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[00:00:19] Good evening, you are watching N1 news, I am Maja Žeželj, this is the news
[00:00:23] of the day,
[00:00:26] get away, you fool, what is b'.
[00:00:30] The mayor of Belgrade is suspected of inflicting
[00:00:33] grievous bodily harm and violent behavior, the prosecution confirmed
[00:00:36] for N1, on the eve of the assembly session on
[00:00:40] Šapić's removal, Belgrade awoke covered
[00:00:43] in posters.
[00:00:46] Aleksandar Vučić Joven becomes the political protector of a bully
[00:00:49] Aleksandar
[00:00:50] Šapić.
[00:00:54] And these are the other news topics in
[00:00:56] the newscast.
[00:01:00] "bravo
[00:01:01] children,
[00:01:05] return of students to the building of Jovina Gymnasium in
[00:01:08] the shadow of allegations of wiretapping.
[00:01:12] You recorded, among others, minor students who were
[00:01:16] present. We live in a police state, in
[00:01:19] a total dictatorship, in which free speech
[00:01:23] no longer lives anywhere.
[00:01:27] The Republic Election Commission rejected as unfounded
[00:01:30] the objections of the student list of the European
[00:01:33] Serbia coalition to the decision on the distribution of voters from diaspora
[00:01:37] cities. So someone here has decided that
[00:01:41] those people simply won't vote and simply won't let them
[00:01:44] vote.
[00:01:47] The European Parliament mission is coming to monitor the elections in
[00:01:50] Serbia even though their invitation arrived after the deadline
[00:01:53] expired.
[00:01:56] This is a message in itself, because if
[00:01:59] an invitation is sent in this way, it's not very
[00:02:03] good. The attacker on the
[00:02:07] N1 team came to court in a T-shirt with Ratko
[00:02:11] Mladić's cap.
[00:02:13] I watched it all through the trial and I really
[00:02:16] felt it as a threat. Sretenović
[00:02:19] stuck to his earlier statement in which he admitted guilt, but not
[00:02:23] as defined by
[00:02:24] the prosecution.
[00:02:27] And tomorrow cold, sunny in the north.
[00:02:30] purposes, and that the works on Rain possible in the south and east,
[00:02:42] in the midst of the election campaign, the Progressive mayor of Belgrade
[00:02:46] is suspected of two criminal offenses, inflicting
[00:02:50] serious bodily harm and violent behavior,
[00:02:53] the prosecution charges him with this after an incident in which a city
[00:02:57] councilwoman had her nose broken. The Third Basic
[00:03:00] Public Prosecutor's Office for N1 confirms that a case has been
[00:03:03] opened and that a pre-investigation procedure is underway against
[00:03:06] Aleksandar Šapić. The public prosecutor ordered the police to
[00:03:10] obtain and seize video recordings from all available
[00:03:13] security surveillance cameras that could have
[00:03:16] recorded the event. The urgent center was asked to
[00:03:20] provide medical documentation for all
[00:03:22] other participants in the event, for the injured party
[00:03:25] Tatjana Mićić, the public prosecutor again requested the complete
[00:03:29] medical documentation, statements from the prosecution for
[00:03:33] N1. Aleksandar Šapić was questioned as
[00:03:36] a suspect, the injured party Tatjana Mićić
[00:03:39] was questioned as a witness, the prosecution states and announces
[00:03:43] that it will undertake all other necessary actions to determine
[00:03:47] all facts and circumstances relevant to
[00:03:50] the adoption of a public prosecution
[00:03:52] decision.
