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Controversial rental auction in Canton Vaud

Title: Controversial rental auction in Canton Vaud
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A Lausanne startup has developed an online portal that allows prospective tenants to choose how much rent they want to pay. But a tenants association says there could be hidden costs. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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If you were a refugee, what would you carry?

Title: If you were a refugee, what would you carry?
Runtime: 2:06
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: An exhibition at Zurich’s Swiss National Museum highlights what it means to be a refugee. It’s a joint project between Switzerland and the UN. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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Foro Global sobre Democracia Directa Moderna | DÍA 3

Title: Foro Global sobre Democracia Directa Moderna | DÍA 3
Runtime: 4:46:21
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Ciudadanía activa y gobiernos participativos son características esenciales de toda democracia moderna. A la hora de abordar importantes desafíos globales – desde educación a bienestar, emigración a cambio climático – los movimientos sociales y los gobiernos locales sirven de equipos prácticos de rescate de derechos y libertades fundamentales recogidos en el concepto de gobierno abierto hacia una nueva cultura política: transparencia, responsabilidad, delegación y participación.

Únase a nosotros en el 6º Foro Global sobre Democracia Directa Moderna este otoño en Donostia/San Sebastián, la Capital Europea de la Cultura 2016.

En el nuevo clima de cambio que se respira en la ciudad tras el cese de la violencia terrorista, la ciudadanía y el ayuntamiento de San Sebastián han trabajado juntos para consolidar la participación ciudadana en las distintas fases y áreas de toma de decisiones del municipio.

Estamos transformando esta be...

Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy | DAY 3

Title: Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy | DAY 3
Runtime: 4:46:21
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The 6th world conference on active citizenship and participatory democracy is a timely event indeed. Just days after perhaps the most suprising election result in modern history, and after a US presidential campaign full of lies, accusations and stupidities, we are gathering in this beautiful spot of the Basque Country for four days of sharing, caring and developing of modern direct democracy.

Last week’s ballot box earthquake in America has sent waves of disbelief across the globe. It is one more powerful signal that our democracies urgently need to become more democratic. And it has led many to raise questions: Are we turning away from democracies and towards the strong man, who shall make our countries great again? How do we address the many problems our democracies face in a economically globalized world?

So we are gathering in Donostia-San Sebastian to identify and specify what circumstances and problems are producing shocking electoral outcomes in coun...

Title: Breaking through media echo chambers
Runtime: 0:50
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Stefan Klauser, the lead strategist of the ETH Zurich's Digital Society initiative, offers his thoughts on how digital media consumers can break out of polarizing bubbles for better democracy.
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Title: How Los Angeles gets citizens involved
Runtime: 3:10
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Grayce Liu, general manager of the department of neighborhood empowerment in Los Angeles (Empower LA) explains the city's pioneering neighborhood councils and how they could be affected by the new presidential administration in the US.

Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy | DAY 2

Title: Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy | DAY 2
Runtime: 5:24:17
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The 6th world conference on active citizenship and participatory democracy is a timely event indeed. Just days after perhaps the most suprising election result in modern history, and after a US presidential campaign full of lies, accusations and stupidities, we are gathering in this beautiful spot of the Basque Country for four days of sharing, caring and developing of modern direct democracy.

Last week’s ballot box earthquake in America has sent waves of disbelief across the globe. It is one more powerful signal that our democracies urgently need to become more democratic. And it has led many to raise questions: Are we turning away from democracies and towards the strong man, who shall make our countries great again? How do we address the many problems our democracies face in a economically globalized world?

So we are gathering in Donostia-San Sebastian to identify and specify what circumstances and problems are producing shocking electoral outcomes in coun...

Foro Global sobre Democracia Directa Moderna | DÍA 2

Title: Foro Global sobre Democracia Directa Moderna | DÍA 2
Runtime: 5:24:25
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Ciudadanía activa y gobiernos participativos son características esenciales de toda democracia moderna. A la hora de abordar importantes desafíos globales – desde educación a bienestar, emigración a cambio climático – los movimientos sociales y los gobiernos locales sirven de equipos prácticos de rescate de derechos y libertades fundamentales recogidos en el concepto de gobierno abierto hacia una nueva cultura política: transparencia, responsabilidad, delegación y participación.

