since two thousand and one marc olivier herman has been leading a powerful organization in a little known campaign. a campaign involving a device that has become indispensable in our daily lives. it's simple stuff the cell phone this mobile phone is a remarkable piece of engineering but look inside there's blood in this machine that is so there's blood in this device because your mobile contains tiny electronic circuits and they couldn't work without a mineral called cold hands that it's mind in the eastern congo. yet this song there is blood here the blood of congolese who are dying in a terrible conflict. to learn more about co time the precious metal at the heart of every mobile you must go to the congo fourteen hundred kilometers from the capital kinshasa near the rwandan border in south keep. this region is a geological miracle stuffed full of minerals and it's ravaged by war four million people have died in the past thirteen years the violence feeds off the abundance of natural resources. we're driving towards the mountains where the mines are it's a dangerous region the congolese a

but for human rights campaigner marc olivier herman china is not the only country involved not by a long way. national political and hooters china manufacturer for china is the workshop of the world china manufactures for us the companies that manufacture in china are often subsidiaries of western companies so it's too easy to say that the chinese are the problem in one or we of the chinese this is the global economy but you can't distinguish between western companies china and the other players everything is interdependent other that on the. market a v.a. herman has been working on this campaign for six years the christian organization he represents has a presence across the world who he's someone to be taken very seriously he's had successes before. and i've been in exile a hopeful we organise an election at brussels airport seven the belgian airlines have been i was transporting colton from the great lakes region i have a call that i was on the corner and we wanted to question that they'd been named in the un report. for the nuts and we wanted to tell them that they had to face up to