polk about what she called a hollowed out state department and certainly added to the congressional knowledge of the events that led to that phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine that lies at the heart of this ongoing investigation importantly though she also opened a little bit of a chip in that white house boycott of the ongoing investigations it is now known that a number of other state department officials may be appearing in congress in coming days among them gordon sunderland who was blocked from appearing by state department last week but now he's been served a subpoena his lawyers say that he is willing and ready to appear in congress to give his evidence that documents that were in his position though will not be presented as they are in the position of the state department. the latter an al-jazeera spade is celebrating national day but could separate these tensions over

the past 3 plus. one town in the central philippines is trying to break gender stereotypes. hello there have a few coastal shows a new forecast into southern sections of japan you can see the catalyst satellite and we'll see more in the way it's going to funnel stills particularly in hong kong for the next couple of days so these rain showers really clinging to coastal as a pin to fusion and then further through the in teria more rain working its way into you bay and also province as well also into these northern areas all the vietnam quite a strong on shore flow that that we had across towards india it's still those monsoon rains are still very much in the 4 cars but of course they are now really

receding and in fact the indian message department has now put the official start which actually is the 9th of october and by the 10th already there in comes the much of this region and if the rains continue to stay where they are that in actual fact although it started about a month later than usual the rains will soon be pretty much in line with where they should be this time of the month so this is sunday the rain still quite heavy through under pradesh butting up into dishes as well and then into monday we'll see more rain showers across to the west the west and gas and down into kara and again more of those scattered thunderstorms across inseam us over shoreline kabit really for the most part it's a dry picture and finally drawing off in mumbai as well with the high 54 degrees. in the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big business plan for small business to the complexities of recycling when these

different plastics are together then the recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the science that often solution is very easy for us to have a 100 percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines turkish forces and their allies say they've seized control of the center of ross a line that syrian border town after 4 days of heavy fighting kurdish forces dispute that line. typhoon hygienists is made landfall outside tokyo on 1000000

people have been told to evacuate their homes the storm is forecast to be one of the worst on record. the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine says donald trump pressured the state department to fire her she says she was removed because of unfounded and false claims. today as is 2 presidential candidates have gone the head to head in a red t.v. debate for sunday's runoff vote is the choosing between bill cutaway who was recently released from prison and retired law professor. they need to convince voters i'll be able to solve crippling poverty and unemployment. reports from tunis . no bill carter we and faced off in a debate a rare event in the arab world and a moment of pride for the tennesseans who 80 years ago inspired the pro-democracy movement also known as the arab spring. the debate was

a crucial moment for the 2 candidates the election divided to secular and liberals back while conservatives leftists and nationalists endorser yet. i was leading in the parliamentary and presidential elections to jail despite there are still moved on to the 2nd round my opponents thought i'd be defeated. in. a free they will never return to the cage and won't accept being given crumbs they are free already committed to building a new country. supporters of the bill carter we are job and their leader and media mogul was released from jail and is back on the campaign trail but the man and his party have only a limited time to convince people that he is the right person to leave the country i always party heart of which he founded 3 months ago came in 2nd in the

parliamentary election becoming the 2nd largest political party after the conservative enough. from the beginning of the campaign rival cases sayed kept a low profile but his supporters took to the streets promoting the burn they say will and corruption and unite the people but people are frustrated with their leaders 80 years after the revolution they see little change in their country and their expectations are high and have our president make young people more of a priority as far as i'm concerned i have no faith in the political elite. we want a president who stands for all to new zealand to fight a country that is different political party social classes we don't want a president defending a particular class or group after the 2011 revolution the president lost many powers to both the prime minister and parliament but the president retains control of the fans and foreign affairs for many years the president is more than just