Únase a nosotros en el 6º Foro Global sobre Democracia Directa Moderna este otoño en Donostia/San Sebastián, la Capital Europea de la Cultura 2016.

En el nuevo clima de cambio que se respira en la ciudad tras el cese de la violencia terrorista, la ciudadanía y el ayuntamiento de San Sebastián han trabajado juntos para consolidar la participación ciudadana en las distintas fases y áreas de toma de decisiones del municipio.

Estamos transformando esta be...

Electric cars could travel on the hard shoulder

Title: Electric cars could travel on the hard shoulder
Runtime: 2:02
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Transport minister Doris Leuthard is considering letting electric and driverless vehicles use the hard shoulder of motorways, in a bid to promote the new technologies. But will that compromise motorway safety? (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy | DAY 1

Title: Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy | DAY 1
Runtime: 5:26:14
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The 6th world conference on active citizenship and participatory democracy is a timely event indeed. Just days after perhaps the most suprising election result in modern history, and after a US presidential campaign full of lies, accusations and stupidities, we are gathering in this beautiful spot of the Basque Country for four days of sharing, caring and developing of modern direct democracy.

Last week’s ballot box earthquake in America has sent waves of disbelief across the globe. It is one more powerful signal that our democracies urgently need to become more democratic. And it has led many to raise questions: Are we turning away from democracies and towards the strong man, who shall make our countries great again? How do we address the many problems our democracies face in a economically globalized world?

So we are gathering in Donostia-San Sebastian to identify and specify what circumstances and problems are producing shocking electoral outcomes in coun...

Foro Global sobre Democracia Directa Moderna | DÍA 1

Title: Foro Global sobre Democracia Directa Moderna | DÍA 1
Runtime: 5:27:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Ciudadanía activa y gobiernos participativos son características esenciales de toda democracia moderna. A la hora de abordar importantes desafíos globales – desde educación a bienestar, emigración a cambio climático – los movimientos sociales y los gobiernos locales sirven de equipos prácticos de rescate de derechos y libertades fundamentales recogidos en el concepto de gobierno abierto hacia una nueva cultura política: transparencia, responsabilidad, delegación y participación.

Únase a nosotros en el 6º Foro Global sobre Democracia Directa Moderna este otoño en Donostia/San Sebastián, la Capital Europea de la Cultura 2016.

En el nuevo clima de cambio que se respira en la ciudad tras el cese de la violencia terrorista, la ciudadanía y el ayuntamiento de San Sebastián han trabajado juntos para consolidar la participación ciudadana en las distintas fases y áreas de toma de decisiones del municipio.

Estamos transformando esta be...

Swiss farmers are experimenting with quinoa

Title: Swiss farmers are experimenting with quinoa
Runtime: 3:09
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In 20 years close to 30% of Switzerland’s traditional crops have disappeared. The sector has to innovate in order to survive. In canton Vaud farmers are experimenting with quinoa as a way of diversifying their production. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: The cost of quitting nuclear energy
Runtime: 3:44
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Is Switzerland ready to phase out nuclear power? Experts weigh in on the November 27 nationwide vote on the country’s nuclear plants. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

Banning construction of nuclear power plants and limiting the use of existing ones to 45 years: that’s what the people’s initiative from the Green Party proposes. This would mean that the stations Beznau I and II (in canton Aargau) and Mühleberg (Bern) should shut down in 2017, Gösgen (Solothurn) in 2024 and Leibstadt (Aargau) in 2029.

Opponents fear that replacing nuclear energy will result in increased imports from foreign coal-fired power plants. Centre-right senator Bernhard Luginbühl claims there’s not enough renewable energy available today to make up for the gap. For Luginbühl and for many others abandoning nuclear energy requires more time.

Rolf Wüstenhagen researches future energy at the University of St Gallen. He says the arguments of the opponents are too simple since Swit...

