Bosnia and Herzegovina: N1 Bosnia and Herzegovina

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00:00:18Good day, dear viewers, events
00:00:20of the day.
00:00:24Miners from Zenica spent their second night
00:00:26days I received a call again, I went to protesting in the Raspotočje pit.
00:00:31Several fires recorded in HNC, firefighters still on
00:00:35the field near Konjic.
00:00:38The Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina has officially applied for
00:00:41accession to the Sepa
00:00:42area.
00:00:4718 miners from the Mrkog Guglja Zenica mine have spent their second night
00:00:51in the Raspotočje pit, where they decided
00:00:54to stay in protest due to delayed salaries and
00:00:57the inability to validate their health insurance cards in the
00:01:00health insurance institute of the
00:01:03Zenica-Doboj Canton, confirmed by the Vice-President of the Trade Union
00:01:07Elverdin Alić. The problem with the inability to validate
00:01:10cards and thus receive treatment also affects
00:01:13miners from Breza and Kakanj.
00:01:17And in the Mrkog Uglja Kakanj mine, the workers' disobedience has ended and
00:01:21the miners have resumed production. So this morning at
00:01:249 a.m., we had a meeting with the president of
00:01:27the Breza Trade Union, Jasmin Telalović, and myself,
00:01:30with the director of the health insurance institute, and an
00:01:33agreement was reached that the Akanj Mine will pay
00:01:36250,000 monthly, the Breza mine
00:01:39130 for the validation of
00:01:41cards. So the workers' disobedience was
00:01:45interrupted about half an hour ago.
00:01:49Will that agreement be valid until the end of the year, or will
00:01:52it be valid in the future? So,
00:01:55the directors have signed statements that they will pay those funds. The director of
00:01:59the institute will be in communication with the trade union and claims that
00:02:03we will not have any problems with the validation of
00:02:07probably has an advantage over cards in the upcoming
00:02:07period.
00:02:11At this moment, a press conference of the Health
00:02:15Insurance Institute of the Zenica-Doboj Canton is beginning. Information on
00:02:18the current situation in the healthcare system of this canton
00:02:22caused by debts for unpaid mandatory health
00:02:26insurance contributions, which have exceeded 175 million KM, will be presented.
00:03:10Can we? Ah, esteemed media representatives, distinguished guests, first of all, I would like to greet you and
00:03:13thank you for coming.
00:03:17Mm, today we will have a press conference on the state of
00:03:20healthcare in Zedov Canton caused by this debt of
00:03:24175 million convertible marks, on
00:03:28the problems we are solving with...
00:03:31the owners of the mines, with the mines.
00:03:34What I am extremely honored about today is that we have Mr.
00:03:38Abdel Fazlić,
00:03:41president of the trade union of miners of
00:03:45Kakanj Mine, Mr.
00:03:47Jasmin Telalović, representative of the trade union of miners of
00:03:51Breza Mine, also present here is Dr. Elvis
00:03:53Cikotić, representative of the trade union of
00:03:56what is the actual amount, given doctors of Zenica-Doboj Canton. Mr. Amir Mujkić,
00:04:00president of the Association of War Military Invalides,
00:04:03Federation of War Military
00:04:06Invalides, Mr. Boris Crljenica, president of the Association of
00:04:10Oncology Patients SnoP, and
00:04:13president of the Coalition of Associations of Persons with
00:04:16Disabilities, Mr. Harun Ali Efendić. And I would also
00:04:19add here that Mr. Zain
00:04:23Begić, president of the independent trade union of
00:04:26workers employed in healthcare in the Federation, the cantonal
00:04:30organization of Zedov Canton,
00:04:33expressed support for the Health Insurance Institute in collecting these
00:04:37receivables. Mr. Begić is currently unable to attend today's
00:04:40press conference due to health reasons, so he sent
00:04:44us
00:04:46a meeting with a written uh support that you have already received.
