told stories from asia in the pacific on al-jazeera joining the listening as we turn the cameras on the media the state misleads the public the state media reflects the same thing as climate change and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most. i'm kim della doha the top stories on al-jazeera india's 1300000000 people are now under lockdown as the country implements a one day curfew people have been told to stay home between 7 am and 9 pm prime minister narendra modi has said the curfew would be a crucial test of india's ability to fight the pandemic australians have been told to cancel all non-essential travel and have been warned more draconian measures to combat the pandemic will follow prime minister scott morrison made the announcement on sunday calling social distancing the best weapon to fight the virus for us and

also announced a $38000000000.00 economic rescue package shamed at helping small businesses weather the impact securing the essential medical supplies has been made i dial the task that the health minister has been leading together with the industry minister and other ministers across the cabinet. and in foresee the social distancing keeping i will be physical distance from one another. the sea is one of our most if not most important with or against the spirit of the corona virus which means we can side lives and we can save livelihoods singapore plans to ban all short term visitors from entering all transiting through the country to control the spread of corona virus was to 80 percent of the city's state's new infections over the last 3 days have been imported and thailand has reported its largest ever

daily increase in corona virus infections up 188 cases today only 600. there are reports of protests at a number of prisons across colombia at a prison in the capital bogota there were 5 isn't reports of gunshots the government recently stopped prison visits in a bid to stop the spread of the virus and the sounds around p.s.t. has more from bogota. we understand that protests have broken out in the past few hours in the geraghty of prisons and detention centers across the country in what seats to be coordinated protests over coronavirus fears and the sanitary conditions inside these prisons that more violent ones have happened here in the capital but that at the 2 main male prison flamma bello and not because they're called that are notorious for overcrowding and terrible health conditions there are reports of fires and shots rang out both prison guards in inmates that have been

injured also reports of possibly one of phish show that could have 6 but there is no official confirmation that a diff point. then for the president of colombia one ducat people a little over a half an hour ago saying that the police and the army have intervened to assist the prison guards that most of these protests the riots were under control at this hour. 5 or getting under control you also said that the government would protect inmates as well and he was beastly of mentioning the fears over to the coronavirus u.s. vice president mike pence and his wife say they do not have chronic virus they were both tested after a member of the vice president's stuff was confirmed to have the virus meanwhile nearly one in every 4 americans has been ordered to stay at home as more states

roll out restrictions limiting people's movement that's happening as politicians get tested to agreeing on a one trillion dollars package shame that cushioning the economic fallout. palestinian authorities have confirmed the 1st cases of coronavirus in gaza the health ministry says the 2 palestinians returned from pakistan on thursday and were under quarantine. confirmed corona virus cases worldwide have now passed 300000 the pandemic is taking an increasingly heavy toll in the world's worst affected country it's leaf there have been almost $800.00 more deaths and more than 6500 new infections in just one day. and libya's warring sides have agreed to a cease fire so they can focus on a shared enemy so far no cases of koran a virus have been reported there but the house system would struggle to cope with any large scale outbreak you're up to date up next to sand walls.

we bought 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. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal bodies around the world fred don't have time to have them put on hold but i gotta get put it right up until i'm going to have a my family. washed away by rising sea levels we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 units become just. lost to human greed and stupidity. when we use that sand that mean we loose. our life.

we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing cool way to send us. 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 there are just endless examples. of the way in which sarah and 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 an hour winds 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 they form a basic material for microchips without which our computers credit cards bank machine cell phones and many other devices would not exist in. san even alps

a 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 they 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 dean 1000000000 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 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 positive surface and 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. and. 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 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. official reconstructed island. even bigger consumers of sand. 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. the world cost over $12000000000.00

and devoured more than $150000000.00 tons of sand. with the 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. 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 to buy and restore its glory. to

