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[00:00:19] Good day, dear viewers, you are watching N1 info, these are the events
[00:00:25] places that are designated of the day. Nine miners spent their sixth night in
[00:00:28] the Raspotočje Mine, demanding written guarantees. for the payment of back wages, the government
[00:00:31] of the Federation claims that the funds
[00:00:33] have been secured.
[00:00:37] Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia killed 13 people,
[00:00:40] the deadliest attack in the last two
[00:00:42] years.
[00:00:45] Last preparations before the opening of the 32nd Sarajevo Film
[00:00:48] Festival, the red carpet is being laid, ticket sales started this morning,
[00:00:52] crowds were noted in front of the main
[00:00:53] box office.
[00:00:58] Nine miners from the Zenica mine spent their sixth night in the Raspotočje
[00:01:01] Mine, refusing to come out until they receive written guarantees of exact dates for the payment
[00:01:05] of their owed wages. If no response is received from the authorities by 3 p.m.,
[00:01:09] members of the trade union committee will join the miners in the pit. Meanwhile,
[00:01:13] the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the competent federal
[00:01:16] ministry, announced that funds have been secured for the payment of back
[00:01:20] wages to employees of the Mrko Gugja Zenica mine. According to the Ministry,
[00:01:24] following the expected operational activation of project
[00:01:27] funds from the World Bank in the coming days, approximately three million marks should be
[00:01:31] allocated for covering unpaid wages to
[00:01:34] miners. The statement placed special emphasis on
[00:01:37] the safety of the miners in the underground areas of the Raspotočje
[00:01:40] facility and urged them to leave the underground
[00:01:44] areas without delay, and for the trade union committee to cancel the announced additional
[00:01:48] descent of miners. They state that
[00:01:50] Terzemehić Samarantintore, which will feature competitors the lives and health of workers are an absolute
[00:01:52] priority.
[00:01:56] In the Brčko settlement of Ilićke, a shooting occurred this morning in which one person
[00:02:00] sustained severe bodily injuries. The incident occurred this morning at 6 AM on Mihaila Pupina
[00:02:03] Street. According to unofficial information, a man with the initials M.J.
[00:02:06] was wounded. According to RTV Hit Brčko,
[00:02:10] the attack occurred in the immediate vicinity of the wounded person's family home.
[00:02:14] Two men, who allegedly arrived on motorcycles, intercepted
[00:02:17] M.G. and fired approximately five shots in his direction. The injured
[00:02:21] man, with severe bodily injuries, was transported to the Brčko hospital where he was
[00:02:25] hospitalized in the surgery department and received
[00:02:28] medical assistance. For now, the motives of the attack and the
[00:02:32] identity of the shooters are unknown. The Brčko District police are intensively working
[00:02:35] to clarify all circumstances
[00:02:37] of this
[00:02:46] event. In a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city of
[00:02:49] Nizhnekamsk and its oil refinery in Tatarstan,
[00:02:53] 13 people were killed, including a child, while 39 were injured.
[00:02:56] Fierce fighting continues along other front lines in Ukraine. In the
[00:03:00] Ukrainian shelling of Belgorod, five people were killed, while in
[00:03:04] a Russian attack on Kharkiv, two died. Moscow claims to have captured two villages in
[00:03:08] the Donetsk region, while Kyiv states that in the past 24 hours,
[00:03:11] it eliminated more than 1,400 Russian soldiers. Ukrainian President
[00:03:15] Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that North Korea could
[00:03:18] send up to 50,000 soldiers to Russia and called on South
[00:03:22] Korea to help Ukraine's air defense.
[00:03:24] odbrani.
[00:03:28] Despite the valid example. The Israeli army carried out new attacks
[00:03:32] in southern Lebanon, targeting several settlements with no reports of
[00:03:35] casualties. The attack followed several days, several days after
[00:03:39] the seventh round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel in Rome, held with the mediation
[00:03:42] of the United States. Lebanese President Joseph Faun
[00:03:46] stated that positive progress has been made regarding border issues and
[00:03:50] prisoner exchange. The framework agreement provides for
[00:03:53] the gradual withdrawal of the Israeli army, the deployment of Lebanese forces,
[00:03:57] and the disarmament of Hezbollah. According to data
[00:04:00] from Lebanese officials, since March 2nd, the Israeli offensive
[00:04:04] has killed 4,335
[00:04:06] people, more than 12,000 have been wounded, while over a million residents have been
[00:04:10] displaced.
