Bosnia and Herzegovina: N1 Bosnia and Herzegovina

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00:00:12the eclipse is partial in Herzegovina, in Sarajevo it started a few
00:00:16minutes ago, and it will reach its maximum at
00:00:1919:52.
00:00:22Astronomers warn that the sun during an eclipse should not
00:00:25be looked at directly without appropriate eye
00:00:28protection, ordinary glasses are not enough, and for direct
00:00:32observation it is necessary to use specially certified glasses
00:00:36or filters intended for observing
00:00:39the sun.
00:00:44In addition to the solar eclipse, one of the most anticipated
00:00:47astronomical events of the summer,
00:00:51the Perseid meteor shower, reaches its peak
00:00:55tonight, between August 12 and 13,
00:00:58and this year... particularly favorable conditions are
00:01:02expected for observation in the Northern Hemisphere,
00:01:05most meteors will be visible in the second half of the night,
00:01:09and right up until dawn. The New Moon will not obstruct the view, and
00:01:13no telescopes or binoculars are needed for observation.
00:01:16Fans of these natural phenomena are advised to observe the Perseids
00:01:19far from city lights in nature, in the mountains. The Perseids are one
00:01:22of the most famous
00:01:26meteor showers, in addition to the Perseids, Saturn will be visible to the naked eye,
00:01:30which will be high in the sky, Mars, which will be recognized by
00:01:33its reddish color, and Mercury and Jupiter, which will appear very
00:01:37low on the eastern horizon just before
00:01:41flowering.
00:07:57tomorrow.
00:08:00By the end of the week, we expect mostly sunny, very warm weather,
00:08:04temperatures up to 39 degrees in the south, and from Sunday
00:08:07an additional increase in temperature in most parts of the country, locally up to
00:08:1140 degrees is expected. The weather will be stable with no significant
00:08:15precipitation, there will be plenty of sunshine, occasionally with small to
00:08:18moderate cloudiness, wind weak to moderate, predominantly northern
00:08:22and northeastern. On Thursday, the weather will be mostly sunny,
00:08:26weak daytime cloud development is expected, the wind will be
00:08:29weak. Morning temperatures from 15 to
00:08:3221 degrees, slightly warmer in the south and a maximum above
00:08:3625, while the daily temperature will be from
00:08:3927 to 33 degrees, even warmer in the south. It
00:08:42will be up to 39 degrees. On Friday and Saturday,
00:08:46it remains sunny, very warm, temperatures mostly up to 34
00:08:50in Bosnia and slightly warmer up to 38 in
00:08:53Herzegovina, nights will also be warm, maximum
00:08:56temperatures will increase further from Sunday. Meteorological and hydrological
00:09:00warnings remain in force in the coming
00:09:02days.
00:09:07You've been watching N1 daily, more news
00:09:48Good evening, you are watching N1 daily news, I am Maja Žeželj, this
00:09:51is the news
00:09:52of the day.
00:09:55Nenad Rašković, who claims that he was beaten by
00:09:59members of the Kosovo Police, was transferred to the
00:10:02emergency center in Belgrade. The Police
00:10:05Inspectorate of Kosovo claims that it has launched an investigation
00:10:09into the case.
00:10:13And in tonight's news, these
00:10:14topics.
00:10:19A man who stole Stevan Filipović's phone was
00:10:22arrested. The director and his lawyer wonder
00:10:26what about the others who beat him and who can be seen in
00:10:30the video from the security cameras.
00:10:33they had that footage the same day from
00:10:37those cameras and the prosecutor's office, I don't know why they were not arrested the same
00:10:41day.
00:10:43The fire is still raging on the tables, there are no
00:10:47threatened people or houses in Deliblatska Peščara.
00:10:51The fire has not yet been fully localized, but the residents of
00:10:54Šumarka... were allowed to return to their homes, others
00:10:57are still prohibited from accessing the affected
00:11:00area.
00:11:38light precipitation possible sometimes in the south and
00:11:41east, temperature from 29 to
00:11:4434
00:11:45degrees.
00:11:50Another incident in northern Kosovo, Nenad
00:11:54Rašković from Zubin Potok claims that Kosovo
00:11:57police officers beat him and forced him to confess
00:12:00a war crime. Srpska Lista
00:12:03states that in the previous two weeks there have been more
00:12:07similar cases. Rašković was transferred due to his injuries
00:12:10from Kosovska Mitrovica to Belgrade
00:12:14to the emergency center. The Police Inspectorate of Kosovo
00:12:17announces that it has launched an investigation into the
00:12:20case.
