[000:00:00;00] ah seek that mm hm. and then international intake corruption excellence award boat. now for your hero. ah, i'm the wagner in london, the top stories on al jazeera. we start with breaking news, sir. lancoste disgraceful. my president has returned to the country less than 2 months after he fled during the nation's worst economic crisis in memory because of iraq, japan, it was blaine full pushing for like

a to financial disaster. as protest is across the country rallied against his rule . the head of the u. n's, atomic watchdog says he's worried about ukraine's upper region nuclear plant. raphael grossi has just returned from ukraine. he confirmed to i a e, a inspectors will stay at the site permanently to continue to monitor the situation . now, it was captured by russian forces in february. there are fears, shelling le vicinity could cause a nuclear disaster. we have been seen and military activity around the dance and i was able to see myself and my team at impact whole markings on, on buildings of and so we these, that the physical of the person has been violated not once, but several,

several we believe and i continue to believe that this vision is extremely complex, extremely challenging, and it will continue to require the permanent, the permanent support and the monitoring that we are trying to provide. now that we are there, rushing gas flows to europe via the gnawed stream one pipeline or suspended state energy giant gas from says it can't reopen the vital delivery mechanism g to an oil leak. it's not clear when it will reopen, the decision followed and announcement by g 7 nations to cap the price of russian oil exports. supporters of argentine is powerful vice president of gathered in buenos aires after christina fernandez the coach that survived an assassination attempt outside her home. the president says, a man pointed a pistol, let her point blank range, but the gun didn't fire. at least 47 people, including a high profile cleric have been killed and a blas left on the sun and happened near a historic mosque in the western city of harold. where does this same wood chipper

man? i'm sorry, and his entourage on their way to the most with a bomb, went off. ok. those the headlines will have more news in half an hour. that soft earth rise building better city. stay with us for that. 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 limits. more than half the world's population live in cities by 2050, the speaker will rise to 2 thirds. that's more than 6000000000 people. over the next 40 years,

cities who gobble up natural habitat as the area covered by triples. will people means more transport, more buildings, more weight, more pollution, as muslims. many of those moving to 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 migration am julianna shot the columbia where plastic waste is print starting new home for the for the vulnerable and i'm russell bearden. so you're poor, we're one, metropolis is striving for environmental sustainability in the face of rugged urbanized asian, p. as grassy as in over $300000000.00 tons of particles produce each year with only a fraction of it being recycle. much of it ends up in limp, ill polluting, urban living environment, waterways and ocean in columbia. tons of plastic waste has been diverted into the building block of

a new environmental housing pollution. a column is capital city of bava is home to 8000000 people and it is estimated that 650 tons of blood 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 from sept 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. we'll get one will be lucky geisha fall. okay. oregon place 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 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 to bogota, collecting conventional useful waste with the scrap metal and plastic bottles. so we're in a book bag. all 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 organized 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 final gonzales cookies. i see lucy glenda bottle us. god is a gravity does. it's all rules as far as the bland,

the ongoing challenge for paulina and his team is getting the word out blowing to what i was working on a slow leak coming almost at the r, my da son who normally be gone. ted dubin boise knows about bugging. mckinney recommend you tomorrow the i think will easier a way of knowing people and so they was like wait a minute with me. same with if given was you out of me? i'm being a celebrity middle. that is like i was like in the job, she did the thing that a good as you on the almost some of the,

the others can almost like on the plastic was 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 i think was a perspective. thank you. this is we're, we take all the plastic from pauline 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 t, v. 's. so you could see like just come straight from the battery, but these haven't even been used. it's like a diet lender. what would happen to the packaging if you weren't recycling it? so the packaging for consumer or is your 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 has

a shop. they won't tell us exactly the proportions because it, the speaker wrap the piece, the ground plastic are mixed together. heated and then compressed into brick shaped mall. tell me, was it about the temperature? what, how hot are the plastic? we just get them as you point. depends of the me is, depends of the block did between longer and longer. at 40 degrees, it is very important that the temperature is kept 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 the magnet. not as happy, but it 30. i wonder what that, what are that? are that a telephone numbers? we have a one, another vibe, one number vol. so now that we have all of these breaks, what kind of uses do you have for them?

emerging were you can made the same thing with this kind of work. and where are these going? this weeks are going to gully. you see what we're going to do is recognize globally as the world capital for salsa dancing. a city of cali, 400 kilometers. west of the car is one of great social divide with 6 percent of the land area occupied by slums housing. 40000 people a most godaddy. oh, you don't have a pre come to end by gather a neighborhood in the least. have probably one of the cities most deprived areas. oh yeah. oh phone. yeah. let's do. gotta remember them ill from your leaders upstairs to catch up with oscar ellis bricks. wow. oh my goodness, the bricks,

me just thought in the factory there actually constructing into an house for someone who was here in the community. i feel as i thought you were in bogota as a 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 them? sure. yeah, this is the bedroom. mm hm. this house cost $5000.00 and has been micro financed by the community for elf them yet, whose son lives in the apartment below. where's near market in yona piazza for an um star? and when uh, when does your new aha see get the lack of sun because it is fussy boys today will star seed. 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. if that was going through the in the

natasha into the law that he just keystone into the plastic or the cloud that rocha looks like rock to them. a government with me while others remaining track yesterday about. i mean, i mean, you know, i'm with this. i just can't get over the whole for the electrical outlets in the plumbing wire, the cable down in ohio electricity. so check it out. it's actually a room now at the kitchen. he's telling me this is where the closet is going to 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. thought. is it plastic or where do others head wasn't? was it the minute continental that would encompass

