foreign tourists find switzerland too expensive. meanwhile, the swiss are neglecting their on resorts in favor of a cheap holiday abroad. >> i am watching the situation with enormous concern. things have gotten worse. jobs and businesses are really in danger now and that is bad for our economy. >> the swiss franc is at an all- time high against the euro. a new study shows that a thousand hotels across the alps are threatened with closure. >> there will be job cuts. there has already been. each of the hotels have had to cut back from jobs. >> swiss hotel owners are looking anxiously to the government for solutions but so far in vain. an attempt by the swiss national bank to slow down the rise of the franc simply resulted in the bank losing over $20 billion. while the crisis in the eurozone continues, the swiss franc will remain a safe haven and there is little that non-european union member switzerland has no say in the policy wings in brussels. >> they were the worst floods in pakistan's history and a year ago today, torrence were g

i hear you going to switzerland. that's right in october by that time you must complete all formalities concerning immigration chances are i myself will return home by then that there is a regime change. did you say regime change yes why not that's a possibility. we hope so. vegetating and so is us who body have been friends ever since they went to school together when parliament appointed to the post of he gave his friend a job in his office when his first term of office came to an end parliament annoyed him a second term now the journalist is in hiding in a foreign country the ex is unemployed would be a qualified praise the authorities i would have been elected. they would even have changed the law to let me for ten terms. in the last presidential election. was officially the runner up his party's headquarters supplied the zero s c e commission with evidence documenting schools every regularities some of them made public in the commission's conclusions but the final report ultimately described the election as vali

and enough legs herself a power runs the fastest one hundred metres of the season in switzerland clocking a time of nine point seven eight seconds. let's get started at wimbledon where a massive day of man stand is now in progress to be clashes with localise most certainly on friday's second semifinal which puts together british number one andy murray with world number one drop all adult murray has never reached the wimbledon decider while defending champion the dollar's even longer than crown in four years when all the best finalist is being decided either no gold jockey rich versus joel will on guard question frenchmen who were in the previous stage lost the first couple of sets before claiming the third on a time break so no easy way through to the final four djokovic here. meanwhile in the ladies' events might be a shock of all those that lost back to her best of the russian storming into the wimbledon final her first major decider in three years following a straight sets win over serbian lizzie came over the north's with the best of starts losing the opening three games but we've see

on the sun lightning power runs the fastest one hundred metres of the season in switzerland clocking a blistering time of nine point seven eight sec. after a tough injury ridden time of late maria sharapova looks at last back to her best the russian storming into the wimbledon final her first major decider in three years following a straight sets win over sabine lisicki sharapova though not with the best of starts losing the opening three games but the fifth seed recovered with aplomb taking nine of the next ten against the german that would see her clinch their first set six four with the second and more straightforward of her taking it six three trucks but this into our second final out the all england club she famously won an all in two thousand and four aged just seventeen shara is yet to drop a single set this tournament but she isn't twenty unarmored with her for us here. it's a great feeling it's been many years but it's a really great feeling and today i was in my purse match of the championships was really happy to get through in two sets but. it's pretty amazing stage await

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also in business to the presence of russia and switzerland meeting to discuss a free trade agreement and inaugurate us with some plants near moscow more or less influence if. it is not an in the russian capital you're watching r t with joshie divers have pulled the bodies of almost one hundred people from their watery grave following the sinking of a pleasure boat on the volga river in what is russia's worst boating disaster many of them are children who were packed into a games room on the bulgarian vessel when i went down in just a matter of minutes on sunday a total of around one hundred thirty people are thought to have been killed and a tragedy specialists are preparing to lift the rock from the bottom of the river which is hoped will shed more light on the causes of the accident already partly blamed on their diligence meanwhile the first funerals have been held in the republic of tata. time as russia continues to mourn the victims tom martin reports . this is the happy scene that should have been on this ship is designed almost identically to the bulgaria in this room almost i

