the crew, gustavo has experienced political turmoil for years. people say they are tired of hearing about the nation's problems. but as the, i can say, words are always better in san diego roads in basra, v o 0 biscuit. ah, it says algeria, let's get around up to the top stories, germany plans to ban unvaccinated people from much of public life to stop a 4th wave of code 19 infections. a u. s. is placing tied to restrictions for international travelers as the on the con, barian continues to spread. run a fight is variance with science and speed. not chaos and confusion. just like we beat back over 19 in the spring and more powerful version deliver in the summer and fall as result, we enter this winter from a position of strength compared to where america was last winter. and last

christmas, you're in a one percent of american adults were fully vaccinated. this christmas, that number will be 7772 percent, including more than 86 percent of seniors upon all population. a u. s. secretary, they antony blinkin has met russia's foreign minister sir gala. rob was the divide between moscow and washington widens. lincoln says he remains consent of what he called russia's aggressive policy towards ukraine. lab. rob is adamant. russia will protect its interests at the by the administration is erect, resurrecting former u. s. president. donald trump's controversial remain in mexico policy following a court order. it requires asylum seekers to stay outside the u. s. while they wait for their hearings. iran submitted to drop proposals to european powers, negotiating the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal. the 7th round of talks to be held in vienna. aim to bring in ron and the u. s. back into the deal. it's meant to

limit iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. the united nations fears ethiopia could descend into sec, tarion violence that could fracture the country. you and humanitarian chief is wanting, it's growing. instability could see a repeat of the chaotic exodus for mass janice on in august. united nations says it needs a record 41000000000 dollars next year to meet global humanitarian needs and the you and says increasing violence in cameron's angler phone regions is affecting the safety and education of hundreds of thousands of children. the organization says 2 out of 3 schools are closed in the northwest and southwest regions due to recent attacks. children and teachers have been killed and dozens kidnapped. those other headlines, we're back in half an hour right now on edge 0. it's earth rice. this is al jazeera, it's november the 15th day, one of a new era and television. you,

if you have known that, that was the scale of bloodshed would you have still gone from moments ago to miss alt landed about a 100 meters away from us. we're on the front line with all that isn't on the very, really coming our way. i was just here. god. by the police on purpose. ah, you add a port out is the or is office is in garza, our house in that building and the cover has come down. never before in human history as a month for steven barn to the arctic. didn't such peril. ah, [000:00:00;00]

ah! people needs to the cities because that's where the jobs, the money and other opportunities are but the planets, metropolis, it's been stretched to that and more than half the world's population, that in city of like 25th is bigger. right. that's more than 6000000000 people. over the next 40 years, cities will cover up natural habitat area covered by triple people means more transport, more buildings, more weight, more pollution. as with many of those made into cities of rural po,

join to 1600000000 people living without adequate shelter. it's vital to define sustainable ways to deal with this rapid, my zation. i'm juliana shots in columbia where plastic waste is constructing new home for the, for the vulnerable and i'm russell beard and singapore where one metropolis is striving for environmental sustainability in the face. it urbanized ation bob jones gras? yes, it says levy n over $300000000.00 tons of plastic is produced each year with only a fraction of it being recycle. much of it ends up in the landfills, our 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 glass because 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, we'll get one will be lucky geisha fall. okay? oregon where, where is plastic or yahoo dot com. but those channels are kinda those onions, 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 potential. we can transform all of these plastic 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 ways to scrap last fall. so we're in

a bodega right now where the recycle is come to bring their plastics and other recyclable products. and they weigh them here so that they can then be paid. ready for 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 . on video, the emotional sequence of the last, the star not he's always kick up, he's i see lucy glenda. what, alaska is a gravity does. it's all roses find was the gland. the ongoing challenge for paulina and his team is getting the word out blowing to one another one as well. he comes almost at the other day. and when will this be gone? ted dubin goes, you know, the one bedroom, one kidney recommend a multiple easier

