same people who have so far stalled justice for the bhopal gas victims. but we strongly feel that on this occasion of the twenty seventh anniversary we will be able to destroy the nexus and we will get justice. to go in there they have not been go out have gone by the people the other ones who are violent we have a lot of the people responsible for this you can follow them you know this is not the rehab norbit what is the way in going to five years what can we not get just a few because that is what the what is new but that. does need to make its like to know how i was hired to do a merger and acquisition for union carbide to bring all of the computer applications on the same traumas douse i saw how a corporation works because they are more concerned about bottom line profit than anything i just decided that i was making a profit for just the wrong people and chemical has made the decision to purchase union carbide knowing that these liabilities were outstanding so when you purchase the assets of a company purchased those liabilities. we are just asking f

same people who have so far stopped justice for the bhopal gas victims. but we strongly feel that on this occasion of the twenty seventh anniversary we will be able to stronger than mixes and we will get justice . to the way i have not me go out get on by the other one provided we have a lot of the people responsible for this you can follow them yet this is not the rehab little bit was the way in grade five years what can you not get just if you missed it is one of these what isn't new but. this could make it like i was hired to do emerge an acquisition for union carbide to bring all of the computer applications on the same trauma i saw how a corporation works because they are more concerned about bottom line profit than anything i just decided that i was making a profit for just the wrong people and chemicals made the decision to purchase union carbide knowing that these liabilities were outstanding so when you purchase the assets of a company purchased those liabilities. we are just asking for our right to clean water union carbide has fully exploited t

is only summertime to la and i'm joined on the line by son jay vermont who is an activist in the bhopal campaign and also was survivors of the terrible disaster in one thousand nine hundred eighty four so sanjay can you tell us a bit about what happened to you on the night of december third one nine hundred eighty four well i was on the right before you months or let it happen right in the moment. so and well i don't really don't know why i asked my so because i had no one with me at the better meeting at my school so she would like. it and. i would be. like. iranian are very high in my own eye that you would like and iran only. reason. sunday was less than two and his sister was nine his elder brother so i mean he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in a family of. all the years in my family old runaways but i was told later two of them died in hospital my. mother my mother and father for. the bodies of three sisters who were nearby. the other two are missing. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers calling one night my bad and. my family mem

very mom who was an activist in the bhopal campaign and also was a survivor of the terrible disaster in one thousand nine hundred eighty four so sanjay can you tell us a bit about what happened to you on the night of december third one thousand nine hundred four well i was born in july before i was a few months already happen to my mother and i are. and i don't. know why i asked myself because i had no one with me and the parents meeting at my school. she was like they all died that i had and. i would be. iranian are very in my own eye that you would like and i remarried. sunday was. his sister was nine his elder brother i mean he was only thirteen and these were the only people left alive in a family of. my family old runaways i was told later two of them died in hospital. my mother and father were. the bodies of three sisters by. the added two i mean. they lost their parents. and three sisters and two brothers call in one night. my bad and. my family members die because of this back to. his sister when children's village. but it is a godsend because it will be thousand eight hundre

still fighting for justice against the corporation responsible for a gas leak in the indian city of bhopal which killed at least fifteen thousand people. i'm an old notion of the corporation is based on what's called limited liability limited liability means that individual participants and cannot be charged with crimes of the corporation commits the kind to a very limited one of the major runs its course and. the corporation acts in such a way that kills the managers the c.e.o. and the shareholders have limited liability and it's not disregard for human life that maybe the nicest people in the world maybe give to charity. but in their institutional rule as managers of the corporation there is a task that they asked. that task is to maximize profit in markets here. if they don't do that they're out and somebody else is in the dust of the indian government meanwhile declares itself the sole representative of the victims and proceeded to sort out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was sort of cheap the union carbide start went up by two dollars a share of the settlement

the twenty fifth anniversary of the tragedy at a union carbide india ltd facility in bhopal and even today continues to evoke strong emotions globally and rightfully so we're saddened however that despite all that has been written about the tragedy in the past twenty five years so many misconceptions still exist about union carbide and it's wrong the government of india is the appropriate entity to address any i'm going to express by the people of bhopal. we are saddened by the fact that the site remains on remediated adding to the tragedy that has occurred the site today is in the hands of the state government of madhya pradesh the state government. and together with the central government they are trying to get the site cleaned up the union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary. two thousand and one third the boards of both carbide approve the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical. does complicate things and doesn't because the law on contamination is very clear in india and in the us and which is the principal polluter pays principle is the idea under inte

