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[00:00:00] about Kosovo after the end of the war is some conspiracy, well, the West
[00:00:03] and all those Western judges have decided to cover up everything that happened
[00:00:07] to Serbs, that is option one, that is an option that I don't believe, but I am afraid that
[00:00:11] it is an option that I tell you will here in some cases become dominant, essentially what
[00:00:15] you are talking about now after the end of the war
[00:00:18] could eventually, if it is raised, I assume that this court
[00:00:22] will not close its doors now but will continue to work
[00:00:26] on, that is, prosecutors on investigations, that would be...
[00:00:30] a crime against humanity eventually, so yes, exactly, that's right, and both
[00:00:33] questions, so organ trafficking and ethnic cleansing
[00:00:37] of Serbs after the end of the war can be the subject of some future
[00:00:40] proceedings, we know that this court has not completed all its proceedings,
[00:00:44] so a month ago the prosecutor
[00:00:47] filed a new indictment about which we don't know what it deals with, it is
[00:00:51] still confidential, so
[00:00:54] it is awaiting confirmation by the duty judge for those previous
[00:00:58] questions, only when it is published, we will see what that new indictment
[00:01:02] deals with, but that indictment is not the last one most likely, so it is possible
[00:01:06] that some, some, some other proceedings will happen, as for organ
[00:01:09] trafficking, uh, the defense
[00:01:13] of Thaçi and the general narrative in Kosovo is exactly
[00:01:16] that, that because this case does not mention organ trafficking, it somehow
[00:01:19] discredits this whole court, that all this is
[00:01:22] false, because now the court did not deal with that
[00:01:27] that is, it seems to me to be raised to issue of organ trafficking in this case, what is clear is that... when
[00:01:30] the investigation was ongoing back in 2014, the previous prosecutor
[00:01:33] of the previous mechanism, before this court was established, said that they had
[00:01:37] indications that it happened, but in a very small number
[00:01:41] of cases, the word he used was a handful of cases, so up to five
[00:01:44] people whose organs were removed, you are now
[00:01:47] talking about what can be provided as evidence, that's right, exactly
[00:01:51] that, and at the same time evidence in some preliminary investigation, not
[00:01:54] evidence at trial where it is necessary to prove beyond a reasonable
[00:01:58] doubt, where it is not only necessary to prove
[00:02:00] that it happened, but that these four are responsible for it,
[00:02:04] so maybe you can prove that five people were killed for organ
[00:02:07] removal, but you cannot attribute
[00:02:10] that to Thaçi, I don't know if you understand me, so my, my
[00:02:14] view is that the reason why this case does not deal
[00:02:17] with it is simply because the prosecutor does not have enough evidence to go
[00:02:21] before the court to accuse these defendants, that is, the accused for
[00:02:24] those acts, whether what you just said, that there is not enough
[00:02:28] evidence can be applied... even though the indictment, if I'm not
[00:02:32] mistaken, stated a crime against humanity, that's right, to be
[00:02:35] applied to that as well, why was that,
[00:02:39] that qualification abandoned, so one question is the qualification of the crime, whether it is
[00:02:43] a crime against humanity or a war crime, the other is the question of the facts themselves,
[00:02:47] so the indictment did not cover at all in this specific case the
[00:02:50] issues of organ trafficking and ethnic cleansing of Serbs, simply that was not at all the subject
[00:02:54] of the case, whether that will happen in some next case, I don't know, what would
[00:02:58] really be good, is... journalists ask
[00:03:01] the prosecutor, what did you actually determine, what actually
[00:03:04] happened, since 2014, the prosecutor
[00:03:08] of the Kosovo Specialist Court has said nothing, so more
[00:03:11] prosecutors have changed, none of them has said
[00:03:14] anything about organ trafficking, tell us what you actually
[00:03:17] determined, so only that is one thing that is needed,
[00:03:21] crime against humanity is another story, so in this specific case
[00:03:24] the court found that crimes against humanity
[00:03:27] were not committed because ...one of their constitutive
[00:03:31] elements, that so-called attack, widespread attack on the civilian
[00:03:35] population, was not proven, the element of context as you said
[00:03:39] recently, that's right, ok, uh, is it important
[00:03:42] that fact, I don't know if it's important, but here I'm
[00:03:46] asking you, yes, at least it's interesting that all the prosecutors were
