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00:00:20Good evening, you are watching N1 news, this is the news
00:00:23of the day.
00:00:27The campaign continues, the student movement carries the constitution around Serbia on bicycles and
00:00:31presents it to citizens. This evening, they were welcomed in two cities.
00:00:34In the meantime, the SNS launched its election campaign with an installation in a black container,
00:00:38condemning student protests in
00:00:41Serbia.
00:00:46Here are the other topics in
00:00:46the news.
00:00:52N1 confirmed that former head of Belgrade police Veselin Milić
00:00:56will be tried before the First Basic Court in Belgrade.
00:01:01I don't think that's surprising even for those who led the investigation against
00:01:04him. New
00:01:08reactions to the verdict of the KLA leaders. In Pristina, new
00:01:12protests and again stone-throwing at the government building. The court in The Hague
00:01:15also announces a process for compensation for damages
00:01:17to victims.
00:01:21The European Union has a plan on how to protect children online. The proposal goes
00:01:25to the European Parliament and the Council of the European
00:01:27Union.
00:01:31Tomorrow will be sunny and warm, with cloudiness in the afternoon, with possible
00:01:35showers and thunderstorms in some places.
00:01:46Students are back on bicycles, carrying the constitution from Belgrade, through
00:01:49Subotica, Novi Sad, Užice, Kraljevo, to Vranje and
00:01:52Kragujevac. In 10 days, they will visit 19 cities. This
00:01:56pre-election bicycle tour has two branches, one to the north,
00:02:00the other to the south of the country, and they will meet
00:02:03in Kragujevac on September 26th. They started this morning from
00:02:06Belgrade's Republic Square. Students say that the goal is to
00:02:10talk to citizens in as many places as possible and present their plan to them, but also, as
00:02:13they state, to show that they exist outside of social networks and television. They carry
00:02:17three copies of the constitution with them, and it is planned that
00:02:20other citizens will join them
00:02:22it remained a dead letter on along the way. They finished the first day of riding in Vršac, that is, in
00:02:25Valjevo. The students who were riding north were met by citizens
00:02:29in Vršac after 80 km, with applause, ovations and
00:02:32chanting, and the group will continue to Zrenjanin tomorrow. The other
00:02:36group that went south arrived in Valjevo, also with a welcome from
00:02:39citizens. The students stopped during the ride to talk.
00:03:08A big round of applause for our people.
00:03:28As part of the pre-election campaign, the Serbian Progressive Party set up a modular container
00:03:32in the center of Kragujevac, a black box called
00:03:35"Blockaders' Serbia." The exhibition in the box was opened
00:03:38by Milenko Jovanov, a candidate on the list of the Serbian Progressive Party. He says
00:03:42that it represents a reminder of, as he said, the blockading violence
00:03:46during the previous year or so. With this exhibition, students are
00:03:49presented as violent enemies, but police brutality during
00:03:53the protests was not mentioned.
00:03:56The black box arrived in Kragujevac without prior announcement. It was assembled during the night
00:04:00in the square in the city center. Inside is a unique exhibition of
00:04:03stones, wooden slats, eggshells, as well as
00:04:06video footage on LED screens depicting violence at protests in Serbia,
00:04:10from the perspective of government representatives. "Blockaders are like a black
00:04:13box, no one knows what's inside, and when it
00:04:16opens, violence pops out,
00:04:19violence is shown, chaos is shown, blockades are shown. Everyone who enters
00:04:23that black box, let them see for themselves and let them
00:04:27conclude what the blockaders offered. So,
00:04:30when you don't have a plan, when you don't have a program, you
00:04:34offer what's in the black box, which is violence."
00:04:38The exhibition in the black box, together with Jovanov and local SNS officials,
00:04:42was visited today by gathered supporters of this
00:04:45party, but they did not want to comment to N1.
00:04:48What do you think about this installation? Can you find someone who is
00:04:52competent, so to speak? Okay, but as citizens, you might have just come to visit
00:04:56this exhibition, well, we are also, we don't have a mask. Okay, thank you very much.
00:05:00But the citizens of Kragujevac whom we found nearby today were not
00:05:03very interested in this exhibition.
00:05:06Do you think Vučić's container will never send us
00:05:10this, and I don't understand the first thing.
