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>> hi, everyone, welcome to "the journal." a russian court sentences mikhail khodorkovsky to six more years in prison. man suspected of planning an attack are charged with attempted terrorism. how china's one child policy has created a population that is aging dramatically. angela merkel has criticized the latest jail sentence for former russian oil tycoon mikhail
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khodorkovsky. it appeared political motivations had played a role in the trial, she said. with his current sentence from an earlier conviction due to run out next year, mikhail khodorkovsky is said to remain behind bars until 2017. the judge said the defendant was a criminal. needed to be isolated from society. he was once the richest man in russia and an opponent of the kremlin. earlier, he was found guilty of embezzling billions of dollars of oil from his own conglomerate. the ruling was criticized by washington as selective justice. mikhail khodorkovsky and his supporters maintained the case against him was politically motivated. i spoke to our correspondent in moscow and began asking him of this trial was a sham. >> i am not a lawyer and i have not followed every twist and turn of the case. i think almost everyone, even
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inside russia, would agree this was a politically motivated trial. it is a different question whether people think that is a bad thing or not. he is not all that popular. people remember he was an oligarch and andthey are not flavor of the month in russia. it is clear this is selective justice, as the americans have said. every billionaire who appeared in russia in the 1990's is well known to have used dubious methods of business and it is accepted that mikhail khodorkovsky he was targeted for opposing couldn't. >> the u.s. has criticized the sentence and said it would complicate the bid to join the world trade organization. is that likely to bother the russian leadership? >> no. they have been waiting to join
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the organization for two decades. they have been consistently frustrated by -- vladimir putin said effectively, what we do not -- we do not carry more. it would irritate them a little bit if it is true, but it would not be a great surprise to the kremlin. suddenly, we have to remember that although hillary clinton, when the verdict was read out earlier this week, strongly condemned it. the state department spokesperson seem to backpedal and said it would not affect cooperation, especially around things like afghanistan and the relations between the u.s. and russia. it is unlikely that the americans are going to want to upset what has become a significantly improved relationship with russia. >> thank you for that from moscow. three men arrested in connection with an alleged plot have been charged with attempting to carry
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out a terrorist act. they have pleaded not guilty to the charges. a fourth man was released and a fifth person is in custody in sweden. there were detained on wednesday on suspicion of planning to attack the newspaper that published controversial caricatures of the profit muhamed five years ago. -- prophet mohammed five years ago. they denied charges of attempted terrorism and possession of weapons but the judge ordered the remain in custody. >> the court has accepted the request regarding detention and they have been taken into custody for four weeks. two of them in isolation. >> the fifth man was freed. police say he is under suspicion. his brother and sister ciesla the -- insists he is innocent.
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>> i know him really well and my brother has nothing to do with terrorism. i think he is being accused because he is very religious. >> investigators suspect he was trying to rent a flat for the man. security services say they have been observing the group for months. in stockholm, they rented a car and drove to copenhagen, shattered by the police along the way. -- shadowed by the police along the way. there were arrested in the suburbs. officers seized a handgun, a machine gun, and ammunition. the danish and secret service says the men were planning to attack the newspaper which has been targeted because it published satirical cartoons of the prophet mohammed. a bomb explosion has shattered windows and damaged cars
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outside a court building. the police had evacuated the area following warnings before the explosion. the bomb was placed on a motor bike parked outside of the court. no group has claimed responsibility. the incident comes as two weeks before the scheduled trial of a dozen members of an anarchist group. the court in tel aviv has found the former president guilty of rape. he was guilty on a second charge of sexually harassing two other women. he faces eight years in prison. moshe katsav resigned in 2007 after the allegations. the three judge panel said his testimony had been riddled with lies. >> israel's from a president -- former president curried out of the courtroom.
