hello there i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera trade talks in beijing have wrapped up with china warning the u.s. that any agreement between the two will be void if trump goes ahead with this threatened tariffs though u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross praised his meetings with china's vice premier as friendly and frank meanwhile canada's prime minister justin trudeau says u.s. tariffs on steel and many men ports are insulting and that acceptable in an interview with n.b.c.'s meet the press he says canada is ready to impose its own levies in retaliation the first of all we're putting the same kinds of tariffs exactly on on steel and aluminum coming from the united states into canada to be

directly reciprocal but we are also putting a number of tariffs on consumer goods finished products for which canadians have easy alternatives one of the either made in canada or made from another partner with the tariffs one of the truths about tariffs is they drive up costs for consumers and on top of that these tariffs are going to be hurting american workers and canadian worker the idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the united states is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable. trade unions in jordan have called for a one day strike next week after talks with the government failed to end the standoff over a new i.m.f. backed tax law there's been days of angry protests across jordan with demonstrators calling for the prime minister to resign the proposed law would significantly hike taxes on employees and companies a french newspaper is reporting that saudi arabia is threatening military action against qatar if it acquires russian weapons le figaro newspaper says the saudi

crown prince has written to u.s. president donald trump and the british prime minister to resume aid to warn that it is ready to retaliate if that acquires the s four hundred and the aircraft to the fence system it was reported on friday that he'd written a similar letter letter to french president. flatters ambassador to moscow said in january that his country intended to acquire the missile system saudi arabia long with the u.a.e. and bahrain cut off relations with qatar last year the ante immigration s.t.'s party led by the former prime minister younis young head in slovenia's parliamentary election with around a quarter of the votes shortly after polls close. to form a government that will benefit all citizens but it isn't on course for an outright majority and may struggle to form a coalition with such a delage joins has more now from the capitol to gather. up to now not so many political parties who said we are going to form

a new coalition government with. only one by now and. we'll gain up to seven seats in the parliament so very uncomfortable position for. experienced politician here in slovenia in twenty eight years of slovenian democracy bartz he will be probably summoned by the president of the republic and asked to form a coalition government but he fails then. the second one is. at least it's a new party new emerging from local level here in slovenia tunis is the fence ministry says it's recovered forty six bodies after a boat carrying refugees and migrants sank near the port city of safad responding to a distress call the navy and national guard rescued another sixty eight of the people on board to this is an increasingly popular starting point for illegal boats heading across the mediterranean the southern europe and then

a separate incident nine people including six children have died after their speed boat sank while crossing from turkey to the greek islands five people were rescued by the coast guard and fisherman. meanwhile italy's new interior minister met there severely has vowed that sicily will no longer be what he called europe's refugee camp so they made the comments in port sandor one of the main arrival points for refugees and migrants making new legal crossing from north africa one hundred fifty eight people landed there on friday after being rescued on the mediterranean those are the top stories on al-jazeera coming up next it's sound wars and i will have more news for you in just under half an hour of.

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'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 that have been employed we don't. put a grade a video i like that i'm not exactly. 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 loose that we loose. our life. we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing who will win this 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 play any other role in our daily lives. sanda is what i like to call an unsung hero. it's because there are just endless examples. of the way in which sarah and 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 it's a 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 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 sand to make your roads bridges and buildings up but that type of material is all been taken away it's gone abuse that 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 every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. an astonishing example of this. within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a. grandiose.

projects. of sand. of sand and construction projects concrete and. making land. with the with the official a construct an island. even bigger consumers of sand. with a booming economy the emirate launched an ambitious 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 wind. of 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 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 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 by his natural sand

resources and you think we'll find of course dubai is on the edge of that there's a 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 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 reliant 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 is 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. saddened for its very existence when 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 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 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 is what is driving the visuals so don't know what it. is like that person in. your individual. did on. your fourth division somebody 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 in the same system. which i think is it just it was the business of the state but this is this case. the law with the tacit support of the government for most loyal client. the son trade in singapore is that 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 with the last global sun that is 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 the the any walls and plans on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever living communities are they will just be the. 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. 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 could spirit sea 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 learn 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 the island can literally disappear. one of the nice stunning and packs of the trade is the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia and which have literally vanished when we use that sand. our life. 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. for men and 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 wrote back i wrote back i have i don't want to give you. all you know that i know could have been an addendum going to matter or not 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 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 to 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 the fam. sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. and 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 drugs inside 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 tentacles 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 their on the beach 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 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 going to get worse. it would remove any vestige of doubt from certain manning of israel as coming to be a people dispossessed a state established whatever i was able to do with brownstein remembers back the great international peace organization the united nations a momentous event which lies at the heart of ongoing conflict to this day seventy years on al-jazeera towns the history of what palestinians call the catastrophe.