[00:03:55] In the meantime, a session of the city assembly is scheduled for tomorrow
[00:03:59] at the request of the opposition, which demands the dismissal
[00:04:02] of Aleksandar Šapić. On the eve of that session, Belgrade awoke
[00:04:06] covered in posters with the inscription
[00:04:09] "United Bullies". They show
[00:04:12] the holder of the "United Serbia" election list Aleksandar
[00:04:15] Vučić and the mayor of Belgrade Aleksandar
[00:04:18] Šapić. Over Vučić's face, the inscription
[00:04:22] "protector" is displayed, and over the face and name of Šapić stands
[00:04:25] the word "Bully". Šapić
[00:04:27] denied the accusations and claims that he did not hit the councilwoman, but rather defended
[00:04:31] himself, and Vučić assessed that as a public official, Šapić had to
[00:04:35] step aside and bear responsibility. The "Kreni Promeni"
[00:04:38] movement, whose councilwoman was injured, insists
[00:04:42] on accountability, and the Center for Local Self-Government
[00:04:46] has information that the dismissal of Šapić will not be decided
[00:04:49] tomorrow because the ruling majority will not provide
[00:04:52] a quorum.
[00:04:55] Aleksandar Šapić cannot be the mayor of this city and
[00:04:59] we demand that he be brought to account. Aleksandar
[00:05:02] Vučić hereby becomes the political protector of a bully, Aleksandar
[00:05:06] Šapić, but we want to send a clear message to
[00:05:09] people who vote for the SPS. If the SPS does not
[00:05:13] vote for this initiative of the opposition, they show that there is
[00:05:16] no difference between them and
[00:05:20] the SNS.
[00:05:23] The Republic Election Commission rejected as unfounded
[00:05:26] the objections of the student list of the European Serbia coalition regarding
[00:05:30] the distribution of voters from cities where polling stations were not
[00:05:33] opened abroad for the October
[00:05:36] 25 elections. During the discussion, large
[00:05:40] distances that voters must travel to vote, possible
[00:05:44] crowds, and cases where members of the same
[00:05:47] families were assigned to polling stations in different
[00:05:51] cities were pointed out. A member of the REC on behalf of European Serbia, Milan
[00:05:54] Vasiljević, assessed that the number of polling stations in the diaspora
[00:05:58] is shameful compared to the number of registered voters. As
[00:06:01] an example, he cited Vancouver, from where 1090 registered
[00:06:05] voters have to travel to Toronto to
[00:06:08] vote. The student list stated in its objection that
[00:06:12] the REC did not determine how many voters were assigned to
[00:06:15] individual polling stations and did not obtain all requested
[00:06:19] data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They demand that the
[00:06:23] decision be reviewed and that additional polling stations be opened
[00:06:26] in cities where conditions for doing so
[00:06:30] exist. REC member Ivan Šebek assessed that the
[00:06:34] commission merely copied the decision of the Ministry of Foreign
[00:06:37] Affairs, taking into account the number of voters
[00:06:41] assigned to individual locations, and Sofija Mandić
[00:06:44] called on the Ministry to provide complete data
[00:06:47] on registered voters and to review
[00:06:51] the distribution. Vladimir Dragaš from the Green-Left Front assessed
[00:06:54] that the possibility of citizens in the diaspora exercising
[00:06:57] their voting right
[00:07:00] is being questioned.
[00:07:03] References to the accessibility of polling stations and claims that
[00:07:06] only formal inclusion of voters in the polling station area is not
[00:07:10] sufficient to assess that voting is
[00:07:13] actually accessible for them, I note that the accessibility of polling
[00:07:17] stations is defined by Article 7 of the instructions as
[00:07:21] stipulating that it means that access to the building where
[00:07:25] there is one or more polling stations and the pedestrian crossing must be clear of
[00:07:28] obstacles, that there must be a parking space for persons with
[00:07:32] disabilities, that the entrance to the building must be level with the sidewalk or that
[00:07:35] there must be an adequate way to overcome obstacles, that the doors
[00:07:39] to the building must allow unimpeded entry, that is...