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moshe katsav will remain free until sentencing. he did have to hand over his passport. his son says he is innocent. >> we will walk with our heads high. my father is innocent. >> the 65-year-old appeared confident when he entered the courtroom. in a unanimous decision, the judges declared him guilty of all but one of the charges. he was accused of sexual offenses against three female former employees. one case dated back to his term as tourism minister. the others after 2000, when he became president. the allegations surfaced in 2006 and he resigned a year later after accepting a plea bargain. under the terms of the arrangement, the charges were to be dropped in exchange for a suspended sentence and a fine.
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the news of collini in deal prompted outrage protests at the time. -- a lenient deal prompted outrage protests. sentencing has been set for january. the rape conviction carries a prison sentence of four years to 16 years. >> now that the year is winding up, let's find out what has been happening on the stock market. >> boom time. it has been a great year. investors are confident about earnings growth in 2011 as well as the prospect of higher equity prices and dividends. the dax rose 16% while the smaller cap mdax soared. asian stocks were mixed. traders cracked open the bubbly to mark the end of the year at the frankfurt stock exchange. germany emerging faster than
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expected from the recession. celebrations also as trading closed the year on a high note. the index of market heavyweights jumped 22% this year. >> the 2010 stock market posted higher than expected gains as the u.s. supplied liquidity and the european debt crisis has not caused big trouble. >> on the floor in tokyo, traders applauded the end of 2010. the nikkei lost a loss in january. there were hoping for a turnaround next year. >> in germany, it has been a great year for the dax index even if it weakened in the last days of trading. our correspondent seentnt us
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this summary. >> the dax lost 2%. a lot of traders have been happy with the result this by the week's loss in the day's loss. the dax made it 16% and outperformed many major markets in doing so. thanks to the good situation of the export industry and strong domestic demand in germany. many expect rising share prices in 2011. everyone hoping and everyone forecasting greater prices. the direction to go the other way. >> they arwe see the dax index trading at one percentage point. eurostocks closed at 1.2% in
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negative territory. investors are ignoring on wall street lower than expected new claims for unemployment insurance. the dow industrials are currently down about -- nearly unchanged. at of the currency markets, the euro is trading for $1.3286. markets will move at record rates. this would pose a problem for the german economy since it is especially reliant on imports when it comes to commodities like metals. recycling of raw materials will become increasingly more important. >> circuit boards are found that most complex -- i and most complex electronic products. they are the nerve center of that kind of equipment here. even when they have been scrapped, they are still valuable to companies like
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europe's largest copper producer. >> valuable contents can be found here. these contacts contain real gold. it is high value gold. we can break these down and extracted at a profit. >> 300 grams of gold can be extracted from a ton of scrap like this. alongside copper, nickel, selenium, and silver. an array of valuable wrote materials -- raw materials which companies would have to buy and global markets. >> from materials are scarce and there is not an unlimited supply. on global markets, we're competing with other countries were exactly the same commodities. recycling materials land here and this is where the process. rather than being exported and shuffled around the world. >> the search for treasure begins in a local scrap yard. millions of tons of outdated and broken electronics are thrown out every year in the you.
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-- eu. german households get rid of waste that can be sorted and recycled. the metals and rubber materials retreat from -- raw materials can be recycled. >> pope benedict xvi said the vatican wanted to join other countries in cracking down on legal loopholes that have allowed criminals to exploit the financial sector. the decrees were passed on as italian authorities and -- investigated money laundering by vatican bankers in september. italy froze 23 million euros were the vatican funds in italian banks due to possible money-laundering. rahm prosecutors launched an investigation against two vatican bank officials after receiving a tip of about
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financial irregularities. >> thank you. it has been 30 years since china enacted the one child policy in a bid to control population. that policy is having a dramatic affect on the country. boys outnumber girls. the burden of caring for elderly parents and grandparents is growing for many on the children. >> he is four and depended on his parents now but when he grows up, he will be somresponse for supporting the them and his grandparents. such as the traditional relationship. >> it is a big burden to support six adults. it is not just a problem for family. many chinese families have this challenge. >> he is among the second generation of children to be born under china's one child policy.