Swiss Post wants to make Sunday deliveries

Title: Swiss Post wants to make Sunday deliveries
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Swiss Post wants to increase deliveries to include Sundays in future. Due to legal hurdles, it is using taxi drivers to do the job. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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When weather extremes cause plants to climb mountains

Title: When weather extremes cause plants to climb mountains
Runtime: 2:20
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Swiss scientists are carrying out a long-term study into the effects of climate change on Alpine plants. (RTS/swissinfo.ch/jh)
The research, centred in the Glarus Alps, is taking place just as 20 thousand participants meet in Morocco to agree the details for implementing the global Paris accord to combat global warming.
Biologists from the Federal Technology Institute (ETH) and the University of Lausanne want to find out what happens when global warming or cooling causes plants to migrate into unchartered territory, for instance growing in higher regions to escape the heat below.
They are also exploring what influence this migration has on existing communities of Alpine plants and how the increased presence of insects may affect plant behaviour.
The research involves digging up two-square-metre turfs from higher regions of the Calanda mountain and replanting them lower down the mountain to see how they interact with species already present there.
The re...

How the Swiss capital reacted to Trump’s win

Title: How the Swiss capital reacted to Trump’s win
Runtime: 2:14
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The election of Donald Trump as president had strong reverberations on the streets of the Swiss capital Bern, with some saying they were reduced to tears. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch)
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Elderly share homes with Geneva students

Title: Elderly share homes with Geneva students
Runtime: 2:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Hundreds of students in Geneva are struggling to find a a place to live. Now the University of Geneva has started placing students in private homes of elderly people. In exchange the students help their hosts with work around the house. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Helping the disabled to go on holiday
Runtime: 1:50
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: For people with disabilities, travel can often be a challenge. The disability organisation Procap sees plenty of potential in Switzerland for equal access to recreation and holidays. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Why the elite come to Switzerland for healthcare

Title: Why the elite come to Switzerland for healthcare
Runtime: 5:38
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Swiss luxury clinics are doing a roaring trade, thanks to a growing number of rich patients from abroad seeking medical help, detox or cosmetic surgery. (RTS/swissinfo.ch/jh)
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Title: Postman dynasty comes to an end
Runtime: 4:04
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: For 125 years, the postman has come from the same family in the village of Hinterfultigen in canton Bern. But the tradition is drawing to a close. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Investors turning away from Verbier
Runtime: 2:18
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Stricter laws for second homes, Brexit and the strong Swiss franc have made the tourist resort of Verbier less attractive for investors. The community is hoping to make money from other sources. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: How Swiss is the US electoral system?
Runtime: 2:02
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The US electoral system may seem rather unique, but it actually has a lot in common with Switzerland’s brand of democracy. Here’s how they compare.

The report is presented by swissinfo.ch’s Susan Misicka. The original video was produced by Arthur Honegger and Jonas Bayona of the online news service of Swiss public television, SRF.
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“My life as a courgette” off to conquer America

Title: “My life as a courgette” off to conquer America
Runtime: 2:28
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The producers of the new animation film,“My life as a courgette” by Claude Barras from Valais, are hoping to pick up a nomination for a Golden Globe or even an Oscar. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Switzerland’s endangered species on show

Title: Switzerland’s endangered species on show
Runtime: 2:15
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Rare Swiss breeds are being saved from extinction by the foundation ProSpecieRara. Every five years, animal lovers get a chance to see them up close. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Fostering young asylum seekers
Runtime: 3:06
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Kochs are one of the foster families hosting unaccompanied underage asylum seekers in Switzerland. Many of the 5,000 young people have to stay in special asylum shelters. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

In Aargau, 30 of 240 children and adolescents are staying with a Swiss family. The Koch family in Dietwil took on an underage Afghani nine months ago. The young asylum seeker had fled his home country without his family and didn’t speak a word of German when he arrived in Switzerland. Today he attends the normal state school, but still needs private teaching from his foster parents.

The Kochs have four children of their own. The young Afghani has quickly become part of the family. He calls his foster mother “mum” and spends a lot of time with his foster brothers. His goal is to become fully integrated in Swiss society and to find an apprenticeship in the skilled trade sector. The family also gets extra support from a social worker with bureaucracy and communicatin...