00:05:12A classic raid. Well, let those who are interested go and
00:05:16see, I'm not interested. It is presented as
00:05:20part of the campaign, but the exhibition actually aims to present
00:05:23students as enemies, says Professor Nikola Vujčić from
00:05:26Kragujevac, a candidate on the student list. I would say that in
00:05:30the coming period we will encounter a large number of such morbidities
00:05:34that should not deserve the attention of our citizens.
00:05:38That is, as I said, some of their last attempts to change
00:05:41something. to do something, but I think
00:05:45it is completely pointless and
00:05:48without any goal, because it is clear that students
00:05:51are winning. The black box, guarded by private security and
00:05:55police, will remain at this location for the next seven days.
00:05:58N1 sent an email to the city administration's relevant inspection with
00:06:02a question about whether and for what period a permit was issued for the occupation of another
00:06:05area in the city, bearing in mind that a container of the Serbian
00:06:09Progressive Party has already been standing in another location for a month, in the middle
00:06:13of the sidewalk on Kraljice Marije Boulevard. We did not receive
00:06:17an answer, just like the residents of the nearby building who filed a report
00:06:20with the authorities for usurping the space. Nataša
00:06:23Lazarević, N1,
00:06:25Kragujevac.
00:06:28The European Serbia coalition is not giving up on participating in the elections and continues to collect
00:06:32signatures of support for its list. The leader of the Serbia Center party, Zdravko Ponoš,
00:06:35claims that giving up on participating in the elections in the name of a referendum atmosphere makes no sense
00:06:39because, he says, there is no referendum atmosphere. "If
00:06:43the question of a referendum atmosphere is raised, why there is
00:06:47or isn't one, whether we are destroying it or not, the referendum
00:06:50atmosphere died at birth, we have already commemorated it for
00:06:53a year. So, from the moment you don't see that there is a referendum
00:06:57atmosphere, unfortunately it is not in the sense that we have one
00:07:00opposition political actor, that would be a referendum atmosphere. So,
00:07:04the attempt to create a referendum, this is now agitation
00:07:08for single-mindedness that some people are doing. I have never been for single-mindedness, and I am not
00:07:11now." "I am for us to get rid of this government and preserve
00:07:15the multi-party system in Serbia."
00:07:18And Aleksandar Vučić says that many people have jumped in his eyes
00:07:22with their decision to go to the elections. For Informer, he stated that he is happy to
00:07:26see that there are opposition parties that have some courage, some
00:07:29personal dignity and will not allow some people to forbid
00:07:33them from running. He accused the student movement of pressuring all political
00:07:36parties not to participate in the early parliamentary
00:07:38elections.
00:07:42After confirming that he had not disappeared, Branimir Nestorović publicly stated that he had received the green light
00:07:46from the Russian embassy to go to the elections with whoever
00:07:50he wants, and while former diplomats assess that this is a diplomatic scandal,
00:07:53the authorities in Serbia are silent, and the Russian embassy itself is silent.
00:07:57They did not answer N1's questions, and the questions were whether
00:08:00Nestorović's claims are true, as well as whether they violated the rules
00:08:04of diplomacy and interfered in the elections in Serbia.
00:08:07The search for him did not last long. After he appeared and
00:08:11revealed that... he didn't mysteriously disappear, Branimir Nestorović
00:08:15said that he was in Moscow, and besides, he says
00:08:18he was received at a high level, and it was there that he decided
00:08:21that his movement would participate in the elections. We are now starting the campaign,
00:08:25we will start
00:08:27with a
00:08:30safari, right?
00:08:33Since he went to Russia as the president of a movement that is a
00:08:36strategic partner of the Russian Federation, Nestorović said
00:08:39he received a request in Serbia to gather all Russophiles
00:08:42before the elections. And I received
00:08:46confirmation from the Russian embassy that
00:08:49I absolutely have the right
00:08:52to dispose of anything,
00:08:54including whether I will even
00:08:57go beyond Vulin, he even gave up, the man.
