Republicans support the package the senate is going to stand together act together and pass this short relief package good i like all compromises this bill is far from perfect but we believe the legislation has improved sufficiently to warrant its quick consideration and passage. The treasury secretary was at the center of the negotiations that led to the bills passage how do we make sure that American Workers who needed to keep getting paid this is no fault of their own that businesses have been shut down the president and Vice President want to make sure those hardworking americans got money and this was the most efficient way of doing it President Trump says hell sign the bill a soon as possible expressing the hope that it will speed up a return to normality and an easing of the shutdown and really claiming that some opponents are using the crisis to homme his election chances late to the c. M. I think there are certain people that would like it not to open so quickly i think there are certain people who would like it to do financially poorly because they think that would be very good as far as defeating me at the polls the democratic mayor of the city at the epicenter of the pandemic says new york needs a far greater slice of funds from the stimulus package blaming the Republican Senate leader for the shortfall so it should have been one of the easiest no brainers in the world for the u. S. Senate to include real money for new york city and new york state in this stimulus bill and yet it didnt happen new york city only gets one point 3000000000. 00 from this package that is a drop in the bucket and both men and gotten are seeking the support of fellow democrats in Congress Great to funds for new york state and city is likely to be just one of the amendments that will be demanded when the bill goes to the house of representatives for a vote and while the senates job is now done another standoff is moving that could further delay the stimulus bill going to the white house with signature. Mike hanna aljazeera washington. Spain has overtaken china to recall the 2nd highest number of corona virus deaths with nearly 3 and a half 1000 victims thats still half the number in italy where the death rate in the worst hit area appears to be slowing the United Nations is appealing for 2000000000. 00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the pandemic in an exclusive interview with al jazeera secretary general antonio tara says its in everyones interest to help the worlds poorest nations a month long state of emergency has come into effect in thailand people over the age of 70 a being urged to stay home and public gatherings are prohibited the closure of businesses prompted tens of thousands of Migrant Workers to leave the country thailand has reported 1045 cases of corn a virus and 4 deaths in other news now the man accused of murdering 51 people in attacks on 2 mosques in new zealand a year ago has admitted to the killings brendan tyrants change his plea from not guilty to guilty in a hearing at the high court in christchurch on thursday tyrant will be sentenced at a later date malis main Opposition Leader has been kidnaps a minus he say and his delegation had been campaigning in the central madeon town of now from game northeast of the capital bamako they have been missing since wednesday afternoon no ones claimed responsibility yet for the abduction and prosecutors in turkey have charged 20 saudis for the murder of journalist. Un investigator agnes connemara led an International Probe into the killing and has welcomed the indictment those are the headlines on aljazeera the news continues after sand wars stay with us. We bought the house about 2 years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand weve lost underneath the house. The world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world red dot com to have them put it all good up at the foot of creativity i like the doc im not exactly. Washed away by rising sea levels we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 units become just. Lost to human greed and stupidity. When we use nets and that means we loose. Our life. Weve never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing who will win the samplers. For most of us san makes us think of days at the beach sand castles and sunshine and once the holidays are over we slip back into our busy lives. But is feeling the sand between our toes or caught in our bathing suits the whole story. Does this so familiar substance play any other role in our daily lives. Standard is what i like to call an unsung hero its because there are just endlessly examples. Of the way in which sand intersects with daily lloyds which we all really know commonly aware of. Sand has quietly infiltrated every corner of our world melted and transformed into glass it sits on every shelf. Its also the source of silicone dioxide. A mineral found an hour winds cleaning products detergents paper dehydrated foods hairspray toothpaste cosmetics. And an astounding variety of other products we use every day. But its. Mended such as. You. Think about your computer. You know and it can be manufactured if you do not have high quality said. The minerals extracted from sand are at the core of our Hyper Connected Society a form of basic material for microchips without which our computers Credit Cards Bank machines cell phones and many other devices would not exist. Sand even helps us fly in our airplanes the plastics lightweight alloys of the fuselage and jet engines even the paint and tires are all made with sand. Its almost become like a the air we breathe we dont think too much about it but you cant live without it. And the industry with the biggest appetite for sand. Construction. For the last 150 years sand mixed with cement to form concrete has shaped the contours of our increasingly urbanized world. Because of its low cost strength and ease of use disgrace larry has become the dominant Building Material around the globe. The quantities used are astronomical. To build an average house it takes 200. 