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[00:00:00] from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, and
[00:00:03] our show's new home, you are very that was in
[00:00:08] networks, there are more and more videos 2014, I didn't know it then, but I would call Abu Dhabi home for the
[00:00:12] next decade, a government to government
[00:00:14] relationship, only now it looks and
[00:00:18] works vastly different. I think five years
[00:00:21] ago nobody knew about data center, as emerging
[00:00:24] technologies lead the way, yes, what can I
[00:00:27] do, and as global idea. are implemented
[00:00:31] locally, intelligent minds have
[00:00:34] transformed where i live into a city of the future. what are you going to say to
[00:00:37] me? hello, all right, i get it, and you
[00:00:51] across the world, new race is
[00:00:54] unfolding, race to build faster,
[00:00:58] smarter, advanced
[00:01:00] societies powered by intelligence
[00:01:04] at every
[00:01:06] be applied in cities of level, humanoids, robots, technology that we
[00:01:10] thought only existed in science fiction, but we
[00:01:13] hear now is
[00:01:15] is supplied, AI is invisible, so lot of real, is on display here in the UAE,
[00:01:18] this is the Abu Dhabi autonomous summit
[00:01:22] at autonomous week, and it's here that industry
[00:01:26] leaders, policy makers and innovators are coming
[00:01:30] together implement what
[00:01:32] is the future of
[00:01:34] technology, oh
[00:01:37] hello, what's happening here isn't
[00:01:40] just a showcase of gadgets and gizmos, it's a glimpse
[00:01:44] into how the UAE is trying to redesign how its
[00:01:48] systems work, from transport to healthcare, from
[00:01:51] governance to utilities.
[00:01:54] away from the dancing robots is a bigger ambition,
[00:01:58] spearheaded by this man.
[00:02:02] "if you serious about autonomy, whether in cars,
[00:02:05] whether in drones, whether in robots, do not waste
[00:02:08] your time in any other country, this is the city to be in,
[00:02:12] this is the place to be in, and I can tell you one thing,
[00:02:15] and I think you will hear a number of surprises over the next three four
[00:02:19] months, there will be multiple announcements of large
[00:02:22] programs relate to roll out of autonomy and robotics at
[00:02:26] serious scale, starting 2026." "we will be
[00:02:30] a frontier country when it comes to this race, not someone
[00:02:34] that is following, someone that's leading the race, and I think we are set
[00:02:38] up and geared with all the ecosystem to do
[00:02:42] securing me that. Many of the hundreds of exhibitors
[00:02:47] water over time, some of attending events in the UAE tell me that the existence of
[00:02:49] tech alone doesn't make a city smart.
[00:02:53] Instead, it's about the infrastructure, the digital
[00:02:56] equivalent of roads, power lines and water pipes.
[00:03:00] In Abu Dhabi, that work is led by
[00:03:03] G42. G42 isn't a robotics
[00:03:07] firm or a consumer tech company, it's building the
[00:03:10] isn't a tool, but part of systems that allow AI to operate across an entire
[00:03:14] country, from data centers to cloud
[00:03:18] platforms, supercomputers to AI models and
[00:03:21] algorithms.
[00:03:24] In a sense, it's the power grid of the AI
[00:03:28] era, the network carrying. intelligence to every part of
[00:03:32] society, or they call here the intelligence
[00:03:35] grid. At G42, you talk about
[00:03:38] building out intelligence grid for AI native
[00:03:42] societies. So firstly, what do we mean by
[00:03:46] AI native societies? Just explain. So in Abu
[00:03:49] Dhabi, and and when we say an AI
[00:03:52] native society, we're talking about nation-scaled
[00:03:56] deployment, where we're able to create a government operating system.
