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Go when the consulate was set on file all the right police in their job and the Security Forces started firing and as if we were burning iraq as a whole the right police fired tear gas canisters intensively on the Security Forces rangers heavily with live bullets. Protesters say iran is exerting too much power in iraq and they want their Iraqi Government to take action to limit it. According to analysts its not just this attack that significant but also the symbolism of where it took place this is the city where the Ayatollah Khomeini used to live its considered to be you know the heart of the shia muslim world and iran thought that it had the population the iraqi shia population on its side in terms of its you know regional policies clearly thats not the case of the this is the 2nd time this month that an iranian consulate in a shiite majority city has been targeted by iraq the demonstrators 3 weeks ago Security Forces killed 4 demonstrators who stormed the consulate in the city of karbala both attacks feed into the wider antigovernment protest movement thats engulfed to iraq since october. By early wednesday violence in the yet another shia majority Southern City dozens killed or wounded in nasiriyah when Security Forces opened fire with live rounds and tear gas to disperse crowds of protesters hours later military announced the troops would be dispatched to southern iraq to restore order antigovernment demonstrations have been raging in iraq since early october with protesters accusing the government of corruption and demanding a complete overhaul of the countrys political system since the unrest began at least 350 people have been killed and thousands wounded. Political analysts say the only way for the government to find a solution is by pushing for reform to talk about what to go into to issue a new electorial role for the best of the people to hold early elections off to be rocky parliament dissolves itself and the government resigns but many protesters say much more needs to be done day after day the demonstrators that we speak with be they in baghdad or other cities tell us they dont feel the government is taking their demands seriously they say that no matter the risk they will continue to come out and press for the rights and opportunities they say they deserve i am a gentleman visitor by that u. S. President donald trump says his government has resumed talks with the Afghan Taliban he made the comments during a surprise visit to afghanistan trump met president ashraf ghani and addressed u. S. Troops at a thanksgiving he said he believed the talk about in afghanistan are open to a cease fire dozens of yemenis have been welcomed back home from jail in saudi arabia as part of a prisoner swap 128 men were flown into such as International Airport aboard red cross planes they were greeted by who think commanders and some family members their release comes amid a new push to end yemens 5 year war. Prodemocracy activists in hong kong are calling on World Leaders to follow the u. S. After president signed a bill supporting human rights in the semi autonomous chinese territory thousands gathered for a rally saying they want to give thanks to the u. S. For their support asian is accused of sinister intentions and has vowed to respond the law allows washington to sanction chinese and hong kong officials guilty of human rights abuses. To stay with us death by design is coming up next thanks so much for watching us in a bit. Im attached to my phone my computer my tablet. Indeed amazes me how in just 20 years theyve completely changed the way i live and communicate. Our devices are sleek and elegant. We store our lives in a beautiful cloud. Led. I started making this film to explore the impact of our digital revolution. And then secrets the industry tried to hide for years began to spill out. Legit legs. Our electronics are made and unmade is dirty and dangerous i love it its a global story of damaged lives environmental destruction and devices that are designed to die. Iloveyou. Elected. In china mess. Industrialization ive put a huge pressure on our ecosystem and on the environment. When it comes to i t. Industry many people think its. Its green or natural its rain or some people think its even think its virtual but in our investigation we find its not like that. This pollution is having different consequences but i think that the impact the biggest impact is on this Public Health we have nearly 300000000 who are residents who dont have access to sufficient saved drinking water. Going to see what they almost see the how to shows you how many. To come to your show you should get them to check. The over there its hard. To just its as if you hold one was invented i guess it was shot then the ultimate. I keep thinking about the moment when i face all those environmental and social damage. River you know which carries all the ways to 2000 lake beside river and place old ladies suddenly down done on their knees in front of me. I know im not the only. One i dont have any sort of government administrative power and dont have much Financial Resources to deal with this but i told myself at that moment in front of those ladies i told myself that. At least i need to bring the message out. I need to make sure that all the users of