the swiss cheese pound originally comes from central america the polish botanist joseph . the first one back to europe in the mid nineteenth century this was the beginning of a career as a source of inspiration for a number of artists. at his studio with. his famous were inspired by them. critics ilka home and says he was most fascinated by the leaves. what makes the swiss cheese plant special is it's designed to look its leaves are unique they have these irregular shapes with cutaways. owned. looking at them as someone who is interested in form and wanting to know the reason for their appeal of a car you have to say it's because they're very well made about what they look like a well made designed object. design a. design great charles and great games also had a liking for the husband and wife team helped to define what's known as the mid century modern acetic which is all the rage again another reason why the swiss cheese plant is enjoying a revival in popularity there are even some blanks exclusively devoted to the monster and other plants of its kind of a jungle blogge

his opponents say couple's initiative would cost thirty million swiss francs. it will be at these scales where the money come from it have to be taken out of domestic agriculture there certainly wouldn't be any more direct payments or subsidies and that would mean more discontent amongst farmers in one of them. but the battle against horning is really about creating more nature oriented agricultural policies something armen couple plans to keep fighting for now he must find funding for his referendum campaign he paid for everything himself so far but now his wife has taken the bull by the horns and forbidding him from doing it again that's it for today thank you for watching seem next time. european stars deliver rousing performances. you see with rhythm and has just as in her house and a shotgun she says i'm a night in the spotlight by my. sense of jimmy raney and singing. captivates have fans night that's your concert in fifteen minutes. expecting visitors anastasia visit the city this is my day you boys in the house night you. came and feagles house of music

in school who learned the fundamentals of swiss democracy he and his classmates even visited the swiss parliament. and street as if it is a. you know he made some friends there some later said that he'd invite them home to play game boy while susie it's also said that he played basketball with some of his classmates who lived nearby or like the game i had to get you to force him on to the second plane just about every evening but what with. him seemed to get along very well with the other kids a lot of ok i welcome to his own fondest ashleigh. photographs of his look rather different from those of the kim jong un we know today. swiss identification experts carried out a detailed study of the facial features and the similarities led them to conclude that who is indeed kim. and there is more evidence. and north korean woman named ko young he regularly traveled to switzerland by private jet. with security officials capture under surveillance she was suspected of smuggling precious metals but she actually turned out to be the mother of the kim children. walk up while her visits would last

that 30 years long-term swiss franc strength, even more swiss franc strength.e is where jon ferro and i were at that beautiful cafe in zurich, francine, and there is the swiss national bank with strength. what is the why here, hans? why do we see a retreat of gold, the retreat of the weaker swiss franc? >> there is low yield with weaker currencies. it looks like there is a reluctant increase in real rates to the upside. when you look into switzerland as the second-biggest global as a provider, that means the asset holdings need to be managed. there is capital management and then there is fx management. as a manager, you have made this fx management so much more. therefore, you try to get rid of it. n, you think the main destination of your assets, that you have political problematics and support. tom: francine, here is a huge deal. here is the switzerland money market chart off a bloomberg. there is a lot of data, it is a little hard to see. look at the 10 year yield in switzerland. it just went positive. that is a big deal with this shift going on. francine: i

nadal could not threaten the serve of the swiss player and he served out to ta ke swiss player and het to take the first set in 35 minutes. roger federer had laboured to victory in the semifinals. no sign of weariness here. he was touching rare heights of brilliance. another break in the fifth game of the second. rafael nadal had never previously won the shanghai masters and with the match slipping away tried to show some urgency. roger federer was irresistible. at 36 he, his touch is still sublime. once again he put in adult‘s serve under pressure and once again the world number one buckled. federer supreme again, 64, 63. ages seemingly no barrier and the end of year world tour finals are now firmly in his sights. maria sharapova has won herfirst tournament since her 15—month doping ban ended beating arina sabalenka in straight sets to win the tianjin open. the 30—year—old russian was playing her seventh event since her return to the sport and the title is her first since the italian open more than two years ago. she trailed 4—1 in both sets before overcoming the 19—year—old belarusi