00 tons of sand. For a larger building like a hospital around 3000 tons. Each kilometer of highway devours 30000 tons. And to build a Nuclear Plant the estimate is about 12000000. 00 tons. Of production of sand exceeds 15000000000 tons. And that is a quantity that is so huge that its beyond imagination how much is 15000000000 you dont know because no other resource is used in such vast quantities as sad maybe with the exception of water. So where in the world does that much sand come from. Lets just say the sand men who work in the aggregate business have not been affected by the economic downturn. Behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. Business is booming but meeting this demand is not always an easy task sand is not something thats easily found like you might think it is used to be that youd have a sandy gravel deposit and youd simply go and dig it up out of the ground so youd have sand to make your roads bridges and buildings up but that type of material is all been taken away its gone abuse it already. With the process of service and exhausted we started dredging rivers for sand but this is lead to flooding. Now weve turned to the oceans for sand. To satisfy our seemingly insatiable appetite for sand weve industrialized extracting it from beneath the waves. And the workhorse of the industry is a dredger. A giant tanker equipped with a suction arm capable of pumping huge quantities of sand to the surface. The right bessel in the right location can pump up to 400000 cubic metres of sand to the surface every single day. Each dredger cost anywhere from 25000000. 00 to 200000000. 00. But the sand is free. So the thousands of tankers combing the worlds oceans at every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. An astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a mecca of modern architecture its a sandbox for developers were no fantasies too grandiose. But as projects. Of sand using huge volumes of sand and Construction Projects concrete and indeed just making more land as has been doing with the with the artificially constructed island. Landfills or even bigger consumers of sand the concrete. With a booming economy the emirate launched an ambitious expansion project. After the year 2000 with the price of state soaring as a result of speculation Developers Bet that it would be cheaper to make land than to buy it. The selfproclaimed 8th wonder of the world cost over 12000000000. 00 and devoured more than 150000000. 00 tons of sand dredge from dubais coastline. With the giant palm still under construction flying high in the seemingly Endless Supply of money and sand embarked on an even more extravagant project the world. The world is an island paradise where unprecedented opportunity can be found it is almost as resort official archipelago of 300. 00 islands designed as a map of the world absorbed 14000000000. 00 and 3. 00 times as much sand as the palm. The. Place magination. Today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. Deserted islands now parked in the sun awaiting the uncertain day when millionaire buyers will again descend on to buy and restore its glory. To kill the Corporation Managing the palm in the world the crisis is more than financial overdevelopment is totally liquidated by his natural Sand Resources and you think well fine of course dubai is on the edge of that theres a theyve got older they need like all the gulf states dubai has sand everywhere so why doesnt the emirates simply help itself to the desert. Does it say and is the wrong color end of sand for building a lot of fishel islands why because deserts and all the grains have been blown around by the wind and is typically very round and very smooth if you want to use it to build an island they dont stick together you need sand that that is more angular rough or rough for age say that naturally sticks together. See sand is perfect for island building and construction but its in limited supply sand is not a sustainable resource. Although its own stocks are exhausted dubai is far from given up. The burj khalifa at the time of construction the worlds tallest building was built with sand from half a world away. We have a saying in english which is selling sand to the arabs which is obviously. That thats actually come true in the case of the by. 3500. 00 Australian Companies exports into the Arabian Peninsula their profits of tripled in 20 years accounting for a 5000000000. 