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[00:00:18] Good day, dear viewers, events
[00:00:20] of the day.
[00:00:24] Miners from Zenica spent their second night
[00:00:26] days I received a call again, I went to protesting in the Raspotočje pit.
[00:00:31] Several fires recorded in HNC, firefighters still on
[00:00:35] the field near Konjic.
[00:00:38] The Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina has officially applied for
[00:00:41] accession to the Sepa
[00:00:42] area.
[00:00:47] 18 miners from the Mrkog Guglja Zenica mine have spent their second night
[00:00:51] in the Raspotočje pit, where they decided
[00:00:54] to stay in protest due to delayed salaries and
[00:00:57] the inability to validate their health insurance cards in the
[00:01:00] health insurance institute of the
[00:01:03] Zenica-Doboj Canton, confirmed by the Vice-President of the Trade Union
[00:01:07] Elverdin Alić. The problem with the inability to validate
[00:01:10] cards and thus receive treatment also affects
[00:01:13] miners from Breza and Kakanj.
[00:01:17] And in the Mrkog Uglja Kakanj mine, the workers' disobedience has ended and
[00:01:21] the miners have resumed production. So this morning at
[00:01:24] 9 a.m., we had a meeting with the president of
[00:01:27] the Breza Trade Union, Jasmin Telalović, and myself,
[00:01:30] with the director of the health insurance institute, and an
[00:01:33] agreement was reached that the Akanj Mine will pay
[00:01:36] 250,000 monthly, the Breza mine
[00:01:39] 130 for the validation of
[00:01:41] cards. So the workers' disobedience was
[00:01:45] interrupted about half an hour ago.
[00:01:49] Will that agreement be valid until the end of the year, or will
[00:01:52] it be valid in the future? So,
[00:01:55] the directors have signed statements that they will pay those funds. The director of
[00:01:59] the institute will be in communication with the trade union and claims that
[00:02:03] we will not have any problems with the validation of
[00:02:07] probably has an advantage over cards in the upcoming
[00:02:07] period.
[00:02:11] At this moment, a press conference of the Health
[00:02:15] Insurance Institute of the Zenica-Doboj Canton is beginning. Information on
[00:02:18] the current situation in the healthcare system of this canton
[00:02:22] caused by debts for unpaid mandatory health
[00:02:26] insurance contributions, which have exceeded 175 million KM, will be presented.
[00:03:10] Can we? Ah, esteemed media representatives, distinguished guests, first of all, I would like to greet you and
[00:03:13] thank you for coming.
[00:03:17] Mm, today we will have a press conference on the state of
[00:03:20] healthcare in Zedov Canton caused by this debt of
[00:03:24] 175 million convertible marks, on
[00:03:28] the problems we are solving with...
[00:03:31] the owners of the mines, with the mines.
[00:03:34] What I am extremely honored about today is that we have Mr.
[00:03:38] Abdel Fazlić,
[00:03:41] president of the trade union of miners of
[00:03:45] Kakanj Mine, Mr.
[00:03:47] Jasmin Telalović, representative of the trade union of miners of
[00:03:51] Breza Mine, also present here is Dr. Elvis
[00:03:53] Cikotić, representative of the trade union of
[00:03:56] what is the actual amount, given doctors of Zenica-Doboj Canton. Mr. Amir Mujkić,
[00:04:00] president of the Association of War Military Invalides,
[00:04:03] Federation of War Military
[00:04:06] Invalides, Mr. Boris Crljenica, president of the Association of
[00:04:10] Oncology Patients SnoP, and
[00:04:13] president of the Coalition of Associations of Persons with
[00:04:16] Disabilities, Mr. Harun Ali Efendić. And I would also
[00:04:19] add here that Mr. Zain
[00:04:23] Begić, president of the independent trade union of
[00:04:26] workers employed in healthcare in the Federation, the cantonal
[00:04:30] organization of Zedov Canton,
[00:04:33] expressed support for the Health Insurance Institute in collecting these
[00:04:37] receivables. Mr. Begić is currently unable to attend today's
[00:04:40] press conference due to health reasons, so he sent
[00:04:44] us
[00:04:46] a meeting with a written uh support that you have already received.