00:09:01The fact that Russia decided how Nestorović's movement would participate in
00:09:05the elections is, to say the least, a diplomatic scandal, assesses
00:09:08former diplomat Srećko Đukić. Such
00:09:11a thing does not happen
00:09:14in Lukashenko's
00:09:16Belarus, there is no
00:09:19politician of any
00:09:22kind who can go from Belarus
00:09:25to the Russian embassy or to Russia
00:09:28to arrange
00:09:31a political bloc, a pro-Russian political bloc that would
00:09:34appear in parliamentary or other
00:09:38elections in Belarus.
00:09:40Foreign policy commentator
00:09:42Jakšić says that it is also a scandal that the Serbian authorities are silent about
00:09:46Russia's open interference in the electoral process in Serbia.
00:09:50He also reminds that President Aleksandar Vučić has personally stated many times
00:09:53that he will not allow foreign embassies to form a government in
00:09:57Serbia. This is undoubtedly a direct
00:10:00confirmation of unacceptable,
00:10:03cheeky, diplomats would probably say, blatant
00:10:07interference in the affairs
00:10:10of a foreign state, and... and as for Professor Nestorović,
00:10:14I would recommend him to change the name of his party and that
00:10:17instead of "We, the Power of the People," in the future,
00:10:21he and his friends be called "We, the Power of Russia."
00:10:25And the fact that Serbia is immune to Russia's interference in the elections clearly
00:10:29shows the extent to which Moscow is involved in issues and
00:10:32arrangements on the domestic front, concludes N1's interlocutor,
00:10:36adding that this explains why the authorities are silent. This
00:10:39shows two things: first, their
00:10:43absolute dependence on Moscow, and
00:10:46second, their fear, their
00:10:49fear that the Russians cannot, must not
00:10:53say anything. Nothing is being said at the Russian
00:10:56embassy in Belgrade. To N1's questions about whether Branimir
00:11:00Nestorović's claims are true and whether they violated the rules
00:11:03of diplomacy and interfered in the elections in Serbia, we did not receive
00:11:07an answer, and it seems that Nestorović has disappeared again,
00:11:11because he also did not answer our questions. Jelena Mirković,
00:11:14N1, Belgrade.
00:11:18The lustration of public officials is the second point of the student list's plan. It
00:11:22clarifies that the actions of public officials and the responsibility of all individuals
00:11:25who abused their position, were deeply involved in corruption, or violated human rights,
00:11:29the constitution, and laws
00:11:31will be reviewed.
00:11:34Lustrare, in Latin, means purification.
00:11:37Students promise that if they win the elections,
00:11:40they will purify society by reviewing the responsibility
00:11:44of all public officials involved in corruption.
00:11:47Abuse of power and violation of human rights is what would be
00:11:50covered by lustration, a possible
00:11:53ban of 10 years from
00:11:56holding public office. It represents the removal from
00:12:00political life of people who were in positions in an authoritarian
00:12:04regime, says the professor of constitutional law. It is not
00:12:07a punitive-corrective measure, but a measure for the protection
00:12:11of democracy. I think that the citizens of Serbia
00:12:13expect that
00:12:16trust in institutions, in state
00:12:19institutions, will be restored, and in this
00:12:22way, that is, by prohibiting
00:12:26actors who held functions in an authoritarian
00:12:30regime, by prohibiting them from performing those functions, from appearing in
00:12:33political life. Lustration was carried out in various ways
00:12:36in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in most
00:12:40countries of the former Eastern Bloc, in Serbia after the fall of
00:12:44Slobodan Milošević,
00:12:47paper because due to the lack of political will, it was never
00:12:51implemented. On the student list, they say they have learned
00:12:55from the past, but they are not revealing details yet about how they would
00:12:59approach it differently. Well, I would leave that for
00:13:02later, given that the draft of that law is underway. That
00:13:05program is really being worked on by people who are, so to speak, experts, and
00:13:09who have seen the shortcomings of the previous lustration law, which was not
00:13:12applied. This measure can easily slide into a purge,
00:13:16says Professor Beširević, but it is a valuable lever when
00:13:20democracy is still fragile, because
00:13:23a balance must be found between
00:13:27the demands for achieving justice,
00:13:30which the citizens of Serbia expect, and political
00:13:33revanchism. So that's the one, that
00:13:37fine balancing that needs
00:13:40to be found in
00:13:43some law or some other legal
00:13:47act that would enable this
00:13:51protection of democracy at all. The candidates on
00:13:54the student list state that the goal of lustration
00:13:57is the prosecution of specific individuals based on
00:14:00proven actions. They say there will be no mass
00:14:04dismissals or automatic
00:14:06disqualification. Miodrag Sovilj, N1
00:14:09Belgrade.