Title: Weighing up the cost of childcare
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Switzerland is home to the world’s most expensive childcare costs and some parents are better off looking after the children themselves. To change this, the government is suggesting introducing special tax breaks. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

For many Swiss families childcare is a big financial burden. Three days a week in a non-subsidised crèche can easily cost CHF20,000 or more a year. Even though parents can deduct some of the costs from their taxes, some still can’t afford it. The cabinet now wants to raise the deductible amount.

Not everybody’s in favour of the cabinet’s proposal. Some say that a higher tax break would put others at a disadvantage. But what exactly is cabinet proposing?

Today parents who have childcare can deduct up to CHF10,000 from their federal taxes. Cabinet proposes raising this maximal deductible to CHF25,000. In addition cabinet would like to harmonise cantonal tax breaks. Today they vary from between CHF19,000 and CHF...

Title: How to operate a nuclear reactor
Runtime: 4:38
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: What is the point of training people how to operate a nuclear reactor in a power plant that is about to close down? Swiss Public Television goes to Mühleberg to find out. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Sensational Roman find exhibited
Runtime: 2:39
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Last summer, a farmer in Aargau found some ancient Roman coins on his orchard. He called the archaeological service, which then excavated more than 4,000 coins. Those can now be seen at the Vindonissa Museum in Brugg. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: The cost of educating refugee children
Runtime: 1:53
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: An estimated 10,000 refugee children will attend a Swiss school this year. This is a challenge for public schools which can rarely offer integration classes owing to cost-cutting measures. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Bashar al-Assad speaks to Swiss television

Title: Bashar al-Assad speaks to Swiss television
Runtime: 20:53
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In an interview with Swiss public television, SRF, aired on Wednesday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied government forces bombed hospitals indiscriminately.
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Title: The return of chestnuts from Ticino
Runtime: 1:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In recent years, Ticino chestnut harvests have been modest or even non-existent. This was due to disease and an immigrant wasp. This year, the trees have turned a new leaf. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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Title: Carpenters break clapping world record
Runtime: 1:17
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Over 1,000 carpenters gathered in Basel to set a new Guinness record for playing a clapping game. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

The young craftsmen of the Association of Righteous Journeymen Carpenters and Slaters stand out not only for their traditional dress, but for their practice of spending three years as nomads travelling the world and refining their skills.

It’s a tradition that began in late medieval times. Once on the road, the journeymen are not allowed to return closer than 50km from their hometown. They don’t have mobile phones and are not supposed to use public transport. They walk and hitch their way from workplace to workplace, turning heads as they go. The wanderers are not supposed to go more than a week without work and should not spend more than six months in any one place.

Another tradition is to celebrate the completion of a raw building with a clapping and singing ritual. Its purpose is to remind the carpenters of the dangers that ...

Hydrogen-powered street sweeper hits the road

Title: Hydrogen-powered street sweeper hits the road
Runtime: 2:56
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Over the next two years, the municipality of Dübendorf, in canton Zurich, will be testing a hydrogen powered street cleaning vehicle. The trial is intended to show the viability of hydrogen power for everyday use. (SRF, swissinfo.ch)
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Title: A cross-border city lowers barriers
Runtime: 2:53
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A Swiss city that is closed in on two sides by Germany and France shows its efforts to do away with borders (SRF/swissinfo.ch/cp)

The underlying theme of the Basel 2020 International Building Exhibition, “Growing together across borders”, is inspired by the particular location of Switzerland’s third-most-populous city.

Basel City, a canton in itself covering 27 kilometres (17 miles), shares more of its borders with neighbouring countries Germany and France than it does with the rest of Switzerland.

The Swiss Federal Statistical Office estimates that 55,000 people a day cross the borders with France and Germany to work in the cantons of Basel City and Basel Country.

The International Building Exhibitions, or IBAs (Internationale Bauausstellung), represent temporary urban development initiatives that spring from more than a century of tradition and are deeply ingrained into German city-planning culture. Through the years they have...

