as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. is an astonishing example of this. within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a modern architecture. to grandiose. projects. of sand and huge volumes of sand and construction projects concrete and just making more land has been doing with the with the official constructed islands. or even bigger consumers of sand. with a booming economy the emirate launched in business expansion project. after

the year 2000 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 8th wonder of the world cost over $12000000000.00 and devoured more than $150000000.00 tons of sand dredge from dubai's coastline. with the giant palm still under construction to by 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 $300.00 islands designed as a map of the world absorbed $14000000000.00 and $3.00 times as much sand as the palm. the. place to magination.

today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. 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 to buy as 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 is typically very round and very smooth if you want to use it to build an island they don't stick together you need sand that that is more angular

rougher rougher age say that naturally sticks together. see sand is perfect for island building and construction but it's in limited supply sand is not a sustainable resource. although its own stocks are exhausted dubai is far from given up. the burj khalifa at the time of construction the world's tallest building was built with sand from half a world away. we have a saying in english which is selling sand to the arabs which is obviously a joke. that that's actually come true in the case of the by. $3500.00 australian companies exports into the arabian peninsula their profits of tripled in 20 years accounting for a $5000000000.00 jackpot. and australia is just one small part of

a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas you see is this huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes such construction and land reclamation. singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. and 30 years the country known as the switzerland of asia has become one of the richest in the region during this time the population has more than doubled and the 63 islands that make up the city state are bursting at the seams singapore its were lying on the imports. saddened for its very existence and the land mass is literally increased 20 percent over the last foresee it is and that's largely been recognition so literally pouring sound into the sea to create new land. singapore is already transformed 130 square kilometers of water into land and is planning to add another 100 square kilometers by 2030. having devoured all

its own reserves its for ratios appetite is targeted at its neighbor supplies. one after another cambodia. malaysia and indonesia have each decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction to sand is not easy to restrain. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins from neighboring states. suspicions of sand trafficking hang over singapore and the dozens of barges filled to the brim which imo daily and it's important prove that the city state has found an alternative source but where does the saying come from. tommy guns beer. guns. you come here every day every week.

this is what is driving the visuals of. what it. is like that in. your individual. your 4th division nobody or 3 of us in a couple of. things to local traffic and networks singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional companies continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. but the other come. but in the legal system. which i think is it just it was a business of great state but this is not this place. to take you. to flaunt the law with the tacit support of the government there most loyal client. the son trade in singapore is he usually have a political as

a massive the backcrosses far as we're concerned it's just a is building. leader in the region particularly with the last global sun that is 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 or covered with only a thin layer of sand. built up over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. as you dredge up a set. of course all the the any walls and plans on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever living communities are they will just

be the sand is the primary link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest just threatened. like many archipelagos many of indonesia's islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. 92 percent in the nation's fiscal challenges come from tension of the city because of mining activity is when this coral reef we lost fish. livelihood. everything loss of fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of indonesian families but that's only the 1st of sand dredging to adverse effects. if you have an oil made of sand it's only there because of could spirit sea of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing that. then you've

upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will learn start to move the rest of the 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 natural growth this is and human excavation the island can literally disappear. one of the most stunning and pax 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. 25 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 4 legged visitors a constant stream of men and donkeys descend on the beaches 7 days a week. in search of. sand.

for 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 going to bend and addenda going to not c want to hire you have enough to know what kind of what do you know did not know much love my job and 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 cigars right with their

day but they didn't come but you know you're not going out you're right not them have them come we don't know what i'm going to get we're great a video i like them i like that lap it's estimated that 40 to 45 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 a.v. enjoy. the position of being the financial capital of the country andrea also have a huge housing boom construction boom that's because of the influx of so many new people into the city. but the indian economy booming construction has to keep pace and like in so many other battlegrounds of the sand wars easy profits lead to corrupt practices. the value of sand is such that it's a commercial commodity that is smuggled i mean the it's a big business is smuggling the fam. sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. a lot of the people in the whole. who