[00:03:50] Americans, that the presiding judge
[00:03:53] is an American, plus we had judges from Germany and France, and for
[00:03:57] that matter, we had Americans who testified in favor of Thaçi and Wesley Clark and
[00:04:00] this uh that fact is important in
[00:04:04] that if you are now some ethnic
[00:04:07] Albanian, that to you your greatest
[00:04:10] allies impose that
[00:04:13] court, that the people sitting in that court
[00:04:16] are not only top professionals, I mean, by chance I know two of these three
[00:04:20] judges who were in the trial chamber, I mean I can tell you, how would I say, that these are really
[00:04:24] serious people, these are not some people from the street, right, that these are
[00:04:27] moreover people from countries
[00:04:30] that are friendly countries to you, that they determine that those crimes
[00:04:34] happened, that would probably tell you, these people are
[00:04:37] impartial, objective, that's really true, but I'm afraid that's not how
[00:04:41] human consciousness works, 99% of Albanians in
[00:04:44] Kosovo will say, oh no, that didn't happen, meanwhile, the majority of victims, overall
[00:04:48] victims in this proceeding are Albanians, that's right, that's
[00:04:52] a paradox, so the paradox is that actually when you look at the crime base
[00:04:55] in this case, certainly when it comes to detained persons, of whom there are more
[00:04:59] than 300 tortured persons of whom there are 300, that
[00:05:03] their, that the majority of these victims were Albanians, but now you have
[00:05:06] a dominant narrative among Albanians in Kosovo that they will not believe in
[00:05:10] crimes against themselves, because they were committed by
[00:05:13] the KLA, and how do you explain that, how can
[00:05:16] that be explained, it's like now, is it a parallel
[00:05:20] that we in this, that the majority in this society
[00:05:23] do not believe that I don't know,
[00:05:27] uh Legija killed Đinđić or something like that, well, I'm afraid there is
[00:05:31] probably a significant number of people in this society who believe that, or rather, do not
[00:05:34] believe, but this is very easy to explain, so it is
[00:05:37] a matter of identity, mhm, at one point when you
[00:05:40] identify yourself... with one side in the conflict
[00:05:44] and consider it just and not just just, but
[00:05:48] absolutely just, the best army in the whole
[00:05:51] world, right, with the brightest possible
[00:05:55] goal, you refuse to assimilate any fact that
[00:05:59] contradicts that narrative, you do that even
[00:06:02] if you have no direct experience with those facts, so we can see
[00:06:06] these protests in Kosovo in The Hague, that you have young
[00:06:09] people, children, young men, meaning 20 years old, who
[00:06:13] jump on police cars, we have the funeral of Ratko
[00:06:16] Mladić, young men on the other side, exactly the same, so people who have no direct
[00:06:19] observation, have no idea what actually happened
[00:06:22] in Srebrenica, what happened in some camp in Kosovo, but
[00:06:26] they refuse to believe something that some court has established, just because it contradicts
[00:06:29] the core of their identity, so now I'm going to refer to one
[00:06:33] of your interviews from a few years ago on Al Jazeera when
[00:06:37] you said that the most dangerous thing, speaking about confronting
[00:06:40] the past in the region, is that the transmission
[00:06:44] of that narrative has taken place among
[00:06:47] young people, now we are actually facing new generations who
[00:06:50] have no direct experience, who support perhaps
[00:06:54] even more strongly, that's right, so what, and what, how do
[00:06:57] these countries and we and everyone
[00:07:00] else deal with that, well, very, very difficult, so the reason why it happens,
[00:07:04] why it happens, why someone at 20 years old who has no idea who
[00:07:08] Ratko Mladić actually was goes to his funeral, dresses
[00:07:12] up, wears his face on himself, paints graffiti about Ratko
[00:07:16] Mladić in the city, is that the education system in this country
[00:07:20] has been captured for decades by these
[00:07:22] nationalist elites, that the media
[00:07:26] in this country have been captured for decades by these nationalist
[00:07:29] elites, that there was not a single moment when that child was growing up that he was
[00:07:33] exposed to another point of view, and if you don't
[00:07:36] change that wider environment, that's not
[00:07:40] the case here, nor in Kosovo, in Croatia, in Bosnia, where we all have parallel
[00:07:44] realities, you cannot actually achieve some
[00:07:47] broader reasonable reconciliation, because in essence the narratives
[00:07:51] are similar everywhere
[00:07:54] or the same, that's right, so that the court works against the people
