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the 1247 eurostar from london brought his usual, bustled to paris, but soon these trains may be most the empty. from saturday, france has limiting travel to and from the u. k. so only those with compelling reasons. french nationals, residents, and their families, all arrivals have to why slate truck drivers they are exempt. it'll say general cubic plastic damage. this is the framework that will be put in place, which will allow us to further type in the next to slow down and reduce as much as possible the arrival of a mac on various cases in our territory so much. during this time, we vaccinated the booster shots, but for the 2nd day running the u. k. has logged a record breaking number of new cases, 88000 on the cronies, spreading through this country faster than any previous various forest. johnson's government is focusing on vaccine boosters, as it principal weapon that and urging people to think about where they go and who they see. we don't want to make your choices for you about your social life. well

closing things we all saying is people should be cautious and they should think about their activities in the, in the run up to, to, to christmas on the streets of london's west end. those i spoke to didn't seem overly concerned. just got off the chip which i get it. okay. i'm just going to live with you can't keep shutting yourself the wife forever. have you can with any plans or preference? no, i may just go to the states and ask me mary poppins. trying to stay safe, but still trying to live a normal life. but plenty of others are changing their plans at this to staff shortages because of infection when business is suffering again. it is canceling performance. if restaurants, cafes, nightclubs, losing booking and unlike before and they have government financial assistance to

help them cope with this, this time they're on their own. sorry, same one and 5 hightail cancellations at the moment it's people ship against their christmas parties. is people not working from home and not traveling? james, bainbridge runs the white heart hotel and well in north of london. he wants the government to think again. we've had a lot of help and it's been, it's what kept us going and it's been well worth it if it was to stop now will not happen. that's wasted. what's the point of getting this far as far as we have for that all be taken away and businesses to them fail? it's all so very familiar. another wave of infections, businesses in trouble. again, another christmas in dance cove. it is the unwanted gift we can't get rid of. we'll reach helen's out to 0 london. rescue operations are underway in parts of the philippines that have been hit by one of the most powerful storms in the world. this year, typhoon rise, strengthened to a category 5 storm before making lun full in the southern philippine official se around 10000 villages or in the projected part of the storm. in australia,

5 children had been killed after augusta wind swept up about the council. they were jumping on. what do you say for more critical condition? the children were aged around 11 and celebrating the last week of primary school. the events that have occurred today in davenport, in tasmania, i just shattering dye. i just unthinkable the hot breaking and young children on a fungi out together with their families and it turns to its such horrific tragedy at this time of year. it just brights, you hot 12, canadian and american missionaries kidnapped by a criminal gang in haiti had been released. the group was abducted doctor visiting an orphanage in october 5. others had already been let go in recent weeks. there's the drug store is tuesday with us out. is there a correspondent is up next likes watching i for now.

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once upon a time in sadie, i thought i was a group of young men. they were crazy, they were creative, they were even visionary. they were taught lesta, naturalistic, sabrina, nist hit parades. ah, it was the early 19 eighties and communist yugoslavia and a group of high school friends in the multi ethnic city of sarajevo formed a rock band called zap iranian pushin. yay no smoking. they started doing a weekly committee spot on the radio, which later became a television program. it was a massive hit. the characters they portrayed real people often placed in serial situations. and they used the language of the saudi, those streets. they called the ot movement, new primitivism, an audience is across the country,

recognized the humor as distinctly bosnian whose top needs to revolved over the years. but at the call was then it's nelly and ju row. well, the road just been wor, changed everything. in the early ninety's yugoslavia disintegrated and bosnia was shattered. around a 100000 people were killed. many of them civilians, emboldened 2000000 fed their homes. the siege of sarajevo by sub forces lost it more than 3 and a half years. the longest blockade of a capital city in modern history, people with terrorized by sniper fire from the surrounding hills. the wall also split up the group. nellie left her serbia. jerome fled to slovenia, while zenick remained in sarajevo, trying to keep top lister alive,

their different opinions about the war and critical statements, nelly made about sarajevo, created divisions between them. ah, i've come to sarajevo to try to bring senator nellie and jiro together again. they said they're willing to meet it. exactly. where is the big question? i was them as a child actually during and just thoughts of the war. people still love them. 20 years after topless to broke up. their work is still hugely popular. i missy, set up with our studies extremely. sasha was new years, wasn't fashionable sounds, gustavo, so i was, i was got out of one of them with don't really the rich dentist

touch, not yet did he got the me article said you saw in as at knox, hotels discovered that at the medical the can you russ flavio padilla not is that snow is up a new escalade, one sketch that people in bosnia still talk about is this one where the group imagines the kind of berlin wall dividing. sorry, over. it's about a chance meeting between 2 garbage men who are throwing their rubbish over the wall at each other. oh yeah, they decide to go for a drink, but a fight breaks out because they can't agree on which bar to go to la. it'll be the bible, and i know you're busy with when the sketch was broadcast in 1989, many viewers thought this was something that could never happen in their wildest dreams. but in fact, it predicted the deadly serious future. eerily enough, the date they picked their futuristic news broadcast turned out to be remarkably