a symbol the recent parliamentary elections have resulted in a divided parliament and the lead party may not be able to form a governing coalition this is where the next president is expected to step in the political impasse. china's president xi jinping has arrived in nepal after a 2 day state visit to india xi jinping held talks with prime minister narendra modi on a range of issues including trade the issue of kashmir and chinese support of pakistan was apparently off the agenda i would like to state quite categorically that this issue was not resolved and not discussed and therefore there is no question of. my making any further comments on the matter in any case the government position as expressed publicly is very clear this is a matter that concerns the internal affairs of the country. now the u.s. and china have struck a partial deal that could lead to the end of the 15 month long trade war between

the world's 2 largest economies donald trump says he's completed phase one of talks with china's vice premier the us president suspended tariff increases which were due to be imposed on tuesday on $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports hugo she ations for a complete agreement are expected to take 5 weeks. but we've come to a deal in intellectual property financial services. a tremendous deal for the farmers a purchaser from $40.00 to $50000000000.00 worth of agricultural products another big issue that we've come to a conclusion on is currency foreign exchange we've also made very good progress on technology transfer and we'll put some of the technology transfer in phase one phase 2 will start negotiations almost immediately after we've concluded phase one

and papered it. protesters in hong kong are continuing to wear face masks during rallies this by the government ban there are a few using the bank down vowing more action against the government adrian brown reports from hong kong. where this march is now breaking up and it comes after more than a week of relative calm here in hong kong relative card now many of the protesters are wearing face masks in defiance of course of that ban imposed by hong kong police more than a week ago warning that if people did wear face masks they risk arrest and also being heavily fined but that hasn't deterred some of these protesters now this march didn't pass without incident to empty our train stations were attacked one of them had a pet food bomb thrown into it there were no injuries also an outlet at starbucks was once more attacked it had its window shattered starbucks of course has become a popular target for these protesters

a lot of the protesters here have also been talking about the common sort of come from president donald trump who says that he thinks that the protests are now in his words deescalating well a lot of the protesters don't know whether that means that the united states is now showing the same sort of support that it did for the protest movement that's to say support from u.s. politicians as they had say several months ago now the protesters say they are going to gather again on sunday for unspecified action certainly the protests and not on a scale that we were seeing several weeks or even several months ago there is still violence but it's not as intense as it has been in recent weeks. now a national day celebrations are underway in spain amid internal tensions over the upcoming sentencing of cattle and separatist leaders they've been charged with sedition and misuse of public funds for their part in the 2017 independence

referendum rival unionist and pro independence rallies have gathered. and catalonia is regional capital barcelona. so there guy go has the latest from there. liberations for spain's national day have been taking place on the streets of false alone of the capital of the region the region that attempted to seat 2 years ago now while this was organized by a pro nationalist civil society have the backing of 3 conservative and right wing parties in spain in taking place here because people here are still absolutely determined they can't run we should should remain firmly parts of the spanish state want to belong you know i want to keep being cut along with bringing people. that's our thing yes so it is being cut line is our way of being spanish or the

wonderful thing about spain is that it's made up of many different parts but with a common questions. even though here there is a pretty strong feeling about the caps of the region should remain firmly. on the spanish state missteps alone you know force where there is a strong growth independence movement they feel they should have the right to determine their own future it's part of a legal referendum now that attempts to see 2 years ago was an illegal referendum and certain politicians and activists paid the price by being arrested they now face a judgement $1.00 day whether it would be a charge of rebellion sedition and misuse of public funds that has further exacerbated the tensions in the region and certainly doesn't look like it's going to be resolved any time soon. final campaign rallies are being held to mozambique to the runoff in the run up rather to choose days general election it will be the

6th vote since the end of the civil war in 1992 the ruling party is challenge by its rival renamo tension remains between them despite signing a final peace deal in august. 4 people are vying for the top job the main hopefuls include president felipe in new c. hughes running for a 2nd term he came to power in 2014 with a reduced majority for his for a limo party he's up against former fighter or so for wal-mart day he's the front man for an arm or a party which has been plagued by infighting whoever wins will lead mozambique's recovery off the 2 psych loans and food shortages this year and they'll have to deal with a growing rebellion in the gas rich northern province of cattle their god though malcolm webb is live for us in the campaign being shaping up.

