howdy, sara. oh, a with ah . hello, i'm sorry. i'm to my z in london now top story this hour, 4 days off to a powerful of quakes at southern takia and northern syria. at least 23000 people a confirm to have died. despite some dramatic rescues that number is still expected

to grow. rescues have been digging through the rubble in freezing. why the fuck is present? russia type o tuan has admitted that the response hasn't been fast enough. so keep go your so mr. of course, the have been shortcomings that problems the government has faced and responding. but i want to inform you that our government and all of our institutions, from the moment these earthquakes truck have been doing their very best to help everyone them up. meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless and take care by the earthquakes and are also facing some of the harshest conditions that they've been left in. the freezing cold over night. government has distributed millions of hot meals are also tense and blankets, but who are still struggling to reach many thousands of people who are in need. meanwhile, in syria, the united nations is saying over 5000000 people are left without shelter there. now the united states has that confirmed that they have shut down a high altitude object, said to be the size of a small car over the state of alaska. is comes after last week's incident with

a chinese balloon flying over the coast of south carolina. but no indication as yet of any connection between the 2 incidents. last week, we were talking about a surveillance asset that was purposely flung over the continental united states. in the case today, we're talking about an object again, we don't know a lot about it but, but that, and it's altitude represented a potential threat to the safety of flying customers, civil air traffic. at least 10 people, including a 6 year old child, have been killed in a car attack in the occupied west bank. the drive around his current people waiting at a bus stop on the outskirts of jerusalem near an illegal settlement. so i see old driver was shocked at the scene full pallets, things have been arrested. russia launched a new wave of missile strikes on energy infrastructure across the ukraine. so she was up where we just saw that its worst attack since the war began with 17 miss el, striking in the space of an hour, millions lost power in the media,

often off with several energy facilities set to have been hit. one, everything in the news outlets coming off at 2100 gmc, i'll see you then ah, the explosion of plastic waste across the world threatens the very survival of life on our planet. every year, up to 12000000 metric tons of plastic and to the ocean from poisoning marine life to littering landscapes and cloaking waterways, plastic waste and the environment is set to trickle in the next decade. the problem is so vast, it can seem overwhelming. but by re imagining this waste as a resource,

we can begin to redress the balance. i'm donate kenya in cameroon, where a young entrepreneurs turning the tide on plastic waste by building bolts to bottles. i'm sorry, megan the cabin in the u. k. well, one company is tackling a sticky, plastic problem boss, making unique, unsustainable products in the process. ah, here in camera rooms, economic capital to wireless, the scale of the country is plastic problem is painfully clear. plastic waste is clogging up the streets and rivers up cameron's major cities polluting waterways threatening marine ecosystems and making life especially difficult for local fishermen. it's estimated that across the city of towana, $1300.00 tons of plastic waste is generated every day. so

much of it is thrown into the cities rivers. you can't see any trace of water. i've never seen anything like this before. i don't even know how you begin to fix the problem. this big is no doubt. this is a major challenge for the city. but one local man has made it his mission to deal with it had on his name is, is smile is so many it's while i have to meet, you know, some resume that i mean it's quite a place to meet. i must say. so is this normal here in dweller? no, you know, so sat, what is that you have or to browse the bad side? troy, we're by people in this, we in the household and then you have the river, the water that call it all the ways that clubs is bridge and then you have people solving with your car and truly are part of the river. and you can see that plaza

back before a mac, educate on how to money dealt with. so unfortunately is no more, it's overwhelming to see this, but you don't find it overwhelming. why do you see this? and think that this is something you want to take on for yourself. i realize that all the river are full of plastic. no one k. no one's there. what is this an hour shoak to see that? so i decided to do something. and what i've been that i could to blame is shown in people miser by showing the way through. ishmael began an initiative to clear up the waste from all of to well as 10 choked rivers. he calls his company dba and nature, meaning water in nature, in the local, sour language. he recruits a team of 30 volunteers and today i'm giving them a helping hand. but it quickly becomes clear to me what

a tough job this is. where standing on this board because much of this looks like a bit of plastic. there's actually a river underneath it, so it's not very stable. it's very hot and very humid here. so when you have this amount of waste in water, of course it's called lucito than other kinds of water born diseases. and there are people who live all around here. so this is not just an environmental crisis. it's a possible health crisis as well. and the theory of the work you're doing here is amazing, but there are so many bottles and it feels like this is just the dent and it's really only individuals like you who are taking it on there is no citywide plan or nationwide plan to tackle this enormous problem. no. no, sire grooms is burned here in town. are willing to sions her are the problem for the priority. so people are we're no one's care about enrollment here. this is the

