Transcripts For RT Documentary 20200202

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. aura maybe in the shallows. in critiquing the system we of course we need to to criticize also the power of the companies and we need to criticize what corporate lawyers do but we also need to point our fingers at the states and have we have to really say look. states created the systems and states have the power to get rid of the system that's and even if they are colombia or peru or developing countries even if they are mali and what have you the states have the power to get rid of the system if they chose to do so. but do they really want to governments and big business are often complicit. the vattenfall group for example had the chancellor's ear she even appointed its ex e.e.o. just have sinned. to be her personal advisor on energy transition. most heads of state are ambivalent. for a new you don't consider and if asked i am. wrong . i have is your i discern their lucky for you cannot be easy to produce the items so that they are. style of play such an easy to transcend their. own past that bag was to your shop but is it is just nice it's real you know i know all the share. in the rock song and he's told her mom in a duplicate bottom of their i don't know ha phone. key boss said that's a man they're. awful so you can see the minutes half an hour or so where you are. going to actually see poor who are not exist don't insult. little econo i just stood you know at least at that i'd soon as. soon as your natalie's institutions have said they'll sue us why don't you think aussies act off some of the names to marked out for complaint from our atia. with conflicts multiplying the power of arbitration tribunals bread and become more threatening. this time 2 populations one in the us and the other in peru where the victims of the same multinational ranko a huge polluter. is c.e.o. i rendered a wall street financier is one of the world's richest man. his foundry had poisoned the small town of herculaneum missouri. he is now poisoning another city in peru. the communities come together to. back in about 2001 i was taking a bus from one guy you'll up in the central highlands of peru down to the coast capital city where my family and i lived. before you get to the city you start to smell the city. you smell think you smell lead and you see the vegetation begins to get out. and much of the rock is coated with white gravy it almost looks like calcium deposits. and i got off to stretch my legs we were taking a break there in la jolla for about 10 minutes and there were a couple kids who were walking down the street with their mother they were hacking their lungs out they were coughing really really bad as we went to the side of the smelter. stack is. tons of pollution but you see it's the passive contamination of what's leaking out of the holes of the smelter. there's no filter on that there's no chimney to get it up and out of the valley. who you know you know there was plenty of. people. if you're going to be. he said he. was noisy. when the peruvian state foundry. to the group in 1997 its condition was no more polluting emissions. the company agreed to meet the new environ. until standards but instead of investing in the site i were rendered committed tax evasion and sent the money to $2.00 subsidiaries one in missouri and the other in the cayman islands. the city of la roja which south americans call the chernobyl of the andes is ever more polluted. the presbyterian church was became more and more aware of the inner connections between. the us economy and. emerging economies around the world particularly around the issue of extractive industries and we asked the question what if there was a connection nexus connecting folks in missouri with folks in peru. hunter farrel mission director for the presbyterian church in peru learned from pastor eleanor's talk of st louis that another equally polluting dove run plant was located in herculaneum missouri. this town 3 also belong to franco. the pastor decided to go there with peruvian archbishop federal grant o. . links i formed between the peruvian and american communities. pastor eleanor stock had organized a meeting she invited some environmental health specialists from st louis university fred mandelson triangle and 2 representatives from la toyia community. we had a conversation at a meal together and talked for a couple of hours really just sharing experiences around the circle and as each person spoke every testimony that was given from people in her kill any of the folks allowed was. that's the same situation we're facing the same situation in our city. and the stories were the same same things that were happening same relationship with the company same kind of intimidation and threats same kind of denying that there as an issue the same health issues in both places. the mobilization began to bear fruit. in 2005. of the university of st louis led by professor fernando serrano went to peru to do the 1st blood tests on the people of that of iowa. the. early clinton plenty of those means goes the soul only to the. good but at the will. going only was there they would be. say so loud oh yeah it. was too. little. then they do this without. you know. and seal. a lot of money in not solomon is a going to. was released all the. guys we had a cynical men who you. and. i have all. the fun that. knows i think that. leave you didn't even know it as. this is a drug dealer's. ok. you're not a. you know now. as you go in there. and i think i