in the world. where the final running of the ruling is really my party people here are waiting for president anybody you see to come and stay. shortly to address the crowd here here in the capital one. really knows historically had a majority but that majority is growing slimmer and slimmer one of the things that the opposition says is cause that is corruption has been a $2000000000.00 hidden loan scandal that's been revealed over new cities 1st in our opposition also been complaining over successive elections about irregularities which they say securely a serious problem this time and inflated voter register some of the ruling party strongholds little say complained about growing violence through our example last week the election observer who is the director of the right. they shouldn't the shot that it's and out is killers policeman is an ongoing investigation of what

happened and who would do that. and other opposition candidates mother's house was set alight opposition complained. in gaza province another ruling party stronghold they say they've been chased out opposition supporters to press ahead anyway to come to the polling stations on tuesday. is that it wouldn't tolerate any irregularities on the day. thanks so much welcome web it's tough to find the policeman least one town in the philippines now police women have taken over the falls and it's been finding out that. they are on a mission not just to apprehend criminals but to break stereotypes. these police officers are the 1st all female police force in the country. marry young

police or pulleys mary's as they are called are from the town of mary in seeking whore in the sensual philippines male police officers who were previously assigned here have all been moved elsewhere this is seen as a trail blazing move by colonel angela handel who is also the 1st female police director of the city hall or she said she knows how tough it is for females to rise through the police ranks we have women legislate force we have women in the congress we also have women presidents. and why not 4 day philippine national police around 20 female police officers now staff this station assigned to protect around 12000 residents and although their arrival is celebrated here the pressure to deliver is felt deeply. they are made to undergo the same kind

of training that male police officers go through. the philippine national police has a 10 percent quota of female officers within its ranks under its reform program for decades female police officers were mostly just assigned to do desk work but that is about to change now they tell us a woman's place is also on the front lines local residents say they have already felt the difference people are more curious people are more curious nobody noticed the police station before now they understand what they do and that the people are on our say not other ways public trust in the philippine police has plummeted over the last few years the government's controversial drug war has left thousands of filipinos dead most of them from impoverished communities and allegations of

corruption and abuse of power has affected its top leadership. these police officers vowed to give their best because for so long they've been sidelined this time using their strengths and qualities as women to finally lead and rule in a man's world i. dug an al-jazeera maria in secure central philippines. thank. him back it's time to catch up on all the headlines now turkish forces and their allies say they've seized control of the center of ras al-ain a key syrian border town after 4 days of heavy fighting kurdish forces are disputing that claim though. typhoon haiyan base has made landfall outside tokyo

more than $1000000.00 people have been told to evacuate their homes the storm is forecast to be one of the worst on record mari event of it the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine says donald trump pressured the state department of fire and she was removed because of unfounded and false claims. final campaign rallies are being held in mozambique to the role in the run up to tuesday's general election it will be the 6th vote since the end of the civil war in 1902 the ruling from lima party is challenge by its rival renamo tension remains between them despite signing a final peace deal in august china's president xi jinping has arrived in the pol after a 2 day state visit to india she jingping held talks with prime minister narendra modi on a range of issues including trade but the issue of kashmir and china support of pakistan was apparently off the agenda i would like to state quite categorically

that this issue was not resolved and not discussed and therefore there is no question of a my making any further comment on the matter in any case the government of india's position as expressed publicly is very clear this is a matter that concerns the double affairs of the country. national day celebrations are underway in spain amid internal tensions over the upcoming sentencing of catalan separatist leaders they've been charged with sedition and misuse of public funds for their part in the 2017 independence referendum earlier show gay's become the 1st person to run a good 2 hours you can you completed with this one now 59 minutes and the seconds 2 years ago in italy was just 26 seconds to the target. i've had just the man to run under 2 hours in order to inspire me many people to tell people start to know your mind is limited to it i'm expecting more

