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00:00:00where every citizen of the Republic of Serbia who is interested in education,
00:00:03especially, there are millions of people in this country, should be able to
00:00:07say what they have to say, so this is simply a public discussion, meaning
00:00:11according to the laws of the Republic of Serbia, it is not some expert panel. The minister
00:00:15attends or not, the minister was there at the beginning,
00:00:18discussed with us for 15 minutes and then left to meet with a
00:00:21delegation from Africa, he says he is preparing a meeting
00:00:24of non-aligned countries and then he might stop by the public discussion,
00:00:28i.e. this panel organized by
00:00:30who presented the law, who questioned it from that side, I
00:00:34I really did not enter the hall because the conditions were such that they did not allow
00:00:38you to practically participate in it, I don't know what else
00:00:41I could expect there, really, what is it that you wanted
00:00:45to point out what is good in this law, well, as for
00:00:49the independent union of education workers of Serbia, we singled out two things,
00:00:52one thing is repression against teachers, so
00:00:55the introduction of draconian penalties of license revocation due to
00:00:59And there were many of the thousands of a strike on... a strike which until now was reserved exclusively for serious
00:01:02criminal offenses, and the second thing, uh, so
00:01:06absolute elimination of
00:01:09democratic access for parents
00:01:12to school, so the way the parent council is formed is changing,
00:01:16such that you practically will not have a democratic principle as before which
00:01:19has existed for decades, departments
00:01:23choose their representatives, but now that will be chosen in some other way that we don't know yet,
00:01:26but it could be that the director does it, maybe... and the minister can
00:01:30anyone can do it according to this law to choose members of the parent
00:01:33council.
00:01:40Owners of demolished buildings on the shore of Lake
00:01:43Gazivode have started receiving bills for the costs of their demolition,
00:01:47said lawyer Dragutin Nenezić, who represents some
00:01:51of the owners. Nenezić claims that the company Ibar Lepenac
00:01:55continues procedures despite ongoing court cases
00:01:58and assesses that the owners do not have effective legal protection. He adds that
00:02:02apart from statements from the international community, there have been no concrete
00:02:06steps that would stop the demolition or protect the property of the
00:02:10owners.
00:02:12various things
00:02:15circulated until in principle
00:02:19we did not
00:02:21translate the documents that
00:02:25were obtained, so the previous group
00:02:29whose weekend houses were demolished and family. in essence they
00:02:32receive a
00:02:35document or rather two from the
00:02:39inspectorate of the Ministry of Environmental Protection,
00:02:43one is a fine of 2,000
00:02:47euros which people initially thought were some kind
00:02:50of demolition costs, so that's actually some kind of
00:02:52offense, and the other is a decision
00:02:56on the removal of the object,
00:02:59than 50% of the votes, it might aim to both are received due to construction
00:03:03in a protected zone, and the zone is, as we
00:03:06know, protected from the end of
00:03:082025, so quite a lot
00:03:11since the last of those weekend houses were built
00:03:15and people have a deadline of 30 days to pay it, there is also
00:03:18a deadline for an appeal for those who want to appeal,
00:03:21so we will certainly appeal
00:03:25uh, and then we'll see how it goes, which is quite
00:03:27problematic in practice, because this inspectorate
00:03:31suddenly appears which previously never
00:03:34appeared anywhere, meaning Ibarlepenac appeared with some of its
00:03:38letters, now they are somehow
00:03:40trying to mask that quasi-procedure that
00:03:44Ibar Lepenac was conducting with some procedure conducted by that inspectorate
00:03:48which appears for the first time since everything is now already demolished, which is quite
00:03:52problematic both legally and generally, I mean
00:03:56in life, uh, so in principle one...
00:04:00"one, let's say, blunder, a mess
00:04:04they tried to cover up, but only made
00:04:08an even bigger, bigger
00:04:10problem, that's regarding those decisions that are arriving,
00:04:14and the other part of the problem is
00:04:17this for this new group that arrived a few
00:04:21days ago, so it arrived again from Ibar
00:04:24Lepenac, that warning that they were
00:04:28given 15 days to move out." So, that
00:04:32uh, those 15 days expire on August
00:04:3418th, so we will see if anything will
00:04:38happen after that date,
00:04:40uh, I personally don't think that this,
00:04:43the last statement of the European Union,
00:04:47uh, which calls for the demolition to be suspended, will change
00:04:51anything, given Kurti's visit
00:04:54yesterday and everything that is happening with these arrests and
00:04:57excavations, uh, but... let's see,
00:05:01I mean time will tell,
00:05:02of course.
