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[00:00:00] We're back.
[00:00:48] such as lighting, air
[00:00:51] Good morning, dear viewers, it's still mostly sunny across Bosnia and
[00:00:54] Herzegovina, which is still an indication that we are under
[00:00:58] the influence of an anticyclone. In the rest of the day, therefore,
[00:01:02] sunny weather conditions will dominate, only locally
[00:01:05] in the afternoon, predominantly in the area of Herzegovina,
[00:01:08] the western part of Bosnia, even in the central part
[00:01:11] there may be shorter instabilities, showers that
[00:01:14] may be accompanied by thunderstorm activity and even temporarily increased wind.
[00:01:18] In most regions, however, we expect that it will remain mostly dry and
[00:01:22] sunny with mostly
[00:01:25] the only scenario, it's one of light wind, which will result in high temperatures today
[00:01:28] up to 40 in the Herzegovinian area,
[00:01:32] we expect that the warmest today will be in the wider area
[00:01:35] of the city of Mostar. As for the rest of the week, we expect that
[00:01:39] we are still in a heat wave, although we also expect that it will gradually
[00:01:42] be a little less hot towards the end
[00:01:46] of the week, the new upcoming week would be
[00:01:49] significantly more unstable, as currently indicated by prognostic
[00:01:52] materials, towards its end it would bring a noticeable
[00:01:56] refreshment. Information about the weather was brought to you by
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[00:02:16] Jabuka. Sarajevo is living
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[00:02:30] the biggest film stars and authors, we bring you details from
[00:02:33] the red carpet, film recommendations, as well as reviews.
[00:02:36] N1 live from the heart of Sarajevo, where film
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[00:02:44] In the general elections
[00:02:49] in 2026, you will exercise
[00:02:52] your right to vote using specific
[00:02:55] election technologies. Upon arrival at
[00:02:58] the polling station, you are required to identify yourself by presenting
[00:03:02] a valid ID card or driver's license or
[00:03:06] passport of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After
[00:03:08] electronic reading of data, place the index finger of your right
[00:03:12] hand flat on the device's sensor for biometric authentication.
[00:03:16] Upon successfully completed identification authentication, the device
[00:03:20] prints a confirmation which you sign. Along with
[00:03:23] the ballots, you take the candidate list and
[00:03:26] a protective folder and go to the polling booth.
[00:03:30] The ballots have a new look and are marked
[00:03:33] exclusively with a special marker that is located in the polling
[00:03:37] booth. Be sure to read the instructions.
[00:03:40] On the ballots on which the names of individual
[00:03:43] candidates are listed, completely fill in the circle in front of the name of only one
[00:03:46] candidate. On the left side of the ballot
[00:03:50] are the names of political
[00:03:52] militarization of subjects, on the right side of the ballot are columns with
[00:03:55] serial numbers of candidates.
[00:03:58] It is mandatory to completely fill in the circle in front of
[00:04:02] the name of only one political subject on the left side of the ballot,
[00:04:05] or it is mandatory to completely fill in the circle
[00:04:09] in front of the name of only one political subject on the left side
[00:04:12] of the ballot and completely fill in the circle in front of
[00:04:16] one, two or a maximum of three serial numbers of candidates on
[00:04:19] the right side of the ballot. The corresponding serial numbers
[00:04:22] of candidates with their first and last names are contained in
[00:04:25] the candidate list. After
[00:04:29] voting, place the ballots unfolded
[00:04:33] flat in the protective folder. In the scanner,
[00:04:36] insert one ballot at a time, face down.
[00:04:40] The protective folder and the candidate list
[00:04:43] must be returned to a member of the polling committee.
