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[00:00:14] pay this part, while millions are
[00:00:26] Good evening, dear viewers, welcome to the news.
[00:00:31] There will be no miners' protest in Zenica, but there will be one in Sarajevo,
[00:00:35] a problem for some miners with health insurance cards has been solved, but others are facing late
[00:00:38] salaries. Miners who were a solution, meaning for 16
[00:00:42] years based on the solution of low coal prices, we were a solution for the state for
[00:00:46] low coal prices, we were a solution for the electric power industry, now at this moment
[00:00:49] miners are a problem. Sad is the government, as they say, if miners and
[00:00:53] workers
[00:00:57] such noise produced by that are a problem. From tonight's news.
[00:01:04] A ceremonial parade of police forces and an academy in Sarajevo marked
[00:01:08] the 35th anniversary of the mobilization of the reserve police
[00:01:11] force of the Republic of Bosnia and
[00:01:12] Herzegovina.
[00:01:15] Europol's investigation revealed that the path of illegal waste from Gospić
[00:01:19] leads to the mafia in the neighborhood. What are the connections with Bosnia and
[00:01:23] Herzegovina? Is our country interesting to actors of criminal
[00:01:26] activities because they know that the system does not function as it should...
[00:01:31] So we have been under pressure from these various lobbies
[00:01:34] for
[00:01:36] years.
[00:01:39] Donald Trump signed a law imposing new sanctions on
[00:01:42] Russia due to the war in
[00:01:44] Ukraine.
[00:01:47] Tomorrow sunny, temperatures in the south of the country up to 33
[00:01:51] degrees Celsius.
[00:01:57] Due to unpaid August salaries, miners from Breza and Hanbile
[00:02:00] are going to protest in front of the building of Elektroprivreda in Sarajevo,
[00:02:03] demanding payment of earned wages, but also answers about the future of
[00:02:07] the mines. Kakanj miners have given up on the announced protests
[00:02:10] in Zenica because the Health Insurance Fund offered a lifeline to the miners and
[00:02:14] temporarily solved the issue of health insurance, but
[00:02:18] a permanent solution is not in sight.
[00:02:20] Problems in the mines did not arise overnight, says
[00:02:24] Jasmin Telalović from the Breza Mine
[00:02:27] Union. For years, he claims, they worked under conditions
[00:02:30] that benefited the energy
[00:02:33] system, while obligations to the miners remained
[00:02:36] aside. Today, he says, the consequences of that
[00:02:40] system are most felt precisely in their
[00:02:43] incomes, contributions, and right to a pension.
[00:02:46] Miners did not pay for healthcare based on that miserable coal price.
[00:02:50] Miners were not paid, meaning pension contributions, and miners now
[00:02:54] have a problem, they can't even leave. So we miners wait 24 months for
[00:02:58] epizonization from this struggle that we... protected the state, social peace, and we
[00:03:02] protected Elektroprivreda, we have a powerful Elektroprivreda that is, it's true, they
[00:03:05] helped us in this way, but based on the low price of
[00:03:09] coal, they had the task to help us based on that low coal price.
[00:03:13] Now at this moment, it has come to pass that miners are the problem. Miners who
[00:03:16] were a solution for 16 years based on the solution of low
[00:03:20] coal prices, we were a solution for the state for low coal prices, we were a solution for
[00:03:23] Elektroprivreda, now at this moment miners
[00:03:26] are the problem. As they say, if miners and workers are a problem.