[00:04:12] Western Europe went through the hottest June and July in recorded
[00:04:16] history with an average temperature of 21.6 degrees
[00:04:20] Celsius, announced the European Copernicus service. That is almost three
[00:04:23] degrees above average. Due to extreme heat and drought, more than
[00:04:26] 25,000 people have died, while fires in Spain,
[00:04:30] France, and Italy have destroyed more than 500,000 hectares of
[00:04:33] land. Historically low water levels of the rivers Seine, Rhine, and
[00:04:37] Danube have threatened the energy system, which is why Hungary and
[00:04:40] Romania have temporarily suspended the operation of nuclear reactors. Great
[00:04:44] Britain is currently experiencing its fifth heatwave this summer with an orange
[00:04:48] warning and temperatures up to 36 degrees Celsius, and
[00:04:51] the ban on using hoses for watering due to drought has affected
[00:04:55] more than 20 million
[00:04:56] people.
[00:04:59] More. More than 1.5 million people have been evacuated in eastern China
[00:05:03] after Typhoon Dolphin, the strongest storm in the country since the beginning of the year,
[00:05:06] hit the mainland. With winds gusting up to 150
[00:05:11] attention. km/h, the typhoon caused huge disruptions to traffic. In Shanghai,
[00:05:15] more than a thousand flights were cancelled, the operation of some metro lines was suspended,
[00:05:18] and numerous tourist attractions were closed.
[00:05:21] Meteorologists in the city recorded the largest amount of rainfall in the last
[00:05:25] 150 years. Although the storm weakened as it moved
[00:05:29] inland, authorities warned of a high risk of floods and landslides in
[00:05:32] several provinces. Warnings were also issued for Beijing.
[00:05:36] Officially, there are no human casualties, except for a report of a missing
[00:05:39] nine-year-old boy in one province.
[00:05:45] I have been living in Shanghai for 10 years, and this is the first time I feel that
[00:05:48] the typhoon has caused so many problems and led to such
[00:05:51] floods. This is the first time I have encountered such a
[00:05:54] situation.
[00:05:57] At least eight people have died, nine are injured, and one is missing in
[00:06:01] floods and landslides in the Philippines caused by several days of heavy
[00:06:05] rains and tropical storms. The storm has affected more than
[00:06:08] 750,000 people, while over 8,000 residents have been housed in
[00:06:12] evacuation centers. The most severely affected is the island of
[00:06:15] Luzon, where in the area of the capital Manila, water on some
[00:06:18] sections reached up to the waist. Due to floods,
[00:06:21] schools were closed, and ferry traffic in 20 ports
[00:06:24] was suspended. Meteorologists announce new
[00:06:26] rainfall.
[00:06:30] An explosion occurred at the Emko arms factory in Bulgaria, reports
[00:06:33] Bulgarian television BTN. The factory is located near the village of Belica near
[00:06:37] Trvljana. According to preliminary information from this
[00:06:40] television, a truck caught fire.
[00:06:42] Which then caused a fire in one of the factory's warehouses.
[00:06:46] A series of explosions followed. Bulgarian television reports that
[00:06:49] 300 factory workers were evacuated. According to
[00:06:53] Kristina Sidorova from the local administration, no one was
[00:06:56] injured in this
[00:06:57] incident.
