Situation under control by. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but we when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter i think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make that a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony found he downplayed the president s. Timeline. Thats really very flexible we we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day but youve got to be very flexible and on the on it literally day by day require week basis you need to evaluate the feasibility of what youre trying to do you need to know more about what the penetrance is there so if we do the kind of testing we were doing and testing will always be associated by identifying cation isolation and contact racing and you find after a period of time that there are areas that are very different from other areas of the country you may not want to essentially treat it as it is just one force for the entire country but look at flexibility in different areas so i think people might get the misinterpretation it is going to lift everything up and even somebody is going like that i mean thats thats not going to happen and after 2 days of declining death rates the number of fatalities initially has risen again by more than 740 in spain as recorded its highest dany tally of deaths and confirmed cases indias 1300000000 people have been put on the lockdown for that lets 3 weeks but the government says essential supplies will be made available there is about her on them has more from new delhi. Since thursday evening is when he 1st addressed the nation and he asked everyone to observe this 14 hour voluntary curfew and since then that voluntary curfew was extended in 75 of of the countrys districts that was 110th that happened on monday halfway through the day yesterday on monday that was further extended by the end of the day 3 quarters of the country was under some kind of a lockdown and the Prime Minister came out this evening and unsurprisingly as more and more of the country is under some kind of lock lock down whether its complete or partial he announced that in fact it is the entire country that its for 21. 00 days and that that is the only way that india can fight fight cover in a virus saying that you know much more developed nations have have struggled against it and that these precautions have to be taken now if india has any chance of fighting it over tokyo 2020 limpets have been postponed for a year japans Prime Minister shinzo says is determined to hold the games in full by summer 2021 as a symbol of the worlds triumph over the virus residents in major cities across latin america will soon be awarded to say home to try to contain the virus cuba says all its nonresidents and norms citizens still on the island will be quarantined in hotels from cheese say while chile prevented a cruise ship from docking due to fears that dozens could be infected and in other news 92 soldiers have been killed in the worst attack by boko haram in the countrys military president idriss deby went to the sides of the attack in luck province the attack lasted at least 7 hours dreamful smoot said to help but also attacked. Drug today those are the latest headlines sound was is next. 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 got up at the foot of credit i like the map 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 that sand that mean we loose. Our life. Weve never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing cool when the sand worse. 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 the unsung hero. Its because there are just endlessly examples. Of the way in which sand intersects with daily lloyds which we really. 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. Chips 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 alps a supply 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 they 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 this gray slurry 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 facts and exceeds 15000000000 tons. And that is a quantity that is so huge that its beyond imagination how much as 15000000000 you dont know because no one of the resource is used in such vast quantities as maybe with the exception of water. So where in the world does that much sand come from. Lets just say the 7 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 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 positives 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 said weve been dust for allies 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 best in the right location can pump up to 400000 cubic metres of sand to the surface every single day. Costs anywhere from 25000000. 00 to 200000000. 00. But the sand is free. So the thousands of tankers coming the worlds oceans have every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. Is 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 to grandiose. But projects. Of sand and huge volumes of sand and Construction Projects concrete and indeed just making more land as has been doing with the with the officially constructed island. Landfills are even bigger consumers of sand than concrete with a booming economy the emirate launched in Business Expansion project. The palm. 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 about more than 150000000. 00 tons of sand stretch from the 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 would run president had 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 worlds. A place beyond imagination. Today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. Deserted island is 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 certainly neat like all the gulf states dubai has sand everywhere so why doesnt the emirates simply help itself to the desert desert sand 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 you know its rougher rougher 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. That thats actually come true in the case of the by. 3500. 00 Australian Companies exports and to the Arabian Peninsula their profits have 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 you see is this he. Trade around the world moving from one now its another for different purposes such construction land reclamation. Singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. And 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 the city state are bursting at the seams singapore its were lying on the import of sand for its very existence and the land masses literally increased 20 percent over the last 40 years and thats largely been reclamation 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 ferocious appetite has targeted its neighbor supplies. One after another cambodia. Malaysia and indonesia have beach decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction dissent 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 filled to the brim which imo daily and its important prove that the city state has found an alternative source but where does the saying come from. Tommy guns beer. Guns are. You going to hear very every day every week. This what is the visual so awkward. Know what. When. Youre in the leisure. Your 4th division or your. Thanks to local traffic and Networks Singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional Companies Continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. But the other companies. The thing is it just it was invisible. But this is the this place. If youre going to flaunt the law with the tacit support of the government theyre most loyal client. The sun trade in singapore is he usually have a political is a massive of ours were concerned its just a is bill the south as you know leader in the region in particular the last global sun thats 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 are 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 they think they will just be at the. Sand is the primary link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest just 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 are down from the tension of the city because mining activities when this 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 and then youve upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will then start to move the rest of the sail. 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 natural growth this is and human excavation. Be oil and literally disappear. One of the most stunning impacts of the sun trade was the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we lose that sand. That we lose. 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 doggies 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 wrote that i have i dont want to give you. Are you going to bend and addenda going to not c want to hire you have enough to know what kind of what do you know did not know much love my job and got nothing. But i mean i got them help oh yeah. Look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what you guys write with their day but they didnt come but you know youre not going out youre right not them have them come we dont want but im not going to get rid of it oh i like them i like them 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 sand 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 right from the extraction to construction be the profits in each bottle fed 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 coast and 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 verano water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with her on the beach front were row number 2 and i have the fact that the house wont be here and 5 here. We thought the house about 2 years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here.