>> switzerland has no minimum wage.ut what's important to bear in mind is that the oecd which adjusts figures for spending power lists the highest minimum wage at lux umburg's at $10.66 per hour. next is belgium, the netherlands. the u.s. comes in tenth on the list. it's listed at $7.11 at the adjusted rate. and of course in reality, it's $7.25. my understanding is that the swiss minimum wage would have worked out to about $14 in spending power which puts the high costs in perspective. >> thank you for joining us from geneva switzerland. >>> back in the u.s. an evacuation order was lifted and thousands of californians have returned home after fires ravaged parts of california. firefighters put out the remaining blazes this weekend. at least ten fires had raged earlier this week destroying more than 120 homes and two businesses. >>> the state has been suffering through a record drought. it's been a violent weekend in chicago. authorities say at least two people were killed and 19 more wounded in a series of unrelated sho

in switzerland.s to his fight for his grandfather, all of the american heros are getting the recognition they deserve. [ applause ] >> remarkable story. >> a congressional amendment to allow them to be eligible for p.o.w.medal in national defense authoration act. in 2013. thanks to the hard fight of major meers. all 143 internees held captive in switzerland now have been awarded the medal. the eight are the remaining survivors. joining me is dwight meirs. his grandfather is one of those that posthumously received this medal. [ applause ] >> major, great to have you here. i want to say i feel like i'm looking at you. when i see a picture of your grandfather. it's a remarkable resemblance. i'm curious how you became interested your grandfather passed away before you were born. so you never knew him. how did you decide you wanted to find out more about what he had done in the war? >> thanks governor my grandfather died in 1972. i wasn't born until later in that decade. and my grandmother remarried and l

what is remarkable this move in switzerland.on polls suggest a 51% of swiss voters are going to vote against it. this is still one of the cheaper options out there. it is unclear how global concerns about russia and elsewhere could help or hurt sob aab eventually. thef this was public feel need for speed, other alternatives are available. >> i don't want to cry if i start thinking about when goose dies. .hat is a serious moment i guess the question is, could i be manus'wing man? wing man? they have a planes that they're doing per year. they want to go up to 30. this is a company with ambitions. they see the market. there's competition and there is also a voter backlash of people think their government in a time of austerity are spending too much for fighters that are expected to make and just as expensive if not more expensive to maintain. >> the highest minimum wage on the planet, 4000 swiss francs per month. that is what the voters on this month. what is the likelihood of it passing? >> opinion polls are saying that is less li

>> my aassumption is that switzerland probably treated them much bet than in axis countries. and in most cases that was true. there were 1500 air men ended up in switzerland who were interned when they tried to escape, however they were sent to confinement facilities where treatment was much more severe. . >> i think about the fact you never met your grandfather but met him in a -- in a depth very few people will connect with a family member. you've got to feel a sense of fulfillment and a real connection to a true hero of the country. >> well, in some ways i've only studied combat experiences of my grandfather went through, only four years of his life. in other ways, i think i have, you know, researched on behalf of my family and other people really some of the defining elements of the men's lives. in terms of their service. and so, whether it's about my grandfather or eyes of other men i've talked with, i think that i have helped people come closer to their loved ones that is the most-fulfilling aspect of it. >> you've reminded us of the great sacrifice of many. thank you f

>> my aassumption is that switzerland probably treated them much bet than in axis countries.t cases that was true. there were 1500 air men ended up in switzerland who were interned when they tried to escape, however they were sent to confinement facilities where treatment was much more severe. . >> i think about the fact you never met your grandfather but met him in a -- in a depth very few people will connect with a family member. real got to feel a sense of connection to a true hero of the country. >> well, in some ways i've only studied combat experiences of my grandfather went through, only four years of his life. in other ways, i think i have, you know, researched on behalf of my family and other people really some of the defining elements of the men's lives. in terms of their service. and so, whether it's about my grandfather or eyes of other men i've talked with, i think that i have helped people come closer to their loved ones that is the most-fulfilling aspect of it. >> you've reminded us of the great sacrifice of many. thank you for your service, major. and for dedi

joining us from switzerland, thank you for your time. we'll have more from europe later in the news hour. now it's back to doha. >> thank you very much. >>> the campaign to decide who will be the president of colombia for the next four years ends on sunday. campaigning has been marred by spying and bribery scandals that overshadowed the major issues. we have the report from bogota. >> reporter: there are dirty neglective campaigns and colombia's politics. spying and allegations of payoffs from drug lords painted a presidential election seen as a referendum on the government's ongoing peace process with the rebel group farc. first the incumbent's campaign chief resigned. he allegedly received $12 million to act as a broker for drug lords hoping for extradition to the u.s. two days later it was his closest rival's campaign chief that quit in a computer hacking scandal. >> translator: they were trying to spy on the peace process. they were intercepting e-mails of negotiators and senators. >> reporter: finally the former president entered th