00 jackpot. And australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas and so what you see is this huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes such as construction and land reclamation. Singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. In 30 years the country known as the switzerland of asia has become one of the richest in the region during this time the population has more than doubled and the 63 islands that make up this city state are bursting at the seams singapore its were lying on the import. For its very existence in the land masses literally increased 20 percent over the last foresee it is and thats largely been recognition so literally pouring sound into the sea to create new land. Singapore is already transformed 130 square kilometers of water into land and is planning to add another 100 square kilometers by 2030. Having devoured all its own reserves its for ratios appetite is targeted at its neighbor supplies. One after another cambodia. Malaysia and indonesia have beach decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction to sand is not easy to restrain. Singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins from neighboring states. Suspicions of sand trafficking hang over singapore and the dozens of barges still to the brim which unload daily and its important to prove that the city state has found an alternative source but where does the saying come from. Tommy guns beer. Guns. You come here every day every week. This is what is driving the show so dont. Put it. In. Your english or. Did on. Your 4th division job or your 3 of us a couple of. Things to local traffic in Networks Singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional Companies Continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. But the other come. But in our. System. Which i think is it just it was in most ways a great state but this is not this place. To take you. To flaunt the law with the tacit support of the government there most loyal client. The son trade in singapore is he usually have a political as the mass of the baucus is ours were concerned its just a is bill the south vironment leader in the region particularly with the last global sun that is but their companies will brain imports of that country and should be its Human Rights Violations environmental degradation and damage the livelihoods of local people. The effects of underwater dredging are far from benign. Much of the ocean floors rocky or covered with only a thin layer of sand. Built up over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. As you dredge up a set. Of course all the the any walls and plans on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever Living Communities are they will just be at the. Sand is the primary of link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest is threatened. Like many archipelagos many of indonesias islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. 92 percent in the nations fiscal challenges come from tension of the city because off mining activities we miss coral reef we lost fish. Livelihood. Everything loss of fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of indonesian families but thats only the 1st of sand dredging to adverse effects. If you have an oil made of sand its only there because of conspiracy of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing that. Then youve upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will learn to move the rest of the say. After the extraction of sand a combination of waves currents and gravity slowly fill in the back you. So the removal of underwater sand can have a very noticeable effect on nearby beaches and islands. And so by a combination of the natural prothesis and human excavation the island can literally disappear. One of the most stunning and pax of the trade was the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we use that sand. Once an island disappears the International Maritime boundary changes all is required to these become geopolitical issues as well as simply commercial and resource issues. 25 indonesian islands have already disappeared. Like coal and gas sand is now on the frontline of the worlds hunger for raw materials. Scarcity and dangers local communities and sets governments against each other. As demand builds the circle only becomes more vicious. Moroccos gentle climate has been welcoming tourists for years. But its famous beaches have also been attracting some strange 4 legged visitors a constant stream of men and donkeys descend on the beaches 7 days a week. In search of. Sand. For men and the donkeys have taken so much sand that some beaches now look like the surface of the moon. Rock has been experiencing a construction boom spurred on by a competitive real estate market. The builders are happy but they need plenty of sand legal and otherwise. That. I repair i have i dont want to give you. Are you going to bend and addenda going to not wonder how you could have enough to know what kind of what do you not know much like what double got cut your. But not by me i got them help oh yeah. Look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what you guys really do their day but didnt come but you know youre not going out your head not them have them come we dont know what im going to get were proud of it oh i like them i like that lap its estimated that 40 to 45 percent of the sand used in construction in morocco has been stolen mostly from its beaches. Loaded onto trucks the sand is sold directly to unscrupulous developers but thats not where the problem ends. Without proper treatment salty beach sand mixed with cement is highly corrosive make americas New Buildings ticking time bombs in danger of collapse. Ironically the beach is meant to lure the tourists are being stripped bare to build hotels and condos that may turn out to be death traps. In mumbai lavey enjoy. The position of being the Financial Capital of the country andrea also have a huge housing Boom Construction boom thats because of the influx of so many new people into the city. But the Indian Economy booming construction has to keep pace and like in so many other battlegrounds of the sand wars easy profits lead to corrupt practices. The value of sand is such that its a commercial commodity that is smuggled i mean the its a big business is smuggling the fam. Sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. And lot of the people in the whole. Who control of the sun mafia oso controls a lot of the construction the Construction Materials businesses in bombay as well as the constructions themselves. In addition to that they also control the administration through their political contacts so that just completes the whole value chain and i trim the extraction to construction the the profits in each bottle fit the administration and the police. Under the eyes of corrupt authorities the sand arts ply their trade in broad daylight and more than 8000. 