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

a sustainable resource. although its own stocks are exhausted dubai is far from given up. the burj khalifa at the time of construction the world's tallest building was built with sand from half a world away. we have a saying in english which is selling sand to the arabs which is obviously. that that's actually come true in the case of the by. $3500.00 australian companies exports into the arabian peninsula their profits of tripled in 20 years accounting for a $5000000000.00 jackpot. and australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas you see is this huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes such

construction land reclamation. singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. in 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 this city state are bursting at the seams singapore its were lying on the import. for its very existence in the land masses literally increased 20 percent over the last 40 years and that's largely been recognition so literally pouring sound into the sea to create new land . singapore is already transformed 130 square kilometers of water into land and is planning to add another 100 square kilometers by 2030. having devoured all its own reserves it's for a shoes appetite is targeted at its neighbor supplies. one after another cambodia.

malaysia and indonesia have each decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction to sand is not easy to restrain. singapore is being accused of expanding its coast and illegally dredged satins from neighboring states. suspicions of sand trafficking hang over singapore and the dozens of barges told in the broome 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 is what is driving the visuals so down on what. you saw

in. your individual. to the. north korean television nobody years ago. thanks to local traffic in networks singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional companies continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. but the other can. but in the same system. which i think is it just it was in most ways a great state but it just is this place. to take you. to flaunt the law with the tacit support of the government there most loyal client. the son trade in singapore is he usually have a political as the mass of the backcrosses far as we're concerned it's just a is bill the south as you know leader in the region particularly with 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 are 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. on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever living communities are they will just be at 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 my name at the base when this coral reef we lost fish. livelihood. everything loss of fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of indonesian families but that's only the 1st of sand dredging to verse of facts. if you have an oil made of sand it's only there because of conspiracy of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing the. then you've upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will learn start to move the rest

of the set. after the extraction of sand a combination of waves currents and gravity slowly fill in the back you. so the removal of underwater sand can have a very noticeable effect on nearby beaches and islands. and so by a combination of the match will prove this is and human excavation the island can literally disappear. one of the most 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. 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. the men on the donkeys have taken so much sand that some beaches now look like the surface of the moon.

rock has been experiencing a construction boom spurred on by a competitive real estate market. the builders are happy but they need plenty of sand legal and otherwise. that. i repair i have i don't want to give you. a bit about are you going to bend an addendum going to matter or not do you have enough to know what kind of what do you have 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 i did but didn't come but you imagine you're going out your head not them have them couldn't get a good look at what a great a video i like them i like that lap it's estimated that 40 to 45 percent of the

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

and home 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. a lot of the people in the whole. who control of the sun 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 fit 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 dredging sites scattered across the coast and river banks of the subcontinent. for the mafia's beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arm's reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. the tentacles of the mafia's however are just adding to the pressures facing the

world speeches. just 2 years ago there was a row of houses here. about i think about a house of from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses there on the water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with their on the wii front were row number 2 and i have the fact that the house we won't be here in 5 here. but bought 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. the grim consequences of mexico's bloody drug most watch the people around you mr governor you've got people who are with the narco through the eyes of the journalists determined to report the truth your government is full of narco she said that's how the article should start 6 years on we revisit the reporters still risking their lives laden in this being another are the brink of violence of more

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a family in britain i believe that has not been touched by empire studio be unscripted on al-jazeera. and can belive doha the top stories on al-jazeera india's 1300000000 people are now under lockdown as the country implements a one day curfew people have been told to stay home between 7 am and 9 pm prime minister narendra modi has said the curfew would be a crucial test of india's ability to fight the pandemic. straightens have been told to cancel all non-essential travel and are being warned more draconian measures to combat the pandemic will follow prime minister scott morrison made the announcement on sunday calling social distancing the best weapon to fight the virus securing the

essential medical supplies has been made by dialing task that the health minister has been living together with the industry minister and other ministers across the cabinet. and in foresee the social distancing keeping my health the physical distance from one another. these seas one of our most if not most important with or against the spirit of the crown of ours which means we can side lives and we can save livelihoods singapore plans to ban all short term visitors from entering or transiting through the country to control the spread of coronavirus almost 80 percent of the city state's new infections over the last 3 days have been importers and thailand has reported its largest ever daily increase in corona virus infections up 188 cases to nearly 600

