cuban guerrilla leader is just as popular as ever monday marks five decades since he was killed and so for the

occasion to are seeing cubans ally sharing and wearing it and buying that image everywhere they can that is such an i hesitate to use this word but an iconic image isn't it on t. shirts and posters all over the world. well himself remains of course a national hero in cuba but outside some of his endeavors aren't remembered quite so fondly nor did they really go as planned either as we say born in argentina he was a key figure in the curator uprising that helped fidel castro seize power in one nine hundred fifty nine and he quickly rose through the government ranks importantly shifted trade relations from the us to the soviet union the thing is he believed communism was the answer and so he ventured to the democratic republic of congo actually hoping to spread communism but his campaign in africa was really a complete flop the congolese didn't have the fighting spirit he'd hoped to stage

a sort of uprising against the american supported government and so with the lack of success he left he later wanted to spark a revolution in bolivia to overthrow the government there but this trip would be his last he was captured by the bolivian soldiers who were backed by the u.s. and it was there that he was killed nine hundred sixty seven fifty years ago so let's talk to tony about this is the author of share you give our a symbol of struggle and he's joining us from london nice to have you with us tony i mean legacy is the word which gets used over and over with so you give our if we start with his legacy in latin america what is that is it is the immortalized forever. i would say most lives forever but he's acted as a tremendous inspiration for millions of latin american workers and young people who want to fight against the exploitation and poverty which groups that and of course many other continents in the world and one of the things i think is captured

the imagination of the use of latin america and indeed internationally is that the for international socialism he was extremely committed and dedicated and he was completely uncorruptible and he was fighting for a new and a better society internationally what went wrong in africa very i mean i know that's a very broad question but if he was this is international going to what didn't play out for him there were i think it was not just in africa. extremely talented. abilities and a commitment to struggle he's concerned was to fight for the liberation of the oppressed through the establishment of an international socialist society but unfortunately his weakness was he failed to grasp exactly how that could be achieved the guerrilla struggle which he launched and participated in in cuba for

a number of factors proved to be successful was a number of historical factors that came together there and he tried to replicate it in other countries and in other countries the same social conditions did not exist and unfortunately adopted the myth of the struggle of a small guerrilla army carrying out a struggle to try and eliminate liberate the population of the country and a socialist changes society really can only be carried through in the modern era through democratic mass mobilization the majority of people in the urban areas and throughout the country and i think jacob our of fortunately didn't fully grasp that point. twenty seventeen is an interesting political time to be living in i think a slight understatement there but i think about where you are in the u.k. in the popularity rising popularity of someone like jeremy corbyn i'm not suggesting that he is twenty seventeen straight give are about the spirits there

isn't it. is spirit is there and it's coming back there's a thirst and a demand for change people globally the youth the working people i think in latin america asia africa and of course in europe and particularly here in the u.k. now and also in spain the absolutely disgusted and of hard enough of decades of new liberal capitalist exploitation which is only seeing the wealth concentration in the hands of the top one percent get more and more and the ninety nine percent are got less and less and now you see a spirit of revolt developing in a whole series of countries and continents and people beginning to look for a change and the beginning to look back towards genuine democratic socialist idea is that if so this market economy which is globally dominated by a few individuals a few major companies has a fascinating character total to talk about i'm glad we could do that with you tony

thank you for joining us thank you very much there was a great series in al-jazeera recently called face to face all about great partnerships and all rivalries in history now this episode on a show of r. and fidel castro called revolution in france unfortunately it's actually no longer available to view online but what the online team has done is sort of serialized it so you can it still explore this as we say fascinating relationship between show infidel just search for that show and fidel the series is called face to face. we something a series this week announced they were called digital debris because with advances in technology and devices comes a mountain of out stated products which need disposing off now in asia where the middle class is of course getting wealthier there's a very high turnover of these devices and in fact china is now the world's biggest recycler of waste but there's a problem with the industry's reputation so i was going to broaden things out for us in a moment looking at the global numbers after this report from china correspondent