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the goal was population control. it had other consequences. critics say the policy has led to spoiled children with poor people skills. a premium is on boys who outnumber girls. china's population is aging dramatically and the ratio of workers to pensioners is declining. >> for the younger generation, it sis impossible to care for the elderly based on the tradition of family responsibility. you have more social support to the elderly. >> china is facing more calls to and it's one child policy in hopes of helping counter the aging population. -- end the one child policy in hopes of helping counter the aging population. >> bobby farrell has died,.
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his real talent as a dancer and lip syncher. the recordings were sung by frank farion. cause of death is unknown. as we have been reporting, it has been a deep freeze of a december. the coldest in 40 years. the fire brigade has been dealing with itsmass of bicycles, smashing them off. -- massive icicles, smashing them off. deicing fluid is running short because manufacturers cannot make it fast enough. i will be back after a short break.
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>> welcome back. the u.n. declared 2010 the international year of biodiversity. conservation of the world's species was not proceeding like clockwork and there were low expectations of the biodiversity summit in nagoya. delegates to deliver the goods, at least on paper. countries agreed to a 20. plan. even critics describe the summit as an important step. -- countries they agreed agreed0 point plan. many plants and animals are disappearing for good. >> the toll is wiping out four and, at an unprecedented rate. every day, worldwide, 380 plant
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and animal species died out. -- the toll is wipin gour flora and fauna at an unprecedented rate. un experts warn the world is facing the prospect of fishless oceans by 2050 of nothing is done. >> we know that species are always dying out. -- dying out as a result of environmental influences. human influence is causing plants and animals to disappear at a rate that is anything but natural. it is a dramatic situation, compare newble with a rate of extinction 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs died out, only worse. >> in october, delegates of the summit' produced a strategy with
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20 aims. one of them is stronger control of global fisheries. less needs to be caught and undersea life has to be better protected. subsidies out to beef phased out for farming practices that damage the environment. the hope is to establish agriculture that is in tune with nature, not locked in combat with it. conservation areas need to be expanded. reserves should be increased tenfold for brain life. -- marine life. the aim is to halt loss of species by 20/20. >> many experts say that is not possible but that depends on the political will to preserve these important habitats like the tropical rain forests, which aren't important ecosystem. if that gets done, it is possible to achieve something meaningful in 10 years' time.
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>> exactly how much life still is on earth could be clear by 2012 when the pledges come into force and the world's nations have to say how much hard cash they're prepared to devote to them. >> every year, the eu spends billions of years of subsidies on agriculture. the subsidies are generous to crop producing land, delivering an actual harvest. that is the opposite of what is needed to ensure biodiversity. semi-wild farm land is needed. this is a perk exampperfect exaf how the un farmers can work hand in hand. >> wehaheat as far as the eye cn
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see. there are green strips of biodiversity. newly created habitats left by local farmers for local flora and fauna. it is a combination of agriculture and conservation. the green zones provide a habitat for creditors and pests that would otherwise damaged harvests. farmers set aside 5% of land, leaving it to return to a semi natural state. this provides a place to live for a species threatened with extinction. that has been a blessing for one rare bird of prey. it has not been here for years -- senior for years but six of -- seen here for years but six
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breeding pairs have appeared. farmers take special care when harvesting. as long as the harriers are flightless, they need to protect the nests in the cornfield to reach maturity and let them fly. they drive the combine harvester around the site, leaving a small island around the birds. local farmers put up resistance at first. now, they play an active role in maintaining the strips of by a diversity across the land. in late summer, before this all is dispersed, the green strips are mohd -- thistle strips are dispersed, the strips are mowed. this is a model that could be
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repeated across europe if subsidies were distributed to promote the conservation of nature. scientists know that without tropical forests, it would be impossible to maintain a healthy global climate. how does the system operates? there are many anand answered questions. the biodiversity has been cataloged as part of a campaign to preserve the system. this report comes from a village in the southwest of the country. >> here on the river, scientists have set up nets to catch fish for their studies. a giant anaconda has landed in their tracks. the researchers released the snake where there are no nests. at the camp, a dutch biologist
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gathers his team for talk. they want to examine areas where they have marked off. >> the characteristics is it is a low disturbance for us. there are no volcanoes, no world win whirlwinds or hurricanes. the trademark is that has been -- it has been standing here for a long time. >> burton limn is getting down to work. he is studying small animals. he has set up 120 traps. one of his nasa -- nests caught a spear-nosed bat. >> i was happy and lucky to get this one. >> they have completed half their sector. the nutmeg tree presents the
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tree with an interesting finding. >> usually, this has latex coming out but this is yellow. we have never seen this before. this species is known with tree people, they call it lapa-lapa. >> the campus home to 20 scientists. aluminum company's plan to prospect here. it want to make sure -- they want to make sure that it is not suitable. burton has prepared the greater spear-nosed bat for a museum. he cuaught 50 species of rats, mice, and bats.
