global community also how we come together to fight answering your question can i get on with you think this is me directly that's coming in on you as you're saying i'm concerned about the planet life on earth or a close up and not keeping you up to date and we think i'm getting back and getting back to the stream on al jazeera. hello i'm lauren taylor in london the top stories are as they are israel's new government has finally been sworn in after months of political paralysis and 3 deadlocked elections from mr benjamin netanyahu and his former rival turned partner benny gantz who had the administration it's a new who is due to stand trial on corruption charges will leave the country for 18 months before swapping with guns. used his inauguration speech in the knesset to double down on his plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank but. it is

time to apply israeli law and rise a glorious chapter in the history of zionism this state doesn't delay peace it brings it closer because peace must be based on the truth and the truth is that there are hundreds of thousands of settlers in judo and sumeria afghanistan's latest political crisis has also come to an end with a president and his rival signing a power sharing agreement ashraf ghani and had been locked in a months long feud over last year's disputed election a dinner will lead the council for peace talks and some of his team will be part of the cabinet. had made her kimi is the lead afghanistan research at chatham house he says outside pressures to force the political rivals to work together. we have now like anywhere in the world the covert 19 of honest on for example

a know it has the potential to be unfortunately the epicenter in the region if it's not contained for instance secondly president trump and trumpet ministration is an entirely different game of the us foreign policy compared to the obama administration and president jiang zemin very clear he does not want to be the policeman of the honest one as he puts it so i think the political elite and i want as one have come to really realisation that they have to work together in order to move forward even of that means that they're going to work together in circumstances that they don't like to work with each other but it has to be done for their own survival but also for making sure that some kind of move forward happens and also the taleban process of of reconciliation with them which at the moment is stuck after the agreement was signed in doha and then the fabric between the u.s. and the taliban to which the afghan government was not a party so that has these are the 3 things and my view that are changed the 1014

and the political elite. weeks the mare of man hours in the brazilian amazon has been appealing for help to tackle a corona virus outbreak now could be 19 is spreading upriver deeper into vulnerable indigenous communities tribe members say people are getting sick and dying on indigenous reserves without proper health care people who live on the 2 rivers that madge to form the amazon have been trying to protect their reserves from the virus hundreds of prisoners have been dry and driven to the country's presidential palace in a show of support a right we need ever so narrow a sanatoriums and wave flags to display their approval of person are a stance on ending not down measures across the country the president has criticized restrictions imposed by some governors in brazil to stop the spread of infection is a generic himself came out to greet his supporters and pose for photos on sunday are wearing a mask. u.s. president has hit back at criticism from his predecessor that his government has

fumbled its response to the pandemic speaking as he arrived back at the white house from his weekend retreat at camp david. again boasted that a cure would be found soon without providing any evidence the u.s. has the highest number of virus deaths and infections in the world by far. the measures progress is being made on many fronts including. coming up with. a cure for this horrible plague that as we said our country i think a lot of things that happen very good very busy working weekends it was a good weekend a lot of very good things of happened. here. look he was didn't come put it president that's all i could say grossly but. those are the top stories do stay with us death by design is up next when you speak to

that. for. i'm attached to my phone my computer my tablet. and it amazes me how in just 20 years they've completely changed the way i live and communicate. our devices are sleek and elegant. we store our lives in a beautiful child. land. i

started making this film to explore the impact of our digital revolution. and then secrets the industry tried to hide for years began to spill out. that it. was. our electronics are made and unmade is dirty and dangerous i love it it's a global story of damaged lives environmental destruction and devices that are designed to die. as if it is. illegal . to live.

in china masses. industrialization have put a huge pressure on our ecosystem and on the environment. when it comes to i.t. industry many people think it's. it's green or natural it's rain or some people think it's even think it's virtual but in our investigation we find it's not like that. this pollution is having different consequences but i think that the top impact the

biggest impact is on this public health we have nearly 300000000 who are residents who don't have access to sufficient saved drinking water. going to see what they all share the how to shows you how many. to come to your shows you get them to check. to over think it's fun. to just it's is a hold up you hold one was intended i guess it was shy then the ultimate. i keep thinking about them goldman said when i face all those environmental and

social damage on the river you know which carries all the ways to lake beside the river and place old ladies suddenly down done on their knees in front of me. was like. i don't have any sort of government administrative power and don't have much financial resources to deal with this but i told myself at that moment in front of those ladies i told myself that. at least i need to bring the message out. i need to make sure that all the users of old as gadgets they need to be informed about this.

