Tortured after being held in prolonged solitary confinement and having restricted access to medicine a spokesman for hamas in gaza praised morsi support for the palestinians joining his life in politics but the public at the white house expresses its condolences to the family of the former egyptian president Mohamed Morsi who passed away yesterday our people appreciated the national an arab rule that president morsi had with the palestinian cause as a member of parliament and as president of egypt in supporting palestinians rights and refusing these really offensive on the gaza strip especially in 2012 u. S. Secretary of state my pompei o has stopped saudi arabia from being added to a list of countries that recruit child soldiers it goes against the state Department Recommendation based on user ports and Rights Groups assessments they say the kingdom hired sudanese children to fight for the u. S. Backed coalition in yemen foreign militaries on the list are banned from receiving u. S. Aid training and weapons. The gunmen have care the least 41 people in separate attacks in central mali took place in 2 different villages Ethnic Violence has surged in the area in recent months the victims were mostly ethnic dogs once hundreds of people from the dogon and full Army Communities have been killed in fighting over land and water those are the headlines were back with more after earth rise. Americans are struggling to pay their rent the problem isnt just limited to pleasure cities. A former governor of the good social back has cost jobs in the country closed. We bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in. Counting the cost on aljazeera. The explosion of Plastic Waste across the world threatens the very survival of life on our planet. Every year up to 12000000. 00 metric tons of plastic and saw ocean moves. From poisoning marine life to littering landscapes and cloaking waterways Plastic Waste and the environment is set to trickle in the next decades the problem is so vast it can seem overwhelming but spy reimagining this waste as a result we can begin to redress the balance im tony can you lay in cameroon where a young entrepreneur is turning the tide on Plastic Waste by building boats out of bottles and im back in the cabin in the u. K. Where one company is tackling a really sticky caustic president also making unique and sustainable products in the process. Here in cameroons economic capital while the scale of the countrys plastic problem is painfully clear Plastic Waste is clogging up the streets and bridges cameroons major cities polluting waterways threatening marine ecosystems and making life especially difficult for local fishermen. Its estimated that across the city of tijuana 1300. 00 tons of Plastic Waste is generated every day. So much of it is thrown into the citys rivers you can see any trace of water. I. Have never seen anything like this before. I dont even know how you begin to fix a 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 head on his name is smile is so many its miles. I says it to me to most a region that i mean its quite a place to meet i must say so is this normal here in douala you know its so sad when you have older brasseries that truly whereby people in the east we in the house or and then you have the reverse the water the order where the club does bridge and you have people. Crushed in the river and you can see that. The poor educated on how to money deal with so opportunities normally its overwhelming to see this but you dont find it overwhelming why do you see this and think that this is something you want to take on for yourself i realize that although we were a form of plastics no one k. No ones what is these and i was shocked to see that so i decided to do something and work. More in tune in people. By showing the way. Began an initiative to clear up the waste from all of the one as 10 choked rivers. He calls his company like dubai and nature meaning water and nature in the local sally language. He recruits a team of 30 volunteers and today im giving them a helping hand. But it quickly becomes clear to me what a tough job this is. So were standing on this board because much of this looks like a bit of plastic theres actually a river underneath it so its not very stable. Its very hot and very humid here so when you have this amount of waste in the water of course its holes into the toes of other kinds of water borne diseases and there are people who live all around here so this is not just an Environmental Crisis its a possible Health Crisis as well kind of serious about. The work youre doing here is amazing that there are so many bottles and it feels like this is just a dent and its really only individuals like you who are taking it on there is no citywide plan or nationwide plan to tackle this enormous problem no days no star greens just been here in car on our bridges. All the problems are the priorities so. No ones care for the environment and this is the most urgent problem so we need to. Move ways. It doesnt just see all this plastic as waste he sees it as a valuable material and an opportunity to do good. He turns bottles into boats for the regions Fishing Community. And it all happens here inside his workshop. Botolf. Yes i want her prayers in my house here so im here with some of margaret and republicanism or. Ishmaels boats built using traditional techniques he taught you how to do. You know im from a Fishing Community and my dad and fisherman oh well so when i was young i was fishing with my dad this technology i just threw the plastic bottle so is that why this idea came to you yes because