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it will publish their findings about the expedition. >> that is all we have time for. thank you for joining us. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--
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♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to our annual special new year's edition of the world show where, as last week for the holiday edition, we try to present you with a show that is very dear to our hearts, and so we're going to reprise an in memoriam edition that ran a few months ago upon the passing
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of nic hayek--nicolas hayek-- the great swiss entrepreneur, one of the greatest i've ever met--and, believe me, i've met a lot of them. he's the man who gave switzerland back not only its watch industry by inventing the swatch and more things like the smart car, but he gave switzerland back its pride, and you'll see why--you'll sense and learn why--when you listen to this man talk about the value of work, the beauty of work--the work you put into things--and how much more important that is than the money you make from the work. here, once again, is nicolas hayek. nicolas hayek, people still stop me on the street--as a matter of fact, i think air canada runs it in its business class--people still stop me to ask about you and about the interview we had in this very room five years ago where we talked about the spirit of entrepreneurship and how important it is to the economy, and i want to go over that again. but first, i want to talk a little bit about your latest project, which is the swatchmobile, and how in the world we're going to go from the swatch to the swatchmobile.
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- we don't have to go; we're there already. and we're talking about the same type of emotional consumer product that you keep with you--the watch on your skin day and night, and the car with you practically all the time until you go home. and the reason why we started this car is we wanted to show and to prove that the only people who really can be ecologists--can influence the ecology of this world--are entrepreneurs who make products. i gave a talk a few years ago in '89, i think, at the united nations general assembly, saying that the only people who can really influence an ecology are the people who make the products. so if today all russians, all chinese, all hindus, start to require the same kind of locomotion that you and i have, there wouldn't be one litre of oxygen on this
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earth for our children or great- grandchildren. so we have to do something about it. - so what you want to build is an eco-car, but a good car. - we want to build a swatchmobile, which is exactly the kind of car that everybody wants to have without even thinking that it's an eco-car, because it's going to have the speed required, the quality required--very high quality-- security required... ...nice-looking, space to sit in it, low cost, low price, and at the same time ecologic. - and you've described it as a two-seater with enough room for a case of beer. it parks laterally. i mean, let's have some fun with this. it does all kinds of things that the standard car wouldn't do, all for under $10,000. - well, we're not so sure that we're going to achieve this price, but we're trying not to keep the competition knowing at what price we're going to do it. so we're going to be like swatch, with the same message. high quality, low cost,
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provocation, and joy of life. - and people watching us, who may think, "well, come on, this is too much of a dream", t, they don't know you. you are an incredible doer. you have a past in the automobile industry, because you used to be an engineering consultant in that area. you are going to do this. sitting somewhere a few blocks from here are prototypes of this. you have built a billion- dollar company on really the failure--at that time--of the swiss watch industry. you really want to do this. you're very serious about this. - sure. we're not only very serious. everybody knows that we're going to do it, because we created together with daimler- benz--with mercedes-benz-- a joint company here in switzerland to build this car, to continue the development and build it. and before i joined you for this meeting, i had a meeting with a mercedes partner of ours because we are now located the first site for the assembly of this car in europe, and maybe the next site will be in the united states or canada. so we're going ahead with it.
