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. but it's getting harder for perpetrators to hide, join us on eco, india, as we discover efforts to track and stop toxic practices. hello, welcome. i'm funnel. unlike what you see here, the pic he's that involves many indian cities, is a visual reminder of a killer that is impossible to escape globally. air pollution accounts was 7000000 bits every year. a city and the national capital region tops the list of the cities with the wolves, whilst we headed there to find out why ah, it has been cold, the world's most polluted sick body . about 70 kilometer is away from india's capital. denny. it is an industrial hub

and under doris balloon, the recently released world air quality indexed by i q n. a swiss air monitoring company has reported that b buddy has the highest point, bought a good concentration in the work the ladies industry down and a major problem of that region are that city has been the industry's, the industry is have not adopted the d n a technology so far cleaner fuel has also not reached the city as such. so for instance, in delhi, the city, most of the industry and on lpg or gas, which is not the case, been polarity. that's a problem. there's also a big issue of faith learning. a lot of industrial waste which is generated in the city is burned without much control is open sun for pollution and that also acts of the pollution in the city. but they are also double issues of traffic this out of

traffic in the city. the culprit is but to collect matter 2.5, a dangerous fine particle with a diameter of up to 2.5 micro meters. this is much thinner than a human head. the dani air particle can be made of toxic cub, metals blasted and normal dust. it can damage the lungs, reducing their capacity to absorb oxygen with over $100000.00 residents. b buddy is also heavily polluted. aetna with a large number of people living close to cement, steel, petroleum, and plastic manufacturing plants. the toxic fumes have been c really impacting the health of the bodies residents, especially ger. so this a 21, he had all the body doesn't eat lives. in one of these neighborhoods,

or 2 year old son, jessie, he suffered from acute respiratory issues and needs regular normalization. ha fiscal, who had at the my child started breathed heavy, he got a coil and cuffed so we took him here. we have a machine at home and my son starts to breathe heavily, be use it. if that doesn't give him relief, we take him to the hospital. so these glimpse the emissions from the factories which are mostly still goal fired. long term exposure to find dust particles can cause other health problems from acid, even to lung cancer. minor symptoms like fatigue or body aches or widespread delmark. what will be the head? oh, i could rest it in the routine. cases of acute respiratory infections range from 5 to 10 percent, but when pollution rises it reaches up to 20 percent and guiltily in composite backache, witnesses infection lucas, buddy,

up in under spots and kingsley's mandated that didn't people who work. i'll doze on at high risk. amr g does, does construction work to provide for his family? he has little choice but to risk his own help to on money to survive. live even uncle evelyn, done like carla. can i my somebody i took a lease. companies have fun. this is buttoning inside and a light is an oil company, a bike. it's a lot of pollution. this should be penalized, but it is not what can we do? the ad libs. we have to add money to eat up in 2021. the government came up with the local action blonde, cleaner fuels like compressed guess a by natural gas, making those alternatives accessible to all industries is a major infrastructural challenge. so far, only 20 percent of industries in the body region have shifted to cleaner fuel electricity if possible. if electricity not possible at nissan gas,

quickbooks. net and for that that infrastructure needs to reach the city and that needs to be made. and this electricity or gas needs to be made available to the industry at the rate which is compatible and compete to both for them so that they don't go back arthritis use other fuels in the r as raw t is one of the few industrialists who switch from coal to natural gas, he owns a conveyor belt, manufacturing plant, installing a pipe natural gas, or b and g system was costing how to sub do ali lucian normally increases each year after the d valley festival. then with their fil, a decision was made to shift from cold by natural gas a, but they didn't, i used to be up in ve line equally, but in general, for the p in july open e p, we shifted to pinnacle right away and quickly and i hope well or didn't what?

