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the anyone can prove they are or aren't a citizen without id and if you're looking for people who are foreign and thus different then how can you go about looking for illegals without looking for people who are different i.e. profiling if you are looking for a criminal or slavic origin in uganda where the police be wrong to stop me due to standing out from the crowd i don't think so that's not racial profiling it is just common sense obviously it is best to fight the causes of illegal immigration rather than asking for id and ask our subways but they have to do something so i guess id checks are here to stay but there is a big difference between looking at someone's passport and doing stop and frisk or involuntary blood and urine tests that is what immigration control goes over the line but pressure just my opinion. has very bag is classified as one of the world's thirty most polluted sites it's ten there is an hour soon out ecological disaster playing to waste everything
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around them every day the factories belch for fifteen thousand cubic meters of toxic refuse leaving it to pile up in the housing and along the river bank. to 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 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 losing the river.
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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. think this event is there life say enough this is only a walk away i guess it comes to pack up and people enough cockeye dependent on this rebirth for a number of freezes as we just saw some of which are believed by defy the affair by the lead 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 fountains so we have to wash them this filthy water. just like many others
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the owner of this small town every specialized in dying skins is unconcerned by the hazards his activity gives rise to. the owner 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 it to go that's the way it is. that 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. much in this country and the polluters needed factory owners well polluting they don't think what i clean up. philip again is a bangladeshi son. just in ten years he's been the only person to study the
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question of the pollution produced by the turner is of his area back. i think that that situation has become worse he sees 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 all the factories. releasing their treated liquid waste. seventy per cent of the total position that is being caused to this river is coming from the ten destress dumping chromium into their lever waka and it's very difficult to take chromium out of your system. if you're such a sucker is contaminated with chromium and if it is contaminated activity that you can't even cure rate that means you're actually exposing the entire population of
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this city into a very deadly n.s.e. . to tell you is have poisoned the city's entire canal system. was the main artery of . offering drinkable water and fish to the population. today it's the third most polluted river in the world no living will can this and can survive in it and the stench it exudes makes even sailing the river difficult. has been confirmed. yet. that a low. bid. you don't need a gun. ownership but that it would. cost. it was the water is poisoned there
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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 what the film. was we carry on even if there are no more fish we can barely survive. those would look. to do all you see are empty nets although you know what. was. the. yes there. was. the. run. but. it's only during the rainy season with the form of fresh water the fishermen
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couldn't hope to catch a life fish. it would take many years and millions of euros to clean this water though you didn't really. think i think. that is i have been living here for thirteen years on what to resign clean and my husband was a fisherman and we were leaving thanks to seem that over today the fish from the body gun there is inedible and my husband is out of where if the river were cleaned well could leave well from it. to go to the government is responsible for the state of the blood of dong a good long 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 short of x. tester of. the world trade organization has ruled that all turn to is must be brought up to international regulation the standards by two so. thousand and
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fourteen but bangladesh finds itself in a catch twenty two situation town 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 it's very much complicated. challenging. family stress and also follow the race and then trends because. each and every effort and dry after having. a phrase so much pressure from the destroyer owners from the high ups. pulling complaint about pollution mr
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choudary and scientific team have come to take some samples. no longer yes are you listening to me not our long defined which factories are responsible i think a belongs to the group but with what do the. money. we've got to get samples. telling. us their way did the pollution is in grazing there were swimming was over here how it becomes so why is it that there. are already money and money out of how we got those samples. on a field. after discovering an exceptionally high level of water pollutants even if it's the tannery. coming over here we found this illegal trade did this releasing these. well to go out there without having to mend
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this leg and polluting what they're going to be in and polluting the agriculture the cows you'll see baking the plants having this really did work there and they'll do made this into the candle stick to be ordered to let's go up this dust is very dangerous one of those factories dust emissions are poisoning us. this it also doesn't it mission from this factory and we had the thing i picked it. up i need to proclaim i think there's a problem with your water but the oxygen levels in it will be low with the smell of body to the water as. i can tell from that smell. but it wonder can we did a bit help but it would seem your water treatment system isn't working every day i got to get this and i know. you've invested in installing it but it doesn't work. but it did p.p. but it's not functioning and this is this is proof of your failure the oxygen level
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is very low but i'm going to test it in front of you. right you can pick up it's very poor water it's odor and color are so strong in order to. you'll see. this money from pick because experience and this is what it is dog free from pollution samples show the level of oxygen dilution in the water to be 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 if 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. to start treaty fine for polluting the environment is ten thousand euros yes this appears this remains more of a straight than actually full sprint of the law. putting. transparency international
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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. a person having already in the bank most told try to take some help from the get. this banal day. old good example from our legal action. they tried to get some help from the high ups a but. didn't allow this to unload already. every day it's the government give scene and the government gives invasively because they're dead on earth money because the gallery owners have a whip but and they replenish their money back at. the process enforcing the law against.