inoculated for a gas leak from a union carbide corporation factory in bhopal killed up to twenty five thousand people it was one of the world's worst industrial accidents more than thirty thousand people are believed to have died from the effects of toxic chemicals released into the air from this factory the union carbide plant in the central indian city of book. on up on the contaminated water is making our lives how they're going to get even that. all of this of tons of stuff that we just live betty that is three forty six tons of waste in that warehouse additives of thousands of tons of waste on the surface of the back to provide. this. was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in a condition where it had become a source of pollution or the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution is spreading more than three and a half thousand died in the immediate aftermath of the disaster after inhaling the fuse thousands more which it perishes toxin seeps into the ground around the plant poisoning w

bhopal hospital was made for gas victims but treatment is not given in time and people die painfully waiting for treatment. sometimes i feel like there is nothing in our control. there are so many memories and so much pain that comes since the gas tragedy that surviving has become a living hell. before we had no hope that cyber would even survive we just left everything to god. it came to this hospital. slowly her condition has improved and we realize these injections are very powerful . the doctor told us the same thing about the injections and once this course is over another will begin and those are supposed to be even better. the doctor said she's almost conscious now. when we came here we were very sad and when we leave i just want us to be very happy. but isn't that rather shaming that for so many years after that terrible tragedy. poisonous chemicals were still there. jamie no there's no truth in it there was chemical waste and it was decided that waste could be disposed of put into the instructions of the supreme court so there was nothing because of their super human life im

groups welcome the fact that children see the children bhopal to be identified as more likely to be born with birth defects in children in the rest of the country. in the sea. as little as five hundred dollars for lifelong duties. and. unpunished. lose lose. lose. lose lose. lose. culture is that so much good music maybe even a lot of people you're usually looking one came to the names the passage of north korea's dear leader again highlights the acute insecurity on the korean peninsula and beyond. the back you're watching r t here's a look at the top stories russia demands an investigation into civilian deaths from nato bombings in libya response to a human rights group report which claims dozens were killed in air strikes that as locals say atrocities are still being committed in the concrete was former gadhafi loyalists the target of. russia's nearly like the parliament embarks on its work two weeks south of the polls that sparked mass protest against alleged vote rigging and calls for a recount in central.

company was responsible for a lethal gas leak that killed an estimated fifteen thousand people in bhopal in one thousand nine hundred eighty four protesters burned have a g.'s of two members of the games committee on the now abandoned side of the disaster activists accuse the chemical weapon i should say the chemical company of failing to clear the contamination caused by the tragedy. the mexican military is reportedly dismantled a huge telecommunication network used by drug cartels in the country's northern provinces the operation uncovered thousands of electrical devices the gangs used to communicate and monitor military movements this comes after six member found gunned down in monterey or wednesday suspected victims of cartel attacks drug related violence is on the increase in northern mexico and is estimated to have killed forty thousand people in the last few years. well shortly we'll be asking whether the u.s. government can solve its relations with pakistan after misguided drone strikes continue to kill civilians there that's in cross talk but before that let's get the business u

special report about the people of bhopal in india who decades on are suffering from the effects of one of the world's worst ever industrial disasters that's after a recap of our main stories in just a couple minutes. thank you for joining us in a year with our team this week's top stories right now tens of thousands gather for a peaceful rally in the russian capital demanding a rerun of the parliamentary elections and president made to meet them in video val's told reforms promising an overhaul of the country's political system. the head of the arab league's mission to syria iran is in damascus amid fresh claims of violence international pressure mounts on the syrian regime to end its crackdown on protesters as.

compensation for the world's worst industrial accident violence marks the twenty seventh anniversary of the bhopal disaster in which the union carbide pesticide plant leaked lethal gas killing around fifty thousand poisoned up to half a million people the indian government wants another one point seven billion dollars for the victims after previous administrations settled in ninety eight or five or around a quarter about the demonstrators are demanding around ngs billion dollars compensation. the biggest in the world the way the returns has drawn thousands of visitors to watch but not schooled they can also create the festive season and the spirit of christmas has been traditionally marks in dresden with the annual cake or eight almost a hundred million of raisins have been used in their giant store and how many calories it involves well with all that i ask about. now for over two decades in the soviet union and it's the russian speaking minority mr new has been suffering because of the mother tongue native speakers for a discrimination and convinced that jobs so many are protected by the european

company was responsible for a lethal gas leak that killed an estimated fifteen thousand people in bhopal in one nine hundred eighty four protest as burn effigies of two members of the olympic committee on the now abandoned site of the disaster activists accuse the chemical company of failing to clear the contamination caused by the tragedy. also in our world update the mexican military reportedly dismantled a huge telecommunication network used by drug cartels in the country's northern provinces the operation uncovered thousands of electrical devices that gangs used to communicate and monitor military movements this comes after six men were found gunned down in monterey on wednesday suspected victims of cartel attacks drug related violence is on the increase in northern mexico and is estimated to have killed forty thousand in the last few years. i'll be back with the some of our main news stories in just over five minutes from now in the meantime the business update is next with dmitri. banks bill goes to the polls on sunday to choose who sits in parliament the election season will then