this is d w news live from berlin democracy defenders and me in mar defy a ban on further protests demonstrators take to the streets of melbourne for a 4th day to denounce a military takeover of their country there's no let up to the public display of anger despite military leaders threats to take action against large gatherings also coming up. seeking better treatment from one of the world's biggest companies for the 1st time voters at an amazon warehouse in the u.s. are voting on whether to join his unit. and

a tit for tat crowd in europe and russia over the kremlin critic alexei navalny moscow is expelled envoys from germany sweden and finland the 3 governments retaliated by showing russian diplomats the door to. american children welcome to the show reports from ian marcy security forces have fired water cannon at demonstrators in the capital that's after leaders of the week old military coup said they would take action against large public gatherings protesters in the country's largest city young guns also defied the ban and turned out in the large numbers for a 4th day to announce the military's takeover of their country. pro-democracy activists say they will continue to fight. the week of military believe me on mock has triggered a groundswell of protest across. the nation. in the biggest city young gone they

have a simple demand for the military hunt back the power to the elected officials find the man i want i'm sunset. and president to be released quickly and in it we want all the people from the winning party the n l d to be released that's what we want. monks and protesters marched holding the red flags of our unsung suit cheese national league for democracy they say it's their last chance to fight the dictatorship. to use power to run the country and use the country's resources for their families and for their own sake they don't do anything good for the citizens and the country's development. and there were red protests in the capital. but demonstrators braved police water cannon blocking that path. many here

a state employees perhaps a sign of the anger of those who have briefly enjoyed democracy after 5 decades of military rule. in a t.v. address to the nation the country's new military leaders sought to justify the gentlemen repeated the military's line that campaigning in last november's poll had been unfair. we are getting the responsibility for it is regarding voter fraud. that election delivered just a handful of seats for the generals party and a landslide to sue cheese and l.t. she's now believed back in house arrest where the army had kept her for 15 years that peaceful resistance made her an icon of democracy. but the hunter is already warning that any resistance to their rule is unlawful and imposed a nighttime curfew bringing more protests and triggering fears that a bloody crap. could soon follow. survivors of

a dam collapse in the indian himalayas have been telling their stories of the moment they had to flee for their lives the dam was overwhelmed in a flash flood. burst 26 people are confirmed dead at least 170 more are still missing. cleanup is under way but for the man now working in underground tunnels as the floodwaters hit the memories are not so easily pushed aside. the difference between life and death was just 2 minutes if we hadn't run if we'd waited even 2 minutes we would have died around $25.00 to $30.00 over survived. i was working down and the others were higher up and suddenly the workers started screaming fraud bron run away water is coming. i ran and got away but many just couldn't escape and to attract.

the flash flood in the top of an area of a tar can't state destroyed bridges and roads and hit 2 hydroelectric power plants . 2000 members of the military paramilitary and police forces are involved in the search for survivors. but increasingly they recognize that their work is becoming a recovery mission. a movie napping team as he is searching for bodies if we see anyone near the franks or in the river our job is to recover them. the survivors are all too aware of how fortunate they were to escape everything i feel like i've been given a new life i am still very shaken by what happened some people got stuck inside the tunnel. meanwhile rescuers continue their search as best they can i went time is of the essence. here are some more stories making headlines around the world.

a court hong kong has denied bail for jimmy like a newspaper publisher and government critic who faces charges under the territory's national security law while i was arrested in a crackdown in december and pro-democracy activists particle of chinese influence in hong kong. colombia's president even to k. has announced a new statute which would register nearly 1000000 venezuelan migrants and refugees currently in the country without proper documentation it would allow people to get resident permits apply for jobs and access health care millions of venezuelans have left the country since 2015 due to food shortages and hyperinflation. in the u.s. lawyers for former president donald trump have condemned the upcoming pietschmann trial as an act of political theater trump is accused of inciting a riot at the capitol on january 6th that left several dead house managers

a trump trade the american people a new poll shows a majority of americans are in favor of convicting trump but the former president and his trial continue to divide the nation. a solemn procession through the halls of the u.s. capitol with donald trump's future in their hands. democrats from the house of representatives set in motion a 2nd impeachment trial for the former president by delivering the single article of impeachment to the senate. article one incitement of insurrection donald john trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the government of the united states the democrats say donald trump's baseless claims of election fraud were an incitement to violence culminating in a speech he gave before congress was set to confirm the election results of america

