pleasure to have you with us here today. as area bag is classified as one of the world's thirty most polluted sites it's tanneries or an out and out ecological disaster playing to waste everything around them every day the factories belch for fifteen thousand cubic meters of toxic refuse leaving it to pile up amid the housing and along the river bank. the demand soon the waste floods into a wings penetrating the soil and filtering down to contaminate the water tables. the brewery gang the river flows through the slum is paying the highest price.

the tanneries use vast amounts of water millions of liters of water are required to wash treats and tender skins. this water goes into the sewers. it is no longer useful you know that it is discarded. it ends up polluting the river. haven't you noticed the state of the burgan the rivers water this is the water that flows into it. all this water laden with chemical products is dumps directly into the river with no purification. i this is a very it is their life they know this is the only

a walk i guess that goes through. and the point of attack i dependent on this lever for a number of threes this with just some of which i believe i do by the affair by the end there will be. if. we wash ourselves here brooke. as we have no other choice we have no running water but there are always two hundred people waiting at the public fountains so we have to wash them this filthy water. just like many others the owner of this small town every specialized in dying skins is unconcerned by the hazards his activity gives rise to. the one of this evacuation system has been in use for a long time. it is dirty water inevitably goes into the river. there's nowhere else for to go that's the way it is. but will the judge it would naturally flow into the

river. thief of course water containing chemicals is bad for the health probability bubble but if we worried about toxicity it would stop working. to go by when it was ready to do that. but in this country the polluters need to factory owners well polluting they don't pay for the clean up. philip again is a bangladeshi scientist in ten years he's been the only person to study the question of the pollution produced by the ten days of his area back. i think that that situation has become the waters you see you see the washed polluted area that i have ever seen in bangladesh and in many other countries. maybe maybe a hundred games apart yet and all the factories.

releasing. on free did leave we waste. seventy per cent of the total for the show that is being caused to this river is coming from the tennessee they industry is dumping chromium me to their neighbor walked out and is very difficult to take chromium out of your system. because the face worker is contaminated with chromium and if it gets contaminated activity that you can't even cure it that means you're actually exposing the entire population of the city into very good the n.s.a.'s. attorneys have poisoned the city's entire canal system. was the main artery of. drinkable water and fish to the population. today it's the third most polluted river in the world no living will can use and can survive in it the stench it

exudes makes even sailing there is a difficult. issue . how low. you don't give you need to. go but that. was on the end of the water is poison can't be any fish with the tanneries. and you our forefathers were fishermen and lived off it we haven't caught anything for seven months now the film. was a carry on even if there are no more fish we can barely survive. that should look. good you know you see our empty nets oh you know what. god

lives should you know the. yes it. was. the. but. it's only during the rainy season with the fall of freshwater the fisherman couldn't hope to catch a life fish. it would take many years and millions of euros to clean this water know that a little more than i have that is what i've been eating here for thirteen years on what to raise and clean and my husband was a fisherman and we were leaving thanks to seem that on the day of the fish for on the boat again there is inevitable and my husband is out of work if the riva were

cleaned or could leave well from it try to go to the government is responsible for the state of the battleground long look what happened to it that this river runs right through to a car how could they let this happen why the government does nothing. the human ecological consequences are nothing short of x. tester for. the world trade organization has ruled that all turner is must be brought up to international regulation re standards by two thousand and fourteen but bangladesh finds itself in a catch twenty two situation down to continue developing its booming leather industry and at the same time respond to the health and environmental concerns of its population. to deal with the situation the department of the environment has appointed mr choudary. his mission is to bring the factories up to standard and to sanction the polluting industrialists that's to say ninety nine percent of time.

and how can i say that it's easy is very much complicated to ship it to lending. him next and also for long. and then france because. he. never been in dry after having. we faced so much pressure from the industry owners from the high hopes to pulling complaint about pollution to cho tree and scientific team have come to take some samples. yes are you listening to me not all along they do find out which factories are responsible i think belongs to the group with one to the. money. we've got to get samples. telling did. they buy did the pollution is increasing

there were swimming was over here and how it becomes so plays in us that they are viewed the. money it's money out of how we got those samples only. after discovering an exceptionally high level of water pollutants he visits the turner he. begin. coming over here we found this. illegal trade that is releasing the dogs to go out there without having paid men. in polluting waters going to the pound and polluting the agriculture the goals he will see taking the plants having this but he did what i did and i'll do made this weekend in munich to be ordered to let's go up this dust is very dangerous one of the this factories dust emissions are poisoning us. it also doesn't mention from this factory and we are not being affected.

by need to proclaim i think there's a problem with your water the oxygen levels in it will be low with the smell of money to the waters but i can tell from a smell. funny when the camera did a bit up that it would seem your water to. system isn't working every day i've got to get this and i know. you have invested in installing it but it doesn't work. but it did p.p. but you start functioning and this is this is proof of your failure the oxygen level is very low but i'm going to test it in front of you. that you can pick up it's very poor water it's older and color are so strong in order to. you'll see. this money from practical experience and this is what it is dog free from pollution samples show the level of oxygen dilution in the water to be a zero point four for a fish to survive it should be at nine. but there this is

a warning so that you correct your errors but i'm going to have to sanction you for your wrongdoing but you'll be closed down if you do nothing but to believe me i've had many factories shut down but you can check what i'm telling you it's in the press. the statutory fine for polluting the environment is ten thousand euros yes this appears this remains more of a threat than actually in full support of the law. putting to transparency international bangladesh is one of the twenty most corrupt countries in the world in his area bag nine of the largest turner is are owned by government members. after being. up or having our exit. poll. try to take some help from the get briefed on this and i'll take a. good example from our legal action.

to try to get some help from the i hope so but we didn't allow this unlawful already. everything is the government gives and the government gives in very easy because they get it on their. money. and then the money.

