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and we're just ttelling the pubublic that pleae will you sign n a pledge to usue yoyour seatbelt whwhenv? narrator: : ari seirlis'' sloga- "b"buckle up, we don'n't want nw members." he's particularly persuasive e about distracted driving, esespecially because of celell phones. ari: why did i make that callll baback to the office, and here'm lyiing with a broken neck ''caue i got i into a crrash 'cause i t distractcted, and i i had a cra? was it worth making the call? the answer's no. narrator: it's estimated that through loss of earnings and direct costs to the government, south africicloses 10% % of its gdgdeach year to road crarashes. ari: if you become spinal cord injured in south africa, and you have no resources, you become completely dependent on the state. it's gonna cost the state millions. who funds the state? the taxpayers. second of all, if you're working, and you participapate in distracted drivining, and you d don't uuser seatbelt, and you crash, you now can't go back to the workplace. the country cannot afford this amount of road crashes. we've got to stop it somehow. [mus

the homeless man was asleepp on this page whwhen it group of men set him m on fire. a surveillance camera captured the incident, recording the attackers as they fled the scene by train. auorities madedehe video public. within a few hourssix of the seven attackers came forward and the seventh was arreste they werreportedly of syrian d libyan origin, age between 15 and 21. the crime and the swift identification of those responsible has stoked debate about increased surveillance in germany. "i think there should be more video surveillance in general." "i just feel more under surveillance. i don't think it is particularly efficient or worthwhile as a preventative measure." "i am torn. on the one hand, i don't want to be monitored everywhere. but on the other hand, i think it makes sense if it means more crimes like this can be solved." many people here in berlin are concerned about safety and feel that violent crimes are on the increase. but the facts tell a different story. "this is a question of whether people feel safe. there is a certain level of anxiety, but if we l

whwhen i started looking at the climate model and comparing them to the observation, then i started realizing, well, you know, all of these models would be an own face of natural clilimate variabibilities, so ty could be showing increasases or decreaeases over a period of observation, but they all sw a decrease, and so that's what starts to help implicate greenhouse gases that's forcing the changes that we're seeing today in the ice cover. we can say that about 50%-60% of the loss of sea ice that we're seeing today is a result of greenhouse gases. the other 40%-50% is actuaually natural climate variability, so we know both are acting on the system right now. and right now the results are about 50/50, , i think, on what's happening, what we're seeing today. the planet's going to warm by a certain amount a degrees. the ssea ice is going toto disappean the summertime. the ice is continue to respond, sea level is going to continue to rise, but when we look at things like, well, where are the precipitation patterns going to change? who's going to get more rain? ? who's going to get less rain? what

there still is no clear date set on he whwhen they will take up discuss house bill two next., thank you. south korea's constitutional court opening hearing on the impeachment of president park. indicted for her role in the scandal. she shared classified information with a close friend who used their relationship to embezzle millions of dollars intended for charity. united nations security council secretary-general ban ki-moon signalled he will run to replace park. >>> and the death toll now rising to 33 in the explosion at the fireworks park north of mexico city. families of loved ones in a state of shock as the search continues for loved ones who may be trapped. this as investigators try to figure out what caused the deadly blast. cnn's leyla santiago has more. >> reporter: christine and migu miguel, it is the unknown that is feeding the anxiety and desperation for families still searching for their loved ones. it is also the unknown that is fueling the investigation for a lot of people here that are sorting through the debris trying to figure out exactly what caused the exp

-russian relations at a time whwhen the cia is accusing moscow of helping donald trump when the presidency. we will speak to professor stephen cohen, who writes for the nation, and kenneth roth, head of human rights watch. then donald trump nominates former texas governor rick perry to have the energy department, a department perry once opposed to abolisish evenen though he coult remember thehe departmenent's n. >> it is three agencies of government when i get t there tt are gone. commerce, education andnd thehe- whwhat is the third one? >> you can't name the third one? >> the third agency of government, i would do away with commerce,ion, the -- and let's see -- i can't. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. donald trump has chosen former texas governor rick perry to be energy secretary. governor perry famously attempted to propose to abolish the energy department, but then couldn't remember the agency during a live televised debate in 2011 when he was running for presidident. >> and i will tell you, it is

amy: except whwhen it is related to money. >> when money enters the equation, you find a lot of inequities elected of us between marcie's case were she did not hurt anyone. amy: talk about her years long struggle after that. >> it was gripping to talk to her about the spiral downward in the first thing that happened when she was charged when she lost her job and even if she had diversion, meaning her case would be dismissed, it stayed there pending while she completed the program. she did the classes. she did the community service. she just cannot come up with the final amount of money she was supposed to say. they said, we are returning you to court and prosecute your case. because of the backlog at the court, sat there for years as an open felony while she cycled through homelessness, joblessness. she is only now just beginning to get back on her feet. nermeen: to prosecutors have exclusive discretion in determining when to offer pretrial diversion and to whom? and how do they determine how much defenders need to pay? >> prosecutors have so much discretion in this country. there is no ov

they losehehe skillss that they once had whwhen they'e out of work k for long p periodf time. their children have more difficulty in school. the costs of these kinds of crisis last for generations. the amount of human damage, the amount of waste of resources is beyond calculation. a system that does this, let alone a system that does it repeatedly, cannot talk about efficiency because whatever the efficiency is of a particular factory or a particular production process is completely overwhelmed by the inefficiency of massive numbers of unemployed people, un-utilized resources, and lost output that could meet sociaial needs. but it's worse. it's not just that we're in a crisis now of horrific proportions for 5 years. it's that this is the second major breakdown of t this capitalist system in the last 75 years. the last one was the 1930s. begins in 1929 and d isn't realy over until 1 1940, '41. a terrible crisis. and between the end of that one in the 1930s and the beginning of this one in 2007, the national bureau of economic research, which is the official agency that counts c