[00:07:43] uh, unimpeded entry, that movement within the building on one
[00:07:46] level is enabled or that there is a possibility of unimpeded vertical
[00:07:49] communication, as well as that forms of
[00:07:53] information and communication with voters are provided. From the above,
[00:07:56] it follows that the assessment of the accessibility of a polling station does not
[00:08:00] imply an assessment of the adequacy of the spatial
[00:08:04] distance of the polling station from the address of residence,
[00:08:07] i.e., the voter's place of abode. Half of this that my colleague read, I didn't understand
[00:08:11] anything, I don't know if it's about instructions or about
[00:08:14] the constitution, I would like him to read it to me again, I believe other
[00:08:17] colleagues here also have a problem understanding it, but what I understood
[00:08:21] from this instruction of the Ministry of Foreign
[00:08:23] Affairs, as my colleague read it, it turns out that
[00:08:27] in Vancouver there are no pedestrian crossings or parking, and that's why
[00:08:31] Toronto is a central election unit 3,500 km
[00:08:34] away, meaning someone here has decided that those people simply
[00:08:37] won't vote and simply won't let them
[00:08:39] vote.
[00:08:42] "After the REC rejected the objections to the decision on determining
[00:08:46] polling stations abroad, the "Diplomats Don't Keep Quiet" initiative
[00:08:49] spoke out. They demand that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
[00:08:53] explain to the public the criteria on the basis of which it
[00:08:56] proposed the distribution. They particularly point out that only
[00:09:00] three polling stations were included in the subsequent amendment
[00:09:03] of the proposal, while numerous other cities with more than
[00:09:06] 100 registered voters remained without polling
[00:09:10] stations.
[00:09:12] Suspicion of arbitrary action is raised by the fact that the subsequent amendment to the proposal
[00:09:16] covered only three polling stations. On the basis of which criteria were
[00:09:20] exactly these three locations included, while numerous other
[00:09:23] cities with more than 100 registered voters were left without polling
[00:09:26] stations? Why were among them not locations where voting was regularly
[00:09:29] conducted in the 2023 elections?
[00:09:32] The right to vote is one of the fundamental constitutional rights of citizens and must not
[00:09:36] depend on arbitrary, non-transparent decisions or criteria
[00:09:39] inaccessible to the public. That is why we call on the competent authorities
[00:09:43] in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to respond without delay to these questions and present to the public
[00:09:46] the criteria on the basis of which they drafted the initial
[00:09:50] proposal and its subsequent
[00:09:51] amendment.
[00:09:54] And at the same session of the Republic Election Commission, commission member Jelena
[00:09:57] Vranješ stated that upon reviewing the voter lists,
[00:10:01] she noticed that a large number of voters were registered with
[00:10:04] house number zero.
[00:10:08] These are the addresses of citizens' residences,
[00:10:11] especially in my district where
[00:10:14] it is clearly, meaning the address is indicated, however,
[00:10:17] the house number is zero. These are streets that
[00:10:20] have, I checked of course in those cities,
[00:10:24] these are... streets that have numbers,
[00:10:27] however, in the voter list, it is stated that the number is zero.
[00:10:31] Also in that decision regarding the
[00:10:34] conclusion of the unified voter list, it actually says that these are
[00:10:38] for example polling stations that cover
[00:10:41] the place from, meaning the street and then
[00:10:44] from zero to 52, for example, the house number, so I want
[00:10:48] to, through the secretary or
[00:10:51] deputy secretary who is not here today, submit
[00:10:54] a remark: uh, to the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government
[00:10:58] regarding explaining to us what kind of addresses these are. I believe these are not
[00:11:01] addresses of residence and that these are not accurate data
[00:11:05] in the voter list. So, please provide us with
[00:11:09] the reason why that zero is there, and also provide us
[00:11:12] with data on the extent of this problem. I think that tomorrow,
[00:11:16] probably when the members of the polling committees themselves
[00:11:20] see that problem on the ground, it will become
[00:11:23] much bigger. I now, we have an opportunity perhaps to react and prevent
[00:11:27] that problem in the future. I think that an address like
[00:11:30] Vase Stajića Zero is not a place of
[00:11:33] residence.
