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00:00:00"we need to prepare, there are
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00:00:06collapse, and we know that these buildings will collapse, especially
00:00:10now with the upcoming winter. uh, we
00:00:13need support uh, most importantly with
00:00:17machinery, equipment, among others also
00:00:20to our colleagues here, they don't have oil
00:00:24and spare parts uh to continue and to work with all the
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00:00:49The editorial board of BHT1 is launching
00:00:52an initiative to file a lawsuit against the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:00:56and all those responsible in the parliamentary assembly and the Council of Ministers
00:00:59for not respecting the Law on the Public RTV System of Bosnia and
00:01:03Herzegovina, due to which the public service has been brought to
00:01:06ruin. They state that BHRT's accounts are still
00:01:09blocked, which at this moment means that the transmission of matches of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian national
00:01:13football team in the Nations League is in question. From Friday,
00:01:16the broadcasting of
00:01:19to adapt to the conditions here, to certain shows will also be suspended. Once again, they call on the relevant institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina to urgently adopt
00:01:23a systemic solution for collecting and distributing RTV fees
00:01:26and thus enable BNHRT workers
00:01:30adequate conditions for
00:06:50Sara Botić brings us the weather forecast at the end.
00:06:54Although we are already in the second half of September, the weather reminds us that summer,
00:06:57calendrically, is still ongoing. Another warm day is ahead of us,
00:07:00then from Friday, a change in weather, rain, showers,
00:07:04significantly cooler this weekend. Today,
00:07:07the weather will be stable, warm, but more moisture and cloudiness will start to arrive from the west,
00:07:11so... From Friday, there will be a change in weather,
00:07:14precipitation, and a drop in temperature. Thursday
00:07:17will be sunny with a moderate increase in cloudiness during the day, and
00:07:21in the afternoon, we expect rain in the northwest of Bosnia, while the
00:07:24wind will be light in the south, southwesterly, and in other regions, northerly
00:07:28and northeasterly. The minimum morning temperature in Bosnia
00:07:32will be from 8 to 13, in the south in Herzegovina up to 19 degrees,
00:07:36and the highest daily temperature will be from 24 to 32
00:07:40degrees. On Friday, it will remain partly cloudy
00:07:43with rain, showers, and occasional thunderstorms. On Saturday, it will be cloudy
00:07:47with showers in Herzegovina, especially in the morning, and later in the afternoon
00:07:51in the central, eastern, and western parts of Bosnia. The temperature will be
00:07:55significantly lower, so in Bosnia we expect up to 24, in the
00:07:59south up to 27
00:08:00degrees.
00:08:03And that's all for the news. Dear viewers, thank you for your attention, have a good
00:08:06evening.
00:08:43Good evening, you are watching the N1 daily news, this is the story
00:08:46of the day.
00:08:50This panel sentences you to a single prison sentence of
00:08:5425 years. After these
00:08:57words, the courtrooms, unrest in The Hague, but
00:09:01also in Pristina. In addition to Hashim Thaçi, Jakup Krasniqi was also sentenced to
00:09:0425 years in prison. Kadri Veseli to 18, and
00:09:08Rexhep Selimi to 13 years in prison.
00:09:15And other topics in the news also related to
00:09:18the verdict.
00:09:23Numerous reactions to the verdict for Thaçi
00:09:25and others.
00:09:28We are very disappointed because I don't think the verdict is correct. Well, we're not
00:09:32interested in that. We're not interested in that. We're not in
00:09:35politics, thank you. At this moment, we have
00:09:37no reason to rejoice or
00:09:41grieve.
00:09:44In her State of the European Union address, European Commission President Ursula
00:09:47von der Leyen also mentioned
00:09:49Serbia.
00:09:52I was horrified by the photographs from Ratko Mladić's funeral in
00:09:56Belgrade last
00:09:57week.
00:10:01The pre-election race continues, who has dropped out, who is still
00:10:04running this marathon, and
00:10:06why?