old as gadgets they need to be informed about this. I moved to this area in 1969 to go to law school because i said i wanted to help people who didnt have the means to represent themselves. It was a time when most people not heard of the semiconductor industry. But within a few years people started seeing the the birth of what has become the you know Global Electronics industry. Top names were companies Hewlett Packard apple intel advanced micro devices. Virtually the whos who of the Electronics Industry. And of course the granddaddy of them all was i. B. M. When i got a card and i. B. M. That was great that was the company to work for at the time i could go any place where he worked i. B. M. I dont need an id you just write a check. It was that easy i. B. M. Had that much clout i was the 1st marker processor buyer for i. B. M. In the early eightys the idea of a personal computer which was was on oxymoron right i mean personal computer what and what would you use it for anyway but it got legs and we started the p. C. Business the 1st year they shipped 50000. 00 units and so we went from a 1000 a week 240008 week and at that point the p. C. Was launched. From almost the very beginning you heard electronics and Semiconductor Production was a clean industry they said it was as clean as a hospital but what they werent telling people was that it was really a chemical handling industry and that the magic of making these microcircuits relied on the use of hundreds if not thousands of very toxic chemicals and thats why they have clean rooms thats why they have money suits to try to protect the chips it was never designed to protect the workers it was always designed to protect the product itself over like that those of a lot of different chemicals they built the disk drives would have to strip them out and then would have to dip im in severe gases and with a sponge and just with armed with severe i didnt know what it was its i just knew it stunk really bad and you couldnt get it on your skin because it would burn you like nobodys business. Well what happened was people started getting sick with very strange kinds of illnesses things that didnt seem to make a lot of sense didnt seem to hang together but increasingly as this happened more and more there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the Chemical Exposure on the job. One put music on yeah right i want to turn on the music for mom. But some good music on today. Right there. Beside me theres a thing i tried to do the. 1975 i was 18 years old and i started working in the Electronics Field i went to spector physics and they just hired me just like. I was making the end of the laser and i would have to mix up this chemical in i used to call it green go. And get the consistency and then put into a spray gun and i would have to heat that up after a glued on together that was just all the way that i did. Invest in know the material she was using turns out to be probably in the vicinity of 50 percent little excite she didnt know she was exposed to lead in tell her that i got pregnant with mark in 1079 and that was full term my months and were just really happy about it. That he doesnt even know to cross the street and not know a car is coming to stop going to the restroom you know i have to go with him in there so i have to system with everything. Number one or youd better know it if i knew what i know now how to ram out a specter for the acts of the time it was unnecessary it just. Breaks my heart that i could avoid it. Oh were filing this lawsuit against your employer and its a lawsuit for his son who was born with severe Developmental Disabilities and is a suit concealment of systemic chemical poisoning and case of a vet and for the direct injuries to mark. Marks condition isnt like a cold take antibiotics and youre going to be fine in 5 days this is life. Youre. Just overrides all that and you do what you gotta do to stay i still do that. Im sorry getting. But. I discovered i. B. M. Had a corporate mortality. Which they kept for 30 years and it kept track of the causes of death of their choice the most dramatic findings were about cancer for the company as a whole this was 33000. 00 deaths that were in this corporate mortality file so included people who had worked all over the u. S. But then when you look at specific plants like the i. B. M. Plant in san jose there was some extraordinary excess costs of deaths one was brain cancer the other was not hodgkinson fall another was melanoma of the skin and in the women Breast Cancer was 3 and 4 fold higher than expected. That was the heart of this settles a lawsuit. In a santa clara courtroom today the 1st trial out of more than 200. 00 similar lawsuits filed against i. B. M. Former i. B. M. Workers jim bore and a lighter hernandez say they developed cancer from exposure to toxic chemicals at i. 