switzerland's biggest trade union says it's square mongering. minimum wage would benefit the country, not damage it. >> a lot of poem who don't make enough money have to go to the state and collect benefits and pay their rent, and that's basically taxpayers subsidising big companies who don't want to pay their employees enough. >> most of the polls suggest the minimum wage will be rejected. in the past the swiss took the employers's side in referendums. if the law is not posed, there'll be another referendum on a basic income for all swiss, whether they work or not. >>> now, the syrian conflict came to the cannes film festival. a film compiling more than 1,000 internet clips is premiering at the festival. "silverwater" was directed by a syrian film-maker, shot by journalist in the one based in homs. we have the story. [ gun fire ] >> reporter: these images emerge from syria on a daily basis. on the news, on tv screens, and now on the big screen here at the cannes film festival. "silvered water" was directed from afar. its syria maker cut togethe

people of switzerland doing the world proud, rejecting a $25 a minimum wage. show them what you're made of. that is jill abramson's advice to wake forest graduates. just our luck. melissa francis is there. >>> get ready or get sued. the insurance company says it is citi's fault for not being prepared for climate change. even when they say it's not it is always about money. before we get to those stories we have to show you what is happening with apple today in anticipation of new iphone 6. this could be a clue from the multibillion-dollar deal for beats electronics is going to be become official. here to talk about all this, our own charlie gasparino. operationsy byrnes and nyu associate professor, mark brennan. surprised apple is back above $600 a share. >> i would not. i wouldn't call 1 1/2% soaring. $8 move. no big deal. adam: iphone 6. is that a big deal. >> they better blow it out of the park or it will be a bad thing quickly. adam: you have people on inside that you talk to. how will samsung react? >> i don't know but i think you're right about the small

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. >> reporter: switzerland was a neutral country and considered safe, so that's where misuraca's b-24e and his fellow crew members were detained by the swiss military. when they tried to escape, they were sent to an internment camp. after the war, many considered the men cowards who hid in switzerland to avoid combat. >> that's my grandfather's crew. >> reporter: that did not set well with army major dwight mears, whose grandfather lieutenant george mears was imprisoned there. the iraq war veteran spent 15 years researching what happened to the airmen and made the case to the air force that they deserved recognition. >> they were left with the perception that what they had done was dishonorable. what i wanted to do was reverse that stigma and show these airmen that the country appreciated what they did. >> reporter: do you think they felt that today? >> i hope so, yeah. >> reporter: today, the air force chief of star, general mark welsh awarded prisoner of war medals to misuraca and eight others in a ceremony at the pentagon. >> you'll have to forgive me, this is an incredible honor t

switzerland's biggest trade unions say it's scare moppingering. a minimum wage would benefit, not damage the country. >> a lot of people that don't make enough money have to go to the state and collect den fits to pay the -- benefits to pay the represent. that's taxpayers subsidising big companies that don't want to pay employees enough. >> reporter: most polls suggest the minimum wage will be rejected. the swiss took the employers side in referred ums. if the law is not passed, there'll be another referendum on a basic income for all swiss, whether they work or not. >>> still to come - how a kenyan community remained united decide a series of search attacks. >>> syria comes to cannes. a personal view of life in the war-torn country. >>> and how this goal broke 10 years of dominance in spanish football. that in port a little later. >>> welcome back - here are the headlines - china launched five ships to carry out the biggest evacuation in vietnam since the end of the vietnam war in 1975. the move followed days of anti-chinese riots in which two at

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speech on a has been following the story the highest court in switzerland overturned a conviction for for rape on racial charges of a man who during a demonstration when people were giving the oath to switzerland he opted for giving a twenty second nazi salute now they said that this was not a racially racially aggravated incident that he was merely expressing his own convictions in it that was allowed they did say though that if the nazi salute was being used to to advertise a racial agenda that it was racist but that leaves it open to a lot of interpretation just to put into perspective what the salute still means here in europe here in germany in austria and in the czech republic well it's a criminal act and you could end up in jail for it it is though universally reviled as one of the most obvious symbols of hatred not just against jewish groups but against all of those who were persecuted by the nazis when we look at incidents that happened when it has come up in public in the recent past just last year in greece the. athens midfielder. give a salute after scoring a goal he was i

actually has a pretty high standard of living in norway and switzerland have the highest. standard of living in terms of purchasing power parity they're the most expensive countries so really we're only talking about a minimum wage of fourteen dollars a purchasing power parity basis but nonetheless in nominal terms we're talking fifty thousand bucks and a lot of people who work in switzerland especially in industry actually commute from across the border like in italy a lot of italians were in switzerland or here in geneva even the airport is not running for her france and so it's really going to jump back and forth that would be nice and so if you work in italy you can go work in switzerland make fifty thousand dollars a year and then come back to italy were. or the standard of living where the cost of living is a lot lower that's awesome sounds going to me. here's my follow up with a minimum wage affects switzerland's job market and basically what sectors of the industry are these jobs in kind of that would be affected most by this minimum wage so we're talking like hote