[00:04:00] to an extent that enables government services to be able
[00:04:03] to leverage AI for public service use
[00:04:06] cases, for example, and then where industries and enterprises can also
[00:04:09] leverage that same AI and where societies at large, whether it's
[00:04:12] education or in everyday life
[00:04:16] are able to leverage that infrastructure that's being designed to
[00:04:20] help deliver intelligence and more value added services. how you power
[00:04:24] that needs to be underpinned by digital infrastructure, which is a
[00:04:27] part of what we refer to as the intelligent. grid, which by definition is a
[00:04:31] grid that has a collection of AI data centers and cloud
[00:04:34] infrastructure and orchestration layers, big data analytics
[00:04:38] engines that can help deliver that intelligence to
[00:04:41] user. with global partners like Microsoft, Nvidia
[00:04:45] and Open AI, it's building systems designed
[00:04:48] to streamline how cities function, making them more
[00:04:52] efficient, more resilient, and more
[00:04:54] predictive. We're talking about a digital
[00:04:58] backbone that connect... compute,
[00:05:01] cloud, data,
[00:05:04] ai, bringing as you describe it,
[00:05:08] intelligence everyone everywhere,
[00:05:11] just just... that down a little bit more for me, so if we think back to um
[00:05:15] electricity and the way electricity was powered
[00:05:19] with substations and power generation and transmission lines, in a
[00:05:22] very similar fashion, you're trying to kind of manufacturing
[00:05:26] intelligence by converting energy into these tokens, these units
[00:05:30] of intelligence, and the data center is analogous to a substation, and then in l
[00:05:33] of transmission lines, you have these connectivity, fiber optic
[00:05:37] cables that are delivering that last mile service to user that's consuming that
[00:05:41] intelligence.
[00:05:44] but an intelligent society doesn't run on infrastructure
[00:05:47] alone, it runs on data. users such as you and
[00:05:51] me often give our data in real time, and with
[00:05:55] this policy makers can understand our changing demands
[00:05:58] and respond with
[00:06:00] solutions.
[00:06:03] and that is where one of G42's companies, presite comes
[00:06:07] in by collecting and analyzing
[00:06:10] residents data in cities around the... world the company
[00:06:13] demonstrates how advanced AI can
[00:06:18] the future, in a way new public
[00:06:22] service initiatives are looking at, the government is invisible and the way AI
[00:06:27] the work that we do is not about the technology that you see, but how it's
[00:06:31] applied, the initiative to adopt advanced technology such as
[00:06:34] AI to better the lives of citizen, society and
[00:06:38] the community, it's something that the government is mandated to do, that's why we always work
[00:06:41] with the government. because we want to develop national platform that has the most
[00:06:45] impact to the society and it's been an area that we apply our technology really
[00:06:49] well, we focused on the end users mission,
[00:06:53] be to save lives, to save water, to drive citizen
[00:06:56] satisfaction on government services, i think that's what drives a
[00:06:59] motivation, and there's data to back this
[00:07:03] up, a report by presight and dell
[00:07:06] technologies finds that using IoT and
[00:07:09] AI in smart cities has led to... many
[00:07:12] benefits.
[00:07:15] In fact, McKeinsian company reports that smart
[00:07:18] technologies can improve key quality of life
[00:07:21] indicators by 10 to
[00:07:24] 30%. In real terms, that could mean
[00:07:27] more lives saved, fewer crimes, shorter commutes
[00:07:31] and more. So in the department of energy we created an AI
[00:07:35] native platform that manages water electricity. So the
[00:07:38] ADWE platform takes in over billion data points
[00:07:41] histor. time onto sovereign AI platform that is hosted
[00:07:45] out of Abu Dhabi, it aims to create ability to
[00:07:48] track every drop of water from source to end every watt of
[00:07:52] electricity from start to consumption. we aim to save about
[00:07:56] 20 to 25% of
[00:07:59] these use cases really drive on smart metering to understanding where
[00:08:03] leakages might be, to consumption where it shouldn't be, so the ability
[00:08:07] to bring data infrastructure and algorithms together is what makes Abu
[00:08:10] Dhabi a leader in the vision of... city to look at is not just the
[00:08:14] infrastructure. This is the
[00:08:17] foundation, national smart infrastructure where AI
[00:08:23] the system. But what
[00:08:25] about the people living an AI native
[00:08:28] society?
[00:08:31] Well, in Abu Dhabi, the answer starts with a single
[00:08:34] app that turns the infrastructure into everyday
[00:08:38] experience.
