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sometimes. markets weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy and cause a record. for the headlines for you now here and up to north korea don't choose its controversial long range rocket that hits the ocean instead of orbit and so it's fired up the u.n. security council to consider taking measures against the country writing it down on the launching rockets. and. the world body also sets its sights on syria and a draft resolution on the table to enforce a peace deal and sending observers record since problematic for some visual states
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not being fully implemented. insensed immigration rage that figure of france's far right against grounds of the presidential records. of it was when its culturalism the country's ultra conservative national front party and seek its highest call ratings. more than two decades after all the world's worst industrial disaster victims of the union carbide leslie continued to struggle for justice against america as all the records.
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december third one thousand nine hundred eighty four the night we can never forget . when the leakage of an icy gas from this union carbide factory made people sleep forever but. those who are no more today the people they used. those mothers and sisters who were sleeping bad night in their homes. the gas leakage from the union carbide made them sleep forever. anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell.
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what for so many years who's been drinking poisonous water even today the what's
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worse to poison us and all of our children are sick. of them and the entire community spins up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until who agree to all demands the fine to continue. and not united for a gas leak from a union carbide corp factory in bhopal killed up to twenty five thousand people it was one of the world's worst industrial accidents more than thirty thousand people are believed to have died from the effects of toxic chemicals released into the air from this factory the union carbide plant in the central indian city a book. on the contaminated water is making our lives how do i get even that on my. head all the kinds of stuff that we just live better if there are three forty six
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tons of waste that if we had house additives i wasn't supposed to waste it on the surface of the back to provide. the so. was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in a condition where it had become a source of pollution or the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution is spreading more than three and a half thousand died in the immediate aftermath of the disaster after inhaling the fuse thousands more with the parishes toxin seeps into the ground around the plant poisoning water supplies. drugs it has been twenty seven years and there is still no proper or security talks for cation or treatment of the soil and the neutralization of the chemical toxic waste still not being done.
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yet the government gas relief minister bubble algo or is claiming there are no more sick people and that the factory is clean and that one hundred percent of the people are drinking one hundred percent pure water these are complete lies groups working in effect children see that children today are ten times more likely to be born with birth defects and children in the rest of the country. you know. that. there are kids being born like this there are many kids like this in my own area there are many kids like this. by refusing to be in the water and soil. is crimes crimes on a large number of people. respiratory problems heart problems i problems. the
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ratio of patients are increasing by the day. people suffering people dying and the next generation is getting affected the horrific. the fact that the suffering has an. injustice continues and. for these. mass disasters remain unpunished.
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but. there is little bark or grind with carbide through previous regime. it's not my food. restaurant here a layer of oil kind of a little beyond. if
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you don't think it's as good as we. are. as. in god made corporation is this american transnational that was involved in the war was. in the midst of what's called the green revolution you mean god but decided he'd look at the press to say manufacturing you need to. get started in the one seven piece of the formulation just mixing different pesticides. back integrated into. society. and they knew right in seventy two very good method of society glanville it. would be untested technology in their own words and that its safety was not known.
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the. fifty thousand injured have been counted but up to two hundred thousand may be affected in the long term cerebral palsy has begun to restrict the survivors the doctors hardly know how to relieve the suffering they're not sure exactly what was in the lethal cocktail of gases so it's difficult to prescribe effective and sent word for funeral pyres is becoming scarce so fifty bodies are being burnt it's a time in mass cremations. if there are many chemicals found in the water around here which were once used in the union carbide factory there are bodies where every time it rains the toxic waste which is lying on the surface of the factory goes deep inside the earth and pollutes the soil. of predators or to the surface which is contaminated and the
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chemicals which are in the earth needs to be removed and he talks of pfizer very good here otherwise the pollution will continue and people will keep using polluted water and that is very dangerous and mark. you. but. i'm not and i my name is seldom bubble but people call me and.
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try have a small business where you know if we are daily wage earners. but i have no savings yeah walk away no one ever does get saved and spends all medicine . her condition used to be much better and. she used to go to the markets go for walks earn play around. she used to laugh and have fun there were no
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problems. he had with him some time later on we noticed but she couldn't sit up on her own or turn over your kind of money to put here. slowly she started looking to press when we would talk to her she would not reply. so we brought her to the doctor the doctor said she's been like this since birth and there might be some treatment for her. it's.
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not hard today we're at a point where we wanted to do a lot but we can't do much. for the people that has been an ending because people continue to be there more than hundred thousand people still chronically ill and there's at least only thirty
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thousand people who have been forced to drink contaminated water for the last fifteen fifteen years when you see that the next generation is affected and then you do not know when it stop. again in my eyes this hospital is of no use all the doctors here are useless to it's like putting a child's life in danger a waste of time and money. out of everything i wish to them. here at the hospital money talks. you give money and you'll be looked after but we are poor people and we don't have money and that's why no one looks after us even if your child is dying.
