:00:02. > :00:10.will rival the new Boeing Dreamliner.
:00:10. > :00:20.Those are the headlines, now it is time for Our World.
:00:20. > :00:25.This could be a war-zone. But it's all that remains of Rana Plaza, an
:00:25. > :00:30.eight Storey garment factory. In the space of a few minutes, over
:00:30. > :00:40.1,000 people were crushed to death. Many more were seriously injured
:00:40. > :00:50.and one of the world's deadliest industrial disasters. I have come
:00:50. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :01:01.to back up in Bangladesh to meet the survivors. -- Dhaka. And those
:01:01. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:19.I want to know why, when it was clear the building was dangerous,
:01:19. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:55.The garment industry is transforming the Bangladeshi
:01:55. > :02:00.economy. It produces three-quarters of the country's wealth and employs
:02:00. > :02:05.over 3.5 million people, mostly young women. Sixteen-year-old Anna
:02:05. > :02:15.Akhter is one of them. She had recently started a job in a company
:02:15. > :02:45.
:02:45. > :02:51.supplying Primark. Wednesday, 24th Like millions of Bangladeshis in
:02:51. > :02:55.factories similar to this one, she wasted no time firing up the heavy
:02:55. > :03:00.industrial sewing machines. Workers are set a daily quota to meet the
:03:00. > :03:03.demands of the most expansive industry in the country. The six
:03:03. > :03:08.upper floors of Rana Plaza were crammed with hundreds of people,
:03:08. > :03:17.busy producing clothes for foreign consumers. On the ground floor and
:03:17. > :03:23.first floors, there was a bank and the shopping mall. At 9am on 24th
:03:23. > :03:33.April, the electricity stocks. Now that is nothing uncommon. As usual,
:03:33. > :03:42.
:03:42. > :03:52.the generator kicked in. That's 30-year-old Pakhi Begum had left
:03:52. > :04:11.
:04:11. > :04:14.for two children at home. She would It then took just minutes for the
:04:14. > :04:24.eight-storey building to collapse, with thousands of people trapped
:04:24. > :04:25.
:04:25. > :04:35.Rana Plaza was on a busy main road in central Savar. Thousands of
:04:35. > :04:43.
:04:43. > :04:48.people saw heard the building were This room and immediately rushed to
:04:48. > :04:58.the scene to help. Some, like Didar Hossain, would remain there for
:04:58. > :04:58.
:04:58. > :05:40.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:05:40. > :05:49.Resembled a war zone and was too much for the emergency services. --
:05:49. > :05:57.the site resembles. The army was quickly called in. I could see
:05:57. > :06:03.people, hundreds and thousands, a no fire brigade are nothing, people.
:06:03. > :06:06.The labourers, the market people those who were in the street. They
:06:06. > :06:16.all came running in thousands to rescue those who were trying to
:06:16. > :06:24.
:06:24. > :06:29.escape the debris. The building 4,000 people went into Rana Plaza
:06:29. > :06:37.on the morning of 24th April. One- quarter of them never made it out
:06:37. > :06:45.alive. Standing at this building site, you get a sense of the scale
:06:45. > :06:51.of this tragedy. I am walking on top of people's saris and T-shirts
:06:51. > :07:01.with blood all over them. And the collapse of Rana Plaza should never
:07:01. > :07:03.
:07:03. > :07:07.have happened. It was no secret the building was dangerous. Designed to
:07:07. > :07:12.be six storeys high, the structure could not cope with the two extra
:07:12. > :07:22.flowers which had been illegally added. Or the heavy industrial
:07:22. > :07:22.
:07:22. > :07:29.generators. For weeks, workers had been complaining about cracks.
:07:29. > :07:36.Finally, on 23rd April, less than 24 hours before it would collapse,
:07:36. > :07:43.the authorities stepped in. They immediately evacuated the building.
:07:43. > :07:47.First on the scene was a local journalist, Nazmul Huda. He showed
:07:47. > :07:57.me the remarkable for the she filmed of Rana Plaza up the day
:07:57. > :07:57.
:07:57. > :09:28.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:09:28. > :09:33.Laws, the factory owners would lose hundreds of thousands of Dhaka.
:09:33. > :09:41.Barge and foreign orders would be in jeopardy. They were more afraid
:09:41. > :09:45.of losing their jobs than damage to the building. The building was
:09:45. > :09:55.owned by Mohammed Sohel Rana, a man with strong political connections
:09:55. > :09:55.
:09:55. > :10:35.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:10:35. > :10:41.The authorities insisted the building was to remain closed until
:10:41. > :10:51.engineers had done a proper survey. The workers were sent home. The
:10:51. > :10:59.
:10:59. > :11:03.next day, the factories were open How do you feel when you see this
:11:03. > :11:13.footage and you have spoken to all these people could do not want to
:11:13. > :11:20.
:11:20. > :11:30.Less than 24 hours after these women expressed their fears, they
:11:30. > :11:33.
:11:33. > :11:37.were crushed to death along with Those which survived the collapse
:11:37. > :11:47.of Rana Plaza were brought to hospitals like this one, when I met
:11:47. > :12:01.
:12:01. > :12:11.up with victims of the tragedy. -- Another survivor of the collapse
:12:11. > :12:11.
:12:11. > :13:32.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:13:32. > :13:42.Deep inside the rubble, she was alive. This would be the start of a
:13:42. > :13:42.