control of the sand mafia oso 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 arts ply their trade in broad daylight and more than $8000.00 drugs inside scattered across the coast and river banks of the subcontinent. for the mafia's beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arm's reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect

to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. the tentacles of the mafia's however are just adding to the pressures facing the world speeches. just 2 years ago there was a row of houses here. about i think about a house though from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses there on the water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with their on the wii front we're row number 2 and i have the fact that the house we won't be here and 5 here. we thought the house about 2 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 2 years the scart mint 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 75 and 90 percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of retreat and that's only going to get worse. to strengthen the group you have to show do good all the more with your gums to

fight against corruption. you cierra which heroes like know who are about to be refused a $15000000.00 brian the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the international ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to fight a dark used to shine the light let's make a router bit to please nominate your anti corruption hero. biological and chemical agents are pretty weaponized throughout history war for the 1st bird its head with me and started fighting developed by nation states there could be enough to be fixed every child. now within reach of those seeking. the most toxic. absolutely we believe. in physical threat

on al-jazeera as world leaders gather in new york u.n. secretary general until you get to the colder climate action summit to sound good. but will countries heed the warning and deliver concrete plans to reduce emissions to avoid a climate catastrophe. get the updates as they come on al-jazeera. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london with a quick look at headlines yemen's who see rebels say they will stop targeting saudi arabia with drones and other weapons in a statement. the head of the political office says the group expects the saudis to also stop targeting yemeni territory and they reserve the right to respond if riyadh continues to target them. we will

cease to target saudi arabian territory with military drones ballistic missiles and all other forms of weapons and we wait for a reciprocal move from them or even better for them to clear that all kinds of attacks including a real bombardment will cease we reserve the right to respond if they fail to reciprocate positively to this initiative but the continuation of this war will not benefit any side on the contrary it could lead to dangerous developments which we do not wish to take place we say this knowing that the ones who would suffer more are the enemy nations. new pictures show the extensive damage caused by drone attacks on one of 2 saudi arabian oil facilities last week is the world's largest oil processing facility in the attack knocked out half of saudi arabia's output yemen's heathy rebels say they were behind the 2 drunk strikes but the u.s. and saudi are blaming iran meanwhile the u.s. is now it's new sanctions on iran that now include the country's central bank the

president donald trump said he prefers financial sanctions as opposed to the use of military action in order to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. really ends of people from around the world of taken part in a global climate strike demanding governments do more to curb emissions or the damage to the planet is irreversible from australia to the united states europe to africa and asia students and workers took the day off to illustrate the seriousness of the crisis and its impact on future generations. and thousands of algerians over telling to the streets of the capital algiers for the 1st week in a row to demand political change this despite a crackdown by the military chief gates who had ordered security services to block people from entering the capital or testers are calling for

a complete overhaul of the ruling elite i'll have more on that story in the news hour and now. let's. see. live. live. live live. live live. live. live. live.

live live in. the world that 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 to seasonal changes and summer beaches

grow thicker and in winter they receive a 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 that it's us. we are drawn to coastlines today 3 quarters of the largest cities in the world population are on the coast as the population growth accelerates the world's. increasing density by 20253 quarters of the world to live near the ocean and those ribbons of sand which surround the continents are feeling the pressure.

to the water and i hope that we learn from that but now we're here. and we have to figure out how to make projects. and that's what brings tourists. in florida 9 out of 10 beaches are in the process of disappearing along with the future livelihood of all those who depend on this economic engine. each year of the planet's tourists head for the beach beaches feed the hotel industry as well as recreation transportation food services and a multitude of other sectors in some areas almost half the g.d.p. depends directly on beaches. letting them disappear is out of the question. so what we're trying to do is try to mitigate those problems try to lessen the

impact and that's why we have to take these unnatural acts. to the beaches. to keep their beaches viable cities that can afford to invest. in beach replenishment there. floor and to the beach. some people see this is a solution others see it as a band-aid which only true. 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 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 break waters and all sorts of other structures . but sand cannot be so easily tamed. the constant movement of sand is not necessarily always cooperating with the way we want the place to be it will fill up harbors 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 90 percent of the world sea 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 7761 a day. 80000 dams blocked the rivers of the united states and china where the demand for energy is exploding dams are popping up everywhere so that by 2020 not a single waterway will reach the sea. and in the rest of the world there are at least 845000 dams and it's not only water they're holding back so all that sand that should be at the beach is behind the dance. one quarter of the sand reserves of the planet are hostage to these dams and the sand that makes it beyond the dams will run into another trapped river dredger.

