talks out there and what happens here matters. abandoned by the state social collectives are occupying space is among the people a military needs architects working on the edge of little. in the balance that the so-called rebel architecture some of the adults who took a toll on al-jazeera into the realm of the cell building in spain. you really can't say at this time on al-jazeera. i know i'm maryam namazie in london here's a recap of our top stories the u.s. ambassador to the u.n.

says washington plans to build an international coalition to push back against iran he has held a news conference in which she accused iran of quote fanning the flames of conflict in the region she says to ron supplied who's the rebels in yemen with a missile that the group then fired into saudi arabia this is a blatant violation of what they are not supposed to be doing and what we are saying is everybody has to total around iran in fear of them getting out of the nuclear deal and they are allowing missiles like this to be fired over to innocent civilians and hurt and that is what has to stop and so we will continue to raise and build the international community support to say this is not about the nuclear deal this is about all other actions and the president will work with congress on how do we go forward in dealing with iran at this one in this way but the nuclear deal is not something that we're focused on now is focusing on the threat that iran is posing as we know it. there is rosen and jordan has more now from washington

d.c. . well people are simply saying that this is just a continuation of the trumpet ministrations out for its to put increased pressure on iran from the very beginning the administration has been very suspicious of iran's oil compliance with the nuclear deal that was a negotiated and proxy war of fruition at the end of two thousand fifteen it's the it's a deal which the president donald trump has always said basically it has too many loopholes for iran to get overwhelmed the restrictions of the deal and to continue not just trying to build a nuclear weapons program but to also basically allow it to put you know send weapons to other groups to other countries across the region and the city stabilize it so the perception is that this is simply part of the administration's efforts to put more pressure on iran ever happened directly try to scrap the nuclear deal once and for all the masses called for a palestinian uprising against israel following the u.s.

decision to recognize jerusalem as its capital. and neither of the palestinian political party with an armed wing said the u.s. and israel had left themselves isolated by the controversial move it's not funny and made the comments at a mass rally to month the thirtieth anniversary of the faction now at least six thousand seven hundred muslim ranjan were killed by security forces in myanmar in just one month this is according to the medical aid group doctors without borders the group says thousands were killed following a military crackdown which started in august far exceeds the four hundred people man must government says were killed in the violence. if you look at the surf a.v. did the interview with more than twelve thousand people which were randomly semple from a population of six hundred thousand and we could not interview those households rich heads those are five thing adults we could not into futa family rich totally didn't make it to bangladesh because we have heard stories of complete families

which were killed so we believe that yes this number is what the belief is the lower range our think it's actually higher in reality the wall disney company says it reached a deal to buy key assets of twenty first century fox a transaction valued at fifty two point four billion dollars merger still requires approval by antitrust regulators in the u.s. justice department if it goes through media experts say disney could become a new contender in the realm of streaming online video united states is going to overturn net neutrality rules eliminating the regulations which ensure a free and open internet u.s. federal communications commission voted to undo the obama era legislation meaning large corporations can pay internet service providers to prioritize their websites and even block their competitors net neutrality advocates worry it could lead to censorship and increased internet access costs archon president latina putin

says the u.s. is in the grip of a family case it's by mania created by opponents of donald trump in his annual press conference putin also praised the u.s. president's achievements sharing his time in office and said he's on a first name basis with trump. all those are all of your top stories i'll be back in about twenty five minutes with much more news stay with us. we bought the house about c. years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand we lost underneath the house. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal

mafias around the world at the time it has been employed we don't look good i've got to create a video i like the law i'm not it's about. washed away by rising sea levels. being in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand it's become just . lost to human greed and stupidity. when we use that sand i mean we loose. our life. we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing who will witness and worse. for most of us san makes us think of days at the beach sand castles and sunshine and once the holidays are over we slip back into our busy lives. but is

feeling the sand between our toes or caught in our bathing suits the whole story. does this so familiar substance played any other role in our daily lives. sanda is what i like to call the unsung heroes of law it's because they're just endlessly examples. of the way in which sand intersects with daily lloyd's which we all really know commonly aware of. sand has quietly infiltrated every corner of our world melted and transformed into glass it sits on every shelf. it's also the source of silicone dioxide. a mineral found an hour winds cleaning products detergents paper dehydrated foods hairspray toothpaste cosmetics. and an astounding variety of other products we use every day. but the strategic mended such as. you. think about your computer.