[00:07:58] and the state, that we are victims, everyone else is
[00:08:01] enemies, they think that too, so that's how it is in
[00:08:04] Croatia, that's how it is in Bosnia, that's how it is here, that's how it is in Kosovo, yes, now
[00:08:08] the question, alright, political elites bear a certain
[00:08:11] responsibility, a certain "largest part of responsibility, but what is
[00:08:15] happening with other actors both international and social
[00:08:18] and so on, international actors are here somewhat
[00:08:21] peripheral, so one thing is when you have a situation like
[00:08:25] Nazi Germany which four other
[00:08:27] countries occupy, then they impose what needs to be done
[00:08:31] and denazify a large part
[00:08:35] of the ruling elite in that country, that was difficult
[00:08:38] with the same narrative, if you look, for example, the Ministry
[00:08:42] of Foreign Affairs in Bonn was full of Nazis in West, when
[00:08:45] you look at law faculties in Germany after World War II, they were full
[00:08:49] of Nazis, Nuremberg was in oblivion for decades, so
[00:08:52] the Nuremberg trials did not transform German society, that came much, much
[00:08:56] later, I am afraid that with people like Vučić,
[00:09:00] Kurti and so on, you cannot create a more normal
[00:09:03] reality here, it's simply like that, now let's go back
[00:09:07] to the indictment at the end of our conversation,
[00:09:10] what happens now, we have... several
[00:09:13] stages until the final verdict, so we have that
[00:09:17] appeal, what else do we have, we have the Supreme Court of Kosovo, we have, so we have
[00:09:21] an appeal which is an appellate court, we have the supreme court, so these are
[00:09:25] all special chambers, when I say, given that it is a domestic
[00:09:28] court, then we have, that's right, so they replicated in
[00:09:32] The Hague the structure of the domestic Kosovo court,
[00:09:35] so you have special chambers, basic, appellate,
[00:09:39] supreme court and constitutional court, you actually have four instances in that
[00:09:43] one court, which means that a complete change can happen or not, it can, so what
[00:09:46] will happen now is that both
[00:09:50] the prosecutor and the defense will appeal, the prosecutor will appeal against the acquittal
[00:09:54] regarding crimes against humanity, this is primarily important for acts committed
[00:09:57] after the end of the armed conflict on June 20,
[00:10:00] 1999, so these acts are not at all the subject
[00:10:04] of the judgment, so the prosecutor will appeal against that, the defense will
[00:10:08] appeal against the conviction, primarily on the issue of joint criminal enterprise,
[00:10:12] they... cannot deny the facts that in that specific camp
[00:10:15] so many people were killed, they will focus on the guilt,
[00:10:19] that is, the existence of guilt of the specific
[00:10:21] convicted, then the second instance will come.
[00:10:25] "After it, a third instance, the Supreme Court, can come, especially if the second
[00:10:28] instance convicts them for crimes against humanity, then the Supreme Court
[00:10:31] deals with it, so if they are convicted for crimes against humanity on the
[00:10:35] appeal of the prosecution, they have the right to another appeal to the Supreme
[00:10:39] Court, if they are not convicted for that, if they are
[00:10:43] confirmed, so if they are acquitted or if the
[00:10:46] current decision is upheld, you have that extraordinary legal remedy like with
[00:10:49] us, a request for protection of legality, so that's what the Supreme
[00:10:53] Court will deal with, and it..." you still have the Constitutional Court that can determine whether
[00:10:57] the rights of the accused have been violated, for example the right to a fair trial, so here there is
[00:11:01] still a lot to be shuffled, this whole thing until we reach
[00:11:05] a final legally binding judgment yes, and let's at the very
[00:11:08] very end somehow go back to that
[00:11:12] context, I assume you followed
[00:11:14] uh that's your expertise after
[00:11:17] all, that you followed what is
[00:11:20] happening in the context of the consequences and
[00:11:24] repercussions after the funeral of Ratko Mladić, especially
[00:11:27] international ones, Ms. Von der Leyen even
[00:11:31] mentioned that in her State of the European Union address, which
[00:11:34] for example was not the case last year when she spoke about the State of the European Union, everyone expected
[00:11:38] her to mention the demonstrations, the rebellion in Serbia, that didn't
[00:11:42] happen, now she mentioned it, why is the European
[00:11:45] Union so important
[00:11:49] that attitude towards the past,
[00:11:52] the nth degree compared to... internal democratic
[00:11:56] issues, well, I wouldn't say it's to the nth degree