of the artemisinin piece of it or run under 2 hours after the pretty it's techno next. 3 years and 3 prime ministers and still no luck. with the. departure deadline looming until the end u.k. to square off in brussels what we'll boris johnson to do next followed the e.u. summit on al-jazeera. what are you protesting about how does this where their online life facing directly. play for joining us on c.n.n. this is an attack on academic freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice climate change is real the discussion this real and i'm here to talk about

the solutions on al-jazeera. this is techno show innovations that can change lives in the science of fighting wildfires we're going to explore the intersection of hardware intern manatees and we're doing it when. this is a show about science lol are not lies scientists tonight true. it's everywhere out there landfills overflowing is and filled smells so bad but some of our trash. should be recycled why isn't it being done more techno investigates the problem with plastic. on the streets or toilet in the ocean we have the technology of 1000000 so why don't we use it so you don't i will happen surprise to you because a doctor should be so mars is a mechanical engineer dr crystal is

a neuroscientist searched at that label to live in and fill tours and an entomologist that's on t.v. now martin and do some. science. hey guys walking 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 some 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 recycling facility and up in landfills and there's landfills that has a really negative impacts on the surrounding communities it's actually quite shocking that a 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. when. 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. wedding our comfort. 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 try it 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 community. that's at the root of the problem we're guilty of 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 omnipresent plastic water bottle americans consume water from about 50000000000 bottles a year. made from last cold p t polyethylene turf late 2 monomers ethylene glycol and purify tariff

acid combine to create a polymer resulting in a lightweight strong material why then does it last all my stuff to infinity and the landfill this essentially are 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 is 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 of 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 break up both you know but from what we understand that there is a local market for the. for the most part lot of the material is shipped overseas

mostly to be asian pacific in 2014 the 2nd cheap 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. u.s. were able to lose 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. california is only one of 6 states that places a redemption value on non-carbonated p.t.t.

bottles with what we have a national possibile because it seems to be so successful sure it's purely for political reasons but one was a purchase 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 right in 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. these mountains of plastic oppressed cracked and then bailed among the by is this

p.t. . is carbonite a $220000.00 square foot plant but they transform use plastic into material from the bottles. as a mechanical engineer. i feel like a kid in a candy store that is very hot the moment i know you have. poor hair or broken in the past it's a step aerated from any degree and then washed in hot water in our 2nd stage that washes a very clearly separates their calves and labels from p.t. volatiles is then separated into k. petey greene p.t. and. the karen college p.t. is ground into flakes and washed again heated then melted and then becomes pellets . one to one a 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. nestlé waters 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 here replacing virgin 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 1950 signaled the beginning of a throwaway society. if people only knew

the problem but they were creating when they extolled the virtues of throwaway living this is a monster and creating a peer. below. right in the center do you know about something. 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 throwing a whole new 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. playfellows and that is stuck in his expression oh well i want to move out of this area americans create about 250000000 tons of trash a year. in 1988 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 newbie 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 b. landfill order complaints has issued newbie 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 odor 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 the 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 misting 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 of the mature that we accept over a 1000 tons a day in the bay area of california comes into this facility and we diverted from the landfill so we've processed the material and removed everything that's recycled over. 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 boasts $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 pern 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 laid 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 republic 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 and i'm fighting for a day and. 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 the potential for 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 and we're finding new ways are what we used to call we are right now in my 90 percent. waste recycling composting gabrielle is on owens 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 if 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 in generates methane gas and methane is a very potent greenhouse gas john hankey the civil engineer who runs the resource we could reprogram the east bank with a combined solid food waste really quickly swatting to create fuel that has no air now carry 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 a mud the sewage treatment plant and a pioneer of green power for the 1st plant and north america to be commentor genius you all and ultimately energy confidantes. when we started the truck we've got a grammy if out 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

to be and not allow that this. whole energy to do that or to vote on our neighbors next to ours. and what actually happened there we're standing by at that label of good life that he did sludge is going into an animal that dies 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 think i'm sure there and i think the energy in the fuel that i can from that and that it goes in there and you know collect that 'd 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 mug 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 for. 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 hiding 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 not to me if such a 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 that you are 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 bleep in 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 cups 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 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 in so next time right here on technology dive deep into these stories go behind the scenes at al-jazeera dot com slash techno.