00:04:49Uh, what we wanted to
00:04:53discuss today at this press conference are
00:04:57the problems that have arisen with the mines in
00:05:00the Zenica-Doboj Canton area. Today, I am
00:05:03speaking only as the director of the Health Insurance Institute of the Zenica-Doboj
00:05:06Canton. I am speaking as a responsible person who is obliged to warn the public
00:05:10about how the financial stability of the healthcare system
00:05:13is threatened, and when there is a serious threat to
00:05:17the realization of rights from mandatory health
00:05:19insurance. This is not a political issue,
00:05:23this is not an issue of jurisdiction that will be
00:05:26transferred from one institution to another. This is a matter of people's
00:05:29health, this is a matter of respecting the law, and this is
00:05:33a matter of responsibility. For months, the Health
00:05:36Insurance Institute has been warning that the non-payment of health insurance contributions for
00:05:40miners is not a problem that will disappear if we stop
00:05:43talking about it. On the contrary, every day it becomes larger
00:05:47and leaves more serious consequences. Today we are talking
00:05:50about a debt already exceeding 175 million
00:05:53convertible marks. Someone will say it's just a number. I
00:05:57say it's not just a number. Those are medicines
00:06:00that haven't been bought, that is medical equipment that hasn't been
00:06:02procured.
00:06:05Those are preventive programs that haven't been expanded. Those are
00:06:08orthopedic aids that are financed from the same system. Those are funds for spa
00:06:12climate treatment for our insured. Those
00:06:15are investments that could have improved the healthcare of every citizen
00:06:18of the Zenica-Doboj Canton. The healthcare system cannot
00:06:21function, it can only function on promises. It can
00:06:25only function on lawful and regular payment of
00:06:28contributions. We particularly want to emphasize one fact: when discussing
00:06:32this problem, it often creates the impression that it
00:06:35exclusively concerns miners.
00:06:37It doesn't.
00:06:40If the health fund remains without tens of millions of convertible marks,
00:06:44the consequences are felt by all insured persons. Children
00:06:47waiting for their therapies feel it, pensioners who need medicines
00:06:51feel it, oncology patients feel it,
00:06:54every healthcare institution that wants to improve the quality of its
00:06:57services feels it. Therefore, this is not a problem of one
00:07:00profession; this is a problem of the entire healthcare
00:07:02system. I want to clearly state
00:07:06the following: the Institute did not remain silent; we sent letters,
00:07:10initiated meetings, proposed solutions, showed readiness for
00:07:13compromise, sought dialogue, sought cooperation,
00:07:17sought the minimum that would allow no miner to be left without health
00:07:20insurance. Unfortunately, no concrete implementation has
00:07:24occurred. What I told you in this
00:07:28part is the thing that was the last straw
00:07:31for us, which is the decision of the government
00:07:34of the Federation to only pay contributions for pensioners
00:07:38who are going into retirement for pension and disability insurance, where they omitted
00:07:41health insurance. And thereby
00:07:44they endangered the health insurance system because these miners who retired
00:07:48were provided with health services, but they
00:07:51did not bother to include us in
00:07:55that program for the retirement of those miners, because
00:07:58it used to be like this: when a miner went into retirement, all
00:08:02obligations to the state were settled, and he retired, but this time they
00:08:05omitted us.
00:08:09Therefore, this is not a problem of one profession; this is a problem of the entire healthcare
00:08:13system. So we looked for, we looked
00:08:17for a solution that would allow no miner to be left without
00:08:20health insurance, to
00:08:23end the agony of the miners and their
00:08:25families. We initiated a meeting on June
00:08:292nd of this year after that first decision of the Federation
00:08:33Government, where we requested a meeting exclusively
00:08:36with representatives of the Federation
00:08:39Government, the director of Elektroprivreda and the directors of the mines.
