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A lot of good stories and if its not good ill tell you right doctor to get heard but its been around for 40 years from malaria for lupus for other things i take it frontline workers take it a lot of doctors take it she has been my kind of house more from the white house. Well it was in a word utterly astounding President Trump indicating that he started taking the drug a week and a half ago this sort of will appear following a letter from an unnamed doctor in westchester in upstate new york who tout the use of the drug in this letter to President Trump which he quoted in the course of this News Conference now its very important to note that the food and Drug Administration the f. D. A. Has cautioned against the use of hydroxy chloroquine this it did about 2 weeks ago so President Trump by his own admission started taking the drug few days after the f. D. A. His own if d. A. Advised extreme caution in terms of using it for the treatment of coronavirus and also saying it should only be used in a hospital situation or in the Clinical Trial now the f. D. A. Recommendation followed a report by the u. S. Veterans Health Administration which did take a look into a small study in the use of my drugs a quarter chloroquine it found that the mortality rate actually increased with people using the drugs in its reported said that 27. 8 percent of those who were being treated for corona virus with hydroxy chloroquine the death rate was 27 percent when a zinc additive was added to the hydroxy quite a clerical in that death rate dropped to 22. 00 a but those who were not given either of these drugs or the cocktail the death rate was heart of that 11 percent so it was there as a result of this report along with another number of other global studies that the f. D. A. Made this recommendation a recommendation which President Trump has just completely trampled over. Now the u. S. Has accused the World Health Organization of allowing the coronavirus pandemic to spin out of control Health Secretary alex as are told the uns agencys Global Health assembly that the w h os failure to tame information the world needed has cost many lives. France and germany are proposing a relief fund of over 540000000000. 00 to help the ear recover from the pandemic the proposal suggests Member States borrow the funds together in an effort to ease divisions over financing initiatives well in the u. K. The government has expanded quote a Virus Testing to anyone over the age of 5 with symptoms it follows weeks of criticism over the number of daily tests being conducted across the country the Prime Minister has set a target for a daily capacity of 200005 the end of the month and in chile there have been violent protests in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the capital santiago hundreds of protesters broke coronavirus quarantine orders to demand food and medical aid. Mexico has begun a gradual easing of its lockdown despite its number of deaths and infections continuing to rise steadily the 1st stage hours regions with no cases of the virus to reopen with no restrictions social distancing measures will be gradually lifted by june the 1st Security Forces in iraq say a rocket has been fired into the heavily fortified green zone in the capital baghdad it hit an empty house not far from the u. S. Embassy no casualties have been reported on the Nigerian Military says its killed 20 boko haram fighters it says it intercepted a convoy that was on its way to attack villages in baghdad in borno state those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour to stay with us. Im attached to my phone my computer my tablet. And it 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 child. Landslip. 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. That it. Was. 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. If bit. Ill other. Does. In china mess. Industrialization have put a huge pressure on our ecosystem and on the environment. When it comes to i. T. Industry many people think its. Its grainy 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 top impact the biggest impact is 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 come out not. To come to your show you should get them to check. The over there its on them. To just its is a hold up you hold womans event i guess it was shy 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 lake. River and waste old ladies suddenly found on their knees in front of me i was like. I dont have any sort of government administrative power 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 all of these 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 are 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. The. Top names were companies Hewlett Packard apple intel advanced micro devices. The virtually the whos who of the Electronics Industry. And of course the granddaddy of them all was i. B. M. When i got hired 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 just write a check it was that easy i. B. M. Had that much clout i was the 1st microprocessor buyer for i. B. M. In the early eightys the idea of a personal oakum peer which was was on oxymoron right i mean without personal computer what end it 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 it up oil the peace scene 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 and lay 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 bunny 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 i got those a lot of different chemicals they built the disk drives we had to strip them out and then would literally have to dip im in severe gas and with a sponge it just with armed with severe i didnt know what it was is i just knew it stunk really bad and you couldnt get it on your skin because it would burn you like nobodys business what what happened was people started getting sick with very strange kinds of illnesses things that didnt seem to make a lot of sense and 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 you want to turn on the music from. But some good music on today. Right there. But theres a thing of. The. 1975 i was 18 years old and i started working in the Electronics Field i went to a specter of 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 at that. Event in know the material she was using turns out to be probably in the vicinity of 50 percent little excise 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 whos number one or you know. If i knew what i know now how to read out a spec or fix at the time it was unnecessary it just. Breaks my heart that i could avoid it. Oh were filing this lawsuit against her 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 oh still do that. Im sorry getting. But. I discovered i. B. M. Had a corporate mentality. Which they kept for 30 years and it kept track of the causes of deaths of their employees 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 hard to conceive the 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. B. M. 