00 dredging sites scattered across the coastline river banks of the subcontinent. For the mafias beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arms reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. The tentacles of the mafias however are just adding to the pressures facing the world speeches. Just 2 years ago there was a row of houses here. About i think about a house though from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses there on the water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with her on the b. Front were row number 2 and i have the fact that the house wont be here in 5 here. But bought the house about 2 years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here. But from here you can see how much sand weve lost underneath the house. Because it was up to level with the cement but of course it went out into the ocean. So. The beach area was about the length of a football field and over the last 2 years the scart mint is underneath the houses so. The erosion on this part of the beach is much quicker than we anticipated or that is deemed to normal. Global in between 75 and 90 percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of retreat and thats only going to get worse. In response to Global Warming germany is gradually shutting down its coal industry what is happening fast enough we dont have any time to waste anymore we cant wait so were taking direct action to call for the immediate phase out of coal in germany as Climate Change activists challenge communities reliant on the industry for jobs people in power who will win the cold war on aljazeera. 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Senate has unanimously passed a historic 2 trillion dollars coronavirus rescue package the bail is to help Frontline Health workers and keep the economy afloat it will now go to the house of representatives for a final vote mike hanna has more from washington. Now up until this point this is a bipartisan action both republican and Democratic Senators have been supporting this particular bill but in the house the governor of new york saying hes been speaking to members of the house of representatives saying that he wants them to argue for an amendment giving more funds to new york city so going to the house what was going to be a straightforward debate is not likely to be so anymore the House Speaker acknowledging that where before it could have been passed simply by a unanimous vote this may not be the case any more sane has overtaken china to record the 2nd highest number of coronavirus deaths with nearly 3 and a half 1000 victims thats still half the number in italy where the death rate is the worst in the worst hit area appears to be slowing the United Nations is appealing for 2000000000. 00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the pandemic in an exclusive interview with al jazeera secretary general antonio tara says its in everyones interest to help the worlds poorest nations a month long state of emergency has come into effect in thailand people over the age of 70 are being to stay home and public gatherings are prohibited the closure of businesses prompted tens of thousands of Migrant Workers to leave the country. In other news the man accused of murdering 51 people in attacks on 2 mosques in new zealand a year ago has admitted to the killings brendan tyrants change his plea from not guilty to guilty in a hearing at the high court in christchurch on thursday tyrant will be sentenced at a later date malis main Opposition Leader has been kidnapped. And his delegation had been campaigning in the central 1000000 town of the north east of the capital bamako theyve been missing since wednesday afternoon no one has claimed responsibility for the abduction and prosecutors in turkey have charged 20 saudis for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi un investigator agnes connemara led an International Probe into the killing and has welcomed the indictment those are the headlines and wars continues next on aljazeera stay with us. The world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world. Behind air and water saying and is the most used commodity in the world. Where humans have intervened and weve built structures a wall concrete seawall a highway a hotel a parking lot the beach cant move back and we see long term beach lost. As part of the natural cycle beaches adjust to seasonal changes and summer beaches grow thicker and in winter they recede and level off to better absorb the energy of the waves to survive the ocean salt beaches must have enough space behind them but weve built too close to the shore so with nowhere to go beaches are overcome by the waves which carry their sand out to sea. If you have an eroding beach what is the problem. Not the symptom the simple symptom is the beaches eroding but what is the problem. Whats causing this us. We are drawn to coastlines today 3 quarters of the largest cities and half the worlds population are on the coast as the population growth accelerates the world type urbanized coastlines increasing density by 20253 quarters of the worlds inhabitants will live near the ocean and those ribbons of sand would