there's an interesting thing because david mcbride you know when he was a soldier he swore an oath to to follow his duty as a soldier and of course he's fighting for the rule of law same thing in the united states when when you know chelsea manning and other soldiers and even people like myself former it formerly f.b.i. in the intelligence we swore an oath to the constitution to sustain the constitution which is the rule of law and yet in times of war it seems we revert back to this notion that there are kings and no matter even if they commit murder and crimes agree just crimes of war crimes that everyone has to stay quiet just come up to help us welfare and moscow thanks for things you know all the international biking thought the minutes with more global news updates.

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we're starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp to go into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now doesn't do any more ground zero the earth may be completely different but the end of history. film begins in hawaii in the middle of the pacific ocean in spite of the island's remote location it is also for him and that to the epidemic of the twenty first century plastic. plastic pollution is littering beaches and endangering certain species of animals no matter how remote or out of reach.

in this elaborate tree in the north of the occupied ago scientists study marine animals not plastic at least in theory. no idea what that is. but it's certainly plastic. and jessica perelman is a biologist accustomed to finding plastic in fish stomachs she has started a very unique collection. of casually often plastic bags. and this was all coiled up in the stomach when i found it had no idea what it wasn't i all that it just. or did you react when you find this installment i was shocked i started you know documenting it measuring it taking photos showing whoever else was around in the lab and we were kind of. we were just you know shocked to think

that that these fish are are really ingesting this i mean. now disbelief the scientist has found plastic in the unlikely specimen known as the long fish. the young researcher was not expecting such a surprising discovery when she began this piece is. fish lives at a depth of about two hundred to four hundred meters and they're clearly coming in contact with plastic and it appears that plastic is truly a deeper problem that we might have imagined. even swimming at these depths the long said fish manages to swallow trivial plastic objects and i mean occasionally you might find a brand name such as this dishonor bottle label. what is this says

is a label from a water bottle dishonored bottle clearly and found amongst the lancet. this is a. design design is a pretty well known. bottled water company. you know finding finding a label such as this in the stomachs makes it that easy to determine where you know where it may have originated. this is always more to taste than just. just want to know. in fact does sonny is one of the world's best selling brands. and if you're not familiar with you will certainly know the name of the group behind it the coca-cola company. everyone knows coca-cola but not everyone necessarily knows that the group is in

china. dozens of other brands just sunny as part of the coca-cola company and sprite two there is also minute maid powerade and of course from one of the company's flagship brands. every year the group sells more than one hundred twenty billion bottles across the globe that's almost bottles a second and this mass production is creating a devastating mass pollution. in january twenty eighth in the multinational made a bold announcement by twenty thirty the brand is promising a world without waste. and it's james quincey coca-cola c.e.o. who is leading the movement. what we need to create is the circular color we need

to create value for the out there is absolutely doable a world without waste thanks to unlimited plastic recycling but how reliable are the promises that this multinational can recycling really make this problem go away . with plastic becoming a global catastrophe reinvestigated the company's promises and on competence secret strategy which contradicts that convincing prejudice and none of us will have a link to the final results is that no effect on the political focus for decades the multinational has been aware of the damage that it's plastic bottles off capable of causing but responsibility has never appeared to for long then. what is the reason behind this because ultimately it means it means higher costs for them in africa far from the soda giants american headquarters we are going to expose the truth behind the so-called recycling economy that coke is trying to promote in the

somebody who. i don't want them in there but you got to get to see this particular motel yet again that's a night to. come on one last drink for the road welcome to the wonderful world of the plastic promises if the coca-cola company. the. coca-cola and plastic have a longstanding relationship and one that is full of surprises. to find out more we traveled to the united states to meet a man who is well informed on the subject he lives in this small house in the dinner. i got back nice to meet you nice to meet you yeah

really welcome to. you know this is going to five. and then i doubt what i have to drive is good that i'm going to come on out yeah. but elmo is a historian. he's the author of a book about coca-cola a best seller it's retraces the multinationals and time environmentalists strategy particularly from the sixty's on woods when plastic began to revolutionize consumer society we began to see massive amounts of litter piling up around the country coca-cola tried to respond to this wow we're getting blamed for all this aluminum waste all this ultimately plastic waste what do we do and one of the things they did was partner with a organization called keep america beautiful what do you here keep america

beautiful you think like wow this sounds like an organization. started by a bunch of kind of bearded environmentalist at least that's what i thought. you know because you see the sign everywhere in the united states is still a very present organization but it was founded surprisingly by the beverage burning in canning and packaging industries right the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones they're the litterbug they're throwing us away industry should be blamed for all this waste. and so this native american looking like a character from an old weston makes the keep america beautiful and huge that sense some people. and this guy throws in his car he throws the packaging waist down it is feet and then and this great camera man lists the camera up towards the crying indians

face and there's a tear in the snare and it comes on the screen and says. people start pollution people can stop it right and it's this message. consumers are the problem right not us industry but consumers are. since the success of this advert in the us in the seventy's keep america beautiful has branched out. now there are organizations throughout the world designed using the exact same model and who is backed by the company with the red and white logo. to understand how coca-cola is recycling its reliable old consumer guilt technique we have to go to their son i not to the chateau but to an event that is being held at the town.

