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head to the lead on the agenda. cementing the cease fire and rebuilding the legendary swung, i said, turns 18. pay tribute. ah hello, i'm here to mohammed. european union leaders have a great a sanction delivers in response to a full diversion of a ryan f flights and the arrest of an opposition activist. the was banning bela lucy and planes from using its s base and imposing sanctions on individuals linked to the plane diversion. the blogger, remind protests, the average remains in bella. lucy and custody amid fears for his well being. the, the $27.00 lead us european union do not always find common grounds,

but the outrage with mutual of a bela ruth after the country intercepted a passenger jet flying between estates and detains, and exiles, blogger, and activists on board. the judgment was unanimous. this is an attack on democracy. this is an attack on freedom of expression. and this is an attack on european sovereignty. phone line did not mince words as she announced the use response to the actions of bella, luce, lita, alexander lucas shanker. the european council decided that there will be additional sanctions on individuals that are involved in the hijacking. but this time also on businesses and economic entities that are financing this regime. the use also closing its air space to bella luce in airlines, and will deny them access to e u airports. some european airlines like live tom,

the s a s or kayla announced they would avoid spell the space. this was triggered on sunday when exiled activist rum on property average was arrested traveling from greece to lithuania. the commercial flight he was on was grounded by a belushi. we're playing because of an alleged bomb threat. no explosives were found on the aircraft, and you lead us are demanding answers, which from a prep savage must be released immediately and all the explanations for the forced landing of the run or flight, or implausible. this implies to his partner, sophia pig. we are demanding their release. so the p g. a video appeared unable lucien, pro government telegram channel with the imprison press, yet which doc marks of visible on his forehead. the opposition says procedure which was under pressure when he gave the statement that he was treated according to the law. and the past bella roosting government had already forced opposition leaders,

atlanta, general sky to appear in a similar video while she was in custody. we don't know what's happening to her mom. he could be interrogated by, could you be he may be tortured now as an enemy of caution. we are dealing with the harshest regime in europe, indicates fund line also announced that the you put on hold a 3000000000 euro economic package for bella. ruth, until the country quote and turns democratic, which will start at 10 o'clock. thank you and take a look at the stories making headlines around the world. molly's military has rested the prime minister president and defense minister. the lead is all parts of an interim administration appointed to oversee overturned to civilian rule following a military coup last year. it comes ours also re shuffle removed 2 members of the military from the cabinet. more than 200 people were injured when 2 trains crashed in the malaysian capital. while

a look for one of the trains was empty and going on a test drive. and having undergone repairs, the cause of the accident is still unknown, but regular rail services have resumed. activists and family members of george floyd have gathered in minnesota to mark one years since his murder by a white police officer floyd's death, highlighted police brutality and racism in the united states. president joe biden has a congress to pass the police reform bill boss, lawmakers. i thought wrangling over the details, the us secretary of state antony blinkin will arrive in israel in the next few hours. as washington seeks to show up a see fire in garza lincoln will whole talk with the israeli leadership who also be meeting with palestinian leaders in the west bank as well as leaders of jordan and egypt. reconstruction in garza is high on the agenda. the territory suffered heavy

bombardments during 11 days of conflict with these where the military, thousands of people have lost their horns, and more than 200 were killed. the man she family lives in bate last year in the northern gaza strip near the israeli border. they want to show us something . this area was heavily targeted by the israeli military, in its response to the volleys of rockets fired at israel from gaza. come at, muncie, and his wife hum and feared for their lives. they listen to their voices calling to god expecting to die. how do we deserve this? asked simon. then she says to her daughters, come to me, we're all going to die. they were lucky, yet the promo remains less know me, the israeli say we are terrorists. but we haven't done anything to anyone. we haven't fired any rockets for scenes of destruction also. and central garza city