[00:04:49] Uh, what we wanted to
[00:04:53] discuss today at this press conference are
[00:04:57] the problems that have arisen with the mines in
[00:05:00] the Zenica-Doboj Canton area. Today, I am
[00:05:03] speaking only as the director of the Health Insurance Institute of the Zenica-Doboj
[00:05:06] Canton. I am speaking as a responsible person who is obliged to warn the public
[00:05:10] about how the financial stability of the healthcare system
[00:05:13] is threatened, and when there is a serious threat to
[00:05:17] the realization of rights from mandatory health
[00:05:19] insurance. This is not a political issue,
[00:05:23] this is not an issue of jurisdiction that will be
[00:05:26] transferred from one institution to another. This is a matter of people's
[00:05:29] health, this is a matter of respecting the law, and this is
[00:05:33] a matter of responsibility. For months, the Health
[00:05:36] Insurance Institute has been warning that the non-payment of health insurance contributions for
[00:05:40] miners is not a problem that will disappear if we stop
[00:05:43] talking about it. On the contrary, every day it becomes larger
[00:05:47] and leaves more serious consequences. Today we are talking
[00:05:50] about a debt already exceeding 175 million
[00:05:53] convertible marks. Someone will say it's just a number. I
[00:05:57] say it's not just a number. Those are medicines
[00:06:00] that haven't been bought, that is medical equipment that hasn't been
[00:06:02] procured.
[00:06:05] Those are preventive programs that haven't been expanded. Those are
[00:06:08] orthopedic aids that are financed from the same system. Those are funds for spa
[00:06:12] climate treatment for our insured. Those
[00:06:15] are investments that could have improved the healthcare of every citizen
[00:06:18] of the Zenica-Doboj Canton. The healthcare system cannot
[00:06:21] function, it can only function on promises. It can
[00:06:25] only function on lawful and regular payment of
[00:06:28] contributions. We particularly want to emphasize one fact: when discussing
[00:06:32] this problem, it often creates the impression that it
[00:06:35] exclusively concerns miners.
[00:06:37] It doesn't.
[00:06:40] If the health fund remains without tens of millions of convertible marks,
[00:06:44] the consequences are felt by all insured persons. Children
[00:06:47] waiting for their therapies feel it, pensioners who need medicines
[00:06:51] feel it, oncology patients feel it,
[00:06:54] every healthcare institution that wants to improve the quality of its
[00:06:57] services feels it. Therefore, this is not a problem of one
[00:07:00] profession; this is a problem of the entire healthcare
[00:07:02] system. I want to clearly state
[00:07:06] the following: the Institute did not remain silent; we sent letters,
[00:07:10] initiated meetings, proposed solutions, showed readiness for
[00:07:13] compromise, sought dialogue, sought cooperation,
[00:07:17] sought the minimum that would allow no miner to be left without health
[00:07:20] insurance. Unfortunately, no concrete implementation has
[00:07:24] occurred. What I told you in this
[00:07:28] part is the thing that was the last straw
[00:07:31] for us, which is the decision of the government
[00:07:34] of the Federation to only pay contributions for pensioners
[00:07:38] who are going into retirement for pension and disability insurance, where they omitted
[00:07:41] health insurance. And thereby
[00:07:44] they endangered the health insurance system because these miners who retired
[00:07:48] were provided with health services, but they
[00:07:51] did not bother to include us in
[00:07:55] that program for the retirement of those miners, because
[00:07:58] it used to be like this: when a miner went into retirement, all
[00:08:02] obligations to the state were settled, and he retired, but this time they
[00:08:05] omitted us.
[00:08:09] Therefore, this is not a problem of one profession; this is a problem of the entire healthcare
[00:08:13] system. So we looked for, we looked
[00:08:17] for a solution that would allow no miner to be left without
[00:08:20] health insurance, to
[00:08:23] end the agony of the miners and their
[00:08:25] families. We initiated a meeting on June
[00:08:29] 2nd of this year after that first decision of the Federation
[00:08:33] Government, where we requested a meeting exclusively
[00:08:36] with representatives of the Federation
[00:08:39] Government, the director of Elektroprivreda and the directors of the mines.
