zavion say their numbers are very a 5th of what they were before, the 2003 in vision because of iraq security, there's being a closed religion. one can only be born into the faith in marrying into their religion. and the population has dwindled even further. because thousands of taken refuge elsewhere for safety ah, her, i'm fully back to boeing. doha, with the headlines on al jazeera u. s. current of eyes cases and hospital admissions are surging. on average, more than $100.00. 20000 infections are being reported every day. an increase of 40 percent on last month, micron is increasing rapidly and we expect it to become the dominant strain in the united states as it has and other countries. in the coming weeks, we've seen cases of alma crime among those who are both vaccinated and boosted, and we believe these cases are milder or asymptomatic because of vaccine protection

. al jazeera is alan fisher has more from washington. of course there was a big surgeon, vaccinations just as the vaccination started to come on to the market. and america was very happy with the way things were going. but now it's just less than 40 percent that aren't vaccinated here in the u. s. are still quite a significant number, and if you break those figures down, you will find that most of the people who aren't vaccinated identify as republicans . so it really doesn't matter what joe biden or the white house says. there are a lot of people out in the united states who say, we're never going to listen to what this guy's got to say. even though he seeing this could actually save your life. and if you break down the figures even more, you will see that the number of people who are dying tend to be in read states that is republican states. and the majority of those who are dying are republicans. and so that is a real worry. now add to that the fact that we're coming in to the christmas and

new year break. remember a month ago we were talking about thanksgiving. how is a big travel? they are people, we're going to big family gatherings. nothing compared to christmas and new year. in fact, from to night, people are going to start heading off on their christmas and new year vacations. and that is a real worry for the white house and for the health experts. because they believe that this will lead to a search, which of course then leads to increased hospitalizations, which means that joe biden isn't kicking the but of the omicron variant any time soon. the u. k has seen a rec number of causing 19 cases for the 3rd day in a row. more than $93000.00 infections were registered on friday. total numbers nationwide have increased by about 39 percent in a week by the death rates remains relatively low. and the u. case top civil servants tasked where the investigating alleged parties in government offices in breach of cove, in 19 roles has resigned. after the merge, one was held in his office salmon case was appointed to lead the investigation just

last week by mister boyce johnson. ordered the prob, after a video emerge of officials joking about a christmas party house last year. the u. n. him in the ice council has agreed to set up a commission to examine abuses in ethiopia. conflict. investigators say they have received credible reports that all sides are committing violations against civilians. if he'll p. s. government denies the allegations. the estimates are shorted according to information i our disposal. from november 2020 to june 2021. over 2200 survivors reported sexual and gender based violence to health facilities across the gray region. one of the one stop centers reported that the victims in over 90 percent, the faces were minors and estimated that visits to the center had quadrupled

since the complete iraq the a year ago. it is important to keep in mind that this figures are most probably an underestimation of the true extent of the sexual and gender grapevines being perpetrator. the 7th round of talk seemed at reviving the 2015 iran nuclear deal has now concluded in austria's capital vienna. the parties to the talks are hoping to resurrect the agreement that it's easy. ron limit it's nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief. the u. s. as it is prepared to talk to russia about its demands to curb may, to activity in eastern europe. moscow has announced proposals, counting on nato to limit new membership and restrict activities in former soviet countries. those are the headlines coming up next year. it's al jazeera correspondence stay with us. ah

ah ah, ah, ah, ah ah, just feel like a going round in circles. one will only meet him, bowl grade, one will only meet in sarajevo, one bologna meeting louisiana, just around to run in circles and you come to the same place. once upon a time in sarajevo, there was a group of young men. they were crazy, they were creative, they were even visionary. they were top lester,

not realistic. the surrealist hit parades. oh 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 serials situations. and they used the language of the saturday, the streets. they called the ot movement, new primitivism, an audience is across the country and recognize the humor as distinctly bosnian who's

topless, to revolved over the years. but at the call was in it nelly and ju ro, well, the road just been wor, 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 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 molten history, people with terrorized by snipe fi 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 senate 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 mean, it's set up with one of our studies, extremely searched wasn't, it wasn't fashionable sounds, gustavo. so i was, i was got out of news with didn't, don't really the rich done or sit touching or chat. did he got the me article said you saw in as a not for kelly discovered that i think 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 eva, 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 your bill. hello. 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 bbc senate applied to join my class. this well known comedian was not an obvious candidate for a course in television journalism of course, but i let him in any way. and he tried his hand at some serious news reports. lisa, mr. george my friend for a concert round the media center in san diego was dennis and i 1st met. some people told me that he was so you know the time i was jackie and our jack, jackie. i was in montenegro in 2004 and we spoke on the phone and you told me, you said jackie, you miss comfortable now? then it is getting married tomorrow. actually this was 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 topless, to back in the 1980s. he gave them the 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 just leave me li, the 1st program doing a very funny story about the group of young people who illegally came to the radio station and force of the people inclusive 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 this yeah. 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 the local, 2 days before that was they said it was never happened. people who remember the service and love it. no, 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 a life. and they like to be together in a kind and 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 than against surveillance? peopling. sorry, well during the war and maybe he broke all the bridges behind him. ah, i've never met nearly old euro. i've 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 called kid sees her father. now new responsibilities will be 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. never so slightly up for him to listen to me. a long time ago. oh jackie. oh oh. oh, yeah i'm, i'm very good. i feel better than jane's brown and all that i feel good on this on your hair is 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, 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 gamma i. 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 oh golf course, there was camecia interview in some interview panel. it's interview panell and

