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[00:00:05] Okay, you can full speed, 23 meters. Back
[00:00:09] on the beach, its long range control is being put to the
[00:00:12] test. Make sure your radio antennas are
[00:00:15] unfolded. Back, back. This is its
[00:00:18] final attempt to land. Okay, great, great, great. Okay, go, go
[00:00:22] back. Continue moving and lower your
[00:00:25] altitude slightly. Stop, stop,
[00:00:28] stop, slowly. This up. dis arm, we are safe at the
[00:00:32] beach, scary,
[00:00:36] now we are happy, great, that must be such a
[00:00:39] relief, high five, good job, good job, good job,
[00:00:42] this is the result of year of hard work,
[00:00:46] each flight is learning experience, it's an experiment in
[00:00:49] progress right, yes, yes, it's about failing, trying again and fail again
[00:00:53] to get it to actually work, failure is a good
[00:00:57] thing, failure is a good thing, um, non fatal failure a good
[00:01:00] thing. Here, failure is not only
[00:01:03] expected, but encouraged. I can share
[00:01:06] you this secret, it's like we have been failed
[00:01:10] lots and lots of times. We iterate over our designs and
[00:01:14] failures gives us data, gives us hints, gives us
[00:01:17] experience to make it better. You turn to launch flight mode. The team
[00:01:21] hope to one day work with first responders to see their
[00:01:24] ideas fully take flight, but for now
[00:01:27] they're happy to celebrate each. and every
[00:01:31] success at the end of the day we are just like a bunch
[00:01:35] of like university students, i've been so proud and so happy to
[00:01:38] work with this team and other than just being really good
[00:01:42] like teammates i think they are also like
[00:01:46] also my friend of my life
[00:01:59] oh my god did a some result, for six seasons, tech for
[00:02:03] good has brought you stories of innovation and
[00:02:06] inspiration from across the globe. i got a good fin on it.
[00:02:10] wow,
[00:02:14] now we're catching up with some of our former guests to see how far
[00:02:18] they've come like Max Lee and Joshua chan. i
[00:02:22] first met the engineering students in 2023 in Hong
[00:02:25] Kong. we founded a startup, life
[00:02:28] sparrow, working with the... fire services to develop
[00:02:32] AI enabled drones to try to spot missing
[00:02:35] hikers. we're going to take pictures of the asearch area and then we're going to
[00:02:39] see if the image is going to pick max up. where is
[00:02:42] max? i think that's him right there, across here. that's right
[00:02:46] there, you got them.
[00:02:49] now two years on, they're back in the
[00:02:51] mountains.
[00:02:54] this time with new tech to spot
[00:02:57] wildfires all in real time. Today
[00:03:01] the team are testing their new drone patrolling system.
[00:03:04] We're flying around 40 to 45 mes above ground just to clear all the trees
[00:03:08] here. So on the left side here we can see input sensor being turned on and
[00:03:11] on the right side we can have the visual cameras feed coming back to us.
[00:03:15] Driven by user proms the infrared camera scans the
[00:03:18] environment trying to spot this controlled fire
[00:03:22] lit by member of their team. So we picked up any
[00:03:25] temperature spikes or on the right side we're picking up any type of spook trails the
[00:03:29] server. pick it up, it will detect and will alert us. so multiple indicators are available
[00:03:33] to find out if there is fire. yeah, absolutely. now your
[00:03:36] technology has developed a lot in the last couple of years. tell me how has your tech
[00:03:40] evolved? the biggest difference compared to before is we just process everything
[00:03:44] offline, which means that we cannot react as quickly as currently we
[00:03:48] do, because everything is through time now. and this is good because for example for search and
[00:03:51] rescue or fire detection, all of these kind of things you have to do as soon as possible
[00:03:55] to save as much life as possible. the team is now expanding their
[00:03:58] operations, develop. helping AI models to help with country park
[00:04:02] maintenance and maritime rescue. how has being
[00:04:05] featured on tech for good affected your work? i'll say that it definitely helped lot on
[00:04:09] getting our friends and family to know actually what we're doing more. besides that, it is a
[00:04:13] quite rewarding experience because of the program that's been ar we do get inquiries
[00:04:17] and some people that would like to work with us. we were very
[00:04:20] happy to be actually helping the public using our technology and this is actually what we want
[00:04:24] to do from the start is to help more people and then try to save more lives so then we
[00:04:28] can create better society.
