In today’s episode of our Inside Geneva podcast we look at the Rwandan genocide, 30 years after the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis by Hutu militias.

Why couldn’t we stop it? And have we learned anything from it?

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More and more cocaine continues to enter Europe, and customs officials at Zurich Airport are among officials trying to curb the illegal trade. Swiss public television, SRF, spent the day with them to find out how they search for the addictive drug.

In 2023, the Zurich cantonal police seized around 64kg of cocaine, 10kg of heroin, 566kg of khat, 64kg of marijuana and 20kg of hashish during checks on travellers at Zurich Airport. 35 people were arrested.
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Forensic science is critical in the search for justice and the fight against impunity. Africa suffers from a dearth of forensic pathologists and Switzerland is helping to boost their numbers with training.  In Mexico, forensic scientists need support to help identify the tens of thousands of victims of Mexico’s drugs war. The University Centre of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva (CURML) is developing tools to find graves.

Articles and videos on forensic training in African countries (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/why-legal-medicine-in-africa-needs-a-boost/48996002) and Mexico (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/hope-never-dies-swiss-help-mexicans-tackle-enforced-disappearances/48940210) are available on swissinfo.ch (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/) . For other science

The world is marking 30 years since the Rwandan genocide. Inside Geneva talks to those who witnessed it. 

“We came to one village where there were a few survivors and a man came to me with a list and said ‘look, the names have been crossed out one by one, entire families, they were killing everybody from those families,’” says Christopher Stokes, from Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). 

Charles Petrie, former United Nations (UN) humanitarian coordinator, recalls: “She thought there was a good chance that the Interahamwe [militia] would find the kids, the children, and she said, ‘pray that they don’t hack them to death, pray that they shoot them’”. 

Why was it not prevented? 

“The paralysis of the UN system, the paralysis of all the major players to respond to what

Today marks one year since the outbreak of the civil war in Sudan.

The conflict has led to a devastating humanitarian crisis.

Last year, we examined what the UN and humanitarian agencies here in Geneva can do to either prevent such conflicts from occurring or help ease the suffering.

Listen to this episode of our Inside Geneva podcast to learn more.

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Here are three news stories from Switzerland this week. 🇨🇭

It’s nearly 20 years since Concorde made its final commercial flight, ending the first era of supersonic travel. A Swiss start-up, Destinus, is part of a new generation of aviation pioneers trying to re-introduce high-speed travel using clean hydrogen. The goal is ambitious: to develop a 400-passenger hypersonic aircraft that can take you anywhere on earth within half a day.
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Over the past two years, experts have unearthed thousands of Roman military artefacts littering a hillside in southeast Switzerland. The first Roman battle site ever discovered in the Alpine country offers clues about what happened there over 2,000 years ago.

The article related to this episode and the video interview (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-&-tech/swiss-roman-battle-site-reveals-hidden-secrets-of-historic-clash/49004988) is available on swissinfo.ch (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/) . For other science stories from Switzerland please go to www.swissinfo.ch/science (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/topic/science/) .

Jounalist: Simon Bradley (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/author/simon-bradley/)
Audio editor/video journalist: Michele Andina

Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin, who works and lives in Switzerland, is our guest in On the Record. He talks about how to defend Russian culture, how he witnessed Switzerland welcome dirty money with open arms and asks whether Russia and Ukraine will ever be able to reconcile in the future.

Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/RcFh4iyBq78
See more episodes in our special series ‘On The Record’: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfpcqY4d92c4psIrgfbX03PDhj2gwpI3h&feature=shared
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Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin, who works and lives in Switzerland, is our guest in On the Record. He talks about how to defend Russian culture, how he witnessed Switzerland welcome dirty money with open arms and asks whether Russia and Ukraine will ever be able to reconcile in the future.

Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin may live in the peaceful village of Laufen but the war his country wages against Ukraine is a constant source of torment. "How do you explain to people there [in Russia] that they are fascists?" he asks in an interview with SWI swissinfo.ch.

Shishkin has been living in Switzerland since 1994. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he follows the horrors of war through Telegram channels. "It hurts to be Russian," he says. "How can one be

Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin, who works and lives in Switzerland, is our guest in On the Record. He talks about how to defend Russian culture, how he witnessed Switzerland welcome dirty money with open arms and asks whether Russia and Ukraine will ever be able to reconcile in the future.

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Offering ageing workers a chance to retire later could help plug Switzerland’s historic labour shortage in some key sectors. The Swiss recently voted against raising the pension age to 66, but could there be some wiggle room?

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Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin, who works and lives in Switzerland, is the main character of the new episode of On The Record. He talks about how to defend Russian culture, how he witnessed Switzerland welcome dirty money with open arms and asks whether Russia and Ukraine will ever be able to reconcile in the future. The full interview will be published on Thursday.

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In Inside Geneva this week we get an eyewitness account of a mission to supply Gaza’s hospitals.

 Chris Black, World Health Organisation: ‘People have told me oh you must be very brave for going to Gaza. I don’t think so, I think what’s brave is the people who have been doing this work since early October, and who go back every day, to do it again and again and again.’

