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[00:00:18] Good afternoon, dear viewers,
[00:00:20] today's events.
[00:00:24] Fires reignited
[00:00:26] in the Trnovo area.
[00:00:30] Three arrested in the Amadeus operation
[00:00:33] handed over to the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
[00:00:36] Vučić called elections in Serbia for October
[00:00:39] 25th.
[00:00:45] A large forest fire at the Repovica location at the entrance to
[00:00:48] Konjic, which threatened residential buildings yesterday, was localized
[00:00:52] during the night and brought under control. However, fires have
[00:00:56] reignited in the Trnovo municipality area, reports Fedža Kulina.
[00:01:01] The situation in the Trnovo village of Ostojići
[00:01:04] is extremely difficult, and today members of
[00:01:08] voluntary fire departments of Sarajevo, Šuma,
[00:01:11] local residents, professional firefighters,
[00:01:15] and utility services are constantly on the ground
[00:01:17] trying to localize this fire, but it's very
[00:01:21] difficult, as they say, because it's an underground fire, and
[00:01:25] when they think they've extinguished the fire in one place,
[00:01:28] it reignites after some time.
[00:01:30] People are exhausted,
[00:01:33] they've been continuously on the ground for days,
[00:01:36] and this is not the only active fire in the
[00:01:40] municipality. They are active in Presjenica, in
[00:01:44] Hojta on Treskavica, where helicopter
[00:01:47] assistance is expected. We don't even know our names anymore,
[00:01:51] all of us, my employees, who have been here for
[00:01:55] six days. In fact, we are already nine days late from Šabići. "We
[00:01:58] are on the field every day, every day until
[00:02:02] 10 p.m. We are exhausted, but what can we do, we have to endure
[00:02:05] until it rains, until it happens, we have to endure. Now in Preseni
[00:02:09] here in Ostojići, we currently have about ten people. Members of
[00:02:13] Sarajevo Šume have joined us. They were here all day yesterday extinguishing the fire
[00:02:16] with the locals. We currently have about 10-12 people
[00:02:19] engaged. We are asking for help from the professional fire
[00:02:23] brigade. The Civil Protection of the Trnovo municipality
[00:02:26] sent an official letter to the Ministry of Armed Forces
[00:02:30] of Bosnia and Herzegovina to engage helicopters for
[00:02:33] Treskavica mountain, because it is impossible to extinguish the fire from
[00:02:37] the ground up there, the terrain is inaccessible. Last night,
[00:02:40] the fire started here, going down towards the village. Luckily, one neighbor has
[00:02:44] a tractor, so we somehow brought water with the tractor, we extinguished it with shovels,
[00:02:47] and we managed to contain it. It got cold, it just started at night.
[00:02:51] Anyway, we're fighting, that's it, thank God,
[00:02:55] everything is going as it should. We were here until some time last night, some
[00:02:59] stayed on duty. "Some came at four, then again it's a shift.
[00:03:02] So, all day and night, you see for yourselves how it is. Members of the
[00:03:06] Ministry of Internal Affairs are constantly
[00:03:09] launching ballistic missiles at on the ground, led by the commander of the Trnovo police department,
[00:03:12] who logistically assist the teams on the ground,
[00:03:15] who have been here for five days now.
[00:03:19] They hope that the fire will at least soon be brought under
[00:03:22] control until it rains.
[00:03:26] Fedža Kulina, N1.
[00:03:35] Police officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska
[00:03:38] handed over three people to the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina yesterday
[00:03:42] arrested as part of the Amadeus operation. Milutin, Mića Danilović,
[00:03:46] Aleksandar Nikolić, and Vladimir Grubačić were handed over.
[00:03:49] They are suspected of a serious criminal offense of organized
[00:03:53] crime, in connection with unauthorized trade, narcotics,
[00:03:56] as well as unauthorized trade in weapons, military equipment,
[00:04:00] and dual-use items. After the handover, the acting prosecutor
[00:04:03] of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina should decide on further measures against the
[00:04:07] suspects.
