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dreaming of the luxuries see round trip with the open air entertainment. a little bit of exercise to get in better shape. and cuisine would only be ingredients. something to. our summer sales on our cheek. welcome back here with our t. here's a look at the top stories the easiest paymaster has eased germany's chancellor is in china trying to convince beijing that your currency is still stable enough to invest and that's how the euro zone's fourth largest economy spain desperately tries to avoid asking for another bailout. syrian officials walk out of the
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nonaligned summit in toronto egypt's president lashes out at us its government calling it oppressive the gathering in the reigning capital is made up of one hundred twenty nations who don't consider him selves part of any global power alliances. and the rabble opposition in syria will be wiped out sooner or later as president also in a t.v. interview by the insurgency you know we've heard as they continue fighting the army bringing further destruction to the war torn country. next the second part of a special report on the world's worst industrial disaster. i'm an old notion of the corporation is based on what's called limited liability limited liability means that individual participants are cannot be charged with crimes that the corporation commits they come to or limit it one of the major runs its course and. the corporation acts in such a way that kills the managers the c.e.o.
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and the shareholders have limited liability and it's not disregard for human life maybe the nicest people in the world maybe give to charity. but in their institutional rule as managers of the corporation there is a task that they asked. that task is to maximize profit and market share and if they don't do that they're out and somebody else is in the dust of the indian government meanwhile declares itself the sole representative of the victims and proceeded to do so 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 settlement was announced people could not mean that it could be such a growth sellout because the new government agreed to settle all bonds to present and future liabilities for a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little
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as five hundred dollars for lifelong injuries and. unpunished. 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 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 badly. it's in good health. there are gas and water victim children it's deformity 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 to some sort of burden which i think. you're welcome. i love and trust are.
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good afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only summer f.m. to la and i'm joined on the line by son jay very much who is an activist in the bhopal campaign and also was a survivor of the terrible disaster in one thousand nine hundred eighty four so sanjay can you tell us a bit about what happened to you on the night of december third one thousand nine hundred four well i was born in july and people thought i would you months already in the moment. and i didn't and really don't know why i asked myself because i had no one with me at that meeting at my school so she would make they all died that i had and then. i would be. so she was like. i may know very well in my own eyes that you will and i remarried.
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sunday was. his sister was nine his elder brother so i mean he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in a family of. my family old runaways i was told later two of them died in hospital. my mother and father were. the bodies of three sisters by. the other two on me. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers call in one night. my bad and. my family members die because of this back to. the system when students damaged. but it is
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a godsend because it will be thousand eight hundred people at what according to the people who are carrying out bodies from the g eight this is 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 thought that all came up and organize it and. then automatically i myself got involved in the fight and i joined like other organizations i think. now we are like the wall of the un guys factory. there playing then and all know how contaminated the factories how on going again the soil on the factories there like security inside the factory might not paying attention bores them.
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while we did the study we just wanted to extend those chemical contamination visited a factory and i'll try and see if there is a link. there by building it is going to go for are going to slowly that's the site because they think god will decide he justifies it is using is your methodology let's got here men's room and mostly enough and it was very. i am openly gay. and won't be by one of the phone mostly as a year. in fact when event i did this photo get out and you can still see it in the structure of the everything and they're close not surprising that the ground is very high among both i'm ok. we have received very important documents in this case that i think established very clearly that union carbide knew with advance as early as nine hundred seventy three that this pollution problem that we are facing today they knew this was going to happen and they and they went ahead with this project
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despite that specific knowledge as early as one nine hundred seventy three union carbide engineers or warning the company that the plant 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 plant was that 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. and this is where the waste and toxic sludge were dumped basically and carby we're standing right on top of it and the other side as you can see there used to be a small leak which. also used as a dumping ground for they waste people depended on the water from the link so they drank it and it cost and pedantic. union carbide from the design stage
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then the bhopal plant could pollute groundwater they also knew that there was a there was a surrounding community that used that groundwater for its drinking water supply. so they believed that. by doing it and then when they had some kind of sludge so they took all of us from. here and there and you see this black lining. and the need the ground of this landfill they believe that this kind of lining if. it can get. away. every day i'll hear. we believe the solar evaporation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the article for and spreading into these surrounding communities and can be detected as far
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away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so that. one of the very high was going to be used the idea was using. only english and one. isolated recent one. on the factory. still being gone damon it. needed water. will remain a source of pollution for this area until it is remedial the party that can do that is you know. 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
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india is the appropriate entity to address any i'm going to express by the people of bhopal. 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 madhya pradesh the state government. and together with the central government they are trying to get the site cleaned up but union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary. two thousand and one third the boards of carbide approve the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical. does complicate things and does it because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us and which is the principal polluter pays principle is the idea under international law that the liability for pollution should always be traced back to the polluter the polluter should not be
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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 no no no no no no no that is one of the. people. drinking contaminated water you see. in the neighborhood and then we've got a lot of this bomb test bed every founded highly contaminated but they do not have any other choice and they are drinking this water. it would like sometime two thousand and four it was sometime in the evening. when i eased back to my home there was a letter written by my brother that. i'm going to die in a few men so take care of yours and he was like he was laying on his back in this
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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 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 that if anyone came over then she would go and hide in the bathroom he used to say she could hear a voice in his mind i believe that a wall inhales with time but in bhopal case it's getting worse. to get made over mom if we blame each other for everything no solution will come. government blames the company we blame the government of our government so first the company suffers and most importantly the people who suffer. i don't remember
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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 his question he said you were goldman but he said to me your government's like ditching you they have been digging people from. so if you are going is not willing to help you then work with chemicals will do for you. on that particular night i'm not particular night on the second and third december some gases from the union carbide leaks and some of the people died to 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 million components are to which it team were deadly. like in hiroshima and nagasaki it had an adverse effect on their genes so similarly this
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adverse effect of the gases causing genetic mutation in india. would like that we don't speak because he's not a good image of all india in america they don't want to talk about because in spite of the fact that there is a wall of unfold the rest against mr wong and i mr anderson has retired in a beautiful house in. new york and of course. it was a bone of delay shooting and we have to be invented and one of the implications is for nation which you know more than thirty thousand people and the people. i've known about the problems this can problems that is this is through.
