tv [untitled] April 14, 2012 6:30pm-7:00pm EDT
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two thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines the u.n. security council votes unanimously to send monitors to syria to oversee the ceasefire after revisions to the original draft resolution following rejection following objections from russia is comes the reports of fresh clashes in the country severely testing the already fragile truce. back to the table iran and six other world powers praised their resume talks over terrans nuclear ambitions as constructive and useful the talks come after
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a fifteen month break and increased tensions but more negotiations play sims. and sunday marking the most important day in the year for millions of orthodox christians around the world by video here of the easter service at russia's main cathedral having some issues there with a video feed sorry about that the event is attended by president medvedev and prime minister putin russia the full ceremony on our website our team dot com next start he brings you a special report from india in which we need survivors of one of the world's worst ever industrial disasters stay with us. becoming the old notion of a corporation is based on what's called the limited liability limited liability means that individual participants. cannot be charged with crimes and a corporation commits a kind of very limited it's one of the major runs its course answered and the
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corporation actions are true it kills the managers see you. have limited liability i mean it's not disregard for human rights and maybe the nicest people we're all going to give to charity. but in their institutional rule as managers of the corporation there is a task that they must follow that task is to maximize profit in markets or. if they don't do that they're out and somebody else is in the bust of the indian government the market where 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 of the settlement was announced if you could not mean that it could be such a cruel sell out because the new government agreed to settle all bost present and future gladly for a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people to see as little as
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five hundred dollars for lifelong injuries and. unpunished. every month. 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 at least do something like he will seek a clean water because the ground water is contaminated by whoever survived that night and whatever life is left for the gas victims they should get proper treatment so they can spend the rest a little. it's in good health. they are gas and water victim children grow up born of the deformity and their future has to be kept in mind so that these kids can live a proper life and so that the parents do not take them to some sort of burden like . you're welcome. i lost interest i.
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could afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only summertime to la and i'm joined on the line my son jay very much who is an activist in the coppola campaign and also a survivor of the terrible disaster in one nine hundred eighty four so sanjay can you tell us a bit about what happened to you on the night of december third one nine hundred eighty four i was born in the right place before you want already. so your parents and but you know i asked my bro because i had no one but me and. all. she would. write that i write and write. how to write so she would write. irene ugly in my own eyes that you would play irene ari. that you can write.
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and it was two and one time his sister was nine his elder brother so mean he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in a family of. my family all ran away but i was told later two of them died in hospital. my mother and father were. the bodies of three sisters we had by one of. the other two are missing. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers call in one night. my family members because of this fact. and his sister when students didn't. but it is
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a bold print because it was a thousand. people who were carrying out what is called the change from the houses . around seven thousand to ten thousand people have died in the next seventy two hours and. twenty five thousand people have died. i remember my but ok and i can add this and. then ultimately i myself brought in the. late edition i think. i'll get it. now i realize a lot of the young guys actually. kids playing they will all know how contaminated the factories how to win it and then i saw it on the factories they're like sick in their jeans i look back to monday i'm not saying attention bores them.