[00:12:00] compared to internal democratic issues, it's all part of the same complex, which is that the European
[00:12:04] Union is not some random community of states, but a community of states
[00:12:07] based on certain values, those are respect for democracy,
[00:12:11] the rule of law, human rights and so on, that attitude towards the past is actually part
[00:12:14] of that, that you cannot deny mass crimes that were
[00:12:18] actually committed here in the 90s, which have been established by final
[00:12:22] court decisions, that by actually denying and inciting
[00:12:25] nationalism you are working against the very basic values of the European
[00:12:28] Union, that is why they, can it happen in Kosovo too,
[00:12:32] of course it can, of course it can, so what is happening now in Kosovo is of course
[00:12:35] very negative for the prospects of Kosovo for
[00:12:39] European integration and the attitude towards uh towards
[00:12:43] it is absolutely unison in the 90s we
[00:12:46] always had people here 5%, 10%,
[00:12:50] civic alliance, non-governmental organizations that spoke about crimes
[00:12:53] committed by our people, that is... members of our people committed in Kosovo, there is absolutely no one
[00:12:57] there, so no one can come out and say that the court is
[00:13:01] right, that those crimes actually happened, those people are indeed responsible,
[00:13:05] so unfortunately there the society is so uniformly
[00:13:08] consolidated in that one nationalist narrative that it is actually worse
[00:13:11] for them than for us, so their nationalism is on one hand worse than ours because
[00:13:15] it is victorious, because they got their state, if you want to put it that way, on its basis and
[00:13:19] everything is based on it and Kurti is of course very adept at mobilizing that nationalism
[00:13:23] today, just briefly, what is
[00:13:27] the difference between victorious nationalism and nationalism that is
[00:13:30] based on defeat? Because defeat can at least bring you
[00:13:33] back to reality, when you have lost 100 times, when you have realized that
[00:13:37] from those policies you have only had harmful consequences, there is a small
[00:13:40] chance that you will come to your senses, and if you
[00:13:44] have built, that's how it is in Croatia, if you have built your whole
[00:13:47] state on that one narrative, it is terribly difficult to get
[00:13:50] rid of that. Thank you for being a guest on N1 television, this was
[00:13:54] Professor Marko Milanović of the University of Reading, stay tuned to N1.
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[00:20:06] yesterday the barracks at the bus loop of line
[00:20:09] 26 in Voždovac were demolished, and
[00:20:12] the residents of this informal settlement were left without
[00:20:15] a roof over their heads, Tamara
[00:20:19] Ognjanović is on the spot and Tamara, despite initiatives to preserve this
[00:20:23] settlement, nothing came
[00:20:25] of it,
[00:20:29] that's right, after several weeks and even months of struggle to
[00:20:33] preserve the homes of several families, among
[00:20:36] whom were mothers with children, and elderly people,
[00:20:40] and sick people, so it did not
[00:20:43] successfully, let's say, end, since you can see behind us
[00:20:46] are their homes in this informal
[00:20:50] settlement demolished yesterday, and further trucks
[00:20:53] and excavators are clearing
[00:20:56] this area, and families have been relocated,
[00:21:00] and today I will talk precisely with one of the
[00:21:03] former residents of this informal settlement, uh
[00:21:07] Miljan Ristić, Miljan, thank you for speaking to N1, and I will also talk to
[00:21:11] Milica, I apologize, I forgot
[00:21:13] Marinković from the A11 initiative organization that deals with the protection
[00:21:17] of economic and social rights of vulnerable groups and that has followed
[00:21:20] this case from the beginning, Miljan, let's start by
[00:21:24] telling us what the demolition looked
[00:21:27] like yesterday, well, without any notification,
[00:21:31] without anything, I mean, it was just like, the excavators came,
[00:21:35] one excavator came and a truck, we knew they had
[00:21:38] come for us, but they somehow moved away until the municipal
[00:21:42] police came, as soon as the municipal police came, they immediately went back,
[00:21:46] the same excavators and trucks, and nothing, then there was
[00:21:50] an inspector, the chief of the municipal department of Voždovac,
[00:21:53] I guess, as he is called, regarding
[00:21:56] these barracks where you lived, and did you take your things out of
[00:22:00] them or not, well, mostly we did, something unfortunately
[00:22:03] was lost, but did they let you
[00:22:06] take out your things or did they immediately start demolishing, well, we tried
[00:22:10] first to ask for
[00:22:13] a notification, some solution to