00:14:19Students of Ovina Gymnasium in Novi Sad, their parents and professors
00:14:22organized a protest march in support of professors who lost their contracts
00:14:26in that school. The column started from the vocational mechanical engineering high school to Trg
00:14:29Slobode, where students left 56 letters for as many
00:14:33professors, among whom are those who were suspended, fired, or whose
00:14:36contracts were not extended. After that, the march continued to the gymnasium
00:14:40itself. The protest proceeded without incidents, with police
00:14:43security. Students send a message: "We won't give up our professors, we won't
00:14:47give up Jovina." Since the beginning of the school year, more than 15 professors have
00:14:51lost their jobs, while the school director states that professors who stopped working
00:14:55in support of the students
00:14:57will also be punished.
00:15:03I want to show my students by example that you should never
00:15:07be silent and observe injustice, but always
00:15:10fight against discrimination, and for truth, honesty and
00:15:14collegiality, which we need more than
00:15:16ever.
00:15:25The professors of this gymnasium were true examples of responsible,
00:15:28dedicated, hardworking, and competent professors who showed
00:15:32genuine care for the upbringing and education
00:15:35of students.
00:15:37Ever since the public learned about the murder in an elite restaurant in Senjak, in which the former
00:15:41head of Belgrade police, Veselin Milić, was involved, the case has constantly been in the public
00:15:45eye. Although more than two months ago, the indictment proposal against
00:15:49Milić was filed by the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office, he will be tried before the
00:15:53First Basic Court, and the indictment will be represented by the prosecutor of the First
00:15:56Basic Prosecutor's Office. These findings were confirmed to N1.
00:16:00Ana Novaković has details.
00:16:03The day after the former head of the Belgrade
00:16:06police, Veselin Milić, was released from custody, Portal
00:16:10Nova announced that the case against him was forwarded to the
00:16:14First Basic Prosecutor's Office. The Higher
00:16:16Prosecutor's Office, which led the investigation in the Senjak case,
00:16:20immediately denied this, but two months later, those
00:16:24logical assumptions proved to be true,
00:16:27because he was charged with a milder criminal offense within
00:16:31the jurisdiction of the Basic Court. The First Basic
00:16:35Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade accepted... the indictment filed
00:16:38by the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade
00:16:41against the accused Veselin
00:16:44M. For all other questions we had
00:16:47regarding the scheduling of the trial during
00:16:50the proceedings, they referred us to the First Basic Court
00:16:54which provided us with its answer. The criminal
00:16:57proceedings are currently in the phase of reviewing the indictment by the
00:17:01individual judge and in the phase of obtaining the necessary documentation
00:17:05proposed as evidence, after which... all conditions will be met for
00:17:08scheduling the main trial, about which the public will be informed
00:17:12timely and promptly. And so the Higher Prosecutor's
00:17:15Office separated Milić from the accused
00:17:18in the same case, who will be tried before a higher court.
00:17:22Ever since the moment when in Milić's case the prosecution
00:17:25dropped the charge of prosecuting him for aiding the perpetrator
00:17:28after the murder, and continued to charge him only
00:17:32for failing to report the murder of the perpetrator, it was
00:17:36clear that the case... would fall into the hands of a lower
00:17:38prosecutor's office. I think that's not surprising even for those
00:17:42who led the investigation against him, I mean the Higher
00:17:46Prosecutor's Office, which did indeed charge Milić, but it knew
00:17:49how it would end. It's not the first time for that
00:17:53prosecutor's office to do such a thing. The murder case in
00:17:56Senjak was marked by the cover-up of the murder in an
00:17:59elite restaurant, the disappearance of the body,
00:18:02the discovery of the body in a barrel after seven days of
00:18:05searching, the involvement of police officers, one of whom
00:18:09was the third most powerful man in the police. From the start,
00:18:13the investigation was full of shortcomings. The prosecution
00:18:16published conflicting and false claims
00:18:19in its statements, and then it dropped part of the criminal
00:18:23complaint that Marko Kričak, head of
00:18:26the UKP, had filed against Milić. Some things
00:18:30that happened that fall within the scope of criminal law,
00:18:34that is, who beat them, how four of them
00:18:37spoke about being beaten by someone from the restaurant owners, one even
00:18:41recognized Kričak, what
00:18:44the prime minister and the president of the ruling
00:18:47party were doing in that restaurant only a day after
00:18:51they had lunch after that murder. In this
00:18:54complex case, criminal charges poured in
00:18:58from all sides, and the accused Milić retaliated
00:19:01with a criminal complaint against Kričak and his colleague that
00:19:05they abused their official position by
00:19:08presenting the collected evidence against Milić selectively, incompletely,
00:19:11and falsely, as reported by the weekly Radar.
