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thank you for joining us you're with our team this week's top stories right now tens of thousands gather for a peaceful rally in the russian capital demanding a rerun of the parliamentary elections and president made to meet them in video val's bold reforms promising an overhaul of the country's political system. the head of the arab league's mission to syria rahm's in damascus amid fresh claims of violence international pressure mounts on the syrian regime to end its crackdown on protesters as violence intensifies across the country with the people struggling under the heavy weight of western sanctions. and the end of an era for north korea
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the country mourns the death of its ruler kim jong il as his youngest son steps into power hailed as the new supreme commander news of the leaders of the state's neighbors on high alert causing fears for the region's mounting uncertainty. now part two of our special report on the human cost of india's worst industrial disaster in. i'm of the old notion of the corporation is based on what's called limited liability limited liability means that individual participants are. not be charged with crimes that the corporation commits the kind to very limited one of the major runs its course and. the corporation acts in such a way that kills. managers the c.e.o. and the shareholders have limited liability and it's not a disregard for human life maybe the nicest people in the world maybe give to charity. but in their institutional rule as managers of the corporation
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there is a task that they asked. that task is to maximize profit market share. if they don't do that they're out and somebody else is in the dust of the indian government meanwhile declares itself the sole representative of the victims and proceeded to sort out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was sort of cheap the union carbide start went up by two dollars a share the sentiment was if you could not mean that it could be such a grew old sellout because the new government agreed to settle all bonds to present and future liabilities for a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little as five hundred dollars but lifelong injuries and. unpunished.
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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 should least do something like people seek a 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 badly. it's in good health. there are gas and water victim children born into deformity 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 summertime to la and i'm joined on the line by son jay very mom who is an activist in the bhopal campaign and also
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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 thousand nine hundred four well i was born in. a few months already in the mother and i are. and well i don't and really don't know why i asked myself because i had no one with me at the parent meeting at my school. she was like they all died that i had and. i would be. i really another. in my own eye that you would have and i remarried. sunday was. his sister was nine his elder brother i mean he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in
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a family of. my family old runaways i was told later two of them died in hospital. my mother and father were. the bodies of three sisters by. the other two are missing. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers call in one night. my family members die because of this fact. and his sister when the swiss children's village. but it is a godsend because it was a thousand eight hundred people at what according to the people who were carrying out bodies from the. seven thousand to ten thousand people had died in the next seventy two hours and. twenty five thousand people have died. i
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remember my blood that all came up and organized it and. then automatically i myself got involved in the fight and i joined that organization i think. now we are like no longer young guys factory. playing then all know how contaminated the factories how on going again the soil on the factories they are like security inside the factory might not paying attention towards them. while we did a study we just want to extend those chemical contamination believe the factory and i will die and see if there is a link. by moving it is going to go on for going to school that's the site because
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if you've got the site justified it is using if you look at all the guys here mitt romney. was very high. most of the day i did it all and want to die one of the phone mostly as i hear it was a bit you know in fact been a very beautiful and i did this photo get out and you can still see it in the structure of their design and their clothes not surprising that the plant is very high on bottom ok. we have received very important documents in this case that i think establish very clearly that union carbide knew in advance as early as nine hundred seventy three that this pollution problem that we are 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 one nine hundred seventy three union carbide engineers or warning the company that the plant presents an unusual challenge in that there's no nearby running body of water into which waste can be
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discharged so from the design stage waste disposal plant was and was a major concern. a lot of the waste streams from the plant emptied into the area of the plant known as the solar evaporation pond area. and this is where the waste in toxic sludge were dumped basically and carby we're standing right on top of it and the end aside as you can see there used to be a small leak which. also used as a dumping ground for they waste people depended on the water from the link 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 a there was a surrounding community that used that groundwater for its drinking water supply.