[00:08:56] If infrastructure is the backbone of smarter
[00:08:59] society, then this is where people actually feel
[00:09:03] it, on the streets, in their homes
[00:09:06] and increasingly on their phones. It's no
[00:09:10] surprise then that smartphones have... become a powerful
[00:09:13] tool for designing cities of the future, and in
[00:09:17] Abu Dhabi, one platform has become the front door to
[00:09:20] government itself. Well, I haven't been to a government building
[00:09:24] here in Abu Dhibi for years, certainly not since
[00:09:28] this was launched, the Tam
[00:09:31] app.
[00:09:35] In Arabic, Tam translates to consider it
[00:09:38] done. It's Abu Dhabi's all in one government
[00:09:41] services. app powered by Microsoft's
[00:09:45] Azure Open AI service, officials here
[00:09:48] say it's the world's first AI public
[00:09:51] servant, and the idea has even made its way to
[00:09:55] Washington where it was mentioned in a US senate
[00:09:58] committee hearing, remember when you had to stand in line to renew your driver's
[00:10:02] license, remember when you didn't know how to report a pot hole that
[00:10:05] needed to be repaired on your street, remember when you had fender
[00:10:09] bender in a car and you had to fill out all these forms and... talk to all
[00:10:13] these people to get insurance coverage, now you can do it all
[00:10:16] with one AI system, you can use
[00:10:19] your phone, and by the way, you can do this today in Abu
[00:10:23] Dhabi, we need to bring it to America.
[00:10:27] By digitizing over 1,100
[00:10:30] public and private services in over 90
[00:10:33] languages, tam merges what used to be
[00:10:36] multiple ministries, websites and offices into a
[00:10:40] single personalized interface. No
[00:10:43] paperwork, no guess work, just one place where the
[00:10:46] government is in the palm of your hand. I've used it
[00:10:50] to renew my Emirates ID, my residency,
[00:10:54] my health insurance. "i've even used it to book a
[00:10:57] beeping course. according to the international institute
[00:11:01] for management development, in the last year Abubi climbed
[00:11:05] the smart city index from 10th to
[00:11:08] fifth place. with ambitions to become the world's first AI
[00:11:11] native government by 2027, the UAE
[00:11:14] capital is spending around 3 and a half billion dollars to
[00:11:18] digitize and automate all of its
[00:11:21] services. so this is the tam factory, so this is..."
[00:11:25] an awful lot of pressure because you're about to launch new platforms and
[00:11:28] each one of them is right now is working really hard to make sure everything
[00:11:32] is in place where we try to become more inclusive
[00:11:36] government and this year we also taken today
[00:11:39] the team is preparing the biggest update yet tam
[00:11:43] 4.0
[00:11:48] it's exciting - the new version of the platform is designed to make the app even more
[00:11:52] proactive and its core is something called
[00:11:57] Imagine today your whole government is an autopilot, the government is
[00:12:01] invisible, but actually close to you when you
[00:12:04] need it. So let's take an example, if you want to renew your car
[00:12:07] today and traditional since you have to go apply
[00:12:11] online, maybe you do five six services, do inspections and
[00:12:15] do lot of other services, insurance etc. With
[00:12:18] autograph, the AI will give you heads up that I will start
[00:12:21] the renewal process, it will renew it and... tell
[00:12:25] you it's done, that's all you have to worry about, so
[00:12:29] we in the government we want to be proactive and give you
[00:12:32] your time back,
[00:12:36] this new update is flipping the idea of public services its
[00:12:40] head, instead of you applying for
[00:12:43] something, the system recognizes what you need,
[00:12:46] prepares the steps and completes them
[00:12:49] automatically, it's a concept that we we have to make it
[00:12:52] reality, so you must get these questions. about
[00:12:55] privacy and security all the
[00:12:59] time, there's an awful lot of my data out there,
[00:13:02] so how are you
[00:13:07] as a resident from
[00:13:10] issues of privacy invasion,
[00:13:13] data breaches and the like, we
[00:13:16] have policies and laws and policies and
[00:13:20] laws which concern
[00:13:22] cyber security and privacy, we have a full security
[00:13:25] team monitoring the whole environment 24 by
[00:13:28] seven and we have a an army of hacker that hack our
[00:13:32] system every day to make sure an army of hackers, yes it's our hacker
[00:13:36] that's make sure everything is secure, so we believe that your
[00:13:39] data with us is more secure than your data within your own phone, because
[00:13:43] that's how confident we
[00:13:45] are.