im afraid the river and you cannot gush because. It is full of grass roots so. I do hog not only to clean. But also. Because its not easy in the video just for someone to buy a simple board so now with cheaper board that could be useful so we have part of our seed done whats next you are restless yeah id love to try to do that. So we tie this up and not tear. Not so bad you know larry it is a little scary to think that. What were putting together someones actually going to be sitting on out in the water so i feel a little bit of responsibility to not mess this up but. I proud of my handy way you got me it isnt so bad you know. Once hes built the frame ties it to the base. And then he adds in the seats. It has built 37 boats to date given that it takes 650 bottles to build one thats over 24000 bottles removed from his rivers and put to good use. So how much does it cost to make a boat like this with material or rubber in your. Simple jugnu bordeauxs the rest as you have done. To both take just a few hours to build. And theyre so lightweight they are easily transported to the ocean. Its a 3 hour drive to nearby creek. Gives the boats to local fishermen. Traditionally made fishing boats can be extremely expensive but even so when 1st started giving away his eco boats it was easier said than done these look very different to all of the local fishing boats that we see what was the reaction from the local community when you brought these here the 1st time 1st i thought they was sure it will never go in the world enough but when we went to the water bill university is walking and then they start to move to try to understand and try to see if you go fishing with theres one. Of the real proof of course is in the floating lets go test it out its got this is ok you lead the way up. It was a bumpy entry but this feels so much better it feels stable i dont feel unsafe in any way i feel really comfortable fishing and want to be a. Good fellow would. Just. Talk about. What a great idea and theres so many possibilities of what we can do in the future back in at the same time the enormous issue of Plastic Waste and cameras doing what an incredible young man had said that was really fun. Now we know the bow to see where the were delivering it to the latest happy customer. I was going to test it out on a nearby lake. Oconee was it. Really this is going to be the fisherman of good to meet you what do you think of your new boat that i had given him and. How do you think having this new boat is going to change things for you. Pretty soon here. With. The saudi money. So maybe the accessibility and affordability of eco boats will be something that convinces people to give them a try where its safe to do. So but he will. Be. Forced to leave so evening when he was in new york. You want to try it out you know lets see lets see how it works. How do you feel about camilles reaction to his very own eco boat harbor to see that i can make someones my so one gets home maybe hes going to show well be better maybe he can recover more income to his family. Since he started in 2016 the growing success of his eco boat has inspired ishmael to do more. Its his ambition to clear up cameroon and that begins with the countrys 1st bottle recycling scheme. How. This is the eco brain i cover in is made out of 255 classical. And it will collect 1000 votes for us so this is a place where people can come and bring their Plastic Waste this is the starving for and offer to try to do you worry a store list sorting system of Plastic Waste in water so the idea of this eco been what youre trying to do here where do you think it can grow to we won our city be right example in that regard we just apply recall being in areas of all the corner in front of all to show the supermarket this code so it wont be easy to carmen pick up the point recycle it so thats the vision we want to put there but how the which there is not easy. Despite the challenges it has even bigger plans for the future by producing bottle made furniture and by educating the next generation. Bigger issues i really think. As a culture to jump on board because if they live to do garbage job. Its a legacy to take care of environment to cure our planet and to clean our cities. Its an inspiration to me that even in this global sea of plastic one person really can make a difference. For environmental 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 disk. The plastic problem is huge its over 300000000. 00 tons a year Plastic Packaging itself is 78000000 tons year 32 percent of that leaks out in the environment. Some of the biggest producers of Plastic Packaging in the world produce 3000000. 00 tons a year so with that one produce it changes the way they make plastic that is a massive change globally even the biggest producer of Plastic Packaging in the world cant fix this on their own this is about everyone competitors alike organizing around a system that can be regenerative and restarted if you look at our current economy its predominantly linear we take the material out of the ground we make something out of it and then the majority that material gets thrown away we have a growing World Population we have more and more pressure on resources the system we have today cannot run in the long term we need to shift that economy to be one that uses materials rather than using them up. Within a circular economy right from the beginning you build economy so you design out waste and pollution you keep products cycling within the economy for as long as possible and then you look at regenerating Natural Systems through the biological materials to for