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Europe's biggest freshwater aquarium opens

Title: Europe's biggest freshwater aquarium opens
Runtime: 1:48
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: From Saturday, October 21, people can admire freshwater fish from the Amazon in the new Aquatis aquarium-vivarium in Lausanne. The organisers call it a scientific and sustainable project. But there is also criticism.

With around 10,000 freshwater fish from all over the world — from paddlefish to piranha — as well as reptiles and amphibians, Aquatis will be the largest freshwater aquarium-vivarium in Europe. The 3,500 square-metre facility is expected to attract some 400,000 visitors annually.

But Aquatis has attracted criticism from animal rights groups. At CHF29 ($29.59) per adult and CHF19 per child, the entry fees are also raising hackles. Investors have defended the cost, saying it's justified due to the elaborate staging of the aquariums. The facility also boasts a hotel and parking for 1,200 cars.

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Title: Swiss skills on a world stage
Runtime: 1:30
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Nearly 40 young people from Switzerland battled it out to prove their worth in their field of expertise at the World Professional Championships, WorldSkills. The Swiss team picked up 20 medals, including a record 11 golds!
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Title: A Swiss-Lebanese-Iraqi stand-up comic
Runtime: 3:56
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week she meets stand-up comic, Hamza Rya. His father is Lebanese and his mother is from Iraq. He speaks seven languages fluently and likes people a lot - whatever their ethnic background. Everyone is a target for his humour. (SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)
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Using microscopy technology to improve medicine

Title: Using microscopy technology to improve medicine
Runtime: 1:43
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Instead of light, cryo-electron microscopy uses electrons to show tiny details of biomolecules. Jacques Dubochet helped develop this technology. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Swiss help to illuminate the Middle Ages

Title: Swiss help to illuminate the Middle Ages
Runtime: 2:27
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The University of Fribourg is heading a project which could tell us more about the Middle Ages, through piecing together fragments of manuscripts. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Going back to medieval times with virtual reality

Title: Going back to medieval times with virtual reality
Runtime: 3:51
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: In Tremona in canton Ticino visitors can immerse themselves into the distant past. This hilltop settlement was inhabited for over 6,000 years, from 5000 B.C. until the 15th Century. Visitors can now explore this historic settlement using virtual reality glasses to get a feel for how life would have been at the time. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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A breakthrough in natural crop protection

Title: A breakthrough in natural crop protection
Runtime: 6:44
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: With their bug-banishing products the Andermatts have been proving for years that natural crop protection works. Swiss public television, SRF meets the entrepreneurs behind this success story. (SRF, swissinfo.ch)

The Andermatts, Isabel, 59 and Martin, 58 are partners in life as in business. They are Switzerland’s pioneers in organic crop protection. Thirty years ago the only products for crop protection were chemicals. The Andermatts then established themselves as important organic crop protection innovators, with their virus-based product.

In 1986 the Andermatts researched and developed a method that used granulosis virus to combat the codling moth, a pest that at the time infested up to 50% of Swiss farmers’ apple crops. By 1987, after successful field trials they had received the provisional approval to market their product, which is now known as 'Madex'.

At present the group Andermatt Holding has a diverse product portfolio of biologic...

How do lobbyists work in the Swiss parliament?

Title: How do lobbyists work in the Swiss parliament?
Runtime: 2:21
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Although Swiss MPs have to declare private interests, they can give lobbyists access to Parliament and lobbyists can visit anonymously for the day. Is that a problem?

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Title: From blank wall to climbing wall
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Could one tall building in Zurich become a giant opportunity to make a huge outdoor climbing wall?

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Title: The Airbnb of the sky?
Runtime: 1:19
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Dream of watching leaves change colour from the sky this autumn? There is a new service in Switzerland that might allow you to do that on a budget.

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Title: Mushroom picking: the dangers
Runtime: 1:04
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Autumn is here and you might want to go mushroom picking. But be careful what you put in your punnet...

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The pond shortage threatening biodiversity

Title: The pond shortage threatening biodiversity
Runtime: 1:33
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Ponds are nice to look at, but you might be surprised how important they are for the environment.

