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 to help not to go out get on by the people the other one provided we have a lot of the people responsible for this you can follow them you know this is not the rehab there was a lot and it was the way in pretty five years what did we not get just if you missed it is one of these what isn't new but. this could make it's like to know i was hired to do emerge an acquisition for union carbide to bring all of the computer applications on the same traumas dowd's 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

to la and i'm joined on the line by son jay very much who is an activist in the bhopal campaign and also a survivor of the terrible disaster in one 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 eighty four months old and it happened right in the moment. so and. and the reason why i asked myself so because i had no one with me at the paris meeting at my school. she would like. it and. i would be. so she would like. you in my own eyes that you would like and i remarried so that. sunday was less than two and one time 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 ten. over the years in my family old runaways but i was told later two of them died in hospital my. mother my mother and father were. the bodies of three sisters from here by one of. the other two are missing. they lost their parents and the three sisters and two brothers all in one thousand . and. my family members died because of this. sy

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 really 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 but union carbide is now a wholly owned subsidiary. two thousand and one third the boards of carbide approve the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical. does complicate things and does it 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 international

union carbide knew from the design stage that the bhopal plant could pollute groundwater they also knew that there was a there was a surrounding community that used that groundwater for its drinking water supply. so they believed that they can get. by. and and then when they had like some kind of sludge so they took all of us from. here and there and you see this black lining. and they need the ground of this landfill they believe that this kind of lining if. it can get. away. every day i'll hear. we believe the solar of operation ponds continues to be a source of the subsurface water pollution that's now reaching through the article for and spreading into the surrounding communities and can be detected as far away as three kilometers from the main plant campus so that evacuation order was before the very height was gloomy you see that it was using. only english and one. isolated recent one. was still being. needed water. will remain a source of pollution for this area until it is remedial the party that can do that is you know the december will mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the

an idea 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 a book. on up on the contaminated water is making our lives how they're going to get even that on. their shoulders of tons of stuff that we just live betty that is three forty six tons of waste that that warehouse additives out of the bones away from the surface of the back to provide. the. it 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 water

groups welcome the fact that children see the children in bhopal to be identified as more likely to be born with birth defects than children in the rest of the country. to see as little as five hundred dollars for lifelong duties and the unpunished. well. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. welcome back let's switch gears a bit because more reports have come out about the civil and criminal probe into libel for the wall street journal reports several groups of traders are under investigation by regulators around the world for allegedly working together to rig interest rates it with an interest rate rigging reign is what it sounds like allegedly more than a dozen traders from at least nine banks are under scrutiny and we keep hearing more and more about this investigation but what about libel or itself what is being discussed in the way of alternatives to a benchmark interest rate that is the underpinning of an estimated five hundred and fifty trillion dollars in financial products but which we've seen seems like it can be pretty easily