we will never give up we will never concede it doesn't happen you don't concede that. shortly after these remarks a violent mob breached the u.s. capitol building. yeah. rioters took over the building for hours and forced lawmakers into hiding 5 people died during the assault. while several republicans had criticized trump after the riot on january 6th members of the g.o.p. are now softening their stance and are increasingly criticizing the impeachment proceedings talking about those i think the trial is stupid i think it's counterproductive. democrats say it's important to hold trump accountable. look everyone wants to put this awful chapter in american history behind us but sweeping it under the rug will not bring healing the only way to bring healing is to

actually have real accountability which this trial affords the impeachment trial will be a test for both parties at a decisive moment for donald trump's legacy. amazon workers in the u.s. are deciding for the 1st time on whether or not to form a labor union at their workplace the nearly 6000 and 42nd amazon warehouse in bessemer alabama and with them voting by mail on whether or not to join the wholesale and department store union or the commerce giant has doubled its profits since the start of the pandemic will proceed there on the mountain pressure to fill orders in less time and the worry about exposure to the coronavirus. well reporter i mean s.f. has been following the story for us so 1st off what exactly so historic about this vote i mean there are thousands of unions around the world well amazon workers have never unionized not officially there have been union representation in germany and france but that's because the laws are different here but they've never officially

entered into a contract with amazon between amazon the union so this would be a 1st and actually it's never even gotten this far before there's been some attempts. warehouse near new york city a few years ago tried to unionize but they didn't get as far as the vote so even just getting to a point where the the workers there at this warehouse are voting has been historic development i think a lot of people are watching this not just for the stats on unionization but because amazon is becoming this huge company it's grown massively during the pandemic made mazing profits because everybody's getting things delivered to their home so this is kind of the future of. of retail and people want to see if the workers are able to form a union and have a voice there as company management responded so far well amazon is very unabashedly anti-union so they've done a campaign they've made a website called do it without dues dot com where they've put up things like

showing people what they can buy with their union dues if they didn't have to pay that and they've had mandatory meetings where they've given information to people that's anti-union and they've also one interesting thing they did was they tried to force the vote to be in person and not by mail and union leaders pointed out that this is ironic considering that amazon is famous for its mail delivery but i actually spoke to stuart applebaum his the president of the union that's trying to organize the workers there and here's what he told me this is spent the most aggressive anti-union campaign we have ever seen amazon's not sparing the penny to oppose us into need some me think i don't quite understand why they are doing this why if they refuse to do better on fair workers i saw a statistic for a box that said that if jeff bass those big football to sell $105000.00

to each of his employees. he would still be wealthier afterwards that he was at the beginning of the spend that week and despite that they refused to respect their workers they treat them with contempt. and they don't do better it's something that needs to change. all right so it seems like the pro union forces are facing a lot of pressure from the company right now do they actually have a chance of success well we'll have to see if the workers buy this argument that the workers need to do something to improve their conditions or if the buy em amazons argument which is that look we're paying $15.00 an hour minimum wage which is almost twice what it is an alabama already we are providing workers with what they want but it looks like the workers there have initiated this it's not the

union who went there which happens in a lot of cases and sit and agitated and tried to get people to start this vote it was the workers who came out of the black lives matter movement majority of the workers they're black so it looks like this is a grassroots campaign and that they already haven't bought and bought into amazon's argument all right well thank you for keeping us up to date on the latest on amazon's unionization efforts germany poland and sweden have expelled russian diplomats in a coordinated response to the expulsion of their own diplomats from moscow last week the german foreign minister who said that the kremlin's decision to announce the expulsions while the foreign policy chief was in moscow was unjustified russia chooses the diplomats participating in demonstrations in support of kremlin critic alexina vali. earlier we spoke with political correspondent simon young and i asked him how the international community is trying to put pressure on russia

over alexei navalny. well it's very clear that this was a coordinated action today by germany sweden and poland they've all moved to expel russian diplomats from their capitals it also came just after a meeting of video conference meeting between representatives of the u.s. the u.k. and canada and the e.u. to talk about how to respond to russia's actions in recent days and to the. russian treatment of protesters there and so on so there does seem to be a sort of concerted international action the e.u. foreign affairs representative you said burrell has said the e.u. and russia are drifting apart and he says it's now for member states to decide what further steps to take that could include further sanctions being imposed on russia . that was the political correspondent simon young you're watching d.w.