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we're very, very, very far in the development of these two types of cars that we're going to launch at the end of '96, beginning of '97. there's going to be a small revolution in the automobile industry. - and when, for instance in canada, the information highway and other such things get touted as the future, people think we're going to be in a paperless society, and never never land, no more blue collar jobs, no more manufacturing jobs--you refuse that for switzerland and probably for other countries. you don't like that and you think that there is a future in the secondary sector for all of us. we should have real jobs. - look, what people tend to forget in the dream that all of us have and should keep--is the curiosity and the philosophy of a six-year old infant--is that emotions play an enormous role in our lives, all of us. we are human beings; we are not only logical; we are emotional. and we need our emotions, and we use them only at home; we forget to use them in our products and our
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businesses everywhere. that's the first thing. second, we have to get interesting jobs for people, not only to get money to live, but to get interest--to create new wealth on this earth. if all the new wealth we create on this earth is paper money, paper work, information, where the hell are we going to get all the requirements that we need in heating, and eating, and joy, and art, and everything else? so we need to create new wealth. - but people think they're being smart because they get away from that like they got away from agriculture. they think that's progress, to have a toronto, a montreal, a vancouver, where people handle only paper or they're on a cell phone. they think that's smart. you don't. - no, but then they're moving out of this situation. remember the first time you interviewed me five years ago? i was desperate, because practically every american businessman thought that his future-- especially the young ones--was only going to wall street, trying to find somebody to give him junk bonds, to buy any
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company he can buy, to dismantle it, and finish up with one million dollars profit or loss at the end of the year--probably profit. - mm-hmm. - destroying wealth; creating only wealth. and now, the american public has found out--and especially real entrepreneurs--that they can't do this all the time without destroying all the tissues of the economy and human relationships and systems in our modern society--that they have to create new things, new wealth, new thing that they can do with their hands, and not only with the computer. and they're returning to it. - and you who are such a problem solver--because as a consultant, before you took up your own business as an entrepreneur, you were a consultant--i have to ask you, in canada right now, a huge problem that does not seem to have a solution is our national debt, our public debt, which has accumulated. and anyone who does the numbers has to say, "well, social programs, a lot of things are going to have to be cut. it's going to be brutal". politicians are dancing around it. opposition politicians say,
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"we would do it, but we're not in power". the ones in power are having a lot of trouble doing it--and we have 11 governments. what would you do? - well, as i told you before, i just have the vision that after my death, somebody--god, maybe-- will ask me, "i'm going to return you to earth. what do you want to be?" and maybe i'd like to be a politician to find out why the hell 99.9% of all politicians in the democratic countries where we live think that they have to say only what they think the majority of the people want them to say. why, if they know better, if they are at the helm of a situation, if they have the responsibility of piloting something, why don't they have the courage to tell the passenger, "i don't agree with you, even if it's going to hurt you for one or two years in your own pocket. for the future of this country, your own future, your children's future, i am
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going to do something painful. but it is better for us and for our future than trying to be nice all the time to everybody." and the courage to do this does not exist in politics... ...because they just are fixed, concentrating themselves on the percentages of voters of every age that's going to vote for them or against them. - if, for instance--i mean, let's look at the people now-- if the people were to accept it, how painful would it be? is it our fault or is it the politicians' fault? the politicians may not be frank, as you've pointed out-- - it's our fault. - it's our fault? - it's our fault! we vote for these politicians. we forget to go under the surface. we believe everything we talk. we look at the tie of the guy on television when we decide whether we want to vote for him or not. we don't look at his record. we don't follow, we don't react, as long as we're making enough money and we can look at television in the evening. - but we also like the social programs. we like them, and when we know that they cost too much,