00:12:22According to Nenad Rašković's testimony. Three members of the so-called
00:12:26Kosovo police raided his family home yesterday in
00:12:30the village of Dren near Zubin Potok, where are
00:12:33your weapons?
00:12:35I don't have a weapon, he grabbed me, took, took
00:12:39a piece of wood, grabbed me and dragged me into the house
00:12:42and then punched me in the stomach, and hit me with a stick
00:12:46on the head, on the back,
00:12:49and threw me out of the house. Rašković says he was taken to a nearby
00:12:53forest and tied to a tree. He claims that police officers beat
00:12:57him with a water hose, demanding that he confess to committing
00:13:00war crimes against Albanians. After the
00:13:03abuse, he was left tied to the tree. Friends freed
00:13:06him and took him to a hospital in Kosovska
00:13:09Mitrovica. The patient was admitted to our institution
00:13:12due to injuries sustained in
00:13:14a physical attack by the Kosovo police. These
00:13:18are serious injuries. Now the further clinical picture depends on
00:13:22the diagnostics, on the patient's condition. Due to his serious
00:13:26health condition, Rašković was transferred to the emergency center in
00:13:30Belgrade. Srpska lista, which informed the public about this
00:13:33case, says it is not an isolated incident. In the previous
00:13:3715 days, several Serbs have been beaten in Kosovo and
00:13:40Metohija. What is particularly painful is
00:13:43that no one has been held accountable for it, for the simple reason that
00:13:47people are afraid. From this place, I call upon all who experience such things, and who have experienced
00:13:50them, to speak up. Let them say what they did to them. The fact
00:13:54that... a supposed crime happened somewhere
00:13:58does not give anyone the right to
00:14:01torture and abuse innocent, honest
00:14:04people living in villages in Zubin Potok or anywhere
00:14:08else. Regarding Nenad Rašković's allegations, the Police Inspectorate
00:14:12of Kosovo is conducting an investigation. The Police Inspectorate of Kosovo has
00:14:15initiated this preliminary investigation with the aim of verifying
00:14:19the claims and clarifying all relevant facts and
00:14:22circumstances related to this case. that is, police
00:14:25actions during the police operation carried out in Dren
00:14:29and Zubin Potok. Without prejudging the outcome of the investigation,
00:14:32the purpose of this phase is to collect and evaluate all
00:14:35available information and evidence in accordance with
00:14:39the legal mandate of the Inspectorate.
00:14:41The Inspectorate took a statement from Rašković at the hospital, and
00:14:45the medical documentation is also expected to be obtained, confirmed
00:14:48for the Kossev portal, the Deputy Commander of the Kosovo
00:14:52Police for the North Region Veton Elshani.
00:14:55Miloš Zekić, N1,
00:14:57Belgrade.
00:15:00Seven days after the attack on director and FDU professor
00:15:03Stevan Filipović, the police arrested the person
00:15:06who snatched Filipović's phone and then smashed it
00:15:10on the asphalt. And all this happens the day after
00:15:13Cins published a video from surveillance cameras
00:15:17showing all the details of the attack. The suspect
00:15:20did not deny that he participated in the event, and the police claim
00:15:24that they are looking for two more suspects.
00:15:28Filipović and his lawyer wonder what would have happened
00:15:31if the video had not appeared.
00:15:35This one
00:15:38stole my phone and attacked me, and this
00:15:41one here took a chair from here and hit me, tried to kill me,
00:15:45practically, I mean, they all tried. The man who snatched the phone and then
00:15:49smashed it on the asphalt was arrested during the day. As stated,
00:15:53suspect LD was charged with the criminal offense of violent
00:15:56behavior and he was interrogated at the prosecutor's office. Given
00:16:00that the suspect presented a defense, that he did not deny that he
00:16:03participated in the event in the manner in which he is charged, that he was not previously
00:16:07convicted and that he has a properly registered place of residence, the prosecutor's office
00:16:11did not propose detention, but rather in the further course of the proceedings the suspect
00:16:14will defend himself at liberty.
00:16:18They state that two more suspects are being sought who
00:16:21inflicted several blows on Stevan Filipović and caused him injuries.