00:10:08Definitely a referendum atmosphere, and anyone who doesn't see that is politically
00:10:12blind.
00:10:15Sunny and warm weather in the coming days, cool and
00:10:18foggy mornings.
00:10:30They are guilty, they committed war crimes. The Kosovo Specialist Chambers
00:10:34in The Hague pronounced the first-instance verdict against the leader of the former
00:10:38KLA, Hashim Thaçi, and his closest associates, Kadri
00:10:42Veseli, Rexhep Selimi, and Jakup Krasniqi. Thaçi and
00:10:45Krasniqi were sentenced to 25 years in prison, Veseli to
00:10:4918, and Selimi to 13
00:10:50years.
00:10:53The former commander of the KLA did not listen to the details
00:10:57of the indictment being read to him,
00:11:00but the earpiece was in place when Hashim Thaçi was to hear
00:11:04the most important thing, the judge's "Stand up" and the verdict
00:11:07delivered in the name of the people of Kosovo. Mr. Hashim Thaçi.
00:11:11This panel sentences you to a single prison sentence of
00:11:1525
00:11:16years.
00:11:20Mr. Krasniqi, this panel sentences you to
00:11:24a single...
00:11:51And while mourning continued in the square in Pristina, a group of Kosovo Albanians who had been following the verdict
00:11:55far from the courthouse in The Hague, caused
00:11:57unrest. The police used water cannons to disperse
00:12:01the gathered crowd.
00:12:05And a little later in Pristina, Albanian and American flags
00:12:09were waved in a protest march, and "UÇK" and "Thaçi" were chanted.
00:12:12The gathered crowd went to the Eulex headquarters, where
00:12:16the situation escalated. Demonstrators, some of whom
00:12:19wore masks, clashed with the police. The building
00:12:23of the international mission was pelted with stones, and the building
00:12:26of the Kosovo government in Pristina was also pelted,
00:12:30windows broken.
00:12:32Anger and dissatisfaction in
00:12:37Kosovo. In Belgrade, the verdict against the leaders of the former
00:12:40KLA was followed with far less attention. I think that
00:12:43what the court proved and did should be
00:12:47respected. 25 years in
00:12:50prison, too little in your opinion? Well, how is it not little, for
00:12:54genocide, almost. No, everyone should be held accountable for the crime they
00:12:57committed, wherever it was and against
00:13:00whoever it was committed. Crimes are unacceptable, so
00:13:04I'm glad that for a change,
00:13:07someone else is convicted and not just
00:13:10us. When you deliver a verdict in the name of the people of Kosovo, and when high-ranking Kosovar
00:13:14officials challenge that verdict,
00:13:18that will certainly on the international and domestic level
00:13:21have some consequences. On the other hand, this will spill over
00:13:25into an increased number of indictments for war
00:13:29crimes committed by Serbs. Four former KLA leaders
00:13:33have been in The Hague since November 2020. And
00:13:36the trial before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers began in April
00:13:402023. The prison sentences handed down
00:13:44include the six years they have already spent in
00:13:47detention. Both the defense and the prosecution have the right
00:13:51to appeal the first-instance verdict. Nenad Nešić, N1.
00:13:55Belgrade.
00:13:57Chief Prosecutor Kimberly West welcomed the verdict, stating that it is important for
00:14:00the rule of law in Kosovo to deliver, as she said, belated
00:14:04justice for the victims. Hashim Thaçi's defense lawyer Pierre Prosper says
00:14:08he is shocked by the verdict, stating that it was predetermined, and that it only took into
00:14:12account the evidence presented by the prosecution. After the pronouncement
00:14:16of the verdicts in The Hague, there were disturbances in the place where Kosovo Albanians had gathered.
00:14:19Several people climbed onto police
00:14:23vehicles and hit them. The police used water cannons to disperse
00:14:27the gathered crowd. Most of the day in the afternoon was
00:14:31peaceful.
00:14:39We are very disappointed because I don't think the verdict is correct.