[00:03:30] The situation is critical in other mines: Zenica
[00:03:33] miners have not been paid four salaries, nor allowances for
[00:03:37] hot meals and transport. Meanwhile, miners from Kakanj
[00:03:41] have withdrawn from the initially announced protests in
[00:03:44] Zenica because the Health Insurance Fund of this
[00:03:47] canton confirmed the validity of health insurance cards,
[00:03:51] noting that the mines' debts amount to more than
[00:03:55] 175 million marks. From the Government
[00:03:58] of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we are asking for a concrete step to open a procedure
[00:04:02] for systematic resolution of mine debts to health institutions,
[00:04:06] determine the method and sources of financing and adopt a clear plan with
[00:04:09] deadlines. The validation of health cards temporarily calmed the situation
[00:04:13] in Kakanj, but it did not remove the problem. Miners are seeking
[00:04:17] a permanent solution. We no longer want health insurance to be
[00:04:21] resolved for 15 days,
[00:04:24] and let them resolve our health insurance until January 1st. Let
[00:04:27] them find a repayment plan for a long time. Of course, we
[00:04:31] also have the support of the director of the fund to seek those funds, but let's not
[00:04:34] break our backs over it. The federal government says they
[00:04:38] understand the miners' dissatisfaction, but they remind
[00:04:41] of previous investments in the mining sector.
[00:04:44] Prime Minister Nermin Nikšić states that in this mandate,
[00:04:48] 212 million marks have been allocated
[00:04:51] to the mines. 164 million is a World Bank loan for this
[00:04:55] just transition, and it will, of course, be directed towards
[00:04:59] those matters. "I understand those
[00:05:02] people, you know, but when I read
[00:05:05] that their salaries were paid but their hot meals are late,
[00:05:09] people, I mean, I'm sorry, but they didn't work, then I can't understand."
[00:05:13] I mean, not to show feeling for those people who earn that salary, those
[00:05:17] miners who dig and deliver coal to Elektroprivreda so
[00:05:21] that Elektroprivreda can produce electricity, sell it and
[00:05:26] counted on paper, miners count the days until
[00:05:30] the next salary. For those who go down into the pit, this
[00:05:33] is not a question of statistics, but of existence.
[00:05:37] For years, miners have been fighting for their rights, they are not asking
[00:05:40] for charity, but for what is theirs by law. They will demand
[00:05:44] this at protests, stressing that they will not
[00:05:48] allow themselves to become collateral damage of
[00:05:51] the system. Dragica Pejaković, N1,
[00:05:54] Breza.
[00:05:57] The fire on Čvrsnica in the locality of Razvale is still active, and the situation
[00:06:01] at the fire site is more favorable than yesterday. Two Croatian Canadairs also helped
[00:06:04] extinguish the fire today with four water drops.
[00:06:08] Firefighters are on the ground working with chainsaws to
[00:06:11] cut through the path. The situation on the ground is being assessed, and depending on
[00:06:14] the development of the situation, further activities will be planned, as stated in
[00:06:18] the report of the Federal Civil
[00:06:20] Protection Administration.
[00:06:23] On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the mobilization of the reserve
[00:06:27] police force of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a parade of police
[00:06:30] forces was held in Sarajevo today. Armored and
[00:06:33] other police vehicles, as well as police officers from various
[00:06:36] police agencies and cadets of the Federal Ministry of Interior's Police
[00:06:40] Academy moved along the route from the eternal
[00:06:42] flame to Skenderija. A special part of the parade also consisted of veterans
[00:06:46] of the police force from the period of defense against aggression.
[00:06:49] The organizers, the Government of Canton Sarajevo and the Union of Associations
[00:06:52] of Police of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1991
[00:06:56] to 1995, wished to pay tribute to the generations who
[00:07:00] participated in the construction and preservation of police institutions of Bosnia and
[00:07:03] Herzegovina and the defense of BiH. Numerous citizens gathered
[00:07:07] along the route and greeted the participants of the parade.
[00:07:10] "In this way, we demonstrate our
[00:07:15] readiness for all scenarios that may arise before
[00:07:18] our police forces, especially unity, because
[00:07:22] only together can we, therefore, respond to
[00:07:25] security challenges of every kind. I am sure that we
[00:07:28] in the entire Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially these people
[00:07:32] who are here today with this equipment, that we can
[00:07:35] do all that and that we have the strength for all
[00:07:39] that. "
[00:07:43] September 19, 1991, when the mobilization of the
[00:07:46] reserve police force took place, is one of the key dates for the defense of
[00:07:50] the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I don't
[00:07:53] know why, but look, today the capital city,
[00:07:56] this is 35 years, the capital
[00:07:59] city, has the, I would say, good fortune and all of us to experience
[00:08:02] and see this parade and this force. We want to show
[00:08:06] both friends and enemies that we are here that there is someone to defend this
[00:08:09] country.