close to when the dayton agreement actually was signed. ending the war and dividing the country i 1st arrived in bosnia just over a year later to train local journalists at a school run by the b, b. c. zen. it applied to join my class. this well known comedian was not an obvious candidate for a course in television journalism, but i let him in any way. and he tried his hand at some serious news reports. lisa, miss george, my friend for a concert, run the media center in san diego was then it, and i 1st met some people told me that he was so you i was just all the time, jackie, and our jackie. jackie. i was in montenegro in 2004 and we spoke on the phone

and you told me, you said jackie, you must come to both now. then it is getting married tomorrow. actually, this is a really event event i should have got from the con job, but it's a very long way from port. got it too. but now you're going to see we're going to see him today. we're going to see him today and catch up and see what's going on. borrow discovered top list back in the 1980s. he gave them their 1st break on the radio and became their mental last bullet scott their mom. c no. so it says how to do it. i it ease those, the sale over to the bed. the 3rd to is came it. i never but you most to all believe bogo and you might, if you have the family, the 1st program made it very funny. they made a story about the group of young people who illegally came to the radio station

and force of the people in police inside to change the music program i saw in front of me. i mean, really magic. there is this belief among many people that the top this to not realistic predicted what happened to saturday. do you think that that's the case? they saw that way? ration is better than other people in the liberation lived in our society. but people didn't recognize that even, but you have so many people inside local, 2 days before there was they said it was never happened. people who remember the lot, i know you love the idea of them getting together again, but would it work? would it work? these days, if you're going to make that type of programs, you need the people who maybe not to love each other but alike. and they like to be together in a time than we are talking about to them. they were very, very close. they were in the same boat, you know, do those problems now on in editable?

denise, sir, the own space, the own cabin never to meet each other. i know, and i've seen the same box. why do you think net i is particularly against coming back to sorry, ever. what do you think is su so either? no, or maybe he is room. so many states went against said alun, peopling, sorry will during the war. and maybe he brought cold bridges behind him. ah, i've never met nearly or jiro, i'd only seen them in old via chest recordings of the show that zen it played for me despite the language gap topless to captured my imagination. and i think my best hope for bringing the 3 back together is senate. i haven't seen senate now for 13 and a half years. a lot has changed since then. he's got married, he's got kid caesar father, now new responsibilities of interesting to see how he's changed during my time in

sarajevo. senate and i became close. it was always about comedy with him. when we can't, we went to the croatian coast and i took a swim in the sea. looking up, i saw senate filming made, inspired by a scene from a cult yugoslav movie the marathon family, in which a naked man, films, a young woman, swim, swim, pretty swimmer. he called out quoting a line from the film. i didn't get the reference at the time, but later i thought it was quite funny. one, there was a slightly apprehensive listen to me. it was a long time ago. oh jackie. oh oh. oh, good i'm, i'm very good. i feel better than james brown. you know that i feel good on this on

your hair is shorter, but that is all but my mind the big longer. oh, oh, you look fantastic for you. thanks with in recent years senate has tried his hand again at the top, lester, making new comedy sketches with some of the old crew. i am of this little money in this, so he also makes public service announcements and tv commercials with cover go, ah, we had to a little bar where topless, to with meet to plan their radio sketches. he talked to producing the script here by the we prepare everything with the fuel, glass of beer with thank you. we met. do you remember the 1st

time we met old golf course? there was camecia interview interview pan. it's interview panell and you are one of the a member of and to peddle and asked me very tough questions. like her, who is the vice president of america, asked you to know what you presented to topless, to not really to was much more than just a comedy show. we all coming from the different background, the actually whole group or is a completely different. so there is a serv, so called, so mostly and joy some how to then it's nellie's creative relationship symbolized that diversity. zen, it's a bosnian muslim anela upholstery. and i think the basic core file of work

is actually the relationship between me and now and. and there was a great love between us. i really like that guy. he's. he's very funny and he's quite intelligent and it's absolutely unique person. and then you met with him. i think for the 1st time after the war was 297. when you went to belgrade to do the story, was that when you saw him for the 1st time? yes. can you tell us about how that meeting went and how you felt when you saw him again, used to have connections and discussions with him very often and, and the oldest on the same side. but when i met him, i realize that actually he has a some completely opposite opinion of me. it is

great this point and because i lost my best friend and actually i, i cannot recognize what he looks like. what he thinking it is very hard for me. what were the ideas that he said that you couldn't, that you couldn't accept the main reason why the war start? i'm not belonging to any perspectives in which i think that is my duty as a comedian, as a artist, to be independent. she's now hopefully on a fib sides actually to be open which is unacceptable. i mean, i mean, i can accept that because it is not of a of working during the siege of sarajevo comedy helped senate and his friends stay sane. despite the shelling in the sniper while they continued to record sketches. one of them was about the drive in sarajevo for blood donations, this black humor,

