vintage junker 52, dating from 1939, was on a two—day excursion flight from locarno in the south up to zurichn the north. it was full, 17 passengers and three crew making the most of the clear summer weatherfor a flight across the alps. but somewhere above the 3,000—metre piz segnas mountain, something went wrong. today, crash investigators revealed their preliminary findings. translation: based on the situation at the crash site, we can say that the aircraft smashed into the ground almost vertically at relatively high speed. the exact cause is still to be investigated. what we can rule out at this point is there wasn't any collision with another aircraft, nor with an obstacle

7,500 kilometres away in switzerland, a partnership between ibm and zurich insurance company has looked deeply into what makes a good flood resilient. in the last few decades, flash flooding has cost switzerland hundreds of millions of pounds. resilience for us is notjust a new buzzword like sustainability or something else. the big challenge of resilience is that you often don't see it until the event has happened. so what we want to have is a set of strong indicators that tell you something about what might resilience look like if something happens and then how can we strengthen those indicators, so it is all about not being derailed and not falling into a poverty trap, despite that there are risks out there. the algorithm measures all the indicators and it generates a numerical value on how resilient population is. so this helps us use what we call engineering judgement, or expertjudgement, to start sorting and organising the data so you can come up with these numerical scores things and i think that is a unique approach that we have.

7500 kilometres away here in switzerland, a partnership between ibm and zurich insurance company has looked deeply into what makes a good flood resilient. in the last few decades, flash flooding has cost switzerland hundreds of millions of pounds. resilience for us is not just a new buzzword like sustainability or something else. the big challenge of resilience is that you don't see it until the event has happened. so what we want to have is a set of strong indicators that tell you something about what might resilience look like if something happens and then how can we strengthen those indicators, so it's all about not being derailed and not falling into a poverty trap despite that there are risks out there. the algorithm measures all the indicators and generates a numerical value on how resilient a population is. so this helps us use what we call engineering judgement, or expertjudgement, to start sorting and organising the data so you can come up with these numerical scores

from zurich, ade adedoyin reports.s and he showed just why. he accelerated away from the current champion to win the 200 metres at a time of 19.67 seconds. one 100th of a second outside usain bolt‘s stadium record. equally impressive was can you's champion. he trailed morocco's silver—medallist until the final barrier but reduced a brilliant sprint to win. —— produced. can you's women put up a challenge to win the women's 5000. she will drive overnight to brussels to compete in the 1500 metres on friday night. caster semenya won the 800 metres by some two seconds clear from athletes of. sebastien vettel says he's not feeling any extra pressure —— on to cricket, and sam curran rescued england from a dreadful start to the 11th test as india had the better of the opening day's play in southampton. the home side recovered from 86 for 6 to 246 all out, with curran, who's playing in just his fourth test match, top—scoring with 78. jasprit bumrah was the pick of the indian bowlers, taking 3 for 46. the tourists closed the day

what are your biggest concerns in the insurance business for zurich?isk.urance is all about we tried to put risks under control. struggle we have is to manage the risks in a way which will generate expected results on organization. so far we have been able to do it. it's a daily struggle. we wanted to make the organization predictable and not randomly behaving. that in the last two years we have achieved that. we are concerned as everybody else's for the geopolitical risks. we see a lot of them around the world. the other big risk we see for our industry is the time, how fast is the customer's transformation happening and how quick we are in delivering to the customers what they want. this is where really we are putting all our efforts, to be as fast as possible in anticipating customer needs. matt: thank you very much for your time. appreciate you joining us. thee are a congruence -- zurich insurance group ceo. there is a lot of movement around fx. we see the turkish lira getting crushed again. the kiwi sliding to a two-year you -- low as the reserve

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flooding can also be an issue. 7500 kilometres away here in switzerland, a partnership between ibm and zurichked deeply into what makes good flood resilience. in the last few decades, flash flooding has cost switzerland hundreds of millions of pounds. resilience for us is notjust a new buzzword like sustainability or something else. the big challenge of resilience is that you do not see it until the event has happened. so what we want to have is a set of strong indicators that tell you something about what might resilience look like is something happens? and then how can we strengthen those indicators? so it is all about not falling into a poverty trap, despite that there are risks out there. the algorithm measures all the indicators and develops a numerical indication of how resilient the population is. so this uses what we call engineering judgement or expertjudgement to start sorting in organising the data in, and! start sorting in organising the data in, and i think that is pretty unique. the technology has been pivotal but also kept simple so it can be used off—line. pivotal but also kep