[00:08:12] The commemoration continued with a formal academy, at the gathering in
[00:08:15] Sarajevo's Skenderija in the Mirza Delibašić Hall, on this occasion,
[00:08:19] among others, the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis
[00:08:23] Bećirović, as well as the President of the Union of Associations of Police Veterans
[00:08:26] Vahid Alagić, spoke, emphasizing the importance of the reserve force in
[00:08:30] the country's defense.
[00:08:34] We express great gratitude to the surviving
[00:08:37] police officers and fighters for everything they have
[00:08:40] done for our homeland.
[00:08:43] "It is our duty to nurture the culture of
[00:08:46] remembrance, to pass on the truth
[00:08:49] to young generations about the role of the police
[00:08:52] in the defense of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until
[00:08:56] the declaration of a state of war in mid- June 1992
[00:08:59] and the announcement of mobilization, police forces were
[00:09:03] the only organized armed
[00:09:06] formations with a clear leadership structure
[00:09:10] that resisted aggression, along with
[00:09:12] self-organized patriotic forces, partly
[00:09:16] organized through territorial
[00:09:18] defense.
[00:09:23] The first two weeks of the election campaign were marked by billboards,
[00:09:26] rallies, and intensive promotion of candidates on social media.
[00:09:30] At the same time, analysis of the campaign shows that concrete programs are
[00:09:33] much less in focus, while monitors also record numerous
[00:09:37] irregularities. What did political parties offer to citizens,
[00:09:40] and what awaits us in the next two
[00:09:43] weeks? What did the first two weeks
[00:09:47] of the election campaign look like? Streets filled with billboards, stands,
[00:09:50] halls, pens, lighters, daily
[00:09:53] forums, gatherings, on social media, political
[00:09:56] ads interrupt articles, a model known from previous campaigns,
[00:10:00] a lot of money for commercials, posters, and advertisements, but how much concrete program
[00:10:04] has been offered to citizens? This campaign has offered us nothing
[00:10:07] new, except that we see that some politicians and candidates have
[00:10:11] much more money than I think they should have, you know, they
[00:10:15] pop up on Viber, on WhatsApp, on
[00:10:19] portals, I went to these stands in the center of
[00:10:22] Banja Luka, there are children sitting there who don't know anything to... answer.
[00:10:25] Močović notices an established campaign model, the party president in
[00:10:29] the center, surrounded by candidates for various
[00:10:31] levels of government. A particularly intensive campaign is being waged on
[00:10:34] social networks, according to campaign monitoring, the most active
[00:10:38] is SNSD, followed by the List for Justice and Order, SDP, PSS,
[00:10:41] United Srpska and Narodna Pravda, hundreds of posts,
[00:10:44] but the program is rarely concretely presented in them. It is concerning that
[00:10:48] after analysis, in only 7.2% of posts was the
[00:10:51] program of political entities clearly presented, in addition, 9.
