, and swiss cheese. there are even swiss people who think that their anthem is positively out of date. >> the lyrics were actually written in 1840, and they use images that are no longer in current linguist at usage -- current linguistic usage. >> that's why the swiss welfare society decided to launch a countrywide song contest, and the public were asked to choose their favorite from six new proposals, like this one here. ♪ but swiss -- but a swiss rock evening -- but a swiss rock musician is skeptical. he likes the fact that the swiss anthem is so in touch with nature. >> it's about the big things in life. you do not have to redefine them all the time. you don't need to redefine spring. its evergreen. and then there is something else -- a national anthem does not have to be up-to-date and modern. the opposite, in fact. it has to stand the test of time. >> and that is hard enough in switzerland. for a long time, the swiss had unfortunately, it was set to the same tune as "god save the queen," britain's

today we'll use beautiful swiss chard. first we are going to add in the leafs last because they have high nutritional value. so add them at the end so they wilt down and mix in with the sauce. we add the stem of the swiss chard and then the orecchiette pasta. this orecchiette is special because it's the old-fashioned cut. so it's a slowing drying pasta and adheres better to sauces. orecchiette is used better with chunk chunky sauces. you can eat the leaves raw so it's fantastic. it's very beautiful. that's -- i'm having this right now. [ laughter ] >> thank you, bella. >> bye, everybody. time to eat. >>> in today's jobs report, jill schlesinger looks at a career in human resources. >>> reporter: organizations want to attract, motivate and keep qualified employees. that's why employers invest heavily in human resources professionals. hr professionals must have strong interpersonal and analytical skills in order to serve as a link between an organization and its employees. here in the bay area, the median annual wage for hum

off or we in german via is nationally one to one with a swiss frank but not comprehensible to the swiss frank each business can create the via they need by first pledging and e vanilla value for this service very soon this was the users that started doing brisk trade and it quickly spread from the initial 16 members in 1934 by 2005 the via networked had 62 thousand members and they collective do an annual transaction of $6.5 billion that's with a b france and there is something called a challenge industry that is global in all parts of continent those changes have a global association walls called the trade association you'll see the logo on the right that is a commentary courtesy working in the business to business rather than the come pyotry currency is business to consumer or consumer to business you may not familiar with bay area community exchange in the time bank local resident join and trade work-hour for hour for example an hour of gut lessons for an hour of massage or dog walker walking and so on they've sprouted out helping people to build self-help communities and other court

it is made by swiss watch makers. eduard: for a small brand, we could take those kind of risks but moving i everything across the border would require a lot of explanations to our consumer base an fans of our brand who love the history and you don't want to break that. francine: when you look at the apple watch, is that a good thing or bad thing for you? is it going to be a backlash of people saying i don't want anything like thele watch or does it actually make no difference? eduard clonk: thnk it is a good thing. -- eduard: you can panic. for me what is important -- i think it is going to help a new generation of -- to grow, to get used to wearing a watch. just check the time on them. the mobile phone could have killed the watch industry. it didn't. the watch industry has grown further. i don't see it as a risk. it puts us in the situation where we need to be creative and innovative. i think the swiss watch industry has snoun the last 200 centuries we are good at that. francine: thank you so much for coming on today

a strong swiss franc is good for us. guy: analysts this morning are quite happy with the way the relative performance of holcim and lafarge is working out. they think it is going to make it easier to put this deal together. lafarge looks like it slightly outperformed in some people's books. you slightly underperformed. is that a good thing? is the company coming together as a single unit actually going to be favored by this? bernard: first, we report in different currencies. the swiss franc is a much stronger currency, but this is not really the subject. we are working hard to make this merger happen. the next step for us is the general assembly that is called on the eighth of may, where our shareholders are invited to approve the capital increase for the merger to happen. our board has recommended this merger. we are confident that we should get a positive vote. francine: so just to get that right, mr. fontana, you are sure you will get full shareholder approval? do you think they will ask for the board to move? bernard

euro swiss, the momentum here has been for the euro to decline and the swiss to continue a little bit higher. that is proving a heck of a challenge. we have the momentum move there. are we beginning to restart the down slide there? on that trade? we keep an eye on the agm today. i'm pretty sure there will be a web stream on that. mark, caroline? anna: let's have a check on some other stories. the nasdaq close at a record high. gains in ebay beat estimates for the first quarter results. it did manage to push this forward. we see that gains extended and beat earning estimates after hours. previously, it was held by lehman brothers. it is valued at around 36 billion. the former cia director, david petraeus, was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine for giving information to his biographer and mistress. more on that story later. mark: finance ministers met in rega today. for look ahead, we are joined by the chief political global analyst. the new term to describe greece citigroup pointed in 2012, the new term you have coined is grimbo. greece in limbo, explai

