as little as five hundred dollars for lifelong injuries. and the unpunished. a line from moscow breaking news afghanistan's capital has been hit by sustained taliban rockets and gunfire it's x. targeted foreign embassies as well as the afghan parliament and nato airfield on the outskirts of the city police say at least one militant has been killed several sites in two other provinces are reportedly also under coordinated assault parts we will keep in touch with the latest on this rapidly developing story. in other news this hour at the u.n. sets the stage just on the service to syria with its first resolution on the

conflict designed to prop up the shaky cease fire and in france team of thirty monitors will pave the way for hundreds more. egypt shortens the list of presidential candidates as former mubarak sidekicks are booted out of the running house as it is the midst rallied in cairo in support of a new law preventing former regime officials from entering the race. but it's the final push for france's top job as voters there streams with concerns over immigration identity and imposing a new election rivals nicolas sarkozy and francois iran will hold some of those rallies in paris. up next a special report on the devastated after math of one of the world's worst industrial disasters. gold. is. limited to. a limited liability individual participants. cannot be

charged with crimes. because we were limited to one of the major. actions which really killed a man. there's. limited liability and it's not disregard for human life maybe the nicest people. maybe give to charity. but in their institutional rule as managers. there is a task that they asked. that task is to maximize profit markets or. if they don't do that they're out and somebody else is in does the indian government meanwhile declare itself the sole representative of the victims and proceeded to do so out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was so cheap that your car by start went up by three dollars a share settlement was a map so if you cannot mean that it could be such

a cruel sell out because the new government agreed to set all costs present and future liabilities what if some as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little as five hundred dollars but life long injuries and. unpunished. every month i believe whatever happened in the past be cannot change it but what is happening now is in our control it's been twenty seven years and the government should least do something like people should get clean water because the ground water is contaminated whoever survived that night and whatever life is left for the gas victims they should get proper treatment so they can spend the rest of their lives in good health. they are gas and water victim children grow up born into deformities and their future has to be kept in mind so that these kids can live

a proper life and so that their parents do not take them as some sort of burden. no let up about. golf. good afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only some reference a lot and i'm joined on the line by sanjay very much who is an activist in the bhopal 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 well. i would call it happened in a moment. what happened or rather i buried in my house my because i had no one with me at the right school so she was. right and it was right. out. and she was. our a notary

in my own ira you would know and i remarried. right. sunday was less than two and one time his sister was nine his elder brother when he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in a family of ten. all the years of my family all ran away i was told later two of them died in hospital my. mother my mother and father. the bodies of three sisters were nearby whereas. the other two missing. they lost their parents and three sisters and two brothers all in one night.

my family members died because of this that. the system in this with students image. because it is a girlfriend because there were a thousand eight hundred people had died according to the people who were carrying out bodies from the jews from the house. around seven thousand to ten thousand people have died in the next seventy two hours and so are the five thousand people have died. i remember my but i came up and i'm going to have to. then ultimately lead i myself. and i. i think. that. now we are right a lot of the young guys are actually. playing them in all you know how contaminated the factory how i'm going to be in the soil on the padres they're like

the canadians i look back to london i'm not paying attention towards them. why we did this study we just want to extend those chemical contamination within the factory and i'll die and see if there is a link it's because they're high school and it is indeed the all are going to school that's the fight because they've got a belief this decisive is justified even if it did use the e.c. a little dolly let him and rule him and luckily enough and expose the high muslim ideas off and on to that little baby the song mostly as it is back believing to this line i think this will get out and you can still see mostly in the dust of this land and their souls not surviving that the plant is very high most of them mostly. we have received very important documents in this case 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 today they knew this was going down 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 the bhopal plant presents an unusual challenge in that there's no nearby running body of water into which waste can be destructive. so from the design stage waste disposal 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 this is where the waste in toxic sludge were down to basically and carly were 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 ground for a waste people depended on the water from the leak so they drank it just costs and pathetic. union carbide knew from the design stage that the bhopal plant could pollute groundwater they also knew that there was there was a surrounding community that used that groundwater for its drinking water supply. so they believe that they can get rid of some off. by evil trading it and then went ahead like some kind of sludge so they took all of us from the board and they dumped 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 landing on the ground it can keep the bucket list away from the site. you will see lining underneath it all everywhere around here.

and we believe the solar evaporation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the arc of fur and spreading into the surrounding communities and can be detected as far away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so that evacuation order before very high was clearly you see it was very brilliant as it only english and was just all. i feel very that there isn't one. ok you don't affect me what i do is still being contaminated and people are forced to drink needed water because they do not have any and that's why the author way will remain a source of pollution for this area until it is really. the party that can do that because you are the symbol mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy at 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 insist about union 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 remediated adding to the tragedy that has occurred the site today is in the hands of the state government my dear pradesh the state government owns the site and together with the central government they are trying to get the site cleaned up union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary. in two thousand and one third to board the boat carbide approved the burger agreement that will create the world's second largest chemical company and taking over it does complicate things and doesn't because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us

and which is the principle of the polluter pays principle it is the idea under international law that the liability for pollution should always be traced back to the polluter the polluter should not be able to externalize the costs of pollution to society at large or a third party it should be the government's responsibility to clean up at public expense after private polluters. so i don't i don't know i don't know that is one of the water that i get on when it is like people are. drinking contaminated water you see this problem and it is like one of the water. in the neighborhood and then we got this bomb infested every founded highly contaminated they do not have any other choice and they are drinking this water. it was like sometime two thousand and four it was sometime in the evening. when i visited back to my home there was

