we had to discuss switzerland at the convention. i think yoeb could really say they were not complying and the commitment was one difference. we are sure that we are in the frame of the convention with the rules. they are still denying this. this was the only measure we took where we are still in discussion how far it fits inside the frame. >> thank you. >> the source is crucial. and the operation of international criminal and from the list of people on your commissioner's as i mentioned earlier, the former presidents of colombia, mexico, brazil and a number of other countries, that were -- it is the place where the drugs come from. the committee will be going to visit colombia later in the year because 50% of the drugs that come into our country originate from colombia. what did the commission propose as to what should happen and sorts? these former presidents who admit the war has failed, presumably, according to the commission report, what was their recommendation as to what should be done to these people? if the drugs don't come

portugal and switzerland are very small countries. when you congratulated the portuguese for decriminalization, did you see an increase in drug use? you saw an increase or a decrease? >> a decrease. first of all, yes, portugal is a smaller country than britain, but if you break britain up into smaller units, city by city, that gives us no reason why you can't get the same results. what portugal did was years ago they had a massive drug problem. heroin was ramp and aant and th moved drugs from the department and the home office to the health department. they said to the health department, you are now in charge. nobody will be sent to prison and not one person has been sent to prison for taking drugs in the last ten years. they then have either taken heroin or go to get clean needles and they have helped people who have heroin problems get off heroin. and the amount of people taking heroin dropped by 50%. >> you are a politician. the message that goes out if you decriminalize to a country like switzerland is pretty stark. doesn't it sen

many of the injured have been flown to hospitals across switzerland. help for the families has been set up. in the belgian town of heverlee, some of those families gathered outside the school gates to comfort one another, their grief clearly visible. >> this is a shock for the whole nation, and it's a real tragedy, first of all, for the victims and for their families, bit for the entire nation. it's quite a very difficult moment. >> the belgian government is offering psychological support to the affected families and says military aircraft will take those who want to go to the scene. from there, the badly mangled coach has already been removed and will be examined further as investigators look for answers and swiss police are already calling this unprecedented. johnathan josephs, bbc news. >> we can speak now to simon bradley, who's joining us on the line from switzerland. there is great surprise, puzzlement, as to how this happened at all, isn't there? >> well, the cause of the accident is still not yet known, and an investigation is underway. what we

but in switzerland, it was an uphill battle.he law passed parliament, but barely squeaked by in a national referendum with 52% of the vote. >> where nobody was really happy, but everybody could accept. >> so how is the swiss version of president obama's law faring almost 20 years after it was put in place? >> i'll show you the x-rays we did. >> everyone is now covered and the care is still top-notch. the swiss enjoy one of the longest healthy life expectancies in the world. >> we have an extremely comfortable system. i mean, the access is easy, you don't have to wait. >> tom zelckner was the swiss secretary of health from 1991 to 2009. >> hospitals have become more like five-star hotels offering health care. >> the swiss law went above and beyond obamacare. insurance companies were already banned from making a profit on basic health coverage. under the new law they had to expand that basic package, covering even more procedures. >> even very expensive pharmaceuticals are paid by the insurance plans and have to be paid. >> the sw

which made a big difference in switzerland. but most of the commissioners feel they made the wrong choices in trying to effectively do to drugs what was done to alcohol for 20 years in the america, try to deal with it as a criminal problem rather than a health problem. and, you know, what the commission did was it looked at countries like portugal, switzerland and other countries and realized that there were better ways. i mean, portugal -- >> on to portugal -- >> sorry. >> and thank you for raising portugal. it's different from the united kingdom though. consumption of drugs in europe, the three biggest countries -- the united kingdom, france and italy -- portugal and switzerland are very small countries. when you congratulated the portuguese for decriminalization, didn't you see an increase in drug use? you saw an increase or decrease in drug use? >> a decrease. you know, first of all, yes, portugal is a smaller country than britain, um, but if you break britain up into smaller units and tackle it, you know, city by city, i t

