this election will test it. the m.d.m. opposition party is a relative newcomer. but he supports grown in the last 10 years its leader the v.c. mango addressed supporters in the port city of beirut which was devastated by a cyclon in march he's also accused the ruling party of violence. death squads are commanded by a state which has been captured by the full email party it's the biggest gangster that we have in mozambique as mozambicans prepare to vote on tuesday they're waiting to see if the polls will be peaceful and if the result will be accepted malcolm webb al-jazeera maputo mozambique. time for a short break here now to 0 when we come back the mystery deepened serve an oil spill that's affected $150.00 beaches in northeastern brazil. and a possible new trade deal was

a major topic between the leaders of china and india but it's what they didn't talk about that's making headlines more of that stay with us. hello once again we've got some wet weather in the full cost of the middle east over the next couple of days this area cloud just sliding out of the black sea into the caspian sea will sink its way further south what's the chance of some rain is northern parts of syria easing of its wards all areas of iraq and eventually heading into those northern fringes of iraq as we go through the next couple of that yes it does stay dry with more sunshine in that sunshine becomes more expansive as we go on through monday 24 in terribly getting up to 32 in beirut so a little warmer than it has been recently noticed some wet weather there some clout

to northern parts of saudi arabia a little bit of cloud soon see southern the fringes just over towards the coastal fringes of a moderate across much of the vibrant ministers dry and sunny as per usual getting into the mid thirty's once again here in doha also some of the temperatures there for riyadh a chance of want to see showers just around the southern end of the rest see some slightly thicker cloud just rolling in here now it's also some showers too into the eastern side of south africa just around the eastern cape of much of southern africa as you can see as days lots to try if you want to see showers just creeping up towards the maybe or over the next couple of days with a chance to some rates in the west and passed by go. good weather sponsored by countdown to. the next episode of techno the team looked into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big deal closer than unfortunate the smelly business to the complexities of recycling when these different plastics are landed together then recycling becomes

difficult to impossible and the science that often solution is very easy for us to have 100 percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. welcome back to the top stories here on al-jazeera ecuador is in lockdown after the government imposed a nationwide curfew this anger of the new austerity measures that led to higher fuel prices ecuador's president says he's now willing to assess the little talks between the government and indigenous groups will be held sunday. france and germany have stopped weapons exports to turkey over its offensive on kurdish groups

in northeast syria the operation is now in its 4th day turkish forces say they have taken control of a strategic border town although the kurds deny this. and 7 people have been killed in attacks in northeast nigeria locals say and government affiliated to i saw it raided a military post in the town of got uganda and borno state on friday and thereby village was also but. now a powerful typhoon has pounded japan's capital and surrounding areas with heavy rain and strong winds killing at least 10 people die for and how could this paralyzed tokyo on saturday before moving to the north a cleanup operation has begun and rescue efforts are now underway 16 people are still missing many off a 1000000 homes are without power way hey as the latest from tokyo. we were told to expect a short sharp storm and that is exactly what happened as you can see it is a clear blue sky day in the capital tokyo on sunday in stark contrast to what we saw on saturday with a lot of rain falling and some very strong winds we still have some wind about but

no sign of that rain certainly coastal areas on saturday saw some damaging winds but the main feature of this storm seems to have been the huge amount of rain that fell causing flooding in many areas and indeed there are still alerts in place for some of those areas because the rivers this wall and they have burst their banks in some places and also the reservoirs are very full so the authorities have given the green light for some of those dams to release water meaning that there is an ongoing danger for some communities living downstream from those dams we saw several landslides occur on saturday evening as well there is an ongoing search and rescue operation because several people still missing there are still disruptions to the transport networks as well some train services have resumed on sunday morning but they won't be back to full service for some time and most flights international and domestic in and out of tokyo's 2 airports on sunday have been