. >> beautiful swiss chard, flounder. >> i love this variety of swiss chard. it's so pretty. >> rainbow swiss chard. mix it with bacon to give it flavor and we are serving it with this beautiful seared flounder. first we cut it julienne then blanche it. out of the water and in the pan with the bacon. because we had the bacon already in the pan we didn't need to add oil because we had the bacon fat. now we are going to top it with this fish filet. >> just put some little bit of the pepper in there. >> just a little bit of salt and pepper and lay it on top and it drapes. >> no oil is needed. we have the oil already in the pan and we have the fat from the bacon in there so it's nice and moist. >> i can't wait to get in there. that's beautiful. simple and delicious. look how beautiful that looks. thank you, steph. >>> in today's jobs report, jill schlesinger has tips for finding successful careers in sales. >>> reporter: sales is the second largest occupational group in the u.s. and employing millions of people. whale it can be a lucrative career, you have to be r

it's gone from being a blip on the radar to being the third largest world market for swiss watches. >> it seems as though the communist party is not allowing their party officials to go to casinos. it's a blow for macau as well. rather than necessarily the actual demand drying it up there's a barrier put across these customers coming to these kind of events. >> even before we saw the results of the chinese government anti-graph measures we've seen a slight change in trend for demand with less con speck wous wealth. customers looking at products, not being quite so flashy or ostentatious. it's something that we've noticed over the last couple of careers. careers. >> you would imagine that the market corrupts watches or jewelry, this has been taken out, but may go beyond that. just ordinary spending. actually being hit because of these, the clampdown on corruption. >> it could well be. i mean we're seeing to the chinese consumer has learned a lot in the last ten years about how to get the best deal. fewer mainland chinese shoppers are crossing the border into hong kong, which has had a

the city's famous lion monument recalls the heroism of more swiss mercenaries. the mighty lion rests his paws on a french shield. tears stream down his cheeks. the broken-off end of a spear is slowly killing the noble beast. the sad lion is a memorial to over 700 swiss mercenaries who were killed, defending marie antoinette and louis xvi during the french revolution. the people of luzern take full advantage of their delightful river with a variety of cafes and restaurants along its banks. this evening, we're enjoying the setting as much as the food. i'm having the local pork. my producer, simon, is having eel, fresh from the river. with a picturesque setting like this, the dining experience makes for a wonderful memory. >>> glad to have you with us on this edition of "newsline." it's tuesday april 21st. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. >>> ministers of the european union have agreed to step up measures in response to a migration crisis. they are seeing an influgs of people from africa and the middle east to europe. ministers from 28 eu member states held emerge

that swiss franc strength is ripping apart the swiss economy right now. for the next couple of months, things are going to get difficult for the people of switzerland. olivia: this is at a record high. we've seen economic news surprise on the upside. where are we on corporate earnings? >> a big luxury player had earnings out overnight. you translate those sales back to euros, you get a little more bank. i think that will play out over the next three months we compare that order of euro strength last year to witness this year. going forward, that's going to be the story. forget the translation. people want to see real bottom line growth want to strip out the effect of the euro and demand. how you going to get that pick up in europe? the bar is very low. the consumer in europe still looks very weak. tom: thank you so much from london. we will continue this discussion throughout the week. let's look at the effects here on oil. it's gone modest in anxious stability. attention is turning to demand dynamics. there is a deck called a speculation. the price compo

there is in the euro-swiss move. where are we in that fair value debate? without getting dragged into the nuances, talk about the differences. mr. hildebrand: it is still early to see how the economy will react. i would certainly support thomas jordan's statement when he says the swiss franc looks overvalued against the euro. what kind of damage it will do to the economy we have to see. the fact of the matter is that this was economy has proven to be more resilient for quite some time that anyone would have expected, including myself. i think there could be some hope that despite this being a big shock for certain sectors tourism and particular, on the whole this was economy should do ok. manus: back to that in a second. one thing that came to mind, post crisis, do central bankers communicate better? who is the best communicator? mr. hildebrand: they tried to do what they have always done. to convey the fact that the world is uncertain and they will react to data. unfortunately, the world has come to believe that cen

