as an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a mecca of modern architecture is a sandbox for developers were no fantasies too grandiose. but as projects. of sand using huge volumes of sand and construction projects concrete and indeed just making more land as has been doing with the with the artificially constructed island. landfills or even bigger consumers of sand the concrete. with a booming economy the emirate launched in business expansion project. after the year two thousand with the price of real estate soaring as a result of speculation developers bet that it would be cheaper to make land than

to buy it. the self-proclaimed eighth wonder of the world cost over twelve billion dollars and about more than one hundred fifty million tons of sand dredged from the coastline. with the giant palm still under construction flying high in the seemingly endless supply of money and sand embarked on an even more extravagant project the world. the world is an island paradise would run for president had opportunity can be found. 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 that your nation. 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 the desert they've got old asylum they need like all the gulf states dubai has sand everywhere so why doesn't the emirates simply help itself to the desert desert sand is the wrong color end of sand for building a lot of fishel islands why because deserts and all the grains have been blown around by the wind and 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 is more angular rough a rougher age sand 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 it's just selling sand to the arabs which is obviously a joke but it seems that that's actually come true in the case of the by. thirty five hundred australian companies exports into the arabian peninsula their profits have tripled in twenty years accounting for a five billion dollar jackpot. and australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas and so what you see

is this huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes such construction and land reclamation. singapore is another city at the heart of the said 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 its were lying on the import of sand for its very existence and the land masses literally increased twenty percent over the last foresee it is and that's largely been reclamation so literally pouring sand 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

ferocious appetite has targeted its neighbor supplies. one after another cambodia the. asia 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 from neighboring states. suspicions of central african hangover singapore and the dozens of barges told in the broome which imo daily and it's important prove that the city state has found an alternative source but where does the saying come from. coming here. are. you going to your very every day every week.

this is what is driving the vision down from what. you saw in. your individual. to. your fourth division job or yours or your. friends to local traffic in networks singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional companies continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. but the other company her. sixty trust. is it just the little business of putting this is that this case. is your. fifth floor of the law with the tacit support of the government there most loyal client. the son trade in singapore is that he usually have a place of cause a massive crissy as far as we're concerned it's just a is bill the south as you know viral mansel leader in the region in particular the

last global sun that's but their companies will bring. that and should be it's a human rights violation is environmental degradation. has the local people. the effects of underwater dredging are far from benign. 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 of the the any walls and. 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 is threatened. like many archipelagos many of indonesia's islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. ninety two percent in the nation. down from the city because. we believe 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 haven't made of sand it's only the because of could spirit of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing the. then you've upset the

balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will learn to move the rest of the set. 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 the match will prove this is and human excavation the island literally disappear. one of the most stunning and packs of the trade was the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we use that sand. once an island disappears the international maritime boundary changes all is

required to these become geopolitical issues as well as simply commercial and resource issues. twenty five indonesian islands have already disappeared. like coal and gas sand is now on the frontline of the world's hunger for raw materials. scarcity and dangers local communities and sets governments against each other. as demand builds the circle only becomes more vicious. morocco's gentle climate has been welcoming tourists for years. but its famous beaches have also been attracting some strange four legged visitors a constant stream of men and doggies descend on the beaches seven days a week. in search of. sand.

the men on the donkeys have taken so much sand that some beaches now look like the surface of the moon. rock has been experiencing a construction boom spurred on by a competitive real estate market. the builders are happy but they need plenty of sand legal and otherwise. that. i wrote that i have i don't want to give you. are you not i not going to bend an addendum going to not wonder how you could have been acquitted oh well coming up to you had no love no my love my double got nothing. 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 really do with their day but didn't come but you're mad you're not going out you're right not them

have them come we did a little bit about good at 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. with 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 bottle fed the administration and the police. under the eyes of corrupt authorities the sand ply their trade in broad daylight and more than eight thousand dredging sites scattered across the coast and river banks of the subcontinent. for the mafia's beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arm's reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun.

