BHP in court over Brazilian dam disaster
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🗓️ 21 October 2024
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From the BBC World Service: A civil trial is beginning in London to determine whether the mining company was responsible for the 2015 Mariana dam collapse. Then, ByteDance has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its artificial intelligence models. And more than 100 professional women’s soccer players have published an open letter calling on FIFA to end its sponsorship deal with state-owned Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco.
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| 0:00.0 | Survivors of a Brazilian dam collapse speak to the BBC as the company behind the |
| 0:05.9 | disaster goes on trial. Live from the BBC World Service, this is the |
| 0:09.7 | Marketplace Morning Report, Will Bain, Ian 4 Leanna Byrne today, great as always, to have your company. marketplace morning |
| 0:13.6 | to have your company. Yes, we start here in London where a trial over responsibility for Brazil's worst environmental disaster |
| 0:20.4 | gets underway at the UK's high court this morning. |
| 0:23.4 | The Mariana Dam collapse in 2015 killed 19 people |
| 0:27.6 | and destroyed many communities around it. |
| 0:29.8 | The dam was a joint enterprise between the mining company's BHP and Valle. |
| 0:34.4 | The BBC's South America correspondent, Ioni Wales reports. |
| 0:38.5 | Mariano is a quaint historic town in the mountains of Southeast Brazil. |
| 0:42.3 | It's windy cobbled streets and soundtracks of birds and church bells make for a peaceful setting. |
| 0:48.0 | But nine years ago it was making headlines, the scene of Brazil's worst environmental disaster. |
| 0:53.0 | 19 people are still missing. |
| 0:55.0 | After the rupture of... |
| 0:57.0 | One person has been confirmed dead, but at least a dozen are reported to be missing. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm in Bento Rodriguez now, which is one of the towns that was completely destroyed by the disaster. |
| 1:06.0 | It's now basically a ghost town. |
| 1:08.3 | Most of the houses here are complete ruins. |
| 1:11.6 | Some of them still have mud all the way up the walls. |
| 1:14.4 | I have to go for the conversation. |
| 1:17.4 | Markos Muniz, known as Marcinios, is one of the people who used to live in this town. |
| 1:22.2 | His house was completely washed away in the disaster. |
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