you are one of the, a member of and to pedal and asked me very tough questions. like her, who is the vice president of america, asked you to know what you presented to topless do not really, stu was much more than just a comedy show. we all coming from the different background actually whole group or is a completely different. so there is a serv, so called, so mostly in june, in some help with suzanne it and lilies creative relationship symbolized that diversity. zenick, a bosnian, muslim, a 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 absolutely unique person. and then you met with can i think for the 1st time afterwards it had 97. when you went to belgrade to do the same story? was that when you saw him for the 1st time? yes. but can 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 always 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 this point and because i lost my best friend and actually i, 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 text that 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 an artist for to be independent. she's no or polio. so besides actually to be open um, which is unacceptable. 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 with one woman. he jumps this just like, you know, they're taking him to hospital and taking his blood you know because we need every drop of the blood. i where he is going out, he said doctor, we are here that up. it's not mommy was not given a can eat it and you know, war is not romantic. as you can see or to some film with something for that is, is a terrible, that's the, probably the lowest, the level of where a 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 kind of came up with that. i would be back ordered only by because of 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 top listed as realistic could we unite and could come together again and work again together? i'm definitely for o for the unification and all that is lot to close on my side, which are rich questions. bring the bill. actually, he was to start the worker on, on those the again, but he want to conduct on in belgrade, but i, i can auto fill me in the budget and the bud fooling. so this is absolutely out of mind. so if we want to come to so i'm from something i will be happy to go in boulder 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. nellie 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 the people rising on. 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 sla bought 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 lister and their predictions for the future if you could of yeah, 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 be put up to boss initial setup. but only connie, of our that should have pushed on up to the people here, lived in some kind of a lullaby. oh to oh, he's in the middle of a big to promoting. he's new memoir, placing time in saudi. i catch up with him in the serbian city of novi, sad his book is doing well during large crowds. i sign up with

jackie out with a mutual build, some of which is going in a goddam . what i be plethora with them has a reputation of being the only authentic artistic movement informed with

was extreme. i guess it was over a month with i just want to listen to that kind of music and watch everything as this man. what about the comedy why they say funny. and every job there has to be one thing that is completely blown out of proportion. and in this country where i grew up and used from everything is pretty much low. now don't proportions and can you make it, jack? yes, to jackie. yes. up comic. so i was i have a chat with you later when the book signing is over. ned, a head to a bar where a local band is performing. we've heard he may take the stage later. nelly built a successful career as a rock musician after leaving san diego. he teamed up with the famous film director

and the customer. it's up and they traveled internationally with their band, the no smoking orchestra. oh, a a new google style just seems alive and well in not be sad.

oh, zen it's deborah you too. oh, oh oh, how are you? the chip is good. we so nearly last night it was quite nice because at one point he said that the, the key magic wand with zam, it talk to her we haven'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 sadie. like yahoo, you know some, i like that. i don't think i've

ever i've come to a petrol station to meet nellie. i'm traveling with him to the next stop on his book tool zaya chart, a remote town in east and serbia. i'm hoping to talk to him about meeting with janet and judo. thank you. petra, i've just been enjoying some delicious. so the increasing good. i've been in the petrol station yet. okay. 2 bedroom spaces, really of yes i, i spent 2 3rd of my life pool stations for a railway station set that up and i have the 2. so you i will have to go back home . but unfortunately i have to go to to zaya check. so i will try to come in my see 4. thank you. french god, thank you. have been sent it to me. we were the xle of top police done. i did all the stuff. of course,

there were another guys even more talented. we are like bottom left us in the 1986 of the car accident. and judo is the most talented the last and the funniest person. but both of them took place to another elysa as a part of their life. but for me and for resent it, talk blister was our life, you know and read sacrifice our lives to that project. in hebron boys breed and fly pigeons. but in this occupied palestinian city boys are also close to watched by israeli forces. at times, shot up and often arrested. a delicately told tale filmed over 5 years of a coming of age and a place where even

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sure they have the details of the sympathise of the supportive and the fighters, which belong to the group. lou. lou again, i'm fully back to ball with the headlines on al jazeera. u. s. corona virus case is in hospital admissions, are surging on average. more than a 100. $20000.00 infections are being reported each day. an increase of 40 percent on last month. i'm a crime is increasing rapidly and we expect it to become the dominant strain in the united states as it has in other countries. in the coming weeks, we've seen cases of armor crime among those who are both vaccinated and boosted. and we believe these cases are milder.