[00:04:12] Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić signed a decree dissolving
[00:04:15] the National Assembly and called snap parliamentary elections for
[00:04:19] October 25th.
[00:04:21] I hereby issue: Decree on the dissolution of the National Assembly
[00:04:25] of the Republic of Serbia. Under one. I dissolve the National
[00:04:28] Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, elected on December
[00:04:31] 17, 2023.
[00:04:34] This decree enters into force on the day
[00:04:37] of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic
[00:04:40] of Serbia.
[00:04:50] Dear citizens, pursuant to Article 109, paragraph
[00:04:53] 6 of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia, Article 20,
[00:04:57] paragraph three of the Law on the President of the Republic, and Article
[00:05:00] 59 of the Law on the Election of National Deputies,
[00:05:04] I hereby adopt a decision on calling
[00:05:07] elections for national deputies
[00:05:10] under one, I hereby call elections for national deputies for
[00:05:13] October 25, 2026.
[00:05:17] Under two, deadlines for performing electoral activities
[00:05:21] begin to run from the date of entry into force of this decision. Under
[00:05:24] three, elections for national deputies shall be conducted by electoral
[00:05:28] bodies pursuant to the provisions of the Law on the Election of National
[00:05:32] Deputies. Under four, this decision enters into
[00:05:35] force on the day of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic
[00:05:39] of Serbia.
[00:05:45] During the commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the suffering of Croatian civilians
[00:05:49] in Grabovica near Mostar, HDZ president Dragan Čović
[00:05:52] said that Bosnia and Herzegovina will not be able to function as
[00:05:56] a normal society until it confronts its past. He reminded
[00:05:59] of Srebrenica and other places of suffering, saying that victims and
[00:06:03] their families must be treated with
[00:06:05] respect. I simply empathize
[00:06:09] with every mother, including the mothers of Srebrenica, even when... there was that
[00:06:12] crime, that is, genocide, but mothers or
[00:06:16] women are the biggest victims of every war, they carry the most
[00:06:19] suffering, and directly, first of all, they generally did not
[00:06:22] wear uniforms and weapons, and the suffering went through their backs.
[00:06:27] We must understand that we must understand every mother
[00:06:30] who grieves for her loved ones, and that's why I said, until we clear up
[00:06:34] history, I fear that we will be buried in the mud of the past,
[00:06:38] which is not good. This is the answer to your, this is the answer to your
[00:06:41] question. Well, I think the law is
[00:06:44] clear in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the criminal law is very clear about it,
[00:06:48] and nothing needs to be added there. It is a rule of law, whether
[00:06:52] we respect it or not, it is very precisely written there what the
[00:06:55] attitude of each of us is when it comes to
[00:06:58] crime.
[00:07:01] Former Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović spoke to N1 about the funeral of convicted war criminal
[00:07:04] Ratko Mladić in Belgrade and the future of Serbia.
[00:07:08] I'm starting to wonder if the European Union
[00:07:10] is serious when it talks about enlargement, especially in
[00:07:13] the Western Balkans area, as it officially calls it,
[00:07:17] because if it is serious, then it really needs to insist
[00:07:21] literally on fulfilling all the criteria that we have fulfilled.
[00:07:24] Remember how many problems Croatia had because of the criteria
[00:07:28] of cooperation with the court in The Hague. I really
[00:07:30] am one of those who believes that Serbia must join the European Union,
[00:07:34] that it is in the interest of Croatia, in the interest of the European Union. I truly
[00:07:38] support their path, but the scenes that we have
[00:07:41] seen these days will not help anyone. They may
[00:07:44] temporarily act as populism, but I
[00:07:47] don't see that Serbia will benefit from it in the long run
[00:07:51] in any way. That is simply
[00:07:54] denying uh reality,
[00:07:57] the reality.
