$1900000.00 over the 12 month period ending in june and that what this law firm did is they had contact with staffers from 30 different members of congress and the trump administration all in an effort to get al-jazeera to be named agent of a foreign government this is something that's happened in the united states to broadcasters like russia today but al-jazeera has maintained that it is in fact independent from the government of qatar what would the impact of a far registration be well in the case of r t they saw their credentials suspended in some cases they weren't allowed into events so what this campaign apparently did was they had a slick produced video while according to the quote again from bloomberg. had a videotape they opened a laptop played a slickly produced video showed al jazeera giving airtime to terrorist groups the video this trump official told bloomberg was bizarre with dramatic music and urgent sounding voiceovers so trying to convince the trump administration members of congress to make al-jazeera register as agents of

a foreign government obviously al-jazeera maintains its its own independence from the qatari government and believes it doesn't need to register as agents of a foreign government still ahead in this half hour a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine says president donald trump pressured at the state department to fire her. british prime minister barak says it's not yet a done deal this talks intensify with the e.u. to try to secure a break citigroup. hello it has rained in london for quite a few hours now and you can see why the clouds just streaming in from the atlantic and heading off towards the baltic states as a change in the west east asia this is dipping down the tail dip into the bay of biscay but this is saturday's picture that much the rest of europe is enjoying nice

warm sunshine 20 to 25 degrees or thereabouts on techie between saturday and sunday another night could be a bit chilly but we're not that cold yet and we back up the same by day all that changed really is it's not raining as hard in the baltic states is still cloudy in denmark and the rain has tucked into those western france the western spain and the north of portugal but that's as far as it's gone by the end of sunday so not much of tuck into morocco enjoy the sunshine 24 about or even into new 0 g. is where we're talking about temperatures around the 30 mark still is overseas hotter in egypt 35 encourage down to 42 in the valley the kings dance one ready summery now the the sun's gone south of course has taken the main rain belt through tropical africa down towards i go to for example but we're still seeing big showers every day for when the ethiopian harlan's form in sudan south sudan and as far west a cynical.

do you know you're going to be negotiating that we would have a deal and we would have been up on a 3 ton ship at a deal and you disagreed with that deal this is the job it is the worst of the lot it was brought to us what you will be like is up and maybe his time goes head to head with the chairman of the u.k. spritzing party reach in time the terms are huge toughened so that there's not a loose about talking shop it's pretty clear this is clear is brics it means but yes it is and it's just as clearly hazy. on just.

for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. is sending $3000.00 additional troops to saudi arabia the pentagon confirmed military hardware will also be said to bolster the kingdom's the fences following an assault on oil facilities last month iran says one of its oil tankers has been struck off the coast of saudi arabia it's a news agency says the vessel which is known as the said was hit by 2 missiles in the space of half an hour and the u.n. says more than $100000.00 people have been displaced by turkey's military offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria at least $26.00 civilians have been killed and more than a dozen villages captured. america's former ambassador to ukraine says donald trump pressured the state department the fire her in an explosive testimony to members of congress leading an impeachment inquiry into the us president mary. says she was removed from her post because of unfounded and false claims the inquire. vesta

gating if trump tried to pressure ukraine's leader to dig up the dirt on his them a critic rival joe biden. well she ever can see is live for us on capitol hill with more on this story so she of tell us more about what memory of it she has been saying. she's been speaking for about 4 hours now or so and we had almost immediately as soon as she sat down initial statements to the that the members of congress who were speaking to was was leaked almost immediately took to the media and that's where we see this very impassioned defense of her own conduct and a very sort of sad assessment of the state of international diplomacy of a state department that she says has been hollowed out from within under the trumpet ministration 1st her defense of ourselves she says yes it was dog trump who had pretty much spearheaded a campaign against her for almost a year before she was she was finally recalled a little bit earlier she was an obama appointee to the position of ambassador to

ukraine and she said she was incredulous that all of these stories were circulating around and they were in republican circles that she was she was undermining donald trump that she was somehow favorable to the democrats use blocking investigations of the corruption in ukraine that she helped the clinton campaign she says all of that's untrue she defends herself against all these these allegations and she says that's what she does all to rudy giuliani in particular donald trump's personal lawyer who is accused by members of congress of having some sort of shadow foreign policy in ukraine bypassing norms and she says that those associated with mr giuliani may well have believed that there are still ambitions may be stymied by corruption policy and that's why he was in particular going off to have so this is a defense and she has done nothing wrong that everything that's been said about her is wrong but then she tells talking about the state department this is the key the