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a key syrian border town pushing out kurdish fighters from the area also in the news millions across tokyo were told to brace for the onslaught of japan's typhoon haiyan it's finally makes landfall. on final rallies held in as mozambicans get ready for next week's general election. and in sport alley and keep chugging takes a giant leap forward for athletics the kenyan running the 1st ever saw our mouth and beating the barrier point 20 seconds or. so turkish forces and their rebel allies have seized control of a key syrian cities town center it follows 4 days of intense fighting with kurdish forces in basra line but advances on the ground of meant a setback in relations with some countries especially the united states and iran

which had urged turkey to pull out its troops is now offering to mediate between turkey and the kurds we start with this report from on the turkish syrian border. they are battling their way into kurdish controlled towns along syria side of the border with turkey it hasn't been an easy fight for several days turkish troops and their allies the opposition syrian national army have pushed into the northeastern corner of syria they now say they are in control of one of 2 main towns along the 120 kilometer stretch of territory they plan to capture in the 1st phase of this operation cross the line has fallen they've also advance 30 kilometers deep reaching the highway that connects to west and east syria effectively dividing the territory under the control of the. positions of the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are coming under heavy fire but an incident close to a u.s. outpost along the border has added to tensions between turkey and the united states

which said its forces were close to being hit by turkish artillery fire turkey's defense minister has a car denies his troops targeted the position saying they were responding to fire 1000 meters away the new front in syria's war is worsening relations between the nato allies which have long been strained the pentagon was more blunt calling them damaged international pressure is mounting on turkey to stop the advance the united states is threatening to impose economic sanctions the message from here is clear we will not stop the operation president russia or the god made it clear the wife the syrian kurdish armed group that forms the backbone of the us they must 1st withdraw 30 kilometers from the border with turkey. the humanitarian impact of the conflict is being felt on both sides turkish civilians are being killed in rocket fire that's being fired into border towns but i. don't have any protection but

we're not thinking about moving out now since we have a life here we don't want to leave our home in syria they have also been casualties among civilians caught in the conflict aid groups are warning of another humanitarian disaster in syria's 8 year war the area is home to people who've already suffered violence and displacement the united nations says 100000 are on the move and this battle has just started the number of those affected may rise fast. on the turkey syria border. that's just elaborate on the international side of things we've got rosalynn jordan in washington d.c. now rosalynn i can't really are saying that there's been some setbacks in relations with countries including the united states can you define that for us a little. well that is significant because the u.s. and turkey are both members of nato but that's not preventing both congress and the president from threatening sanctions against iran if this military offensive isn't

stopped quickly as well as if the turks do not use any care in trying to avoid civilian casualties and then of course there's this new wrinkle which has developed to which are alluded to in her story which is the report that there was artillery fire that happened very close to where u.s. special forces were stationed in northeastern syria on friday we've received a statement from the u.s. military saying that they still consider this military invasion a bad idea that the turks should not be working outside of what they're calling a security mechanisms zone and they are also why implying that u.s. forces could respond to protect themselves if this sort of thing were to happen again let me read the precise language the u.s. is demanding that turkey avoid actions that could result in immediate defensive

action that's not the kind of thing you want to hear from a treaty ally but the u.s. military in particular is very concerned about not just the conduct of the turkish invasion but also very concerned about the potential for isis forces to try to reconstitute this is in an area which the s.d.f. and u.s. forces supporting them had reclaimed the territory after some 4 years of a so-called caliphate being set up by isis so fun and interesting rosalynn and unfortunate we often get contradictions between various news departments and the white house but all about getting out of quote unquote endless wars and i think he even said to the cameras we've got no soldiers in syria and here you've office you know confirmation that there are u.s. troops there and could even engage if needs be. that's right i mean it's you know the contradictions between the white house and other parts of the