[00:08:06] The conflict between the United States of America and Iran entered a new
[00:08:10] dangerous phase after the US military destroyed five Iranian oil tankers
[00:08:13] in the Gulf of Oman, stating that it was a response to
[00:08:17] missile attacks on their warships. Tehran retaliated by
[00:08:22] a base in Jordan, used by American forces, but Jordanian
[00:08:26] anti-aircraft defense shot down 18 out of 20 missiles without
[00:08:29] human casualties. Due to the escalation of tensions in the Strait
[00:08:33] of Hormuz and fear of supply disruption, the price of Brent crude
[00:08:36] oil on the global market jumped to $100 per
[00:08:40] barrel.
[00:08:48] with the intention of passing through the prohibited and unsafe Strait of Hormuz, were targeted.
[00:08:52] The public relations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that the heroic naval
[00:08:56] force of the Corps, in response to the aggression and mischief of the
[00:09:00] terrorist army of America in attacking 5 Iranian
[00:09:04] oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, targeted
[00:09:06] two American vessels and 8
[00:09:10] oil tankers in this area and inflicted
[00:09:13] heavy damage on them. Also,
[00:09:17] 10 infringing ships that, provoked and supported
[00:09:20] by the aggressive terrorist army of America, intended
[00:09:24] to pass through the prohibited and unsafe Strait of Hormuz
[00:09:27] were targeted. The Strait
[00:09:30] of Hormuz is under the strong and powerful surveillance
[00:09:34] and management of the capable and peaceful naval force
[00:09:37] of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
[00:09:39] Corps.
[00:09:55] The United States of America banned the import of a wide range of Canadian
[00:09:59] alcoholic beverages, motorcycles, and dairy products, further escalating
[00:10:02] the trade dispute between the two countries. The measures, which
[00:10:06] come into effect on September 29, are a response to
[00:10:09] retaliatory Canadian tariffs imposed after the US previously
[00:10:13] imposed 50% tariffs on Canadian goods worth approximately
[00:10:16] 20 billion dollars, while Washington expands the list of tariffs
[00:10:20] to include cheese, paper, and aluminum, with Trump threatening to
[00:10:24] raise tariffs on cars from January 1. Representatives of both sides
[00:10:27] continue talks in an attempt to find a
[00:14:25] forecast. We are tracking the arrival of a cold front from the
[00:14:29] direction of northwestern Europe, which brings a major weather change,
[00:14:32] i.e., the final end to high temperatures.
[00:14:36] Already around midday, we expect precipitation
[00:14:39] first in the area of northwestern Bosnia, then it will
[00:14:43] spread to the central part of the country, and
[00:14:46] also towards the east, with the south remaining
[00:14:50] mostly dry, as current forecast models suggest.
[00:14:53] By the end of the day, the wind will also change its direction from south
[00:14:57] to north, so we expect an influx of cooler air, which is why
[00:15:01] tomorrow temperatures will be ten degrees lower
[00:15:05] in some places compared to today's values, which will still be relatively high,
[00:15:08] especially in the Herzegovina region up to 36 degrees, where
[00:15:12] mostly sunny and hot weather continues today. However,
[00:15:15] Thursday and Friday bring a significant
[00:15:19] cooling, but also locally more abundant
[00:15:22] precipitation, given that locally, during
[00:15:25] Thursday and Friday, there may be more intense downpours accompanied by
[00:15:28] strong thunderstorms and hail, as well as stormy winds.
[00:15:32] That's all for the news summary, thank you for your attention,
[00:15:34] goodbye.
[00:15:45] Watch the scene with Adrijana Gavrić,
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[00:15:58] Tomorrow from
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[00:16:24] The election campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina has begun, and with it
[00:16:27] promises, party rallies, political messages, accusations of
[00:16:31] misuse of public resources, premature campaigning, vote
[00:16:35] buying, and citizens will elect authorities on October 4th.