although it's regulated in many countries it's still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week the result about 50 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. is coming. to you.

on the. green after green beeches slowly erode victims of decades of human interference. if you add the rise in level b. or sure 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 you know 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. sand is a very ambitious commodity and the moment it's because this one millimeter of the ocean touching you constantly every minute every 2nd every day every year is such a false and it is eat the fish or you don't deny. the mold deaves are rhodium at an alarming rate residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more than memories. really not god and i'd get all of them are sick in a demonic in the home in a body did it come up was how to undo what the law gave the one nun

a difficulty down the dictaphone line number mcdonnell building i got in riyadh only make a name on a slip of the highgate at the lodge i didn't have a month in and it will make on the money keyboard unless the unite in the going to become of them folded in. several 100 islands have already been evacuated and today the refugees crowd on to larger and better protected islands such as small as the capital. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together. but in another better irony of the sand wars new. construction requires ever more sand. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 we have written history that goes but. we can't just. far from the mild deaves beautiful threatened beaches. greed and speculation drive

the global markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. bombay is not an isolated case there's never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. one 3rd of urban populations now live in slums while go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. in china 65000000 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 30 percent of the homes constructed since 1906 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 90 percent of the apartments in the burj khalifa are bacon. but sadly real estate speculation doesn't hold the monopoly on the wasting of sand governments are also to blame. i would construction uses inexpensive see said the strips of asphalt we've built snaking around the world have swallowed up massive amounts of the world's beaches. think about the number of roads that governments across the way have to beat it's the public sector why the largest can do most of sad. how the sand wars even registered on our political leaders radars. access to energy and the development of the forestay on climate change on the reform of the opera cultural common policy on the cullen fisheries policy on land on not traversal seas and on 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 is that right now in europe and we have had the debates and that we've had the policy we're implementing a policy and soil we're still having a debate. on science. we're not having the debates. it's fair 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 they're earthquake proof those houses are perfectly insulated and they're fireproof. you don't have to build concrete buildings you see this building right here this building was built with 95 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 35 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 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've killed 2 birds with one. i think everybody realizes that bias 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 in recycled into new containers but when it's crushed into find pieces that glass can be just like sand got all because of all characteristics it's uncontaminated and 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. other 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 need an issue does. it doesn't matter. so i'll go so this is a. look at all the thoughts of 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. just for me and. sit close is i'm also doing no evil move. so. blue book is going to do for sub sub. sub. into the only assume it will be 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 religious. world. perhaps grassroots movements such as this will mobilize other groups around the world to stop the sand wars. once people know once people understand what the issue is and how important it is whether it's each grain of sand on that beach or the importance of that beach in their community to their lives and their community i think there's hope.

so you see 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 soviet ocean to be more and this will have a very seat is in fact on the island. 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 and i mean cern deserves

a little more respect. whether it's more freeways whether it's more dams we've got to get away from these gigantic seams and get back to a simpler. way of living. they've been tremendous environmental victories at the beach itself it's been 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 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 sad wars for the good of

a song. again well this time of year we see a front coming through australia it normally means we can be seeing some severe weather as well and here is that fun about it pushing very slowly from west to east now we did see a lot of active weather pushing through adelaide and with it a big temperature drop once the front went through before the front we were talking into the high twenty's now it is going to be about 12 degrees as we go toward saturday the fronts going to be moving towards melbourne as well as hobart you can

