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Why Are Some Swiss Villagers Fighting Elon Musk's Satellites?
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- Why Are Some Swiss Villagers Fighting Elon Musk's Satellites?
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- A Russian parliamentary delegation is attending a conference in Geneva despite Western sanctions and the delegation’s open support for the war in Ukraine.
Members of the Russian opposition say the delegation should not have been allowed to attend.
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- Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: Rachael Cummings
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- 27:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Inside Geneva brings you our third summer profile, with Rachael Cummings of Save the Children.
“When I went into nursing, I also wanted to travel, so nursing gave me that opportunity. That was sort of an 18-year-old thinking, ‘Okay, I can use this to travel with’,” says Cummings.
Since taking her nursing skills to humanitarian work, she’s been all over the world.
“I think one of the things I’m most proud of is Save the Children’s role in the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone in 2014 and 2015. We were able to establish – literally build, together with our Sierra Leonean colleagues – an 80-bed Ebola hospital and everything that went with it.”
Now, she’s in Gaza, grappling with desperate shortages of aid.
“Nothing came in for months, and since mid-May the UN has only managed to bring in a trickle of humanitarian supplies. But in this context, people are being starved and are on the brink of famine. The...
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- Why Are So Many People Leaving Switzerland? | #switzerland #migration
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The high immigration figures for Switzerland make it easy to forget that not everyone who arrives is going to stay.
In fact, the Alpine country has a comparatively high ratio of emigrants to immigrants.
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- Switzerland hit by highest US tariffs in Europe, hereditary citizenship and anti-slavery statue
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- How did Switzerland go from trying to negotiate a 10% tariff deal with the US to ending up with the highest tariffs in Europe? Why was an Austrian denied “hereditary citizenship”? And who stole an anti-slavery statue?
Here are three stories from Switzerland this week.
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- What got Switzerland talking in July? | Here are the top debates on our Dialogue platform
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Join the conversation on our platform Dialogue 🗣️
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- A Hiroshima survivor’s voice against nuclear weapons
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, a second bomb fell on Nagasaki.
A Hiroshima survivor recounts the stigma of surviving “hell” and her fight for peace and a world without nuclear weapons.
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- Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: Tammam Aloudat
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- 30:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles are back! In this episode we talk to Tammam Aloudat, doctor, aid worker and now journalist.
“I was born in Syria, and I spent most of my life there until my mid-20s. I studied there; I went to medical school there,” says the CEO of The New Humanitarian.
Was being a doctor in Syria his first choice?
“One of the first side effects of autocratic dictatorships is that there isn’t really work outside a few private enterprises, one of which is being an engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor,” he says.
A chance meeting with a British Red Cross official led him into humanitarian work.
“And a couple of years later, when I wanted to go out and work for the Red Cross, it was him who gave me a contract with the British Red Cross and sent me to Iraq. I mean, arguably not the nicest thing to do to someone, but it was exactly what I had asked for.”
But the disastrous consequences o...
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- From Belarus to Exile in Switzerland: Sasha Filipenko’s Story // On the Record
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Sasha Filipenko, one of the most prominent Belarusian writers living in exile, speaks to Swissinfo journalist Elena Servettaz about freedom, censorship and his exile in Switzerland.
#switzerland #lukashenko #putin #war
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- Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: Rachael Cummings in Gaza
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- 31:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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Rachael Cummings of Save the Children is Inside Geneva’s summer profile this week.
“When I went into nursing, I also wanted to travel, so nursing gave me that opportunity. That was sort of an 18-year-old thinking, ‘Okay, I can use this to travel with’,” says Cummings.
Since taking her nursing skills to humanitarian work, she’s been all over the world.
“I think one of the things I’m most proud of is Save the Children’s role in the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone in 2014 and 2015. We were able to establish – literally build, together with our Sierra Leonean colleagues – an 80-bed Ebola hospital and everything that went with it.”
Now, she’s in Gaza, grappling with desperate shortages of aid.
“Nothing came in for months, and since mid-May the UN has only managed to bring in a ...
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- Sanctioned Russians in Geneva: who are they and why can they enter Switzerland?
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- A Russian parliamentary delegation attended a conference in Geneva despite Western sanctions and the delegation’s open support for the war in Ukraine. Members of the Russian opposition say the delegation should not have been allowed to attend.
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- What exactly was signed in Helsinki in August 1975? | #switzerland #helsinki
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Fifty years ago, the signing of the Helsinki Accords was an attempt to reduce tensions between the Soviet and Western blocs by securing mutual recognition of the post–World War II status quo in Europe. But what exactly did 35 countries sign?
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- Why is Switzerland’s national anthem not widely known among its citizens?