[00:10:55] 3% of the content referred to belittling or discrediting
[00:10:58] a political opponent in the elections. A similar pattern is observed by those who follow the campaign
[00:11:02] at rallies and debates, little presentation of
[00:11:05] programs, concrete plans and solutions, a lot of enumerating problems
[00:11:08] and accusations against opponents. Populism is also
[00:11:11] present, as is nationalist rhetoric that further triggers
[00:11:15] strong emotional reactions. It seems to me that now in
[00:11:19] the election campaign you have
[00:11:22] history that we, I... well at least I, I distance
[00:11:26] myself, have not heard a single constructive answer related to
[00:11:30] the future. We are still talking about
[00:11:33] war, about separation, about the division
[00:11:36] of the country. In addition to the way the campaign is conducted, numerous
[00:11:40] irregularities have also been recorded, from July 27, the Coalition "Pod lupom" recorded
[00:11:43] 794 cases, while Transparency International
[00:11:47] recorded more than 2,000. Most often, they
[00:11:50] concerned the abuse of public resources, premature campaigning,
[00:11:54] prohibited activities during the campaign, child abuse, illegal
[00:11:57] paid advertising, and pressure on voters. The question, however, is
[00:12:01] how many such cases are sanctioned? Of
[00:12:03] 176 complaints, most are still awaiting processing. Most
[00:12:07] of our initiatives are still ongoing, so
[00:12:09] 59.7%,
[00:12:11] a quarter of them 26.7% were rejected,
[00:12:15] and 10.1%
[00:12:18] received a sanction, which means that every 10th complaint
[00:12:22] so far results in a sanction. Based on the initiatives
[00:12:25] of the Coalition "Pod lupom", the Central Election Commission has so far imposed
[00:12:29] 21 sanctions in a total amount of
[00:12:31] 163,000 convertible marks. Monetary
[00:12:35] sanctions are meaningless either way, so at this level of
[00:12:38] corruption and extraction of public money through tenders and other
[00:12:42] means, I think that political parties simply account
[00:12:46] for that. SNSD, SDP, PSS, SDA and
[00:12:49] United Srpska account for three-quarters of the total reported
[00:12:53] irregularities, and the campaign is only halfway through. Now you will have
[00:12:56] the next 15 days, which are the last days of this election campaign, so I think
[00:13:00] that the candidates will literally go wild,
[00:13:04] they will be everywhere, they will be even more aggressive than they have been so far, I am afraid that
[00:13:07] some of them will go from house to house with small gifts,
[00:13:11] persuasions. By the end of the campaign, an even more intensive presence
[00:13:14] of candidates on the streets and social networks is expected, as well as continued
[00:13:17] monitoring of possible irregularities and pressure on
[00:13:20] voters. Those who follow the election process call on the media to
[00:13:24] report professionally, and citizens to resist pressure
[00:13:27] and on October 4th to exercise their right to
[00:13:31] vote. Mirna Ždralović,
[00:13:32] N1.
[00:13:36] In the continuation of the news, we will also talk about problems in
[00:13:38] education.
[00:13:42] Europe is facing a serious problem, student knowledge test results are
[00:13:45] worse than ever, France, Germany and the Netherlands are at the bottom. In Bosnia
[00:13:49] and Herzegovina, we have not had any data for eight
[00:13:52] years.
[00:13:57] The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered one-month detention for those arrested in
[00:14:00] operation "Bure". As stated, the detention was ordered at the proposal of the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina
[00:14:04] for Kenen Ramić, Dino Kovačević, and
[00:14:07] Adis Nezirović, on suspicion of unauthorized trafficking
[00:14:10] in narcotics. The "Bure" operation in the Ilijaš area was carried out
[00:14:14] jointly by the Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Indirect Taxation
[00:14:17] Authority with the help of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Canton Sarajevo. On that occasion,
[00:14:21] an incredible 1.1 tons of synthetic
[00:14:24] narcotics were seized. Namely, among the seized substances was
[00:14:27] the dangerous synthetic cathinone
[00:14:30] which serves as a substitute for cocaine and ecstasy, and the estimated
[00:14:33] street value of this record shipment is around 5 million
[00:14:37] euros.
[00:14:41] With the discovery of the affair in Gospić, the issue of illegal waste import
[00:14:44] is one of the main topics in Croatia, and it has resonated in Bosnia and
[00:14:48] Herzegovina. In some European countries, the waste business
[00:14:51] has been a very lucrative business for over two decades, a well-established mafia business, revealed a Europol
[00:14:55] investigation. The connections are suspected to reach our
[00:14:59] country as well. That the largest part of the waste in Gospić was imported from
[00:15:02] Italy, was confirmed, among other things, by Europol's investigation. Local
[00:15:06] smugglers have considered this business for more than two decades not only very
[00:15:09] lucrative, but less dangerous than drug smuggling, and the profit is almost
[00:15:12] the same. Everything began about two decades ago with a dramatic increase
[00:15:16] in cancer patients in the area near Naples, and then an investigation followed, and then
[00:15:19] the whole tangled mess unraveled. What happened?