bombed out buildings and shattered lives. some people still camp out amid the ruins where their homes one stood. palestinian sources say some 2000 apartments were destroyed for israel. this was collateral damage caused by its attacks on the infrastructure of islamic thomas militants, which israel says you civilians as human shields. mohammed abu sophia had his apartment here. now he doesn't know where to go. so far, no one is offered to help. i collected these things from wherever i could. now i sleep here masters calling the cease fire, a victory for them, which these motorists also insist. but most people are simply exhausted and want peace. mohammed mic dot is a dentist in gaza city where the building next to his was destroyed. he says, i must be the 2 sides organiser if elections were to be held here. come us would

lose heavily the stats and then the bed and the dish failure. do because the people have suffered so much, it didn't happen today. he's brought his children to the park away from the destruction their volunteers try to take the kids mines off. what happened in be luckier had mom she worried about his youngest daughter is about had a nice notice that she's suffering from some kind of shock. i'm and how she does strange things. how can my neighbor said i should bring her to a psychologist? can ne allergy charla she adds is only wishes for her to have a good and normal life. now children in kenya is ne bonnie forest on the border with somalia have returned to the classroom this week. the 1st time in 7 years, schools were close following deadly attacks by the armed group on shore. bob will

be w as east africa correspondent mario willa. i recall it from the german weekly magazine spiegel were granted re access to the volatile region of bony forest near long island. the on the edge of bony forest gangway primary school has finally reopened or 7 years after us about attacked villages in the area. for each color as the head teacher, and also the only teacher here above target, the government employee, including myself. they want to do work up on to find yourself that you are okay. you sound good. so as you slip, we go before your sleep, your bed too. good. tyler was the only teacher who dare to come back here. every half an hour he switched his classroom teaching up to 3 classes at the same time, taking care of her aunt, $100.00 schoolchildren. i my loan

at the moment. him to come. the problem is for tire. because i want to teach the lesson, i go. busy to another class i teach at the last i teach the children a years behind the education, but they have learned how to react when they hear gunshots, and they know what else above the level. and i'm afraid of them because they're burned. now i'm happy to go back to the old to continue studying. many of the children's parents couldn't afford to take them to another school. so most of them had to stay at home. it's like side to the back of school. you can really get a sense of how important education is for them, but just 20 kilometers down the road this week. and i said above explosives, devised blew up a military vehicle and killed at least 2 can in soldier. the threat is so great that a military base has been set up next to the school. 60 border patrol officers protect

the school and its children. the offices are concerned that the security situation is deteriorating. currently, no state. min b for both the 66 months. been here. i think a, this monday, not worth a few days ago. the military defended a larger base from an attack by the islamists. these men put their lives at risk to protect the school from being rated. because in the military has even started helping the kids border patrol officers from next door, a stepping in this part time teachers, one of them some way i could tell was even trained to be a teacher before joining the army. i met with he just, he also meant to keep this. i have to look for the middle lifted. i mean one schools remain open somewhere, get houses, educating the next generation was strengthened the fight against terrorism.

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a concert part of his never ending tour. the musicians started in 1988. after playing more than 3000 concerts on that tour for over 30 years, it took a global pandemic to get bill went off the road. it didn't stop him from putting out his 39th studio album now 80 years old, and still the simplicity and sophistication of dylan's earliest works that remained most iconic, a man and a guitar words and music poetry meant to be performed on in law, in the city to be news, his reminder of our top story, the european union says it's stealing off all of its s space to better routine flight traffic. one of several new sanctions targeting by the route that were agreed at a stomach of easy just in brussels. the sanctions are in response to the grounding of passengers jazz and the arrest of an opposition generalists.