chips can be manufactured if you do not have high quality said. the minerals extracted from sand are at the core of our hyper connected society they form a basic material for microchips without which our computers credit cards bank machine cell phones and many other devices would not exist. sand even helps us fly in our airplanes the plastics lightweight alloys of the fuselage and jet engines even the paint and tires are all made with sand. it's almost become like a the a we don't think too much about it but you can't live without it. and the industry with the biggest appetite for sand. construction. for the last one hundred fifty years sand mixed with cement to form concrete has shaped the contours

of our increasingly urbanized world. because of its low cost strength and ease of use disgrace larry has become the dominant building material around the globe. the quantities used are astronomical. to build an average house it takes two hundred tons of sand. for a larger building like a hospital around three thousand tons. each kilometer of highway devours thirty thousand tons. and to build a nuclear plant the estimate is about twelve million tonnes. production of sand exceeds fifteen billion tons. and that

is a quantity that is so huge that it's beyond imagination how much is fifteen billion you don't know because no one. is used in such vast quantities as sad maybe with the exception of water. so where in the world does that much sand come from. let's just say the sand men who work in the aggregate business have not been affected by the economic downturn. behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. business is booming but meeting this demand is not always an easy task sand is not something that's easily found like you might think it is used to be that you'd have a sand and gravel deposit and you'd simply go and dig it up out of the ground so

you'd have to make your roads bridges and buildings up but that type of material is all been taken away it's gone abuse it already. with the positives of service and exhausted we started dredging rivers for sand but this is lead to flooding. now we've turned to the oceans for sand. to satisfy our seemingly insatiable appetite for sand we've been dust for allies extracting it from beneath the waves. and the workhorse of the industry is a dredger. a giant tanker equipped with a suction arm capable of pumping huge quantities of sand to the surface. the right bessel in the right location can pump up to four hundred thousand cubic metres of sand to the surface every single day. each dredger cost anywhere

from twenty five million to two hundred million dollars. but the sand is free. so the thousands of tankers combing the world's oceans have every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. is an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a mecca of modern architecture is a sandbox for developers were no fantasies too grandiose. but as projects. of sand using huge volumes of sand and construction projects concrete and indeed just making more land as has been doing with the with the artificially

constructed island. landfills or even bigger consumers of sand and concrete. with a booming economy the emirate launched them bitches expansion project. after the year two thousand with the price of real estate soaring as a result of speculation developers bet that it would be cheaper to make land than to buy it. the self-proclaimed eighth wonder of the world cost over twelve billion dollars and devoured more than one hundred fifty million tons of sand dredged from the coastline. with the giant palm still under construction flying high in the seemingly endless supply of money and sand embarked on an even more extravagant project the world. the world is an island paradise would run president had opportunity can be found it is almost as resort official archipelago of three hundred islands designed as

a map of the world absorbed fourteen billion dollars and three times as much sand as the. place magination. today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the finance. crisis in two thousand and eight. deserted island is now parked in the sun awaiting the uncertain day when millionaire buyers will again descend on to buy and restore its glory. to kill the corporation managing the palm in the world the crisis is more than financial overdevelopment is totally liquidated by his natural sand resources and you think well fine of course dubai is on the edge of the desert they've got old asylum they need like all the gulf states dubai has sand everywhere so why doesn't the emirates simply help itself to the desert. desert sand is the wrong color end of sand for building

a lot of fishel oil and why because deserts and all the grains have been blown around by the wind is typically very round and very smooth if you want to use it to build an island they don't stick together you need sand that that is more angular you know it's rougher rougher age say that naturally sticks together. see sand is perfect for island building and construction but it's in limited supply sand is not a sustainable resource. although its own stocks are exhausted dubai is far from given up. the burj khalifa at the time of construction the world's tallest building was built with sand from half a world away. we have a saying in english which is selling sand to the arabs which is obviously

