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molly, together with its neighboring countries, is finding a growing insurgency from eastern east militants. instability in molly could handle these efforts and lead to more insecurity across west africa. you want change over the new line from berlin. stay with us for al series. dock film coming up offer shall break headlines for you at the top of the hour with me some i'm rebecca. thanks very much for watching the news. and then so many pushes out in the world climate conference stores. this is much less the way from just one week. how much less can really get we still have time to act. i'm doing all this.
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me the she move up any chemical weapon that flying around poses a huge danger and should be running as soon as possible. it is a flushed a long time. the thought that you could have been walking just one meter above so many shells was really terrifying. financial interesting research on hubbard that there are about $200.00 such sites across germany and
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there are concrete ruins in the forest. this gary is that the solution is on the the most toxic place in germany is located in a forest near in saxony. this to the stands of what was once diddling upon. it covers rusting explosives and chemical warfare shells from 2 world wars. the road here has been closed for months. only weapons experts in the emergency medical staff who always wisdom early out through a pandora's box has been up until the not end of the slides. and they treated after the 2nd world war. the british disposed of their
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shells and such there and talk for whatever couldn't be transported to and dumped in the north and baltic sea. it was sunk and the date line. our pond getting a tie done, fuzzy in the state of lowest saxony continued using the 60 meter wide pete as a munitions double after the war. no records were kept on what was thrown in to getting a pond until the 1950s bomb diving was a popular weekend activity. you months down the circle post world war 2, there was he cannot make hardship. so some people from one. so would go die for non ferris metals in the pond. that's why the authorities decided to fill it in for, for food. that was in 1952 weapons experts estimate around 20000 chemical weapons and bombs could still be buried here. so decades the area of remained hidden in the forest and accessible to everyone. but look, maybe we were just lucky that no one came here in the past few decades and started
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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 in september 2019. the local authorities begin to excavate. the filled in pitt showed the water quality ratings had been wrong for decades. during all that time, they can other talk from seeping into the ground water. no one knows how many chemical weapons would come to 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 highest price has been studying this toxic war time legacy for decades. this area was used as an incineration site for gas weapons
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after the 1st world war. pro is 1st collected sample 20 years ago. this is on board phone. i know granado is going to move. that was the bottom of a shell that was twisted off and you can see the marks here on the not going to it would have been on group from the shell would be laid in a groove to him like my arm and it vainly lighting so the explosive inside would meltzer and the glass bottle with the chemical agent which is really pout not they'd remove that, pour out the remaining explosive and burn it on top. and we'll see you can see the layers of burn term here. this is where they threw them in. so these are the basis of large caliber shells. and those, the smaller ones may have been lying here for about 100 years here or not. you know, the 1st world war was a gas or the 100000 soldiers were killed and more than a 1000000 others were injured by the use of chemical weapons. the,
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with an ice gases got more and more dangerous as the war progressed by 918. the final year, every 3rd shall fired, was filled with gas. after the armistice, much of germany stop power, unused chemical weapons was dismantled and destroyed. but many weapons disappeared without a trace. digging here, these large things from incineration, which got pretty harsh to me highest. and this is what was inside. it is unofficial. we sample this back in 2000 and found it was di nitro benzene as well. that's what we need to see is another one's also can i try? benzine is an explosive, but it's also poisonous. done much back then, the people who weren't feeling the shells had a lot of trouble with di nitro, benzene cause issues because there were cases of young women fainting almost
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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 this price found glass here as well . as i'm and last question, we saw these glass bottles, or at least the tops made of green glass was flush orders 12, 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 a mind cleaning team from the german armed forces. the boom to say they've been searching the wounds to 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. they're fairly, it's highly dangerous because hazardous material can turn up at any time. but we are trained and we have protective gear and good equipment. in addition to dealing
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with chemical warfare agents, there are explosives and the reason that makes munitions haven't been decommission, so destinations are possible. so energy that's all monster has a long military history. since 1893 training took place here and remains the largest size of the german armed forces during world war one. it was time to the biggest chemical weapons factory in the gym and empire. a quarter of all chemical agents were tested to produce 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, mostly from the west in front encroachment on done the order was that all warfare weapons were to be brought to monster. no one sometimes put you on the lot of returning troops. however, that's how to think of it. they were pouring in,