[00:08:44] However, they all ignored our
[00:08:47] letter and did not
[00:08:50] respond about a possible
[00:08:53] meeting. Until the miners, until
[00:08:57] the miners in the mines mm started
[00:09:01] disobedience and until they stopped working, we did not get that first
[00:09:04] meeting. At the first meeting with
[00:09:07] m the minister, we
[00:09:11] agreed on what we were asking for. These were
[00:09:14] some, some of our minimum demands. We
[00:09:18] then asked the mines to start fulfilling their obligations, i.e., the Kakanj
[00:09:22] Brown Coal Mine, the Breza Mine, and the Zenica Mine, to pay
[00:09:25] only a part of the debt of 175 million. Our
[00:09:29] initial request at this moment was about 20 million
[00:09:32] convertible marks, with the aim of continuing
[00:09:35] to repay those debts in the
[00:09:38] future. After that, the minister promised us that we would have
[00:09:42] a new meeting in about 15 days, and that he would, within those 15 days,
[00:09:46] make agreements with the government, with the mines
[00:09:50] and Elektroprivreda. However, there were no such
[00:09:53] meetings within those 15 days, nor did we receive a new invitation for
[00:09:58] them. After that, the miners again showed
[00:10:02] disobedience by not going down into the mines,
[00:10:05] and new problems
[00:10:09] started. Mm... about
[00:10:12] 15 days later, that is, 10 days
[00:10:15] later, we were called by the director,
[00:10:18] the general director of Elektroprivreda, where he expressed willingness to
[00:10:22] solve the problem. But the solution to the problem is not in his
[00:10:25] power. Elektroprivreda cannot finance the
[00:10:29] payment of those
[00:10:31] debts from the mines
[00:10:34] in that way.
[00:10:37] And uh from that meeting I again reiterated our
[00:10:41] demands that were at the first meeting and
[00:10:44] they said they would try to solve it with the relevant
[00:10:47] minister. However, after two
[00:10:51] a meeting where the relevant minister Lakić was also present.
[00:10:55] Uh, where he said that they would try to find
[00:10:59] a solution in the government, but that they could not
[00:11:03] in the end, we actually hit a wall where
[00:11:06] there is no will from the government of the Federation to
[00:11:10] settle the debts of the miners.
[00:11:13] Uh, we came to a
[00:11:17] situation where, this morning I called the representatives of the miners'
[00:11:20] union.
[00:11:23] I made an
[00:11:25] agreement with them, because without them we cannot
[00:11:28] fulfill these requested
[00:11:32] conditions that we asked from the Federation government. They
[00:11:35] promised us support. Mm, miners can start
[00:11:39] treatment. We agreed with the directors
[00:11:43] of the mines on what they can
[00:11:46] pay at this moment. They signed agreements, and
[00:11:50] we will see now how the situation will further
[00:11:53] develop. Mm.
[00:12:00] Uh, what has been bothering us all along is how funds can be found for
[00:12:03] pension and disability insurance, but funds cannot be found for health
[00:12:07] insurance.
[00:12:09] What is
[00:12:13] my job and the job of my colleagues
[00:12:17] is to anticipate the problem,
[00:12:21] to warn about it while we can still solve it.
[00:12:25] And today, this press conference is actually what we are doing.
[00:12:28] We don't want conflicts, we don't seek excuses, we seek
[00:12:31] responsibility, we seek
[00:12:34] institutional action, we seek a solution. We want to send
[00:12:38] a message to the miners: the Health Insurance Institute is not your
[00:12:40] opponent. On the contrary, from day one, we have been looking for ways to
[00:12:43] enable you to exercise the rights that belong to you. Our
[00:12:47] interest is the same: for every miner and every member of their family
[00:12:51] to have unimpeded health insurance, i.e.,
[00:12:54] health protection. At the same time, we are obliged to protect
[00:12:58] the interests of all other insured persons who daily
[00:13:01] use the healthcare system and whose healthcare services are financed
[00:13:05] from the same fund. Finally,
[00:13:07] I want to send a clear call to the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and
[00:13:10] Herzegovina, the federal Minister of Energy,
[00:13:14] Mining, and Industry, as well as to all other competent
[00:13:16] institutions.
[00:13:19] The time for new promises has passed. The time is for
[00:13:23] concrete decisions. The time is for regular payment of contributions. The time is
[00:13:27] for a systemic solution that will protect miners and the healthcare
[00:13:30] system, because the health of citizens cannot wait.
[00:13:34] Every lost day means fewer funds for treatment. Every
[00:13:37] lost day increases debt.
