Status was scrapped, Narendra Modi lays stone for a hindu tetemple. Thank you very much for joining us here. I day after a massive explosion rocked the lebanese capital, residents in beirut remain in shock. Rescuers digging through the rubble i in the cityty today afr at leaeast 100 people died and over 4000 were wounded after a blast with the force of an earthquake hit the city. An investigation is underway to a to determine the cause of the blast. It does appear to have been 2700d in a fire ignited tons of Ammonium Nitrate stored unsafely at a warehouse. Reporter beirut this morning is similar to a war zone. Back to check onon their homes, everything is almost destroyed. Many the big explosion cars are destroyed. More than 100 dead. And more than 4000 injured. Many people were displaced from this area. They went to relatives, friends, or hotels. They came back this morning to clean. I have an eyewitness that was here when the explosion occurred. Saw, what you felt . Devastation. It looks like an apocalypse. The first explosion happened, Nothing Happened to us. Then the second explosion was insanely strong. We were standing here. In awe woke up we were different room, all injured. Pepeople were screaming. We went down the street, you would see a hand, an arm. People screaming. There was s a lady standing over there and there was blood going out of her neck. Imagery. Reporter thank you. The government launched a large investigation in order to know what happened and why this explosion occururred. Emmanuel l krohn will be mccrone will be traveling to beirut tomorrow. French aid is on route to the city. Harris sent heat of your luke perry planes with sq experts, sanitary equipment, and a mobile clinic equipped to treat 500 people. Lebanons president appealed for International Assistance to be stepped up. Ar more, we can bring in firefighter and Vice President of the National Union of professional firefighters here in france. Thank you for joining us. When you saw the images of the blast, did it looook like an amAmmonium Nitrate e explosisio . Yes. You can see it w was like a a wr zone. It is a characteristic explosion. This in past of years in france. Explosion which was an Ammonium Nitrate explosion too. That there wase is only 300 t ts of this chemical. A almost 3000as nsns. How do you store Ammonium Nitrate safely . This is a highly explosive chemical. Yeses, if not kept properly. Ammonium nitrate is a very common component in the chemical industry. Is very safe and pure, there is no o problem with this. The problem is when ammonium becomesdegrades and messing with other projects. The conditions in which you stocock it is important. T. Pure, there is usually no problem. Do we know with the Health Consequences could be of this blast yesterday . From the images you saw, everybody seems to have been yes, it is very important. We will l have to deal with many the searchke, first and rescue teams that will have rubble. Hrough the it w will also havave to do wite medical team to be sent underground. Also with governmental issues like air pollulution and rain pollution. It is a complex problem. It is not only an explosion, it is a h hard situauation we wille to deal with. France is sending aid to lebanon. What do people need right now . Sending some people, but europe, the european help with send Emergency Response coordination centers. The thing we will have to do on the ground is to evaluate and take whatever needs on the ground. Withe d doing this Job International help. Thank you very much for joining us. Countries have oftenen offero help lebanon, as i have been mentioning. Beanuel mccrone says he will going and france has sent aid. Iran, the united states, and even israel have offered help. Just a few hours after two deadly explosions rocked the lebanese capital, france o offed eight. Aide. French resourceces and data e on the way. Saidter president mccrone he is sending hospital equipment and a team of Health Workers to beirut. Prime minister Boris Johnson tweeted that the u. K. Is ready to provide support in any way it can. Iriran says it is reready to bef assisistance w with foreig minir signing off with the words, stay strong, lebanon public donald trump offered eight and a theory on what was behind the explosions. Of our great some generals and they seem to feel it was, this was not some kind explosionacturing type of event. It seems to be, according to them, they would know better than i would, but they seemed to think it was an attack. Reporter s comments contradict those of lebanese authorities, sususpect a a stock of fertilizr could be the cause. Quick to spell out it was not involving the blast. Aid,resident pledged saying israel shares the pain of the lebanese people. A course of israeli politicians chimed in, offering solidarity. To the latest on the coronavirus pandemic next and the global debt toll has surprpassed 700,000. United states, brazil, india, and mexico are leading the rise in fatalities. 5009 people have died every 24 hours. Parts of the world that appeared to have curbed the virus have witnessed the rise of new cases, signaling the battle is far from over. Chinas Foreign Ministry says it opposes the visit of the u. S. Secretary of health to taiwan. Alex azar is set to visit. In a statement he praised taiwans global leadership, saying it has been a model of transparency during the pandemic and even before. A record has reported rise i in the number of covid19 deaths. 