he may not be in the line. i ought they? hm. they aren't as he part of the i'm the boiler bunch of the i r b in deductible. rod, he says that switching from coal to p and g has helped him reduce emissions. he says it is a relief to provide a healthier environment before his workers might use their money, even though i'm benefits in cost, had business be failed. this was that i choice and considering that listening, lucia, i'm the for, i'm not donald yet, but kept digitally apple a sudden a carnegie movie. the city council is now taking action to improve the lives of the body residence in the future. garage burning will be more closely monitored and dumps will be constructed for an industrial. wheres the administration has already introduced other measures. didn't out of mean in the few months since the air quality zip code was published, the government has begun monitoring pollution on the rosie that they have granted more cheese. roy yup. being more attention, rookie. behold,

the teachers improve in math with arrow? yes. business on muradi has also taken the 1st steps in the right direction. now it is up to the estimated 300 other businesses in the body who still use a lot of dirty energy to follow his lead. unlike apaloosa, contamination of marine involvements can be harder to detect, especially when it's done illegal. one culprit ships when using the world's oceans with oily waste water as that a bottle of discoloured whistles bypass embodiment laws to save time and money with disastrous consequences. ah, these shaky video was filmed secretly inside of a think of ship secretly, because he shows something that should not be there. did you see it? that's what it again. there it is. ah, this is

a bail to bump. chips use it to illegally dump toxic, wasting the ocean, facebook, daisy scold build dumping, and it's causing one of the worst environmental disasters at see 1st, let's look at what builds water is a bales is the lowest spot of a ship, but the 2 sites meet bitch water is the water that accumulates here, except it's not exactly water. ships of this size are massive machines with lab, your intake pipe systems, engines bigger than coach bosses. burning streams of heavy fuel oil, the pipes can leak, the oil can spill, and the engines need cooling and cleaning. all these liquids are collected in the belt, and it's not a nice view. oh, we know very well that oil can chopping kill animals. well, bells, water contains oil,

diluted with water plus various chemicals and heavy metals. oil can suffocate and intoxicate fish and birds, and even if they survive, their offspring might not. phase is the heart of a normal healthy fish larva. this is that of a larva exposed to oil. the result, a smaller heart, a slower heart heat, and lower chances of surviving. the water is so toxic that it has been regulated for more than 50 years. it's a hellish drainage. you really don't want to dump in the ocean to find out what happens. slower oceans. we looked at them from the sky. this is a problem that has been personally bothering me for most of my career. this is john amos. he found out about the build dumping problem 20 years ago when he found that sky truth for a non profit organization that uses satellite imagery to shine a spotlight on environmental issues around the world. and more precisely,

radar satellites, which 20 years ago were a very new technology. and we learned one of the things it's really good for is detecting oil slicks out in the ocean companies where already using it to discover oil deposits. when you find a small oil slicks, it's always in the same place, is a clear sign that there's oil in the rock down there. a tables have turned in on those same images. regularly see these dark streaks on the water. we're not natural. that often had a big ship. the vessel in enter builds damping. and at the time, looking at those slicks, there was no way for us to identify the vessels that were responsible. it could take hours for the satellite to send an image. by the time the received the vessel was a long gone, it was an extremely frustrating thing,

but everything changed with a i s that is automatic identification system, it's use is also required by international law, so that vessels can avoid running each other. ships are now required, made their position with a radio signal, satellites can pick up the signal and record the movement of every ship. you know, the exact time in the exact place from the satellite it was. and then we just find the broadcast, the match that most closely in space and time. and when we put it on the screen, we had a clear match of that of one track. clearly matching the path of the slick for this investigation. algorithms were trained to automatically recognize potential spills in one year. we found 1500 potential dams in you waters alone. the whole

done this ways roughly equivalent to 5 times the $989.00 exxon valdez spiel. one of the worst marine environment build, the even worse deaths, a conservative estimate and even was hardly anybody knows about it in the even worse phases of deliberate practice. so why are we not holding companies accountable? there are other features on radar satellite imagery that can look like an oil slick . it could be caused by ships carrying fish, oil, vegetable oil, or by other element. it's not sufficient at this point in any courts of law that i'm aware of. but in combination with other things, it can be powerful accessory evidence to help make a legal case to be taken as proof of visual confirmation must come from someone on the ground me. so when the police went here