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Title: Clueless about the clitoris
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Think you'd know a clitoris if you saw one? How about if it was 2 metres tall and in the middle of a roundabout...?

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Is Switzerland being overrun by foreigners?

Title: Is Switzerland being overrun by foreigners?
Runtime: 5:07
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week, she attends a delegates' conference of the conservative right Swiss People’s Partyexternal link in Bern and finds out why they are afraid of the increase in Muslims in this small, Alpine country. (SRF Kulturplatz/ swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Top Swiss guns show off shooting skills
Runtime: 2:12
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Every autumn, Swiss Air Force pilots show off their professional skills at the highest aerial firing range in Europe. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
The annual Swiss Air Force live fire eventexternal link is underway at the Axalp–Ebenfluh air force shooting range in the Bernese Oberland. Tuesday’s training brought hoards of hikers to the spectators’ areas at an altitude of 2,200m above sea level.
The venue can only be reached on foot by taking marked mountain paths. The event, which attracts thousands, requires weeks of preparation for organizer Simon Flückiger and his team. Toilets, waste bins and food stands, as well as rescue and medical services, must be installed.
The actual air force fire show lasts for approximately 90 minutes, during which the entire shooting range area is designated as a hazardous zone and closed off for hiking.
Swiss public television, SRF, went behind the scenes and followed the pilots and organizers during their preparation for the event....

How to implement successful people's initiatives

Title: How to implement successful people's initiatives
Runtime: 1:58
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: After the people vote in favour of an initiative, parliament gets to work. It’s their job to figure out how they can make new decisions compatible with existing laws.

It's not always easy to implement a decision taken by the people. Popular initiatives in Switzerland are often launched as ‘elaborate drafts’ - a complete text. When a majority of the people vote in favour of an initiative, this text is added exactly as it is proposed, directly into the Constitution. Neither parliament nor the government may alter this text.

When initiatives are unclear or contradict the Constitution, parliament has to create additional laws in order to best reflect the people's will. Law scientist Nagihan Musliu is working on a manual to help this process of implementation along.

In our series, 'Inside the Democracy Labs', researchers answer all kinds of questions about democracy.
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Are Swiss aid workers taking too many risks?

Title: Are Swiss aid workers taking too many risks?
Runtime: 4:42
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Following the recent abduction of a Swiss aid worker in Sudan, Swiss Public Television SRF asks whether it is safe for individuals to work in crisis countries, or should it be left to larger organisations? (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

Reports say Margrit S. was abducted on Saturday in Sudan’s northern Darfur region. She’s lived in the country for years and built a children’s ward and midwifey school in North Darfur. This was to be her last stint in Sudan, as she is 71 and planned to retire soon.

She is said to have been taken from her home by unidentified armed men near her home in the Agricultural Research Centre area of Al Fashir. The Sudanese authorities think a criminal gang is responsible, and have stepped up a search in and around the city of al-Fashir. They believe the gang is seeking a ransom.

SRF meets Christian Brunner, a former employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, who was kidnapped in Afghanistan in 1991 and s...

Title: Taveyanne: far from the madding crowd
Runtime: 2:42
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The picturesque hamlet of Taveyanne in the Vaudoise Alps is a place frozen in time. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)

Above the clouds at 1,649 metres (5,400 feet), it’s a listed historical monument, with its timber chalets and wooden shingle roofs. Its residents have to manage without mains electricity.

To guarantee the long-term future of the hamlet and its environment, the locals teamed up with the Vaudoise League for Nature Protection in 1970 to create a nature reserve here. Most of the chalets belong to people living in the neighbouring village of Gryon and were converted from animal shelters to homes in the early 1900s.

The only business in town is the Refuge de Taveyanne, where the Siebenthal family serves hearty meals like fondue in a rustic setting. There's a huge charred fireplace with a large cauldron, an ancient cash register and low-beamed ceilings. Ornamental cowbells grace the walls. The only rentable accommodation is a couple of mattres...

Title: The architecture of the future?
Runtime: 5:40
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Living self-sufficiently in an eco-friendly house seems to be a dream shared by many Swiss people.