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Happy Swiss National Day! 🇨🇭
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- Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: Video podcast with Dapo Akande
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- 23:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Inside Geneva brings you our second summer profile, with international lawyer Dapo Akande.
“I’m one of those boring people who actually always wanted to be a lawyer. I’m not sure exactly what the motivation was when I was younger, but I think I was very argumentative as a child. And everyone used to say, ‘You should be a lawyer,’” says Akande.
As a child in Nigeria, he also took a keen interest in world affairs.
“I was brought up in Nigeria and my parents had the BBC World Service on the whole time when I was growing up. So that engendered in me a big interest in world affairs. And when I saw that there was an area of law that actually dealt with international affairs, I thought, yes, that’s the bit I’m interested in.”
Once he’d qualified, he assisted on cases at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where he saw how the court peacefully resolved disputes between United Nations member states, including one be...
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- From Belarus to Switzerland: Sasha Filipenko’s Story // On the Record
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Sasha Filipenko, one of the most prominent Belarusian writers living in exile, speaks to Swissinfo journalist Elena Servettaz about how his parents are trapped in Belarus, specifically in Minsk, and about the criminal case that has been opened against him.
#switzerland #lukashenko #putin #war
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- Hunted by a Dictator: Sasha Filipenko’s Story of Exile & Resistance // On the Record
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- 26:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Sasha Filipenko, one of the most prominent Belarusian writers living in exile, speaks to Swissinfo in this episode of On the Record about freedom, censorship, and life under Alexander Lukashenko’s dictatorship. He discusses Putin’s Russia, his parents being held hostage in Belarus, prisoners reading his books, and how he survives in Switzerland as a writer. Filipenko’s novels have been translated into dozens of languages, and his voice is listened to across Europe and beyond. #Putin #War #Lukashenko
Der belarussische Schriftsteller Sasha Filipenko spricht mit Elena Servettaz über Exil, Freiheit und das Leben in der Schweiz. Ein Gespräch über Literatur, Diktatur und Hoffnung.
00:00:00 Teaser
00:00:04 Elena Servettaz meets Sasha Filipenko — Belarusian writer under investigation and recommended by Oprah
00:01:00 Sasha Filipenko’s favorite place in Basel: Grosse Bühne drama theatre and Christoph Marthaler
00:02:20 What a Belarusia...
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- From Belarus to Switzerland: Sasha Filipenko’s Story // On the Record
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Sasha Filipenko, one of the most prominent Belarusian writers living in exile, speaks to Swissinfo journalist Elena Servettaz about freedom, censorship and life under Alexander Lukashenko’s dictatorship.
#switzerland #lukashenko #putin #war
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- Worldwide curry: a Bengali artist spans East and West via Switzerland
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Since moving to Switzerland in 2018, Ishita Chakraborty has deepened the scope of her work, dissolving geographical and conceptual borders from India to Brazil.
Interviewed in her Swiss studio, she discusses her restrictive upbringing and how cooking transcends art.
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- Hikers in Nazi uniforms, local voting rights for foreigners and Emmentaler trademark dispute
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- What do you think about this week's stories?
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- New hope for cable cars and mountain huts threatened by permafrost collapse
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Thawing permafrost is transforming landscapes and presenting risks for railways, roads, cable cars and buildings. A novel scientific solution being developed in Switzerland aims to stabilise mountain infrastructure endangered by climate change.
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- Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: A Conversation with international lawyer Dapo Akande
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- 28:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/915097/fan_mail/new)
Inside Geneva brings you our second summer profile, with international lawyer Dapo Akande.
“I’m one of those boring people who actually always wanted to be a lawyer. I’m not sure exactly what the motivation was when I was younger, but I think I was very argumentative as a child. And everyone used to say, ‘You should be a lawyer,’” says Akande.
As a child in Nigeria, he also took a keen interest in world affairs.
“I was brought up in Nigeria and my parents had the BBC World Service on the whole time when I was growing up. So that engendered in me a big interest in world affairs. And when I saw that there was an area of law that actually dealt with international affairs, I thought, yes, that’s the bit I’m interested in.”
Once he’d qualified, he assisted on cases at the International Court of Justice (I...
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- Is it a good idea to let AI vote?
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Some people want to let AI vote in place of humans. Find out in this video why this might be a bad idea.
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- Teacher targeted for wearing headscarf, Israeli drones and Swiss nuclear plant remains offline
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Here are three stories from Switzerland this week 🇨🇭
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- Aare Böötle: A Swiss Tradition of Floating Down the River Aare | #switzerland #aare #aareböötle
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Have you ever tried this?
