al jazeera. hello i'm adrian figure in doha the top stories on al-jazeera the global death toll from the corona virus is now past 10000 italy is the worst affected country boredom 3400 people that have lost their lives and small in china where the outbreak 1st began the tally of health stuff so that hospitals are struggling to cope elsewhere in europe the number of deaths in spain has jumped by one quarter on the previous day to more than a 1000 germany has just announced 20 new deaths that increase in cases overnight by almost 3000 that raises the total 214000 the germans are being urged to keep their

distance from others to the pandemic of zeros lawrence lee has more from london on the situation across europe. it's the exponential rate of rise that's really alarming 2 days in a row now where there's been well over $400.00 deaths each day if you if you extrapolate it clearly and it stays at that level you're looking at the best part of 3000 deaths a week and that's really terrifying stuff big rise 2 in spain the problem in italy seems to have been brought about because they reacted see late because the hospitals and fall people are getting sufficiently ill while still at home that it's too late to do anything for them when the by the time they got to hospital and so it's the countries that are behind the curve where italy is now the supposed to be looking at this and thinking well perhaps we should be reacting differently to the way that it's a lead ins when it mismanaged this at the start so germany for example is now

suggesting that at the weekend if people are refusing still to abide by the measures it's already brought in they might. extend them and make them harsher austria is saying it's seeing some level of progress because he's to non of the people stay indoors but it's other countries like for example the u.k. which haven't said is going to be any sort of lockdown on the transport will stay open for the time being with that probably should be the places really to worry about because if you look at the graphs the rates of roys in the u.k. is sharper than where it was at the equivalent time in italy a few weeks ago and that's what's leading a lot of scientists in countries like the u.k. in the u.s. and elsewhere where people aren't being locked down properly to say that when it does get really bad in a few weeks time it could be even worse than it where italy is now and plainly it's legal a very good health service and it can't cope so what would happen in all these other countries. iran has recorded 149 more deaths from the corona virus bringing its

total to more than 1400 the pandemic has overshadowed the persian new year iranian leaders are calling for an end to u.s. sanctions so the country can receive medical supplies poljana saw. at the end of the iranian year we encountered an uninvited and destructive guest not only us but more than $150.00 other nations too it's the corona virus that could jeopardize people's health and business with unity hard work and cooperation we will put this virus behind us and do it with the if it's of our doctors in saudi arabia domestic flights of the local transportation have been suspended for the next 2 weeks and the 2 main mosques in mecca and medina a closed the kingdom is reported 274 cases and no deaths so far for the 2nd successive day no new domestic curb it 19 cases have been reported in china many chinese though are worried that the threat of infected foreigners flying in could

import a 2nd wave of the disease in the u.s. the governor of california is telling everyone to stay home as corona virus spreads its the most populous us states over the 1000 cases have been reported governor gavin newsome has warned that almost 20000 people may need hospital care that's far beyond the capacity of the state's health care system. in other news for men convicted of raping and murdering a student in india in 2012 but the next accuses large crowds celebrated outside the jail where the men were hanged early on friday a court dismissed a last minute petition to delay the execution of at least 30 soldiers have been killed in the tac in northeast mali it happened in talking about 125 kilometers north of the city of go there's the headlines this continues here on al-jazeera after sound was next.

we bought the house about c. years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world that have been employed with. a life been. washed away by rising sea levels. being in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 units become just. lost to human greed and stupidity. when we loose. we loose.

