circuits relied on the use of hundreds if not thousands of very toxic chemicals and that's why they have clean rooms that's why they have bunny suits to try to protect the chips it was never designed to protect the workers it was always designed to protect the product itself or my god those of a lot of different chemicals they built the disk drives we had to strip them out and then would literally have to dip a mint in severe gases and with a sponge and just with armed with security i do know what it was is i just knew it stunk really bad and you couldn't get it on your skin because it would burn you like nobody's business what would happen was people started getting sick was very strange kinds of illnesses things that didn't seem to make a lot of sense and didn't seem to hang together but increasingly as this happened more and more there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the chemical exposure on the job. one put music on yeah right go and

turn on the music for mom that's some good music on today. right there. but this time you know there's a thing i tried to do. in the thing yes. and one nine hundred seventy five i was eighteen years old and i started working in the electronics field i went to spector physics and they just hired me just like that i was making the end of the laser and i would have to mix up this chemical and i used to call it green go. and get the consistency and then put into a spray gun and i would have to heat that up after a glued on together that was just all the way that i did.

yvette didn't know the material she was using turns out to be probably in the vicinity of fifty percent little excise she didn't know she was exposed to lead in tell her that i got pregnant with mark in one nine hundred seventy nine and that was full term my months and we're just really happy about it. that he doesn't even know to cross the street and know a car is coming to stop going to the restroom you know i have to go with him in there so i have to a system where everything is number one or you know. if i knew what i know now how to read out a spec or fix at the time it was unnecessary it just. breaks my heart that i could avoid it. so we're filing this lawsuit against your employer and it's a lawsuit for his son who was born with severe developmental disabilities and it's

a suit concealment of systemic chemical poisoning and case of a vet and for the direct injuries to mark. marks condition isn't like a cold take antibiotics and you're going to be fine in five days this is life. you're. just overwrites all that and you do what you got to do to this day i still do that. i'm sorry getting. but. i discovered i.b.m. had a corporate mortality. which they kept for thirty years and it kept track of the causes of deaths of their ploy it's the most dramatic findings were about cancer for the company as a whole this was thirty three thousand deaths that were in this corporate mortality file so included people who had worked all over the u.s.

. but then when you look at specific plants like the i.b.m. plant in san jose there was some extraordinary excess costs of deaths one was brain cancer the other was not hodgkinson foma another was melanoma of the skin and in the women breast cancer was three and four fold higher than expected. that was the heart of this settles a lawsuit. in a santa clara courtroom today the first trial out of more than two hundred similar lawsuits filed against i.b.m. former i.b.m. workers jim bore and a lighter hernandez say they developed cancer from exposure to toxic chemicals at i.b.m. san jose facility in the late seventy's or early ninety's i mean literally tried to prevent the results of the tally analysis from ever seeing the light of day in fact they went to the judge and said this can't be used in this case a lot of hernandez's not dead she's going to be in the courtroom and not only was

it not relevant the judge said it might prejudice the jury if they saw what these excess costs deaths were and so he denied use of it in the court many of the brands will respond to questions by saying no one has ever proved to me that a single person has died from exposure to these chemicals either within inside their factories or outside of the factories and of discussion. but that's not the way that we approach environmental or occupational health in the world we are not flying blind here at all especially on the chemicals at issue here in the electronics industry actually and most of the common chemical used in all industrial manufacturing we've been at this work for forty years. if you look at the publicising generated by again you would think that we lost everything and that's simply not coming. after the trial i.b.m.