[00:13:48] smart cities rely on data and automation, but
[00:13:51] good governance relies on people. Sam is
[00:13:55] blending both: AI handling the routine,
[00:13:58] humans handling the nuance. Everything is powered
[00:14:02] by AI, automatically we have self-healing, automatic
[00:14:05] ticket generation and goes to the right government. So this is
[00:14:08] data that is showing you how efficient you are being at
[00:14:12] time. Data
[00:14:15] doesn't make a city smart, how it's used
[00:14:19] does. Here the goal is anticipatory
[00:14:23] governance.
[00:14:25] problems before people ever experience them and giving
[00:14:28] residents back what they value most, their time.
[00:14:32] consider it done, consider it done, consider
[00:14:34] it
[00:14:38] done.
[00:14:49] for smart cities around the world, the road to net
[00:14:53] zero is imperative for. sustainable
[00:14:55] future, those cities cover just
[00:14:58] 3% of the earth's land surface, they are
[00:15:02] responsible for around 70% of all carbon
[00:15:06] emissions with transport being among the largest
[00:15:09] contributors,
[00:15:12] and while cars will likely always be around, they may not
[00:15:15] be powered by petrol engines moving forward. this is the
[00:15:19] mika level four and this is what we're going to take our trip in today, exactly today
[00:15:23] through through the city.
[00:15:27] In Abu Dhabi, this autonomous vehicle is undergoing trials
[00:15:30] and it's said to require little to no
[00:15:34] human interaction to operate along geo... fenced
[00:15:38] route in Mazda City, this
[00:15:41] vehicle is on the roads in Osaka, it is as we
[00:15:44] speak, yes, yes, and they've been running for over, I
[00:15:47] think 18 months
[00:15:48] there.
[00:15:52] Mazda city was established in 2006 as
[00:15:55] sustainable urban community.
[00:15:59] Since then, it's become a living lab of sorts, to trial new
[00:16:02] technologies for an improved way of
[00:16:05] life.
[00:16:07] is very, very comfortable journey, it has to be
[00:16:10] said, so is the vision that this will be how I
[00:16:14] commute going forward in abu dadi, I mean, am I not going to need a driving license
[00:16:17] anymore? this is the future, right, as as we embrace
[00:16:21] AI, as we embrace more clean solutions,
[00:16:24] this is a paradigm shift that people have embrace, we always would like to be
[00:16:28] at the forefront to be part of this innovation story, and
[00:16:31] through the the four generations of of
[00:16:35] autonomous mobility that that we have undergone in... past i would say 15
[00:16:38] years, we are giving feedback to the regulator and of course to
[00:16:42] the company, the the technology service provider to make sure that we
[00:16:46] enhance. how big draw for
[00:16:49] international companies is the idea that you
[00:16:52] are so close to the regulator here,
[00:16:56] that regulation will and can develop
[00:17:00] and change pretty quickly according to your sort of
[00:17:03] strategic needs. this is one of the key players.
[00:17:07] "this is one of the key, I would say magnets, that agility to put
[00:17:11] it around, not only the agility and I think the advancement, when you as
[00:17:15] investor or foreign company coming from Europe or from US or even
[00:17:19] from China, and you find that the regulations are not only
[00:17:22] simple but are really advanced, this gives you so many ticks
[00:17:26] in your checklist, the regulations is there, the
[00:17:29] regulator is willing to listen to me, I have master
[00:17:32] city is helping us through the regulation, the regulator to
[00:17:36] understand our..." to know our needs and to cutter
[00:17:40] for our future expansion.
[00:17:43] It's this support and collaboration that has attracted
[00:17:46] international startups to Abu Dubi. Valts, for
[00:17:50] example, is a European startup that when approached by
[00:17:53] Mazda City's Clean Tech Accelerator program, decided
[00:17:57] to relocate in 2019.