00:19:15Ana Novaković, N1 Belgrade.
00:19:19Beograd.
00:19:23The day after the verdict, Chief Prosecutor Kimberly West welcomed the verdict against the former
00:19:27KLA leader Hashim Thaçi. She states that it is important for the rule
00:19:31of law in Kosovo and that it brings delayed justice for the victims.
00:19:34The verdict and the reactions after it in The Hague were followed by our reporter
00:19:37Sanja Sovrlić. International reactions to
00:19:41the verdict against former KLA leaders Hashim Thaçi, Kadri
00:19:45Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi, and Rexhep Selimi are
00:19:48diverse, ranging from those who say that the court's
00:19:51decision must be respected to those who are dissatisfied
00:19:55with such a verdict. The European Union Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos
00:19:58stated that the Kosovo Specialist Chambers are an independent and impartial
00:20:02body and that their decisions must be respected. She emphasized
00:20:06individual responsibility, justice for victims and their families
00:20:09of all communities in Kosovo, as well as the need for confronting the
00:20:13past, healing wounds, and reconciliation. The United
00:20:16States respects the verdict and supports the rule
00:20:20of law and the right of victims and their families to justice. They call on
00:20:23all parties to respect the court's decision. The French Ministry
00:20:27of Foreign Affairs also issued a statement, taking note of the decision
00:20:30of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and reiterating
00:20:33support for the court in the fight against impunity, as well as
00:20:36support for the independence of Kosovo and its
00:20:39institutions. Esther Major, Deputy Regional Director of Amnesty
00:20:42International for Europe, said that the verdicts give hope to thousands of war victims in
00:20:46Kosovo who have been waiting for justice for more than two decades,
00:20:50and that they show that even high-ranking officials are not
00:20:53above the law. She emphasized that the court confirmed that no one,
00:20:57regardless of their rank or political standing, is above the law
00:21:01or immune from responsibility for serious international criminal
00:21:04acts. Former NATO General Wesley Clark
00:21:08told Albanian media that he was shocked and angry about the
00:21:11verdict, saying that he had not seen evidence that, in his opinion,
00:21:15would justify such a decision. Let's recall that
00:21:18Clark was a witness during the proceedings.
00:21:23Specialist Prosecutor Kimberly West welcomed
00:21:26the verdict, stating that individuals exploited wartime circumstances to commit
00:21:30serious crimes and that the responsibility of these individuals is
00:21:33important for the rule of law and the victims. She emphasized that the court
00:21:37confirmed that no one, regardless of their rank or political standing,
00:21:40is above the law. Thaçi's chief
00:21:43lawyer, Pierre-Richard Prosper, was shocked by the verdict, called it
00:21:47a wrong decision of justice and said that the court,
00:21:51in his view, rewrote history. He said that the legal battle does not
00:21:54end here and that the defense will appeal. Appeals
00:21:58were also announced by the defenders of the remaining three
00:22:01convicted KLA leaders. The deadline for appeals is
00:22:0430 days from the written delivery of the
00:22:07verdict. Sanja Sovrlić, N1,
00:22:11The Hague.
00:22:13Many questions regarding the verdict are also being raised by experts. Why was the subject of the proceedings not
00:22:17the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Kosovo at the very beginning of the war? Will
00:22:21the prosecution start collecting new evidence, since the crime against humanity
00:22:25was not proven? Will the appeal of the defense result in a reduced
00:22:28sentence?