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hello there i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera china has warned the united states that any agreements that end their trade dispute will be off if washington goes ahead with threatened tariffs u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross has been holding talks with chinese leaders in beijing he said their meetings so far have been friendly and frank the two countries have threatened to it for tat patter of some goods worth up to one hundred fifty billion dollars each one meanwhile canada's prime minister has called the new u.s. tariffs insulting and says canada is ready to impose its own tariffs in retaliation the idea that the canadian steel that military military vehicles in the united states the canadian aluminum that make sure your fighter jets is

somehow now a threat the idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the united states is quite frankly insulting and acceptable. trade unions in jordan have called for a one day strike next week after talks with the government failed to end the standoff over a new i.m.f. backed tax law there's been days of angry protests across jordan with demonstrators calling for the prime minister to resign the proposed law would significantly hike taxes on him and company. the anti immigrant s.t.'s party led by former prime minister. is ahead in slovenia's parliamentary election with around a quarter of the votes shortly after polls close that said he wants to form a government that will benefit all citizens but he isn't on course to win an outright majority and he may struggle to form a coalition with other party leaders refusing to work with him because of his and

the immigrants that's. a french newspaper is reporting that saudi arabia is threatening military action against. russian weapons le figaro newspaper says the saudi crown prince has written to u.s. president trump and british prime minister to resign may to warn that it is ready to retaliate if qatar acquires the s four hundred anti aircraft defense system it was reported on friday that he'd written a similar letter to the french president. to moscow said in january that his country intended to acquire the missile system because he said to be at an advanced stage those are the headlines that sound was continues next i'll have a news hour in less than half an hour. the world is running out of sand by industry in construction. and transported by criminal markets around the world. behind.

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 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 sim 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 to three quarters of the world's inhabitants will live near the ocean and those ribbons of sand would surround the continents are feeling the pressure. if we think. of 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 their. sand from the ocean 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 there in killing everything within that sand is ground up put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped 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 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 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 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 trapped 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. ground up to 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. 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. and. sad 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 rodent at a moment here 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 daemonic in the home and nobody did it come up with a how to undo what the law gave one nun a difficulty down the dictaphone line number tunnel vision i got in riyadh only make a name on a clinic the highgate at the lodge i didn't have them up in an economical need of money but unless the unite in the going to 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 bitter irony of the sand wars new. construction we're choir's ever more said. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand in the have it in history that goes back two thousand. you can't just die. 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 well 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 in the developing world on the former stage on climate change on the reform of the arctic cultural common policy on the common fisheries policy on learned ground on not traversal says i don't access to water without come here very often 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 on 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 used most machines 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 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 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 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 back glass can be just like sand got all because of characteristics it says i'm contaminated in regular beach sand it always looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so it is safe 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. the sources can't compete with it though attentive can compete with that right now there is no competition you cannot compete with something that is going to take the a truck bottom. pricing. as sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle the 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 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 the global. companies that come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules say. on the 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 impacts. on problem you know me doing this well you know so i 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 just for me and always who's.

doing no evil move. so. he is going to do for sub sub. done. in. a suit he will mistreat. the 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. this is the sand for useful construction this sand has been taken from there. from the beaches so is much is there take these sand the soil it ocean be more and this will have a very seed is in either. 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 say of the beaches. given the scale of 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. way of 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 senate wars for the good of a song. hello

there we've got some heavy downpours on the way towards australia at the moment the satellite picture research showing the cloud gathering at the moment working its way towards the coast of western australia and then as we head through the day on monday more of us are going to see the cloud increase we're going to see some outbreaks of rain by choose days looking pretty wet and pretty windy for many of us as well watch out for this ystem does look very very lively elsewhere we've had an issue with cold weather and it's still quite cool as we head into tuesday fifteen degrees on maximum temperature in melbourne over towards new zealand is certainly where here are the moments and we've got yet more wet weather throughout the day on monday so monday is looking very wet particularly again for the north island further south the south island is looking largely fine and dry twelve degrees is the maximum the christ yes little bit fresher perhaps as we had three tuesday but

no noticeable change for us choose day will be a little bit drier as we head into the north island though up towards the northern parts then the northern parts of asia and here we've got a fair amount of platen rain that's working its way away from us so forcing japan it's not looking too bad for the west things are getting a little bit worse for spacings temperature thirty five degrees as we head into monday by choose day about forty degrees it will be a very sticky one. it's been one year since its neighbors imposed a blockade on by land sea and air. a move that shattered the region's political landscape alliances have shifted and qatar has grown more self-reliant. but what caused the rift between the g.c.c. countries is there and what insights and can the gulf ever be the same again the

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