[00:18:00] Now, villa owners across the Emirates are using their
[00:18:03] devices to produce and store their own
[00:18:06] renewable energy. in the UIA, the solar and
[00:18:10] sun is a gift from the gut, and this
[00:18:13] house use this gift to improve their
[00:18:16] life.
[00:18:20] with lithium ion batteries that can store up to 71 kilowatts
[00:18:24] per hour each.
[00:18:26] vaults bring sustainable electricity to where
[00:18:30] residents need it most, their homes. in
[00:18:33] simple words, you have power bank for your phone, it's a power bank for...
[00:18:37] villa: yeah, you can use it in different ways, you
[00:18:41] can use it to uh avoid power outage,
[00:18:45] you can use it to collect solar energy that you get
[00:18:48] from solar panels and use this solar energy
[00:18:52] during the night, and even our
[00:18:55] some our partners, our customers, they start to use
[00:18:59] electricity of grid, they became
[00:19:01] 100% carbon-free and
[00:19:05] they are become from consumer, they become prossumer, they produce
[00:19:08] electricity energy and they consume
[00:19:12] it in the global race to net zero, innovative energy
[00:19:16] storage devices like this democratize the clean
[00:19:19] energy transition. In
[00:19:22] fact, since it's incubation in Mazda City, Vaults has
[00:19:26] deployed its technology to Germany, to Sweden,
[00:19:29] Nigeria, Uzbekistan and
[00:19:31] Azerbaijan. 100 years from the
[00:19:35] starting of electricity. were the prerogative of the
[00:19:39] big utility company, big funds, big capital,
[00:19:43] but nowadays you can produce
[00:19:46] and keep electricity by yourself, and
[00:19:50] you can build small power station in your villa, it's
[00:19:53] incredible.
[00:19:56] From London to Chenzen and Singapore, many of the
[00:20:00] world's smart cities have a clean energy
[00:20:02] agenda, and the UAE is no different,
[00:20:06] as the first country in the... mena region to commit to net zero
[00:20:10] emissions by 2050, the government has
[00:20:12] pledged to invest up to 54 billion dollars
[00:20:16] by 2030 to triple its renewable energy
[00:20:20] production, and as one of the region's fastest
[00:20:23] growing renewable companies, Mazda is
[00:20:26] looking to spearhead these grand
[00:20:28] ambitions. As a resident,
[00:20:32] back in 2013, 2014 when I
[00:20:35] arrived, the story
[00:20:39] here felt like it was you know very much focused
[00:20:43] on the clean energy story, perhaps slightly
[00:20:45] unfashionable and back in 2014,
[00:20:49] the... headquarters for renewable energy irena um of course uh
[00:20:53] based here as well, can you just
[00:20:56] chart the sort of 15 year evolution
[00:21:00] here of that clean energy story? back
[00:21:02] then the clean energy solutions were
[00:21:05] not financially viable or not
[00:21:08] even attainable uh commercially as well as
[00:21:12] socially and even even from a technology point of
[00:21:14] view uh give me the numbers, mean the numbers sort
[00:21:18] of speak when we started... backy
[00:21:21] 2010, i would say kilowatt hour was 40
[00:21:24] cents, right? Today we talk about
[00:21:27] less 1.5 cents, so i don't know,
[00:21:30] i think abu Dhabi through our sister company
[00:21:34] mostler have broken records like two or three times and again this is not
[00:21:38] in our backyard in abu dhabi, this is international beds through of
[00:21:42] course international players, yeah about 100
[00:21:44] gigawatt sort of um vision, the
[00:21:48] object and i think "they are already halfway or
[00:21:51] more than halfway 55 gigawatt in more than
[00:21:55] 45 countries internationally, i think it's quite
[00:21:58] unique the challenge that we face, because you really have
[00:22:01] everything, the challenge is really, how do i achieve
[00:22:04] that?
[00:22:07] well, abudabi is building the future of
[00:22:10] smart cities and what we are seeing here
[00:22:14] today at Mazda City is just the
[00:22:17] beginning, not just for the UAE." for the rest of the
[00:22:21] world from an AI assistant for
[00:22:24] public services to smart city
[00:22:27] operations and from autonomous vehicles
[00:22:31] to energy storage. the
[00:22:33] city I've spent more than decade in has dramatically
[00:22:37] transformed. with technology at the helm, can you give me a
[00:22:41] K-boo box please? we could just about be ready
[00:22:45] for intelligent
[00:22:46] future.