a joke. that that's actually come true in the case of the by. thirty five hundred australian companies exports into the arabian peninsula their profits have tripled in twenty years accounting for a five billion dollar jackpot. and australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas and so what you see is this huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes such as construction and land reclamation. singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. in thirty years the country known as the switzerland of asia has become one of the richest in the region during this time the population has more than doubled and the sixty three islands that make up this city state are bursting at the seams singapore is sort of lying on the import. for its very existence and the land mass is literally increased twenty percent over the last

forty is and that's largely been reckon nation so literally pouring sound into the sea to create a new land. singapore is already transformed one hundred thirty square kilometers of water into land and is planning to add another one hundred square kilometers by twenty thirty. having devoured all its own reserves its for ratios appetite is targeted at its neighbor supplies. one after another cambodia. malaysia and indonesia have each decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction to sand is not easy to restrain. singapore is being accused of expanding its coast and illegally dredged satins from neighboring states. suspicions of sand trafficking hang over singapore and the dozens of barges filled to the brim which imo daily and it's important prove that the city state has found an alternative source but where does the saying come from.

tommy guns here. are. you going to hear very every day every week. this what is the visual so don't come put it. in. your individual. little. north korean television company or your nice example. thanks to local traffic and networks singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional companies continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. but the other one. but the same. thing is it just it was the business of the state

but this is the distaste. for. the law with the tacit support of the government their most loyal client. the sun trading singapore's he usually have a political as the mass of the baucus is ours we're concerned it's just a is build a. leader in the region particularly within our. global sun that's but that companies will brain imports of that country and should be its human rights violations environmental degradation and damage the livelihoods of local people. the effects of underwater dredging are far from but. much of the ocean floors rocky are covered with only a thin layer of sand. built up over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years.

as you dredge up a set. of course all of the the any walls and. on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever they think they will just be. sand is the primary link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest is threatened. like many archipelagos many of indonesia's islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. ninety two percent in the nation's fiscal challenges come from tension of the city because. this when this coral reef we lost fish. livelihood. everything loss of fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of indonesian families

but that's only the first of sand dredging to adverse effects. if you have an oil made of sand it's only there because of conspiracy of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing that. then you've upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will then start to move the rest of the sand. after the extraction of sand a combination of waves currents and gravity slowly fill in the back you. so the removal of underwater sand can have a very noticeable effect on nearby beaches and islands. and so by a combination of natural growth this is and human excavation. the oil and literally disappear. one of the most stunning impacts of the sand trade was the disappearance

of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we lose that sand that we lose. our life. once an island disappears the international maritime boundary changes all is required these become geopolitical issues as well as simply commercial and resource issues. twenty five indonesian islands have already disappeared. like coal and gas sand is now on the frontline of the world's hunger for raw materials. scarcity in dangerous local communities and sets governments against each other. as demand builds the circle only becomes more vicious. morocco's gentle climate has been welcoming tourists for years. but its famous

beaches have also been attracting some strange four legged visitors a constant stream of men and donkeys descend on the beaches seven days a week. in search of. sand. the men in the donkeys have taken so much sand that some beaches now look like the surface of the moon. rock has been experiencing a construction boom spurred on by a competitive real estate market. the builders are happy but they need plenty of sand legal and otherwise. then you know what i do about it i wrote back i wrote back i have i don't want to

give you. are you know that i'm not going to bend an addendum going to not wonder how you could have been acquitted oh well coming up to you had no love no my love my double got nothing. but not by me i got them help oh yeah. look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what you guys write with their day but didn't come but you're mad you're not going out your head not them have them come we don't look good i'm not good at your creativity oh i like them i like that lap it's estimated that forty to forty five percent of the sand used in construction in morocco has been stolen mostly from its beaches. loaded onto trucks the sand is sold directly to unscrupulous developers but that's not where the problem ends. without proper treatment salty beach sand mixed with cement is highly corrosive make america's new buildings ticking time bombs in danger of collapse.

