live from moscow this is r t s one thirty am here on our top stories for you reports of fresh shelling in syria as you in a. country that follows the u.s. . on the conflict which allows observers in to oversee the shaky troops that came before. a series of explosions gunfire rocket shake the afghan capital with the presidential palace western embassies and nato bases been the focus of this large scale taliban attack militants claim they were retaliation for a u.s. soldier massacring afghan civilians and burning copies of the qur'an at american

military base. for activists arriving in israel to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of the palestinian people meets a tough response from the israeli police dozens of activists who were part of the international campaign welcome to palestine a barred from entering the country nine israeli activists have also been arrested. next we meet the survivors of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in india indeed the world in our special report.

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

you know. what like for so many years who's been drinking poisonous water or even to see the what you risk to poison us and all of our children are sick. the mantei community

split up with a problem that is why you keep icing until you can relate to all the demands the fines will continue. to not you make it 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 the structure of the union carbide plant in the central indian city in a book. going up on the contaminated water is making our lives how can i get each other on. their shoulders the kinds of stuff that we just live very seriously forty six tons of waste that big red house advantage out of the guns away from the surface of the

back to provide. the same. 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 of this water pollution and spreading more than three and a half hours and died in the immediate aftermath of the disaster after inhaling the fuse thousands more with the perishers toxin seeks into the ground around the plant poisoning water supplies. the truth 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 done. yet the government gas relief minister bubble 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 lies groups walking in affected children see that children 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. but i refuse to be poisoned in their water and soil i mean god made god creation and is committing crimes crimes on a large number of people if you can respiratory problems heart problems i problems . the ratio of patients are increasing by the day

a monitor. and suffering the same people dying and the next generation is getting affected the horrific. from asians they're born with so the fact that the suffering hasn't ended them that injustice continues and the. disaster remain unpunished.

this robot chris ryan with union carbide through proof it's really. not much progress. for a layer of paper or a layer of oil and it would still be hot. if you don't think it's as good as. rocks or pretty. as.

in god made gone creation is this american transnational that was involved in the world was. in the midst of what's called the green revolution you mean god by decided the best to save manufacturing you need. to get started in the work seventy's of the formulation plan just mixing different bits to states we can start the back integrated with optional methods of saying. and they knew right in seventy two there'd be nothing other than a plan they were bringing in. would be untested technology in their own words and their 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 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 edson work for a funeral pyres is becoming scarce to fifty bodies are being done just a time in mass cremations. if they're good there are many chemicals found in the water around here which were once used in the union carbide factory. where 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. predators have a surface which is contaminated and the chemicals which are in the earth needs to

be removed and he talks a fight and i want to hear otherwise the pollution will continue and people will keep using polluted water and that is very dangerous and mark. thank. you. i'm not allowed my name is salam bubble but people call me brother salami and. try have a small business where you lot we are daily wage earners. but

i have no savings here what pay whatever 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. she used to laugh and have fun there were no problems.

period of some time later on we noticed but she couldn't sit up on her own or turn over of your kind about meeting but 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.

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 the disaster has been an ending because people continue to be there more than a hundred thousand people still chronically ill and there's at least only thirty thousand people who have been forced to drink contaminated water for the last

fifteen sixteen 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 too it's like putting your child's life in danger a waste of time and money amount of nickel. here at the hospital money talks. you give money and you'll be looked after. 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 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 for 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 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 things sickness look at those country towns couldn't fall sick by drinking that water.

right now people are not getting proper treatment they have build speak to hospitals but they give priority to people who have money for the poor people get no preference. that the. hospital was made progress 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 against tragedy that surviving has become a live in hell. before we had no hope of cibo would even survive if we just left everything to god and

came to this hospital. by the. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful. and 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 so. the doctor said she's almost conscious that. when we came here we were very sad and when we leave i just want us to be very happy here.

the pull up a little hole in the middle of the bubble bubble of a political party but isn't it rather shaming open for so many years about terrible tragedy. poisonous chemicals was still their name this man said jamie no there's no truth in it there was chemical waste there and it was decided that waste could be disposed of into the instructions of the supreme court but there was nothing hazardous for human life then immediately until later on. another young release of a study on the toxic legacy of union got that exactly in hobart and there is a lot of talk in the government that and we have read some reports that the site is

not toxic outside the factory people look at ground water samples we found mostly in one sample which is plenty for banks drinking water standards all the samples like looked at from this site heavily contaminated. by proving you can give us insight and we like the people. we believe they will want is not a one time disaster it is a continuing disaster simply because that's the kind didn't ground water contamination and contamination of a lot of people who got to go to. mice there is a contradiction in what the government is saying i mean you have to ask the government and i think it's a very good question to ask the government the indian government is submitting a request for relief. to us and 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 problem every time an indian politician makes a statement like this this is

a union carbide submitted to the american court and says book even their own government says there's 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 and there are people who are suffering from health effects. from the eighty's on words union carbide corporation u.s.c. got. costs in every way possible and for a noble goal 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 had to be kept at a low temperature for safety reasons was all shut down in may one thousand nine hundred four and. the shutdown did it for me just to say something like seventy dollars a day which meant that the temperature of the method as

a sign of tank was unsafe. behind me is storage tank number six hundred ten this was the m i c storage tank that leaked the process vent line of this type of faulty and could not hold the pressure . for this reason water travelled in 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 celcius that fact contributed so that you really had a series of clauses coming together after the accident i found out that the machinery provided by union carbide for the m i c plant was an unproven technology they 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 control of the workers and. their workers and everything was in control of higher management. fieldwork 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. originated a it won a national chairman was you know just returned for familiar so i want to take this opportunity first to express my deep sympathy for all of those who were. terrible tragedy unfold for when i first heard of the national reports on monday the third of december. they were sketchy but first. by the time tuesday morning a rise of the magnitude of the treasury 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 were to take an extraordinary turn and with dramatic developments almost hourly first mr anderson never got to meet the victims of bo 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 he came because it was his responsibility to be here. i think it's the least i would do if i was him i would be responsible status and have taken refuge behind the not the gates and was definitely not receiving visitors then the local police superintendent strode out

the startling news that mr anderson and two local union carbide executives were under arrest on the exact leave the rest it's up can you tell us exactly news arrested mr cook mr bigley these two men or what i missed that is developing into you and you the rest of us to understand the world yes ma'am and there was a decision. that mr anderson and everybody should be understood by them the world media was there and everybody knew that he was probably the magistrate and for. well with me. that we were drawers were violations of several indian or was generally related to a pretty regular church 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 men as they were confined under house arrest wasn't really any sort of a problem and there was

a representative of the us government from and any assistance possible are you surprised that the chairman of the union carbide has been arrested since he's here to try and solve the problem and person 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 bitter attack on union carbide is 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 cruel and rampant religion's. on the part of the management of the union by going of course he got bit by could be. very clearly worn anderson i jumped bail he promised 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 us government has denied the request was government says they want to send warren anderson to face trial. the proposal for the medical experts say they plan to have one anderson and it was warren anderson who was informed about the condition of safety in the plant all this was his personal knowledge.