ringback. i mean park in london with the top stories on al-jazeera 3 weeks after the disputed elections in belarus thousands of protesters have once again turned out in force calling for president lukashenko to step down police detained at least 125 people in the capital minsk with reports that security forces push back against peaceful demonstrators bernard smith is following developments from neighboring lithuania. sunday's alexander lukashenko a 66th birthday this is not the president he was hoping for. were not a herd of cattle all cowards were belorussians that chanting.

it's 3 weeks since the disputed election that the balor russian president claimed to win with 80 percent of the vote. no one here believes that and they've been protesting against luka shank ever since ready. i'm here to express my disapproval at the rigging of the elections and to be in solidarity with everyone he was detained i am for peace i am for belarus but the. protesters have been peaceful from the outset and after initially violently attempting to suppress earlier demonstrations the security forces have taken a step back in the past couple of weeks. some protesters are being detained more than 125 according to the couple and many journalists have had their accreditation revoked that was on sunday what witnesses described as the largest deployment so far of security forces who blocked off access to some main streets. one of the

country's largest mobile phone operators said it had reduced mobile internet capacity at the government's request. and tanks roll down a road closed because residents of minsk as protesters headed there. but there seems to be no indication the momentum has gone out of these demonstrations and look ashamed looks no more likely to loosen its grip on the presidency after 26 years. the kremlin says about amir putin called alexander lukashenko on sunday to wish him happy birthday to man of agree to meet in moscow in the next few weeks a suggestion of the kremlin's a willingness to buck russia's president as the european union prepares to impose new sanctions. burnet smith al-jazeera vilnius. the 1st exit polls from montenegro's parliamentary election in confirming a tight battle the 1st preliminary projection shows me

a low do kind of issues governing d.p.'s party on 34.2 percent of the vote the opposition produce alliance is just behind on 33.7 percent. all options are on the table to resolve protests over racial injustice in the u.s. city of portland according to the acting homeland security secretary chad wolf it comes after one person was shot dead during saturday night's violence between rival groups in the city activists in montreal who pulled down a statue of canada's 1st prime minister john a macdonald after protests calling for the defunding of the police historian say mcdonald's policies in the late 19th century forcibly removed indigenous children from their homes. carter has announced labor law reforms after 2 years of consultations with the un's labor body it sets a monthly minimum wage that's no longer based on nationality and removes a law that required employer approval to switch jobs reforms come after previous

criticisms from rights groups or flooding is expected in sudan in the coming days with the ribbon are reaching what the government say are unprecedented levels floodwaters in the capital khartoum are now at record heights at least 88 people have been killed and thousands of homes destroyed into renshaw rains which began 4 weeks ago. at least 3 more people have died making the dangerous mediterranean crossing from north africa after their boat caught fire in the italian coast italian health officials say another 5 of the refugees and migrants on board are being treated in hospital and several more are believed to be missing coming up next sand wars don't go away.

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. to try to do a live demo i'm not exactly. 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 loose. we loose. we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already

disappearing who will live in the sand and worse. 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 an unsung hero. it's because there are just endlessly examples. of the way in which sarah and intersects with daily lloyd's which we are really. 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 a form of basic material for microchips without which our computers credit cards bank machines cell phones and many other devices would not exist. sand even alpes of 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 dean 1000000000 tons. and that is a quantity that is so huge that it's beyond imagination how much is 15000000000 tons if 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 is all been taken away it's gone abuse it already. with the postes of 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. the right bessel in the right location can pump up 240-0000 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. even bigger consumers of sand. with a booming economy the emirate launched them bitches 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 more than $150000000.00 tons of sand stretch from coastline. 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 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 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 to buy as natural sand resources and you think we'll find of goals dubai is on the edge of that there's a they've got older style and 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 desert 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 a joke. that that's actually come true in the case of the by. $3500.00 australian companies exports into the arabian peninsula their profits have 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 it's sort of lying on the import. and for its very existence in the land masses literally increased 20 percent over the last 40 years and that's largely been reckon nation 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 for racial potatoes targeted 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 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. you're going to hear very every day every week. this is what is driving the visuals of. what you. see in. your individual. to the.

north korean television nobody hours ago. 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 come. but in these legal systems. which i think is it just it was the business of the state but this is not this case. thank you very much. the law with the tacit support of the government there most loyal client. the sun trading singapore's as he usually have a political as the mass of the backcrosses far as we're concerned it's just a is building. 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 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 that are on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever living communities are they will just be and 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 the tension of the city because mining activity is when this corner if 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 conspiracy of natural processes wind waves water currents time 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 sand. 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 natural growth this is and human excavation. the oil and literally disappear. one of the most stunning impacts of the sun trade was the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we use that sand. that we loose. 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 wrote that i have i don't want to give you. that are you know that i'm not going to bend and addenda going to not want to hire you have enough to know what kind of do you had noticed. well i'll go much lower whatever got my back but i got them help oh yeah. look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what you guys really do their day but they didn't come but you know you're not going out your head not them have them come we don't know what i'm going to get rid of it oh 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 fam. the sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. and a lot of the people in the whole. who control of the sun mafia oh so control and 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 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 though 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 here on the beach front were row number 2 and i the fact that these houses won't be here and 5 here. we thought the house about she. 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 scar 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 or a treat and that's only going to get worse. on counter because of how carving up the oil and gas riches of the east and that is radium could prove to be costly to save millions of jobs lost as peru tries to control the spread of the corona virus. plus the pricks who wants to run the world trade organization charging the cost on al-jazeera. an image can change the way we see the womb if we had not seen that we would be talking about it it can