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7 vishy meet up at any chemical weapon that's lying around poses a huge danger and should be run as does soon as possible when. it. is a flushed i don't dislike the thought that you could have been out walking just one meter above so many shells spoil is really terrifying i don't challenge to. get our research on covered that there are about $200.00 such sites across germany and. believe me i've been there a concrete ruins in the forest this scary is that. the solution.

the most toxic place in germany is located in a forest near mood stuck in a sexy me. this pavilion stands of a what was once decking a pond it covers rusting explosives and chemical warfare shells from 2 world wars the roads here has been closed for months. the only weapons experts in the emergency medical staff who always with the early help through. a pandora's box has been opened tia. enough and it is fighting victory even after the 2nd world war the british disposed of their shells and such there and zork for whatever couldn't be transported to and dumped in the north and baltic sea was sunk in the diddling our pond the thing i touched on fancy that. the

state of lower saxony continued using the 60 meter wide peat as a munitions dump after the war no records were kept on what was thrown in to debt in a pond up until the 1950 s. bomb diving was a popular weekend activity. post world war 2 there was economic hardship so some people from one star would go dive for non-ferrous metals in the pond that's why the authorities decided to fill it in for food. that was in 1952 the weapons experts estimate around 20000 chemical weapons and bombs could still be buried here. for decades the area remained hidden in the forest and accessible to everyone. brought him round of maybe we were just lucky that no one came here in the past few decades and started digging and there were times when we were shocked by how many shells there were and very close to the surface. in september

29000 local authorities began to excavate the filter in p. it showed the water quality readings had been wrong for decades during all that time arsenic and other toxins were seeping into the groundwater. no one knows how many chemical weapons were dumped in germany after the end of the 1st world war $918.00 today they remnants can still be found all over the country. like here in this forest just 50 kilometers east of hamburg. geologist in geography yohannes price has been studying this toxic more time legacy for decades . this area was used as an incineration site for gas weapons after the 1st world war price 1st collected samples here 20 years ago this is on board now from i know cannot have been going to move that's the bottom of a shell that was twisted off you can see the marks here all this would have been

unscrewed from the shell would be laid in a groove like my arm for soon you would then you'd light it the explosive inside would melt and the glass bottle with the chemical agent would slip out. they'd remove that poor out the remaining explosive and burn it and. you can see the layers of burnt earth here. this is where they threw them in. these are the bases of large caliber shells and those are smaller ones lave been lying here for about 100 years here on. the 1st world war was a gas war around 800000 soldiers were killed and more than a 1000000 others were injured by the use of chemical weapons. the weaponized gases got more and more dangerous as the war progressed by $918.00 the final year every

3rd shell fired was filled with gas. after the armistice much of germany stockpiles of unused chemical weapons was dismantled and destroyed but many weapons disappeared without a trace and that is a different thing you hear these large things of from incineration which got pretty hot. to me and this is what was inside it. isn't a food we sampled this back in 2000 and found it was dynamite trow benzene. is another one. time i tried been seen is an explosive but it's also poisonous. so frak when the people who work filling the shells had a lot of trouble with dye niter benzene. there were cases of young women fainting almost forswore you and one case where a woman died immediately before. the chemical agents were filled into class bottles

that were inserted into shelves you had his price found glass here as well as a glass flush we saw these glass bottles or at least the tops made of green glass shorts 12 maybe 3. we left them here somewhere on a stone but it looks like someone's taken them now there are those who recognize those bottles of. a mine clearing team from the german armed forces the buddhist way has been searching the homes to military training grounds for chemical weapons for years. this is a it's a very large area will be at work here for another 20 years for sure it's highly dangerous because hazardous materials can turn up at any time a lot of what we're trained and we have protective gear and good equipment in addition to dealing with chemical warfare agents there are explosives in the trees and always with the munitions haven't been decommissioned so detonations are possible and i didn't at all come. amongst has