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 hernandezs not dead shes going to be in the courtroom and not only was it not relevant the judge said it it might prejudice 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 the 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 did 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. 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 it dissolved ing things and so when you put them into a tank eventually theyre going to eat their way through the tank. Solvents 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 late 1901 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 know 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 and 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 it 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 in 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. Please 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 and. Their 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. Listen. To. Me and 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. 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Has been killed i have strength i have a story of current which a lot of the fear is real. Passion. And a very sicilian just. Rule. The. World. What you all deserve with me so robin here in doha a reminder all top news stories President Trump has revealed hes been taking a regular dose of the unproven drug hydroxy chloroquine to prevent a coronavirus after requesting it from the white house doctor Government Health experts warned last month of its potentially fatal side effects the frontline workers many many are taking it i happened to be taking it i happened to be take it her direction toward objectively and hydroxy truck went right now oh yeah a couple of weeks ago started to get it because i think its kind of hurt a lot of good stories and if its not good ill tell you right doctor to get hurt by it its been around for 40 years from malaria for lupus for other things i take it frontline workers take it a lot of doctors take it she has been. The u. S. Has accused the World Health Organization of allowing the coronavirus pandemic to spin out of control Health Secretary alex as are told the u. S. Agency Global Health assembly that the w hate shows failure to tame information the world needed has cost many lives france and germany are proposing a relief fund of over 540000000000. 00 to help the e. U. Recover from the pandemic the proposal suggests Member States borrow the funds together in an effort to ease divisions over financing initiatives. And in the u. K. The government has expanded coronaVirus Testing to anyone over the age of 5 with symptoms it follows weeks of criticism over the number of daily tests being conducted across the country the Prime Minister has set a target of a daily capacity of 200005 the end of the month in chile there have been violent protests in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the capital santiago hundreds of protesters broke coronavirus quarantine orders to demand food and medical aid mexico has begun a gradual easing of its lockdown despite its number of deaths and infections continuing to rise the 1st stage allows regions with no cases of the virus to reopen with no restrictions social distancing measures we gradually lifted by june 1st in other news Security Forces in iraq say a rocket has been fired into a heavily fortified green zone in the capital baghdad hit an empty house not far from the u. S. Embassy no casualties have been reported those were the headlines about with more news in half an hour next on aljazeera is death by design do stay with us. I know michael thank you guys look for companies in the fall that susan is obviously youngest the boss to do it has died and 15 others were injured after an explosion at foxconn factory in chengdu southwest china the father to son and on cable you know you just i dont want to hear that occurred at around 7 pm in a polishing workshop it appears to have been triggered by an explosion of combustible dust in the duct. No one would be surprised that aluminum dust if its in a high enough concentration and there is an ignition source it will produce explosion and fire this is a hazard which is extremely well known. So the fact that apple suppliers have an explosion in chengdu in the plant means that they had very poor housekeeping very poor production processes thats terrible. Whats completely unacceptable is that 5 months later at another plant within the apple supply chain they had another explosion and fire. And so outrageously inexcusable that they had a 2nd 15 months later. They set up these supply chains exactly the way they want them they monitor these chains with exacting scrutiny so they know exactly whats going into their products at every point along the way. Here. We have a town hall i fix the gun so it will show you the sum of all that. So i have an i phone 5 here and im at show you a little bit about whats inside what makes it tick and some of the Design Choices that apple made putting it together to the 1st thing out bill has on the bottom is 2 proprietary penta loeb screws this is a security screw that apple designed to keep people out of the phone once you get the phone open we can start to see the guts. This isnt really a phone its pretty much a full blown computer that can make your phone last for 8 hours or you need a really big battery batteries and phones last about 400 charges every cell phone ive ever had to use pop the back up you can pull the battery out swap a new battery and every year or 2 you have to replace a battery apple has decided with the i pod and now the i phone that they dont like that model so what they are doing is building the batteries in the phone and using proprietary screws on there an attempt to limit the lifespan of the following. About 18 months which is around the time when they have a new phone and they want you to buy a new one anyway. I fix is a company that wants to see everything get fixed so we show people how to fix things and provide the parts tools and guides to enable them to do so helping everyone fix everything so thats the challenge its a big challenge because theres millions of devices out there and luke and i are reluctant capitalists we get excited selling screwdrivers even though that seems like a boring product because were selling people a capability where theyre able to do something that they wouldnt have otherwise we want to make it simple and easy for me to repair their own stuff. The amount of Raw Materials that go on the products that we use are stagnant over 500. 