The streets of konoha buildings boarded and tempers flaring president Donald Trumps arrival in this battered city pitted his hardcore supporters against the demonstrators protesting the shooting of another black man by police. He came to praise police but must give far greater support to a Law Enforcement its all about giving him Additional Support these are great people he came to condemn protesters these are not acts of peaceful protest but really domestic terror and he came to take credit once they responded and once we took you know control of that things when really in the 2 hour tour the president declined to say the name of jacob blake the black man now paralyzed from Police Bullets the officer responsible he said just choked and you have people to joke theyre under tremendous i said it yesterday i said it last night theyre under tremendous pressure he left the city more divided than ever his supporters on one side but want to show support for him arriving support. Victimized. Loot and murder. Stands for in the protesters of black lives matter on the other its a fact that seen a spike in my system since donald trump came to office this is a fact its totally out of control right now its totally out of control americans are fighting americans everybody talking about civil unrest and the next war this is our country. There is also a 3rd group who gathered at a spot sacred to them to reflect on what happened. When Group President didnt meet with the blake family they preferred to be here at the scene where jacob blake was shot among supporters to trump blakes family said simply stay away to the demonstrators they called for more protests and more peace were not merited you wanted. And we could see why you would want to. Not that 1st there to put up an anger whereas people rose up by. Big changes that affect all the little jakes. Many in this divided city there is still hope of unity once again you. Just little evidence of it any time soon john hendren al jazeera can no sure wisconsin. Another black man has been killed by police this time it was in the city of los angeles 29 year old john kizzy was shot more than 20 times in the backseat trying to get away from officers the family Attorney Says he was stopped for a bicycle code violation the Sheriffs Department says officers opened fire after a hand girl gun fell from his back. A u. S. Department of defense reports as china is planning to double its stockpile of more than 200 Nuclear Weapons in the next decade it says beijing wants to maintain the weapons on a higher state of alert meaning they could be deployed a short notice comment during the cmere is execution and kill thousands of cambodians in the 1970 s. Has died at the age of 77. 00 could been serving a life sentence since 2010 for atrocities committed does the head of the 2 old slang prison the tribunals that convicted him has not given the cause of death but he had been ill for several years. Cyprus will soon be allowed to buy nonlethal equipment after the us of today 33 year old arms and turkey has expressed anger it is adults with greece a voile drilling in the mediterranean and french president Manuel Mccraw is i think lebanese politicians with sanctions or a block on Financial Aid if reforms are made fast enough the widespread anger against politicians since last months explosion those were the headlines more news in half an hour to 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. Underneath the house. The world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world. But we dont. Have a deal like that. Washed away by rising sea levels. In the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 units become. Lost to human greed and stupidity. When we use that when we lose. Weve never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire already disappearing who will win 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 law its because there are just endless examples. Of the way in which sarah and intersects with daily lloyds which we all 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 in our wines cleaning products detergents paper dehydrated foods hairspray toothpaste cosmetics. And an astounding variety of other products we use every day. But its a strategic 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 hyperconnected 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 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 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 dean 1000000000 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 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 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 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 mecca of modern architecture is a sandbox for developers were no fantasies too grandiose. But 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 islands. As landfills or even bigger consumers of sand than concrete. With a booming economy the emirate launched them bitches expansion project. After the year 2000 with the price of real estate 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 dredged 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 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 finance. 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 youll find. That theres a theyve got older style and 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 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 you see is this huge trade around the world moving from one another for different purposes such construction land reclamation. Singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. In 30 years the country known as the switzerland of beijing 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 mass is literally increased 20 percent over the last 40 is and thats largely been reckon nation 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 each decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction to sand is not easy to restrain. Singapore is being accused of expanding its coast and 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 fear. Guns. Youre going to hear very every day every week. This is what is driving the visual so down on what you. See in. Your individual. To the. North Korean Television nobody years ago. 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 guy. But in the same system. Which i think is it just it was the business of great state but this is this case. Thank you for. The law with the tacit support of the government there most loyal client. The son trade in singapore is that he usually have a political as the mass of the backcrosses far as 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 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 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. Sand is the primary 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 of mining activity is when this coral reef we lost fish. Livelihood. We lose 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 start to move the rest of the set. 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 match will prove this is and human excavation the island literally disappear. One of the most stunning and packs 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 wrote that i have i dont want to give you. Are you going to bet i ended up going to not wonder how you could have been acquitted oh well coming up to no no no no my love my double got nothing. 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 with their day but they didnt come but you mad youre not going out youre right not them have them come we dont look good im not good at your creativity 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 the maybe 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. With 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. A lot of the people in the whole. Who control of the sun mafia oh so control and 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 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 drugs inside scattered across the coasts 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 8 houses 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 here on the beach front were row number 2 and i suspect if the house wont be here in 5 here. We thought 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. Because it was up to a 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 a scar 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. Globally between 75 and 90 percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of or a treat and thats only going to get worse. A unique hit endangered biodiversity lies in the heart of one of ecuadors tropical jungles there was a lot of misinformation about the city i knew most of the half year and now. 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He wondered what was going on when he says grace is a religion that they have an indepth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic drug this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to pay for the well smaller and smaller we dont want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on aljazeera. But youll just there with me still raman in doha a reminder of our top news stories u. S. President donald trump has called and he racism protests domestic terror fueled by democrats he made the comments during a visit to a connection by a black man jacob blake was shot 7 times in the back by Police Violent mobs demolished or damaged at least 25. 