a long military history. since 893 training took place here and it remains the largest size of the german armed forces during world war one it was home to the biggest chemical weapons factory in the german empire a quarter of all chemical agents were tested produced and filled into shells here after the war most to played a central role in the disposal of those weapons. actually but surrender units was over and the shells were coming back to germany mostly from the western front in france and. the order was that all warfare weapons were to be brought to moonstone no more. a. lot of returning troops however that's how to think of it they were pouring in they didn't do that. they just took the munitions to their stations. as a result there were conventional weapons and chemical weapons and no one knew what

was where when it's only money goes to the us it's all really so there are at least $35.00 sites where large amounts of warfare agents were brought in because of men we don't know where the remnants are it's an unsolved problem and often especially . on settling short unknown quantities of chemical weapons still rushing away undetected across germany in one instant millions of chemical bombs after the war from day they were loaded onto trains and sunk in the sea. in october 9191 explosion proved to catastrophic. off a chain of that nation that lasted 3 days and fired off more than 1000000 shells in a radius of 3 kilometers and likely to me to. many of those 1000000 still lying here today the full gnome the metal detector.

hear me as i know i'm for you we got a signal from this detector which detects iron object did it to us all we know for now is that there is irony buried here. i'm on guns i don't know whether it's a fragment or a part of a tank or ammunition that's what we need to find out next tuesday and. ok here's a look at this little talk for the ok so you can already see now it's a shell casing but it's empty. to me so there used to be a chemical agent in there but now there isn't a unit we'll visit with this time we're also lucky enough to find places of the bottle and he's a flash this bottle was filled during the 1st world war with the chemical warfare vomiting agent known as clark clock during world war one clark was also known in german as the mosque. mosque. toxicologist edmund

explains the insidious power of the toxic gases shoots must in the gas penetrated the protective masks and caused extreme irritation to the meekest membranes and the eyes so that the soldiers would rip off their masks vomit hats when they'd be hit with a 2nd gas for example a choking agent which caused severe lung damage. clarke and other hazardous chemical warfare agents have been lurking in the soil beneath a military training ground in months to for decades it would be easy to get by the demarcation but authorities rely on people using their common sense. of it and then anyone here without permission is risking their own life with the explosives and chemical warfare agents here i strongly advise against it. it's likely to be several more decades before the small team has cleared the area of toxic residues germany also manufactured large amounts of chemical weapons for world war 2 the population was prepared for

a gas war mustard gas sometimes called deadly last in germany had already been used in the 1st world war the dangerous agent played an important role in the 2nd as well. they're not soon after the nazis came to power they began with a rearmament a spic one aspect of that was making warfare agents for germany or that. they build factories to manufacture the toxins which then had to be filled into munitions in the morning it's you're buying the food in total there were 7 munition filling centers built that worked with mustard gas last up the food water. jam and chemists were behind some of the most gruesome discoveries in modern warfare. a $958.00 propaganda film showcase the power of the nerve agents topple in and sovereign.

after just a few seconds the motor neural stem cells are paralyzed and breathing ceases severest fixation cramps follow. breathing is stopped while a heartbeat can still be detected i know a lot of them have. in the end even the nazis backed away from using these weapons of horror. when world war 2 ended the allies found hundreds of thousands of bombs and shells filled with chemical agents. they decided to dump most of them seem ships were loaded and then blown up. leaving a legacy of toxic chemical waste line on the seabed to this day. some $50000.00 tons of mustard gas would dump off the coast of the danish island borehole alone. the substance comes into direct contact with the

skin it causes burns and blistering but if you inhale it it can cause toxic pulmonary edema which is a really serious illness that can be fatal. many of those ships were loaded up on the keel canal in northern germany after the war. crystal she holds remembers this from her childhood. days at the tracks the train survived on carrying a deadly french of toxic gas bombs and shells. shift to come here on keown done harm the boats would come here to the quay and then the bombs would be loaded out of the ships from the trains your clothing the gas bombs most of which were damaged and you could smell it and even see it kind of as i thought it wasn't a white fog it was a yellow green fog that covered everything that's when we had to put on our gas mask. because i'm all set. to this day crystal she holds has no