[00:05:25] With Dr. Fouti appearing before a senate committee last week, we've been hearing the phrase
[00:05:29] gain of function research again. What does it actually
[00:05:32] mean? Basically, it's where genetic modifications are made an
[00:05:35] organism to change what that organism can do. This has
[00:05:39] many positive uses, but gain of function can also be another way to disc the
[00:05:42] beginning of biological warfare, such as when you modify
[00:05:46] virus, and as if we don't have enough to worry about already, the spector
[00:05:50] of such warfare still haunts the world. think back several years ago to the
[00:05:54] beginning of the COVID outbreak, pretty scary stuff, required all
[00:05:57] hands on deck around the world, and yet COVID's
[00:06:00] lethality was not even 1%. now imagine
[00:06:04] an organism designed to kill at something like 100% and to
[00:06:08] be easily transmissible, it would make nuclear war look like child's
[00:06:12] play. Sure, buildings would still be standing, but the people inside would all be
[00:06:16] dead. Though biological warfare is a war crime and is covered by the
[00:06:19] 1972 biological weapons convention, there's no guarantee that some
[00:06:23] lab out there isn't planning or engaged in it now,
[00:06:27] and even if no one tries to commit biological warfare, there's that
[00:06:30] not too unlikely scenario of another lab leak, a phrase
[00:06:34] associated with the COVID outbreak as well, so we need to think about the
[00:06:38] possibilities and to figure out how to prevent the worst, someone who's
[00:06:41] already done a lot of that thinking is investigative journalist Andy
[00:06:45] Jacobson, her specialty is war and weapons, not to mention
[00:06:48] government secrecy. In 2024 she came out with
[00:06:52] nuclear war, a scenario, and now she has
[00:06:55] new best seller, it is called biological war, a
[00:06:58] scenario. Annie joins me now. Annie, your your book is not
[00:07:02] science fiction, you kind of reverse engineered it from
[00:07:05] Pentagon documents and the people who plan this sort of thing,
[00:07:09] walk me through how fast it moves. In other words, It
[00:07:12] starts with lab leak in Siberia in your
[00:07:15] scenario, how many days until total anarchy in the
[00:07:19] US?
[00:07:22] Well, I take the reader from outbreak, as you say, to
[00:07:25] anarchy in six days, because that is
[00:07:29] precisely what would happen if you
[00:07:32] have pathogen that has been genetically
[00:07:35] modified to be hypervarulent, like kill
[00:07:38] lot of people, COVID killed 1% or less.
[00:07:42] there are pathogens, the one I use in my book, pneumonic plague
[00:07:46] has 100% case fatality rate. If
[00:07:50] you also modify that to be, human to
[00:07:53] human transmissible, fancy word for airborne,
[00:07:57] and and it is also modified to
[00:08:00] defeat medical countermeasures, vaccines,
[00:08:04] antibiotics. Now you have nightmare
[00:08:07] scenario at scale that is happening
[00:08:10] so fast, there is just absolutely no way that the
[00:08:14] government can respond,
[00:08:16] so in the book you alternate between laying out the data, the
[00:08:19] history, the science, and then you paint the picture of this
[00:08:23] scenario, and there are any number of instances as I read the book where I found myself
[00:08:27] saying, wait a minute, is that actually true? so here's a detail that I couldn't
[00:08:31] shake, you have the soviets working to
[00:08:34] engineer this plague so that the infected would feel more
[00:08:38] euphoric so that they would go out and they would socialize, is that
[00:08:41] true?
[00:08:44] It is true, and it's a detail that was given to me by one of the
[00:08:47] world's subject matter experts on plague,
[00:08:51] Dr. Henry Hein. He worked at Fort Detrick at the
[00:08:54] USAMRIID facility, that's the Defense Department's only
[00:08:58] BSL4, that's a maximum containment
[00:09:01] facility in America, and it
[00:09:05] told me that when they were working to develop, try and
[00:09:08] develop medical counter measures for plague um in the early
[00:09:11] 2000s, they you in the late 1990s is when they
[00:09:15] had learned the Russian scientists in their illegal
[00:09:19] program were inserting the gene
[00:09:23] for euphoria into the front end of the
[00:09:26] disease and you might say, well why on earth would anyone do that?