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- How Locarno became the 'city of peace' | #switzerland #locarno #peace
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Swiss city of Locarno might be known for its stunning lake views and laid-back holiday vibe, but in 1925, it became the stage for an important diplomatic breakthrough.
Why here? And what did it mean for the city?
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- Why is the Swiss flag square? | #switzerland #flags #oddity
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Square, practical... Swiss?
Fun fact: There are only two countries with square national flags! And no matter which side you use as a base, the Swiss flag will always be in the right direction.
Do you know which other country has a square flag? Take a guess in the comments below!
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- Football qualification, brave Chihuaha and ruling in favour of Semenya | 3 🇨🇭 news of the week
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- 1:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Walking through history: exploring Locarno 100 years after the peace Pact | #switzerland #locarno
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- It’s been 100 years since the Locarno Pact brought a brief moment of peace after the First World War.
We went to the quiet lakeside town in Switzerland where it all happened, retracing the steps of history and seeing how the place has changed since 1925.
Come along as we talk with the director of Locarno City Archives to get a feel for what it was like back then.
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- No house generation: the impossibility of buying property in Switzerland | #switzerland #housing
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In many countries, buying a home is slipping further out of reach for young people. Switzerland is no exception. We take a closer look at the country’s unforgiving property market and what it means for the next generation.
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- Special announcement: Summer Profile 2025 is out now
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/915097/fan_mail/new)
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- Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: Tammam Aloudat
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- 34:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/915097/fan_mail/new)
Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles are back! In this episode we talk to Tammam Aloudat, doctor, aid worker and now journalist.
“I was born in Syria, and I spent most of my life there until my mid-20s. I studied there; I went to medical school there,” says the CEO of The New Humanitarian.
Was being a doctor in Syria his first choice?
“One of the first side effects of autocratic dictatorships is that there isn’t really work outside a few private enterprises, one of which is being an engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor,” he says.
A chance meeting with a British Red Cross official led him into humanitarian work.
“And a couple of years later, when I wanted to go out and work for the Red Cross, it was him who gave me a contract with the British Red Cross and sent me to Iraq. I mean, arguably not t...
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- Truth or tale: is Swiss chocolate tainted by child labour? | #worldchocolateday
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Is it true that children are involved in cocoa production for the Swiss chocolate industry? 🍫
We received this question from one of you on social media, and since today is World Chocolate Day, we’re diving into this complex issue.
This is episode two of our new series "Truth or Tale?"! 🔎
We’re taking your questions from social media and fact-checking them for you.
Have you heard anything about Switzerland you’d like us to fact-check? Drop a comment below or send us a message!
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- Swiss branch of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation shuts down, Women’s EURO kicks off, Swiss lakes warm up
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Here are three stories from Switzerland this week 🇨🇭 Let us know what you think in the comments.
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- Amnesty International opens exile Hong Kong office in Bern | #switzerland #hongkong
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Amnesty International has opened an exile Hong Kong office in the Swiss capital Bern.
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- Patrick Chappatte: “The path for satire has been getting narrower” | On the Record
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- 0:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Geneva-based cartoonist Patrick Chappatte, whose cartoons are published among others in The Boston Globe and Le Temps speaks as clearly as his cartoons are explicit. As authoritarian regimes crack down on the press and a “caricature sits in the White House”, he aims to show “things how they really are”.
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- Starlink antennae, bear attacks and littering fines | 3 🇨🇭 news of the week
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- How to vote from abroad as a Swiss citizen
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Living outside Switzerland doesn’t mean losing your right to vote. Yet only a small percentage of Swiss citizens living abroad actually cast their ballots. Here's a short guide on how to vote from abroad.
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- Why Switzerland hasn’t got a capital city
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- 0:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Bern is home to the Swiss government, parliament and large parts of the administration, but it’s not officially the capital of Switzerland. Rather, it bears the title “federal city”. Why?
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- Why Political Cartooning Is Harder Than Ever | On the Record with Swiss-Lebanese Artist Chappatte
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Join us for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the work of one of the world’s most renowned political cartoonists. Watch the full video to discover what it really takes to create satirical art in today’s world.
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- Swiss-Lebanese Cartoonist Patrick Chappatte on Free Speech and Satire | On the Record
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Swiss-Lebanese cartoonist Patrick Chappatte talks in our latest On the Record episode about why satire remains both relevant and important.
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- Swiss Political Cartoonist Patrick Chappatte: Cartoons and the fight for press freedom
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- 22:29
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Patrick Chappatte is one of the world’s most prolific cartoonists, with his work being translated into numerous languages and published in 130 countries. Living in the Swiss city of Geneva – home to the UN and a major political hub – he comments on world events with his cartoons.