ironically the beach is meant to lure the tourists are being stripped bare to build hotels and condos that may turn out to be death traps. and home lavey enjoy. the position of being the financial capital of the country andrea also have a huge housing boom construction boom that's because of the influx of so many new people into the city. but the indian economy booming construction has to keep pace and like in so many other battlegrounds of the sand wars easy profits lead to corrupt practices. the value of sand is such that it's

a commercial commodity that is smuggled i mean the it's a big business is smuggling the fam. sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. a lot of the people. who control of the sand mafia controls a lot of the construction the construction materials businesses in bombay as well as the constructions themselves in addition to that they also control the administration through their political contacts so that just completes the whole value chain right from the extraction to construction the the profits in each pot to fit the administration and the police. under the eyes of corrupt authorities the sand arts ply their trade in broad daylight and more than eight thousand dredging sites scattered across the coast and river banks of the subcontinent.

for the mafia's beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arm's reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. the tender calls of the mafia's however are just adding to the pressures facing the world speeches. just two years ago there was a row of houses here. about i think about a house of from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses there on the water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with their on the b. front were row number two and i thought the fact that these houses won't be here

and five here. we thought the house about see years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here. but from here you can see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. because it was up to level with the cement but of course it went out into the ocean. so. the beach area was about the length of a football field and over the last two years the iscar is underneath the houses so. the erosion on this part of the beach is much quicker than we anticipated or that is deemed to normal. globally between seventy five and ninety percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of retreat and that's only

going to get worse. they live in a country plagued by poverty. billionaires life is all about glamour luxury and pristine. wonder when east meets the new maharajah at this time on al-jazeera the nature of news as it breaks the last time senegal qualified for the world cup in two thousand to fifteen years on it hopes to do even better in russia next year with detailed coverage tried to imagine it only seven years ago right here. now that he has taken over there from around the world donald trump is promising a major policy announcement on trade a potential challenge to khorat a missed opportunity abroad. once welcomed now fear. dividing and nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of

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says washington plans to build an international coalition to push back against iran nikki haley held a news conference in which she accused iran of quote fanning the flames of conflict in the region she also presented evidence she says proves to iran's supplied who's the rebels in yemen with a missile they fired into saudi arabia this is a blatant violation of what they are not supposed to be doing and what we are saying is everybody has to total around iran in fear of them getting out of the nuclear deal and they are allowing missiles like this to be fired over to innocent civilians and hurt and that is what has to stop and so we will continue to raise and build the international community support. and our other top stories at least nine thousand range of muslims died or were killed in the first month of the military crackdown in myanmar according to the aid group doctors without borders this is the highest estimate a death toll yet in a conflict the u.n. has called ethnic cleansing according to the report most of the deaths were caused by gunshot wounds other victims were burned alive inside houses or were beaten to

death. the mass is calling for a palestinian uprising against israel following the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as its capital a small hania made the comments at a rally to mark the group's thirtieth anniversary the us federal communications commission has voted to undo net neutrality laws this means that large corporations will be able to pay internet service providers to prioritize their websites and even block their competitors the u.k. prime minister to resign may's meeting european union leaders in brussels less than a day after an embarrassing parliamentary defeat on breaks it may is hoping you need is a proven agreement to move the brics it goes on to a second phase incorporating trade talks walt disney company says it's reached a deal to buy key assets of twenty first century fox in a transaction valued at fifty two point four billion dollars

a month just so requires approval by antitrust regulators in the u.s. justice department but if it goes through media experts say disney could become a new contender in the realm of streaming online video. we're going to bring you more analysis on that story at the top of the hour i'll be back with much more news for you do stay with us by phone now. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world. behind air and water saying it is the most used commodity in the world. where humans have intervened and we've built structures a wall concrete seawall a highway a hotel

a parking lot the beach can't move back and we see long term beach lost. as part of the natural cycle beaches adjust to seasonal changes and summer beaches grow thicker and in winter they recede to level off to better absorb the energy of the waves to survive the ocean salt beaches must have enough space behind them but we've built too close to the shore so with nowhere to go beaches are overcome by the waves which carry their sand out to sea. if you have an eroding beach what is the problem. not the symptom the same symptom is the beaches eroding but what is the problem. what's causing it it's us. we are drawn to coastlines today three quarters of the largest cities in the world

