it is been booming bavaria. the state boasts near full employment. businesses like this are wide. it is an engineering firm. residential -- residents are up, order books full. it provides a snapshot of the wider german economy. one of the country's leading think tanks believes it will keep on growing because there are tentative signs europe is on the mend. >> these figures reflect the diminishing uncertainty and the fact the markets are now calmer. >> the think tank's forecast is much more optimistic than the german government policy official estimate, and ultimately, there will be exporters who decide who gets it right and who gets it wrong. >> onto thursday's market action now, after trading higher for much of the session, the day's gains were wiped out after data out of the united states fell a bit short of expectations. our correspondence sent us this summary from the frankfurt stock exchange. >> investors seemed to think the same as the main economic institutes do that the german exporters will be able to grow pretty fast outside the euro area and on the other hand that highe

. >> the chief justice of bavaria keeps saying this is a routine murder trial. evidently, his intention is to guarantee judicial impartiality, but critics say it is anything but routine because there's a parliamentary committee of inquiry in berlin currently investigating why the security services allowed the series of murders to continue for 10 years without even recognizing that they had a political motive. >> some might say anything but routine and also pretty insensitive given the circumstances. what chance is there that the court could potentially change its mind on this? >> there is huge pressure on the court at the moment to change its mind, particularly from the media in germany, and that is the point you just mentioned. it requires particular sensitivity, this case. there is a chance that the court will be swayed by the fact that, for example, the german president also recently met with relatives of the victims and promised maximum transparency. that is what this is about -- transparency in a politically sensitive trial. >> thanks for the update. >> we

it just suddenly appeared from one day to the next in circles that i slipped into here in bavaria, but the addiction is powerful. you get really hooked on crystal meth. people underestimate it. >> for first-time takers, it can see like the ideal recreational drug. people say they are able to party for hours or even days without getting tired, hungry, or feeling pain. instead, they get what appears to be a never-ending high. >> but that high debts and in depression and psychosis, nervous disorders, and facial disk figuration -- that hi does end. officials have documented deterioration of crystal meth junkies at various levels of deterioration. they offer sup -- often suffer skin problems and to floss. german police have been coming across the drug more, too. customs officers presented the results of a massive cross border investigation. the biggest discovery to date came a little later when customs officers found 7 kilos of crystal coming in from nigeria. doctors and therapists are gaining more experience with the consequences of crystal meth addiction. at this addiction clinic, crystal

he was born in 1840 and went out which of the time part of bavaria. he immigrated to the u.s. in 1946 with his mother arriving in new york city. he was not a great student. he arrived precisely at the moment you would become literate except that he was expected to perform in the language -- for example is mother enrolled him and he went to school on the first day. a little boy directed him to align and it turned out it was a thinking mind. he went home and said to his mother i'm never going back to school. by 13 he was basic lay on the streets every day. the result of which was that at 15 he gave up entirely on the dissertation and talked his way into a job with an impresario of the illustrated press. this is his drawing of himself doing that and you can see all we see like to draw himself a short and heavy and not terribly defined. so he worked first for franklin and then much longer for harpers both of which were dueling banjo so to speak of illustrated newspapers in the late 1850s and the late 1870and primarily moved because he didn't like to pay. at harvard he built a care