[00:13:39] Every lost day distances us from the healthcare system that the citizens of Zenica
[00:13:43] Doboj Canton deserve. Finally,
[00:13:46] I want to clearly state: we are not asking for anything more than what the law
[00:13:49] prescribes and what citizens rightly expect. A financially stable
[00:13:53] healthcare system, regular payment of
[00:13:55] contributions, and equal right to health protection for every
[00:13:57] insured person. Thank
[00:13:59] you.
[00:14:03] Just a question, please. You say that we have agreed with
[00:14:06] uh these three mines, that is, with the directors
[00:14:10] there, that payments will be made as much as they can
[00:14:14] pay. For what period of time have they
[00:14:17] promised to pay, and
[00:14:21] that, as far as I know, 18 million is
[00:14:25] needed annually just for health insurance payments?
[00:14:28] How much will you actually receive according to this plan?
[00:14:31] Can it be a percentage? For
[00:14:35] one thing, let me just present one fact that I didn't mention
[00:14:39] while I was giving the speech: we have a problem from
[00:14:42] 2022. In 2022, we had
[00:14:46] payments of 400 something thousand marks only in
[00:14:49] the Kakanj mine. I don't know if
[00:14:52] there was a change in management then, I'm not
[00:14:56] aware. Anyway, after that, our payments suddenly dropped to
[00:14:59] around three, four, to 5,000.
[00:15:03] Their monthly obligation is around 550,000
[00:15:06] convertible marks. And now if you take all that into account, and we also
[00:15:10] take the year 2026 into account, that
[00:15:13] the Akakanj Mine until
[00:15:15] August 3rd paid only
[00:15:18] 628.51
[00:15:21] convertible marks for the health insurance of its
[00:15:23] miners. Monthly obligations are 550,000,
[00:15:27] over 550,000 convertible marks. What
[00:15:31] they had an agreement with the previous management, the Kakanj mine and the Breza mine,
[00:15:34] I think, as far as I understood through
[00:15:38] all these negotiations, that the Zenica Mine has already been pretty much
[00:15:41] written off. This, according to some previous agreement,
[00:15:45] the Kakanj Mine was obliged to pay
[00:15:48] 150,000, the Breza Mine 50,000. The Breza Mine has been pretty
[00:15:51] much following that. The Akakanj Mine has not been following it. As you saw, it's
[00:15:55] only 628 convertible marks paid. What
[00:15:59] I asked for as a sign of goodwill from them
[00:16:03] is to settle that debt. The Kakanj mine should pay
[00:16:07] 900,000 convertible marks and should
[00:16:11] pay 250,000 marks until the end of the year, where
[00:16:14] they expect to be able to recover, to be able
[00:16:18] to achieve maximum production in the mine, where
[00:16:21] I have their promises that they will start paying the full amount
[00:16:25] of their debts. On the other hand,
[00:16:28] the Breza Mine is in the situation it is in. They don't even have
[00:16:31] production. They are trying to dig up
[00:16:34] their own face. Uh... and they have
[00:16:38] some minimal inflows of funds. So
[00:16:42] they also expect to start production in December,
[00:16:45] where we will make a new agreement where they will increase their
[00:16:49] payments.
[00:16:53] In the HNK area, in the past 24 hours, more
[00:16:57] fires were recorded in open areas, landfills, and waste sites.
[00:17:00] In the Mostar area, firefighters extinguished three
[00:17:04] fires in Raštani and Vrapčići. Grass and
[00:17:07] low vegetation were burning, while logs and waste were burning in
[00:17:11] Buuna. In the Čapljina area, the largest number of interventions was recorded.
[00:17:15] In the Konjic area, in Čelebići, a grass and low vegetation fire
[00:17:18] was extinguished, while the fire in Kanjina, which broke out during
[00:17:22] the night, is still active, and firefighting teams are on the ground.
[00:17:26] In the Čitluk area, two fires were recorded. In Bijakovići,
[00:17:29] forest, grass, and high and low vegetation were burning. In
[00:17:33] Vidovići, grass and low vegetation. Firefighters in
[00:17:36] Prozor Rama are extinguishing a fire at the landfill in the village of Varvara, while
[00:17:40] in Neum, they intervened due to two grass and low
[00:17:43] vegetation fires on the Klek peninsula in Ruđera
[00:17:46] Boškovića Street.