[00:07:05] In front of the National Theater Sarajevo, the red carpet was laid, marking the start
[00:07:09] of the final preparations for the 32nd Sarajevo Film
[00:07:12] Festival. Incidentally, ticket sales started this morning at the main
[00:07:16] box office, where crowds were also observed. The first 10 customers
[00:07:20] were rewarded with 10 free tickets each for films in different
[00:07:23] programs. Let's recall that the Sarajevo Film Festival begins on Friday,
[00:07:27] August 14th, and lasts until August
[00:07:29] 21st. Large crowds were observed this morning
[00:07:33] in front of the Sarajevo BKC, i.e., the Office
[00:07:36] Box, where the physical sale of
[00:07:39] tickets for the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival, which will be
[00:07:43] held from August 14th to 21st, began.
[00:07:47] Numerous citizens of Sarajevo, as well as all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also
[00:07:51] tourists, especially from the countries of the region, woke up early
[00:07:54] to come here to grab and buy
[00:07:57] tickets for this year's screenings. Many
[00:08:01] of them even came, as they say, at 4 AM to secure a
[00:08:04] spot in time to buy the desired
[00:08:08] tickets. I came early in the morning, I was already here
[00:08:11] at 4 AM. We prepared a few films, Mother
[00:08:15] Teresa, Heritage, Palestine, No Man's Land, and so
[00:08:19] on. I'm interested in socializing with Sarajevo, which comes here every
[00:08:22] year, for years, years now
[00:08:25] we've been gathering. Some come at 4, like
[00:08:29] they came this morning, some come at 5:15, like I came
[00:08:33] this morning, some come at 7:15 and are
[00:08:36] 10th, some come at seven and are
[00:08:40] 11th. I'm here every year. "It has
[00:08:43] that Sarajevo spirit, beautiful films, good
[00:08:47] fun, I just feel good. There is great
[00:08:50] interest in online ticket purchasing, which
[00:08:54] started early last week, when minor
[00:08:57] difficulties were noted on the first day of
[00:09:00] purchase, but luckily they were resolved.
[00:09:03] There is very, very great interest in
[00:09:06] this year's program. We resolved
[00:09:09] the difficulties, that was probably, you're probably talking about
[00:09:13] the first day of pre-sale tickets, when a large
[00:09:17] number of users wanted to buy immediately,
[00:09:20] probably for a specific screening, mm,
[00:09:24] online sales are still ongoing, of course, and will last until the end
[00:09:27] of the festival, as well as the physical sale of
[00:09:30] tickets. For online ticket sales,
[00:09:33] certain discounts are available. The interest is huge, last
[00:09:37] year we had record ticket sales, this year,
[00:09:41] based on... the first day of online pre-sale
[00:09:44] you mentioned, sales are up
[00:09:47] 20% compared to the previous year. Without a doubt,
[00:09:51] Sarajevo this summer, from August 14th to 21st,
[00:09:55] will be the center of the region, but also the European
[00:09:58] capital of film, when we expect numerous world
[00:10:01] stars and film screenings with a special
[00:10:04] focus on films from Southeast Europe,
[00:10:08] as well as films from all over the world. Fedža Kulina,
[00:10:11] N1.
[00:10:17] UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation, and Concacaf sharply
[00:10:20] criticized FIFA President Gianni Infantino for
[00:10:23] the failed plan to sell part of the co... commercial rights to the World
[00:10:26] Cup. In an open letter published today, they stated
[00:10:30] that Infantino had undermined trust through deception and
[00:10:33] demanded an independent investigation. The plan envisaged
[00:10:36] the sale of 20% of commercial rights to private investors for approximately
[00:10:40] 4.2 billion dollars. The three confederations
[00:10:43] threatened to boycott FIFA competitions if they did not receive
[00:10:46] guarantees that similar plans would not be repeated. The leadership in
[00:10:50] football is not anyone's property, they stated in the
[00:10:52] announcement.