[00:09:29] well, if you feel terribly ill because you have
[00:09:33] plague, you're going to go home, get under the
[00:09:36] covers and not infect lot of people, but if you're
[00:09:40] feeling euphoria you're going to naturally want to go out
[00:09:44] and socialize, you might even wind up in a disco, which
[00:09:47] is where the scenario I write
[00:09:49] begins. Okay, and this then creates the
[00:09:53] damned if you do, damned if you don't, scenario relative to gain a
[00:09:57] function research, because if we think that some of our
[00:10:00] adversaries are engaged in this sort of experimentation, the
[00:10:04] only way, you correct me if I'm wrong, that we can be ready is
[00:10:08] if we too are involved in gain of function research,
[00:10:11] so what should we be
[00:10:13] doing?
[00:10:16] I mean, you've hit the nail on the head with the Catch-22
[00:10:19] often of war gaming, of actual warfare,
[00:10:22] which is sword and shield. attack, offense,
[00:10:25] defense.
[00:10:29] And so gain of function does exactly that. It's it's
[00:10:32] looking at pathogens and trying to give them more
[00:10:36] virulence, make them airborne, defeat
[00:10:40] medical countermeasures under the premise that you're
[00:10:44] actually doing defensive work, so that if
[00:10:47] someone attacks you with a genetically modified
[00:10:50] weapon, you have some sense of how
[00:10:53] to perhaps make a count. measure, but of course we know from
[00:10:57] COVID that this creates an extremely dangerous
[00:11:00] situation whereby the
[00:11:03] threat, the risk, I think most people would tell
[00:11:07] you is so much greater than any potential
[00:11:10] reward. You deliberately
[00:11:13] anchored so many plot points to something that has actually
[00:11:17] happened in COVID, the the the cruise ship, the wet market
[00:11:20] explanation, even an aircraft carrier that's taken out a commission, why, why
[00:11:24] was it? important to you that none of this be invented and that you were able to
[00:11:28] peg it to real events?
[00:11:32] For the same reason I put my sources right up
[00:11:35] front, I list who I spoke to. do this in nuclear
[00:11:39] war scenario and do it in biological war scenario. I want readers
[00:11:42] to understand that these are scenarios that are gamed out
[00:11:46] by the Pentagon. It's not
[00:11:50] them. And so you get the sense of this could
[00:11:53] actually happen. And people are thinking about this. I'm not
[00:11:57] writing to terrify people, the point is really not
[00:12:00] panic as much as it is pressure, because once
[00:12:04] the regular folks, we the people understand
[00:12:08] these are major threats, they exist, the government is
[00:12:12] trying to prepare for them and in essence knows there is nothing they can
[00:12:16] do, then we can all have a sort of more
[00:12:19] informed say in what we think about something, like for
[00:12:22] example, gain a function.
[00:12:39] Germany, protests against armament.
[00:12:42] Gibraltar, lifting controls after more than a hundred
[00:12:45] years. Mallorca, more than parties and
[00:12:48] beaches.
[00:13:00] Good day to you. Friedrich Merz has many wishes and
[00:13:04] goals. With the latter, as he admits himself, it is not going
[00:13:08] as he wishes. One of the goals of the German Chancellor, on which
[00:13:12] he is resolutely working, is to make the Bundeswehr
[00:13:15] the strongest conventional army in
[00:13:18] Europe. And that is why his government, the Chancellor promises,
[00:13:21] will provide all the financial resources needed
[00:13:25] for that, we are talking about billions of euros which are mostly
[00:13:29] lacking in other areas, of course, the military industry is rubbing its hands with satisfaction and
[00:13:32] is preparing for a historical investment program.
[00:13:36] The past- burdened Rheinmetall
[00:13:39] concern, thus in the future in its production facility in Berlin,
[00:13:42] instead of civil automotive components, plans to
[00:13:46] produce military technology, but not
[00:13:49] everyone supports
[00:13:51] that. It's a sunny afternoon in Berlin.
