now includes music that would reach far beyond the broadly stage. stephen sondheim was 91. 0 oh. oh my lot of stories on al jazeera, israel is banning the entry of all foreigners in reaction to the spread of a new variant of corona virus. it's the most extreme of several new travel restrictions with omicron case is now found in several countries. a growing list have restricted travel to southern africa, including south korea, the u. s. and australia. but cases have now been detected in germany, u. k and several other countries. british prime minister forest johnson has tightened rules in his country. our scientists are loading more hour by hour and it does appear that only cron spreads very rapidly and can be spread

between people who had double vaccinated. there is also a very extensive mutation, which means it diverges quite significantly from previous configurations of the virus. and as a result, it might at least import, reduce the protection of our vaccines over time. so africa has condemned the travel restrictions. it's as it's being punished for detecting the strain when it should be applauded. the foreign ministry says its being treated differently from other countries that have discovered variance. susan burkina faso, her fired tear gas during an anti government demonstration protest as a calling for the resignation. no, president or cowboy, they're angry at failures to stop a wave of violence by armed groups including an attack on wednesday, the president has promised to en what he called dysfunction within the military. the rogers news agency is reporting that 6 sudanese soldiers had been killed in an

attack by ethiopian forces. it happened at a sudanese army post near the border between the countries. earlier, the military said in a statement, groups of these european army and militias attacked its forces, which resulted in death, but did not give details. police in iran of arrest as 67 people during protests against router shortages. if i'd tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the city of is for hon. irena authorities are promised to compensate farmers losses incurred in drought. it areas do you stay with us for earth rise, building better cities? that's up next. more news for you after that. thanks. so much for watching i for now african stories of resilience and carrying a tradition and dedication without

a short documentary by african filmmakers on the white 9 and the book make it africa direct on al jazeera. ah, people move to the cities because that's where the jobs, the money and other opportunities are. but the planets metropolises are being stretched to that in more than half the world's population live in cities of like 2050. this figure will rise to 2 thirds. that's more than 6000000000 people. over the next 40 years, cities will cover up the natural habitat area covered by them. triple people means

more transport, more buildings, more weight, more pollution. as with many of those made into cities of rural pool, they joined a 1600000000 people living without adequate shelter. p. it's vital to define sustainable ways to deal with this rapid itemization. i'm julie on the columbia, where plastic waste for instructing new home for the, for in the vulnerable i'm russell beard and singapore where one metropolis is striving for environmental sustainability. in the face of rugged urbanized ation, bob iglesia, again, over $300000000.00 tons of plastic is produced each year with only a fraction of it being recycled much of it ends up in landfill or polluting urban living environment. waterways in ocean in columbia, tons of plastic waste is being diverted into the building blocks of

a new environmental housing pollution. a columbia's capital city of bova is home to 8000000 people. and it is estimated that 650 tons of plastic is thrown away every single day. i have come to meet us for monday, an architect and founder of a new enterprise for environmental change called concept of glassy cause. he has brought me to an informal housing settlement on the outskirts of town to show me 1st hand the problems faced here and across latin america will give one will be lucky geisha boy. okay. google plays where it is plastic google, yahoo dot com. but those channels are kinda dozens, 75 percent of glass sticking packaging is single use. when you see all of this plastic on the ground, you see potential. yes, a lot of put the engine weekend transform all displaced in order for oscars enterprise to succeed though, he's going to need a lot of plastic wholesale,

informal recycling, has been a long standing trade in columbia with 40000 trucks on the street. the both are collecting conventional useful waste with the scrap metal and plastic bottles. so we're in a big right now where the recycle is come to bring their plastic and other recyclable products. and they weigh them here so that they can then be paid. read her looking for paulina, he's the lead recycler, he's organize all of the recycling in this area. over recent years, government support has allowed people like paulina the opportunity to upscale and legitimize the industry creating recycling centers like this one all over the city . i'm video the emotion sequence at last the sign gonzales cookies as the eliza glenda what alaska is a credit because it's all roses fundraising gland. the ongoing challenge for paulina and his team is getting the word out

now with the one on the road was almost going almost da da da da da da da. been busy. no. the weather bug on mckinney recommend tomorrow? i want to please. yeah. a way of knowing people until they was backed up with me. same with if given was are you i don't me ambien a celebrity model that is like i was like in the job. i sort of secret i'm yay thing that a little bit us you on the almost so much it's almost like on the plastic