with mark all their work during the war. one man is walking down the street and taking a canisters of the water, and one moment he looked summer on a more g. it's a bit but she is with that he tried to figure she's but she's moving you know, hes going further for the she said one moment he jumps this just like a taking him to hospital and taking his blood. you know? because we need every drop of the blood or where he is going out. he say doctor, we are to that up in the morning. we're not going to need, i need it. and you know, war is not romantic. as you can see or to some film with some think for that is, is a terrible, that's the, probably the lowest, the level of where the human being can be. there is no proud there is no dignity one sketchy even made a joke about breathing sniper fire to collect water,

turning it into a sports event. i set him up with that. i would be back ordered only by because of humor exists because there is a need for a hood for a summer and like sation of tenable situation, a human to help us to, to survive. could you imagine any circumstances in which topless, to, naturalistic, could we unite and could come together again and work again together? i'm definitely for, for the unification. and so there is no obstacles on my side which, which questions bring to the nail? actually, he wants to start to work owner dose to again, but he want to conduct in belgrade, but i, i can auto film really bo good, and a lot filming, so this is absolutely out of mind. so if you want to come to soil and from

something i will be happy to go in boulder, the fuels film, so ah, i've heard a lot about nellie over the years, mostly from my sarajevo friends. now it's time to meet him for myself and hear his side of the story. so i'm heading to serbia. nelly hasn't returned to sarajevo since he left in 1992. i need to find a place where he may be willing to meet the others. it's been a momentous year here in belgrade, who could have predicted 12 months ago, the kinds of events that we would see here outside the yugoslav, federal parliament building hundreds of people rising up. i lived in belgrade for just over 2 years at the end of the ninety's working as a reporter for the bdc. it was a time of great change. there was the bombing of yugoslavia by nato and the ousting

of snowballed on malaysia, which it was also the start of my career as a television reporter, robin b. b. c. news belgrade. some of my closest friends are still here and i'm interested to hear what they thought at the time about top lester and their predictions for the future of yugoslavia. and it was basically a too bad to be true. what they were predicting most of the people saw it that way . you know, it never happens to us. it can happen to someone else could be put to dr. boss, bushel sallow. but only connie of our that should a portion of the people here lived in some kind of a lullaby, o t est new new nanny's in the middle of a book tool promoting his new memoir, closing time in saudi. i catch up with him in the sub in city of novi. sad his book is doing well during large crowds. i sign up

with like i was like jackie out to a visit to get them a events with mr. billy or someone put jessica e burnett. i opened direct, met clinical, a ram it up that i have a good that i for when i got him, what i be plethora with

them has a reputation of being the only authentic artistic movement form with was extreme. i guess it was over a month with it. i just wanted to listen to that with what about comedy? why are they so funny? in every job there has to be one thing that is completely blown out, no proportions. and in this country where i grow up, interviews from everything is very much low now don't proportions and i can you make it jack? yes. i guess some comics i was i have a chat with you later when the book, signing is over. net a head to a bar where a local band is performing. we've heard he may take the stage later. net

a built a successful career as a rock musician. after leaving san diego, he teamed up with the famous film director. any a cluster, it's up and they traveled internationally with their band, the no smoking orchestra. oh, a a

google style just seems alive and well in not the sad ah. then it's doper you to roll. oh, hello. how are you? the trip is good. we so nearly last night it was quite nice because at one point he said that the, the key magic was with zam, it cuts on him, we hadn't had more discussion with him because he was very busy signing books. but we're going to see him again today. we're thinking we might try to persuade him to

come somewhere close to saturday. i would like yahoo, you know, somewhere like that. i mean, i've come to a petrol station to meet nellie. i'm traveling with him to the next stop on his book tul zaya chart. a remote town in easton, serbia. i'm hoping to talk to him about meeting with senate and jurell. becky, petro, enjoying some of the increasing petrol station? yes. i came to the bedroom facing really? yes. i spent 2 a 3rd of my life on the face board railway station that the i have the to go back home, but the coaches go to do dia, chat, come in my feet board. thank you. french. god,

thanks look that then to me, we were the exit of police done that alleys. of course, there were another guy, even more talented. we like pot on left in the $986.00 up the cottage. and the judah was the most done in the last in the funniest person. but both of them took it up least another at least as a part of, of their life buds for me. and for then it took blister. oh was our life, you know? and read sacrifice our lives to their pleasure. oh, there's a lot more to al jazeera than t v. with our website mobile app, social media, and podcast. al jazeera digital is a world of award winning online content. and portal brings you to the very best of

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reported almost $61000.00 cases in c capital cubic plus to come in to city. and this is the framework that will be put in.