the commission has looked into the claims and cancelled the voting results of twenty one polling stations but this didn't affect the overall outcome. and disagreements between the u.k. and the e.u. bro with a battlefront now being welfare rules the blocking system britain pays billions to non-citizens something london says will spawn benefit terrorism tourism. all those who are the top stories here on r.t. up next a special report about the survivors of the world in the tories industrial disaster or fighting for justice against a corporation responsible for the gas leak in the indian city of bhopal which killed at least fifteen thousand people. but i'm of the old notion of the corporation is based on what's called limited liability limited liability means that individual participants in a corporation cannot be charged with crimes of the corporation commits the kind to a very limited one of the major crimes court with manslaughter and the corporation

acts in such a way that kills. managers the c.e.o. and the shareholders have a limited liability and it's not a disregard for human life that maybe the nicest people in the world maybe give to charity. but in their institutional role as managers of the corporation there is a task that they must follow that task is to maximize profit and market share. if they don't do that they're out and somebody else is in the dust of the indian government meanwhile declare itself the sole representative of the victims and proceed to do so out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was so cheap that carbide start went up by two dollars a share the sentiment was if you could not mean that it could be such a grueling sell out because the union government agreed to settle all bost present and future liabilities for

a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little as five hundred dollars for lifelong injuries and. unpunished. every month i believe whatever happened in the past we cannot change it but what is happening now is in our control it's been twenty seven years and the government shouldn't these do something like people should get clean water because the ground water is contaminated whoever survived that night and whatever life is left for the gas victims they should get proper treatment so they can spend the rest of the. i was in good health she said they are gas and water victim children were born with deformities and their future has to be kept in mind so that these kids can live a proper life and so that their parents do not take them to some sort of burden which i think. you're welcome. i love and trust are.

good afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only a summer home to la and i'm joined on the line by son jay vermont who is an activist in the bhopal campaign and also a survivor of the terrible disaster in one thousand nine hundred eighty four so sanjay can you tell us a bit about what happened to you on the night of december third one nine hundred eighty four well i was on the right before you months or let it happen right in the moment. so and i don't and really don't know why i asked myself so because i had no one with me at the parent meeting at my school so she was like they all died that i had and. i would be. like. you in my own eye that you would like and i ran only. for even one.

sunday was less than two and his sister was nine his elder brother i mean he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in a family of. over the years in my family old runaways but i was told later two of them died in hospital my. mother my mother and father were. the bodies of three sisters who were nearby one of. the other two are missing. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers calling one night my bad and. my family members die because of this fact. and his sister when the twins didn't. but it is

a godsend because there will be thousand eight hundred people had died but according to the people who are carrying out bodies from the g eight on the houses around seven thousand to ten thousand people have died in the next seventy two hours and. twenty five thousand people have died. i remember my butt and organize it and. then automatically i myself was in the fight and i joined like other organizations i think that i got it and. now i realize a lot of the young guys actually. playing that in all know how contaminated the pack a how one going to do and then i saw it on the factories and they're like take it again back to london and not paying attention to our sense of.

why we did this study we just wanted this to extend us chemical contamination within the factory and outside and see if there is a linkage because there by building it is going to go far for that are going to school because that's the site because if you've got a village beside it justifies it is using if you miss about the lead got here men's room and most good enough and it was very high a muslim day i thought and one day that little baby the phone mostly as it is back been invented the fly i did this little bit out and you can still see mostly in the stuff that of their design and their clothes not surprising that the plant is very high most of them ok. we have received very important documents in this case that i think establish very clearly that union carbide knew that vans as early as one nine hundred seventy three that this pollution problem that we're facing today they knew

this was going to happen and they and they went ahead with this project despite that specific knowledge as early as nine hundred seventy three union carbide engineers were warning the company that the bhopal plant presents an unusual challenge in that there's no nearby running body of water into which waste can be discharged. so from the design stage waste disposal plant was and was a major concern. a lot of waste streams from the plant emptied into the area of the plant known as the solar evaporation pond area. here this is where the waste and toxic sludge were dumped basically and carly we're standing right on top of it and the other side is you can see there used to be a small leak which you had a carbonate also used as a dumping ground for their waste people depended on the water from the leak so they

