to bring in a video comment from someone in our communities that associate professor at the university of natalie said arthur checked us out. roughly 70 percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mind in the democratic republic of the congo. and this cobalt is mind an appalling conditions. i've spent months on the ground in the congo and seen hundreds of thousands of peasants, including tens of thousands of children, kate and toxic filth and grime, and pets and tunnels. eking out a sub human existence on a dollar or 2 a day to dig cobalt out of the ground and feed it up to the supply chains of mega cap tech. and evie companies around the world. much more needs to be done to raise awareness of this human rights catastrophe. and much more needs to be done to alleviate the sub human colonial conditions under which cobalt is mind to power our lives every day. yeah, and from there actually want to take us right into a bit of video we have we're it's it's couple of gold miners describing what it's like working there. second. awesome. see good for him. of lemon was the anthro cool . it is really serious

now joining me is ruth bender, a professor of history at new york's university, she is the author of the book, strong men, from mussolini to the present. natalieere been people who over the last few days talk about things lines that the u.s. and nato will not discuss, so as not to trip into accidentally world war three. particularly, a war between nuclear powers. vladimir putin mention is nuclear arsenal the other day, in declaring the invasion of ukraine, they suffice and people so what do you make of this news? >> >> it's interesting how quickly he got this out, he did warn about it. this is a perfect storm for putin. and if you know about the psychology, none of this is, excuse me, none of this is surprising this badly miscalculated he has elevated zelenskyy to a world figure leader of democracy. he is giving you prestige and resolve to nato, so two words, ali. elite defection. so is oligarchs have started to speak out against him abramovich, friedman. this is a huge deal. those people are just as transactional as he is. but this shows his power, what he fears, why he did this on this occasion, is not stable. you have reports of russian fun