be warm but once the front goes through we're going to be dropping those temperatures as well about 10 degrees so expect to see chilly or nights in the evening over towards city it is going to be a rainy day for you on sunday with a temperature of 20 degrees well. north in the south island this weekend it is going to be quite nice we're going to sing really high pressure dominating that means a lot of sun across the area and the clouds going to be more towards the west in terms wise we do expect to see still in the teens for many areas so for all clinton 16 here on saturday and as we go towards sunday we do expect to see temperatures coming up slightly for christ church but clouds could be a problem by the time we get into the evening hours and then here across japan we are dealing with a a developing typhoon down towards the south that's going to be a lot of rain across much of the area so for saka expect to see a rainy day here on saturday a 26 in tokyo a little cooler with a temperature of 22. there was a lot of deadly and discipline you need to and that is what i mean live to and

believe in development in the 14 yet on the making want to win this is our own man she worked with local women to solve the main problem plaguing community was not always a key problem auction plan had been booked as a player bt and led the way in transforming it difficulty into a success sam finding a woman to me is standing economy. and women make change on al-jazeera. zira. hello i'm marianna mozzie welcome to the news hour live from london coming up yemen's who feed rebels say they will cease attacks on saudi arabian territory and call for

a separate action from riyadh. the united states announces new sanctions on iran including measures that target the iranian central bank. student protests that took over the world millions of people from europe to africa and asia go on strike to demand to action to save the planet. sport host nation japan to make a winning starts at the rugby world cup they rallied for trying to secure 30 points to tear victory over russia. hello welcome to the program but we begin this news hour in yemen where the who see rebels say they will stop targeting saudi arabia with drones and other weapons in a statement the head of the who these political office said the armed group expects the saudis to also stop targeting yemeni territory and they reserve the right to

respond if it continues to target them. we are with we will cease to target saudi arabia to retreat military to missiles and all other forms of with us and we wait for a reciprocal move from them or even better for them to create all kinds of attacks including a real compartment will cease we reserve the right to respond if they fail to reciprocate positively to this initiative and the continuation of this rule will not benefit any story on the contrary it could lead to dangerous developments which we do not wish to take place we say this knowing that the ones who would suffer more are the enemy nations. of a sign are behind a proof journalist he spoke to al-jazeera earlier and said that if saudi arabia doesn't abide by the cease fire well then more attacks are likely to come from the . huge attack on saudi. which has

actually stopped 5700000 barrel of of the output of saudi that's why that attack has like sent a strong message to saudi arabia that we can respond toward your war against yemen but i believe that if the saudi did not accept this ceasefire i believe there are more attacks to come that's why they believe this is fired today just to show the international community if the saudi that doesn't want to do to stop the war against them and they said i believe more bigger going to come if this cease fire from saudi arabia on how many a time has more now from the yemeni capital sana'a. more than one occasion the whole of these called for you literal ceasefires the saudi arabia of not responding and committing to the declares his fires.

but hopefully many expect that the latest initiative declared by the head of the. transitional council which is the running the government affairs. this ceasefire would hold its place. we have declared that we will stop their attacks on saudi arabia as to the trees specially falling be our own the oil refinery of all bukkake and the whole race which has led to catastrophic. consequences for the saudi arabia meanwhile new pictures show the extensive damage caused by drone attacks on one of 2 saudi arabian oil facilities last week is the world's largest oil processing facility in the attack knocked out half of saudi arabia's output saudi authorities earlier allowed media into the smaller horizon site which was also damaged yemen's who see rebels say they were behind the 2 drone

strikes but the u.s. and saudi are blaming iran. well a top military adviser to iran's supreme leader has defended the attack on the saudi oil facilities. with a retell a tour the operation given these in fact carried out and legitimate defeats have been selves against a priest says that killed the children the reality is that america and its allies and agree says against palestine in yemen have become tired and worn out economically militarily and politically the policies were wrong and failed the repeat tyson of america and its allies is declining. well the u.s. has announced new sanctions on iran that includes the iranian central bank also targeted on the national development fund of iran and the at allied to jar at. an iranian company u.s. officials say that it's used to conceal financial transfers for iranian military