we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing who will win the samplers. for most of us san makes us think of days at the beach sand castles and sunshine and once the holidays are over we slip back into our busy lives. but is feeling the sand between our toes or caught in our bathing suits the whole story. does this so familiar substance play any other role in our daily lives. standard is what i like to call the unsung heroes of law it's because they're just endlessly examples. of the way in which sand intersects with daily lloyd's which we all really know commonly aware of. sand has quietly infiltrated every corner of our

world melted and transformed into glass it sits on every shelf. it's also the source of silicone dioxide. a mineral found in our wines cleaning products detergents paper dehydrated foods hairspray toothpaste cosmetics. and an astounding variety of other products we use every day. but it's. mended such as. you. think about your computer. you know and it can be manufactured if you do not have high quality said. the minerals extracted from sand are at the core of our hyper connected society a form of basic material for microchips without which our computers credit cards bank machine cell phones and many other devices would not exist. sand

even alps or supply in our airplanes the plastics lightweight alloys of the fuselage and jet engines even the paint and tires are all made with sand. it's almost become like a the air we breathe we don't think too much about it but you can't live without it . and the industry with the biggest appetite for sand. construction. for the last 150 years sand mixed with cement to form concrete has shaped the contours of our increasingly urbanized world. because of its low cost strength and ease of use disgrace larry has become the dominant building material around the globe. the quantities used are astronomical. to build an average house it takes $200.00

tons of sand. for a larger building like a hospital around 3000 tons. each kilometer of highway devours 30000 tons. and to build a nuclear plant the estimate is about $12000000.00 tons. of production of sand exceeds 15000000000 tons. and that is a quantity that is so huge that it's beyond imagination how much is 15000000000 you don't know because no other resource is used in such vast quantities as sad maybe with the exception of water. so where in the world does that much sand come from. let's just say the sand men who work in the

aggregate business have not been affected by the economic downturn. behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. business is booming but meeting this demand is not always an easy task sand is not something that's easily found like you might think it is used to be that you'd have a sand and gravel deposit and you'd simply go and dig it up out of the ground so you'd have sand to make your roads bridges and buildings up but that type material has all been taken away it's gone abuse it already. with the positives of surface sand exhausted we started dredging rivers for sand but this is lead to flooding. now we've turned to the oceans for sand.

to satisfy our seemingly insatiable appetite for sand we've industrialized extracting it from beneath the waves. and the workhorse of the industry is a dredger. a giant tanker equipped with a suction arm capable of pumping huge quantities of sand to the surface. the right bessel in the right location can pump up to 400000 cubic metres of sand to the surface every single day. each dredger cost anywhere from $25000000.00 to $200000000.00. but the sand is free. so the thousands of tankers combing the world's oceans at every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients.

an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a modern architecture is a sandbox for developers were no fantasies too grandiose. but as projects. of sand and huge volumes of sand and construction projects concrete and just making land has been doing with the with the officially constructed island. landfills are even bigger consumers of sand than concrete. with a booming economy the emirate launched an ambitious expansion project. after the year 2000 with the price of state soaring as a result of speculation developers bet that it would be cheaper to make land than to buy it. but. the world cost over $12000000000.00

and devoured more than $150000000.00 tons of sand. with the giant palm still under construction flying high in the seemingly endless supply of money and sand embarked on an even more extravagant project. the world. the world is an island paradise would run president had opportunity can be found it is almost as resort official archipelago of $300.00 islands designed as a map of the world absorbed $14000000000.00 and $3.00 times as much sand as the palm. the world. a place beyond imagination. today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. deserted island is now parked in the sun awaiting the uncertain day when millionaire buyers will again descend on the buy and restore its glory. for new

kill the corporation managing the palm of the world the crisis is more than financial overdevelopment is totally liquidated by his natural sand resources and you think you'll find of course dubai is on the edge of the desert they've got older certainly neat like all the gulf states dubai has sand everywhere so why doesn't the emirates simply help itself to the desert desert sand is the wrong color end of sand for building a lot of fish will islands why because deserts and all the grains have been blown around by the wind and is typically very round and very smooth if you want to use it to build an island they don't stick together you need sand that that is more angular rougher rougher age sand that naturally sticks together. see sand is perfect for island building and construction but it's in limited supply

sand is not a sustainable resource. although it's own stocks are exhausted dubai is far from given up. the burj khalifa at the time of construction the world's tallest building was built with sand from half a world away. we have a saying in english this is selling sand to the arabs which is obviously. that that's actually come true in the case of the by. $3500.00 australian companies exports into the arabian peninsula their profits of tripled in 20 years accounting for a $5000000000.00 jackpot. and australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas you see is this he. trade around the world moving from one areas for another for different purposes