it is an important conference with several elected officials from all over europe and they're here to speak about the plan in this at their talents and it's serious stuff they're even discussing the color of that trash cans and that kind of thing. that all. that. media isn't. to conclude the meeting the guest of honor makes a speech this time it's the director of keep scotland beautiful an association partly financed by coca-cola like keep america beautiful and it seems derrick robertson is a plant of soda. and listen closely some of his slip

ups are extremely telling. i have a clear well known issue and saw in the health. care. as it does here we do care and want to fire she. bendish well if you can stop thinking into something by. the emphasizing individual rather than collective responsibility clearly nothing has changed since the advertisement of the native american crime. i assume that you were drinking coca-cola this morning is the single use bottled plastic of the problem today. class they are plastic packaging has a very useful function in society and we need to we need to remember that the products are very creative they are very very useful and they obviously perform a function as important as how you we again as individuals dispose of these

packages so there coca-cola for example one of the packaging rightly want to be ready to get it fiery safely i mean use it. what you don't want to say and then fire according to the head of the next says he ation which claims to fight against pollution coca-cola is supposedly the example to follow but does he admit to being financed by the american multinational we asked the question a few minutes later who is financing your targets or. told you some answers or such are you but if i miss you. would you want to drink here i don't look i mean i'm asking you these are alleged to be in jail especially seeing my organization in scotland as my digital ok i'm fundamentally so committed to that role i volunteer my saying ok. by asking the finance question we have identified it touchy subject the conflict of interest in this book of conflicts of interest do

you think there's going to ensure that our city of thing you are trying to create a measure of our conflict of interest about stuff like you're trying to do you think there is one. we are so concerned are you have sponsors again that's it's a different model than a mob or to start a screen on your child isn't that the secret to her doing and get your metallic or use if you were to see see what it says. we're going to do a house or so i want an option of this korean government was coarseness policies and they hired out experts and some companies and some companies and my partner and i only joined more than a. mcdonald's three starbucks. most of the or some big brand names. we had to insist since the sixty's coca-cola has been hating the way for other multinationals.

whether you're for or against the venezuelan government for or against socialism it is obvious the mainstream media are committing a lot of journalistic malpractise once again mainstream media echo the policy preferences of those in power if it comes to still another military intervention to the media be held responsible. to others financially while guy i don't fly any i've caught on with futures. think the friday as of last summer buying from the future the trucker was kaiser. but what if the soda giant really had decided to change a few months ago upon launching its program for a world without waste the company announced a set of very ambitious measures to resolve the plastic pollution problem the coca-cola solution is recycling and the concept is simple collect the used bottles

to make new ones out of them. coca-cola promises to put fifty percent recycled plastic in its bottles by twenty thirty and that's on the global scale. is absolutely doable there's a model there. the china has a lot of parts of the world on how to create value out of plastic and get it we used. of course that would be great news. but with all that we have learned about the company's strategies we wanted to check how often they actually keep their promises the american company has been promising to make bottles out of recycled plastic the years take the year two thousand and eight for example in its report on sustainable development coca-cola announced that it wanted to put twenty five percent recycled plastic in all of its bottles by

twenty fifteen. for a long time we sought to find any trace of this in the report from twenty fifteen. the company never clearly states whether or not that promise was kept we end up finding a single figure twelve point four percent at first glance it's easy to believe that this is the percentage of recycled plastic used by coca-cola but after taking a closer look twelve point four percent turns out to be the total percentage of recycled and renewable materials used the problem is that recycled and renewable plastic are two very different things. to decrypt the soda giant's jargon we arranged a meeting with an ngo that has been interested in the coca-cola group for a long time. l.n.

borsch is a specialist in ocean pollution and she's going to explain how the multinational twists words and statistics. your best cook at the lab ssage that's a good project just sort of the visit of the mice and unless they are a little. bit sick. so let's go. back to the eleventh renewable plastic is essentially plastic made from a plant base but it's still plastic and therefore it's still bad for the environment that clears up the words now let's move on to the statistics. not seven vegetarian. so sixty two. that's set for plastic or sickly. or labor day when you found that a special project

a fundamental difference and we are clearly very far from the target from the n.g.'s point of view coca-cola is recycling targets are first and foremost a marketing ploy to ensure that the consumer keeps buying their plastic bottles. as a whole lot of us. sabbats protests were so long that sanju would have called you some class seats to tell you . the truth of college costs only alexis on fox says to the. coca-cola subtle statistical distortions are bad but the worst is yet to come. we uncovered something far worse in this envelope which contains dozens of letters and internal records from coca-cola these documents should have remained