says president trump says he prefers financial sanctions as opposed to the use of military action in order to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons we have just sanctioned the arabian national bank that is their central banking system and it's going to be. at the highest level of sanctions we are continuing the maximum pressure campaign this is the last remaining source of funds so both the central bank of iran israel well as the national development fund which is their sovereign wealth fund will be cut off from our banking system so this will mean no more funds going to the r.g.c. were to fund terror and this is on top of our oil sanctions and our financial institutions sanctions were a very major factor is what we do these are the highest sanctions ever imposed on a country we've never done it to this level. well mike hanna joins us now from washington despite what president trump was saying that these sanctions apply any

more pressure on the iranian government that currently exists one of you've been hearing about the impact of these new measures. well once again that's very difficult to say at this particular stage at this very early stages sensually what the trumpet ministration has done has added new layers of sanctions among the many that have already been in place now president trying and his advisors are insistent that there is a massive economic impact from the original sanctions that have been imposed in recent months and that these sanctions will increase that economic impact once again with the latest particular sanctions far too early to tell whether placing sanctions on the central bank on what is essentially iran's sovereign fund once again that would depend how much the u.s. can actually get its hands on or block through these particular sanctions that something is that will only play out over time but what this does show is that the trump administration and president trump himself appear intent at this stage to

continue to ratchet up economic pressures remembering of course president trump is going to be holding a series of meetings at the united nations general assembly next week he's made very clear that he's going to be looking for some kind of alliance to approach the whole iran issue and most observers here do not expect any further or stronger action and tool president trump attempts to get some form of alliance in place mary and indeed i mean do these latest measures they suggest make the consideration of any military action much less likely indicate certainly a preference for economic sanctions as opposed to. a different sort of escalation. well we heard from secretary of state mike pompei or thursday saying precisely that the president trump is intent on seeking out economic options or sanction options rather than resorting at any stage to force now president trump has held

a meeting with his national security advisers in the course of the day his secretary of defense the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and his new national security adviser robert bryant nothing has come publicly out of that particular meeting but it's understood that they were offering the menu of options that president trump might have should he wish to ratchet up further forceful actions rather than mere economic sanctions at this particular point but as i said most observers believe that everything may be on hold at present apart from the ongoing economic attempts to impact on iran's economy that the actual use of any forceful measures precise strikes on particular 'd targets may wait until president trump has allowed the full economic impact of his layered sanctions begin to take effect thank you very much for the latest from washington mike hanna. right well we want to take you to egypt now several people have been arrested anti-government protests

in the capital cairo the demonstrations against president sisi took place in tahrir square and all the parts of the city were broken up by police protests to say that they want sisi who is facing corruption allegations to resign says he was reelected last year with a 97 percent of the vote in an election where his challenger supported his rule. and elsewhere at least 12 people have been killed in a bombing near the iraqi city of karbala south of baghdad police say 5 others were wounded when an explosive device detonated on a bus any of the entrance to the city no one has claimed responsibility for the attack well we do have much more to bring you in this news hour from london. to the. thousands of algerians defy a security crackdown for 33rd wave of protests demanding change. scientists warn this could be the future of the amazon rain forest if something is not done

about deforestation. i've been sport action from day one of the tournament roger federer says he wants to become the pride of. millions of people from around the world have taken part in a global climate strike demanding governments do more to cut emissions before the damage to the planet is irreversible from australia to the united states to europe to africa and asia students and workers took the day off to illustrate the seriousness of the crisis and its impact on future generations and it begins our coverage. this is a movement led by children by college students backed by many parents millions of people coming together to protest when they would normally be at school instead

they're calling on governments around the world to take action on climate change i think that it's bad to miss one school day and have a few jets you know how many chinese at school people need to realize that the promise is something we need so. many people are protesting. but want to be part of this growing movement called government today to tackle climate change. and this truly is a global phenomenon across the pacific islands many of which are already experiencing the impact of rising sea levels a pledge to fight climate change there were big protests in australia where several 100000 people skip school college or work to take potshots while in thailand hundreds of young people by death outside the environment ministry demanding action . we. were missing.