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so if you're just joining our teens possibly our your main characters are all sheep watching your headlines. piling new sanctions on north korea is not the way the world claims the night of nations looks into a poem young's controversial rocket launch the launch ended in failure as the rocket plummeted into the sea moments after takeoff. the u.n. is set to send in more observers into syria as a draft resolution is laid out before the security council envoy kofi annan says forces in the country have not yet fully complied with the terms of the peace deal
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as reports emerge of clashes near the turkish border. and the world's most famous whistle blower brings his new highly anticipated show to our team next tuesday doing a song which will be talking to news makers and opinion formers some of whom have never even appeared on english language television. now of the union carbide gas leak in india is considered the worst industrial disaster killing thousands next up we meet the survivors who are still forced to live in the contaminated area. on.
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december third one thousand nine hundred eighty four a night we can never forget. and the leakage of and i see gas from this union carbide factory made people sleep forever but. those who are no more today the people they use. those mothers and sisters who were sleeping bag 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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for sunni years who's been drinking cones and us water even to see the water is to
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poison us and all of our children are sick. of them and my entire community split up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until you agree to all demands the fight to continue. and not united for a gas leak from a union carbide corp factory involved all 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 in the book. because i'm not gonna listen terminated her answer is making our lives how they're going to get each other on. their shoulders the kinds of stuff that we just live
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very specific forty six tons of waste that we have evidence of thousands of miles away from us on the surface of the record by. this. 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 and the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution and spreading more than three and a half thousand died in the immediate aftermath of the disaster after inhaling the fuse thousands more to perish is toxin seeps into the ground around the plant poisoning water supplies. throughout the 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 a still not been done. yet
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the government gas relief minister bubble 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 the children see that children today are ten times more likely to be born with birth defects and children in the rest of the action. you. see. 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. think respiratory problems heart problems i problems. the
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ratio of patients are increasing by the day. people suffering people dying. getting infected. with the fact that the suffering hasn't ended that injustice continues and. this. disaster remain unpunished.
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there's the robot chris ryan who will be carbides through the race. but it's not much from. the layer of paper or a layer of oil and it would still be. there
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if you don't think it was gruesome to say to write a pretty. name and god made globalization is this the american transnational that was involved in the world was. in the midst of what's called the green revolution you mean god but decided he'd look eight he has to say manufacturing you need. to get started in the work seventy's and the formulation just mixing different best to say we die back integrated production of meth and i say meat. and they knew right in seventy two very method as a fan a plan they were building and. would be unfaithful acknowledged in their own words and that its safety was not known.
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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 edson work for a funeral pyres is becoming scarce so fifty bodies are being burnt is a time in mass cremations. there are many chemicals found in the water around here which were once used in the union carbide factory but have bodies where every time it rains the toxic waste which is lying on the surface of the factory goes deep inside the earth and
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pollutes the soil. surface which is contaminated and the chemicals which are in the earth needs to be removed and detoxifies are very moderate. otherwise the pollution will continue and people will keep using polluted water and that is very dangerous and mark. thank. you. but. i'm not allowed my name is bubble but people call me brother salami and.
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try to have a small business where you know if we are daily we're journalists. but i have no savings here walkway that whatever does get saved is spent on medicine. her condition used to be much better. she used to go to the markets go for walks and play around with. 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 about media but here. slowly she started looking to press. when we would talk to her she would not reply . so we brought her to the doctor but the doctor said she's been like this since birth and there might be some treatment for her.
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of my aunt today we are 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 ill there are more than hundred thousand people still chronically ill and there's additionally
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thirty 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 then you cannot know when it will stop. again in my eyes this hospital is of no use all the doctors here are useless too it's like putting a child's life in danger it's a waste of time and money. out of nothing i wish to. hear at the hospital money talks. you give money and you'll be looked after. we are poor people and we don't have money and belts 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 to those who need it what if someone doesn't have gas relief papers. how does he apply for medication. if a prescription is me for five rupees how is the poor laborer going to spend five rupees ready by the end of the day all of the big ministers of the state are keeping money in their pockets i want to face them even if they put me behind bars and i'm ready to go to jail for these poor people because these hungry three
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sickness look at those country towns couldn't fall sick by drinking that water. right now people are not getting proper treatment they have built big town hospitals but they give priority to people who have money but the poor people get no preference. with other local hospital was made for gas victims but treatment is not even 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 comes things the gas tragedy that surviving has become a living hell.