key area i suppose she says at home will come when private interests circumvent professional diplomats for their own direct gain she is suggesting that there is something very rotten at the heart of the state department right now under president trump and something needs to be done done very quickly what we haven't had leaked yet on. those key questions i mean in some ways we knew she was pretty disgruntled we knew that there was a campaign against her what we don't have her opinions on whether donald trump's actions in trying to get information about joe biden on this on home to biden in trying to get information about the origins of the russia the russia gate scandal under which was investigated whether anything was done as far as she's concerned leads to some sort of impeachable impeachable offense and he's abusing his office we don't know yet what her opinions are on that that will be to come when this when this when this deposition breaks up yeah i mean pretty damning testimony and now anyway what reaction from the white house you know either now or even when they found out that she was going to give this test. we've had it confirmed now that

they did not want to testify and so the chairs of the 3 house committees that are in the lead in this subpoena late last night washington times about why she came the reason that's really interesting is earlier this week we had that letter sent from the white house to congress saying we are not going to cooperate in any way with your impeachment investigation but now we understand what that means in reality in practical terms and that would mean apparently that they're not going to cooperate for voluntary interviews and things like that they will still try and stop the officials from the administration from taking part however it would seem from this example that if a subpoena comes. people will be allowed to testify and that's interesting too because just before just before the former ambassador began her testimony the current u.s. ambassador dauth trumps current u.s. ambassador made it clear to his lawyer that he will testify later on this week and

he and he had actually earlier this week had been refused the permission to testify but he's been subpoenaed now and he's going to do that his lawyer made it clear that the state of public still didn't want him to testify but the subpoena means he will testify and he's very much so actually don't trump supporters kind of want to testify because very much donald trump in the e.u. and in the ukraine it would appear so they kind of want him to testify but it appears going forward in this impeachment inquiry process if a subpoena is received officials will testify. with the latest from capitol hill share thank you. hundreds more indigenous protesters have poured into ecuador's capital from the amazon to join the tense day of demonstrations against the government's austerity measures thousands of people have taken to the streets of to demand the president. repeal a law that ended a 40 year old fuel subsidy riot police have fired tear gas to break up the rallies

while protesters as well. with fireworks at least 5 people have died in the unrest . a south african court has ruled that the former president jacob zuma must stand trial on corruption charges he's accused of taking $267000.00 in bribes from a french arms manufacturer zuma is said to have taken the money in connection with a $2000000000.00 arms deal during the 1990 s. while he was deputy president is lawyers argue that the case was politically motivated and should be thrown out zuma denies any wrongdoing. the european union has agreed to intensify talks with the u.k. over the next few days to find a new brics it withdrawal agreement this issue followed a briefing of e.u. 27 ambassadors by the blocs chief negotiator mission near where he described discussions with his british counterpart as constructive john hall has the latest.

there may be life in the prospect of a briggs deal yet e.u. and u.k. negotiators will have to work flat out between now and next week's brussels summit if they are to come up with a framework agreement we had the. question of medium duty darkly the british team was then i'm going to debrief to $27.00 about how those under. one define what i was already said after. trixi jacques kline bigger mounting. we need to do vigilance you don't mean intern confessionals e.u. council president donald tusk had warned he was ready to declare the talks dead on friday instead. place in brothers as we speak. of course there's no guarantee of success and the time is practically up but even this. must fields but what's all this renewed optimism based on in

truth no one quite knows beyond comments made by u.k. prime minister boris johnson and the irish tea shockley over on thursday that they saw a narrow pass to a deal the pair had met for 3 hours in the northwest of england much of that time in private concessions were made but they wouldn't say by whom and all else is secret well i can certainly tell you that under no circumstances will we see anything that damages the ability of the whole of the united kingdom to take full advantage of. what johnson is alluding to there is the whole of the united kingdom including northern ireland leaving the e.u.'s customs union it's the holy grail among breaks had to porters allowing the u.k. to pursue independent trade deals but prime minister johnson's previous proposals went down in flames when the. you rejected among other things the idea of constant

checks on the island of. whatever has been concocted as an alternative has now ended what the e.u. calls the negotiating tunnel with just the faintest glimmer of light at the other end jonah how al-jazeera london he was the son of poor villagers who became a spy boss and then the leader of africa's fastest growing economy now is the o.p.'s prime minister has been awarded the nobel peace prize for helping end one of the continent's most bitter conflicts med has been honored for ending years of tensions with a retrial bringing a border dispute to a close when we are became prime minister in april 28th teen he made it clear that he wished to resume peace talks with a retreat. in close cooperation with the side yes off valve again the president of every tree on. mood quickly worked out the principles for