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i mean switzerland has probably the strongest terms of the world right now and arguably one of the best economies in the world low unemployment strong or stronger so i think they can do to strengthen their currency will strengthen their economy and i think that would be a step in the right direction and i think you can see all around the world there is a movement to return to real money and i myself i have a bank to buy that i started offshore bank of europe as a big bank and i'm very close to launching the world's first ever go back credit card visa card that my depositors could use to access their bill bullion and i think this is a trend that is going to continue as people lose confidence in currencies and want to save in real money and transact in real money what have the impact on the united states. well i think anything to diminish is the appeal of the dollar is going to impact the united states which remember our economy in america right now is based on printing money it cost us nothing and using it to buy all the resources and all the goods that the rest of the world produces at

and enough legs herself a power runs the fastest one hundred metres of the season in switzerland clocking a time of nine point seven eight seconds. to get started at wimbledon where a massive day of men stand is now in progress to a big clash with localise most certainly on friday's second semifinal which puts together british number one ended with world number one rafael a dull murray has never reached the wimbledon decider while defending champion the dollars what is that london crown for yes meanwhile the first finalist is being decided either joke of rich versus joel wilfred's on guard question frenchmen who federer in the previous stage was the first couple of sets before claiming the all the tie break so no easy way through to the final for djokovic here. meanwhile in the ladies event might be a shot up of all looks at last back to her best to the russians storming into the wimbledon final have passed major decider in three years following a straight sets win over sabine lisicki chop over the north's with the best of starts losing the opening three games but the fifth seed recovered

between members over the future of nuclear power. 4 government representatives from germany and switzerland have call for tougher safety regulations to prevent accident at nuclear plant. both countries have already decide to phase out nuclear power generation. on the other hand, some emerging countries that plan to introduce nuclear plants aren't enthusiastic about paying the cost associated with strengthening safety standards. tran rants's necessary for the chinese government to use nuclear energy. safety of nuclear power must not be slowed. >> reporter: with the next iaea general conference planned for september, it remains to to be seen if the member nations can overcome their differences and create a concrete plan to increase nuclear safety. >> earlier, we spoke to a member who rent went to vienna for the iaea meeting. >> can you tell us the differences between the iaea stance on the nuclear agency? >> yes, france and other industrialized nations are trying to expose their nuclear tech nobblings have agreed on the idea of tightening international guidelines. their nuclear technology is

morning you're watching business switzerland is one of the top ten inverses in russia and the country's trade is only getting stronger both presidents are meeting today to talk a business the proposed free trade agreement of a wholesome cement plant near moscow business r.t. caught up with the swiss economic minister to find out what investors are looking at when it comes to. there is a need around need for technology here in your county the technology being. offered by the swiss companies to big companies and to small and mid-sized companies as well and of the other side to be in switzerland we buy in from different branches russian products russian production and development here and there is quite positively and what we stress is being one specced on a free trade agreement this gross can probably be increased significantly and that's what we are you mad. well reuss may sell stakes in seven companies to russia after accepting bailout funds linked to the states ceding of assets crisis here the economy may sell stakes in gas pipelines to refineries and other stated companies russian tec

and there's a uniform welcome to the program switzerland is a top ten investor in russia the president of the two countries meeting wednesday for the you know gratian of the wholesome cement plant near moscow to discuss a potential free trade agreement that we caught up with the swiss economic minister to find out what investors are looking for when it comes to russia. there is need their own need for technology here in new york the technology being. offered by the swiss companies to big companies and to smaller companies as well and not the other side we in switzerland people from different branches russian products russian production and development here and there is quite positively and what we do this with being one spaced on a free trade agreement this growth can probably be increased significantly and that's what we are. stakes in seven companies to russia after accepting a bailout for its crisis hit economy these would include gas pipeline companies and to refineries russian technologies corporation and state run gas from our among those interested in the answer it's received an

to have names so i you know this is something which is both offensive but it's also a good story switzerland one of the top ten investors in russia the presidents of the two countries are meeting on wednesday for the you know gratian of the wholesome cement plant near moscow and to discuss a potential free trade agreement now business r.t. caught up with the economic minister to find out one of us is a looking for when it comes to russia there is need around the need for technology here in new currently technology being. offered by the swiss companies the big companies and the smaller companies as well as the sides we in switzerland in from different branches russian products russian production the development here and there is quite positively and what we. are being one spaced on the free trade agreement is gross can probably be increased significantly and that's. all right that's it from me for today joe and i colleague marine across russia will be here in fifteen minutes time i've not played head lice thing. download the official t.m.p. cation children phone the i pod touch from the i cho

i don't think should be doing business with companies that can't be sued anywhere it's like switzerland switzerland used to be a big money laundering center because they would anyone to get banking information . and you know i just don't think we should be doing business with companies that we can. thank you very much there mr paul wolf was a human rights lawyer representing claims seven crimes allegedly committed by private contractors thank you thank you. the mayor of the volatile afghan city of kandahar has been assassinated after a suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden in his turban is the latest of a series of killings targeting the country's top officials and earlier this month that president karzai is half brother and to see her a bit were gunned down in separate attacks former afghan m.p. del would sort out as always says nato is possibly withdrawing troops prematurely. the scale of transfer of security of one's abilities to the afghan forces and these these incidents are making one thing very vividly. visible and that is how does this transition take hold and whether the a