[00:04:32] from spotting blazes
[00:04:35] to battling them, tech has the power to transform the
[00:04:38] future of firefighting, like across the globe in
[00:04:42] Texas.
[00:04:46] This is Firebot, heat
[00:04:49] resistant robot designed to give first responders real-time
[00:04:53] information about a blaze before they enter the
[00:04:56] scene,
[00:04:59] fitted. with thermal cameras, sensors and gas
[00:05:02] detectors, this is 136 kilos
[00:05:06] of engineering
[00:05:07] excellence,
[00:05:11] these students from the university. University of Texas at Austin developed the
[00:05:14] tech. This thing is pretty cool in general. Today, at this
[00:05:18] fire safety training center, the team are prepping it for what's called
[00:05:21] a primary search, where it will look for
[00:05:24] victim inside a simulated house fire. Right now we're going to drive the
[00:05:28] robot in. We're going to get data back about where the fire is, how hot it is, if there's smoke, there's
[00:05:32] any toxic information, and then send this all back to the firefighter can then use it to assess the
[00:05:36] scene. Controlled remotely by team lead Citarth
[00:05:39] Takor. The bot searches each room using its optical camera to
[00:05:43] give eyes on the inside, it
[00:05:46] can withstand temperatures of up to 615°
[00:05:50] Celsius for 15 minutes. we can also use a thermal
[00:05:53] cameras when the smoke gets too thick.
[00:05:57] within minutes it finds the dummy, relaying the data
[00:06:01] back in real time. firefighters do primary search in almost every
[00:06:05] structure fire and places them incredibly life-threatening situations. firebot can
[00:06:08] do it and augment their rolls and so that we can support them in...
[00:06:12] doing it faster, safer, more efficiently.
[00:06:15] The team works with experts from the Round Rock Fire department to help
[00:06:19] test and improve their design. It's one of dozens
[00:06:22] across the country they've partnered with to learn from. So I see a
[00:06:26] great ass F4 is a Hazmat incident. Today if we roll into a
[00:06:30] Hazmat incident and the industry doesn't know exactly what chemicals
[00:06:33] leaking or where the leak is at, it takes time for us to assemble a full
[00:06:37] team, put on the the proper suit to get in when this could be a quick deployment to
[00:06:41] go in, especially if it has. has gas monitors on
[00:06:43] it,
[00:06:47] their unmanned vehicles are built here at Paradigm Robotics
[00:06:51] workshop in Austin. this is years of sort of like
[00:06:54] parts and things we've developed and concepts we've built, um,
[00:06:58] you can see other tracks we've designed, you can see uh
[00:07:01] various technologies we use. Sitharth founded the startup two
[00:07:05] years ago with his old college doormate Krishna
[00:07:08] Ram, the aim to create tech to go where
[00:07:11] humans can. "there's a lot of challenges going into a room that is
[00:07:15] burning and on fire and at those temperatures uh, that changes everything
[00:07:19] from your material selection to your geometry and how you design the
[00:07:22] parts, to how long you can last and what loads and impacts you're
[00:07:26] able to take. the firebot is made up of mix
[00:07:30] of off the shelf and specially designed tech that can be
[00:07:33] modified to suit the needs of the user like the addition
[00:07:37] of a high pressure hose
[00:07:40] and it's tested on all terrains." It's made
[00:07:43] of primarily metals on the outside, stainless, tungsten,
[00:07:47] titanium, inconel. There's a lot of technology on the inside that keeps the robot
[00:07:50] nice and cool from high temperatures, as well as keeps it explosion proof, able to
[00:07:54] go into flammable atmospheres without igniting
[00:07:57] it. I mean, that's a big thing, you got the team is mentored by
[00:08:01] retired assistant fire chief Richard Davis. The main thing I would look at
[00:08:04] is usability. Who helps spearhead one of the country's first
[00:08:08] fire department robotics programs in some
[00:08:12] cases? people look at the team because they're young and they say oh
[00:08:16] these guys don't know anything and that's where people I think make mistakes, you don't look
[00:08:19] at the team, you look at the product, look at what you're
[00:08:23] trying to do, I think being young does not disqualify you from being able to do
[00:08:27] those real-world impacts, oftentimes people feel like they are so like
[00:08:30] young, they're still learning, it'll take them a while in their career before they're able to do
[00:08:34] that, I don't really think this is the case, I think you can learn a lot, and one of the things I've
[00:08:38] learned is that everyone is constantly
[00:08:39] learning.
