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00:00:00nicer locations old houses remained, some of which burned down yesterday,
00:00:03some burned houses, stables old ones that were abandoned, no one
00:00:07lived in them
00:00:08and
00:00:11not just a question of whether the houses are threatened well, they are not currently threatened
00:00:15because people organized themselves and defended their households, their properties
00:00:18their orchards individually this is now a wider
00:00:22area and here, therefore, a larger mass of people is needed who would need to
00:00:26extinguish this. Thank you for taking the time this morning to speak for N1. Thank you.
00:00:30Here you heard what Goran Nikolić,
00:00:33an environmental activist, says and what he thinks about this
00:00:36fire that appeared. There is still
00:00:40no information about how the fire started,
00:00:43although yesterday information appeared
00:00:47that one of the causes, although no one has confirmed it yet,
00:00:50could have been a train that
00:00:52especially in the south of Banat and in somewhere at half
00:00:55past one went towards Ušće from Kraljevo and
00:00:59as some locals. said, these are videos that appeared on social
00:01:02networks, they saw sparks that
00:01:05were, that were created when the wheels of the
00:01:09train went over the rails and they uh suspect
00:01:12that the fire was caused by the sparks
00:01:16of that train.
00:01:18Nenade, thank you, we heard Nenad Božević. And at
00:01:22the unsanitary landfill in Paraćin, where a fire broke out on Sunday,
00:01:25there is still thick smoke. The municipality of Paraćin announced that
00:01:29the fire, which is currently localized, occurred
00:01:33due to the deliberate burning of low vegetation near
00:01:35the landfill, to which the fire quickly spread. Thick smoke
00:01:39and unpleasant odors were also felt by citizens of Ćuprija and
00:01:43Jagodina. The Kreni Promeni movement in Paraćin claims that the
00:01:46extinguishing of the fire began a day after it broke out and calls on the authorities
00:01:50to take responsibility for, as they state, the possible consequences of an ecological
00:01:54catastrophe.
00:01:57The fire at the Buljanka landfill broke out on Sunday, and as they say. Citizens who
00:02:00recorded the fire that same evening, no one appeared at that moment
00:02:04to extinguish the fire, as they point out until Monday
00:02:07morning. The fire broke out on Sunday morning
00:02:11and citizens had already started reporting on social networks
00:02:14and asking what was actually happening at this
00:02:18landfill. Unfortunately, this is not the first time
00:02:21that this landfill has burned, it almost seems like a
00:02:25tradition. This is actually, let's say, an ecological
00:02:28catastrophe. The municipality. Paraćin on its social media page
00:02:32informed the public that the fire broke out due to the burning of low vegetation
00:02:35near the landfill. A call was made to citizens to avoid being outdoors
00:02:39due to thick smoke and possible spread of toxic
00:02:42gases, especially near the landfill. What is the air quality
00:02:45at the moment and why wasn't the fire extinguished that same evening
00:02:49when it broke out? That information has not yet been delivered to the Kreni Promeni movement,
00:02:53which sent a request for information of public importance.
00:02:56The assumption is that the sector for emergency situations did not react.
00:03:00because the emergency situations headquarters in Paraćin did not meet and
00:03:04probably did not do everything it was supposed to do, we were here on
00:03:08the spot that night and found only two employees of the public
00:03:11utility company with four vehicles, two small
00:03:15bulldozers, one of which is here and uh
00:03:19two tanker trucks which are normally used in the city
00:03:22for water supply when there are power outages, while
00:03:26the fire spread through the landfill in the city center, that same evening a concert
00:03:30by Ana Bekuta was held on the occasion of the traditional fair. Citizens of
00:03:34Paraćin, at least those who live in the city center, say they did not smell
00:03:37smoke from the fire, those who live near the landfill did.