00 businesses burned down public buildings and threw bricks at Police Officers would you Police Officers wont stand for and they didnt stand for these are not acts of peaceful protest but really domestic terror. It is the same reason you get it or at least he is here to play out in fear Police Reject even since to go back we will not air here we do not need more pain and invasion from a president who is putting his own reelection ahead and even our engineers who were to come in for reconciliation you simply just a kid who did the shooting. Youre an. Inspiration to the. Millimoles militia another black man has been killed by police this time it was in the city of los angeles 29 year old john because he was shot more than 20 times in the back as he tried to get away from officers the familys Attorney Says he stopped for he was stopped for a bicycle code violation the Sheriffs Department says officers opened fire after a handgun fell from his bag the Us Department of defense reports as china is planning to double its stockpile of more than 200 Nuclear Weapons in the next decade it says beijing wants to maintain the weapons on a higher state of alert commodore because the camaro executioner who killed thousands of cambodians in the 1970 s. Has died at the age of 77 had been serving a life sentence since 2010 for atrocities committed as the head of the tule celing prison the tribe you know all the convicted him has not given the cause of death but boy had been ill for several years cyprus will soon be allowed to buy nonlethal equipment after the u. S. Live today 33 year old arms in bargo turkey has expressed anger is a dogs with greece over oil drilling in the mediterranean the krona virus has plunged australias economy into recession for the 1st time in nearly 30 years shrank 7 percent between april and june those were the headlines more news in half an hour sunday was continues on aljazeera. And thats because 50 years of debts children and. All that such. As. Lacking specific childhood education. Do you. Believe you just leave us. To. Seize. The world that is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world. Behind air and water. 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 that its us. We are drawn to coastlines today 3 quarters of the largest cities in the World Population are on the coast as the population growth accelerates the worlds hyper. Increasing density by 2025 to 3 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 tourists head 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 their. Dredge home sand from the ocean floor and tours it onto 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 big machines that when they go take this there in killing everything within that sand as ground put into a pipe crust moved and then it comes out and pumped for 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. Peter planet 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 to see 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 breakwaters 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 theyre 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 because then 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 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 trapped river dredger. Although its regulated in many countries its still a widespread practice especially in countries where legislation this week 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. Is coming down. To you. On the. Ground up to green beaches 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. And. Sad it is a very precious commodity in the maldives 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 eat. Or you dont deny. The mall deaves our road at all by me 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 are sick and the demonic know how to minimize they did it come up was done day with the law one nun a difficulty down the dictaphone line number tunnel building i got in riyadh only make a name on a clinic the highgate at the lodge i didnt have a month in and it will need on the money the board unless the unite in the going to come and live 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 require ever more said. We have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 is the have it in history 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 well 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 sand 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 in the developing world on the forestation on Climate Change on the reform of the arctic cultural common policy on the common fisheries policy on learned 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 with 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 the debates. Its fair to say that. Petitions scientists engineers come together and find alternatives for them or for the foot 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 that bias 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 your core characteristics it says im contaminated in regular beach sand it only looks like sand but it behaves exactly like sand so it is safe 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. The sources cant compete with it though attentive can compete with that right now there is no competition you cannot compete with something that is going to take the a truck bottom. Pricing. As sand alternatives and new construction methods struggle the game budget in missy the sand gold rush is gaining speed and more battle fronts are appearing. On the coast of britain hundreds of families survived by traditional fish. 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 an issue does. It doesnt matter. So ill go so this is a. Lot with the global. Companies have come to brussels complaining about it not sure if i was in rules say. On the does rules get 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 you know so i get on quite often with a great deal more preschool seduces a. Lot of them see if they move it. Just for me and all the while. Said chris is im also doing no even move. So. Blue book is going to do for sub sub. Sub a. 1000. Years old was indeed 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. On all the other 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 soil it ocean bilby more and this will have a very seed is in fact i then. 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 try to impress upon others the gravity of the issue in but is happening to the planet and this cute we must save the beaches. Given the scale of which society is built with. Cern deserves 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. Where living. Theyve been tremendous environmental victories at the beach itself its been left 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 said 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. Hello whilst the seasonal rains shows some reluctance to go back again theyre showing up here in cloud over pakistan and eastern afghanistan and so you can imagine the trough line comes down through the baby and see the set injected more moisture into amman yemen and saudi arabia this is cloud or possibly thunderstorms where the ground is high enough to pop up in the sky theres no prevailing breeze anywhere say humidity around the gulf states is quite high and that certainly i can vouch for that in there for example but its also hot back in iraq and certain events and look at jerusalems temperature of 13 died on thursday well above where you expect to be at this time of the year. The rains are slowly starting to go through Central Africa but is pretty jumbled mess quite possibly the biggest showers and less youre a bit further west to develop in cameron for example the onshore breeze isnt a strong as it was a occasional shower seemed likely in somalia not really in kenya or tanzania there are occasional ones in the build up over Lake Victoria every night and then spread out during the day but as nothing big here the still go late winter which is a early spring weather to be found in Southern Africa particularly south africa which you have is bergen the sherry regime but much of south africa to. An image can change the way we see the world if we had not seen that we would be talking about it it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful he created longing for a photo opportunity that can obscure the truth this is a legitimate news story but this play on the talking points are pretty identical it can forge narratives already right from the listening post gives you the full picture. We understand the difference is i am similarities have cultures across the world. So no matter what you see aljazeera will bring you the news and Current Affairs that matter to you. Aljazeera. Donald trump visits the city at the center of the latest anti racism protests and calls violence during demonstrations domestic terrorism. Im not by this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up chinas military ambitions sparks concerns in the u. S. As a pentagon report warns of beijings plans to double its nuclear stockpiles. 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