00:22:30Two sets of crimes, let's put it that way, were not the subject of
00:22:34this case. The first thing is that whole story about organ
00:22:38trafficking, which was actually, if you remember, the impetus
00:22:42for the establishment of this special court. Also, the subject of that
00:22:45case was not the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Kosovo,
00:22:49since it was done. So, since the armed conflict
00:22:52ended, which was on June 20, 1999,
00:22:56most of the crimes that happened against Serbs were committed in that
00:23:00period. One of the differences here is, of course, between organized state
00:23:04forces, whether it is the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Yugoslav Army, and less
00:23:07organized armed groups, such as the KLA with regional
00:23:11commands. This could be one of the reasons why they believed that
00:23:14the charge of crimes against humanity was not proven,
00:23:18but there is still the possibility of an appeal. So, it is possible, the prosecution said
00:23:22they are studying the verdict and that they will return to say that they want to
00:23:25reopen the issue of the decision on crimes against humanity
00:23:29with new evidence. Now it is expected that the Kosovo authorities
00:23:32will adopt a clear strategy and policy which will, of course, be aimed
00:23:36exclusively at the
00:23:40appeal procedure in which, of course, both the Government of Kosovo and
00:23:43all others who were in charge of the defense
00:23:46process will actively participate, so that, in essence, that initial
00:23:50verdict would actually be overturned in favor of
00:23:54the convicted.
00:23:57The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague will conduct a special procedure to decide
00:24:00on compensation for victims in the proceedings against the convicted
00:24:04KLA leaders. The trial panel decided that instead of referring victims to
00:24:08civil lawsuits in Kosovo, it would itself conduct
00:24:11the reparations procedure after the first-instance conviction of
00:24:14the four KLA leaders, writes Cos
00:24:17Sev. That decision was made on the same
00:24:21day as the verdict. The court states that Kosovo courts, in this specific case, do not
00:24:25provide protection or the possibility of compensation to victims, nor protection to
00:24:28potential witnesses. The court, after an acquittal, or rather a conviction,
00:24:32can directly order the convicted person to compensate the victims
00:24:36individually or collectively, and to make restitution. In certain
00:24:38circumstances, it is also possible to seize assets and means related to
00:24:42the commission of criminal
00:24:43acts.
00:24:47In Pristina, after the verdict of the specialized chambers, there were
00:24:50sporadic protests near the Eulex building and the Kosovo Government. Windows were broken
00:24:54on the government building, and pyrotechnic devices were thrown. The KLA
00:24:58Veterans' organization announced a national protest. The Democratic Party of Kosovo
00:25:01announced its support for a possible initiative to dissolve the specialized
00:25:04chambers if such a proposal comes before
00:25:08parliament. At the same time, discussions with other political parties
00:25:11on, as stated, the seriousness
00:25:14of the situation were announced. Observers of the political situation, however, believe that the dissolution
00:25:17of the specialized chambers is practically impossible, because it would require
00:25:21constitutional changes, for which a two-thirds majority in the Kosovo Assembly
00:25:25is needed, including a two-thirds majority of MPs from minority
00:25:28communities. In the public, yesterday's verdict is generally considered
00:25:31unfair, but it is also pointed out that it is not
00:25:34final. The parties have the right to appeal, so it is expected that in
00:25:37the second-instance procedure the verdict could be changed, including the possibility
00:25:41liberation.
00:25:45We are not talking about dissolving the special court, but about
00:25:48adapting to a new situation. We are not running away from the obligations we have undertaken
00:25:52for the court to investigate, present and establish all the facts from
00:25:56Dick Marty's report, which is why it was founded, and everything
00:26:00in that report that refers to organ trafficking and other
00:26:03issues, including the Yellow House and other facilities that were
00:26:07the subject of that report and the basis for the formation of this special
00:26:11court, we are not running away from that.
