Announced that he and most of his supporters will boycott that election and he has called on all of the opposition parties to join him in a united front to do that so clearly the response from president model is to make one is to agree to one of the main demands of the opposition and as long been one and that is the release of the Political Prisoners however this is not enough to convince certainly why the law and probably many of the other opposition parties to to actually take part in this election which is incredibly important for president legal last mughal he needs it so that he could it could be recognized as legitimate theres no point in having an election that you win but with no opponents taking part so that is what this is about even even russia and china are pressuring me to hold elections that will at least bring on board some of the internationally recognized mainstream opposition and not just those who are called opponents but who are really under the pay or the control of the government itself hamas says its reached an agreement with israel to end the latest escalation of violence along the border with gaza the deal brokered by cats hard comes as gaza struggles under a ban on fuel delivery. The israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has invited a delegation from the United Arab Emirates to visit israel thats after the 1st flight by its National Airline touched down in abu dhabi with white house adviser jared kirsner and other u. S. And israeli officials on board a u. S. Brokered deal to open up relations between israel and the u. A. E. Was announced 3 weeks ago how this then ians denounced the pact as a betrayal. The 2 u. S. President ial candidates are blaming each other for violence at protests across the country donald trump has accused his democratic rival joe biden of what he calls a left wing civil unrest biden says trump is poisoning the nations values is a rioters is a dangerous people these are killers they kill a lot of people and they dont even think about it they wake up the next morning get even think about it this is the extreme left agenda for america they want to appoint radical prosecutors judges and better of a shows who will set criminals free. Weve arrived in a moment in this campaign we all knew including the press in front of me do we get to. The moment when donald trump would be so desperate to do anything to hold on to power dollar chop has been a toxic presence in our nation for 4 years. Poison the how we talk to one. Poison how we treat one another. For his day in the values this nation has always held dear. Poison in our very democracy. Now just a little over 60 days we have a decision to make. Will we rid ourselves of this toxin or will we make a permanent part we make it a permanent part of our nations character hong kong has begun a mass coronavirus Testing Campaign but activists and some Health Workers are calling for a boycott many people are skeptical about the beijing back drive. An investigation into witness tampering by colombias former president is being handed over to the Attorney Generals Office over a rebase suspected of trying to silence allegations he had links to paramilitary groups supporters a fiver a coast exiled former president s have filed for him to be a candidate in octobers election Laurent Gbagbo has been living in belgium after being acquitted at the International Criminal court for crimes against humanity those are the headlines soundboards is up 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 at the time to have them huddled got up at to try to do i think that i was simply. Washed away by rising sea levels we had 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 who will live in the sand. 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 Heroes of our lives because theyre just endlessly examples. Of the way in which sarah and intersects with daily lloyds which we are 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 if. You. Think about you 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 they form a basic material for microchips without which our computers Credit Cards Bank machines cell phones and many other devices would not exist. Sand even alps or 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 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 tonnes. 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. 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 sand and 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 material has all been taken away its gone abuse it already. With the positives of surface 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 2400000 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 modern architecture is a sandbox for developers were no fantasies too grandiose. But as projects. Of sand and huge volumes of sand and Construction Projects concrete and just making land has been doing with the with the official reconstructed island. Landfills or even bigger consumers of sand and 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. But. The world cost over 12000000000. 00 and devoured more than 150000000. 00 tons of sand. With the 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 world. 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 to buy as natural Sand Resources and you think well find of course dubai is on the edge of that theres a theyve got old asylum they need 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 desert and all the grains have been blown around by the wind 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 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 which is obviously a joke. That thats actually come true in the case of the by. 3500. 00 Australian Companies exports into 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 huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes such 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 is more than doubled and the 63 islands that make up this city state are bursting at the seams singapore is for lying on the import. For its very existence in the land masses literally increased 20 percent over the last 40 years and thats largely been reckon nation so literally pouring sound into the sea to create a new land. Singapores 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 each 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 Central African hangover 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. You come here every day every week. This is what is driving the visuals of. What it. Is like that in. Your individual. Your 4th Division Nobody yours or your nice example. Thanks to local Trafficking Networks singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional Companies Continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. But the other guy. But in the same system. Which i think is it just it was invisible is a great state but this is this case. History of. The law with the tacit support of the government for most loyal client. The son trading singapores if he usually have a political as the mass of the baucus is ours were concerned its just a is bill the south as you know leader in the region particularly with the last global sun thats but that 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 of the the any walls and plans that are on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever Living Communities are they will just be and 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 come from the tension of the city because. It is 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. Then youve upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will then start to move the rest of the sand. 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. The 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 use that same. That we loose. Our life. 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 wrote that i have i dont want to give you. Are you going to bend and addenda going to be mad or not do you have enough to know what kind of do you had noticed. Well i dont want to load what double got my back i mean i got them help oh yeah. Look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what cigars right with their day but they didnt come but you know youre not going out your head not them have them couldnt move but im not good at going to create a video 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 a. V. 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 fam. The sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. And a 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 the 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