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 . is an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a modern architecture is a sandbox for developers were no fantasies to grandiose. but projects. of sand and huge volumes of sand and construction projects concrete and indeed just making land as have been doing with the with the officially constructed island. landfills or even bigger consumers of sand and concrete. 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 land than to buy it. the self-proclaimed eighth wonder of the world cost over twelve billion dollars and devoured more than one hundred fifty million tons of sand dredge from coastline. with a giant palm still under construction flying high in the seemingly endless supply of money and sand embarked on an even more extravagant project. the world. the world is an island paradise would run 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 islands now parked in the sun awaiting the uncertain day when millionaire buyers will again descend on to buy and restore its glory. for new 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 you'll find of course dubai is on the edge of that there's a they've got older certainly neat 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 desert sand 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 that is more angular you know it's 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 this is selling sand to the arabs which is obviously. that that's actually come true in the case of the by. thirty five hundred australian companies exports into the arabian peninsula their profits of tripled in twenty

years accounting for a five billion dollar jackpot. and australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas and so you see is this he. trade around the world moving from one now is another for different purposes such construction and land reclamation. singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. and 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 forty years and that's largely been reclamation 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 ferocious appetite is targeted its neighbor supplies. one after another cambodia. malaysia and indonesia have beach decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction dissent 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 still to the brim which unload 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. you're going to hear very every day every week.

this what is the visual so awkward. then. you are in. your fourth division. thanks to local trafficking networks singaporean dealers with false identities working for fictional companies continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. but the other company. which is it just it was invisible. but this is the this is. the wall with the tacit support of

the government there most loyal client. the son trades in singapore he's the have a classical it's a massive of ours were concerned it's just a is build it south. in the region in particular the last global sun that's but their companies will brain imports of that country and should be its human rights violations environmental degradation and damage the livelihoods of local people. the effects of underwater dredging are far from benign. much of the ocean floors rocky 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. on the sea floor they will all

be dredged up as well and therefore whatever they think they will just be at 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's fiscal challenges come from attention of the city because many activists we live. we lost fish. livelihood. everything loss of fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of indonesian families but that's only the first of sand dredging to adverse effects. if you have an oil

made of sand it's only there because of conspiracy of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing that. then you've upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will then start to move the rest of the sail. after the extraction of sand a combination of waves currents and gravity slowly fill in the back you. so the removal of underwater sand can have a very noticeable effect on nearby beaches and islands. and so by a combination of a matter of 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 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 donkeys descend on the beaches seven days a week. in search of. sand. the men in 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 went back i wrote back i have i don't want to give you. are you not i not going to dinner i don't know did akin to murder or not 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 at you that you're not going out your head 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. and home lavey 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. 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 and i trim 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 machias 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 here on the beach front were row number two and i thought the fact that these houses won't be here in five here. with both the house about

two years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here. but from here you can see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. because it was up to level with the cement but of course it went out into the ocean. so. the beach area was about the length of a football field and over the last two years the a scar is underneath the houses so. the erosion on this part of the beach is much quicker than we anticipated or that is deemed to normal. globally between seventy five and ninety percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of or a treat and that's only going to get worse. than

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more on that story and our other headlines stories in the news hour that's coming up in twenty five minutes time do join me then sound walls now continues on al-jazeera well coming up later stay with us. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal markets around the world. behind air and water saying it is the most used commodity in the world. where humans have intervened and we've built structures a wall concrete seawall a highway a hotel a parking lot the beach can't move back and we see long term beach lost.