[00:16:38] Political parties have a few more weeks to convince them why they
[00:16:42] should vote for them. What are politicians offering us, how realistic are their
[00:16:45] promises, how much is the campaign again based on fear,
[00:16:48] divisions, national tensions? Where does the regular work of the government end,
[00:16:52] and the election campaign begin, and what does the current course of the campaign tell
[00:16:56] us about that? I'm talking to journalist
[00:16:59] Elvir Padalović.
[00:17:10] the campaign officially started a few days ago. Now, when
[00:17:14] we look at what the parties have offered citizens so far, what
[00:17:17] would actually be the main message of this campaign?
[00:17:21] Well, the election campaign officially started on
[00:17:24] September 4th, right? However, it has been going on, so
[00:17:28] we live in a sort of permanent election
[00:17:31] campaign. This date merely formalized their
[00:17:35] entry into the field, the date. So that the
[00:17:38] election law is respected. However, we saw during almost
[00:17:42] the entire year 2026
[00:17:46] that they were all on the ground, with their
[00:17:49] sleeves rolled up from white shirts, so because of the heat,
[00:17:53] they walked through all possible
[00:17:55] municipalities, uh, doing the things
[00:17:58] that are usually done in a campaign, but it was supposedly not
[00:18:02] a campaign. So we witnessed their
[00:18:05] permanent appearances on social media,
[00:18:08] on TV shows,
[00:18:11] in mosaic shows, in, I don't know,
[00:18:14] Sunday afternoons. So they were omnipresent throughout this
[00:18:18] year, so nothing new has happened since this
[00:18:21] September 4th. That beginning,
[00:18:25] that official beginning of the election campaign was
[00:18:28] quite boring, uninteresting. These five or six
[00:18:32] days of the election campaign, purely related to
[00:18:36] uh, to the elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, are quite
[00:18:39] quite boring. I don't see any interesting
[00:18:42] messages, no programs, no, no what is offered
[00:18:46] to voters, to voters. You said somewhere
[00:18:49] in the introduction, they will have three more weeks to convince
[00:18:53] someone. I wouldn't say they want to convince anyone. I think
[00:18:57] they are addressing their voters who already,
[00:19:00] who already know who they will vote for. So that is one, one characteristic
[00:19:03] of our politicians, so they exclusively address
[00:19:08] uh, on the ground where they are safe, so their
[00:19:11] voters, their constituents. I don't see
[00:19:15] them trying at all to invite
[00:19:18] abstainers, or God forbid, to convince
[00:19:21] someone from another political spectrum, so to speak, to
[00:19:25] vote for them. So here, everyone addresses
[00:19:29] their own, their own voters. So that's, that's for me, somehow,
[00:19:32] that's it, summarizing everything we've seen
[00:19:35] since that fourth of September. And now citizens are
[00:19:39] again being promised higher salaries, pensions, new jobs.
[00:19:43] Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina warns of more than
[00:19:46] 2,200 potential cases of abuse
[00:19:50] of vote buying. There is also talk of 68
[00:19:53] million one-time payments since
[00:19:56] the announcement of the elections. Where is the line
[00:19:59] now between some legitimate help to citizens and indirect
[00:20:03] vote buying? Can a citizen who, before the elections,
[00:20:06] receives a one-time payment, really view that money
[00:20:10] as a social measure and not as a political
[00:20:12] message? Well, first of all, it's not a social
[00:20:15] measure at all. Social measures are something that is done systematically. So
[00:20:19] this is not a systemic solution, this is ad hoc,
[00:20:22] one-time. So the intention is very clear, so
[00:20:26] uh, it is about uh,
[00:20:29] buying voters in a way, so
[00:20:31] their co-opting, as they
[00:20:35] say, this helping
[00:20:38] before the elections. We saw here in Banja Luka,
[00:20:41] in Republika Srpska, there are one-time payments to pensioners,
[00:20:45] pensions are higher than these August pensions they recently received.