[00:13:55] A procession of protesters passes through the city streets,
[00:13:59] they believe that the decision to convert the car parts factory into
[00:14:02] the production of casings for artillery ammunition will encourage military
[00:14:06] conflicts and take human
[00:14:08] lives.
[00:14:15] factory and also against the whole
[00:14:17] the German German uh government that's taking place at the moment.
[00:14:20] Rheinmetall, founded in 1889,
[00:14:24] is one of the oldest German arms manufacturers.
[00:14:27] The company supplied Hitler's war machine, and this legacy
[00:14:31] still negatively affects the public perception of Rheinmetall
[00:14:34] today. Today, this concern wants to be a leader in the development
[00:14:38] of military technology. Its tanks and other
[00:14:42] systems are used in Ukraine while demand across NATO
[00:14:45] rapidly grows.
[00:14:49] into defense innovation, but what we're learning about war is you still
[00:14:52] need armor and you need lots of it.
[00:14:55] and you need to replace it if it's damaged or destroyed. um, Rain
[00:14:58] Matatal had previously um made
[00:15:01] relatively small amounts and batches necessary for nations. now they're realizing
[00:15:05] they have to ramp up production and be able to sustain large amounts of
[00:15:09] production for what we see now as an era of
[00:15:11] longer. Some warn that opening
[00:15:14] a military industry factory in the capital in case of
[00:15:18] conflict could make Berlin a potential target.
[00:15:21] Many protesters are also outraged by the fact that, as they claim,
[00:15:25] Germany supplies Israel with weapons produced by Rheinmetall.
[00:15:28] On the other hand, switching from car parts production
[00:15:32] to armament parts production could bring economic benefits.
[00:15:35] Protests like this show that
[00:16:12] many want Germany to stay away from wars and to
[00:16:15] limit the influence of the powerful military industry. However, they
[00:16:19] do not provide an answer to the question of how Germany can simultaneously
[00:16:23] contribute to the defense of the European Union.
[00:16:26] Politicians celebrate it as
[00:16:31] a historic agreement, and numerous citizens and tourists welcome it
[00:16:34] with relief. After more than a hundred years,
[00:16:38] border controls have been removed between the British overseas
[00:16:41] territory of Gibraltar and Spain. No more
[00:16:44] long waits at the border, no wire, but there are still
[00:16:48] other negative consequences. Here's what
[00:16:51] it's about.
[00:16:53] Gibraltar and Spain share
[00:16:55] a turbulent history. After much tension, the British overseas
[00:16:59] territory is now approaching Spain. July 15th
[00:17:02] should enter history textbooks. One of
[00:17:06] approximately 15,000 Spanish travelers traveling to Gibraltar
[00:17:09] is Alfredo Valencia. This 56-year-old
[00:17:13] crosses the border every morning. The opening is a special
[00:17:17] moment for him.
[00:17:19] Well, it's a mental relief in
[00:17:21] principle. The being half an hour,
[00:17:24] 45 minutes, up to three or four hours in line to get out, the
[00:17:27] truth is that it's not just a desperation, but it also
[00:17:30] means a waste of time because those of us who leave, leave
[00:17:34] work, we need to. Alfredo Valencia took all this as
[00:17:39] a necessary evil because in Gibraltar he earns more than on
[00:17:43] the Spanish side.
[00:17:45] In any case, Gibraltar is flourishing. Every square meter
[00:17:49] is being built and according to the Prime Minister, this trend will continue.
[00:17:53] Millions of tourists visit
[00:18:13] Gibraltar every year, partly due to the more favorable price of alcohol that
[00:18:16] existed previously. However, the price of opening the border is
[00:18:20] higher taxes, which the EU and Great Britain
[00:18:24] agreed upon.
[00:18:26] Gibraltar is also known for numerous service providers, such as
[00:18:29] online betting shops. The opening of the border would also be interesting for
[00:18:33] expansion plans. The Spanish border region could
[00:18:49] not imagine anything better, more jobs, more tax
[00:18:53] revenue.
