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