[00:22:16] get or something to demolish ourselves, but that was not
[00:22:20] allowed because it was treated as if no one existed, which was our
[00:22:23] biggest problem from the beginning, that they only looked at
[00:22:27] the shacks, they didn't look at it as someone's home, that it was someone's house, but they looked at it as
[00:22:30] communal waste and that's it, uh,
[00:22:34] and they looked for ways
[00:22:36] to demolish
[00:22:39] it, then we got into an argument with
[00:22:43] them about that solution, eventually until the commissioner
[00:22:46] came, when the commissioner came, there were
[00:22:49] people from A11 and there was another organization, I'm not sure
[00:22:53] exactly which one it is, mm, until the commissioner
[00:22:56] came, they literally didn't start, when the commissioner came,
[00:23:00] he talked to them, in the end
[00:23:03] , thanks to some circumstances,
[00:23:06] thanks of course to A11 initiative
[00:23:10] and the commissioner, we got containers in Ripanj,
[00:23:13] today two should be set up,
[00:23:17] today two more, so part of the families. Accommodation has been
[00:23:21] provided for them in containers in Ripanj, but for some
[00:23:24] families it has not yet, it should be today, is that right, today at 11 o'clock
[00:23:28] it is planned to set up two more containers there in
[00:23:32] Ripanj, uh
[00:23:34] now last night only that mother with
[00:23:38] children, that single mother was accommodated while we
[00:23:42] managed to find something for tonight and that's it, and what did they
[00:23:45] tell you about the children, since there were
[00:23:49] children living here who went to a nearby school, what will happen to them, which school will
[00:23:52] they go to? As far as I know from the information we
[00:23:55] received, the children will be transferred to Ripanj to
[00:23:58] school, they will continue their schooling normally and
[00:24:02] they will be provided with a suitable life as much as
[00:24:05] possible, that's it, how do you view
[00:24:08] uh what how was
[00:24:11] this procedure conducted, that is, how did the competent
[00:24:15] services react, well, to be completely honest,
[00:24:18] not at all, if it wasn't for the people from
[00:24:21] A11 uh, if it wasn't for
[00:24:25] the commissioner, if this commissioner for human equality
[00:24:29] Milan Antonijević hadn't come, if it wasn't for him,
[00:24:33] if there weren't a few other people who are also from some
[00:24:36] organizations, I'm not sure exactly what they're called because I can't keep track of
[00:24:40] everyone anymore, uh, nothing would have
[00:24:43] happened, the system would have just said goodbye
[00:24:47] and that's it, probably no one would have done anything. That's what I have to
[00:24:51] say. Milica, we heard the commissioner got involved in
[00:24:54] this story, that is, in solving the problem, you also stated
[00:24:58] that his possibilities are
[00:25:01] limited, what is all controversial in this case, which competent
[00:25:04] services, bodies, institutions did not react, but should have. Yes, well,
[00:25:08] the commissioner, realistically, they also issued a recommendation of measures, actually they appeared more
[00:25:12] as an intermediary to ensure that everything was in line with human
[00:25:15] rights standards, and they certainly cannot do everything, nor
[00:25:19] should they have the role of a social work center, which is the most
[00:25:22] significant here, but certainly also the Secretariat for Property Protection,
[00:25:26] many of these city services that should provide
[00:25:29] support to people when they are in social need, as was the case
[00:25:33] here, because these people are in the social welfare system, they are not
[00:25:36] unknown, they were not unidentified persons, as it is stated
[00:25:40] in the decisions of the communal inspection, these
[00:25:43] facilities were actually something they considered
[00:25:47] their home, and that is what is important to us. We have
[00:25:51] a housing law that should have been applied in this case, because if
[00:25:54] it had been done from the start, we would not have had the situation
[00:25:57] yesterday where the barracks were first demolished and then a home was sought for these
[00:26:01] people, that really should have all been arranged much
[00:26:05] earlier, and all these situations from yesterday would have been
[00:26:08] avoided, and in fact, we still don't have the situation
[00:26:11] completely resolved, but we certainly see that it will probably be
[00:26:15] fine with accommodation, meaning that people will not be
[00:26:18] left on the street, but that a lot of pressure,
[00:26:22] a lot of work was needed for
[00:26:25] institutions to do their job, and this
[00:26:28] is not the only such case, it is not unique.