flooding could also be an issue. 7500 kilometres away here in switzerland, a partnership between ibm and zurichance company has looked deeply into what makes for good flood resilience. in the last few decades, flash flooding has cost switzerland hundreds of millions of pounds. resilience for us is not just a new buzzword like sustainability or something else. the big challenge of resilience is that you don't see it until the event has happened. so what we want to have is a set of strong indicators that tell you something about what might resilience look like if something happens and then how can we strengthen those indicators, so it's all about not being derailed and not falling into a poverty trap despite that there are risks out there. the algorithm measures all the indicators and generates a numerical value on how resilient a population is. so this helps us use what we call engineering judgement, or expertjudgement, to start sorting and organising the data so you can come up with these numerical scores and i think that's a pretty unique approach that we have. technology has been pivotal, but

in the center of zurich swiss police questioned one by one several directors of. the police arrived at dawn at the hotel where federation leaders were preparing to elect their new president on friday. but among those interviewed were jeffrey webb of the cayman islands and figure a tow from. both members of the executive committee and jack warner of trinidad and tobago. was the interpol behind these arrests the answer was clear no the interrogations were the result of a bilateral. changed between the swiss police and the f.b.i. . but then came an additional irony. yet the myth was interpol issued six red notices for other feeder numbers. clearly the organization was put in a position where we were handling red notice is for some of the executives and former executives of who we had a partnership agreement with and then see them all good morning even if you're short on money that's no excuse for stupid decisions. and if you ask me so she ation with the fire was stupid. so then. it's a little complicated but it's true some countries were very reticent at the start so

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you just mentioned zurich are there other cities in the world that could be inspired by your plans or that are planning similar projects at the end. of this is in the let me feel there's been a movement in recent years of major cities rediscovering their rivers. that's all major theme rejuvenated rediscovering rivers with him in one hundred years ago he's a had a different status and cities like los angeles have a long way to go to live but that city center delegation here they're also interested in making their river life with lots of parks and green areas at the moment it's just a concrete ditch. with more human kind of communication are going to be out they can get out of that well your way beyond that good luck and i look forward to seeing how it goes on to have three thank you. the easier bike trail takes me back to the city center in total it stretches over two hundred ninety kilometers starting at the source of the east are in austria and then where it flows into the danube thank god i only have to cycle a tiny part of it but still my legs could do with a little break let's see

. >>> behold the water spout over lake zurich in switzerland and meet roll gifts say it's rare to spot one because it normally happens in heavy rain. >> it's like the water is just getting siphoned out. >> the air was about 48 degrees, the water was 73. and they say this usually happens in late summer and when the weather changes, something like this happens. not the only angle that was caught from. this guy got one too. >> i like them. there's something about water spouts that they're not as scary as tornadoes. >> i think this needs to be accompanied by a nice cheese and chocolate because it is switzerland. but greece says don't leeave us out. >> never mind, that one's scary. >> look at the size of that. >> that's pretty terrifying because you're on a boat. >> oh my god. >> the person on this boat is kevin. he is a canadian. he's on vacation. he said he went out for his morning coffee and he said that came to join him. >> who angered pa side don on this day, right? >> it was the same thing. even if it wasn't greece you could see a greek god up in the clouds. the gods are angry. >> som

research is that the university hospital of zurich want to give our brains a priest so christian wolf and his team have wired up their test subjects. and the experiment begins now. although the subjects don't actually feel a thing transcranial brain stimulation involves a point electric current to a specific region of the organ in this case one of these known to influence mathematical reasoning. for ten minutes the subjects at about solving tricky subtraction and multiplication exercises with startling results the house before us when we've discovered that when this region is stimulated the test subjects get more subtraction problems right. so in other words it makes subtraction easier for them interestingly we found no effect on multiplication so it appears that this region is responsible for subtraction talked to one fan for the most. transcranial brain stimulation in general is said to hold great potential. as a student in some studies test subjects were given working memory exercises they had to remember sequences of numbers and if you do that over the course of a week using stimu

vintage aircraft now scattered across this alpine slope. 20 people had been aboard the flight back to zurichitzerland. 0ne eyewitness said the plane fell from the sky like a stone. what's left of it suggests that was the case. translation: based on the situation at the crash site, we can say that the aircraft smashed into the ground almost vertically at relatively high speed. the exact cause is still to be investigated. what we can rule out at this point is that there was a collision before the crash, neither with another aircraft nor with some other obstacle, such as the cable. junkers 52s were built and used by the german military in the second world war. the one that crashed was part of a fleet now used for sightseeing. according to the owners, it passed a maintenance check at the end ofjuly. the isolated location means there was little radar monitoring of the flight, and the plane had no black box. the question for the investigators is what could have caused such a catastrophic crash. sarah campbell, bbc news. a new report has found that china could face deadly heatwaves as a result of c