a letter written by my brother. and i'm going to die in a few minutes so take care of yours and he was like he was laying on his bed in 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 that he had run 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 when she would go and hide in the bathroom he used to say he could hear a voice in his mind i believe that in his prime but in bhopal case it's getting worse. given that if he'd limits another for everything new solution will

come. government blames the company we blame the government the government suffers the company suffers and most importantly the people. i'm going to remember actually who was the media person who asked me this question who do you really call him doing. before i answer to this question he said you're goldman they he said to me your garments like. they have been big. so if you're going is not willing to help you then what it will do for you. i'm not particular night on the second and third december some gases from the union carbide leaked and some of the people died. 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 compounds out of which were deadly. just like in hiroshima and nagasaki it had an adverse 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 because bush is not a good image of all india in america they don't want to talk about both because in spite of the fact that there is a wall of unthought a race against mr one hundred m. just so i mr anderson has retarded beautiful halls in. new york of course. it was in the bone population we're looking at when it was being invented and one of the implications of the book and i should mention that wouldn't more than thirty thousand people affected and the people who are drinking the polluted water think about the problems this can problems that is this is through

the window to prevent infections industrial. age of warning. frightening because all of those are sick and that's the position that i'm going to get specific governments are not in business to protect the population. say they are but it's usually a pretty local. one take any worries somebody stored in the paperwork or the record store pretty often loses. a lawsuit the working group of people is but the leaders were willing to take the risk or it was. going to get some history. the.

least want to respond in its stock on telly the government just pimping for chemicals and these of this. same people who have so far stopped justice for the gassed victims here we strongly feel that only cation of the twenty seventh anniversary we will be able to destroy the nixes and we will get justice. like they ought to have not to go out get on line of people the other ones who are violent we have a lot of people would respond to that it's you can fold in your this is not. really have normally let it go but in twenty five years what can we do not a good just a little about what is needed a little bit i'm selfish business could make it like i was hired to do merger and acquisition for union carbide to bring all of the computer applications on the same platform as dallas i saw how

a corporation works because they are more concerned about bottom line profit than anything i just decided that i was making more than one profit for just the wrong people and chemicals made the decision purchase union carbide knowing that these 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 sort of international dimension of this problem it informs the american courts that new york law can supply because these events took place in india but 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 laws a fourth person but it's always going first if the united states doesn't first. heard about the should take responsibility for their pound. of dime from the water

no one is offering clean water they're moochers. dow chemical cogent how it go to how to how. agents of dow should be spanked. if you look so good to the jurisdiction of india and your hotness of it to the american boards and the american ports are to do something about. it. in two thousand and four the supreme court's directed the government to provide clean and safe water but the government's boost the state and central has failed to honor the supreme court order. and then again on the promise that by november two thousand and nine the government will supply clean water but that promise was never fulfilled because some pipelines relate in some areas but not in every area the water they're supplying the spikes is duty and not for drinking water i'll speak of

some kids and their by the british the mission control quarters certified against very high concentrations of coal like to some knowingly this water is what is being supplied to the locals to have given their lives. no company should realize that it cannot break this country's low. budget if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing gain will be for you the people of the cult. like you do you know that's 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 plant. groundwater which is polluted in the radio so three kilometers around the plant should be cleaned and union carbide should pay for about to. bring anderson to india bring them here now chemical leave india leave india on top of that we have asked for compensation for the victims who are suffering. it's our mission to fight for people who are weak people who cannot fight for themselves or even know how. union carbide should bear these expenses because in the coming ten to fifteen years people will keep getting affected to the growing water contamination and will be more prone to cancers like diseases human body holds a lot of us we are fighting for our society we are fighting for our country we are fighting for bhopal gas victims. it's only by virtue of the fact that this happened

if it indeed. is even able to exist. has come out this year a fresh known bailable warrant has been issued for foreigners anderson. unless the government fails to wake up and help then we are committed to fight the next twenty seven years against the nexus between the company and the government the process could change dramatically if the indian government if there exists this has according to some it's understandable that the man who they're not they don't have the authority to stop what they did in government but what they have said to the government if they want this really come and interfere i think a bit before that there's all this. they were all the survivors in cold blood they're so good at that they've submitted a letter or that that's all over the us all your life.

and any ideas from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide factory is infected with poisoned food because it is a poison which will not lead to death just by touching it so i can understand why the pradesh government is saying there is no point isn't. this but it is also true that it's a kind of poison that is leaking into our environment that is the main thing i'm saying is that the factory should be cleaned as soon as possible. god has given us this word but all the facilities that god has are given everything here by destroy. felt come on friends join the march with the victims and show that your passion has not cooled down. that has not closed down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice

a passion will never come down. every year millions of people dying because of this unbridled the pursuit of profit. in pinball a saying is that you cannot do it in far not allowed to go. because life is sacred and that cannot be violated. this is my house the twanging we destroy him from the rest of the world who will get justice from dell company. the one hundred fifth anniversary is just to learn math the four years of diversity the first two for diverse three will be as important for the final goal and not goal is to clean the factory from all those toxic air floors which still pollute the water that the people have to drink . the amazon i want the world to understand the crime of these companies the

profits from the analysts projects as the show on t.v. but at the same products points in our lives will not only me. we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city in the world soon this is not a good pal who will not be repeated. each any worse really gives us more spirit gives us more encouragement people around the world i have been from and we get more support every year than the previous year if there is justice in this world would be safer for all of us to live because it would set a precedent and 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 a 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 it in court precedent. i am. i am. positive outlook.

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