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San jose facility in the late seventys to early ninetys i mean literally tried to prevent the results of the tally analysis from ever seeing the light of day in fact they went to the judge and said this cant be used in this case a lot of hernandez is not dead shes going to be in the courtroom and not only was it not relevant the judge said it prejudiced the jury if they saw what these excess costs dusts were and so he denied the use of it in the court many of the brands will respond to questions by saying no one has ever proved to me that a Single Person has died from exposure to these chemicals either within inside their factories or outside of their factories and of discussion but thats not the way that we approach environmental or Occupational Health in the world we are not flying blind here at all especially on the chemicals at issue here in the Electronics Industry actually and most of the common chemical used in all industrial manufacturing weve been at this work for 40 years. If you look at the pub listening generated by i. B. M. You would think that we lost everything and thats simply not going. After the trial i. B. M. Matters were resolved for hundreds of people whose claims to not go to trial. What can you tell us about the settlements. Im not going to be able to talk about any of the resolutions of the cases and i. Can you give any details at all. Did you have to agree not to reveal the details as part of the settlement all i can say is that the matters were resolved thats what im allowed to say. Here in Silicon Valley Chip Companies and the other Electronics Production Companies Used hundreds if not thousands of toxic chemicals and the most of the chemicals once theyre used in making the components needed to be disposed of as waste the companies ended up storing them in underground storage tanks all over the valley. But what the brilliant people who were designing these systems didnt quite think through all the way was that the solvent swer really good at dissolving things and so when you put them into a tank eventually theyre going to eat their way through the tank. Solvent that the Electronics Industry used in production in Silicon Valley in the seventys and eightys are now on in the groundwater and if you think about putting a drop of ink in a bathtub. That spreads really quickly and its really hard to get that dropping back thats what were dealing with except were dealing with multiples of gallons of the stuff that is in the groundwater. In the late 1981 there were over 100 families in one little neighborhood who had Serious Problems and the state Health Department discovered that the families that were drinking the most heavily contaminated water had significantly higher rates of miscarriages and birth defects then did people in other neighborhoods. Well the Chemical Industry will often say if i had not a dime for every time i heard this that even water can kill you the most non toxic thing of course it can but only if you stick your face down in the bathtub or fall into a you know fall into a large body of water so that has the traditional approach to toxicology is that the more stuff youre exposed to the more harm it causes you but what were seeing in particularly around cancer and around hormone disrupting chemicals is that its when youre exposed to at the time of exposure so if youre in 3rd trimester and you get even a perp or 1000000000 or part for truly an exposure it can actually cause significant damage. We formed this Silicon Valley tuxes coalition and we did a summer organizing project getting people to sign petitions asking the e. P. A. Step in with their authority into the Superfund Program yesterday. Yes. Yes. And i went to a meeting in washington and presented these thousands of petitions saying we need e. P. A. To come in its time for e. P. A. To exercise your authority and to everybodys great surprise they agreed to do that. So Hewlett Packard became a superfund site until became a superfund Site National Semiconductor Advanced micro devices i. B. M. You name it they were there and they were all superfund sites. The cost of cleanup for i. B. M. As well as all the other companies has been tremendous its an enormously slow and tedious process. If you look right over here also this is a major residential neighborhood just directly across the street from this industrial site. Most of the People Living here today are unaware of this huge toxic plume. And those same chemicals that are still right under where were standing are now beginning to seep back up out of the groundwater through the soil and theyre actually coming into the offices of these Software Engineers a google. And this is the one that e. P. A. Said might take 300 years to clean up. This is so complicated the devastation is so enormous that were really talking centuries of cleanup not just years or decades. The problem is that it just keeps reoccur. At least when companies started moving away from Silicon Valley to china i think that they were the only too happy to have the government off their backs. The Chinese Government made an offer to multinational corporations that they couldnt refuse. You need a land and you need money and you need government approval and you need lots of people to put it all together well they have all of that in china. Just. One of the primary purposes of outsourcing is to enable Companies Like apple to make what are essentially an reasonable demands on manufacturers that they wouldnt and couldnt make if they actually had to employ the workers directly apple doesnt have to worry about what it means to workers when they insist on a tripling of the pace of i phone production. And sons of those who. Come in the new. All. 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