most urgent problem. so we need to change when you see in manage with a smile doesn't just see all this plastic as waste. he sees it as a valuable material and an opportunity to do good. he turns bottles into both for the regions, fishing community. and it all happens here inside his workshop. ah, bottle yard refer. this is our workshop is see my house here. so i'm here with some of the 2. and we tried to finish of all each mouse boats built using traditional techniques. who taught you how to do? oh no, i'm for move fishing community and my daddy fisherman. oh wow. so when i was young, i was fishing with my dad. this technology i just adapted to the black bottles. so is that why this idea came to you? yes, because the portion of the river and now you cannot catch fish because the fishing

area is full of glasses. so i've got 2 hub, not only to clean do rivers, but also to provide support. because it is not easy in the villages for someone to buy simple board. so now it build schepers echo both that could be useful. so we have part of our seats done what's next to you on breakfast? yeah, i'd love to try to do that. so we tie this. yeah. not yet . not so bad at ya. it is a little scary to think that what we're putting together, someone's actually going to be sitting on you're out in the water. so i feel a little bit of responsibility to not mess this up. i proud of my handiwork. oh you do. this isn't so bad,

you do it once he's built the frame. ishmael ties to the base and then he adds in the scene. ishmael has built 37 boats to date, given that it takes 650 bottles to build one that's over 24000 bottles. removed from to wall is rivers and put to good use. so how much does it cost to make a boat like this with material oil? remembering simple, you just know borrows the rest. is your dad? ah, the books take just a few hours to build and they're so lightweight, they're easily transported to the ocean. it's a 3 hour drive to nearby. creepy way ish mount is the boats to local fishing. traditionally made fishing boats can be extremely expensive. but even so,

when it's mouth 1st started giving away his e commerce, it was easier said than done. these looked very different to all of the local fishing, both that we see what was the reaction from the local community when you brought these here the 1st time, if it further thought they wasn't, do sure, it will never go in the world enough that when we went to the one you have is walking and then they start to do to try to understand and try to see if you go fishing with these one. the real truth, of course, is in the floating. they've got tested out, it's got as if you lead the way through it was a funky entry, but this feel so much better, it feel stable. i don't feel safe in any way. i feel really comfortable fishing and want to be

what a great idea. i missed so many possibilities of what he can do in the future that can at the same time faculty enormous issue, a plastic waste in cameroon. what an incredible young man. that was really fun. now we know the boat to see where the we're delivering it to the latest. happy customer was going to test it out on a nearby lake. i was ill. louise is gonna be for sure. good to meet you. what do you think of your new boat in the cabin in one? how do you think having this new vouchers gonna change things for you? 414 a month or so. you said you the airport. what if it, if, if you could,

but would fill up us with alopecia, who argument grandpa corpus services? so maybe their accessibility in affordability of eco, both will be something that convinces people to give them a try. where did you monitors if they ship them off? sellable some like you will put the shipping on, but it won't be there will. who will? well, so very much leading to the mean when you, when you to learn your or vision your, if i me, you want to try it out. you know, let's see how it works. ah, ah yeah. how do you feel about communes? reaction to his very own, he commodes a hobby to see that i can make so once my so one get hope that maybe his condition would be better, may be equal, have more income to his family. since he started in 2016,

the growing success of his eco boat has inspired ishmael to do more, it's his ambition to clear up cameroon. and that begins with the country's 1st bottle recycling scheme. oh, this is the echo bean. i corbin is made out of $255.00 and it will collect $1000.00. so this is a place where people can come and bring their plastic way. this is the starting point of excited to do usually install is stored in system of plastic waves in grammar. so the idea of this echo been what you're trying to do here. where do you think it can grow to? we wonder why food should be la. gov example in that regard, we em to supply will be in areas of draw out of all the corners in font of all the show is supermarket is cool. so it will be easy to carmen,

pick up the wave, recycled it. so that is the vision where we wanted were there, but how the which there is not is despite the challenges. ishmael has even bigger plans for the future by producing battle, made furniture and by educating the next generation figure you show very liberal den rubicon club. what is your boss that goes with it to junk on? got to be live gone. you gotta do to john. it's alyssa to take care of environment sticky of our planet ender to clean our cities. it's an inspiration to me that even in this global see of plastic one person really can make a difference with quinn, foreign, mental campaigners, the global issue of plastic waste is now so serious. it has risen to the top of the

