nigel cassidy, bbc news, eastern germany. >> there you go.ore on that at the end of the week. a couple other stories making headlines, hsbc has set aside nearly $380 million to cover potential costs from investigations into currency trading. hsbc is, of course, among several banks being investigated over the alleged rigging of those currency markets. hsbc disclosed the figure, rising tax profits. the number, $4.6 billion. >>> and the uk drinks giant diageo has agreed to take over don julio. don julio is an ultra premium tequila, with big sales in north america, colombia, and australia. lots going on. follow me on twitter. tweet me. i'll tweet you back. you can get me @bbcaaron. karin, in your younger days, have you ever had a drink that you've had maybe too much of it, cannot touch it ever, ever again? >> peach schnapps. >> tequila is mine. >> we won't ask the circumstances. more of aaron later. >>> now do stay with us here on "bbc world news." still to come -- how artwork and music are helping syria's child refugees seek international help t

and now nigel cassidy reports from eisenhuttenstadt. that literally means "iron works city."se to the polish border. take a look at this. >> reporter: a steel town in the far east of germany. today, an intriguing monument to an economic system consigned to the history books. 53,000 once housed in this socialist city. but once the berlin wall was down, these homes started to go the same way. as the work dried up, the cities almost halved in size. but it's making sterling efforts to attract new employers, updating a central core of apartments designed for the workers at the vast state steel complex. against all odds, the plant itself didn't melt away, but doggedly strode to attract eu investors. a quarter of the original 12,000 work force, but it's a modern show piece. this plant is churning these out every five minutes. just ten people work on the shift here. compare that with hundreds of thousands that would have worked here in the days of the gdr. >> we are going to the industry which are now thriving in poland. and then you see the growth rate for poland being about 3% of g

nigel cassidy has been following this. why do they have to have this sort of name for these foods?lly, any food which was not generally eaten before may '97 and wouldn't have had approval then counts as a novel food, so it is easy to characterize this as frankenstein food. but if you think of coca-cola, other brands that are available. they use a sweetener called stevia. it's made from a plant. that counts as a novel food. chia seeds. that's just a variety of salvia. noni juice, that's just an exotic fruit. the worry they have is this might also include foods which are manipulated and do us harm. >> well, what is not an exotic fruit is surely cow spit. and then we've got cabbage slime. in general, though, we've seen demand for this stuff? >> there's an enormous demand in the food market for novelty. a lot of people want to eat new and different things. but most of these are what they call functional foods. they have some property -- i don't know about the cow spit, but clearly there's something in there which could have some benefit. make a tiny bubble and manipulate the same membr