[00:11:36] The delegation of the European Parliament will monitor the upcoming parliamentary
[00:11:40] elections in Serbia, even though the invitation was received after the deadline
[00:11:43] expired. This is a message to MEPs in
[00:11:46] itself.
[00:11:50] Not at 5 to 12, but rather at 12:05,
[00:11:53] Serbia sent an invitation to the European Parliament to
[00:11:57] send an observation mission for the upcoming snap parliamentary elections. The deadline for this
[00:12:01] expired on the 8th, the invitation from the cabinet of the acting president
[00:12:04] arrived on October 10th, that's because MEPs said that
[00:12:08] they were ready to wait for it until the 12th. Is this
[00:12:12] just an academic delay? This is a message in
[00:12:15] itself, because if an invitation is sent
[00:12:19] in this way, it's not very good, but all in all,
[00:12:22] the invitation has arrived, and the mission, the observation mission
[00:12:26] of the European Parliament, will come to Serbia.
[00:12:29] The observation mission of the European Parliament last came to Serbia in December
[00:12:32] 2023. To
[00:12:35] monitor the then also snap parliamentary elections.
[00:12:39] After those elections, there was a kind of
[00:12:42] continuous and longer interest of
[00:12:45] the European Parliament in everything that is happening in Serbia.
[00:12:49] After that observation mission, there were several resolutions on
[00:12:53] Serbia that referred to
[00:12:55] electoral conditions, yet, the international investigation into electoral
[00:12:59] irregularities that the European Parliament called for in its resolution
[00:13:02] of February 8, 2024, and in which the opposition placed
[00:13:06] great hopes, was never carried out. The question
[00:13:09] therefore arises as to the actual scope of the observation mission from
[00:13:13] Strasbourg. The Council of Europe and the European Parliament with their
[00:13:17] observation missions, which are primarily
[00:13:20] uh this. uh,
[00:13:24] let's say, uh, political missions,
[00:13:27] they serve, in a way, to further, uh,
[00:13:31] this, first of all, uh,
[00:13:34] this, strengthen and raise the visibility of these
[00:13:38] expert ODIHR findings in relation to the ODIHR
[00:13:41] report, giving it additional legitimacy. The mission
[00:13:45] of the European Parliament, according to the N1 interlocutor, has
[00:13:48] certain advantages, which was evident precisely during the 2023
[00:13:52] elections. The resolution was in January or so or
[00:13:55] early February 2024, which is relatively fast compared to, say,
[00:13:59] the final ODIHR report, which came much later.
[00:14:03] Therefore, they have some speed and that is the problem of the Serbian authorities, so
[00:14:06] the fact that they can react quickly and, I say, they can
[00:14:10] in their first address have perhaps even
[00:14:14] harsher assessments than ODIHR itself. Vladimir
[00:14:17] Prebilić, an MEP from the Greens group, has already stated
[00:14:21] for N1 that nothing of what the European Parliament and Commissioner
[00:14:25] Marta Kosa requested, which are functional remits, regulated
[00:14:28] voter lists, has been fulfilled. We
[00:14:32] are not happy about that, but what is, is, I can only say
[00:14:35] that we will carefully and thoroughly
[00:14:38] monitor everything that is happening now in Serbia and when
[00:14:42] the report comes, that is, the report that
[00:14:45] will lay everything on the table, then it will
[00:14:49] be reflected there. He emphasizes that Brussels is already monitoring the course
[00:14:53] of the election campaign. Which MEPs will monitor the elections
[00:14:57] in Serbia is not yet known, but it is certain that there will be
[00:15:00] seven of them. Tamara Stojanović N1
[00:15:03] Belgrade.
[00:15:06] And today, precisely at noon, the printing of
[00:15:08] 6,450,523
[00:15:12] ballots for the upcoming snap parliamentary
[00:15:15] elections began. This number attracted particular public
[00:15:18] attention because many wondered how many of us
[00:15:21] there are in total when there are so many registered voters.