the swiss army knife and that was it.rland. >> it was original. >> stephen: i have a swiss army knife here and this is one of the deluxe ones. this has things i don't know what they do. can you explain to us what some of the rarer versions, the tools on a swiss army knife are. please don't hurt yourself. we're not insured for this. >> this one is super good. it's a saw. that will saw through anything, that will just -- >> stephen: this one? >> open it that way. >> stephen: there's the saw. >> we'll do the-- where is the picture of me. you can saw that in half. here i'll hold this side. ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) >> stephen: there you go. >> and now i can be me. so that's a saw. >> stephen: okay. >> and so actually, when i was in the fifth grade, my father was explaining to me the difference between paying cost for something and wholesale and then retail. and so i caught on to this idea that i could actually get that knife which was retailing for, like $50 for $7. i asked dad if i could get a few. and then what i

from the swiss people's party is also the longest serving member in the swiss house of representatives do you need to lose it now i've got mixed blessings for you here the good news is you were described in the report as being useful the bad news is you were described as being an idiot but more good news because you're among the likes of sigma gabrielle who's the foreign secretary for germany a very prestigious company so i consider that to positives there how do you feel about being named here oh dear this is such a disappointment we did have the sound from you lose it because you at the moment. so we're going to have to try and come back to you in a moment but we will indeed try to do that. but let's stay with this because the pressure on r.t. increased last month when the justice department demanded r.t. america register under the cold war era foreign agents act russia says that that move in does the channels work in the us and that it will have serious legal consequences the pressure growing it's also been pulled from you choose premium advertising listing united states with no war

the swiss trans invest logistics group wants to invest ferdie million u.s. dollars in the next two and a half years to build the country's most modern freight hub covering an area the size of eighty football fields. we are planning to will dry port here. like the country. what's up it's hardly. a problem now we are planning. if you meant by this if you're on the. train because it's more economy call and the. more there. to get long distance freight moving faster at lower cost risen a security see israel as the only practical solution but he says iran needs european logistical experience to make this happen that experience is being brought in by private investors. this kind of foreign private investment is a massive help you know we welcome it and would like to see more of it and we're trying to remove hurdles so that things can be done more quickly up till now a prince's traffic of between six hundred and twelve hundred goods wagons a day when the new freight terminal is completed check erie is counting on many times that number. for the latest business news

life city ranking editor in chief tyler brulé says one reason is that everything here works like a swissclock of course we think that great cities are friction free and that means public transport works means communications function it means that you can have a really seamless existence in a city jump in a river lake in the morning and have an easy commute to work and be in a great office environment. zurich is home to a population of about four hundred thousand the old town is in the heart of the city and manages to combine the excitement of the big city with the charm of the village and everything's easy to reach in the alps proximity to nature is another of zurich's big attractions. it has lake zurich and the river lima on its doorstep all this water is lovely to look at and it's a key factor in quality of life. and even take a boat across the if you want to get to the office you have a leg i think that's one of the really were the great things come a. you see that zurich really turns into a mediterranean city the way the city uses its rivers the way use its lakes i can't think of man

traffic travel as well as the price of coffee the number one's thoughts went to tokyo japan but the swiss city of zero featured in the top ten so we paid a visit. switzerland's biggest city and the country's financial capital it regularly reaches the top ten in surveys of the world's most livable cities lifestyle magazine monocle has just placed so work at number eight in its latest quality of life city ranking editor in chief tyler brulé says one reason is that everything here works like clockwork swiss clock of course we think that great cities are friction free and that means public transport works means communications function it means that you can have a really seamless existence in a city hall to jump in a river or lake in the morning and have an easy commute to work and be in a great office environment. zurich is home to a population of about four hundred thousand the old town is in the heart of the city and manages to combine the excitement of the big city with the charm of the village and everything's easy to reach in the alps proximity to nature is another of zurich's big attrac

month two major earthquakes flattened entire towns in mexico leaving thousands of people homeless swiss re itself is facing a payout fail of three point six billion dollars. want to be taken seriously at work sick of being confused for the interne well shop dressing business and. has tips for you in his award winning show dress code you can find it on facebook at d w underscore business and on our website d w dot com forward slash made in germany . that's it you're up to date with the latest from the world of business from more head to our web site on the school business on home free and then thanks for joining me and see for more business news in the next hour right. take off like. take football personally. i do at. this time we meet our role model. a president. a titan. and a brazilian. will tell us what it's like to be part of by and munich. next on the w. one tree god the international talk show for journalists discuss the topic of the week with right wing politics in europe has a new face sébastien courts one austria's recent election by taking the bendable people's party to the ri