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so they believed that they can get. by. and and then when they had some kind of sludge so they took all of us luggage from. here and there and you see this black lining. the ground of this landfill they believe that this kind of lining if. it can get. away from the. lining and the need to go on every day i don't hear. we believe the solar of operation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the article 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 order was before the very height was gloomy you see it was using. only english
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and one of these will be an isolated that isn't one. factor you want that is still being gone daman it did and. did 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 revealed the party that can do that is you know this december will mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy at 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 remediated adding to the tragedy that has occurred the site today is in the hands of the state
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government of madhya pradesh the state government owns the site and together with the central government they are trying to get the site cleaned up union carbide it's now a wholly owned subsidiary. two thousand one third the board. carbide approved the bill at the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical. does complicate things and does it because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us and which is the principal 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 should be the government's responsibility to clean up at public expense
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after private polluters. so. i know that is one of those. people. drinking contaminated water you see this is like one of the. neighborhood and then we've got a lot of this bomb test bed. highly contaminated but they do not have any other choice and they are drinking this water. it would like sometime 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. brad. i'm going to die in a few men so take care of yourselves 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 and he came and both of us took my brother to the hospital and finally he had to write
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that thing. before that he had run into a jungle where food and he had tried to fire. he didn't have any physical problem and. his sickness was that of paranoia and fear that if anyone came over then she would go and hide in the bathroom he used to say she could hear a voice in his mind i believe that a wall inhales with time but in bhopal case it's getting worse. to give me another month if we blame each other for everything when no solution will come. from a government blames the company we blame the government part of the government suffers the company suffers and most importantly the people who suffer. i don't remember actually who was the media person who asked me this question who do you blame to work surely according to you. before i answer to his question he said you
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were goldman but he said to me your government's like ditching you they have been digging people from. so if you're going is not a villain to help you then work with chemicals will do for you. on that but i'm not particular night on the second and third december some gases from the union carbide leaks some of the people died to being an autopsy surgeon it was my moral duty to find out what the cause of death was. after analysis it was established that cyanide was present along with nearly twenty nine components are to which it team were deadly. 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. would like that we don't speak because he's not
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a good image of all india in america they don't want to talk about because in spite of the fact that there is it was. against mr wong and. i mr anderson. did it beautifully in. new york of course. it was a bone of glacier we're looking at we're going to be inventive and one of the implications of the book and i should mention the more than thirty thousand people and the people. i've known about the problems this can problems that is this is through. all of our second that's having to get specific cover ups are not in business to protect the population. or it's usually.
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don't take any. story. or the record country story. loss of the working group population but the leaders were willing to take the risk or risk. these two want to respond in this stock to leave the government just pimping for chemicals and these are the same people who have so far stalled justice for the victims. but we strongly feel that on this occasion of the twenty seventh anniversary we will be able to stronger than mixes and we will get justice.
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they have not gotten on by the other ones or by the. people of the prints because. this is not. really how. this war doesn't. look like i was hired. for you. to bring all of the computer applications. i saw. because they are more concerned about. anything i just decided that i was making. the wrong. decision. knowing. so when you purchased the assets of a company purchased. we are just asking for our right to clean water. as fully exploited sort of. this problem it informs the american courts that new
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york law. because these events took place in india the same time this doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above the law. for. of course international law has no enforcement laws of force for somebody. if the united states doesn't force them there's no potable but they should take responsibility for. dime from the water 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 india then you have to submit to the american courts and the american courts after it was all about.
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in two thousand and four the supreme court's directed the government to provide clean and safe water but the government the states and central has failed to honor the supreme court order. and then again on the promise that by november two thousand and nine the government would supply clean water but that's a promise was never fulfilled but some pipelines were laid in some areas but not in every area the water that supplying the spikes is duty and not for drinking water all speak up some brush like kids and dad to my definition of mission control board certified against very high concentrations of oil like you said knowingly this water is what is being supplied to the locals who have given their lives. the.
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company should be a license but it cannot break this country's. i budget if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing again will be for years the people of. lost what we have asked for is the clean up cost union carbide should clean all the poisonous and harmful 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 to. bring i'm dissing to india bring them here dow chemical leave india leave india on top of that we have asked for compensation for the victims who are suffering. and it's our mission to fight for
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people who are weak people who cannot fight for themselves or even know how. union carbide should bear these expenses because in the coming ten to fifteen years people will keep getting affected due to the growing contamination and will be more prone to cancers like diseases you bloody old body and we are fighting for our society we are fighting for our country we are fighting for gas victims. it's only by virtue of the fact that this outward. able to exist. that's come. out of this year a fresh known bailable warrant has been issued for anderson. and if the government fails to wake up and help then we are committed to fight the next twenty seven years against the nexus between the company and the government the process could change dramatically if the union or went into the states have done something in the
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film and. really i'm not and they don't have to be afforded to someone who would give a government what they have. said to be if they want this ruling. and if you're right that it was what it was all that. they were all this it was in cold blood they are so good they have submitted a letter although that's all over the local police were i think i. am 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 their mondial 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 am saying is that the factory should be cleaned as soon as possible.
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god has given you this word with all the facilities that god has given everything here why destroyed. that all come on friends join the march with the victims and show that your passion has not cooled down. i. has not turned down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice a passion will never cleaned out. every year millions of people are dying because of this unburdened pursuit of profit. and what inflation will follow saying is that you cannot do it you are not allowed to do it because life is sacred and that cannot be violated and. i think that is my own twang day or the strength from the rest of the world who will get justice
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from dell company that i. did one hundred fifth anniversary is just to learn my before your father verse read the first of the diverse read will be as important for the final goal. not goal is to clean the factory farm all those toxic effluents which still pollute 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 in the same products poison our lives. we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city in the world so that another book power will not be repeated by eat any worse really gives us more spirit gives us more encouragement people i'll know what i
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have been for and we get more support every year then 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. i am.
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