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on d. w. ah, the old having she me any chemical weapon that lying around poses a huge danger and should be running to soon as possible. it is flushed a long time. the thought that you could have been out walking just one meter above so many shells was really, really terrifying. financial interesting research on hubbard that there are about $200.00 such sites across germany. me

deleting. i'm going there are concrete ruins in the forest. this gary is that the solution is the most toxic place in germany is located in a forest near in the saxony. this the villian stands over what was once diddling upon it covers rusting explosives and chemical warfare shells from 2 world wars. the rose here has been closed for months, only weapons experts in the emergency medical staff through always wisdom, early health through a pandora's box has been up until the knock ended despite and they treated after the 2nd world war. the british disposed of their shells and such,

there ends up for whatever couldn't be transported to and dumped in the north and baltic sea. it was sunk in the day, playing our pond deeply attached and fuzzy in the state of lowest sex. and he continued using the 60 mate who was paid as a munitions double after the war. ready no records were kept on what was strong in taking a conned until the 1950s bomb diving was a popular weekend activity. the mcdonald circle, post world war 2, there was the cannot make hardship. so some people from wednesday would go die for non ferris metals. in the pond, that's why the authorities decided to fill it in for us. that was in 1952 weapons experts estimate around 20000 chemical weapons and bombs could still be buried here. for decades, the area of remained hidden in the forest and accessible to every month. 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 or not and lung who in september 2019 local authorities begin to excavate. the filled in pitt showed the water quality ratings had been wrong for decades. during all that time, nic and other talk, since we're feeding into the ground water. no one knows how many chemical weapons were dumped in germany after the end of the 1st world war in 1918. today the remnants can still be found all over the country. like here in this forest, just 50 kilometers, east of hamburg, geologist and geography. your highness price has been studying this, talks it more time legacy for decades. this area was used as an incineration side for gas weapons after the 1st world war price 1st collected sample fear 20 years

ago. this is on board front. i know granada is going to move the bottom of the shell, but it was twisted off and you can see the marks here on the left, but would have been on screwed from the shell would be laid in a groove to him like my arm sooner. renewed lighting stuff, the explosive inside would melt and the glass bottle with the chemical agent which is really pout not they remove that, pour out the remaining explosive and burn it on top. and when i see you can see the layers of burned her here. this is where they threw them in. so you can do these are the bases of large caliber shells and those smaller ones because they've been lying here for about 100 years here or not. you know, the 1st world for was a gas for the 100000 soldiers were killed and more than a 1000000 others were injured by the use of chemical weapons. the with nice gas has

got more and more dangerous as the war progressed. by 1918, the final year, every 3rd shall 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. then do you hear these large things from incineration? which got pretty hard for me high is and this is what was inside it is and flu. we sampled this back in 2000 and found it with di nitro. benzine does. that's what you need to be. here's another one's also can i try been seen is an explosive, but it's also poisonous. much back then the people who weren't feeling the shells had a lot of trouble with di nitro benzene. was. there were cases of young women fainting

on this thought. you well, and one case where a woman died immediately focused on the chemical agents were filled into class puzzles that were inserted into shells. you had a price fun glass here as well as glass flush and we saw these glass bottles, or at least the tops made of green glass glass flesh orders $12.00, maybe 3. 1 does have that done. we left them here somewhere on a stone, but it looks like someone's taken them now. there are others who recognize those bothell flushable. a mine cleaning team from the german armed forces, the boom to say they've been searching the monster military training grounds. the chemical weapons is there that it's a very large area will be at work here for another 20 years. for sure. vega fairly, it's highly dangerous because hazardous material can turn up at any time while we're trained and we have protective gear and good equipment. in addition to

dealing with chemical warfare agents, there are explosive munitions haven't been decommissioned, so detonations are possible. so, and i think that's all come monster has a low military history since 1893 training took place here and remains the largest size as the german armed forces during world war one. it was time to the biggest chemical weapons factory in the chip and empire. a quarter of all chemical agents were tested, produced and filled into shells, here, after the war, most played a central role in the disposal of those weapons. but in the morning soon ago was over and the shells were coming back to germany when mostly from the west in front encroachment on done the order was that all warfare weapons were to be brought to move to no one so transported on, the flood of returning troops, however, that's how to think of it. they were pouring in,

