well, to regional, and they're far from saying because the vision is under pressure to save them after the resumption of looking and the return of ah hello, i'm darn jordan. and joe, how with a quick reminder, the top stories here in al jazeera, the surgeon corona virus case is linked on the convent as push to european governments into urgent action. the netherlands will impose tough, locked down measures from sunday, non essential shops, bars and restaurants, and other public places will be closed until mid january of the earliest. an ancient shamikan thought summarized in one sentence, the netherlands will go into lockdown again from to morrow. the netherlands will be locked down again, falls. that is unavoidable because of the 5th wife coming at us with the i'm a kron very and lucy, mit the mayor of london has declared

a major incident in response to a surge and alma con cases. the strain is now dominant in london nationally. the u . k. has confirmed more than 90000 new coverage 19 infections on saturday, and a 125 related deaths. british police say several offices have been injured after running against new copays. 19 measures turned violent in london include requiring cobra passes a large venues and making masks compulsory in some indoor settings. and in germany, several people have been arrested during ronnie's against restrictions. the government approved of vaccine mandate for health workers early this month is considering expanding this to the general population, hong kong chief executive kerry lamb ms. urging people to vote in the 1st legislative election since phasing imposed sweeping security laws, candidates have been vetted to ensure only those loyal to china can run. police 10

people have been arrested, according for a boycott. lamb has defended the reforms. i do have set very clear targets for this general election of the legislative council. one is to ensure patriots administering hong kong. and i think that objective has been met through the design of the candidate eligibility review committee. so all of the 153 candidates could meet this requirement and you can see that they actually come from a very diverse background. were very different opinions on the range of issues with brit tentative in hong kong. she says the government to spend vast sums of money in a bid to boost voter turnout. the big question is, how will this lack of representation from the pro democracy crap, this lack of political diversity impact voter turnout? will it put people off from, from costing that balance today? recent paul do suggest that both turn out will be down on recent years. but chief executive, kerry lamb shrug that off in an interview,

was trying to say media saying that it wouldn't necessarily mean anything if both to turn out was low, clearly off sensitivities around at least 10 people have been arrested for sizing others. the cost is like a boat and the hong kong government threatened the wall street journal over it's reporting all of this election. and also activists abroad has been issued a arrest warrant for encouraging others to protest the vote. today. the government has been, it came to urge people to come out and vote today. public transport is free. today . residents receive text messages urging them to come out and vote. there are a billboards all around the city and local records. say that the government spent around $870000.00 us dollars on advertising, on television, but on trend and i billboards and posters a little around the city. but there is a heavy police presence. this is the 1st a city wide pole to take place. since waiting intensified,

it's cracked down here in hong kong last year and introduce that controversial national security lower in the city as well. so there is a renewed sense of unease here is this. all patriot selection takes place. thousands of people are in desperate need of food and water off the typhoon. ry hit, the philippines, at least 75 have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced rescue teams and now trying to reach remote areas. moraine threatens to hamper rescue efforts in northern iraq off the flash floods killed 12 people. one was hit by lightning, others drowned inside their homes and a man's been beaten to death and his norman indian city of am. mertsa. the man jumped to fence and entered a sacred area of the golden temple and grabbed de ceremonial sword during a religious service. what those were the headlines use continues hair on al jazeera, after correspondent st. jude. thanks for watching bye for now. ah. ready

ah ah ah ah ah ah, hey, just feel like a gang round in circles. mumble any meat in belgrade one with only me to sat eva one baloney meat and liana? yes, go round around in circles and you come to the same place. once upon a time in sarajevo, i was a group of young men. they were crazy, they were creative, they were even visionary. they were top lesta naturalistic,

the sir realist hit parades. yes 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 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 street. they called the ot movement, new primitivism and audience is across the country. recognized the humor as distinctly bosnian whose