let me also join in thanking both the swiss government and the distinguished members of the press and media for trying to work with us over the past several weeks and trying to help us in getting the world to understand what is going on. as our tradition is i would read the same statement that was just read out in english in farcy. it will be the same interpretation. james, put it into easy english for us. what has been agreed? what did she just announce? >>reporter: well there was suggestions there was just going to be a statement to say that they were going to continue work and have made progress but these are very very substantial things that have been announced in the last few minutes. iraq, the ones we've previously spoken about are uranium. there's the uranium and plutonium route to make a nuclear bomb. also signing up to the protocols of the international atomic agency which will carry out the inspections. then on sanction the eu and the u.s. to lift their sanctions and a new security council resolution. this we believe will all happen after june after the final work and all th

his mother a black, his father a swiss, their marriage once illegal during a partied. >> i don't care, i don't care. come tell me. i want europe white man. crazy mama crazy. my dad you know how the swiss love chocolates. >> reporter: the racial tensions of africa infused his humor. so do his roots where he was raised by his grandmother frances. she told us he was always getting into trouble. >> her and i, man, have a beautiful bond and love for each other. we have this thing ever since she hit me. >> come and full of life. come and catch me. let's play the game. and then what do you do? you must laugh really. that's trevor. >> reporter: 13 years aeld his agent said that noah walked into her office as a teenager with big dreams. >> he was full of pimples and said what to do with these pimples, doorly. i think i was his first comedy routine. >> reporter: noah's irreverent style of humor caught up with him when he was called the head of the new "daily show." a handful of tweets have been criticized as anti-semitic and sexist but he's showed scant regard for such. he once portrayed drunk

it was founded by henry dunant a swiss businessman, and still today, we honor him by using the reverse of the swiss flag for our symbol -- the red cross against a white background. >> returning to the united states, she founded the american red cross in 1881. and ever since then, the american red cross has been helping people in need. what are some of the big disasters the red cross responded to? >> the red cross has been responding to disasters since its beginnings in 1881, when there was a large wildfire across michigan. and early on, the red cross also responded to floods in johnstown, pennsylvania, when a dam broke, and a major hurricane that hit off of the coast of south carolina and georgia. the red cross still responds to major disasters today, in modern times, such as 9/11 and hurricane katrina, and even small disasters like everyday house fires. >> what about wars? >> the american red cross trained tens of thousands of nurses for world war i and world war ii, and it also helped with all the major conflicts throughout the 20th century. >> every year, the american red cross resp

according to the paper, he held a hit in swiss bank accounts he is a trust overseen by his butler. according to the website, his account contained 2.2 million euros, including 1.7 million euros in goldp1utt8ú÷p÷ . nonviolence. reconciliation. idealistic notions or a reality that may just be within our grasp if we approach conflict with a new perspective? i'm mike walter in los angeles. let's take it full frame. ♪ mention forest whitaker's name an

this is due to a property issue dating back to 1985 according to the swiss forecaster. >> swiss watch exports rose 1.7% in the year of 2014. it's been a challenging time for the swiss watch makers. a weak number that analysts say will likely be pressured by the likes of apple that are now entering this space. that will be the on going battle. the swiss watch makers against apple and samsung. that also has a wearable on the market. what that means for them. >> this watch under a lot of pressure. i talked to the co back in february and he said we are watching on a smart watch and then a month later they came out with it. it will never be a full smart watch. they said we're not a consumer electronics firm. we won't be producing a smart watch. is that the right strategy. could that be the kodak moment for the watch industry? >> that's a big fear for these players. but a lot of people say that's a luxury end market. they still want the gold rim and the diamond encrusted watch. we'll continue to watch this space. still to come on the show larry fink becomes the latest market heavyweight to