00:08:44However, they all ignored our
00:08:47letter and did not
00:08:50respond about a possible
00:08:53meeting. Until the miners, until
00:08:57the miners in the mines mm started
00:09:01disobedience and until they stopped working, we did not get that first
00:09:04meeting. At the first meeting with
00:09:07m the minister, we
00:09:11agreed on what we were asking for. These were
00:09:14some, some of our minimum demands. We
00:09:18then asked the mines to start fulfilling their obligations, i.e., the Kakanj
00:09:22Brown Coal Mine, the Breza Mine, and the Zenica Mine, to pay
00:09:25only a part of the debt of 175 million. Our
00:09:29initial request at this moment was about 20 million
00:09:32convertible marks, with the aim of continuing
00:09:35to repay those debts in the
00:09:38future. After that, the minister promised us that we would have
00:09:42a new meeting in about 15 days, and that he would, within those 15 days,
00:09:46make agreements with the government, with the mines
00:09:50and Elektroprivreda. However, there were no such
00:09:53meetings within those 15 days, nor did we receive a new invitation for
00:09:58them. After that, the miners again showed
00:10:02disobedience by not going down into the mines,
00:10:05and new problems
00:10:09started. Mm... about
00:10:1215 days later, that is, 10 days
00:10:15later, we were called by the director,
00:10:18the general director of Elektroprivreda, where he expressed willingness to
00:10:22solve the problem. But the solution to the problem is not in his
00:10:25power. Elektroprivreda cannot finance the
00:10:29payment of those
00:10:31debts from the mines
00:10:34in that way.
00:10:37And uh from that meeting I again reiterated our
00:10:41demands that were at the first meeting and
00:10:44they said they would try to solve it with the relevant
00:10:47minister. However, after two
00:10:51a meeting where the relevant minister Lakić was also present.
00:10:55Uh, where he said that they would try to find
00:10:59a solution in the government, but that they could not
00:11:03in the end, we actually hit a wall where
00:11:06there is no will from the government of the Federation to
00:11:10settle the debts of the miners.
00:11:13Uh, we came to a
00:11:17situation where, this morning I called the representatives of the miners'
00:11:20union.
00:11:23I made an
00:11:25agreement with them, because without them we cannot
00:11:28fulfill these requested
00:11:32conditions that we asked from the Federation government. They
00:11:35promised us support. Mm, miners can start
00:11:39treatment. We agreed with the directors
00:11:43of the mines on what they can
00:11:46pay at this moment. They signed agreements, and
00:11:50we will see now how the situation will further
00:11:53develop. Mm.
00:12:00Uh, what has been bothering us all along is how funds can be found for
00:12:03pension and disability insurance, but funds cannot be found for health
00:12:07insurance.
00:12:09What is
00:12:13my job and the job of my colleagues
00:12:17is to anticipate the problem,
00:12:21to warn about it while we can still solve it.
00:12:25And today, this press conference is actually what we are doing.
00:12:28We don't want conflicts, we don't seek excuses, we seek
00:12:31responsibility, we seek
00:12:34institutional action, we seek a solution. We want to send
00:12:38a message to the miners: the Health Insurance Institute is not your
00:12:40opponent. On the contrary, from day one, we have been looking for ways to
00:12:43enable you to exercise the rights that belong to you. Our
00:12:47interest is the same: for every miner and every member of their family
00:12:51to have unimpeded health insurance, i.e.,
00:12:54health protection. At the same time, we are obliged to protect
00:12:58the interests of all other insured persons who daily
00:13:01use the healthcare system and whose healthcare services are financed
00:13:05from the same fund. Finally,
00:13:07I want to send a clear call to the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and
00:13:10Herzegovina, the federal Minister of Energy,
00:13:14Mining, and Industry, as well as to all other competent
00:13:16institutions.
00:13:19The time for new promises has passed. The time is for
00:13:23concrete decisions. The time is for regular payment of contributions. The time is
00:13:27for a systemic solution that will protect miners and the healthcare
00:13:30system, because the health of citizens cannot wait.
00:13:34Every lost day means fewer funds for treatment. Every
00:13:37lost day increases debt.