such as construction and land reclamation. singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. and 30 years the country known as the switzerland of asia has become one of the richest in the region during this time the population has more than doubled and the 63 islands that make up the city state are bursting at the seams singapore its were lying on the import of sand for its very existence and the land masses literally increased 20 percent over the last 40 years and that's largely been reclamation so literally pouring sound into the sea to create a new land. singapore is already transformed 130 square kilometers of water into land and is planning to add another 100 square kilometers by 2030. having devoured all its own reserves its ferocious appetite has targeted its neighbor supplies. one after another cambodia. malaysia and indonesia have beach decided to ban trade with

singapore but its addiction descent is not easy to restrain. singapore is being accused of expanding its coast and illegally dredged satins from neighboring states . suspicions of central african hangover singapore and the dozens of barges filled to the brim which imo daily and it's important prove that the city state has found an alternative source but where does the saying come from. tommy guns fear. guns out. there you're going to hear every day every week. this what is the visual so awkward. know what.

your individual. your 4th division or your. thanks to local traffic and networks singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional companies continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. but the other company. is it just it was invisible. but this is the this place. if you're going to flaunt the law with the tacit support of the government they're most loyal client. the son trade in singapore is that he usually have a political as the mass of the baucus is ours were concerned it's just a is bill the south as you know leader in the region in particular the last global sun that's but their companies will brain imports of that country and should be its

human rights violations environmental degradation and damage the livelihoods of local people. the effects of underwater dredging are far from benign. much of the ocean floors rocky or covered with only a thin layer of sand. built up over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. as you dredge up a set. of course all the the any walls and plans on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever living communities are they will just be the sand is the primary link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest is threatened.

like many archipelagos many of indonesia's islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. 92 percent in the nation's fiscal challenges come from tension of the city because. of d.v.d.'s we believe we lost fish. livelihood. everything loss of fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of indonesian families but that's only the 1st of sand dredging to adverse effects. if you have an oil made of sand it's only there because of could spirit sea of natural processes wind waves water currents of year and so if you start removing that. then you've upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will then start to

move the rest of the set. after the extraction of sand a combination of waves currents and gravity slowly fill in the back you. so the removal of underwater sand can have a very noticeable effect on nearby beaches and islands. and so by a combination of the match will prove this is and human excavation the island can literally disappear. one of the nice stunning and packs of the trade is the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we use that sand. our life. once an island disappears the international maritime boundary changes all is required to these become geopolitical issues as well as simply commercial and resource issues.

25 indonesian islands have already disappeared. like coal and gas sand is now on the frontline of the world's hunger for raw materials. scarcity and dangers local communities and sets governments against each other. as demand builds the circle only becomes more vicious. morocco's gentle climate has been welcoming tourists for years. but its famous beaches have also been attracting some strange 4 legged visitors a constant stream of men and donkeys descend on the beaches 7 days a week. in search of. sand. for men and the donkeys have taken so much sand that some beaches now look like the surface of the moon.

rock has been experiencing a construction boom spurred on by a competitive real estate market. the builders are happy but they need plenty of sand legal and otherwise. that. i repair i have i don't want to give you. are you going to bend an addendum going to not c wonder how you could have been acquitted oh well coming up to no no no no my love my double got nothing. but not by me i got them help oh yeah. look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what cigars right with their day but they didn't come but you know you're not going out your head not them have them couldn't get up at will create a video i like them i like that lap it's estimated that 40 to 45 percent of the

sand used in construction in morocco has been stolen mostly from its beaches. loaded onto trucks the sand is sold directly to unscrupulous developers but that's not where the problem ends. without proper treatment salty beach sand mixed with cement is highly corrosive make america's new buildings ticking time bombs in danger of collapse. ironically the beach is meant to lure the tourists are being stripped bare to build hotels and condos that may turn out to be death traps.