european cities in the ranking and we'll show you want to say through this way starting off with the swiss city obs or it. zurich switzerland biggest city and the country's financial capital it regularly reaches the top ten in surveys of the world's most livable cities lifestyle magazine monocle has just placed at number eight in its latest quality of life city ranking editor in chief tyler brulé says one reason is that everything here works like clockwork swiss clock of course we think that great cities are friction free and that means public transport works means communications function it means that you can have a really seamless existence in a city real to jump in a river or lake in the morning and have an easy commute to work and be in a great office environment. zurich is home to a population of about four hundred thousand the old town is in the heart of the city and manages to combine the excitement of the big city with the charm of the village and everything's easy to reach even the alps proximity to nature is another of zurich's big attractions. it has lake zurich and the river li

the swiss not the diplomat the e.u. representatives also knew that you had to choose do we need assad for our own interests is it really important to talk about the conditions in the prisons all the time or can we ignore that for now and talk about trade deals and the opening of the syrian markets which have to place him. coming out of quote from i can remember one time where she swept me away along with others it was during a female entrepreneurs convention in damascus schools. she made the opening speech that contained the ideas that had been expressed in london paris and brussels about the need to create open markets about promoting competition to achieve affluence for the population a great speech for one of our. own government i just thought this is the woman who worked as a finance analyst don't you bank the j.p.

on fazed by recent criticism the swiss goalkeeper appears confident boyd by the trust his coach has put in him by extending his contracts one thing's for sure there's no question marks when it comes to don't mince the time with twenty three but the highest number of dollars and many a shot he did to natalee in frankfurt was. that shocking clearly knew which of his colleagues needed to feel the love. and enjoy the woman i simply wanted to show home and they were only allowed to make mistakes they were part of a team from there was a part of it was a dog i didn't want to turn into a big thing i just want to say we're. part of the team and teams and. the visitors to the hans play stage thanks to a great start from that priest but he said though he. said i don't think that i'm trying to get. any doubt was put to rest in the fifty seven minutes

his opponents say couple's initiative would cost thirty million swiss francs. it will be at the scale where the money come from it have to be taken out of domestic agriculture they're certainly wouldn't be any more direct payments or subsidies and that would mean more discontent amongst farmers in one of them. but the battle against horning is really about creating more nature oriented agricultural policies something armen couple plans to keep fighting for now he must find funding for his referendum campaign but he paid for everything himself so far but now his wife has taken the bull by the horns and forbidding him from doing it again that's it for today thank you for watching see you next time. enter the conflict zone confronting the powerful. six years up to the overthrow kogo gadhafi movie and remains stable. and very violent my guest this week is talking sony senior advisor to the government of national force can he ever imagine his country as a safe and fully functioning democracy. through the small d w. gets about the moments that. it's all about the sto

his opponents say couple's initiative would cost thirty million swiss francs. it will be at these scales where the money come from it have to be taken out of domestic agriculture they're certainly wouldn't be any more direct payments or subsidies and that would mean more discontent amongst farmers and only them. but the battle against horning is really about creating more nature oriented agricultural policies something armen couple plans to keep fighting for now he must find funding for his referendum campaign he paid for everything himself so far but now his wife has taken the bull by the horns and forbidding him from doing it again that's it for today thank you for watching see you next time. their stars deliver performances. for. one of today's best jazz moyses. he. bought from norway. last royal mail ship bound for st helena says course. volcanic island in the south atlantic could only be reached by ship until now there was no other way to get supplies to the islanders those days are now over. a new airport is about to launch. to st helena sixty minutes d w