was as awesome. and as a new venture, which is making good use of this waste plastic i had to the company headquarters to meet up with. welcome to a perspective saying here, this is where we take all the plastic from pauline or on maybe the formation. over the past few years, oscar and his team had been refining this waste to make durable building blocks different types of plastic or 1st grounds separately. household plastic waste, battery packaging and electrical ways such as old computers and tv. so you could be like, you come straight from the factory, but these haven't even been used. it's like a giant lender. what would happen to this packaging if you weren't recycling it? so the packaging for the consumer, or is your, is going to london. now we've got all the ingredients. now the chef will go to work and put it together. he, he's the chair, all he about, sorry, this is

a chef. they won't tell is exactly the proportions because it's a speaker wrap the piece, the ground plastic are mixed together. heated and then compressed into brick shaped moulds. tell me a little bit about the temperature. what. how hot are the plastic? we just go to my viewpoint. depends of the me is, depends on the blood do between longer and longer. 40 degrees in very important that the temperature is kept melting point was not to burn the plastic and the least toxic gases. well, let's take this out. let's look at it. it looks like the manual, not as happy, but i wonder what that was for that or that a cell phone numbers. we have another 51 number for. so now that we have all of these bricks, what kind of uses do you have for them?

imagine would you can made this same being with this kind of work. and where are these going? is briggs are going to gully? you see what we're going to do with, recognize globally as the world capital for salsa dancing. the city of cali, 400 kilometers west, of all the thought is one of great social by 6 percent of the land area occupied by slums housing. 40000 people a most godaddy a weekend who in my job and neighborhood in easter, paling. one of the city's most deprived areas. oh yeah. oh phone. yes. i do. gotta read them ill from your leaders upstairs to catch up with oscar ellis bricks. wow. oh my goodness. the bricks we just saw in the factory there actually constructing

into a house for someone who was here in the community. otherwise, i thought you were involved a thought, if a plan we are building these things now are here and building. it's amazing. tell me a little bit about what stage you're at right now. we are in the kitchen. aha, where many meals will be cooked them? sure. yeah, this is the bathroom. this house cost $5000.00 and has been micro financed by the community. 4 of them yet, whose son lives in the apartment below? where from your market in your own up yourself or not? um, i am going ask one the soonest. aha! see, get that electronics young because as far feel, boys, they will start seeing. oh no, you're so fussy, leap away. no, it's literally like lifesize lego oscars hope is that this project will generate interest in the community and encourage future collaboration. meet up is that most concordia, natasha into the law that he just keystone into the plastic or the club. there

rocha looks like rock to them. a government with me, i'm all up is a story about, i mean, i'm, you know, need to let me get with this. i just can't get over the holes for the electrical outlets in the plumbing wire the cable down in ohio electricity. so pick it out. it's actually a room now at the kitchen. he's telling me this is where the closet is gonna be locked up, you know, let, coming up with a television on top. if you can imagine that the all we've got left is the roof and some doors are pretty close. how much plastic is in this house? this house we use is 5 pounds teen compact thought. is it plastic or well, dollars head wasn't one of those. the minute continental that what interviews a little bit of the appeal because when your

report in just under today's the house is almost complete, the plan is that a family of 4 will be able to put together their own home in less than 5 days time . look up as i look on his daughter into mrs. impulses is working with no volume has any me concept of plastic or have already helped to house. 42 families displaced by conflict in the town of guar pie recycling 120 tons of plastic in the process. tell me a little bit about the magnitude of impact that this project can have if we use just to present their waste blasting the war. we can change life of 1000000 of people. we can finish their house in short fishing like in america, in just 10 years. that's an enormous number and a huge impact. we have to start, we have to start step by step ah, in what additive sustainable building

materials are being developed globally. bamboo is being treated and use for construction in countries including ethiopia, indonesia, and here in the poll with many strains, 10 times stronger than steel and a rapid growth cycle of 4 to 5 years. mandy is one of the most eco friendly building materials on the planet. in the middle east to engineering graduates and gaza have created an environmentally friendly break called green cake. this uses coal and would ashes a filler instead of sand making use of waste that would otherwise be buried in the grounds and, and go smaller one non profit to spill to school using natural resources and rubbish that would normally pilot landfills. my zation is made the system out o tires capable of holding thousands of gallons of rainbow materials like these and not only paving the way for green urban sprawl. that redefining the space is green habit.