in that name so i you know this is something which is both defensive but it's also a good story switzerland one of the top ten investors in russia the presidents of the two countries are meeting on wednesday for the you know the ration of the wholesome cement plant near moscow and to discuss a potential free trade agreement now business r.t. caught up with the swiss economic minister to find out one of the there's a looking for when it comes to russia there is a need around the need for technology here in newtown and the technology being. offered by the swiss companies to big companies and to small and mid-sized companies as well and not the other side to be in switzerland from different branches russian products russian production and development here and there is quite positively and what we stress is being one specced on a free trade agreement this growth can probably be increased significantly and that's what we're aiming at all right that's it from me for today joe and i colleague marina costa russia will be here in fifteen minutes time with an update the headlines are next. download t

well i think it's interesting switzerland is still has a relation to their policy their monetary policy to the gold they hold is very high it's around forty percent it's no coincidence that that the swiss franc is a very strong currency right now the fact is that the experiment we've been through a few currency for the last forty years when president nixon took us off the gold standard has not worked out well we have devalued our paper currencies gold has gone up and that's why there's consideration for many not only ron paul but steve forbes and others to talk about having some sort of modified gold standard worth the our currencies are anchored by hard assets to limit the printing of them so that we don't continue to just devalued the currency that we have today you know i just kind of looking at what happened yesterday we showed you the exchange between ron paul and fed chairman ben bernanke is certainly no love lost between those two ron paul as i have often called for you know getting rid of the fed altogether but he also you know talked about the main street and wall street and th

experts at the university in switzerland to say it may not be justified. they argue that factors such as debt level don't justify a negative rating in themselves. they can quickly turn into a self-fulfilling prophecies. the low ratings make lenders demand higher rates making it harder for governments to raise capital. even when the agency's hong give positive ratings, they can still get it wrong. take the u.s., for example. the agencies give a positive assessment of complex packages of property loans that turned into a toxic assets. a huge market collapsed ushering in the global financial crisis. the agencies came under fire for failing to see the storm. since then, they have been more cautious and more negative to the detriment of certain european states. >> thank you for joining us. stay with us if you can.

switzerland's biggest bank reported its profits were down about a 1/2. >> smart money is bting that washington will do the right thing. an interesting headline from forbes magazine contributing writer, saying friends don't let friends become chinese billionaires. >> it's a great headline. this comes from a most interesting article from the china daily. according to the paper, unnatural debts have taken the lives of billionaires in the past years. 19 died from illness. seven died from accidents and 14 were executed. so, according to ray's math, a chinese billionaire dies every 40 days. ali, there seems to be a replenishing supply. last year, china had 64 mi billionaires. >> let's go to jacqui jeras live from atlanta. >>> we need to worry about the flight delays. a lot of them today. our weather headline this morning, there's going to be a lot of pop-up showers and thunderstorms across much of the eastern part of the country. they'll produce some really heavy downpours. we're started out this morning with low clouds in new york city and boston. so, some delays expected there. thunderstorms expec

without my garfield id, i left havana in 1981 and went to zurich, switzerland, thanks to james joyce. my dancing there became walking through the silence of the city. instead of people looking at me like my family did when i was a child, people began to ask me, where are you from? i felt disoriented, exiled. the changing perception of nature, religious views, philosophical and political opinions, botanical knowledge and idiomatic sounds, everything new. i asked myself many times for a specific reason why my irish family went to cuba and began searching for missing pieces of my irish history in irish, cuban, and catalan archives to discover before me that i had a fascinating history of displacement and transformations in various geographic setings. my book, ticket it ride, is a personal journey towards the past and the present. there is no one but many places i belong to: havana, dublin, mahon, barcelona, and since the lay 80's, the bay area. so thank you very much. . >> i'm going to do this in about 5 parts. i hope you will bear with me. first of all, i want to thank cross roads for i