canceled or delayed until monday now a mysterious oil spill as contaminated at least 150 beaches along brazil's northeastern coast dozens of teams are trying to clean it up but they say the thick crude is washing ashore too fast to keep up. in the coastal community of coral repay in northeastern brazil. one of brazil's most beautiful beach use how covered with it washed up on the sand here on what was otherwise a pristine beach. and it has the locals like josie might be is extremely worried what to do i feel very sad this is an environmental disaster even. people are cleaning it up the damage is done i've been working here for over 30 years and i've never seen anything like it but it's not just here or oil has washed up on beaches all up and down the coastline of the northeast of brazil recent days it's been seen

in 9 coastal states in more than 150 locations. it's unclear where the oil is coming from but it's already killing seelye but it's so widespread showing up on a coastline more than 2000 kilometers long there aren't enough crews to reach it all. but they're trying the best they can they're finding so much oil that they're sending teams of men out to collect it all and they're loading it on the back of these flatbed trucks such as this and then putting it in these huge white containers to be taken away just today on this beach they say they've collected at least 2 tons of oil. local residents are witnessing an environmental disaster up close as. i went swimming today and when i got out of the water i had oil all over my hands and i'm worried because i don't know how my body will react to this walk up on the shore to walk i've seen the 5 big dead

feasts it's to say because it has also reached the eaves and you hear the oil stains really you ought people here now looking out over an oil polluted ocean left wondering how much worse it can get. along the northeast coast of brazil the chinese president xi jinping and indian prime minister narendra modi have held a summit dominated by trade talks the 2 met in southern india and called for a new era in relations between the world's 2 most populous nations and reports. they walked and talked and talked a bit more even enjoyed traditional dance performances but the summit between india's prime minister and china's president had lots of photo opportunities but no announcements of major achievements. had what was called an informal 2 day summit in the town of. nothing was publicly announced on their festering border

disputes. and india's foreign secretary categorically ruled out any discussion about the emergency in india that administered kashmir following india's removal of its autonomy he did say india made some headway on reducing its $51000000000.00 trade imbalance with china. and. decided to establish a mechanism at the high level of. indian officials say the summit. to build up. should enable them to resolve the many disagreements that may happen or not some economists say of china to trade deficits india should instead improve its economy and companies. of the ongoing war between china and the

united states. 30 year old hunting for a new job he used to assemble smartphones in a factory. but. apple i phone. and many others in the factory redundant. recently found a reason to be hopeful. company that assembles phones for apple says it will start manufacturing in india soon. you know here black and white some economists say the indian government's decision to reduce corporate tax should attract foreign companies and investors there is no other country in the world actually i would see which can be. a big with a media shift. from china to india and that is the size of the market prime

minister more the aims to move the chinese leader but experts say he 1st needs to launch a range of reforms and boost economic growth before india can really compete with the world's 2nd biggest economy in china. al-jazeera. india now mexican officials are detained up to 2000 migrants travelling in a caravan from africa the caribbean and central america are coming from the south of the country aiming to reach the u.s. border many have been held up near guatemala for weeks waiting for residents or transit papers their caravan was similar to others that left central america a year ago i mean. i'm not afraid i need to go on i don't know what's ahead of me but i'm not scared for. this migrant caravan is the only way forward without a visa card you can't head out from southern mexico to the u.s. state of california now where more than a 1000 firefighters are battling

a fast moving blaze on the northern edge of los angeles the fire broke out on thursday night and a spread of a 7000 acres at least one person has been killed authorities are working to contain the fire by dropping water from aircraft on saturdays some of the thousands of people who had been ordered to evacuate were allowed to return because of the blaze is still under investigation. fish farmers in northern malaysia calling on the government there to tackle the issue of marine pollution they say the poor quality of seawater has caused them huge financial losses florence very reports now in the state of. there have been fish farms here at the mouth of the korean river in penang northern malaysia for more than 40 years but owners say the quality of the seawater is degrading and they believe that is causing their fish to die and they blame a nearby landfill for polluting the water when. we depend on the

sea for a living if all fish can survive we are going to have to shut a farm if there is no fish in the waters will be out of job its role. on the northern shores of penang island. says his caged fish have been dying as well he too blames the water quality the state government says the polluting of sea water may be caused by runoffs from an illegal quarry operating by marine researchers say the increase in jellyfish off the coast of penang is an indicator that the sea water is becoming more polluted but say their studies suggest that that's not enough to cause fish to die as the same basic know it's difficult for us to actually pinpoint on one factor the ocean is a very dynamic environment. is the ball and to avoid any effect as well as. the climate change that causes course the pollution.