00:05:08For the first time in many years, Serbia is entering an election race that will be completely
00:05:11uncertain. "The main political struggle will take place between the student
00:05:15list and the Serbian Progressive Party. What will decide
00:05:18that match, can students maintain the energy of the protests and transform
00:05:22it into electoral support, on what will the SNS build its campaign,
00:05:26besides gatherings under tents? We are discussing this live
00:05:30with the editor of the portal,
00:05:32contemporary politics and political commentator Aleksandar
00:05:36Ivković. Aleksandar, good day, thank you, thank you very much for being here today, and thank you for the
00:05:39invitation. Before we start with all these topics that I announced,
00:05:43the portal, uh, is it where you are the editor, today
00:05:47published a public opinion poll by the International
00:05:50Republican Institute which states that things in
00:05:53Serbia are moving in the wrong direction. 49% of respondents
00:05:57believe this, while 41% believe
00:06:01that they are moving in the right direction. If we look at this from the perspective of the upcoming
00:06:04elections, what does this indicate to us? Well, these are bad news
00:06:08for the government, usually analysts like to say
00:06:11that, uh... the question of which direction you think the
00:06:15country is moving in is a good indicator of whether there will be a change of government
00:06:18in the elections or whether the current government will remain. I would
00:06:22add that it is a rough indicator, meaning it doesn't mean that all
00:06:26those who now say that Serbia is going in the wrong direction will necessarily vote against
00:06:29the government, nor will all those who say that the country is going in the right direction
00:06:33necessarily vote for the government, but it is some general indicator that
00:06:36actually shows that that, uh, that
00:06:39situation has not changed for a long time, in fact, that is perhaps the main
00:06:43information, not that we now have more people who say that the country is going in the wrong direction than those who say that
00:06:47it is going in the right direction, we already had such findings
00:06:50over a longer period of time, but that it probably hasn't changed since
00:06:54last spring, meaning we haven't seen any findings since last
00:06:57spring that said that most people believe that Serbia is going in the right
00:07:01direction, which would mean that there were some changes in public opinion that occurred
00:07:05at the beginning of 2025 when we had
00:07:08the beginning of the student movement and student protests,
00:07:12then public opinion significantly changed, but since then
00:07:15actually those new trends that emerged then have been stable, whether
00:07:19it is related to that aspect of the direction the country is moving in,
00:07:23or whether it is related to the aspect of what people consider to be the biggest problem in
00:07:27Serbia, for example, that is also a question in this
00:07:30survey that we reported, uh, further, the largest
00:07:34number of people believe that corruption is the biggest problem in Serbia, which means
00:07:38uh, a topic that rose to first place after the collapse
00:07:41of the canopy. Before that, it was not like that, before that, economic
00:07:45topics were dominant, during COVID, the biggest problem was the pandemic, of course, and so
00:07:49on, but since the collapse of the canopy in all
00:07:52major surveys that have appeared since then, corruption is
00:07:55the biggest problem, which is also bad news for the government, because the government
00:07:59would like corruption not to be the main topic of the elections, because that topic works
00:08:02against them, what do the surveys say about
00:08:06whether elections would be held specifically now, say, on Sunday, who
00:08:10would come out, will we be able to talk about some large turnout from
00:08:13those surveys, no, there were no questions related to the ratings
00:08:17of individual actors, so we can only assume that, but there was
00:08:21a question of whether you would go to the polls, uh,
00:08:2468% of Serbian citizens said that they would definitely go to the polls
00:08:27and another 15% said that they would probably go to the polls, that means that we can
00:08:31expect a very high turnout, especially if those
00:08:3515% who said that they would probably go to the polls, decide and go to
00:08:38the polls, that would not be well, that means
00:08:4165. in total they are 83, that would not be
00:08:44a turnout of 83% officially, because in our electoral
00:08:48roll we have more people who are not present in Serbia and because of that
00:08:52our turnout is always lower than it actually is, that is, the official
00:08:56turnout that comes out of RIK is 58%,
00:08:59that means that it was actually not 58% but more than that,
00:09:02but 58% in relation to the electoral roll when those
00:09:06people who are not in Serbia currently are taken into account,
00:09:09if it were 83%, for example, turnout of people who are... in Serbia,
00:09:12that would probably be 70 something percent official turnout,
00:09:16but that turnout would be dangerous for the government, so the president, I think, mentioned
00:09:20some similar figures recently that over 80%
00:09:24of those decided in Serbia, so his findings also
00:09:27approximately follow the same direction that the International
00:09:31Republican Institute showed, that is not good