swiss-designed precision brought to your kitchen. celebrate one year of vertuoline with $100 dollars off. it's the best price we've ever engineered. ♪ ♪ >>> take a look at this surveillance video. it shows three suspects stealing an atm from a service station. the driver in that ford pick up hits the gas and rips the atm from its mount. the suspects then take off in the truck. >>> drivers all know that the price at the pump can vary depending on where you fill up but usually it's just a few scents here and there -- cents here and there. but not so in san francisco where stations are charging dollars more for a gallon. >> reporter: frank, many people know this arco station as being one of the cheapest places in the city. people line up to get it at $2.89 a gallon. but we wanted to know why some places were able to charge so much more and still get business. >> reporter: getting gas is a regular routine. any habit drivers have their reasons for waiting in long lines. >> i come especially to get gas. >> reporter: even if you have to

jon: the swiss franc is the elephant in the room. >> if you take 4.4% sales growth that is pretty good. however, when they translate that back into the swiss franc's after the strengthening, they end up with nothing. the cost of translating that -- their earnings outside of switzerland -- is 4.5%. they do not produce a lot in switzerland itself. they have a lot of are indeed there. -- they have a lot of are in the there. obviously, the frank is hitting them. so far, the company has not done -- with operations they have in switzerland? jon: thank you very much. big stock this morning. up next, you want to talk big money? the best paid executive in the usa. his paycheck has the numbers 2 8 and 0. jon: good morning and welcome back. let us bring you up to speed. schlumberger will eliminate jobs. this is added onto the jobs lost in january. u.s. bank, citigroup and goldman sachs have their biggest earnings of the year. meanwhile,: sacks -- goldman sachs. wikileaks published over 200,000 documents. this information was posted by hackers last year. it is searchable and online archives. the h

interestingly, one of the key performers is a swiss drugmaker. they beat with profitability and they update the forecast for the full year. so does the ship design. fighting strength is really showing through there. the scales of the chips are in the billions. they beat the estimates across the board and they are saying the pound is playing into that a little bit. and the chip designer is with the samsung portfolio and more cap -- more powerful chips and royalties. this is a company being hurt by foreign-currency. they report in pounds and a lot of sales come in euros. retail sales are up and sugar is always a bit of a concern. it is the worst performer on the stoxx 600. they say there will be a modest decline. >> thanks. let's get to another one beating estimates. manus cranny spoke to the outgoing ceo, brady dougan. manis began talking about the biggest risks he faced. let's in the near term, there are a number of risks and it is clearly preoccupying people. in the longer term, the issue will be interest rates and when they start to rise. we ha

his mother is black, his father swiss it. their marriage once illegal during apartheid. >> i don't care, i don't care! i want a white man. crazy, my mom crazy, you know, and my dad was like, you know how the swiss love chocolate, so he was... >> reporter: the racial tensions of south africa infuse him humor, so do his soweto roots where he was raised by his grandmother francis. she told us he was always getting into trouble. >> such a beautiful love and bond for each other. we just have this thing. ever since she hit me. >> all of his life. >> reporter: 13 years ago his agent says that noah walked into her office as a teenager with big dreams. >> he was full of pimples. i said, what about these pimple darling. i think probably his first comedy routine was inspired by me. >> you can call it that. >> reporter: noah'ser rev rant style of humor caught up with him after he was named the new host of "the daily show." a handful of his tweets have been criticized as anti-semitic and sexist. but he's always shown scant regard for poli

also talking about his time in time inside swiss bank secrecy. he was one of the few americans that ever got access to the inside workings of the swiss banks. we started getting a sense of exactly how he's spending all of that money that he got. take a look. ♪ >> you got yourself a new car. >> yeah. german engineering. great car. >> i love this license plate. >> well this is to pay homage to my old employer ubs. >> that's ubs's marketing slogan on your car. >> this was the first thing i did after getting the porsche. >> porsche first, bruins box second. >> yes. >> that's how you spent the money. if that's part of it. it's here to help my friends and my family and charitable causes. i bring a lot of people up here to the box. >> department of justice guys don't come up here? >> no they don't come up here. we wouldn't invite them up here no. >> how many americans had swiss bank accounts. >> 19,000 just at ubs. >> overall? 50,000? >> more than 100,000. >> 100,000 americans had secret swiss banks. >> yes. >> how come we don't know the name? >> prec

an advisor to swiss pension funds advising them to reject the deal. as far as you're concerned, the swiss company has take an bigger stake in the formed company, if you had done enough on your side to make this deal happen? bruno: i think both companies have done a lot to make this deal happen. we have done extraordinary work in the last 13 months which is first to get almost 90% of the regulatory approvals to do the dwestments at the same time. and to prepare the day one after the merger means to be ready, to start to deliver all the synergies which remember are amounting up to 1.4 billion euro. jonathan: they seem to think your limited investment could have a negative impact on the financial results of the new group. what is your response to that? bruno: i think lafarge has experimented, maybe early. a new model of investment which is first to try sell to, save on capital expenditure. not by stopping to invest but by reusing the cost of investment and improving the time of investment. so, no. we have done that. we have improved our capital allocatio