00:14:43The KLA was one of the groups that fought for our freedom. How can
00:14:47freedom fighters be criminals?
00:14:51This is a sad day for Albanian history, because these fighters
00:14:54fought for the freedom of the people, and this is a scandal.
00:14:58We hope it won't have consequences, because otherwise, what
00:15:01is the purpose of fighting for freedom if we end up in this
00:15:05situation?
00:15:08There should be no euphoria because of the first-instance verdict against the former
00:15:12KLA leaders, says Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić at the presidential conference.
00:15:15He states that the court did not deal with the murders, abductions,
00:15:19and disappearances of Serbs, and that the verdict in The Hague does not cover crimes against
00:15:23humanity. He said that the goal is to preserve peace and that he
00:15:26advocates for dialogue with Pristina.
00:15:30And this is a big lesson for us, just as it is a big
00:15:33indicator and a big lesson of the double standards and hypocrisy
00:15:37that prevail in the world around us. You can have both final
00:15:40and non-final verdicts, it's completely irrelevant,
00:15:44Serbs will always be criminals, everyone else will
00:15:47be liberators, heroes, champions. Everyone else will be
00:15:50allowed that, except Serbs. Serbs must not
00:15:53utter a word, they must not raise their heads,
00:15:57because as soon as they raise their heads, that
00:16:00head, metaphorically speaking, must
00:16:02be cut off.
00:16:05And the citizens of Kosovo who were in the center of Pristina
00:16:07watching the verdict, perceived it as a condemnation of the entire KLA, and
00:16:11believe it will be used against Kosovo. The protest
00:16:15in front of the Kosovo Government in Pristina, which began after the verdict,
00:16:18lasted throughout the evening and was peaceful and without
00:16:22incidents. Several hundred citizens gathered, carrying
00:16:25KLA flags and chanting the names of the convicted. Previously, they had
00:16:28protested in front of the Eulex mission building. Kosovo Prime Minister Albin
00:16:32Kurti assessed that the verdict is an unacceptable injustice
00:16:35and a severe punishment.
00:16:40The conviction and such a severe sentence for the four former KLA
00:16:44leaders represent an unacceptable injustice, a great and harmful
00:16:48punishment. This verdict may have been formally delivered in the name of the people
00:16:51of Kosovo, but this empty formulation should not be confused with the will
00:16:54of the people. This verdict must certainly be changed and corrected in
00:16:58the appeals process as soon as possible. In these difficult
00:17:01times, we stand with the families of the former KLA leaders and all their
00:17:05comrades who fought for liberation.
00:17:12I believe this is an injustice and more of a political decision. They are
00:17:16innocent. We are shocked, in a word, because we expected
00:17:20an acquittal for the main KLA leaders. With this verdict of the Special
00:17:24Court, it's almost as if the KLA was declared a terrorist organization.
00:17:27There's nothing else to say, this is a very political trial based
00:17:31on Serbia's files.
00:17:34Of course, I didn't expect this, nor did anyone else. What can I
00:17:37say? What else can I say, I have nothing to say. I didn't expect such an outcome.
00:17:41I am disappointed.
00:17:45In northern Kosovo, after the verdict against the four KLA leaders, it
00:17:48was peaceful with an increased police presence. Citizens remained reserved,
00:17:51mostly not commenting on the verdict
00:17:54for Thaçi.
00:17:57I'm not interested, to tell you the truth, I'm not interested.
00:18:19politics, thank you,
00:18:20yes.