00:03:41I am right across from the landfill, we suffocated,
00:03:45really, I am from Trešnjevica only in
00:03:47Morava, I don't know how it didn't pass Morava, it's a little,
00:03:51in the evening, it was really
00:03:54is, we are also in bright, in the evening you couldn't stand in front of the house, you know that the landfill was burning,
00:03:57I came to the city 10 minutes ago, maybe 15. "Did you hear that the landfill was burning? No, no, well,
00:04:00I went out into the yard, but I didn't,
00:04:04I didn't smell anything. The fire is currently
00:04:07localized. At the landfill, smoke still rises from
00:04:10the burnt area. Machinery continues to cover the landfill with earth and sand
00:04:14three days after the fire, so that new
00:04:17sparks do not occur. There are cameras at the landfill, but as for how
00:04:20the fire started, there is still no answer from the municipality to the questions that N1
00:04:24sent, nor about the air quality that at plus
00:04:2740 degrees Celsius, citizens are breathing these days." "Nataša
00:04:31Lazarević, N1, Paraćin.
00:04:43Very high temperatures these days rarely please anyone, so numerous warnings
00:04:46are in force due to the negative impact of heat
00:04:49on public health of the population. We will hear more
00:04:53from Radmila Mitrović. Rado, what was the meteorological
00:04:56forecast? Mija, the biometeorological conditions will be
00:05:00unfavorable today, especially for chronic patients. The
00:05:04biometeorological forecast states that meteoropathic
00:05:07reactions are possible in a stronger form. It is recommended to dress in
00:05:11accordance with the forecast daily air temperature, as
00:05:14well as special caution for participants in traffic. It is advised
00:05:18to avoid staying outdoors in the warmest
00:05:21part of the day, regular intake of fluids and staying in
00:05:24cooled rooms.
00:05:28Very hot weather is also forecast for today, especially in the area
00:05:31of the Pannonian Plain where temperatures will exceed
00:05:3440°. However, it will not be completely stable,
00:05:38in the afternoon clouds are coming from the east that will cover
00:05:41parts of Serbia and cause showers
00:05:45accompanied by thunder. This morning in our country it is predominantly
00:05:48sunny, in some cities the temperature is already higher than
00:05:5230°. Predominantly sunny weather will continue
00:05:56during the morning hours, while in the afternoon there will be slightly more
00:06:00clouds, locally showers with thunder are expected,
00:06:05eastern Serbia, where there may also be strong
00:06:08winds. The maximum daily temperature in most of our
00:06:11country today. interval from 34 degrees to
00:06:15even 40 degrees. On Friday
00:06:18we expect a temperature 3 to 5 degrees lower, there will also
00:06:21be conditions for showers accompanied by thunder. Occasional
00:06:25precipitation is also expected for the weekend with a maximum
00:06:28temperature of up to 35 degrees. From Monday
00:06:31then we again announce a rise in temperature.
00:06:35That would be all about the weather for this morning, stay with the new
00:06:38day. Thank you, Rado, we heard Radmila Mitrović and the weather forecast.
00:06:43We continue with the new day, here's what you'll be
00:06:44watching.
00:06:47The discussion on amendments to the Law on Education opened up
00:06:50numerous questions of division in education. What does the draft law bring
00:06:54and why do trade unions warn that certain
00:06:57solutions could endanger the rights of employees? On this
00:07:00morning's topic, we talk with Snežana Romandić from the Union of Education
00:07:04Workers of
00:07:04Serbia.
00:07:08The constitutive session of the Assembly of Kosovo scheduled for today, we are live in...
00:07:15Sports news is brought to us by a colleague from Sport Club Ilija
00:07:18Kovačić.