adrian brown. the village of darya in northeast china was once part of a burgeoning illegal industry it still survives just three years unskilled local people made a living picking apart electronic waste by hand extracting metals like gold silver and copper and anything else that offered value. oblivious of the dangers to their health or to the villages water and soil this contamination will last for years slowly these unregulated workshops have started to close as we took these pictures a local government official appeared and unusually for china he agreed to an on the spot interview he said that what they are in the dark for the state is getting stricter and stricter on all types of pollution which are harmful to human beings as a result of these new regulations a lot of workshops here cannot survive. for decades places like this existed for

one reason only the dirty and dangerous job of processing electronic waste but recently the government started to close down some of these illegal workshops and everyone is now being moved to a new official recycling plant just down the road where we're told conditions are not safe. while this illicit trade survives much of the hazardous work now happens in either waste processing centers. this is one of more than one hundred now operating across the country handling mostly old t.v.'s. drilled the part by hand it is still dirty work but here at least workers have a measure of protection from the dust and toxic fumes more and more recycling workshops are being forced to move into such purpose built facilities. that china

has made a. progress on the treatment of electronic waste in the past decade at this plant we are now able to process more than eighty million household electrical appliances that year and as the middle class in china and the rest of asia continues to grow so too will the work load of plants like this one. adrian brown al-jazeera in china. now not probably disposing of electronic waste is a global problem no matter where you live in fact the united nations estimates that around fifty million metric tons of phones laptops and other electronic devices will be thrown away just this year alone now activists say waste has increased by more than sixty percent in last five years no surprises there as a throw away culture becomes the norm but we've all been that smart phones or computers. computers don't walk it costs more to replace them than fix them so out

with the old and in with the need and if that isn't bad enough ninety percent of these races illegally traded or dumbs and it's a shame because most of the products we do throw away which harm our environment can be reuse in fact technology progress is rapidly new products and models are released and thousands of people want the latest gadget or gizmo but one man's rubbish as they say is another man's treasure and most of your household electronic devices might not function but the metals plastics angles they used to create them can be reused to make new products now something the un is keen to point out he says is that metals and other materials started in the earth's crust are not finite yet we throw them away like they are now if you're still not convinced of all the environmental protection agency in the united way in the united states quotes this figures and i'll just point out we converted the figures from pounds of kilos for our international audience bought for every million cell phones we recycle sixteen

thousand kilos of copper three fifty kilos of silver thirty four kilos of gold and fifteen kilos of palladium can be recovered now what can you do what can i do well it does take some research and lots of electronic companies like the ones listed just here if there's few quite a few well known names you've got l.g. samsung staples dell for example they collect old electronics that you don't want and they can recycle them up. these some will actually even pay you some money for that can go to was your next device but companies in the u.s. and other developed countries dedicated solely to collecting the waste are also part of this initiative and it's developing countries unfortunately that do face the greatest burden of course it's nice indeed a waste always ends up. that sorry wanted to get a good look at all those sorts of statistics and ideas behind that and if all is environmental implications which sorry told you about mount enough have a look at this news report it's from

a us correspondent john hendren it's from april actually he discovered just how much personal downside can be pulled from old phones and computers so another layer of concern in our digital lives if you search for a waist hendren you'll find that reports there let's go to some of your comments that have been coming in and just as i look at the hashtag o.j. newsgroup on twitter right now on my tweet deck so many people from ghana getting in touch with us and i've been really interested to see how specific you've been about the problems not just of his own you're outraged at what's happened someone here saying authorities are not working setting up a gas station close to two fuel stations is actually an authorised they say again here unless the sizing of petrol and gas stations are stopped by the p.a. then these blasts will always happen that's from your twin massey joining us from ghana they have said thank you for all your comments they're my scarce stations in africa have no emergency responses eddie and wouldn't be surprised to see a similar explosion in some way called cape coast as well sir thank you for your

comments there i can only imagine what it feels like to have had a huge explosion like that and feel that it could have been. prevented. your comments your questions to hash tag as i join you screw it we're going to move back to the way story out we have joining us via skype an associate professor of sustainability at the rochester institute of technology lovely to have you with us thanks for joining us so let's talk about responsibility first of all when it comes to waste does it lie with us the consumers first of all does it lie with the company's board or we all have to pitch in here well there's a shared responsibility for managing this growing challenge because the lifecycle of electronics is so complicated the problem doesn't just begin when it enters the waste stream it goes all the way back to the mining of materials upstream the manufacturing process sees the energy that we use in that in the households and we use these products and so there's

