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🚨Update: The Valais Public Prosecutor's Office has remanded in custody Jacques Moretti, the manager of the Le Constellation bar, following the fatal fire on January 1. --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our YouTube channel.

Today at 2pm, Switzerland paused for a minute's silence dedicated to the victims of the New Year's Eve fire in Crans-Montana in which 40 people died and 116 were injured. ⁠ ⁠ The moment of silence took place on a national day of mourning.⁠ ⁠ Our thoughts are with everyone affected. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠--- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more...

Send us a text (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/915097/open_sms) This week on Inside Geneva, we discuss the key stories of 2025 that we know will continue to make the news in 2026. “The top story of 2025 has been the cuts to the humanitarian aid sector. We knew that, with Donald Trump returning to the White House, cuts were likely, but we did not expect them to be so brutal,” says Swissinfo journalist Dorian Burkhalter. “I wanted to talk about Gaza,...

Send us a text (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/915097/open_sms) Inside Geneva joins aid workers staying in Ukraine this December.  The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) supports tens of thousands of people whose homes have been damaged or destroyed. Marcel van Maastrigt, UNHCR, Odessa: ‘At two in the afternoon you might have an air alert, and at three in the afternoon people in shops and restaurants are putting up Christmas decorations, because they want to...

“I’m not the story of persecution. The story is the Russian people,” says Mariana Katzarova, the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on Russia. We joined Katzarova on her journey from Geneva to Brussels as she met UN and EU stakeholders and collected testimonies from Ukrainian and Russian survivors of torture. Watch our closeUp mini-documentary for a rare insight into one of the UN’s toughest jobs. #humanrights #freedom #justice #socialjustice #activism...

“I’m not the story of persecution. The story is the Russian people.” A new episode of Swissinfo’s mini-documentary series follows Mariana Katzarova, the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Russia, as she exposes the reality of torture, political repression and arbitrary detention in today’s Russia. The film follows Katzarova from UN Human Rights Council sessions, meetings at the European parliament in Brussels where she gathers...

Send us a text (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/910414/open_sms) Lost cells on Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/ep-1-the-promise/id1792185750?i=1000693315401) , Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/37nPXV4q2p0BSiKyOeejIv) and any where (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2424338/episodes/16475379-ep-1-the-promise) you listen to your podcasts.  SWI swissinfo.ch (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/) is a public service media company based in Bern, Switzerland.

The catastrophic collapse of the Birch Glacier that wiped out the Swiss mountain village of Blatten in May has triggered an unprecedented scientific effort to understand how a mountainside could break up so violently – and what might come next. --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit...

Send us a text (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/915097/open_sms) On Inside Geneva this week: what does international law mean to you? “When your government is not there to uphold your rights, it’s that safety net – to think that there’s something else out there, other sets of rules that can help right wrongs and bring about some form of justice as well,” says Kasmira Jefford, editor at Geneva Solutions.  The Geneva conventions, bans...

Happy Friday, everyone! Here’s your weekly news roundup from Swissinfo. --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our YouTube channel: Website: http://www.swissinfo.ch Channel: http://www.youtube.com/swissinfovideos Subscribe:...