[00:15:28] The elections have entered the Gutenberg phase,
[00:15:31] under the watchful eye of the REC, the first ballot was printed in
[00:15:35] purple. The right choice for this October
[00:15:39] 25th because they say that purple has a calming
[00:15:42] effect, lowers blood pressure and heart
[00:15:45] rate. 6 million
[00:15:49] 450,523
[00:15:51] ballots will be printed, because that is how many voters there are, and that number
[00:15:55] almost coincides with the total number of inhabitants, which
[00:15:58] raises suspicion of so-called phantom voters, because
[00:16:02] it turns out that there are almost no minors in Serbia. We are
[00:16:05] guided exclusively by the decision
[00:16:07] of the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government on the conclusion of the voter
[00:16:11] list, so that is the voter that was delivered to us by
[00:16:14] the decision of the Ministry, we determined it to be that number
[00:16:18] and ballots are printed in that number. The opposition, non-governmental organizations,
[00:16:22] international observers point to numerous irregularities concerning
[00:16:25] the voter list. Among other things, in several dozen municipalities in
[00:16:29] Serbia, the number of voters even exceeds the number of
[00:16:32] inhabitants. However, the fact is that the voter
[00:16:35] list also includes citizens who live abroad, while
[00:16:39] the census exclusively registers only people living in Serbia, so
[00:16:43] which voter number largely corresponds to the current situation on
[00:16:46] the ground? We estimate that the total number of
[00:16:49] adult inhabitants living in Serbia who can actually
[00:16:53] go to the polls is around 5.1 million,
[00:16:57] it's possible we're a little off, it's possible it's 5.2, it's possible it's a little less, but
[00:17:01] that's roughly the number, and diaspora voters
[00:17:04] are making a historical leap, there are almost three times
[00:17:08] more of them compared to the previous elections,
[00:17:11] 102, some estimates say even 111,000,
[00:17:15] which reflects this mobilization that is happening in Serbia,
[00:17:18] the student movement and students have established
[00:17:21] good connections in the past year with our diaspora
[00:17:25] and where the desire of citizens who left Serbia
[00:17:29] to participate in the elections has
[00:17:32] increased. Students claim that there would be even more
[00:17:35] voters from abroad if there wasn't, as they say, obstruction
[00:17:39] and filtering orchestrated by the relevant ministries and
[00:17:42] the REC, which is why they filed objections that were rejected.
[00:17:46] All of this is in the process of being resolved before the Republic Election
[00:17:50] Commission, the public can follow this, of course, I wouldn't want to
[00:17:54] comment now on potential
[00:17:57] uh uh consequences of accepting or rejecting such proposals, given
[00:18:00] that it is about protecting the right to vote, which is guaranteed
[00:18:04] by law. The student list announced that due to the poor organization of voting
[00:18:08] abroad, it will file an appeal with the Administrative Court. Nenad
[00:18:12] Nešić, N1,
[00:18:13] Belgrade.
[00:18:16] The law does not prevent the acting President
[00:18:19] of the Republic, Ana Brnabić, from publishing the names
[00:18:21] of pardoned individuals. This was announced by the informal association
[00:18:25] "Odbrana Struke" (Defense of the Profession), reacting to her statement that at
[00:18:28] a party conference she cannot discuss state issues due to
[00:18:32] the Law on Prevention of Corruption. The association states
[00:18:35] that the public has the right to know who received a pardon, for which criminal offenses, and
[00:18:39] by what procedure. Article 14 of the Law on
[00:18:42] Free Access to Information of Public Importance
[00:18:46] explicitly provides for the possibility of access to information that
[00:18:49] relates to events of public interest, even when
[00:18:53] they contain personal data, states the "Odbrana
[00:18:57] Struke". They call on Ana Brnabić to state the specific
[00:19:00] legal provision that prevents her from publishing
[00:19:03] such information. Let's remember that Aleksandar
[00:19:07] Vučić, before resigning as president of Serbia, announced that he had
[00:19:10] pardoned 49 people, but their
[00:19:13] names are still not known to the
[00:19:16] public.