00 pounds around material go into making in a down south. So heres an example of a Circuit Board in this you waste bin this is out of apple laptop from a few years ago even if you make this Circuit Board in the most environmentally friendly way its still going to use a ton of water a ton of money probably literally a ton of water lots and lots of materials. When we know of or. Nothing is different. Electronics industry is close in ways that through this the american manufacturers are. Theyre selling a thing and theyre saying well you have it but you dont really own it theres no way were ever going to sell you a screwdriver to be able to get on the phone ford would never sell you a car and say were not going to make tires available to it to keep your car running after 30000 miles you have an entire ecosystem an entire industry thats built on secrecy and were one organization thats trying to pry open the hood a little bit show people whats inside. And weve kind of been conditioned by manufacturers and brands to leave yourself on the outside dont worry about the details we make this product we give it to you and you just use this product and when it stops working you go buy a new one. When we originally started my fix it was just a way to provide people with some solution to fix broken devices. And over time weve realized both the manufacturing and the environmental problems are all huge concern. Over the last few years ive been to china on a regular basis a lot of that related to our tool manufacturing. Were looking at getting Circuit Boards manufactured. This is the big Rechargeable Battery and this is the main Circuit Board in here so considering its just a flashlight you can see its a surprisingly complex Circuit Board and ive got these basic schematic of the Circuit Board once we decide and well leave them with the team and has been. Finding this supplier that is environmentally friendly has good quality and has reasonable pricing all 3 of those at once is probably going to be a challenge. For the next photo. Visiting factories weve found that its surprisingly effective to show up on short notice. In general any factory of its not willing to let you see the factory is an immediate red flag at least for someone that we dont want to do business with. This is the big line. The factory said this is where theyre etching and bringing all these nasty acids and other chemicals and. Youve got a little bit of acid believe you can see acid on the outside of the machine. I walked over to where there were some storage tanks and it was basically acid all over the floor and the moment i looked over that they told me get back away from here and this isnt giving me a good feeling. As far as making sure everythings done correctly environmentally it doesnt seem like thats a priority for them. And they go about the most who ever. The fact that it was so dear to you is the price you have to pay for the last 30 years of development you. Dont want to buy from them. Would do that was the time that somebody. From all that i hope. I didnt finish the front. With god just by putting on. 1. 100. Percent so well be sure so i say no she brings my sins at the time to buy them just. As what the idea what thats like the model of model hope we. Dont see that it. Doesnt you know but fox you know buy new things into. The. Do it so you decide and so when we should. Do it its a typical high profit. But to get dont you think you. Do you see. That is constantly changing. Im all of those. You. Spend a lot of time travel. Agents and. This is definitely the most professional of the factories visited. The fact that were being taken through this Water Treatment facility is a really promising sign. You start out with incredibly yucky water and it goes through a progressive series of filters and other processes and eventually you end up with hopefully acceptably clean water. The coolest thing when the water is coming through the Treatment Facility some of the water comes out and dumps into this thing and they have fish in here in the factory and i said well they know the Water Treatment is working ok as long as the fish are still alive a little unfortunate for the fish because if something breaks maybe the fish die but its clear to me that this would definitely be the factory to buy from up the one we visited. From the institute of public and Environmental Affairs ma june. Thank you ladies and gentlemen im truly honored and humbled to be the 1st chinese citizen to receive the scole award i was thank i set up this institute of public on your bar medal affairs ip and our 1st project is to to butte a National Water pollution database. Though this records comes from the government sources the public can access the information by click on the locations on the map because people want to know you know who should be held responsible for such a bat what a pollution situation and so far we got some more than 110000 records of violations in our database. In april 2010 we filed letters to 29 by t. Brands who checked with them whether those polluting factories whether they are their suppliers. All of them responded except one that is an apple. Apple just give us one statement that is we have a long term policy not to disclose our supply chain. Not to. My june contacted me and we began to Work Together to apply additional pressure to a company with headquarters here in the United States my mission singled out a number of facilities that he believed were in apples that that it had a very heavy Environmental Impact in their locality and when he level of those charges apple was shocked and sort of in denial that this type of problem to this extent could really exist in their supply chain. I think its important to understand that this is not just about apple you know this is about the id industry. They all share printed Circuit Board manufacturers they all share chip manufacturer is you know despite their audit protocols there is a lot more talk than walk on Environmental Impacts in the supply chain. You say to yourself how could they not know about any of these problems but you know its its always you ask and its all you look for so if youre not there and you have a checklist of what you need and you need it now and that checklist does not include whats going on at the end of the pipe of your wasteWater Treatment plant its actually conceivable that you know exactly where its being made you just dont know exactly how its being made and what the impact is. Thats whats going on not just with apple but with all of these companies. 