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tv   Prime Interest  RT  October 3, 2013 8:30pm-9:01pm EDT

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i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on we're. going to get. at our teen years we have a different thread. because the news of the world just is not this funny
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me today the european consumer has no way of knowing the origin of the leather he bites. feel. the number of e.u. member states have deed localized production and see no reason for shoes and leather bags to be labeled made in bangladesh. i have my own business and how they get up in. the etc very happy
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to buy to play the fact that they don't think i made this and if we buy this coming from the europeans i totally i know they evolved to help. our neighbors and being exposed to for supplying. their goods to. over the last twenty years bangladesh has become a global center full of the production. this industry generates over three hundred fifty million euros per year for the country. and has a very bad. sealed. producing the clothes and leather goods that flood the international market. that was more than fourteen million skins are treated every year in the slum warehouses
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in tanneries sit side by side. a nightmare situation for which we westerners are also responsible i served was. that. all skins arrived like this every day and each one of the factories where in one of the has very bad tenor is an average sized factory employing around thirty workers it's here that the cycle of leather tending begins. every day around one thousand tonnes of skins arrive directly from avatar's all over the country to be stored in this hangar.
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goat in cowskin derive coated in salt so as to avoid rapid decay. but if you want to say i was in the morning we get the deliveries and we cover the skins and lie rinse them and dry them how they was mixed after applying the chemicals we place them in the tanning drums and then we wash them i don't know why there was ever going to get there what did we do this three times over and in but then again there was. a large proportion of the litter bags jackets and other accessories we buy today produced in tanneries such as this the working conditions. antiquated nothing has changed in thirty years neither machines nor techniques. telling is a long process to remove the parasites the facts and the hez workers carry handle
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scrape and treat the tons of skins using numerous chemical products and wearing only gloves for protection. agency i am cutting the small pieces of skin that had been damaged during washing. sharman is one of the forty cells and working in a tanner is more than twelve hours a day nonstop manual workers are hired on a daily basis without training all contracts. few women are able to withstand such physically exhausting and wearing labor.
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i wear a scarf to protect my hair otherwise i would lose it because of the lime water. and when the water runs over my hands it burns away my skin and what i. meant in the others put up with these working conditions for the simple reason that today in bangladesh forty percent of the population is unemployed getting a job in eternity is considered a lucky break. the main problem in the tannery is the smell. that it makes us sick blackens and eats away at our skin. i don't know but people
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like me have no other choice than we have to take the job that. i work long hours i have to cut the small leather pieces and unwrap the new skins they arrive. here to live what sometimes the skins are crawling with parasites and smell this towel. to find it takes away my appetite. i remember my first day of work in the factory. the smell was so disgusting that i threw up and fainting like so many guy had the noise of the machines pounding in my head until it would burst. but i did and i was sick for a week after but now i'm used to it.
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and doesn't know how old she is she may be twenty she's been working in a tunnel risa to lose on a good months she can earn forty euros i can't let. a down this is my mother's house. i was a kid and this is my daughter. rosa post's three year old daughter thank you dan. i don't know then and the more. you know what. i. did. back then that there is nothing at the factory they are no medical support. and that i have no friends and there are no safety regulations
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you know when i start every day at eight am and there's no paid overtime they should you know i never get any holidays and if i miss half a day they count it as a full day i don't know if i'm sick it's the same they count me up sent one so i have to go to work and even when i'm ill. i've never like i've been otherwise i'll have no money left at the end of the month. my money back was that it was not a little bit of a let. sharman spends ten euros on her rent and for this price she gets one tiny room in which to house the whole family. to the kid who was like the majority of the slums five hundred thousand residents are dependent on the leisure industry. is enough that the abortion i never get a pay rise. get down i asked for one in january but nothing happened they said to
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be happy with what i had or leave money god i had the child after paying my rent and giving some money to my parents there's almost nothing left but then does a good raft if i had a better salary i could save some money but it's impossible right now. to where we're human i need money to bring up my daughter and send her to school that there's no one to show you did how can i educate her properly without money to get them i'm sure of the others even if i should have had a hard life will be the same for my kids. sherman would like to be able to count on her husband to feed the family. what i was. what time did you get back home. at five and you left because i went to the fish market he should leave for work at noon i caught a cold i didn't feel well ok i'm not trying to tell you go to work at noon because
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you can't call. me how do you think i'm going to go to work at eight. little one preparing dinner. thank. you. i never wake up i don't get out now that. they are still out there it goes we have no electricity and no gas here so it's difficult to cook partnership that's going to send it to. hide like i'm more comfortable in cleaner life. i keep cleaning but everything gets dirty so
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quickly and i had to get. we live with the stink of the tanneries. we have every kind of problem here. good job i love you but we can't afford to go anywhere else so i have to stay in this disgusting environment going all resonate with it that it was like that again. i. would. never. think of him with a population as twelve million to watch and it's a serious problem thirty percent of the population don't have any sherman and her husband are among those who have the privilege of access to a water pump which they share with the neighbors but it's not drinkable and has to be paid for if you move. chamique my husband pulls
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rickshaws back but he only works part time i don't mind then his that's why i have to work. was a little guy. there's the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same motion security place your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. .
