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adverse effects based on studies in south africa. we're currently health workers are taking part in a study around a booster shot of the j and j vaccine. and they say that we know adverse effects and there aren't any alarming signals to indicate that perhaps they should put j and j on hold. in fact, health experts are saying that in the coming days, they may make an announcement around allowing booster shots of join j and j to the general public. they've also said they've always known that there are certain risks around vaccines, not just j, a j, specifically blood clots, but these are very rare. and that essentially the benefits of the vaccine, even that one shot of j j outweighs the risk. and so still urging people to get back to a, to even with j and j while america, the cdc specifically may be saying, let's rather look, i don't know target of instead of using j j. so for the moment,

south africa and saying or experts, health authority saying that they are confident to the daughter they haven't hand and will continue using that vaccine in this country. dear and says it's receiving incredible reports at all sides in ethiopia, conflict, committing severe human rights violations. it also says an estimated $5.00 to $7000.00 people have been detained since last month. under the government state of emergency measures, the nation wide state of emergency announced on to november is leading to significant human rights concerns on a very broad scale. notably, the state of emergency authorizes the arrest search and detention of anyone suspected of supporting that the great people's liberation front and the aroma liberation army designated paris groups in may 2021. this excessively broad provision has led to mass arrests and detentions of thousands of if your parents, including united nation stuff,

and according to the committee to protect journalists at least 14 journalists. most of those arrested are ethic to grants tennis ins or marking 11 years since the start of the arab spring by protesting both full and again the president. earlier this week, i saw you called a constitutional referendum for next july, a year after he sees broad powers and moves his opponents called a coup. few case prime minister boris johnson's and the increasing pressure after his conservative party last by election for a seat. it is held for the 200 years. it's be interpreted as a voter backlash against a series of control overseas. dozens of people are fed dad after fi, and i kind of treat clinic in the japanese city of assault that police report to the investigation suspected arson victims thought to have suffered from heart and lung failure. one of the most powerful tropical storms to hit the philippines this year has killed at least 12 people. the storms now weakening half to 195 kilometer

an hour winds. forced around 300000 filipinos from their homes. china is denouncing what it calls they deplorable us ban on impulse because of the mistreatment of the muslim weak minority. the us senate unanimously voted to false goods manufacturers inching jang region to prove false labor hasn't been use the ministry of foreign affairs in beijing since the us is making of excuses to control chinese imports. missionaries kidnapped in haiti 2 months ago. have now all been released. it's all clear. if the ransom was paid for the 17 americans and canadians, some of them children, not a gang had demanded $1000000.00 for each of the christian 8th workers. those were the headlines about with born use in half my here on al jazeera, but next it's al jazeera correspondent to stay with us. ah

ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, he just feel that gang round in sacco? mumble any, meet him. bell grade one with only me to sat eva one bologna meeting. louisiana. yes, go round around in circles and you come to the same place. 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 not to realistic this realist hit parade. 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 it on you know, pushing yay. no smoking. they started doing a weekly comedy 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 of streets. they called the ot movement, new primitivism, an audience is across the country, recognized the humor as distinctly bosnian

topless to revolt over the years. but at the call was in it nelly and joe ro? well, the road just been war changed everything. in the early ninety's yugoslavia disintegrated and bosnia was shattered. around 200000 people were killed, many of them civilians, and more than 2000000 set 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 one of our studies extremely. sasha was new years wazinski festivals on each top of all, i was i was got out of one of them with don't really the rich done us if touching or shifted. he got the met article said you saw in as a mock for kelly discovered that a theme that republican yugoslavia 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, they decide to go for a drink, but the 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, but 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 dates 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 journalist 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. so the semester and my friend morrow content ran the media center in sarajevo was then it. and i 1st met from people told me when you saw you are all 0 all the time. oh roger king our jack. yeah, madison. jackie, i was in montenegro in 2004 and we spoke on the phone and you told me, you said jackie, you must come to bosnia senate is getting married tomorrow actually that was a really event. that was event, i should have gotten the current job, but it's

a very long way from pod. got it, sir, to sorry. yeah. now you're going to see where you see him today don't seem to day and catch up and see what's going on. borrow discovered top lester back in the 1980s he gave them their 1st break on the radio and became their mental wires got bullied scared, the m f. c. not thought that i'd say had a did i at ease audio deal or virtually bed? 3rd through is game near the i love it by my through all billy ball going, you my, if yet the in their family, the 1st program, they made it very funny. the in there, the story about a group of young people who illegally came to the radio station and force of the people increasing say, to change the music program i saw in front of me. i mean, really magic. there is this belief among many people that the