[00:19:25] After more than a year of work on the dome of the
[00:19:28] Jovan Jovanović Zmaj High School in Novi Sad, students have returned to
[00:19:32] the school building. However, this festive moment
[00:19:36] remained in the shadow of a new scandal. Namely, students
[00:19:39] who were in the plenum of Jovina High School claim that they were wiretapped
[00:19:43] and that transcripts of their conversations were published
[00:19:47] yesterday in pro-government media. Parents of students
[00:19:50] announce that they will demand criminal responsibility from all
[00:19:54] who participated
[00:19:55] in it.
[00:20:01] Our ancestors'
[00:20:04] Gymnasium Starano.
[00:20:10] Hear the grateful children's
[00:20:13] voice,
[00:20:17] whoever read the online edition of the Novi Sad newspaper Dnevnik yesterday knew
[00:20:21] what the return of students to Jovina Gymnasium would look like after more
[00:20:24] than a year. The local newspaper published, namely, that after
[00:20:28] singing the school anthem, the cutting of the ceremonial
[00:20:31] ribbon would follow, here it is. Bravo
[00:20:34] children! Bravo!
[00:20:38] And the daily newspaper Dnevnik knew that before the students entered
[00:20:42] the school, a board would be put up with the names of the fired and
[00:20:45] suspended professors of that gymnasium, for which they
[00:20:48] hold the director, Radivoj P. Stojković, responsible, and
[00:20:52] there are 52 of them, and these are their names. The Novi Sad
[00:20:56] daily newspaper learned that a statement would be read at the gathering,
[00:21:00] it just didn't know that the statement would say
[00:21:03] this: We were wiretapped.
[00:21:06] The sentences written in the texts of the so-called media were
[00:21:09] quoted, identically written as the students
[00:21:12] spoke them. Which indicates only one thing:
[00:21:16] you recorded, you recorded, among others, minor students
[00:21:20] who were present, and they were present in the premises of the Local
[00:21:24] Community in Liman 3 where the graduates of Jovina held
[00:21:27] a plenum where they discussed the details of today's return to
[00:21:31] school, but the journalist who writes the text also makes
[00:21:34] a cardinal mistake, so in the text whose title is "Students,
[00:21:38] Blockers of Jovina Gymnasium Announce Performance on the occasion
[00:21:42] of Return to School Benches", in the first paragraph, the careless
[00:21:45] author adds that with the performance, the students want to make their return to
[00:21:48] the gymnasium a victory, even though, he
[00:21:52] states, they are aware that putting the facility back into operation
[00:21:56] is a move by the current authorities as part of their election
[00:22:00] campaign. They were
[00:22:02] wrong,
[00:22:04] uh, they shouldn't have published that, but here, we, let's say,
[00:22:08] caught it, noticed it, screenshot it, we have it
[00:22:11] as evidence on the basis of which we, as
[00:22:15] parents, will probably react, because we, based
[00:22:18] on that sentence, directly or that someone wiretapped
[00:22:21] our, even minor children, there were
[00:22:25] many minor children among them. Their suspicion
[00:22:29] is further confirmed by the express deletion of the original news from the Dnevnik
[00:22:32] portal and the publication of a new one, which no longer contained
[00:22:36] the sentence that Jovina Gymnasium is opening as part of the election campaign
[00:22:39] of the current authorities, and the students were no longer
[00:22:43] "blockers." We live in a police state, in
[00:22:46] a total dictatorship in which free
[00:22:50] speech no longer lives anywhere, neither privately nor publicly,
[00:22:53] because if they can wiretap minors and
[00:22:56] deliver to pro-government media, then
[00:22:59] they can do it to each of us in our homes, and they will absolutely
[00:23:03] be held accountable one day for what
[00:23:07] they are doing and for violating basic human
[00:23:10] rights. That is why both the dismissed professors and the parents of students at
[00:23:13] Jovina Gymnasium have no, they say, slightest doubt that the children
[00:23:17] were exploited for political
[00:23:20] the dome, because of which the students were evacuated from the school, could have been
[00:23:24] finished earlier, but, they say, the timing
[00:23:27] of the election campaign was chosen. I had the honor of addressing
[00:23:31] the first-grade students of this gymnasium
[00:23:34] just now and I saw in their faces how happy they were to be
[00:23:38] back in their own space, in their own building. And
[00:23:42] we enabled that together with the director, with
[00:23:45] the provincial government, and I repeat, this building is now
[00:23:49] absolutely safe and the students,
[00:23:52] to my great satisfaction, can return to school again on Monday.
