only baldasare's brother giuseppe keeps his 20 acres.still hoping to fulfill baldy's dream of an underground resort, but giuseppe needs help. >> my grandfather was 64. to take on a whole business, he just wasn't prepared to do that, so he leased it out. he thought this would be a great business venture. >> a business venture that would celebrate the craftsmanship of the sicilian immigrant and his vast underground gardens. >> the developer promised that he would get the resort going, but instead, he made it weird. >> what did they call it? >> oh, they call... yeah, well, okay, here it is. i know my family hates this, but it was called the human mole. come see the home of the human mole. >> the human mole? oh, my. >> and that infuriated giuseppe and the rest of the family. >> there it is, in print, even, "the secret world of the human mole." what an insult to a man of baldasare's vision. how sad. >> yes, it was. this beautiful accomplishment that he'd spent 40 years doing. somebody was trying to make it something weird. >> after the 10-yea

for italy's prime minister giuseppe conte material has become a prestige project but for the people of this engine city its new status as european capital of culture is an opportunity to turn materials dream of a prosperous future into reality. well that's a news wrap for now well coming at the top of the hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's dot com thanks for joining me. i'm not laughing. because sometimes i am but they stand up with the camera don't think they think the general culture. will take this grandmother down to eat it all that. time rachel join me any. time for an oak creek. furniture grows all by.

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giuseppe. [applause] >> i got to say, you know, i want to thank you guys for giving us the opportunity. this was a -- really a wonderful year, you know, being able to meet so many nice people and being able to share a lot of things with the community. what you guys did when you allowed us to selfish, you know, there was so much that we got to share with the community. when there was hard times with the napa fire, we partnered with glide church, and we were able to bring them the fish. i want to thank all these ladies here. these women worked so hard. i'm telling you, they clean all these little fish for all these people. they're my heros. we've got george and tina. you guys, there's some great people in our community that we were able to network with, and it became just a big family. every time we'd come in from fishing, you know, we were able to kind of share all this fish with everybody. really, it was touching. i still can't believe this to this day that we have this great friendship, that w

a few issues is not -- that was italian prime minister giuseppe conte speaking to francine lacqua.m political risk in europe to brexit uncertainty in the u.k., and of course geopolitical risk dominating discussions at davos. we speak to the former prime minister of the u.k. tony blair. manus: yes indeed. -- wel also hear from know in his last conversation he was talking about preparedness for hard brexit. what does blair think as the political climate is rising? behind delaying growth. that seems to be the consensus at building in parliament. is that best for the country yeah, that will be the question we put to tony blair. the team on the ground there did a fantastic job. all the news from davos on bloomberg. ♪ comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond having questions. to getting answers. "activecore, how's my network?" "all sites are green." all of which helps

also pedro sanchez, the spanish prime minister, the leader of italy, giuseppe conti, all speaking todayders about lots of things and one is the chief executive of a huge real estate property company globally, jll. it has 80,000 employees around the world. he is german. i wanted to get his take on brexit. have a listen to what he had to say to me. it is hard to give a precise outlook. there's lots of turmoil in the world. we are most concerned about the us — china relations, how they are developing. for the time being there is good momentum in the economy and we hope that will continue. there is still a chance that we will have a positive 2019, as long as these disruptions do not come too much into play. what about brexit, are you concerned about brexit, are you concerned about that? for every european and every supporter of liberal western democracy, brexit can only be a complete disaster. so we hope that the extent of that disaster is minimised bya the extent of that disaster is minimised by a controlled brexit which is done on a contract and not in an uncontrolled hard brexit. you are

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a blend of cotton and linen trying to grind it down into a smaller finer grunt research engineer giuseppe look hillary has showed me how would stun bullets crime some wanting to use a crime grinder there's a shuttle that goes inside and using magnets it turns the magnets on and off and it will move the shuttle back and forth between the two metal ends smashed the money using liquid nitrogen around liquid nitrogen the liquid nitrogen all just cool the money down to a brittle so it's easy to smash and turn on the machine. oh yeah that. powder morning then it's melted in with plastic and formed into pellets you melt them down and then you formed them into things like this right and this is a coin trick that is a coin to your money money back into your vehicle what is this tomato. these are actual skin leaves and stems from the tomato plants from hines's ketchup production they process millions of pounds of tomatoes every year and they have a lot of left over why is this a good product for you guys to use we can use this to reinforce our plastics to make them stiffer but then at the same time

at giuseppe conti, he is the head of government. over two parties that don't have much in common but are trying to make it work. is of thetick with it massive question investors want answered is is there a recession and italy that could be brought on by world growth. what does it mean for how they will spend their budget? the prime minister told me they are not going to budge but they are expecting better than forecast. was about 1%.able be -- as opposed to being 1.2 r 1.5. also, is interesting tried to get them to talk about the italian banking system. , but itan italian bank is small and investors keep saying no one really worries about it, but how do you deal with it. he said nationalization could be a way forward. but that's the least of his choices. becauses is important are the good italian banks? i don't mean that snark. francine: there are italian banks that make money and revenue that increase revenue. they also own so much italian debt that is soon as that spread widens, they suffer. what is equality bank if you own so muc

prime minister giuseppe conte says the economy probably shrank in the fourth quarter.his would push the country into a recession that could hinder the populist government's spending plan. his comments raised eyebrows ahead of major economic analysis. gdp data will be published today. the statistics office denies the numbers were leaked. global news, 24 hours a day on air and @tictoc on twitter powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. anna: thank you very much. up next on the program, we will discuss some of the stocks we have been watching, including roche after the drug giant's for your earnings were boosted by new products. a lot of corporate reporting. bloomberg radio is available to you on your mobile device or on dab digital radio in the london area. ♪ matt: welcome back to "bloomberg markets: european open." we are 15 minutes away from cash trade. green arrows across the board. not huge moves as far as futures are concerned. cac futures up 0.25%. dax futures up 0.6%. unilever, to kick it off, was a miss. anna: let's have a lo

of course, bob giuseppe, i want to thank for going before me so i can hear what he was saying and not screw up. i had the pleasure of knowing him, learning from bob for almost 20 years, now. thank you. i don't have slides, because we in congress just don't do slides. so, real quickly, the committee on energy and commerce for the house of representatives is the oldest standing committee in the house. we have jurisdiction that is wide ranging from energy in the environment, to telecommunications, and consumer protection to health and healthcare. the affordable care act was written in our committee. the clean air act of 1990, just about every major energy statute. the telecom act of 1996, so we are very old, and a proud committee on both sides of the aisle. of course, we are the committee of primary jurisdiction over climate change of the house of representatives we like to think of our shows us how to congress as a whole. the chairman of our committee is actually just beginning his first term. he previously served two terms as the ranking democratic member of the committee. chairman pal