[00:15:23] Criminals applied for tenders throughout the European Union for
[00:15:27] this, for the processing of hazardous waste, which,
[00:15:30] when done properly, costs a lot of money. So they cheated a lot
[00:15:34] on those tenders, and what did they do with
[00:15:37] the waste? They buried
[00:15:40] it under meadows where livestock grazed, and
[00:15:44] then it entered the food chain and led to a dramatic
[00:15:47] increase in the number of cancer patients. In the Croatian case, it is suspected that
[00:15:51] tons of waste from Italy arrived in Croatia via Slovenia,
[00:15:55] in order for the illegal waste business to function, seemingly legal front
[00:15:58] companies must be involved, while the investigation is ongoing, there are suspicions that
[00:16:02] under the same guise, in 2014, one hundred
[00:16:05] tons of waste declared as mixed and non-hazardous was sent
[00:16:09] from Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Derventa.
[00:16:12] However, the environmental inspection of the Republic of Srpska determined that the mentioned company
[00:16:16] did not have the necessary permit for importing that type of waste and ordered its return, but this
[00:16:20] case is not isolated because Bosnia and Herzegovina is interesting to actors
[00:16:23] of criminal activities because they know that the system does not function as it should.
[00:16:27] So we are under pressure from these various lobbies
[00:16:31] already for years. I remember
[00:16:34] we had a case of Italian waste.
[00:16:37] It was some textile waste, people suspected it was
[00:16:40] medical waste somewhere around 2020, if I'm not
[00:16:44] mistaken, it was somewhere in Drvar, Grahovo that it was disposed of, some private
[00:16:47] company imported it,
[00:16:50] and unfortunately, as most problems are solved in this country,
[00:16:54] most problems caused by private individuals, big
[00:16:57] businessmen, these problems are solved
[00:17:00] with our money, so no one was punished for that
[00:17:04] case, but we, from the budget, that is, the Federation of
[00:17:07] Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ministry of Environment allocated, I don't know how many
[00:17:11] millions to dispose of that waste. The problem is actually that Bosnia and
[00:17:15] Herzegovina does not have a hazardous waste landfill, and we produce it. We had
[00:17:18] a situation, for example, with Kruks in the Haklorkan
[00:17:22] Committee, a combine here in Tuzla, where
[00:17:26] for years that Kruks was buried in the ground,
[00:17:29] it polluted groundwater, nothing was done, I think for about two
[00:17:33] decades, and still the first phase is now finished, the second
[00:17:36] phase is now being done. The problem is that again this hazardous
[00:17:40] waste is being stored at a temporary landfill until the day of
[00:17:44] export, and all of that again costs the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, while
[00:17:48] private companies remain unpunished. At the same time, neither the population nor activists
[00:17:51] are satisfied with the steps taken by the Croatian authorities to remediate waste in
[00:17:54] Gospić and generally manage illegal waste. We cannot escape the
[00:17:58] fact that we in Croatia live in a kind of partitocracy, in
[00:18:01] which parties, especially ruling ones, have dominated and
[00:18:05] permeated public institutions and state
[00:18:08] bodies with their influence, even those that are scientifically legitimate, while
[00:18:11] possible criminal connections are apparently neglected. In Bosnia and
[00:18:15] Herzegovina, incinerators are increasingly promoted as a solution for waste,
[00:18:18] which is contrary to European directives,
[00:18:21] which becomes a problem if Bosnia and Herzegovina aspires to join the Union.
[00:18:25] In addition, for incinerators to be economical, they need huge
[00:18:28] quantities of waste. If we allow waste imports, we open
[00:18:32] the gates of hell, conclude our interlocutors. Tatjana
[00:18:35] Drljić, N1.
