power investigates all the suburb of damascus refuse to crumble under the might of assets. part two of this time. when the news breaks it was an announcement few were expecting to hear by announcing my resignation as prime minister from the lebanese government and the story builds i can't stop thinking about the bullets my life when people need to behead a mass exodus hundreds of thousands of rolled in just have fled ethnic cleansing in me maher for bangladesh al jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on at and online. hello i'm daryn jordan in doha with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera south africa's ruling party

will be picking a successor for controversial president jacob zuma on sunday the contest for the african national congress leadership has been marked by deep divisions on a page report from johannesburg. the conference started with two warnings don't to saying divisive songs and to keep the cheers on the ground everybody at speeds that will be flying around this conference all we can say that you will not hear in this conference. a.n.c. members from competing factions have hurled cheers at one another in the build up to this crucial event there have been allegations of vote buying and intimidation those accusations have led disgruntled members to take legal action that delayed the start of the conference by several hours but the trend to turn to the country's courts was criticized by president jacob zuma and his last speech as party leader

it is actually. we can begin to believe that the courts. some believe he has eroded the agencies all foreign. under president zuma the party has lost considerable support he's no stranger to legal action himself he's fighting an ongoing battle to keep hundreds of corruption charges at bay this race is as much about the old lead as it is about the new if the president's preferred candidate is selected she may be able to protect him from legal action and his post-presidential years but if i wyvil is selected i may be listen klein to help a lot at stake for jacob zuma one commentator said president zuma is legacy is a damaged a.n.c. possibly he might be the worst president ever had.

the alliance is almost nonexistent the last fifteen percent officer or. so is the average there in say the day ended with the nominations in a race that some predicts could be close between current deputy president ceramic and in courses on it i mean is the president supposed favorite whoever wins has an enormous challenge to unite the a.n.c. at a time when it's divisions have been laid to be a tiny page al-jazeera johanna's. protests isn't tel aviv are once again calling for the resignation of the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu is under investigation of a corruption allegations he's accused of accepting gifts from wealthy businessmen he denies any wrongdoing. two mass graves containing the remains of dozens of people from iraq's easy minority have been found near the town of sin job ninety bodies were reportedly discovered including those of women and children i still

took over sin john twenty fourteen killing and slaving thousands of members of the religious minority in job was retaken a year later by u.s. backed codes fighters supporters of independence in spain's catalonia region and held a torch lit march the run up to regional elections they demanded the release of politicians and activists jailed by the central government for organizing a succession referendum austria has become the only western european country with a far right party in government that's after thirty one year old chancellor sebastian kurtz made a coalition deal with the freedom party. chile will hold a runoff election on sunday for the first time almost three decades a conservative coalition could be swept to power by voters dissatisfied by the performance of the center left government bolivia's president ever morale is a shrugged off claims he's a dictator after dancing he'll run for a fourth term tens of thousands of his supporters turned out in the city of cochabamba to back his twenty one thousand nine hundred but it triggered protests

in several cities. yes president donald trump puzzled that stuff at the top public health agency not to use words and phrases like evidence based vulnerable and fetus in the budget reports the directive follows previous steps in pursuit of its conservative social agenda but those are the headlines he's continues to zero off to some was the age of those who watch it live. with both the house about two years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand we've 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. have been employed we don't look

good i don't put a predator do i like the law i live for. 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. we loose. our life. we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing who will live in the sand 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 play any other role in our daily lives. standard is what i like to call an unsung hero. it's because there are just endlessly examples. of the way in which sarah and intersects with daily lloyd's which we really. 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 if.

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 dean billion tons. and that

is a quantity so huge that is 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 sandy gravel deposit and you'd simply go and dig it up out of the ground so you'd

have sand 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 industrialized 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 at every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a. grandiose. projects. of sand. sand and construction projects concrete and. making land. with the with the officially constructed islands. even bigger consumers of sand.

with a booming economy launched in business 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. at the world cost over twelve billion dollars and more than one hundred fifty million tons of sand. with the still under construction flying high in the seemingly endless supply of money and 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 palm. the world. a place beyond imagination. today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the financial 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 to buy as natural sand resources and you think we'll find of course dubai is on the edge of the doesn't they've got older style and 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 islands 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 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 reliance on importing sand from other areas you see is this huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes 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 is 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. saddened for its very existence and the land masses 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's 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 it's for races 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 beer. guns are. you going to hear very every day every week. this what is the visual so. i'm going to. sit in. your individual. your fourth division or go back to your city of 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 come. but in the same system. which i think is it just it was the

business of great state but this is these days. it takes you. to flaunt the law with the tacit support of the government there most loyal client. the son trade in singapore is that he usually have a political is a massive of ours were concerned it's just a is build a. leader in the region particularly with the last global sun that is but their 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 benign. much of the ocean floors rocky or 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 the the any walls and. on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever live in communities that they will just. sand is the primary link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest just threatened. like many archipelagos many of indonesia's islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. about ninety two percent in the nation's fiscal challenges from the tension of the city because many activists 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. 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. once an island disappears the international maritime boundary changes all is required to 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 and dangers 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 doggies descend on the beaches seven days a week. in search of. sand. the men on 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. that. i wrote that i wrote that i have i don't want to give you. are you know that i'm

not going to bend an addendum going to match what do you have enough to know what kind of what do you know did not know much love my double got nothing. but i'm not going to help oh yeah. look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what you guys really do with their day but didn't come at you that you're not going out your head not them have them come we don't want but i'm not good at going to create a video i like them i like them 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. in mumbai a.v. 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. and a lot of the for people in the whole. 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 eight houses 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 wii front were row number two and i the fact that these houses won't be here in

five here. with bought the house about two 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 a scar 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.