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we say, "well, you can cut something, but not the social program that touches me". what is that? - well, it's the normal egotism of every human being. he'd like to have good things for everybody except when it touches him, he doesn't want it to be done; his neighbour should do it. but you can convince people. you have to take them to a certain level of thinking and of feeling. human beings are very much capable of being idealistic if they see that the challenge of the target is worth it to do it. if you want somebody to follow an ideal--to be an ideal thinker--don't tell them it's only to make money; just give them a target that's worth doing. - some people are always dreaming about an easy way. before the recession, there was the "soft landing". people were saying, "well, yes, the expansion is going to stop. it'll be a nice, soft landing". it didn't happen; there was a recession. now some people are saying, "well, yes, social programs in the west, in canada
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and other countries, cost too much, but we'll grow our way out of the problem, or we'll tax the rich, or there's got to be some way not to have the pain". - well, i can't give you real consulting on this problem in canada, because i know very little about it. but in fact, if analyzing the problem we have to have pain for one year or two years, and after this we improve the situation for everybody, i'll have to courage to say it, to explain it, to show it, and to show that i am ready to take pain for myself. i keep always saying, i'm not going to ask somebody to do something on the front if i'm not ready to do it myself. and that's the way politicians should be acting. - you are known as a man who believes in himself enormously. anybody who's watching this now can feel it. that's how you turned around the whole swiss watch industry. that's what entrepreneurs are like, but how do you give that message to your employees? you're a big believer in morale, but not company songs and slogans. you go down and talk to these people. you do motivate them. how do you do it? - well, to start with, i don't
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believe only in myself; i believe in every human being. i love human beings. the people around me and the people who are not around me, i love them-- unless they prove to me that they don't deserve to be loved, to start with. so i believe to start with that: everybody is capable of innovation; everybody is capable of taking risks. it's always the school, military service, universities, all the companies and systems you have been working in, that destroy most of the possibilities of human beings to do things. you have to give them this back again. they have it. to give them this, first of all you should be an example, showing them that you're ready to take a risk yourself; that you're ready to go on the front and fight with them; that they can do it--show them that they really can do it, and when they do it, they'll be amazed at how they can do it. that's the way you motivate people. by letting them expand the power that they have in them and that our society keeps pressuring them not to show out. - what about people--some of
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them are watching us--who say, "well, that's fine, yes, maybe. but i have a boring job. i have no job, and it's just not for me. it sounds good, but my creativity is gone". - anybody who has a boring job and thinks that he's not satisfied with it should open a kiosk or a cleaning company to clean the windows of his neighbours, but not stay on this job. being your own entrepreneur helps you to develop much more power that is inside you, than sitting down in an office and being bored day and night. it's not a life that you would like to enjoy. i wouldn't do it. - nicola hayek, i have to ask you, because a lot of people watching us, we love to cover entrepreneurs on this show, and their dynamism is fantastic, but after a while, people watching say, "well, the guy has so much talent, he's never failed. he doesn't know what it's like to just flop". and failure is one of the greatest teachers in life, so let's explore that. have you ever failed? how do you
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deal with that? - oh, i always fail. practically every day. i have about 100 problems to solve, and i solve only 51 of them, and the rest is a failure. but, see, if it's a big failure, you go to sleep over it, and you wake up the next day again in a fighting spirit. if you cannot do this, don't try to be an entrepreneur. that's the way it happens to me, really. if i am very desperate, if i have had a very great failure--and it happens often-- - mm-hmm. - i go desperately home at night, drive my own car, 11 o'clock in the night, raining on the highway, one and a half hour driving, get home, and don't let my wife notice that there is something really important. but i am quiet, i'm not making the normal jokes, and i don't have the normal dynamism, and let's say i'm tired. and if i don't wake up the next morning at six or seven o'clock with a fighting spirit, laughing and singing,