a way of knowing people until they recycle. i guess with me same with the kid him was you out on me? i'm being a celebrity middle. that is like, i was like in the job secret i'm yay! thing that a little bit as you on the, almost to my mother. the other school almost like on the plastic was, is 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 thank you. this is where we take all the plastic from falling all on negative information. 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 ground separately, household plastic waste, battery packaging and electrical ways such as old computers and tvs. so you can feel like you've come from the, the factory. you haven't even been use it like a giant lender. what would happen to this packaging if you weren't recycling it? so the packaging for the consumer, for sure, is going to london. now we've got all the ingredients. now the chef will go to work . dan put it together. he, he's the chair. oh he about, sorry. this is the shop. they won't tell us exactly the proportions cuz the secret recipe, the ground plastic are mixed together. heated and then compressed into brick shaped mall. 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, not the between longer and longer at 40 degrees. it is very important that the temperature is kept up melting point was not to burn the plastic and the least toxic gases. let's take this out. let's look at it. it looks like not as happy but it i wonder what that was or that or that a cell phone numbers. we have another 51 number or so now that we have all of these breaks, what kind of uses do you have for them? we made you were, you can made the same thing with this kind of went through. and where are these going? rigs are going to gully you, is he? what we're going to do is recognize globally as the world capital for salsa dancing . the city of cali, 400 kilometers west of volva,

is one of great social by 6 percent of the land area occupied by slums housing. 40000 people, a frequency in by gather a neighborhood and east of calling one of the cities most deprived areas. oh phone . yes. i do. gotta remember them. ill phone, your leaders upstairs to catch up with oscar and his bricks. wow. oh my goodness. the bricks. me just thought in the factory they're actually constructing into an house for someone who was here in the community. i feel, as i thought you were in bogota at the plan, we're 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?

i'm sure this is the bathroom. this house cost $5000.00 and has been micro financed by the community for el fermi out. whose son lives in the apartment below . where mio marcie the known up yourself with star. and we're not going this unit. uh huh. see, get that little i can fix young because as far feel ways to staple star seed owner . yes. if i see leap away, no 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? it's the law that he just gave sony into the plastic or the cloud that rocha looks like rock to them. a government with me, i'm all up, is a story about, i mean, i mean

a vent free with this. i just can't get over the whole for the electrical outlets in the plumbing wire the cable down in and they'll have electricity. so check it out. it's actually a room now at the kitchen. he's telling me this is where the closet is gonna be here. no less, i'm with the television on top. if you can imagine at the all we've got left is the roof and some doors. so we're pretty close. how much plastic is in this house? this house we use is 5 pounds teen compact. that is a plastic or where do i say to my son? was it the minute continental that would encompass a little bit. okay. okay. i do. just let me, let me hold in just under 2 days. 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 our kind is to our room to room isn't full. this is the book with

william was on me concept this class because have already helped to house 42 families displaced by conflict in the town of why fi, 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 the life of 1000000 of people. we can finish their house in short as you look in america. and in just 10 years, that's an enormous number and a huge impact. we have to start, we have to step by step ah, in tentative, 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 to my case. number is one of 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 take. this uses coal and wood i. she's a filler. instead of sand making use of waste that would otherwise be buried in the ground. and in guatemala, one nonprofit is built a school using natural resources and rubbish that would normally pile and landfills . nice. ations 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 spaces between habits. ah, singapore is a low lying island in city state. 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 organization,

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 doug, asia is 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, which had hassle the earth. 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 this stewardship of the earth. when you look at like google earth or images from spike, cities are 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 as singapore, in government, avoided talk, loyal it's coveted, platinum, green mark, the nation's highest environmental satilla cation is part of a white, a scheme to promote environmentally friendly buildings and investment into green city solutions. to understand more about why this city is the greenest in asia, i want to see what's happening at the grass roots. heard about a non profit cross 10 this providing employment and supporting accruing community. i've come to meet the funder light hawk. man. i came here trying to get people to go back to basic. and i thought as a result that we have a nice asia and globalization and digitization. we come disconnect. so i was trying to create, using a space to connect back peeper and to bring by the spirit of the community. and it's very strange for our country last thing as well,