in mumbai lavey enjoy. the position of being the financial capital of the country andrea also have a huge housing boom construction boom that's because of the influx of so many new people into the city. but the indian economy booming construction has to keep pace and like in so many other battlegrounds of the sand wars easy profits lead to corrupt practices. the value of sand is such that it's a commercial commodity that is smuggled i mean the it's a big business is smuggling the fam. sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. and lot of the people in the whole. who control of the sand mafia oso controls a lot of the construction the construction materials businesses in bombay as well

as the constructions themselves in addition to that they also control the administration through their political contacts so that just completes the whole value chain right from the extraction to construction the the profits in each bottle fed the administration and the police. under the eyes of corrupt authorities the sand arts ply their trade in broad daylight and more than $8000.00 drugs inside scattered across the coast and river banks of the subcontinent. for the mafia's beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arm's reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. the tentacles of the mafia's however are just adding to the pressures facing the

world speeches. just 2 years ago there was a row of houses here. about i think about 8 houses from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses verano water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with here on the beach front were row number 2 and i suspect if the house won't be here and 5 here. we thought the house about 2 years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here . but from here you could see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. because it was up to level with the cement but of course it went out into the ocean . so.

the beach area was about the length of a football field and over the last 2 years the a scart mint is underneath the houses so. the erosion on this part of the beach is much quicker than we anticipated or that is deemed to normal. globally between 75 and 90 percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of retreat and that's only going to get worse. from the al-jazeera london bureau constanta 2 special guests in conversation people think that racism is having personal vitriol towards black people and there's no understanding of what systemic racism is unprompted uninterrupted success comes with the position if you're not upsetting people you don't say anything. because

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substances. to land me in physical threat on al jazeera. hello again adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the global death toll from the corona virus is now past 10000 it's only as the worst affected country more than 3400 people have lost their lives there that's more than in china where the outbreak 1st began italian health care staff said that hospitals are struggling to cope elsewhere in europe the number of deaths in spain has jumped by a course on the previous days of more than a 1000 and germany has announced 20 more deaths and an increase in cases overnight by almost $3000.00 that raises the total that $14000.00 germans are being urged to

keep their distance from others to the pandemic iran has recorded 149 more deaths from the corona virus bringing its total to more than 1400 pandemic has overshadowed the persian new year iran's iran's leaders are calling for an end to u.s. sanctions so the country can receive medical supplies poljana. at the end of the iranian year we encountered an uninvited and destructive guest not only us but more than $150.00 other nations too it's the corona virus that could jeopardize people's health and business with unity hard work and cooperation we will put this virus behind a certain one into it would be if it's. in saudi arabia domestic flights and all local transportation has been suspended for the next 2 weeks the 2 main mosques in mecca and data a closed kingdom as reported 274 cases and no deaths so far for the 2nd successive day no new domestic covert 19 cases have been reported in china many chinese are

worried though by the threat of infected foreigners flying in importing a 2nd wave of the disease in the u.s. the governor of california is telling everyone to stay home as the corona virus spreads the california as the most populous us state border 1000 cases have been reported governor gavin newsome has warned that almost 20000 people may need hospital care and that's been the capacity of the state's health care system. in other news for a man convicted of raping and murdering a student in india in 2012 been executed large crowds celebrated outside the jail where the men were hanged on friday a court dismissed a last minute petition to delay the execution so i'll be back with the news out for you a little over 25 but it's almost 0 now let's get you back to sound was. the

world that is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and

transported by criminal mafias around the world. behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. where humans have intervened and we've built structures a wall concrete seawall a highway a hotel a parking lot the beach can't move back and we see long term beach lost. as part of the natural cycle beaches adjust to seasonal changes and summer beaches grow thicker and in winter they recede and level off to better absorb the energy of the waves to survive the ocean salt beaches must have enough space behind them but we've built too close to the shore so with nowhere to go beaches are overcome by