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crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. that i work for a miserable wage and they yell at me that i had to show them a day or not but yeah. i guess this morning
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i didn't go to work because i didn't feel well he doesn't look under the bus was unhappy about that he got angry with me and he told me i would lose my job if i didn't come but how can i work in this state my hands and my feet hurt so much. less a worker's feet and hands are eaten away by the chemical products used throughout the turning process these products are extremely toxic for the skin but also when inhaled the telling factories have no ventilation system. all the workers are exposed to danger but especially those who are in direct contact with the chemicals . proximately three hundred products necessary to soften and die the skins ammonium acids saline venza ceo's old crow mates hydrogen sulfide and more.
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inflammable explosive and corrosive they use requires training the workers never receive. we use all the derivatives of potassium. calcium and ammonium. when we rinse the skins we use lots of acids. and we put them in the drums that can be dangerous. for the new workers it's dangerous but after they get used to it i. look at my hands there i k. there's no problem the batteries because i've just used chemicals. that. one is a few doctors working in his area bag. eat you know. this liver evolution and. then the other feed. if you want to do that
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you are going. to fix the collars on the skins the workers use mercury huge quantities are used for blue and for black this process has been outlawed in france for twenty years because mercury permeates the body and contaminates all the vital organs. stop thinking feeling. the same and use. these. days. in two thousand and ten at apex one of the country's so-called model tanneries three workers died and ten was seriously injured in an explosion caused by an error
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in the handling of chemicals. i guess there are accidents you have to be careful throughout the whole process especially when turning the drums on and off and when you put the chemicals in. we often drop the sacks on our feet touch the chemicals. one third of workers will be. injured. the fifty years now the tenants union representing twenty thousand workers has attempted to improve working conditions for its members with the but to no avail one of what i've been one of the pocket unthought on a little beyond his conversation and their behavior towards us with the shows that their priority is to give us the least they can because truth for many years of their union our union has put forward peaceful solutions. that they show no
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interest in will not. run with it i mean i think with the type shit i go on i don't want to so we have no other choice than to revolt from an adult up i don't know what. long live the union strike no workers unite workers of the world unite workers of the world get up and fight the most obnoxious the more almost all of us are sick or not going to the bosses have never taken any health measures for night and i don't want doctors in the factories caring for the workers you know but i'm like that's why every day here at work is die from leather sickness look at the gum or see. when the workers take to the streets to demand an increase in the minimum wage to police welcome them with guns and ammunition. in two thousand and ten several thousand demonstrated three died
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fifty were injured and hundreds were arrested. i'm not sure. the leisure industry that is not a risk to health. we want the bosses to respect the employment and health law. just lation of this country you know see because she does go for the money going to go by ignoring the law they make bigger profits lobby have got on.
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as it does allow i do this to protect her from evil. than to lead the nation either leg but. my daughter is three but she still can't walk properly there are a lot. she has trouble eating and falls over a lot and. i think she still can't talk to one of allah now she's very weak and her health is very fragile her under there and i'm not too bad but i can only afford to feed her rice and biscuits right back ok fine i guess i will give it a. new day castelli. shelmon has no health protection the only way she can obtain health care is at the same sold dispensary which also is free consultations.
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oh ok. ninety percent of the of the workers develop an illness as a direct consequence of their work if you live beyond fifty. what are your symptoms in the six months i've gradually been feeling worse and worse and the more i work out the weaker i get. where do you work. at the other factory. career women working in canneries are often frail. they suffer from the general infections that very joint pain fever and coughing.
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children want to. finish it off and have respiratory complications going to the manor rosso debilitated or dysfunctional. little suffering from parts problems and gastritis. simply. shamming also worries for her daughter who is not growing well i'm coming to. visit where is your child while you are working that or she stays of my little brother. i'm here for the last twenty years right now i'm just living here to solving the one you're doing the publishing. company. you believe if you want to live. in this very bag no one is. tight as he is three hundred times higher
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here than in the rest of the country but sherman and her family have no other choice than to endure the working conditions and to live in the sun breathable environment if you come home. this is your first time you come. here you come. here i'm coming from long sleeve now. i don't live here. but if you. don't see. this team down there. recently and despite her age sherman's mother was forced to go back to work in an open air factory in the center of the.
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here there's some terrible smells better but what can we do. i wonder if we had rice in our belly what would worry about it but it can't be our priority today. in the countryside life is peaceful. in other countries there is not political there is no work no food and in the winter. of the dish. that does happen. every year eight hundred thousand people leave their own fertile land so thirty loons crowding to has every bag and its surrounding area it's. a willing to accept such conditions because the turner is of their only hope.
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sharmeen is among these climate refugees she's originally from. the northern island of bangladesh and ghost by water in two thousand and five the hair salon. to go by and we had to come here yeah because the river overflowed that lot of them and house was washed away. and i don't know. that i will be again so i'm going to have a little thing i. did to my parents of nowhere else to live so they stay here with us. they generally do with the on the bike and i gave it to her what is your but i'm also from poland and i ended up here because my home was swept away i built my house seven times and seven times it was carried away by the flood waters i have no more land to live on and no money to buy more there was no more work for us there that's why i came to talk about it when i'm on the rails i work at the tannery for
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forty five euros a month it's the only way for me to survive. on this here. among sherman's friends and family some children also have to work to help their parents. sometimes you know you have the idea that one of the reason i think is and i think that the. most i think. for mine i'm sentimental for this is. hearing it in the name in the business but again my gametes your mother works instead of your father and you need me. to upload. the fact that. we're going to do. the job the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because
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