a 4 and then for a peace agreement to end the long no peace no war stalemate between the 2 countries. robyn kriel has the reaction now from. well incredible news both for its yo peons and for africans although many at the o.p.'s here were quite surprised that he won that prestigious award many of them said that they're not shocked at all because he is still so incredibly popular here on the ground and if you're here rarely do you see for example a cab or a bus drive past without dr b. as he's affectionately known face on the back of it as well as that flag because he is seen as the nationalist a person who united is the o.t. who brought them through those dock times through that state of emergency and through what many analysts have said could have possibly been a civil war had he not come into power at that time but when you heard that list of

achievements read by the nobel peace prize committee his peace with eritrea detente with somalia the fact that he offended essentially the political process here and if the o.p.'s which for years was a dictatorship a commentator i spoke with yesterday said that had it not been for this the fact that if europe it would likely be fractured already. reaction there from the sub about dosage of arias more now prime minister admits push for peace. prime minister ahmet was sworn into office in april 2002. since then the 43 year old former army intelligence officer has launched a wide program of political and economic reforms such as ending state monopolies and allowing private sector competition in industries such as telecoms aviation and power his biggest success so far was the peace deal with neighboring eritrea ending in nearly 20 years military stalemate following their 2 year border war in june

last year the ethiopian government agreed to hand over control of the disputed border town of bad me to eritrea until then if you appear rejected the international boundary commission's ruling in favor of eritrea. it's unpredictable style isn't popular with all if yo peons the most open stressed him the only problem they have but i have now is they wanted the change to happen immediately. we have a lot of economic problems in this country were a lot of the economy is growing very fast the amount of expenditure that's going into infrastructure has been at the expense of livelihoods he played a central role in the violence fight against illegal land grabbing activities in the or a mere region 4 years ago the government stopped a controversial scheme in 2016 but disputes continued and resulted in people being killed that fight is seen by many as boosting its political career he's from there

or rumor tripe ethiopia's largest ethnic group which spearheaded the protests to force his predecessor to resign an assassination attempt 2 years ago failed to stop his development plans for ethiopia. and activists a military intelligence officer a land grab opponent and unpredictable politician a peace maker and now meant can add nobel peace prize winner to his list of accomplishments dore such a bari al jazeera environmental activists in australia say too many people are ignoring climate change and have made a symbolic gesture to raise awareness of the risks. dozens of people have literally buried their head heads in the sun to highlight how people dismissed the dangers of global warming as well as the protests on sydney's man beach demonstrators also blocked traffic in other major cities the action comes during

a planned week of protests across australia as part of the global extinction rebellion movement the group is calling for governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 0 by 2025. you can find that much more on our website on that story and everything else that we've been covering the address al jazeera dot com. now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. is sending $3000.00 additional troops to saudi arabia the pentagon says military hardware will also be sent to bolster the kingdom's the fences following an assault on oil facilities last month september's drone attacks targeted the heart of the saudi energy industry and briefly knocked out most of its output emmons who the

rebels claimed those attacks but the u.s. and saudis have been quick to point the finger at iran. the us military has on alert additional army navy marine and air force units to quickly provide increased capability in the region if necessary. the united states remains committed to protecting our allies ensuring the free flow of resources need to support the global economy and demonstrating our commitment to upholding the rules based international order i urge other like minded countries especially our allies in europe to follow the united states lead and join us with our own defense of assets to ensure stability in the region meanwhile iran says one of its oil tankers has been struck off the coast of saudi arabia the state news agency says the vessel which is known as this of bt was hit by 2 missiles in the space of half an hour the ship was sailing 100 kilometers off the saudi port city of jeddah it's now under way again and the crew are reported to be safe but there is so far be no response from saudi arabia the u.n.

says more than $100000.00 people have been displaced by turkey's military offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria at least 26 civilians have been killed and more than a dozen villages captured turkey's military claims more than 300 kurdish forces have been captured or killed the kurds say 29 have died the united arab emirates is trying to silence the al jazeera news network that's according to a bloomberg report the u.a.e. is reportedly running a lobbying campaign in washington d.c. using a law firm to try and influence staff in the u.s. congress they've also used twitter accounts hiding their u.a.e. affiliations in an attempt to discredit al-jazeera and qatar where the network is headquartered those are the headlines stay with us techno is coming up next i'm going to have more news for you in half an hour i hope you join me.