it's not just those in the fishing and aquaculture industries who are affected. want to support operators as well as hoteliers tell us that on some days the pollution from this river is so bad that a fall smell hangs in the air and the water turns into a dark almost black color on those days they tell customers to avoid swimming in the sea. the local government says residents have to do their part to be illegal get into the really system people that's not good or for duration there's a point to the 3 system and the whole system but the people here tell us they don't think enough is being done to ensure there's proper environmentalists monitoring nor tackle coastal pollution florent slowly al-jazeera penang malaysia. now a major tourist attraction in iceland is that risk of disappearing altogether because of climate change the island's grace years are melting at an alarming rate with

experts warning even curbing emissions may not be enough to save them al-jazeera as nick clark travelled to one of the island's national parks which has the largest ice cap on the island. this is an island of elemental power shaped to reshape by natural forces where the landscape is constantly forged by a super charged geology. glass is sweeping over active volcanoes ash from previous eruptions carpets the ice through the millennia the glass years have advanced and retreated but never as a retreat to be as drastic as now. classic guide ryan connelly takes me towards the solheim york at last year and the speed of retreat is very apparent so this. is where the glass here was back in 2010 and this is an hour to the very front of the glass here this is where we would walk onto that stretched across this entire

valley and now 9 years later there it is there's the front and it's continuing to melt at the exact same speed. this is one of the fastest disappearing glasses in iceland but its rate of loss is pretty much replicated wherever you go we enter the york at national park and you know ask a world heritage site covering 40 percent of iceland tourists come here in the. hundreds every day to see the sights but the sights the slowly disappearing what was the glass here 20 years ago is now a raging torrent 91 small. it is a very dramatic and very visible in the strafing of the impacts of climate change and it's happening not only to the world glasses but also to the polar icecaps and the thing is that even if we do significantly curb emissions more than a 3rd of the world's glasses will disappear by the end of the century. 3 years old or cigarettes in the it's

a geologist he's been charging place the last few decades and he's well aware of the global implications the glaciers will melt the multiple to run style to those shim and the ocean surface rises i told my friends in america just no past week. refugees would not only be coming from mexico and central america it would become from florida and the coast and the gulf coast of america of the united states. at home business is the rely on the tourist dollar and preparing for an uncertain future or leaving in soon runs against towns on the farm where he's lived pretty much all his life we have seen the difference. the last couple yes some just for maybe 30 years ago than. thanks from this site but now we only see 2 of those and the glacier are one of the most tourist attraction in iceland so of course it can have an effect on on you know all the main pillars of the economic

parting and iceland. this story is being repeated around the world just as the melting ice the sea level rise the water supply for hundreds of millions of people is disappearing before our very eyes. there's a bleak picture but there is no other way of telling. scientists say the focus must now be on trying to save what we can at this crucial part of the planetary system. how does era that new york and i see. our time for a quick check of the headlines here on the al-jazeera ecuador is in lockdown after the government imposed a nationwide curfew there's anger of a new austerity measures that have led to higher fuel prices ecuador's president says he's now willing to assess the law talks between the government and indigenous groups are due to be held later on sunday. has more now from tito. the president

has not only asked for the military to take control of the streets and public spaces here in the city of quito the ecuadorian capital the military has actually been asked to enforce this curfew nationwide so this is widespread despite the fact that most of the protests the demonstrations the clashes with police have taken place over the last few days in the historic district in downtown key to the dynamics of these demonstrations as well the dynamics of the police response are changing minute by minute they're changing every day there were even today there are thousands more people than what we saw in the days prior. france and germany have stopped weapons exports to turkey over its offensive on kurdish groups in northeastern syria turkish forces say they have taken control of the center of ras al-ain a key syrian border town but kurdish forces deny that the united nations says at least 100000 civilians have been internally displaced since ankara launched an