executive branch of the u.s. government have gone back right to the very beginning of donald trump's presidency but in this case the military is looking at not what is politically expedient because donald trump had campaigned on pulling u.s. forces out of the middle east and out of getting out of what he called unnecessary wars the u.s. military is looking at the fact that it has about a 1000 or so special forces troops inside syria to help the s.d.f. try to keep isis from reclaiming territory anywhere inside syria and so they have 1st their obligation to protect their troops it's rather you know it's rather blunt shall we say for the military to be this open about what it sees as happening between the turkish military and s.d.f. forces but in this case their primary obligation is to make certain that u.s.

forces aren't drawn into a conflict where they had no business being ok thank you for all of that rosalynn jordan's in washington d.c. so what we want to look at now is the issue of the actual conflict we're now 4 days in what sort of shape might it take with the turkish forces in northern syria is with us to talk about that an assistant professor at the university of nottingham but also former senior officer in the british armed forces so thank you for your time professor what i see of the turkish incursion so far is that president on is in no mood to listen to anyone else is he and it seems that this is one of those operations which will just press forward and forward until the to say we have done and we won't be influenced by others is that a fair raid on it. i think it is certainly based on what we're receiving in terms of public rhetoric from both turkey and the us but i think that it would be a little bit simplistic to not acknowledge the fact that this is political rhetoric

and almost certainly there has been. a degree of understanding between president trump and president the gun about what should happen and what should not happen so i would hope that that understanding remains clear in both and the greed in both individuals mind as long as that understanding of the taint the public rhetoric may go one way or another hopefully this. present crisis won't become a catastrophe the turkish forces themselves are national army of course presumably very strong and well equipped are they likely to encounter. the sort of resistance which they can't deal with. i don't know whether they are going to not be able to deal with the resistance but they may well end up paying a price that's happier than they planned the the contains primarily the why p.g.

the way p.g. as many people will tell you is essentially part of the p.k. k. and the p.k. k. has been waging for many decades on and off an insurgency within turkey itself which the army has fought but it is one that the army has not been able to fully extend wish and so based on that i think what we will find is that. the turkish army military will be able to have tentative control over most of the territory but they will be harassment. and insurgent or terrorist action within the territory that they will have to deal with continually. this is kind of one of those how long is a piece of string questions but i'm going to ask it anyway what are your feelings on how long this could potentially go on is it a short sharp operation which the turks can deal with and get over and done with and get back into turkey or are we looking at something more prolonged. i think

it's going to be reasonably prolonged the initial phase will depend very much on how much of the resistance that the. the s.d.f. is likely to put up remember of course this is not a 2 way conflict there is. behalf of turkey an organization called the syrian national army that basically turkey's proxy as opposed to the us proxy which is the s.d.f. and so we've got a conflict going on between 2 organizations that are very difficult to control because they're not national actors nevertheless i think that turkey has the capability to bring this relatively narrow strip of land under its control in a matter of weeks or months but in the longer term it will need to consider very seriously the offers being made certainly by iran and possibly by russia to come to some form of a longer term agreement and i think turkey would be wise to achieve that agreement

using those 2 interlocutors with the syrian government so that the problem with maintaining security the problem in taining borders will fall to the syrian army does allowing turkey to declare mission accomplished and return its army to its own territory which is something that i know that the army and the turkish government probably want to do in the long term anyway. ashraf always interesting and informative speaking to you thank you for your time where protests against the turkish military offensive a taking place in several cities around the world smith spoke to some demonstrators in erbil which is iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region little love lost here between the kurds in this part of northern iraq kurdish controlled part of northern iraq and the turkish authorities the crowd has been.