[00:18:54] If that special economic zone were established, we are currently
[00:19:03] in the European Union, Gibraltar is not, and we know that there are
[00:19:06] companies that are based in Gibraltar that want to continue
[00:19:10] maintaining activity in Gibraltar, but also.
[00:19:13] So, the queues at the border are now
[00:19:14] también.
[00:19:20] a thing of the past, however in the short term, not everything will be better just
[00:19:23] because border controls
[00:19:26] disappear. Do you know what Agenda
[00:19:30] 2030 is? These are sustainable development goals
[00:19:33] for which their promoters like to say that by fulfilling them,
[00:19:37] humanity is saved. Billions have already been spent on
[00:19:41] this project, individuals working towards these goals have enjoyed
[00:19:45] well-paid jobs, but we are not only
[00:19:49] far from their fulfillment, but in some
[00:19:52] areas, regression has even been recorded. But
[00:19:56] here is an example that speaks of small steps:
[00:19:59] on an island known for mass tourism, Spanish
[00:20:03] Mallorca, they are currently testing an environmentally friendly energy
[00:20:06] alternative, it is about green hydrogen which is key
[00:20:10] in achieving energy goals by
[00:20:14] 2030. Fun, that's what Mallorca
[00:20:17] is known for, just like its beaches. But in
[00:20:21] the interior of the island, a completely different atmosphere prevails than on
[00:20:24] the famous debauched coast. Here, next to
[00:20:27] a cement factory, something is being created from which many expect
[00:20:31] a lot. Hydrogen. Plans for this project have existed since
[00:20:34] 2009. But it was only last year that the works really
[00:20:38] gained momentum. The plant has a power of 2.5
[00:20:42] megawatts. Its objective is the development of the
[00:20:45] first hydrogen valley in Southern Europe.
[00:20:49] The key is that this is not just about hydrogen production, but about
[00:20:53] how it can be used on the island and what benefits
[00:20:57] it brings. The first example is city buses in
[00:21:00] Palma. Five buses have been using hydrogen
[00:21:03] as fuel for more than a year. However, due to
[00:21:06] other technical problems, these buses often do not
[00:21:09] operate. Therefore, it is not surprising that the city transport company
[00:21:13] has in the meantime ordered new buses from other
[00:21:16] manufacturers. Another example is a hotel with more than 200
[00:21:19] beds. The hotel company Iberostar
[00:21:22] recently commissioned its first fuel cell. It
[00:21:26] produces not only electricity, but also heat. This
[00:21:30] is useful even in mid-summer helps
[00:21:33] well with everything you see in the room,
[00:21:38] conditioning, etc. In a percentage
[00:21:41] of approximately 20% at the level of
[00:21:44] the entire hotel. The cell is a cogeneration cell,
[00:21:47] so it produces heat that helps
[00:21:50] us preheat the water, the hot water that comes out of
[00:21:53] the taps in the rooms. As much as 70% of the hotel's
[00:21:57] thermal energy needs are covered by the fuel
[00:22:01] cell. It is important for Iberostar to gain
[00:22:04] experience that it can later apply in its hotels
[00:22:07] on other continents.
[00:22:11] All these destinations are very different, the
[00:22:11] conditions, the infrastructures are very
[00:22:15] different. Not everywhere, not in all
[00:22:19] places can we have electricity as
[00:22:22] cheap as perhaps we can have it in Spain. The third example
[00:22:26] is the port in Palma. Here, a fuel cell is currently being
[00:22:29] connected. It should primarily provide electricity for this passenger
[00:22:33] terminal, and later for ferries while they are docked in
[00:22:36] the port. Available 24 hours, it
[00:22:40] is necessary to increase it.
