hello and welcome to bbc news. banks and governments around the world are nervously watching the european markets to see if the crisis surrounding credit suisse will develop into a global banking crisis. so far things seem reasonably calm with shares in credit suisse rising almost 30% after the swiss national bank gave it a lifeline. but there are concerns that a potential interest rate rise later on thursday by the european central bank could add further volatility to the situation. earlier our business presenter sally bundock explained why the situation at credit suisse was notjust important to the financial community but to all of us: a real worry about credit suisse. if that bank, which is 160 odd years old in switzerland, were to fail, it could have the same effect that the lehman brothers collapse had in 2008, which is it brings a huge amount of fear within markets about the stability of other banks. so people therefore act very quickly and remove their funds from banks
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for seizing and getting rid of the cocaine, what about the criminals who traffic the cocaine, are they being caught? yes, in the operation, the belgian police and the prosecuter did a very nice job, we had thousands of people who have been arrested. a lot of people have been in prison, there, the authorities did a very good job. having said that, i still see that when it comes to the seizures, when it comes to the influx of cocaine into europe, this operation did not break the criminal organisation. there are still huge quantities of cocaine entering the port of antwerp, notwithstanding the fact that there have been a lot of people arrested and a lot of people have been put injail. nice results, but the influx of cocaine in antwerp has not stopped.