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but they didn't do that. the, i'm just gonna say just took the munitions to the station, understand or those teams. as the result, they were conventional weapons and chemical weapons and no one knew what was where when it's human booster was yet school league. so there are at least 35 sites where large amounts of warfare agents were brought to in 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 and unsettling, thought. unknown quantities of chemical weapons still rushing away, undertakes across germany in once the 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 $19191.00 explosion proved catastrophic. of these i set off a chain of that nation that lasted 3 days and fired off more than $1000000.00
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shells and a radius of 3 kilometers and likely to meet many of those $1000000.00 shells are still lying here today, before longs, the metal detector goes off here, i mean it's, i know i'm sorry if we got a signal from this detector, which detects iron picked, did it only know for now it, but there is iron buried here. objects i've only got one, and that is whether it's a fragment or a part of a tank or a munition. that's what we need to find out next. governance history. okay? yes, to the as if there is a little ok. so you can already see now it's a shell casing, but it's empty. buys they didn't though there used to be a chemical agent in there. but now there isn't this time we're also lucky enough to find it of the bottle indies flush this bottle with filled during the 1st world war with a chemical warfare,
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vomiting agent known as clark clock during mobile one clock was also known in german as the mosque and mosque breaker toxicologist, edmund maza, explains the insidious power of the toxic gases to should muslin. the gas penetrated the protective mouth and cause the extreme irritation to the mucous membrane and the eyes so that the soldiers would recall them from it. that's when they be hit with a 2nd gas, for example, a choking agent which causes severe lung damage. clark and other hazardous chemical warfare agents have been looking in the soil beneath military training ground in one's to for decades. it would be easy to get by the demarcation, but authorities rely on people using their common sense here as only the health of the, anyone here without permission is risking their own life with the explosive and chemical warfare agents. here, i strongly advise against me. it's likely to be several more decades for the small
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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 world war. the dangerous agent tried an important role in the 2nd as well. look in and said, that's enough. there's another came to power. they began with re em and pick one aspect of that was making warfare agents for germany. that's because they build factories to manufacture the toxins about which then had to be filled into munitions and done in the morning. you and i and the food in total. there was 7 munition filling centers built that worked with mustard gas last up preferred water . germany chemise will behind some of the most gruesome discoveries in modern warfare. and 1938 propaganda film showcase the power of the nerve agents tarpon and
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siren navine guns. and then the motor after just a few seconds. and 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 slogging them happen. in the end, even the nazis backed 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 decided 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. it to this day
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some $50000.00 tons of mustard gas would dump off the coast of the danish island. born home alone, when the substance comes into direct contact with ski 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 friend of toxic gas bombs and shells. ah, the ship to come here, hon. i'm kinda and on 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. well, you could smell it and even see it. i'm kind of as i took it away from the white
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fog, it was a yellow green frog that covered everything. that's when we had to put on our gas mask and done with me to this crystal. she has no idea which gas that she was exposed to. she has difficulty walking the result of a nerve disease. she's had, she was young concord had, i'm guess i'm. i was 15 when i 1st began getting else and done. it started after the end of the war. so they finished loading the gas bonnet. de gus, by loudon von, they would be telling us i was almost paralyzed. and initially a doctor thought it might be polio name on catches else and much diagnose. state had to come to, kimberly moves and it was and it always went away again on kid. and then 20 years ago i was diagnosed with neuropathies little,
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but no one can say what caused when you wrote to see the crystal. she also 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 they know 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 to have 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,
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the cost on obstacle, germany's most toxic whole getting a pond in lowest saxony could easily become the world's most costly one. the clean up comes with an estimated $15000000.00 euro price tag. in early 2020 work began on 3 exploratory shots. the 1st chemical shells turned up just to meet her below the surface. stefan vishal is part of the t. recovering the deadly weapons. in this job, he's aware anything can happen. putting something up and there are things where you can't gauge the risk you in the uncovering munitions, that leak and so forth. yeah, that sounds good to me and it was the my biggest concern is coming across and expose chemical warfare agent down in the hall with that would mean getting out carefully evaluating the situation and taking further measures. steph ambition has