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hey guys working the techno on phil tours today we're going to be talking trash and a ton of it and joining me with this trash talk dr crystal dorf and dr shu so more now 1st up the water ball now by some estimates here in the u.s. release 50000000000 of these every year in the midst number one is that this is going to be recycled correct actually it's probably not going to be recycled a lot of water bottles that we think are headed for a recycling facility and up in landfills and there's landfills that has a really negative impacts on the surrounding communities is actually quite shocking for the material that is designed to be used over and over again actually only gets used once and what we've done is take a water bottle just like this in front of its journey after it's been lubin to see exactly what happens.

in. the world is addicted to plastic. it was sold to us as the product of the future product like. this educational video from the 1940 s. celebrates the convenience of plastic airlie on our. reading our own for. back then it was a symbol of the modern times to come 6 decades later the reality is. the earth is choking on it. according to the united states environmental protection agency only 9 percent of plastic is making its way into the recycling stream that's a people problem as they toured on the streets or troy in the ocean or unfortunately that's a habit that has to be stopped it's our addiction to single use plastic for fast food storage and packaging convenience. at the root of the problem we're guilty.

and we should just admit it dr stephen not is a professor of materials science at u.s.c. he studies the physics and chemistry of materials like plastic seems to have been a material that was developed for convenience but we're now you know almost 100 years later paying the price if you look at the population as a whole probably a majority have not yet realized the magnitude of the problem. and nothing symbolizes the problem like the present plastic water bottle americans consume water from about 50000000000 bottles a year. made from last cold p t polyethylene turf on late 2 monomers ethylene glycol and purify tariff acid combine to create a polymer resulting in a lightweight strong material why then does a lost all my stuff to infinity and the land fill this essentially the same type of

bonds that hold together diamond if you're conscientious enough to throw a water bottle into a blue recycle bin like we do here at techno and you probably think that water bottle is going to be turned into another water bottle but that may not necessarily be the case techno wants to find out what happens next so we followed the water bottle. this is the massive 20 facility near los angeles california. located near a large metropolis it can take a lot of trash. if you take a football field from post to post 10 feet high. fill it up with trash about a 3rd of that water that comes over here every day.

$3000.00 tons a day this facility of as a glimpse into the wilds of single stream recycling because all of the recycled material it receives comes from a single source been like this convenient because all recyclables end up in one basket but there's a price you can't unscramble an egg susan collins is a manufacturing engineer who heads up a nonprofit recycling institute once materials get mixed together too much like glass shards ending up in paper. or plastic bottles ending up in the paper stream or a limit on cans ending up in the plastic stream all of that is detrimental to recycling sorting seems to be a massive component there are multiple compositions of plastic when these different plastics are blended together then the recycling become difficult to impossible that's exactly what's happening at the plenty of times that means of those who

won't be turned back into another bottle but instead it will go on another journey into the secondary plastic market one of the myths is that once you place the water possible in a blue recycle bin it can actually be made back into water bottle again the technology is that why isn't it being done more you know i can't really speak to the industry what happens after you know the water bottle leaves our facility we just make sure that the containers that come in here are recovered as much as possible so you don't know what happens to the plastic that you recover once you've given it to the breakup both know but from what we understand that there is a local market for that but for the most part a lot of the material is shipped overseas mostly to be asian pacific in 2014 the 2nd the plastic market sent about hoffa's of california's plastic trash to china because it's a mix of all the different types of plastics it can only be melted down repurposed

a process known as down cycling it could be t. shirts it could be teddy bear stuffing it could be carpets. because down cycle products and. they just take a longer trip before they eventually end up in a landfill and there's another inherent problem with single stream recycling half of the country has access to recycling and the other half might have a drop off program that might be nearby or it might be 10 or 20 miles away in. us were able to see the news about 5 to 7 percent recycled content and beverage bottles in the united states the number in germany is 25 to 35 percent in the u.s. bills are rare california is only one of 6 states that places a redemption value on non-carbonated p.t.t. bottles but here we have a national possibile because it seems to be so successful sure it's purely for political reasons but one bottles of purchased in california consumers pay anywhere

from a nickel to a dime deposit on them at checkout. we see about a 1000000 and a half customers a canadian based company replanted with 700 locations in the u.s. offers a plastic buyback program. there are sorts of middleman in the plastics trade they redeem bottles for deposit. the result is dramatic the recycling rating california is typically 3 times higher than that of the rest of the nation here at this replanted sorting facility they process over 2000000 bottles a day packaging up the best quality p.t.t. these mountains of plastic oppressed cracked and then by among the by is this p.t. . is carbonite a $220000.00 square foot plant but they charm school and use plastic into material

from the bottles. as a mechanical engineer. i feel like a kid in a candy store that is very hot they don't want to know you have. found school here or broken in the past expressed separated from any debris and then washed in hot water in our 2nd stage that washes a very clearly separate steak and labels from the p.c. bottles is then separated into clear petey greene and. the clearance p.t. is ground into flakes and washed again heated then melted and then becomes pellets . the ones who want the bottle to bottle recycling the plastic from one bottle is used to make another nothing and often not until they even recycle the labels and casts. in pepsi's they could use among the companies heavily invested in one to one