[00:10:55] The coach of the men's senior basketball team of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
[00:10:59] Dario Đerđa, announced the list of players he is counting on during the preparatory
[00:11:02] period for the World Cup qualification matches. The head
[00:11:06] of the coaching staff of the Dragons called Edin Atić, Amar
[00:11:10] Gegić, Darko Talić, Adnan Arslanagić, Mić
[00:11:13] Milovanović, Xavier Castanedi, Vojin Ilić,
[00:11:16] Eman Šertović, Edin Preldžić, Adin
[00:11:20] Vrabac, Aleksandar Lazić, Asim Gutić, Amar
[00:11:23] Alibegović, Stefan. Simanić, Jusuf Nurkić, Kenan
[00:11:27] Kamenjaš, Luka Garza and Ali Islamović. Džanan Musa
[00:11:31] and Emir Sulejmanović are still out, who will not be in
[00:11:34] contention for the qualification matches against Italy in Tuzla
[00:11:37] on August 28th and Lithuania in Vilnius on September
[00:11:41] 1st. Đerđa will miss Ajdin Penava due to
[00:11:44] injury. The Dragons are scheduled to gather on August 12th in
[00:11:48] Vlašić. During preparations, the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina is planned
[00:11:51] to play a friendly match against Poland in Hrasnica. August
[00:11:55] 20th.
[00:11:59] And Sarajevo in the coming days will be the meeting place for some of the most talented
[00:12:02] young male and female tennis players from Europe and the world. Tomorrow begins the jubilee
[00:12:06] 30th International Tournament Open RTC Barcelona
[00:12:09] 189 Sarajevo 2026. Memorial
[00:12:15] from as many as 25 countries. This is a
[00:12:19] first category Tennis Europe tournament for junior girls and boys up to
[00:12:22] 16 years old, which for three decades has been one of the most significant
[00:12:26] tennis events of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The
[00:12:29] competition will last until Saturday, August 15th, when
[00:12:33] this year's winners will be known.
[00:12:37] I will mention a person who, unfortunately, is no longer with us for several
[00:12:40] years, that is the honorary president, Mr. Juan
[00:12:44] Maria Tinturé, who was the first person to come from Barcelona to
[00:12:47] Sarajevo with whom we made contact and
[00:12:51] who somehow turned everything around. We came from the fourth
[00:12:55] category of European tennis to this first, most prestigious one. There is
[00:12:59] only one stronger, which is the super category, but it is very rare, and
[00:13:02] the master that Tea regularly won, she said
[00:13:06] how well organized this tournament is and how significant it is.
[00:13:10] I will say that our motto was primarily Tea,
[00:13:14] actually all those who came here to Bosnia and
[00:13:17] Herzegovina as young tennis players, they trained
[00:13:20] a lot, gave their best, and achieved great
[00:13:23] results.
[00:13:26] As a tennis player from Bosnia and Herzegovina, I am very happy
[00:13:29] to see such a big tournament in our capital,
[00:13:33] so I thank all of you for making
[00:13:37] this tournament possible for us and for following
[00:13:40] me and my results. As perhaps the greatest
[00:13:43] junior of Bosnia and Herzegovina ever,
[00:13:46] I support this tournament and I am truly glad to see
[00:13:50] our younger generations now. I think
[00:13:55] this is the most important tennis tournament perhaps in Bosnia and
[00:13:58] Herzegovina.
[00:14:01] I'm sorry that every year we talk about the same thing, which is financial
[00:14:05] support. The Ministry of Culture and Sports does provide support, but not
[00:14:09] as much as everyone should. So this is a unique opportunity, after
[00:14:13] 31 tournaments, to finally see all levels of government
[00:14:16] understand the importance of this tournament, because this is a tournament where players from
[00:14:20] all of Bosnia and Herzegovina play, a tournament where 25
[00:14:23] countries come to our city.
[00:14:27] Finally, for the news, let's also look at the weather forecast.
[00:14:31] Warm greetings, dear viewers, high temperatures are present throughout Bosnia and
[00:14:34] Herzegovina. As you can see, this is precisely why a warning has been issued
[00:14:38] through the Meteoalarm system of the Federal Hydrometeorological Institute. The warm air
[00:14:41] will continue to linger over our region. For the remainder of Monday,
[00:14:45] it will remain mostly sunny throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina,
[00:14:49] dry with mostly light winds. Mostly, easterly and northeasterly
[00:14:52] winds blow, with westerly and southwesterly winds dominating
[00:14:56] in Herzegovina and the southwestern part of Bosnia. All of this,
[00:14:59] of course, affects temperatures. We expect that the maximum
[00:15:03] temperature values in the Herzegovinian area today will
[00:15:07] reach up to 40°. In Bosnia,
[00:15:09] mostly from 30 to a maximum of 36-37. And
[00:15:13] the heatwave will continue in the coming days until the end of the week.
