tv Documentary RT August 17, 2013 1:29am-2:01am EDT
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as area bag is classified as one of the world's thirty most polluted sites it's tanneries or an out in 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 lings 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 treat and tender skins. this water goes into the sewers. it is no longer useful you know it is
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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 white the body gets really strong. and people are cockeyed dependent on this lever for a number of theories this we just saw some of which are believed by defy the affair by their way of being. if. we wash ourselves here because we. i have
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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 all of this evacuation system has been in use for a long time. but a dirty water inevitably goes into the river. there's nowhere else for it to go that's the way it is. bagnall the judge it would naturally flow into the river. thief of course water containing chemicals is bad for the health probable that would have been a bubble but if we worried about toxicity it would stop working. to go by when it was ready to do that. much in this country and the polluters needed factory
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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've been down that situation has become waters you see the washed polluted area that i have ever seen in bangladesh and in many other countries. maybe yes maybe a hundred forty yet and all the factories. releasing. three did leave we waste. seventy percent of the total position that is being caused to this rebirth is coming from the tennessee. don't be cruel money to the evil what does and is very difficult to take chromium out of your system. because such
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a slacker is contaminated with chromium and if it is contaminated activity that you can't even cure it that means you're actually exposing the entire population of this city into very deadly n.s.e. just. to tell you is have poisoned the city's entire canal system. was the main artery of . water and fish to the population. today it's the third most polluted river in the world no living will can is and can survive in it and the stench it exudes makes even sailing there is a difficult. issue . to leave that alone. you don't
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even need to. go back but that. wasn't the end of the water is poison can't be any fish with the tanneries. and our forefathers were fishermen and lived off it we haven't caught anything for seven months now the film. the task was to 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 my. god lives should use the. yes it. was. the.
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it's only during the rainy season with the fall of fresh water the fishermen can hope to catch a life fish. it would take many years and millions of euros to clean this water goes it a little more than i have that is what i've been eating here for thirteen years when i want to raise and clean it and my husband was a fisherman and we were leaving thanks to him out there on today the fish from the what it is inedible and my husband is out of work if the riva were cleaned or could leave well from it. to go to the government is responsible for the state of the boat aground a good long look what happened to it that this river runs right through dhaka how could they let this happen and the government does nothing. to human ecological consequences are nothing short of
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a contest of. the world trade organization has ruled that alternatives 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. how can i say that it's easy is it a much complicated. lending. industry and also for the race and then trends because. each of their. benefit and dry
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after having. we face so much pressure from the destroyer owners from the high yields to pulling complaint about pollution is to challenge very intense scientific team have come to take some samples. yes are you listening to me not all along they did find out which factories are responsible i think a belongs to the group like the one to the. money. we've got to get samples. telling did. you did the pollution is in grazing there were swimming was over here and how it becomes so that their. money is money out of how we got those samples. on the field. after discovering an exceptionally high level of water pollutants he visits the turner he. picked
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a good lead after coming over here and we found this. illegal trade this releasing the dogs to go out there without having paid men. in polluting water going to the pound and polluting the agriculture because he will see taking the plants having this but he did what i did and i did made this weekend in munich to be ordered to let's go up this dust is very dangerous one of those factories dust emissions are poisoning us. it also does to mission from this factory and we had of being a victim. of a bunny to proclaim i think there's a problem with your water the oxygen levels and it will be low with the smell of money to the waters but i can tell from that smell. funny going to the can we did a bit up but it would seem your water treatment. isn't working every day i've got
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to get this and i know. you have invested in installing it but it doesn't work. but it d.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. right you can put 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 factory shut down but you can check what i'm telling you it's in the press . the statutory fine for polluting the
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environment is ten thousand euros yes appears this remains more of a threat than actually enforcement 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 tanneries are owned by government members. after being. approached having already. been told try to take some help from the get rid of this banality. good example from our legal action. to try to get some help from the high hopes so but. they didn't allow this unlawful already. every day it's the government gives and the government gives invasively because they're dead ya know. money because the danity owners have with but and then we
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printed them money that. didn't cross the south enforcing. world. science technology innovation all these developments from around russia we've gone through huge earth covered. most of these boys has been couples a lot for violence or theft. of the window climbed in and tried to start it. we pushed it a little way here we were drunk. and soon who you're an alcoholic nearly all of them are homeless orphans with no money or relatives. where you could go to without me. for a moment but there it felt like i was back but those street hooligans are going to
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beat me up at any moment. you know that i turned my back i couldn't help wondering about my safety. isn't a warden he's there the father you could say that slobber raises us he makes normal people out of ugly duckling. choose your language. because we know if they feel some of the. truth of the the concerns you. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that imply the life truth be accessed often.