. so if we get the recycled retiring up in the us you know it's very easy. for us to have a 100 percent recycled material for use if you keep something in a closed loop you replacing version resources over and over and over again so the math catches up with you in a pretty awesome way and is responsible for avoiding a whole bunch of environmental consequences. throw away living. a promise of liberation. americans are free at last this feature and life magazine 1955 signaled the beginning of a throwaway society. if people only knew the problem that they were creating when they extolled the virtues of throwaway living this is

a monster in the creating right here. below. right in the center do you know about that then you'll be an owner and they want to expand then have you experienced the alders oh constantly for years. these neighbors are talking trash as a group of milpitas california residents go door to door to buy the expansion of the newbie island landfill located in the neighboring city of san jose. they hold weekly meetings at stakes and they host town halls there is a significant odor that comes from the movie island facility sometime you know when i just go out and take a walk i just feel dizzy and i feel like story only because he's like a huge bathroom you know this is so smells so bad. milpitas california a sleepy bedroom community is the gateway to silicon valley

a bustling tech town of $70000.00 many citizens here say the garbage is taking over . and ruining their quality of life. i'm a real estate broker and years ago very few people would ask about otar now 100 percent of the people that are buyers within the community are asking about the odor that is going to affect property values newbie island resource recovery park here in san jose is a landfill operated by republic services the nation's 2nd largest waste management company it's been taking trash since 1030 and was scheduled to close in 2025. instead today the city of san jose is not only planning to keep it open until 2041 they want to grow it from 150 feet above sea level to 245 feet increasing its capacity more than 15000000 cubic yards. we fell and that is that is the expression oh well i want to move out of this area americans create

about 250000000 tons of trash a year. in 1088 there were about 8000 landfills in america 2 decades later that number dropped to below 2000 spurred on by environmental and health concerns heavily populated areas started closing landfills and shipping trash to more remote regions. san francisco hauls its trash about 50 miles across the bay to york city trash is trucked out of state to new jersey pennsylvania even as far away as ohio virginia and south carolina and until recently america was doing a brisk business selling its crap to china but now even china is leery times of changed awareness of the public is much greater about health issues now than it was when newby began nuvi is one of the largest active landfills on the shores of san francisco bay i think it's more like this in america the city of milpitas filed

a lawsuit against san jose over environmental impacts caused by the landfill. the bay area air quality management district which has received 2000 new be landfill order complaints has issued new b. island 5 public nuisance violations related to odor issues according to a district spokesman they're still negotiating the fines. trash is a big business and an unfortunate smelly business too don let's field is the northern california environmental manager for public services the community itself seems to have some concerns about this site and the owner problem that they're experiencing unfortunately we've been a little slow to address those concerns and we'd like to apologize to the community for that here at the landfill we've had order mitigation plan that we've been working on for years we get a lot of fresh refuse that comes in every day and we have order mr stations set up in strategic locations throughout the landfill that can mitigate some of the fresh orders. in addition the public says it invested heavily in the state of the art

recycling facility to help divert landfill list. all the mature that we accept over a 1000 tons a day in the bay area in california comes into this facility and we diverted from the landfill so we've processed the material and removed everything it's recycle build. 200000 tons a year are being diverted from the landfill are all 4400 tons of paper and 30 tons of plastic 90 tons of the last 30 tons of metal every day despite diverting nearly 50 percent of their annual beats the landfill is still growing and that causes some to look toward another possible solution. in sweden a country that post $33.00 incinerators trash is burned to create fuel and what's known as waste to energy about half of their waste is recycled and the rest is prayer less than one percent goes to landfill sweden is known as a world leader in waste to energy incinerators like this one which utilizes modern