matters were resolved for hundreds of people whose claims did not go to trial. what can you tell us about the settlements. i'm not going to be able to talk about any of the resolutions of the cases and i won't. can you give any details at all did you have to agree not to reveal the details as part of the settlement all i can say is that the matters were resolved that's what i'm allowed to say. and. here in silicon valley chip companies in the other electronics production companies used hundreds if not thousands of toxic chemicals and the most of the chemicals once they're

used in making the components needed to be disposed of as waste the companies ended up storing them in underground storage tanks all over the valley. but what the brilliant people who were designing these systems didn't quite think through all the way was that the solvent swer really good at dissolving things and so when you put them into a tank eventually they're going to eat their way through the tank. solvent that the electronics industry used in production in silicon valley in the seventy's and eighty's are now on in the groundwater and if you think about putting a drop of ink in a bathtub. that spreads really quickly and it's really hard to get that dropping back that's what we're dealing with except we're dealing with multiples of gallons of the stuff that is in the groundwater. in late one thousand nine hundred one

there were over one hundred families in one little neighborhood who had serious problems and the state health department discovered that the families that were drinking the most heavily contaminated water had significantly higher rates of miscarriages and birth defects then did people in other neighborhoods with the chemical industry will often say if i had not a dime for every time i heard this that even water can kill you then those non toxic thing of course it can but only if you stick your face down in the bathtub or fall into a you know fall into a large body of water. so that has the traditional approach to toxicology is that the more stuff you're exposed to the more harm it causes you but what we're seeing in particularly around cancer and around hormone disrupting chemicals is that it's when you're exposed to it the time of exposure so if you're in third trimester and you get even a perp or billion or part petroleum exposure it can actually cause significant

damage. we formed this silicon valley tuxes coalition and we did a summer organizing project getting people to sign petitions asking the e.p.a. step in with their authority in the superfund program yesterday. yes. yes. and i went to a meeting in washington and presented these thousands of petitions saying we need e.p.a. to come in it's time for e.p.a. to exercise your authority and to everybody's great surprise they agreed to do that . so hewlett packard became a superfund site until became a superfund site national semiconductor advanced micro devices i.b.m. you name it they were there and they were all superfund sites.

the cost of cleanup for i.b.m. as well as all the other companies has been tremendous it's an enormously slow and tedious process. if you look right over here also this is a major residential neighborhood just directly across the street from this industrial site. most of the people living here today are unaware of this huge toxic plume. and those same chemicals that are still right under where we're standing are now beginning to seep back up out of the groundwater through the soil and are actually coming into the offices of these software engineers a google. and this is the one that e.p.a. said might take three hundred years to clean up. this is so complicated the devastation is so enormous that we're really talking centuries of cleanup not just years or decades. the problem is that it

just keeps reoccur. please when companies started moving away from silicon valley to china i think that they were the only too happy to have the government off their backs and. the chinese government made an offer to multinational corporations that they couldn't refuse. you need a land and you need money and you need government approval and you need lots of people to put it all together well they have all of that in charge. here this is. just. completely.

one of the primary purposes of outsourcing is to enable companies like apple to make what are essentially an reasonable demands on manufacturers that they wouldn't and couldn't make if they actually had to employ the workers directly apple doesn't have to worry about what it means to workers when they insist on a tripling of the pace of i phone production. to. sons of those who. come in the new. all. the way focused on this is you. know. how you can see as you go by the one you don't we see you know some of the.

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eight hours at least ten people have been killed senior officials from the trumpet ministration are denying there the anonymous author of a new york times article about the us president the opinion piece describes a revolt inside the white house with members of the administration are actively working against him. if it is what it is purported to be it is sad that you have. someone who would make the choice a come from a place where if you're not a position to execute the commanders until you have a singular option. it is to leave. and this person instead instead according to the new york times. chose not only to stay but to undermine what president trump and this administration are trying to do russia and the u.k. have clashed at the u.n. security council over the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter on british soil russian ambassador to the u.s. embassy in events accused the u.k. of using

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a bit better. here my apartment i flew from the consulate in the fall down six missiles you see youngest about to do it has died and fifteen others were injured after an explosion at a foxconn factory in chengdu self worth trying to the eight hundred to some from john king but you know the just a little hallway that all children occurred at around seven pm in a polishing workshop it appears to have been triggered by an explosion of combustible dust in the duct. no one to be surprised that aluminum dust if it's in a high enough concentration and there is an ignition source it will produce explosion and fire this is a hazard which is extremely well known. so the fact that apple suppliers have an explosion in chengdu in the plant means that they had very poor

housekeeping very poor production processes that's terrible. what's completely unacceptable is that five months later at another plant by within the apple supply chain they had another explosion and fire. its outrageously inexcusable that they had a second one five months later. they set up these supply chains exactly the way they want them they monitor these private chains with exacting scrutiny so they know exactly what's going into their products at every point along the way.

