-- about you and -- united nations forces in the drc.ted nations went in as a peacekeeping mission. the u.n. rarely makes peace, it tries to keep peace, but the idea of making peace has to do with the actors and diplomats and many other channels. yes, there is a lot to say about what the leader has done, but the expectation that he will go there in a country of 100 million people, two plus million square kilometers and make peace was naive, i would say. that being said, there has been damage in terms of unesco getting involved with local actors in taking that road toward peace. imran: we make an interesting point. the peacekeeping forces are about peacekeeping, not peacemaking. but it seems to me, if you lost the support of the population, you are encouraging violence, which is what has been happening in the eastern democratic republic of the congo. is the peacekeeping mission a failure in your eyes? >> i concur with most of what the other discussion has said. i think it is a mixed result when you see what the situation was 22 years ago,

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>> they were shocked to hear that the drc government is planning to open up their land for oil blockswere not aware at all, they were not consulted. and for them, any kind of development that do not doesn't involve them from the beginning is not a development for them. william: this decision to sell off forest land also conflicts with a pledge the government made less than a year ago at the last un climate change summit. there, former uk prime minister boris johnson and congolese president felix tshisekedi signed a landmark deal to protect the country's rainforests. in a joint statement back then, the democratic republic of congo committed to quote halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2031. the deal included international pledges of $500 million. but russia's invasion of ukraine, combined with covid -19, has sent food and energy prices soaring, and exacerbated congo's already dire humanitarian crisis. according to the world bank, three quarters of congo's 80 million people live on less than 2 dollars a day. with these oil and gas leases, congo's president sees an econo

if you are named drc, sending greetings from chicago.a place all of us have connections, to so thank, you drc. she's asking if you could share some discrimination and challenges americas black athletes faced after they returned home from berlin. where they received as heroes? >> sure. if you think about the story of jesse owens at the time, the greatest track and field performance in history. immediately after the games, the american olympic committee went on a tour of europe, and they had the athletes competing after two or three days, so it was a grinding performance, and they were trying to raise money to offset the expenses, a participating in the olympics. jesse who was worn out, retired, decided to go home. he was actually barred from competing in track and field, it's an amazing story to think about. he spent much of the 1940s in what you would call spectacles. he would race horses as a way to raise money and travel with the harlem globe-trotters, performance, he would run over hurdles as a form of entertainment. and he really str

and parcel of everyday life here in taipei and we've really seen a ramping up of tensions from the drcthat p.r.c.. military jets flying across our air defense identification zone . academic course of actions, including most recently, the banning of a few food products. so it has become just a part of routine life. that has its pitfalls on its own, but it is also an unfortunate consequence of the relationship, or the lack of one we see today. but i do have to emphasize one point, if we take this idea of china meaning the people's republic of china, taiwan has never been part of the prc. and this is a historical fact. there's never been a people's liberation army soldier here in taiwan. the prc has never occupied or set foot in taiwan. so it becomes very disingenuous to say that taiwan has become it -- or that it is part of china for a very long time. it is partially what i wanted to respond to. but secondly on the "taiwan relations act," and the three communiques and all of that, nowhere within any of these documents does it mention that no speaker can visit taiwan. or that no members o

cobalt is a mainstay, they are exploiting kids, we have two averages from drc testify, he was a priesting abused, they get sick, they mine with picks. and retrieve this product, that goes to china, almost exclusively for processing, they want to corner that market. so ford and everyone else the demand will grow overtime, they will have cornered that market. it is an egregious human rights abuse. that would provide a presumption of guilt, to say we know it's happening if an individual mine can prove to u.s. that they are free in their supply chain, of edge economy -- exploiting children and slave labor type processies we can do. they did it with the uighurs. and so it is a very important tool to try to get the supply chains clean. i am very disturbed at so many people in environmental justice move who have not spoken out on this they say let's audit, codo this and that, in plain sight the children are getting sick and dying, catholic church and other basedded are doing much to bring attention to it. mark: talking about tens of thousands of children. you have to mine a lot of cobalt. you