[00:17:49] Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina presented the first
[00:17:52] periodic report on monitoring pre-election activities of political
[00:17:56] parties and officials before the general elections.
[00:18:00] So we have identified about 1,200 examples of potential abuses of public
[00:18:04] resources, of which 70% relate to the
[00:18:07] intensification of public works, and what you see, namely ribbon-cutting and
[00:18:11] opening ceremonies of public works in this
[00:18:14] period when we have certain legal prohibitions
[00:18:17] of abuse of public resources. In our country, unlike in neighboring countries,
[00:18:21] it is not strictly prohibited to invest and increase
[00:18:24] public spending in the pre-election period. However, it is prohibited
[00:18:28] to conduct campaigns at those events of opening roads,
[00:18:31] public works, and the like, and
[00:18:35] unfortunately, numerous such examples have passed without
[00:18:37] sanctions.
[00:18:40] The Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina has officially applied for
[00:18:43] accession to the Single Euro Payments Area, thereby taking one of the most significant steps
[00:18:47] in the process of integrating Bosnia and Herzegovina into the European payment
[00:18:50] area. The European Payments Council and other European bodies are now
[00:18:54] beginning to review the submitted documentation. This process
[00:18:58] includes a detailed analysis, possibly seeking additional
[00:19:01] clarifications or amendments, and making a final decision on Bosnia and
[00:19:05] Herzegovina's admission to the SEPA area.
[00:19:08] In the
[00:19:16] continuation of world news, I have the indispensable Esmir Milavić in the studio with me.
[00:19:20] Esmir, good day. Good day, Amir. What is the latest information on
[00:19:23] negotiations regarding the Middle East, Iran, Oman?
[00:19:27] Key actors, because America is watching from the sidelines. Yes, America is watching from
[00:19:31] the sidelines. And this is what is very interesting, that the Americans are not
[00:19:34] a negotiating party at all at this moment, although Donald Trump
[00:19:38] claims that they are constantly negotiating with Iran. What
[00:19:42] is the latest information, concrete
[00:19:45] information, is that Iran and Oman are close to an agreement
[00:19:48] and that this agreement could mean the following: that
[00:19:52] Iran will control inbound
[00:19:54] uh traffic, that Oman will control outbound
[00:19:58] traffic from Hormuz, because these
[00:20:01] two countries certainly share a border on Hormuz.
[00:20:05] Then the control would somehow be half and half, they would somehow
[00:20:09] turn into traffic controllers, so to speak. However, what
[00:20:12] is very interesting here is to say that Iran has said that
[00:20:16] it will not open Hormuz until Trump
[00:20:20] removes his naval blockade. We know that this
[00:20:23] blockade does not have much effect, because again, everything
[00:20:27] depends on what will happen on the Iranian
[00:20:31] side. At the same time, what we see
[00:20:34] in Lebanon is a continuation of attacks, although
[00:20:37] two delegations are negotiating in
[00:20:40] Rome, Israeli and Lebanese. This is what we have already
[00:20:44] talked about, there will be a problem, because the Lebanese state cannot control
[00:20:48] Hezbollah, they are too strong at this moment, so whatever these
[00:20:52] two sides agree on with the help of the United States,
[00:20:55] it will still not work, it will not end
[00:20:58] in the best way. And the third important
[00:21:01] element, uh, which is appearing more and more in
[00:21:05] reports from the field, is the Red Sea
[00:21:07] region, i.e., Bab-el-Mandeb, where the Houthis continue to create
[00:21:11] that pressure on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf
[00:21:15] countries, thereby further raising the price of oil,
[00:21:18] which is now moving there. somewhere in the 80s
[00:21:21] mm dollars and constantly
[00:21:24] fluctuates, which of course creates global
[00:21:27] problems. So at this moment Donald Trump does not have
[00:21:31] that key solution, he still, I don't know how he expects
[00:21:34] to reach an agreement if he constantly threatens the Iranians
[00:21:37] that, uh, if something happens, he will attack
[00:21:41] them, destroy them, and so on. He just further prolongs the conflict, because if you want to make
[00:21:45] peace with someone, you won't continue to threaten to
[00:21:48] attack them. So... as things stand,
[00:21:52] the crisis continues. When you mention Trump, let's
[00:21:55] go to America. How strong are these tremors caused by
[00:21:59] the victory of Abdullah Al Saed? These are primary elections for
[00:22:03] the Senate in Michigan. It's not a big surprise. He has been
[00:22:06] leading in polls for a long time, he was leading in
[00:22:09] the race ahead of this, what's her name, uh, woman
[00:22:12] and Haley Stevens Stevens, but
[00:22:16] here, the Egyptian, younger than us.