the 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. i think about a house of from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses there on the water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with their on the the 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 a scar is underneath the houses so. the erosion on this part of the beach is much quicker than we anticipated or that is deemed to normal. globally seventy five and ninety percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of retreat and that's only going to get worse. on packet for us what were you hearing what were you seeing whether on line horrendous things humans. or if you join us on the set of the major countries in the commonwealth how far bigger fish to fry and chips to eat this is

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it can really it can really lead to a lot of heat blisters and things like that so they've got these hot conditions we're down near the coast of guatemala or in the tropics of course there's the sun and the general heat they're having to contend with and then there are these other explosions so you know you just start getting work working on getting a house dug out and then suddenly you hear what so and you have to run out and hop in a car and drive down to the highway so that's certainly hampering issues. israel's prime minister says iran's announcement that its increasing its capacity to enrich uranium proves the nuclear agreement has done nothing to change its behavior and he believes economic sanctions will eventually collapse the deal is on a tour of europe trying to convince the uses that to drop the support for the deal . argentina has canceled the upcoming friendly against israel ahead of this month's football world cup on sunday the head of the palestinian football association called on all arab fans to burn posters and t. shirts of argentinean strike a little messy if he took part in the game

a match in west jerusalem is to be argentina's final game before the start of their campaign in russia mexico imposes twenty five percent tariffs on u.s. steel cultural goods is in response to donald trump decision to levy taxes on still an element of imports from the country and government has also filed a complaint with the world trade organization last week the trumpet ministration levied stringent judi's on imports from canada mexico and the u. the alliance of the anti establishment five star movement and the right wing lipase in his one a confidence vote in the upper chamber of parliament the government led by giuseppe contest was sworn in on friday follows three months of political turmoil. and at least eleven people in china died in an explosion at a mine several people injured at the site in the north eastern city of ben c. . those are your headlines are back with another full bulletin here on al-jazeera

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the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world. behind air and water 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 the seasonal changes in summer beaches grow thicker and in winter they recede to level off to better absorb the energy of

the waves to survive the ocean salt beaches must have enough space behind them but we've built too close to the shore so with nowhere to go beaches are overcome by the waves which carry their sand out to sea. if you have an eroding beach what is the problem. not the symptom the simple 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 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 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 for the life forms in that part of the beach aren't prepared to be buried alive and suffocate it it's a killing process for the sake of dollars. peter planet is a temporary remedy after

a year to the sand has been washed out to sea and the whole process must be started again from scratch nonetheless this method is highly popular to the delight of the dredging companies it's a matter of big money big big influence green it's not a pleasant thing 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 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 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 dec relation of

independence and seven hundred seventy six one a day. eighty thousand dams block the rivers of the united states in china where the demand for energy is exploding dams are popping up everywhere so that by two thousand and twenty not a single waterway will reach the sea. and in the rest of the world there are at least eight hundred forty five thousand dams and it's not only water they're holding back so all that sand that should be at the beach is behind the dance. one quarter of the sand reserves of the planet are hostile to these dams and the sand that makes it beyond the dams will run into another trapped river dredger.

although it's regulated in many countries it's still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week the result about fifty percent of 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 precious commodity in the maldives 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 mall deaves our road at a melbourne rate 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 and have a demonic in the house i'm in nevada did it come up was done day with the law one nun a difficulty down the dictaphone line number tunnel vision i got in riyadh only make

a name on it when a gate at the lodge i didn't have him up in an event of money but unless the united made any to come of them put 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 require ever more sand. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand in the have it written history that goes but. you can't just. far from the mel deaves beautiful threatened beaches. greed and speculation drive the global markets for sand and show no signs of

slowing down. bombay is not an isolated case there's never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. one third of urban populations now live in slums 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 in the developing of the former stage on climate change on the reform of the applicant for common policy on the common fisheries policy on land grab on not traversal seas and on access to water without cohere burial for you find that you need a problem to get a lot was before it's going to get on the agenda. but don't let the water because