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Gun culture: is Switzerland a role model?

Title: Gun culture: is Switzerland a role model?
Runtime: 1:25
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Switzerland and the US have something in common: they both love their guns. What are the differences between them, when it comes to owning and using firearms?

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Title: A story about cold water
Runtime: 1:20
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A Swiss biophysicist received the Nobel Prize for his research in cryo-electron microscopy. Here are five reasons to be a fan.

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Title: The new CHF10 banknote
Runtime: 0:54
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: In Switzerland and around the world, cash is slowly being abandoned. So is the new CHF 10 banknote already outdated?

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Title: Road habits that drive Tama crazy
Runtime: 3:12
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland – to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. One of the things that gets her all worked up is bad driving: people driving too slowly or too close, and people who forget to indicate. Fasten your seatbelt and come for a ride with Tama, if you dare. (SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: High-tech protection from rockslides
Runtime: 3:57
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: In times of climate change and melting permafrost, modern surveillance systems are a matter of life and death. Researchers are developing new warning systems to give mountain residents more time to evacuate when the rocks start tumbling. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

In August 2017, eight people went missing, believed to have been buried under 4 million cubic metres of debris. The landslide in Bondo, close to the Swiss-Italian border, was one of the largest to hit Switzerland in the last century. On September 16, a further landslide occurred though nobody was hurt. Officials had already warned that a rock mass of between 200,000 and 500,000 metres squared was on the move. As nobody was in the danger zone increased safety measures were not needed.

In a different part of the country earlier in September, the bulk of the ice tongue of the Trift glacier in canton Valais collapsed. More than 200 people were evacuated from their homes in Saas-Grund. About a third of ...

Title: The king - and queen - of the castle
Runtime: 4:14
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Though most of Switzerland’s castles and palaces are state owned, the descendants are allowed to live in the wings in some cases - like at Waldegg in canton Solothurn. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

There are around 900 castles and palaces in Switzerland, and because of the high maintenance costs, most of them belong to the state. They house offices as well as museums, have been converted into apartments and are venues for private and public events.

Waldegg in canton Solothurn is over 300 years old, and descendants of the original owner have been calling it home again for the past couple of years. They live in a wing closed to the public.

Swiss castles and other stately buildings are promoted every year on Swiss Castle day, which this year was October 1. During the day, eighteen places across the country were opened for the public to experience history.

The castles included Chillon on Lake Geneva - one of Switzerland's most visited, the ...

Title: Political information in sign language
Runtime: 1:41
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Deaf people recently took to the streets in Zurich, Lausanne and Lugano, demanding political information be made available in sign language online. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Small-scale professions get the backing of authorities

Title: Small-scale professions get the backing of authorities
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Certain small-scale professions have all together fewer than 60 apprentices in total throughout Switzerland. It is often difficult to fill these apprenticeship positions. That’s why authorities have now extended a project to help finance vocational training for these small-scale jobs. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: App helps youngsters get part-time jobs
Runtime: 2:02
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A new smart phone app helps youngsters find part-time jobs to top up their pocket money. After Winterthur's positive experience with the scheme, more and more towns and cities are introducing online part-time job exchanges. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Swiss engineer versus killer landmines
Runtime: 6:30
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Swiss engineer, Frédéric Guerne, has dedicated half his life to making machines that clear mines. He has now developed what he believes is the best minesweeper in existence. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

Guerne is the director of the non-profit Digger Foundation in Tavannes in the Jura, which has produced an armoured 12-ton, remote-controlled precision machine for clearing mines, the fourth generation model. The D-250 is otherwise known as the “Excavator”, and it does the job of 300 people in the field.

The D-250 digs up mines from the ground, removes them from trees and detonates them. Even mines with up to 10 kilograms of explosives cannot harm the device. It is used in around 15 countries worldwide.

Guerne started his work in 1998 in his farmhouse. For many years he worked voluntarily on new prototypes. He says,"When I think of the children who are still living thanks to our machines, it gives me the energy to keep going.”

