switzerland 20 years ago to set up a software company in geneva. he made over 200 million euros. now, many of his fellow greeks are looking to follow in his footsteps, and he can see why -- not only does he love the beautiful swiss countryside and the country's efficiency, he also appreciates its low rate of taxation. >> it is not illegal, but morally unacceptable that in some comfort -- countries, you have to pay 50% tax. anybody who wants to have a good quality life -- i find it proper no more. it has to do with tax. >> tax regulation is especially business friendly, which is why thousands of businesses are headquartered, at least on paper, here. a growing number of greek businesses are here as well. christoph knows why. he has just helped a company set up business. in switzerland, the corporate tax rate is just 5%, compared to 20% in greece. he shows colleagues how he said it up. tax breaks are one of several factors that make switzerland highly attractive to businesses. >> if you base your business here, you are in good company, international c

how are those numbers of switzerland these days the public that is. about. always countries and i think from memory it's about sixty percent of them as far as the private banks. are not too sure i don't have access to that information course that number would be hard to get because of the swiss banking secrecy laws i would imagine would be part of the reason why that number is not widely known however these laws are being challenged from countries like the u.s. for example which has again entree into switzerland and is now completely changing the banking environment there by exposing previously secret accounts and usurping the laws that would make it illegal to bypass the secrecy laws but nevertheless the u.s. is seemingly almost targeting sorts of little while maintaining in the united states of course is now the biggest country in the world in terms of the various black market shadow banking operations and money laundering we know. banks in america now having like wachovia which is out wells fargo half a trillion dollars of the mexican drug cartel money la

well at that time it was only japan and switzerland that had altar low interest rates and a quote from that time two thousand and seven when max and i made a film called money guys or to go up there to iceland to look and see what was happening in their economy a quote we read in our film was from glenn stevens who's the governor of the australia's reserve bank he said there is something very strange about teeth three country referring to japan giving out free money this has an effect on global markets it is by no means clear that it is a healthy state of affairs to persist so as we see right now what happened across much of the world was part of that carry trade that collapsed around the world and sent shock waves of debt collapse around the world right the credit froze life became clear that this was a ponzi scheme of bernie made off like ponzi scheme and not actually the nomics. the difference between two thousand and eight today and today is that the rich people the sixteen hundred billionaires the six hundred thousand multi hundred millionaires with cash on hand are buying gold an

it rates across a wide spectrum of nations and cultures in israel and switzerland for example a license to possess guns is available on demand to every law abiding adult and guns are easily obtainable in both nations both countries also allow widespread carry of concealed firearms and yet admits dr arthur kellermann one of the foremost medical advocates of gun control switzerland and israel have rates of homicide that are low despite rates of home fire ship ownership that are at least as high as those in the united states sounds pretty compelling right it sounded so solid that the washington post as her kline quoted it in an op ed for that publication right after the newtown murders and then he discovered that just because something comes from the former charles koch foundation now the cato institute doesn't mean that it's true in an article titled myth busting israel and switzerland are not gun toting utopias mind set the record straight when he interviewed us is a professor of epidemiology at the school of public health at the state university in new york and general rosenbaum who i i

partners from sweden switzerland so they said that. look at montreal this is beautiful small town on the lake so they came here spatially to check the place i was impressed so we decided to make both here. more than twenty thousand people have attended alexander's dumpsters and each one is planned down to the last detail how much preparation goes into gaza. it's you know it seems that it is very easy but it is not so definitely. to make a real ball you have several levels of it but you have to bring distress to august first at least once and for any one just all just seen gunners you have to yak about catering to don's flaw in order people have to submit it to the dogs because of this is all. i can already tell it was going to be a member of the kazan and according to conduct alfred a very multicultural want to. do this evening is really very special because we have different problems to solve and we have singers from russia and we have a belly phone russia and it will fester from it tell italy and i'm from austria so it's an internati

james i'd like to invite you to join me at the first russian viennese ball in montrose switzerland it should be a memorable event if you'd like to attend please join me at the imperial tailoring company in moscow next monday at noon if you'll need to pick out something elegant hope to see you there victor. there was no way i could pass up a chance like this viennese ball is renowned as the best event of the season and i knew the picture was one of the men in charge. now it might be a traditional ball but i don't think the eight hundred fifty look is going to cut it in switzerland so i'm here to meet up with victor and hopefully pick up something a little bit more. pictures time james stuff this is yeah well now we need to choose a suit for you i've already chosen the one for me this one please. me had good taste it brought me to moscow's imperial tailoring company where they make some of the best clothes in the business. runs. really well james and generally look really very good i think fit perfectly but maybe some small items for example your trousers would be the longer right thing

he preaches his hair blond to be integrated, to look as if he was from switzerland. at a football game, he is looking with all the other men, and it is italy against switzerland. at one time, the italians win. i find it beautiful and emotional at the same time. he betrayed himself through that reaction, and at the same time, it was beautiful, but at the same time, it is sad that you have to change your color or to hide it. that you have to do something like that to deny even your origin. you have to be proud of your urgent and to show it. >> you are giving me a challenge and a challenge -- giving me a challenge and yourself a challenge. what about cult? that is not something to hide behind. it is so out there, and yet, it can be quite important part of your collection. why? >> i have been very marked by the movement. -- what about punk? >> it is not like a creation, absolute. it is part of living in society. of course, the punk movement was very important. like already taken by the society in some ways. i must say that when i was going to london, i loved that. the in