drank it and it cost and pedantic. union carbide knew from the design stage that the bhopal plant could pollute groundwater they also knew that there was there was a surrounding community that used that groundwater for its drinking water supply. so they believed that they can get rid of someone. by doing it and then when they had like some kind of sludge so they took all of us from the bones and here and there and you see this black lining underneath the ground of this landfill they believe that this kind of lining if this lining and it can keep the vast away from the. lining and the need to go everywhere i want here. we believe the solar evaporation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the aqua for

and spreading into the surrounding communities and can be detected as far away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so that evacuation what we found very high was really you see out here was using greenville as the only english town and was destroyed. you know me i'm isolating that recent one. off on the factor you want that is still being gone dominated and people are forced to needed water because they do not have any of that shy. away and it will remain a source of pollution for this area until it is remedial and the party that can do that is you know this december will mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy at a union carbide india ltd facility in bhopal and even today continues to evoke strong emotions globally and rightfully so we're saddened however that despite all that has been written about the tragedy in the past twenty five years so many

misconceptions still exist about union carbide and it's wrong the government of india is the appropriate entity to address any i'm going to express by the people of bhopal. we are saddened by the fact that the site remains on really adding to the tragedy that has occurred the site today is in the hands of the state government of madhya pradesh the state government. and together with the central government they are trying to get the site cleaned up union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary of dow chemical dow chemical. two thousand one aug third the boards of carbide approved the bill at the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical. does complicate things and doesn't because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us and which is the principle of the polluter pays principle is the idea under international law that the liability

for pollution should always be traced back to the polluter the polluter should not be able to externalize the costs of pollution onto society at large or up to third party it shouldn't be the government's responsibility to clean up at public expense after private polluters. so. i don't know that he's one of those. people. drinking contaminated water you know this is like. in the neighborhood and then we've got a lot of this bomb tested every founded highly contaminated but they do not have any other choice and they are drinking this water. it was like some time two thousand and four it was sometime in the evening. when i eased back to my home there was a letter written by my brother that. i'm going to die in

a few men so take it off yours and he was like he was laying on his back in this room so i had to phone one of my one of my brother's friends and they said. more the us took my brother to the hospital and finally here. before that he had run into a jungle where. he had tried to set him off fire. he didn't have any physical problems his sickness was that of paranoia and fear if anyone came over then she would go and hide in the bathroom he used to say he could hear a voice in his mind i believe that a war inhales with time but involved it's getting worse. if we blame each other for everything then no solution will come. the government

blames the company we blame the government the government suffers the company suffers and most importantly the people who suffer. another member actually who was the media person who asked me this question who. actually according to you. before i answer to his question he said you are god but he said to me your garments like. they have been people from. so if you are going is not willing to help you then work. for you. on that but i'm not particular night on the second and third december some gases from the union carbide leaked and some of the people died now being an autopsy surgeon it was my moral duty to find out what the cause of death was after it was used after analysis it was established that cyanide was present along with nearly twenty million com points out of which it team were deadly. they get us. like in hiroshima and

nagasaki it had an adverse effect on their genes so similarly this adverse effect of the gases causing genetic mutation in india they all thought would like that we don't speak up because he's not a good image of all india in america they don't want to talk about because in spite of the fact that there is a wall of and fall the rest against mr wong and. i mr anderson has retired in a beautiful house in long island north of new york and of course. it was a bone of glacier we're looking at we're going to be inventive and one of the implications is for the nation which you know the more than thirty thousand people are affected and the people who are drinking the polluted water have known about the problems. that is this is through the. infections industrialization of.

foreign investment you know the. all of those are sick and that's the position that having to get specific governments are not in business to protect the population. that's what they say they are but it's usually a pretty low priority. don't take any worry that somebody started taking over the record country that started it pretty often loses. often the loss of the working crew the population but the leaders were willing to take the risk or it was the world through their own hands i mean it's not. history. the. least want to response in us soccer on telly the government just pimping for dow chemicals and these are the. same people who have so far stalled justice for the

bhopal gas victims. but we strongly feel that on this occasion of the twenty seventh anniversary we will be able to destroy the nexus and we will get justice. to go in there have not been go out get on by the other one provided we have a lot of the people responsible for this you can follow them yet this is not the rehab nor could it was the way in grade five years what did we not get just if you missed it is what he does what isn't new but don't let. this lead it's like i was hired to do emerge an acquisition for union carbide to bring all of the computer applications on the same traumas doubts i saw how a corporation works because they are more concerned about bottom line profit than anything i just decided that i was making a profit for just the wrong people and chemicals made the decision to purchase

