 We're talking today on Daily Debrief about the most short-lived coup not to be that memory can recall. The Wagner group chief has retreated to Belarus after Saturday's shenanigans in southern Russia. Another shocking reminder of the work not done to help victims of the Bhopal gas leak in India. This study reveals the biggest industrial tragedy leaked toxic gases and chemicals in 1984 that are reaching beyond generations to cause health havoc. And the election in Greece returns conservative new democracy to power while prominent left party Syriza slides amid rising anti-immigration rhetoric. The Wagner group retreated very quickly from its weekend march towards Moscow. Belarus reportedly intervened and prevailed upon its chief Yevgeny Prygoshin. Prygoshin's next steps in Belarus or anywhere else are unclear but evidently some changes are afoot in Wagner's Russia operations. On Saturday we asked Prybiyipur Kaisa editor-in-chief of Newsclick about what the western media was then calling a coup. It is still calling the incident a big crack in Vladimir Putin's authority over Russia. So let's return to Prybiy for more details on what we actually know so far. Prybiyi spoke on Saturday about the Wagner group the coup that was not to be and it was a shortest live rebellion ever within hours I think of our speaking they called it off how do we explain this? Well you know this is going to be again something on which we are going to discuss for a long time because if you listen to various media reporting on it this is the end of Putin according to the western media there are cracks in Russia it's a huge issue on the other hand as you said it is the shortest coup ever and it didn't seem to have led to any fights that we could see with the Russian military even in Rostov-on-Don when we saw the visuals over there the people seemed to be going around the tanks without bothering so it was a very strange coup in that sense that it seems not to have created any confrontation and I think that's very important that the Russian military did not stop Prygoshin's Wagner group rolling towards Moscow it in fact it passed to Voron's it was on the way to Moscow and you can see the route therefore it seems that backdoor backroom negotiations were in progress and finally what Prygoshin got from this is only that he goes to Belarus now what he will do in Belarus at least he's not been arrested he's not going to be put on trial so that part of it he seems that seems to have been an escape route for him and then what he will do in Belarus we don't know it's also the president of Belarus has a friendly relations with him and that's why he perhaps was brought into this so at the moment we for us it's very shall we say puzzling what's really happened was it again something that Prygoshin was doing in order to negotiate is the office rocker as people say is that what happened is it's a brinkmanship in which finally realized that he was not going to get anywhere and therefore he finally agreed to essentially surrender to the terms that Putin or the Russian state was willing to discuss with him so all of this is open to question net result is in Russia nothing has really happened it doesn't look like the Russian state has been disturbed it doesn't look like Putin's government as people keep on referring to the Russian government is in any crisis it doesn't appear to be it does seem that Prygoshin was trying to negotiate something we don't know what at the moment but it's also true that Prygoshin and his Wander group were being asked to become a part of the Russian army particularly in fighting within Russia against the main forces and therefore to be under Russian command not to have two separate commands in this particular case and that the rest of the Wander group in Russia seems to have accepted the real question for Wander will be and for Russia will be that they were playing a role in Africa that's right you know they were in in fact supplanting the French soldiers in a lot of these countries which thought that the French were involved also in coups that they while they came for as peacekeepers they were meddling France was meddling in these countries and therefore replacing the existing government quite often and replacing it with something else and they thought that Wander was a much more neutral force providing only security to the government so this this role that Wander had in Africa what will happen to that is still an open question and they are there in number of countries including starting from Syria down to you know Mali terms of other countries so I think that would be a big question because because it was a power projection that Russia had in Africa which after this may be more difficult people may not trust Wander enough given the fragility at the top so I think these are questions that Russia and Prigoshin and Wagner will have to face in the coming days and we'll see how that shapes up. Right Pravee did I hear you right on the fact there's some sort of nationalization of Wander group they're absorbing it within the military in Russia and they have agreed to that? Within the army structure Wagner will be accommodated will be under the command of Russian army that seems to be one of the conditions they were given about a couple of months back and that was one of the points of discord between Wagner Prigoshin and Russia the Russian armed forces they didn't want to have somebody who has arms with soldiers to be a loose cannon to put it mildly within Russia so therefore the argument was that your forces will have to be under our command because ultimately when an army finds there cannot be two commands so that was the argument and Prigoshin was very unhappy about it because his whole thing is based on he of course he's not a military commander so that is basically the owner of the Wagner group he's not the one who fights though he does wear the dress he does go to his soldiers he does egg them on and so on but he doesn't really he's not their commander because he's never been in the army that as a as in any serious position so he was in fact he came laterally into Wagner as a not as a professional part but as essentially a business that was the business he was in so given all of that that was one of the points of contention now I think that's over that it's not possible for Wagner to operate independently within Russia and in the fighting against Ukraine of course there has to be a unified command of which the Wagner group will be a part it's also interesting again from reports we are seeing