topless to naturally predicted what happened to saturday. do you think that that's the case? they saw that way? ration is better than other people that lived in our society. but people didn't recognize that even. but you have so many people inside local, 2 days before that was they said it was never happened. people remember the service and love it and 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 and then everybody needs her own space, the own cabin never to meet each other in a seen the same. but why do you think net is particularly against coming back to

sarajevo? what do you think is su so either know, or maybe he is room. so many states went against sat island peopling saturday during the war, and maybe he broke all the bridges behind him. ah, i've never met nearly arturo. 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 kate 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 zenick 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. never so slightly up for him to listen to me. a long time ago. hi jackie. oh, oh, i'm, i'm very good. i feel better than james brown, and i feel good on this on your high res, shorter, but that is all but my mind a big longer. oh, oh,

you look fantastic for you. thanks with in recent years, senate has tried his hand again at the top lesta, 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 a couple 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 for we prepare everything with the fuel, glass of beer with thank you. we met. do you remember the 1st time we met oh, golf course. yeah. there was camecia interview interview panel. it's interview

panel and you are one of the a member of and to peddle and ask me very tough questions. like her who is the vice president of america asked you guys think that no one with the presented topless to not really to was much more than just a comedy show. we all coming from the different background to actually whole group or is a fully different. so there is a serve, so called some muslim and jewish even some had a question, i think is then it and lili's creative relationship symbolized that diversity. then it, a bosnian muslim, nelly, a posse, and then was a joy. i think the pleasing co work is actually the relationship between me and layla and her there. there was a great love between us. i really like that guy. he's. he's very

funny and he's a quite intelligent and it's an absolutely unique person. and then you met with him, i think for the 1st time after what was it in 97. when you went to belgrade to do the same story, was that when you saw him for the 1st time? yes. but you tell us about how that meeting went and how you felt when you saw him again. i used to have connections and discussions with him very often and, and we all this on the same side. but when i met him, i realize that actually he has a some completely opposite opinion of me. it is a great disappointment because i lost my best friend. and actually i, i, i cannot recognize what he looks like and what he thinking it is very hard for me.

what were the ideas that he said that you couldn't take, but you couldn't accept the main reason why the war start. i'm not belonging to any perspectives which i think that is my duty as a comedian, as a, as an artist for to be independent. she's now all polio. so besides actually to be open on which is accepted. i mean, i mean i can accept that because it is not our way 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 in one moment he looked some a more g a bit,

but she is with try to figure shoes but she's moving, you know, hes going further for the shoes. and one woman, he jumps with 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 top. it's not only was not given a can, it can. 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 or a bob with humor exist because there is a need for her 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, agree 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 the nail? actually, he wants to start to walk her on another else again, but he wants to conduct in belgrade, but i, i can auto filippo, good and not filming. so this is absolutely out of mind. so if you want to come to so i'm 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 kind of events that we would see here outside the yugoslav, federal parliament building hundreds of the 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 i, 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 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 you put to dr. boss, bushel sallow. but only connie, of our lives in a portion of the people here lived in some kind of a lullaby. oh no. oh no. no. nelly is in the middle of a book total 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

that i jackie, how to ship a since y'all need to visit get them a yeah, that's with mr. billy old, someone with jessica e burnett, i opened direct, met clinical, a rim, it up to my with toys. oh, my god, what i be plethora with them has a reputation of being the only authentic artistic movement and form with

was extreme. i guess it was over a month with i just wanted to listen to that kind of music and watch every man what. what about the comedy why they say funny in every job there has to be one thing that is completely blown out. no proportions in this country where i grew up and used from everything is pretty much low now don't proportions. can you make jack? yes. detective comics or with i was i have a chat with you later when the book, signing is those and then they head to a bar where a local band is performing. we've heard he may take the stage later. ah, men a built a successful career as a rock musician after leaving san diego. he teams 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 good now just seems alive and well in northern

ah. then it's dr. you to roll. oh, the chip is good we so nearly last night it was quite nice because at one point he said that the the key magic was with zan it. if you have any 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 for 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: petrol, i just enjoyed the increasing petrol station. yes. i gave 2 bedroom faces. really? yes i. i spent 2 a 3rd of my life for basing for the railway station that the i have the to go back home, but go to, to come in my the board. thank you. french, god, thank you. then to me we were the next bill of police done that alleys. of course,

there were another guy even more talented and we like pot on left in the $986.00 up the car accident. and the judo was the most done in the last in the funniest person. but both of them took place, done at least as a part of all their life buds for me and for them it top blister. oh was our life, you know and we've sacrifice our lives to that pleasure. can you hear it? anticipation these rising excitement is growing as cattle aways brings your favorite teen to cut off for the free for arab called 2021. greatness is in the air lead sorres' juan and rich new heights. join us in cut off from november,

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