[00:08:42] Firebot is the culmination of a decade of work forced
[00:08:46] hearth. I started working on the first robot when I was about 13. I
[00:08:50] had a backyard grill that I threw some electronics in
[00:08:53] cover them in insulation and tested it. My mom was worried I'd burn the house
[00:08:57] down and from that day to sort of building robots onwards it's been a
[00:09:00] varied journey and I've built various robots at all the schools I've been in
[00:09:04] between. While it's come a long way there's still work to be
[00:09:07] done. The next major step is to install 3D
[00:09:11] mapping tech to improve. reliability, half of the battle
[00:09:14] is not making something that works once, but works all the time, and truth be told, we're still
[00:09:18] working on that, but for this young team, no challenge is too
[00:09:22] big, as they continue to fine tune the
[00:09:25] tech to one day help those on the front
[00:09:29] line. I think the dream is to give every firefighter, every
[00:09:33] police officer access to one of these robots so that they can use it
[00:09:36] and even safer on the job. Keep moving, keep moving, from rugged ground
[00:09:40] robots to those that can walk up. the side of buildings, these
[00:09:44] young innovators are rewriting the rulebooks of emergency
[00:09:47] response. now we're happy, great, helping to keep first
[00:09:51] responders safer,
[00:09:54] all while inspiring the next generation of big
[00:09:58] thinkers,
[00:10:02] keep moving, keep moving, keep moving, keep moving,
[00:10:06] put on the
[00:10:06] gas,
[00:10:39] Good day, dear viewers, welcome to
[00:10:41] the news.
[00:10:45] Some miners are still in the Raspotočje pit,
[00:10:49] coal mines in the Zenica-Doboj Canton have been given an additional
[00:10:52] 30 days to validate the health insurance cards for their
[00:10:55] employees. Miners can start treatment
[00:10:58] with the directors of the mines,
[00:11:02] we agreed on what they can pay at this moment,
[00:11:05] they signed
[00:11:07] agreements.
[00:11:12] By the end of the show, among other things,
[00:11:13] watch.
[00:11:19] Fire near Konjic threatens houses and railway,
[00:11:22] deployment of helicopters of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and
[00:11:25] Herzegovina is expected.
[00:11:29] Heatwave continues, record low water level
[00:11:33] of the Danube. Energy crisis in Hungary and
[00:11:36] Romania.
[00:11:40] Transparency International observed 1,200 examples
[00:11:44] of potential abuse of public resources for promoting
[00:11:47] parties. Of these, 70% relate
[00:11:51] to the intensification of public works and what you see, namely the President.
[00:11:55] kindergartens and opening ceremonies of public
[00:11:57] works.
[00:12:00] Anniversary of the beginning of the closure of the Omarska camp
[00:12:03] was marked.
