we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth. the talking we're talking about other. people are not trying to shoot themselves and their other countries have managed to solve this problem but you worry that this conflict could erupt into a cult right open to the sort of security people who paid the price clearly the right top in prejudice setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. a comeback i'm so tatton in london with the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump says he will assert american dominance abroad by boosting

the economy and spending hundreds of billions of dollars modernizing the u.s. military in a speech on national security in washington d.c. the president also neglected to describe climate change as a threat to the u.s. breaking with former president barack obama said the u.s. was facing new competition on the international stage from china and russia but would cooperate where possible we also face rival powers russia and china that seek to challenge american influence values and world. we will attempt to build a great partnership with those and other countries but in a manner that always protects our national interest but while we seek such opportunities of cooperation we will stand up for ourselves and we will stand up for our country like we have never stood up before the

palestinian government has slammed as unacceptable the u.s. decision to veto a u.n. draft resolution that would have required president donald trump to rescind his recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital all of the other fourteen members of the security council voted in favor of the resolution describing the vote as an insult and an embarrassment to the u.n. us some buses and the haley said america would not be told by anyone where it can put its embassy what we witnessed here today in the security council is an insult it won't be forgotten it's one more example of the united nations doing more harm than good in addressing the israeli palestinian conflict today for the simple act of deciding where to put our embassy the united states was forced to defend its sovereignty the record will were flecked that we did so proudly today for and

knowledge in a basic truth about the capital city of israel we are accused of harming peace the record will reflect that we reject that outrageous claim for these reasons and with the best interests of both the israeli and the palestinian people firmly in mind the united states votes no on this resolution. palestinian leaders are now planning to call for an emergency meeting of the u.n. general assembly the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. says the u.s. can no longer be a peace broker in the middle east as it has wholeheartedly sided with the israelis . that the. united states chooses to disregard international law and to ignore the international consensus chooses to stand with the israeli occupation at the expense of our rights in the just nature of their cause with this veto the u.s. has missed an opportunity to correct its a legal decision with regard to jerusalem and it has persisted in its historic.

this resolution to fix the status of the united states as a peace broker and it actually stresses it's bias and it undermines its role in any future peace process south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. has announced its new leader with zero ram opposed taking over from president jacob zuma from opposer who's currently the deputy president really be zooming ex-wife darlene zuma in a vote at the party conference in johannesburg the win that will almost certainly lead the party into the twenty one thousand election when zuma steps down oust president after his second term. a u.s. official says at least six people have been killed in an amtrak train derailment outside seattle and the death timed is expected to rise authorities say preliminary signs indicate the amtrak train may have struck something on the truck before spilling over into a busy interstate puerto rico's governor has ordered

a review into exactly how many people died when hurricane maria hit the island in september ricardo russell you know made the announcement amid rising criticism of the authorities gave a much lower number for the fatalities caused by the huge storm accounting fishel death toll stands at sixty four there's a the main stories up next sound walls. 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 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 don't put a grade a video i like the top i'm not exactly. washed away by rising sea levels. being in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand units just. lost to human greed and stupidity. when we use that sand that we loose. our life. we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing who will live to send 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. standard is what i like to call unsung heroes. it's because they're the job 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 about 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 machines cell phones and many other devices would not exist. sand even alps or supply 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 this gray slurry 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 other resource is used in such vast quantities as 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. 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 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 process 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. as an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a mecca of modern architecture it's 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 is been doing with the with the artificially

constructed islands. landfills are even bigger consumers of sand than concrete. with a booming economy the emirate launched an investor's 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 divide more than one hundred fifty million tons of sand dredge from the coastline. with a 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 for president had opportunity can be found that this artificial 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 that there's a they've got older 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 that 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 of 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 such 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 the city state are bursting at the seams singapore is sort of lying on the import. and for its very existence in the land masses literally increased twenty percent over the last

foresee it is and that's largely been recognition so literally pouring sound into the sea to create 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 ration potatoes targeted 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 coastline with illegally dredged satins from neighboring states. suspicions of sand trafficking hang over singapore and the dozens of barges still 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.

how many guns here. are. you going to hear every day every week. this what is the visual. on what. you saw in. your individual. to the. north korean television company or your nice example. thanks to local trafficking networks singaporean 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. that is it just it was invisible is

a great state but it just is this place. to take you. to flaunt the law with the tacit support of the government the most loyal client. the sun trading singapore's he usually have a massive of ours were concerned it's just a is build a. leader in the region particularly with the last. global sun that 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 but. much of the ocean floor is 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 they think 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 mining activity is 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 sail. 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. be 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. 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 since 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 not wonder how you could have been acquitted oh well come to what do you have no love no money love my double got nothing. by that i mean i got them help oh yeah. look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what you guys right to their day but didn't come at you mad you're not going out your head not them have them come we don't know what i could've got going to create a video 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. 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 fam. sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. and 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 coasts 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 though 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 her on the beach front were row number two and i

thought the fact that these houses won't be here in five here. with both 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 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