. >> eating the cheesesteak -- don't order swiss on the cheesesteak. pedro, pedro, what do you think about all this talk of "you know what? it's a coronation"? we need to find someone to challenge her in the primary 'cause we don't have one yet. >> uh... i don't know who that is. >> press pedro. >> i don't know who that is. >> the other perfect candidate? >> i think she's -- i think she's battle-tested. she has enormous intellect and endurance, and she's hard to beat, and that's why you don't have more democrats -- >> someone will come out of the woodwork. the opportunity is too good to be the challenger to hillary clinton. >> martin o'malley? >> someone is gonna do it. biden is thinking about it. >> yeah. >> you know, he's positioning himself. if something happens, if there's a stumble, if something happens at a chipotle and she doesn't leave a tip or something like that -- >> she didn't leave a tip. that's it. >> that's the only one that can beat her. >> but everyone seems to think that's not gonna happen. >> elizabeth warren can't win a general elec

tom: are they trying to be more of a swiss bank this morning? hans: they want to be swiss bank on private wealth management. they want to have a big investment bank. they want to keep some of the retail. they will trim the number of offices from 730 down to 530. they want to keep that for deposits so they can run a healthy investment bank. they will have less on commodities and fixed income and more on servicing corporate needs. they will still have an investment bank. the investment bank will look different. olivia: that is what we heard from jamie dimon. my question is about timing very why now? the investment did it well. this would have been a record. every revenue if you take out the fines? hans: i think this was eventually completed they have talked about this. they finally completed it. i think it's interesting when he said they had a healthy debate with their supervisory board. this was a real robust debate. i asked if they went with the less drastic or big approach. they are hyping off 200 billion and access -- assets. you were here whe

basically the swiss model and loads of doctors began prescribing heroin. that loophole was shut down by harry ansley state-by-state or when the last places to shut it down with california because it was popular. the mayor stands in front of the clinic and says you will not shut this down. the story of why was shut down in california turns out the local chinese drug gangs were really annoyed that a nevada drug addicts had to come and buy drugs from them but in california they could go to the doctor and get them. so they bribed the federal narcotics agents to introduce the drug war. they paid them to crack down. at the birth of the drug war armed criminal gangs are paying for it to be introduced or that tells you something about who benefits from the war on drugs. and you are totally right that dynamic is insane in mexico. i remember the guy who went to texas and have been unfortunate jack-in-the-box incident you know rosalia surprise somebody by saying of all the people i met for the book he was the one i felt the most sorry for beauty grew up in laredo on

organic sales jump 4.4% beating forecasts but nestle still hopes to complete an 8 billion swiss frank buy back later in the year. syngenta is up 3%. they reported declining first quarter sales blaming the strong dollar and currency head winds for weaker than expected results. the group cfo expects business to recover in the second quarter. let's look at skf which makes bearings. it's down after the company forecasts flat demand for its products in the second quarter. down sharply. 6%. this comes after q-1 operating profit came in line with estimates. >> we want to show you greek bonds once again and that accelerated when we saw the yield jumping 350 basis points. that was the biggest jump since greece's debt restructuring in 2012. let's have a look at the three year yield. it's 26%. we've seen that inverted yield curve for quite a long time. the greek ten year yield at 12.067%. denying request to delay repayments for greece. it seems that neither side is budging on these talks. >> absolutely not. continues to have sufficient mixed messages and crucial meetings coming up and yesterday

in swiss franks it's 3%. that's only 2%. what it tells you is the sharp decline in the euro is actually compensated by the strong development of the u.s. dollar so overall the impact for us is rather limited. >> so you wouldn't have to take any measures to reduce our cost base here in switzerland as a result of that. >> we have to work on productivity. but 80% outside of switzerland and such we're less exposed to currency fluctuates. >> one of the big trends that roche is betting on many other players in the market are very active in that field. their pipeline in this field which city estimates could be a $35 billion market is looking strong. at the same time the pipeline could be maturing some what. that's why city believes that roche could be embarking on more m and a in that field so stay tuned for that. >> we're looking at shares up about 1.3% but from one swiss firm to another, richemont issued a profit warning. they expect profit to drop by a third due to losses on financial instruments. you're looking at shares of --