the waves which carry their sand out to sea. if you have an eroding beach what is the problem. not the symptom the sim symptom is the beaches eroding but what is the problem. what's causing it it's us. we are drawn to coastlines today 3 quarters of the largest cities in the world population are on the coast as the population growth accelerates the world's. increasing density by 2025 to 3 quarters of the world's inhabitants will live near the ocean and those 10 ribbons of sand would surround the continents are feeling the pressure. if we think. of the water and i hope that we learn from that but now we're here. and we have to

figure out how to make projects. that is wider and that's what brings tourists. in florida 9 out of 10 beaches are in the process of disappearing along with the future livelihood of all those who depend on this economic engine. each year of the planet's tourists head for the beach beaches feed the hotel industry as well as recreation transportation food services and a multitude of other sectors in some areas almost half the g.d.p. depends directly on beaches. letting them disappear is out of the question. so what we're trying to do is try to mitigate those problems try to lessen the impact and that's why we have to take these unnatural acts of pumping sand into the beaches. to keep their beaches viable cities that can afford to invest.

in their. dredge home sand from the ocean floor and tours it onto the beach. some people see this is a solution others see it as a band-aid which only true. it's the symptom. they've got to put up the beach and say this is beach nourishment but it's just another hole. those big machines that when they go take this there in killing everything within that sand as ground put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped for the life forms in that part of the beach aren't prepared to be buried alive and suffocated. it's a killing process for the sake of dollars. replenishment is a temporary remedy after a year to the sand has been washed out to sea and the whole process must be started again from scratch nonetheless this method is highly popular to the delight of the

dredging companies it's a matter of big money big big influence green it's not a pleasant thing to see you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so pleasant. in a desperate maneuver to try to trap the sand on the beaches coastal engineers are advocating the construction of dikes breakwaters and all sorts of other structures . but sand cannot be so easily tamed. the constant movement of sand is not necessarily always cooperating with the way we want the place to be it will fill up. and all it will wash away from beaches where we like tourists to come and so that balance is something that we all dramatically changing just by building on. all by building a sea wall around the extends out from the beach we build

a wall to to contain sand to keep it on our beach what do we do we stop the sand from supplying the neighbor's beach. the tragedy is that people are just not aware they're not aware that an action here is going to have a reaction somewhere else so we all have to be very careful when it comes to redeveloping the coastline we have a responsibility because we don't want these great wonderful treasures that we want to share with our children to disappear because of greed because of irresponsibility. and because of just not dan paying attention. in order to avert further catastrophe it's important to understand the source of 90 percent of the world sea sand often a long way from the beaches. for

the most part it starts in iraq somewhere that breaks down it might be in a river from ice or snow or rainfall and is that grain comes out of the granite or the sandstone it gets into a small stream and then a larger river and in a normal world ultimately will work its way all the way to the shoreline. it takes thousands or even millions of years for a grain of sand to reach the sea and it's a journey full of pitfalls. in america we have been building one dam every day since the deck relation of independence and 7761 a day. 80000 dams blocked the rivers of the united states and china where the

demand for energy is exploding dams are popping up everywhere so that by 2020 not a single waterway will reach the sea. and in the rest of the world there are at least 845000 dams and it's not only water they're holding back so all that sand that should be at the beach is behind the dance. one quarter of the sand reserves of the planet are hostile to these dams and the sand that makes it beyond the dams will run into another trapped river dredger. although it's regulated in many countries it's still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week the

result about 50 percent of a sandwich or nurse the world's beaches will never reach the sea. the coastline like many other environments it's like the earth was always thought so big so vast that we couldn't have an impact on it we built a dam for water or electricity which is a good thing but downstream there's no more sand so somehow we have to figure out how to bring all those things back into balance by taking some conscious steps to try to reduce the impacts of those things we're doing as a civilization. on them. grain after green beeches slowly erode