[00:23:56] It is clear that Jovina Gymnasium got
[00:23:59] a building, but it hasn't found its soul yet. We
[00:24:02] are sure that in the light of today's
[00:24:05] victory, other things will happen and that our colleagues will
[00:24:09] return to school and finally create a symbiosis with their
[00:24:13] students and give the gymnasium the life it once had and that it
[00:24:15] deserves. Maja Nikolić, N1, Belgrade.
[00:24:23] The trial of Vladan Sretenović for the attack on
[00:24:27] the N1 television crew in front of the Serbian Parliament in November last year continued.
[00:24:30] Given that the judge was changed, the statements were
[00:24:33] read from the beginning. Sretenović did not answer
[00:24:37] questions, but stuck to the statement he gave to the prosecutor in February this year.
[00:24:41] He admitted guilt, but not as defined by
[00:24:45] the prosecution. Sretenović entered the courtroom wearing
[00:24:48] a shirt with a picture of... Ratko
[00:24:51] Mladić's cap.
[00:24:54] Did the judge react to the way he was dressed? No,
[00:24:58] it's shocking to me that there was no reaction even though it was perfectly clear
[00:25:01] that it was a demonstration. On the front of that T-shirt,
[00:25:05] next to the cap of Ratko
[00:25:08] Mladić, a convicted war criminal, we must always
[00:25:11] emphasize that, there was a message: "From your struggle
[00:25:14] our freedom was born."
[00:25:17] On the back of that T-shirt - next to the
[00:25:21] image of Ratko Mladić stood, also stood the image of Patriarch
[00:25:24] Pavle and his alleged quote "A man is
[00:25:28] stronger dead than an inhuman
[00:25:31] alive." I watched it all throughout
[00:25:34] the trial and I really felt it as a threat that was
[00:25:38] directed at everyone who was in this case
[00:25:41] representing independent journalism, professional
[00:25:44] journalism, reporting, because the prosecutor uh uh
[00:25:48] defined this attack not only as... destruction of equipment,
[00:25:51] cameras, but as an attack on free journalism, free
[00:25:55] reporting. The president of the European Federation of Journalists
[00:25:58] Maja Sever compared the events on the nova.rs portal to...
[00:26:02] the situation in Hungary when people
[00:26:05] close to Viktor Orban took over the media, after which
[00:26:08] dozens of journalists left the newsrooms.
[00:26:11] She assessed that the journalists of Nova who opposed the imposition of a new
[00:26:15] editorial board showed courage and professionalism.
[00:26:19] The events in the newsroom were discussed by journalist and
[00:26:22] Nova television host Radovan Seratlić. He warned about
[00:26:26] the consequences, the message that those who do not like the changes
[00:26:30] do not have to work. at that
[00:26:33] house,
[00:26:36] colleagues from Nova. RS
[00:26:39] reacted again in accordance with their measure, right?
[00:26:42] And said what they had to say. After that, we had some
[00:26:46] reactions that whoever doesn't like it, you know, doesn't have to
[00:26:50] work. Yes, that's true and that's the essence of it all, and then I ask myself why
[00:26:53] simply someone who has power says now
[00:26:57] 30 of you don't work here, we're bringing our
[00:27:00] 30. That's dangerous and risky because... no one would watch such a thing,
[00:27:04] such a thing. There's one thing called
[00:27:07] trust, so you can
[00:27:09] replace
[00:27:12] whoever you want, people uh who are
[00:27:15] used to watching, accustomed to watching someone they trust, that that
[00:27:19] person has never or very rarely betrayed their trust, so
[00:27:23] those things are a bit difficult to change, I think that's the answer to the question
[00:27:26] why some things go faster, but still that unpacking
[00:27:30] takes a little longer, so...
