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she. reveals. all she's mindful of. omission street now with the palm of your. machine on the call. at six thirty pm last time these are top stories on our cheat report says syria's fragile ceasefire is disrupted by further deadly clashes all the u.n. debates whether to send in more observers and the government rallies have pursued across the country but there's concern they're being hijacked and rebels. after more than a year of silence and suspicion of world powers hold nuclear talks with iran in turkey iran insistence on a program is peaceful iraq obama called the talks the last chance for diplomacy to
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work and that israel threatening military action. and the people of new delhi are said to vote in regional elections but it could end up being the choice between the alleged murderers and front stairs a fifth of the candidates are standing for office despite these problems. and staying with india up next on our team the struggle to survive and get justice for those still living in the talks the shadow of the world's worst industrial disaster our special report is next.
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in. december third one thousand nine hundred eighty four a night we can never forget. when the lake edge of and i see gas from this union carbide factory made people sleep forever but it. was those who are no more today the people they used. those mothers and sisters who were sleeping that night in their homes. a gas leak it's from a union carbide made them sleep forever. anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell.
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like for so many years who's been drinking poison it's water even today the what risk to poisonous and all of our children are sick. some of them to entire
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communities split up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until who can read it all demands the fine to continue. and i did 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 the specter of the union carbide pond in the central indian city a book. coming out of the contaminated roger is making our lives how they're going to get even that. oh there's a chance of a fix we just live better there are three forty six tons of waste that if it
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warehouse additives out of the but it's a waste 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 or 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 seats into the ground around the plant poisoning was a surprise. drug the truth it has been twenty seven years and there is still no proper or security talks cation or treatment of the soil and the neutralization of the chemical toxic waste a still no don't. get the government gas relief minister bubble algo or is claiming there are no more
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sick people and other factories clean and that one hundred percent of the people are drinking one hundred percent pure water these are complete lies groups walking in affected children see the children. ten times more likely to be born with birth defects and children in the rest of the country. 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 clean up the poisons in their water and soil i mean god made corporation and is committing crimes crimes on a large number of people. respiratory problems heart problems eye problems. the
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ratio of patients are increasing by the day i wanted a. suffering the people dying and the next generation is getting affected horrific it can dangle malformations they're born with so the fact that the suffering hasn't ended them that injustice continues and the agencies responsible for this. disaster remain unpunished. thank you.
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thank. you. for. this robot cruise line with union carbide through consideration. is not much to marker. for layer cake or a layer of oil and it would still be hot. if you don't think it through the group when you. are
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a birdie. as. in god made color creation is this american transnational that was involved in the world wars. in the midst of what's called the green revolution you mean god i decided to locate the best to save manufacturing you need . to get started in the war seventies and the formulation just mixing different bits to say we can start back integrated production of methods of same. and they knew right inside and into. the fabric plan they were building and. would be unbiased and acknowledged 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 effect 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 some work for a funeral pyres is becoming scarce so fifty bodies are being burned 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. 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. with
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predators every surface which is contaminated and the chemical switcher in the earth needs to be removed and talks a five. year 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'm my name is salam bubble but people call me brother salome and.
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try have a small business my lord we are daily wage earners. but i have no savings here walkway no one ever does get saved is spent on medicine. her condition used to be much better. she used to go to the market go for walks and play around with. she used to laugh and have fun there were no
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problems. of some time later on we noticed but she couldn't sit up on her own or turn over your kind of what me what here. slowly she started looking depressed 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 aunt today we are at a point where we wanted to do a lot because we can't do much. for the people the disaster has been an ending because people continue to be there more than a hundred thousand people still chronically ill and there has additionally probably thousand people who have been forced to bring contaminated water for the last
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fifteen sixteen 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 too it's like putting your child's life in danger it's a waste of time and money. out of nothing i wish to be. 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 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 applied for medication. if a prescription is me for five rupees how is a poor laborer going to spend five fruitless. at the end of the day all of the big ministers of the state are pimping 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 towns couldn't fall sick by
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drinking that water. right now people are not getting the proper treatment they have built week to hospitals but they give priority to people who have money but. people get no preference. i. hope our hospital was made for gas victims but treatment is not given in time and people died 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 that gas tragedy but surviving has become a living hell. before we had no hope that cyber would even survive we just left everything to god
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and came to this hospital. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful . people 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. and when we came here we were very sad and when we leave i just want us to be very happy.
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the pub little bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble up what is not rather shaming a couple of others so many years on got terrible consciously. poisonous chemicals were still there. no there's no truth in it there was chemical waste there and it was decided that waste would be disposed of put into the instruction of the supreme court so there was nothing because there's still human life there immediately or later on and now the idea is really that it's going on the toxic legacy of. involved. in the bombings that and
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all that the fight is not. outside the factory. a lot of. if you think before by thinking what a standard all the sound was like well if it's some despite then heavily contaminated. by. deciding when to make. these it is not a one time disaster it is. simply because they're going to ground was a girl and her family so a lot of people will buy because of. lies 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 making a request for relief. to us 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 is making statements that there is no pollution from everytime i mean in politicians makes
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a statement like this this is the union carbide submitted to the american court and says look even their own government says there's no problem this is a class action but 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 garbage corp usa got. costs in every way possible and for a plant that was 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. they shut down the me just to say
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something like seventy dollars a day which meant that the temperature of the methadone signage gang was unsafe. behind me a 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 the water travelled 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 nic 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 plant was unproven technology they use the equipment verifying it or making sure it was safe. because i was
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working with union carbide india ltd. that's what i regret but i was not in control of the workers and. no one. everything was in control of higher management. to work criminal charges for an offense known under indian law is 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 today is ron anderson our chairman read you know this will turn out a prayer for millions so i'm going to take the shoppers are the first to express my deep sympathy for all of those who were involved in the terrible tragedy of all four and when i first heard of the national reports on monday the third of december . they were sketchy first. by the time tuesday morning
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a rise of the magnitude of the tragedy of the film quite a prayer for friday morning took that early flight and we arrived there. there was a subdued crowd waiting at the airport to lobby union carbide chairman warren anderson but the day's events was a take an extraordinary turn and with dramatic developments almost hourly first mr anderson never got to meet the victims of both power 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 arrested mr anderson and his team of people i think you can because in part it was his responsibility to be here. i think. i would do if i was him i would be responsible status and had taken refuge behind the not the gates and was definitely not receiving visitors then the local police superintendent strode out the startling
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news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives were under arrest on that please don't leave the rest of the stuff ok can you tell us exactly who the arrested was to get mr bigley. i'm just going to be giving you the rest enough that i was really worldish him and get you there was a decision. that mr anderson and everybody should be understood by the world. and everybody knew that it was probably the magistrate and for. well with me. there were drawers with violations of shuffled leonore's generally related to the language 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 wasn't
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really any sort of a problem there was a representative of the us government for money assistance asked are you surprised to be chairman of the union carbide has been arrested since he's here to try and solve the problem and person look at the magic pradesh state headquarters a senior official confirms the government would be seeking compensation for damages and they launched a pisser attack on union carbide this government going after a minute helpless victim of the tragedy. and knows its. thousands of innocent citizens whose lives have been slow to really. dramatically affected. by a cruel and rampant. on the part of the management of union. of course he got to be.
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very clearly warren anderson and john he promised to appear in court when they were called but he just jumped bail. the indian government has sent a request for extradition of warren anderson but the u.s. government has denied the request the u.s. government says they want to send. them to face trial. the proposal for the method that some say they plan to one anderson and it was warren anderson who was informed about. condition of safety in the plant all this was his personal knowledge. to.
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