plastics. >> we' seen trash and the like over here. we know that cnn did a wonderful documentary at midway island, plastic island, which is just shocking >> those poor alba trosses. >> something that really shocked me was the sperm whale that washed up on a beach in spain last week and had, listen to this, 64 pounds of plastic and waste in its stomach. i mean ropes also, pieces of net, other debris lodged in its stomach. i mean, this is the whale here. here we have all the stuff that the scientists have taken out. >> it just -- >> it's awful. >> it should cause people to just sit up and take notice and realize there's no way on earth. especially when you think of the plastics. they don't go away. they sometimes break into smaller pieces, but they're very durable. micro plastics are now an increasing problem. >> so, tell me about that a little bit because i think people start to become aware when they see things like this, mountains and mountains of garbage and plastic. tell me the story of plastic. it's our disposable society, right? everybody has a cup -- >> marketing. it's marketing. human kind got along perfectly well without single

politicians consider changing the way supermarkets pay for collecting and recycling their plastic waste on the whole they island of boracay in the philippines has been closed for a six month clean up to its have been banned from the island while the authorities improve the infrastructure and volunteers remove rubbish from the ones pristine beaches present rodrigo to turkey ordered to shut down this month after calling the resort a cesspool critics say it's an overreaction affecting people who depend on the island for their jobs. it's painful for us to lose our jobs and it's also certain even though i don't have my own family i support my siblings now this is happening we can't do anything but accept it and. you can find much more as over all the website log on at w.w.w. dot al-jazeera dot com. before we go quick look at the headlines final preparations are being made for a historic face to face meeting between the leaders of north and south korea in will host kim jong un in the south korean border village of one job on friday morning our diplomatic editor james basine pageview that's just on the south korean si

supposed to be very sustainable country and mind you yesterday i was at one of the remote island full of plastic what do you respond to it ok let me bring in early yet and i should imagine hearing statements from donald trump's administration for example where there seems to be rolling back all the strides made against the environment doesn't help on a higher level should plastic pollution for example be in the same league as emitting greenhouse gas emissions should we be taking it that seriously getting the cloud behind it that it needs. thank you thank you. i tend to believe that this would be put in the same league because the consequences of plastic bugs in the environment pose a very big threat. to the life of both humans and marine life and what animals are and therefore the cause the issue of the greenhouse gases into the. into into the environment again also causes similar consequences of. impacts into the human i mean a human life. should be debated at the same level so that they are tackled at the same level consideration of the resources that the simpson party level what would be diff

supposed to be very sustainable country and mind you yesterday i was at one of the remote island full of plastic what do you respond to it ok let me bring in early yet and i should imagine hearing statements from donald trump's administration for example where there seems to be rolling back all the strides made against the environment doesn't help on a higher level should plastic pollution for example be in the same league as emitting greenhouse gas emissions should we be taking it that seriously getting the cloud behind it that it needs. thank you thank you. i tend to believe that this would be put in the same league because the consequences of plastic bugs in the environment pose a very big threat. to the life of both humans and marine life and the world animals as well and therefore the cause the issue of the greenhouse gases into the. into into the environment again also causes similar consequences of impacts into the human i mean a human life. should be debated at the same level so that they are tackled at the same level consideration of the resources that the simpson party level what would

plastic garbage dump. >> here i am standing on buoy island. >> reporter: this captain charles moore found a research in educationa nonprofit group dedicated to solving the sea's plastic pollution problem. in 1997, captain moore discovered a massive garbage patch in the north pacific. now his team has confirmed the existence of another further south off the coast of chile and peru. captain moore estimates it to be about 2 million square kilometers larger than mexico. it formed winds around a persistent high pressure system drive ocean currents creating a vortex known as gyres and causing debris to collect in a central location. >> i call it a plastic soup. if you think of the ocean as the liquid in a soup, we have gone from, you know, creamy to extra chunky. >> reporter: captain moore and his team spent months trolling the south pacific collecting samples from large objects to plastic the size of a grain of rice. >> the surface waters are where we see the debris and it is mostly particulate. the size glass that is most common is between 1 and 3 millimeters in diameter but we will find interesting objects. a lot o

plastic, what we're using and recycling. there is a lot more consciousness on behalf of normal consumers as to what they're using. the sun. this picture, seal pups, the galapagos islandsup on a remote island. they tried to get it off them. a big push when it comes to companies. we were just discussing this, naga and i, during the weather. it is important to say lots of companies are doing things differently. some more, some less. it is significant, going from 46% to 70% recycled. another story. who does this? an entire day a week on line on average! if you are 16— 24, you spend 34 hours a week on the web. i don't know if that is also watching things and listening to podcasts. shopping, playing games... i love watching funny videos. cat videos. where we going with this? sport presenters falling into pools. stuff like that. i'm glad, naga. and perhaps... here we go. congratulations. oh, lost my step! we can see it in slow motion. you can see how difficult it is to see the bottom of the pool, another level. sorry, i the bottom of the pool, another level. sorry, lam the bottom of the pool, another level. sorry, iamjust the bottom of the pool, another level. sorry, i am ju

voices than the commonwealth, with many island states severely affected by extreme weather events and the scourge extreme weather events and the scourge of plasticss. indeed, we are in london today because of the devastation wrought by cyclone pam in 2015. we are proud of every nation of the commonwealth has ratified the paris agreement. we are united behind the effo rts agreement. we are united behind the efforts to limit the average temperature rise. after summit, we have taken specific action to protect oceans with the first—ever combo blue charter. we are tackling the scourge of plastic pollution. we are already seeing a series of commitments that can mark the battle to save our notions. —— oceans. belize will ban plastic bags, forks and other single use items by 2019. new zealand has announced a ban on microbeads that will come into effect injune. the bahamas is planning to ban plastic bags this year and the uk has pledged to ban plastic straws, steer and plastic stand cotton buds. it is only the beginning of what would be our agenda for our time in office. a more sustainable future also means stepping up the fight for better global health.