[00:20:49] Then, mm... children from elementary schools, high
[00:20:52] schools, students, so everyone receives some one-time
[00:20:55] aid. It seems to me that the Central Election Commission on several
[00:20:58] occasions uh, whether it applied
[00:21:01] to that one-time aid now, I'm not sure, but somehow that
[00:21:05] attitude is that, uh, if, if it's already in
[00:21:09] the budget, in Republika Srpska it was done by a budget
[00:21:12] rebalance, so it went through some
[00:21:15] certain procedure, so they won't deal with it, even though it's
[00:21:19] obvious what it's
[00:21:22] about. So, here these days we have a break
[00:21:25] due to high temperatures, a break in elementary schools.
[00:21:29] Our teachers from early morning are doing what?
[00:21:32] They are collecting data,
[00:21:36] so from parents about the method
[00:21:39] of payment of one-time aid
[00:21:42] to schools, or to students. So here we
[00:21:45] are, we are in that break, so this is an excellent example of how
[00:21:49] it works. The break started on that
[00:21:53] September 4th, and lo and behold, just on the day when
[00:21:56] the official election campaign begins, our teachers
[00:21:59] are preparing for the official start, which will begin
[00:22:03] on the 10th, right? Then they will probably start
[00:22:06] collecting data from parents. So that's all,
[00:22:10] uh, there is no such boundary. We saw
[00:22:12] what politicians did over
[00:22:16] the summer. So they reduced all of that to their regular
[00:22:19] party activities. So suddenly there were meetings
[00:22:23] of the municipal board with 500, 600 people.
[00:22:26] So I don't see any boundary at all between
[00:22:29] before the start of the election campaign and this and this
[00:22:33] pre-election period and and this period before
[00:22:37] the election campaign. I mean, how should I say, I myself am confused.
[00:22:40] So I, I don't really know how the voters
[00:22:44] who, who supposedly had to adapt to new conditions
[00:22:48] from September 4th. That we are in an election campaign, but
[00:22:52] actually it's been going on, almost, I think it's been going on since last year, since
[00:22:56] these snap presidential elections for the president of Republika Srpska. So
[00:23:00] that's, and generally, I think we are
[00:23:03] non-stop in some kind of campaign, campaign, yes.
[00:23:06] The Central Election Commission has already punished political
[00:23:09] entities for this premature campaign,
[00:23:12] but also for the misuse of public resources. Now, are the penalties strong
[00:23:16] enough to stop such practices or
[00:23:19] simply are they calculated into the campaign
[00:23:22] costs for political actors?
[00:23:25] I think they somehow have, every, every
[00:23:28] appearance has somewhere that budget reserve item
[00:23:32] for such situations, like "penalties" in brackets,
[00:23:36] so those are miserable penalties for them, truly.
[00:23:39] I mean, even though they were, I don't know, two or three times
[00:23:43] those penalties were around 20 thousand marks,
[00:23:46] individual, this, I think that means nothing to them.
[00:23:49] So they, they calculated all of that in, and I think
[00:23:52] it paid off many times over, that those
[00:23:55] trips to the field and whatever. The problem here
[00:23:59] is that the larger political parties have
[00:24:03] greater opportunities, they have more money,
[00:24:05] of course. They can calculate with those
[00:24:09] things. However, the problem arises when the Central
[00:24:12] Election Commission approaches, and of course it
[00:24:15] should approach all political entities equally, that's without
[00:24:19] question, but to punish, I don't know, Facebook
[00:24:23] posts of some small political
[00:24:26] entities, to somehow circumvent all
[00:24:28] possible potential, all some
[00:24:32] possible potential abuses of public
[00:24:36] funds. So that, I think something
[00:24:40] is not set up correctly there,
[00:24:42] uh, I mean, even today, I think the CEC
[00:24:46] continuously receives those
[00:24:49] reports. that happened a few days ago. So,
[00:24:52] we saw, there are also cases, so that
[00:24:55] entities are punished for those past elections.