the president of being media group is being questioned by swiss investigators over allegations that he brides she home value. fifa's former number two to secure broadcasting rights for the twenty. six and. thirty world cup. you do wounded in the of all swiss pulled i ask that because come here and swivel integral playing myself so young accounts of their questions for new blood got nothing. to hide i'm a great deal to just with this release you to see if they want to see me again voting move i was gone when i arrive. she. come out and kid you both think looking. the investigation was launched in march put took on a new turn earlier this month. several properties including bian's paris offices gator n used as a bribe to secure exclusive tv rights for the two world cups. calculate fee has denied any wrongdoing. yes well no formal case has been opens the forty two year old could risk an interim banned from footballing duties for the duration of the investigation. a close friend of qatar's emir also lately is also the ceo of p. s. g.. she was appointed to run in twenty eleven. neither the

this small medieval town of with its impressive fortress is surrounded by the foothills of the swiss alps. the name clearly comes from the town's emblem the crane in french. is home to just over two thousand people. every year around a million tourists come to the home of the famous cheese. i've dated so many times i've really enjoyed that we can buy in brazil. or are never strong she's like a mature cleo if you have tyro definitely think she's. out of the hosting breed graze on the hills surrounding the town in all the country has fifty one l. pine she's daringness that by using traditional methods. the beloved family's dairy is at an altitude of sixteen hundred meters they have a herd of just over fifty cows. works all hours to make the cheese. first the mochas gently heated in a huge cup of fact as it thickens he stirs it with two wooden scoops. the beginning is the most important phase in the production. and these scoops ensure that the mixture divides and the kurds separate out. yes. the cheese is now beginning to take shape. the best way to test its consistency is by how. clear

austin halewood reports on the swiss maestro and the rest of monday's action. 0n the court, there iso. after this performance, then things will not be at the top of his list of talent but ready to take on his pursuit for world number one, federer is looking forward to getting back to what he does back. the goal was always to stay wealthy and stay in the chase, possibly. but ifi and stay in the chase, possibly. but if i want to finish well number one i have to win here, paris, barcelona. it becomes more and more unlikely which is totally fine. he may meet my kindle pot roast. the argentinian who knocked federer out of the open last month was taken to a decider. —— del potro. pala hitting and delicate touches, follies and lobs, featured in the match. —— volleys. it was del potro who won the war. through industry said. the former world number seven, richard gasquet was also through. the class of the field was evident throughout the opening day in shanghai. south korean player with a great win also. now — for any footballer — missing an open goal is hard to take but down in the dutch fou

— austrians and swiss.p an eye on that story as it develops. and now for some other news. shares of kobe steel are now at a five year low having slid more than 3% this morning after it was revealed the cheating crisis engulfing japan's third—biggest steelmaker is more prolific. rico hizon is in our asia business hub in singapore. what is the latest on kobe steel? well, kobe steel initially said that 200 companies were affected by this cheating scandal. but now, that list has ballooned to about 500 companies. that is more than double the early account. despite falsifying data for cars and space equipment and rockets, so far, no safety problems have surfaced, as kobe steel atoms to get a grip on this data tampering that it earlier said may go back as far as ten yea rs. said may go back as far as ten years. —— attempts. revelations ripple through supply chains, from the famous bullet train injapan to boeing, many have been entangled. the scale of the shares, wiping about $2 billion so far for the market value.

one that will live long in the memory, and the swiss? i don't think it will.for england fa ns it will. the big news for england fans is that they are through to the world cup finals but the less good news is that they didn't do it in convincing style. thousands of empty seats in memory stadium and the first half in particular was strangely muted, very few chances. jordan henderson had a shot saved and that was about it. after the break things livened up, england's first real chance came courtesy of marcus rashford who tried a spectacular that didn't work out. he may have been better going for something more straightforward. it looked like we were staring at a goalless draw but the instant it is time who else but harry kane, in such a rich streak of form, 13 goals in his previous eight games. make at 14 in his previous eight games. make at 1a in nine now. you could see the relief for england at the end. a draw would have been enough but they got the win to put the matter beyond doubt. looking at the table it looks pretty impressive for england, seven wins, two

his opponents say couple's initiative would cost thirty million swiss francs. it will be at these a scale where the money come from it have to be taken out of domestic agriculture gives their certainly wouldn't be any more direct payments or subsidies and that would mean more discontent amongst farmers in only them. but the battle against horning is really about creating more nature oriented agricultural policies something armen couple plans to keep fighting for now he must find funding for his referendum campaign but he paid for everything himself so far but now his wife has taken the bull by the horns and forbidding him from doing it again. that's it for today thank you for watching see you next time. d.w. true diversity. where the world of science is at home in many languages. on top of programming but i'm doing a. show that's our innovations magazine for. every week and always looking to the future fund d w dot com science and research for asia. it's all about the moments that. it's all about the story in so. it's all about george chance to discover the wor