00:18:23Marko Jakšić, a councilor of the Civic Initiative North for All from North Mitrovica, states for N1
00:18:27that it is problematic that six counts of the indictment were
00:18:30dismissed, as well as the fact that crimes against Serbs after June 20,
00:18:341999, were not taken into account. "Will this
00:18:38make things better for both peoples in Kosovo? I fear
00:18:42not, because this verdict came at the wrong time. It came at
00:18:45a time when nationalism in the Albanian community in Kosovo,
00:18:49thanks to Albin Kurti's policy, is at its highest level, and this
00:18:52will be an additional, additional boost for its strengthening. I
00:18:56fear that instead of a catharsis in the Albanian
00:18:59community because the KLA is not so brilliant and pure,
00:19:03this will, this will push them into absolute..." absolute
00:19:06nationalism, the consequences of which, believe me,
00:19:10I fear. Lawyer and victims' representative
00:19:13Aleksandar Olenik believes that the prosecution will appeal,
00:19:17focusing on the length of the sentence, but also on the fact that Thaçi and others
00:19:21were acquitted of the part of the indictment that refers to crimes against
00:19:24humanity.
00:19:27That part, in my opinion, must be the subject of the second-instance proceedings, and
00:19:30I think that this panel, or rather the council that will
00:19:34discuss the appeals, will have to specifically
00:19:37examine that part, because the evidence was fixed and
00:19:41presented many years before the trial itself.
00:19:44I will give you an example, uh, the victims represented by my office, they were all
00:19:48in one camp for a long time, and KFOR
00:19:51liberated them. On that occasion, they came, occupied,
00:19:55disarmed these KLA members, recorded everything, made evidence,
00:19:59took them, of course, to the hospital in Bondsteel, where they treated them, they documented
00:20:02everything that happened in that camp,
00:20:06there is fixed evidence. That evidence was presented at this
00:20:09trial. One of them gave a statement before the court itself, the others
00:20:13gave recorded statements that were recorded here, so everything was established
00:20:17there.
00:20:20The European Union and the United States also reacted. European Commissioner for
00:20:23Enlargement Marta Kos states that verdicts must be respected and that
00:20:27the convicted have the right to appeal. This is about individual responsibility and
00:20:31justice for victims and their families from all communities in Kosovo. I call on
00:20:35actors in the region to contribute to healing the wounds of
00:20:38the past. Only through reconciliation can the countries of the region overcome divisions
00:20:42and move forward towards a common future in the European Union, Kos stated on X.
00:20:45The
00:20:48United States of America respects the verdict of the Specialist Chambers and calls on all
00:20:52parties to accept the court's decision, Radio Free Europe reports.
00:20:55Washington calls for avoiding inflammatory rhetoric after
00:20:59the verdict. We call on all parties to respect the court's decision, avoid
00:21:03rhetoric that incites tensions, and continue to work towards a peaceful, democratic
00:21:07future, Washington stated.
00:21:20European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, during her State of the Union address,
00:21:23also referred to the recent funeral of Ratko Mladić in Belgrade.
00:21:27She never once uttered the word Serbia or mentioned the current government in Belgrade,
00:21:31only mentioning the capital
00:21:32city.
00:21:36I was horrified by the photographs from Ratko
00:21:39Mladić's funeral in Belgrade last week. He committed the most heinous
00:21:42crimes against humanity. The glorification of
00:21:45war criminals simply has no place in the European
00:21:49Union. All victims of the wars in the former
00:21:52Yugoslavia deserve to be remembered, and all their
00:21:55families deserve our compassion, because that is
00:21:59precisely what we, as a Union, defend: truth, justice,
00:22:02and respect for our
00:22:04values.
00:22:13One part of the opposition interrupted the fight for mandates for the sake
00:22:16of students and the referendum atmosphere, the other part is not thinking about it, and
00:22:20for that, it faces criticism. The Republican Election Commission is proclaiming
00:22:23lists one after another. So far, it has proclaimed five, of which
00:22:27two are minority phantom ones. For now, there are
00:22:30none yet.
00:22:32The offer on the ballot is increasing. By RIK's decision,
00:22:36position 3 on it is reserved for the student list. In the
00:22:40fourth place will be the coalition of Rasim Ljajić. Good
00:22:43day. Under serial number five. The Alliance of Vojvodina
00:22:46Hungarians. The People's Serbia list collected
00:22:50signatures, brought them for serial number allocation, and then withdrew
00:22:53from the election race in favor of students, waiting for the
00:22:56list declaration procedure to be completed so that they can
00:22:59formally withdraw. We have always been either in a large coalition that
00:23:03was supported by students, or we supported students. We did that
00:23:07this time too, and I think these are the most important topics that we need
00:23:10to collectively form a bloc with to move forward.
