dr. gonzalez glenn close?ubt. >> she's a bunny boiler. >> reporter: and then, the prosecution had george tell the jury about the day he almost died. >> the only thing that had been strange was that cup of coffee, the coffee that i had on sunday. >> reporter: and that was the key to the prosecutions case. ana served george coffee during their morning rendezvous. it was the only thing he said he drank that day before he felt sick. >> when you started drinking it, did you notice anything about it? >> it was incredibly sweet. >> reporter: ethylene glycol has an intensely sweet flavor. george told the jury ana served the sweet coffee at her home and then brought more of it in travel mugs to the hospital. within hours of drinking it, he was lightheaded and slurring. >> i couldn't even remember who i was talking to or why i was there. >> reporter: and by night, he was in the icu. >> what's so hard about reliving this part? >> because i almost died. >> reporter: to button up their case, the prosecution called a leadin

dr. clapper, gonzalez, the trend is that developed nations have a lot to learn over struggles in bankinga. what does this mean in america? leora: in the u.s., we are finding that people are harnessing the convenience of their mobile phones to make payments from their accounts. about one quarter of account holders in the u.s. report using an act, whether paypal or a big gap, to make payment -- or a bank app, to make payments to wait from their phone. brendan: are we seeing this replace more cultural forms of saving? leora: absolutely. previously, people were saving under their mattress or in some other unsafe way. increasingly, people are saving with an institution. although there may not be a bank branch in the village, there may be a mom-and-pop merchant that is acting as an agent on behalf of the bank. for example, in africa i met a woman who saved in five of these communities and had rotating savings groups. they expect the poor to steal their money. rather than having it saved in their community, they are moving it to a safer place. brendan: this is a huge story, leora: klapper thank

dr. vandana shiva. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. with juan gonzalez.n: as we continue to mark earth day, we end today's show with a new report that finds at least two people working to save the environment were killed each week in 2014. in total, the group global witness documented the murders of at least 116 environmental activists last year. three quarters of them were killed in central and south america. amy: the report is called "how many more?" and it also looks in detail at an activist who stood up to a mining project in one of the deadliest countries, and survived. her name is berta caceres and and she is another winner of this year's goldman environmental prize. this is caceras describing how she helped organize the indigenous lenca community in honduras to resist the aqua zarca hydro-dam on the gualcarque river because it could destroy their water supply. berta: in more than one at 50 indigenous assemblies, our community decided that it did not want the hydroelectric dam. >> she filed complaints with the honduran government and organized peace

gonzalez, abc 7 news. jummy: what a story. a cardiologist meantime in new york being accused of trying to hire an undercover cop to have another doctor hurt or killed. dr. anthony masetto allegedly hired two men to set fire to the other man's office. when that didn't do much damage he offered to pay $5,000 to have the doctor beaten and $20,000 to have him killed. he reportedly wanted to put the other doctor out of business. a federal judge has ruled general motors not responsible for death claims while they were under bankruptcy protection. however, some g.m. owners can file faulty ignition switch claims after the company left bankruptcy protection in 2009. one of the plaintiffs' attorneys says the decision shields g.m. from up to $10 billion in potential liabilities from those lawsuits. the wounded warriors soldier ride made a special stop in d.c. today. about 30 minutes ago, president obama and vice president biden welcomed the group of injured service members to the white house. it's a celebration of the eighth annual soldier ride. tomorrow, the group will head through the naval academy in annapolis. ride wraps up saturday with a 20 mile trek in mar