00:07:21Before that, another overview of the most important news. Ivana Terzić is with
00:07:25us. Ivana, last night director Stevan
00:07:28Filipović was attacked. Yes, Mija, director Stevan Filipović was attacked
00:07:32last night in the center of Belgrade at the corner of Makedonska and
00:07:35Nušićeva streets. According to him, he was physically
00:07:38attacked by five people who knocked him to the ground, kicking
00:07:42and hitting him with chairs on the head and stealing his mobile
00:07:45phone. A group
00:07:48of supporters, members, mercenaries
00:07:51of the ruling party for the hundredth
00:07:54time or I don't know how many times demolished a protected
00:07:57building, a cultural and historical monument at
00:08:01the corner of Makedonska and Nušićeva. I photographed some of
00:08:05them, uh, a few minutes passed,
00:08:07a guy weighing 100 kg
00:08:11in a gray shirt attacked me, took my mobile phone,
00:08:15I tried to take my mobile phone, then five of them came and
00:08:19in front of the cameras and 15 people who were
00:08:22in line in front of Halo Leskovac in Makedonska
00:08:25street pushed me to the ground, then they started
00:08:29kicking me, then they took a metal chair where people
00:08:32were sitting and started hitting me with
00:08:35that chair, I lost consciousness, came
00:08:38to consciousness, people who were standing in front of me
00:08:42helped me, gave me a phone to record, uh,
00:08:46so I have a bruise on my leg,
00:08:50I have a hematoma on my hip, I have a concussion
00:08:52of the brain.
00:08:57In the Ibar gorge, in the area from Maglić to Ušće,
00:09:00fires broke out in several locations. The flames engulfed
00:09:03forests, low vegetation above the highway, slopes and grass along
00:09:07the railway on the right bank of the Ibar. The fire is in an inaccessible
00:09:10terrain. Fire brigades from Ušće, Vrnjačka Banja and Kraljevo are on
00:09:14the ground trying to contain the fire. The cause of the fire
00:09:18is not yet known, but the media reports that it spread over more than 20 locations
00:09:22over a length of more than 20 km above the Raška-Kraljevo railway.
00:09:25The Ministry of Environmental Protection announced that fires also broke out in
00:09:29the Šaranina nature park and that the competent services reacted
00:09:32immediately. A helicopter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was engaged in
00:09:36extinguishing the fire in the village of Borovac near Zaječar, which engulfed more than 100
00:09:39hectares of dry grass and low vegetation. There were no injuries
00:09:43in the fire, and residential buildings were not threatened.
00:09:47In Deliblatska Peščara, the fire covered an area of about 300
00:09:51hectares. The head of the Sector for Emergency Situations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Luka Čaušić,
00:09:55stated last night that the new fire that broke out around 2 p.m.
00:09:58in Deliblatska Peščara spread very quickly due to
00:10:02high temperatures and wind. He added that the fire broke out about
00:10:06a kilometer from the area where another large fire was successfully localized
00:10:09and extinguished on July 22. More than 80 members of the Sector for
00:10:13Emergency Situations, volunteer fire brigades and Vojvodina
00:10:17Šuma are currently participating in extinguishing the new fire, while
00:10:20three helicopters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have been engaged from the air. Čaušić stated that yesterday
00:10:24in the territory of the village of Lučica near Požarevac, one person died
00:10:27due to a fire that she
00:10:29herself caused.
00:10:32The landfill in Bačka Palanka is burning again, and numerous fire brigades are making
00:10:36efforts to bring the fire under control. In addition to members of
00:10:39the Bačka Palanka fire-rescue unit, volunteer fire brigades
00:10:43are also on the scene. This is the third time in the last few weeks
00:10:47that a fire has broken out at that landfill, and the previous time, firefighters
00:10:50extinguished it for more than
00:10:52a week.
00:10:54The situation with electricity supply in
00:10:58Serbia is under control and there is no fear of implementing restrictive
00:11:01measures, announced the Government of Serbia after the meeting of the operational team of the Republic
00:11:05Headquarters for Emergency Situations. The operational team stated that so far
00:11:09no risk of interruption of water supply to the population with drinking
00:11:12water has been assessed, regular sampling and laboratory
00:11:16testing continues. The operation of pumping stations Bezdan and Bogojevo is prevented
00:11:20due to the low water level of the Danube, so it is currently not possible to inject new
00:11:23quantities of water into the hydrosystem. the Danube-Tisa-Danube system, which is why the public
00:11:27water management company Vode Vojvodine has started preparatory
00:11:30works on deepening the intake canal near Bezdan 2 station,
00:11:34and it is planned to form an earthen dam, assemble and put into operation
00:11:37mobile aggregates at these two locations. At the session, the team
00:11:41concluded that the low water level represents a serious challenge for river
00:11:44traffic and transport because it reduces the carrying capacity of vessels, extends
00:11:48transport time and increases transport
00:11:50costs.