i moved to this area in 1969 to go to law school because i said i wanted to help people who didn't have the means to represent themselves. it was a time when most people not heard of the semiconductor industry. but within a few years people started seeing the the birth of what has become the you know global electronics industry. the. top names were companies hewlett packard apple intel advanced micro devices. virtually the who's who of the electronics industry. and of course the granddaddy of them all was i.b.m. . when i got a card and i.b.m. that was great that was the company to work for at the time i could go any place where he worked at i.b.m. i don't need an id you just write

a check. it was that easy i.b.m. had that much clout i was the 1st marker processor buyer for i.b.m. . in the early eighty's the idea of a personal computer which was was on oxymoron right i mean personal computer what and what would you use it for any way but it got legs and we started the p.c. business the 1st year they shipped $50000.00 units. and so we went from a 1000 a week 240008 week and at that point the p.c. was launched. from almost the very beginning you heard electronics and semiconductor production it was a clean industry they said it was as clean as a hospital but what they weren't telling people was that it was really a chemical and lay industry and that the magic of making these microcircuits 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 over i got those of a lot of different chemicals they built the disk drives we had to strip them out and then would have to dip i'm in severe gases and with a sponge and just with armed with severe i dunno 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 what happened was people started getting sick with 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. right i

want to turn on the music for mom but some good music on today. right there. but beside me there's a thing of. the. 1975 i was 18 years old and i started working in the electronics field i went to a specter of physics and they just hired me just like. i was making the end of the laser and i would have to mix up this chemical in 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 at that. event in know the material she was using turns out to be probably in the vicinity

of 50 percent little excite she didn't know she was exposed to lead in tell her that i got pregnant with mark in 1079 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 no cars coming to stop going to the restroom you know i have to go with him in there so i have to system with everything who's number one or you know. if i knew what i know now how to read out a spec or physics at the time it was unnecessary it just. breaks my heart that i could avoid it. oh we're filing this lawsuit against her employer and it's a lawsuit for her son who was born with severe developmental disabilities and it's

a suit concealment of systemic chemical poisoning and case of a bet and for the direct injuries to mark. marks condition isn't like a cold take antibiotics and you're going to be fine in 5 days this is life. you're . just overrides all that and you do what you got to do to stay i still do that. i'm sorry getting. and. i discovered i.b.m. had a corporate mentality. which they kept for 30 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 $33000.00 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 access cause of death one was brain cancer the other was not hodgkinson foma another was melanoma of the skin and in the women breast cancer was 3 and 4 fold higher than expected. that was the heart of this center was a lawsuit. in a santa clara courtroom today the 1st trial out of more than $200.00 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 to 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 the 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 40 years. if you look at the pub listening generated by i.b.m. you would think that we lost everything and that's simply not going. 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 settlements all i can say is that the matters were resolved that's what i'm allowed to say. 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 1901

there were over 100 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 a chemical industry will often say if i had not a dime for every time i heard this that even water can kill you the most non toxic thing of course it can but only if you stick your face down in the bathtub or fall into 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 3rd trimester and you get even a perp or 1000000000 apart for truly an 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 into 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 300 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. at least 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 china. just. please please. let.

me and 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 go to the glue and sons of those who. come in the new. ball. anyway focused on this is you. know you can see as you go by the one you don't we see you know some of the.

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this time with you know we. knew they would sit and have. to do the gender thing how much. then somebody go boom another you go and see they. do or so we made our loved ones we did good teaching good to go do that and it was when you put in the to know. so if you saucy you know you sound sung to god so they'd. say oh you have an estate in sweden this. game of them did you know that but you. know it's easy to do so because that is so. basic. it's resizing. so good about themselves. though some of the.

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parts of the occupied west bank. it is time to apply israeli law and rise a glorious chapter in the history of zionism this state doesn't delay peace it brings it closer because peace must be based on the truth and the truth is that there are hundreds of thousands of settlers in judo and sumeria there's also been political agreement in afghanistan president ashraf ghani and his rival signed a power sharing deal it ends months of stalemate following september's disputed election which both men claim to have won ghani will continue to leave the country while a dollar will appoint half of the cabinet. in the us president trump has continued to tout the possibility of a vaccine for the virus will be able available soon without offering any evidence to back up his claim he's also attacked his predecessor barak obama who criticized his handling of the outbreak. the measures progress is being made on many fronts

including. coming up with. a cure for this horrible way that as he said our country i think a lot of things that happen very good very good you're working we can do is a good weekend a lot of very good big developments. look you wouldn't god put a president that's all i can say grossly incompetent. in brazil president has ignored his country's own social distancing guidelines wearing a face mask he posed for photographs with children as he created a crowd of his supporters hundreds of drivers earlier joined a rally in the capital to support him was nora's continue to downplay an outbreak that's killed more than 15000 people in his country. death by design continues next on the back of the news hour after that i mean you can't buy from. throughout

history humankind has prevailed in our darkest moments coming together to face the very thing that would extinguish our light. this is not one of those moments. at all. this is a moment for pretty much the opposite for hiding for laying low. is also. saving humankind by really really not getting mirrors. we're playing games staring at screens and staring at. all of the stuff of your hours. every generation has its most were individual sacrifice makes way for the good of those who come after a higher purpose this one is ours.