plastic. >>> this is a look at westbound bay bridge. it looks pretty good driving into treasure islandommon. >>> we have some cold temperatures out there. we have 30s and kelsey bill is at 30. -- kelsey ville is at 30. >>> good morning. sacramento police have released new video of the shooting death of stephane clark. the amount of footage investigators have to go through. >>> this is ktvu "mornings on 2". >>> good morning and thank you for joining us. it is tuesday morning april 17. i am pam cook. >> i am dave clark. steve paulson is here and will tell us about the weather and if it will be like yesterday. >> we will not. >> maybe never again. >> never say never in weather. i would be surprised if we had something like ke that. we are not done with the rain yet. there will be a couple more systems coming through. our active april continues. it will not be today. >>> livermore should be in the 70s, there were 54 yesterday. san francisco was 55 and santa rosa was 56. today we will be in the 60s. there was a line of thunderstorms and hail that has pushed out of the area. the dry air has

not least britain, and also it includes most of the most vulnerable island states who are the ultimate victims of particularly plasticwere made? for instance, britain teams up with vanuatu, one of those vulnerable states that suffer so much. they have committed to working together to drive the other members of this club into better practice. several countries have made commitments to phase out plastic bags if they haven't already done so, to bear down on other abuses of single use plastic. there will be some peer group review, but be sure that people willjudge particularly on this blue oceans initiative by results, notjust words. thank you so much. critics of the commonwealth always dismissed it as something of a relic of the british empire. the commonwealth summit here and the 53 leaders who have been gathered in london really trying to assert the relevance of the commonwealth in the modern world, especially when 60% in the commonwealth are young people under the age of 30. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 this evening in the papers — our guests joi

clogging rivers, and use of plastic clogging rivers, and breaching these tiny islands. they can send a strong message and have appointed several governments as champions for this programme they are trying to put in place. then they know they have to deliver. james robbins, thank you. the commonwealth leaders discussing a range of issues, the environment, also cyber security is up there on the agenda. as theresa may was saying in those opening remarks, how to —— how to protect the rule of international law around the world especially in light of the salisbury nerve agent attack last month. and the continuing conflict in syria. the commonwealth is a family of nations, it is not a power bloc in the sense it hasn't got any military might, like nato. it is not an economic powerhouse like the eu. let us discuss some of those issues about cyber security. this issue of cyber security, how important is it and what realistically can the commonwealth do? cyber security is at the centre of the discussions this week. cyber attacks don't respect borders. there needs to be cooperatio

of the biggest problems facing our planet today plastic pollution you can see it right here in this video what that was filmed off the in the nation island of bali by a free diver julie wheeler scientists and britain and the us are now saying that they've engineered a plastic eating enzyme and they actually made the discovery by accident. the world is choking on mountains of plastic waste. one of the most popular plastics is p t used to make drinks bottles and synthetic fibers. it takes hundreds of years to degrade naturally. but now scientists have stumbled onto a mutant enzyme that's hungry for p.t. it's produced by bacteria discoveries the enzymes amazing something that can eat plastic would normally take four hundred years to degrade the bacteria are starting to eat this in a matter of days we've done is called a that and same from my bacteria in grown up and i know we can actually digest p.t. within days much quicker in the environment research as fast found an enzyme that had naturally evolved to slowly digest plastic and the japanese dumped two years ago. scientists called it p. tastes. professor mcgeehan and his team set out to i

humanitarian workers to give them a few simple islands' to get started they were given a plot of land where the have to make a shelter out of sticks and plastic sheeting start digging the ground so they can start to produce their own food now we're living like that for months until they can build anything more substantial but all the people here say that this is a better deal than what's going on at home at the moment and one thing that many people have said is that they're not willing to go back or not in till there's been an election in congo and one that's had a peaceful outcome from people in colombia are protesting after the president said he wouldn't hesitate to extradite a former fox negotiator who's facing drug smuggling charges he's a santos was due to take up a parliamentary saint which far has been promised as part of the arrangement matheson now. drumbeats in bogota marking what these protesters believe could be the end of colombia's fragile peace deal supporters of the former fark negotiator known as a place who sometimes say his arrest brings the shaky agreement to a halt. to the colombian people what today shows is that it's a

plastic waste. miguel diaz—canel has been sworn in as the new president of cuba. he replaces 86—year—old raul castro who is stepping down as head of state of the communist—ruled islandigration rules on them. let's return now to the commonwealth summit taking place in london today. the queen officially opened proceedings earlier today and now the heads of government from the commonwealth's 53 states are meeting. ben brown has more from buckingham palace. thank you, we are going to pick up on the story about the windrush migrants, in the run up to this common wealth summit, that apology from theresa may to children of the windrush generation, who came here in 1948 to help rebuild britain. the prime minister apologising to them for threat that they felt they were going to be deported from this country back to the caribbean. we are going to talk to two high commissioners who are also delegates at the summit. guy hewitt and kevin isaac. news hot off the press, you have been in talks today with the home secretary, amber rudd at the home secretary, amber rudd at the home office. has she given you... some cause for optimism on this windrush issue? there is a lot of cause fo