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before we had no hope that cibo will even survive we just left everything to god and came to this hospital. for the. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful. and the 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 to lay. by. the doctor said she is almost conscious now. and 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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up with. all. of them a little of all. of it but isn't it rather shaming . to so many years after that terrible crunch that. poisonous chemicals were still there man said play me no there's no truth in it there was chemical waste there and it was decided that waste could be disposed off into the instructions of the supreme court and there was nothing because it was for human life so there york immediately or later on and now we are here to release out a study on the toxic legacy of unique art like factories in hobart and there is
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a lot of talk in the government that and we have made some reports that the site is not talking outside the factory people look at the groundwater samples we found mostly in one sample which is twenty four pints the drinking water standard on the samples that people looked at from the site when heavily contaminated. i think five children you can give us insight and would like let me conclude. he believes that one is not a one time disaster it is a continuing disaster simply because there is a blanket in groundwater contamination and contamination of a matter of the whole body because of you see a. nice 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 to ask the government the indian government is submitting a request for relief. to us and we're saying we support this case we want 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 problem every time an indian politician makes a statement like this this is a union carbide submitted to the american court and says look even their own government says there's no problem this is a class action the case has been pending since one thousand nine hundred ninety. the plaintiffs are people from the affected communities and people who are suffering from health effects. from the eighty's on words union carbide called christian us c. cup. costs in every way possible and. that was already on by design straight away it meant reduction of safety. all the safety equipment which was provided here such as the refrigeration system for the storage tank where am i see how to be kept at a low temperature for safety reasons because all shut down in may one thousand nine hundred four. when. 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 methadone signage bank 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 tank was faulty and could not hold the pressure. for this reason water travel to insta tank while 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 he was not being stored as it was originally required to be stored at zero degrees celcius that fact contributed so that you really had a series of causes coming together after the accident i found out that the machinery provided by union carbide for the m i c plans was unproven technology
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they use the equipment verifying it or making sure it was safe. because i was working with union carbide india ltd. that's what i regret. but i 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 and as you know chairman ridge you know just returned out of her familiar so i want to take this opportunity to express my deep sympathy for all of those who were involved in the terrible tragedy of people for and when i first heard of the national reports on monday the third of the schober. they were sketchy first. by the time tuesday morning
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a rod of the magnitude of the tragedy has become quite a prayer for friday morning that early flight and we arrived in light of the pope all of. there was a subdued crowd waiting at the airport to the union carbide chairman warren anderson but the day's events which had taken extraordinary turn and with dramatic developments almost hourly first mr addison never got to meet the victims of pope al or indeed his own engineers it was whisked away in a police car to the company's guest house in the hills about the town we arrest of mr anderson and his team of people who came i think he came because in part it was his responsibility to be here. i think. the least i would do if i was him i would be responsible status in a taken refuge behind the not the gates and was definitely not receiving visitors
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then the local police superintendent strode out the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives whatever rests on the fact we believe the rest of it i'm going to tell exactly who the rest of it mistook mr bigley misdemeanors i understand was developing interview when you were arrested mr imus from the world yes ma'am and yet there was a decision. that mr anderson and everybody should be understood by them the world media was there and everybody knew that it was coming from magistrate and forward. well there with me. there we were drawers with violations of the shovel uno was generally related to a problem like 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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growing and saw the problems and representative of the u.s. government to find any assistance possible use of trying to determine the union carbide has been arrested since he's here to try and solve a problem versus missing a look at the magic pradesh state headquarters a senior official confirmed the government would be seeking compensation for damages they launched to place or attack on union carbide his government going after a minute helpless victim of the tragedy. and knows its duty. thousands of innocent citizens whose lives have been slow to really. dramatically affected. by cruel and romped individuals on the part of the management of the union. going to cause he got to be. i could be.
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very clearly warren anderson had jumped bail and he promised to appear in court when i was called but he just jumped me to. the indian government has sent a request for extradition of warren anderson but the u.s. government has denied the request was government says they want to send warren anderson to face trial. the proposal for the method actor saying that black people who are now anderson and it was warren anderson who was informed of. condition of safety in the plant all this was his personal knowledge. wolf. science technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future covered.
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