we know there's a major problem is that right now europe. and we have had the debates in that we've had the policy we're implementing for the city 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 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 burnt after the crop is done you could build straw bale houses which use no cement. except

maybe the slab on the floor but and there earthquake proof those houses are perfectly insulated and they're fireproof. you don't have to build concrete buildings you see this building right here this building was built with ninety five percent recycled materials all the steelers recycled it's made from. japanese cars you know it's all recycled steel and when this building is finished it can melt this steel down to make more buildings. there's so many materials which can be recycled i think we need to exhaust those and in the meantime maybe the word 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 what nature has done a glass beach has inspired people to attempt a similar trick thousands of kilometers away in florida. which is something that has to be disposed of and takes landfill space or something like that into an asset then you kill two birds with one. i think everybody realized that bias is made out of saying that if people start scratching their heads and say well maybe that's a good use of it to return it to science. glass bottles and packaging are everywhere they're usually collected and recycled into new containers but when it's crushed into find pieces that glass can be just like sand got all because of characteristics it says i'm contaminating 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. but compared to natural sand this sand is still too expensive. when sun begins to cost high maybe. the sources can't compete with it though attentive can compete with that right now there is no competition you cannot compete that's something that is going to take the a truck bottom. pricing. as sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle 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 impact.

going from you know me doing this well you know so i get on quite often with a great deal more preschool seduces level of a. lot of them see if they move it says. yes for me and all the while. simplices i'm also doing no even move. he. is going to do for some something. done. in. a suit st. exasperate of the brittany fisherman has shaken up both the elected officials and the citizens inspiring them to mobilize against the seizure of their sand with

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.

this is the sand for useful construction this sand has been taken from. from the beaches so it is much as their take these sand the soil it ocean bilby 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 a point is the gravity of the issue in but is happening to the planet and this cute we must save the beaches. given the scale on which society is built would say i mean sand is a little more respect. whether it's more freeways whether it's more

dams we've got to get away from these gigantic. and get back to a simpler way of living. they've been tremendous environmental victories at the beach itself it's been to fight for itself. maybe needs us to fight for. the fate of the world's beaches is not cast in concrete perhaps the day will come when we'll see said with fresh eyes conscious of how every grain plays a role in the health of our planet and in our lives. then by working with nature instead of against her we can win the same wars for the good of a song. welcome

back we'll look at the levant and western parts of asia first of all this time and weather conditions the most part fine tashkent there and spec is down thirty five degrees funk additions for back on the shores of the caspian sea tehran should be sunny baghdad should be blisteringly hot on the eastern side of the mediterranean we still have a few showers around in parts of turkey but otherwise not looking too bad and it's looking pretty warm there for beirut in lebanon the highs of twenty nine through into thursday not a great deal of change expected some share it to fifty possible across the caucasus so let's head down into the arabian peninsula it has been very warm and very humid here in recent days there's a bit more in the way of breeze picking up over the next few days but that's not going to stop the temperatures rising and so forecasts are we could see a high of forty five or forty six degrees on thursday i think about stay still a fairly high level of humidity although the breeze will then pick up in the

humidity should hopefully drop a little bit on the other side of the plane ship pretty hot much as you'd expect forty five degrees the nice and in medina down into southern portions of africa we've got a fair amount of cloud across parts of south africa through into mozambique and possibly developing tropical system to the south of madagascar certainly some heavy rain is light across southern areas but it should be dry in montana. ard.