as part of the natural cycle beaches adjust to seasonal changes in summer beaches grow thicker and in winter they recede 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 same symptom is the beaches eroding but what is the problem. what's causing it it's us. we are drawn to coastlines today three quarters of the largest cities in the world population are on the coast as the population growth accelerates. increasing density by twenty twenty five three quarters of the world's inhabitants will live

near the ocean and those ribbons of sand which surround the continents are feeling the pressure. if we think. of the water and i hope that we learn from that but now we hear. 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 to take this they're in killing everything within that sand as ground put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped for the life forms in that part

of the beach aren't prepared to be buried alive and suffocated. it's a killing process for the sake of dollars. replenishment is a temporary remedy after a year to the sand has been washed out to sea and the whole process must be started again from scratch nonetheless this method is highly popular to the delight of the dredging companies it's a matter of big money big big influence green it's not a pleasant thing to see you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so pleasant. in a desperate maneuver to try to trap the sand on the beaches coastal engineers are advocating the construction of dikes 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 dec relation of independence and seven hundred seventy six one a day. eighty thousand dams blocked the rivers of the united states in china where the demand for energy is exploding dams are popping up everywhere so that by two thousand and twenty not a single waterway will reach the sea. and in the rest of the world there are at least eight hundred forty five thousand dams and it's not only water they're holding back so all that sand that should be at the beach is behind the dam. 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 trap river dredger. although it's regulated in many countries it's still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week the 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 after green beeches 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 in all half of manhattan and it's going to this could take our cities as well it's going. keep coming. the sand is our barricade and we have to understand that. in the middle of the indian

ocean sand is a matter of life and death. of 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. sand 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 mall deaves our road at an alarming 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 into the demonic in the home and nobody 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 a clinic i gave at the lodge i didn't have a moment and of money for the last of the night in the den in the coming days and. several hundred islands have already been evacuated and today the refugees crowd on to larger and better protected islands such a small way the capital. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together . but in another better irony of the sand wars new. construction require ever more sand. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last five thousand is 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 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 seeing

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 bait it's the public sector why the law just going to let the fat. how the sand wars even registered on our political leaders radars. access to energy in the developing world on the forestation on climate change on the reform of the opera cultural

common policy on the common fisheries policy on learned ground on not traversal says i don't access to water without burial for you find that you need a program to get a lot was before it's going to get on the agenda. we talk about water because we know there's a major problem with that'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 petitions scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the 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 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 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 when you've killed two birds with one. i think everybody realizes the glass 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 fine pieces that glass can be just like sand got all of the physical

characteristics it says i'm contaminated 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 verse for santa plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods. but what need is 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.

and that does rules that sort of 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 mcginniss well you know sort of general quality often with a great deal more preschool seduces a. lot of them see if they move it says it can become a democracy for them or. us for me and all the while. simplices them also do you know even move. so. 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. the love of. 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. 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.

or even 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 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 sand 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 or we can win the same wars for the good of a song. and in the darkest of times brave men and women stood up. when oppressed they rose. together they forward for greater justice respect and compassion. they had a dream for a better future. today we are at a turning point. the stakes are high climate change inequality. hate speech you may feel overwhelmed but there is hope for. you. we together can create the change we want. by speaking out by

standing up by taking action. be the leader you are looking full stand up for human rights. hello again it's good to have you back well in australia we are going to be seeing a temperature drop here across the southeast much needed because in melbourne temperatures were into the high thirty's just several days ago now with this front pushing through we're going to be dropping down to about normal for this time of year maybe twenty seven degrees but still

a lot of clouds along the coast not towards queensland it is going to be potentially flooding rain here not only for townsville but most of the areas along that coastal sections you can see how that rain really stays there this is the old tropical system the really the remnants of the storm but still brings in very heavy rain across much of the area we are looking at alice springs at a warm hot thirty nine degrees there well across parts of new zealand things will he quite nice for the north island of new zealand where to be seen some clouds down here towards the south island over the next few days and well stocked really looking too bad for auckland twenty one degrees there christ church at twenty and as we go towards the end of the weekend more clouds maybe potentially some more rain down towards christchurch with a temperature they have twenty four degrees and for japan and also the korean peninsula it has been getting colder a lot of cold air coming in from siberia temperatures back across this fraud we're looking at really into the minus double digits for many locations lot of it is going to be a sunny day if you would temperatures of minds ten. a

notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one set for close guantanamo bay and its detainees going nowhere we have identified as a priority is the construction of a nail high value detention center i'm afraid that we're setting the conditions to return back to proxies of brutality and state sponsored torture as we do have done in the past rendition revisited to on al-jazeera. zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up we're

always chief financial officer faces fraud charges allegedly skirting u.s. sanctions against iran. and the now a tape form a news presenter of foreign policy novice is nominated for the role of u.s. ambassador to the united nations. and a great scrum karrenbauer takes the helm of germany's ruling party as angela merkel to eighteen years. and it's fronts braces for mass we can protest police are accused of using a heavy hand in their treatment of a group of protesters. and on people stranded in denver with all the day schools including italian champions you are into the second half of a clash with fields rivals. all of the latest from best later in the program.

welcome to the program al top story a top executive of one of china's most powerful companies is facing fraud charges in the u.s. allegedly for violating sanctions against iran when joe who is the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant huawei has appeared in court in canada after being arrested in vancouver last week long is also the daughter of the company's founder china has demanded her immediate release all why is the planet's second largest maker of smartphones it's also partnered with almost eighty percent of the world's telecom companies but it's been paid by control the u.s. is accused of working with the chinese government to spy on americans. citizens as well as violating sanctions imposed against iran while way has even sparked fears about phone security and it's at the causing edge of the next generation of mobile networks called five g. the u.s. u.k.

new zealand and australia have i the blocked part or all of the company's five g. operations because of security concerns. well we can now speak to patty call her and she is following the story from washington and in the last few minutes we've been hearing from. joe's lawyer who says that is that the charges against her not clear. you know this whole case has been very sickly shrouded in mystery don't forget she was arrested on saturday in vancouver she was switching planes we believe she was headed to mexico when she was picked up by canadian authorities and we knew really nothing about her case no one in the u.s. was talking about what she would get it was potentially going to be charged with well she had a bell here and basically trying to find out if she could be free until she faces a further criminal proceedings and so some of the information came out and basically what the u.s. government is going to allege is that her company while way was directly tied to

another company called sky com and sky com was taking us made tech to technological goods and selling them secretly to iran in violation of a rainy and sanctions i can tell you news of the arrest world the financial markets and that continues with the news of what she could potentially be charged with and the impact that could have on the potential trade war that's going on between the u.s. and china just to you know look at the dow jones industrial average snapshot of how the stock market is doing it is down another five hundred fifty nine points at this moment this is three now huge slides basically wiping out all the stock market gains for all of twenty eighteen so this news the trade war with china is not helping the economic picture in the united states or in china president donald trump trying to send out messages that everything's going well he's sending tweets that their talks are going well apparently not well enough for the stock market at least as of right now that's right as you say patty there have been declines in the

stock market clearly vera fears of what this could mean for the u.s. china trading relationship which had already seen a great deal of tension what is the feeling in washington all that serious concerns in congress and elsewhere this could really do any hope of resolving the dispute between the two don't just economies. well actually when you hear from the few members of congress referred from on this they all thank you canada for arresting her and say that this is a smart move that this needs to go forward others will stress that the justice department acts independently from the political apparatus although i think the timing of it the fact that she was arrested on the same day that president trump and president of china were meeting to talk about the trade deal that might not sit well with the chinese who will think this timing is very suspicious but there are members of congress who think that the president has simply gone too far he's using this national security exemption to launch all these tariffs and there are members

of congress who say he can't do that he's gone too far now what we've seen in his first two years of his presidency is his own political party was in charge of the house and the senate and they've been unwilling to check him on pretty much anything that changes in january so democrats might have more of an appetite to take him on tariffs and republicans might jump on board if we continue to see worrying signs that the u.s. economy is headed towards your session all right thank you very much patty call him with the latest on that story from washington meanwhile u.s. president all trampas nominated heaven now it to be the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations she's currently the spokeswoman for the u.s. state department if approved by the senate now it will replace nikki haley it leaves the u.n. at the end of the month roslyn jordan reports from washington. good afternoon it's been rumored for weeks that state department spokesperson heather now it would be named the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations on friday the u.s.