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well, i'm going to retire. - and have you ever blamed yourself and said, "i've tried something and i'm going to quit it". a real failure. "i'm just going to leave it aside and go onto something else." has that ever happened? - well, if you find that something is completely impossible, that you're not going to get it, you'd better quit on time. because, you know, if you try to do something that with time you find out is impossible... if the possibilities are still there, you have to allow them--never quit. but if you found out it's completely impossible, be careful about that. this is a very, very important part of the analysis of every factor of deeds that we do around us. there are people who start saying before they start that it's impossible. - mm-hmm. - if you tell me, "why don't you drink your glass completely"? and i say, "well, it's impossible; it's too full", well, you're not the man i want to work with. you remember, i told you this five years ago. but if you analyze all the factors and find out that you're not going to do it, give me 200
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pounds or 200 kilos--i can still pick it up and find out that i'm not going to be able to take them alone and get them about six feet high. i had better quit, give up, and recognize that i cannot do it. and what our society has to recognize in that case is the right of every one of us to be second or to have a failure. we're not permitted to have a failure, but i accept failures. imagine in a country like this one where i am a small hero for most of the people, who expect me, as you said before, to always be a hero, to always win everywhere. i am always ready to accept publicly a failure. - and when you started--because the costliest failures are often the earliest ones--you started with 3,000 bucks that you borrowed. people may think today, billionaire and all this, and switzerland is a rich country, and all these clichés, but actually, you started with those 3,000 bucks. when you were beginning, did you really have sleepless nights when you thought, "this is never going to
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work", and "i'm not cut out for this", or did you... how was it? - no, no, i had. imagine, i was 28 years old. i had--and i still have her--the same wife and two children. and i had really no money. and i as a born entrepreneur without knowing it. i know it now--or at least my wife keeps telling me this. when i started, i didn't have money to start making products. that's what i wanted to do. so i created a consulting company, because you don't need any capital to do it. but a consulting company working well is an enterprise, so you're an entrepreneur if you can run it the way it should be. when i started, the first phone calls that i made were to a few people who knew me around switzerland-- which is the normal way to do it--and told them, "look, i am now starting my own business. if you need me, you have been working with me; i'll be ready to work for you on something". and one or two of them said, "well, why don't you make a proposal to do this and that for us". i made a proposal full of hope. i didn't have a phone in my office, so i went
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to the office of the ptt on the other side of the street. - the post office. - the post office. this was the 1st of august 1957, a date i'll never forget in my whole life. and i called the guy who was promising to give me for $10,000 fees an assignment. and the boy said, "look, i am sorry, our president doesn't want to pay that amount of money. it's too expensive". and he said, "you're too young to do that kind of a job. i'm sorry, i can't give it to you". remember, it was the 1st of august. the 1st of august is an ancient holiday in switzerland. we used at that time to work until noon, and in the afternoon in zurich everybody was making a big fiesta, running in the streets, and having fun, and august is a nice time. it was a nice day. my wife and children were still in the place where i lived. i was living in a pension, as we say in switzerland. - boarding house. - in a boarding house, because my home was around this area here, which is about 150km further, and i was alone in
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zurich. and i had real water in the eyes. and i walked about the streets of zurich saying, "damn it, you're stupid. you have two children, a wife, no responsibility. even if your wife told you, 'you can do it. whatever you want, you go ahead and do it', you have no assignment, no job. everybody told you not to start your own company. they told you all the time, 'don't do it'. you were stupid enough to start it, and you have not one single assignment". and i went back to my boarding place listening to all the people making music and dancing outside... ...and went to bed at nine o'clock, woke up at six, and started fighting again. and i was sure that i would do it. - when did it turn around? - two months later. i got a visit from a german saying, "look, we have a problem.
