be the hero world needs right. i'm convinced on doha with the top stories here on al-jazeera lebanese president bashar al has named ambassador moustapha as the country's new prime minister designate secured the support of a majority of m.p.'s he has is with a loss even at the end will be how what on there is no room for words or promises it's time for us to join hands and restore hope among lebanese all the benet's appending high hopes on this and we hope we will be successful we want to restore hope and get back on our feet to work for the benefit of our country i have accepted this task because i'm aware and all the political factions are aware of

the gravity of the situation and the necessity to immediately implement reforms said how has more from beirut on the rise of mostafa. yes today he emerged as a consensus candidate the different political factions from across 11 on divided political landscape they agreed that this is the man who is going to head the next government but what we understand is that there was a lot of pressure from behind the scenes from power broker in this ongoing political crisis in lebanon trying and persuading lebanese politicians to move ahead to form a government that is ready to carry out much needed reforms to unlock to bailout plan with the international monetary fund we heard the say the right things he's promising formation of a government he's promising to carry out perform sees even saying that his cabinet is going to be made up of experts we heard from the previous prime minister has

found when he took office a few months ago but this time around yes both these men. have been appointed by the political establishment an establishment which has governing this country for decades and establishment many people do not have faith in but unlike has he has the support of the majority of the parliamentarians and unlike the seems to have the support of the international community which could make it easier for him to push ahead with much needed reforms. transitional government has signed a peace deal with a coalition of rebel groups to and nearly 2 decades of conflict so sudan has been mediation talks since november aimed at stopping violence in many parts of sudan and turning the darfur region. america poor land has accused president donald trump of creating a culture of fair and hate in the u.s. the criticism comes after a supporter of a far right group was killed on saturday night. montenegro is ruling party has narrowly won the parliamentary election its worst result since the country won

independence from serbia 14 years ago the pro western party of president made out djukanovic secured 35 percent of votes the process of an opposition party could still form a coalition never marry a flip of it is a political analyst from an to neighbor we have our preliminary results stated by the independent n.g.o.s what is very important to mention is that this is the official state electoral commission's didn't. go out with it be the official results 'd we had claims of week to read by the position parties and according. to what general said they are the majority of 41 to 42 out of 81 members of parliament. take already announced their coalition. with the help of the possibly in part with the help of a small per european coalition called united reform action.

committee which him up tonight and told the public that they are short of one member of parliament to form a majority so preliminary he announced at the last minute still we have. day in front of us or 2 days until tuesday and that's the legal obligation towards 8 electoral commission. we will elect will be official election. white house adviser jared krishna has travelled from israel to the united arab emirates on the 1st commercial flights between the nations these live pictures from their question was joined by an israeli delegation the visit follows a u.s. brokered deal between israel and the u.a.e. to normalize relations.

with both 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 mafias around the world at the time to have them but we don't look good up at please try to do a much better i felt. 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 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 played 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 in our 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 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 tonnes. 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 if you don't know because no other resource is used in such vast quantities as said 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 process of service 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 official reconstructed island. landfills or even bigger consumers of sand and 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. 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 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 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. is 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. 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 is more than doubled and the 63 islands that make up the city state are bursting at the seams singapore is for 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 ratios 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 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 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 guy. but in the same system. which i think is it just it was a business of great estates but this is the distaste. victory for. the law with the tacit support of the government their most loyal client. the son trade in singapore is that he usually have a political as a massive a backcross is ours were 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 they think they will just be. 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. this 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 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 sand trade was the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we use that same. 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 in dangerous 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. about are you going to bend an addendum going to knock or not do you have enough to know what kind of what do you. well i'll go much lower whatever got cut don't buy that but 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 the maybe 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. with 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 family. the 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 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 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 retreat and that's only going to get worst. more than 7 decades ago a country was split into a good deal to me and the time. being paved only took was upin amount of the collapsing empire and when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and docks what the future holds for these new

korea maybe as politician borders of blood. i've worked at al-jazeera english since it's lord sugar as a principal and as a correspondent with the breaking news story to hear from those people who would normally get the forces heard on the international news channel one moment i'll be very proud all when we covered the nepal earthquake of 25th to a terrible much older stuff and the story that needed to be told from the heart of the affected area to be there to tell the people story was very important at the time. the 2000 mile trip across europe seems impossible. as the balkans route begins to close for refugees it has become a race against time for one syrian famine. it's a perilous journey from greece to germany but there's no turning back to the ravages of war left at home. sky and ground

