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 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 of the forestay on climate change on the reform of the agricultural 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 your needs 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 is that right now 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 they can melt this steel down to make more buildings. there's so many materials which can be recycled i think we need to exhaust those and in the meantime maybe the world changes you know some years ago people used to build not with this quantity of reinforced cement concrete but a different methods of construction perhaps thirty five different methods of construction but in the meantime at least we need to use recycled materials as far

as possible. like strong metal our homes are recyclable and rubble can be really used to build roads or new housing projects. but these solutions must face our usual inertia and relentless lobbying by the construction industry construction companies are equipped for and know how to work with concrete so radically changing our construction practices is an uphill battle . what if there was another granular material that might substitute for sand. there's one very interesting beach north of san francisco called glass beach and it turns out that for years the city dumped all of their trash on to the beach the glass got broken up by the waves and got rounded

and today this is this wonderful sparkly shiny sort of a magical beach is 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 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 because of characteristics it's uncontaminated in regular beach sand it always looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so to 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. 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 to game budget a must see the sam 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 thirst for sand plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods. but what need an issue does. it doesn't matter. sagal so this is a. lot with the global. companies have 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 impact. going from 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 says. yes for me and all the well wishes simplicities i'm also doing know even move. so. he is going to do for some something. done. in. a sous st. exasperate of the brittany fisherman has shaken up both the elected officials and

the citizens inspiring them to mobilize against the seizure of their sand with genes. 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 ireland. go to the beaches enjoy the beaches learn about the beaches and then do something about it. let's not let the beaches disappear. i believe that the younger generations of the planet must come out and tried to impress upon others the gravity of the issue in but is happening to the planet and this cute we must save the beaches. given the scale of which society is built with. 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. has been tremendous environmental victories. at the beach itself it's been to fight for itself. maybe it needs us to fight for. the fate of the world's beaches is not casting concrete perhaps the day will come when we'll see sam 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. see

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a maximum of seventeen for the east though that will be thickening up on tuesday will be giving us a fair few outbreaks of rain from rio all the way down into the northern parts of uruguay for what is. as it should be dry but still chilly for us all temperature to eleven degrees cooler two for us in santiago with a maximum just of sixteen now it further towards the north and there's quite a bit of rain across the central americas at the moment is stretching from panama all the way up into the southern parts of mexico they also cloud here a fair few outbreaks of heavy rain and then some about cloud drifts for the eastwards and it's across parts of cuba and eventually across the bahamas as well that will be thickening up as we head into tuesday so a few more outbreaks of rain here towards the north an all weather system in the eastern part of the u.s. is trying to clear away but it's still clinging on to the eastern parts of canada and it's giving heavy rain the weather sponsored by cattle waste. we do not and will not tolerate which people who fund terrorism the unity is

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this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for again this is the news live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes after days of demonstrations in jordan over a sturdy measures the prime minister quits in response to public anger. a suicide bomber kills at least seven people at a meeting of religious scholars in afghanistan just after they disusing the decree against violence. a volcano erupts in guatemala twenty five people are dead but that figure is expected to rise. at evidence that the mental health of children in gaza is being damaged due to the eleven year israeli blockade.

jordan's prime minister has resigned after days of protest against planned tax rises in the capital amman. met king abdullah at the royal palace is expected to be replaced by. the minister. the education at least sixty people have been arrested since demonstrations began in amman on witness day but ari is a professor of international studies at the university of georgia and he joins jordan he joins us now live from amman good to have you with us so the prime minister is gone it was effectively sacked wasn't he invited to resign by the king yes he was they were sacked by the king simply because he mismanaged the whole crisis in jordan. this government has done a lot has mismanaged the economy and also didn't know how to deal with the protesters and for this reason the king had no other option other than sacking the