every. at least two hundred people are missing and more than seventy two killed in guatemala following the eruption of volcano. there are more of this is a live from doha also coming up. in a consul's a friendly football match with israel over its treatment of palestinians. thousands

of workers rescued after an explosion as a mine in northeast china at least eleven people. of war and peace a global ranking series deterioration in one stable regions. the worst may not yet be over in guatemala new evacuations have been ordered why go volcano has been spewing lava at least seventy two people have died and hundreds of missing following sunday's eruption i ask is it means testing through hot ash and such of survivors host many have chosen to flee and top villages have been destroyed. many people have left my neighborhood everything is fine and shops are closed to close there's no bakery bread the closed. well rescue efforts have been still juice the recent volcanic activity at least two hundred people missing more

than one point seven million people have been affected by sunday's or ups and as the efforts continue here. we were working on the search localization and recovery of the deceased here in the san diego area when we suddenly heard the alarm by the commander telling us to evacuate so we all headed to the highway where we gathered now. lost five members of my family five of them and i haven't found them. i don't sell it but my brothers managed to get out but they lost everything my brothers were never told anything when they fell to the lot of from the volcano was less than four meters away. david. in guatemala close to the volcano. the ash is still incredibly hot the ash i mean there's a couple of metres of ash that have covered this entire town and it's very hot you feel it coming up through the soles of your feet if you don't have proper boots on it can really it can really lead to a lot of heat blisters and things like that so they've got these hot conditions

we're down near the coast of guatemala run the tropics of course there's the sun and the general heat they're having to contend with and then there are these other explosions so you know you just start getting work working on getting a house dog out and suddenly you hear a whistle and you have to run out and hop in a car and drive down to the highway so that's certainly hampering issues and then the other thing i'll just mention quickly i don't know if you can see the flashes of lightning around me at all or you can hear the thunder we're in rainy season here and flash floods are common at this time of the year and so with the heavy rain comes down and enters into some of these valleys up on the volcano that can lead to massive mudslides or could really further volcanic the burial so lots of different risks and lots of different dangerous weather emergency workers challenges for them in the coming days and coming weeks. argentinian football team have canceled their world cup warm up match against israel and pressure from pro palestinian groups and in football association urge the team to skip the months

because of recent unrest in gaza israeli forces have killed at least one hundred twenty one palestinians protesting at the gaza israel border since late lunch levels as a single dumbfounds to burn prices and the argentinean strike a little messy if he took part in the game. joins us now live from west jerusalem so ben is how big a deal is this and how angry is israel. well the match itself was being look forward to here in israel mainly because leon leslie was thought to be playing with the argentinean side lots of israel is a big football fans like everybody else in the world so for that for the spectacle of the friendly game to be played between israel and argentina everybody was looking forward to it so the israeli sports minister is very angry that it's been counseled he said it's nonsense it legitimizes terror and the b.d.s. campaign the b.d.s. the boycott divestment and sanctions campaign that is run by the palestinians the

problem for the israelis is this or the issue is this originally this game was going to be played in haifa a northern port city in israel and the israeli government paid for it to be moved to jerusalem now how to count gone on and been played in it probably would have caused less fuss yes the b.d.'s camp campaign would still have wanted it to be canceled but because it moved to jerusalem at this very sensitive time and because it was slated and run in the argentinean media as a game to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the creation of israel the palestinians got momentum behind them to put pressure on the argentinians to cancel the game or a small victory then for the palestinians they were going to be hearing from them later on. yeah this is a. significant victory i would say for the palestinians because this b.d.s. campaign tries to put pressure on cultural events on sporting events to remind

israelis ordinary israelis all of israel's policy towards the occupied territories palestinians will say most israelis don't pay any attention to what's going on in the palestinian territories so by these sort of campaigns they highlight toward israelis what's going on i mean there are other events coming up in the next couple of months the da mclane aha ringo starr. all these musicians in concert but they generally stick to tel aviv and although b.d.s. campaigns would look them love them to council as well it generally doesn't happen so for this sporting event to be counsel is a significant event significant victory for the b.d.s. campaign or ok thanks very much terry is there from western islam. well israel's prime minister is touring europe to try to come as leaders to join the u.s. and pull out of the iran nuclear deal and unless now his travels into germany france and the u.k.