. >> swiss climber has become the fastest man to climb the north face of the border of the swiss and italian alps. he summited in a time of 1:46. his record beats the previous record set in 2009 by 10 minutes. there's plenty more on our website. for all the latest, check out aljazeera.com/sport. >> thank you. that's it for this news hour. do stay with us. there is plenty more world news coming up after the break. we are back in a moment. >>> the death toll in nepal is growing, and aid is still not reaching those who need it. ♪ >> we have the very latest from kathmandu in just a fewing minutes. this is al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. burundi on the brink, a u.s. diplomat flies in to try to stop a civil war.

in switzerland, there are new issuers of swiss franc bonds that weren't there a year ago. i feel very uncomfortable with this growing consensus that it can only go one way. i guess for this month, it is possible that the 10-year yield does challenge. it is possible. a few months out, there are so many things that can go wrong. the supply of bonds from u.s. corporate's and other sovereigns , it is one example. also, there are so many technical constraints on this policy, not just fundamental ones. the tentacle stuff is quite interesting. there's a lack of willing sellers of bonds. jonathan: going forward, long-term implications yields negative up to what we have in germany last week what are the implications? steven: many people are quite concerned about this. it means -- it is causing all kinds of unintended consequences. for example, some companies probably exist that shouldn't because they get access to funds. the efficiency of the economy, the animal spirit, just isn't there. if you knew that next year, rates were going up, you would borrow now. think of your house, you

that is the worst performer the swiss bank -- swiss franc is the best. the euro index is down by 9.4% which makes it the third worst performing after the norwegian krone. the other currencies are the aussie dollar, the canadian dollar, the pound, the new zealand dollar, and the u.s. dollar. today's ecb meeting should be more imminent -- uneventful. a key questions he might face today, is tapering on the cards? are the ecb forecasts to optimistic? what is the latest on greece and the structural reforms? it probably will be one of the more uneventful meetings. caroline: you said it well. let's take a look at the other top stories. nigel farage just sent his manifesto and said it was serious. he pledged tax cuts and more spending on greece. president obama intends to drop cuba from a list of states connected with terrorism. it marks a shift towards restoring relations between the two countries. the congress will respond to the notification. sri lanka unexpectedly cut its key lending rate, it cut to 8%. it comes as growth slows the most in two years. you can

that's what swiss climber danielle arnold achieved and the fastest man to climb the north face of the matter horn on the batter of swiss and italian alps and reach 3400 summit of 1 hour 46 minutes and beats the previous record set in 2009 by a full ten minutes. back to you. >> a lot going. thanks so much for that. and that's about it for this particular news hour for me and the news hour team and thank you for watching and don't go too far because i'm back with more news in just a couple of minutes. see you then, good-bye. ♪ ♪ cutoff from kathmandu and we report from rural nepal where entire ail villages are in desperate need of relief. >> andrew reporting and explaining why the devastating loss and destruction here has passed unnoticed in the wake of a nepal earthquake. ♪ hello there, this is al jazeera live from london also coming up france promises harsh punishment for peace keepers found guilty of sexually abusing children in the

last two years, they've been busy upgrading the world's biggest particle accelerator deep under the swiss border. in 2012, an unexpected break through was announced. scientists finally discovered the higgs-boson, an elementary particle that gives master other particles earning the nickname the god particle. >> there would be no atoms no nukeclei nuclei. >>reporter: it contains a ring of superconducting magnets with accelerating structures that boost particles as they hurtle down the tunnel. soon they'll be traveling at almost the speed of light and analyzing their collisions could reveal new scientific secrets. dark matter is the invisible matter that makes up 84% of the known universe but can only be dedetected by its influence on others but there could be many more discoveries. >>> we spoke to a professor at harvard university. >> the most advanced machine that humans constructed in the sense that it reaches the highest energyies that we ever reached were trying to mimic the very early instance at the beginning of the universe when the temperature was extremely high and when potentially