government we're now looking at a new government which is going to deal with the demands of the people is that going to be enough to settle the turmoil that we've seen on the streets what it's really airlie to judge now i mean people have been taken to the street over the last four days and i think they're going to continue over until probably wednesday when they strike again to be on and people are looking for a paradigm shift they're not looking for changing faces like you know. sacking one prime minister and getting another one looking for a change in the policies of the policies have been detrimental to the daily lives of the people in jordan and they're looking for changes in these in these policies with the kings going to do that or not i mean it remains to be seen you say the it's not just a change of faces the people are looking for people in jordan. the only mistrust

the government but they mistrust all parties what can be done to restore public trust in jordan in public institutions. this is one of the problems in jordan because over the last two decades all successive governments have failed to restore the public trust and in each letter of this ignitions sent by the king to all prime ministers priority number one and all of these letters was to restore the public trust but they failed to do that simply because they never had the tools to do that they need to first of all affected real genuine political reform and they didn't do that and secondly they need to take into account the needs of the people the daily needs unemployment is going high in the parties also is going high and people are actually suffering from because of that. and addition to that the government has never been candid with the

people a lot of misleading in the way it managed everything in jordan and that's why that trust gap is actually widening to an alarming point so why is political reform in jordan so hard to come by while you know this is a different i mean different question because we didn't do it during the arab spring so. people are now not even honesty they're not even asking for political change or political reform they're only looking for economic changes because this is what impact their daily life in directly. but i view as you know one of the intellectuals in jordan i don't think this is possible without having a genuine political change because all we need to see a prime minister who is accountable to the people not accountable to the king and we want to see people in the government who are sensitive to the needs of people we don't have those people in the government not in this government not in the one

before and i don't think that we're going to have them in the next government professor many thanks indeed for being with us good to talk to somebody. at least seven people have been killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan's capital it happened as more than two thousand religious scholars were leaving a gathering at kabul polytechnic university earlier they announced a decree against the war in afghanistan that merged the taliban to accept the government's peace office off more now from jennifer glass who's in kabul. the bomb went off as hundreds thousands of islamic scholars and clerics were finishing their meeting in what we call the jirga tent the loya jirga tent to really a a conference hall in kabul as they were exit a after a meeting where they condemned of the ongoing war as an islamic and condemn suicide bombers a bomber went off at the gate the entrance to that gathering where more than two thousand five hundred religious leaders had gotten together to try and persuade the

taliban to come to the peace table to accept what the president calls an unconditional offer for peace talks now and just as we heard news of that bombing another bombing in town a smaller bomb went off in a truckload of watermelon that injured three civilians it seems that over and over again we hear these stories we're reporting the stories that either the taliban or i saw are setting off bombs or attacks here in the afghan capital and around the country really a sign of how difficult it is for the afghan government to maintain security of the taleban growing influence around the country despite fifteen thousand u.s. and nato troops as well as a large force of afghan security forces fighting very hard and losing men all over the country has been a brutal fighting season and the attacks continue here in the afghan capital at least twenty five people have been killed in guatemala one of the most violent

eruptions of the volcano in decades emergency rescue crews are working to find people who've been trapped in their homes after the volcano spewed rock ash and smoke several kilometers into the air at least one village has been buried by a lava flow and thousands of people have been forced to leave. david reports from guatemala. well rescue operations in what amar had been continuing since first light they were suspended last night because of containing volcanic activity and threat of rain now the skies over guatemala over this part of what all are quite clear right now there's not a lot of smoke coming from the vault and there hasn't been any rain and this is good news for rescuers they're going to be trying to get to the town of a little bit of farming community on the slopes of the above can't go and this is where there are believed to be some people who might still be trapped in houses after a flow of mud mixed together with. the process over their houses of rescuers going

to be trying to get in there up until now that village has been cut off now there are more than three thousand people who've been evacuated from their homes and dozens of people have been injured as well as those killed schools that have been closed in three different departments in those departments are also on red alert at this point in time a major highway that connects the city then to which is the closest enclosed after a lab load of over top of that in a bridge was damaged that we're going to wait to see when that actually reopens but the real focus right now is on trying to find any survivors and trying to recover bodies david rather is of alcohol or just a professor at the open university he says it's not the lava flows that pose the biggest danger. there's a pirate trusting flows of love or is molten rock relatively slow moving lots about erupting in hawaii at the moment what's how what happened at the way you go is an explosive eruption and it was