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been confronted with such situations down in the shop. he risked his own life on the job to save others when you call them. munitions are a problem, especially when they're somewhere buried in the earth. disintegrating and hazardous gases are leaking into the water and eventually that affects the whole population 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 this like ac for minutes. is the maximum time stefan dash 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 from 2 world wars. today who recover 400 kilograms of toxic deadly munitions from the whole this is mr. the food, as i get, i have
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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 in financial . when you have to stay sharp, whether you're excavating things or moving them, they've been moving this closely, watched con boy has been moving around the lunatic heath for months. once a day it's poisonous hall is loaded onto a special truck and taken to the gay car and moonstone ah, the company is the only one the country allowed to dispose of chemical weapons. any chemical weapons who agent found on gym and soil is brought here. i'm doing that as well. not on average. we have one to 200 shells being brought here for most of them come from the region north of monster. also the, all that, for example, 2 years ago we had some from button button spartanburg, back to the bay,
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were doing some building and brought us chemical shell that still contained the nerve agent taboo. and highness w. other than the f comfortable stuff, wouldn't i just a drop of tub boon is enough to kill a person. philip hirschler is responsible for destroying the gas before he sets to work. he meticulously checks his gear. been using 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 is compromised. and it's always a few mom on it. on her she was present november 2019 when the 1st shell from debt in upon to saw and opened. an emergency medic was also on stand by the scene on the weekend dressed here and then we get into our potent be
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driven over done again that i need to talk about. next we enter the front chamber where we pick up the shells, which we take to be cart also and open, and in the get out any physical done. when we take the shell out of the barrel, i fasten it at the right height. sometimes we leave the room, i've done it because then it's the turn of the machine operator rope and michelle. wendy cannot to fix this because it's open. he'll give us the okay. and i, we go in and monitor the room for concentrations of warfare agents. this done, this, everything is okay. we look to see what the contents are by the state is missing. the opening when we determined that we take a lab sample and then the agent is put into a barrel that can be secured and destroy safely punished advance. when the shell from deadly pond was torn open, the chemical warfare agent inside was found to be full gene
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test problem is just close to the problem is that not shame damages the lungs, which means bodily fluids can get in. the lungs fill up, the person effectively drowns on their own bodily fluids. i mentioned crazy and i can a cup, a 2nd thinking chemical munitions recovered from dealing upon the store at the key car. if they really are $20000.00 shells to be recovered, it will take ease to destroy them. all the gay car is already working to capacity. ah, it is geek. is kruger says politicians could be doing more as close to that. of course that costs tax payers money under the home to in the end you have a safe 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 going to not least because so few people are aware of the many places in germany,
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contamination by war, time, chemical weapons, berlin, hostile horse district, for example, the document until the end of the 2nd world war, the trail of records on substances found he gets lost in the like, my during that too much, it was time you had the allied takeover without any documentation. oh no document. because some things here were also top secret one, so they were never supposed to be documented. all the records are still sealed to come and get them delivered to me for the month of listen. for decades, the authorities turned a blind di. i'm willing to stir up trouble on the river 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 moved back and forth. well i'm do go into what hearing the search
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a metal container was found in one of these bomb crated, whose origin could not be determined on the den condo and the company, the berlin police bomb disposal team to 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. crippin doff is an engineer and former captain with the east german army. he qualified to work with chemical agents such as mustard gas and tavern. he set his mobile a bar tree up right next to the building thought for on the spot soil analysis. this one can be expecting a very strong contamination of soil here. and also the recovery of large amounts of materials containing arsenic, such as clark one and clark 2 must have been given that the site was
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one time to a world war 2 factories 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 bose house here. and the former owner, the building housing authority, did nothing. now the authorities say it's up to the new owners quickly and the 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 bias and tenants of all of age. here are old glass containers from the lab area. and here is a piece of the barrel the ground is full of things like the water