[00:18:40] "We want to sleep with open windows," said the residents of Našice
[00:18:44] today, who protested against the announced import and incineration
[00:18:48] of part of the waste from Gospić, carrying banners with messages
[00:18:51] like "Stop poisoning Našice's air," "Don't
[00:18:55] trade with our health," "From waste to profit, from health to
[00:18:58] disease." They sent a message that they do not want that waste in
[00:19:02] Našice or anywhere in Croatia, and they point out that the cement plant
[00:19:05] in Našice does not have adequate filters for burning waste,
[00:19:09] claiming that it is an ecocide and a threat to the health of citizens.
[00:19:13] They stated that the gathering is a support for those who want to stop the import of waste
[00:19:16] to Našice, if necessary, even
[00:19:19] physically.
[00:19:22] We are here solely because we
[00:19:25] want that illegal garbage returned from where it was
[00:19:28] brought. Only one company from Zaprešić applied for the first
[00:19:32] tender, no cement factory applied.
[00:19:36] The second tender was not... meaning it was illegally awarded
[00:19:39] to Koromačno and Našice that we have to burn that waste,
[00:19:43] people, nothing is compulsory, only
[00:19:45] death is.
[00:19:48] This is absurd what is happening to Našice, they have been poisoning us
[00:19:51] for years, look at Zoljan,
[00:19:55] a village, they can't eat anything from their gardens,
[00:19:59] everything is poisoned, people will get poisoned, I don't know how long
[00:20:03] this will go on.
[00:20:07] They say illegal garbage, it's not illegal garbage, if it came
[00:20:10] with permission, it came with permission, it couldn't cross the border without
[00:20:14] permission, so it's not illegal, it's legal
[00:20:17] garbage, but they disposed of it
[00:20:19] illegally.
[00:20:24] US President Donald Trump signed late last night a law imposing
[00:20:28] new sanctions on Russia due to the war in Ukraine, which relate to the Russian
[00:20:31] energy sector, the White House announced. This new law for the first
[00:20:35] time targets Russia's phantom fleet that bypasses international sanctions
[00:20:38] and President Vladimir Putin. The law gives Trump
[00:20:41] the authority to impose tariffs of up to 100% on the five major
[00:20:45] importers of Russian gas and oil, including China
[00:20:48] and India.
[00:20:52] The US, Denmark, and Greenland announced reaching an agreement in the dispute over
[00:20:56] that Arctic island, and the signing of the agreement is expected next
[00:20:59] week, according to a joint statement from the Danish and Greenlandic governments.
[00:21:03] The Danish government announced on platform X that the signing is expected during
[00:21:07] the UN General Assembly session, followed by the parliamentary
[00:21:10] procedures necessary for it to enter into force.
[00:21:14] The US President said that he secured permanent control from Denmark and Greenland
[00:21:17] and announced the establishment of
[00:21:20] And then of course, uh, you get a little nervous, because what is it? a military presence in the appropriate part of
[00:21:22] Greenland. No opponent of the US will be able to have a base
[00:21:26] or military presence in Greenland or make sensitive investments in
[00:21:29] Greenland without our express written approval, added Trump.
[00:21:50] The US have the right and
[00:21:53] maybe obligation to put their defense at Greenland, as they have
[00:21:57] had since World War II, so I guess that's
[00:22:00] okay, that's good actually, it's going to be more quiet
[00:22:04] now. And I think that the United States is probably going to
[00:22:07] get what they could have had the whole time if they just
[00:22:11] asked nicely. So in that sense, I
[00:22:14] think it's, it's going to be nice. I was just
[00:22:18] laughing because nothing has changed
[00:22:21] uh and, and the agreement with between Denmark,
[00:22:25] Greenland, and US is still the
[00:22:27] same. Denmark has just been
[00:22:30] assured that the red line will not
[00:22:33] be stepped over
[00:22:37] and so for me, nothing has changed because it's
[00:22:40] it's nice that that the focus is now
[00:22:44] on, on Greenland and Denmark and that the
[00:22:47] states US must, must accept.