[00:22:20] significant tremors far from the headquarters of the Democratic Party. That's right, that's
[00:22:23] what's very important at this moment, the difference between him and
[00:22:27] Haley Stevens is very small,
[00:22:29] 14,900 votes, that's roughly one
[00:22:33] percentage point, but what's interesting, Haley Stevens'
[00:22:37] campaign was currently the most expensive
[00:22:40] pre-election campaign, these
[00:22:43] primaries that are being held, 60 million was invested.
[00:22:47] AIPAC, the main lobbying organization
[00:22:50] connected with Israel, with the Jewish
[00:22:53] lobby in the United States, pumped as much as
[00:22:57] 30 billion, 30 million US dollars into her campaign.
[00:23:01] The entire establishment, the entire leadership of the Democratic Party stood
[00:23:05] behind her, from the leader of the Senate
[00:23:07] majority, all other leaders, Nancy
[00:23:10] Pelosi, the governor
[00:23:13] of Michigan, everyone was for Haley Stevens, and in
[00:23:16] the end, Abdullah Al Saed made that crucial step,
[00:23:20] winning in this race. He is one of
[00:23:23] the key players of that progressive team
[00:23:27] that is coming. The Speaker of the House of
[00:23:30] Representatives, Johnson, accused, or rather, said that
[00:23:33] there is a possibility that with his victory comes an entire
[00:23:37] group of small Mamdanians. That's what they're afraid of, they're afraid of that
[00:23:41] left wing of the Democratic Party, and what
[00:23:45] the Democrats are afraid of is that a large number of these people
[00:23:48] like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, from Mamdani,
[00:23:51] Bernie Sanders, will come to the House of Representatives,
[00:23:55] come to the Senate, and where they will start changing that way of
[00:23:58] thinking of the establishment and push it more
[00:24:01] in a different direction where Israel, human rights,
[00:24:05] and the rights of
[00:24:08] minority communities in the United States are viewed differently,
[00:24:12] and how to behave towards Donald Trump. As things
[00:24:15] stand now, Al-Saed has a
[00:24:19] good chance to become a senator. We'll see how that plays
[00:24:23] out against Mike Rogers in November, but he could
[00:24:25] become the first Muslim senator in the United States in
[00:24:29] 250 years, someone said, I think it was
[00:24:33] Vance or Hekset. Vance,
[00:24:37] I think, was the one who made the statement that in three and a half
[00:24:40] years we need to prevent people like Al-Saed
[00:24:44] from becoming president of the United States, because then everything that
[00:24:48] he feels
[00:24:59] about Donald Trump and what he
[00:25:03] did domestically will not need anyone from
[00:25:06] the Democrats; the Republicans will undo it themselves. Speaking of
[00:25:10] Trump, how many years has it been since the Capitol?
[00:25:13] Five, how many, five years? When was
[00:25:17] that movie? Is it 24? That's right. And
[00:25:21] what is he trying to do now? To block
[00:25:24] a court order that gives the BBC access to
[00:25:28] finances? Well, this is where Donald Trump
[00:25:31] made a mistake, he thought that
[00:25:34] BBC lawyers
[00:25:38] uh were similar to lawyers in the United States, so they would advise their clients,
[00:25:41] "retreat, give him some money
[00:25:45] and we'll solve it," on the principle of ABC and CBS. However,
[00:25:49] the BBC, they are somewhat more dangerous players
[00:25:52] uh in legal games, and now they simply said, "Okay, no,
[00:25:56] we're dropping the lawsuit, give us that, it's in the United
[00:26:00] States, uh... practically called discovery, that is,
[00:26:04] discovery, the investigative process, practically one of the parties
[00:26:07] in the proceedings has the right to investigate everything, to get new
[00:26:11] data so that it can either
[00:26:14] uh dispute or so that they can produce additional evidence.