offensive on kurdish held areas on wednesday 7 people have been killed in attacks in northeastern nigeria locals say gunmen raided a military post in the town of gadget garner in borno state on friday a nearby village was also attacked 4 civilians and 3 soldiers were killed communities in borno state have been repeatedly attacked by groups affiliated with myself. at least 16 people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in between a facet a group of men opened fire inside the grand mosque and some morsy in the country's north but in a fast been struggling with armed conflict for the past 4 years a powerful typhoon has pounded japan's capital and surrounding areas with heavy rain and strong winds killing at least 10 people typhoon huckabee this paralyzed tokyo on saturday before moving to the north a cleanup operation has begun and rescue efforts are underway 16 people are missing

and nearly half a 1000000 homes are without power. well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera. every week a new cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media when the intelligence services control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most getting an accurate informative story out of there is not easy they pose it too late we already have the information they're listening post on al-jazeera. newsstand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world.

al-jazeera. this is techno a show about innovations that can change lives the science of fighting a wildfire we're going to explore the intersection of hardware intern manatees and we're doing it in the unique way. this is a show about science lol on our lives scientists tonight true. it's everywhere but our. landfills overflowing is mela so that put some of our trash. to be recycled why isn't it being done more techno investigates the problem with plastic they troll it on the streets or troi it in the ocean you have the technology. so why don't we use it so you don't know what happened suppress to you because a doctor should do so mars is a mechanical engineer dr crystal dilworth is

a neuroscientist said. that labels like in one field taurus. i'm an entomologist that's our team and they are hand knowledge to some science. hey guys walking the techno on field 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 you know by some estimates here in the u.s. we use 50000000000 of these every year and missed 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. to. the well that is addicted to plastic. it was sold to us as the product of the future prosthetic device. this educational video from the 1940 s. celebrates the convenience of plastic early on our. reading 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 toured on the streets or troy in the ocean or

unfortunately that's a habit that has to be stop. it's our addiction to single use plastic for fast food storage and packaging convenience that's at the root of the problem we're guilty of and we should just admit dr steven 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 on 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 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 pounds 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 broker both you know but from what we understand that there is a local market for the. for the most part a 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 are rare california is only one of 6 states that places a redemption value on non-carbonated p.t.t.

bottles why do we have a national possibile because it seems to be so successful sure it's purely for political reasons but one 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 right in california is typically 3 times higher than that of the rest of the nation here at this replanted sourcing facility they process over 2000000 bottles a day packaging up the best quality p.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 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 they don't want to know you have. poor hair or broken in the past expressed separated from any debris and then washed in hot water in our 2nd stage that washes the very clearly separates their calves and labels from the p.c. bottles is then separated into clear petey greene and. the clearance p.t. is ground into place and washed again heated then melted and then becomes pellets. the ones who want 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 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 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 fight 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 all 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 that is the fashion 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 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 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 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 recyclable that was. 200000 tons a year are being diverted from the landfill are all 4400 tons of paper and 3 tons of plastic 90 tons of the last 30 tons of metal and 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 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 we're 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 a very down field 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 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 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 if you look at what she's doing here and. 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 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 it's 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 hankey the civil engineer who runs the resource we could be program in east bank with a combined solid food waste really 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 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 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 team in atlanta today where at 130 percent of our command

and not allow that this. whole energy to that port of oakland our neighbors next to ours. and what actually happened there we're standing by at that label to get a lot of the heated sludge is going into an anaerobic digester a digester is like a human stomach so organic material goes into the digester and in there it's bio degraded by. cheery and they feed on the solid material and that solid material is being converted into bio gas. and that 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 and the fuel that i am from that have that in 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 bay 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 hiding where the waste go and i think as time goes on and population grows and waste generation grows there will become more aware of waste generation this is a great responsibility you know 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 me 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 look as is certainly a dirty job but it's 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 you go behind the scenes at al-jazeera dot com slash techno.