here. we have a kind of life excess of the guns and i'll show you some of. that and. so i have an i phone five here and i'm at show you a little bit about what's inside what makes it take and some of the design choices that apple made putting it together to the first thing out bill has on the bottom is to proprietary penta loeb screws this is a security screw that apple designed to keep people out of the phone once you get the phone open we can start to see the guts. this isn't really a phone it's pretty much a full blown computer that can make your phone last for eight hours or you need a really big battery. batteries and phones last about four hundred charges every cell phone i've ever had to pop the back off you can pull the battery out swap a new battery and every year or two you have to replace the battery apple has decided with the i pod and now the i phone that they don't like that model so what

they are doing is building the batteries in the phone and using proprietary screws on there and attempt to limit the lifespan of the phone to about eighteen months which is around the time when they have a new phone and they want you to buy a new one anyway. i think says a company that wants to see everything get fixed so we show people how to fix things and provide the parts tools and guides to enable them to do so helping everyone fix everything so that's the challenge it's a big challenge because there's millions of devices out there and luke and i are reluctant capitalists we get excited selling screwdrivers even though that seems like a boring product because we're selling people a capability with able to do something that they wouldn't have otherwise we want to make it simple and easy for me to repair their own stuff. the amount of raw materials that go into the products that we use are stagnant over five hundred pounds around material go into making in a down south. so here's an example of

a circuit board in this you waste bin this is out of apple laptop from a few years ago even if you make this circuit board in the most environmentally friendly way it's still going to use a ton of water a ton of money probably literally a ton of water lots and lots of materials. when we know for kosovo you know. nothing is different. electronics industry is close in ways that through this the american manufacturers are. they're selling a thing and they're saying well you have it but you don't really own it. there's no way we're ever going to. ford would never sell you we're not going to make tires available to keep your car running after thirty thousand miles you have an entire ecosystem an entire industry that's built on secrecy and. that's trying to pry open

the show people what's inside. and we've kind of been conditioned by manufacturers and brands to leave yourself on the outside don't worry about the details we make this product we give it to you and you just use this product and when it stops working you go buy a new one. when we originally started i fix it it was just a way to provide people with some solution to fix broken devices. and over time we've realized both the manufacturing and the environmental problems are all huge concern. over the last few years i've been to china on a regular basis a lot of that related to our tool manufacturing. we're looking at getting

circuit boards manufactured. this is the big rechargeable battery and this is the main circuit board in here so considering it's just a flashlight you can see it's a surprisingly complex circuit board and i've got these basic schematic of the circuit board once we decide and we'll leave them with me and. finding this supplier that is environmentally friendly has good quality and has reasonable pricing all three of those at once is probably going to be a challenge. for next. time.

visiting factories we've found that it's surprisingly effective to show up on short notice. in general any factory and it's not willing to let you see the factory is an immediate red flag at least for someone that we don't want to do business with. this is the big line. the factory said this is where their edging is bringing all these nasty acids and other chemicals in. you've got a little bit of the believe you can see deal the acid on the outside of the machine . i walked over to where there were some storage tanks and there was basically acid all over the floor. and the moment i looked over that they told me get back away from here and this isn't

giving me a good feeling. as far as making sure everything's done correctly environmentally it doesn't seem like that's a priority for them. and there is no doubt the mouse river. the fact that it was so dear to you is the price you have to pay for the last thirty years of development you. don't buy from them. what you that was the time to somebody. that i hope you know about incentives to fund i mean. with god's fiat currency on the side and some detriment. from

a few hundred. thousand seats it will be sort of i said she brings my sense at the time to buy them just. as a with the idea what that's like a model of model hope we're. going to see that i'm going to do a lot of the numbers on so that it. doesn't you know but fox you know buy new things into. the woman sitting down when you would see these sudden and so when we should. do it it's a typical high profit. by us but to give you a thing to. do you see. that is constantly changing. a lot of times.