00:13:39Every lost day distances us from the healthcare system that the citizens of Zenica
00:13:43Doboj Canton deserve. Finally,
00:13:46I want to clearly state: we are not asking for anything more than what the law
00:13:49prescribes and what citizens rightly expect. A financially stable
00:13:53healthcare system, regular payment of
00:13:55contributions, and equal right to health protection for every
00:13:57insured person. Thank
00:13:59you.
00:14:03Just a question, please. You say that we have agreed with
00:14:06uh these three mines, that is, with the directors
00:14:10there, that payments will be made as much as they can
00:14:14pay. For what period of time have they
00:14:17promised to pay, and
00:14:21that, as far as I know, 18 million is
00:14:25needed annually just for health insurance payments?
00:14:28How much will you actually receive according to this plan?
00:14:31Can it be a percentage? For
00:14:35one thing, let me just present one fact that I didn't mention
00:14:39while I was giving the speech: we have a problem from
00:14:422022. In 2022, we had
00:14:46payments of 400 something thousand marks only in
00:14:49the Kakanj mine. I don't know if
00:14:52there was a change in management then, I'm not
00:14:56aware. Anyway, after that, our payments suddenly dropped to
00:14:59around three, four, to 5,000.
00:15:03Their monthly obligation is around 550,000
00:15:06convertible marks. And now if you take all that into account, and we also
00:15:10take the year 2026 into account, that
00:15:13the Akakanj Mine until
00:15:15August 3rd paid only
00:15:18628.51
00:15:21convertible marks for the health insurance of its
00:15:23miners. Monthly obligations are 550,000,
00:15:27over 550,000 convertible marks. What
00:15:31they had an agreement with the previous management, the Kakanj mine and the Breza mine,
00:15:34I think, as far as I understood through
00:15:38all these negotiations, that the Zenica Mine has already been pretty much
00:15:41written off. This, according to some previous agreement,
00:15:45the Kakanj Mine was obliged to pay
00:15:48150,000, the Breza Mine 50,000. The Breza Mine has been pretty
00:15:51much following that. The Akakanj Mine has not been following it. As you saw, it's
00:15:55only 628 convertible marks paid. What
00:15:59I asked for as a sign of goodwill from them
00:16:03is to settle that debt. The Kakanj mine should pay
00:16:07900,000 convertible marks and should
00:16:11pay 250,000 marks until the end of the year, where
00:16:14they expect to be able to recover, to be able
00:16:18to achieve maximum production in the mine, where
00:16:21I have their promises that they will start paying the full amount
00:16:25of their debts. On the other hand,
00:16:28the Breza Mine is in the situation it is in. They don't even have
00:16:31production. They are trying to dig up
00:16:34their own face. Uh... and they have
00:16:38some minimal inflows of funds. So
00:16:42they also expect to start production in December,
00:16:45where we will make a new agreement where they will increase their
00:16:49payments.
00:16:53In the HNK area, in the past 24 hours, more
00:16:57fires were recorded in open areas, landfills, and waste sites.
00:17:00In the Mostar area, firefighters extinguished three
00:17:04fires in Raštani and Vrapčići. Grass and
00:17:07low vegetation were burning, while logs and waste were burning in
00:17:11Buuna. In the Čapljina area, the largest number of interventions was recorded.
00:17:15In the Konjic area, in Čelebići, a grass and low vegetation fire
00:17:18was extinguished, while the fire in Kanjina, which broke out during
00:17:22the night, is still active, and firefighting teams are on the ground.
00:17:26In the Čitluk area, two fires were recorded. In Bijakovići,
00:17:29forest, grass, and high and low vegetation were burning. In
00:17:33Vidovići, grass and low vegetation. Firefighters in
00:17:36Prozor Rama are extinguishing a fire at the landfill in the village of Varvara, while
00:17:40in Neum, they intervened due to two grass and low
00:17:43vegetation fires on the Klek peninsula in Ruđera
00:17:46Boškovića Street.