[00:26:18] Now what they asked for, since Trump said in one or two
[00:26:21] points uh that he suffered financial
[00:26:25] damage, they asked, give us financial data, let us
[00:26:28] see what you're talking about, let's see where that loss was, and he, as
[00:26:32] usual with the tax service in the United States and he's been doing it for decades
[00:26:36] and with all other situations, every time he hides
[00:26:39] how much money he has, how much he's worth and how much he's earned, now we know he's
[00:26:43] worth more than he was when he started both the first term and the second
[00:26:47] term, but here the BBC uh gives
[00:26:49] him practically headaches because they said ok, give it, and when
[00:26:53] we get that data then we'll ask you for more testimonies and for more information
[00:26:57] and more of everything, so he's now seeking through his
[00:27:00] lawyers the possibility of completely withdrawing from this process,
[00:27:03] practically to withdraw the lawsuit against the BBC,
[00:27:06] but I doubt that the judge in the United States and
[00:27:10] the BBC will be willing to drop this. When you mention British
[00:27:13] capable people, Mi6, the profession said
[00:27:17] assessed, no one is stronger than them when it comes to
[00:27:20] intelligence for foreign affairs, they don't have,
[00:27:24] external, external intelligence, this is a text that was
[00:27:28] published this morning in the Daily Telegraph, which says
[00:27:31] how other... intelligence agencies in a
[00:27:34] kind of research said how
[00:27:37] James Bonds are in quotation marks, because James Bond is, an officer
[00:27:41] of M6, um, the best spies in the world, meaning that
[00:27:45] it is the best spy organization in the world currently, I think Trump
[00:27:48] and the CIA will not agree, Ratcliffe will probably be angry about this,
[00:27:52] but really, I had the opportunity to talk to one of
[00:27:56] the former heads of that organization, they
[00:27:59] are one of the best, according to the opinion of others,
[00:28:03] intelligence agencies, the best intelligence agency, that's where
[00:28:06] Great Britain
[00:28:09] mm others, not just in this current turbulent
[00:28:13] period, but in decades behind us, from
[00:28:16] World War II until today, and they really have uh
[00:28:19] shown in certain situations that they can do certain things
[00:28:23] the way they should, especially when certain attacks were
[00:28:26] on the territory of the United Kingdom, where they really
[00:28:30] got information that solved those cases. Now,
[00:28:34] how much of what we see in movies, how much of
[00:28:37] what we read in books that are not fiction, that talk about
[00:28:41] how spies work, we will never know, but
[00:28:45] they say that British spies are the best in the world, should we
[00:28:47] believe them, uh, we have to believe the pictures from
[00:28:51] the borders, because they are, while many went on vacation, we are still here,
[00:28:54] but this,
[00:28:58] the good thing is that old Chinese trick, turn it off and on, and then
[00:29:01] let's see. when there's a big crowd at the borders
[00:29:04] of Europe, the system turns off, that's right, that's what
[00:29:07] is currently a problem for Europeans, I had
[00:29:11] the opportunity to cross the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and
[00:29:14] Croatia twice within seven days, I didn't
[00:29:18] have that problem, but numerous airports
[00:29:22] in European territory, numerous borders in European territory
[00:29:25] now have huge problems, because simply huge crowds
[00:29:28] are created, we already had information, for example.
[00:29:33] those who come by train from London to Paris wait for about three or four
[00:29:36] hours, they miss, I don't know, a flight or
[00:29:40] they simply don't arrive on time for something they planned precisely
[00:29:43] because of that system that, I don't know, sometimes can't read a finger, sometimes
[00:29:47] can't take a photo and citizens
[00:29:51] stand at the borders, so now they say the solution is that
[00:29:54] old good one you just mentioned, turn it off and on and let's see
[00:29:58] if it will work, or what they do is temporarily suspend the system.
[00:30:02] "They turn it off, let people pass through with the old-fashioned passport control
[00:30:06] method, practically they just stamp their passports and let them
[00:30:10] cross the border and then there are no
[00:30:13] such crowds. The European Union had already been told that
[00:30:17] it should be suspended during the summer season, but
[00:30:20] Europe did not want to accept it, and now it seems that the countries themselves
[00:30:24] decide when they see that the water has reached their throats, turn it off and then
[00:30:28] we'll see what we do with it later, but until the crowds
[00:30:31] clear up, don't..." that we are in trouble, Esmir, thank you, Esmir Milović with
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