agenda. they believe we must rethink our whole approach to the material. the scale of the plastic problem is huge. minutes over 300000000 times a year. plastic packaging itself is 78000000 tons year. 32 percent of that leaks out and environment. some of the biggest producers of plastic packaging in the world produce $3000000.00 tons a year. so is that one producer changes the way they make plastic? that is a massive change globally. even the biggest producer, plastic packaging in the world can't fix this on their own. this is about every one competitors alike. organizing around a system that can be regenerative and restorative. if you look at our current economy, it's predominantly linear. we take a material out the ground, we make something out of it and then the majority of that material gets thrown away . we have a growing world population. we have more and more pressure on resources. the system we have to day cannot run in the long term. we need to shift that economy to be one that uses materials rather than using them up with an a circular economy right from

the beginning. you build the economy, so you design out waste and pollution, you keep products cycling within that economy for as long as possible. and then you look at regenerating natural systems through the biological materials to feed into that economy. so effectively, the straight line turns into a circle to build out circular economy for plastic, she need to go right to the beginning of the system. we need to redesign the way we think about plastics. the way we design plastics and the way we use plastics. so we need to eliminate the plastic that we don't need. we need to innovate for different forms of plastic, which are 100 percent recyclable. and we need to look at how we circulate plastics, designing a system whereby that material is collected has value, and feeds back into the system. the thing that motivates me the most about the future is there is a massive opportunity to redesign our global economy. if we redesign the economy, so it's circular, not only will we build an economy that can run in the long term, but it will unlock trillions of us dollars recommend opportunity. and it will

effectively decouple economic growth from results. constraints are. mm hm. pollution is the hot topic in the world, environmental issues, the damage that it causes is long lasting and wide ranging. the last there is a growing consciousness of the problems that passed it caused and you might even be doing things yourself to solve it. there is one problem that is be hiding in plain sight. every year we chew our way through 374 trillion pieces of gum. what you might not know is that chewing gum is essentially like chewing this piece of plastic bottles, chewing gums, and bubble gums are older my from oil. in fact gum, it's very similar material to latex, bicycle in a cheap. and every year we chuck away $100000.00 tons of that globally much over

straight on to the floor. gum is 2nd only to cigarette that the world's most lifted items across the globe. we spent $25000000000.00 on gum every year. and demand is predicted to rise to $48000000000.00 in 2025. it is estimated that 92 percent of pavement in london have chewing gum stock on them, with $300000.00 pieces. estimated to be on august history. and now it's up to a small army of workers to clear it up. i'm 70 miles southwest of london in winchester to find out what damage gum can do. ha o councilor, john war is in charge of keeping the city streets cleaned. how much of a problem is gum in winchester? they estimate the every year councils in britain spending more than $60000000.00

pounds a year. just clearing up gum. that's insane. it's taken me back a little bit. actually, that's a huge figure. and, and what could use that could be put to, rather than just being spank, collecting up waste offer. mm hm. of course is really only one way to get a true flavor of the gum problem on our streets. i count so operations manager daren lewis is shameed the race a bit further back. yeah, i got a bit wrangler. i see for sure. i la. yeah. movie like one. yeah. yeah. it's very much like a very huh. coming out with it's gonna be quite satisfying job. phyllis much tougher must have respect for the guys doing that. so with the time it

once gum is removed, it usually ends up in landfill. as a plastic gum isn't biodegradable and will never decompose. but i've heard about an ingenious new initiative is not only keeping the sticky stuff off the pavements, but turning it into something useful. coffee cups. i think the most impressive thing about them, they're actually made out the recycle to chewing gum river. i knew you could retire . go that one by here. yeah. it's quite impressive, isn't it? yeah. and seriously. oh, wow. okay. so when they 1st came out, then what were your call? i thought it was a good joke to be honest. i just couldn't believe that this could be made out of people's material. just makes a big oh, faster on her, do you? and it's disgusting that when you re life, i've been for a beating cars. estimates completely sanitary is just really inspiring. what can be done with chewing gum?