because we are so top down. and that's why my name is called ground up in the shape . ground of initiative started in 2009 and secured a piece of land to provide environmental education for people of all ages and several workshops and seminars, building a community of environmental, engage citizen. i guess if you for a moment, forgot that we were in the middle of a 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 it's 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

cow. we volunteers 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 hissing up. 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 if 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 try and if not really about having money, it's not really about having all the tech stuff that really been able to. to understand that you, i just be what a part of this legal ecosystem thing, how things are grown. for example, it makes me start to ask a lot of other questions like how, where things come from. so if i use a paypal, i start to think so way that from and if i troy away,

is it going curve we is committed to reducing are ways to almost 0. we go back to reflect to see if she's good and oh, this is the last place that you would expect to see a little permaculture garden going on in somebody's front room. i just thought it this journey barely a year ago. so a lot of things are to me, are experiments do 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 who st. 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 5 to 3500. 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,

about one half tons per person. the momentum is building and similar address which projects are sprouting up throughout the city. i met jason earlier at the 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 actually 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 in sing up bar should not be what the culture landscape is, should be foot space. and how can mean, surely me sing up or maybe a, a sippy enough. what godaddy, why does it need to just be a small one in the days when he says 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. i have never seen a firm like this before. i was in the world 1st in the world for someone that's never heard of a vertical form. how would you describe something, a single boy landscape, so we don't have much our land thought of what he was the best ever think about and we stay in the history. the fact is, is that because he thought of it, why rush they were i because i cannot go for the 30 candy our system is using the had already to using wiper make this power or dating so fun can go up and get a not fun. i cannot get a new trans in what so and the what the is

a similar though, make it a lot. a thing is a sim also give us build a plan and what i will be get one. at least like a you said so far we not to change the weather 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 data meet. and i play king of the veggies. it's a beauty. is it all? it is a weed. 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, near there isn't a path managed, managed word, and even a path up though it catch em. we are picked law fish. this is really to where to, this is floating. this is, this is yes, company put a completely floating jack way be created,

a po and reno's in upon. we knew pon took it what the far west they were. so i do, if you built my upon as a less it here for our system. so i look and we build upon assume that we had a plan. so i would consider is that is the same area. we have 2 products and one harvest of fish for every 6 harvest of vegetables, calais, the fish are feeding the vegetables. yes. and the best of those are in a sense be raisin philip fish. yeah. so that, that the trimmings from the vegetables are actually going to feed it. and using is the sim, size of the land. i have to pull out yet being located within the city. these high density aquatic 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 offices to learn more about their living buildings. what lies ahead for each is

greenest city. this project, for instance, when it's fully grown, will have 11 times aside area as green area. so why go to all this extra effort to, to swadell you buildings in plants, a huge one in hot climate light. singapore is that 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 their chemical processes, of grueling 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 of use. 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 a okay, now we have this. what can we do with it? and that's where 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 or we're also very interested in ecosystems, you know, can, we might have, not just decorative,

but can we make it very biologically productive. we cannot 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 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. and 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 that horizon through riches eyes and you see the potential for a rooftop back upon excel, vertical forest, 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 choice. and can we and all those guys get things going from the ground up. and it means them meeting the planners and the policy makers half way. if we're going to see the, is there truly sustainable as a metropolis is continue to expand, we're being pushed to explore more radical solutions to the environmental coffee 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. some dough has been up the smarter city on the planets. developers built the wealth, largest pneumatic waste collection system. city wide recycling is protected to

reach 76 percent by 2020 innovations of an if the 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. ah, ah ha, defines how, wow, the longest new babies were tale i did it, not in the ocean, people and power investigates, exposes, and questions they use and abuse of power around the globe. fun out of here. december 4th was see going to be a vote in the conference most significant election. so it's been 5 years since the form on long term lead. yeah,

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