union carbide knowing that these liabilities were outstanding so when you purchase the assets of a company purchased those liabilities. we are just asking for our right to clean water union carbide has fully exploited the sort of international dimension of this problem it informs the american courts that new york law can't apply because these events took place in india but the same time the same indian law doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above the law so there are international. behavior for. of course international law has no enforcement laws or somebody. if the united states doesn't force a. political body they should take responsibility for. where dime from the water i mean no one is offering clean water they have no choice.

dow chemical go to how it go to how to how. agents of dow should be spanked. if you look at subject to the jurisdiction of a deal then you'll have to submit to the american boards and the american courts after do something about. this in two thousand and four the supreme court's directed the government to provide clean and safe water but the government to stage from central has failed to honor the supreme court. then on the promise that by november two thousand and nine the government would supply clean water but that promise was never fulfilled looked up to some pipelines were laid in some areas but not in every area the water they're supplying the spikes his duty. and dad my definition of mission control board certified against any high concentrations of you so knowingly this water is what is being supplied to the

locals who have given their lives. no company should realize that it cannot break this country's laws. how much if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing gain will be for years the people of. you know most of what we have asked for is the clean up cost union carbide should clean all the poisonous and powerful toxic chemicals that are stored inside the plant. army to the groundwater which is polluted in a radius of three kilometers around the plant should be cleaned and union carbide

should be paid for about two. hundred to. bring anderson to india bring them here. chemical leave india leave india on top of that we have asked for compensation for the victims who are suffering. it's our mission to fight for people who are weak people who cannot fight for themselves or even know how. this is all union carbide should bear these expenses because in the coming ten to fifteen years people will keep getting affected due to the growing to water contamination and will be more prone to cancers like diseases and you bloody also want to get it we are fighting for our society we are fighting for our country we are fighting for bhopal gas victims. it's only by virtue of the fact that this outfit if it indeed. able to exist the day has come.

out this year a fresh known bailable warrant has been issued for foreign anderson. and if the government fails to wake up and help then we are committed to fight for the next twenty seven years against the nexus between the company and the government the process could change dramatically if the indian government the jury system has the kind of stuff that is understandable and the men who they are not they don't have the authority to someone like that they know the government well what they have said to the government if they want this really come to an interview i think it was what it was that. they were all the survivors in court of law they have subpoenaed they have submitted a letter although that's an old lawyer will go for your life i. guess and any ideas from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide india factory is infected with poison food it is

a poison which will not lead to death just by touching it so i can understand why there might be a pradesh government is saying there is no poison. but it is also true that it's a kind of poison that is leaking into our environment that is the main thing i'm sane is that the factory should be cleaned as soon as possible. god has given you this beautiful word with all the facilities but god has given me everything here why destroyed. that will come on friends join the march with the victims and show that your passion has not cooled down. that has not turned down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice our passion will never come down. every year millions of people dying because of this unburdened the pursuit of profit. what can fit in will fall

a saying is that you cannot do it you are not allowed to do. because life is sacred and that cannot be violated and. this is my house the twang day we distract from the rest of the world who will get justice from dollar company and i think. the twenty fifth anniversary is just a landmark the fortieth of the verse read the first of the diverse three will be as important for the final goal and the goal is to clean the factory farm all those toxic effluents which still pull you the water that the people have to drink . and amazon i want the world to understand the crime of these companies they profit from the analysts products as they show on t.v. and not in the same products in our lives not only that.

we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city in the world so that another book powell who will not be repeated by the genii were silly gives us more spirit gives us more and go to judgment people around the world i have been for about five and we get more support every year than the previous year if there is justice and this world would be safer for all of us to live in because it would set a precedent and a parent company cannot set up a subsidiary somewhere in the world create a large scale environmental problem there and then when the time comes to fix liability sell off its local subsidiary and then retreat to the united states or any other developed country and a basically say that nobody can sue them here nobody can hold them accountable so that's the sort of context in which if our litigation were to be successful it would set important precedent.

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