that none of the senior commanders of Wagner actually sided with Prigoshin so that is also the other part of it but as I said you know how much of it was brinkmanship how much of it was you know a real serious rift was it something show for the people these are all questions we'll be discussing for some time to come but there's no question it has cracked the Russian image it has damaged it to some extent and also it will have repercussions if the Wagner group gets disorganized it is no longer the force it was it will have repercussions in Africa for Russia because Wagner was at least a forced projection for Russia in terms of providing an alternative to the French Americans and others of giving security providing security to various governments in that region in particularly Central and Central West Africa so I think those are the areas where we will have to see what the impact is. Right Prabhupi thank you very much for joining us a new study of the health effects of the Bhopal gas tragedy in India brings startling reminders of the neglect of millions of victims new towns and settlements have come up in an around Bhopal where the gas leak occurred since the December 1984 toxic gas leak poisonous chemicals continue to leak into the soil from the union carbide plant in the city we asked Jyotsana Singh of the People's Health Movement to explain the study's most prominent findings. Jyotsana thanks for joining us so an important publication looking at the health impact of the Bhopal gas tragedy and also the region around where the gas leak happened can you walk us through some of the highlights of this report. Absolutely so the study has been published in British Medical Journal their open source publication and the study has been done by a group of US based scientists from University of California Santiago and it has some stark findings so the researchers have compared the data from early 90s to 2015-16 NFHS data round four and what they found was that among men who were in the uterus of women when the tragedy happened in the December of 84 what kind of health problems or what is the difference in their health outcomes compared to the general population and what they found was that the rate of cancer is so high among them so in general the rate of cancer is 8 times more than the general men which is quite devastating but there is worse which is those men who did not shift out of that the area after the tragedy among them cancer is prevalent as much as 27 times higher than the general population so this is really disastrous that is then the other findings are also there which is that the disability among these men is much higher which actually shows 15 years later in their lives and which means the way it their other social it impacts their other social indicators also so they attain less education compared to other people because disabled population is more marginalized in our country and otherwise also so they have two years of less education which impacts their employment of course also their disabilities are such that they are not able to sustain their employment for long so this is these are the things and the area of study is not small the area of study is 100 kilometers radius 100 kilometers around the site of the disaster the site of the factory a full 100 kilometers around is where this impact has been seen yes which is a huge area so generally it is believed that you know we will look at 4.5 kilometers up to 7 kilometers and let's see what happened and that is where maybe that is the radiation and everything stopped but that did not happen and it is also because the gas which is methyl isocyanide yes MCI it is quite a toxic gas that comes out it impacted not only the people directly exposed but because later it went into the groundwater and that kept impacting lives and it had longer term impacts than just one night so so what the study shows that this is an intergenerational problem it is not only about people directly being exposed to the gas and we hope that it can be looked at the entire health problem and the compensation and how to deal with the the disaster can be looked at in a much more comprehensive way by the government and by union carbide itself and the the owners who are who have really gotten a scot-free despite killing so many people but it has to be looked into now study shows in a far more comprehensive way than how they have looked at it so far just now there have been other studies over the years into this tragedy which is now almost 40 years since the gas leak does this add to that existing literature and are there any recommendations for you know this kind of relief and restitution for the people also why why only men is there a scientific reason why only men were picked for the study so the thing is there have been a lot of further studies already and we have literature looking at different sections of people for example it has been well known and there are studies to show how women got really badly impacted so this studies show that women who were exposed not just directly but the female offsprings also they face menstrual irregularities that is their periods are problematic which actually means that entire reproductive system goes for a goes for a toss and then they face those problems they give more still births which is again which takes a toll on a woman's body and the infant mortality is far more among these kids who were born of women in and around exposed to the gas so so there are a lot of these problems that women face they face premature menopause and again not just the women exposed directly but also their female children and premature menopause again has its own complications in your life so the quality of life of people overall be it men or women it has been impacted intergenerational across the entire throughout their lifespan they have faced something or the other so this is a serious matter of course let's talk about the solutions that you were just talking about what should be done so well one is justice I think is something that one needs to ask for that why have people gotten scot-free completely even though we know about half a million deaths and 30,000 deaths and half a million people being impacted right so we have seen that there has been no justice people are still fighting for justice and compensation that has not been given appropriately adequately there are organized that children who were people with children that time they are fighting for their rights so what and what kind of a support you are providing to