because we're doing the german coast guard on one of the inspections and that because i should have been nice to meet you, we are here to carry out a marble inspection with them in the big water is collected down here in the field which is the. 7 most part of a check in this home. and finally, the build you want to pass this through these all the water separator. basically. that way, again, like what i'm wanting to regulate. thought inspection, he's older than that's the attention about our inspection,

all with no deficiencies. no problems this time, but that doesn't mean bilge dumping isn't happening. postcards, only inspect the fraction of the ships and only check those already dr. port. naughty, nice easy right. the dumping occurs but there's some one else on the ground that can confirm what satellite to reveal. someone who follows these ships wherever they go. whistleblowers. hello, a hello. how are you? i'm good little noise. how are you? i'm good. this is one of 5 whistleblowers. we talked with, we decided to withhold his name to protect his identity. thanks to his description, we build a 3 d model of foul builds. dumping works here is the build stick. and here is the

notorious build to pump. so what we did was speed. you were stuck pump, not switched from the bench to another dime, colace the theme drain back. i don't of us, but the doctor stuck, only clean liquid comes into it and behalf isn't it? it is judged the contents of a deal with work. oh, and here you have it benz dumping one along, but there are positive developments. the new generation of radar imaging, satellites that are coming are going to have multi polar, multi frequency radar systems where we do have an ability to discriminate the type of material that's been discharged and will even be able to say something about the thickness of doyle slick satellite technologies getting so much better that he could one day be enough to incriminate offenders until

then we rely on whistleblowers to stop this practice. so unless there is someone on board, if it gets on without insight, their testimonies are crucial for investigations like this. but we shouldn't have to rely on their courage to protect our osha o illegal pollution, of course, doesn't just happen out of seat. romania is a dumping ground for trash unlawfully shipped there from all over europe. it's a multi 1000000000 euro business run by west smugglers. but investigators a hot on the heels this is an illegal landfill outside due caressed last year. ok. harvey in baton, who was head commissioner of romanian, environmental guard, leading an investigation into arson at the site with the north little rock models and a lot of garbage was burned here for 20 minutes. there was

a lot of smoke bicycle to more far as like that, and the south of congress would be engulfed and smoke and stern. sure. this was double quarters to be several times in recent years at pollution in the romanian capital has exceeded e u. limits a 100 times over heavy traffic is one cause, but so 2 is the illegal burning of waste. some of which it emerged comes from germany. last summer, romanian border police made a major discovery in the black sea port of constantia. more than 1800 tons of suspicious waste. it had been declared as plastic, but it also contained metal tires, batteries, and even carcinogenic asbestos. it's against a new law to miss label shipments and export. hazardous waste. we had to germany and europe's 3rd largest port, hamburg romanian authorities. and greenpeace have implicated a company based here in illegal waste shipments over the phone. the metal recycling

company may law says it doesn't want to comment. it failed to respond to an official pressing query. we sent 10 days earlier, then suddenly the manager appears as you don't know, what we hear about illegal shipments from may low found in romania illegal? no. no, you're being prosecuted. therefore though i've met nonsense. it's been cleared up. it's a mistake martin. would you like to say that on camera? i'm about. i'm not the right person to talk to that you are. that's why we called you the ones really fellow nama and no cameras. a few minutes later the manager acknowledges is aware of romanian investigation, but he insists his company's waste shipments were legal video. mm hm. i know the romanians are investigating, but they didn't analyze the shipment. they glanced at it and thought, oh, there was some cables and a circuit board in there to put in the reasons. but d, w has seen the reports compiled by romanian prosecutors and analysis by