belgium has held a minute's silence for the victims of tuesday's bus tragedy and switzerland.he seller -- as ceremony was held in switzerland before the bodies of the victims were taken back to belgium. >> 22 children and six adults were killed in an alpine tunnel as they were returning home from a skiing holiday. >> at the stroke of 11:00 a.m., public life came to a halt in belgium. trains stopped running, commuters and politicians alike observed a minute of silence for the victims. >> it was a poignant moment for many belgians. >> you have to do something. i have young grandchildren. it is very moving. the minute os important to remember the children who died in switzerland. >> many used the opportunity to write in a condolence book set up at the brussels city hall. on friday, the belgian air force flew the coffins of the 28 victims back to brussels from switzerland. they were driven directly to their homes. in this town, attributes are growing for the victims. entire families have been coming here to remember the students and teachers who were killed. >> the tragedy will co

military flight. -- the families flew to switzerland.f the strictest driving regulations injured pitcher tonight, 24 people remained in hospital, three of them young children still in a coma. in belgium, a small community is morning and their nation mourns with them. >> to china now where the country's premier delivered an unexpectedly cartwright and at times emotional speech. -- the country's premier delivered an unexpectedly contrite and at times emotional speech. he said china needed reforms to protect its political gains. >> they are the men that wield enormous power. the chinese communist leaders. they divide positions up among themselves in secret. this year, they must elevate a new younger crop. behind the scenes, battles are being fought. today, we sought a hint of that struggle. some would like to entrench the party's grip into the premier in his last major press conference after 10 years at of top make a case of political reform. >> reform of our leadership system is urgent. without it, china's economic gains might be lost and

we can now go back to our top story, that bus crash last night in switzerland. we can now go live to lucas chambers. what is the latest you can tell us about the situation? >> the latest is that we now know the identity of 22 of the 24 kids injured in this terrible crash. the head of the medical staff here in switzerland said none of the children's lives were in danger except for possibly three of them who are currently in a coma and being treated in hospital about 16 kilometers outside of geneva. some kids have been able to talk to their parents. about 120 parents, relatives accompanied by psychologists are arrived a company by staff. they were immediately transferred to hospitals where they were reunited with their wounded children. as we speak right now and throughout the afternoon, some parents went through the unimaginably painful process of identifying the bodies of their dead children. as you know, 22 children died in this crash. as to the details as to why it happened, police do not really have leads at this point. all lights were green. the bus check th

that apparently is what some surviving children have told investigators in switzerland. it's one rumor, it's one report, and what the coach company here is saying is, well, it's dubious, because on those buses, the drivers are right down at road level, the children are much higher up, could they really have seen what was coming up? they doubt it. it's just one rumor, just one of many unanswered questions about how this crash happened. >> hugh, that happens very much indeed. hugh schofield there. the afghan soldier may have seen one of his friends seriously injured just the day before his attack, that's what his lawyer has declared. he's also said the staff sergeant had suffered a head injury when he was serving in iraq. the man himself was flown out of afghanistan on thursday, apparently fearful for his own safety and that of his family. from washington, jonathan blake has more. >> they were shot dead in their homes, men, women, and nine children, most killed with a single bullet. the soldier responsible apparently handed himself in. now his lawyer has spoken, suggesting

on board masters pretty akumal of switzerland on italian road and fish and find themselves on top of the current standings after the moscow leg of the snowboarding world cup. because having got his angie managerial career off to a perfect starts as the darkest side recorded a one zero win i can honor moscow in the russian premier league on monday night both teams wasted decent chances in the first half but it was on g. who got the all important goal in the second period the ball falling invitingly as you see lie in the present and made no mistake from close range one nil how it finished then and after the match coach guus hiddink spoke to our man richard dunne hopefully. i think the team serves a compliment because in this very limited time of preparation in the past eight nine ten days it was it was difficult. and not just for four for them but having such a limited short time preparation is difficult but first of all they were very committed was the us which i saw in the first day but there was no balance in the in the commitment and let's say the tactical way i like them to play b