mean. yes he will. multi malcolm told within about an hour who it is not simple we have learning they're really going to i mean as you . get overly condemning this year. will they lay bare so they're going to you know. i said was that. this you know. there is risk. then i'll let it get as good as a story. and he also feel it most in either case i need a laugh or it. or is that it gets better now when there is a look at me. and you know if you see your name it is hell. and while you're in the west what do you give you look at it was it would be neat to see not. that i can do yet. not there. not i see a lot of she turned. to the. following the blood tests done by us doctors the community is torn apart. leaflets are distributed denouncing the misery vampires who suck the blood of peruvian children. they threaten with violence those like rosa morrow who fight to alert the community about heavy metal contamination. rinko then threatened to close the factory. there are a lot and there were a lot of mostly. by the what good is. an old soul because of the old that we would all yeah. you will parade to proving government was continually assaulted by the threats of the door run company which said $4000.00 jobs will be gone tomorrow local folks desperately need to do the jobs so it became a significant issue and every time there was a threat or the rumor moved through town saying that the company might be closed or the approving government was going to be forcing the closure of the company folks would hit the streets. 3 or you know i'm sure all of. you know it was easy you know. and you. know you. know. all the doing of it and then they know you and you wait for them you just love it if you believe it was out of the basement. when i started. not it was thought to. be a little you know you know looks he's been doing this you know because they may as opposed to somebody would look a little you know it's a momentous time when he's on the scene or a little you know somebody in the same boat who's coming to visit for person it's like and then in the living not used to list unless you were not with the birth and then you mean on the. right. oh. oh. we don't want you know your. or. your. burger we go through those you can go along. very well bill. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to be press or to like them before 3 in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters and. there should be more. let's talk about 20th century socialism this is when governments made mal investment and then they bailed out those mal investments until the economy went bankrupt versus 21st century capitalism this is when banks make malinvestment they when they go bad they bail out the malinvestment and that cycle continues until the economy goes bust and that's where our. conclusions of the study are irrevocable the foundry is poisoning the overall u.s. citizens for reuben the health of his eldest son klein is particularly worrying. for him brooke that there would be sure this except doesn't look. so good it would look to. see you go to sleep we're going to think that you. knew we were already knows most. there's too much he does the storm of the work 1st on the new work at the point i'm not. there all of the. knowing. that. 97 percent of the children had led. $30.40 micrograms per deciliter which would be crucial children in such positions in the us from a hospitalized here in the us. there's some significant cognitive disability there's some significant motor skill coordination issues children a lot would be losing between $1.00 and $3.00 i.q. points for every year that they lived in the city. it will be a moped one of the you got. your mental in order. but he says only. noise. eager to get him will says. he immediately. if you need. in 2009 because of the lack of investment by ranko in environmental standards at the site. and due to health issues this state ordered its closure just what it was hoping for . isn't indirect expropriation the domain of international arbitration. ira rennert attacked the peruvian state and the trial took place in washington without the people of. that being the case please let us invite mr hamilton to begin his oral submissions thank you. for still enough to release. their record source of course. as one of. us process yglesias. us by the race mud the race going impress us. economical as. the treaty allows an investor to bring a claim against the state either on the claimants own behalf. for its own injuries for state conduct or it may bring a claim on behalf of an enterprise that it owns and controls for loss or damage that the enterprise has suffered free trade treaties have caused the state investor clause which allow companies corporations to sue. local community is government groups states nations if they feel that their profits are being undermined in a new way past present or future profits. that means if local communities that are being poisoned if they object if they do anything that the company feels is interrupting their profits. they can be sued local folks in peru have real fears a lot of doubts about the arbitration system feeling that it's almost like it's described as a faceless jury no one knows they're not accountable to us we don't know who they are we don't know who got them into those positions of arbitration put the decision making it took it away from local community and people who would live to reap the consequences of those decisions and put it in the hands of people whom we don't even know. to give a voice to the community of love