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economy and spending hundreds of billions of dollars modernizing the u.s. military and his speech on national security in washington d.c. the president also neglected to describe climate change as a threat to the u.s. breaking with former presidents for a car bomb a child said the u.s. was facing new competition on the international stage from china and russia but would cooperate with possible we also face rival powers russia and china that seek to challenge american influence values and wealth we will attempt to build a great partnership with those and other countries but in a manner that always protects our national interest but well we seek such opportunities of cooperation we will stand up for ourselves and we will stand up for our country like we have never stood up before.

the palestinian government has slammed as unacceptable the u.s. decision to veto a u.n. draft resolution that would have required president donald trump to rescind his recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital all of the other fourteen members of the security council voted in favor of the resolution describing the vote as an insult and then barrus meant to the u.n. u.s. ambassador in the key haley so the america would not be told by anyone where it can put its embassy south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. has announced its newly with sarah rama poser taking over from president jacob zuma from a poster who was currently the deputy president narrowly beat zuma is exwife. zuma and the vote of the party conference in johannesburg the winner will almost certainly lead the party into the twenty one thousand election when zuma steps down ask president after his second term. a u.s.

official says at least six people have been killed in an amtrak train derailment outside seattle and the death count is expected to rise so authorities say preliminary signs indicate the amtrak train may have struck something on the track before spilling over into a busy interstate. those are your top stories stay with us sound was continues. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and 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 in summer beaches grow thicker and in winter they recede and 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. increasing density by twenty twenty five 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. 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 there. and to the beach. some people see this is a solution others see it as a band-aid which only two. it's the symptom. they good 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 there 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 suffocated it's a killing process for the sake of dollars. replenishment 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 to see 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 break waters 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 the coastline 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 sees and 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 dec relation of independence and seven hundred seventy six one a day. eighty thousand dams blocked 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 hostages of 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 results 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. green after green beaches 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 hit all half of manhattan and it's going to this could take our cities as well it's going. they 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. to 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. and. sad it is a very ambitious in the maldives because this one millimeter of the ocean touching you constantly every minute every second every day. is such a false and it is eat. or you don't deny.

the mall deaves our road at it well daryn you're right residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more the memories. really not god and i'd get all of them are sick in a demonic in the house i'm in nevada did it come up was done deal with the law one none of difficulty down the dictaphone line number tunnel vision i got in the ottoman like a name on a clinic i gave at the lodge i didn't enablement in an only kind of money but unless the united made any come of it 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 we 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 will 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 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 can do most of sad. how the sand wars even registered on our political leaders radars. access to energy and the

development of the forestation 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 to find that you need a problem 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 with that'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. put editions scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the foot 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 bird after the crop is done you could build straw bale houses which use no cement. except maybe the slab on the floor but and they're 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 that got broken up by the waves and got rounded and today this is this wonderful sparkly shiny sort of a magical beach is 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. to the birth of. i think everybody realized the glass is made out of saying that 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 of the physical characteristics it's uncontaminated in regular beach sand it always looks like sand but it behaves exactly like say and so what i say and i mean there's no reason to expect a difference. sand from recycled glass because 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. the sources can't compete with that though attentive can compete right now there is no competition you cannot compete that's something that is going to be a truck bottom. pricing. as sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle the game budgeting mysie the sand gold rush is gaining speed and more battle fronts are piri. on the coast of britain hundreds of families survived by traditional fishing. but today the fishermen are angry. a multinational with a verse for santa plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods. but what need an issue does. it doesn't matter. so i'll go so this is a. good job with the global. companies

have come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules say. and that does rules get to the things we need. so what they try to demonstrate is that by doing it by taking out a cent from the not so rare there is no impact. going from you know mcginniss well enough so they get on quite often with a great deal more preschool seduces a. lot of them see if they move it from a deal to civil. duck me and all the while. simplices them also do you know even move. he. is going to do for sub sub. fallen.

into. a sous 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. the love of the world. 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 bilby more and this will have a very seed is in fact i then. 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 in which society is built with. 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. have 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 our 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 boards and local forests may provide wind warnings and walks of orange. by icons landmarks valleys and scotland's.

live for adventure. discover jobs because faraway places are closer than anything going places together with cats i always. hello there it is still very hot for some of us in australia at the moment there is a cooler change on its way though this area of cloud here that's gradually drifting its way eastwards but if you're ahead of that it's still very hot so thirty three in melbourne there for tuesday and thirty four in sydney and in sydney the temperatures will be rising further as we head through into wednesday so this time of thirty eight degrees here's that cool a change though it's on its way toward sydney and it will already have passed melbourne by wednesday lunchtime so will be only it around twenty five towards the west generally a lot quite a force here in perth twenty nine degrees will be our maximum now as we head across towards new zealand we've two main areas of rain here the first one is trying to

clear away from the north island now but the second one is already galloping across the south island this one in the south is gradually pushing its way northward so for many of us there own choose day we're going to see a few outbreaks of rain and then that will gradually push its way across towards the north island there for wednesday so more showers here and that's only a small break before the next system comes along so generally the weather is quite changeable across new zealand at the moment as we head further north for us in japan with what quite a bit of heavy snow as we've seen over the past few days but it is easing a little bit for us on wednesday i think less snow to be seen. once welcomed now fear. dividing a nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i feel more gentleman and syrian.

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