i witnessed documentary on al-jazeera. move or. i'm convert al in doha the top stories on al-jazeera lebanese president bashar al has named ambassador moustapha the as the country's new prime minister designate a day secured the support of a majority of them pays he has his who've lost the ability a movie how what on there is no room for words and promises it's time for us to join hands and restore hope among lebanese all even a's appending high hopes on this and we hope we will be successful we want to restore hope and get back on our feet to work for the benefit of our country i have accepted this task because i'm aware and all the political factions are aware of the gravity of the situation and

the necessity to immediately implement reforms. white house advisor judge krishna has arrived in the united arab emirates from israel on the 1st commercial flight between the 2 nations krishna is joined by an israeli delegation the visit follows a u.s. brokered deal between israel and the u.a.e. to normalize relations palestinians have denounced the deal saying it betrays their rights. sudan's transitional government has signed a peace deal with a coalition of rebel groups to end nearly 2 decades of conflict south sudan has been mediating talks since november aimed at stopping violence in many parts of sudan including the darfur region. 2 opposition leaders in ivory coast are attempting to join the presidential race on tuesday despite being barred from running both are living in exile and have had their candidacies rejected from the electoral commission president tell us on that ouattara is running for a 3rd term but critics say that's against the constitution. a man who hid and

protected hundreds of people during the 994 wanted genocide has been arrested on terror charges paul who says that begin now was detained abroad he's been living in exile he's accused of forming in leading what for a wanted or thorazine is called terrorist movements from today grows ruling party has narrowly won the parliamentary election its worst result since the country won independence from serbia 14 years ago progress to the party of president hamid out djukanovic secured 35 percent of votes the pro serbian opposition party could still form a coalition and the mayor of portland has accused president donald trump of creating a culture of fear and hate in the u.s. the criticism comes after a supporter of a far right group was killed on saturday night. and the news continues here on al-jazeera right after sand was to stay with us. it's. because 50 dads children and.

all that much. as. lacking specific and childhood education. do you. believe you just leave us to. try. to. seize. the world that is running out of sand consumed by industry in construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world. behind air and water.

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 symptom is the beach is eroding but what is the problem. what's causing it it's us. we're 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 520253 quarters of the world to 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

. 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. to the beaches. to keep their beaches viable cities that can afford to invest. in.

a dredge sand from the ocean floor and to be. some people see this is a summer shit others see it as a band-aid which only treats the symptoms. they've 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 same does ground put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped the life forms in that part of the beach are 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. and all it will wash away from beaches where we like tourists to come and so that balance is something that we are 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 block the rivers of the united states in 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 trap 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 the sand that your 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 down. to you. on the. ground up to green beaches 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 easy. or you don't deny. the mall deaves our roads at an alarming rate residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more the memories. really not god and i'd get all of them are sick in a demonic in the home and nobody did it come up was done day with the law one nun a difficulty down the dictaphone line number macdonald 1000000 i got in riyadh only make a name on a clinic the highgate at the level i get given every month in an economical need and the money to get more done less will unite in the going to come of it 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 were choir's ever more sand. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 in the have a written history that goes but. you can't just. far from the mel 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 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 and the development of the forestay on climate change on the reform of the arctic cultural common policy on the cullen fisheries policy on land grab on not traversal seas and on access to water without the aerial for you find that you need a problem 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 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 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 always 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. 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 with that 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 this is a. lot with 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 so rare there is no impact. going from you know me doing this well enough so i get on quite often with a great deal more preschool seduces

a. lot of them see if they move it says. yes for me and all the while. chris is i'm also doing no even move. so. blue book is going to do for something something. you know a ton. of years old was indeed into the home of a shoes 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. loving them but.

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 try 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. more than 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 if to fight for itself. maybe 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. well

i was all the fresh snow in patagonia the winter sun must make it look really quite beautiful and that cold air which has been course winter throughout the last few months reaches an age where it's always been warmer and although you can see on monday on tuesday the front develops again with montevideo 10 degrees photo alegria warmer side at 17 admittedly coastal brazil up to rio will be sherry and a little bit cool because they don't show breeze otherwise the sun is out there are up to about $0.27 young but given the sun's actually coming science now so are the showers those in peru and this part of brazil is like to be more showery than both colombia and venezuela watch the caribbean watch this massive cloud here looks

nothing much really but it might develop into a tropical depression and spin up as it moves slowly west was not much sign of it but a 30 percent chance of that happening if that's where the energy is where mexico has been very wet recently is looking just a little bit share it no more than that. as for the u.s. we'll have a guess where the big thunderstorms are going to be on this cold front so in the midwest down the plains states moving slowly eastwards there also is rather more right now in arizona. but. this is one of them both are sounding technological revolutions and all of this makes our planet pretty good we have to meet the c o 2 emissions targets electric cars that make the mitchell minutes and they need to be mindful when people are just talking about the stars and that's. the world of

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