but not the ordinary congolese. to get to a mine we have to travel a few dozen kilometers west to a region recently retaken by the congolese army. after three hours drive in a rough track we reach a plateau congolese soldiers go with us they're supposed to protect the mine from the rebels. in fact the mine is a quarry the workers are adolescents who slave like convicts. and . this is colton the black gold of the congo pieces of rock attached to limestone just what you know what colton is used for no we don't really know we know it's a mineral it's quite a muddy. every able bodied young person in the village must dig the mountain they have no choice in the mine is the only way to earn a living. how old are you fifteen. someone just young children. as in a gold mine the earth is washed several times. the impurities are washed away leaving gray sand dotted with little black pebbles. this is the coat and that the armed groups want so much not long ago they came to get it with weapons as anatole the village had remembers

recommendations trax is still buys congolese cult. is this texas could i speak to mr case. we don't wish to comment on a t.v. program about our politics our presence or activities in africa. they. are used to importing co ten from eastern congo the congo yes. and you know where it comes from. yes we make our checks we have our information and we do know where it comes from. we take the necessary measures to ensure that our suppliers check for us they're very sensitive about that kind of thing. according to track says the coltan brought in the congo could under no circumstances come from a war zone but trixie's own supply it sees it differently security seals will be it's difficult to distinguish between what is good and what is bad just give my view whether the minerals have been sold by an armed group or not that is going to be because in the mining zones you have the local population who work in the mines and who sell to the dealers five bills after is now illegal so yeah and in the end you don't know what is coming by and on band and what is not once the pass if you but

he's a congress but an ethnic tutsi fighting against the congolese government. he's attacked the congolese army several times in two thousand and four two thousand and six and two thousand and seven there's a warrant for his arrest for war crimes his men are accused of massacres and extortion. he says she'll take her resources they kill people they steal telephones they rape the women. in september two thousand and seven four hundred thousand people had to flee the combat zone where he was operating. is the archetype of warlord he has control of the mines to meet him we go to his party stronghold the messy seat four hours drive from goma. once the general's representative has given us permission a driver agrees to take us there. you know and we left the government zone. yes most of the people here are too it says. we arrive at a roadblock the rebel generals have quotas and not far from here. we're coming up to quintus headquarters. from here he can overlook the holy jhon. we're going to visit there are catholic chicks for fear of assassination is ever present. t

for his presidential center joined by former administration officials including dick cheney and congolese rice the former president planted a shovel into the dirt and promised to continue to advance the principles that guided his service and public office located at southern methodist university the george w. bush presidential center will include a library a museum and a think tank working for education reform global health economic growth and ironically human freedom as well as a decision theater where visitors can hear a set of facts and then try to side to decide what they would have done in that situation so if we look at the big picture here neal cuts wanting to restore america's leadership by joking about nuclear weapons were doctrines and scoffing at befriending russia along with george w. bush starting of all things a think tank does that mean that nothing has changed in america joining me to discuss it is david swanson author of his new book war is a lie comes out on monday david thank you so much for joining me so i guess let's start with bush right i mean here's a man who got o

he would have to shoot to the congolese and shoot through mrs. kennedy. andhrough the connelly' would have shot mrs. kennedy. >> after the president was shot and you got to the hospital, what did you do with mrs. kennedy? what was your responsibility then? >> the governor was in the emergency room and the president was right across the hall. mrs. kennedy with in to be with the emergency room with him. there got to be so many doctors in there that there was hardly room for anybody she was -- anybody. she was helped to get a chair. my supervisor asked me to call the white house. i got the telephone number and called the dallas white house. or ever we traveled, white house communications would set up a switchboard. i got the dallas white house and ask them to put me through and to keep the line open. i began to tell someone what happened and i explained -- about that time, one of the doctors came up and said he was dead. we rushed in. i was trying to explain what had happened and the operator cut in and said that the attorney general kennedy was on the phone