this is definitely the most professional of the factories visited. the fact that we're being taken through this water treatment facility is a really promising sign. you start out with incredibly yucky water and it goes for a progressive series of filters and other processes and eventually you end up with hopefully acceptably clean water. the coolest thing when the water is true the treatment facility some of the water comes out of this and they have fished in here in the factory and i said well i know the water treatment working ok as long as the fish are still alive a little unfortunate for the fish because if something breaks maybe the fish die

but it's clear to me that this would definitely be a factory to buy from up the one we visited. from the institute of public and environmental affairs ma june. ladies and gentlemen i'm truly honored and humbled to be the first chinese citizen to receive the school award thank you thank you i said this institute of public. affairs. and our first project is to be a national water pollution database. though this records comes from the government

sources the public can access the information by click on the locations on the map because people want to know you know who should be held responsible for such a bat what a pollution situation and so far we got some more than one hundred and ten thousand records of violations in our database. in april two thousand and ten we filed letters to twenty nine by t. brands to check with them whether those polluting factories whether they are their suppliers. all of them responded except the one that is an apple. apple just give us one statement that is we have a long term policy not to disclose our supply chain. not to.

my june contacted me and we began to work together to apply additional pressure to a company with headquarters here in the united states might join singled out a number of facilities that he believed were in apple supply chain that it had a very heavy environmental impact in their locality and when he level of those charges apple was shot and is sort of in denial that this type of problem to this extent could really exist in their supply chain. i think it's important to understand that this is not just about apple you know this is about the id industry. they all share a printed circuit board manufacturers they all share chip manufacturer is you know

despite their audit protocols there is a lot more talk than walk on environmental impacts in the supply chain you say to yourself how could they not know about any of these problems but you know it's it's always you ask and it's all you look for so if you are there and you have a checklist of what you need and you need it now and that checklist does not include what's going on at the end of the pipe of your wastewater treatment plant it's actually conceivable that you know exactly where it's being made you just don't know exactly how it's being made and what the impact is and that's what's going on not just with apple but with all of these companies. forty years of operating the environmental protection agency in this country these are american based companies hard to believe. we still have this industry which is discharging so much waste not just normal ways hazardous waste. in

just one supplier to generate more than one hundred thousand tons of hazardous waste in one year. how could we dispose stuff you know in the safe way so how much a time bomb this industry's gonna create. in electronics at this moment in time i believe we're in the dinosaur age. we're using too many resources too many raw materials and the life of a computer is a typically three to four years. for a small company in r.

and. a mission is to juice a fair trade computer. in the early days i repaired this component levels on the computers and one imports. from i noticed that too was huge amount of waste in the computer industry. so we started designing and building a database of graven reusable computers. this is my father's environmental drill and all my trusty and just you know such and such just. how can you build a computer without plastic how could you build a computer without lead mercury p.v.c.'s brominated flame returns and all the other heavy metals. that was our gold

the material we use is wood so it's technology of one hundred years ago but it's perfectly good. computers will last seven to ten years because home users non-technical people can repair and replace i'm never place in the memory you can extend the life of it by upgradability. today is is there a major launch in europe. we've lots of invites and to people. we were awarded the world's first european. for integration desktop computers it was the world's first ever achieve this award at that time i thought wow the the gates when open with orders flood in thought that was not the case maybe

a little bit of naive essay on my part is hard at there like government agencies some people like that there is no room for environmental they are totally just bottom line. i'm looking at it now it's one little step at a time the what we need to do is it work harder build more computers. get people to join us. americans talk a lot of gadgets every day. if we look at the three million or so tons of electronic waste that gets generated in united states every year probably fifteen percent of that gets recycled. and some percent of that gets recycled in a responsible fashion. till