surround the continents are feeling the pressure. If we think. Of the water and i hope that we learn from that but now were here. And we have to figure out how to make projects. That is wider and thats what brings tourists. In florida 9 out of 10 beaches are in the process of disappearing along with the future livelihood of all those who depend on this economic engine. Each year of the planets tourist had for the beach beaches feed the Hotel Industry as well as recreation transportation Food Services and a multitude of other sectors in some areas almost half the g. D. P. Depends directly on beaches. Letting them disappear is out of the question. So what were trying to do is try to mitigate those problems try to lessen the impact and thats why we have to take these unnatural acts of pumping sand into the beaches. To keep their beaches viable cities that can afford to invest astronomical sums in beach replenishment their. Sand from the ocean floor and to the beach. Some people see this is a solution others see it as a bandaid which only true. Its the symptom. Theyve put up the beach and say this is beach nourishment but its just another hole. Those things that when they go to take this there in killing everything within that same does ground put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped the life forms in that part of the beach arent prepared to be buried alive and suffocate it. Its a killing process for the sake of dollars. Replenishment is a temporary remedy after a year to the sand has been washed out to sea and the whole process must be started again from scratch nonetheless this method is highly popular to the delight of the dredging companies its a matter of big money big big influence green its not a pleasant thing the thing you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something thats not so pleasant. In a desperate maneuver to try to trap the sand on the beaches coastal engineers are advocating the construction of dikes break waters and all sorts of other structures. But sand cannot be so easily tamed. The Constant Movement of sand is not necessarily always cooperating with the way we want the place to be it will fill up. And all it will wash away from beaches where we like tourists to come and so that balance is something that we all dramatically changing just by building on. All by building a sea wall around the extends out from the beach we build a wall to to contain sand to keep it on our beach what do we do we stop the sand from supplying the neighbors beach. The tragedy is that people are just not aware they are not aware that an action here is going to have a reaction somewhere else so we all have to be very careful when it comes to redeveloping the coastline we have a responsibility because we dont want these great wonderful treasures that we want to share with our children to disappear because of greed because of irresponsibility. And because of just not dan paying attention. In order to avert further catastrophe its important to understand the source of 90 percent of the world sea sand often a long way from the beaches. For the most part it starts in iraq somewhere that breaks down it might be in a river from ice or snow or rainfall and is that grain comes out of the granite or the sandstone it just gets into a small stream and then a larger river and in a normal world ultimately will work its way all the way to the shoreline. It takes thousands or even millions of years for a grain of sand to reach the sea and its a journey full of pitfalls. In america we have been building one dam every day since the deck relation of independence and 7761 a day. 80000 dams block the rivers of the United States in china where the demand for energy is exploding dams are popping up everywhere so that by 2020 not a single waterway will reach the sea. And in the rest of the world there are at least 845000 dams and its not only water theyre holding back so all that sand that should be at the beach is behind the dance. One quarter of the sand reserves of the planet are hostage to these dams and the sand that makes it beyond the dams will run into another trap river dredger. Although its regulated in many countries its still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week the results about 50 percent of a sandwich or nurse the worlds beaches will never reach the sea. The coastline like many other environments its like the earth was always thought so big so vast that we couldnt have an impact on it we built a dam for water or electricity which is a good thing but downstream theres no more sand so somehow we have to figure out how to bring all those things back into balance by taking some conscious steps to try to reduce the impacts of those things were doing as a civilization. On them. After green beeches slowly erode victims of decades of human interference. If you read the rising level. You get an ecological time bomb. To see right its just going to happen a lot more quickly without saying. But its not going to stop there its going to take out in all half of manhattan and its going to this could take our cities as well its going to keep coming. The sand is our barricade and we have to understand that. In the middle of the indian ocean sand is a matter of life and death. Of the. Sand divers have been collecting call sand from the lagoon for years and selling with developers. But with Sea Levels Rising this sand harvesting is leading to some serious problems. Sounded as if it is and precious commodity and the moment its because this one millimeter of the ocean touching you constantly every minute every 2nd every day every year is such a false and it is easy. For you dont