population are on the coast as the population growth accelerates the world's hyper . increasing density by twenty twenty five to three quarters of the world's inhabitants will live near the ocean and those thin ribbons of sand which surround the continents are feeling the pressure. to the water and i hope that we learn from that but now we're here. and we have to figure out how to make projects. and that's what brings tourists. in florida nine out of ten beaches are in the process of disappearing along with the future livelihood of all those who depend on this economic engine. each year of the planet's tourists head for the beach beaches feed the hotel industry as well as recreation transportation food services and

a multitude of other sectors in some areas almost half the g.d.p. depends directly on beaches. letting them disappear is out of the question. so what we're trying to do is try to mitigate those problems try to lessen the impact and that's why we have to take these unnatural acts. to the beaches. to keep their beaches viable cities that can afford to invest. in beach replenishment they're. dredged sand floor and pours it onto the beach. some people see this is a solution others see it as a band-aid which only true. it's the symptom. they've put up the beach and say this is beach nourishment but it's just another hole. those big machines that when they go take this there in killing everything within that sand is ground up put into

a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped on a beach or the life forms in that part of the beach aren't prepared to be buried alive and suffocate it it's a killing process for the sake of dollars. beach replenishment is a temporary remedy after year to the sand has been washed out to sea and the whole process must be started again from scratch nonetheless this method is highly popular to the delight of the dredging companies it's a matter of big money big big influence green it's not a pleasant thing the thing you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so pleasant. in a desperate maneuver to try to trap the sand on the beaches coastal engineers are advocating the construction of dikes breakwaters and all sorts of other structures . but sand cannot be so easily tamed.

the constant movement of sand is not necessarily always cooperating with the way we want the place to be it will fill up. and all it will wash away from beaches where we like tourists to come and so that balance is something that we all dramatically changing just by building on. all by building a sea wall around the extends out from the beach we build a wall to to contain sand to keep it on our beach what do we do we stop the sand from supplying the neighbor's beach. the tragedy is that people are just not aware they're not aware that an action here is going to have a reaction somewhere else so we all have to be very careful when it comes to redeveloping because then we have a responsibility because we don't want these great wonderful treasures that we want

to share with our children to disappear because of greed because of irresponsibility. and because of just not dan paying attention. in order to avert further catastrophe it's important to understand the source of ninety percent of the world see sand often a long way from the beaches. for the most part it starts in iraq somewhere that breaks down it might be in a river from ice or snow or rainfall and is that grain comes out of the granite or the sandstone it just gets into a small stream and then a larger river and in a normal world ultimately will work its way all the way to the shoreline. it takes thousands or even millions of years for a grain of sand to reach the sea and it's

a journey full of pitfalls. in america we have been building one dam every day since the deck relation of independence and seven hundred seventy six one a day. eighty thousand dams blocked the rivers of the united states and china where the demand for energy is exploding dams are popping up everywhere so that by two thousand and twenty not a single waterway will reach the sea. and in the rest of the world there are at least eight hundred forty five thousand dams and it's not only water they're holding back so all that sand that should be at the beach is behind the dance.

one quarter of the sand reserves of the planet are hostage to these dams and the sand that makes it beyond the dams will run into another trap river dredger. although it's regulated in many countries it's still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week the result about fifty percent of a sandwich or nurse the world's beaches will never reach the sea. the coastline like many other environments it's like the earth was always thought so big so vast that we couldn't have an impact on it we built a dam for water or electricity which is a good thing but downstream there's no more sand so somehow we have to figure out how to bring all those things back into balance by taking some conscious steps to

try to reduce the impacts of those things we're doing as a civilization. on the. ground after green beach is slowly erode victims of decades of human interference. if you read the rising level. you get an ecological time bomb. to see right it's just going to happen a lot more quickly without saying. but it's not going to stop there it's going to take out in all half of manhattan is going to this could take our cities as well it's going. keep coming. the sand is our barricade and we have to understand