but they didn't do that. the sneak them off, they just took the munitions to their station stunned or steams. as a result, there were conventional weapons and chemical weapons and no one knew what was where, when it's newman booster was yet school league. so there are at least 35 sites where large amounts of warfare agents were brought into place. and we don't know where the remnants are not a i do. it's an unsolved problems. and often it's probably in an unsettling thought . unknown quantities of chemical weapons still rushing away undertaking across germany in once to millions of chemical shells. and bombs arrived after the war. from there they will loaded of chains and sunk in the sea. the in october, 1919, when explosion proved catastrophic of quantities i set off a chain of that nation that lasted 3 days and fired off more than 1000000 shells

and a radius of 3 kilometers. and i could meter many of those 1000000 shells still lying here today. before long the metal detector goes off here, minutes. i know until you, if we got a signal from this detector, which detects iron picked, did it only know for now if there is iron buried here, objects i've 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. governance history. ok here, such as in this need to talk a little ok. so you can already see now it's a shell casing, but it's empty. why they didn't though, there used to be a chemical agent in there, but now there isn't going to be of a clue this time. we're also lucky enough to find of the bottle and flush this bottle was filled during the 1st world war with a chemical warfare,

vomiting agent known as clark clocks during mobil one. clark was also known in german as the musk and mosque breaker toxicologist. edmund maza, explains the insidious power of the toxic gases. shots must, from the gas penetrated the protective marks and cause the extreme irritation to the mucous membrane and the eyes so that the soldiers would recall them. that's when they'd be hit with a 2nd gas, for example, a choking agent which caused severe lung damage to the town. clark and other hazardous chemical warfare agents have been looking in the soil beneath military training ground in one to 2 decades. it would be easy to get by the demarcation, but authorities rely on people using commonsense. if, as only the health of the, anyone here without permission is risking their own life of the explosive and chemical warfare agents here, i strongly advise again with a tiny lot. mm. it's likely to be several more decades for 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 lost in german, had already being used in the 1st will. the dangerous agent tried an important role in the 2nd as well. look in and that's enough. there's another came to power. they began with re m and pick one aspect of that was making warfare agents for germany gets they build factories to manufacture the toxins about which then had filled into munitions done in the morning. june lying the food in total. there was 7 munition filling centers built that worked with mustard gas last up preferred water . gym and chemist were behind some of the most gruesome discoveries in modern warfare. and 1938 propaganda film showcase the power of the nerve agents top one

and siren navine guns and benjamin. after just a few seconds. the motor neural stem cells are paralyzed and breathing ceases. severe is ation cramps. follow that. breathing is stopped while a heartbeat can still be detected. i know sliding them happen in the end, even the nazis that away from using these weapons of horror me when world war 2 ended, the allies found hundreds of thousands of bombs and shells filled with chemical agents. they started to dump, most of them at sea ships were loaded and then blown up, saving a legacy of toxic chemical waste lying on the sea that to this day

some $50000.00 tons of mustard gas were dumped off the coast of the danish island, borne home alone, when substance comes into direct contact with the sky and it causes burns and blistering. but if you inhaler 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 tremendous from her childhood. these are the tracks, the trains arrived on carrying a deadly fright of toxic gas bombs and shells. ah d ships come here and killed the boat would come here to the key and then the bombs would be loaded onto the ship from the train, including the gas bombs, most of which were damaged. when you could smell it and even see it, i'm kind of just, i took, it wasn't a white fog. it was

a yellow green frog that covered everything. that's when we had to put on our gas mask. well done listening to me to this crystal, she has no idea which gases she was exposed to. she has difficulty walking the result of a nerve disease. she's had, she was young, contact her, i'm guess i'm. i was 15 when i 1st began getting else and it started after the end of the war. so they finished loading the gasp, di gus and they would be telling us i was almost paralyzed like initially a doctor thought it might be polio. absent much diagnosis estate had to come to, kimberly moves and it was. and it always went away again on kit. and then 20 years ago i was diagnosed with neuropathies little,