a fast cascade of fragmented hot rock and gas sweeping down the mountainside the troubles at one hundred kilometers an hour it's very difficult to escape from it it's coming towards you and that seems to be what killed the people in the cases for a go it's basically a particularly active role year and there have been some smaller events. with hindsight people might start to ask why were people not evacuated because people were killed tooling the fields if this is being in indonesia people would perhaps have been evacuated before her seismically it is gone quiet so there's limited information good i can see what's a local knowledge is there are suggesting that the eruption is over at least fifty five people including seven children drowned when two boats carrying migrants and refugees capsized in the mediterranean sea dozens more may be missing a speed boat sank or crossing from turkey to the greek islands on sunday at another

boat capsized off to his ear shot of dallas reports on the safety of land and back where they began after the nine meet a boat sank leaving tennessee at bound for europe snow will exert a citizen the boat had a capacity for seventy five to ninety people maximum but we were between one hundred eighty and one hundred ninety on board. nearly seventy people rescued by the two new zealand coast guard and brought to the city as far as it's unclear exactly how many people are missing for the most deadly ship break in the mediterranean since people are. illiterate it gives it a go ahead a bout of water was coming into the boat those who could escape or fled others drowned we stayed there until almost five am then fisherman came to help us and the coast guard arrived. it was a dark night on the mediterranean some two thousand kilometers away three adults and six children drowned off the coast of turkey the turkish coast guard pulled five people out alive. the toll of dado missing in these waters is up to

six hundred fifty people since january and yet it's a far cry from twenty fifteen when this was the main route to europe more than a million people crossed and there were three times as many deaths most migrants now come through northern africa search and rescue n.g.o.s have diverted to deploy from italy all motor he says the north we are witnessing a decrease in arrivals in recent months the figure of the decrease does not stop us throwing with people who come are in terrible physical and psychological condition . these were the latest arrivals more than one hundred fifty people reach southern sicily on friday we are here and we will perform. as long as we will be able to perform we are performing rescue and we would be performing in the future but this was. the day and sometimes there is good news ten days ago a baby was born on risky ship the aquarius at two point take kilograms she was named

miracle the mother was found stranded off the coast of libya there now insistently . life or death the two outcomes migrants must consider before they board a boat to europe charlotte ballasts. expect to learn a dog will who's director of the media and communication division of the international organization for migration he joins us now via skype from geneva our report that ended along with pictures from sicily italy of course hardening its stance under its new government on migrants that's going to make things a lot worse for people who are trying to cross from north africa isn't it well let's wait and see i think the important things is that isn't. people are being put to sea by smugglers in really precarious conditions as you can see in this boat from chin is here. hugely overcrowded and maybe sixty nine people dead which would be the biggest so far this year so the real issue is the safety of people who are

desperately trying to get another life. the refugees fleeing fleeing violence or being the economic migrants trying to improve their lives something has to be done beyond allowing smugglers to take advantage of it's dangerous an arduous crossing even to go from north africa to to to sicily if they can't go to italy where would these people go well frankly if they don't have you know if they are irregular migrants they're better off not putting themselves at the mercy of people who have no no. interest or desire to see that they get there safely are for making money so they shouldn't be traveling in the first place if there are people who are in need of protection from persecution asylum seekers and that they need to be given a protection as urgently as possible before take going to. because obviously they can lose their lives as we've seen and there's no protection in that. is europe's naval operation obviously. european naval forces is at sea trying to well