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what he does is that we just want to fix this experience of chemical contamination within the factory and i'll try and see if there is a link it's because they're high school and it is going to go on for are going to slowly but the site because there's two guys who need this if i just decided it is you that is your little knowledge leguminous williams and luckily enough and it's all very high most of these ideas off and on to that little baby this almost any as it is back been invented last night i did this little bit out and you can still see most of it is a subset of the design and yes well it's not surprising that the plant has very high hopes of the multi. we have received very important documents in this case that i think established very clearly that union carbide knew the advance of the early one nine hundred seventy three that this pollution problem that we're facing
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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 a generic were warning the company that double fault point presents an unusual challenge in that there's no nearby running body of water into which waste can be discharged. so from the design stage waste disposal after all 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. here and this is where the waste and toxics launch were downstairs leon carby we're standing right on top of it and the other side is you can see there used to be a small leak which you had carbonate also used as a dumping grounds for they waste people depended on the water from the leak so they drank it and it caused and pathetic. union carbide from the design stage
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that whole plant could pollute groundwater they also knew that there was there was a surrounding community that use that groundwater for its drinking water supply. so they believe that they can get rid of some more toxic waste to by evil grading it and then they had like some kind of sludge where they took all dust luggage from the bones and they'd come to here and there and you see this black lining underneath the ground of this landfill they believe that this kind of lining if there were this lining underneath the ground it can keep the vast. lining and the need to go on every day i was here. we believe the solar evaporation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now leeching through the aqua for
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and spreading into the surrounding communities and can be detected as far away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so they're evacuation on that before very high well slowly you see it was moving through here as it only english and was destroyed. this will be an isolated not a recent one. off the fact you walked out is still being contaminated and people are forced to drink needed water because they do not have any out of sight of the top layer will remain a source of pollution for this area until it is relieved and the party to do that is you are the symbol mark a twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy at the 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
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carbide and it's wrong the government of india is the appropriate entity to address any i'm going to express by the people opar. we are saddened by the fact that the site remains on really adding to the tragedy that has occurred the site today is in the hands of the state government of niger pradesh the state government owns the site and together with the central government they are trying to get the psych cleaned up union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary. and then got in two thousand one out all this third the board. carbide approved the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical company and. it does complicate things and doesn't because the law on contamination is very clear in india. and. principle the polluter pays principle is the idea under international law that the liability for pollution
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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 a third party it shouldn't be the government's responsibility to clean up at public expense after private polluters. so i don't know about now i don't know that is what i'll go wrong but i did like people. drinking contaminated water you know it's like. in the neighborhood and then we've got a lot of this problem tested every founded highly contaminated they do not have any other choice and they are drinking just like. it was like sometime two thousand and four it was sometime in the evening. when i least back to my home there was a letter written by my brother. and 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
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this room so i had to phone one of my one of my brother's friends and they said only. both of us took my brother to the hospital and finally had to write that thing. before their hearing into a jungle where food he had tried to set him off fire. he didn't have any physical problems his sickness was that of paranoia and fear if anyone came over them she would go and hide in the bathroom used to say he could hear a voice in his mind i believe. in hell with time but in go it's getting worse. if you blame each other for everything when new solution will come. the government blames the company we blame the government. government so
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first a company suffers and most importantly the people. i remember actually who was a media person who asked me this question who do you really going to know. before i answer this question he said you're goldman but he said to me your garments like . they have been big people from. so if you're going is not willing to help you then we're going to do for you. on that i'm not particular night on the second and third december some gases from the union carbide leaked and some of the people died now 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. just like in hiroshima and nagasaki it had an adverse
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effect on their genes so similarly this adverse effect of the gases causing genetic mutation in india they all thought i would like that we don't speak about bhopal because he's not a good image for india in america they don't want to talk about both because in spite of the fact that there is a wall of info all the rest against mr wong and. i mr anderson has retired in a beautiful house in. new york and of course he never made it. it was a bone of pleasure or something and we were going to be inventive and one of the implications of spoke english which you know more than thirty thousand people are affected and the people who are drinking the polluted water that i think has known about the problems is can problems that is there is none through to come to know to put it in touch since industrial. age of forty and despite the fact that all of