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you waste of china let them burn it let them have the pollution but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe. that pollution is getting lost into the atmosphere and coming right back to us. metals and metal is a metal you know and it's there's no other form for it to convert to you can convert it from being in the soil to being in the water to being in the air but you still have a metal. in our work we fly through clouds and we sample the cloud droplets and we measure the chemistry of each one very fast as you're flying through a cloud. there flashing as fast as you can imagine on a screen and we collect all that information and what we get is what's a chemical fingerprint in california with getting rid of lead in gasoline we've

reduced the amount of lead we have and so when lead shows up that is one of the tracers that we say this could be from elsewhere and we can trace it back in time and say you know four days ago this air was over asia. and you have more pollution you have more aerosols those go into the cloud and so you have so many they can't get big enough to fall and lead to rain. and it's giving you these extremes of either not enough water in some places and way too much water in other places. what happens if we push it too far. we'll start to see more of these extreme events things like flooding and hurricanes. these are what people often refer to as tipping points and not so that's what we're very concerned about happening.

my attachment to my devices is more complicated now. it's hard to get excited about the next new model or upgrade knowing what they really cost to make. the industry in it's constant search for cheaper workers and land is moving on to new countries with few government safeguards or inspections. we all have a share in this problem. but we can use our voices and our buying power to demand real labor safety and greater environmental protections. the digital revolution has improved our lives in so many ways. we need to make sure it doesn't rob us of our health and our planet.

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run t.v. channel public anger has been boiling for weeks over a lack of employment essential goods and government corruption in the last forty eight hours at least ten people have been killed matheson has more on the day's events. the burning of buzz was provincial council headquarters cell phone footage shows smoke and flames pouring from the windows of the fifth official building to be set alight in the last four days it's not known how this fire started but local sources say al to government protesters have been close by. hours earlier their influence of a key ports was blocked by iraqis demanding the attention of a government they say is failing them and there's not enough there is no more trust in anyone neither in the leadership nor in any party. security forces have responded with tear gas iraq's prime minister says he didn't order security forces

to fire real bullets martin your because he wants to create a rift among our security forces after all the sacrifices we made to get rid of terrorism who wants to take us from bad to worse to create rifts among our citizens in order to batter under threat. iraq's human rights commission reports more than one hundred wounded including security force members of. the protesters who were injured were peaceful they don't have rifles pistols or any guns they only have banners and signs this inquiry forces use excessive force. has been simmering for weeks in basra and other cities in southern iraq considered to the shia muslim heartland of the country the region is oil rich and the port is vital for iraqi imports and exports despite the oil revenue iraqis complain they're forced to live with the daily indignities of unclean water and no elektra's city

government corruption and unemployment are also high in the list to protest his grievances all the more up and down. why are the police humiliating i mean i'm from basra asking for my rights. as protests continue around the clock the ministry of transportation is appealing to demonstrators. and not to talk at the ports and other public facilities which government ministers say are not connected to their frustrations it seems the protesters have succeeded in forcing the government to listen to their grievances now they want to action what matheson al-jazeera you know has states has joined france to issue its strongest warning yet that it's prepared to strike syria if government forces used chemical weapons president bashar assad's forces are preparing a major operation to retake it lib syria's last rebel stronghold speaking just a short time ago the u.s. ambassador to the united nations had this to say we have a message for the assad regime and anyone contemplating using chemical weapons in syria in the past eighteen months i have stood on this floor twice promising that

the united states would respond to the use of chemical weapons in syria both times this is ministration followed through the united states and its allies force the assad regime to pay its price for its crimes so we want to take this opportunity to remind assad and his russian and iranian partners you don't want to bet against the united states responding again or diplomatic as to james bays joins us live from the unit quarters in new york james strong words from the u.s. ambassador how seriously should we take the rhetoric. well it's a strong threat from the u.s. she says that the u.s. has done it before that president trump has ordered military action when there's been chemical weapons attacks and if there's a chemical weapons attack in libya then they'll do it again that she said even if there isn't a chemical weapons attack there shouldn't be an all out assault on she came up

which was an interesting figures in her speech she said that since the war in syria started she said her conservative estimate was the assad regime and used chemical weapons on its own people fifty times and she said another conservative estimate was that the assad regime herd killed one thousand five hundred innocent children following her immediately following her in the council chamber of the assad regime. of the jaffrey in. some rather that chemical weapons in syria today that this is false information that is being that old because there are no more chemical weapons in syria and there haven't been since miss secret current announced here before the security council in two thousand and fourteen that such was the case in two thousand and fourteen she said categorically here there are no more chemical weapons in syria.

