seals should be a bit keep. in all this. at the end of the sixty's leo does jones was a prisoner here in holmesburg a suburb of philadelphia in the united states. a prisoner but also a guinea pig for industry like thousands of other inmates. face but this is will the bit of woods as in the human history in this case it was will only need times have you taken. the. baby to live that it's. the people's different is that they was money in some sounds a whole lot like to suggest that it's in the ok. this practice was confidential at the time because multinational chemical companies came here to test the risks of their products. to earn a few dollars the prisoners participated in several tasks but none of them knew

what they were being given. when they would do they would create the tape. and stick implements to the police to get them pull it and then put in troponin the substance would have been was there was in it for in that area and what up enough to. all movement body musk investment. in certain areas along in its last. in money somewhere around in the areas you sign in a paper as they need them it was informed consent for the was just simply been too waved him from beyond the law book. if anything go wrong. one company did everything they could to keep this a secret they even paid leo to stone for his silence. dow chemical.

the leading manufacturer of plastics in the world and the third largest manufacturer of pesticides dow chemical has an annual turnover of forty eight billion dollars and fifty thousand employees around the globe. in the wake of this chemical giant there's an industry of staggering profitability and industry in a frantic race to innovate each year their new toxic products reach the market these multinationals all have one thing in common a culture of secrecy. following us. polluting lands rivers and groundwater. behind the fumes of these factories we have discovered tens of thousands of victims. in india children are born with severe disabilities. in the us those who have dedicated their lives to this

industry everybody will get it because it and the money and the benefits it was secure are now paying the price those guys are all dead and i should bet by their. face with these tragedies the chemical giants have adopted a specific course of action. lack of transparency cynicism denial. in the meantime they continue to reap the profits. in holmes bird prison dow experimented on the inmates with one of the most carcinogenic products in the world dioxin. it's one of the molecules in agent orange. the powerful herbicide that doll

produced for the american army during the vietnam war. the air force dumped it on the vietcong for a decade at the same time. the tests were being performed at holmesburg. from that time on dow was already aware of the dangers of dioxin the company put in writing in this confidential note from june one thousand nine hundred sixty five. dioxin is exceptionally toxic. some months later dow would study its side effects on the prisoners. may say. in the way you know one of them one in the form. we would contest something. with. fish an incumbent. he went away and.

we found one of the doctors that perform the tests at holmesburg in the one nine hundred sixty s. . today he's an oncologist at northwestern hospital in chicago. sigman vitamin is preparing to retire. he is one of the few witnesses still alive every day i had a over all of twenty vents they were coming in all day. all day long people were all absolutely will it was. a machine. in one nine hundred sixty seven sigman weitzman was only twenty one years old he was an intern at holmesburg the senior physician overseeing the tests never told him the names of the products used on the prisoners. he only realized later that he administered

human beings we show him what knew back then about the chemical. this is serious. this is years old yeah. this is the first time you you read this. i mean. i'm appalled just very. casual. guilty that i was. you know. it's just simple. you know as if these people are just experimental animals and nowadays it would be criminal.

was never prosecuted when prisoners tried to take action against the company the statute of limitations had expired. this multinational would not only poison inmates with dioxin but also tens of thousands of people in midland michigan in the north of the us. the birthplace of. the chemical company. revolutionary chemical killer. this is where agent orange was manufactured. its production created waste extremely high and. secretly dumped this waste into the river that flows through the city.

in one thousand nine hundred one one man would discover the truth we had a conclusion there that it was a major source of not the only source to the river and certainly to the community and that people were at risk. at the time milton clark was a toxicologist for the e.p.a. the government agency responsible for environmental protection. with his colleagues he wrote a report condemning dallas practices. mud right before the report's publication the corporation would succeed in pressuring the acting chief of the e.p.a. in washington. we went into shock we had never heard of such a thing ever that the company that we were regulating they would have the right to review a report comment on it before it's released and when they did ask you about that

and it was critically important to say that people were at risk but they did not want to just basically want to squash the report ok and eventually the final report they prevailed and so they truncated it down and removed critical sections and all the conclusions were taken away. pressured by his superiors milton clarke was forced to censor the report. the result pollution in midland michigan would continue for thirty years with impunity. and the executives that would continue denying the dangers. there is no health problem and there is absolutely no evidence doing any damage to humans. in two thousand and six one woman would attack the multinational again. at the. time mary gate oversaw all