[00:12:10] Little good news for the miners, not enough for
[00:12:13] the 11 who are still in the Raspotočje pit.
[00:12:17] It's good for everyone in the Zenica-Doboj Canton, at least they can validate
[00:12:20] their health insurance cards to get
[00:12:21] treatment.
[00:12:25] After four days of workers' disobedience due to unvalidated
[00:12:28] health insurance cards, an agreement was reached between the Health Insurance
[00:12:31] Institute of the Zenica-Doboj Canton and the management of three
[00:12:34] mines. The mines were granted an additional 30-day period
[00:12:38] to validate the workers' cards. These are the Zenica, Kakanj, and
[00:12:41] Breza brown coal mines, which owe the institute a total of
[00:12:44] 175 million convertible marks
[00:12:47] for health insurance contributions. They need
[00:12:51] to pay 250,000 marks by the end of the year.
[00:12:55] they expect to be able to recover, to be able to
[00:12:58] achieve maximum production in the mine, where
[00:13:01] I have their promise that they will start paying the full amount
[00:13:05] of their debts, on the other hand,
[00:13:08] the Breza mine is in the situation it is in, they don't even have
[00:13:11] production, they are trying to dig up
[00:13:14] their coal face, uh and they have
[00:13:18] some minimal inflows of funds, so
[00:13:22] they also expect in December that they will start production,
[00:13:26] where we will make a new agreement, where they will increase their
[00:13:29] payments. Although the approval of an additional deadline averted a major
[00:13:33] crisis, the union warns that the roots of the problem lie in economic
[00:13:36] imbalance and the selling price of coal, which does not keep pace with production
[00:13:40] costs. Our price
[00:13:43] uh of the coal we extract is
[00:13:46] this more expensive than the selling price and those debts naturally
[00:13:50] arise that way, that's the problem, meaning the more we
[00:13:53] extract, the more we go into debt, we do one of
[00:13:56] the hardest, most honorable and most honest
[00:13:59] jobs, I believe that
[00:14:02] this will never happen again, that we have found some
[00:14:06] solution, that we will fight together,
[00:14:09] so that all miners in Zenica-Doboj Canton have their
[00:14:13] contributions paid for health and pension.
[00:14:16] Although the continuation of workers' healthcare is currently ensured,
[00:14:20] the question of the long-term sustainability of the
[00:14:23] system has been raised again, at the same time. Macroeconomic analyses show
[00:14:27] that mining at the federation level is achieving significant revenue
[00:14:30] growth. Mining as a sector has achieved
[00:14:33] one billion and 170
[00:14:37] million uh convertible marks in revenue and
[00:14:40] 88.2 million convertible marks
[00:14:44] in net profit. Some companies make a profit, some companies
[00:14:48] make a loss, so don't be surprised that, for example, the mining sector
[00:14:52] achieved if as aggregated as. sector
[00:14:55] net profit, especially because you have individual companies
[00:14:59] that achieved significant net, net
[00:15:02] profit, because this also includes
[00:15:05] exploitation of ores,
[00:15:08] metal raw materials and so on in various
[00:15:12] sectors. Despite relatively low productivity per
[00:15:15] employee, mining records the fastest growth among the analyzed
[00:15:19] industrial sectors, which indicates that problems in
[00:15:22] the functioning of individual mines require a deeper
[00:15:25] analysis of operations. Nataša Kerezović,
[00:15:28] N1.
[00:15:31] Several fires broke out in the Konjic area near
[00:15:34] inhabited places, Ovčari and Živašnica.
[00:15:38] Due to inaccessible terrain, the engagement of
[00:15:41] helicopters of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina in extinguishing
[00:15:44] the fire is expected. Fires broke out in several locations.
[00:15:47] It is assumed that they were caused by the braking of a train
[00:15:50] passing along the railway line through that
[00:15:53] area. The fire threatens to spread towards nearby
[00:15:56] houses and railway infrastructure. Due to
[00:15:59] the inaccessibility of the terrain, extinguishing from the air was deemed
[00:16:02] necessary.