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according to a report switzerland will be the best place for a baby entering the world in 2013. the u.s., a dismal 16th on the list. a long fall for america which was ranked first in 1988. the economist intelligence unit aimes to measure which country will provide the best opportunities for healthy, safe and prosperous lives ahead. 1k3* the winner of this year's lottery of life are wee ones births in switzerland, australia, norway, sweden and denmark. which i am sure are one country. this thing is already very suspect. the economist says the index was compiled using 11 statistically ipped caters noting being rich helps more than anything else, but things like crime, trust and public institutions and health of the family life matter too. all of this raises a question, can dogs jump over bottles? >> well, that's all of the evidence i need. dogs cannot jump over bottles. bernard, this is supposed to measure which countries will provide the healthiest, happiest life. but can we trust this study at all? >> well, first of all, let me just say i am offended that the study is racist. >>

what was going on in switzerland. >> we had just finished and monte carlo, the jazz festival. at the show, we had a long trek to holland. that is about 3:00, 4:00 in the morning. i am starting to come up, and i feel like it is vertigo. the impact causes the bus to fall on its side. from all the people here, crashing into people, it was pretty crazy. after a while, the rescue workers came and got us. the guy was like 23 years old, these guys that are amazingly talented. i was terrified. i thought it would prevent them from playing or whatever. ours is going from guide to die. let me see you move your lips. where is the other driver? he did not make it. it was horrible. in my situation, it is really difficult. i was glad that the other guys are ok. everybody is home and recuperating. tavis: those of us that are marked as miller fans, that track, that new project was his first in public since he survived this crash. i am delighted he is alive and on this program. my man market still has it. we can hear this track and his own interpretation there. this project, renaissance, it rea

for eight hours, andre flew in darkness over switzerland. andre could see nothing, so the team on the ground had to track winds, squalls, battery levels. watching this creature in the air, long after the sun has surrendered, is almost unreal. the plane emerges from the darkness like an apparition. just before the sun peeked through the clouds, bertrand counted andre down to the dawn. >> piccard: nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. go! we made it! we made it, guys! ( cheers and applause ) andre, you should be with us right now. >> simon: andre made it with power to spare, and just think, he could have taken off again without refueling. it must be a pretty good sensation when that sun comes up in the morning. >> borschberg: it is. well, certainly, because of the beauty-- i mean, the sunset is gorgeous, but the sunrise, of course, brings us the next day there. it brings the hope again that you can continue. ( cheers and applause ) >> simon: bertrand is continuing a family tradition-- visionaries, pioneers, adventurers. his fat

switzerland is an 8 million people country. so dealing just with the domestic market would never have them -- to be the worldwide leader of fragrances and flavors. so, obviously, over the 200 year history of givaudan, we have been somehow forced to go outside switzerland and sell those fragrances and flavors all around the world. so i see it as a strength. so, obviously, we look at our figures in swiss francs. but because we are, again, operating in so many countries, having local costs, local currency costs as well as local currency revenues, we don't have any dilution of our profitability because of the strength of the swiss franc. so, actually, the more the swiss franc appreciates, you know, it has absolutely no effect on our profitability. it has an effect on the translation standpoint that it's stronger on the basis. >> okay. some interesting points. i think what's interesting is when you come here, we got a meeting today, kelly, of the account and they're going to approve pakistan later. but working on the bits of the doh

control and supply and that made in london there maybe in paris in the or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move their headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of that was perhaps the chemist which was a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years and moved in switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds of corporation tax and they reduced that then to nine billion so burden is then placed on the u.k. tax payer increases an income tax of the eighty or other forms of taxation that has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations governments scrutinize every overseas bed france for example argues that it's in their national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a gr

the united nations organization but from the very foundation of the wait until about ten years ago switzerland was a un observer state and in that capacity was able to join all of the. international organizations treaties including the statue to the international court of justice so let's talk about some of the leverage that palestine now has from the status francis what new status doesn't give an international court your kind of justice just a touch upon what the legal recourses does palestine have right now. well there are two in particular the first palestine can become a party to the statute of the international court of justice in the hague the so-called will court of the united nations system and then snow israel itself at the will court second telus style and can now read afai the rome statute or the international criminal court and file a complaint against the highest level officials of the israeli government so. for war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide you saw one of the reactions of the israel to the vote in the general assembly was to immediately announce the construction

switzerland, australia, norway. hey. miller? >> and they're all the same to me. one has got the alps in the middle. one has got a big rock in the middle. all these places that are cold, i don't want to be the mayor of a hamlet in lap land. knock i could care less. sweden, are you kidding me? incorporate march bergman was an optimist. he saw thed me cup half full. they comp everything over there. even your state run funeral after you off yourself in your late 20's because you folded your hold card as far as motivation goes from day one. i'm just not interested. i dig the big hunking what a mess united states. i don't want the government in my life. i'm not a militia guy up in coeur d'alene. let me say. this when i look at more johns like schumer and pelosi and joe biden, i think is this really who we want to turn it all over to? >> that's why i think we are 16 because babies will be frightened when they finally wake up and they see some of the people you mentioned looming ahead of them with power. >> yeah. 16th. when it really hits the fan. and they start blowing

which is a company with the head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years moved to zoo in switzerland it's a move to eighty nine million pounds in corporation tax and they reduced that to nine million so burden is then placed on the u.k. taxpayer increases in income tax of the eighty or other forms of taxation it has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations governments scrutinize every overseas bed france for example argues that it's in their national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisition the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell. see london. for iran's tough times as an international outcast could be about to become even tougher the u.s. and canada have removed the notorious iranian militant group any k from their off