deny. The mall deaves our road at a moment here right residents do what they can to protect their homes but many beaches are little more the memories. Really not god and i get all of them i say in a demonic not im in a body did it come up was out of the law one nun a difficulty down the dictaphone line number tunnel vision i got in riyadh only make a name on a clinic the highgate at the level i get given every month in an economical need and the money keyboarding us will unite in the going to come of it in. Several 100 islands have already been evacuated and today the refugees crowd on to larger and better protected islands such a small way the capital. Already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together. But in another better irony of the sand wars new construction were choirs ever more sand. We have been in the middle of the indian ocean the last 5000 in the you have it in. This tree that goes back 2000. You cant just die. Far from the mild deaves beautiful threatened beaches greed and speculation drive the Global Markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. Bombay is not an isolated case theres never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. One 3rd of urban populations now live in slums while go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. In china 65000000 flats are empty yet the Construction Industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter of the sand extracted on the planet spain holds the unfortunate record as the european country most addicted to sand in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis 30 percent of the homes constructed since 1906 sit empty entire airports have been built without seen a single passenger and in dubai the emirate continues to build and import sand even if 90 percent of the apartments in the burj khalifa are bacon. But sadly real estate speculation doesnt hold the monopoly on the wasting of said governments are also to blame. I would construction uses inexpensive see said the strips of asphalt weve built snaking around the world have swallowed up massive amounts of the worlds beaches. Think about the number of roads that governments across the way have to beat its the Public Sector why the largest can do most of sad. How the sand wars even registered on our political leaders radars. Access to energy and the development of data for a stage. On Climate Change on the reform of the arctic cultural common policy on the common fisheries policy on learned ground on not traversal says i dont access to water without burial for you find that you need a program to get a lot was before its going to get on the agenda. We talk about water because we know theres a major problem is thats right now in europe and we have had the debates on that weve had the policy were implementing a policy and soil were still having a debate. On science. Were not having a debate. Its fair to say that petition scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the for the use they used most machines construction. Can we continue to build and at the same time for yourselves from this dependence on sand. Are other materials capable of replacing concrete. From the straw thats burnt after the crop is done you could build straw bale houses which use no cement. Except maybe the slab on the floor but and theyre earthquake proof those houses are perfectly insulated and theyre fireproof. You dont have to build concrete buildings you see this building right here this building was built with 95 percent Recycled Materials all the steelers recycled its made from. Japanese cars you know its all recycled steel and when this building is finished they can melt this steel down to make more buildings. Theres so many materials which can be recycled i think we need to exhaust those and in the meantime maybe the world changes you know some years ago people used to build not with this quantity of reinforced cement concrete but a different methods of construction perhaps 35 different methods of construction but in the meantime at least we need to use Recycled Materials as far as possible. Like strong metal our homes are recyclable and rubble can be really used to build roads or new housing projects. But these Solutions Must face our usual inertia and relentless lobbying by the Construction Industry. Construction companies are equipped for and know how to work with concrete so radically changing our construction practices is an uphill battle. What if there was another granular material that might substitute for sand. Theres one very interesting beach north of San Francisco called glass beach and it turns out that for years the city dumped. All of their trash on to the beach the glass that got broken up by the waves and got rounded and today this is this wonderful sparkly shiny sort of a magical beach is started out as a garbage dump when nature is done the glass beach has inspired people to attempt a similar trick thousands of kilometers away in florida. Which is something that has to be disposed of and takes landfill space or Something Like that into an asset then youve killed 2 birds with one. I think everybody realizes the glass is made out of saying that if people start scratching their heads and say well maybe thats a good use of it to return it to science. Glass bottles and packaging are everywhere theyre usually collected and recycled into new containers but when its crushed into find pieces that glass can be just like sand got all because of all characteristics its uncontaminated and regular beach sand it always looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so to say and i mean theres no reason to expect a difference. Sand from