topless to revolved over the years. but at the call was in its nelly and jew row. oh, the rowing 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 fled 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 nearly left to serbia. douro fled to slovenia, while zenick remained in sarajevo, trying to keep top lister alive. that 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 missy, set up with monarch studies. extra research was new year's was on school festivals on ski star auto sales garden with da da da da rich, done a cit, touching or chat. did he go? dement article said you saw in as a knox, kelley 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 your bill. and 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 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 to mr . george. my friend for a concert ran the media center in san diego, was bennett, and i met some people told me that he was so you know 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 comfortable 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 pub. got it to with 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 lister 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 at ease those. the sale will that will be better to is it i never but you most to all be li bogo. and you might, if you had the family, the 1st program, give me a funny story about the group of young people who illegally came to the radio station and for, for the people increasing side 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 realist 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 in santa local to david for that. they said it was never happened. people who remember the service and love it and that 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 to 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 the same 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 sarah alan peopling sorry during the war, and maybe he broke all the bridges behind him. ah, i've never met nearly or 0. i've only seen them in old viet chest recordings of the show that senate 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 sees a father now new responsibilities. it'll 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 zen 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 jack, who? oh oh. oh, i'm, i'm very good. i feel better than james brown. i feel good to know that you have a shorter, but that is all but my mind a big longer. oh, oh,

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 a 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 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. no, there was camecia interview in some interview panel. it's interview panel and do

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 know, what you presented to topless, to naturalist who was much more than just a comedy show. we all coming from the different background to 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's melinda 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 nella 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 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 all this on the same side. but when i met him, i realize that actually he has a from completely opposite the opinion of me. it is a great disappointment 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 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 or polio. so besides actually to be open on 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 and 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 some a poor g. it's

a bit, but she is with try to figure she's but she's moving, you know, hes going further with one woman. he jumps. this guy's dress like a dad taking him to hospital and taking his blood, you know, because we need every drop of the blood and where he is going out. he said, doctor, if we aren't you that don't be, don't only was not given a kind of a, 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 into a human being can be. there is no proud there is no dignity one sketch. ethan made a joke about breathing sniper fire to collect water, turning it into a sports event. i kind of set him up with that argument. ordered only by because i mean it just humor exists 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 differently 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 3 again, but he wants to conduct on in belgrade. but i, i can auto fill mildred and the lot fooling sir, that 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 fuel filter. 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 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 bottle menache of edge. 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 you put product to boss shows. but only connie of our that should a portion of the people here lived in some kind of a lullaby. oh to oh, oh no. he's in the middle of a book 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

that, i jackie out with a since y'all me with a clinical, a goddamn 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. then 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 i. can you make it, jack? yes. dejected. some comic. so 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. nelly built a successful career as a rock musician after leaving san diego. he teams up with the famous film director

and the customer. it's up and they travels internationally with their band. the no smoking orchestra. oh, a a with you. good. now just seems alive and well in not be sad.

then it's debra. you to roll? oh, the chip is good. we saw nearly last night. it was quite nice because at one point he said that the, the key magic wand with zemett talk to her question. 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. sorry, i feel like yahoo, you know, somewhere like that. because

everywhere i've come to a petrol station to meet nellie. i'm traveling with him to the next stop on his book tall zaya chart. a remote town in easton, serbia, i'm hoping to talk to him about meeting with janet and judah. thank you, petra, i've just been enjoying some delicious sophie increasing. good. i've been in the petrol station yet. i hated that little spacious. really of yes i, i spent 2 3rd of my life for rentable spaces for the railway station incentives up to and i have the to so you, i will have to go back to school. but on fortune's drive here, go to desire check. so i see a joy come in my seat for thank you. french. god, thank you. have been nice. yeah. anything me we were the excell properly done. i did all the stuff. of course there were another guys even more talented. we are

like puerto, who left us in the 1986 of the car accident and judo was the most talented, the lost in the funniest person. but both of them don't crop police done at the alley start as a part all their life buds for me and for then it don't boost up. oh, once i would like you know and read sacrifice our lives. that budget there's a lot more to al jazeera than tv with our website mobile app, social media, and podcast. al jazeera digital is a world of award winning online content. and portal brings to the very best of it. they're trying to brighten the people to levy to go somewhere else. but the truth

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