We talked to Chappatte about the current state of satire, media and free speech in the world. And we looked over his shoulder while he was creating a cartoon for the American outlet The Boston Globe.
Read the full article here: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-position/patrick-chappatte-the-path-for-satire-has-been-getting-narrower/89532782
0:00 Intro
0:32 Award from the Mayor of Geneva
0:57 A Cartoonist's Paradox
2:00 The Swiss Sense of Humour
2:37 Geneva: An Identity of Identities
3:24 Comic Reportage: A Second Passion
4:13 A Look Into the Archives
5:46 Limits of Humour and Satire
7:55 The Creative Process Begins
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- War, Peace and Cake: The World in 2025
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- 44:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/915097/fan_mail/new)
2025 has been a year of conflict, upheaval, and huge challenges to the international system.
Gunilla von Hall, Svenskadagbladet: "It all started downhill from 20th of January. Since then, it's just, well, ‘the Ukraine war will be over in 24 hours?’ Nothing happened. It just got worse. Then we had Gaza, then we have Iran, Israel. Then we had the cuts of all the aid. It's very bleak. I think we should just not give up our hope, but it looks really... We have four years."
The humanitarian work Geneva does has been decimated. Nick Cumming-Bruce, contributor, New York Times: "What is disturbing is the very casual destruction of international institutions and agreements that have been pulled together over many years, decades of works since World War II, and which for all their many imperfections are trying, with some cases significant success, to address the cr...
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- The Swiss Alps ski village that is luring nervous Americans | #switzerland #usa #trump
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- US President Donald Trump seems to be having a big impact on a small ski village in the Swiss Alps.
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- Nuclear talks in Switzerland, ETH Zurich and cow toilets to cut emissions | #switzerland #news
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Here are this week's stories from Switzerland.
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- Title
- What you didn't know about psychiatry and Switzerland
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- You might already know that the psychedelic drug LSD was first created in Switzerland, but did you know that it was synthesised at a pharmaceutical lab in Basel in 1938?
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- Swiss Reddit study on fake news stirs ethics debate
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A controversial fake news study, carried out by Swiss-based researchers on the social media platform Reddit, has highlighted the ethical responsibilities and challenges of conducting research on society.
Find out more about this study in our article:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai/fake-news-ai-study-when-researchers-do-more-harm-than-good/89435725
#reddit #artificialintelligence #socialscience
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- Title
- Gaza's Aid Crisis: The Failed Militarization of Humanitarian Relief
- Runtime
- 34:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/915097/fan_mail/new)
Israel blocked aid into Gaza for 10 weeks. Then the US and Israel came up with a new plan – without the United Nations. Established aid agencies had doubts. Inside Geneva finds out why.
Jan Egeland,secretary general, Norwegian Refugee Council: ‘We would welcome anything that would allow us to resume work for a population that is starving and that has been suffocated by a siege over two months. But this seems to be militarized, politicized, manipulated. People have to walk long distances through the rubble to get aid.’
The new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has had a disastrous start. Dozens of Palestinians have been shot trying to get aid.
Chris Lockyear, Secretary General, MSF: ‘This is not child's play. It is not a military operation. It is a different thing that requires years and decades of experience to get where we've got to now....
- Title
- Switzerland’s Underground Cargo Tunnel Plan Explained!
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Cargo sous terrain is a multi-billion-franc private initiative to build an underground tunnel system for transporting goods around Switzerland. But enthusiasm for the ambitious long-planned project appears to have cooled. Our short video explains where the project currently stands.
#underground #switzerland #cargo #tunnel
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- Swiss Army in Kosovo Explained: Why Are They Still There? | #switzerland #kosovo
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- This is episode two of our mini-series 'Swiss Eyes on the World" 🇨🇭🌍
Today, we’re looking at why Swiss soldiers are still in Kosovo – 17 years after it declared independence.
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- Title
- Inside Geneva: pandemics and climate change, can multilateralism still work?
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- 34:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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The world just agreed a pandemic treaty. But without the United States. Is it really a milestone?
‘‘It is a major step forward. I mean, just imagine if we failed. We would not only go back to the point before the pandemic, before COVID-19 struck us, we'd go back to a point much further back,” said Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein from the International Peace Institute.
But what about the global challenge of climate change?
“We're up against a ticking clock. And even though we've enjoyed successes in the past, even though the renewables rollout is going rather well, it's all too little, too late from the point of view of avoiding genuinely dangerous degrees of warming,” says climate security expert Peter Schwartzstein.
Why can’t world leaders really unite around global challenges?
‘Their children a...
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- Everything you need to know to organize your move abroad. #switzerland #moveabroad #swissabroad
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Are you planning to emigrate? This video guides you through each logistical step.
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