a great opportunity for coming up with some innovative solutions both for designing products they can have a longer life span and more easily recycled but then also looking at the e.u. a stream as a source for raw materials in view of the circular economy that say you said the idea of making the products differently so that they last longer i know from the amount of i phones and i pads i bought over the apple just wants me to make keep buying more of them i don't want to make them last a long time because they want me to keep buying them. that's certainly is true and we've seen a lot of consumption and growth especially in those small mobile devices and it's had a really interesting paradox on the electronic waste stream on the one hand we've moved away from a lot of the very big bulky t.v.'s desktops and printers and we've moved toward the small phones in fitness trackers and other small devices and so that's actually somewhat stemmed the tide of the growth of the electronic waste stream at least the

size of it but it's made it a lot more complicated because now we're dealing with products that are much more challenging to disassemble and then recycle it and of life so there's a real opportunity there for design which which lies on the design and manufacture side but it also means that consumers can't just let those i phone sit in their basement or their desk drawers they have to get them back into the recycling stream so that they can potentially be reused or remain factored kelly just as we've been speaking to have been seeing some pictures of well china was our case study today but there are any number of places in the world and they tend to be the developing world where all these things come from in the first place and then get dumped as well this is a major problem isn't it is the the developed world with its expendable incomes inevitably dumping on the developed the developing world i should say. in some ways that's very true however one of the part one of the side effects of this

technological innovation is that as products become lighter and cheaper they're also more available in say you're also seeing is widespread increase in or shipped across the developing countries as well so we can't just look at solutions like banning the export of electronic waste we have to also think about environmentally friendly technologies that can fit in local constructs and in local situations and in some cases that might be fostering a repair industries in certain countries and in some cases it means that we in in developed countries need to do a better job of bringing these products back into into productive use really interesting talking to you on this topic thank you for joining us i've got four devices five i want to hear what. will happen to their eyes look at what they still ahead on the great. hamilton thanks a page out of someone's notebook but. the mobile apps that's what he's doing about

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this presidential election will take over a country still recovering from a civil war and in a bowler out right that killed nearly five thousand people just a bit of background for your library was created after the united states sent free black slaves back to africa and nine hundred twenty two it became interesting the first republican africa that civil war took hold in nine hundred eighty nine it lasted fourteen years and it's estimated two hundred fifty thousand people died with government forces accused of some of the worst abuses. the country made headlines again in twenty fourteen with the ball outbreak the virus killed more than eleven thousand people in three west african nations but most came from liberia so this new president will take over from ellen johnson sirleaf who is africa's first female head of state so we're going to try to speak to i mean a bellow now is the program manager at the catholic international development charity joining us from monrovia high i mean i can you hear me arise.

i mean a bell oh it's come out santa maria here in doha can you hear me right i would say she can't hear me all right this is a shame we having all sorts of technical problems tonight of course far away smoothing come on the surface absolutely many people could hear what was going on. formula one yet lewis hamilton unstoppable he proved once again who's the boss on the formula one circuit the mercedes driver one the japanese grand prix increases lead to fifty nine points the top of the driver standings britain has a chance to win the title at the next race in the united states home alick reports . lewis hamilton is closing in on the formula one world title after starting in pole of the japanese grand prix he got off to a smooth start. the same couldn't be said for his main title rival sebastian vettel he lost places quickly reporting an engine failure. the german had to retire and

five leaving his once promising title challenge in tatters. with vettel out of the picture the red bull driver is down your cardio and next step and became hamilton's main threat. the four time world champion vettel who is leading the championship as recently as august left to wonder what could have been. or in the end hamilton held off the competition beating the stockton into second and ricardo into it's the fourth win in japan for the briton to behind michael schumacher who has six the miss a driver now has a fifty nine point lead over vettel with only four races left and he can secure the title by winning the next race the us complete it better finishes lower than fourth today the rebels just seem to be rapid in the race track and see where we quicken the qualifying but still i was able to just hold in behind but it didn't go very close a couple of times i think the pace