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all of our second that's the position that having to get specific governments are not in business to protect the population. that's what they say they are but it's usually a pretty low priority. don't take any. somebody's story. or the record country story. the loss of the work crew the population but the leaders were willing to take the risk or risk. this want to responds in this stock to leave the government just pimping for chemicals and these are the same people who have so far stalled justice for the victims. but we strongly feel that on this occasion of the twenty seventh
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anniversary we will be able to the stronger the mixes and we will get justice. they have not begun to profit on the other one you have the people to the point it's. this is not. rehab. not to get just a little about what is needed. i was hired. for you. to bring all of the computer applications. i saw. because they are more concerned about bottom line profit than anything i just decided that i was making. the wrong. decision to purchase union carbide. so when you purchase the assets of
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a company to purchase those. 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 long. because these events took place in india the same time this doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above them. appropriate behavior for. of course international law has no enforcement laws of course for some but it's worse if the united states doesn't force of. good will but they should take responsibility for. dime from the water no one is offering clean water they have no choice. dow chemical go to how it go to how to how.
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agents of dow should be spanked. if you look at subject to the jurisdiction of india then you have to submit to the american courts and the american courts after doing something about. this in two thousand and four the supreme court's directed the government to provide clean and safe water but the governments of the states and central has failed to honor the supreme court order. then on the promise that by november two thousand and nine the government would supply clean water but that's a promise was never fulfilled but some pipelines were laid in some areas but not in every area the water they're supplying the spikes his duty and not drinking water all speak up some kids and dad get my definition of mission control board certified against very high concentrations of bacteria so knowing this water is what is being supplied to locals who have given their lives.
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and all the. company should realize that it cannot break this country. if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing gain will be for years the people of. lost what we have asked for is the clean up cost union carbide should clean all the poisonous and harmful toxic chemicals that are stored inside the plant. the groundwater which is polluted in a radius of three kilometers around the plant should be cleaned and union carbide should be paid for about to. bring i'm dissing to india bring them
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here dow 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. union carbide should bear these expenses because in the coming ten to fifteen years people will keep getting affected due to the growing contamination and will be more prone to cancers like diseases given audios madea's we are fighting for our society we are fighting for our country we are fighting for gas victims. it's only by virtue of the fact of the south would. be. able to. come. out this year a fresh known bailable warrant has been issued for anderson. and if the government
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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 you don't want it to reduce this traffic it's going to somebody in the building that may be i'm not and they don't have to be afforded to salvage. what they have. said to the government if they want this ruling. and interview i think it was for that post that. they were all the survivors in court they're so good they've submitted a letter although that's all over the local police were i i was on any ideas from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide india factory is infected with poison it is a poison which will not lead to death just by touching it so i can understand why
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the montreal pradesh government is saying there is no poison. but it is also true that it's a kind of poison that is leaking into our environment that is the main thing i am saying is that the factory should be cleaned as soon as possible. god has given you a disputed word with all the facilities but god has given me everything here white destroyed. felt come on friends join the march with the victims and show that your passion has not cooled down. i. has not turned 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 his unburdened the pursuit of profit. what in pain will follow saying is
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that you cannot do it you are not allowed to do it because life is sacred and that cannot be violated and. i think that it is my hour the twang day the strength from the rest of the world who will get justice from dull company that i. did one hundred fifth anniversary was just to learn ma therefore your father verse read the first two for their verse three will be as important for the final goal. i'm not going to clean the factory farm all those toxic effluents which still pollute the water that the people have to drink. in the amazon i want the world to understand the crime of these companies they profit from the analysts products as they show only to be. the same products boys in our lives. we should never allow down to continue
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their poisonous business in any other city in the world so that's not the power will not be repeated. each day we're three gives us more spirit gives us more and go to judgment people i'll know what i have been for and 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 and a parent company cannot set up a subsidiary somewhere in the world create a large scale environmental problem there 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 it important precedent.
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