00:16:25These police actions are happening seven days after the attack on
00:16:29Filipović, after the footage from the surveillance camera that Cins
00:16:32published came to public attention. I don't know where the footage
00:16:36could have come from. except from the police and prosecutor's office, so I would like
00:16:40to thank whoever anonymously sent it from there,
00:16:44obviously there are some upheavals there as well, some people who maybe
00:16:47want it to be resolved, they had that footage the same
00:16:50day from those cameras and the prosecutor's office, I don't know
00:16:54why they were not arrested the same day. The incident occurred after
00:16:58the director and professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts photographed
00:17:02men spray-painting a protected building, suffering injuries and
00:17:06a concussion. I saw, in
00:17:08fact, first that it was much more extreme than
00:17:12even what I remember. The phone was later located in a police station,
00:17:16then changed locations, and finally arrived in Kosovo near
00:17:19Uroševac. This shows Filipović that there are connections
00:17:23between crime, organized crime in Kosovo and
00:17:26central Serbia. Stevan Filipović assumes who
00:17:30is behind the attackers. The fact that they gather
00:17:33in the courtyard, well, here, in the courtyard of the Stari
00:17:37Grad municipality. "in my opinion, it is very indicative, therefore
00:17:41that it is a direct link between the regime and those people
00:17:45who committed it, I mean, they were ultimately pasting
00:17:49party slogans, writing and pasting SNS
00:17:52stickers, experience teaches us that we cannot expect
00:17:55much, but on the other hand,
00:17:58there is a legal obligation for them to discover the perpetrators of this
00:18:01criminal act as soon as possible
00:18:04and prosecute them." "These examples
00:18:08speak of the complete impunity of people who will attack all those
00:18:12who are not with the SNS, that the
00:18:15system has managed to ensure impunity for
00:18:18thugs, so that anyone can be a
00:18:20victim. With the apprehension of one suspect seven days
00:18:24later, the question arises whether the investigation will be carried out to
00:18:27the end, and the perpetrators punished proportionally for the
00:18:31act they are suspected of." Ana Obačić, N1,
00:18:34Belgrade. And next up in
00:18:38the news.
00:18:41What did the address of a citizen of Nova Varoš
00:18:45to the President of Serbia reveal? Will the prosecution
00:18:48react?
00:18:53Before that, about the fires in
00:18:55Serbia. It's burning in slightly fewer
00:18:59locations, but a serious fight is still ongoing, primarily
00:19:03on Stolovi mountain near Čačak. The fire has affected about 200
00:19:06hectares, according to available information, there are no threatened
00:19:09buildings, households, or infrastructure. The Minister of Police
00:19:12announces the deployment of another helicopter to
00:19:16Stolovi, reports Nenad Božević.
00:19:19Božević.
00:19:22The fire on Stolovi mountain above Kraljevo is one of
00:19:25several active fires at the moment. Over an area of about
00:19:28200 hectares. At this moment, a fire has appeared
00:19:31in several locations and it
00:19:34can only be extinguished from the air, and now at
00:19:38this moment, a police helicopter is flying
00:19:41over us, although a military helicopter is also involved, carrying a bucket
00:19:45of water and pouring it right on
00:19:49this section here, this is the place Šošanica,
00:19:52here low vegetation and mixed forest
00:19:56are burning, there are deciduous and pine trees, and people cannot
00:19:59approach here, it can only be extinguished from the
00:20:02air and this is one of the flights that happens
00:20:06perhaps every twenty minutes, water
00:20:09is taken at the foot of Stolovi and then
00:20:12poured here, otherwise this fire
00:20:15spread during the night, because here
00:20:19the wind causes great problems, so firefighters at this
00:20:22moment do not know what awaits them the very
00:20:26next day, or rather, they do not know what awaits them in the next hours
00:20:29and that is why they are non-stop here on Stolovi and
00:20:32trying to stop this fire, we are absolutely trying first of all to
00:20:36extinguish... "to make our job easier, so I say, conditionally speaking, with machinery,
00:20:40fire trucks, we are laying a so-called fire line with
00:20:44those hoses, which help us get as close as possible to
00:20:48the fire site itself and to do as little as possible of what we call
00:20:51'back work', meaning to do as little as possible with backpack pumps, because the terrain demands
00:20:55an enormous amount of energy, and when you add 20, 25 liters of water
00:20:58to your back, it is extremely difficult to extinguish and to go up and down
00:21:02on this terrain. There is a danger that
00:21:05the pine forest will catch fire, for now it is still protected,
00:21:08so now what you see behind me, that is a mixed forest, meaning the very crown of the fire
00:21:12at the top of the hill is coniferous forest, uh, it is good that it is
00:21:16what I would call a ground fire, meaning low
00:21:20vegetation, dry grass, which at the same time makes it difficult to spread to the so-called
00:21:23juniper, the so-called pine root, but it is not
00:21:27impossible, meaning we have cases in some locations where
00:21:31pine forest is burning, where conifers are burning, the most important thing at this
00:21:34moment is that there are no endangered houses, although there are not many
00:21:37in this area, because this is one of the uninhabited
00:21:41areas, only a few houses where people live,
00:21:44but firefighters have made sure that they are
00:21:48protected. The weather forecast is favorable
00:21:52because it is predicted that this dry weather
00:21:55will last at least another seven days and if it rains, it will be
00:21:59short-lived, not enough to extinguish this fire. What
00:22:03at this moment could pose a danger is that the wind could carry sparks
00:22:07to the pine forests at the very top of
00:22:10the tables, then big problems could arise, because when conifers
00:22:14burn, they are much slower to extinguish.