[00:16:06] Firefighters. in southeastern France are still extinguishing forest
[00:16:10] fires, a long period of extreme heat, empty
[00:16:14] riverbeds of large rivers, due to the low water level of the Danube,
[00:16:17] nuclear power plants in Hungary, Romania, and Slovenia face
[00:16:21] the threat of reactor shutdown. Hungary and Romania are taking
[00:16:24] electricity saving measures.
[00:16:28] Bucharest is plunged into semi-darkness. Decorative
[00:16:31] lighting is switched off, street lighting reduced by
[00:16:34] a third. In Romania, an emergency energy
[00:16:37] situation has been declared until the end of the month,
[00:16:39] it seems we have reached this point
[00:16:42] due to bad decisions made
[00:16:45] regarding the climate crisis that has been going on for decades
[00:16:49] and Budapest with its spectacular panoramas
[00:16:53] has turned off many lights, much to the regret of some
[00:16:56] tourists.
[00:16:59] I am very disappointed because I come to Budapest once in a lifetime and last night I
[00:17:03] climbed the hill and waited for the lights to turn on, but nothing
[00:17:06] happened, I was so disappointed
[00:17:10] and the approval of the local population. Namely, in
[00:17:13] Paks, Hungary's only nuclear power plant, only
[00:17:16] one reactor is operating, because the water level of the Danube is not sufficient to cool
[00:17:20] all of them. The nuclear power plant provides about 40% of electricity in
[00:17:23] Hungary. This is a minimal, minimal reaction to
[00:17:26] this whole situation, I completely approve and support
[00:17:30] this. I think it's a very good thing in the current
[00:17:33] situation. It is a very responsible decision, for
[00:17:37] example. One reactor is operating in
[00:17:41] the Romanian Cernavoda nuclear power plant. In Romania, rocks that were sticking out of the water were blown up
[00:17:44] to redirect the Danube towards the nuclear power plant, four loaded barges are also being sunk,
[00:17:48] in order to increase the water flow towards the nuclear
[00:17:52] power plant? Most of Europe, due to
[00:17:54] these long periods of extreme
[00:17:58] heat, has water levels far, far below
[00:18:01] what is needed for a longer period of time. This creates cooling problems
[00:18:04] not only for nuclear power plants, but also for those
[00:18:08] on gas, because there is not enough water to cool them, not only
[00:18:12] is there not enough water, but the water temperature is also higher, that
[00:18:15] means it is harder to cool them, that is why they
[00:18:18] have to take such extreme
[00:18:21] measures, besides the Danube, the water level of the
[00:18:25] Sava is also low, so the Krško nuclear power plant in Slovenia
[00:18:28] will reduce electricity production by 20%. Krško
[00:18:31] provides almost 60% of daily electricity
[00:18:35] consumption in Slovenia. Aleksandra Gotfra,
[00:18:38] N1.
[00:18:41] Next, we return to events in our
[00:18:43] country.
[00:18:47] An agreement was reached on further steps to resolve the status
[00:18:51] of dismissed workers
[00:18:52] of Komunalno.
[00:18:58] Elections are getting closer, the campaign has long since started in the old way,
[00:19:02] not how it should be. Therefore, the Central Election Commission punishes PSS,
[00:19:05] SNSD and SDP. Transparency International has noticed
[00:19:09] as many as 1,200 examples of potential abuse of public
[00:19:12] resources.
[00:19:15] The Central Election Commission fined three political
[00:19:18] parties for premature election campaigns.