that. in the middle of the indian ocean sand is a matter of life and death. on the. sand divers have been collecting call sand from the lagoon for years and selling its developers. but with sea levels rising this sand harvesting is leading to some serious problems. sounded as if it is precious commodity in the mold it's because this one millimeter of the ocean touching you constantly every minute every second every day. is such a false and it is eat the fish or you don't deny. the

mold deaves are rhodium at a moment here right residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more than memories. really not god and i'd get all of them are sick and have a demonic in the house i'm in nevada did they come up with a how to undo what the law gave the one nun a difficulty down the dictaphone line number tunnel vision i got in riyadh only make a name on a clinic i gave at the lodge i didn't have them up in an economical need of money but unless the united made any income of them would have been. several hundred islands have already been evacuated and today the refugees crowd on to larger and better protected islands such a small way the capital. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together . but in another bitter irony of the sand wars new. construction require ever more sand. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean

for the last five thousand in the have it written history that goes but. he can't just die. far from the mel deaves beautiful threatened beaches. greed and speculation drive the global markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. bombay is not an isolated case there's never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. one third of urban populations now live in slums while go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. in china sixty five million flats are empty yet the construction industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter of the sand extracted on the planet spain holds the unfortunate record as the european country most addicted to sand in the midst of an

unprecedented housing crisis thirty percent of the homes constructed since one thousand nine hundred six sit empty entire airports have been built without seeing a single passenger and in dubai the emirate continues to build and import sand even if ninety percent of the apartments in the burj khalifa are bacon. but sadly real estate speculation doesn't hold the monopoly on the wasting of sand governments are also to blame. i would construction uses inexpensive see said the strips of asphalt we've built snaking around the world have swallowed up massive amounts of the world's beaches. think about the number of roads that governments across the way have to beat it's the public sector why the largest going to lose the fat and. how the sand wars even registered on our political leaders radars. access to energy and the

development of the forestay on climate change on the reform of the applicant for common policy on the cullen fisheries policy on land grab on not traversal seas and on access to water. without burial for you find that you need a program to get a lot was before it's going to get on the agenda. we talk about water because we know there's a major problem is that right now in europe and we have had the debates and that we've had the policy we're implementing a policy and soil we're still having a debate. on science. we're not having the debates. it's very very crucial that. put editions scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the for the use they use most which is construction. can we continue to build and at the same

time for yourselves from this dependence on sand. or other materials capable of replacing concrete. from the straw that's burnt after the crop is done you could build straw bale houses which use no cement. except maybe the slab on the floor but and there earthquake proof those houses are perfectly insulated and they're fireproof. you don't have to build concrete buildings you see this building right here this building was built with ninety five percent recycled materials all the steelers recycled it's made from. japanese cars you know it's all recycled steel and when this building is finished they can melt this steel down to make more buildings. there's so many materials which can be recycled i think we need to exhaust those and in the meantime maybe

the world changes you know some years ago people used to build not with this quantity of reinforced cement concrete but a different methods of construction perhaps thirty five different methods of construction but in the meantime at least we need to use recycled materials as far as possible. like strong metal our homes are recyclable and rubble can be really used to build roads or new housing projects. but these solutions must face our usual inertia and relentless lobbying by the construction industry. construction companies are equipped for and know how to work with concrete so radically changing our construction practices is an uphill battle . what if there was another granular material

that might substitute for sand. there's one very interesting beach north of san francisco called glass beach and it turns out that for years the city dumped all of their trash on to the beach the glass got broken up by the waves and got rounded and today this is this wonderful sparkly shiny sort of a magical beach it started out as a garbage dump what nature has done a glass beach has inspired people to attempt a similar trick thousands of kilometers away in florida. which is something that has to be disposed of and takes landfill space or something like that into an asset then you've killed two birds with one. i think everybody realizes that bias is made out of saying that if people start scratching their heads and say well maybe that's a good use of it to return it to science. glass bottles and packaging are