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were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is the least you home an overcrowded refugee camp of 23000 people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the question. and so we traded places it took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home. could it was president to impose a $24.00 nation wide curfew and deploy the army as protest intensify. slowing down jordan this is all just

a rough life and also coming up as turkish forces press on with their offensive in northeast syria some european nations stop bomb sales to lock her up. for the most powerful typhoon in decades leaves a trail of destruction. and mystery deepens over an oil spill that's affected $150.00 beaches in northeastern brazil. government doesn't pose a nationwide curfew and ordered troops onto the streets of the capital key to that's after demonstrators blocked roads leading to the international airport and set fire to a government building. new austerity measures that have led to higher fuel prices president says he's willing to reassess the u.n. says talks in the government and protesters are planned but just as they say they'll continue their campaign. points on until president. this is the government

that is downed that is an effort that is attacking the people you know we are not look at how we are this is the government of london or a note down with the name or a. man iraq has the latest now from quito. tensions remain high in ecuador there is now a curfew that in fact the government has ordered the military to take control of the streets in public spaces not only here in the ecuadorian capital quito but across the country there are still thousands of demonstrators that are defying that curfew meaning that clashes are expected to continue this evening there have been plans for talks the government the president of the country has called for a national dialogue with indigenous leaders but many of the people that we've spoken to here on the streets of keep your seat at that time has come and gone and they're not willing to go to the negotiating table they're seeing that the situation has already gotten out of the control out of the hands of of the government and the there's been hundreds more people that continue to ride continue

to ride from different parts of the country to lend their solidarity so it's no longer just an indigenous movement that that's protesting against austerity measures to the end of fuel subsidies for rural communities this is now encompassing different parts of society that want different things and what people are saying is that people lost confidence in the government and they are calling for the resignation of the president's france and germany have stopped exporting weapons to turkey in response to its offensive against kurdish groups in northeastern syria took his forces say they've taken control of the center of ras al-ain a key syrian border town but kurdish forces deny this meanwhile the u.n. says at least 100000 civilians have been internally displaced since ankara launched an offensive on kurdish held areas on wednesday which are struck for joins us live now from a colony of turkey's border with syria a child so turkey says its troops have captured this strategic town of ras al-ain but the kurds deny it was the latest on the ground charles.

that's right there were reports of clashes in and around the line overnight the s.d.f. out of and that the turkish military do not have full control of this town a town that is of great strategic importance obviously to both sides and has been the focus of a very heavy bombardment of artillery and air strikes over the last few days it's basically one of the most eastern towns part of this 1st phase of this turkish campaign the turks saying that they are trying to clear an area around 120 kilometers long along the border going west to here which is the town of tal abio and we hear again that there was more bombardment more bombarding of to lobby out overnight with artillery there were reports last night early evening that free syrian army fighters these are the syrian rebels that are backed by turkey that have come over to put his

a plate in this campaign we heard reports that they were getting ready to move further into tell r.b.i. and it seems as if that hasn't happened yet a coding to the turkish military they have taken control of at least 13 villages on either side of tel aviv so it's going to be interesting today to see how that how that pans out certainly that has we've seen a lot of military coming into. and traveling to the area around russell a lot it's anx and the personnel carrier is an interesting lee yesterday on the road to between here and there we saw the turkish military setting up what seemed to be military camps on the road suggesting that they were trying to push in in the seam between area between these 2 towns meanwhile the s.d.f. law yesterday again calling for some sort of no fly zone. over the the legs area and. during attention to what the international community is