[00:26:32] "Such situations often occur where people are being relocated,
[00:26:36] without being provided with a solution for
[00:26:39] their living situation, how do you see that and
[00:26:42] what is the cause? Yes, well, we see it as something
[00:26:46] that tends to become a practice, unfortunately, and that is something
[00:26:50] we must prevent, we must, that is why we must react so that you
[00:26:53] cannot consider municipal waste as something that is
[00:26:57] someone's only home, that it really creates a high risk of
[00:27:00] homelessness for..." actually, quite certain homelessness for
[00:27:04] people, we didn't have that before,
[00:27:07] mostly in Belgrade, we encounter these situations
[00:27:11] where with a communal decision, something that could
[00:27:15] be a residential building is demolished, that informal way of
[00:27:18] understanding it, a little different, but somewhere in the context of
[00:27:22] human rights, but what is important to us is to constantly
[00:27:26] point out human rights standards, so that it is not forgotten that the laws that
[00:27:30] have been adopted and that provide that... protection must be applied, we cannot
[00:27:34] create practices of human rights violations, and how do you see
[00:27:37] the background of this specific case, there was
[00:27:41] a ban by the European Court, there are domestic laws that need to be respected, yet nothing of
[00:27:45] that was done, yes, I must explain that that interim measure was
[00:27:48] adopted, it lasts for a certain period, but that does not mean that with its
[00:27:52] expiry, this entire factual situation has changed, that
[00:27:55] we are not in danger of human rights violations, that people were not in danger of
[00:27:59] demolition, which certainly, as we can see behind me,
[00:28:02] proved to be true, the procedure is still
[00:28:06] ongoing, the state of Serbia was obliged, and is still
[00:28:09] obliged to take measures, some measures have already been taken, but again,
[00:28:13] this is not a situation that happened in a few hours, they were already in
[00:28:17] the social welfare system, all of this could and should have
[00:28:21] been resolved earlier and gradually and according to procedure, so that is
[00:28:24] why I am asking how you see the background, how do
[00:28:27] you read that background, is it just negligence,
[00:28:31] carelessness, oversight, or something else, generally when we talk
[00:28:34] about the poorest, these are people who mostly either do not know their
[00:28:38] rights or are afraid to protect them,
[00:28:42] here we simply have great negligence from institutions towards
[00:28:45] multiple vulnerable categories, this is something we often see in practice,
[00:28:49] something that we must point out such violations precisely so that
[00:28:52] it is prevented, and you know, we were here on the ground, but maybe
[00:28:56] now there is another settlement where we are not and do not know, and those people do not
[00:29:00] know that there are institutions
[00:29:02] or organizations that can protect them,
[00:29:06] that is precisely why state bodies should act everywhere the same and
[00:29:10] everywhere act according to the law. Thank
[00:29:13] you for speaking to N1, so here, the informal
[00:29:17] settlement at the corner of Braće Jerković and Veljko Vlahović streets
[00:29:20] has been demolished, the site is still being cleared, as
[00:29:23] you can see, some families have found
[00:29:26] accommodation, i.e. the Center for Social Work has placed them in
[00:29:30] social barracks in July for some
[00:29:33] families, it is expected that
[00:29:36] a housing solution should be resolved today during
[00:29:40] the day. Tamara, thank you, this was our reporter
[00:29:44] Tamara Ognjanović.
[00:29:55] And this stable and warm weather will not last much longer today
[00:29:58] and tomorrow, warm, during the weekend we expect occasional rain, and
[00:30:02] showers, Sara Botić has the details, and Sara,
[00:30:05] when exactly does the change arrive and how much fresher weather will
[00:30:09] it bring us.
[00:30:12] Nataša, for the next two to three days, it remains warm with
[00:30:16] temperatures above average, i.e. around
[00:30:19] 30°. Then next week we expect real
[00:30:22] autumn weather, temperatures around 20, rain and
[00:30:25] showers. And before that, this Thursday and Friday bring
[00:30:29] sunny weather with temperatures above average. Namely, today the
[00:30:33] temperature will be up to 31, while Friday will be the warmest
[00:30:37] day of this week with a temperature of up to 32 degrees.
[00:30:41] Due to these temperatures which are above average values, the Republic
[00:30:44] Hydrometeorological Institute has activated a lower level warning for today
[00:30:48] and tomorrow, a yellow weather alarm in parts of Serbia where it will be
[00:30:52] warmest, that is in the south, southeast and east of
[00:30:54] Serbia, the temperature will be highest today and tomorrow in
[00:30:58] Niš, over 30.