the regional archbishop. obtained a public hearing at the foreign affairs committee of the us congress. and the st louis researcher fernando serrano were called to testify in july 2012 and we have sound scientific evidence of the grave threat to the people of the environment as is the studies have shown. great concern again is the multiple exposure all of these toxic metals affecting the body and the effects. so a discussion of the economic and legal in other factors related to the relationship between the united states government emperor in different work of the us trade for you agreement i believe i believe we must put an emphasis is we must make a priority of the hill needs and rights of the people of illinois especially the children and especially the born we have children being born with lead in their bodies and that is something that we can see they're completely unacceptable like you know a morrow if she would. noisily akiko needed a political. they can equal expert at them being black eagle as you then either would oh yeah eco mather tippett ok. oh yeah. after hope you know that i mean. iraq i mean us have them what they. have not yet. but that is but as this. legal. d.n.a. let this much at this is a man that unless that look at 11 of my concerns with each of the free trade agreements going back to nafta with mexico which i did vote against primarily because of workers' rights and because of environmental protections while on paper it looked to be very strong and robust and i'm wondering if the gores to the peruvian free trade agreement is very similar week this with regards to environmental standards and are we doing our part as a government to push on that important area. who is lawyers over 1000 children from laos filed a lawsuit against iran or in a local court in missouri which had ordered him to compensate the people of herculaneum in 2010. lawsuit. attacked peru before the international arbitration tribunals. probably after filing the notice of intent in december of 2010. ran directly to the court of the united states. in an effort to remove. claims brought by children of. from state court to federal court they'd go did that by bringing to the attention of the united states federal court the existence of a treaty dispute that case played out over a period of years and in 2016 the international tribunal found that rental had failed to comply with that obligation under the treaty to waive local proceedings it's a very specific requirement the interpretation of that requirement was agreed upon by peru and the united states and the tribunals found that there was a violation of that treaty requirement. the claim and go to the arbitration wrinkle was refused because of every songs but sure wrinkle can again wreak labor receive the proof you have government so that is why we do need a. lot of. 2 a boy to adopt the risk of. the provable remain. a symbolic victory for the peruvian state which although not condemned is still required to pay between $4.00 to $8000000.00 of legal costs. and while the people of herculaneum were compensated those. have received nothing and continued to breathe polluted air. my greatest hope is that people typically in the united states will recognize the cost of a wax legal system that allows corporate polluters to. literally get away with murder. and sell. we've got to recognize the fact that while investors have rights. no one has the right to take away the intelligence of any child and no one has the right to tribute for children in a committee. in europe the well those formidable action has raised awareness. european institutions are starting to act. in march 2018 the european court of justice invalidated a fine of 22000000 euros against slovakia imposed by an arbitration court judging the sentence incompatible with european law. this could serve as jurisprudence for conflicts within europe. in making this decision the european court of justice seems to want to reaffirm its sovereignty and jurisdiction. the european commission is also preparing a project for a public international and permanent court to replace private arbitration. but we must be realistic multinationals will never relinquish the exorbitant power granted by arbitration tribunals they can count on the world's top lawyers to defend them and remind them of past free trade agreements signed by states. all the more reason for civil society to remain vigilant and continue to demonstrate and resist so that states don't give in to the lobbies of multinationals. to defend. the freedom of states to legislate. to preserve fuels and the environment all over the world. in to defend the interests of the people rather than the major private corporate interests moving the big. stuff. company. and most of all. onto the good same compensate all the oil to deny that nobody. can see it but no proof of another debate and. it's not. going to. get to the quick. move on which i'd written down the insured up to move this because of a loss and then simply not going to be again chauffer still certainly must. stay so i thought a lot of most of it will suffice she was it is a constant that he was excited to come off such a much. 4 from the e.u. on its post voyage to 7 years of cooperation they're all fears of economic storms on mutiny. and on a. peace plan the triggers forninst little trumps accused of taking sides in the israel palestine conflict. with israel and protests broke out in the west bank. as fears globally of the corona virus outbreak. in discrimination against chinese nationals.