Tributes paid to dead and injured after fire at Swiss resort
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Hundreds take part in a vigil in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana after around 40 people died in a fire at a bar while out celebrating New Year. Also: Colombia's armed forces say they have "neutralised" the main leader of one of Venezuela's most powerful and far-reaching criminal gangs; fresh research indicates that psychedelic drugs could be beneficial in treating a range of mental disorders; the UN children's agency Unicef estimates that more than a million Palestinian children trapped in Gaza desperately need mental health support and we talk to the great grandson of the Czech artist, Alphonse Mucha, best known for his paintings of graceful powerful female figures that helped define the Art Nouveau era.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and in the early hours of Friday, the 2nd of January, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.1 | Hundreds have attended a vigil at a Swiss ski resort after |
| 0:22.5 | dozens of people were killed in a fire while celebrating the new year. |
| 0:26.9 | Colombia's armed forces say they have, in their words, neutralised the main leader of one of the |
| 0:32.6 | country's most feared criminal gangs. Also in this podcast, we look at the debate about whether magic mushroom should be used to |
| 0:42.2 | treat mental health problems and... |
| 0:44.8 | We feel comfortable there. We enjoy it. We enter a garden. We enter spaces with animals and have |
| 0:51.0 | similar experiences. How virtual reality is helping injured children in Gaza. |
| 0:59.3 | First, hundreds of people joined a vigil in the Swiss ski resort of Kram, Montana on Thursday |
| 1:05.2 | evening after around 40 were killed in a fire at a bar while celebrating the new year. |
| 1:11.5 | People prayed and lit candles in memory of the victims. |
| 1:14.8 | Ilan Ashour works in the Constellation Bar. |
| 1:17.4 | One of his best friends died in the fire. |
| 1:19.7 | He told us what he saw. |
| 1:24.3 | Some friends came. |
| 1:25.4 | They called me, so I drove over. |
| 1:30.3 | I arrived, and from from there everyone was burned, |
| 1:36.5 | everyone was screaming, everyone was shouting. They'd been moved from the constellation to Bar 1900, |
| 1:42.4 | and it was crazy. It was like a horror movie. For real, it was a horror movie. I've never seen anything like it in my life. At least 115 people were |
| 1:46.7 | injured, many with severe burns. Dr Robert Larabow is the head of emergency care at Geneva |
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