00:17:49Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina presented the first
00:17:52periodic report on monitoring pre-election activities of political
00:17:56parties and officials before the general elections.
00:18:00So we have identified about 1,200 examples of potential abuses of public
00:18:04resources, of which 70% relate to the
00:18:07intensification of public works, and what you see, namely ribbon-cutting and
00:18:11opening ceremonies of public works in this
00:18:14period when we have certain legal prohibitions
00:18:17of abuse of public resources. In our country, unlike in neighboring countries,
00:18:21it is not strictly prohibited to invest and increase
00:18:24public spending in the pre-election period. However, it is prohibited
00:18:28to conduct campaigns at those events of opening roads,
00:18:31public works, and the like, and
00:18:35unfortunately, numerous such examples have passed without
00:18:37sanctions.
00:18:40The Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina has officially applied for
00:18:43accession to the Single Euro Payments Area, thereby taking one of the most significant steps
00:18:47in the process of integrating Bosnia and Herzegovina into the European payment
00:18:50area. The European Payments Council and other European bodies are now
00:18:54beginning to review the submitted documentation. This process
00:18:58includes a detailed analysis, possibly seeking additional
00:19:01clarifications or amendments, and making a final decision on Bosnia and
00:19:05Herzegovina's admission to the SEPA area.
00:19:08In the
00:19:16continuation of world news, I have the indispensable Esmir Milavić in the studio with me.
00:19:20Esmir, good day. Good day, Amir. What is the latest information on
00:19:23negotiations regarding the Middle East, Iran, Oman?
00:19:27Key actors, because America is watching from the sidelines. Yes, America is watching from
00:19:31the sidelines. And this is what is very interesting, that the Americans are not
00:19:34a negotiating party at all at this moment, although Donald Trump
00:19:38claims that they are constantly negotiating with Iran. What
00:19:42is the latest information, concrete
00:19:45information, is that Iran and Oman are close to an agreement
00:19:48and that this agreement could mean the following: that
00:19:52Iran will control inbound
00:19:54uh traffic, that Oman will control outbound
00:19:58traffic from Hormuz, because these
00:20:01two countries certainly share a border on Hormuz.
00:20:05Then the control would somehow be half and half, they would somehow
00:20:09turn into traffic controllers, so to speak. However, what
00:20:12is very interesting here is to say that Iran has said that
00:20:16it will not open Hormuz until Trump
00:20:20removes his naval blockade. We know that this
00:20:23blockade does not have much effect, because again, everything
00:20:27depends on what will happen on the Iranian
00:20:31side. At the same time, what we see
00:20:34in Lebanon is a continuation of attacks, although
00:20:37two delegations are negotiating in
00:20:40Rome, Israeli and Lebanese. This is what we have already
00:20:44talked about, there will be a problem, because the Lebanese state cannot control
00:20:48Hezbollah, they are too strong at this moment, so whatever these
00:20:52two sides agree on with the help of the United States,
00:20:55it will still not work, it will not end
00:20:58in the best way. And the third important
00:21:01element, uh, which is appearing more and more in
00:21:05reports from the field, is the Red Sea
00:21:07region, i.e., Bab-el-Mandeb, where the Houthis continue to create
00:21:11that pressure on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf
00:21:15countries, thereby further raising the price of oil,
00:21:18which is now moving there. somewhere in the 80s
00:21:21mm dollars and constantly
00:21:24fluctuates, which of course creates global
00:21:27problems. So at this moment Donald Trump does not have
00:21:31that key solution, he still, I don't know how he expects
00:21:34to reach an agreement if he constantly threatens the Iranians
00:21:37that, uh, if something happens, he will attack
00:21:41them, destroy them, and so on. He just further prolongs the conflict, because if you want to make
00:21:45peace with someone, you won't continue to threaten to
00:21:48attack them. So... as things stand,
00:21:52the crisis continues. When you mention Trump, let's
00:21:55go to America. How strong are these tremors caused by
00:21:59the victory of Abdullah Al Saed? These are primary elections for
00:22:03the Senate in Michigan. It's not a big surprise. He has been
00:22:06leading in polls for a long time, he was leading in
00:22:09the race ahead of this, what's her name, uh, woman
00:22:12and Haley Stevens Stevens, but
00:22:16here, the Egyptian, younger than us.