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Oh-so modern aspirations: becoming an 'influencer'

Title: Oh-so modern aspirations: becoming an 'influencer'
Runtime: 4:32
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The days are long gone when a career in Hollywood was the only way to achieve fame and recognition. Nowadays, social media sites and apps offer new ways for ordinary people to get their face and name known; it's become something to which young people aspire. Swiss public television SRF meets two of the most important 'influencers' on social media in Switzerland. (SRF/swissinfo.ch).
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Why a Polish/Scottish couple became Swiss

Title: Why a Polish/Scottish couple became Swiss
Runtime: 2:46
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A Polish/Scottish couple decided to apply for Swiss citizenship to boost their children's integration. This is their story. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Basel boy conquers YouTube
Runtime: 4:13
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Switzerland has its own YouTube star. Lionel Battegay's quirky videos, filmed on the streets of his native Basel, attract up to 100, 000 viewers. He asks young people questions about Swiss history and politics, with sometimes hilarious results. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Driverless train tests planned for 2019
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Where’s the driver? An autonomous train project has been launched in Switzerland.

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Title: Safe injection rooms for drug users
Runtime: 2:51
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: In Switzerland there are a number of safe, clean places made for drug users to inject themselves. Here's why we have them and how they work.

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Title: Switzerland: a local currency champion
Runtime: 1:14
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Switzerland uses the Swiss Franc but the country also has various local currencies. Some of them are even going digital. Have you ever used a micro-currency?

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What does CERN's new particle accelerator do?

Title: What does CERN's new particle accelerator do?
Runtime: 0:55
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Scientists at CERN are going to be smashing together more particles than ever before from now on. How are they going to do it?

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Title: Electronic bracelets
Runtime: 1:11
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Would you be willing to hand over personal data from a fitness tracker to get a discount on your health insurance?

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Title: The king of chocolate in Mexico
Runtime: 5:22
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A rags-to-riches career straight out of a film script: as a young man, the protagonist emigrates to Mexico. Once there, he becomes the first ever manufacturer of white chocolate and goes on to become an entrepreneur worth millions. The life of Gianfranco Arnoldi. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

Arnoldi has always been in the confectionary business. He learnt his craft at the Vanini pastry shop in Lugano and, by the age of 19, was already a chief chocolatier. Later, Arnoldi produced chocolate at the upmarket Palace Hotels in Gstaad and Lucerne, then at the Ritz in Barcelona.

Switzerland had become too limiting for him and he was attracted by the revolutionary atmosphere of Mexico. In 1956, a Hilton hotel was opened in Mexico City and Arnold signed a one year contract. He moved from Hilton to Hilton, married a Mexican, and finally opened his own confectionary shop in Mexico city in 1968.

The firm prospered, even though he had to overcome some cul...

Title: What Hindus and Muslims have in common
Runtime: 4:02
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland – to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. She’s interested in cultural and religious diversity in Switzerland. This week she meets members of the “Dialogue en route” project. They take groups of young people to religious buildings and teach them about different faiths and cultures.
(SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)
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How joining a foreigners' club can make you stronger

Title: How joining a foreigners' club can make you stronger
Runtime: 3:12
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland – to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week, she joins a club for foreign women called "Femmes-Tisch" in her home town of Langenthal, which provides members with different forms of training such as German classes, and helps them to integrate in Swiss society.

It's run by the non profit group, interunido, which specialises in migration and integration issues and is funded by the town, canton and federal government. (SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)
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Help for asylum seekers who choose to return home

Title: Help for asylum seekers who choose to return home
Runtime: 2:01
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: For 20 years, Switzerland has been helping asylum seekers who choose to return to their home countries. The government is positive that giving money and advice to people to return home is part and parcel of a credible asylum policy. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

For the government Switzerland's repatriation program is a success story. It says, helping people go back to their home country is an integral part of the asylum system. According to justice minister Simonetta Sommaruga, convincing people to return of their own accord is the top goal. She claims that this kind of aid costs Switzerland less than keeping asylum seekers in Switzerland for years before forcing them to return, if their plea is rejected. In many cases, returning asylum seekers receive money in cash right at the airport gate. It's both money for the journey as well as financial aid to make a new start in their home country.