:13:42. > :14:24.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:14:24. > :14:29.The military and structural engineers had quickly realise that
:14:29. > :14:33.the building would collapse even further if heavy lifting equipment
:14:33. > :14:36.was brought in and specialist tools would take time to arrive. Rescuing
:14:37. > :14:44.the thousands are still trapped in the ruins would require local
:14:44. > :14:49.people, local expertise, and local equipment. We used to tools to
:14:49. > :14:53.carry people. We used small cutting it tools and it small shovels that
:14:53. > :14:57.the local people had. After one hour, we could understand that it
:14:58. > :15:01.is difficult to approach this collapsed buildings because it is
:15:01. > :15:09.like a sandwich or a pancake and you cannot really approach from the
:15:09. > :15:16.top. You can go from the side. We started to make a lot of, you know,
:15:16. > :15:22.crawling trenches. Because the gap between each wall and ceiling, each
:15:22. > :15:28.floor, became less than two feet by that time. It was only because
:15:28. > :15:35.somebody could crawl and go inside and give a hand it to someone who
:15:35. > :15:38.was trying to get out and help him or her to come out. In small gaps
:15:38. > :15:48.and cavities all over the site, people were trapped and unable to
:15:48. > :16:14.
:16:14. > :16:24.get out. The dead and living were Because of this size, this man was
:16:24. > :16:24.
:16:24. > :17:27.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:17:27. > :17:32.able to get into spaces that others He saved her life and they are
:17:32. > :17:35.still in touch. Using just a hacksaw, he amputated limbs of two
:17:35. > :17:41.more people who were in tight spaces where medical staff could
:17:41. > :17:47.not or would not go. The hospitals are still full of people recovering
:17:47. > :17:57.from their ordeals. For some, the rescue was as dramatic as the
:17:57. > :18:34.
:18:34. > :18:40.As the rescue effort continued, garment workers around the country
:18:40. > :18:43.revolted and demanded safe working conditions and better pay.
:18:43. > :18:48.Meanwhile, the authorities were in pursuit of the owner of the
:18:48. > :18:58.building. Mahomed was finally arrested, trying to flee across the
:18:58. > :19:07.
:19:07. > :19:12.border to India. In total, 30 The Rana Plaza disaster shocked the
:19:12. > :19:16.world and it has led to action. Seven building inspectors have been
:19:16. > :19:24.sacked for not doing their jobs and engineers are estimating that 60%
:19:24. > :19:28.of factories are unsafe. I was taken to a factory that was shut
:19:29. > :19:33.down in response to the collapse. A crack had been discovered and the
:19:33. > :19:38.authorities were not taking any chances. Here at this bench,
:19:38. > :19:41.someone was working away and it seems like as soon as it was
:19:41. > :19:46.announced that his building was unsafe to work in, they left
:19:46. > :19:50.immediately. You can see some of their unfinished work and some of
:19:50. > :19:56.the things which were completed. The workers here have no idea when
:19:56. > :20:01.they can come back to work. It is expected to cost more than $1
:20:01. > :20:04.billion to make the country's workplaces safer. Some
:20:04. > :20:09.international firms are like caging them, as are, and prime mark have
:20:09. > :20:13.agreed to help foot the bill as part of a binding agreement to
:20:13. > :20:18.improve safety standards. They pledge means that they will be
:20:18. > :20:22.forced to inspect buildings are regularly. Other companies like
:20:22. > :20:26.Wal-Mart and Gap have not signed up because of concerns about the
:20:26. > :20:31.liabilities involved. Say it say that they will carry out their own
:20:31. > :20:36.safety inspections. -- they say that they will carry out. Despite
:20:36. > :20:40.these promises, some workers are still worried. I am about to go
:20:40. > :20:44.into a factory that the unions are very concerned about. They are
:20:44. > :20:49.concerned about the working conditions and their safety. On top
:20:49. > :20:53.of that, this yellow sign says that everyone in this building should be
:20:53. > :20:58.a evacuated because the building has cracks in it and poses a risk
:20:58. > :21:02.to workers and anyone else entering. We had been told that although the
:21:02. > :21:07.building had cracks in it, it was not in danger of immediate collapse.
:21:07. > :21:11.I'm still astonished to find a garment factory in full flow. The
:21:11. > :21:18.manager seemed unconcerned. Despite the sign saying do not enter the
:21:18. > :21:28.building, it is risky, used think it is OK for people to come here?
:21:28. > :21:37.
:21:37. > :21:47.Yes. The building is not a problem. Are you worried about your life
:21:47. > :21:54.
:21:54. > :22:03.because you were here as well? -- The manager says that he plans on
:22:03. > :22:08.leaving out within the next six months. One week after the collapse
:22:08. > :22:12.of the plaza, the search for survivors was abandoned and heavy
:22:12. > :22:15.moving he was brought into the site to move the rubble. Deep in the
:22:15. > :22:18.side, won 18-year-old woman was still alive. She was trapped just
:22:18. > :22:21.above the ground floor and had crawled around in the darkness for
:22:21. > :22:31.more than a fortnight and found a small supply of food and water
:22:31. > :23:00.
:23:00. > :23:10.She told me that during her 17-day ordeal underground, she had lost
:23:10. > :23:39.
:23:39. > :23:49.She was perhaps hours away from adding to the death toll which
:23:49. > :24:01.
:24:01. > :24:05.Families are being promised over $10,000 for each victim. That has
:24:05. > :24:11.enough being done to make the garment industry a safer place to
:24:11. > :24:14.work? The appetite of the West for cheap clothing means that there is
:24:14. > :24:21.no certainty that the fate of vulnerable garment workers will
:24:21. > :24:31.change. I am angry that we have had this happen in our country. It is a
:24:31. > :24:48.
:24:48. > :24:51.wake-up call for everybody. The It is a booming sector with a