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thank you. you. have you with us here on t.v. today. in two thousand and three the supremes called raised the alarm bordering the his area back tanneries to be relocated and brought up to standard the designated land fifty kilometers true 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
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place was a bit you know it was pretty clumsy place it is a law and picture really after. setting up a new. government has filled up to. it so people are getting thrilled and i think has been done here but. people are coming to see the new place how would you know it is not. despite all these commitments from the government all of this is systems from the government. down to the owners have not not this and that the owner has moved from the star has shown any need of moving from this place should out there please the reason is that if they go far. and making their. investment environment friendly they probably would have to make a major contribution with their profit but we don't understand one thing. in
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just a group can be much stronger than the government when the court did it did they get there is have to move within a certain day if they are they have to show dollar that it was actually the government who are big on behalf of the dead lady owners 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 how do you know the law. is developing country of one hundred fifty million inhabitants ensures its 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 buyers from the west in two thousand and ten a love letter production heroes but forty percent of the industry supports
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a multitude of smaller businesses in drying transportation waste intimidation and incineration. approximately one million people live for less than manufacturing and it's 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. these
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also cuts a distance from the open air factories. that yes yes we pick them up with our bare hands. and what's that. to gauge and it would lever shavings the machines shred them here only they're going to. make a dent and they're i've just been. going to do anything with that over there that's the fat we used to make soap and so we manage 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 not you brian
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is that i mean these. dry trash and deceased actually raw material that you say to turn around on manufacture on three feet much income at the last minute that ok d'souza feet fish feed and on to take. this bone meal is made from laissez leftovers pulled with animal carcasses and beef and trends it's didn't used to feed chickens and also prunes for the european market. on danish say. what you see is. no chance i don't see chemicals or sick people eating fish and. chicken. paid p.b.s. we. have never seen you get my money. but
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what you see here is time labor i mean i think of any. or any any any place. eighty open air bone meal factories here built in the middle of housing and give those toxic fumes day and night which makes death the most polluted city in the world. when you see the smoke over there going to be about how long could anyone last here . 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. it can't be my talks at fumes here spread for miles around. me dad i've got that. you can smell it you're going to turn up or not is good north south east or west of them in
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a fifteen kilometer radius is it getting stiffer to get them on and yours the same . how much do you earn a month twenty seven euro's and how long do you work for nonstop survey 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 trivial. holding to the president of the franco bangladeshi chamber of commerce the country's strengths is its works alls. before we take that bomb of this we continue to stay in the competitive level because we have been large young force coming into the market there is about two million work force. coming to market the
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president infrastructure industry and other infrastructures and private media and these people are going for you know benefit guys. from that i mean why do you need . two workers where five workers are walking so this is an advantage obama. elicit were his party made up of child labor those figures enable us to tell how many children a working in the leather industry but 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.
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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. and i hope my daughter will grow up to be a good person that she'll have an education that she'll learn to read and write i
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want to be able to give her that. the european union contributed two million euros to a number of his area back tender it's in the aim of producing a clean unless it's 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 purchase is prepared to accept such a deal. the saddest thing is that we in this country we need industrialisation
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but not such industrialization because the effect of h.h. 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 good about the fact they take a position and that situation to improve. so i would definitely hope that the european consumers would start asking questions so that takes heah getting proof because in this particular case is if the buyer stake a position that can actually make life difficult for them. than any on. when i took the last two that were to set up a. lot of money. i didn't say that.
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polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were often they could get what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said.
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