three thirty am in moscow or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news first u.n. monitors arrived in syria following saturday's unanimous security council vote for an observer mission they arrived as damascus warns it will retaliate if attacks by armed groups continue amid reports of fresh confrontations between demonstrators and security forces in. a series of attacks shake the afghan capital with the presidential palace western embassies and nato bases the focus of a large scale taliban assault militants claim it's in retaliation for recent

actions and killings by u.s. troops in afghanistan. foreign activists arrived in israel to hold peaceful demonstrations in support of the palestinian people but needed tough response from israeli police dozens of activists who were part of an international campaign dubbed welcome to palestine or barred from entering the country nine israeli activists were also arrested. up next we meet the survivors of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in india and the world our special report coming up. some of the old notion of the corporation is based on what's called the limited liability limited liability it means that individual participants in a court cannot be charged with crimes that the corporation commits they can't with very limited it's one of the major crimes squad rounds for a corporation actions or two it kills the managers will see your. limited liability and it's not disregard for human rights or maybe the nicest

people were made to give to charity who knows what but in their institutional rule as managers of the corporation there is a task that they asked. that task is to maximize profit and not. if they don't do that they're out and somebody else is in the dust of the indian government meanwhile declare itself the sole representative of the victims and proceeded to sort out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was so cheap that carbide stock went up by two dollars a share of the settlement was announced it will not mean that could be such a grew old sellout because the new government agreed to settle all the cost present and future liabilities thought as some as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little as five hundred dollars but 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 people 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 better. health. there are gas and water victim children who are born with deformities and there has to be kept in mind so that these kids can live a proper life and so that their parents do not take on the sons with her them. you're welcome. i love and that's. good afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only some references and i'm joined on the line by sanjay. 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 worked on in the right thank you corker i would. probably remember and i are. writing and really don't know why my so because i had no one with me and apparently my school. she would write they all died right and it will come out right how did. she was. i re not really i in my own eyes that you want to play irene ari so. sunday was less than two and it was nine his older brother

he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in a family of them. all the years of my family all runaways but i was told later two of them died in hospital. my mother and father were. the bodies of three sisters who were nearby whereas. the other two are missing. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers calling one night my dad and. my family members because of this fact that. he and his sister went to students village. but it is a godsend because they were around a thousand eight hundred people at. the people who were carrying out bodies congress changed from the house. around one thousand to ten thousand people at

their intellect seventy two hours and. fifty five thousand people have died. i remember my dad but that came up and. then ultimately i my brother in the eye and i joined the united nations i think. that. now i realize a lot of the young guy factory. they're playing that in all know how contaminated the factories how on dominating the oil on the factories they are like because again i look back to london i'm not paying attention towards them. let me discuss these just want to expand the chemical contamination within the

factory and outside and see if there is a link it's because they're by willing it is unthinkable for going to school that's the site. doesn't need business i just decided that it is using if you miss about. him as william and mostly enough and it's all very high levels of lead the ideas are and once you guys will be the song mostly as it is back been invented us now and i think this little bit out and you can still see mostly in the best of this is that and therefore it's not surviving that the plant is very highly mobile mostly. we have received very important documents in this case that i think established very clearly that union carbide knew that bans as early as one nine hundred seventy three that this pollution problem that we're facing 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 or warning the company that the full power 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 of 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 in toxic sludge were down to make money and car we were standing right on top of it and the other side is you can see there used to be a small leak which union carbide also used as a dumping ground for they waste people depended on the water from the link so they drank it just costs and pathetic. union carbide knew from the design stage that the 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 reading it and then when they had some kind of sludge they took all dust luggage from the forest 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 but on the site. you would think running underneath the ground every day i would hear. we believe the solar evaporation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the arkell for and spreading into the surrounding communities and can be detected as far away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so larry. what we found very high

was clearly you see out here was u.v. premium as if you live in it. and it was just all. isolated that there isn't one bus position in the factory you want that is still being contaminated and people are forced to drink contaminated water because they do not have any and that's why the parkway will remain a source of pollution for this area until it is really. the party that can do that is you know part of the symbol mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy at a 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 carbide and it's wrong the government of india is the appropriate entity to address any i'm going to express by the people

of. 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 micro protests 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. and then go back in two thousand and one at august third to board the boat carbide approve the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical company. does complicate things and doesn't because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us and. the polluter pays principle it is the idea under international law that the liability for pollution should always be traced back to the polluter polluter should not be able to externalize the cost 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 know now i know that is one of the water that i get on when it is like people are. drinking contaminated water you see this problem this is like when i was on the water. in the neighborhood and then we got the water of this bomb test 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 reached 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 bed in this room so i had to phone one of my one of my brother's friends and they said.