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free. to charge free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free video dog r.t. dot com. in two thousand and three the supremes called raised the alarm bordering the his area bag turner is to be relocated and brought up to standards the designated land fifty kilometers from dhaka was intended to accommodate the tanneries as well as a water treatment plant nine years later and still nothing has happened environmental activist dr masterson is working to be launched this project. this place was a bit you know it was a pretty clumsy place it is a law and dick surely after. setting up a new. city here welborne mint has filled up this land with. it

so people are getting thrilled and that's a thing has been done here but. and so people come here a bit under some people are coming here to see the new place how do developing it is not developing at all despite oh this coming from the government although this is from the government down there you know there's have not not a single strand of the owner has moved from this has shown any initiate the moving from this place to god please the reason is that it didn't go far. and making their. investment environment friendly they probably would have to make a major contribution with their profit and we don't understand one thing. industry group can be much stronger than the government when the quarter did good the down there is have to move within a certain day if they are bad i have to shed dollars then it was actually the government who are big on behalf of the dead lady or those in the court and the

government pleaded for an extension after so you see the gallery owners and the government coming to get their in asking for more pain from the court it could have been just the other way around the world. is developing country of one hundred fifty million inhabitants in shows it's economical survival thanks to the letter and text on industries which represent eighty percent of the nation's exports the market is booming. production costs in china have doubled over the last five years and the dish has become the place to go so bias from the west in two thousand and ten alone led the production heroes by forty percent. the industry supports a multitude of smaller businesses drying transportation waste intimidation and incineration. approximately one million people live for less than manufacturing and

its and syria activities nothing goes to waste in the straight. small skins will become purses and bags. even scraps of flesh fat and died less a remnant we used. thank you. these all scots a destined for the open air factories. that. yes yes we pick them up with our bare hands. and what's that.

it would never shavings the machines shred them here only they're going to. make a dent and there aren't enough of the bin. then to do anything with ash over there that's the fat we used to make so. it's only one of everything is what we see here is bad i mean these are actually waste so only the waste from the tanneries these are being used for different purposes i mean this is solid and liquid mix used for making salt but i know from the much you brian who watches that i mean these big dry crashed and she's actually raw material that she's trying to turn around for manufacture on three feet much income

i love it that ok this is a feat full speed and bone to pick. this bone meal is made from liz a list of those killed with animal carcasses and beef and trends it's then used to feed chickens and also prunes for the european market. one day and say i. want to see. many. chefs i don't see how they can listen to people eating fish and. chicken. paid to these. terrorists to get into my body. but what you see here it's unbelievable i mean i think of any. or any any any place. eighty open

air bone meal sack trees here built in the middle of housing and give those toxic fumes day and night which makes dhaka the most polluted city in the world. when you see the smoke over there a lot of fun to figure out how long could anyone last here does that take a look at the x. rays of inhabitants lungs any of them you'll see they're black under x. ray they appear black. a candid moment by the talks that fumes here spread for miles around. me dad like that that. you can smell it you're going to end up or not is good north south east or west in a fifteen kilometer radius is it getting stiffer to get them up and yours the same just. how much do you earn a twenty seven euro's and how long do you work for nonstop for they say they work

on this bridge. and in half an adult salary the children of bangladesh also toil for the leather industry to contribute to the nation's economy and to not triple. holding to the president of the franco bangladeshi chamber of commerce the country's strengths is its works all. before we take that bomb of this we continue to stay in the competitive level because we have been a large young force coming into the market embarrassed about two million work force . coming to market the present infrastructure industry and other infrastructures and private medium and these people are waiting for you know benefit disguised.

from them maybe why do you need. two workers where five workers are walking so this is an advantage for obama to. elicit work is publicly made up with child labor those figures enable us to tell how many children a working in the leather industry that they are everywhere despite the fact that bangladesh is a signatory to the international convention on the rights of the child its child labor is not clandestine and. eighty percent of bangladeshis live on less than two years a day the whole family has to work mothers often have no other choice than to go out to work school is still a luxury for the majority of children here. in

his area back over fifty percent of the population is illiterates. i hope my daughter will grow up to be a good person that she'll have an education that shall learn to read and write i want to be able to give her that.

the european union contributed two million euros to a number of his area back ten raids in the name of producing a cleaner less. announce the results when significant the only means of saving the population in the environment would be to place the tanneries outside. the moves of this kind is costly and would increase production costs by european purchases prepared to accept such a deal. the saddest thing is that we in this country we need industrialisation but not such industrialization because the africa you teach here is really really sad story. but i do have

the best i have seen that in a number of cases once the european view is once the european consumers i thought about the fact to take a position and that situation to improve. so i would definitely hope that the european consumers would start asking questions so that things heah get improved because in this particular case is if the buyer stake a position that can actually make life difficult for them. than anyone. else. time. when i took almost an hour to set up the. lovely. kind of life they. can do you think we're going to be poor all of our lives. but as i just want to earn more money if you don't need to be reach. on the side of.

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