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those are sick and that's the position that i'm going to get specific governments are not in business to protect the population. i'm going to say they are but it's usually pretty local. don't take any worry that somebody started the paperwork or the records country stored pretty often illusions. work for the populations of the leaders who are willing to take a risk with it was to go through it's going to get some history. this want to respond in this stock clearly the government just pimping for chemicals and these are the. same people who have so far stalled justice for the
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victims. we strongly feel that only occasionally of the twenty seventh anniversary we will be able to destroy the nexus and we will get justice. the way they are they have not been a profit on by the people the other one provided we have a lot of them to be able to see the difference you can call them yes this is not. really have a little bit over in britain five years what can we do to get just a few posters but what isn't new but don't let them feel this need to make it's like i was hired to do emerge an acquisition for union carbide to bring all of the computer applications on the same promise doubts i saw how a corporation works because they are more concerned about bottom line profit money thing i just decided that i was making more profit for just the wrong people and chemicals made the decision to purchase union carbide knowing that these
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liabilities were outstanding so when you purchase the assets of a company to purchase those liabilities we are that we are just asking for our right to clean water union carbide is fully exploited the sort of international dimension of this problem it informs the american courts that new york law can't apply because these events took place in india but at the same time the same indian law doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above the law so there are international rules. for. of course international law has no enforcement. force personally. if the united states has a person who is not. political but they should take responsibility for their pound . where dime from the water no one is offering clean water they're moochers. tell cameco go to how to build your house to house. agents of dow should be
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spanked. if you look for the jurisdiction over the deal then you know how the bridge to the american boards and the american courts are after news of the above. in two thousand and four the supreme court's directed the government to provide clean and safe water but the government to stay some 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 promise was never fulfilled but some pipelines were laid in some areas but not in every area the water they're supplying the spikes is duty and not. all speak of some kids and their right to finish the mission control board certified against any high concentrations of coal that you so knowing this water is what is being supplied to
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the locals should have given their lives. oh mother. no company should realize that it cannot break this country's laws. how do you know if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing gain will be for you the people of power. like you who you know what we have asked for is the clean up cost union carbide should clean all the poisonous and powerful toxic chemicals that are stored inside. the groundwater which is polluted in a radius of three kilometers around the plant should be cleaned and union carbide should pay for about your sister could you. bring the sins of india bring them
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here. 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 people who are weak people who cannot fight for themselves or even know how. the union carbide should bear these expenses because in the coming ten to fifteen years people will keep getting affected due to the growing water contamination and will be more prone to cancers like diseases and even audio quality of it we are fighting for our society we are fighting for our country we are fighting for bhopal gas victims yet it. is only by virtue of the fact that this afternoon in the beginning our fight is even able to exist today it has come. out of this year
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a fresh known bailable warrant has been issued for foreigners understand. unless the government fails to wake up and help then we are committed to fight for the next twenty seven years against the nexus between the company and the government the process could change dramatically if the indian government interest the system has something to suck in the building i mean they're not they don't have the authority to say what they need in the government but what they have said to the government if they want this really. and it's really i think it was what it was that. they were all to survivors in court of law they also did they have submitted a letter or letter that said all over the wall you're like. yes and any ideas from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide india factory is infected with poisoned food because it is a cause in which will not lead to death just by touching it so i can understand why
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their money pradesh government is saying there is no cause and money but it is also true that it's a kind of poison that easily came into our environment it is the main thing i'm saying is that the factory should be cleaned as soon as possible. god has given you his word that all the facilities 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 ruled out. has not turned down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice our passion will never come down. every year millions of people dying because of this undercurrent of pursuit of profit. in pinball
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a saying is that you cannot do it you are not allowed to do. because life is sacred and that in order to violate. this is my house that's one day we destroy him from the rest of the world who will get justice from dollar company that i. did when the fifth anniversary is just a landmark of four years for diversity the fifty for diversity will be as important for the final goal and that goal is to clean the factory for all those toxic effluents which still pollute the water that the people have to drink. and amazon and i want the world to understand the crime of these companies the profits from the analysts products as the show on t.v. and. the same products poison our lives will not only.
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we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city in the world soon that another group our who not do repeat it. eagerly were three gives us more spirit gives us more encouragement people all the while the helping for both of them we get more support every year than the previous year if there is justice and this world would be safer for all of us today because it would set a precedent a parent company cannot set up a subsidiary somewhere in the world create a large scale environmental problem 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 of 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.
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