you've got details of the tragic coach crash in switzerland. >> that's right.ss prosecutors investigating wednesday's coach crash in the tunnel in the alps which killed 28 people, have said there is no evidence the driver was speeding. 22 of the dead were school children from belgium and the netherlands who were on their way home after a skiing holiday. 24 others were injured. the coach crashed into a wall in the road tunnel near sierra. from there, christian frazier has more. >> they worked long through the night, searching for the survivors in cramped and traumatic conditions. embedded in the tunnel wall, the coach, filled with 11 and 12-year-old children, those who could had already climbed out of the wreckage but many of their friends were still trapped inside. over 200 emergency workers were called to the scene. there were 12 ambulances and eight helicopters that ferried the injured to hospitals. this pilot helped to fly out the most seriously hurt. he's a seasoned, hardened professional and struggling to come to terms with what he saw. >> when we saw the

you german lawmakers are auditing the central banks hold now reportedly members of parliament in switzerland like this with people to be able to vote to keep the country's gold business really in the country and for a bit the central bank to sell any more of its reserves why. does it come down to that is gold the nuclear option and the currency wars we'll discuss that and speaking of china and the rest of the brics what alternatives to the u.s. dollar besides big euro for obvious reasons to use for trade and investment aiming to move that along and internationalize its currency china reportedly is planning to extend the loans to other brics nations other countries in the blog are planning to do the same with loans and their respective currencies we'll talk about what this all means let's get to today's capital account. so the greek debt swap deadline was today just about an hour and a half ago now purport preliminary reports greece clear the minimum threshold to get this deal done i've seen anywhere from seventy five percent to ninety four percent of private creditors signed on according to

he preaches his hair blond to be integrated, to look as if he was from switzerland. at a football game, he is looking with all the other men, and it is italy against switzerland. at one time, the italians win. i find it beautiful and emotional at the same time. he betrayed himself through that reaction, and at the same time, it was beautiful, but at the same time, it is sad that you have to change your color or to hide it. that you have to do something like that to deny even your origin. you have to be proud of your urgent and to show it. >> you are giving me a challenge and a challenge -- giving me a challenge and yourself a challenge. what about cult? that is not something to hide behind. it is so out there, and yet, it can be quite important part of your collection. why? >> i have been very marked by the movement. -- what about punk? >> it is not like a creation, absolute. it is part of living in society. of course, the punk movement was very important. like already taken by the society in some ways. i must say that when i was going to london, i loved that. the in

belgium is holding a national day of mourning on friday toing the bus crash in switzerland on tuesday. a minute silence will be observed at 11:00 and flags will be at half mass. eight of theless severely wouldn'ted children who had been released from hospitals are now back home in belgium. in all 24 passengers survived. some are still in a critical condition. while earlier a memorial was hold the remember the 22 children and six adults who died in the accident. christian reports from zit zerland. -- switzerland. >> incomprehensive that such a fun holiday could end this way. >> the mountain village of st. luke has been welcoming this group for 30 years at the same hotel in which they had stayed. another belgium party was boarding a coach, same company, similar age. >> local mountain guide saw the children on that last fateful day of their holiday. >> they were clattering through the village, he said, returning from the slopes in a small village like this one. every child feels like one of your own. >> the coach crashed at the owned of the winding mountain road and in the first tunnel.

does the familie-- the familieso switzerland aboard a specially chartered military flight. tonight, 24 people remain in hospital, three of them eat young children still in a coma. in belgium, a small community is reading and their nation mourns with them. -- is grieving and their nation mourns with them. >> mahmoud ahmadinejad denied he had challenged the authority of the supreme leader. this is the first time since the 1979 islamic resolution that the parliament has summoned to the president. the chinese premier has delivered a strong warning on the need for political reform. he said that without it, the chinese future is at risk. he said the leadership system needs to be reformed or economic gains would be lost and china could face political turmoil like in the cultural revolution. the resignation letter did a chance to air your grievances or if you are bold enough, some digs at the management. a former executive director of goldman sachs not only got out his knife but lauunged again and again at his managers. he said that the environment was toxic. he said there was a de