15 people dying in the past 24 hours. Individual states have taken restrictive measures. New south wales and queensland intrtroduced new restrictions. State government in victoria has imposed a night curfew and restrictions on businesses and the movement of people. Has called onaris the citys police chief to make masks s mandatory and certain ot pupublic spaces. Annie wants to toughen measures areas. The measures could come into ect during the nenext 12 70 72 hours. I asked her if people were already adhering to wear masks. Most, but certainly not all people are already wearing masks. People here to do shopping, as well as people working at the stands. It has to be said that most of the people we have spoken to said they are in favor of a more generalized approach to maskwearing in order to prevent the second wave scientists warn is coming. It is going to become compulsory in paris to wear a mask, not just indoors, but in outdoor locations like this. We have seen huge gatherings of people enjoying themselves in the hot weather. Which scientists warn is a way of spreading this virus. We know other cities have enacted similar measures. Nice, as well as cities along the atlantic coast. They are all already trying to enact measures. It is important for paris to follow suit because social distancing is not always possible, even in these outdoor places. It is hard to rely on people to stand a meter away from other people. They hope this will go some way to containing the spread of the virus, to avoid having a lock down as we saw earlier in the spring. Weve spoken to say they arere willing to wear t the masksk if it can stop the e sprd of the virus. Kate moody reporting there. To india, where Narendra Modi has laid the Foundation Stone for a hindu temple. This on the same site whwhere a 16thcentury muslim mosque was demolished by rightwing hindu moms back in 1992. Ownership of the site has been an issue t tt goes back decades. Last year Indias Supreme Court handed it to hindus. The streets, all yellow. A color meant to express purity and light and the way induced belief this area looked in ancient times. According to their tradition, their god ruled over this land. For many, the event is anything but festive. Willrime minister kickstart the building of a hindndu temple on this site whee an mosque was destroyed by hindu extrtremists in 1992. ,nduce say that for the mosque one of their most sacred temples was standing here. Shrine inside a the old mosque. Many are worried the initiative is another escalation in the indian sick terry and defied. Prime minister modi has lined up initiatives that have harmed the local muslims. Ago, india year stripped the autonomous status from kashmir. The region is the only one in india with a muslim majority. Templee idea is that the has to be l linked together. These are not separate issues. They are part of the same hindu nationalist agenda. Many are concerned by what happened next. The destruction of the old mosque led to violence in which 2000 people died. The building of the temple could encourage nationalists to attack other mosques, also built on disputed sites. With more potential violence ahead, thank you very much for watching. Welcome to the france 24 interview. My guest todayay is siva. Activistenvironmental from india of numerousuthor books. Thank you very much for being here. My pleasure. I want to begin early on. You were not supposed to be an activist. You were a physicist. He wanted to work in nuclear energy. And you came across, in the early 1970s, what is known in india as the shipco movement. Ini was training to be indias nuclear establishment, but then my sister woke me up to the hazards. She was a medical doctor. I went deeper into the heretical physics. I was going to canada to do a phd, and before i went i wanted to visit some of my favorite forests in the himalayas. Track t i had trekked in was gone. While returning to delhi, i talked to a tea shop owner. I said, going to come back every vacation and be a volunteer for this movement. To say, youme out cannot cut the trees. From the trees come our water. The trees prevent floods and droughts and they also give us everything we need. We will be huggers of trees. The name means dog. I learned all of my lessons of ecological activism from the women of the himalaya. Called soil, water, and air today is talked about the ecological functions of the forest. A lot of my change in the understanding of the fact that nature is the basis of economy came from my engagement with shipco. I respect for indigenous knowledge came from my engagement with shipco. World, youring the know something others dont, and i realized everyone has knowledge and we must respect it. He became engaged in this. You have been an opponent of international corporations, especially monsanto, to name one. Because of what you describe as their nefarious influence on agriculture. There are a number of examples. C cotton ine bt india. He said this is not a matter of helping farmers grow their land, also making them dependent on those big corporations. Corporationsof into agriculture is so wrong, because corporations only bring poisons. Most of them have roots in hitlerss germany, and making gases to kill people in concentration camps. That is not their aim. No, no. The aim was to make chemicals that kill people. Afterwrward they said, why shoud we stop making these . They will kill pests, they will be fertilizers. That is not the same goal. The companies are the same and the processes are the same. Your rhetoric might change, but the goal does not. The materiality of a debtmaking chemical does not change when you say it is for feeding the world. I did a bobook on the violence f the green revolution because punjab was destroyed. When monsanto came in as a result of mobilization, because until