[00:22:42] For example, it is currently consuming
[00:22:46] the most green hydrogen produced in Mallorca,
[00:22:59] the gas network. If we compare it with fossil
[00:23:02] fuels, hydrogen right now is already on par
[00:23:06] in terms of fuel costs. On
[00:23:10] the Spanish mainland, billions of euros are currently being invested in significantly
[00:23:13] larger hydrogen production projects,
[00:23:17] which will also utilize the experience gained in
[00:23:20] Mallorca. How to make building materials for the future from waste,
[00:23:24] which at the same time
[00:23:27] contains no harmful substances, is non-flammable, resistant to mold and
[00:23:30] rot. This is precisely what young German entrepreneur
[00:23:34] Sotoka Pell is working on in the Baltic Sea. He has
[00:23:38] decided to turn a natural material that accumulates on beaches
[00:23:41] into a material for thermal insulation. It is about
[00:23:45] what you would most like to avoid in summer while walking on the beach or swimming in
[00:23:48] the sea. Seagrass provides shelter and
[00:23:52] food for marine organisms.
[00:23:54] However, when waves throw it ashore,
[00:23:57] it becomes waste, as is the case on the beach of the island of Poel
[00:24:00] in the Baltic Sea. But it is precisely this waste that represents an ideal
[00:24:04] raw material for building houses, says young entrepreneur Vincent
[00:24:08] Marnic. When cleaned and dried, seagrass becomes
[00:24:11] a valuable material.
[00:24:15] because at the moment, the biomass that we want to get rid of
[00:24:17] is still actually...
[00:24:45] Vincent Marnic received permission to set up facilities for the production of this
[00:24:48] ecological
[00:24:52] insulation material at the municipal landfill.
[00:24:56] First, sand and seagrass are separated in a special drum,
[00:25:00] then the seagrass is dried in specially
[00:25:03] constructed boxes using solar energy. After processing,
[00:25:07] only 5% of pure seagrass remains from the total mass,
[00:25:10] everything else is sand. For now,
[00:25:13] this material is used exclusively in private construction. Testing
[00:25:16] procedures are underway to approve seagrass
[00:25:20] as an insulation material throughout Europe.
[00:25:23] Many are interested in Marnic's
[00:25:27] process. For now, he cannot produce sufficient
[00:25:30] quantities. So far, he has installed insulation material in 25
[00:25:33] houses. Among them is the house of Vilja Marten who decided
[00:25:36] on material from the sea also because it does not contain harmful
[00:25:40] substances. He uses it to insulate floors.
[00:25:44] we also care a bit about disposal, because we are renovating an old
[00:25:47] building, you know about things you have to dispose of.
[00:25:55] it contains a lot of salt, is not flammable, and is only
[00:25:58] slightly more expensive than other insulation materials.
[00:26:01] Vincent Marnic wants
[00:26:11] to further improve his production process, he hopes that
[00:26:14] soon he will be able to process seagrass from other municipalities
[00:26:18] along the Baltic coast, so he could meet the great
[00:26:21] demand because every year the sea washes tens of
[00:26:25] thousands of tons of seagrass ashore.
[00:26:29] Since we're already talking about the sea, I wish you all happy summer
[00:26:32] holidays. In the meantime, I recommend our internet portal to your
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[00:29:29] Today.
[00:29:33] At this fertility clinic in Munich, doctors are hopeful a new
[00:29:36] breakthrough could improve one of IVF's biggest
[00:29:39] challenges, successful embryo
[00:29:41] implantation.
[00:29:46] has been working in the field for 30 years. IVF has come a long
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[00:29:54] We perform the procedure under very short anesthetic. It takes
[00:29:58] just 5 to 10 minutes. Afterwards, patients wake up and ideally.
[00:30:33] It very much depends on the woman's age. Between 30 and 35, we see the
[00:30:37] highest success rates, around 40%. As
[00:30:40] women approach 40 and especially beyond 40, those numbers fall
[00:30:43] significantly. For women over 42, the success rates are
[00:30:47] unfortunately very low, usually below
[00:30:49] 5%.
[00:30:53] Doctors do everything they can to improve the odds.
[00:30:56] Fertilized eggs are monitored and analyzed over 5 days with
[00:31:00] cameras.