>> i think i bring one further country into this, which is actually switzerland. i cover for the fiscal markets but the trend we've noticed particularly over the last couple years has been a very large movement of oil trading out of london and into switzerland. some of the most important traders now are not banks thp they are swiss-baylesed traders. that may be part of the process you were talking about. it's much harder to get full visibility on an oil market where the balance has shifted away from more regulated centers shall we say or -- and into other various shifts going on, part from banks into traders from new york and london into switzerland. and that might be an interesting development as the years go by in this particular area. >> my time's up. >> sor, can i add one point? you talked about the tax incentives. i think that's right. time changes and i think the debate would be markedly different if there was a discussion of corporate tax rates overall, that we wouldn't be in this position of subsidies and tax incentives. >> oh, i think you would. >> there

should there be bosses in switzerland? what are you crazy other people who say no. >> welcome back, greg. >> thanks, andy. >> everything go okay? >> everything went fine, thanks for asking. >> so you took care of the thing? >> it is all taken care of. >> the guy was cool with everything? >> totally cool with everything. >> we can go back to the place? >> anytime we want. >> that's great news. >> except for one thing. >> what is that? >> the thing is not taken care of and the guy is not taken care of, and we can't go back to the place. >> other than that? >> other than that it is all settled. >> welcome back. >> see you later. i hate him. she is so hot that saying her name can spark a forest fire on the moon. i am here with diane ma say dough -- macedo. she is on weekdays on fox business network. if you don't have it -- >> demand it. come on, people. he is so sharp he uses a pin cushion for a pillow. it is michael money gnaw han. and he is funnier than a mime stuffed in a troll doll stuffed into a whoopi cushion. and he sha

investigators are trying to work out what caused the coach to crash in switzerland, killing 28 people. welcome to "bbc world news." i'm david eades. also coming up in the program -- 8,000 dead and only the prospect of more to come. it's a year to the day since syria's uprising began. and in business, the united states and south korea open a new era of closer trade ties. >> hello. chinese state media have announced the major sacking within the ranks of the ruling communist party. it says the party boss in the southwestern city of chingqing has been dismissed in a scandal. bo xilai has been tipped to replace later in the year on china's most powerful body, the standing pode, as martin patience reports. >> he's one of china's most high-profile politicians. bo xilai is comfortable in the limelight and had been tipped for a top position during this year's leadership change. he had a campaign against organized crime, when he was party chief. but since last month, there has been intense speculation over his future. his police chief, shown here on the right, apparently tried to defect at a u.

and i would say switzerland became the people of being well-informed on drug issue. and we accepted the change of our police. >> thank you. >> treatment is a lot cheaper than prison. and much more effective. between 60 and 80% of all break-ins are drug related. so if you can treat people and get them off drugs they won't have the need to get their fix and won't need to break them. so if there is benefit to the individual society if you can treat, you know, treat people. >> also, could you discuss the specific forms of harm reduction and treatment that you viewed in switzerland, and particular if this was maintenance or abstinence-based? >> well, we had always oriented treatments and they are at the same level, the same number of persons. we have a huge expensive methadone substitute treatments over 30 years, and this is the largest number of treatment we offer and we have the people waiting to enter it. we have, for the same number, more or less, their treatment through abstinence in heroin-based treatment. these people were taken off the street. >> let me just say t