the 90s 90 of the seed was in the farmers hands. The risk came from research institutions. Monsanto came, illegally, did not take any approval, with the promise they would increase farmers incomes and have this technology to control pests. Worm is now resistant. Farmers are committing suicide. The pollinators are gone. The groundwater is gone. There is nothing about the ecosystem. I saved seeds, we brought organic cotton seeds back. We worked on handwaving of this cotton. Jumped tenfold, because now the wealth is staying in the village rather than being siphoned off as monsantos profits. I read a new study that says because we have saved seeds, we brought local seeds that can be saved back into the economy. Monsanto was lost 11 million. I want to to your latest book. You widen your tax not only on monsanto and the like, it also others. You attack what you describe as the billionaire dictators, especially one man. Bill gates. As the describe Christopher Columbus of modern times. And that is not t a complement, obviously. His mission is to impose genetically modified organisms and digital dictatorship to farmers across the world. Bill gates, who has donated billions to improve Public Health in the poor countries you are saying, essentially, he is a dictator and he is there not to help but make people more dependent . Bill gates is continuing the work of monsanto, b because monsanto hadad so mamany moveme. Bayer bought monsanto, but when bill gates pours money into africa, what is he doing . He is pushing the green revolution, pushing gmos knowingly or he thinks its a good thing and may wrong . Whats there is enough evidence of what it is doing, that enough letters to him from farmers of africa, from governments to say, this is not the way to go. The United Nations accepts Ecological Systems as the best way to go. Bill gates is trying very hard to shift the patenting issue to digital. And you a genomic map say, this is my invention, you dont create seed. Seed is selfmaking. Map and youa have no idea what the seed does. This is something he is pushing very hard. My book records how he financed this. I have talked about how he has pirated seeds we have saved that tolerate salt and floods. He says invention. Racy is a bit like columbus. Call him todays columbus . Because he is carving out new colonies. Software should have stayed open. You say he has a strategy, a nefarious strategy, you describe ilantrocapitalism. You are not saying he is using the wrong methods, is pursuing the wrong goal with selfinterest. You also it also attacked mark zuckerberg, saying they are all linked together. This wreaks a bit t of conspiray theory, doesnnt it . On newook is based evidence coming out. I have data in the book on how this common ownership. Zuckerberg from trying to get into indian agriculture. What did he want to do . Basically what they do is they mind the data from the farmers. Right now there are new debates on privacy issues, on the data new form ofere isis a capitalism which is surveillance capitalism where you have turned human beings into your raw material. Bill gates does both. He takes biodiversity, minds into data, and once ownership along with his friends. Your datarberg mines and behaviors and turns it into the raw material of the corporate world, which is why strange advertisements popup, and manipulating elections. I have a chapter on the hijack of democracy. We have enough data on what happened with facebook selling data to Cambridge Analytica and how we are popping up with artificial intntelligence. This is a major threat to democracy. This is why you are calling them billionaire dictators, because you think they are not helping democracy but threatening and killing it . Isnt this too much . Fox i have grown up in india that was postindependence. In india that had absolutely no corporations. In india where democracy works. When i see the imposition of Digital Transactions and criminalization of cash h betwen , i basically see this as an dictatorship. When i watch not just in india, but in africa and other parts of the world, now that we have the data showing native seeds are more nutritionist, have no cost because you dont have to use chemicals, that local biodiversity is the way to feeding the world, in spite of that evidence, in spite of the evidence in the United Nations, every agency, bill gates is , which is aing gmos failed enterprise. He is taking w what is failed ad rejected by y governments. My government through monsanto out. Bill gates resurrected it in bangladesh. We rejected the golden rice. He finances at to continue through the philippines. He is taking all of the failed project with the wrong thinking that life e is like a word progm and can be cut and chopped and pasted. Scientists call it self organization. Write your own poetry, that is what life does. He is ignoring all of this new knowledge, and imposing a failed technology with a huge cosost to the planet, only so they can e monopolies and farmers are not free to have seed. You have strong views and we are e happy you wee able to share them with us. Thank you very brandon my e experience is so difffferent than a mainlanand chinese, it wouldnt be authentic for me to try to cook food for Mainland China because thats not me, and thats not my audience. My audience is san francisco,o, and these crosscultural exexchanges a are the basis for how food evolves. I feel like whatat werere seeig in this next wave of this generation of american cooks is this newfound confidence in valuing our traditions and its impact t on the food d culture in america
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