00:26:14The Assembly of Albania adopted a declaration expressing deep resentment and
00:26:18complete disagreement with the verdict of the specialized chambers in The Hague,
00:26:21by which the former leaders of the KLA, Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli,
00:26:25Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi were sentenced to 81
00:26:28years in prison. The declaration states that the verdict cannot
00:26:32change the history of Kosovo, nor equate, as claimed, the aggressor and
00:26:36the victim. The Albanian parliament describes the war as a struggle for freedom
00:26:39and the liberation of Kosovo. Without war and sacrifice of the Kosovo Liberation Army
00:26:43against the bloody Serbian occupation, the history of liberation cannot be
00:26:47understood. The KLA was the decisive force of the resistance of the people of
00:26:50Kosovo, part of the path that led to its liberation of freedom
00:26:54and independence, states the declaration of the Albanian parliament.
00:26:57At the same time, Serbia was criticized for, as it states,
00:27:01honoring those convicted
00:27:04of war crimes, including Ratko Mladić, and assessed that such an attitude makes reconciliation
00:27:07difficult.
00:27:13The United Nations fact-finding mission announced that there are
00:27:17grounds to conclude that the United States of America
00:27:20is responsible for the attacks on a school and sports complex in Iran
00:27:23on February 28, and that these attacks could constitute war
00:27:27crimes. In the Tomahawk missile attack on the elementary school in
00:27:31Minab, 156 civilians were killed, including
00:27:34120 children. The United Nations states that the school
00:27:37was a clearly recognizable civilian object. On the same day,
00:27:41sports complexes and a residential area in the city of
00:27:44Lamerd were also hit. The Pentagon conducted its own investigation, but
00:27:48its results were not publicly
00:27:49released.
00:27:53The European Union unveiled its plan to protect children online. The proposal
00:27:56now goes to the European Parliament and the Council of the Union, i.e., member
00:28:00states.
00:28:02For a long time, Brussels has been discussing how to protect children
00:28:06online. Today, the European Commission presented
00:28:09a plan. No social networks for children under
00:28:1313, no personal accounts for those under
00:28:1615. This means that children from 13 to
00:28:1915 years old will be able to have only limited accounts that
00:28:23are opened and supervised by parents or guardians. These accounts
00:28:27will have limited functions, and usage
00:28:29time will be limited to a maximum of one hour. Recent
00:28:33research shows that children aged 13 to
00:28:3718 spend an average of 4.5
00:28:40hours a day on weekdays in front of screens, phones, computers,
00:28:44tablets or games, and six hours on weekends.
00:28:47Half of the children surveyed aged 9 to 16 in
00:28:51Europe say they do not feel safe when they are online,
00:28:55more than a third have trouble falling asleep, and 33%
00:28:59feel stress or anxiety due to social
00:29:03media. Therefore, the draft law now contains a very clear list
00:29:06of what digital services are allowed to do and what they are not
00:29:10allowed to do. For example, unknown persons will not
00:29:14be able to send messages to children. Children will not be able to be targeted by
00:29:17personalized ads or algorithms based on
00:29:21their previous activities. Social
00:29:24networks, video sharing platforms, as well as
00:29:27online video games, will have to fulfill obligations related
00:29:31to safety. For large companies like
00:29:34Meta, X, TikTok and others, this law means much
00:29:38stricter responsibility for the protection of minors.
00:29:42Social networks have for years denied the harm they
00:29:45caused, they tried to avoid strict rules and
00:29:49set them themselves. With this law, we are changing that,
00:29:52instead of the authorities having to subsequently prove that harm occurred, the largest
00:29:55platforms will have to
00:29:59submit detailed plans for child safety in advance.
00:30:02Parents still have a crucial role in supervision, but the
00:30:06law should make their job easier.
00:30:09We want to give parents back their parental role, and children
00:30:13their childhood. However, the law could come into force
00:30:17at the earliest in 2028. But
00:30:20it could undergo certain changes by then. With this, the European
00:30:22Union would follow other countries that have
00:30:26already introduced certain bans. Australia
00:30:30was the first to introduce a complete ban on social
00:30:33media for children under 16 at the end of
00:30:362025, with millions in fines for
00:30:39platforms that do not comply with the rules.
00:30:43Duša Mlađenović,
00:30:44N1.
00:30:48At the end of the news and weather forecast, we listen to Sara
00:30:51Botić. Real summer weather these days, temperatures
00:30:55above average, from Friday evening we expect more clouds,
00:30:59local showers.
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