00:23:14The atmosphere that has been created in Serbia over the last few days is definitely
00:23:18a referendum atmosphere, and anyone who doesn't see that
00:23:21is politically blind. We collected signatures, right, faster than
00:23:25anyone else, thus showing that we can, but we won't.
00:23:28However, RIK announced that People's Serbia lacks
00:23:3167 legally valid voter signatures. The
00:23:35coalition responds, no problem, they will supplement them, even though
00:23:38they are going to the elections. The coalition of European Serbia still needs to submit
00:23:42signatures for verification. They are still collecting them, they say, the job
00:23:45is hampered by a lack of certifiers. It's not a rush
00:23:48like with that line. It's like it was, but it's quite
00:23:52moderate, as people we expected them to come, I think it should
00:23:56be submitted by the end of the week, unless, of course, the party
00:23:59or our coalition has another
00:24:03deadline. They will not withdraw
00:24:07bearers of that list, on X. He did not want to elaborate
00:24:10on his position for N1, because, we quote, the format
00:24:14does not suit him. His coalition partner Goran Ješić is more
00:24:17eloquent in his post, and with a message to those who think that
00:24:21withdrawal is better, he criticizes journalists for asking how
00:24:24realistic that scenario is. Quite an embarrassing journalistic
00:24:28article, but okay, sometimes it's important to know that
00:24:31with Dalmatians, engineers, and military personnel, such
00:24:35pressures don't really work. We start from
00:24:38Bibra and push forward. Greetings. To withdraw or
00:24:42to stay. Difficult decisions for all actors, especially as pressures
00:24:45are growing from all sides, explains Professor Dušan Spasojević of the Faculty
00:24:48of Political Sciences.
00:24:51He assumes that those who want to go into battle against the regime alone
00:24:54are encouraged by public opinion polls. I think that currently no one
00:24:58has a good enough measuring instrument
00:25:00to say exactly where they are, and ultimately, the final results will probably
00:25:04depend on the campaign itself and the dynamics within the broader
00:25:08opposition-student bloc, adds
00:25:11Spasojević. Perhaps it is better for opposition voters, for whom the
00:25:13ideological factor is crucial, to have an alternative,
00:25:17whether they are left or right in relation to
00:25:20students. Mladen Savatović, N1,
00:25:24Belgrade. The
00:25:30at which complaints filed regarding the proclamation of the
00:25:33Serbian Progressive Party's list are being discussed. One of the complaints was filed by the director of Birodia
00:25:37Zoran Gavrilović in his capacity as a voter. He
00:25:40states that the SNS list bears a name that contains the name of the current
00:25:43President of the Republic, the first on that list, who continues to perform his function,
00:25:47and therefore assesses that the Republican Election Commission
00:25:51should not have declared that list, or rather, that it illegally
00:25:53declared it valid. That complaint was rejected, and
00:25:57three other voters filed identical
00:25:59complaints.
00:26:03"I think that even the President of the Republic himself admitted
00:26:07that he is in a conflict of interest at the moment when, I believe it was yesterday or
00:26:10the day before yesterday, he announced that he would resign and that he would
00:26:14go into the campaign as an ordinary citizen. That means that he also, to some extent,
00:26:18nurtures an awareness that what he is doing is not in
00:26:21accordance with the constitution and the law. Only, our job was not to
00:26:25assess whether he would resign, whether his word has
00:26:28weight, no weight, whether he will fulfill it or not, but to..."
