More questions about Swiss fire
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Officials investigating the ski resort fire in Switzerland say they're focussing on the bar's safety measures. Also: Iranian officials warn the US against intervention over protests; swapping life in the US for life in Russia; Argentina's 'tax innocence law'; the AI chatbot, Grok, says it will fix safeguards; and Venus Williams wins a wild-card entry to the Australian Open.
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| 0:36.3 | The latest on the investigation into the deadly |
| 0:39.3 | fire at a Swiss ski resort. Everything leads us to think that the fire started from sparkling |
| 0:46.3 | candles or sparklers which were put on bottles of champagne that was moved too close to the ceiling. Why hundreds of billions of dollars are |
| 0:57.1 | stashed under mattresses in Argentina. As Donald Trump warns Iran, the US will intervene to protect |
| 1:04.0 | protesters. There's fighting talk from Tehran. The United States and colonialists are always |
| 1:09.8 | bullying and plundering the world. |
| 1:12.2 | We must steadfastly uphold our own policies and unite as one. |
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| 1:21.3 | But there was just this flood of emails that I kept getting from people who were like, |
| 1:25.2 | we want to move to Russia to escape a terrible American tyranny. |
| 1:28.8 | I was just like, oh, man, guys, the graph of all the greening other side of the fence. |
| 1:33.1 | The Americans moving to President Putin's Russia, |
| 1:36.3 | and U.S. tennis star Venus Williams will compete in the Australian Open at the age of 45. |
| 1:46.4 | A fire which killed 40 people at a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Kram, Montana, |
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