[00:22:54] Don't miss this story at the end of the news.
[00:22:56] priču.
[00:22:59] Peer violence among children and youth is an increasingly prevalent problem;
[00:23:03] legal and institutional mechanisms exist, but the question is how
[00:23:07] effective they are.
[00:23:12] The latest PISA testing for 2025 showed
[00:23:15] a significant drop in the results of fifteen-year-olds in several
[00:23:18] European countries, especially in France, Germany,
[00:23:22] the Netherlands, and Finland. But we in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not worried because
[00:23:25] we haven't had results for eight years, maybe we should be
[00:23:29] worried about that. PISA
[00:23:32] is not a classic school test; it checks how well
[00:23:36] fifteen-year-olds can apply knowledge in situations they may
[00:23:39] encounter in real life. Students
[00:23:42] have two parts, two questionnaires, two tests, and one
[00:23:46] test always focuses on one of the literacies.
[00:23:50] In the case of 2025, natural sciences were in focus, and
[00:23:53] for example, if one works for an hour, half an hour or half of that,
[00:23:56] half of the test is reserved for the research that is in focus
[00:24:00] and an additional half for the other two literacies.
[00:24:03] Each of these tests has six levels. In order to say
[00:24:07] that someone is functionally literate, they must complete tasks at the second
[00:24:10] level, so they must cross this basic threshold.
[00:24:13] Of course, for those special ones,
[00:24:16] there are tasks at the fifth and sixth levels where really
[00:24:20] serious considerations and different things are required. And it was precisely
[00:24:23] the basic level in 2018
[00:24:26] that was unattainable for more than half of the students in Bosnia and
[00:24:29] Herzegovina. The results then showed serious
[00:24:32] weaknesses. More than half of the students in Bosnia and Herzegovina did not
[00:24:36] reach the basic level of knowledge in all three tested areas.
[00:24:39] The largest share of such students was in mathematics, almost two-thirds.
[00:24:43] In reading literacy, below the basic level was
[00:24:47] 58.9%, in sciences
[00:24:50] 59% of students. The results were a warning.
[00:24:54] education system, however, after that there were no new internationally
[00:24:58] comparable data. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, if we do not
[00:25:01] have a political agreement at the state level, we cannot participate
[00:25:04] anywhere outside Bosnia and Herzegovina, that was also the case with PISA. We
[00:25:08] participated for the last and only time in 2018
[00:25:12] under great pressure from the international community,
[00:25:15] funds were found so that Bosnia and Herzegovina could participate in PISA testing,
[00:25:19] we received very indicative results on which we
[00:25:23] should have worked in the past period, however,
[00:25:26] after that there was no more political interest, I
[00:25:29] think we don't want to see that mirror that someone
[00:25:33] gives us to recognize our mistakes and to work on those
[00:25:37] mistakes. Without new data, it is difficult to assess whether there has been progress in the meantime,
[00:25:40] but also what are the biggest problems that students
[00:25:44] face today. However,
[00:25:46] parents believe that testing should not only be a measure
[00:25:50] of students' knowledge, but more an indicator of the state of the entire
[00:25:53] education system. It is not right that at
[00:25:57] the end, that PISA testing, the results of PISA
[00:26:00] testing, this.
[00:26:03] relies on children, as if it is about
[00:26:06] children's pure knowledge, no, this,
[00:26:09] it should be a picture of a general, general system
[00:26:13] of education, how much it has managed to evolve, considering
[00:26:17] how fast we live and how fast
[00:26:20] all these technologies are progressing
[00:26:24] and discoveries are every day some new
[00:26:26] discovery, it is still scarce here,
[00:26:30] the next opportunity is PISA 2029.