[00:15:16] It will certainly remain hot, dry and still
[00:15:20] rarely with showers, possibly during Wednesday
[00:15:23] in part of Herzegovina. A more significant refreshment
[00:15:26] with precipitation is only possible in the upcoming new
[00:15:30] week. That would be all for this news summary, thank you for your
[00:15:36] A new day begins,
[00:15:57] the sponsor of the show Medicana Health
[00:16:00] Group.
[00:16:01] We begin with an analysis of the most current
[00:16:11] events in the country. My colleague Rubina Čengić
[00:16:15] will go through the most important topics with me this morning, but first, good morning,
[00:16:18] good morning to you and the viewers, thank you for the invitation.
[00:16:33] of a cold day or... at least some clouds or something, it's really
[00:16:37] really difficult, these record heats have not only caused problems
[00:16:41] for people, but we see what they are doing in the fire-affected areas
[00:16:44] in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we see what they are doing in health centers, stomach viruses
[00:16:48] that we are talking about today, are raging everywhere, we see what they are doing to
[00:16:52] our energy potentials, so some are being shut down,
[00:16:55] some are being reduced and it is entirely legitimate to ask how our energy
[00:16:59] future will look like, have we reached a phase when
[00:17:03] perhaps we start to take climate change a little
[00:17:07] more seriously? Well, I don't know, judging by the fire in
[00:17:10] Konjic, judging by the fact that we still
[00:17:13] don't have simple procedures, for example, when you talk about
[00:17:17] the energy situation, simple procedures for installing solar panels
[00:17:20] on roofs and connecting to the grid, it seems to me
[00:17:23] that our authorities are very slow,
[00:17:27] that our authorities understand or actually do not think
[00:17:30] at all about the needs of citizens. It sounds like a cliché,
[00:17:34] I'm a bit boring, whenever we speak publicly,
[00:17:37] that's one of the sentences we say, right? The government,
[00:17:40] the institutions of the system, the authorities actually do not think at
[00:17:44] all about the needs, about the needs of
[00:17:47] citizens, uh, do we demand
[00:17:51] what we need? Very often I ask that
[00:17:55] question, unfortunately people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we see how they live
[00:17:58] and how people make ends meet. Somehow there isn't
[00:18:02] much opportunity to go anywhere or
[00:18:06] travel or... see how it can be different. Then our expectations
[00:18:09] seem to be in line with those impossibilities. However,
[00:18:13] the latest situation shows us that one
[00:18:16] of the citizens asked for a tree to be cut down because
[00:18:20] she couldn't see her car that was parked in the parking lot.
[00:18:24] Then again, we open that question of greenery,
[00:18:27] planting, you know
[00:18:30] how we have a completely dual relationship, so you just
[00:18:34] mentioned a citizen who asked for a tree to be cut down and... "because
[00:18:37] she doesn't see the car and it was cut down. And throughout Bosnia and
[00:18:40] Herzegovina, you have, for example, places where nature is destroyed by
[00:18:44] mining, by irresponsible installation of
[00:18:47] wind farms or whatever, and nobody reacts there. Citizens gather,
[00:18:51] demand change, but the authorities respond poorly. We have been following
[00:18:54] the situation in Vareš with the increased lead in
[00:18:58] the blood and so on for almost two years, nothing is
[00:19:01] happening. You had a guest on your show, I think,
[00:19:05] the other day, a man from the market inspection
[00:19:08] who said that, I don't know, what percentage of samples they
[00:19:11] took were
[00:19:14] contaminated with certain unhealthy
[00:19:17] bacteria, if bacteria can be healthy, some can,
[00:19:20] but we did not get the names of those
[00:19:23] establishments where those bad things were found,
[00:19:27] and ice creams, I mean ice creams, but you also had a review
[00:19:30] of these big, I mean, stores, supermarkets and so on, and
[00:19:34] they were found there too, they were found there too, but we don't know. "We are not told
[00:19:38] where it is, I want to tell you that the government
[00:19:41] reacts in a very dual way, and it is difficult to recognize the principle
[00:19:45] by which they decide. So we can cut down a tree, but
[00:19:49] if we have an investor or some
[00:19:51] person who, when journalists scratch a little below the surface,
[00:19:55] you see that these are some people who are either close or there are some
[00:19:59] certain interests and so on. That's why I say that the government
[00:20:02] is actually very irresponsible towards citizens.