hugely concerned about which is the eisel prisoners that are on the s.d.f. control in those jails yet charlie and we know that turkey is coming under increasing international pressure over this offensive in northeast syria is that likely do you think to change anything certainly not according to the kind of language coming from the turkish government at the moment i mean yesterday. the turkish foreign minister tweeted that we don't mediate this was off to president trump offered to mediate between the kurds and that's when the foreign minister's response was we don't mediate or negotiate with terrorists the only thing to do is for the terrorists to lay down their arms you had the turkish presidential spokesperson ibrahim calling yesterday also saying that blackmail and threats won't deter turkey from this operation operation will continue let's bear in mind that the turks have been planning this operation for months if not years

ever since the s.d.f. those kurdish forces that turkey describes as terrorists taking control of such a large area of that order so it seems very unlikely and there is no indication yet that the turks will we will be withdrawing any time soon. on the turkey syria border charles thank you. well jeff stacie is a former u.s. state department official who served in the obama administration he says the international community should hold turkey accountable if there's a humanitarian crisis if the red line of isis fighters in the thousands getting released that would basically lead to direct calls for turkey to be kicked out of nato and just for starters no chance ever of getting into the e.u. again even though that's been tried for years basically we're looking at a situation where russia is in cahoots with turkey this more so than the

other side we would likely see the kurds the s.d.f. pushed 1st into the regimes hands before russia's hands but what we ought to do is to get the deputy secretary general of nato the military staffs all reaching out to their counterparts in turkey and basically we've got leaders on all sides urge to want to trump they have incentives actually to get a resolution to get a ceasefire here you've got senate's republicans in the senate here who basically trump these for his impeachment defense and earlier want what does he need he basically needs a whole stack of things that start with not having another secure in secure situation on his borders or a way that the syrian refugees might actually stay or increase in number and still they've got problems and it lived an unsteady relations with the russians the

iranians and the regime now polls have just opened in ponens parliamentary election the routing law and justice party is trying to tighten its grip on power and is widely expected to win these are live pictures coming from there now a comfortable reelection would give the party a mandate to see through many of its conservative policies which include a strong and immigration starts. a roadside bomb in kenya has killed at least 10 police officers and that's near the border with somalia police say the homemade device was planted by the somali based group al-shabaab a similar explosion in june killed 10 officers in the region of was also near somali border 7 people have been killed in attacks in northeast nigeria local police a gunman raided a military post in the town of gun and bono state on friday a nearby village was also attacked 4 civilians and 3 soldiers were killed their communities in borno state have been repeatedly attacked by groups affiliated with eisel at least 16 people have been killed in an attack on a mosque in between

a fast group of men opened fire inside the grand mosque in some masi in the country's north. been struggling with armed conflict for the past 4 years west african heads of state met last month discuss an end to violence. final campaign rallies have taken place in mozambique in the run up to tuesday's general election the ruling party faces a strong challenge and its main rival al-jazeera has more now from the capital but part of. president felipe a new sea has mozambique for 5 years. first the economy has grown so has inequality some officials from his ruling for lemo party have been jailed over a $2000000000.00 corruption scandal and the army's trying to put down an insurgency in the north so it's almost. the best political party well prepared to continue building mozambique as a contrast peace security and political stability the party's ruled ever since

mozambique won independence from portuguese colonialists in 1975. the story many people supported for. people here today don't look particularly excited to hear the president speak. declined over successive elections and in local elections last year was declared with just 51 percent of the vote share across the opposition disputed result in opposition. and about levels of violence throughout the campaign. in past elections there are no my party has always been the strongest opponent it's candidates say they've been violently stopped from campaigning in some parts of the country its leader sue for maddy addressed supporters in the northern city of. the governor's country for 44

years but didn't manage to improve your lives is that not true. they come here saying let's work let's work but it's all lies all they know is lying stealing. we're now moving freely move forth a 15 year civil war that ended in 1902 he signed a peace deal with a 3rd time in august. this election will test it. the m.d.m. opposition party is a relative newcomer. but he supports grown in the last 10 years its leader the v.c. mango address supporters in the port city of beirut which was devastated by a sightline in march he's also accused the ruling party of violence. death squads are commanded by a state which has been captured by the full email party it's the biggest gangster that we have in mozambique.