at seven thirty pm on scale time these are the top stories on our t.v. reports of fresh selling in syria as you and observers are set to enter the war torn country but for almost a u.n. security council's first resolution on the conflict which allows observers in to oversee the shaky truce that came into force on thursday. a series of explosions gunfire and rockets shake the afghan capital of the presidential palace western embassies and nato bases being the focus of a large scale taliban attack militants claimed they were in retaliation for a u.s.

soldier massacring afghan civilians and burning copies of the koran have an american military base. plus two main challengers for the french presidency rally last minute support ahead of next sunday's ballot socialist president francois obama is ahead in the polls well president sarkozy has joined the charge for the right using immigration and terrorism fears to sway over the. next three meet the survivors of one of the worst industrial catastrophes the worst industrial catastrophe i should say in india who are still forced to live in the contaminated area.

december third one thousand nine hundred eighty four the night we can never forget . when the leakage of an icy gas from this union carbide factory made people sleep forever but. for those who are no more today the people they used. those mothers and sisters who were sleeping that night in their homes. the gas leakage from union carbide made them sleep for ever.

anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell. like for so many years who's been drinking poisonous water even today the watch

risk to poison us and all of our children are sick. of them and them entire community spends up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until who agree to all demands the fine to continue. and i take you for a gas leak from a union carbide corp 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. coming out on the contaminated water is making our lives how you're going to get each other. how does the balance of effect we just live get it it is three forty

six tons of waste that it would rather have additives i wasn't supposed to waste on the surface of the back to provide. the same. it's 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 is spreading more than three and a half thousand died in the immediate aftermath of the disaster after inhaling the fuse thousands more with the parishes toxin seeks into the ground around the plant poisoning water supplies. and drug 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 being done. yet

the government gas relief minister bubble well governor is claiming there are no more sick people and the factory is clean and that one hundred percent of the people are drinking one hundred percent pure water these are complete lives groups walking in effect children see that children today are ten times more likely to be born with birth defects in 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 in the water and soil. is. crimes

on a large number of people. respiratory problems heart problems eye problems. the ratio of patients are increasing by the day. people suffering people dying and the next generation is getting affected. but. the fact that the suffering. that injustice continues and the. disaster remain unpunished.

years probably. this river rock cruise line would be hard by the way. it's not much from. the layer of paper a layer of oil and it would still be hot. if

you don't think it's as good as we. are going to. him god made globalization is this the american transnational that was involved in the war was. in the midst of what's called the green revolution union carbide decided the best to save manufacturing you need. to get started in the one seven piece of the formulation just mixing different bits to states dime back integrated with action of method i saying. and they knew right in seventy two where the method of the fighting plan they were bringing in. would be untested that knowledge in their own words and that its safety was not known.

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 restrict the survivors it touches hardly know how to relieve the suffering they're not sure exactly what it was in the lethal cocktail of gases so it's difficult to prescribe effective at some work for a funeral pyres is becoming scarce circuity bodies are being burnt at a time in mass cremations. there are many chemicals found in the water around here which were once used in the union carbide factory where our bodies were every time it rains a 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 removed and he talks of pfizer and very good rear 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 salam bubble but people call me bubba salami and.

try to have a small business where you know where de where journalists. but i have no savings here walkway that whatever does get saved was spent on medicine. her condition used to be much better. she used to go to the markets to go for

walks and play around with. she used to laugh and have fun there were no problems. and it was some time later on we noticed that she couldn't sit up on her own or turnover of the kind of money to put 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 me.

of my own today we are at a point where we wanted to do a lot but we can't do much. for the people the disaster has been an ending because people continue to be more than

hundred thousand people still chronically ill and there's initially 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 and then you cannot know when it stop. again in my eyes this hospital is of no use all the doctors here are useless to it's like putting a child's life in danger it's a waste of time and money. out of mccarthy i wish to. hear at the hospital money talks. you give money and should 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.

we'll spend five thousand rupees since we have come here i'm not sad about that i will earn it again 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 nice for five rupees how is the poor labor going to spare five rupees. at the end of the day all of the big ministers of the state are can pin 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 this hunger is the sickness look at those gutter tents couldn't fall sick by drinking that water. right now people are not getting proper treatment they have built big time hospitals but they give priority to people who have money but what the poor people get no preference. that no power hospital is made for gas 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 comes things the gas tragedy that surviving has become a living hell.

before we had no hope that cibo would even survive we just left everything to god and came to this hospital. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful . 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 saved. the doctor said she is almost conscious now. and will me came here we were very sad and when we leave i just want us to be very happy here.

the up with up up up up up up up up. little little little little bubble a little bit but it is not rhonda shaming a little with the so many years on got terrible crunch 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 disposed of put into the instructions of the supreme court so there was nothing has to discuss human life there immediately or later on and now we are here to study on the subject legacy of. a.

lot of stock in the government and all that the fight is not. outside the family politics a little groundwater. mostly in one of the displaced people by drinking water standards all the samples that you tell if it's funded by heavily contaminated. by . siding with the fact that he does not. believe that obama is not a one time disaster is a disaster simply because bank of england was only seven and sometime in the sole of a line in the hole by the god of. lies there is a contradiction in what the government to st i mean you have to africa and i think it's a very good question about the government being in government it's amazing a request for relief. to us or saying we support this case we want the 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 make a statement like this this is union carbide submitted to the american court. even their own government says there's no problem this is a class action case has been pending since nine hundred ninety nine. plaintiffs are people from the affected communities. people who are suffering from health effects . from the eighty's on words in galbraith corp usa got. costs in every way possible and. there was already on it by design straight away it meant reduction of safety. on the safety equipment which was provided here such as the refrigeration system for the storage tank where am i see had 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 road for years just to say

something like seventy dollars a day which meant that the temperature of the method as a sign of dank 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 this type of salty and could not hold the pressure. for this reason 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 plans was an unproven technology

they used 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. we needed a new one and as you know chairman ridge you know he just returned on a prayer familiar so i'm going to take the shot of charlie first to express my deep sympathy for all of those who were involved in a terrible tragedy unfold. and when i first heard of the national reports on monday

the third of december. they were sketchy but first. by the time tuesday morning arrive the magnitude of the tragedy has become quite a prayer for friday morning took an early flight and we arrived. there was a subdued crowd waiting at the airport to lobby 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 pope out 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 he part it was his responsibility to be here. i think. the least i would do if i was him i would be responsible mr anderson had taken refuge behind the not the gates and was

definitely not receiving visitors then the local police superintendent strode out to the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives were on down the rest of the exactly only rescued so i'm going to tell us exactly who they arrested mr mr blakeley mr know what i understand has developed a name that you want to do for the rest of mr imus from the world yes ma'am and there was a decision. that mr anderson and everybody should be honest by then the world media was there and everybody knew that it was coming for the magistrate and for you to topple over soon. although with me. there were drawers with violations of several indian was generally related to a problem like that 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 not 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 and it was representative of the u.s. government for in any assistance possible abuse of trying to determine the union carbide has been arrested since he's here to try and solve the problem and first listen and 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 because of the tragedy. and knows its. thousands of innocent citizens whose lives have been slow to really. dramatically affected. by cruel and rampton diligence on the part of the management of the union. good of course he got bit by could be.

very clearly warren anderson had jumped by the promise to appear in court when they were called but he just jumped. the indian government has sent a request for extradition of warren anderson but the u.s. government has denied the request because government says they won't send one anderson to face trial. the proposal for the method actor saying they plan to kill one anderson and it was warren anderson who was informed about the condition of safety in the plant all this was his personal knowledge.