a german lab found that the shipment included undeclared toxic components back in romania. we meet ult javion, but shall new at the landfill. again. he is no longer in uniform. he was fired. did his dismissal have to do with his efforts to stop trash smuggling? the circuit to directly morgan is up. took article. this is organized crime shows are shifting ways from countries like germany or britain, britain, mars italy, but also from bulgaria. and romania itself is the cheperdak little methyl bulgaria . it was some of this waste has travelled thousands of kilometers to get here. the e commission says germany is a key market for waste smugglers. the hamburg case is just one of many under investigation by prosecuted tail donita. he says the problem isn't just dishonest business owners,

but also corrupt politicians village as well. so not only means le medalie when ministers answer left me speechless. my focus on she said, we trying to do it because it would anger and the big cement producers of our gym lacrosse up until cassandra may have a strong lobby. god, i will not be dorsey to put her nick. he heads to the harbor for another inspection with us. i've just got a call from the judicial authority on about coordinating the case with germany and belgium. in romania charges have already been filed against the humbug based company, china band, the import of plastic waste in 2018. ever since western european countries have increasingly shipped their garbage to romania, bulgaria and poland. germany is considered a world leader in recycling and achievement. it seems that wouldn't be possible without its waste exports to eastern europe,

governments and international organizations like interpol, have the power to bring west offenders to justice. but addressing environmental contamination on a local level can yield results to. we have 2 examples from the north and the south of india, where women are the ones spearheading drives to clean up their communities. clean water for washing and drinking is something that has only recently done to the village of allah. thanks to local women. the pursuit had residence to meet regularly and clear the stream of plastic ways most have been dumped by judas tracking on nearby glacier trails. dounia go, what did he sources are getting polluted if you get into weight? so we are trying to keep the water clean in our village. all of us getting at this and children take it as our responsibility to clean the street. i'm proud of doing it as long as i live in disbelief that i will keep the stream clean. classical

alarm is nestled in the mountains and the indian instead of jumble and kashmir. the stream is de locals only source of fresh water to keep it clean. every household has built a septic then that's put a stop the open definition on the streams banks. allan let the leg i will benefit my letter, but i will either molest. oh it is. that is, possibility of every house will here to keep the village clean asked as the 1st village along the course of the stream. it flows down to hundreds of other religions. so if we keep it clean, but others will follow to saturday, when i know of how their body go, whether in the country on the city in india, it's often vivian who start such initiatives, clean water and electricity, or red and poor neighborhoods. many people use jealousy, lambs and cook on open fire, both of which can cause lung disease and both emit climate heat in carbon dioxide

locks me lives in an informal settlement in london, lou, a solar lamp chain to life. she started selling the lamps 3 years ago and come from running her own small business, allowed her to move a family into an apartment now to have both light and running water. my children suffered a lot. i have 2 daughters and i used to have to ask them to wake up at by the in to take a bug before sunrise again. now we have of our own much room that we can use anybody want. they can only ideally activities when it suits them best or leave the nam, may stand with a blue. she says the lamps are an engine receives a percentage of each seal. the solar lamps cost between 11 and 23 years apiece. a steep price must be paid, but for the support of the social under prize ball in mid crew. locust can buy the lens on credit. interest. free locked me has convinced other women to switch to

sola. monte emma says the lambs have made a world of difference to her family they may know would act at all that some days we would run out of kerosene and had to be without like that till we could buy more somebody and back then we didn't even have mobile phones to use as flashlights . i guess we would cook and eat and live in darkness. to be honest, the solar lights haven't just let my home life did lit up my life. i'm doing that now. breaking belinda. so a lot to live in rural and urban communities, women's commitment to affect change despite limited meat is bringing benefits to their own lives. do their neighborhoods and the environment to the waste and you shouldn't be creat on. he's not going anywhere. we don't have a plan to be to send this to as each one of us takes action counter this to be

a future generations can be assured that they will have access to a clean, green and a healthy planet. i'll leave you with that and see you again next week. good bye. and thanks for watching. ah, with, [000:00:00;00]

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