confidential but they were published anonymously on the internet a few months ago we carefully sifted through all the information and found that we could not be further from the ambitious a world without waste slogan. emmett's the mass of information this document caught our attention it's dated from twenty sixteen and signed by the coca-cola as a law being manager in brussels. the bullet points are all the measures that europe could adopt but which do not coincide with coca cola's interests. in the next we find carbon pricing restrictions on the usage of caffeine and eat you ban of advertising to children under twelve. in other words anything that could lower the company's turnover figure on the right there's

a circle entitled fight back these are all the european measures that coca-cola has decided to fight against through lobbying. and amongst the measures that coca-cola downright refuses we find increased collection and recycling targets. you heard it coca-cola wants to fight against increased recycling targets in europe while they're promising the exact opposite in their public pledges. other talent. say well look. in that fight back category we also discovered that the company wants to fight against the deposit system. this is one of the systems that is

actually effective in combating pollution and the oldest in the game are well aware of this. deposit system works like this when you buy your drink you pay let's say a euro for it and you also pay an extra charge the deposit let's say twenty cents per bottle in total it'd cost you one euro twenty but if you bring back the bottle you'd get your twenty cents back and so all of a sudden no one wants to throw their bottles away anymore. and what is most ironic is that the returnable bottle is virtually how coca-cola began in the fifty's a bottle of coke was not always served by a pin up girl instead it was served in a glass bottle with a deposit. so once empty the bottles would go back to the factory where they would

be washed and really used this creates significantly less waste for the environment . the system worked very well but coke decided to put an end to it and use plastic instead completely disregarding one particular scientist's recommendations. would you like to know how coke decided to get rid of the return of the old bottle that the company has at. attempted to keep this story from getting out but we tracked down the only man able to tell it. today he is enjoying a discreet retirement in michigan in the united states i'm going to give it to reach him nice to me it's merely thank you very much for coming to our tree center thank you thank you very much. and this gentleman is called a send down a he what of the american environmentalists agency infamy is he's also the first

engineer in the world to investigate the ecological impact of coca-cola bottles. that does a very imitation there are smaller the typical quote battles about this this big green translucent all risk less. obvious to us. than donny is referring to the beginning of the seventies. that was when the coca-cola company began to show an interest in plastic and to reach out to him. what they wanted to know is if you take into account all other and environmental impacts on nature what is the best system the engineer works for over a year comparing the environmentalists impact of last bottles to that of any million cans and plastic bottles he costs analyzes the data makes graphs does

complex calculations and he finally comes to this conclusion a glance at the table shows that the returnable glass bottle provided it makes fifteen trips before it is discard is the ecological container proposed also. thanks to this report the coca-cola company knows full well that the start of the seventy's that return apple gloss pollutes c. then plastic. but the company would never publicly share this information. we put this together for them and they didn't publish it you know why. they were not interested in it have everything to public see that the total picture why because they want to keep it in keep it quiet as to which way they were going to go. this is the new life white plastic bottle i watch them slowly introducing the plastic

bottles easy. but i want to i even remember clearly one time going to hold going roman to saying to bridget my wife and i said they're going to plaster bottle told you they would and they are not growing it's just a first step. serialised that ten eco plastic bottles playlist and one glass bottle . with this advert for its new plastic bottle released in one thousand nine hundred seventy five coca-cola various aston dani's report once and for all. its life's tough it's easy to let. the american company never looks back coca-cola imposes its plastic bottle everywhere and then isn't the only one flooding the market it's a tidal wave from the eighty's on with plastic devastates beaches.

and the first ecologists begin to protest against pollution. certain american states consider a forced return of the deposit. little do they know the company's immense power. coca-cola has been a significant force behind. fighting legislation that would put deposits on containers or put some kind of price on packaging waste there are newsletters that talk about all the successes that coca-cola is having around the country and it's almost like this great you know celebration letter every day every week we defeated this deposit system in this state and we defeated it here why do you think they were fighting so hard against it doesn't system want is the reason behind this because ultimately it means it means higher costs for

them in the end this was a way of this was forcing them to internalize their pollution costs this was a market mechanism that's very smart to try and get industry to recognize that you have to deal with this waste. join the everything on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get us out of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see you then. i. don't. know what. you're going to discuss

oh boy did. i profoundly agree to the decision that this house has taken and i continue to fall the best time is the united kingdom leaves the european union and orderly fashion with yeah. the second blow in a row britain's parliament rejects the reason why its new divorce agreement from the e.u. with a no deal vote coming on wednesday. also this hour two decades off a divided conflict named the troubles in northern ireland ended. the irish republican army could be behind a string of bomb threats across the united kingdom.