president confirmed the speculation. are. now or. never. nauert had no foreign policy experience before she joined the state department in early two thousand and seventeen she was a t.v. news presenter and correspondent most notably at the conservative fox news channel that background made it easy for critics to pelt after podium gaps such as this one looking back in the history books today is the seventy first anniversary of the speech that now announced the marshall plan tomorrow is the anniversary of the d.-day invasion we obviously have a very long history with the government of germany and we have a strong relationship with the government already some senators and foreign policy experts are calling nauert supremely unqualified for the job it which detail nuance

and contacts are key to negotiating matters of global security and stability but not so says the israeli ambassador to the un danny de known quote miss nauert has stood by the state of israel in her previous positions and i have no doubt that the cooperation between our two countries will continue to strengthen as she becomes ambassador to the u.n. and quote if confirmed by the senate now word would replace nikki haley the former state governor who was also a foreign policy novice spent her tenure pushing trump's america first policy demanding institutional reforms at the u.n. and defend a human rights haley also had something important to lean on trump's confidence in her she made that clear when she announced her resignation in october. no i'm not running for two hundred twenty and i can promise you when i'll be doing is campaigning and that's when heather downwards confirmation hearing will happen early in the new year like nikki haley before her she has the president's strong

endorsement but now it's going to need much more than that to persuade senators that she's the right person to represent and to defend the u.s. has interests at the united nations rosalynn jordan al-jazeera capitol hill. well now top democrats in the u.s. congress of caution of a president trumps pick for attorney general now and see fellow she says the nomination of william is deep truth concerning he will replace jeff sessions who was fired in november and likely take charge of the investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election senator chuck schumer warns bomb must allow the probe to continue unimpeded and make the findings available to the public will she joins us live now from washington and tell us more about the concerns over william baas nomination as attorney general. i mean he's a pretty establishment figure pretty establishment republican when he last held the

position of attorney general under george h.w. bush he was unanimously unanimously voted for positively by the senate judiciary committee fourteen to one which is then controlled by the democrats joe biden famously spoke very a few civil you with praise about him even though. it was against the woman's right to choose an abortion another skeleton joe biden's clothes if he wants to run for president but that's another story so he does have a good case especially given the democrats who voted for him to be attorney general before the democrats they're all worried about what he said about the more investigation up to this point he has criticized the investigation for having lots of people who paid donations to the democratic party on his team much as donald trump is criticize them he's also said that donald trump was it is right to fire james komi the head of the former head of the f.b.i. even though some think that was a sign of obstruction of justice so these are sort of concerns that some democrats voicing not least also that he he has in the past said that there should be an investigation of the clinton foundation which has long been accused of having

a pay for play scheme for policy for in return for donations and dollars from famously always as if that's what the attorney general and the justice department should be looking at instead of russia so these are some of the concerns but there is a sense that if you give some kind of assurance that he would impede the investigation you know he might be a shoe in might say a big announcement from the trump ministration on stuffing changes. also he's been awaiting some possibly crucial developments and the russia investigation any any white on that. not yet it's been a long day of suspense and in the end we don't even sure how much we will get that isn't redacted that's publicly released but there are two two memos that we're expecting to find memos that are expected to be filed by now in fact now is the deadline one on michael cohen donald trump's longtime fixer who's pled guilty to campaign finance relation by elections in relation to his payment of hush money to

those who had affairs with donald trump while donald while drunk trump was running for president they were going to come come out with this information as contributions which might which are in violation of campaign finance violations and secondly we had him admitting last week that he lied about the time frame of a failed deal that donald trump was trying to make to get his name on the side of a tall building somewhere in russia or not going back so. what we're going to hear today from prosecutors is how much jail time they think he should get which might be a sign of how much prosecution he's been giving prosecutors so that's one interesting sign about what might be ahead for donald trump but in the end it still is still going be very speculative secondly pomona for he had a plea deal with robert mueller the special counsel robert mueller says he's been lying to him repeatedly so the plea deal is off now what robert mueller is going to give a court today is the reasons why he.