[00:20:06] I don't know if you know, but
[00:20:15] the municipalities in the area of the city of Sarajevo have decisions
[00:20:19] according to which the mayors decide which tree will be cut
[00:20:22] or not. They have, so they have a three-member commission
[00:20:26] in which it seems two members are from the municipal
[00:20:29] administration, one as some kind of expert person, it can be either a forestry
[00:20:33] engineer or someone from the
[00:20:36] municipal company Park, but we don't really see
[00:20:40] any analysis being done, or the greenery being managed
[00:20:43] systematically, that's right, that's right, that's right, yes, we definitely
[00:20:47] need more parks, all this is somehow connected. "It's hot, people
[00:20:51] can barely stand it, it would be nice to have slightly more spacious parks
[00:20:54] and greenery when we look around, not concrete everywhere, but again,
[00:20:57] honestly speaking, we, pardon, we started talking about it in the last three
[00:21:01] years, ever since these great heats started, until then we really
[00:21:04] took greenery for granted and trees, but now if you look, for example,
[00:21:08] specifically in Sarajevo, you have some trees that are located in places
[00:21:12] where people don't move, but in
[00:21:15] for people to move, especially through the city center, you..." "You almost
[00:21:18] don't have a tree that can provide shade and protect people,
[00:21:22] so it's very, very, very somehow unplanned,
[00:21:25] irresponsible, I would say, and without imagination, so to speak.
[00:21:29] How do we fight the fiery element?
[00:21:33] Uh, the scenes you can see when
[00:21:36] you start your journey south,
[00:21:38] or to Herzegovina, so literally people are standing on balconies, behind them is a fiery
[00:21:42] element approaching. I don't know what happened,
[00:21:45] for years we've been talking about how we urgently need a
[00:21:50] Canadair, because actually when fires start, they start throughout the region.
[00:21:53] You can't expect someone to lend you a Canadair at any time or
[00:21:57] that you can hire, I don't know, that's interesting, for example, we got this
[00:22:01] new helicopter in Sarajevo Canton, which is commendable if it
[00:22:05] is at the service of citizens who need it
[00:22:08] in various situations where it is necessary to quickly move from
[00:22:12] point A to point B, but perhaps one could consider, put a finger on
[00:22:16] the forehead and say whether we needed a Canadair
[00:22:20] more or such a helicopter. Is
[00:22:24] it, a Canadair is expensive, we cannot compare it with official
[00:22:27] cars and so on, but are we right to have dozens of
[00:22:31] official, are we properly managing public money? For example,
[00:22:34] I know, I followed this for several years back, the World Bank
[00:22:37] occasionally had an analysis of the distribution of public funds in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
[00:22:41] and every time the conclusion of their analysis was that there is enough
[00:22:45] money for all needs, but it is completely wrongly
[00:22:48] allocated. When we talk about wrongly allocated, now, not to go too far,
[00:22:52] right? If you procure medicines in small quantities in multiple places, you cannot
[00:22:56] get the discount you could get if you procured centrally in one
[00:22:59] place. In that way, money is wasted in the most varied possible
[00:23:03] ways. Here's a trivial example that I find very interesting,
[00:23:07] the government of the Federation has now decided to allocate these 50, 60
[00:23:11] marks to soldiers
[00:23:15] from the war in the 90s,
[00:23:17] for... that 60 marks, which is the maximum
[00:23:21] amount if I understood correctly, individually actually means
[00:23:24] nothing. In total, it is a huge amount of money
[00:23:28] that could have gone, among other things, one year
[00:23:32] for a Canadair, another year for something else, so that we all
[00:23:35] together have some real benefit. Is this for the purpose of the upcoming elections? Well,
[00:23:39] I'm afraid it is. A little populism, a little upcoming elections, that's
[00:23:42] a big population. Is that an insult to people's dignity? Well, I think when
[00:23:46] people start perceiving it that way. Or they should, I think they
[00:23:50] should, but I don't see why they don't react, but rather, as they say,
[00:23:53] "well, 60 marks is what they say for good measure."