but no one can say what caused when you wrote to see the crystal she hopes is found out. the toxins can be a trigger when she showed us a social album of pictures 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 war time poisons for 75 years. i don't understand it. i just can't understand what the politicians are thinking, my mouth flogging or they haven't. i know i'm only good 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. they don't want to spend money on it and the costs are horrendous, and for them money is more important and people get better. as mentioned me

because obstacle. germany's most toxic whole diddling a pond in noah's saxony could easily become the world's most costly one. the clean up comes with an estimated $50000000.00 euro price tag. in early 2020 work began on 3 exploratory shops. the 1st chemical shells turned up just to meet her below the surface. stefan vishal is part of recovering the deadly weapons. in this job, he's a wit, anything can happen. but if you want to follow up being there are things where you can't gauge, the risk is what uncovering munitions, that leak and so forth. that's the medical with the my biggest concern is coming across and expose chemical warfare agent down in the hall. and that would mean getting out carefully evaluating the situation and taking further measures. steph

anastasia has been confronted with such situations down in the shop. he risks his own life on the job to save others when we do, quarterly, munitions are a problem. especially when they're somewhere buried in the earth, disintegrating and hazardous gases are leaking into the water. eventually that affects the whole population on the color of heavy metals that get into the water like arsenic, for example, steep into the food chain and then into people. and that's why we have to do that. like 84 minutes is the maximum time to find that she can stay in the shaft with his has met suit and mom. he goes down alone. next to him and beneath him a hundreds of poison gas shells to will was today he'll recover. 400 kilograms of toxic deadly munitions from the home. this is mr. the food, as i get, i have

a mix of feelings. it's strange because you know, i can't really express what it feels like. but it's certainly not good of in financial. when you have to stay sharp, whether you're excavating things or moving them, they've been living this closely watched con boy has been moving around the luna, the heat for months once a day. it's poisonous hall is loaded onto a special truck and taken to the gate and moonstone. the company is the only one the country allowed to dispose of chemical weapons. any chemical with an agent found on gym and soil is brought here. i'm doing that at bob will not on average, we have $1.00 to $200.00 shells being brought here for most of them come from the region north of munster, also we go about for example, 2 years ago, we had some from button button back spartanburg deck. that's all the way we're

doing some building and brought us chemical shell that still contained the nerve agent taboo. and who? hi this w and other than f comes off, wouldn't i just drop a ta. boone is enough to kill a person. philip hirschler is responsible for destroying the gas. before he sets to work, he meticulously checks his gear. then he'll even. but if there's any dirt or contamination in this area, or if any of these plastic parts are damaged, it could allow toxic agents or poisonous gases to get involved. and that's why it's really important that everything fits here, that everything is clean and that the membrane isn't compromised. and it's always a few mom on it on her she was present in november 2019, when the 1st shell from debt and upon was soon opened. and emergency medic was also on standby the

utility and we get dressed here and then we get into our potent b and a driven over done gain design and talk on the next. we end to the front chamber where we pick up the shells, which we take to be cart also and open. and then you get all any physical done. when we take the shell out of the barrel, i fasten it at the right height. don't we leave the room on it because then it's the turn of the machine operator says to rope, and michelle vandy got out of the thesis because it's open, he'll give us the okay. and we go in and monitor the room for concentrations of warfare agents. if everything is okay, we look to see what the contents by the state is miss. not a problem. when we've determined that we take a lab sample and then the agent is put into a barrel that can be secured and destroy faithfully and furnished a bad car when the shell from deadly pond, with phone open, the chemical warfare agent inside was found to be full change

just problem is just kosky and the problem is that shame damages the lungs which means bodily fluids can get in the lungs fill up and the person effectively drowns on their own bodily fluids. i mentioned causey on your car, processed and thinking chemical, munitions recovered from dealing upon the stored at the key car. if they really are $20000.00 shells to be recovered, it will take ease to destroy them. all the gay count is already working to capacity . the head of the car is kruger, says politicians could be doing more close it out. of course that cost taxpayers money other the home for in the end you have a safer environment, but that's not immediately visible. so maybe that's why it's an unloved child. but there is no other option we should be doing something was talking to not least because so few people are aware of the many places in germany,