this isn't science fiction it's fully functioning technology swiss company climb works has a plant that sucks an atmosphere of air with the help of giant fans and filters out the carbon dioxide seven hundred tons of aid every year. the captured gas is diverted to a nearby greenhouse in an atmosphere rich in c o two plants grow more quickly because they have access to more carbon the process turns a compound that would otherwise damage the climate into a product that can actually help it. and. we want to reach our climate goals of effectively reducing the amount of c o two in the air we can only do it by separating it from the other gases in the air and storing it long term in the earth . a strategy also being pursued in iceland this geothermal plant taps hot steam from underground volcanoes c o two also rises to the surface of the boiling masses of lava there it's mixed with water and pumped back deep beneath the surface. it's this mixed income seen here who needs the rest of the what it needs. to tear down two thousand two thousand meters. climb works has built its business model aroun

his opponents say couples initiative would cost thirty million swiss francs. it will be at these a scale where the money come from it have to be taken out of domestic agriculturist gets to go and see if there certainly wouldn't be any more direct payments or subsidies and that would mean more discontent amongst farmers and wealthy than that but the battle against the horning is really about creating more nature oriented agricultural policies something armen couple plans to keep fighting for now he must find funding for his referendum campaign but he paid for everything himself so far but now his wife has taken the bull by the horns and forbidding him from doing it again that's it for today thank you for watching see you next time. say so much. some of the world's finest florists are competing in corner and in the spanish city's famous patios they let the flowers do the talking. join us as we accompany floral artists around cordova's international flower festival. in paradise of plants. in thirty minutes. it's all happening. very frequently. during link to news

his opponents say couple's initiative would cost thirty million swiss francs. it will be at these a scale where the money come from it have to be taken out of domestic agriculture there certainly won't be any more direct payments or subsidies and that would mean more discontent amongst farmers in one of them. but the battle against horning is really about creating more nature oriented agricultural policies something armen couple plans to keep fighting for now he must find funding for his referendum campaign but he paid for everything himself so far but now his wife has taken the bull by the horns and forbidding him from doing it again that's it for today thank you for watching see you next time. fifty kitchens one he said come in every morning to our own. general max series is a very simple recipe but it's quite made things like having. fifty international dishes chefs restaurants recipes for cooking the dishes joining them at home. to get you in one city. in thirty minutes d.w. . learn german with w. anytime anyplace. with or with jo jo and her friends. exactl

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tell us about the swiss united kingdom merger?ariant.th that deal is now off. we have seen shareholders not on the front foot about this one. that deal is not clariant. happening. the m&a story is there. 20 of things going on in m&a. --plenty of things going on in m&a. tom: right now with your friday briefing, here is a taylor riggs . taylor: in spain, the rebel government is making a last ditch effort to win concessions from madrid. catalan president, carles convincet, wants to voters to accept independence. he will as the spanish government of seizing the -- the central banks policymakers next week. inflation remained unchanged in september. consumer prices rose .7% from year ago. the bank of japan is seeking 2% inflation which means it will maintain its stimulus until well into next year. hill, u.s. on capitol republicans promised to unveil their tax reform bill next week. they cleared the way for the legislation by approving a bucket resolution but a stumbling but -- stumbling block has reemerged whether to limit a tax break t

just have to say we're not talking about photography though this report is all about good food the swissfamous for that's. known as a king amongst. the village of the same name invests so that. this small medieval town of kiev with its impressive fortress is surrounded by the foot hills of the swiss alps. the name clearly comes from the town's emblem the crane going in french. is home to just over two thousand people. every year around a million tourists come to the home of the famous cheese. i've dated so many times i really enjoy it we can buy in brazil and it wasn't far enough or strong cheese like a mature. if you have tyro definitely from cheese. cows of the hosting breed graze on the hills surrounding the town in all the country has fifty one l. pine cheese dairies that by using traditional methods. the belair family's dairy is at an altitude of sixteen hundred metres they have a herd of just over fifty cows. works all hours to make the cheese. first the mochas gently heated in a huge cup of facts as it begins his does it with two wooden scoops. the beginning is the most important