singapore is a low lying island in city states. 80 percent of its population live in high rise public housing, resulting in one of the highest population densities in the world. challenges from rapid urban ization, sea level rise and increasingly chaotic climate is forcing plan as an architect and policy makers to respond to critical questions about how cities in the future will cope with growing demand. despite the growing pressure on space, singapore has been dubbed ages cleanest city. so i've come here to meet some of the people who are helping it earn that title. my 1st stop is the park royal hotel, which bowes, 15000 square meters of greenery and was completed in 2013 by award winning architect, richard hassle. now in almost every way as being formed by human activity though for us as architects, we feel like it's something within our control to the jeff wise. that building

projects can also play a much stronger role in june. ship of the earth. when you look at like google earth or images from spike cities or really desert, you know, you see a very bright white, shiny area surrounded by documentation. if people build buildings like this, you would no longer say that you would say the vegetation layer covering the city as well. the singapore in government avoided talk, loyal it's coveted, platinum, a green mark, the nation's highest environmental city location is part of a white, a scheme to promote environmentally friendly buildings and investment into green city solutions. to understand more about why the city is the greenest in asia, i want to see what's happening at the grass roots. heard about a non profit trust and providing environment and supporting accruing to community come to be the funder like hawk. welcome, and i came here trying to get people to go back to basic. and i thought as

a result that we've been is asia and globalization and digitalization that you can disconnect. so i was trying to create, using a space to connect back peeper and to bring better spirit a community. and it's very strange for a country like things well with us where so top down. and that's why my name is called ground up in a shaky ground up initiative. started in 2009 and secured a piece of land to provide environmental education for people of all ages in several workshops and seminars. building a community of environmental, engage citizen, i guess it just for a moment, forgot that we're in the middle of it just knocking down your door. and in fact, we want to build on this land that to and i told the government to give me a chance to prove that. i think singapore needs a different cannot space 50 percent of the world population now leave in cities and we 70 percent will leave out of 9300000000 or 9.5000000030 years time. what.

what do you think will become where a full coming from? who wants to work on the land? who will clean the rubbish for you? all the same by malaysia in the ground up initiative gardens or meet choi finn and co volunteers have come along to get their hands day. why do you think, doing farming in a way to get me more connected with what we are actually doing every day? because whether it food we know exactly where they come from and in singapore, i realize also people don't appreciate food because on maybe to the kids they have no one seen this. how the fruit is growing. maybe they thought it just from a supermarket. places like this is very good because it makes us go back to the basics. what keeps us surviving? what makes us trying. and if not really about having money, it's not really about heavy or the tech stuff, but really been able to, to, i miss then that you, i just be what

a part of this legal ecosystem thing. how things are growing. for example, it makes me start to ask a lot of other questions like how, where things come from. so if i use a paper, i start to think so way that from and if i troy away, is it going curve? we is committed to reducing a ways to almost 0. we go back to reflect to see if she's good. i know this is the last place that you would expect to see a little permaculture garden going on in somebody's front room. i just started this journey barely a year ago. so a lot of things are to me, are experiments. you are here on your new experiment with all this. how do you, are you kind of creating a network? yes. because you can't be the only person in saint paul to it. yeah. on when i saw that a group on facebook, it was sometimes frustrating because i seem to be the only person who kick posting, but now i think it's at least 53500. and it's quite surprising. i think when we see individual taking just

a small chance for me is very encouraging because they start to take this ownership . mm. have we in a journey to 0 waste community still have a long way to go. last year, singapore is 5500000 population. ditched over $7500000.00 tons of waste bass, one half tons per person. but momentum is building and similar dress which projects is sprouting up throughout the city. she met chafing earlier as a ground up initiative, and she's invited us to come across, turn and have a look at her own community. good. how are you? so this is your projects. yes. my neighbors will come and spend time here in the garden. i need doing stuff. the ad directors, the i am c o lawyers. is that, is that a demand? me is that so i never seen soybeans group before. i feel that a lot of just a bunch basis and thing up on should not be what the culture landscape. it should

be foot space. and how can mean, surely me sing up or maybe a, a city in the foot godaddy? why does it need to just be a small one in one day only serves a few people in the community. why not? the larger community, over 80 percent of the food consumed in singapore is imported to the ministry of national development is investing heavily in boosting food production on the island . i've arranged to meet jack in an engineer turn food producer, who's taking commercial skill urban farming to the next level of care. so i have never seen a form like this before. i was in the well, 1st in the world for someone that's never heard of a vertical form. how do you describe something? i think a boy landscape. so we don't have much our land thought of what he was the best give us think about and we stay in the history. the fact is,

is that because he full of it why i wish they were i because i cannot go. but the study candy, our system is using the hydraulics are using whatever make it this power or dating . so fun can go up together in our sunlight, cannot get our new trends and what that. so and the water is a similar though. miguel, locating is a sim, also give a good a plan and a what i will be q one. at least sika use it. so far we not change over at all so far. you've not changed it at all. weiss, that's quite something given that this farms been operating for 3 years. these rotating shelves effectively increased the land surface area by a factor of 10. meaning this vertical farm can produce 2 tons of vegetables in a single day. meat pie king of the veggies. it's a beauty, is it all? it is a we'd as the 1st we'd have seen in the, in the entire place, this is to attract a pair, is that? yeah. and then they, they're stunned on these buys and then, but there's none in there. i mean me, there isn't