idea which cancer she was exposed to she has difficulty walking the result of a nurse to see if she's had since she was young. give it conquered her underfund i was 15 when i 1st began getting l it added after the end of the war. sure they'd finished loading the gas by. a lot and there would be times where i was almost paralyzed and initially a doctor thought it might be polio. in the mud for. d.d. acknowledge that hard to it's going to kill this is them inverted always went away again. and then 20 years ago i was diagnosed with neuropathy a little but he harbored. no one can say what caused her neuropathy but crystal she holds has found out the toxins can be a trigger. when she showed us

a photo album of peaches from her childhood she became sad the whole family died of cancer. she blamed the chemical weapons and the politicians who ignored the existence of these wartime poisons for 75 years. to come nothing because i don't understand it i just can't understand what the politicians are thinking he might not flog on the habit i know i'm old but i've been through it all. but these days i get the feeling that they know about it but they don't want to know and they don't want to spend money on it the costs are horrendous and for them money is more important and people. get this better mention . the costs are an obstacle germany's most toxic whole deadly in

a pond in lower saxony could easily become the world's most costly $1.00 the clean up comes with an estimated $15000000.00 euro price tag. in only 2020 work began on 3 exploratory shafts the 1st chemical shells turned up just to meet a below the surface. is part of the team. recovering the deadly weapons in this job he's away anything can happen putting something you want to fulfill in your pecan there are things where you can't gauge the risk is what uncovering munitions that leak and so forth but so susan when it was the day my biggest concern is coming across an exposed chemical warfare agent down in the hole that would mean getting out carefully evaluating the situation and taking further measures like a moslem. stefan bishop has been confronted with such situations down in the show oft he risked his own life on the job to save others money to give cartons of

munitions are a problem especially when they're somewhere buried in the earth disintegrating and hazardous gases are leaking into the water will eventually that affects the whole population of the other heavy metals that get into the water like arsenic for example seep into the food chain and then into people that's why we have to do that was a boy an. 84 minutes is the maximum time stefan can stay in the shot with his hazmat suit and musk. he goes down a mine. next to him and beneath him on hundreds of poison gas shells from 2 world wars. today who recovered 400 kilograms of toxic deadly munitions from the home. this is good news for the food as i get my i have a mix of feelings it's strange because you know i can't really express what it feels like the but it's certainly not good if you can find it you know you have to

stay sharp whether you're excavating things or moving them. out of. this closely watched convoy has been moving around the newburgh heat for months. once a day it's poisonous school is loaded onto a special truck and taken to the gate. the company is the only one in the country allowed to dispose of chemical weapons. any chemical weapon ruth it agent found on german soil is brought here. gobs of food a lot on average we have one to 200 shells being brought here most of them come from the region north of monster so your blood for example 2 years ago we had some from baton virgin birds. that off on the bay were doing some building and brought us chemical shells that still contained the nerve agent tabone hardness of then they have come short of wood and are. just a drop of tabone is enough to kill

a person philip is responsible for destroying the gas before he sets to work he meticulously checks he's. been given that i.e. if there's any dirt or contamination in this area or if any of these plastic pounds are damaged it could allow toxic agents or poisonous gases to get seen and that's why it's really important that everything fits here that everything is clean and that the membrane isn't compromised and is always the cement on it is. actually was present in nov 29000 when the 1st shell from dick an opponent who saw an open an emergency medic was also on standby. unbind we get dressed here and then we get into our popemobile and are driven over done give your id before coming up next we enter the front chamber where we pick up

the shells which we take to be can't also an open. with any fees. and we take the shell out of the barrel fasten it at the right height and we leave the room because then it's the turn of the machine operator to soroka in the shell venting out of the fleeces because when it's open he'll give us the ok we go in and monitor the room for concentrations of warfare agent in view if everything is ok we look to see what the contents are is missing out of when we've determined that we take a lab sample and then the agent is put into a barrel that can be secured and destroyed safely and finished even. when the shell from death in a pond was so nice when the chemical warfare agent inside was found to be 1st changed. just probably mistrustful skin to machine the problem is that chain damage is the loans which means bodily fluids can get in the lungs