be. >> in the zoo in switzerland, he is something of a surrogate father. he has raised lots of bears, but they were supposed to raise their own offspring. not a good idea. he caused the death of one of the cubs, probably out of jealousy. >> we lost one because he mauled it to death. we lost the second because misha played too roughly with it. we had to put it down to prevent it from suffering. >> animal lovers protested against the decision to put down a healthy animal. but the zoo stood its ground. there was no alternative since having the cub raised by hand in another zoo was not an option. >> we tried a number of times to separate them. but it was too stressful for all concerned. >> the director of the zoo decided not to keep the bear cub's fate a secret. >> the more discussion forums, newspaper articles, and television segments, the more attention is focused on the relations between animals and people, the more rational those relations will be. we can't treat all bears as though they were cute little teddy bears. >> but many visitors only want to be en

following a meeting with the president of switzerland, putin called for a halt in a referendum scheduled for may 11th and endorsed kiev's planned may 25 presidential election. burg holder is chairman. the osce. he persuaded putin that the osce will pressure ukraine to end outsmell its -- its military push and engage leaders in negotiations. in return, putin claimed to withdraw troops. the explanation may lie in recent polls taken across ukraine. 77 percent of ukrainians want to keep their country united. only 14 percent want to allow susession. 9 percent don't know. 70 percent say they want unity. 13 percent don't know. if only ukraine's russian speakers are polled, 58 percent want unity, 15 percent don't know. so all told, secession loses big. these results persuaded putin the referendum would back fire on russia. said they would go forward with the balloting on this sunday. >>> question: if putin's reversal on ukraine credible or a ploy? >> i think it's both, john. i think it's credible because i don't think putin wants to annex ukraine. it would be a political disaster because western

more to publish the chats auction some unreasonable then we'll be speaking to the president of switzerland and see how we can conspire and a national dialogue in ukraine. the international community and supporters the position was that it looks in hospital. this has established a point of framework in which this crisis would have ten weeks old. however this has not been carried out. when critics of global rewards this week. we cannot continue to make a skate spot where wickets. it is real. he typically more virtuous than you. it was twenty what doesn't when the opposition is in the south east of ukraine are not impart it to the table and stools and a bunch of lessons learned in ukraine vocalist they have to negotiate with one another reached solution so they can pull it together within the country. we must avoid violence the army must withdraw to witness a boy the ukrainian army must withdraw ceased to use violence to king's its own people. you can use the bubble. zero point one hits. the police did during the one that affects the night since the state and defense ministers said we should

minimum wage continues to be a hot button issue right here in the united states, but voters in switzerland today rejected a proposal to raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour. al jazeera's nazu mojiri takes us to the front lines of that debate. >> on the shores of lake zurich, this restaurant is one of many new businesses that have opened up in recent years. employees here already earn around $3,700 a month. the owners say they can't afford to pay people more. >> the question we ask ourselves is if the customer would be ready to pay that price we have to pay for a cup of coffee. >> when many are struggle with unemployment and debt, switzerland, which is not in the eu remains an island of prosperity. with unemployment at only 4%. the debate exposes not everyone is enjoying the benefits. >> a single ticket for the tram costs about $5. there may be lower taxes but the high cost of food, of respect and insurance make this one of the most expensive countries in the world to live. in zurich's poorer suburbs, life can be difficult. many are paid less than the proposed minimum wage. small businesse

switzerla switzerland's biggest trade union says that's scaremongering. a minimum wage would benefit the country, not damage it. >> right now, a lot of people who don't make enough money have to go to the state, have to collect benefits just to pay their rent at the end of the month and that's basically taxpayers subsidizing the companies who don't want to pay their employees enough. >> most of the poles suggest the minimum wage will be rejected. in the past, the swiss have taken the employer's side in refer endums. en if the law is not passed, there will be another referendum on a basic income for all swiss whe whether they work or not. al jazeera, zurich. >> film makers hoping to make it big know getting the big break can be almost impossible. more and more, they are going for a different way of getting movies out. al jazeera phil lavelle results from the canne film festival. >>. >> big names, big scandal, the big apple, but no big screen for "welcome to new york." this film is become dominique strauss-khan. it's being released exclusively on the intern