a swiss company specializes in manufacturing custom made skis. a major trend is sweeping the tourism sector and changing how we holiday. in recent years the sharing economy means lots of young people are avoiding hotels for example to rent, swap or share accommodation. house swaps and couch surfing are definitely a cheaper option and can often give you a more realistic impression of the ci

interests section in the swiss embassy in tehran. the swiss have been our protecting power. they have had an interest, they have been the representative american interests there. since 1980 when relations were formally broken. there are no american diplomatic personnel there. for the case of cuba, a large interest section with a large staff of american diplomatic personnel who are also under the swiss flag. with iran we are not there yet. we are getting there with cuba, it is interesting. no enmity goes on forever at sometime things change, we established relations with the soviet union less than 20 years after the bolshevik revolution. with china it took us a little longer but not much, 20-some years before next went to china. it is one of those possibilities, particularly if we, if something productive something comes out of these talks which both sides see as positive. because then they can say hey, there is something in this for us. and that can lead on. it would make one prediction. once we get to that point where we are talking seriously both sides are going to ask the

we would like to thank the swiss government for its generous support in hosting this negotiation. and on behalf of me personally and everybody, we thank all of the media around the world for having followed our work and somehow also having worked with us over this difficult, but intense and positive week. thank you. >> good evening to all of you. let me also join in thanking both the swiss government and the distinguished members of the press and media for actually trying to work with us over the last several weeks, and trying to help us in getting the world to know what was going on. as our tradition has been, i will read the same statement that m mrs.ogherini read out to you in farsi. you do not need an interpretation. it will be the same statement. [speaking farsi] [speaking farsi] [speaking farsi] cory: i'm talking to her cook at the white house. we have a response from israel already. peter: that's right, we've already heard criticism from benjamin netanyahu, and not a total surprise. he of course, has been critical of these negotiations and the emerging agreement when he cam

i am also a swiss citizen in switzerland legalize heroin. this is really shocking because switzerland is really a right-wing country. when i was talking to someone about the war on drugs. he said i know we should do about the war on drugs. we should -- is that we are book is about? if you are a heroin addict you go to a doctor in the doctor will refer to the clinic and did not clinic you can go wherever you want to go and they will give you heroin. they will give you of whatever doesn't care when you asked for and you can't take it out with you but you can be given at there. one was unexpected. so they could carry on for as long as they want with a heroin and she's like yeah but the fascinating thing is almost everyone because their life stabilizes with the chaos of street is having to scramble for street use and all the prostitution most of them start to get their life together. they get jobs and they choose to reduce the heroin because their reality gets better. they choose to stay in reality longer and 70% of swiss people voted to keep th

swiss watchmakers, not so much. swatch coinventors says apple iwatch could -- the apple watch could hurt their industry with the lower end brand hit hardest. apple may suit -- apple soon may sell as many timepieces as all of switzerland. joining me now is founder and executive editor of the luxury watch site. he has an apple watch on his wrist. right now i can touch it. what do you think about it? >> it is the first six hours of ownership and this farm work obligated but more powerful than i would have imagined. i thought it would be a peripheral for the phone. it is not as intuitive as an iphone or macbook air. you really have to go down deep into it to understand how it works pretty the -- how it works. alix: will it hurt the luxury watch market? ben: absolutely. it is wearable, stylish. i wore it to a nice restaurant in midtown manhattan. it fits the bill with a nice jacket. alix: do you think someone who buys rolex will think i will buy an apple watch instead? ben: i think everyone rolex and down will be impacte

and, you know, 70% of swiss people voted to keep that policy twice partly because there's so much less street crime. street prostitution ended. there's much less mugging much less violence. so yeah, should we get to the next? great, thank you. can we take a woman? do you mind -- sorry, i promise we'll come to you. thank you. hello. >> [inaudible] so i work for a provider agency that does community-based alternatives for kids in juvenile detention. we use a wrap around advocacy approach which is all about connection, so you're helping to impose peace is why i'm hear -- here today. it really resonated with us. last week i was in pennsylvania in harrisburg talking to a legislator that clearly was like, you know, people are addicts, they make those choices, we have to punish them. is so what is a narrative we can use those of us who are experienced that tell us what you're saying in your week that we could use for naysayers who are in positions of authority and power to actually make those changes? if it's fluffy or, you know feel good or you want to hug a thug kind of thing which i think