he got to conferences in the switzerland, sweden, england. the archbishop who was over anthony eden was his contact person. and what you had there, some of you have seen the movie valkyrie, but that's the circle he was with. and they are, again, aristocratic military people who wanted the allies to drop the idea of unconditional surrender. because they said if that happens, then germany will surrender, and we can rebuild and so on. anthony eden was not ready to bite it. it would have been high risk for anybody. but, again, the exposure to people of the other churches around the world, catholic, almost none of that happening in the '30s. so i think that opened him to a larger vision. >> the book you cite there from the church to the world partly grows out of this idea that came in one of his late letters that you mentioned. he talks about the world that has come of age. and that phrase and the implications of that then were seized by a variety of people in the years after the book was first published. i mean, can you talk a little bit about ho

a $50,000 scsclarship for her work, a trip to the galapagos islands, an internship with sern in switzerland. pretty amazing stuff. obviously those three girls, call them girls but they're mature women, young women, amazing stuff. >> great ideas. also some great ideas, a bright idea here as far as usa, i think that we can safely say they're going to beat japan. as a matter of fact, they've never lost to japan in 25 games. >> the odds are pretty good, right? >> exactly. i'll be tuning in on sunday. >> it's been an amazing run so far. >>> coming up, the emmy nomination judges are just mad about a popular cable tv program. >> "mad men" dominates the nomination list, along with a few surprises. you're watching "world news now." >>> the nominations for the 63rd annual primetime emmys are out. and as usual, abc's "mad men" is leading way. >> very popular show. there were plenty of other familiar shows and actors getting nods and a few surprises and snubs too. here's abc's karen travers with more this year's nominees. >> i can see you have good taste. >> reporter: amc's "mad men," which focuses on

>> we wait until the foreign authorities in germany or switzerland contact us. then we take them back to hungary and put them in prison. >> the only person actively trying to help the women on the street is the head of the hon gary and prostitute interest protection association. she makes it possible for girls to leave the profession -- leave the profession and trained for other jobs. the country's right-wing government has cut all of their funding for the organization. >> i do not really want to comment, but we do not think that this government's philosophy, no one supports us anymore. >> a founding member of the helsinki commission for human rights says that the prostitutes and victims of prostitutes were robbed of all of their rights. >> this behavior toward prostitutes is a part of the hypocrisy that dominates everywhere. >> she is now collecting the names of politicians who have publicly opposed red light districts. she says she does not want to blackmail anyone, but hopes they will come around to her way of thinking. they will still be available for evenin

he had a young swiss woman that his wife had brought back from switzerland in 1887 who was living in the house and who, apparently, had a kind of sexual magnetism that is not apparent in her pictures. her name was elaine. everybody but frank and sara seemed to realize that she was a knockout and that she stopped traffic, but she caught the attention of their next door neighbor, a man named dr. thomas ballard mcdowell, who was married and had a child but who started stalking her and immediately saying i want to marry you. i'll divorce my wife and marry you which was patently absurd because south carolina at that time did not even allow divorce. so he stalks elaine, and, um, in the meantime he has tried to hire his brother as a hitman to kill her or wealthy father-in-law -- her wealthy father-in-law and then kill her. actually, he's going to poison his wife. there's all this sort of farcical drama going on, and dawson gets wind of the fact that she is seeing somebody unsuitable. >> and so he goes over to the doctor's office, he knocks on the door, introduces himself because they've nev

he had a young swiss moment that his wife had brought back from switzerland in 1887 who was living inouse and two apparently had a kind of sexual magnetism that is not apparent in their pictures. her name was alain burgeron. everybody but frank and sarah seemed to realize that she was a knockout and that she stopped traffic. but she caught the attention of their next-door neighbor, a man named dr. thomas ballard mattel. he was married and had a child. he started stocking here and immediately saying, i want to marry you. i will divorce my wife and marry you which was unserved. at that time that did not even allowed divorce. so he's dr. elaine. in the meantime he has tried to hire his brother as a hit man to kill her father-in-law and then kill her. actually, he will poison his wife. so there is all this drama going on. and dawson gets wind of the fact is she is seeing somebody unsuitable. >> and so he goes over to the doctor's office, he knocks on the door, introduces himself because they have never met before. he says to my understand that you are making improper advances on someone i

strong thunderstorms reported in parts of france, spain, and switzerland, as well as germany. now the system will make its way in a northeasterly direction before moving into sweden on your thursday, bringing the heaviest rain and strong thunderstorms to this part. and then a long a frontal line we will see scattered showers, but nothing as severe as what we were looking at yesterday. out towards the west, it's sunny in spain and portugal. it will be sunny for you, and 22 in london and 21 in paris, and looking cooler in vienna. all right. here is your extended forecast now. >>> japan has advanced to the first ever final in fefa world cup in germany after a win on wednesday. the united states won the other semifinal against france, 3-1. japan scored in the first half of the semifinal, nine minutes after the team allowed sweden a goal. 15 minutes into the second half, japan's captain netted a goal, putting the team in the lead. and they clinched the scoring again four minutes later. that put the national team into the final securing a first medal for the country. japan will have