00:09:35news for the government, because again no research shows that the government can
00:09:38significantly increase its voter base, which means that
00:09:42new voters who are coming are probably much more
00:09:46against the government than for the government, so the higher the turnout, the
00:09:50more undecided there are, those are all
00:09:54for the ruling party, and one more thing that is stated in that survey is the attitude
00:09:57of citizens towards foreign policy, how they
00:10:00think about which direction Serbia should go, uh
00:10:04now there is uh more
00:10:06people who would vote for the European Union in a referendum than
00:10:10before, so support for the European Union
00:10:12has somewhat increased in Serbia, this is not only shown by this
00:10:16survey, but several previous surveys in recent months, I think
00:10:19this is partly influenced by what is happening around Serbia, so not
00:10:23only what is happening in Serbia, but people see that, well, Montenegro has now
00:10:27accelerated its European integration, and even Albania,
00:10:31so people perceive that it is possible
00:10:34for the European Union to admit new members, which has led to a slight
00:10:37increase in support for Serbia's accession to the European Union, so there was
00:10:41a referendum question for joining the European Union, it would be
00:10:4446%, 29% against, the rest are undecided or don't
00:10:47know, so we would see how that would turn out in reality, but also
00:10:51what is important is that, uh, those
00:10:55who support student protests
00:10:58are disproportionately pro-European oriented, so
00:11:01support for the European Union among those who support student
00:11:04protests is 61% and opposition is 2 something percent, that
00:11:08means that they are actually, how much can that affect the student movement, given
00:11:12that they have not clearly stated their position on that issue, I think that there is probably
00:11:16some strategic thinking that 61%
00:11:19are for the European Union, but the 20 something
00:11:23percent must not be lost because "no matter how negative these findings from the survey
00:11:27we discussed were relatively
00:11:29for the government, a rather uncertain election
00:11:33race is still expected, every vote will be important in that sense.
00:11:36I assume there is some strategic thinking that one should not
00:11:40clearly take a stand on the issue of the European Union by the student
00:11:43movement, because that could still alienate
00:11:47some of those people who are against the European Union, but would vote for
00:11:50the student list. These people are, therefore, a minority in relation to all people who
00:11:54support the student list, but they are not an
00:11:57insignificant factor. We don't know exactly yet when the elections will be, what
00:12:01we do know is that the president announced that he would resign
00:12:04at some point, that was the day before Vidovdan,
00:12:08but we see that everyone is campaigning, what are your
00:12:11thoughts, uh, how could the
00:12:15SNS government call elections at what
00:12:18point, and when we rely on legal
00:12:21deadlines, well, the only thing we know about legal
00:12:25deadlines currently is that regular presidential elections should be called
00:12:29on March 2, 2027, that is, in 6 and a half
00:12:32months, which is also quite close when we look at election
00:12:36calendars, so in some more normal circumstances, we would probably now have
00:12:39announcements of presidential candidacies, then presidential candidates would start campaigning,
00:12:43now we don't have that because it is expected that presidential elections will
00:12:47simply be a proxy battle between the student list and the Serbian Progressive
00:12:50Party, so regardless of who the candidates will be, people will more or less
00:12:54decide based on whether they are for Aleksandar Vučić or for the student
00:12:58movement, uh, but my theory,
00:13:01my assumption actually for several months is that if there are
00:13:05early parliamentary elections, they will be
00:13:08called before the presidential ones, because the government probably estimates
00:13:12that in parliamentary elections, with the dispersion
00:13:15of votes below the census, with minority lists, with phantom lists
00:13:19that we see being announced these days, with less
00:13:24try to win a majority in parliament,
00:13:28uh, which it cannot do in presidential elections, in presidential elections
00:13:31if the government's candidate, whoever that may be, wins
00:13:3447%, now hypothetically, it goes to a second
00:13:38round, then the favorite is the opposition candidate
00:13:41or the student movement, uh, so we will see if
00:13:44the government is ready for that risk, that is, uh,
00:13:48if they were to go
00:13:51to parliamentary elections before the presidential ones,
00:13:55secure themselves with those presidential elections, and then secure themselves with those parliamentary elections, and then
00:13:59whether they win or lose the presidential elections will not be that important
00:14:02if they win a majority again in parliament, but it is still quite
00:14:06uncertain whether they will even be able to win a majority in parliament, so
00:14:09I think that currently the decision has not yet been made, I think that the
00:14:12order has been given within the Serbian Progressive Party to prepare for
00:14:16parliamentary elections by the end of this year, whether they will actually
00:14:19be called or not will be assessed at the beginning of autumn when
