tv Documentary RT August 18, 2013 11:29am-12:01pm EDT
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dollars simply does not work but continues to exist despite the cuban government completely blocking the transmission the official logic of continue the program is that it would send a bad message to the cuban government if they stopped brilliance and action but the big question is who gives the us government the right to propagandize cuba it just because they have a different lifestyle doesn't mean it is wrong and the us government does has the right to destroy it and even if cubans on mass actually do hate their system then it is their job to change cuba not the military industrial complex and its cronies in washington but that's just my opinion.
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has area bagus classified as one of the world's thirty most polluted sites it's turner is an auslan 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 to 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 required to wash treats 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 berg anger 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. this event is there life saying no this is only a walk of what he does that really struck us and the point of god god dependent on this rebirth for a number of frees this we just sum up we did it if i defy the affair by their way of being. we wash ourselves here because we have no other choice we have no running water there are always two hundred people waiting at the public
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fountains so we have to wash them this filthy water. just like many others the owner of the small town every specialized in dying skins is unconcerned by the hazards his activity gives rise to. the more 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 it to go that's the way it is. back all the joy it would naturally flow into the river. thief of course water containing chemicals is bad for the health probable that would have been available but if we worried about toxicity it would stop working. to go by when it was ready to do that. in this country. the polluters need to factory owners polluting they don't pay for
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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 tender age of his area back. i think that that situation has become worse you see the washed polluted area that i have ever seen in bangladesh and in many other countries. maybe maybe and again these are all pretty yeah and they're all factories. releasing. treated liquid waste. seventy per cent of the total that is being caused to this river is coming from the ten industries dumping crombie any today even walked up and it's very difficult to take chromium out of your system. if you're such a slacker is contaminated with chromium and if it is contaminated activity that you
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can't even cure it that means you're actually exposing the entire population of the city into a very deadly n.s.e. . 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 consume can survive in it the stench it exudes makes even sailing there is a difficult. issue here. that are low. you don't you don't. she showed
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up but that. wasn't the end of the water is poisoned there can't be any fish with the tanneries. you our forefathers were fishermen and lived off it we haven't caught anything for seven months now what the film. was we carry on even if there are no more fish we can barely survive. that would look. good you know you see our empty nets although you know what. was. good news the. yes. that is. the. brunt. of it but.
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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 that you didn't really. think i think. that is i've been living here for ten thousand here is what to resent clean it and my husband was a fisherman and we were leaving thanks to seem that over today the fish from the begun to is inedible and my husband is out of work if the river were clean to look could leave well from it. to go to the government is responsible for the state of the buddha going to look what happened to it or not this river runs right through to how could they let this happen and the government does nothing. the human ecological consequences are nothing. sort of x.
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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. how can i say that it's easy it's very much complicated. challenger. family street corner and also for local race and then fans because. each in their benefit dry after having. a phrase so much pressure from they destroy
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our owners from the high hopes following complaint about pollution mr choudary and scientific team have come to take some samples. no longer yes are you listening to me not all along they did find out which factories are responsible i think a bunch of the group lead with what do the. money. we've got to get samples. for. their way did the pollution is increasing there were swimming once over here how it becomes so why is it that there. are already money if money or have you got those samples. on a field. after discovering an exceptionally high level of water pollutants even if it's the tannery own. to begin. coming over here we found this
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illegal trade this releasing the docs acquired it without having paid men. in polluting what are going to be found and polluting the agriculture the cows you'll see taking the plants having this really did work there and they'll do made this into the kennel mandich to be audited let's go up this dust is very dangerous one of those factories dust emissions are poisoning us. this it also doesn't mission from this factory and we had the thing i picked it. up the funny thing problem i think there's a problem with your water the oxygen levels in it will be low with the smell of money just the water is bad i can tell from it smell. funny when the can we did a bit up but it would seem your water treatment system isn't working every day i got to put this and i know. you've invested in installing it but it doesn't work.
