country has with the block and critics say it could lead to unprecedented economic problems archie's lucic half an office in the swiss capital. voted to shut the door to european union workers setting up a showdown with brussels as well as a potential exit from the single european market now the so-called stop mass immigration initiative was the brainchild of the right wing swiss people's party which wants strict quotas on foreigners for switzerland to essentially abandon its free movement of people treaty with the e.u. and supporters the we've talked to say that they're worried immigration is driving up rents that it's undercutting local workers and that is burdening public services now opponents had argued that immigration caps would in fact cripple economic growth and experts do say that the swiss in column e. is. not despite foreign labor especially when it comes to folks who have skills to work in fields like health care and there's a big need for skilled workers but despite the very real economic concerns despite the fact that unemployment here is just three percent many voters were

one village in eastern germany that risks losing everything over countries hunger for fossil fuels lucic off the reports. welcome to out of wash population two hundred forty one it's a place that steeped in history the bell in this church was forged before columbus sailed for america and local skeer have centuries old claim to the land it's we're all rick schultz was born and it's where he intends to die his family has owned this farm since fifteen sixty she learned a trade from his father and plans to hand the business down to his son. this has been our homeland for centuries it means everything to us but my family my fellow villagers here face a terrible prospect our homes could soon be raised and our businesses destroyed but . it's what's beneath the land an estimated two hundred fifty million tons of brown coal that threatens to wipe out a wash and two nearby villages off the map they have machines or strip mining the ground for a late night or brown coal and you can see the vast size of this operation the coal mine behind me is already the size of several small towns but the company

intelligence artie's lucic half an hour from ports. the german chancellor is interested in effectively building up a european communication network to avoid e-mails and other data passing through the united states now it's not a separate internet so to speak but more of a way to prevent e-mails and other data from being harvested by u.s. intelligence agencies now this is just an idea at this point and it is one that merkel will certainly be discussing with the french president when they meet in france on wednesday merkel said also this weekend that she basically just approved of companies like google and facebook basing their operations in countries with low levels of data protection while being active in countries such as germany where data protection is quite high this is been a very sensitive issue here in germany mr merkel has faced sharp criticism in the wake of the n.s.a. spy scandal for basically failing to take decisive action according to her critics to protect german users from surveillance of internet telecommunications traf

online exchanges but despite the obstacles the digital currency is continuing to gain ground as artie's lucic often have found out that a bit coin conference and belin. they've come to speak chiming the land to promote their vision of an alternative financial system and investors businessmen and curious citizens all gathered here in berlin for our conference on what they call a bit point of revolution it's the first digital currency that's not owned or operated by any sort of bank it's guaranteed payments without a middleman you can buy it with the real currency and online exchanges and that's an extract of option for those who think that today's financial system is in fact mean of an overhaul as people see how that coin is used online and they see the advantages the instant transfer of funds the security not having to use your personal data to make these transactions i think a lot of people see these advantages they tell their friends they tell their coworkers they want and they tell the merchants that they do business with it and they expand the sphere of decline and that's a view that seem

the second such case in the space of a few days and it has drawn widespread condemnation as artie's lucic half an hour now explains well animal lovers around the globe are outraged by a danish zoo's announcement that it may put down another giraffe this comes just days after the copenhagen zoo's decision to euthanize eighteen month old maurice thousands of people had signed a petition to keep him alive although he wasn't sick the copenhagen zoo said that it needed to put mario's down to prevent inbreeding well now another dinner zoo this one in julian's park is tentatively making plans to euthanize a seven year old giraffe which by coincidence is also named now a lot of people quite upset by this news went viral on the internet but the developments do highlight the seldom seen practice of just how zoos get rid of animals that they'd. i don't want or need the copenhagen zoo insisted that it was doing the right thing when it killed the giraffe dissecting him in front of children and then feeding them to lions as for why well they say it's all part of an effort to control inbreeding and to e

soldiers to remain in the fragile state after twenty fourteen arches lucic off enough reports on how the taliban could be the ones benefiting from the friction between washington and the afghan government after thirteen years in afghanistan washington is counting down together with our allies we will complete our mission bear by the end of this year and america's longest war will finally be over. but ending a war isn't the same as winning one when it comes to afghanistan peace is far. i'm certain and a past ten years there were not able to build an afghan security force forces to be able to face the challenges and this country and to be able in the future to confront the challenges and the taliban forces and the taliban fighters and al qaeda forces and the taliban have been active in the past two weeks alone the group has staged numerous attacks in kabul kandahar nimrods helmont and nangarhar in fact ministry of interior incident reports reveal clashes with the taliban in most of the eleven provinces bordering pakistan the group also controls several districts in parwan just a short

number of foreigners moving to switzerland but some warn it could backfire on the economy as artie's lucic half an office been finding out. welcome to switzerland breathtaking views plentiful jobs and low taxes it's no surprise that the streets here are growing more crowded some eighty thousand new residents arrive each year a significant number for a country of just eight million our industry our economy needs immigration to a certain point but everybody under a mist under estimated the situation the number of people coming is much much higher than anywhere else in the world on sunday switzerland will ask its citizens whether to reintroduce quotas for immigration from abroad including e.u. members although itself not a part of the blog switzerland has signed on to the e.u. rules on freedom of movement if passed the initiative would pit the swiss against an angry brussels but supporters aren't worried the swiss parties the swiss said the political elite they were very enthusiastic about joining the european union ten years ago. but the people changed they saw the disadvantages they saw the

was in second city ahead of me so i got to watch me and harold ray moss and joe flaherty and john be lucic all of these guys, belushi. >> i would hide and watch these guys of no intention of ever doing it myself. >> rose: no intention of doing it yourself? >> huh-uh. >> rose: what did you think you were going to do. >> i wanted to be a doctor once, but i would have to study, i had no idea whats i was going to do, i had trouble holding jobs because they want you there on time and stuff like that. being alert. >> rose: they wanted you to play by the rules. >> and acting in the theatre we didn't have to get to work at 9:00 o'clock at night. >> rose: that's right. >> but so i learned a lot just watching those guys, what i finally did, when i finally did begin to try it myself i render so much, i learned so much by observing and seeing what they were doing, i didn't -- i didn't really peak at the second city, i was just learning it, i was sort of the new guy and for a while, and, you know, i was just -- i was just getting -- i was just getting kind of good and then i got this second -- this sat

i'm joined by a senator of the italia party, senator lucic milan.he can produce on the reforms promised he'll be the best senator. >> if he does. if he does. we hope he will. we hope for the best for italy. what happened so far is not so encouraging because he has taken the place of mr. letta after weeks and months of promises of not disturbing him, just supporting him in his work as prime minister. so what happened, the first steps are not good ones. we hope that the next will be better. we have an agreement with him about the reform of the electoral law that has been ruled unconstitutional by the constitutional court. we want him to keep his promise, keep the word and approve this new law. >> perfect. no matter what happens, you are to continue to support reform to the electoral law here? >> well, we will support of course these reforms, but we take also account of the fact that the electoral law has been ruled as unconstitutional and we vow the majority that was under scrutiny, this government wouldn't have the majority. that's right in the senat