00:14:23uh... these
00:14:27handouts of social assistance are completed, and then the
00:14:31helicopter money that was announced for the second half of
00:14:34September. It is possible that one of the factors will be to wait and see who
00:14:38will win the elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina which are
00:14:42scheduled for October 4th, uh, so
00:14:45I think that it somehow makes sense to me why that is important
00:14:49for Aleksandar Vučić, well, I think it is important for him to see who
00:14:52will be his next associate in... uh Republika
00:14:56Srpska, I think he will strive for whoever wins the elections in
00:15:00Republika Srpska, we even saw that in the previous election cycle that it
00:15:03was quite uncertain, so Milorad Dodik's party won,
00:15:07but not excessively convincingly, so there are probably now
00:15:11, there is this uncertain race there
00:15:14and it will be important for
00:15:16Vučić to cooperate with whoever wins the elections in
00:15:20Republika Srpska on that side, among other things,
00:15:24also because of some logistical matters related to the elections
00:15:27and here I'm not just talking about these speculations
00:15:30about these migrant voters
00:15:34but actually there are people who have the right to vote who live in
00:15:37Republika Srpska who will be able to vote in Serbian elections in diplomatic
00:15:41representations, but someone needs to organize that, someone probably needs to also run
00:15:44some kind of campaign to increase turnout among those
00:15:48voters and so on, so my assumption is
00:15:52that it would be in the interest of the current government to certainly wait to see
00:15:55the outcome of those elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina and only then to
00:15:59call elections in Serbia, among other things, if that is their plan, but we will see if
00:16:03that factor is so important, are your thoughts closer to the elections possibly being at the end of
00:16:06October?
00:16:14That's another factor that should be taken into account, so if the elections in Serbia are
00:16:18at the end of October, it will be uncomfortably close to the anniversary of the collapse of
00:16:21the canopy, so no one will forget if the elections are on October 25th that
00:16:25November 1st is two years since the collapse of the canopy, and that topic would probably in
00:16:29some way cast a shadow over the entire campaign, meaning
00:16:32people would become aware that the anniversary is approaching and would again
00:16:36remember everything that happened
00:16:39regarding the canopy and so on, so I would perhaps, perhaps bet
00:16:43that the government, even if it plans elections by the end of the year, would wait for
00:16:46the anniversary of the collapse of the canopy to pass and only then to
00:16:50call elections, but again it's quite difficult to assess
00:16:53which factor is decisive, all factors are somewhat
00:16:57significant, but probably only within the
00:17:00Serbian Progressive Party is it known which factors will ultimately
00:17:03prevail. All those who are not from the Serbian Progressive Party
00:17:06or support it or are members themselves uh fight
00:17:10as they say against this regime, and now we have
00:17:14several different views on how
00:17:17the government will fall most easily. So we have opinions
00:17:21that the student movement is the only one that can challenge the
00:17:25SNS, then we have the idea of a single opposition column, besides
00:17:28that two, three, how do you
00:17:31view what we hear from participants in politics, it is otherwise
00:17:34interesting that this survey we mentioned at the beginning of the International
00:17:38Republican Institute also asked the question of how do you think
00:17:42that the opposition and student movement should contest
00:17:45the next elections, and among those who
00:17:48support student protests, the majority is
00:17:52for only the student list running, but it's not an overwhelming majority,
00:17:56about 41%, there are those who further support
00:17:59opposition parties also running in the elections, they are now divided on whether
00:18:03opposition parties should go separately from the student list or
00:18:07try to form one big list. I think it's completely impossible
00:18:10now, that the formation of the student list has entered
00:18:14that phase where it is very good and students repeat all the time that they don't want
00:18:18and that is also a factor, so now the only question
00:18:21remains whether opposition parties should run separately
00:18:25from the student list or should they all withdraw and support
00:18:28uh so the IRI survey
00:18:31showed that there is still a certain
00:18:35percentage of those who are against the government who would
00:18:38vote for opposition parties, but it is very important that there is no
00:18:42dispersion of votes below the census, so what seems to me
00:18:46based on what we see in this pre-election period,
00:18:49is that there will certainly be two main actors, the list around
00:18:53the Serbian Progressive Party and the list of the student movement, they seem to have
00:18:56the most visible activities currently, meaning the government has this
00:19:00tent campaign every weekend, on the other
00:19:03hand, this student unit in every village of the student
00:19:07movement has so far had dozens, it seems, of activities
00:19:10since the beginning of summer, so somewhere, somewhere
00:19:13those two actors are leading in their activities and