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a nurse back who what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. i may have barca in london with the top stories on al-jazeera 3 weeks after disputed elections in belarus thousands of protesters have once again turned out in force calling for president look at shanker to step down that's despite government warnings police detained at least 125 people in the capital minsk with reports the security forces push back against peaceful demonstrators smith has more from neighboring lithuania on a proposed meeting between look at shanker and his russian counterpart. the kremlin says about amir putin called alexander lukashenko on sunday to wish him happy birthday to man of agree to meet in moscow in the next few weeks

a suggestion that the kremlin's a willingness to back russia's president as the european union prepares to impose new sanctions the latest exit polls from montenegro's parliamentary election i am confirming a tight battle the preliminary projection shows me a lot of kind of issues governing d.p.'s party with 29 seats the opposition pros alliance is just behind on 27 seats. all options are on the table to resolve protests over racial injustice in the u.s. city of portland that's according to the acting homeland security secretary chad wolf it comes after one person was shot dead during saturday's night's violence between rival groups in the city portland has been the site of nightly demonstrations for more than 3 months since police killed george floyd in minneapolis lebanon's ambassador to germany moustapha looks likely to become the country's new prime minister designate lebanon's governing future

movement party said it would nominate added for the post informal consultations starting on monday. has announced labor law reforms after 2 years of consultations with the un's labor body it says a monthly minimum wage that's no longer based on national t.v. and moves a law that required employer approval to switch jobs the reforms come after previous criticisms from rights groups. more flooding is expected in sudan in the coming days with the river nile reaching what the government say are unprecedented levels at least 88 people have been killed and thousands of homes destroyed and to ensure the rains which began 4 weeks ago well i'll be back with a full news hour in around 25 minutes right after the 2nd half of soundboards stay with us. the world 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 build 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 that 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 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 pumping sand into the beaches. to keep their beaches viable cities that can afford to invest

astronomical sums in 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 to take this they're in killing everything within that same 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. peter planet 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 harbors 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 sees and 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 dec 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 hostage 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 results 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. on the. ground after green beeches slowly erode victims of decades of human interference. if you add the rise in level b.

or sure 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 in all half of manhattan and it's going to this could take our cities as well it's going. keep coming. in 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. saturday video and precious 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. a the mole 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 the demonic in the house i'm in a body did it come up was how to undo what the law gave the one nun a difficulty down the dictaphone line number mcdonnell building i got in riyadh only make a name on it let me ask you how you got the logic given the naval moment it will make on the money keyboard unless of unite in the going to come and live in.

several 100 islands have already been evacuated and today the refugees crowd on to larger and better protected islands such as small as the capital. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together. but in another better irony of the sand wars new. construction requires ever more sand . we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 we have written history that goes but. we can't just. 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 while 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 seen 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 and the development of the forestay on climate change on the reform of the applicant for common policy on the cullen fisheries policy on land on not traversal seas and on 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 right now in europe and we have had the debates and 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 that petitions scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the foot 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 they're 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 when you kill 2 birds with one stone. i think everybody realizes that bias is right 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 says i'm contaminated insurer's 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 on the sources can't compete with it go into and can compete with that right now there is no competition you cannot compete that's something that is going to take the a truck. pricing. as sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle to game budget in missy 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 is an issue to look at all but. it doesn't matter. so i'll go so this is a. look at all the thoughts of the global. companies have come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules say. on the does rules get to the things we need. so what they try to demonstrate is that by doing it by taking out sand from the not too rare there is no in fact. going from you know me doing this well enough so i get on quite often with a good yarmulkes good citizen. and then see if they move it says.

yes for me and all the while. chris is i'm also do you know even mcconnell. so. blue book is going to have to move for sub sub. into google only assume it will be st. exasperates sion 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 the engine. of. 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 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 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 think 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 at the beach itself it's been left to fight for itself. maybe it needs us to fight for it. the fate of the world's beaches is not cast in concrete perhaps the day will come when we'll see said 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 said wars for the good of a song. we are going home to with linus when modern mankind originate. many moons ago

mankind migrated from the majestic. to begin the journey of the modern human across the world 1st and as the dust settles everyone is welcome back home too with gladness. ah pride your destination. but. hello because some blustery showers rattling across southern parts of australia as a little bits and pieces of cloud are rolling through here a little speckling of share a cloud behind a cold front which is really drag the temperatures down for that southeastern

corner 1340 maybe 15 degrees there from melbourne and for adelaide just 11 celsius there in hobart as we go on into tuesday the winds will calm down they'll start to swing round to the other direction warmer weather coming back into 20 celsius in adelaide at that stage and lastly fine and dry across much of australia there will see some wet weather to clipping the far south of w.a. some wet weather to making its way into new zealand some snow over the high ground around 400 meters and above meanwhile in suez asia where we're looking at some wet weather making its way across northern parts of japan little area cloud here moving out of the way the legacy of showers just fallen behind for hunch you and also pushing up into her car by western weather also just sliding its way there into the korean peninsula head of our next typhoon here we go this is may set that's going to continue making its way further north which as we go through the next couple of days than time not full time will be around shoes day going on into wednesday.

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