a was really promising the first stint on the super soft i was struggling but with the left front soon as we switched to the softer i was actually very competitive and i was always with lewis and. i think we had great pace just really hard to pass . the last two or three laps i gave it all you know to try and close the gap. britain's most successful olympic track and field athlete most far was fifteen on hand to support his countryman. have a fourth world title hamilton in the history books as his country's most successful f one driver of all time so i'll just you know. and just take a look at how things let up on twitter after that results you can see people tweeting at least hamilton jaring and after their race all over the world and virtually on every continent and were japanese grand prix was also topping global trends throughout the day also lots of people talking about lewis hamilton how big

that gap is now and how close he is to winning that fourth title and here's a tweet from the man himself this was hamilton after the race why do weekend huge thanks to the fans out there and my hardworking team who have been. so meticulous hamilton incidentally has four point eight nine million followers on twitter and this was twenty eight out by the af one we saw this footage in so hell's package earlier lewis hamilton emulating a limping champion mo far as mo bots that particular tweet getting thousands of likes reach tweets and messages and here's one of them pete mitchell from london says two of the most successful and least like british athletes in history great talents shame about their personalities. now we've been telling you about world cup qualifying over the past few days and while argentina and the netherlands are struggling in their campaigns costa rica clinching their spawn with

a last gasp effort when she some video that's been making the rounds on social media it's of how win was celebrated on the local costa rican television watch this and a couple going down to the top of the christian concert but instead because the earth well congratulations to them and don't forget you can hash tag its aging news great you can also connect with need to record underscore is smile but that's it for me it's back to come on thank you for finally the quintessential landmark of rome the coliseum is about to reopen its highest realms to the public offer a four year renovation project but in these financially tight times where do you

turn for funding such a project turns out another of each of these great distress has the answer the fuckin with the story from rome. it's a steep climb to the top of the colosseum commissioned by the emperor of a space in the years seventy two for the past forty years the fourth and fifth levels have been locked away from view. until now welcome to the ancient cheap seats that probably wouldn't offer the best view of the regular bloodbath down below but they do offer a sensational view of the city. the opening of the upper levels is the result of a four year epic restoration project the outside's also been strengthened and spray clean to remove generations of grime the cost a colossal thirty million dollars and the still more work to do the sheer scale of rome's archaeological heritage poses

a huge financial burden for the city and for the country the vast costs involved frequently exceed state budgets. ticket sales help but revenues don't go far enough that's where high end italian fashion comes to the rescue the coliseums renovation was largely paid for by the billionaire owner of todd's luxury footwear company. follows a three million dollars renovation of one of rome's main tourist attractions the trevi fountain paid for by clothes company fendi. on the spanish steps restored last year with more than a million dollars from jury designer ball gary when we had to celebrate there were one hundred thirty new very sorry we wanted to create something really special for disney very serene and that's why we thought to pay tribute to the sea today where our founder and also created so much richness in our creativity the financial

helps largely welcome but it's of these kastrup government but there are some concerns about bigger tally and companies using their renovations as a branding exercise if there's a real risk of commercializing a monument but the brands we chose last year with chosen carefully we haven't seen any signs of company into beauty in their patronage. italians are intensely proud of their rich cultural heritage but preserving it comes at a huge cost that for now only italy's big businesses are able to cover these barca al-jazeera rome. lovely story not so i know in this news news great isn't it. this is how you get in touch with us on the. head of the we have to keep in mind you twitter facebook and whatsapp all up and running during the show and at other hours as well and if you want to get it we will see you back right here in studio fourteen at fifteen hundred.

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for decades puerto rico schools of being crumbling beneath the weight of massive debt now one hundred seventy nine a jew to close for good the largest closure of schools in the history of this u.s. territory is a frightening development this elementary school will remain open but will take in one hundred fifty of the twenty seven thousand students to be relocated that's double its current student body over the last decade enrollment in puerto rico schools has dropped by more than forty percent as families continue to leave those left behind often don't have the means to follow suit but ultimately it's now puerto rico's poor communities that are paying the price for this island's staggering debt.

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