An engineer's devotion to healthy footware

Title: An engineer's devotion to healthy footware
Runtime: 4:43
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The football stadium in St Gallen was just renamed to “Kybunpark”. The man behind the name Kybun is Karl Müller, an engineer who invented the MBT health shoes. After selling the brand, the devout Christian has developed another new shoe – with God’s help, as he says. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Sailors from a landlocked country
Runtime: 4:35
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Swiss merchant navy celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2016. Up until the 1960s, the crews of Swiss ocean-going freighters were still mainly Swiss. (SRF, swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Bumper wine harvest expected this year
Runtime: 1:53
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Swiss winegrowers are expecting a bumper harvest, despite an early threat from frost and a small invasive fruit fly. The flies died out thanks to the hot weather in August and September (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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Title: Europe’s highest wind park
Runtime: 4:50
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Europe's highest wind park is being built on the Griespass in Canton Valais. From spring 2017, it will produce electricity for 2,800 households. More wind parks planned for Valais are being opposed by residents in built up areas. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Building more thrills on the mountains
Runtime: 3:02
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The "Thrill Walk" walkway 200 metres high above an abyss opened on the Schilthorn peak in the Bernese Alps this summer. Alpine destinations are increasingly reliant on this kind of attraction to attract more tourists. (SRF, swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Manufacturing opportunities with robots
Runtime: 1:49
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Swiss manufacturing is often associated with quality and precision. Automation could soon be part of the equation too. (srf/swissinfo.ch/cp)

According to an index by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Switzerland is top in the world when it comes to innovation, but it’s also faced with some of the highest labour costs in the world. Robots could be the solution.

Martin Frauenfelder, managing director of Paro AG, which manufactures assembly line production machines in canton Solothurn, points out that if Switzerland is to stay competitive it needs to invest in automation.

This has been the case of the precision mechanics company Aegerter Swiss Technology AG, in canton Bern, which is well on the way to having its whole production line run by robots.

Automation presents Swiss companies also with a niche of opportunities, related with the uninterrupted running of automated production lines. This is the case of the famil...

Title: No work for paraplegics
Runtime: 2:26
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A third of paraplegics or tetraplegics have difficulty finding work, even if employment is key to rehabilitation. But finding understanding employers is not easy. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
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Swiss Freiberg breed fights for recognition

Title: Swiss Freiberg breed fights for recognition
Runtime: 1:58
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Swiss Freiberg breed is trying to shake off its work horse image. The pedigree that used to be popular with the army and famers was recently on show at the Marché-Concours horse show in Saignelégier, canton Jura. (SRF/swisisnfio.ch)

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Reinventing the old fashioned school desk

Title: Reinventing the old fashioned school desk
Runtime: 2:13
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: New classroom furniture is better adapted for the mobility of students and the use of electronic teaching equipment. (RTS/swisisnfo.ch)
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How Graubünden integrates asylum seekers in the job market

Title: How Graubünden integrates asylum seekers in the job market
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: People fleeing conflict or persecution have to battle to be recognised as refugees by countries like Switzerland. It's another challenge to integrate into a foreign culture, especially without a job. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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Title: Keeping data safe in a mountain
Runtime: 2:42
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: If every byte of information on the internet needs a physical location where it’s stored, one of the safest places to keep this data might be inside a Swiss mountain. (Carlo Pisani, swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Too proud to go on welfare
Runtime: 5:05
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Brogers have been entitled to welfare for the past 20 years but have never taken payments. It's a matter of pride for the couple. It would also mean giving up their 13 dogs. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Swiss-backed show helps Kosovars find jobs

Title: Swiss-backed show helps Kosovars find jobs
Runtime: 3:19
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Swiss development aid is being used to help finance a Kosovo TV show in which young unemployed people pitch for a job. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Title: Ex-cop starts hermit job in Solothurn
Runtime: 1:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A former policeman has started his new job as the resident hermit in a gorge near the Swiss town of Solothurn. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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3D printers help surgeons do a better job

Title: 3D printers help surgeons do a better job
Runtime: 4:09
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Surgeons in Bern now practise risky procedures on models created by 3D printers, before trying them on real patients. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Commuters paid to spy on public transport

Title: Commuters paid to spy on public transport
Runtime: 3:12
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Swiss public services are now under scrutiny from spies posing as customers, hired by the government to check the cleanliness of services and whether people get what they pay for. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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