with iran's announcement that is increasing its capacity to enrich uranium in case the landmark deal collapses i reports from paris it's in yahoo i arrived at the least say for talks with a man who will not call just a few hours after iran had announced it was increasing its uranium enrichment capacity the israeli prime minister said the move was proof that tehran wants nuclear weapons netanyahu is in europe to urge either leaders to stop supporting the twenty fifty iran nuclear deal in a in a cooler that he is convinced will collapse i didn't ask france to withdraw from the jews who believe because i think the jews who is basically going to. be dissolved. by the way the economic forces but i think that there are two possibilities either iran dismantles its nuclear activities unilaterally under this pressure or there may be in the future negotiations for better. a better deal

the french president said the iran nuclear deal wasn't perfect but should remain the basis for a wider agreement if you don't because it is a need if we think it's not enough it's a useful building block better than what we have a full of the best things to keep it because as we say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush with you so i agree with you c.p.o. isn't enough but it's better than what we had before. iran says it's boosting its uranium enrichment in case the twenty fifteen deal collapses or head of iran's atomic agency said it informed the united nations that book had begun a home court rule of austerity right now ideological infrastructure and utilities and the towns are ready for hundreds of thousands of asked w. years. the deal limited iran's nuclear activities in return for lifting sanctions united since the u.s. withdrawal last month european leaders have been trying to salvage it and find ways

to block looming u.s. sanctions european leaders all struggling to save the iran deal and some analysts say the tehran's decision to increase the pressure on the merrill may only make it harder iranian officials are not seeing much rush in the. decision making process that's what they want to keep all options available and at strategic levels that means also a threat to the europeans not to you know it would be iran not to joke with iran the french president has called for a deescalation of tensions on all sides but unless european leaders come up with a plan to save the deal soon and keep u.s. sanctions a baby iran's patients with his allies may soon run out and sasha bottler al jazeera paris. in china an explosion in the mine has left at least eleven people dead in the northeastern city of ben c. rescuers managed to pull out more than twenty workers trapped underground for hours louis has more from the aging we're still not entirely sure how the accident

happened what we do know is a truck carrying explosives blew up near the entrance to the mine workers were drilling a shaft when the accident happened which caused the collapse of the entrance to the mine trapping about twenty five people inside now emergency workers were at the scene on tuesday after the blast occurred and have since managed to rescue at least eighteen workers china does not have a very good track record when it comes to industrial sites now last year in may eighteen people were killed in a gas leak in a mine in central hunan province and just two months before that seventeen workers were killed when a lift fell down a shaft inhaling jungle province the chinese government has said it wants to improve safety standards in the past two years it has closed at least twenty smaller and unlicensed mines and what we can normally and what we do normally see

after industrial accidents especially when there has been a high casualty number is top management may be sacked there may even be criminal charges filed what's less transparent however is what exactly authorities are doing to improve safety standards we don't know how strictly the standards are enforced and we don't know what sort of checks are being done to make sure that the standards are being complied with. the south korean president says he wants to ramp up efforts to recover the remains of those killed in the korean war in his world a speech. to the importance of finding soldiers buried. in the divides the two koreas. between. april the two sides have been working on a peace agreement that could replace the on that end of the three a conflict in one thousand fifty three with no treaty and place and seoul is still officially in a state of war. i'm going to doctors and if you know korean relations improve i will prioritize the work of discovering the remains that buried in the

demilitarized zone will be able to recover the remains of fallen war heroes including american soldiers still ahead on al-jazeera protests continue in jordan despite the king's efforts to end the unrest. and abide by a bikini and miss america competition has a rustic make over. hello and welcome to international weather forecast we still have very warm air across central and southern parts of europe but is where we also like to see the severest of the thunderstorms of the next twenty four to forty eight hours for northern parts of europe russia quite chilly at the moment just twelve or so much in moscow the some snow in northern parts of suite.