fill up and the person effectively drowns on their own bodily fluids and you and i can cover safety at winton. chemical munitions recovered from danger in a pond stored at the. if there really are $20000.00 shells to be recovered it'll take years to destroy them all. the gay cat was already working to capacity. and trace kruger says politicians could be doing more school so that you would of course that costs taxpayers money in the end you have a safer environment but that's not immediately visible it's so maybe that's why it's an unloved child but there's no other option we should be doing something else too. not least because so few people are aware of the many places in germany contaminated by wartime chemical weapons berlin's hostile holes district for example. the document

that's only going to war the end of the 2nd world war the trail of records on substances found here gets lost. during that schumacher was time you had the allied takeover without any documentation or no documents as the task some things here were also top secret so they were never supposed to be documented or the records are still sealed. in the tombs where the money. for decades bolin authorities turned a blind eye unwilling to stir up trouble on the river hafele but things changed in 2018 when the real estate firm planning to build apartments had the area searched for unexploded bombs the company moved it back and forth. and. during the search a metal container was found in one of these bomb craters whose origin could not be determined. so the company asked the berlin police bomb disposal team to check it

out. and to prove very determined that the container was filled with the chemical warfare agent clark one comfort of before. after the unwelcome discovery the real estate company turned to an expert alfred crippen doff is an engineer and former captain with the east german army. he's qualified to work with chemical agents such as mustard gas and. he says he's mobile laboratory up right next to the building site for an on the spot soil analysis. this one can be you're expecting a very strong contamination of the soil here and also the recovery of large amounts of materials containing arsenic such as clark one and clark 2. given that the site was once home to a world war 2 factory that made chemical warfare agents this is hardly a surprise. some of the old buildings are still there.

for decades no one paid much attention parties were held at a boat house here and the former owner of the berlin housing authority did nothing . now the authorities say it's up to the new owners to clear any of ordinance. the investor doesn't want to pay for it because that would mean passing on the cost of this toxic legacy to bias in tenants. the same. year old glass containers from the lab area and here is a piece of the barrel. the ground is full of things like this there's a photo of us on your board from one. tons of arsenic have already been recovered so far 1000 barrels have been filled to prevent dust from spreading through the water is constantly being sprayed over the area.

and the poison has been detected in the groundwater. the barrels have to be transported to moves to to be destroyed. oid the clean up operation has cost an $8.00 figure son. but what about the neighboring properties cloche film studios are on the adjacent lot and on the other side new apartments are being built could they be chemical weapons in the ground there to. foster him. we've got no idea what's behind that fence or in the neighboring lot slightly off from wouldn't you can assume that the soil is contaminated there as well don't know it was a thought you know you can only hope that the new owners or whoever moves there also plans to switch out the soil because we know how heavily contaminated by arsenic the ground was here it would be good if everyone did what we're doing throughout our lives all of it and. other studies have shown that public areas are

also contaminated with arsenic and uncomfortable truth for the city of berlin after decades of turning a blind eye authorities have to face up to these toxic water time legacy and it's likely to cost them a lot. exploratory drilling a deadly in a pond in lower saxony ended after turning up $2552.00 gas shells in spring 2020 local district and regional state level officials agreed to excavate and completely clean up the area. know a sex abuse environmental minister all of police says it was the only option. is also a few groups of as much more the extent of the contamination is much greater than we initially thought it was and i would say we will have to invest at least $50000000.00 euros to get rid of what is there fortunately that can be done in this

fairly compact area to make it safe again. but the minister doesn't want lower saxony to have to pay the costs on its own he wants the federal government to share the burden. as moving as we did when i was in there will be a little friction with the federal government over who pays and is in my eyes the government is responsible or to put it differently shites residents here should know this won't not happen because of money it has to be done the government has to realize i'm not ready to carry their share it has to be fairly divided tied. the monster neighborhood of a roll is just a stone's throw away from diddling a pond if anything goes wrong with the excavation site this will be the 1st place affected to mix fleckenstein spoke with residents. that's you have one of the huge amount was going up and no one thought about how dangerous it was for the environment and for the people here and imagine going.