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a successor for president jacob zuma on sunday the african national congress party has been divided over who should become its next leader the fifty fourth national conference is taking place at a time when i was. at a crossroads. why should we identify co-operate. as. a serious threat to the a n c we also need to look at in ten weeks we've seen organizations protesters in tel aviv have once again called for the resignation of the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu is under investigation of the corruption allegations he's accused of accepting gifts from wealthy businessmen he denies any wrongdoing to mass graves containing the remains of dozens of people from iraq says the minority have been found near the northwestern town of sin jar ninety bodies

were reportedly discovered including those of women and children i still took of us in jordan twenty fourteen killing and enslaving thousands of members of the religious minority group. supporters of independence in spain's catalonia region of how the talks that march in the run up to regional elections they demanded the release of politicians and activists jailed by the central government organizing a succession referendum austria has become the only western european country with a far right party currently in government after thirty one year old chancellor sebastian kurtz made a coalition deal with the freedom party. chile will hold a runoff election on sunday the first time in almost three decades a conservative coalition could be swept to power by voters dissatisfied by the performance of the center left government bolivia's president ever morale is a shrugged off claims he's a dictator after announcing he'll run for a fourth term tens of thousands of his supporters turned out in the city of culture bomba to back his twenty nine thousand bid but it triggered protests in several

cities yes president donald trump has ordered a staff of the top public health agency not to use words and phrases like evidence based vulnerable and fetus in the budget reports the directive follows previous steps in pursuit of its conservative social agenda but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after son of war stated that so much. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry in construction stolen and transported by criminal markets around the world. behind air and water sand 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 receive a 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 this 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. increasing density by twenty twenty five to three quarters of the world's inhabitants will live near the ocean and those 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 their. floor and to the beach. some people see this is a solution others see it as a band-aid which only to. it's the symptom. they've got to 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 and they're in killing everything within that sand as ground put

into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped for 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. peter planet is a temporary remedy after a 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 harbors 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 block the rivers of the united states in 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 trapped 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 the sand that should 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. grain after grain beach is slowly erode victims of decades of human interference. if you add the rising level. you get an ecological time bomb. the sea rides 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 and it's 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. with chad it is a very ambitious commodity and the moment it's because this one millimeter of the ocean touching you constantly every minute every second every day every year is such a false and it is eat the fish or you don't deny. the

mold deaves are rhodium at an alarming rate 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 my idea how to undo what the law gave the one nun a difficulty down the dictaphone line number tunnel vision i got in the ottoman economically monophyletic the highgate at the lodge i didn't have a moment and of money for the last of the night in the going to come and live in. 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 better 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 written history that goes but. we can't just . far from the mild 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 seen 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 said 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 can do most of sad. 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 opera cultural common policy on the common 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 it's 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. scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the for the use they used 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 it 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 when nature is done the 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 kill 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 and recycled into new containers but when it's crushed into find pieces that glass can be just like sand got all because of all characteristics it says i'm contaminating a regular basis and 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. compared to natural sand this sand is still too expensive. when sun begins to cost high

maybe. ah the sources can't compete with it though attentive can compete 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 the game budget in missy 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 thirst for sand plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods. but what's needed an issue does. it doesn't matter. so i'll go so this is a. lot with us of the global. companies

have come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules saying. and that does rules get 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 impact. on volume you know me doing this well you know so i get on quite often with a gritty almost preschool seduces of a. lot of them see if they move it says. duck me and all the well wishes simplicities i'm also doing no evil move. he. is going to do for some something. done.

in. a suit st. exasperating 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 there. from the beaches so it is much is there take these sand the soil it ocean be more and this will have a very seed is in. 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

a point now that is the gravity of the issue in but is happening to the planet and to skew it we must save the beaches. given the scale of which society is built with and i mean sand is a little more respect. whether it's more freeways whether it's more dams we've got to get away from these gigantic. and get back to a simpler way of living. they've been tremendous environmental victories at the beach itself it's been 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 same wars for the good of a song. hello waltz proper wind has been held back in europe just ahead of its movement there's a bit of south westerly breeze coming to the levant so too through turkey and it's driving a lot of cloud eventually out of africa but the main consequence is temperatures are rising twelve to twenty one much the same but to be also as bad that is colder in iran it was cold enough to snow in afghanistan with this old frontal system is just a lot of cloud until it tails off get a bit of rain in the far south west straits of hormuz for example so quite general

picture but increasing cloudy and increasingly warm in lebanon twenty three degrees by the time you get to monday it is drop south inspect that right a bit although i think for both saturday and sunday possibly monday this cloud has been generating and will generate a bit of rain of through to buy a double trying to get into qatar as well more likely it's going to concentrate on the east and of it does tend to fade away about time to get to monday but the chance for showers still there dry picture for most for arabia thirty three on the western side is hardly a surprise we have showers building again in south africa in the eastern cape and if anything they're going to generate even bigger showers but when we get to monday. facing the realities if a piece of machinery goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring

a legal system to bear getting to the heart of the matter i don't think we need of the wall but some of my good wishes just to hear their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. al-jazeera. and. with every. after fifty years of occupation and un condemnation of illegal israeli settlements . of i'm from cutting out and i want to preserve the safety of the village i've clashed several times with suckers on these lands al-jazeera world tells the story

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