whose resources must be taken well first we have the situation of gold reserves we see germany and switzerland asking about their gold reserves that are held in new york but it all started august two thousand and nine germany's gold is in u.s. custody to spank confirms this is based on a documentary made by max keiser called brown's bottom and you are investigating why gordon brown sold off the you case gold supply and as part of the documentary you travel to the buddhist bank to find out why it is that they held theirs and they refused to sell there's little did you know that on march seventeenth two thousand and eight that weekend bear stearns would have been collapsed gifted to j.p. morgan and ben bernanke you on that sunday night would have slashed interest rates on a sunday by seventy five basis points you showed up at the bundesbank let's turn to this little clip here where undercover you're talking to a buddhist bank executive little did i know that on the very day first terms of collapsed interest rates have been slashed and goal was skyrocketing you know we're going to see somebody ha

it's half, half price. >> and do you have the lowest tax rate in switzerland? >> most probably, yes. >> most probably, yes. so you're kind of a tax haven within a tax haven. >> [laughs] maybe, yes. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> the population of the town of zug is 26,000. the number of companies in the area: 30,000 and growing. but many are no more than mailboxes. texas democratic congressman lloyd doggett questions whether the moves of several companies are legit. >> a good example is one of my texas companies that's been in the news lately, transocean. >> transocean owned the drilling rig involved in the giant bp oil spill. they moved to zug. >> i'm not sure they even moved that much. they have about 1,300 employees still in the houston area. they have 12 or 13 in switzerland. >> and yet they claim that they're headquartered over there. >> they claim they're swiss, and they claim they're swiss for tax purposes, and by doing that, by renouncing their american citizenship, they've saved about $2 billion in taxes. >> so here we are in zug. we went to find their operat

you have details of the tragic crash in switzerland. >> that is right.wiss prosecutors investigating the coach crashed in the tunnel in the swiss alps which killed 28 people. there is no evidence the driver was speeding. 22 of the dead were school children from belgium and the netherlands who were on their way home after a skiing holiday. 24 others were injured. the coach crashed into a wall and the road tunnel -- in a road tunnel. >> they worked long for the night, searching for the survivors in cramped conditions. indebted in the tunnel walls, the coach, filled with 11 and 12-year-old children. those who could had already clamored from the wreckage, but many of their friends were trapped inside. over 200 emergency workers were called to the same. there were called ambulances and eight helicopters. -- 12 ambulances and eight helicopters. >> when we saw the first horrific moment you could imagine how it would look inside the tunnel. >> the lure of the accident was written in the wreckage to remove this morning. so violent the impact, the front third of t

. >> coming up, it is being called one of the did list -- the latest highway accidents in switzerland history. >> nearly two dozen people dead, nearly all of them children. a ski trip that turned tragic. >> new questions tonight for a maryland lawmaker already facing two criminal indictments. this time it is about her driving privilege. that story at 6:00. >> a jury found you diversity -- at virginia tech university necklet in not telling students soon enough. two students were killed in the dorm room and went on to kill 30 more people including areas peterson and julia pride whose families sued the school. in a written statement, the spokesperson said police in the administrator did their best with information available on april 16, 2007. >> police have one man in custody after the the courthouse shooting in southeast texas. the suspect opened fire in beaumont, texas. the suspect was going to court with family members when he began shooting. one person was killed. the suspect and another person were also wounded. rod blagojevich has one more night at home. he will step outside the ch

to remember their loved ones. -- in a coach crashed in switzerland have attended a memorial service. they were returning home after a skiing trip. four teachers and two drivers were killed when their coach hit a wall in the tunnel. >> the last year of primary school and photos of the annual ski trip to the alps. in comprehensible that such a holiday could and it this way. -- incomprehensible that such a holiday could end this way. people were reporting this coach today, same company, similar age. this local guide saw the children on the last day of their holiday. >> they were clattering to the village returning from the slopes. in a small village like this one, every child feels like one of your own. >> it has been a brutal 24 hours with the parents. they had the grim task of identifying the dead. some wanted to see the crash site where their children died and they were taken by the authorities to lay flowers inside of the tunnel. the authorities have been here trying to support them. >> this is a terrible thing that has happened, a horrible accident with all of these young people. w

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