[00:23:27] Good evening, dear viewers, welcome to
[00:23:30] the news.
[00:23:33] At least 98 dead, hundreds missing in catastrophic
[00:23:37] flash floods on the border of Nepal and
[00:23:39] China.
[00:23:44] From the news tonight, we also highlight
[00:23:46] these stories.
[00:23:50] active fires continue in Trebinje and Krajina, this year around
[00:23:54] 200 fires have been recorded in our country, over 40,000
[00:23:57] hectares of land burned, what are the causes?
[00:24:01] Usually, in our country, it happens day one, day two, will they
[00:24:05] or won't they, who will, until civil
[00:24:09] protection agrees, until this, until that, then when it starts to spread,
[00:24:12] then it's give us helicopters, give us this, give us that, meaning it's too late
[00:24:16] to act. and
[00:24:20] "Italian paratroopers demonstrated their capabilities above Mostar as
[00:24:23] part of EUFOR's Rapid Response exercise. A capability exercise was held in
[00:24:27] Banja Luka.
[00:24:30] Tragedy in Pakistan, 14 babies died in a large fire that
[00:24:34] broke out in a hospital due to a malfunction in the cooling
[00:24:37] system.
[00:24:40] Bosnia and Herzegovina facing a new heatwave, a red
[00:24:43] alert issued by meteo
[00:24:44] alarm."
[00:24:50] Disaster on the border of Nepal and China. Nearly a hundred people
[00:24:54] have died, and hundreds are missing in flash floods.
[00:24:58] Among them are almost 600 tourists. The army announced that
[00:25:01] it had sent soldiers and helicopters to the scene and added
[00:25:05] that damage assessment is underway. But the danger has not yet passed, authorities
[00:25:09] state. People ran in panic at
[00:25:13] the border crossing between China and Nepal when a
[00:25:16] torrent appeared behind them. Water, rocks, and mud carried
[00:25:20] away human lives, tourist buses, trucks, and
[00:25:23] buildings. The border crossing where the
[00:25:26] force of the torrent was recorded is the main crossing for tourist traffic between
[00:25:30] China and Nepal. According to initial information, an earthquake measuring
[00:25:34] 4.4 degrees, which, according to media
[00:25:37] reports, occurred only seven minutes earlier, could be
[00:25:40] the cause of the torrent. The earthquake apparently triggered
[00:25:44] an avalanche of rocks and ice, creating a natural dam on
[00:25:47] the river. When the water broke through the block. in the city, a strong torrent
[00:25:51] rushed downstream and carried everything in its path. Satellite
[00:25:54] images show the extent of destruction in the area north of
[00:25:58] Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, near the border with
[00:26:02] China. Remains of houses and buildings are under mud,
[00:26:05] and there is justified fear that there will be many casualties. On social
[00:26:10] showing people trying to find salvation
[00:26:13] by fleeing to higher areas. Chinese President Xi
[00:26:17] ordered all available rescue teams to be sent to this part of China.
[00:26:20] Rescue efforts are further hampered
[00:26:24] by the mountainous terrain and swollen rivers. Helicopters in
[00:26:27] some affected areas. they couldn't even land.
[00:26:31] Danger. It's not over yet, authorities warn that there is another blockage upstream
[00:26:35] on the river, there is a
[00:26:38] possibility of a new flood wave. This is the most severe
[00:26:42] natural disaster in Nepal since the 2015
[00:26:44] earthquake, in which 9,000 people
[00:26:48] died. Dušan Mlađenović,
[00:26:50] N1.
[00:26:56] The fight against fires in Bosnia and Herzegovina continues. The fire continues
[00:27:00] to rage in the Trebinje area in the krajina, and while the fire devours
[00:27:04] huge areas, the question arises why the response is so
[00:27:07] poor and why we have so many fires this
[00:27:11] year. Azur Delić brings answers.