technology to capture and control emissions san francisco authorities tell us they have no plans to build an incinerator in the bay area instead they say they plan to increase composting and to continue to ban what they call bad designs. what is your hope for san francisco what we're trying to do is really break that addiction to pasta quater san francisco is the 1st city in the country to ban the single use water bottle from city property in the case of our ban on single use plastic water bottles the goal here is to establish a marker to lay it down in san francisco to work with other cities to do the same in the meantime however we are still a consumer and dumped nation republics landfill manager augustine marino says he wants to residents know just one thing. ringback as the one that works in trash for a living and you hear the concerns of the citizens and yes what you have to say to them this is not a dog you know you hear that were very often and for us you know that that we work

here every day it's not fair to call this a dog this is a mother and son it died down feels we take pride in what we do here these residents say they just wish they were doing it somewhere else so this is not a day i'm just waiting for my vehicle i'm fighting for the end. nobody's going to get is going to be the. mountains of trash piled high as the eye can see at this landfill just outside san francisco but inside this mass scientists see potential some of this waste is organic about 40 percent of landfill waste nationwide is from food that's waste that doesn't have to be there innovators are tackling that waste a program that takes food from restaurants and farms in the area turns that waste into energy or finding new ways or what we used to call we are right now in my 90 percent. waste recycling compost gabrielle is on owns

a small cafe in san francisco's mission district she composts everything i'm a strong believer that i'm doing what i can and that is that i can what she's doing here on a small scale is part of a much bigger picture and you look at what she's doing here and turn. so diverting waste away from landfills and creating a recycling type of circuit here with everything that happens and that's what we have to look to inspired by western europe san francisco opera owners like this on our financial incentives to compost. a lot of these small businesses are actually doing it for economic reasons it lowers their bill for recycling for their garbage but overall money is a way to motivate people but it's not the only motivator when the food waste is in the landfill it decomposes and it generates methane gas and methane is a very potent greenhouse gas john hanke is a civil engineer who runs the resource we could reprogram the east bank with

a combined solid food waste rudely quickly swatting to create fuel that has no air doubt very organic yes that's the term we use to describe this it's like a black gold. and. the process works like this food waste from throughout the bay area is trucked here to the east bay municipal utility district east bay mud the sewage treatment plant and a pioneer of green power for the 1st we have a north america to be commenters the new trial and ultimately energy confidantes. when we started the track we've got a grammy for a 5th about 40 percent of the energy we needed to run the plants and that's pretty typical her away from her treatment plant today were at 130 percent of our command and not allowed us to sell that communal energy to the word of the land our neighbors next to ours. and what actually happened there were standing by a pipe that labeled heated the heated sludge is going into an anaerobic dye just

a digester is like a human stomach so organic material goes into the digester and in there it's bio degraded by. cherry and they feed the solid material and that solid material is being converted into bio gas. and bio dad is a great renewable energy source and it's a fuel that we use to run our engines and turbaned to generate electricity let me get this straight i have answered and i think the energy bill that i am proud that i have that is out there that you know collect that you're getting at the bacteria that they're turning out and the energy that's correct each digester here is about 2000000 gallons and we have 11 of them so that's 22000000 gallons of capacity east a mud shared the technology and now other water treatment facilities in brooklyn

new york and in california cities of marin 1000 oaks fresno and san diego are using it. most of us don't think about the waste whether it's flushing the toilet or throwing things in the garbage it just kind of disappears and i think as a society we've been very successful at sort of highlighting where the waste go and i think as time goes on and the population grows and waste generation grows they will become more aware of waste generation that's a great responsibility and that's when the sides have big impact and they are in the world for the next generation. so through all of this it's clear there is a problem out there with recycling with way too much pressure what can we do is consumers well and some people think it's an individual choice we just need to get better at sorting our trash and sorting our recyclables and actually following through and

others think that we need to be taking a legislative approach and in san francisco if ban water bottles and government property and maybe we can do more things like that when i work in latin america glass bottles or the norm there that is what you use whenever you get a soda from a. restaurant or something but the difference there is you are expected to return that glass bottle to the person and they recycle it was a times they'll give you a quarter in return but if you don't return that glass bottle you're being very rude it's like a societal norm but you're breaking i think as consumers we need to be extremely mindful of not using plastic ones so just try and increase the times piece of packaging and then just make sure that you trash in a blue bin once you finish with it when it comes to responsible use i mean also you think about whether or not you're putting it in the blue bin at all i mean a lot of people just have this idea what i'm going to throw it in the trash and throw it in this bin and whatever it is it's going to disappear into the ether and now i'm absolved of all responsibility but it has to go somewhere i mean

conservation of mass if nothing else really did make me more aware of how much plastic i'm actually using when i use a plastic straw or plastic cup only those things we just because it seems like there's so many of them we just use them once and throw more in that's the absolute is nothing like standing at the open face of a landfill and going through your head of like why i threw away that yogurt container and that i had a water bottle this morning in my cups probably in there and you really start to realize how much of this waste you generate and day i'm sure you could see it and you could smell it yes doesn't it orgasm is certainly a dirty job but an important one to tell so thank you for bringing that to us that's it for now be sure to check it so next time right here on techno dive deep into these stories go behind the scenes at al-jazeera dot com slash techno. expert contributors on twitter facebook instagram google plus and more.