[00:23:57] Is that what you mean? No, you know, it's like
[00:24:00] Rambo's for those who have incomes up to
[00:24:03] 300 euros, they will talk about nationalism and such. I think people
[00:24:07] are so exhausted, really
[00:24:11] exhausted by poverty, threats,
[00:24:13] war, constant political conflicts, this and that,
[00:24:16] and another big problem that we
[00:24:20] have been fighting, let's say, since the war,
[00:24:24] that is the lack of critical thinking and media and political
[00:24:26] literacy, for people to understand why some
[00:24:30] decisions are made right then. Here's a trivial example, the other day
[00:24:33] the Minister of Health was a guest on a television and boasted
[00:24:37] that, believe it or not, I think it's the first time
[00:24:40] in this mandate and he's the second time, right, the Minister of Health
[00:24:44] talked about how the expanded list of medicines went
[00:24:48] somewhere for approval within government
[00:24:52] and then he commented on the rebellion of doctors in Livno, which happened a couple of
[00:24:55] weeks ago, then he said "oh, that's just an election campaign," meaning when
[00:24:59] someone demands their rights, it's an election campaign, but when you, after
[00:25:03] a four-year term, finally send, you know, those medicines,
[00:25:07] or start the procedure, that's not an election
[00:25:10] campaign. So, that's the critical thinking that we really
[00:25:14] witness. We really witness a huge
[00:25:17] irresponsibility and actually it's beautiful... that
[00:25:20] ability of our people to
[00:25:23] survive, to find solace, to
[00:25:25] somehow, I don't know, fight for every new day, even though they live
[00:25:29] in the environment they live in for years. Rubina, will anyone take
[00:25:33] responsibility for the miners? So, in the past
[00:25:36] years, there's been intensive talk about how they should be properly
[00:25:39] cared for, however, it seems to me that their
[00:25:43] problems, or situation, or lives are being solved in a haphazard
[00:25:46] way. Nine of them decided to stay
[00:25:50] in the Raspotočje mine. The Kreka
[00:25:53] mine workers were also protesting and then they came out. Their
[00:25:57] salaries are questionable, their existence is questionable, their severance pay is questionable. So, we have
[00:26:00] the steel factory workers, that's 1 thousand people, with
[00:26:04] families dependent on them, and thousands and hundreds more and associated
[00:26:07] business entities. So, is there any
[00:26:11] plan? Will anyone take responsibility for all those people who
[00:26:14] fed us and supplied us with energy
[00:26:17] for years? So, too many bad, too many bad things for one
[00:26:21] little Monday morning, but that is really our, our
[00:26:24] reality. This is about
[00:26:27] the miners, we can only hope that this whole situation
[00:26:31] will not end badly for any of them, that they will come out
[00:26:35] healthy and alive from that mine, at least those who are
[00:26:38] protesting underground. For years, we've been
[00:26:41] witnessing this enormous irresponsibility towards miners. So, the moment
[00:26:45] Bosnia and Herzegovina signed the Sofia Declaration and committed
[00:26:49] to giving up dirty energy,
[00:26:51] dirty energy, nothing was done, they just
[00:26:55] sat and waited as if something would be done. Journalists,
[00:26:59] activists, everyone was questioning for years what would happen with the mines,
[00:27:03] some ideas exist, but no one has ever shown
[00:27:06] concrete plans. I will remind you for example that in America
[00:27:10] and Macedonia they closed some mines, they retrained
[00:27:13] miners for the production of solar panels. That was the
[00:27:17] idea for Bosnia as well, but no one did anything.