both of us took my brother to the hospital and finally he had survived that thing. and 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. in hell with time but in bhopal case it's getting worse. given that if we blame each other for everything new solution will come. the government blames the company we blame the government the government so first the company suffers and most importantly the people who suffer. i don't remember actually who was the media person who asked me this question who do you

blame to work surely according to you. before i answer to this question he said you were goldman but he said to me your garments. are getting you they have been big people. so if you are going is not a villain to help you then work. 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 team were deadly. just like in hiroshima and nagasaki it had an adverse effect on their genes so similarly this adverse effect of the gas is causing genetic mutation in india the author would like that but we don't speak up

because he's not a good image for india in america they don't want to talk about because in spite of the fact that there is it wasn't thought to rest against mr waldman and a son i mistimed a certain has retarded if you want a full house in rome guideline north of new york of course not i'm a big bend it was a bone of glacier we're looking at we are going to be evicted from one of the implications of the nation which will then more than thirty thousand people up there and the people who are drinking the polluted water. i don't the problems is can problems that is this is through the un to come to know to put it in patients industrial. age of fourteen despite the frightening thing that all of those are sick and that's the position that having to get specific governments are not in business to protect the population. i'm going to say they are it's usually

a pretty local. take any worry about somebody stored in. a record store or a career off of losers. from the loss of a working crew copulation. leaders were willing to take risk or do something. for their own ends it's something i'm a bit of history. you. least want to respond since starting on telly the government just pimping for tau chemicals and these are the. same people who have so far stopped justice for the bhopal gas victims. but we strongly feel that only cation of the twenty seventh anniversary we will be able to destroy the nexus and we will get justice.

they are going to have not to go out get on by the people below provided we have a body of the people responsible for this you can follow them yet this is not the rehab for you what is the way in pretty five years what can you not get just a few because that is what this war doesn't mean that i'm going to let. this leave the kids like i was hired to do merger and acquisition for union carbide to bring all of the computer applications on the same platform as douse 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 time line profit for just the wrong people and chemicals made the decision purchase union carbide knowing that these liabilities were outstanding so when you purchased the assets of a company that purchased those liabilities we are 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 force laws a fourth person was one first if the united states doesn't first. put a bug in the vision take responsibility for the power. well designed from the water no one is offering clean water they have no choice. dow chemical co to how it going to house to house. agents of dow should be spanked. if you look at subject to the jurisdiction of india then you'll have to submit to the

american boards and the american boards 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 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 promised was never fulfilled because some pipelines were laid in some areas but not in every area the water they're supplying the spikes is duty and not fees for drinking water also be tough some kids and dad could buy their british position control board certified advanced very high concentrations of coal i do so knowing this water is what is being supplied to the locals should have given their lives.

luck. company should realize that it cannot break this country's laws. if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing gain will be for years the people of ohio. 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 plants just because they want me to the ground water which is polluted in a radius of three kilometers around the plant should be cleaned and union carbide should be paid for about you because you are going 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. 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 to the growing water contamination and will be more prone to cancers like diseases and human body has no money if we are fighting for our society we are fighting for our country we are fighting for gas victims yet there. is only by virtue of the fact that this afternoon if it indeed. is able to exist today it 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 interim government featuring justice has according to someone something the government i mean they're not they don't have the authority to stop what they could see him government but what they have done is said to be our life if they want this really. and if you think that it was worth it because. they were all the survivors in cold blood they're so good they have submitted a letter or that article that said all over the local police were like. yes and they are years from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide india factory is infected with poison feeling because it is a poison which will not lead to death just by touching it so i can understand why they might pradesh government is saying there is no ponies and mostly it was 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

sane is that the factory should be cleaned as soon as possible. god has given you this word but all the facilities that god has are given everything here why destroyed. felt come on friends join the march with the victims and show that your passion was not cooled down. that has not slowed down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice the passion will never come down. every year millions of people dying because of his pursuit of profit. in pinball a saying is that you cannot sue if you are not allowed to go. because life is sacred and that cannot be violated.

it is my house the twanging we destroy and from the rest of the world who will get justice from dell company. with one hundred first anniversary is just to learn not the four years of the verse read the first two for diversity will be as important for the final goal and the goal is to clean the factory from all those toxic air floors which still pull you the water that the people have to drink. and amazon i want the world to understand the crime of these companies they profit from the analysts projects as they show on television. the same products poison our lives. we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city in the world so that's another boo powell who not be repeated by eat any worse really gives us more spirit gives us more

encouragement people i'll know while the helping for both of them 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 in 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 to 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. i am am

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