00:11:55The special envoy of the European Union for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Peter
00:11:59Sorensen, stated that a new high-level meeting between
00:12:03Albin Kurti and Aleksandar Vučić will be organized only when both sides are
00:12:07ready to achieve concrete results. As he stated,
00:12:10Kosovo has an obligation to immediately start negotiations on concrete arrangements and
00:12:14guarantees for an adequate level of self-management of the Serbian community,
00:12:17while Serbia simultaneously has obligations, including not opposing Kosovo's membership
00:12:21in international organizations and accepting Kosovo's
00:12:25documents and symbols. He assessed that both sides have been late
00:12:28in fulfilling these
00:12:30obligations.
00:12:35And finally, news and information from border crossings. At the Horgoš
00:12:39border crossing, passenger vehicles waited for about
00:12:4245 minutes this morning on exit and entry
00:12:45from Serbia, announced Putevi Srbije, citing data from the Border
00:12:48Police Administration. At the Gradina border crossing, the waiting time for passenger vehicles
00:12:52on exit from Serbia is 15 minutes, while on entry it is about
00:12:5530 minutes. On exit from Serbia at the Patrovci border crossing,
00:12:59passenger vehicles wait for about 30 minutes, while at other border
00:13:03crossings, according to these information, there are no longer delays for all
00:13:06categories of vehicles.
00:13:09And that's all for this news, stay with the new
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00:19:34A new day has dawned, and it's time for our morning topic. In the midst of the debate on the
00:19:37Law on the Fundamentals of the Education System, a tribune was held
00:19:41that attracted attention due to the limited number of
00:19:44participants and the absence of media, while the Ministry of
00:19:47Education states that the amendments bring an improvement to the system, part
00:19:51of the trade unions warn that certain solutions could
00:19:54jeopardize the rights of employees and further tighten the responsibility
00:19:58of teachers. What exactly is changing, what would that mean for education
00:20:01workers, and what for schools? Our guest this morning is
00:20:05Snežana Romandić from the Union of Education Workers of Serbia.
00:20:08Ms. Romandić, good morning and thank you for being
00:20:11here. To begin with, I would like to ask you, the tribune was, as
00:20:15I said, closed to the media, and it was also forbidden to
00:20:19bring in phones. Did you get any explanation yesterday as to
00:20:23why that was the case? Yesterday, a tribune was held which
00:20:27they actually called a public discussion, which it
00:20:30was only to a limited extent, considering that
00:20:33as someone who attended various public discussions, I was present. at
00:20:37them, this was completely different, this was more
00:20:41like some kind of exchange of opinions without
00:20:43concrete legal frameworks, solutions,
00:20:47ideas. When we talk about laws, every comma, every
00:20:50period is very important so that we know how to act later according to those legal
00:20:54solutions. In the
00:20:56invitation for this public tribune, public discussion, it was written
00:21:00that we apply individually, which has not been the
00:21:03case until now, usually organizations would apply, or
00:21:07register their delegates, that the number of those who can
00:21:11attend the public discussion will be limited, given
00:21:14that uh the dynamics of registration speed
00:21:18determined it, so some of our
00:21:20members who were interested in attending the public discussion remained
00:21:24on the other side of the door and did not succeed, and the
00:21:27media also yesterday, why do you think such decisions were made for
00:21:31a limited number of participants and without media? I think
00:21:34this is actually to control the situation,
00:21:37I think that's the only solution. At the very entrance,
00:21:40it was requested that mobile phones be left behind,
00:21:44however, I cannot shake the impression, as someone who
00:21:47who, uh, there were people who had those... phones and
00:21:50there was a possibility to bring a phone in a bag, I mean,
00:21:54it wasn't that rigid, it was insisted as if
00:21:57everything, we stated that in our statement, it somewhat
00:22:00had a reality show character, the very duration of the public discussion of five
00:22:04hours, five hours, uh, does not indicate the fact that there
00:22:07were also elements that do not contain or should not contain such
00:22:11a tribune, where we had to be
00:22:15quite serious. Our goal was for this tribune to happen so that
00:22:19the public would express itself on all this, because this is not
00:22:22just a law that partially applies to teachers, but to the entire
00:22:26context of the education system in Serbia. What was the most
00:22:29focused on in those five hours, what was most debated,
00:22:32what was debated was what these
00:22:36amendments are supposed to bring, that is,
00:22:39reducing the influence, or reducing the number of members of
00:22:43the parent council, uh, restricting or
00:22:46or partially prescribing certain associations...