[00:24:59] So it's all somehow, somehow strange,
[00:25:02] especially this, this, this year is quite
[00:25:05] politically strange. I don't
[00:25:08] see any that this election campaign, well, it's
[00:25:12] officially running, but it's like it never even stopped.
[00:25:16] Yes, how much will national tensions again be used
[00:25:19] as the most effective means of mobilizing voters? Who
[00:25:23] has the biggest interest in the campaign being conducted in that
[00:25:26] way? Yes. Well, it's interesting to me that the
[00:25:29] CEC, uh, issued an appeal,
[00:25:33] an appeal to all political entities, uh, regarding
[00:25:36] the use of hate speech. I think that's good. So, hate speech should
[00:25:39] not, should not
[00:25:42] be there. So that's something that is, uh, absolutely
[00:25:46] unacceptable. So I think that right now, uh...
[00:25:51] no, I don't see any of that. Of course, this situation that is
[00:25:55] happening regarding the funeral of Ratko Mladić,
[00:25:58] all of that is somehow integrated into
[00:26:02] the whole election environment. But it seems
[00:26:05] to me that political entities, at least on the ground when it comes
[00:26:08] to, when it comes to, uh,
[00:26:12] when it comes to the political campaign, so there
[00:26:15] are no national mutual
[00:26:18] attacks, what
[00:26:22] we see is that they are on the ground, how should I say, they are engaged
[00:26:25] in usual, usual
[00:26:28] issues, these slogans, paroles that
[00:26:32] they use, that is something usual, nothing
[00:26:35] new, always boring, but somehow
[00:26:38] always, well, always that certain, how should I say,
[00:26:41] potential possibility for raising
[00:26:45] tensions always exists, so that is, that is something that is proven, that
[00:26:49] has been working for 30 years, that
[00:26:52] uh, that narrative of fear is always present,
[00:26:55] of being threatened, by one another, by others, by the first, third, and so on, so that is something that is
[00:26:59] always present. I hope that won't happen, that people
[00:27:03] are a little smarter after all
[00:27:06] and will choose, well, let's hope, based on some political
[00:27:09] program, I haven't seen many of those political programs, uh,
[00:27:13] I think people still, how should I say, go for very cheap,
[00:27:17] simple slogans, because how,
[00:27:21] how should I say, if you don't have, if it's permanent, if
[00:27:25] politicians are permanently on the ground, then you virtually aren't interested
[00:27:29] in any programs, because we practically need from that fourth of September'.
[00:27:32] we have as a starting position, so everyone from that
[00:27:36] September 4th starts from the same, from the same starting
[00:27:39] point, it doesn't happen, so, we saw, everyone
[00:27:42] was out, everyone was doing something and well,
[00:27:46] lo and behold, in that election year, yes, Elvira,
[00:27:50] for the end, for the first time citizens will have biometric identification, ballot
[00:27:54] scanners, now can this new technology really
[00:27:58] increase trust in the election process or will, without citizens' trust,
[00:28:01] doubts about the results continue?
[00:28:05] Well, I think that
[00:28:08] all data indicate that this should
[00:28:10] eliminate the most basic, how should I say, electoral
[00:28:13] manipulations, so I truly hope that electoral technologies
[00:28:17] will help in the process so that
[00:28:21] elections are fair, transparent, as much as possible within
[00:28:24] Bosnia and Herzegovina, that these, so to speak,
[00:28:28] main obstacles or their main mechanisms for stealing
[00:28:32] votes will be eliminated and that we will have somewhat
[00:28:35] fairer elections compared to the previous ones, of course,
[00:28:39] I think voters should have been informed earlier about the voting
[00:28:42] process, uh, how to approach it, so I think
[00:28:46] the campaign started late,
[00:28:50] uh, but it's not difficult at all,
[00:28:54] it's enough to watch two or three videos and it will be
[00:28:58] very, very simple, so,
[00:29:00] technologies are not an obstacle.
[00:29:02] So, technologies should help to make that process as efficient as possible, I