and i thought i had a company in the boat out this is obviously youngest of us to do it has died and 15 others were injured after an explosion at a fox conn factory in chengdu south with china to the dish to eat honey to son from don king but you know he just i don't hold it at all to that occurred at around 7 pm in a polishing workshop that appears to have been triggered by an explosion of combustible dust in a 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 5 months later at another plant within the apple supply chain they had another explosion and fire. it's outrageously inexcusable that they had a 2nd 15 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 town hall i fix the guns it will show you how. to i have an i phone 5 here and i'm at show you a little bit about what's inside what makes it tick and some of the design choices that apple made putting it together to the 1st thing out bill has on the bottom is 2 proprietary pencil lobes 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 it can make your phone last for 8 hours or you need a really big battery. batteries and phones last about 400 charges every cell phone i have ever had just popped the back off you can pull the battery out swap a new battery and every year or 2 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 18 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 where they're 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 $500.00 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. books when we know for kosovo you know. nothing is different. electronics industry is close the 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 be a. ford would never sell you we're not going to make tires available to keep your car running after 30000 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. and. we're looking at getting some 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 surprisingly complex circuit board and i've got these basic schematic of the circuit board once we decided we'll leave them with them and . finding this supplier that is environmentally friendly has good quality and has reasonable pricing all 3 of those at once is probably going to be a challenge. for next photo. visiting factories we've found it surprisingly effective to show up on short notice

. in general any factory of it's not willing to let you see the factory is an immediate red flag at least for someone we don't want to do business with. this is the big lie. from the factory so this is where they're edging and bringing all these nasty acids and other chemicals in. you've got a little bit of the belief you can see gilboa 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 they go about the mouse whoever is the fact that it was so dear to you is the price you have to pay for the last 30 years of development you. don't buy from them. what you got was the time that somebody. from all that i hope you know about incentives for them to meet. with god to fight. for john said and i took 1. 100.

suitable for easter so i said no she brings my sins at the time to buy them just source. i said what the idea what that's like a model of model hope. that. i'm going to do a lot of the document numbers on so that it. doesn't you know but fox you know by do you think it's. a 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 get don't you think you. do you see. constantly changing. you know. it's been 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 process and eventually you end up with hopefully acceptably clean water. the coolest thing when the water is coming through the treatment facility some of the water comes out and dumps into this thing and they have fished in here in the factory and i said well i know the water treatment is 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 the factory to buy from up the

one we've visited. from the institute of public and environmental affairs module. thank you. ladies and gentlemen i'm truly honored and humbled to be the 1st chinese citizen to receive the school award thank you thank you i set up this institute of public. affairs. and our 1st project. 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 bad what a pollution situation and so far we got some more than 110000 records of violations in our database. in april 2010 we filed letters to 2990 brands to check with them whether those polluting factories whether they are their suppliers . all of them responded except 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. 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 my mission singled out a number of facilities that he believed were in apples the chain that it had a very heavy environmental impact in their locality and when he level of those charges apple was shocked and 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 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're not 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. that's what's going on not just with apple but with all of these companies. 40 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 waste hazardous waste. in just one

supplier it could generate more than $100000.00 tons of hazardous waste in one year . how could we dispose stuff you know in a safe way so how much a time bomb this industry is gonna create. in electronics at this moment of 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 3 to 4 years. for a small company in and. a mission is to produce

a fair trade computer. in the early days i repaired this component levels on the computers on the one imports. from i noticed that there 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 drilled oh my trusty and just you know it's just it's just. how can you build a computer would have to ask 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 100 years ago but it's perfectly good our computers will last 7 to 10 years because home users non-technical people can repair and replace i'm never place in the memory you can extend the life of upgradeability. today is that these are major launch in europe. we've lots of invites sent out to people. we were awarded the world's 1st year people. for integrated desktop computers it was the world's 1st ever achieve this award at that time i thought wow the the gates will open with orders so flooding there 1st that was not

the case maybe a little bit of naive essay on my part it's hard out 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 but what we need to do is work harder build more computers. get people to join us. americans toss out a lot of gadgets every day. if we look at the $3000000.00 or so tons of electronic waste the gets generated in united states every year probably 15 percent of that gets recycled. and some percent of that gets recycled in a responsible fashion. for.

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and shield up. we think ok we'll send our you ways to 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 metals and 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 4 days ago this air was over asia. and you have more pollution and you have more aerosols those go into the cloud and it's 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 a great 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 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.

but. we have high pressure dominating the weather across much of australasia so that means lossy fog and dry the high as the lid on the atmosphere it's keeps things clear and largely sunny and that's what we're going to see as we go on through the next few days just notice a little more clout that just around the eastern side of australia will face in the areas of new south wales pushing into that eastern side all of queensland was saying a few showers here racing the more those to come as we go on through the next couple of days in fact as we go on into choose to the showers maybe even pushing

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