[00:19:21] The Secure Srpska Movement with 8,500 marks,
[00:19:25] SNSD 6,000, SDP
[00:19:27] 4,000. But since the general elections were called,
[00:19:31] Transparency International sent far more complaints
[00:19:35] to the commission. Party gatherings in schools, public forums,
[00:19:39] billboards before the campaign, everything, says Srđan Traljić,
[00:19:42] indicated that the premature campaign had long
[00:19:45] since begun. HDZ in Vitez regularly reports, therefore,
[00:19:49] on every phase of the construction of some local road or where
[00:19:53] SNSD boasts about paving some gravel
[00:19:56] road, where SDA Bugojno boasts that
[00:19:59] their minister allocated one million marks for local
[00:20:03] roads, where the president of NPS, who has no
[00:20:07] public function in that sense, is not competent, visits public
[00:20:10] works, promotes himself, attributes credit to himself. According to
[00:20:13] data from Transparency International Bosnia and
[00:20:16] Herzegovina, approximately 1,200 examples
[00:20:20] of potential abuse of public resources were recorded, they state that
[00:20:23] the value of completed public works amounted to
[00:20:26] 126 million marks, started
[00:20:30] 453 million, while
[00:20:33] 45 million marks were allocated for one-time payments
[00:20:36] by all levels of government, but there are also other
[00:20:40] activities such as music events, makeup vouchers,
[00:20:43] free examinations, so we
[00:20:46] had some public forums, especially in Travnik
[00:20:49] where the Democratic Action organized over nine public
[00:20:52] forums, meetings with citizens, where they said they convened
[00:20:56] citizens to hear their needs to determine
[00:20:59] directions of action. Srđan Traljić adds that, unlike
[00:21:03] previous election cycles, reports of aggressive
[00:21:06] premature campaigns did not bear fruit, such as
[00:21:09] this "Be in Motion" campaign led by
[00:21:13] PSS in Banja Luka, so they were not
[00:21:16] sanctioned, their explanation was
[00:21:20] that they had leased these billboards until the day
[00:21:22] the elections were called, but they remained standing
[00:21:26] during this election period, however,
[00:21:29] that very contract, which stated
[00:21:32] that it was leased until the day the elections were called, was sufficient
[00:21:36] evidence to dismiss the complaint. Due to all of the above, Transparency
[00:21:39] believes that the Central Election Commission
[00:21:42] has clearly raised the threshold of tolerance, because despite
[00:21:46] numerous complaints they sent, the commission did
[00:21:48] not consider many of them to have elements of violation
[00:21:52] of the election law. Dragica Pejaković,
[00:21:55] N1.
[00:21:58] Layoffs at the Komunalno company in Mostar are still in
[00:22:02] the public spotlight. The dismissed workers were supposed to have
[00:22:05] individual meetings with the mayor, but
[00:22:08] most of them did not respond to the call. However, a
[00:22:11] collective meeting was held with the company's management. It was agreed that
[00:22:15] the legal representatives of the workers and the company would try to
[00:22:18] agree. on a statement, which should
[00:22:22] facilitate the supervisory board's decision-making.
[00:22:24] After several days of bickering and
[00:22:27] exchange of messages via social networks,
[00:22:31] the mayor of Mostar and the president of the city council sat down today with the dismissed
[00:22:34] workers and the management of the public company Komunalno. Although both sides
[00:22:38] remain convinced that they acted correctly, their positions were brought
[00:22:41] closer after the meeting, and everything, as they claim, is moving towards the return of workers to their
[00:22:45] workplaces. At this meeting it was agreed
[00:22:49] that the legal
[00:22:51] representative of the workers, together with
[00:22:55] the legal representative of the company who advises
[00:22:58] or represents the management, will
[00:23:01] draw up a statement, perhaps
[00:23:04] an explanation in which the workers will
[00:23:08] unequivocally uh express their
[00:23:11] position regarding work obligations,
[00:23:15] the ongoing procedure and what they have done so far,
[00:23:18] to tell all of us whether they
[00:23:22] really refused a work
[00:23:24] obligation or had some other intention.