there are reports of protests at a number of prisons across colombia there were 5 reports of gunshots at a prison in the capital bogota the government had stopped visitors in recent days in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus palestinian authorities have confirmed the 1st cases of coronavirus in gaza the health ministry says the 2 palestinians returned from pakistan on thursday and were under quarantine all restaurants coffee shops and mosques were ordered to close following the announcement confirmed corona virus cases worldwide have passed 300000 the pandemic is taking an increasingly heavy toll in the world's worst affected country there have been almost 800 more deaths and more than 6500 new infections in just one day but as the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after sand walls.

i'm going. to. lead. the world that is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen

and transported by criminal mafias around the world. behind. 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 simple 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 hyper . increasing density by 2025 to 3 quarters of the world's inhabitants will live near the ocean and those ribbons of sand which 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

astronomical sums in beach replenishment their. dredge home sand from the ocean floor and force 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 is ground put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped the life forms in that part of the beach aren't prepared to be buried alive and suffocate it. it's a killing process for the sake of dollars. replenishment is a temporary remedy after year 2 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 the thing you say 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 because then 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. is coming. to you to be. on the. ground 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 its 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 easy. or you don't deny. the mall deaves our road at an alarming rate residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more than memories. really not god and i'd get all of them are sick and have a demonic in the home and nobody did it come up with how to undo what the law gave the one nun a difficulty down the dictaphone line number tunnel vision i got in riyadh only make a name on a clinic the highgate at the lodge i didn't have a month in and it will make on the money keyboard unless the unite in the going to

become a live in. 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 we're choir's 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 said

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 all not traversal says 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 the 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 the glass 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 in regular beach sand it only looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so it is safe 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 with 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

fishing. but today the fishermen are angry. a multinational with a verse for saying it plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods . but what need is an issue does. it doesn't matter. so i'll go so this is a. lot with the global. companies that come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules say . and that does rules that sort of 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. move it says. yes for me and all the while. simplicities i'm also doing no even move. so. blue book is going to do for sub sub. you know. busy day into the only assume it will be st. exasperate of the brittany fisherman has shaken up both the elected officials and the citizens inspiring them to mobilize against the seizure of their sand with 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 for yourself. this is the sand for useful construction this sand has been taken from bit. from the beaches so it is much is there take these sand

the soviet ocean to be more and this will have a very seat is in fact on the island. go to the beaches enjoy the beaches learn about the beaches and then do something about it. let's not let the beaches disappear. i believe that the younger generations of the planet must come out and try to impress a point now that is the gravity of the issue in but is happening to the planet and to skew it we must save the beaches. given the scale of which society is built with sand i mean sand is 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 sam with fresh eyes conscious of how every grain plays a role in the health of our planet and in our lives. then by working with nature instead of against her we can win the senate wars for the good of a song. welcome

back it looks rather stormy around parts the middle east at the moment you see in the forecast a lot of heavy rain kuwait down into iran and this could result in some flash flooding heavy showers across the u.a.e. here in qatar wouldn't entirely rather a chance of a thunderstorm on sunday but the general situation improving here we've got rain also extending across parts of a man down through far south of saudi arabia and into yemen on the other side the potential weather conditions looking fine mecca there at 29 degrees celsius and quite a conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean though still quite chilly jerusalem just 12 degrees below the forecast or into monday recovery of temperatures around this region and the rain across the gulf region is clearing away towards the east so brighter conditions expected but eastern parts of iran through into afghanistan likely see some heavy at times of flooding rain moving across into africa it's looking pretty wet across much of d.r. see down towards. some heavy showers also for tanzania may mostly move further

towards the south we can see we've got showers expect in the long way and then across southern portions of the continent we've got the risk of showers across parts of south africa johannesburg who will pick up wanted to but it is they largely dry and finding cape town. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires is it's really working out the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sucralose through school even know what the law is all 'd about this argument is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of the new conscious and aware use of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera talk to al-jazeera what will force were

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