 Aid agencies say nowhere is safe in Gaza

 Chris Black, World Health Organisation: ‘A woman with her young child saying to me, are we safe here? And I wanted to say to her ‘You’re in the grounds a hospital, this is a protected space, you should be safe here’.  But I couldn’t say to her ‘you’re safe here.’’

And we hear from human rights defenders who have come to Geneva, hoping for support.

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It’s 20 years since Concorde made its final commercial flight, ending the first era of supersonic travel. A Swiss start-up is part of a new generation of aviation pioneers trying to re-introduce high-speed travel using clean hydrogen. But the road ahead is long and expensive.

The article related to this episode and the video interview (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/swiss-start-up-destinus-enters-hypersonic-flight-race-powered-by-hydrogen/48993264) is available on swissinfo.ch (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/) . For other science stories from Switzerland please go to www.swissinfo.ch/science (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/topic/science/) .

Video journalist: Julie Hunt (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/author/julie-hunt/)
Audio editor: Michele Andina

In this video the German experimental physicist Herwig Franz Schopper looks back at some of his highlights and encounters during his career and shares some personal thoughts on research. Herwig Schopper was the director general of CERN from 1981 to 1988. This February he turned 100 years old.

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Researchers in Zurich are using drones to collect environmental DNA (eDNA) in a technique combining robotics and genetics that could change our understanding of Earth’s biodiversity.

The article related to this episode and the video interview (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/drones-capture-dna-in-cutting-edge-biodiversity-research/48663208) is available on swissinfo.ch (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/) . For other science stories from Switzerland please go to www.swissinfo.ch/science (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/topic/science/) .

Jounalist: Zeno Zoccatelli (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/author/zeno-zoccatelli/)
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Here are three news stories from Switzerland you shouldn’t have missed this week.

Head over to SWI swissinfo.ch for the latest from the Alpine country.

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, was created in 1948 to support Palestinians who lost their homes and livelihood when Israel was created.

The agency was supposed to be temporary, but 75 years later, UNRWA is still here and now it’s in the eye of a political and media storm. Israel alleges that some UNRWA staff were involved in the October 7 attacks. The UN opened a formal investigation.

So, what is UNRWA? What does it do? And why is Israel suspicious of it?

Listen to our Inside Geneva podcast to find out 👉https://youtu.be/gT1KgKa0Rq0

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A new type of extreme sport is making people see red in the Alpine town of Lauterbrunnen: tandem BASE jumping. This is when someone leaps off a clifftop strapped to an experienced jumper wearing a wingsuit and a parachute. The Swiss BASE Association says it’s very dangerous and brings BASE jumping into disrepute.
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The Swiss defence ministry wants to decommission F-5 Tiger aircraft at the end of 2027. ✈️

This would mean the end of the Patrouille Suisse aerobatic squadron in its current form. “Patrouille Suisse will no longer be able to fly on jet aircraft if the Tiger is gone,” said Major General Merz.

Due to the current financial situation, the army is prioritising its funds for new equipment.

Read more 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/air-force-to-decommission-patrouille-suisse-jets-at-the-end-of-2027/73758690
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For deaf or hearing-impaired people, going to a concert might be a challenge. Despite access to culture being a human right, cultural participation is not a given for people with sensory disabilities.

In Switzerland, several associations are working to fill the gaps in the system, offering audio-description for theatre plays and movies, and haptic vests for concerts.

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In 2024, four billion of us can vote in elections. Can democracy survive artificial intelligence (AI)? Can the UN, or national governments, ensure the votes are fair? 

“Propaganda has always been there since the Romans. Manipulation has always been there, or plain lies by not very ethical politicians have always been there. The problem now is that with the power of these technologies, the capacity for harm can be massive,” says Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social & Human Sciences & AI Ethics at UNESCO.

Analyst Daniel Warner continues: “I’m worried about who’s going to win. But I’m also worried about whether my vote will count, and I’m worried about all kinds of disinformation that we see out there now. More than I’ve ever seen before.” 

Are deep fakes the

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In 1948 the UN created UNRWA, the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency. It was supposed to be temporary – to support Palestinians who lost their homes and livelihoods when Israel was created. But 75 years later, UNRWA is still there. Inside Geneva asks what does it do and why is Israel suspicious of it?
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Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva are taking the next steps towards creating a huge particle collider. With the Future Circular Collider (FCC), they want to search for new physics and answer fundamental questions about our universe. We visited the CERN sites to learn more about particle physics and their plans.

The video version of this episode (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/what-cern-s-next-generation-particle-collider-could-look-like/48833244) and other science stories from Switzerland is available at www.swissinfo.ch/science (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/topic/science/) .

Jounalist: Simon Bradley (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/author/simon-bradley/)
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Smart devices – from fridges that can order groceries to postal drones and self-driving cars – are on the horizon. They will require a new, faster network. This animated explainer video shows where Switzerland stands on its 5G rollout and looks at the potential risks that come with the new technology.

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March 12, 1999, marked the launch of swissinfo.org. The news platform succeeded Swiss Radio International, which was gradually phased out.

In this video from our archives, former Swiss Radio International/swissinfo Director Nicolas Lombard talks about the new challenges faced in 1999. 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/the-way-things-were_from-analogue-to-digital/44814880
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