contamination by war, time, chemical weapons, berlin, hostile horse district, for example. the document that's only by the end of the 2nd world war, the trail of records on substances found. he gets lost in the by my during that month to its time, you have the allied takeover without any documentation owner document too. because some things here were also top secret ones, so they were never supposed to be documented. all the records are still sealed to them. and you can go ahead and the tune for the money went off. listen for decades, the authorities turned a blind di. i'm willing to stir up trouble on the rid the hassle, but things changed in 2018 when the real estate firm planning to build apartments had the areas searched for unexploded bombs. the company got more back and forth. you go into the hearing the search

a metal container was found in one of these bomb craters, whose origin could not be determined on a den condo and the company, the berlin police bomb disposal teams, check it out. and they determined that the container was filled with the chemical warfare agent clock one comes off before and after the unwelcome discovery, the real estate company turned to an expert alford crippen, north is an engineer and former captain with the east german army. he's qualified to work with chemical agents such as mustard gas and tom boone. he set his mobile laboratory up right next to the building site for on the spot soil analysis. islam can be expecting a very strong contamination of soil here and also the recovery of large amounts of material containing our, such as clark one and clark too much human being given that the site was

one time to a world war, 2 factories make 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 both house here and the former owner, the building housing authority did nothing. now the authorities say it's up to the new owners, particularly any old ordinance, but the investor doesn't want to pay for it because that would mean passing on the cost of this toxic legacy to buyers. and tenants also love all of a year old glass containers from the lab area. and here is a piece of the barrel. the ground is full of things like these different ones. the one

comes off, nick have already been recovered so far. 1000 barrels has been filled to prevent from spreading through the air. moisture is constantly being sprayed over the area . and the poison has been detected in the ground water a barrel have to be transported to move, to be destroyed. to clean up operation has cost and 8 figures but what about the neighboring properties? large film studios are on the chase, not. and on the other side, new part to being built. could they be chemical weapons in the ground there to pass the hint on sullenness. what we've got no idea what's behind that fence or in the neighboring lot. it's not true off. you can assume that the soil is contaminated there as well. and it was a thought 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 soon with all of our other studies have shown that public areas are also contaminated with arsenic and uncomfortable truth for the city of berlin. after decades of turning apply and i authorities have to face pumped this to sick war time, legacy. and it's likely to cost them a lot. me got to drilling it doing a pond in low saxony ended after turning up $2552.00 gas shelf in spring 2020. the local district and regional state level officials agreed to excavate and completely clean up the area. the lowest section is environmental minister, all at least says it was the only option that she was a month more. the extent of the contamination is much greater than we initially

thought money was i would say we will have to invest at least $50000000.00 euros to get rid of what is there $400.00 fortunately that can be done and this is fairly compact area to make it safe again to explain to him but the minister doesn't want lois sex need to have to pay the costs on its own. he wants the federal government to share the burden as well, but it was, but there will be a little friction with the federal government over who pay for that. understand my eyes. the government is responsible clause or to put it differently to residents here. should know this won't not happen because of money. it has to be done, but the government has to realize, i'm not ready to carry their share. it has to be fairly divided for the monster neighborhood of the earl is just a stone's throw away from deadly pond. if anything goes wrong with the excavation site, this will be the 1st place affected most demand. christina flextime spoke with residence

and even a huge amount was done in dating upon. no one thought about how dangerous it was for the environment and for the people here to help the dimensions of kind, spic talk as slaves. you know, point being scared generally wouldn't try to stop a clean up because it has to be done. what annoys me is that they took so long to act on the side dish. that house the i get in the, in the government a great to help fund the clean up. the painstaking operation has begun to reopen up filled in pond and engineering families draw seen one experienced clearing chemical weapons, its last applause, low effects and he government for showing integrity on the whole. he says, german politicians are far too reluctant when it comes to dealing with you, almost 200 thoughts, contamination by chemical weapons. with me.