00:19:17obviously they will be the two biggest actors and there will be,
00:19:20no matter how many other lists there are, a certain referendum atmosphere
00:19:24between the student list and the list of the Serbian Progressive Party, and in those
00:19:27circumstances and in circumstances where there will be many of these small
00:19:31phantom lists that we can now foresee will run with
00:19:35the support of the government probably. Uh, it is very
00:19:38important for opposition parties, if they decide to go to the
00:19:41elections after all, to unite as much as possible, so that there is no risk of
00:19:45falling below the census, which would mean anything more than
00:19:48one list on this pole where Serbia against violence used to be, so
00:19:52these are those parties that are pro-European, conditionally speaking, and now
00:19:55they are in parliament, anything more than one list on that pole
00:19:59uh would be quite risky in my
00:20:02assessment, i.e., it would lead to the risk that some of those lists would not pass
00:20:05the census, and thus jeopardize not only their own political future, but also
00:20:09the chances for a change of government, the same applies to this right-wing spectrum
00:20:13where there are the Nada coalition and
00:20:16Nestorović's party, but I think that there is simply no chance
00:20:20that they, that they simply do not even want to think in that way of uniting,
00:20:23but that the only remaining question is how these parties
00:20:27of the pro-European opposition will come out.
00:20:30I ask for your opinion on what the activity of the right-wing has been all this
00:20:34time, you mentioned Miloš Jovanović, we didn't
00:20:37really see him at the protests with
00:20:40citizens, what are his chances now? Well, I think they are
00:20:44smaller than they would be in other circumstances, I mean, these
00:20:48surveys that we have seen recently which measure
00:20:51individual ratings gave them a result
00:20:55below the census, so perhaps around 2% or slightly more than
00:20:58that, it seems to me that now the Democratic
00:21:01Party of Serbia in its
00:21:04posts that I see on their social media
00:21:07has sharpened that ideological rhetoric, meaning
00:21:10they might have previously tried to move towards the center, but now they emphasize
00:21:14those topics that
00:21:17distinguish them as the right-wing, i.e., opposition to the European Union,
00:21:20opposition to some socially liberal views and
00:21:23so on, uh, that makes sense in terms of the fact that
00:21:27now that the student list covers that wide
00:21:30center of the opposition electorate and that we get
00:21:34sharpened ideological positions from both the right-wing
00:21:38and the pro-European side, because then they can strive to actually pick up
00:21:41those ideological extremes and not move more towards
00:21:45the center, but it's a very big question for the
00:21:48Democratic Party of Serbia and whether with that approach
00:21:52it can cross the census, maybe it could in some alliance again with
00:21:55Nestorović, but then the question of whether I have to correct
00:21:58you, now it's the New Democratic Party, I apologize,
00:22:01is Nestorović actually a true opposition, does that party even want to
00:22:05change the current government or not, do those
00:22:08entities have
00:22:11any potential for any
00:22:14consolidation, it seems to me perhaps it's not bad to remind ourselves of what happened
00:22:17in the elections
00:22:20in Belgrade for the city assembly
00:22:23when we talk about that movement. One more question for
00:22:27the end, do you think that the opposition is lagging
00:22:30behind SNS and the student movement in that
00:22:34decision of whether to go with whom, will they
00:22:37unite? Yes, I think that opposition
00:22:40parties are waiting almost until the announcement of the elections to make
00:22:44a final decision about how and in what
00:22:47format they will appear. How does that affect voters? Well, I think
00:22:50voters are confused, that is, those who are
00:22:54for a change of government, again I say, there are
00:22:57those among them who would vote for opposition parties, but I think they also need
00:23:01to be offered a clear option as early as possible, okay, if you are for
00:23:04opposition parties, this is the list, these are the people and so on, uh,
00:23:08because, well, let me go back one last time to this IRI
00:23:11survey, they therefore asked the question of whether
00:23:14uh, whether you think parties should run
00:23:18or not, well, there are some 20 something percent who think that parties should run separately
00:23:22from the student list, but then they also ask what you think is the biggest
00:23:26weakness of opposition parties and the largest number of those who
00:23:30responded said that it was fragmentation,
00:23:33disunity, disagreement, which is something that has been accompanying opposition parties for a
00:23:37long time. I think that if they want to participate in the elections
00:23:40and want to aim for a result that is above the threshold, which
00:23:44can contribute to power sharing, they should work on that
00:23:47unification and much... before the
00:23:51elections are called. This will be an excellent introduction for our next
00:23:55guest who will be here with us in the studio, that is
00:23:58Aleksandar Jovanović, from the ecological movement, so we will see
00:24:01his thoughts on all of this. Aleksandar, thank you very much for your time and
00:24:05for the conversation, thank you for the invitation.