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but it d.p.p. but it's not 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 odor and color are so strong in order to pull you'll see. this money from pic to experience this is what it is don't free from pollution samples show the level of oxygen dilution in the water to be zero point four two fish to survive it should be at nine. but they say 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 entire.
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mint is ten thousand euros yes this appears this remains more of a threat than actually been to the little. coding to transparency international bangladesh is one of the twenty most corrupt countries in the world in his area nine of the largest turner is are owned by government members. after being. approached having already. been told try to take some held high hopes to get. this a. good example from our legal action. to try to get some help from now i hope so but. didn't below this. already more than every day since the government gave scene and the government gives invade easy because they get your news money because the danity
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owners have but and then we put them money that can. process and. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. mission free cretaceous a free country or a judge is free to arrangement free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects. free medio dog tom. tom
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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 from was intended to accommodate the tanneries as well as a water treatment plant nine years later and still nothing has happened environmental activist dr masson is working to relaunch this project. this place was a billy you know it was pretty place it is a truly after. setting up a new. city here. filled up to. get people out of getting thrilled. i think has been done but.
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one hundred people are coming to see the new place how developing it is not developing at all despite all this coming menace from the government all this is from the government. down there you know there's have not not this and the owner has moved from this there are 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 just a group can be much stronger than the government when the quarter did it did they get there is have to move within the so i think they are better have to show dollars then it was actually the government who appeared 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 going to get there in asking for more pain
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from the court it could have been just the other way around. this 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 bangladesh has become the place to go so buyers from the west in two thousand and ten alone led the production heroes forty percent. the industry supports a multitude of smaller businesses in drying transportation waste intimidation and incineration. approximately one million people live for less than manufacturing and it's an sulu activities nothing goes to waste in the straight.
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small skins will become purses and bags. even scraps of flesh fat and died less a remnant of we used. these also cuts a destined for the open aspect troops. yes yes we pick them up with our bare hands. a little bit and what's that. it would lever shavings the machines shred them here knowing that they're going to
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. make a dent and. i think that's the been. going to do anything with that over there that's the fight we used to make so. it's only money everything is what we see here is bad i mean these are actually waste so only the waste from the families these are being used for different purposes i mean the solid and liquid mix used for making. what i know from them are you brian who is that i mean these big dry crashed and this is actually raw material that you say to turn around for manufacture on three feet much and come on the last minute that he sees sophie told fish feed and on to take. this bone meal is made from lead the
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leftovers pulled with animal carcasses and beef and trails it's then used to see chickens and also prunes for the european market. on danes. want to see. many. chances to see how they can listen to people eating fish and. chicken. paid the fees we. have terrorists to get you to my body. but what you see here it's unbelievable i mean unthinkable any. for any any place. eighty open air bone meal factories here built in the middle of housing and give those toxic
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fumes day and night which makes death the most polluted city in the world. when you see the smoke over there what i want to say about 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. it can't be what i kind of talks of fumes here spread for miles around. me dad live down the alabama you can smell it you're going to turn up or not is good north south east or west in a fifteen kilometer radius is it getting stiffer to get them out and yours the same just. how much do you earn a twenty seven euro's and how long do you work for nonstop survey say they work on this bridge.
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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 treat all. 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 embarrassed about two million work force. coming to market the present infrastructure industry and other infrastructures and private media and these people are waiting for you know benefit disguised empowerment maybe why do you need. two workers where five workers are walking so this is an
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advantage obama. elicit workers party made up of 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
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the european union contributed two million euros to a number of his area back turner 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 but not such industrialization because the effect of a cheap here is really really sad story. but i do have the best i've seen that in a number of cases once the european viewers once the european consumers i thought
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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 things cea get improved because in this particular case is if the buyer stake a position that didn't actually make life difficult for them. carry on. now. and it took almost an hour to set up a. lot of money because. i didn't like it they. can you think we're going to be poor all their lives. has it that it doesn't just want to earn more money if you don't need to be reach it all ok in the south.
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