One key element of the programme is counselling, which is supposed to ...

Title: Why do honorary consuls work for free?
Runtime: 4:21
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Honorary consuls are local personalities who represent foreign states in Switzerland, and they are not paid for their work. What motivates them? (RTS/swissinfo.ch)

There are about 130 honorary consuls them in Switzerland. They are not professional diplomats, but people who work on a voluntary basis until their appointments are revoked. For instance, François de Coulon, who owns the château of Eclépens in the canton of Vaud and a large wine estate, is also an honorary consul for Slovakia.

Jean-Marc Probst is the director of a business that sells machines for the building industry. He is also honorary consul for Germany in cantons Geneva, Valais and Vaud. His consulate provides passports and official documents for the 16'000 Germans in the region.

Michel Sogny is a pianist, composer and doctor of philosophy who developed a new approach to teaching the piano. He has his own foundation, SOS Talents, which was created to support gifted young p...

Title: Saving lives, one diagnosis at the time
Runtime: 5:11
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Valérie D’Acremont is a specialist in tropical medicine who researches new methods for diagnosis of acute fever in developing countries. Her work contributes to better targeted treatment and preventing the over-prescription of antibiotics. (SRF, swissinfo.ch)

D'Acremont is a clinical epidemiologist heading the Clinical Research Unit at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health (TPH) Institute Basel and recently appointed professor at the faculty of medicine at the University of Lausanne (UNIL).

In her 40s and a mother of three, among a host of other activities she coordinates the SAfia project. Its purpose is to study DNA sequencing methods which could help identify disease-causing organisms. It’s hoped the project can strengthen the surveillance of illnesses involving sudden fever in Africa.

At the beginning of 2017, the project received the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a grant of $2.5 million (CHF ) over two years.

Have young Swiss lost their rebelliousness?

Title: Have young Swiss lost their rebelliousness?
Runtime: 2:30
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: In the 1960s, youngsters in the hippie movement triggered a social and cultural revolution, rebelling against Swiss society, which they considered conservative and capitalistic. 50 years on, young Swiss people still get what they want, but rebelling. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Who picks up your cigarette butts?
Runtime: 1:58
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: The Swiss Federal Railways cleaning specialists have to remove cigarette butts from the railway tracks laboriously by hand. At Zurich’s main station alone they fill a 110 litre rubbish bag every day. Enough to make smoke come out of the employees’ ears. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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How millennials find vocational training

Title: How millennials find vocational training
Runtime: 3:21
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Part of the reason why so many apprenticeship positions go unfilled is due to how young people search for a vacancy. They no longer leaf through newspaper ads, but flick through Snapchat or YouTube instead. Now companies in Switzerland are trying to get on board before they miss out. (SRF, swissinfo.ch)

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Lost Greek temple found by Swiss scholars

Title: Lost Greek temple found by Swiss scholars
Runtime: 1:36
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: A Swiss-led team of archaeologists in Greece has made a spectacular find: the temple of Artemis, a famous open-air sanctuary of antiquity. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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Title: Why do Balkan boys get a bad rap?
Runtime: 4:42
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland – to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. She meets up with stand-up comedian, Sven Ivanic, who is Croatian, Serbian and "100 % Swiss". They explore the prejudices against Balkan boys in Switzerland, and Sven defends his right to wear tracksuit bottoms. (SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)
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Ticino welcomes ministerial post for Cassis

Title: Ticino welcomes ministerial post for Cassis
Runtime: 2:16
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Bells rang out in the southern canton of Ticino following the election of local politician, Ignazio Cassis, to the Swiss cabinet. But his political opponents are warning people not to expect too much of him. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Find the bat!
Runtime: 2:28
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Dogs are being used to sniff out bats in canton Ticino, so that more can be done to protect the endangered species. If foresters, for example, know where they are nesting, they can limit forestry activities to minimise the disturbance. But it takes a lot of training before sniffer dogs are ripe for the challenge of detecting these elusive mammals. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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