a debate that hit the swiss press. look at the papers today on france 24. look at that "on the france24.com.at in the next half hour -- emmanuel macron made history as the youngest french president ever. we will look at how he is doing so far, with his biographer. stick around. ♪ ♪ we have a new initiative at the observer -- take a aion. orordinary people around the wod who have concrete ideas and projects to o make their part of the world a better place. announcer: this is a production of china central television america. lee: we live in a world of extremes. on one end, prosperity abounds. on the other, millions live in extrtreme poverty. why is that? why is eradicating extreme global poverty such a daunting challenge for everyone from powerful governments to ngos? maybe it takes a little more ingenuity. this week on "full frame," conversations with change makers who are taking innovative, new approaches in the fight to eradicate global poverty. i'm may lee in los angeles. let's take it "full l frame."

the swiss federal institute of technology and lows on. in another experiment dennis was able to detect a finer textural details the human and is so complex that it's almost. impossible to to make a copy of that but this here is so close to it and feel like a real normal have scientists in other countries have also developed artificial hands in austria or the united states for example where the military has created a prosthesis that will soon be available on the market still the competition had their eyes on sylvester. the italian is the father of the bio nick hand developed here at the swiss institute. all the people working on by only can they try to address the restoration of the part from the brain back to the activation of the muscles and then for the control of the pristine what we do is to. either way it out and from coming from the sensors to the brain in order to be able to provide sensory feedback to the user demand for prosthetics is huge in the u.s. alone there are more than two million amputees to low sun researchers hope thei

city ranking editor in chief tyler brulé says one reason is that everything here works like clockwork swissclock of course we think that great cities are friction free and that means public transport works means communications function it means that you can have a really seamless existence in a city real to jump in a river or lake in the morning and have an easy commute to work and be in a great office environment. zurich is home to a population of about four hundred thousand the old town is in the heart of the city and manages to combine the excitement of the big city with the charm of the village and everything's easy to reach even the alps proximity to nature is another of zurich's big attractions. it has lake zurich and the river lima on its doorstep all this water is lovely to look at and it's a key factor in quality of life. and even take a boat across the if you want to get to the office you have it as soon will like i think it's one of really one of the great things. you see that zurich really turns into a mediterranean city the way the city uses its rivers the way you use its lakes

my guest today is acclaimed swiss film director barbet schroeder, whose latest documentary is about anluential buddhist monk in myanmar who uses strong anti—muslim rhetoric in his speeches and writings. barbet schroeder has made the subject of evil the focus of many of his documentaries and films. he has worked in hollywood and europe and has been directing films for nearly 50 years. what has he learned about the nature of evil? barbet schroeder, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you said in 1990 that evil is more interesting than good. are you obsessed with evil? no, i'm not obsessed. as a filmmaker, i think it is more interesting because it gives complexities to the characters. and evil is human, unfortunately. it is a part of humanity. there is no other way. i don't believe it is coming from somewhere else. all the people that i've made portraits of as part of this trilogy, i think that about them too, i want to find out more about them and i didn't want to judge them. that was always the approach that i took. the trilogy, you are talking about the documentary made about idi amin, and

overall, swiss watch exports were up 4.2% in august, the latest data available. more, the company's oldest watchmaker and it dates back to 1755. what do you account for the uptick in luxury exports given that global growth is pretty stagnant and a lot of talk about the need for goosing economies and we have a lot of competitors in the market now. are havinghank you me and i will say that this company has produced watches since 1755. over 250 years of history, so good and bad times. i am president of the americas and we are seeing some healthy business. two areas that are showing great results of opening price points of steel watches, particularly sporty models. on the other end of the spectrum, we have collections that are either you need or collector pieces that are doing well. those pieces can run from $200,000 to $10 million at retail. sherry: you are focusing on history collection, going back to contagion pieces and reviving them. to newyou appeal customers and not just existing fans? leslie: we run the spectrum in terms of what we offer but vintage right now

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