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comes off and the couple really been recovered so far. 1000 barrels has been filled to prevent us from spreading through. the water is constantly being sprayed over the area and the poison has been detected in the ground. water barrels have to be transported to move, to be destroyed, to clean up operation has cost $8.00 figures. what about the neighboring properties? large fuel studios are on the chase not. and on the other side, can you apartment to being built? could they be chemical weapons in the ground there too fast a hint on phone us. and we've got no idea what's behind that fence or in the neighboring lot. it's not too short. you can assume that the soil is contaminated there as well. and it was a saw where you can really hope that the new owners or whoever moves they are also plans to switch out the soil. because we know how heavily contaminated by arsenic
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the ground was here. it would be good if everyone did what we're doing soon, but all of 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, applied di authorities have to face pumped this toxic war time, legacy, and it's likely to cost a lot me to drilling it during a pond and low saxony ended after turning up 2005 $152.00 gas shells. in spring 2020 the local district and regional state level officials agree to excavate and completely clean up the area. low effects and his environmental minister on the lease says it was the only option that she was a month more. the extent of the contamination is much greater than we initially
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thought that was i would say we will have to invest at least $50000000.00 euros to get rid of what is there for hundreds to. fortunately, that can be done in this fairly compact area to make it safe again for him to stay . but the minister doesn't want low effects need to have to pay the costs on its own. he wants the federal government to share the burden as well. if it was, we wouldn't say there will be a little friction with the federal government over who pay for the understand my eyes. the government is responsible cause or to put it differently. i residence 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 is the rule is just a stone's throw away from getting a pond. if anything goes wrong with the excavation site, this will be the 1st place affected, wants to make christina flick and shine spoke with residents
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on an even a huge amount was done, dating upon. no one thought about how dangerous it was for the environment and for the people here on the the status of the mention of kind spic. yet it talk as slightly no 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 idea to me in the, in the government agreed to help fund the clean up. painstaking operation has begun to reopen up the filled in pond. an engineering firm was brought in, one experienced clearing, chemical weapons, its supplies for 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 the almost 2 hundreds thoughts, contamination by chemical weapons. me
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i'm frank, i want to get you over to somebody 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 to stand out. and that led to some federal state setting up so called ordinance decommissioning program. it's lesson which resulted in targeted investigations being carried out at several site per foot bonds and, but it was never completed to go on. in addition to the toxins present in the soil and groundwater, the engineer has other concerns to as another job is eaten, does, there is the risk that blow saves and even warfare agent could end up in the wrong hand on the handle. couldn't that would pose an even bigger risk to the population of critical for the perfect state. one of those warfare agents to the nerve gas found one of the most terrific chemical weapons ever made. i need to get some
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pallet. these are the nerve agents, the probably the word from because even just very little concentrations can damage a person's nervous system and paralyzed. there were the retreat center bleeding to death from or through a tree failure mentioned stand on an autumn facade. sanctioned thorsten strokes surveying as soon as to place the ruins of the sara plant in munster. ah, ah! here this is where the saran plant was with him on the wards the end of the war. they carried out trials here into the mass production of the warfare agents saran come here to the dom. and even at that time they only produce half a ton. when we get them in terms of what they would have eventually been able to produce 50 tons of baron a month here in one of the headstone can during the war,
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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 above ground were destroyed. but what the underground ah fond of kind of this place hasn't been checked properly yet. nobody knows what could still be in here on level of laboratory equipment, production site materials, or even munitions, or even to as soon no one knows to sit. and there are no plans to search field certain. 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,
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too many of the priorities means the army has little time to inspect the grounds. it isn't clear with the civilians have ever trust. ah, it's kind of like no one has been caught so far was awesome. if they were, you think there would be a penalty when these kind of speakers like i strongly advise against coming to this part of the property. because it's very dangerous. 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 of him in schools . ah, france is more fields or a wash with gas shells from the side in the war. the schools who they were incineration by the median in french forest geologist. daniel has been researching the almost industrial scale destruction all the jobs i've only