everywhere they're usually collected in recycled into new containers but when it's crushed in the fine pieces that glass can be just like sand got all of the physical characteristics it says i'm contaminated in regular beach sand it always looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so what i say and i mean there's no reason to expect a difference. sand from recycled glass is one promising alternative for the beaches of florida and elsewhere on the beaches where it has been tested even the sea turtles have adopted it as a place to lay their eggs. as much as one quarter of the glass that we throw away is not recycled and ends up in the. crushed it could be a perfect component in the making of concrete. but compared to natural sand this sand is still too expensive. when sun begins to cost high

maybe. the sources can't compete with it though attentive can compete with that right now there is no competition you cannot compete that's something that is going to take the a truck bottom. pricing. as sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle to game budget a must see the sand gold rush is gaining speed and more battle fronts are appearing . on the coast of britain hundreds of families survived by traditional fishing. but today the fishermen are angry. a multinational with a verse for saying it plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods . but what's needed an issue doesn't look at all but it also would it doesn't matter. so i'll go so this is a. lot with the global. companies

have come to brussels complaining about it not sure it's a thousand rules say. and that does rules to the things we need. so what they try to demonstrate is that by doing it by taking out sand from the not so rare there is no impacts. going from you know me doing this well you know so they can call it often with a great deal more preschool seduces level of a. lot of them see if they move it. from a deal because if i. duck yes for me and always has said chris is i'm also do you know even move home. he. is going to do for some something. done.

in. a suit st. exasperate of the brittany fisherman has shaken up both the elected officials and the citizens inspiring them to mobilize against the seizure of their sand with. perhaps grassroots movements such as this will mobilize other groups around the world to stop the sand wars. once people know once people understand what the issue is and how important it is

whether it's each grain of sand on that beach or the importance of that beach in their community to their lives and their community i think there's hope. so if. this is the sand for useful construction this sand has been taken from this. from the beaches so it is much as their take these sand the soil it ocean be more and this will have a very seed is in ireland. go to the beaches enjoy the beaches learn about the beaches and then do something about it. let's not let the beaches disappear. i believe that the younger generations of the planet must come out and tried to impress upon others the gravity of the

issue in but is happening to the planet and this cute we must save the beaches. given the scale of which society is built with and i mean cern deserves a little more respect. whether it's more freeways whether it's more dams we've got to get away from these gigantic seams and get back to a simpler. where living. they've been tremendous environmental victories at the beach itself it's been if to fight for itself. maybe needs us to fight for. the fate of the world's beaches is not cast in concrete perhaps the day will come

when we'll see said with fresh eyes conscious of how every grain plays a role in the health of our planet and in our lives. then by working with nature instead of against her we can win the said wars for the good of a song. travel often. by tranquil board speeds and local forests may provide valuable. walks if only. by icons landmarks valleys and scotland's.

live for adventure. discovery jobs because far away places closer than anything going this is together with cats are always. hello and welcome back across australia temperatures are on the rise generally we're going to see those temperatures rise across some southeast now as we head through into the start of the weekend with sydney coming up maximum of thirty three degrees but stays alice at thirty six and pleasant conditions enough for perth a maximum of twenty four degrees so let's head across into new zealand where the weather is looking terry not too bad at the moment and across the north island but across the south island we've got this frontal system gradually pushing in from the west so for southern areas it will be rather wet during the day and then as we head into the weekend we're going to find the system pushing further towards the north

for adventure begins to clear away so can should be dry for much the time with highs of twenty three degrees let's set up into northeastern parts of asia and here well certainly for the next twenty four hours things are looking not too bad a lot of dry weather around to the wind is generally quite light sea temperatures still generally subzero across the korean peninsula valuable stuff minus seven so move the forecast through into sappho we've got some snow showers coming in across the sea of japan into northern parts of japan in particular still pretty chilly if you kill young soul scrapes up to freezing for beijing it should be dry temperatures hovering around the freezing mark. the pages of this. unspeakable man compiled testimonies of victims of congolese mustn't. as this intimate evidence finds its way to into the maximum coolness of the central african republic is

a plunged into further. and intricate details of the people and imation crippled by recent history caiaphas come to africa to talk seems to be time on al-jazeera. we know because we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers have their lawyers and anti-riot know. we are challenging the forces were challenging companies are going to places where nobody else is going. this is zero.