the cuts are made from a gum based material could gum tech me? here at winchester university. the raw materials for the cops are collected all the campus and distinctive bright pink bends. beck, who gum drops an inspiring idea from designer analysts. hi, you must be honest. hi, nice me. i nice me too. so these must be your benz tell me a bit about them. yeah. these are the gum drop bins. oh that they all been specifically for the despite of waste chain come me i dear, is that somebody can come along pop there, use chewing gum in there. once it's full, halting comes back to us and we recycle it. and we can actually recycle 3 new gum drops out of one full gum, draw. so based on the closed loop recycling process. okay, so why gum all the solutions out there at the moment? all address gum later, once it's already been dropped, there is nothing out there that was that she addressing it from the front end. so i saw a gap in the market for a product like this and also

a way of tackling behavioral change when it comes to gum renetta and giving people as a positive way to dispose of their chewing gum. so how does gum end up in a coffee cup? in anna has offered to show me the price is in action at the gum drug factory in worcester. so once we get the full gum drop, bend back, that goes through the 1st part of the process, which actually size reduces it. okay, you can actually see the gum truck brand has been crushed up. yeah. we see all the other letters that are in there long will you learn chewed, chewing gum, chewing gum, without a cup, take rapper cake, orange bill. if it goes through the 2nd stage, which separate the gum drop in the chewed gum. and the other ways. we then take this next. yeah, we then mix it with other recycled materials, which yet he said and compound it to produce these palate which go on to rush you make. then when you come drop in only like hooked up again.

the gum tech material can be moulded into a whole range of products, not just cox, but stationary key rings, boots and shoes. pow nicole, this is some of our products that we have at the moment. okay. o introduced to the gum shoe 1st. this is actually really fun project we had was done in collaboration with accounts announced i wanted to highlight the amount of gum letter of sachi on the streets in amsterdam. so you'll see the so here is actually a map of the style that we looked at. am the gum drug story continues to great. there are now some 650 come drop locations across the u. k, from train stations and city centers to ac. what am schools? i'm with new interest in europe and the usa. anna has global ambitions for the

company, and it's ethos working more publicly, there's definitely something that we want to do because that will say board and the, the awareness and the message around behavior change. and what we can actually do with, with the recycle, change them. who at the university of winchester, where the gum dropped, charles began, they employed a scheme designed to do more than just keep gum off our streets. as well as installing the gum drops, they also gave away the 10000 reusable gum based cups. the scheme inspired a paradigm shift in attitude to waste and letter environment officer lis harris was behind introducing gum drug to the campus. how much of an effect of these congress had all the sale of plastic and general kind of coffee cookies? today we have saved 85000 disposable cups and being used there are now 10000 of

these cups and circulation. and we have just committed to eliminating single use plastics by 2022. so the cops are really good stuff in the right direction. i think it has really capture people's imaginations because what was quite nice is that we could link it to the chewing gum recycling when, by having your coffee or how things close to the these gum drug bins have started a chewing gum recycling craze, but it's much more than that, it's about changing people's behavior. and people like anna are inspiring people to think about the way that he's single use products. and which is so critical if we're going to be able to reverse any of the current worrying environmental trends, boom. entrepreneurs across the globe, a turning their attention to the plastic menace. in september 2018, 24 year old dutch inventor boy and slat, launched an ambitious operation to use

a giant boom on the ocean's natural currents to clean up the pacific giant island of plastic waste, known as the great pacific garbage patch. 2 months later, a crack in the system forced the prototype back to port, but the team was still able to collect terabytes of data and over 2 tons of ocean plastic waste. they report they'll soon be ready to re launch. but what can we do with all the waste plastic we collect? in the u. k, one inventor has found a clever way to plug hot holes with a new road material mate and part from waste plastic. and in the philippines, a 15 year old school boy undertook to tackle the country's plastic back problem. with a bi degradable variety made from coconuts with clever ideas like these,

we may just be able to stand the plastic type ah color, tropical cycling. gabrielle is making its way towards new zealand for the early part of next week. so that does give some concern. following on from the historic flooding scene across the north harlot, a recently dry weather, they're across a good part of australia. some live the showers just around the tropics, big down postal in the cost here as we go through the next couple of a centralized of australia on the outside that in i celsius. therefore alice will

be a 30 in person, will be a 30 in melbourne as well. make the most of it. it doesn't last down to route 20 here as we go on into sunday, still a shout across. know the most parson. you start see their showers from the year out of bands of what will be x tropical cyclone gabrielle. by the time we come to sunday, still some uncertainty as to the exact location of the storm by this stage. but you can see, we do expect to see further heavy rain coming into northern parts of new zealand, say the flood risk does remain a concern here. possibly seen some fighting to enter japan over the next 24 hours also has some very heavy snow. recently, have you snowfall in tokyo for around a year that pulls out of the way, try a bright at warmer weather, coming through tokyo with temperatures at around 13 south or so rapid snow mel here with a possibility that flooding by sunday. ah, errors from al jazeera on the go and me to night out is there is only

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