these are. today. and your source for news information this is r t direct from moscow let's get right to your top headlines syria's delegates will walk out of a meeting of states not aligned to the u.s. taking place in tehran they were angered by egyptian leader mohamed morsi who called president assad's regime. while the divided u.n.

security council tries again to break the syrian deadlock turkey was also invited to the ministerial meeting it's pushing for a buffer zone something russia and china strongly object to heavy battles continue . chancellor merkel is in china to drum up business and to convince beijing that the euro is on the road to recovery but the chinese say weaker euro zone states need to impose further cuts and reforms. of next the second part of a special report on one of the world's most industrial disasters that's in our special report. 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 of the corporation and that's the kind who are limited it's one of the major runs its course and. the corporation acts in such a way that kills the managers the c.e.o.

and the shareholders have limited liability and it's not a disregard for human life and 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 must follow that task is to maximize profit and market share. 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 sort of cheap the union carbide start went up by two dollars a share the settlement was announced if you could not mean that it could be such a grueling sell out because the new government agreed to settle all cost present and future liabilities for a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people who seemed as little

as five hundred dollars for a life long into the east and the 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 seek a 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 but allow. it's in good health. they are gas and water victim children grow born with 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 which i think. you're welcome. i love and that's a. good afternoon c.h.r.y.

this is only some reference to law and i'm joined on the line by son jay very much who is an activist in the bhopal campaign and also 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. you months already in the moment out by. and well a pattern and really don't know why i asked myself because i had no one with me at that meeting at my school. she would like they all died that i had and. i would be. so she would make the iranian know very in my own i that you will comply and i remarried.

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 i mean. 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 in a swiss children's village. but it is

a gold mine because there was a thousand people at but according to the people who were carrying out bodies from the. around seven thousand to ten thousand people had died in the next seventy two hours and. twenty five thousand people have died. i remember my but 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 i realize the longer you guys actually. playing they don't know how contaminated the factories how on going again the soil on the factories they're like security inside the factory money not paying attention bores them.

why we did this study we just want to this extent of chemical contamination believe the factory and i'll die and see if there is a link. but i believe it is going to go on for going to school because that's the site because if you've got this i justified it in using if you look at all the guys here mitt romney. was very. i am a believe in god and want to die one of eighty the phone mostly as i hear it in fact been a very beautiful and i did this photo get out and you can still see it in the structure of their design and their clothes not surprising that the plant is very high on both them ok. we have received very important documents in this case that i think establish very clearly that union carbide knew in 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

despite that specific knowledge as early as nine hundred seventy three union carbide engineers or warning the company that the plant presents an unusual challenge in that there is no nearby running body of water into which waste can be discharged 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. and this is where the waste in toxic sludge were dumped basically and carby we're standing right on top of it and the end aside as you can see there used to be a small leak which you had a car being also used as a dumping ground where they waste people depended on the water from the link so they drank it and it cost and pedantic. union carbide knew from the design stage

that 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 they can get. by. and and then when they had like some kind of sludge so they took all of us from. here and there and you see this black lining. and they 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 of operation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the article for 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 was before the very height was gloomy you see that it was using. only english and one. isolated recent one. was still being. 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 december will 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 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 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 union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary. in two thousand and one third the boards of both carbide approve the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical. does complicate things and doesn't 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

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 i got no i don't know that is one although many of these people are. drinking contaminated water you see this is like one of them. in the neighborhood and then we've got a lot of this bomb tested every founded highly contaminated but they do not have any other choice and they are drinking this water. it was like some time 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 have eaten rat. i'm going to die in a few men eggs so take care of yourselves and he was like he was laying on his back

in this room so i had to phone one of my one of my brother's friends and they said . more the us took my brother to the hospital and finally he had survived 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 give me another month if we blame each other for everything when no solution will come. a government blames the company we blame the government of the government so first the company suffers and most importantly the people who suffer

while. i'm not a member 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 your godman they he said to me your garments like ditching you they have been big game people from. so if you are going is not willing to help you then work with chemical will do for you. on that but i'm not particular night on the second and third december some gases from the union carbide leaks 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 nine components are to which it team were deadly. 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. would like that we don't speak because it'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 it was all the rest against mr wong and. mr anderson has been a beautiful. new york of course. it was a bone of glacier we're looking at we're going to be affected and one of the implications of you know the more than thirty thousand people and the people who are drinking. problems this can problems that is this is true. intentions.

are sick and that's what happened to your specific governments are not in business to protect the population. or it's usually a pretty low priority. don't take any. somebody's story. or the record the country started off with. the loss of the. crew the population but the leaders were willing to take the risk or. these want to respond in this stock to leave the government just pimping for chemicals and these are the same people who have so far.

we strongly feel that on this occasion of the twenty seventh anniversary we will be able to destroy the mixes and we will get justice. they have not to go out on the other one. of the people in the front it's. not. rehab. what is new but. i was hired. for. to bring all of the computer applications. i saw. because they are more concerned about. anything i just decided that i was making. the decision. so when you purchase the assets of

a company purchase those. we are just asking for our right to clean water union carbide is fully exploited sort of international this problem it informs the american courts that new york law. because these events took place in india. doesn't apply so in effect they're arguing that they're above them. appropriate behavior for. of course international has no role in forced the laws of force for so. if the united states doesn't force them there's no good will but they should take responsibility for their power. 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. agents of dow should be spanked. if you

look submit to the jurisdiction of india then you'll have to submit to the american courts and the american courts have to do 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 state from 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 between can. all speak up some brush like kids and dad could lead to petition the mission control board certified against any high concentrations of life but do so knowing this water is what is being supplied to locals who have given their lives.

on the. company should be a license but it cannot break this country. if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing again 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 powerful 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 anderson to india bring them

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 water contamination and will be more prone to cancers like diseases and give a lot of. money if 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 that this afternoon if it indeed. able to exist. that's come. out of this year a fresh known bailable warrant has been issued for anderson. and if 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 you don't want it to be states after all it's not going to somebody from the government i made them not and they don't have the authority to someone of a government what they have. said to be if they want this ruling. and interview i think ok that was what it was all that. they were all the survivors in court they're so good if they have submitted a letter or that the that's all over the local police were i think i was on any ideas from our research one thing is very clear the union carbide india factory is infected with poison truly it is a poison which will not lead to death just by touching it so i can understand why

their money 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 this word with all the facilities that god has given everything here why destroyed. felt come on friends join the march with the victims and show that your passion was not cooled down. i. was not turned down because we did not get justice and unless we get justice a passion will never sleep out. every year millions of people dying because of this unburdened the pursuit of profit. what in plain will paula say is that you cannot do it you are not allowed to do it because life is sacred and that

cannot be violated and. i cut this is my hour the twang day with 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 math before your father verse read the first of the diverse read 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. and amazon and i want the world to understand the crime of these companies they profit from the analysts products as they show on t.v. . the same products boys in our lives. we should never allow down to continue their poisonous business in any other city

in the world so that another book power will not be repeated by eat any worse really gives us more spirit gives us more and good it's meant 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 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 important precedent.

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