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need. to put. trees and good night. and on line. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. is beefing up its military presence in the gulf as tensions a similar between tehran and washington and some of the arab world's most powerful countries the pentagon says it's sending $30000.00 additional troops to saudi arabia to bolster the kingdom's the fences following an assault on oil facilities last month the u.s. military has on alert additional army navy marine and air force units to quickly

provide increased capability in the region if necessary the united states remains committed to protecting our allies ensuring the free flow of resources need to support the global economy and demonstrating our commitment to upholding the rules based international order i urge other like minded countries especially our allies in europe to follow the united states lead and join us with our own defense of assets to ensure stability in the region. mike hanna has this update from washington various comments from the pentagon saying that this is necessary in the light off those attacks in september last month they are sending immediately another $1800.00 soldiers this brings to nearly 4000 the number that have been deployed since that particular attack in the last hour the special representative for iran brian hawk has said that this is essential in terms of what he brands it reigne an aggression but it's not only extra forces that are going there there's

also a patriot missile battery all actually 2 of them a high altitude defense system along with 2 fighter squadrons and an expeditionary unit so certainly this is a rector tuneup of the u.s. presence in the region remembering as well that this comes at a time when the u.s. is pulling forces out of syria meanwhile iran says one of its oil tankers has been struck off the coast of saudi arabia the state news agency says the vessel which is known as this bt was hit by 2 missiles in the space of half an hour the ship was sailing 100 kilometers off the south in port city of jeddah it is now under way again and the crew are reported to be safe there so far the no response from saudi arabia the u.n. says more than $100000.00 people have been displaced by turkey's military offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria at least $26.00 civilians have been killed and more than a dozen villages captured turkey's turkey's military claims more than $300.00

kurdish forces have been captured or killed but the kurds say 29 have died. and the u.s. has been criticized for pulling its forces from northern syria before the turkish offensive began but the white house is now warning that it will quote shut down turkey's economy if ankara goes too far and that it could even more new sanctions. he has authorized and will be signing a new executive order giving the treasury department in consultation with himself and secretary pompei. very significant new sanctions authorities that can be targeted at any person associated with the government of turkey and a portion of the government this will be both primary sanctions and secondary sanctions that will be a political the united arab emirates is trying to silence the al jazeera news network that's according to a bloomberg report the u.a.e.

is reportedly running a lobbying campaign in washington d.c. using a law firm to try and influence staff in the u.s. congress they've also used twitter accounts hiding their u.a.e. affiliations in an attempt to discredit al-jazeera and the qatar the gulf nation with the network operates hundreds more indigenous protesters of poured into ecuador's capital from the amazon to join the tense day of demonstrations against the government's austerity measures thousands of people have taken to the streets and to demand the president and many more i know repeal a law that ended a 40 year old fuel subsidy at least 5 people have died in the last. you see open prime minister ahmed has been awarded this year's nobel peace prize he's being recognized for ending the long running conflict between ethiopia and their track over disputed border territory those are the top stories that the head is next with the chairman of the brics it party richard tice.

0. 3 is and 2 missed deadlines we must leave the e.u. . britain is in chaos people are taking to the streets angry indignant divided and it's all because of bricks it. that. the conservative government wants out of the european union as fast as possible even without a deal and no matter the cost leaving on the 31st of october gives its. supporters of breaks it a new world of global trade opportunities and reduced immigration records. but the u.k. parliament has blocked a no deal scenario the guys have been citing official warnings of an economic meltdown and even a shortage of food and medicines is going to be an absolute disaster for winning.