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the israelis you. do you. believe. i am.
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live live. live . we speak for language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school here on the. reporting from the world talks about the v.o.i.p. interviewers intriguing story for you here. in trying.
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to find out more visit arabic t.v. . in two thousand and three the supremes called raised the alarm bordering the his area back turner is to be relocated and brought up to standard the designated land fifty kilometers. 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 billy you know it was pretty clumsy place it is a law and security after. setting up a new. city here. has filled up to. get people out of getting thrilled and say nothing has been done here but. one hundred people are coming to see the new place how do you know it is not
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developing at all despite all this commitments from the government all of this is from the government down there your letters have not not this and that 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 court did it did they get there is have to move within a certain day for our behalf to show dollar that 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 from the court it could have been just how do you
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know the law. is developing country of one hundred fifty million inhabitants in shows it's economical survival thanks to the letter and textile industries which represent eighty percent of the nation's exports eleven 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 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 its and syria activities nothing goes to waste in this trade. small skins will become purses and bags.
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even scraps of flesh fat and died less a remnant we used. thank you. these all scott's a destined for the openness actress. yes yes we pick them up with our bare hands. and what's that. to gauge and it would never shavings the machines shred them i'm going to they're going to.
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make a dent and. i'm just a been i'm going to do anything with that but over there that's the fat 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 this is solid and liquid mix used for making. what i know from them are you brian is that i mean these big dry trash and deceased actually raw material that you say to turn around or manufacture on three feet much income i was going to do that ok d'souza feet fish feed and bone to pick. this bone meal is made from less the leftovers pulled with animal carcasses and beef and trails it's then used to feed chickens and also
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prunes for the european market. danes. want to seize. any. chance i don't see how they can see. people eating fish and. chicken. paid p.b.s. we. have never seen you getting my money. but what you see here it's unbelievable i mean i think of any. or 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.
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when you see the smoke over there what i want to say about how long could anyone last here with that take a look at the x. rays of been habitants 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. 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 month twenty seven euro's and how long do you work for nonstop survey say they work at this group hours.
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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 do not trickle. holding to the president of the franco bangladeshi chamber of commerce the country's strengths is its works. 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 in various about two million work force . in the common market the president infrastructure industry and other infrastructures and private media and these people are waiting for you know benefit guys. from that maybe why do you need. two workers where five workers are walking so this is an advantage obama.
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elicit workers publicly 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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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 she'll learn to read and write i want to be able to give her that.
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the european union contributed two million euros to a number of his area back ten degrees 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 tender is outside. of the moves of this kind is costly and would increase production costs for 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 east africa h.-h. here is really pretty sad story. but i do think the best i've seen that in a number of cases once the european view is once the european consumers i heard about the fact they take a position and that situation to improve. so i would definitely hope that the
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european consumers would start asking question so that pays heah get improved because in this particular case is if the buyer stake a position that can actually make life difficult for them. carry on. now. and it took almost an hour to set up the. lovely. i don't live in. town who do you think we're going to be poor all of our lives. the next match as it is not as i just want to earn more money but you don't need to be rich it's all ok on the side of.
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the.
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real damage. and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for democracy it's
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a step forward. carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. this bill is. one of the new common in washington d.c. thank you ali face i think people. a pleasure to have you with us here today i'm sure.
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the olympic torch is on its epic journey to such. a one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand and nine hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip. the
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olympic flame is handed to russia during the traditional ceremony and. before arriving in two thousand and fourteen a winter games. shows the. cooperation with. the u.s. government. is.

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