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well. it's technology innovation paul believes developments from around russia we've got the future coverage. you're watching our take a look at the headlines now syria's troubles truce and nationwide rallies flare up along with reports of ongoing killing as a un brokered cease fire and visits the day security council is set to decide later that is sending observers. hopes of a breakthrough by breaking the silence as world powers meet with iran over its nuclear program first time in fifteen months the us and the e.u. have been imposing sanctions on iran over suspected nuclear weapons development
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which tehran denies. gun toting for billingsley indian election citizens are choosing between edge and murder is enough to force this story if the candidates taking part in something called getting a criminal past. next in our struggle to survive and get justice for those still living in a toxic shadow wells worst ever industrial disaster. december
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third one thousand nine hundred eighty four the night we can never forget. when the lake edge 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 that night in their homes. a gas leak it's from the union carbide made them sleep forever. anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell.
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demands the fine to continue. an isolated for a gas leak from a union carbide corporation 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 going out on the contaminated water is making our lives how they're going to eat on that market. oh these are the kinds of stuff that we just live better if it is three forty six tons of waste if it warehouse additives i wasn't supposed to waste
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on the surface of the back to provide. 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 was a perishes toxin seat's into the ground around the plant poisoning water supplies. drug use it has been twenty seven years and there is still no proper or security talks to cation or treatment of the soil and the neutralization of the chemical toxic waste a still not being done. yet the government gas relief minister bubble well governor is claiming there are no more sick people and that the factory is clean and that one hundred percent of the
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people are drinking one hundred percent pure water these are complete lies groups welcome the fact that 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. 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 poisoned in the water and soil. it is crimes crimes on a large number of people. respiratory problems heart problems i problems. the ratio of patients are increasing by the day i wanted other. people can suffer.
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know god made on creation is this american transnational that was involved in the war was. in the midst of what's called the green revolution you mean god by i decided to locate the best to save manufacturing you need. to get started in the work seventy's of the formation plan just mixing different bits to say. back in degree to production of methods of same. and they knew right in seventy two when we met who has a family land they were living in what would be the acknowledged in their own words and their 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 affect 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 at certain work for a funeral pyres is becoming scarce so fifty bodies are being burnt at 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. 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. surface which is contaminated and the chemicals which are in the earth needs to be
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removed and talks a fighter and a modern rear otherwise the pollution will continue and people will keep using polluted water and that is very dangerous and mark. i'm not allowed my name is solemn bubble but people call me brother salome and. try have a small business where you know if we are daily wage earners. but
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of some time later on we noticed but she couldn't sit up on her own or turn over your kind about me about 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.
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of my arm today we are at a point where we wanted to do a lot but we can't do much. for the people that has an ending because people continue to be a little more than hundred thousand people. and there is additionally part because the people who have been forced to drink contaminated water for the last fifteen
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sixteen years when you see that the next generation is affected then you do not know when it stop. again in my eyes this hospital is of no use all the doctors here are useless too it's like putting your child's life in danger it's a waste of time and money. out of nickel. here at the hospital money talks. you give money and to be looked after but we are poor people 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 of those who need it or if someone doesn't have gas relief papers. how does he plan for medication. if a prescription is nice for five rupees how is a poor laborer going to spare five rupees. at the end of the day all of the big ministers of the state are in 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 these hundred three sickness look at those gutter tents couldn't fall sick by drinking that water.
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right now people are not getting the proper treatment they have built wreaked on hospitals but they give priority to people who have money but what the poor people get no preference. how hospital was made progress 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's come since the gas tragedy that surviving has become a leave in hell. before we had no hope that cyber would even survive that we just left everything to god and came to this hospital.
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by the. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful of. 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 slowly. the doctor said she is almost conscious now. since when we came here we were very sad and when we leave i just want us to be very happy here. the the.
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web portal. all of the mobile. a little bit isn't it rather shaming a little bit for so many years after that terrible crunch at the. poisonous chemicals were still there man. no there's no truth in it there was chemical waste there and it was decided that waste would be to supposed to put into the instructions of the supreme court so there was nothing hazardous to human life immediately or later on i now see and hear. on the topic legacy of cycling. in the bottom and back and forth that the fight is not busting outside the factory. mostly
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in one part of the display before by drinking water standards all this was like the belief that some just by went heavily contaminated. by both inside and ready to let me down to. this it is not a one time disaster but it is a disaster simply because. in england was a good foundation and tone down the middle of a lot of the buzz because of your. life there is a contradiction to government to same i mean you have to ask the government and i think it's a very good question about the government being in government it's amazing a request for relief. to us we're saying we support this pay we want union carbide to clean up this plant and this pollution at the same time the government is making statements that there is no pollution from every time an indian politicians makes a statement like this this is the union carbide submitted to the american court and
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says look even their own government says there is 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. people who are suffering from health effects. from the eighty's on words in god wait corporation us the facts. costs in every way possible and far. out of the already unsafe 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 was all shut down in may one thousand nine hundred four and may. be shut down due to for years just to save something like seventy dollars a day which meant that the temperature of the metal as
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a sign it tank was unsafe. behind the storage tank number six hundred ten this was the m i c storage tank that leaked the process vent line of the tank was faulty and could not hold the pressure. for this reason water traveled into the 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 celsius 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 plant was unproven technology to 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
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control of the workers and. their vote. and everything was in control of higher management. there work 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 regino just returned on a trip from india so i want to take the shopper story first to express my deep sympathy for all of those who were involved in a terrible tragedy unfold for going first heard of the national reports on monday the third of december. they were sketchy at first. by the time tuesday morning a rise of the magnitude of the tragedy has become quite
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a prayer for friday morning that early flight and we arrived. there was a subdued crowd waiting at the airport to be union carbide chairman warren anderson but the day's events which had taken extraordinary turn and with dramatic developments almost hourly first mr anderson never got to meet the victims of both powell or indeed his own engineers he was whisked away in a police car to the company's guest house in the hills about the town we just heard mr anderson and his team of people i think you came because part of it was his responsibility to be here. i think. the least i would do if i was him i would return to the status and had taken refuge behind the not the gates and was definitely not receiving this intense then the local police superintendent straight out of the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives
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were under arrest on the exactly the university exactly how can you tell us exactly news arrested just to get mr bigley. i understand you got to. do the rest of mr amnesty really will get him and get you there was a decision. that mr anderson and everybody should be interested in my dream world. and everybody knew that it was probably the magistrate informed. well with me. that we were drawers with violations of the shovel to leonore's generally relate into a problem 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 it wasn't really any sort of a problem there was representative of the us government for money assistance ask
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are you surprised to be chairman of the union carbide has been arrested since he's here to try and solve a problem i'm personally missing a little at the magic pradesh state headquarters a senior official confirms the government would be seeking compensation for damages and they launched a base or attack on union carbide is government going after a minute helpless victim of the tragedy. and knows its. worst thousands of innocent citizens whose lives have been slowed really. dramatically affected. by a cruel ramp and religions on the part of the management of the union but then of course he got to be grilled by could be. very clearly warren anderson had jumped bail he promised to appear in court when they were called but he just jumped. the indian government has sent
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a request for extradition of warren anderson but the u.s. government has denied his request was government says they want to send warren anderson to face trial. the proposal for the method actor saying that it was one anderson and it was warren anderson who was informed about relating condition of safety to plant all this was his personal knowledge. in any of.
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