00:22:20significant tremors far from the headquarters of the Democratic Party. That's right, that's
00:22:23what's very important at this moment, the difference between him and
00:22:27Haley Stevens is very small,
00:22:2914,900 votes, that's roughly one
00:22:33percentage point, but what's interesting, Haley Stevens'
00:22:37campaign was currently the most expensive
00:22:40pre-election campaign, these
00:22:43primaries that are being held, 60 million was invested.
00:22:47AIPAC, the main lobbying organization
00:22:50connected with Israel, with the Jewish
00:22:53lobby in the United States, pumped as much as
00:22:5730 billion, 30 million US dollars into her campaign.
00:23:01The entire establishment, the entire leadership of the Democratic Party stood
00:23:05behind her, from the leader of the Senate
00:23:07majority, all other leaders, Nancy
00:23:10Pelosi, the governor
00:23:13of Michigan, everyone was for Haley Stevens, and in
00:23:16the end, Abdullah Al Saed made that crucial step,
00:23:20winning in this race. He is one of
00:23:23the key players of that progressive team
00:23:27that is coming. The Speaker of the House of
00:23:30Representatives, Johnson, accused, or rather, said that
00:23:33there is a possibility that with his victory comes an entire
00:23:37group of small Mamdanians. That's what they're afraid of, they're afraid of that
00:23:41left wing of the Democratic Party, and what
00:23:45the Democrats are afraid of is that a large number of these people
00:23:48like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, from Mamdani,
00:23:51Bernie Sanders, will come to the House of Representatives,
00:23:55come to the Senate, and where they will start changing that way of
00:23:58thinking of the establishment and push it more
00:24:01in a different direction where Israel, human rights,
00:24:05and the rights of
00:24:08minority communities in the United States are viewed differently,
00:24:12and how to behave towards Donald Trump. As things
00:24:15stand now, Al-Saed has a
00:24:19good chance to become a senator. We'll see how that plays
00:24:23out against Mike Rogers in November, but he could
00:24:25become the first Muslim senator in the United States in
00:24:29250 years, someone said, I think it was
00:24:33Vance or Hekset. Vance,
00:24:37I think, was the one who made the statement that in three and a half
00:24:40years we need to prevent people like Al-Saed
00:24:44from becoming president of the United States, because then everything that
00:24:48he feels
00:24:59about Donald Trump and what he
00:25:03did domestically will not need anyone from
00:25:06the Democrats; the Republicans will undo it themselves. Speaking of
00:25:10Trump, how many years has it been since the Capitol?
00:25:13Five, how many, five years? When was
00:25:17that movie? Is it 24? That's right. And
00:25:21what is he trying to do now? To block
00:25:24a court order that gives the BBC access to
00:25:28finances? Well, this is where Donald Trump
00:25:31made a mistake, he thought that
00:25:34BBC lawyers
00:25:38uh were similar to lawyers in the United States, so they would advise their clients,
00:25:41"retreat, give him some money
00:25:45and we'll solve it," on the principle of ABC and CBS. However,
00:25:49the BBC, they are somewhat more dangerous players
00:25:52uh in legal games, and now they simply said, "Okay, no,
00:25:56we're dropping the lawsuit, give us that, it's in the United
00:26:00States, uh... practically called discovery, that is,
00:26:04discovery, the investigative process, practically one of the parties
00:26:07in the proceedings has the right to investigate everything, to get new
00:26:11data so that it can either
00:26:14uh dispute or so that they can produce additional evidence.