[00:27:34] The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague will announce
[00:27:37] on November 17 the first-instance verdict for Hashim
[00:27:41] Thaçi and four former KLA members in
[00:27:44] the case of obstruction of justice and attempted influence on
[00:27:48] witnesses. In addition to Thaçi, Baškim Smakaj,
[00:27:52] Isni Kiljaj, Fadilj Fazljiu and Hajredin Kuçi are also accused. All
[00:27:55] five of them are obliged to attend the pronouncement of the
[00:27:58] verdict. The Specialist Prosecutor's Office requested six
[00:28:02] years in prison for Thaçi, not including time spent in
[00:28:06] detention. For Smakaj, Kiljaj and Fazljiu, three
[00:28:10] years in prison each are requested, and for Kuçi, nine months. According to
[00:28:13] the indictment, Thaçi during visits to detention in
[00:28:16] 2023, conveyed confidential
[00:28:19] information about witnesses to the four accused
[00:28:22] in a separate proceeding for war crimes and gave them
[00:28:25] instructions on how to influence witnesses. Thaçi was
[00:28:29] sentenced in September to 25 years in prison for war
[00:28:33] crimes committed during '98 and '99.
[00:28:36] year. And the organization of war veterans, former
[00:28:40] KLA, announced massive protests in front of European Union institutions in
[00:28:44] Kosovo if the implementation of amendments to the law on specialized
[00:28:47] chambers does not begin. Veterans reacted to the statement of the European
[00:28:50] Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos. They accuse her
[00:28:53] of neglecting, as they claim, human rights violations
[00:28:57] in proceedings against former KLA leaders in The Hague. They stated
[00:29:00] that the Assembly of Kosovo is a sovereign institution, and that pressure on its work
[00:29:04] is unacceptable. Amendments to the law foresee
[00:29:08] limiting the jurisdiction of specialized chambers that
[00:29:11] try former KLA members for war crimes
[00:29:14] and other criminal acts.
[00:29:17] dela.
[00:29:21] Montenegro at the intergovernmental conference with
[00:29:24] the European Union held in Luxembourg, temporarily
[00:29:26] closed three more negotiation chapters. With this,
[00:29:30] Montenegro temporarily closed 20.
[00:29:32] one out of a total of 33 chapters in negotiations on
[00:29:36] membership in the European Union. Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko
[00:29:39] Spajić stated that by closing the new chapters, a framework for
[00:29:43] economic and monetary stability has been created. European
[00:29:46] Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos called on the government and opposition to
[00:29:49] cooperate, to make compromises and take
[00:29:52] responsibility for decisions that need to be made urgently,
[00:29:56] but she warns them that otherwise the European future of
[00:29:59] the country could be jeopardized. Montenegro insists that by the end of
[00:30:03] 2026, all negotiation chapters will be closed,
[00:30:06] and the government's goal is for the country to become a member of the European
[00:30:10] Union by 2028.
[00:30:12] year.
[00:30:15] European Union foreign ministers adopted nearly 1,600
[00:30:19] new sanctions aimed at the Russian military-industrial complex,
[00:30:23] announced on platform X the High Representative of the European Union
[00:30:26] Kaja Kalaas. She says that more than half of that package is related to
[00:30:30] the production chain
[00:30:33] of missiles. Kalas had earlier welcomed the announcement of an energy
[00:30:36] truce between Russia and Ukraine, but also emphasized
[00:30:40] that she would like a truce that also includes
[00:30:43] an end to the killing of people.
[00:30:56] Russia will stick to.