[00:23:28] The mayor, on the other hand, claims that the workers were under certain
[00:23:31] pressure all the time, first when they refused work assignments, and now, as he says, even when
[00:23:35] they need to present their view of the controversial case. It saddens me that
[00:23:38] most of them, not all, but most of them,
[00:23:42] refused a one-on-one meeting,
[00:23:45] uh, as I see it from this collective meeting, it was some kind of
[00:23:48] common stance. Someone's who
[00:23:51] suggested to them that they don't need to talk to
[00:23:54] the mayor alone, but that it should be in a
[00:23:58] group so that perhaps they would be stronger or whatever
[00:24:01] they are trying, I don't know, but anyway, I still agreed to this
[00:24:05] collective meeting again, wanting to show that it is very important to me
[00:24:09] that uh we return the city to some normal functioning
[00:24:13] as the most important conclusion of the meeting, highlighting the common readiness to
[00:24:16] enable workers to return to work. I again appeal.
[00:24:20] that politics stay as far away as possible from the public company, then I am sure we will
[00:24:23] succeed, if some things happen
[00:24:27] again, prompting from the side, do it this way, do it that way, I'm afraid
[00:24:30] we will get entangled again and just go in circles. The union states that
[00:24:34] such a meeting should have been held much earlier and that the lack
[00:24:37] of timely communication with the company's management is one of the key
[00:24:40] problems. One positive thing, a positive
[00:24:44] thing, some views have been harmonized, the mayor
[00:24:47] and the president of the city council had the opportunity to... hear both
[00:24:51] the workers and their views and their
[00:24:54] problems they face, this
[00:24:57] is a difficult period for them too, difficult for those who
[00:25:01] lost their jobs, difficult for all workers of the public company Komunalno
[00:25:05] who are working now. According to the mayor, the solution will
[00:25:08] be sought by legal representatives, their judgment on the whole case will be given by the supervisory board.
[00:25:12] company. Workers remain optimistic and hope that the process
[00:25:15] will end with their return to work. Đanana Kaminić
[00:25:18] Puca, N1. Mostar
[00:25:20] in
[00:25:23] the area of the former Omarska camp, today marked
[00:25:27] the 34th anniversary of the beginning of the disbandment of one of
[00:25:30] the most notorious camps in northwestern Bosnia and
[00:25:33] Herzegovina. The commemoration gathered former detainees,
[00:25:37] victims' families, representatives of associations and all citizens
[00:25:40] who wished to pay tribute to innocent victims. Through this
[00:25:44] camp, according to the data of the association of detainees, more than
[00:25:47] 3,300 Bosniak and Croat detainees passed, of whom,
[00:25:51] according to data, 700 were killed. Some of the detainees were
[00:25:55] killed on the Korićani cliffs, on Hrastova glavica, large
[00:25:58] execution sites in western Bosnia and Herzegovina, dozens of camps.
[00:26:02] and succumbed to wounds received during
[00:26:04] learning.