00:22:18Nenad Božević, N1 Stolovi
00:22:21Kraljevo.
00:22:23In Deliblatska Peščara, according to the latest estimates, about
00:22:27700 hectares of forest have burned. The fire is still not completely
00:22:30localized, but the Ministry of Interior says that the fire is under
00:22:34control. Above part of the sand dunes, thick
00:22:38black smoke is still visible, and the police did not allow media
00:22:41teams to approach the village of Šumarak today either, stopping them
00:22:45already at the exit of the village of Gaj. However,
00:22:49residents who were evacuated from Šumarak
00:22:52were allowed to return to their homes, among
00:22:55them journalist Slobodan Dukić. He says that the
00:22:58consequences are even visible in the settlement.
00:23:01The small fires
00:23:05literally, the fire is spouting from
00:23:08the ground, because it's about
00:23:11roots. The locals explain to me that they have to
00:23:15dig, I don't know, almost
00:23:18one meter deep to reach
00:23:20moist, or rather, cold sand, then they
00:23:24repair it, pour water. If they
00:23:27clean it superficially 20, 30 cm, it means nothing,
00:23:31because here, for example, you can bake an egg
00:23:34in the sand, even when it's not
00:23:37like this
00:23:40high
00:23:43temperature. A large fire broke out in the
00:23:46village of Breznica above Bujanovac. The fire affected
00:23:503.5 hectares of forest, said
00:23:53the head of the local emergency situations staff, Ali
00:23:56Aslani, for the portal Bujanovačke. Firefighters from Bujanovac and
00:24:00Vranje, teams from the public company Komunalac, and
00:24:03members of the Serbian Army are participating in the extinguishing effort,
00:24:07together with local residents. Aslani expects the fire to be brought
00:24:10under control, however, an aggravating circumstance is that the
00:24:14fire has also affected the pine forest. Breznica and the surrounding
00:24:1812 villages are currently without electricity.
00:24:20The head of the Sector for Emergency Situations, Luka Čaušić, says that near
00:24:24Bujanovac an additional problem is that there is a fear of
00:24:27unexploded ordnance
00:24:30remaining from the past.
00:24:34In this fire near Bujanovac, the biggest problem we have
00:24:36is that there is a fear that the area
00:24:40where the fire is developing is contaminated with explosive
00:24:43remnants of war or unexploded ordnance, and for that
00:24:47reason. "for safety
00:24:51reasons of our members, which is absolutely
00:24:54paramount and always has the highest
00:24:57priority, we protect the settlements located
00:25:00there, houses, and they are for now protected, we have
00:25:04ready forces when
00:25:08their safety
00:25:10first allows us to send them to
00:25:13the site, however, what is important there is that there are no, that there are no, therefore
00:25:17endangered houses, meaning that the houses
00:25:20in the settlements are being defended.
00:25:24Elections have not yet been called, but the President of Serbia is already in
00:25:28his campaign, visiting villages, promising roads,
00:25:31water supply, schools, but in Nova Varoš he also
00:25:35heard about some unfulfilled promises, which, according to
00:25:39lawyers, raise the question of criminal
00:25:42responsibility.
00:25:45A ski slope and a water supply system, all that was promised by the president while visiting
00:25:48southwestern Serbia and Nova Varoš. Citizens came forward with
00:25:51their problems, and then one exposed the functioning of the ruling
00:25:55party. Can Krstojanović and Branko Bjelić answer me? In 2020,
00:25:59I was promised that I would get a job, and
00:26:03I was told that if
00:26:06I got votes, they would
00:26:09then... and you came from Sjenica too
00:26:13Sjenica, you came. Yes, I am sure you have all the evidence. I
00:26:17do, but I'm sure you have it, let me answer that.