pretty familiar comments there from the assad regime and from the man who is their main diplomatic point man at negotiations around the world and here at the united nations they are obviously will be taking note of the very strong words from ambassador hailey who finished her speech with a message to syria and russia the choice is theirs and it will dictate our response in the manner and the time of our choosing lauren james bells' thank you very much and all. one hundred people are fleeing province which is already being targeted by pro-government troops along the border and stephanie decker is only turkey syria border there have been several air strikes in the northern area of how my province and south it live one of those from what we understand is taking out one of the buildings belonging to the civil defense is the white how much the rescue workers

that operate in opposition territory also understand that there are a number of families hundreds we understand around a thousand people that have fled some of those areas where those airstrikes are taking place at the moment all eyes remain on tomorrow that is when you have the trilateral meeting in town hall and between iran turkey and russia everyone expects something to be agreed upon there what this offensive what kind of shape it will take whether it will be limited to certain areas certain groups or wide scale turkey is doing everything to avoid a large scale offensive it is its worst case scenario is to have a fresh influx of fresh push of syrian refugees i.d.p.'s towards its borders fleeing the fighting the borders remain closed turkey already hosts over three million people we went to talk at some of the aid organizations to see how they are preparing for what they say they expect to be a potential bloodbath. over the years the province of it is offered some want of

a refuge for almost a million internally displaced syrians but that seems like it's all about to change with the expected government offensive backed by russia to recapture the lost province left under opposition control turkey's preparing for a worst case scenario all as we met with the head of turkey's red crescent just as he returned from visiting it live if any. influence. inside or other two o'clock turkish border now we are preparing. refugee camps in sight syria turkey already hosts more than three million syrian refugees and it doesn't want any more the turkish border with syria has been closed for years unfortunately there is no clear line for armed groups there are. settling down inside in the societies so it is really difficult to target the military points so. civil casualties. it's

been a repetitive cycle for years despite endless political negotiations it's the military option that always seems to come first millions of syrians are homeless in their own country dependent on aid unable to rebuild their lives this fact she belongs to the turkish aid group i h it sends one hundred fifty thousand bags of bread to live every day each piece representing someone who cannot feed themselves the individual desperate stories often getting lost in a mass of lives interrupted. those who fled to look were sleeping with threat of death now they're facing death once again they have no plan b. in the last few years we've tried to build more herman structures for the displaced or today we're back to square one setting a basic test to prepare for a new wave humanitarian corridors are being proposed by aid agencies but they will remain inside syria and the question remains to where most people don't want to go

to the government controlled areas which surround it live and that leaves the turkish controlled northern part of the country but many are reluctant to go there to no one wants to be displaced again even though aid agencies are preparing for what they fear will be a bloody battle everyone is saying it's still too early to predict how exactly it will unfold that they say will be decided at the negotiating table between iran russia and turkey but there is a consensus that the battle for adlib will be the final major battle of this war stephanie decker al-jazeera on the turkey syria border. on friday the leaders of iran russia and turkey will discuss syria's fate the un has warned such an attack could cause a humanitarian disaster so mr avi reports from tehran the world is not doing enough to help people displaced by war that was the message during a visit by the u.n. high commissioner for refugees legal ground he was into ran to meet with foreign minister zarif and other senior leaders his trip just days before the presidents of

iran russia and turkey hold three party talks into her on i have just been to syria so i reported back to. the government of the about my observations. first and foremost especially in my meeting with minister saadi we spoke about our concerns about it lip. it is clear that the risks of a military confrontation causing massive loss of life. he says he's he's he's very high and i told ministers that he thought that my appeal just like the u.n. secretary general and others is let's minimize let's. get peace to the parties but then to minimize the loss of life grandy said syrian refugees who wonder if it's safe to go home or watching how the conflict plays out in its final stages it could send a message of confidence he said order.