00:24:38I am Ksenija Pavkov, watch
00:24:41N1.
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00:26:20seeds, trample vegetation and create
00:26:23habitat for other species.
00:26:26Floriana had, we estimate 10,000, 15,00
00:26:30giant taurises at one point. Each island in the
00:26:33Galapagos has a distinct subspecies of tortois.
00:26:37Floriana's was the first to be driven to extinction,
00:26:40largely due to the 19th century whaling industry, which used
00:26:44the island as a stopover and exploited the turtles for
00:26:47food. But in 2000, while conducting a
00:26:50Galapagos-wide Tourtus Census, James Gibbs
00:26:54made a surprising discovery on Isabella Island's wolf
00:26:57volcano.
00:27:01the... the native species there, but immediately it became
00:27:05obvious that there are some strange taurtises here, and nowhere in Galapagos
00:27:09do you have the two types of tartises occurring
00:27:12together? genetic testing would reveal these strange
00:27:16tortises or hybrids carrying both
00:27:19wolf volcano and floriana lineage. it was
00:27:22always sort of a dream that, wow, maybe floriana taurtises
00:27:26actually still exist in some form and maybe get get them back on
00:27:30the island. 26 years later that...
00:28:02quite small and we have to take great care of them because at that
00:28:06size they are still easy pray for predators. According to the
00:28:10Galapago's conservancy, captive bred tortices need to be between
00:28:14five and seven years old for them to have fighting chance when released in
00:28:18the wild. But back on Floriana, this
00:28:21pioneering group are all 12 to 14 years old,
00:28:25added maturity that will hopefully ensure their homecoming is
00:28:28success. Each taurtice is also fitted with a...
00:28:49change won't happen overnights and more releases are planned in coming
00:28:53years, but if the classic fable teaches us
00:28:56anything, you can bet on the tortois, it will take a long
00:28:59time to get back to the 1000, 1500. taurtises, they do
00:29:03grow slowly, but they're very steady and persistent, I mean the taurtis and the
00:29:06hair, um, the taurtis does win the race, I think it is just
00:29:10beginning, and the island is going to get his taurtises back and start
00:29:14itself to replenish and renew.
00:29:26This isn't your average jacket, it's one
00:29:29specifically designed to help you fall asleep.
00:29:32anytime and anywhere,
00:29:36so I'm going to try to take a 10-minute nap in this
00:29:40chair and let you know how my sleep was. Good
00:29:43night. The flashing red light inside the hood is meant to help me
00:29:47drift off, while this ring tracks my heart rate and body
00:29:51temperature. If my pulse stays too high, the jacket plays
00:29:54a laby. So I
00:29:57don't think I slept, but I feel very refreshed and I actually feel
00:30:00a little bit more relaxed.
00:30:32search has linked too little sleep to increased risk of heart disease,
00:30:36obesity and stroke, but it's also costing Japan an
00:30:40estimated 3% of its GDP each
00:30:43year. Now to help the nation catch more zs,
00:30:46the government is betting on sleep tech, a market expected to
00:30:50top $98 million by
00:30:522027. Gadgets include box you can sleep
00:30:56in standing up, a bed that lies flat when you do...