00:26:18Now what they asked for, since Trump said in one or two
00:26:21points uh that he suffered financial
00:26:25damage, they asked, give us financial data, let us
00:26:28see what you're talking about, let's see where that loss was, and he, as
00:26:32usual with the tax service in the United States and he's been doing it for decades
00:26:36and with all other situations, every time he hides
00:26:39how much money he has, how much he's worth and how much he's earned, now we know he's
00:26:43worth more than he was when he started both the first term and the second
00:26:47term, but here the BBC uh gives
00:26:49him practically headaches because they said ok, give it, and when
00:26:53we get that data then we'll ask you for more testimonies and for more information
00:26:57and more of everything, so he's now seeking through his
00:27:00lawyers the possibility of completely withdrawing from this process,
00:27:03practically to withdraw the lawsuit against the BBC,
00:27:06but I doubt that the judge in the United States and
00:27:10the BBC will be willing to drop this. When you mention British
00:27:13capable people, Mi6, the profession said
00:27:17assessed, no one is stronger than them when it comes to
00:27:20intelligence for foreign affairs, they don't have,
00:27:24external, external intelligence, this is a text that was
00:27:28published this morning in the Daily Telegraph, which says
00:27:31how other... intelligence agencies in a
00:27:34kind of research said how
00:27:37James Bonds are in quotation marks, because James Bond is, an officer
00:27:41of M6, um, the best spies in the world, meaning that
00:27:45it is the best spy organization in the world currently, I think Trump
00:27:48and the CIA will not agree, Ratcliffe will probably be angry about this,
00:27:52but really, I had the opportunity to talk to one of
00:27:56the former heads of that organization, they
00:27:59are one of the best, according to the opinion of others,
00:28:03intelligence agencies, the best intelligence agency, that's where
00:28:06Great Britain
00:28:09mm others, not just in this current turbulent
00:28:13period, but in decades behind us, from
00:28:16World War II until today, and they really have uh
00:28:19shown in certain situations that they can do certain things
00:28:23the way they should, especially when certain attacks were
00:28:26on the territory of the United Kingdom, where they really
00:28:30got information that solved those cases. Now,
00:28:34how much of what we see in movies, how much of
00:28:37what we read in books that are not fiction, that talk about
00:28:41how spies work, we will never know, but
00:28:45they say that British spies are the best in the world, should we
00:28:47believe them, uh, we have to believe the pictures from
00:28:51the borders, because they are, while many went on vacation, we are still here,
00:28:54but this,
00:28:58the good thing is that old Chinese trick, turn it off and on, and then
00:29:01let's see. when there's a big crowd at the borders
00:29:04of Europe, the system turns off, that's right, that's what
00:29:07is currently a problem for Europeans, I had
00:29:11the opportunity to cross the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and
00:29:14Croatia twice within seven days, I didn't
00:29:18have that problem, but numerous airports
00:29:22in European territory, numerous borders in European territory
00:29:25now have huge problems, because simply huge crowds
00:29:28are created, we already had information, for example.
00:29:33those who come by train from London to Paris wait for about three or four
00:29:36hours, they miss, I don't know, a flight or
00:29:40they simply don't arrive on time for something they planned precisely
00:29:43because of that system that, I don't know, sometimes can't read a finger, sometimes
00:29:47can't take a photo and citizens
00:29:51stand at the borders, so now they say the solution is that
00:29:54old good one you just mentioned, turn it off and on and let's see
00:29:58if it will work, or what they do is temporarily suspend the system.
00:30:02"They turn it off, let people pass through with the old-fashioned passport control
00:30:06method, practically they just stamp their passports and let them
00:30:10cross the border and then there are no
00:30:13such crowds. The European Union had already been told that
00:30:17it should be suspended during the summer season, but
00:30:20Europe did not want to accept it, and now it seems that the countries themselves
00:30:24decide when they see that the water has reached their throats, turn it off and then
00:30:28we'll see what we do with it later, but until the crowds
00:30:31clear up, don't..." that we are in trouble, Esmir, thank you, Esmir Milović with
00:30:35news from the world,
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