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we'll spend five thousand rupees since we have come here i'm not sad about that i will earn it again but as for my daughter there is no improvement and we don't know what to do. whatever is within my power i will do it. the hospitals don't even give our met some for those who need it or if someone doesn't have gas relief papers. how does he apply for medication. if a prescription is me for five rupees how is a poor laborer going to spend five rupees. and the end of the day all of the big ministers of the states are can pin money in their pockets i want to face them even if they put me behind bars and ready to go to jail for these poor people because
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this hunger is this sickness look at those gutter tents couldn't fall sick by drinking that water. right now people are not getting proper treatment they have built beaked on hospitals but they give priority to people who have money for the poor people get no preference. that. hospital was made for gas victims but treatment is not given in time and people die painfully waiting for treatment. sometimes i feel like there is nothing in our control. there are so many memories and so much pain that come since the gas tragedy that surviving has become a leader in health.
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before we had no hope that cibo would even survive that we just left everything to god and came to this hospital. fired and. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful. people a doctor told us the same thing about the injections and once this course is over another will begin and those are supposed to be even better fairly safe. the doctor said she is almost conscious now. when we came here we were very sad and when we leave i just want us to be very happy here.
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the pope with. a little hole will be able to open it isn't it rather shaming. for so many years after that terrible crunch to. poisonous chemicals were still there. no there's no truth in it there was chemical waste there and it was decided that waste could be disposed of put into the instructions of the supreme court so there was nothing for human life then immediately or later on and now we are here to study on the subject legacy of. the.
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love of god in the government and all that decide not. also the fact the. ground water. must be in one place before by drinking water standard all of the lifted from the site heavily contaminated. by. now he does not. believe that obama is not a one time because it is a faith in disaster simply because they didn't download. and burn down the middle of a minute of war by the god of. lies there is a contradiction in what the government is saying i mean you have to ask the government and i think it's a very good question about the government being in government submitting a request for release. to us or saying we support this case we want the union carbide to clean up this plant and this pollution at the same time the government
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is making statements that there is no pollution from every time an indian politician makes a statement like this this is a union carbide submitted to the american court that says look even their own government says there is no problem this is a class action the case has been pending since nine hundred ninety nine. the plaintiffs are people from the affected communities. people who are suffering from health effects. from the eighty's on words corp us thing got. costs in every way possible and for a plant that was already unsafe by design straight away it meant production of safety. all the safety equipment which was provided here such as the refrigeration system for the storage tank where am i see had to be kept at a low temperature for safety reasons was all shut down in may one thousand nine hundred four and. they shut down the road for years just to save
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something like seventy dollars a day which meant that the temperature of the signage dank was unsafe. behind be a storage tank number six hundred ten this was the m i c storage tank that leaked the process vent line of this type of faulty and could not hold the pressure. for this reason water travelled insta tank round the water entering into the tank may have been the immediate trigger of the disaster the fact that all the safety systems were turned off well certainly contributing to the disaster the fact that nic was not being stored as it was originally required to be stored at zero degree celsius that fact contributed so that you really had a series of clauses coming together after the accident i found out that the machinery provided by union carbide for the m. i.c. plant was an unproven technology they used the equipment verifying it or making
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sure it was safe. because i was working with union carbide india ltd. that's what i request. but it was not in control of the workers and. their workers and everything was in control of higher management. there were criminal charges for an offense known under indian law as culpable homicide which would be the equivalent of manslaughter and union carbide had been served but had refused to appear to face those criminal charges. with me to day one anderson our chairman of the as you know the street journal for familiar so i want to take this opportunity to express my sympathy for all of those who were involved in the terrible tragedy unfold. and when i first heard of the national reports on monday the third of december. they were sketchy at first. by the time tuesday morning
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a rod of the magnitude of the tragedy had become quite a prayer for friday morning we took that early flight and we arrived and. there was a suggest crowd waiting at the airport to go the union carbide chairman warren anderson but the day's events which would take an extraordinary turn and with dramatic developments almost hourly first mr anderson never got to meet the victims of pope power or indeed his own engineers he was whisked away in a police car to the company's guesthouse in the hills about the town we arrested was trying to people who came i think he came because part of it was his responsibility. i think. the least i would do if i was him i would be responsible status in the taken refuge behind the not the gates i was definitely not receiving
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visitors then the local police superintendent strode out of the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives were on time to rest on that police believe the residents are going to tell us exactly who the arrested mr cook mr believe me mr north and mr allison developing interviewing the rest of mr imus really will get him and we've there was a decision. that mr anderson and everybody should be interested by then the world's media was there and everybody knew that he was coming for magistrate and for him to topple over soon. well with me. there were drawers with violations of civil duty and was generally related to a problem like this which mr anderson had been arrested on charges of criminal and constructive negligence offenses carrying a possible two year jail sentence and theoretically no chance of bail even the company's lawyer could see the man as they were confined under house arrest he was
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right here to solve a problem and representative the u.s. government for money assistance asked are you surprised the chairman of the union carbide has been arrested since he's here to try and solve the problem first newsnight look at the magic pradesh state headquarters a senior official confirmed the government would be seeking compensation for damages and they launched a fissure attack on union carbide is government going after a minute helpless victim to the tragedy. and knows its duty where thousands of innocent citizens whose lives have been so rudely and dramatically affected. by cruel. individuals on the part of the management of the union. could of course he got beat by could be.
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very clearly warren anderson had jumped bail he promised to appear in court when they were called but he just jumped to. the indian government has sent a request for extradition of warren anderson but the u.s. government has denied the request because the government says they won't send more notice and to face trial. the proposal for the method are still saying that black people who want to understand and it was warren anderson who was informed about. condition of safety in the plant all this was his personal knowledge.
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