for example the disabled people who got disability because of that who lost their livelihood and who lost their near and dear ones so what kind of a rehabilitation can you give compensation of course is something that keeps coming up and now that we know that it is it goes much beyond the radius that the government right has looked at till now so the compensation has to be of that order and it has to be dealt with sensitively at this point you have a special hospital in Bhopal for the gas tragedy victims you go there any time and the scene is so bad actually the people go to other government hospitals to get treatment it is not been taken care of so you create something but which exists actually only on the papers but it's a building with very less infrastructure and the real solutions that people need so cancers have to be looked into there are so many studies which show that there are there is more cancer in these areas than ever before than any other area so that there has to be a special solution for people like this and again I would say that the industrialist who did this should be made accountable and that should be brought to justice right Jyotsana thanks very much for joining us and highlighting this important issue Voters handed a fresh four-year term to the new democracy party in Sunday's election in Greece Syriza lost more than 30 MPs as fringe parties including so-called Spartans with strong anti immigration positions entered parliament Greece held an inconclusive election in May but the people's despite joins us in the studio with more details Abdul good to have you on the show so Abdul what is a result exactly say in the greek election I think it is by and large repeat of what was the result in May if you see except for the fact that Syriza the main opposition party the left party which was in the power before new democracy came into power in 2019 has lost more seats yes apart from that rest of this result if you see after counting of around 95 96 percent of the votes report says that new democracy has around 40 point some percentage of votes and the seats that is the one major difference between me and this last time there were five seats short to majority this time they have comfortable majority of 150 58 seats but that can also be linked with the changed electoral system in May there was a proportional representation system okay now they have a new system according to which whichever is the leading party gets bonus seats around 30 to 50 bonus seats so that basically adds up into the new democracies overall gains apart from this of course the left parties in general there are many left parties because of the Syriza's division within Syriza and then there is of course the KKE the communist party in Greece and there are other left parties they have by and large maintained their seats which was there in the May and it seems that if you apart from Syriza rest of them have performed by a large rest of the left parties have performed as per their performance in the last election in May so that is one important fact thing to note apart from that there is a strong emergence of the ultra right wing the they had banned one of the right wing parties claiming that it is anti-immigrant immigrant it is basically propagating fascist and Nazi ideas and so on and so forth but despite the fact that the leader of that party was in jail he had supported Spartans and party which was nowhere before the election has made a strong presence with 13 seats and around 5% of the votes so far that is one major concern and that is by and large about the seat arrangements and the percentage of vote in the in this election. Abdul let's talk about what explains the results the rise of the far right in particular what explains this? Well there are two three main things of course there is a traditional right wing presence in most of the European countries but those there is a strong sentiment particularly during in Greece in particular when the economic collapse happened around a decade ago the section of the of course people mobilized were mobilized behind the left say left party series and all but there is a section which basically blamed for the economic collapse the European Union and the kind of policy prescription it was it was imposing on the Greek economy and that basically basically NTU sentiments were basically behind the rise of the right wing parties in Greece in particular. Apart from that the immigrants the as Greece being one of the major countries of the death which is the destination of large number of refugees and migrants from Africa and other Asian countries crossing the Mediterranean that basically creates a particularly due to the economic crisis when the people in Greece lost jobs and they had heavy austerity measures and everything in that context they had it was easy to mobilize people behind the ultra right wing ideas of immigrants being responsible for your economic problems. So these factors basically added into the rise of the right wing in Greece in particular so even though if you see the popularity of the new democracy has certain roots of course it is not the extremist kind of right wing but it is economic right wing in some sense particularly in the context if you see it compare it with Syriza's thing it is right and in that that basically primarily emerges from the economic concerns which Syriza had failed to address during its first during its four years Prime Minister ship, which it has between 2015 and 2019 and it seems there is a larger reception that the new democracy has basically quote-unquote performed well implemented the new liberal austerity measures and despite doing that it has been able to stabilize the economy, stabilize and create more jobs and kind of control the overall situation but nonetheless there is an overall economic problem faced by the working class in Greece and given the fact that the left has not been able to put forward and a strong alternative a section of the working class has also moved towards right. So if it is a combination of factors which is responsible for the rise of the right wing in Greece and in rest of the European countries. Right Abdul thanks very much for joining us and that's all we have for today thanks very much for watching Daily Debrief we will see you again on Tuesday until then you can find more of our work on our website peoplesdispatch.org our social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and our YouTube channel have more updates and this show Daily Debrief thanks again for watching