recycled glass is one promising alternative for the beaches of florida and elsewhere on the beaches where it has been tested even the sea turtles have adopted it as a place to lay their eggs. As much as one quarter of the glass that we throw away is not recycled and ends up in the. Crushed it could be a perfect component in the making of concrete. But compared to natural sand this sand is still too expensive. When sun begins to cost high maybe. Other sources cant compete with it though attentive can compete with that right now there is no competition you cannot compete thats something that is going to take the a truck bottom. Pricing. As sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle the game budget a must see. The sand gold rush is gaining speed and more battle fronts are appearing. On the coast of britain hundreds of families survived by traditional fishing. But today the fishermen are angry. A multinational with a thirst for sand plans to exploit the ocean floor destroying their livelihoods. But what need is an issue does. It doesnt matter. So ill go so this is a. Lot with the global. Companies that come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules say. And that does rules to the things we need. So what they try to demonstrate is that by doing it by taking out sand from the not so rare there is no impact. Going from you know me doing this well enough so i get on quite often with a great deal more preschool seduces a. Move it says. Yes for me and all the while. Chris is im also do you know even move. So. Blue book is going to do for sub sub. You know. Busy day into the only assume it will be st. Exasperate of the brittany fisherman has shaken up both the elected officials and the citizens inspiring them to mobilize against the seizure of their sand with religion. All over the world. Perhaps grassroots movements such as this will mobilize other groups around the world to stop the sand wars. Once people know once people understand what the issue is and how important it is whether its each grain of sand on that beach or the importance of that beach in their community to their lives and their community i think theres hope. So you see if. This is the sand for useful construction this sand has been taken from there. From the beaches so it is much is there take these sand the soviet ocean be more and this will have a very seat is in fact on the island. Go to the beaches enjoy the beaches learn about the beaches and then do something about it. Lets not let the beaches disappear. I believe that the younger generations of the planet must come out and tried to impress a point now that is the gravity of the issue in but is happening to the planet and to skew it we must save the beaches. Given the scale of which society is built with sand i mean sand is a little more respect. Whether its more freeways whether its more dams weve got to get away from these gigantic seams and get back to a simpler way of living. Theyve been tremendous environmental victories at the beach itself its been to fight for itself. Maybe needs us to fight for. The fate of the worlds beaches is not cast in concrete perhaps the day will come when well see sand with fresh eyes conscious of how every grain plays a role in the health of our planet and in our lives. Then by working with nature instead of against her we can win the same wars for the good of a song. Or. Welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the Arabian Peninsula and the levant see a fair amount of cloud across parts of yemen the still a risk of some shower at 70 here but i think with time but will tend to go away otherwise there is a scattering of showers around across parts of turkey through syria through iran through iraq also against saudi arabia seeing the old shower and but for the most part of a lot of dry weather mecca 35 degrees 32 and here in doha a lovely 25 in the forecast on you see a few more showers popping up but most of the brain activity looks to be across parts of turkey and again down through iran and iraq so lets head across into central and eastern parts of africa plenty of showers for ethiopia also expecting quite a bit of a shower activity down through some monica be some flooding there for the south southern parts of kenya seeing heavy downpours and then really heavy rain likely across the congo towards parts fungo it continues into the forecast through into friday with uganda also seen some heavy rain at times turned into the south of the constant were looking at fine conditions across namibia through into botswana and up through parts of zambia chance of some showers in the eastern cape here would like to see some pretty strong winds at times. Join the colobus conversation. So the people could expand their brains maybe have a different view this is a dialogue women in cambodia are in fact telling their here we dont know how much theyre getting paid for it its hard to track its hard to treat everyone has a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be all right here in this case we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progressing not perfect amount to 0. Going me Steve Clemons on the bottom line for your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society im changing the institutions freaking. We dont the system itself is set up to benefit those who understand that you have people who actually believe things that are not true that is a crisis for democracy is a crisis of concentration the bottom line on aljazeera. Running out of room for the most 6 transports coronavirus virus patient on special trains of its badly affected east. 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