a lot of the time it's rescuing these people but is trying to prevent them making the crossing in the first place is it making it more hazardous to cross as people look to stay out of the way of the european they've all forces i don't think is the nails or a but i think it's obviously there's been across the board efforts to prevent or star smugglers taking advantage of people and exploiting them and as they do that the smugglers take the more desperate measures are they trying new markets at the moment the biggest number of people cross into it you know coming from chin is here and that's relatively new and insists the browsing to many people but into the day he will see a better life but whether it's on their smartphone or they hear about it from their friends and they want to try it if they feel stuck but they are among. the best. the deterrent if you like is is to is to prevent people making the crossing in the first place how would would european nations because i assume that the the onus

would fall on them actually do that would be but would it be better for them to have representatives perhaps in north africa registering these people try to find out who's eligible to cross and who isn't before they make the crossing. i think that's already happening but it's a big piece of territory in the lot of sovereign countries there but in certain parts obviously there's an attempt to find out if there are people in need and deserving of asylum and indeed there have been quite a number of been brought to france recently in that way. there are all sorts of efforts being made but the bottom line is that people are leaving whether because they are in dire economic straits or because they just simply want to better life and they feel that their economy isn't doing very well people are tempted to move for all sorts of reasons and under not under knightly the way to improve that is to improve the development improve the participation of the governance in these countries so that people stay and see hope and a future in their own country but it gets tricky thanks to the toilet

a spokesman for the international organization for migration police in france have been clearing two more migrant camps in paris following a similar operation last week hundreds of people have been living in the temporary accommodation on wednesday police moved more than a thousand people from another camp which was underneath the main paris ringrose those who were forced to leave were taken to shelters across the city. you with the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program looking for bodies in the iraqi city of mosul why it's still so dangerous even after the defeat of ice plus where we're actually targeted by a president women fighting for power we look at what's being called a pink wave of candidates for the u.s. midterm elections and in sport gold to stay put on a record breaking performance to take control of the n.b.a. finals that coming up a little later in the program. israel

says it's going to take money from the taxes it collects from palestinians to compensate israelis for fire damage to their land it says the palestinians protesting in gaza carried out arson attacks damaging forests and farming land one hundred twenty one palestinians were killed by israeli soldiers since protests at the border began in late march. smith reports from west to slim. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu wants to make the deductions for damage he says has been caused to agricultural fields and nature reserves and forests by the burning kites that have been floated over from gaza into israeli territory the palestinian authority says to do this would be robbery and a cowardly aggression israel collects sometimes says and revenues on behalf of the palestinian authority and sends them over to the p.a. every month and previously israel has threatened to withhold taxes for actions

taken by the p.a. that israel doesn't approve of there's no indication yet of how much israel is threatening to withhold but the tax off already has previously estimated the damage just to agricultural land has come in at about one half million dollars and it suggests that if you add nature reserves and fields in other areas to that that could increase the cost for. gaza on the brink of a mental health crisis that's the warning from the charity save the children which interviewed one hundred fifty palestinian kids it found two thirds of them experience nightmares isolation or gresham due to the conditions there are a force that reports. in gaza sundown truly is magic hour a time to turn eyes to the horizon and other days hardships fall for a while into the shadows. during ramadan it's also a time to break fast with a simple if tar dinner on the beach but get talking to some of the parents here it

is clear that such moments of meeting everyone worries about what kind of future their children face about what life here is doing to them or when i don't misquote him or her going to how can i meet my children's needs when everything is so expensive and our income so limited was that the future is difficult and even if i can provide my children a good education i can't give them jobs that's the main problem that's whiting for them. hindi has lived all of her eleven years under the israeli blockade a childhood of blighted by three wars with israel during the last in twenty fourteen she became too scared to sleep alone started bedwetting becoming terrified by loud noises the symptoms persisted for years she became withdrawn at school her father's joblessness adding to the stress as sad because of course i will be sad with all these catastrophes especially when my father can't buy me clothes or help me to continue my education i feel sad when there's no food at home and i'm hungry

i feel sad too for my father who is struggling without an income. the last year daughter has been getting treatment so-called resilience training building her confidence her ability to cope with stress new research by the charity save the children suggest such help is needed by hundreds or thousands more children in gaza save the children interviewed one hundred fifty children for their research ninety five percent.