00:26:32assess whether he was in a conflict of interest at the moment when
00:26:35this electoral list was submitted to the Republican Electoral Commission. In the complaint,
00:26:39one, two, three, four, there is not
00:26:42a single argument based
00:26:45on the law on the election of national of deputies, neither on the constitution, nor on
00:26:49this legal provision was invoked,
00:26:52what they invoke in one, second, third, fourth, that
00:26:56there is a conflict of interest,
00:26:59to be a candidate, that is only to be a candidate. on the list that was
00:27:03submitted.
00:27:06The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, i.e.
00:27:10ODHIR, opened a mission for election observation on October
00:27:1325th after an invitation from the competent institutions based on the findings of the mission
00:27:17for assessing the needs for conducted in July. The mission
00:27:20is led by Ogan Murphy, and consists of a core team of 14
00:27:24international experts based in Belgrade. Across the country,
00:27:28from September 25th, 30 long-term
00:27:31observers will be deployed. and ODHIR plans to request 300
00:27:35short-term ones who would join the mission a few days before
00:27:39election
00:27:39day.
00:27:47The elections in Serbia were discussed in Washington in Congress at
00:27:50a briefing on the upcoming elections on October 25th.
00:27:53Republican Joe Wilson stated, although he did not present
00:27:57evidence for it, that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, with Russia's help, is trying
00:28:00to manipulate the elections.
00:28:05Vučić has ruled Serbia for more than a decade and is now trying to imitate
00:28:08war criminal Putin, by moving from the position of president to the position of
00:28:12prime minister. There are clear indications that Russia and Vučić
00:28:16are trying to use every trick to rig the outcome of these
00:28:19elections, to use propaganda, state resources, to
00:28:23place media under state control, it is already known that
00:28:26Pegasus tracking technology has been installed on the phones
00:28:29of students and individuals from the opposition. This is
00:28:33unacceptable behavior in contradiction with accepted
00:28:36obligations that the elections will be fair and
00:28:39free.
00:28:42European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today also said that the European
00:28:45Union is opening the door for Canada to become its first
00:28:48associate member. She stated this during her address on the State of the European Union before
00:28:52the European Parliament in Strasbourg. After she
00:28:55mentioned Canada's associate membership, von der Leyen approached the Canadian Prime Minister,
00:28:59hugged him, and those present in the hall gave him a standing ovation.
00:29:08We will move from a comprehensive economic and trade agreement
00:29:12to an alliance for the future in order to create a common space
00:29:16of prosperity and economic security, we will cooperate on
00:29:20intelligent manufacturing, we will create a technological
00:29:23alliance, we will integrate defense industrial
00:29:26bases. We will make the Arctic a leading joint
00:29:30project, we will work together on energy, critical minerals,
00:29:33batteries, as well as artificial intelligence,
00:29:36quantum technologies, cyber economic
00:29:39security.
00:29:42The US House of Representatives for the third time voted to stop
00:29:46the war in Iran, now the number of ruling Republicans who
00:29:50stood with opposition Democrats has also increased, giving them a majority
00:29:54for adoption. The resolution aims to prevent US
00:29:57President Donald Trump from waging war against Iran without congressional
00:30:00approval. This is the third resolution
00:30:02this summer, but none has reached the president himself who must
00:30:05sign it. It is certain that Trump would veto it.
00:30:09In circumstances of a very thin Republican majority, opposition
00:30:12Democrats were given the majority for voting on the resolution by
00:30:15four Republican representatives. All Democratic
00:30:19representatives voted for
00:30:20the resolution.
00:30:27We are at the end of the news, next is the weather forecast brought to us by Sara
00:30:30Botić.
00:30:32Although we have already entered the second half of September, the weather these
00:30:36days reminds us that summer calendrically is still ongoing,
00:30:39we have sunny, warm days ahead, but cool mornings,
00:30:43the temperature will then be above average during the day. Over
00:30:47our area, a field of slightly elevated atmospheric pressure and
00:30:51warm air masses remains, so the weather in the coming days will be stable
00:30:54with weak to moderate development of daily cloudiness. On
00:30:57Thursday it will be sunny, warm.