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so naturally she took her first photos of these altars in her own home in zurich. look at these astronauts my kids' parties kitsch objects from a machine instead of up like they were doing a circle dance so he could stay. constant or pick and said hey look gay astronauts on the moon goes down wall and here we have a whale from one of my daughters it's quite artistic. i've got a lot of this stuff millions of objects really it's like a collective work of art a little like. joseph boys once said that everyone is an artist you can't deny that there's a certain amount of style in these kinds of alters fearlessly composed and shaped into a simple arches but it can be confusing for other up service. what is the connection between these animals and walnut oil. and what's this. human it's not to collect things but why we also have the photo of a alter asked a psychotherapist to write some text to accompany the picture this. is a physical these secular alters have one thing in common with religious orders. and is there really great so repositories you know the items on displ

two members of the cell took a suspicious route to zurich in december 2016. flying to basel and taking a turn from it is suspected they met extremists at mosque. a week later, they and another went to brussels. we have seen evidence that es satty was regularly traveling back and forth from to belgium. he had been there in early 2016 to preach at this mopoue. a belgiace officer concerned about him contacted the barcelona police officer, but the message was only shared informally. >> it was actually real lack of information. first of all, on the belgian level, but it was also clear that there was a lack of information exchanged between thcatalan police and the federal spain place. fourn: in april 2017, months before the barcelona attacks, 8 men, seven of moroccan descent, were arrested in and around barcelona elsnected to the bru attack. we were told there were phone contacts between members of the barcelona cell and at least one person in the u.k. th person is part of an ongoing active investigation, according to french sources. it is here in france that there

we'll have an exclusive interview from zurich in about 20 minute's time. let's see whether the americans are getting the pay rises that go with that guidance. it is all about american foreign policy. for markets as a backdrop. >> that is one of the topics we will pick up. russia and the united states. a lot of foreign policy to talk about. the yen is stronger. that is weighing on japanese stocks. the chinese market getting a boost from -- is it earnings season or the p.t.i. numbers? the stabilize number and the positive t.p.i. data that we got out. we saw the ruble falling. the u.s.a. have made a final determination that russia was responsible for the may 4 nerve agent attack on the skripal s. the u.k. double agent of course. that has been weighing on the determination there. the new zealand dollar down 1%. weaker growth utlook is the reason for that. your focus on what is going on in u.s. equities. >> absolutely. one market's gain is essentially another market's payload. i'm talking about gold versus equity. gold versus equity. united states s&p. falls to

welcome to zurich store for. the flight coordinator lets the couple stay the night in the airport building for free as in the lives of the everywhere we go people are really helpful when we take off we don't know where we're going to spend the night we have no set plan we improvise i guess for some people on horrors and are you know in the world won't be spending the night for us it's really exciting and it always turns out really well in monotone that bios. undermines tomato was twenty seven years old when he emigrated to south america and worked there as a tour guide six years ago during a tour through the amazon rain forest he met talking about six months later they decided to fly around the world. i'm going to flush away he opened a bottle of wine and finished it afterward durian said you lived in colombia ecuador the caribbean venezuela and so on i want to go there to the mission i said ok take a year off no problem and i'm going to do i no longer then we opened a second bottle of wine and when we'd finished

on a cold december morning mere feet as headquarters in zurich in two thousand and fifteen swiss and u.s. investigators coordinated a raid on a luxury hotel. marine and a handful of other futile powerbrokers were arrested some than extradited to the u.s. it was an exclamation point to the corruption crisis at fee for. the thief a corruption case ranks as one of the largest criminal prosecutions by the u.s. in recent years with some forty defendants most foreign nationals half of them have pleaded guilty marine did not. nor did codefendant one and held up vote of paraquat who once was head of south american soccer he'll be sentenced next week almost certainly to prison based on the judge's comments for taking over ten million dollars in bribes himself. ok this sounds like a major sentencing how significant is it so it's hugely significant mainly because . it's the first top official to be sentenced to jail prosecutors were asking for ten years in the end they got four years. as well as mentioned the report he will be sentenced next week and this somewhat draws a line under the investi