the offices at the environmental agency in the middle and regional she had leverage she'd been nominated by the president of the united states george w. bush. newly appointed she demands that more testing be done in the city. these astronomically high levels of dioxin levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels ever in the united states one of the things that was astonishing to me when this came to my attention was that for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed on. these high levels so yeah we found it and and and yards along side the river system parks where children play where people launch their boats were fishermen put their boats in the water this is where people live so i immediately called dow senior officials and said we're very concerned about these levels we needed to take action as that unfolded the deck with company was not happy it's extremely expensive to clean up this much

contamination hundreds of millions of dollars if not more. to lodge a complaint a dow goes directly to the white house. i was asked. may first of two thousand and eight to either resign or quit by the end of the day. ok were you surprised yes very much so in my thirty some years of working in environmental protection and much of that spend in the government i would have never expected that that was acting in its own interests the doubt was trying to make sure that it saved as much money as possible. as a result of these maneuvers for decades thousands of people have lived surrounded by dioxin without knowing the risks. we wanted to meet these victims. but in midland it's hard to loosen tons. has supported the city for one hundred twenty years and reminders. at every corner

. of the bank the stadium the library the public park the high school. the shadow of the company is everywhere. this talk about blackness and the blues of being black. and always well in a big house down at least that's what i've been told but it was simply did we and remains as such because we simply forgot i don't believe. the scene we've allowed them to rearrange out paint you've told us the sickness of trusting our enemy came to face. that's what i call a lack of blackness or understanding the blues of being black. she blues of being black should mandate that we attack knowing how when and what to do to come this simple in his natural as be beck is simply tat the feelin blue is black and blue.

was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle for. the new socks for the tell you that because of the public lifestyles of the. off the bad guys and tell you on the whole and not by. the oval office that we all are on the watch. if she's old enough to post decent talk show. how now that the law is up to that whole people. can only

go so if you. just. have to leave the us but you got a pretty. good barbecue what about the. cause i don't know that my. body itself was ok. but the investigate police officers behavior as well. i'll take drugs on the web and stand up in the presence here. calling people as you are. the. only one person agreed to break the code of silence.

kilter spends most of her life here near the river this is where she raised her family. oh this is where we used to have the zip line way back here how can we use to have all trails that wind down three here i don't even know if you can see any of them over here. but eighteen years in in that land is very fertile. and it was used for motocross trails and hiking trails and dune buggy trip. just you know recreation in the woods where kids it was like a wonderland it was you know an adventure they could explore and they could build forts and they do all those things no one advised you that there was. no.

we just that we. imagine for us to play in place of family. for nearly forty years the peculiar family would live here blissfully unaware of their toxic surroundings. every spring the river floods their garden bringing in a fresh wave of dioxins. not discover the true extent of the contamination until two thousand and seven. when tests were conducted in her garden by the local environmental agency. the levels of dioxin were up to seventeen times higher than the legal limit for toxicity. i have my oldest daughter has auto immune diseases you have five kids all many of them. disease.

i would say all of them. a lesser degree and some to a more severe degree and my husband had a very. real quick. her late husband herbert there was a doctor a few days before he passed away the last which was brave enough to. when he was dying to have his blood drawn when he didn't have very much blood left dioxin levels were taken the thursday before he died on sunday he was willing to do it. to ascertain that there was a connection. and. the results of my husband's business has. these actual. alec's book elders husband had sixty four point five nanograms of dioxin per liter of blood three times the us average.

we married forty six years. and. i am glad i have treasured ten more years yet. and. you know that it's been a major impact on my life. the american environmental agency has finally forced down to clean the river. but the process has only just begun it could take decades and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. however no date is set for decontaminating neighboring yards like alice book elders. refused all our requests for an interview. in the multinational merely sent us an email stating that we seek science to be solutions that protect human health while

also contributing to the well being of the local community. on the other side of the world another contamination is wreaking havoc as a result of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in history thousands of children have been affected. but dow has never dealt with. it happened in india in bhopal. in one nine hundred eighty four the local chemical plant exploded. killing twenty thousand people and releasing tons of toxic products. at the time the factory belonged to union carbide a pesticide giant that would buy up in two thousand and one. the site of the bhopal explosion is still saturated with chemical pollution. over the years these products