back to talk flyers you know point being scared if they wouldn't try to stop a cleanup because it has to be done what a noise me is that they took so long to act like. in the end the government agreed to help fund the cleanup painstaking operation has begun to reopen up the field in. an engineering firm was brought in one experienced in clearing chemical weapons it's boss applauds the lower saxony government for showing integrity on the whole he says german politicians are far too reluctant when it comes to dealing with the almost 200 sites contaminated by chemical weapons. and want to go. on in the early 1990 s.

the federal office for the environment pushed for research to get an overview of the situation on these sites and germany system of these i'm stunned auton as that led to some federal state setting up so-called ordinance decommissioning program it's a simple which resulted in targeted investigations being carried out at several sites with bones and but it was never completed and. in addition to the toxins present in the soil and groundwater the engineer has other concerns to some of. us there is the risk that. explosives and even warfare agents could end up in the wrong hands and the gun could and that would pose an even bigger risk to the population of solutes critical for the befuddled bush that. one of those warfare agents is the nerve gas sarin one of the most horrific chemical weapons f m 8 from these are guns and polities are the nerve agents of probably the worst often come because even just very little concentrations can damage a person's nervous systems and paralyze there is spirit that is leading to death

from or spirit tree failure to mention stand on an autumn facade. first sergeant tolson strokes surveying a sinister place the brooms at the center of plank in munster. just before he was here on mars i mean this is where the salmon plant was we would hope and dream on the wards the end of the war they carried out trials here into the mass production of the warfare agents there and come here to do damage inside at that time they only produced half a ton when viewed on what they would have eventually been able to produce 50 tons of sarin a month here so any more not a day here stone can. during the war the saturn factory was disguised as a farmhouse from the air there was no indication of the experiments being carried out underground. when the british took over the plant after the war they continued

to research briefly and then blew the planet up the buildings above ground were destroyed but what if the underground. kind of which they call this place hasn't been checked properly it's toxic nobody knows what could still be in here in the laboratory equipment production site materials or even munitions that they're going to as many to no one knows for certain and there are no plans to search the old saturn. but the german army says it would cost too much. bottles and fragments of quitman lie strewn around the forest none of it's being tested clear. to many other priorities means the army has little time to inspect the grounds. it isn't clear where the civilians have.

no one has been caught so far if they were there would be a stiff penalty when he found his feet is out of the hole i strongly advise against coming to this part of the property because it's very dangerous and there are ruins from when the buildings were detonated and there's a huge chance of falling into an old shaft and never being found any video from civilian to use him in schools. france's war fields are awash with gas shells from both sides in the war. the 1st world war they were incinerated by the median in french forests. has been researching the almost industrial scale destruction. on the meaning. of similar to in 2015 we were officially commissioned by the environment ministry to signpost the forgotten places where chemical weapons were industrially destroyed.

it so an inventory of at least 50 sites was conducted which is still ongoing. mission i just. this forest maternal in northern france is one site where chemical weapons were incinerated according to estimates several 100000 tons were destroyed . there are many spots where nothing has grown for a century the ground is full of toxic fragments of munni. glass containers and yet the forest is excessive to everyone. some of the seals in fire do when young ok we have to preach and. this is a state owned forest and so it's open to the public people often come here to pick mushrooms and it's not inconceivable that they could come into contact with toxic waste because he said it just so he could stick their fingers in their mouths after they've been playing here for example obviously to share it all to money off on the