40 years of operating the Environmental Protection agency in this country these are american based companies hard to believe. We still have this industry which is discharging so much waste not just normal ways Hazardous Waste. In just one supplier it generates more than 100000. 00 tons of Hazardous Waste in one year. How could we dispose stuff you know in a safe way so how much a time bomb this industry is gonna create. In electronics at this moment in time i believe were in the dinosaur age. Were using too many resources too many Raw Materials and the life of a computer is a typically 3 to 4 years. For a Small Company in r. And. A mission is to choose a fair trade computer. In the early days i repaired this component levels on the computers and one imports. From i noticed that there was huge amount of waste in the computer industry. So we started designing and building a database of graven reuse with computers. This is my fathers environmental drill and all my trusty and just you know its just its just. How can you build a computer without plastic how could you build a computer without lead mercury p. V. C. s brominated flame returns and all the other heavy metals. That was our gold the material we use is wood so its technology of 100 years ago but its perfectly good our computers will last 7 to 10 years because the home users nontechnical people can repair and replace im never place in the memory you can extend the life of it by upgradability. Today is is there a major launch in europe. Weve lots of say invite sent out to people. We were awarded the worlds 1st european. For integration desktop computer as it was the worlds 1st ever achieved as a wart at that time i thought wow the the gates would open with orders flood in for us that was not the case maybe a little bit of naive essay on my part its hard out there like Government Agencies some people like that there is no room for environmental they are totally just bottom line. Im looking at it now its one little step at a time the what we need to do is it work harder build more computers and get people to join us. Americans toss out a lot of gadgets every day. If we look at the 3000000. 00 or so tons of electronic waste that gets generated in United States every year probably 15 percent of that gets recycled. And some percent of that gets recycled in a responsible fashion. But still kind of shes a t. V. The density a movie about all get that idea of the wind. Or. The movie or the new its no more say on the phone but you. Dont react. To your characters who are in. The green new or many door trying to hide your. Dishes she goes with the. Sun the feet hunting down. Al qaeda hides a. Shit dont lose your shit good. The lies of pete. So nice which is what she. Says to the decimal. So happy that he goes hell hide. Those. That you can see in the. Heisley. We think ok well send our you waste of china let them burn it let them have the pollution but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe. That pollution is getting lofted into the atmosphere and coming right back to us. Metals metal is a metal you know and its theres no other form for it to convert to you can convert it from being in the soil to being in the water to being in the air but you still have a metal. In our work we fly through clouds and we sample the cloud droplets and we measure the chemistry of each one very fast as youre flying through a cloud. Theyre flashing as fast as you can imagine on a screen and we collect all that information and what we get is whats a chemical fingerprint in california with getting rid of lead in gasoline weve reduced the amount of lead we have and so when lead shows up that is one of the tracers that we say this could be from elsewhere and we can trace it back in time and say you know 4 days ago this air was over asia. And you have more pollution you have more aerosols those go into the cloud and so you have so many things they cant get big enough to fall and lead to rain. And its giving you these extremes of either not enough water in some places and way too much water in other places. What happens if we push it too far. Well start to see more of these extreme events things like flooding and hurricanes. These are what people often refer to as tipping points and not so thats what were very concerned about happening. My attachment to my devices is more complicated now. Its hard to get excited about the next new model or upgrade knowing what they really cost to make. The industry in its constant search for cheaper workers and land is moving on to new countries and the few government safeguards or inspections. We all have a share in this problem. But we can use our voices and our buying power to demand real labor safety and greater Environmental Protections. The digital revolution has improved our lives in so many ways. We need to make sure it doesnt rob us of our health and our planet. But. 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Down into mississippi louisiana if you want to show is there in the eastern parts of texas weve got some showers see just around the mountain states but for the west coast gently fun to drive with plenty of sunshine sunshine and showers maymont across the caribbean we have got some lively showers there still extending across Northern Areas of cuba into the western side of the region those showers run all the way down into panama rationally see some showers has been noticing a few showers jamaica should be largely dry on tuesday in the Eastern Islands generally fine and dry for tuesday as all change as we go on into wednesday showers feed into the Eastern Islands little dry there for hispanic and also for a good part of cuba. As the world fights the corona pandemic were learning more about this every day the new patent your join our global community. 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