victims of decades of human interference. if you read the rising level. you get an ecological time bomb. to see right it's just going to happen a lot more quickly without saying. but it's not going to stop there it's going to take out hit all half of manhattan and it's going to this could take our cities as well it's going. keep coming. the sand is our barricade and we have to understand that. in the middle of the indian ocean sand is a matter of life and death. of the sand divers have been collecting call sand from the lagoon for years and selling with developers. but with sea levels rising this sand

harvesting is leading to some serious problems. and. sad it is a very ambitious commodity in the maldives because this one millimeter of the ocean touching you constantly every minute every 2nd every day every year is such a false and it is eat. or you don't deny. the mall deaves our road at a moment here right residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more than memories. really not god and i'd get all of them are sick and have a demonic in the house i'm in nevada did it come up with. the law one nun a gifted adama dick only numb the dental villian i got in riyadh only make a name on a clinic the highgate at the law get given in edmonton and it will make on the

money the board unless of unite in the going to become a living. several 100 islands have already been evacuated and today the refugees crowd on to larger and better protected islands such a small way the capital. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together . but in another better irony of the sand wars new. construction require ever more said. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 is the have it in history that goes back 2000. you can't just die . far from the mild deaves beautiful threatened beaches greed and speculation drive the global markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down . bombay is not an isolated case there's never been

so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. one 3rd of urban populations now live in slums well go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. in china 65000000 flats are empty yet the construction industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter of the sand extracted on the planet spain holds the unfortunate record as the european country most addicted to sand in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis 30 percent of the homes constructed since 1906 sit empty entire airports have been built without seeing a single passenger and in dubai the emirate continues to build and import sand even if 90 percent of the apartments in the burj khalifa are bacon. but sadly real estate speculation doesn't hold the monopoly on the wasting of sand

governments are also to blame. i would construction uses inexpensive see said the strips of asphalt we've built snaking around the world have swallowed up massive amounts of the world's beaches. think about the number of roads that governments across the way have to beat it's the public sector why the largest can do most of sad. how the sand wars even registered on our political leaders radars. access to energy in the developing world on the forestation on climate change on the reform of the arctic cultural common policy on the common fisheries policy on learned on not traversal c s i don't access to water without burial for you find that you need a program to get a lot was before it's going to get on the agenda. we talk about water because we know there's a major problem is that's right now in europe and we have had the debates on that

we've had the policy we're implementing a policy and soil we're still having a debate. on science we're not having the debates. it's fair to say that petitions scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the for the use they used most machines construction. can we continue to build and at the same time for yourselves from this dependence on sand. or other materials capable of replacing concrete. from the straw that's burnt after the crop is done you could build straw bale houses which use no cement. except maybe the slab on the floor but and there earthquake proof those houses are perfectly insulated and they're fireproof. you don't have to build concrete

buildings you see this building right here this building was built with 95 percent recycled materials all the steelers recycled it's made from. japanese cars you know it's all recycled steel and when this building is finished they can melt this steel down to make more buildings. there's so many materials which can be recycled i think we need to exhaust those and in the meantime maybe the world changes you know some years ago people used to build not with this quantity of reinforced cement concrete but a different methods of construction perhaps 35 different methods of construction but in the meantime at least we need to use recycled materials as far as possible. like strong metal our homes are recyclable and rubble can be really used to build roads or new housing projects.

but these solutions must face our usual inertia and relentless lobbying by the construction industry. construction companies are equipped for and know how to work with concrete so radically changing our construction practices is an uphill battle . what if there was another granular material that might substitute for sand. there's one very interesting beach north of san francisco called glass beach and it turns out that for years the city dumped. all of their trash on to the beach the glass that got broken up by the waves and got rounded and today this is this wonderful sparkly shiny sort of a magical beach is started out as a garbage dump when nature is done the glass beach has inspired people to attempt