i want to get them back in the early 1990 s, the federal office for the environment pushed for research to get an overview of the situation on these sites in germany or system didn't stand out and that led to some federal state setting up so called ordinance decommissioning program itself and which resulted in targeted investigations being carried out at several site per foot bonds and but it was never completed invited to and in addition to the toxins present in the soil and groundwater, the engineer has other concerns to matters of adobe seeking, there is the rich blow serves, and even warfare agent could end up in the wrong hand them to him, they couldn't, that would pose an even bigger risk to the population of some critical for the perfect posted one of those warfare agents is the nerve gas, one of the most terrific chemical weapons ever made for these accounts and palate

is the nerve agent the probably the worst half. and because even just very little concentrations condemning persons nervous system and paralyzed the rest, the retreat center leading to death from or through a tree failure mention stand on an artifact. talked 1st, sanction thorsten stroke surveying a sinister place the ruins at the sarah plant in munster, the ones here. this is where the saran plant was to demand toward the end of the war. they carried out trials here into the mass production of the warfare agents theron come here to the wi fi. at that time. they only produced half a ton when them pounds of what they would have eventually been able to produce 50 tons of fair in a month. here, in a moment to hear stone couldn't during the war,

the sound factory was disguised as a farm house from the air. there was no indication of the experiments being carried out underground. here, when the british took over the plant after the war, they continued to research briefly and then blew the plant up. the buildings and bounce ground were destroyed. but what of the underground? ah, you find the kind of system this place hasn't been checked properly yet? nobody knows what could still be in here and level of laboratory equipment, production site materials, or even munitions, even to as soon. no one knows to certain. then there are no plans to search field sam. the german army says it would cost too much awe puzzles and fragments of other lab equipment lie strewn around the forest. none of it's being tested or cleared. ah,

to many of the priorities means the army has little time to inspect the grounds. it isn't clear with the civilians of the trust. ah, it's kind of like no one has been caught so far, which if they were, you think there would be a penalty when these kind of speakers like oh, i strongly advise against coming to this part of the property because it's very dangerous. you'll see that 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 even before of an immense course. ah, frances, more fields are a wash with gas shells from both sides in the war. the school war, they were incineration, but the median in french forest geologist daniel has been researching the almost industrial scale destruction. i mean,

the account is only take on model in 2015. we were officially commissioned by the environment ministry to sign, post a forgotten places where chemical weapons were industrially destroyed. and i'll tell you it. so in inventory of at least 50 science was conducted on, which is still ongoing. probably more than just dish. and just for us, nutritional in northern france is one spot we, chemical weapons for incinerated. according to estimates several 100000 tons were destroyed. here. there are many spots when nothing has grown for a century. the ground is full of toxic fragments of in class containers. and yet the forest is accessible to everyone. sunday seals in full and yet no key. we have to rekey, this is a state own forest, and so it's open to the public medical additional people often come here to pick

mushroom response and it's not inconceivable that they could come into contact with the toxic waste. because he could stick their fingers in their mouths after they've been playing here. for example, a share event. someone is on the phone. that's what he thought. just like in germany, no one he wants to take responsibility and bear the cost that's on the pillow. shower on set it up. there are several reasons for the lack of willingness to deal with the problem. so that just some 1st the contamination took place 100 years ago . the responsible party has long since disappeared, then he and the war ministry that gave the orders also no longer exists and the folks so now the question is, who can be held accountable? who is responsible to pay? 77 offered just however, several incidents have forced the french government into action. the doctor does almost put

a key to their accidents every year. said, can you go to the french government does what i can show you. soon as something is found, the weapons are recovered is too long on that you, the chemical ones are put into storage until the plant to incinerated them is complete. demolition and the explosives. and if you fall, expose your topic in france ordinance, disposal is financed and run centrally by the national government in germany. accountability lies with each regional state and their budgets very greatly. that's why german experts would like the federal government to take more control and responsibility in ah, it will be that the regional state keep putting forward proposals for the federal government to take over the cost of ordinance removal, name and sell. now they've been consistently reject it up good. it's