a path many bernice work and even a path up though it catch em. we are pick block fish. this is really to where to this is floating. this is, this is yes, combi put the completely floating jack way, the created a po and reno's in upon. we need pond, look at what the far west they were. so i do, if you look back upon as a less air for our system. so i look and we build upon, it seemed that we had a plan. so a concern is that is the sim area. we have to put action one, harvest of fish for every 6 harvest of vegetables july. the fish are feeding the vegetables. yes. and the vegetables are in a sense, be raise can feel of mission. yeah. so that, that the trimmings from the vegetables are actually going to feed it. and using is the sim, size, or land i have to pull out yet being located within the city. these high density aqua clinic setups are also saving energy on transportation and storage. so it's

little wonder this guy greens have garnered widespread interest, ro asia, as well as with the singapore in government. continue to support the development of the technology of come back to the woo, how office is to learn more about their living buildings. what lies ahead for ages? greenest city. this project, for instance, when it's fully growing, we'll have a live in time for thought area as green area. so why go to all this extra effort to, to swadell you buildings in plants, a huge one in the hot climate like singapore is the plants are the only thing that when the sunlight falls on it, they don't heat up. they actually take that energy and use it for the chemical processes of building carbohydrates and things. so the calculation for singapore, for instance, is that before the city was built, singapore was 5 degrees cooler. and all that heat ends up being converted into fossil fuel use as people use air conditioners to cool the spice,

and throw even more heat out into the city. if substantial plant covered even reducing a pull by 2 or 3 degrees celsius, the energy saving for the entire country would be, you know, in the billions of dollars a year is a lot of the argument. you have the also much of the cities do you know it doesn't matter. one or 2 buildings? what difference can i, but if one building can compensate for 10 other sites, not having any grain, you can see that just by doing selective injection of these kind of buildings for the city, you can already create a statistically significant amount of green in the city. can you see potentially in the future where you could actually see some of this area providing a food supplement because we know that singapore is still relying on food input. yeah, we've sort of done generation one which is providing a lot of planting and achieving these plot right shows, i think generation to is. so i can now we have this. what can we do with it and as

well, i think there's anything you do on land, on the ground, you can start thinking, does it make sense to do that apply on a building so, you know, food. oh, we're also very interested in ecosystems. you know, can, we might not just decorative, but can we make it very biologically productive. we can like in a lifetime, how many buildings can we build? this is something that needs lots of people doing it and it needs rethinking at the urban planning level. and that whole city visioning so we come up to the sky vill dawson, which is one of rich, it's public housing projects. and it does feel great. i mean the, the planting design in this shady canopy of solar panels. he was lovely. but i mean, looking out at the view is pretty terrifying, is not just the density, but is the number of housing and, and building development projects in is this kind of a model of oil tankers and shipping containers that stretches to the horizon in

almost every direction but when you start to look at the horizon through rich's eyes and you see the potential for a rooftop coupon, except vertical for it's you know, you start to have hope. but for us to make that future a reality. and it means getting the grass roots in gaze, it means that joy fair and can we and all those guys get things going from the ground up. and it means they're meeting the plan as in the policy makers half way. if we're gonna see cities that are truly sustainable as our metropolis is continue to expand, we are being pushed to explore more radical solutions to the environmental costs to see living in ty, one, a french architecture firm is constructing a garden tower, which will absorb a $130.00 tons of carbon dioxide each year. while local government in washington d. c, is utilizing the high foothold in the city center to generate energy kinetically for lighting, using a technology called paycheck. and to south korea,

sancho has been up the smarter city on the planets. developing a built the wealth, largest pneumatic waste collection system. citywide recycling is protected to reach 76 percent by 2020 innovations with an if there was supporting funding to adopt them widely as a chance the wells much openness is, could become sustainable. and with so many of us living in cities, the environmental impact could be huge. this is al jazeera, it's november the 15th day, one of a new era and television news. if you have known that, that was the scale of bloodshed would you have still going to go to miss also landed about a 100 meters away from us. we're on the front line, but it's on the road. we saw the union army flag hoisted high in the city. many people here have told me that that war will not end until they see could duffy

and his son brought to justice. gonna get 90 seconds for this on. so we're being told that this phenomena is very, really coming. our way buying brides is lack of respect for women and lack of any value that a woman i was just over here guys, by the police on purpose my. there's at least 20000 for him to refugees who live here. i'm on l 20. i got to commend you. you're not trying to push people to believe in this or believe in that the, i'm a say has completely changed you with port al. dizzier is also says in garza, are housed in that building and the tower has come. never before in human history has the months for steam environment to the arctic students such peril.

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