a little bit. okay. okay. i will let because will not 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 our guidance to our room to room isn't full. this is the woocommerce that is november, william was enemy concept us lastly could 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 life of 1000000 of people. we can finish their house insurance as you look in america 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 what 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 in gaza have created an environmentally friendly break called green cake. this uses coal and wood ashes filler, instead of sand making use of waste that would otherwise be buried in the grounds. and, and cos amana one nonprofit to spill to school using natural resources and rubbish that would normally pile and landfills. my zation is may distant out all 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 organization, sea level rise and increasingly chaotic climate was 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 asia is greenest 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 suggest wise that building projects can also play a much stronger role in the st. jude ship 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. the singapore in government avoided talk, loyal is coveted, platinum, 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 cross tennis, providing employment and supporting accruing into community. i've come to meet the funder like hot men. i came here trying to get people to go back to basic. and i

thought as a result that we've abernet is asia and globalization and digitization, that we come disconnect. so i was trying to create using a space to connect back peeper and to bring back a spirit of 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 and several workshops and seminars, building a community of environmental, engage citizen. i gave it to you for a moment, forgot that we were in the middle of it just knocking down your door and in for a while to built 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. we volunteers have come along to get their hands day. why see yourself doing farming in a way i get nima connected with what we are actually doing every day because whether it food we know exactly where they come from. anything up i realized also people don't appreciate food because on maybe to the kids they have never seen this . how different is grown? 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 try and if not really about having money, it's not really about having all the tech stuff, but really been able to, to understand that you are just big, 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 paypal, i start to think so way that from and if i troy away, is it going curve? we're 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 started this journey barely a year ago. so a lot of things are to me are experiments. do 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 to singapore into it. yeah, i on, when i saw that a group on facebook, it was sometimes frustrating because i seem to be the only person who keep posting . but now i think it's at least 523000 or 500. and it's quite

surprising. i think when we see individual taking just a small action to me is very encouraging because they start to take this ownership . mm. can we and the 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 plus one half tons per person. but momentum is building and similar dress roots, projects are sprouting up throughout the city. she met jason earlier at the ground up initiative and she's invited us to come across, turn and have a look 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, c o lawyers, is there is a demand. me, is that so i never seen soybeans group before. i feel that

a lot of the open spaces in thing up bar should not be hot the couch or landscape. it should be footsteps. and how can mean, surely me sing up or maybe a, a city in a foot godaddy? why does it need to just be a small one? no 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. i care serve nervous, uniform like this before i yes, we are putting the well, 1st in the washer for someone that's never heard of a vertical form. how would you describe something? a single boy landscape. so we don't have a much our land thought of what it was for vascular singapore and we stay in the

history. the fact is, is that the cody heard of it? why rest, they were agriculture? can i go by the 30 candy? our system is using the hydraulics are using whatever make it this power or the thing. so fun can go up and get a not fun. i cannot get a new trans in what so and the water is a similar though. miguel locating is a sim also given to the plan and the what i will be q one, at least like i use it. so far, we not change or what that at all so far. you've not changed it at all wise. 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 pi 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 me, there isn't a path, many vanish work and even a path up though it catch em. we are picked our 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 need pond, look at what the far west they were. so i do, if you look back upon as a less it here for our system. so i do, can we build upon? it seemed that we had a plan. so i consider is that is the sim area. we have to put action one, harvest of fish for every 6 harvest of vegetables, collect the fish are feeding the vegetables. yes. and the best of those are in a sense, be raise can feel of fish. yeah. so that, that the trimmings from the vegetables are actually going to feed it. and using is the sim size all our land, but have to pull up 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 office is to learn more about their living buildings? what lies ahead for each is greenest city. this project, for instance, when it's fully grown, we'll 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 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 space 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 over the years. 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 for 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 have, not just decorative, but can we make it very biologically productive. wheaton like in a lifetime, how many buildings can we build? this is something that needs lots of a hoo, doing up and it needs rethinking at the urban planning level. and that whole city visioning, ah, 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. 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 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 them meeting the plan as in 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 community . 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, soto has been up the smarter city on the planets. developing a built the wealth, largest pneumatic waste collection system, city wide recycling is protected to reach 76 percent by 2020 innovations with an if the was supporting funding to adopt them widely as a chance the wells much openness is could become sustainable and has so many of us living in cities, the environmental impact could be huge. ah hallo, we got yet more rain coming in across eastern parts of australia can see this big boulder of cloud that is making its way farther eastward city. so of course, in sydney, new south wales, we'll see some went to whether he go on through fast. i am pleased to say it does

creep its way further east was brighter sky, grassy, coming back in behind for the early part of next week. but that saturday spit, she could still see yet more rain coming in across sas, sidney at east side of new south wales law. she tried to central possible strata with high pressure in charge. here for the west, we have got some cloud and re sash. they come sunday becoming a little more patchy. it drives its way towards central parts of aust by the state . it shouldn't be too bad across at east side of the country. you have got a few showers just clinging onto the coast of new south wales and that nasty system allow continues to just push its way further. east was bring some very heavy right into the north island of new zealand as we make our way into monday. heavy rain coming in across japan as we go on into monday, the korean peninsula. true and as courtesy of our ty, food, it is going to continue making his way further north as we go through saturday and sunday,

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