twitter account, his daughter and two sons said they were devastated, but they a added the love with whicichwas susurrounded in n his final days with so o great it canannot be quantifified in words.s. thank you foror being y you andr being so spepecial to so many people. he certainly will be missed. when we come back from break will talk more about the chances for peace in the middle east. and will have the latest in business news. stick around. we will be back in 60 seconds. ♪ >> the dw media center. see it livive, find it agagain,r more of it, discover it. video and audio, podcasts and language courses. in the dw w media center, at mea center@dw.com. >> climate change is affecting us all. rising seaevels and a radical weather aree d driving a rising water line, there are streets, homes, and entire communities. the good news, our own choices in energy -- recycling and transport,t, can h help redraw e line. find out what you can do today. ♪ brent: welcome back. you are with dw news. donald trump says israel and the palestinians are ready for peace. after a two-day visit to the middle east, t

he''s the e most prominent shiaa clcleric in the sunni-ruled kingdom m of bahrain, whicich is also a close u.s. ally and home to the navy's fifth fleet. in tunisia, thousands of people gathered tuesday for the funeral of a protester who was killed by police during demonstrations over jobs and economic inequality in southern tunisia. anouar sakrafi died monday after he was run over by a police truck during the demonstrations outside an oil and gas plant in tataouine. protesters torched two police stations following his death. back in the united states, the justice department has sued fiat chrysler, accusing it of using illegal software to bypass emissions regulations. the epa accused fiat chrysler of installing the software on more than 100,000 ram pickup trucks, allowing the car to bypass emissions control systems and spew significantly higher levels of pollution. another car company, volkswagen, has admitted to using software to rig some 11 million vehicles worldwide, allowing them to emit up to 40 times more pollution than standards allow. and in chicago, thousands of people marche

trump's words or actios whicich would convinince us or n suggest that he cares even a little bit about democracy or the rule of law. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump has returned to the united states after his first foreign trip as president, where trump faced condemnation from u.s. allies for his failures to commit the united states to fulfilling its pledges to the landmark 2015 paris climate accord. is german chancellor angela merkel speaking sunday after contentious meetings that nato and brussels in a g7 meeting in sicily. long and how rocky this will be came clear when no agreement was reached with the united states. that is why i have to say the consultations were very unsatisfying. is, of course, a close partner of the united states. we are and will stay convinced transatlantic, but we also know we europeans really have to take our destiny into our own hands. amy: the germaman foreign minisr went even further, saying of trump -- "anyone who accelerates climate change by weak

in my profession of economics, we have a great philosopher with whicich all economics cours begin. his name is adam smith, and he's famous for the followining line: : "if everybody pursues his or her own self-interest,t, it'll worork ot for the best for everybody." most of you know that that's silly. it's a wonderful rationale to go out there and do what you want for yourself and not care about anybody else, but where that leads is exactly where we are... in a very, very bad crisis. so, let's begin by analyzing this crisis as the crisis of a system. and we'll go on to talk about this system even when it's not in crisisis, because that's as big a problem as the crisis itselff. but crisis is where we are. 2012 is the fifth year of this crisis. what does that mean? first and foremost, it means that we have in the united states today something on the order of 20 million to 25 million people who either don't have a job at all, have been without a job long enough that they've given up looking-- so-called discouraged workers-- or folks who have to take a part-time job because that's all t