[00:27:20] It seems to me that we
[00:27:23] are paying the price of
[00:27:26] appointing suitable, not capable, people to various
[00:27:29] positions, that a series of decisions that are made are actually
[00:27:33] wrong, specifically in the energy sector. Somehow, as I would
[00:27:36] say, decisions are made haphazardly. Let's merge the mines with Elektroprivreda,
[00:27:40] let's, I don't know, let's rebuild this block
[00:27:44] in Tuzla in a way that is not acceptable at that moment,
[00:27:47] let's, let's stop the block, let's, let's, let's
[00:27:50] do this. So, all decisions in the last, well, certainly ten
[00:27:54] years, it seems to me, I'm not an engineer, let's be
[00:27:57] clear, but somehow following the consequences, I conclude
[00:28:01] that they were made insufficiently thoughtfully. I won't say stupidly
[00:28:04] or too quickly, but really insufficiently thoughtfully, and we are now paying
[00:28:08] that price. Some time ago, for example, a
[00:28:11] document was circulating which, I cannot say who the author of that
[00:28:15] document is, but it showed in a very systematic way how
[00:28:19] Elektroprivreda could solve the problem
[00:28:22] of households with electricity bills up to 30 marks by installing
[00:28:26] solar panels on their houses. At that moment, there was a
[00:28:29] clear, clear mathematical calculation of how much money was needed for...
[00:28:41] the information that Elektroprivreda and the Ministry of Energy have somehow
[00:28:44] regulated those documents that define the installation of solar panels,
[00:28:47] connection to the grid, but we see that everything is going very slowly and I, for example, follow
[00:28:51] two cases. In Banja Luka, you have Damir Miljević from this
[00:28:55] think tank Reset, and in Sarajevo,
[00:28:58] Darjan Bilić and the Sinergia Plus association are working on
[00:29:01] establishing two small energy
[00:29:05] cooperatives. That's when you install solar panels somewhere with a lot
[00:29:08] of sun, and two or three households get free
[00:29:11] electricity from the sun, batteries, and so on, and I think that this synergy,
[00:29:15] I wrote about it, they even got some money from the European cooperative
[00:29:19] of energy these are very interesting stories, but we don't
[00:29:22] deal with that, and our public companies responsible for
[00:29:26] it, it seems to me, don't use those experiences
[00:29:30] to improve procedures, to inform people
[00:29:33] what they can do and how. I will remind you that in Croatia, these
[00:29:37] energy cooperatives started with people collecting
[00:29:40] money to build an energy-
[00:29:44] independent school, make it energy- independent, so it started with these
[00:29:47] communal facilities, to show people what is possible,
[00:29:51] how significant and useful it is, but here, not even that is being done, civic activism
[00:29:55] is not supported, which is really somehow in
[00:29:58] the public interest and so on. Somewhere, it's as if
[00:30:02] everyone... as if everyone is pulling in their own direction. The government is concerned
[00:30:05] with itself, as I said, persistently
[00:30:07] appointing suitable rather than capable people,
[00:30:11] citizens are looking for solutions in their own way, activists
[00:30:14] are trying to somehow help citizens to
[00:30:18] live as easily as possible in at least some procedures and some
[00:30:21] areas of life, but it really seems like we don't listen to each other at all, like we're not playing for
[00:30:25] the same team, exactly, that's right, that's right, that's right, and
[00:30:29] citizens are suffering, prices, prices are the best indicator. We will return
[00:30:34] quickly to
[00:30:34] current
[00:30:44] topics and guests, a friend of the show
[00:30:47] General Hospital Medicana
[00:30:49] Sarajevo.
[00:30:51] Aspirin Protect 100 mg is recommended for people with
[00:30:55] high and very high risk of cardiovascular diseases to
[00:30:59] reduce.