[00:26:09] I carry that trauma with me and I want to
[00:26:12] carry it. When I started where I was in Holland, when
[00:26:16] I started forgetting things, I went to a therapist to teach
[00:26:20] me how to deal with it. Not to forget, not to heal me, but it can't heal
[00:26:23] me. I said: "Help me not to forget it. The
[00:26:27] biggest, second trauma from the camp is this
[00:26:31] that I in..." I was speaking, that was some kind of defensive
[00:26:34] system of ours, an automatism,
[00:26:37] uh, I could remember
[00:26:40] the face of every child in the family, every one of
[00:26:43] the neighbors, the only face of my own daughter I couldn't, I
[00:26:47] feel emotions, emotional when I say that, our
[00:26:50] dissatisfaction is reflected in the fact that, uh, the direct
[00:26:54] perpetrators of these crimes have not yet been prosecuted, I mean
[00:26:57] the former members of the crisis staff of the
[00:27:00] Serbian municipality of Prijedor, the then Serbian municipality of Prijedor who, "look, today live and
[00:27:04] live here in Prijedor as free, respected citizens who have benefits based
[00:27:07] on what they did in that period, while their victims, look, today are fighting and
[00:27:11] marking this place to build a monument to the murdered children,
[00:27:14] for some status right to get here, we unfortunately still
[00:27:18] cannot get it, we
[00:27:21] gather every year on August 6th at this place which we do not
[00:27:24] consider just a camp, but a place that symbolizes to humanity
[00:27:28] a place where human suffering reached
[00:27:32] the limits of endurance for every individual
[00:27:35] story of those who went through this camp, unfortunately
[00:27:38] many of them are not, it is a place where we must come, we must
[00:27:42] remind, not just for the past, to take revenge on the past itself,
[00:27:45] but it is also a warning for
[00:27:47] the future,
[00:27:50] it is an obligation, but somehow, look, it's a human
[00:27:53] satisfaction to be here and talk to people who have gone through
[00:27:56] the worst suffering, they are strong and brave enough to help
[00:28:00] with their stories in... detecting perpetrators
[00:28:03] and masterminds, but with messages that are important for
[00:28:07] the future, not only of Bosnia and Herzegovina, today when we look at images from
[00:28:10] Gaza, when we look at images from Sudan, from Ukraine, other places, it is very important
[00:28:14] to remind of what happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
[00:28:16] The
[00:28:19] Regulatory Agency for Communications of Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:28:22] officially informed five associations of genocide victims that
[00:28:26] it has initiated a procedure to verify and investigate the allegations from their
[00:28:29] joint complaint against RTS. The complaint was
[00:28:33] filed due to a controversial report broadcast in the central
[00:28:36] news program Dnevnik 2 on July 31st,
[00:28:40] the associations state that the report contained serious
[00:28:43] insults and defamatory allegations against surviving
[00:28:47] victims and mothers of Srebrenica with shameful insinuations about
[00:28:50] financial malversations and alleged enrichment
[00:28:53] at the expense of tragedy through statements about a money factory,
[00:28:57] the RAC in its official response confirmed that it will
[00:29:00] ex officio investigate the allegations from the received
[00:29:04] complaint.
[00:29:09] The Minister of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zukan Helez, commander of NATO
[00:29:12] Headquarters Sarajevo, Brigadier General James Fowler, visited
[00:29:16] the defense industry companies in our country. They visited
[00:29:20] Binas in Bugojno, BNT in Novi Travnik, and Pretis in
[00:29:23] Vogošća. General Fowler said that he saw firsthand
[00:29:26] the capabilities and capacities of the industry and that
[00:29:30] production is carried out according to Western. NATO
[00:29:32] standards, he said he was most impressed by the people
[00:29:36] who work in these companies, the mission of NATO Headquarters in Sarajevo and
[00:29:40] EUFOR supervise production in the defense industry of Bosnia and
[00:29:43] Herzegovina.
[00:29:48] I think it was very important for me to come out here and see it first hand, uh, that
[00:29:51] the capability and
[00:29:54] the uh capacity uh which is in the defense
[00:29:58] industry in Bosnia, and it's uh good to
[00:30:01] see that um... products being made are uh two Western
[00:30:05] and NATO standards and uh they they are
[00:30:09] um targeted on
[00:30:11] um capabilities such as the 155 that
[00:30:14] are important right now.
[00:30:18] What fascinates me is the constant increase
[00:30:22] in the number of employees, the constant increase in productivity and
[00:30:25] income, specifically compared to last year
[00:30:29] these two months. "June and July have
[00:30:33] 2 million more in revenue compared to the same period last
[00:30:36] year, also, uh, we were convinced
[00:30:39] of the different production assortments of the company
[00:30:43] B&T in Novi Travnik, they also
[00:30:46] increased their revenue by 50%.
[00:30:49] The
[00:30:51] Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:30:54] officially applied for accession to the single
[00:30:57] area."