[00:27:15] This year, 200 fires broke out across Bosnia and Herzegovina, and
[00:27:18] over 40,000 hectares of land were burned, according to
[00:27:22] data from the European Forest Fire Information System. Due to this
[00:27:25] data, Bosnia and Herzegovina is first in the region in terms of burned
[00:27:29] area. Kemal Cacan, former commander of the Sarajevo firefighters,
[00:27:32] points out that the causes are numerous, primarily he says that there is no organized work
[00:27:36] in the field of firefighting, that we do not have a single educational center, that
[00:27:40] legal regulations are outdated. In all of this, there
[00:27:43] is no supervision over the implementation of laws, meaning there are no
[00:27:46] inspection bodies. One part of the answer, what you just
[00:27:50] asked, is precisely that, there is no supervision, meaning
[00:27:54] there is no one who will come, who will check the fire site, who
[00:27:57] will determine the source of the fire and who will punish that
[00:28:01] person. I have often said, repression is sometimes the best
[00:28:05] prevention, here with us that does not exist, here the federal administration of civil
[00:28:08] protection since 2009, now 26, meaning 18 years, they
[00:28:12] have just announced a competition for inspectors for firefighting for
[00:28:15] the federation. Although human factor shows his
[00:28:19] decades of experience, the most common cause of fire is the lack of
[00:28:22] punishment. Irresponsible behavior continues, and when
[00:28:25] fires occur, only then is the lack of firefighters and modern
[00:28:29] equipment best seen. The fire on Trebević is under control. But the fire is still
[00:28:33] smoldering. We, as the city of Istočno Sarajevo, really cover
[00:28:37] a large territory, from Trnovo to Sokolac. We, as a unit,
[00:28:40] are organized into three departments and two branch offices,
[00:28:43] and for every intervention, we respond with that
[00:28:47] first strike shift, but
[00:28:50] it takes a little time to organize other teams from
[00:28:54] our other municipal departments. According to the law, every municipality
[00:28:58] should have a professional fire unit, many don't, and those
[00:29:01] that do have a limited number of firefighters, according to
[00:29:05] our fire law,
[00:29:09] there will always be a lack of professional firefighters,
[00:29:13] what is help,
[00:29:15] that is, significant help
[00:29:18] are volunteer firefighters, this is one
[00:29:21] segment in which way we can compensate,
[00:29:25] that is, all participate and contribute to saving people and
[00:29:28] material goods through voluntary firefighting,
[00:29:31] including themselves as
[00:29:34] secondary firefighters, but the situation is not good there either, for example, Sarajevo
[00:29:38] has nine voluntary fire brigades, while Zagreb has
[00:29:41] 54. In these very fires of low
[00:29:45] vegetation and open terrain, volunteer firefighters are the main
[00:29:49] force, we don't have that because simply financing, meaning
[00:29:52] their annual budget cannot
[00:29:56] be for fuel and tires, all other fire
[00:29:59] equipment, which is expensive, is not purchased, there is no money, and
[00:30:03] usually the first expenses that are cut in the budget when a budget rebalance is needed,
[00:30:07] are always cut from the firefighting
[00:30:09] item. This is visible on the ground in
[00:30:13] Herzegovina, the fight against fires has been going on for days with helicopter assistance.
[00:30:16] The fire approached the settlement of Željavo near Trebinje. The guys really
[00:30:20] fought a huge battle last night, or almost until morning, until 4 AM.
[00:30:24] This morning it is calm in that area, but we must not
[00:30:28] give up, it is guarded, it is watched, one branch goes towards
[00:30:31] Željevo, that represents a great danger to us, there this morning
[00:30:34] almost four hours the helicopter of the
[00:30:37] armed forces worked, so we are fighting, the fire is approaching the road towards
[00:30:41] Željevo. The same picture is in the area of Bihać and
[00:30:44] Cazin. The fire on Plješevica is not extinguished. Firefighters are
[00:30:48] trying to prevent the spread of the fire towards the coniferous forest. The fire at
[00:30:51] the location of Velike and Male Gomile is still active. The helicopter of the Armed Forces of
[00:30:55] Bosnia and Herzegovina has been engaged. Azur Delić,
[00:30:58] N1.