the battle between those who want to leave right now and those who want to remain is threatening to undermine british democracy. critics say the practice of the guilty of incendiary rhetoric what's predicts it will the bad which has created a climate of fear the vulnerable minorities. immigrants and even politicians. my guest today is richard tice co-founder and chair of the party to london the brics it 2 a key figure in the leave campaign he dismisses predictions of catastrophe as project fear amid the house and i've come here to the oxford union to go head to head with richard tice the british entrepreneur turned politician who's now leading the controversial no deal campaign i'll challenge him on how much responsibility his side. for the polarizing of british society and i ask him how on earth could

leaving the e.u. without an agreement be good for britain's democracy or economy. tonight i'll be joined by 3 experts graham gudgeon appropriates the economist at cambridge university and chief economic advisor at the conservative think tank policy exchange he's also the editor of the briefing for brics it website jonathan liz the deputy director for the per european think tank british influence he's also a political commentator for the guardian newspaper prospect magazine and the b.b.c. among others and ash sarkar a senior editor at the progressive online media outlet novara media in london she also teaches political theory at the sandbank institute. ladies and gentlemen please welcome richard tice. the uses been

a member of the european parliament since may 29 teams when the bracks party obtained a 3rd of the vote richard tice thanks for joining me on how tara since the 2016 e.u. referendum there have been 3 prime ministers to mr bracks it deadlines there are no full suspension of parliament the collapse of the pound and the british people divided like never before isn't it the case richard the brics as they're not just a political chaos but to the u.k. becoming the last thing stock of the world. yes to the simple word i mean the reality is that's what happens when you have weak feeble leadership you know i'm a businessman and a bad chief executive of a business can ruin it in 2 years a bad prime minister can humiliate a country in a couple of years and that's what we've seen with what happened to 2 reason may as of right now the u.k. is in the midst of what many would call a constitutional crisis parliament was suspended by the pro brics it prime minister

johnson it was an un suspended by the supreme court that said it was null and void i remember richard people saying we have to leave the e.u. because parliament is sovereign not the e.u. not brussels but now when the u.k. parliament blocks britain crashing out of the e.u. without an agreement blocks no deal breaks it suddenly you say parliament's not sovereign anymore how convenient i've never said parliament so when the people are sovereign they lend their sovereignty to parliament in the disclosed thing about what happened over the last 40 years is that parliament then lent about sovereignty to an overseas power to the european union without the people's consent and more and more and more power was permanently given to brussels every political scientists including the ones in universities like this one as well as the supreme court of this country says parliament is sovereign that's been a bedrock of british politics for decades for centuries before you and i were born but when you say you've never said it your the group you founded levy you said in

october 2015 less than a year before the referendum and i quote vote to leave the e.u. to ensure lawmaking power returns to our sovereign national parliament that's what you were saying back then as soon as that sovereign parliament passes a law that you don't like it's not sovereign anymore not in this very convenient to do what parliament does is considerably more sovereign than giving it to the european union but fundamentally the people are sovereign as a said so so your group were wrong to say in october 25th you know that it said a sovereign national parliament because the parliament passes laws yes so it's been lent the soft. are you for a 4 or 5 year period to pass laws yes and to hand back that sovereignty to the people so it's part of the law now saying britain cannot exit by october 31st unless there's a deal and presumably the government will have to abide by as a legitimate law in your view legitimate yes i mean its parliament passed a bill no you know and the prime minister should follow the law if he breaks the law because he suggested he's going to exit regardless should you support him breaking the law. even if you're right that parliament isn't sovereign that the public will somehow trumps parliamentary legislation which as i say goes against

political traditions in this country we say that but actually that's what a referendum is about exactly because a referendum where power in the case for a referendum which is outsourced the decision to the people they didn't know is the usury reference hang on there let's be very clear it was an advisory or forget all that nonsense it was an advisory referendum as a says they sent out a 9000000 pound leaflet every house in the government sometimes leaflet but the law of the e.u. referendum at 2015 made it very clear it was an advisor and i'm the one who did not go for i just said it was an advisor people have a right to trust what the government writes agreement but i but it wasn't under the law it was an advisor reference can we agree on that as a fact let's agree on that but if you write to the people you say that we will implement your decision and it's a once in a generation decision and you then renege on that it's not surprising we face the biggest lack of trust betrayal of trust in democracy in this country given where in this chaos right now and given that you know there's this argument over who is legitimate where the sovereignty lies we're finding in this conversation why not then let the public decide how to resolve this mess that we're in by holding

another vote i mean if you'd lost the last referendum campaign 52 percent to 48 percent instead of winning it as you did 52 percent to 48 percent you would have been calling for another referendum now to you wouldn't you we wouldn't we wouldn't be where we are just a complete why did nigel for a large the leader of your party say in may 2016 a month before the referendum in a 5248 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. so this i'm not knowledgeable raj i'll never believe this is. the way it's a persecution this is all out of the way this quote you are whether you heard them or not is irrelevant he did say it to the mirror he's never denied saying it he said it would be unfinished business by a long way you can't just disown the leader who waits all to the way to not says something awkward.