00:26:21So what you have with those two, you will resolve with those
00:26:24two. An unhappy citizen tried to resolve it with the local
00:26:28progressives, but since she didn't succeed, she sought an answer from the
00:26:31president himself. "She live publicly admitted at least one
00:26:35criminal offense, that is receiving and giving bribes in connection with
00:26:38voting. There is real potential criminal
00:26:41responsibility, first and foremost of the one who offered
00:26:45such compensation or
00:26:48a job. The job was, as she said, in exchange for secure votes, offered by
00:26:51acting director of Serbia Forest Krsto Janjušević and mayor of Nova
00:26:55Varoš Branko Bjelić, who were standing next to the
00:26:58president at that moment. Unlike perhaps this citizen,
00:27:02the president certainly knows that he is in criminal territory, but
00:27:06simply his attitude and approach towards the citizen explains
00:27:09that really, I would say, inappropriate level
00:27:13of normalization of election criminalization. In Vučić's
00:27:16Serbia, it is difficult to expect that the prosecution
00:27:20will react, especially if we have a situation when the police, not only in
00:27:24this case, which would eventually be initiated, but in all other
00:27:27cases where there is a certain political background of a certain
00:27:31criminal offense, has never assisted the prosecution
00:27:35in shedding light on criminal offenses. This is not the first and only case, even after
00:27:38dozens of similar testimonies from citizens before and after the elections, no one
00:27:42has been prosecuted. Although according to the criminal code, giving and receiving
00:27:46bribes in connection with voting is punishable by up to three years
00:27:49in prison. Žana Bulajić, N1
00:27:51Belgrade.
00:27:53The Vista Rica Fund, connected with government representatives,
00:27:57has received reinforcement. Daniel Hoffman
00:28:01has joined the supervisory board, a former CIA operative and
00:28:05Fox News reporter. Why did Hoffman deserve
00:28:08this, and what is intended by his engagement?
00:28:11Find out in the story of our Miodrag
00:28:14Sovilj. The fund, whose owners are connected
00:28:18with the Serbian Progressive Party, into which millions were invested
00:28:21by brothers, godfathers, and friends of the highest
00:28:25state officials, as well as businessmen close to the government.
00:28:28Recently underwent personnel changes, at the end of June.
00:28:32American citizen Daniel Hoffman became a member of the supervisory board of the Vista
00:28:36Rica fund, who came to that position only
00:28:40three days after Vojislav Nedić, owner
00:28:43of a quarter share in the company and father of the former general secretary
00:28:47of the Government of Serbia, Novak Nedić, resigned from that position.
00:28:50Who is Hoffman
00:28:53anyway? Fox News contributor and former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman.
00:28:57Dan, welcome. Before he
00:29:00became a contributor to this conservative
00:29:04television network in 2018, Hoffman, as stated in his
00:29:07biography, was a high-ranking CIA operative who was
00:29:11station chief of the American intelligence agency three times, and
00:29:14served in the former Soviet Union, in
00:29:18Europe, in the war zones of the Middle East and South
00:29:21Asia. The Executive Director of the Vista Rica Fund says that
00:29:25he is an internationally recognized expert, without specifically commenting
00:29:29on his intelligence past.
00:29:32Expert expertise, education acquired at the most prestigious
00:29:35institutions, international experience, analytical approach and
00:29:39deep understanding of macroeconomic and market trends were
00:29:42key reasons for the appointment of Mr. Daniel Hoffman
00:29:46to the position of member of the supervisory board. The presence of experts
00:29:49of Hoffman's profile in our team ensures that our funds do not
00:29:53view markets only through financial reports, but through
00:29:56a comprehensive analysis of the broader security and economic
00:29:59environment. The director of the fund... adds that
00:30:03she believes that for the same reasons he is engaged in a leading
00:30:06Washington strategic consulting and risk
00:30:09analysis firm. Hoffman is, in fact, a member of the advisory
00:30:13board of the lobbying company BGR, the same one that
00:30:16three years ago signed a contract with the Serbian embassy in
00:30:20Washington worth $600,000
00:30:23annually. According to the latest publicly available data, the contract was
00:30:27extended until July last year. Mr.
00:30:30Hoffman is first and foremost... a lobbyist for the BGR
00:30:34firm, which the Republic of Serbia paid
00:30:37$50,000 a month to lobby for the interests
00:30:41of Aleksandar Vučić with the American administration. He
00:30:44does not represent the American state, even less so the CIA.
00:30:48Hoffman's engagement should be a shield against
00:30:51potential interest from the competent authorities, according to Radar journalist.
00:30:54The stakes are high. As he says,
00:30:58the fund is currently worth more than 120.
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