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we built a new special furnace that didn't work. we invested five million. and somebody told us there is a young swiss who knows something about it. why don't you try?" - did it work? - well, it's a long story, but it worked. - and today they offer you, it is said, a billion dollars, just to buy the name swatch, and you, who love to build things, goods, and services--to produce things that you can see and feel-- who loves swiss culture, you just say no. - well, you know why? first of all, i can afford to say no. if i would have my family, two kids, my wife, and we were starving to death, by god, i think maybe i would take less than one billion to sell something, if i needed it. so i can afford it; it's not very, very difficult for me. but there is another thing that i keep telling every young man who talks with me--and very many of the young students and people come to visit here and talk with me, and i love talking with them: never start your life
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by having as a target to make as much money as possible. this is about the worst target that anybody can have. and it's the most secure way of never reaching the target, because if you target is to make money, and nothing else, you're not worth living on this earth, and you are not going to make that money, and if you make it, you're going to lose it. but if your future is to create things, no matter what it is-- music, products, love, anything else--you'll be amazed. look, solzhenitsyn became a rich man. i don't think when he wrote his book he was ever thinking about becoming rich. - mm-hmm. - and that's the way you operate. and i never in my life had the target to make money. i had the target to create things. i need the means for it, i need the resources, i need the tools for it. but if you look at me, really, i don't spend my money on buying new ties.
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and that's very important. and that's one reason why you cannot buy me with money. you can buy me if you tell me, "how about making this kind of new product with me?" and i'm going to work it over with you. - nicolas hayek, we just made a new product. we've made a great tv show. thank you. good luck. - thank you. - nic hayek. our special new year's edi as a tribute to this great swiss entrepreneur. now, here's something else coming up on the world show, but please stick around. our annual ritual is also coming up. - i can talk about my case, but what do i know about cases that you have quoted? as far as i know, you're mixing people who are apparently found guilty, and then not. i mean, there are so many cases that are being quoted, you know, from charlie chaplin to errol flynn, you know. and they quote errol flynn--errol flynn was found innocent, you know. charlie chaplin, one doesn't
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know why... what's happening with michael jackson, i have no knowledge. my knowledge only comes from the press and and news media. and i dislike reading those stories, because i know that in my case, it was just so full of inaccuracies, lies, fantasies, you know. it was so amplified, exacerbated by the press and the media, that i can only suspect that this is the case of the others. but i don't know enough about it, you know. and i'm not competent to answer the question whether it is or not the revenge of society. i know one thing: that in my case, i could feel the atmosphere of the press--and the public in general, because it's governed by it--from the beginning, from my first days
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in hollywood--and i could feel what happened after the murders in bel air, where my late wife, sharon tate, was murdered carrying my unborn son. she was eight and a half months pregnant. and a lot of my friends were killed with her by those murderers. and before those culprits were found, i could see a sudden kind of, um... ...dislike towards my person, you know. and dislike towards the victims themselves, as though they were guilty of their own murder, because they could not rationalize--it was so absurd, so grotesque, this murder, that they just could not find rational answers to it, and they started writing stories about themselves--that they were
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drug addicts, that they dabbled with black magic, that it was some kind of crazy party where they murdered themselves. i could not believe what i was reading, you see. and that was my first lesson, and i could see how the atmosphere has changed around me, and how they started treating me. - nic hayek, the special in memoriam edition, which we're also reprising as a special new year's edition. and, of course, it's that time of the year again, and we wouldn't want to leave 2010 without toasting you with all our hearts--our exec, claudette théorêt; our producers, michèle marchand, francine blais; myself--we love doing this with you and for you. it's been a number of years now, and we hope to add a few more. and we hope to be doing this at the end of december for a few more years. nic hayek would have approved. he loved life. here it comes...
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and that is 2011 ringing in. ladies and gentlemen, have a great, great 2011. this is bob scully in birmingham, alabama. thanks. happy new year. closed captioning by sette inc.
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