a hot potato that keeps getting puffed back and forth. we received this quote from the finance ministry who are responsible for this matter. please direct your questions to the ministry responsible the federal ministry for the environment, nature conservation, a nuclear safety. the environment ministry was quick to respond. the federal government contributes to the disposal of chemical weapons through the federal ministry of finance as to the clearance of contaminated ground. here the regional government and not the federal government are responsible. this is currently not on the federal agenda. many contaminated sites below to the german government like to form a look knit munitions plant. in ne, germany where chemical weapons were manufactured up until 945 geologist, you'll probably see for the 1st time he's interested in the site because it was

laid out in a similar way to form a war, munitions factory and very he studied properties such as this one managed by the institute for federal real estate, b, r to highest, and lisa, local men are in charge of administration and safety here. this is the only bunker not to be blow, not by the soviet army after the war. player he lost those commerce. this was used for nasty gas, which was transported here from the amend or factory near holler, and stored in one of 7 bunkers, last logo on isaacs bung because we used to muster guest system one bunker or rather assistant with use to store clothes on the main part of this plant was dedicated to producing munitions on leave, empty cartridges, mines and shells were filled here or not. we wouldn't have food. red means out of pounds. why? oh, clear design show which parts of the 100 have

a property can be accessed in which card? no maps or plan. so the form of munitions factory remain. so your hand is troy's uses. the bavarian plants, lam florian taishan, me shells were transported around the factory by convey a belt through a network of subterranean tunnels. ruins of those tunnels still survive. after the collapse of east germany, the grounds swift and stuff. these get checked once a month and mine to serve. i determined the contaminated areas which was sealed off the ground was, was found to be severely loose by residues of arsenic and mustard gas industry. i'm me see the very high concentrations of pollutants in the ground water, which are confined to certain areas. so the toxins reaches also limited, have been decreasing. does it clear decline? that's why we asked whether we need to take further action to clean the soil. here

. the ground water here also is used for drinking 3 houses here, have water wells with their check regularly, twice a year. and thankfully, they haven't shown any sign of contamination of fans. i'm yeah, and you haven't talked on kind of stuff but is the problem really? so just by putting a fence around your hand is troy's there's no, he's concerned by the many off limit areas and the blind spot when it comes to war time poison. he says it could still be chemical agents in the systems here. and toxic gas shells buried in the ground. for him, the fence isn't a solution. it's part of the problem. when comes to forget, we 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. and i don't see that fence still standing in 75 years or 150 years on order and 100 proof. and the

problem won't go away on its own, said lucy, we clearly have to do something to it's a further issue. the next generation will be saddled where he needs to be of us, the detailing upon me and wants to 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, the people who are defined for all of us who bear responsibility today are not to blame for what happened years ago. and we don't know how we would have acted if we were alive done. but now it is our responsibility to make sure that this problem is resolved. in duluth, one end it more than a 100 years ago. world war 2 more than 75. germany is really associated with chemical weapons today that they remain in the country unprotected and in unknown

quantities. even when i retire there will be plenty of munitions less to clear in germany. job with them. and i think that if you don't have 1st hand experience of something, somehow some where you can, you don't know how to deal with it. and if on top of that cost money benefits, i'm not interested in that this is so we don't own interest on all that. we have to acknowledge that over the coming years, many, many billions more must be spent on eliminating and cleaning up the weapons of the past. difficult. a few devices, dixon i began researching contaminated science 34 years ago in 1986. the vitamin in my view, it's an issue that's far from over. does that leads me to satisfied me?

i thought it would happen a lot quicker than the i thought once we tackled it and the resources were made available from the clean up was made a priority that we could do it on that phrase. we can do it justice, but no, we haven't done at 9, mr. chauffeur. ah, the booming business of infinity argosy, an ag donation updated in germany. but elsewhere in europe, they are legal, the german capital and that's or driven travels to other countries.

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