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take mother to in 2015. we were officially commissioned by the environment ministry to sign post the forgotten places where chemical weapons were industrially destroyed, can alter it. so in inventory of at least 50 sites was conducted on which is still ongoing problem. again, this condition as far as new terminal in northern france, is one spot where chemical weapons for incinerated. according to estimates several 100000 tons were destroyed. here there are many spots when nothing has grown for century, the ground is full of toxic fragments in class containers. and yet the forest is accessible to everyone. somebody feels and fully done yet on okay, we have to communicate hello. this is a state owned forest, and so it's open to the public. medical people often come here to pick mushroom
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response and it's not inconceivable that they could come into contact with toxic way. well, the values because he could stick their fingers in their mouths after they've been playing here. for example, obviously the share, if someone is on farm, it was just like in germany, no one here wants to take responsibility and bear the costs from the people shout on such a settlement effectively. there are several reasons for the lack of willingness to deal with the problem. the 1st, the contamination took place 100 years ago. the responsible party has long since disappeared. men 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 to pay? $77.00. just however, several incidents have forced the french government into action. the. it is almost
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a key to their accidents every year. the gulf, the french government does what they can. soon as something you found, the weapons are recovered. so on and on that you the chemical ones are put in storage until the plant to incinerating them is complete. demolition and the explosives here, bollocks pushing 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 if people will be there is that even the regional states keep putting forward proposals for the federal government to take over the cost of ordinance removal, name and fill. now they've been consistently reject it from upgraded. it's
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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 direct your questions to the ministry responsible the federal ministry for the environment, nature conservation, a nuclear safety. the environment ministry was quit 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 belong to the german government. like to form a look. it's musicians 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 sign because it was laid out in a similar way to form
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a war, munitions factory. and very he studied properties such as this one managed by the institute for federal real estate b, r to highs and lisa lockerman are in charge of administration and safety here. this is the only bunker not to be blow, not but the soviet army after the war. play he lost does come was this was used for master gather, which was transported here from the amend door factory near holler and stored in one of 7 bunkers, last logo on isaacs bung because we used to muster guests and one bunker or rather assistant with use to store clark on the main part of this plant was dedicated to producing munitions on leave. empty cartridges, mines and shells were filled here cannot be food. red means out of bounds weiss all clear. the sun show which parts of the 100 hectic property can be accessed,
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in which card? no maps or plans. the form of munitions thanks, will remain. so your hand is price uses to the varian plants lamp orientation. me guess shells are transported around the factories by convey a belt through a network of subterranean tunnels. ruins of those tunnels still survive. after the collapse of east germany, the ground footprint staff. these get checked once a month and 90 serve a determined the contaminated areas which were sealed off the ground water was found to be severely lucian by residues of mustard gas industry. i'm thank you. the very high concentrations of pollutants in the ground water, 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 is used for drinking 3 houses here,
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have water wells, but they're checked regularly twice a year. and thankfully, they haven't shown any sign of contamination of fi ma'am. yeah. you haven't done kind of that, but is the problem really sold just by putting a fence around your hand is price. 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 they could still be chemical agents in the system here. and toxic gas shields 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 i did here and say no, 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 young 100 and the problem won't go away on
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its own, said lucy, we clearly have to do something to. it's a further issue. the next generation will be saddled with you needs to get us to the good thing, a pond me and wants to will hopefully be clean when it's passed onto 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 the lowest tax payer money flows. the time 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 then. but now it is our responsibility to make sure that this problem is resolved. in duluth, one ended 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
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plenty of munitions less to clear in germany. goodness, no 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 you might cost money benefits, i'm not interested that this is so we don't own interests on all the national. so 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 100 dixon i began researching contaminated sites 34 years ago in 1986. to me, in my view, it's an issue that's far from over and us that leads me to by the way,
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i thought it would happen a lot quicker than that. 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 there is that phrase we can do it. does it say? no, we haven't done at 9. i'm just mr. chauffeur. told me many places apparently hydrogen is being sold and the clean all rounders as the energy source of the future. many industries are very interested in the fuel. but what potential does it really carry
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