00:22:50what rights students have and what
00:22:53worries us greatly is the
00:22:55question of easily losing a license when it comes
00:22:59to teachers. All of this together looks like a rigorous
00:23:02measure against all actors in the education
00:23:05system, uh the legal
00:23:08frameworks themselves, as stated in their legal
00:23:12amendments, are quite legally
00:23:14undeveloped, which is a surprise for us, because as
00:23:18a representative union, we attended
00:23:20various discussions when it comes to laws
00:23:24and we know that the Ministry of Education has
00:23:27a legal team that knows how to formulate it.
00:23:30Such broad formulations leave
00:23:33room for broad interpretation and must be
00:23:37subject to refinement and must be precise. Some
00:23:40room has been left for discussion, and here I will mention those
00:23:44few parts of the law that are not now quoted
00:23:47from the draft, but paraphrased. which
00:23:50were mostly perceived as controversial, you mentioned some of them just now,
00:23:54so first, uh, so if a professor does not teach
00:23:58even after a warning from the director, uh,
00:24:01he uh loses his license, which means he can no longer teach
00:24:05anywhere, not just that school, uh,
00:24:07then reducing the number of parent council members, as you said,
00:24:11in elementary schools a maximum of eight, 15 in
00:24:14high schools, which means that not all departments have their own representative, mhm,
00:24:18uh, then regarding the school board, that
00:24:22members who were, for example, nominated by the parent council or
00:24:25or the teaching council cannot be removed, which means that there is no
00:24:28accountability of board members to those who appointed them, uh
00:24:32and uh what you mentioned is that
00:24:36students cannot organize certain groups or
00:24:39sections if it is not that official student
00:24:43parliament, uh in the statement of representative
00:24:46trade unions, uh it was stated that besides... about the articles
00:24:50of the law in whose amendments they participated, they cannot express
00:24:53an opinion because they were not the subject of discussion at meetings with
00:24:57the authorities, nor were they considered by trade union bodies. Do
00:25:00representative trade unions now, including yours, have a clear
00:25:04position on these controversial parts of the amendments? Uh,
00:25:07we received the text of the law, that is, the text of the amendments,
00:25:10on July 24, and as I told you, we insisted on a public
00:25:14discussion precisely because at this time when
00:25:18employees are on collective annual leave, I must emphasize that we do not have
00:25:22the opportunity to choose when we will be on leave and uh
00:25:26the situation is practically complicated to
00:25:29get the opinion of our membership. I
00:25:33cannot speak on my own behalf, nor can any of us speak on our own
00:25:36behalf for a large organization, but I believe and
00:25:40know that we will have legal solutions for all these mentioned
00:25:43articles that you mentioned, we will have to give
00:25:46certain, well, we were aware of that.
00:25:50"We have been negotiating with the authorities in the ministry since 2024 regarding
00:25:54amendments to the law, where we are actually trying to fundamentally
00:25:57reduce administration, not to change all of this that is stated
00:26:01in this." With these changes, however,
00:26:05just to clarify, we cannot reduce administration because it
00:26:09de facto turns out that there is not enough money to change the e-diary, so
00:26:13we then have to write all those countless papers in the 21st century when
00:26:16we have artificial intelligence, we have a story about
00:26:20digitalization that has advanced, on the other
00:26:23hand, we get some solutions where, for example, we, as teachers,
00:26:27can lose our license on a very arbitrary basis, and what does that
00:26:30mean now, how would the license be lost? Well, the previous law also
00:26:34stipulated the possibility for a teacher to lose their license if they committed a serious
00:26:37breach of work duties, and it was enumerated what could be lost
00:26:41based on what license. Now those
00:26:44articles that refer to what a teacher can
00:26:47do wrong to lose their license have been deleted, and a
00:26:51broad formulation has been left which, as such, certainly cannot remain,
00:26:54and it must, that is the detail where the
00:26:58ministry, i.e. representatives of the ministry, confirmed yesterday that there
00:27:01are elements where this needs to be specified, i.e.