25th that just like in germany no one here wants to take responsibility and bear the costs. of some of the people shut off at a certain moment you factor there are several reasons for the lack of willingness to deal with the problem i just saw 1st the contamination took place 100 years ago the responsible party has long since disappeared names he you know and the war ministry that gave the orders also no longer exists so now the question is who can be held accountable who is responsible and who paid 77 off it's just a case. however several incidents have forced the french government into action. from. countries almost out for a quickie to their accidents every year the french government does what it can as soon as something is found the weapons are recovered soon on the lawn or to the

chemical ones are put in storage until the plant to incinerate them is complete. and the explosives in our lives and it's we're exposing them. in france ordinance disposal is financed and run centrally by the national government in germany accountability lies with each regional state and their budgets vary greatly that's why german experts would like the federal government to take more control and responsibility. the people of the regional states keep putting forward proposals for the federal government to take over the cost of ordinance removal till now they've been consistently rejected for up to the. it's a hot potato that keeps getting passed back and forth we received this quote from the finance ministry who are responsible for this matter. please during your

questions to the ministry responsible. the federal ministry for the environmental nature conservation and nuclear safety. the environment ministry was quick to respond. the federal government contributed to the disposal of chemical weapons through the federal ministry of finance as to the clearance of contaminated ground here at the regional governments and not the federal government are responsible this is currently not on the federal agenda. many contaminated sites belong to the german government like the former looking its mediations plant in northeast germany where chemical weapons were manufactured up until 945. geologist johannes price for the 1st time he's interested in the side because it was laid out in a similar way to form a war munitions factory in bavaria he studied. properties such as this one a managed by the institute for federal real estate beata high sat and lisa who

command are in charge of administration and safety here. this is the only bunker not to be blown up by the soviet army after the war. where here last does come or so this was used for mustard gas which was transported here from the factory near hollow and stored in one of 7 bunkers. isaac's bunkers were used to store mustard gas and one bunker or rather a system was used to store clark. the main part of this plant was dedicated to producing munitions empty cartridges mines and shells were filled here are not the wooden your fruit red means out of bounds white all clear the science show which parts of the 100 hectare property can be accessed and which cannot know maps or plans so the form of munitions factory remain so your hannahs troy uses the

bavarian plants layout for orientation. of the gas shells were transported around the factory via conveyor belts through a network of subterranean tunnels ruins of those tunnels still survive. after the collapse of east germany the grounds was fenced off these get checked once a month and 90 survey determined the contaminated areas which was sealed off the ground water was found to be severely pollution by residues of arsenic and mustard gas. is in the thing i'm fairly sad a very high concentrations of pollutants in the groundwater which are confined to certain areas so the toxins reach is also limited have been decreasing there's a clear decline that's why we asked whether we need to take further action to clean the soil here the ground water here also isn't used for drinking 3 houses here have water wells but there checked regularly twice a year and thankfully they haven't shown any sign of contamination so. we have

gotten kind of shut off of us. but is the problem really solved just by putting a fence around it yohannes price says now. he's concerned by the many off limit areas and the blind spot when it comes to war time poison he says they could still be chemical agents in the cisterns here and toxic gas shells buried in the ground for him the fence isn't a solution it's part of the problem. when counsel forgive you for you can do what they did here and say we don't see any immediate threats and in case there are any we'll put a fence around it but let's consider the long term picture i don't see that fence still standing in 75 years or 150 years and wondered from and the problem won't go away on its own and. we clearly have to do something to it's a further issue the next generation will be saddled with the newscycle of. the debt

lean upon a monster will hopefully be clean when it's passed on to the next generation even if it does cost $50000000.00 euros but that will only happen if local regional and national politicians stay in agreement and as long as taxpayer money flows reality for what is on foot all of us who bear responsibility to day are not to blame for what happened years ago we don't know how we would have acted if we were allowed down but now it is our responsibility to make sure that this problem is resolved women even of. all one ended more than 100 years ago world war 2 more than 75 germany is really associated with chemical weapons today but they remain in the country and detected and in unknown quantities even when i retire there will be plenty of munitions left to clear in germany.

jabba the man i think that if you don't have 1st hand experience of something somehow somewhere when you don't know how to deal with it. and vice and if on top of that you might cast smiley unfinished it's not interesting. that this is true we don't include. the middle so we have to acknowledge that over the coming years many many billions more must be spent on a lemonade ng and cleaning up the weapons of the past difficult. oh. a few 100 r.c. shows and 6 and i began researching contaminated signs 34 years ago in 1906 by diminished and in my view it's an issue that's far from over and does that leads me dissatisfied i thought it would happen a lot quicker in the day i thought once we tackled it and the resources were made available and the cleanup was made a priority that we could do it there is that phrase we can do it to us all

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