a similar trick thousands of kilometers away in florida. which is something that has to be disposed of and takes landfill space or something like that into an asset then you've killed 2 birds with one. i think everybody realizes that bias is made out of saying that if people start scratching their heads and say well maybe that's a good use of it to return it to science. glass bottles and packaging are everywhere they're usually collected and recycled into new containers but when it's crushed into find pieces that glass can be just like sand got all because of all characteristics it's uncontaminated and regular beach sand it always looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so to say and i mean there's no reason to expect a difference. sand from recycled glass is one promising alternative

for the beaches of florida and elsewhere on the beaches where it has been tested even the sea turtles have adopted it as a place to lay their eggs. as much as one quarter of the glass that we throw away is not recycled and ends up in the. crushed it could be a perfect component in the making of concrete. but compared to natural sand this sand is still too expensive. when sun begins to cost high maybe. the sources can't compete with it though attentive can compete right now there is no competition you cannot compete that's something that is going to take the a truck bottom. pricing. as sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle to game budget a must see the sand gold rush is gaining speed and more battle fronts are appearing . on the coast of britain hundreds of families survived by traditional fish.

but today the fishermen are angry. a multinational with a thirst for sand plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods. but what need an issue does. it doesn't matter. so i'll go so will says of. the global. companies have come to brussels complaining about it not sure if oz and rules say. and that does rules to the things we need. so what they try to demonstrate is that by doing it by taking out sand from the not so rare there is no impact. going from you know me doing this well you know so i get on quite often with

a great deal more preschool seduces a. lot of them see if they move it says it can become a deal. just for me and while. scepticism also do no evil move. so. you do books wanted to for something says something about. a. 1000. years old was he into the only assume you mean st. exasperate of the brittany fisherman has shaken up both the elected officials and the citizens inspiring them to mobilize against the seizure of their sand with religion. all over the world.

perhaps grassroots movements such as this will mobilize other groups around the world to stop the sand wars. once people know once people understand what the issue is and how important it is whether it's each grain of sand on that beach or the importance of that beach in their community to their lives and their community i think there's hope. so you see if. this is the sand for useful construction this sand has been taken from there. from the beaches so it is much is there take these sand

the soil it ocean bilby more and this will have a very seed is in fact on the island. go to the beaches enjoy the beaches learn about the beaches and then do something about it. let's not let the beaches disappear. i believe that the younger generations of the planet must come out and tried to impress upon others the gravity of the issue in but is happening to the planet and this cute we must save the beaches. given the scale of which society is built with and i mean cern deserves a little more respect. whether it's more freeways whether it's more dams we've got to get away from these gigantic seams and get back to

a simpler. way of living. they've been tremendous environmental victories but the beach itself it's been left to fight for itself. maybe needs us to fight for. the fate of the world's beaches is not cast in concrete perhaps the day will come when we'll see sand with fresh eyes conscious of how every grain plays a role in the health of our planet and in our lives. then by working with nature instead of against her we can win the same wars for the good of a song. but

. we got plenty of showers across the amazon basin you can see the pot called clout that stretch across brazil little piles of power by much as they want to shout what's the weather once again toward san paolo towards or as ready big downpours a little further north into the heart of the amazon bolivia seeing some live fish i was here south of that is 5 and lots of lovely autumnal sunshine 27 celsius in one of sarah's will still get around $29.00 there are $26.00 as we go on into saturday the showers continue a little further north thirsts a little while s. wise but as we push up towards the caribbean but just some showers here

nevertheless this is. picture across the cabby not too much showing up on our satellite picture here but one or 2 little puffs of cloud around 80 the showers coming a little more widespread across the great run to this is we go on through friday say the leeward seeing a few showers hispania noticing a few showers us out was stretching the way down towards the western side of the region as we go on into saturday there were season wet weather it's a good part of the us through the plains the character out here pushing up towards the lakes and some very heavy downpours around texas easing over towards a tennessee snow north of that into eastern parts of canada will be new york at 23 degrees your 10 by saturday. the u.n. fact finders accused of burma's military genocide this is a political if you think there. do you believe the nobody is a fascist. i just don't have all. the recognize the both sides have legitimate

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