switzerland. investors will be intelligent despite it is a serious thing. we must have a deal and i believe we will have a deal. but what is more critical that we continue this incredibly important discussion how to grow the economy and reform the tax code and reform entitlements and cut spending and we have to do all of those things and ultimately restore the pren prennal culture in this country which requires us to restrain the excess of government regulation and we need to keep the debate front and center so they do happen. >> carly, thank you . nice catching up with you. >> thank you, neal. >> what ever we come up with is not substantive. it could lead to a massive sell off and persuade average folks to buy what is considered super safe investments . then what? there is an expression called katey, bar the door . >> i want to focus finally what is debated four trillion dollars if they can. it is in spending cuts over the next decade. that is how much the u.s. government is spending this year. total spending. 3.7 trillion and the cut near term are more li

switzerland with a swing suit he leaped from a 7000 foot cliff. if target?the balloon in the hand of one of his ground crew rocke rocketing by at 120 miles per hour. miscalculation of inches could prove fatal for him and his assist taichbility i want to see how close i can get to flying over a person's head. four feet over the head. 3 feet over the head. >>reporter: as he approached the man on the ground it suddenly looked like he was coming in too low. too fast. if these are the cold jagged ridges of switzerland mountain where he practice for most dangerous stunt of his life. if in september in china he will attempt to rocket through this hole in a mountain. threading the needle or dying. >> i'm going dropping out of a helicopter around here at about 2,000 feet above the cave. then i fly towards the cave and i'm come through the cave going this direction the right around here. flying if through the mountain and coming out on the other side of the mountain. >>reporter: this is a single most difficult thing i have ever tried to do ever. his training here in t

embryo screening is banned in italy, austria, and switzerland. ireland and finland have yet to legislate. 11 european countries, now including germany, place some restrictions on the testing, while belgium has predictably liberal laws governing the issue. at the center for reproductive genetics in brussels, the professor is one of the leading screening experts. about 100 german couples visit him every year. they'll suffer from a genetic defect and their children might be severely disabled at birth. >> it is most of the time on the genetic diseases one gene. people don't think that you have all these different issues, blue eyes, this is imagination, not reality. we're talking about severely sick children. >> but critics worry about how things may develop in the future. will couples want to select embryos with desirable characteristics, so-called designer babies? at the moment, european countries agreed that screening should only be used. suffering. medical complications can occur, too. >> most of these patients have a history of the handicapped, a

these are massive 17 or 18-mile-long particle accelerators built in geneva, switzerland and illinois. is the god particle and what is confirmation of the existence after decades of searching actually mean? joining me is eric pits from the franklin institute, chief astronomer, and derrick, this is going to grab a lot of people's attention and why is it called the god particle, and what is it? >> well, the god particle is known as a higgs bosign and it is by the standard methods of physics not discovered yet. this is crucial, because it is the one particle that scientists will help us to understand basic things about the universe as you said, be one of the most basic ones is that we don't understand why particles have mass, so it is hoped that by discovering this particle we might be able to figure that out as well as figure out things about the early history of the universe, et cetera, et cetera. >> and derrick, tell us more ant the big bang machines, and these are the machines 17, 18 miles long in geneva switzerland and in illinois? >> well, the higgs bosign and this particle known as

. >>> for one group of students in switzerland school isn't out for summer.one charm school is in full swing teaching etiquette classes to young professional women. students from around the world attend sessions on how to eat food without ever using one's hands. even a tricky apple or orange should be peeled or cut only by using a fork and a knife. >>> if you look carefully, aliens seem to have taken over paris. a french artist known only as invader has installed whacky mosaics of alien faces scattered throughout the city. it's his way of getting the pieces out of the gallery and on to the streets for everyone to enjoy. in total about a thousand faces have popped up so far. >>> runners opt for sneakers, but that's not nearly as interesting as what runners wear for one race in spain. high heels hit madrid's cobble streets in what has become an annual tradition during a week-long gay pride festival. about ten competitors took part. no word on whether any high priced designer pairs were harmed during the race. here's to hoping, right? >> i only have three inch s