00:27:05we must return it to some real legal
00:27:08frameworks, not to remain as it is, because this leaves
00:27:12a very great insecurity for every teacher, what does that mean,
00:27:15if, for example, a teacher does not
00:27:18perform supplementary or additional, nor performs educational work, it doesn't have to be
00:27:22something terrible, so this is brought down to a very low
00:27:26level where we become dependent on the director's assessment of
00:27:30whether he is ready, whether he... considers that we are performing the educational
00:27:34process or not, not to mention some other
00:27:37rights we have, I hope this is not what
00:27:41is interpreted, it is the need to prevent
00:27:45employees in schools from having the right to strike,
00:27:48uh, I must say that today it is not easy to be
00:27:51a school principal, however, I must admit that people of a very
00:27:55specific character agree today to be school
00:27:58principals, because they find themselves in a subordinate position in relation to
00:28:02representatives of the ministry, i.e. representatives
00:28:05of the state who are very aggressively
00:28:07trying to show all of us who work in schools that she
00:28:11is the one who is the owner, she manages
00:28:15schools, that doctrine will not
00:28:17lead us to solve
00:28:20the accumulated problems we have. Uh, I will quote
00:28:24the Minister of Education yesterday after the meeting and what
00:28:28he stated, he
00:28:30says that
00:28:33the draft law will be able to improve the situation in the educational system,
00:28:36make it functional, he says to thwart any
00:28:40intention to abuse that system primarily
00:28:43for political purposes, he says we must bear in mind that
00:28:46experience, we must defend the educational system, if someone tries
00:28:50to abuse it in that context, some things are perhaps stricter and
00:28:54more precisely defined, but he says that this was not done in the context
00:28:57of endangering the rights of children, parents and so on, did
00:29:01the minister hereby acknowledge what the real goal of these changes is, that
00:29:05it refers to what happened in the past two years, to the rebellion, to
00:29:09strikes, to class suspensions, to the activation of high
00:29:12school students themselves in protests, but
00:29:15also teachers, well yes, it actually is, you yourself
00:29:18said, the whole story related to these
00:29:21changes in certain parts is to
00:29:24prevent such a situation from happening
00:29:27again, however,
00:29:29the minister said a lot
00:29:33yesterday, I must emphasize one more thing, we cannot shake
00:29:36off the impression, we stated this in the announcement, that this yesterday looked somewhat like
00:29:40a reality show, with a lot of aggression on one side and the other,
00:29:44verbal affectation
00:29:48similarly without regard for very
00:29:51important things that actually a framework law
00:29:56a moment in which we actually have to negotiate with representatives, we need to
00:30:00negotiate with government representatives about
00:30:02the earnings of employees, about the quality of what education is,
00:30:06because it is not impolite to talk even about salary at a time
00:30:09when our salary is below the national
00:30:12average, what kind of people will you have, you will tie
00:30:16their hands with the fact that they will be evaluated by a director who is directly
00:30:20appointed by the authorities, so the minister, that has always been the case,
00:30:24but not like this, not in this way, not so broadly,
00:30:27do you think that such a draft law endangers teachers,
00:30:31union members. If these provisions are not
00:30:34specified, especially this part concerning the loss of
00:30:37license, it leaves us on a very broad and very
00:30:41unfounded basis, if it is not changed, would you
00:30:44agree to such a law? No, no, no, we cannot
00:30:47agree to this part in any way, we cannot agree to such,
00:30:51so written, so written amendments to the law, we
00:30:55also stated that the legal team will shape how that actually...
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