vintage aircraft now scattered across this alpine slope. 20 people had been aboard the flight back to zurich eyewitness said the plane fell from the sky like a stone. what's left of it suggests that was the case. translation: based on the situation at the crash site, we can say that the aircraft smashed into the ground almost vertically at relatively high speed. the exact cause is still to be investigated. what we can rule out at this point is that there was a collision before the crash, neither with another aircraft nor with some other obstacle, such as the cable. junkers 52s were built and used by the german military in the second world war. the one that crashed was part of a fleet now used for sightseeing. according to the owners, it passed a maintenance check at the end ofjuly. the isolated location means there was little radar monitoring of the flight, and the plane had no black box. the question for the investigators is what could have caused such a catastrophic crash. sarah campbell, bbc news. portuguese firefighters in the algarve are struggling to bring wildfires under control as th

vintage aircraft now scattered across this alpine slope. 20 people had been aboard the flight back to zurich austria, the rest from switzerland. 0ne eyewitness said the plane fell from the sky like a stone. what's left of it suggests that was the case. translation: based on the situation at the crash site, we can say that the aircraft smashed into the ground almost vertically at relatively high speed. the exact cause is still to be investigated. what we can rule out at this point is that there was a collision before the crash, neither with another aircraft nor with some other obstacle, such as the cable. junkers 52s were built and used by the german military in the second world war. the one that crashed was part of a fleet now used for sightseeing. according to the owners, it passed a maintenance check at the end ofjuly. the isolated location means there was little radar monitoring of the flight, and the plane had no black box. the question for the investigators is what could have caused such a catastrophic crash. sarah campbell, bbc news. let's brief you on some of the other stories making

vintage junker 52, dating from 1939, was on a two—day excursion flight from locarno in the south up to zurichh. it was full, 17 passengers and three crew making the most of the clear summer weatherfor a flight across the alps. but somewhere above the 3,000—metre piz segnas mountain, something went wrong. today, crash investigators revealed their preliminary findings. translation: based on the situation at the crash site, we can say that the aircraft smashed into the ground almost vertically at relatively high speed. the exact cause is still to be investigated. what we can rule out at this point is there wasn't any collision with another aircraft, nor with an obstacle such as a cable. but establishing exactly what happened will take some time. the elderly plane had no black box flight recorder, and the remote alpine location of the crash means there was little radar monitoring. the scene of the accident remains closed. the bodies of the victims — 17 from switzerland and three from austria — are still being recovered. imogen foulkes, bbc news, berne. let me bring you the latest on the extreme w

could also be an issue. 7,500 kilometres away here in switzerland, a partnership between ibm and zurich good flood resilient. in the last few decades, flash flooding has cost switzerland hundreds of millions of pounds. resilience for us is not just a new buzzword like sustainability or something else. the big challenge of resilience is that you don't see it until the event has happened. so what we want to have is a set of strong indicators that tell you something about what might resilience look like if something happens and then how can we strengthen those indicators, so it's all about not being derailed and not falling into a poverty trap despite that there are risks out there. the algorithm measures all the indicators and generates a numerical value on how resilient a population is. so this helps us use what we call engineering judgement, or expertjudgement, to start sorting and organising the data so you can come up with these numerical scores and i think that's a pretty unique approach that we have. technology has been pivotal, but also kept simple so it can be used off—line. you n

police in the swiss city of zurich are urging owners to buy shoes for their dogs to protect their pawslaunched the "hot dog campaign" — aimed at educating dog owners on how to protect their four—legged friends from overheated pavements. here in singapore, the asean regional meeting is getting underway this weekend — and representatives from non—member states are going to be here too. north korean foreign minister ri yong—ho will be here, as will be the american secretary of state, mike pompeo, who has been to north korea a few times since the summit between president trump and kimjong—un here injune. but it's not clear whether the two foreign ministers will actually meet on this occasion. with me is james crabtree, associate professor at lee kuan yew school of public policy. welcome to the programme. mike pompeo is in town, what is he likely to achieve at this meeting, considering there has been a code of conduct that china has finally agreed to that will lay the groundwork for how to behave in the south china sea. he has a lot of work to do. he is trying to damp down fears about the t

on a cold december morning near phoebus headquarters in zurich in two thousand and fifteen swiss and u.s. investigators coordinated a raid on a luxury hotel. marine and a handful of other futile powerbrokers were arrested some than extradited to the us it was an exclamation point to the corruption crisis at. the feet a corruption case ranks as one of the largest criminal prosecutions by the us in recent years with some forty defendants most foreign nationals half of them have pleaded guilty marine did not. nor did codefendant one and held the poto of paraquat who once was head of south american soccer he'll be sentenced next week almost certainly to prison based on the judge's comments for taking over ten million dollars in bribes himself. while spanish football has barely started the new league season the players are now threatening to strike after a meeting in madrid the captains of all twenty illegal sides including real madrid sergio ramos released a joint statement it condemned the league's decision to play one regular season game in north america. strike action has not been rul