have spread into the city's groundwater systems. for fifteen years the inhabitants have demanded a full decontamination. invain down refuses to act. the decaying steel site is still excessive today. here we meet mr issue on a former engineer at the time he was in charge of the storage of the chemicals in this laboratory. just both of. this when it came close to the mining and discarded and. right in from. a present but. squire going to pull up and goes

around to do this. is that you know there's things that it's because there's no proper. but he says. among the products stored in the factory there was lindane an extremely toxic insecticide. today it is forbidden all over the world according to our guide the soil surrounding the factory is full of it. this whole area as i look on it and there's in the local object. and then. there are dumping water and then on the ground. and i. made up the band's inexorable ride. on this as fuck. then just. long thinking it's just. benzene hexa chloride is the scientific name for lynne dame. we go down to the area

of the spill to take some samples. the smell is unbearable. we'll have the soil analyzed just before leaving mr swan shows us where the pesticides were made. here beads of mercury my exposed in the open air. according to the world health organization this is one of the top ten most dangerous chemical products in the world we take some more samples. as well you know in about to. the results of our two tests are astonishing. inside the factory the level of mercury is five million times higher than the environmental standard. at this level of concentration the risks of developing liver skin or lung cancers are considerable. and the levels of lindane are just as

alarming exceeding one hundred thousand times the standard level. this can provoke severe cases of cerebral degeneration. yet only twenty metres away we see children playing cricket on the contaminated ground. fights oh you know i mean i do you often come to play cricket here. do you know the chemical blend that is then. i mean for your diggers. and other. i know that these children come here every day to play on the land near the factory they don't seem to realize the risk that they're exposed to. why do they get inside the country and not all outside and out and yeah but how can we give back to get out of the gentleness of that adequate bit of action that.

the. american values are going over and. that it's not a good measure of that. these kids are not the only ones in danger in bhopal. the chemical contamination stretches far beyond the walls of the factory. toxic waste has penetrated the land and has polluted the water of many neighborhoods up to three kilometers from the factory and fifty thousand people live there. we went to take water samples to identify the molecules present in their wells.

like in shock as family home. they've lived in this house for almost thirty years. the water they consume contains one point nine micrograms of mercury per liter. two times the standard level of toxicity. in. this is that you. feel that it. was good for you it was defeated. the problem is even in boiled water mercury is still a carcinogen. you. know you. thinking. of. because they move on. in other areas of bhopal it's not

mercury but lindane that wreaks havoc on human lives. this is a problem in preventing our neighborhood situated one kilometer away from the factory. the municipality has had drink above water since two thousand and eleven but for many years the inhabitants have been drinking severely polluted water. that's the case for money and her thirteen year old daughter ruch now since her birth she's suffered from limited mental development and muscular dystrophy she can neither talk nor stand up by herself. money her mother drank contaminated water every day during her pregnancy. that. most people.

a few months after rush nose birth a governmental study was conducted in the area the levels of lindane were extremely high in the water seventeen times the world health organization limit. did you knew about the want to drink you when you were pregnant was full of this inside from the factory then why didn't we want to get in on this on there why do you say i know this is what's going into wash now no. it isn't it is. elizabeth i wanted to leave it to leave the. due to her disability russia has never been able to go to school every day she comes to the the rehabilitation center. without these daily exercises she would be completely paralyzed today.

is the founder of the center she has watched all these children grow up. not even understand that it is funny but at the mother every minute of them out give money away at the you know you've been going on is that you can find it pretty much decided to buy these and the bunny is able to get in by scaling down to go buy the bag a hundred dollars get by on the gun but to someone. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington controls the media the media control over the voters elected to businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done

before. cut cut. cut cut. cut. cut. cut cut. cut cut. you don't. need an independent on jacob dealing with a single and that was wrong in that are equal tony jones is also into what he calls a still small going to. be done cylinder will move up to those wooden missiles this is.

europe and the capacity to integrate. the refugees at the same time we cannot accept everybody that comes to all come from countries all countries have the control of their borders looks all come from so beautiful so as the right to control its borders. the recent spat between the gulf states has highlighted yet another middle eastern conflict while turkey is siding with cretonne iran against saudi arabia the long running tensions between the sunni's. into the open why did anchorage jump into the fray instead of trying to pull the strings from a distance. a

tough week for the british prime minister as she faces calls to resign over. she's apologized. also the. explanation from washington. to. the russian military to start tracking the u.s. . syria as a potential targets. and muslims around the world mark the end of the holy month of ramadan we report. here in moscow.