[00:26:33] The decision on Bosnia and Herzegovina's participation should be made
[00:26:36] in time because the students who will be tested then will already
[00:26:40] be part of the education system that needs to be prepared for such
[00:26:44] testing. This level of assessment that we give and think is
[00:26:47] serious feedback to children,
[00:26:50] parents, and systems, educational authorities, it
[00:26:54] actually is not. We really have very little,
[00:26:57] almost no research that talks
[00:27:00] about how educational institutions
[00:27:04] help young people mature
[00:27:07] into serious, mature people. PISA 2029
[00:27:11] brings new challenges, including the measurement of media and AI
[00:27:15] literacy. Therefore, the new testing should not only be an international
[00:27:18] ranking list. Its value will be to
[00:27:22] show what students know today, what they can apply, and
[00:27:25] where the education system must make changes. Nataša
[00:27:29] Kerezović, N1.
[00:27:33] Peer violence among children and young people is an increasingly present problem,
[00:27:36] so much so that in just one school in Tuzla, the police intervened
[00:27:40] three times this month. Legal and institutional mechanisms
[00:27:43] exist, but the question is how effective they are. The Youth
[00:27:47] Resource Center Tuzla launched an initiative in schools called
[00:27:51] "Violence is not the solution," all in order to prevent daily
[00:27:54] incidents.
[00:27:58] Cursing, mocking, gossiping, physical and sexual harassment,
[00:28:01] physical conflicts, and digital bullying have become almost
[00:28:05] daily forms of behavior in schools. School violence
[00:28:09] intentionally and unjustifiably causes harm to others, students are
[00:28:12] aware. Responding in kind violence is not the
[00:28:16] solution. This means that for example, when one student
[00:28:19] fights with another student and this third student or
[00:28:23] student, for example, reports it to the teacher
[00:28:27] of the class. As for violence, when someone, for
[00:28:29] example, bullies you or something like that. you should contact
[00:28:33] an older person, a pedagogue,
[00:28:36] a teacher or the class teacher, because they should
[00:28:39] solve it, not you, because it would lead to some conflict or
[00:28:43] some arguments. Schools have protocols in case of violence
[00:28:46] among students, school pedagogues play a big role in all of this.
[00:28:50] Teaching staff, schools, parents and the community should be on
[00:28:53] the same side, i.e., for prevention. In my school
[00:28:57] I constantly try to suppress
[00:29:00] it somehow, so that it doesn't happen. because when violence happens, it's already
[00:29:04] too late, so we need to work, we need to teach children to respect
[00:29:08] each other, to spread friendship, love, I don't know, to focus
[00:29:11] more on those positive values, lately there has been a lot
[00:29:15] of talk about violence, about something negative, and
[00:29:19] the ministry has taken
[00:29:21] a series of additional measures to prevent it in some way,
[00:29:25] to mitigate it as much as
[00:29:27] possible, we are not omnipotent, but we are doing our best
[00:29:31] to ensure that it does not happen, no
[00:29:35] school is happy when it is heard that something is happening,
[00:29:38] that someone has a habit
[00:29:42] of covering it up, I don't know why, it
[00:29:45] should be through work with students, parents, and
[00:29:49] schools, and through cooperation with institutions, the Youth
[00:29:52] Resource Center is trying to establish clearer ways
[00:29:55] of acting in situations that precede violence. It is true
[00:29:59] that schools have their own rules according to which they act,
[00:30:03] but all these rules are precisely about reacting when something
[00:30:07] has already happened. Our goal is to try to get to a point where
[00:30:11] we prevent situations from happening, that they
[00:30:14] adopt these rules according to which they will know how to
[00:30:18] react and how to react to prevent violence in schools. According to
[00:30:21] expert opinion, communication skills development programs
[00:30:25] help children solve social problems and improve
[00:30:28] interaction between students. There are some
[00:30:31] students who bother me when you are working, even if you are doing well and if
[00:30:35] you study too much, they will tell you "what are you studying for,
[00:30:38] why are you a loser," let's say, and so on. Students should socialize,
[00:30:42] they should get along, they should help each
[00:30:45] other. When you have a test in anything, in
[00:30:48] history, in math, you should always help,
[00:30:52] talk to them, chat,
[00:30:56] yes, official data on the number of cases of violence in schools are
[00:30:59] unavailable.