today we saw french, swiss, and south korean, but i was also talking with senior military officials from austria. they have 40 people here in four teams across the country. they arrived early on monday morning. we know the u.s. is bringing in aid on that level of search and rescue while india and pakistan are supplying medical facilities and equipment. >> so a lot of help is coming from the outside but i understand that the air force in kathmandu is not able to cope. >> no, kathmandu's airport is one of the smallettes in the world. it has a restrictive runway. and also because of that the building itself and the terminal can only host a certain number of planes. with so much good will coming in from the international community, and so many planes of aid, cargo and it has to cherry pick which planes can land at specific times. there have been many delays and cancellation of planes globally trying to get into nepal. there are only eight bays for plays planes to off load their passengers. i was on a two-hour trip from delhi to nepal. we circled for at least two hours. we sat on the car tarm

. >>> beautiful flounder, swiss charred. rainbow swiss charred. >> we're mixing it with bacon to give it flavor and serving it with the seared flounder. we took it out of the water and put it in the pan with the bacon. because we have the beigeon already in the pan we did not -- bacon already in the pan p we didn't need to add any oil. it is beautifully done and the flavors mix and it was awesome. we'll top it with the fish fillet. >> a little bit of the pepper in there. >> and lay it on top and it just drapes. >> you put oil in there and let everything -- >> you really don't need too. we have the oil in the pan and the fat from the bacon in there. it is nice and moist. >> i can't wait to get in there. that is beautiful! simple and always delicious. look how beautiful that looks! thank you,! >> let's take a live look outside at san jose. you can see plenty of dark clouds in the sky. they're giving way to more sunshine as we speak. it looks like the rain is pretty much over right now and we have the butter and egg day festiva

you can go classic or bacon & swiss will they melt in your mouth? you butter believe it. >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >>> right now, at 11:00 can youyou can see it is on the way, we're looking at our satellite radar, we're tracking when the rain will fall and how much could fall in your neighborhood. thank you for joining us i'm terry mcsweeney. >>> and i'm peggy bunker. the roads in san jose and san francisco are dry right now but that certainly is about to change. >> we have team coverage in the south bay with a look at how people are working with the restrictions. but we have a look at the weather with rob mayeda. >> you can see the system here starting to bring some showers to shore, mainly off of the east way. we'll see snow levels quickly dropping as we go through tomorrow. these are two storm systems, the first one not going to bring a whole lot of rain for the bay area, maybe a quarter inch or less but look at the whole system, snow levels down to 30 feet, we have the all-time record low snowpack as measured in current times, showing yo

two years they've been busy upgrading the world's biggest particle accelerator deep under the french-swiss border. on sunday scientists fired particle beams along the circuit known as the lhc. but these are baby steps for the researchers. >> it would take us about two months six weeks to two months to establish the first stable collision. we have to establish all the systems one by one. >> in 2012 they announced an unexpected break through. scientists finally discovered the elementary particle that gives mass to other particles earning it the nickname the god particle. in the the following year they got the nobel prize in physics. >> there would be no at tomorrows, no nuclei or no building blocks for matter, there would be no stars no galaxies no planetary systems and no earth and eventually no life on earth. >> the lhc contains a ring of super conducting magnates with as quickly ale rating structures. soon they will be traveling at almost the speed of light and their collision could reveal planetary secrets. there could be many more discoveries over the lifetime of this underground scienc

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the best-performing currency is the swiss franc. the swiss national bank took the market by surprise and ended the euro franc cap. the eurozone features manufacturing numbers from several countries. in the u.s., watch out for manufacturing data and payrolls numbers from adp. there it is -- the euro down by 10.9%, worst first quarter on record. caroline: let's check in on the top stories this hour. google has unveiled two new chrome books reigniting the market for low-priced computers. the laptops that were available for preorder for $149 will feature all day battery life. google is promoting low and laptops as it looks to draw people into its chrome operating system. the germanwings copilot believed to have deliberately crashed the plane in the french alps informed the airline six years ago he had depression. lubitz hetold the corps about previous episodes of depression in 2009. it is the first time that the airline hasn't knowledged -- has it knowledged -- acknowledged the pilot's mental illness. officers went to getty's home. dete

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