the bbc yesterday said that this was the end of bank secrecy in switzerland. ludicrous.f you look alone the covers, this is a big missed opportunity here in we are not going to have this kind of opportunity again very soon. tois it a crime for somebody secret away their finances in a swiss bank? >> if you are a u.s. citizen, you have to report your worldwide income to the treasury and the state tax authorities. >> what happened to those names that were released by ubs, wealthy americans who were hiding their money away in swiss bank accounts, and what should happen? >> there have been a lot of private settlement with those folks. the irs went after quite a few of them. one of the whistleblowers in got a large settlement as a reward for his activity. one of the issues here is that, with credit suisse, we did not have whistleblowers. the justice department has failed to produce or take advantage of swiss whistleblowers who were available to them. so we do not have any names from whistleblowers like we had in the ubs case. in this case, they are invoking swiss secrecy. allo

because in switzerland private data is particularly protected. but what can the law do against foreign spies yes there is secret services in switzerland is people buying in switzerland of course we have the united nations the i look for that and the n.s.a. operates in switzerland where absolutely certain of that at the same time there is no illegal pathway to the data so they would have to break in they were. have to violate the law in order to get the data which you know is actually also a problem. in shorts according to go to the n.s.a. would never break the law of a foreign country to steal data but we're going to see that the us agency allows itself to bend the rules a little at the end of october a new twist in the snowden case the former agent reveals an explosive documents an internal posted note which shows that the n.s.a. doesn't just use the prism search engine it also connects to google's cloud this time without their knowledge and secretly vacuums up data exchange between the data centers. hello hello there we met with bill binney the

switzerland the place you want to be to get paid the minimum wage? >> up three and a half million fighter jet contract is coming under fire in switzerland. >> written test islets have the cockpit confident -- test islets have the cockpit confident their planes won't them in -- come in second ways. they stressed the flexibility will keep them competitive in a dangerous world. >> now you are better than that. that is how it is going to be developed. yes, butad. costly, that's the way the world looks at. complicated task. 23,000 parts. >> there is only one machine and the entire planet because this is labor intensive work. 30y are putting in kilometers of wiring. a noset step they get and some wings. they produce eight a year but want to increase. the goal is a 10% share of the --ket. it is maurice straightforward, but it also depends on conditions out of their control. >> who is going to win? two, yous 1, 5 versus can set up a scenario. months --vide extra excellent performance. >> if i were a test islets from another country -- test pilot from another

. >> switzerland. >> switzerland.ting street that at times the traffic jam can stretch for blocks. >> it is really nuts, actually. it is very much a zoo. >> gardner jenny board tends lombard street greenery in the midst of growing chaos. >> yes the cars and the traffic and the smoke and the revving and the music, yes, it is crazy. >> the traffic has become so bad that resident david crimmins levels what in san francisco is the ultimate insult. this may as well be los angeles. >> the neighbors can't deal with la level traffic is the bottom line. >> to give neighbors some relief san francisco transportation agency voted tuesday to close lombard street to traffic for a few hours on four weeks this summer. it is a shame. >> reed rahlman who doesn't live in the neighborhood but visits often urged the agency to keep the street open for all the joy it brings to tourists. >> when they hit that first turn, their faces light up like kids. >> this is unique in the world, to shut it down to car traffic is a crime. >> the twists a

that company giving health care to its employees the average cost of switzerland would be $10,000 a year for a family. the average cost in the united states for a family health care policy for an employer in 2011 was $1,800. just imagine you have savings employee and 300 people you might employee 306. and various small companies in the united states very quickly 7% rate% unemployment, 5% or 6% unemployment. health care is already, negatively affecting the united states. we have this incredible outcome that are not very good, we have outcomes that are not very good compared to other countries. suddenly underlying corruption in medicine is what we wrote about in the book. underlying corruption involves not just greed. there's a problem with a lot of folks who make money and the doctors, the hospital's, the drug companies, even the patients that are part of this underlying corruption. it is not just greed, the corruption of lack of respect for what we know. it is a mind-set problem. confusing what we believe with what we know. let me give you some examples. in 1903, dr. hall said told us ho

. >> switzerland won't have the highest minute pull wage, a proposal geejected that would have raised the early late to just under 25 u.s. dollars. it's more than double the $10.10 the president has been pushing for in the united states. polls in switzerland showing voters were worried it would affect business. >> let's check temperatures across the country today. >> a lot of good news in this respect, the heat contributing to the fire danger as we get to the southwest and part of the central plains, but otherwise, a pretty comfortable day for a lot of the country, already well up to the northern tier, temperatures into the 50's this morning, maybe it could skip the jacket be up and down the east coast, 50's as we head out the door. for today, hot core, 90's and hundreds, anywhere from oklahoma into texas and that air coming in from the south spreads as far north as even putting minnesota into the 70's and 80's tomorrow. that will help warm the lakes people are trying to get to over the next holiday weekend. >> russian troops ordered to withdraw from the ukrainian border. >> russia sa