one, there was never going to be letting an obstacle just stand in front of you. that is what made the intimate connection between myself and rhonda diggers and merchants. and secondly, africa direct on al jazeera. ah 0100. how's g m t here on al jazeera? come all santa maria with your headlines. you as president, joe bivens and outs measures 2 limits. a surge of armor con cases. includes expanded testing support for hospital mo, vaccinations, but he has stopped short of calling for another lockdown. kimberly hancock with this report now from washington. i'm a crime has gripped the united states. 73 percent of new cases are now attributed to that highly contagious, very it testing site across the u. s. are packed in cleveland. this new dr.

up testing site with act capacity just hours after opening or cobra. it has been a tough adversary. we've shown that we're tougher to combat the arm across sergio as president joe biden, on tuesday announced a half 1000000000 home rapid tests will be distributed to americans starting in january until now u. s. rapid tests have been expensive and hard to find. we're take even more steps to make it easier to get tested and get tested for free. we're biden's also utilizing the defense production act to ramp up test manufacturing for clinical use . he's deploying 1000 troops to support overwhelmed doctors and nurses, and he's tapping into america's national stock pile of ventilators to ensure hospitals are well equipped. still biden says the best way to prevent severe disease and death is vaccination. all these people who have not been vaccinated,

you have an obligation to yourselves, to your family and quite frankly. and now we criticize this to your country shortly after taking office bite and reverse his predecessors withdrawal from the world health organization to unify the global fight against cove it. on tuesday, secretary of state blinking announced an additional 580000000 will be sent to the w h. whoa to set up programs to get the vaccinated their 1st shot. but it may already be too late. we are going to be far behind what is needed for the on the kron search. and as because of how transmissible this variant is, this may be one of the fastest spreading pathogens in madison that we've ever seen . so all of these efforts that they announced today are excellent, but my concern is that they're not going to be rolled out fast enough. the search

is the arm across, the very end is disrupting the struggling us economy. sports leagues are cancelling game. so are some broadway shows, but biden says, it doesn't have to be this way. he pleaded with those skeptical of vaccines and government to reconsider. my ministration is put them in place not to control your life, but to save your life. what's not a part of president biden's plan are locked down? seeing in other countries, the white house hopes expanded testing will prevent the need for such restrictions . in the united states. kimberly hell hit al jazeera, the white house in the u. k that reported more than 90000 new cove at 19 cases. but prime minister bars johnson has confirmed he won't be bringing in any new restrictions before christmas. that headlines, sedans, prime minister is reported close to stepping down. abdullah ham doc was removed and amid a treat take over in october, but he was reinstated last month after signing

a deal with the military protest is called that a betrayal is ready forces of shot to the young palestinian man after claims he tried to run over soldiers in the occupied west bank. the military says he crashed his car into a jeep after being shot to israeli soldiers were also reportedly wound. it's libya's presidential elections likely to be postponed after a dispute over rules and regulations. it's been official announcement that friday's vote has been delayed, but the head of the election commission has dissolved the electoral committees and polling station workers have been told to stop a work when at least a 160 people have drowned in the mediterranean, in the past. week in 2 separate shipwrecks, they were migrants trying to make their way from libya to europe. with that you are up to date with the headlines al jazeera correspondent starts right now with

ah, ah ah ah, he just felt like a gang round, and sacco mumble only meet him. bell grade, one was on the meeting, 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. the surrealist 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 san diego, formed a rock band called zap it on you know, pushing yay. no smoking. they started doing a week p, comedy salt 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 use the language of the saturday, the streets. they called that art movement, new primitivism and audiences across the country recognized the human as distinct people, psion ah,

topless, to revolved over the years. but at the coal was zen, it's nelly and jerome. well, you've only. 2 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 flat 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 war also split up the group, nellie left his serbia douro fled to slovenia, while zenick remained in sarajevo. trying to keep top mister 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 senator nellie and jiro together again. they said they're willing to meet with exactly where is the big question? i was them as a child, actually during and just thought of the war. people still loved 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 year's wazinski festival sounds. gustavo small hotels got out of news. one of them with don't really the rich done us if touching or chat. did he got in a caucus abuse shot in as a not for tele scuffed that i think that republican yugoslavia padilla not is that

snow is up on new las lobby. 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. i. oh yeah, they decide to go for a drink for the fight, breaks out because they can't agree on which bar to go to a little bit. i will, 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 bbc senate 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 the news. so you know, the time i was checking our jack jackie, i was in montana in 2004 and we spoke on the phone and you told me you said jackie, you missed comfortable then it is getting married to morrow. actually, this is a really event event i should have got from the con job, but it's

a very long way from got it to with now you're going to see, we're going to say him today. we're going to see him today and catch up and see what's going on. borrow discovered topless back in the 1980s. he gave them their 1st break on the radio and became their mental last co bullet scott their ma. c no soon. 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 being a very 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 realistic 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 in san a local, 2 days for them. they said it was never happened. the people who remember the service and love it. no, you love the idea from 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 unlike and they liked to be together in a time than we are talking about to them. they were very, very closely ever in the same boat. you know, do those problems now? i'm in veritable denise, sir. the own space, the own cabin never to meet each other. i know, and i've 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 will during the war, and maybe he brought cold 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 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 sent it 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 and all that i feel good on this on your hair is shorter, but that is all but my mind the 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 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 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 who's 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 to know what you presented topless, to naturalist, who was much more than just a comedy show. we all coming from the different background to actually whole group a 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, isn't it? 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 there, there was a great love between us. i really like that guy. he's a,

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 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 cannot recognize what he looks like. what

do you thinking? it is very hard for me. what were the ideas that he said that you couldn't take it? 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. he's now or polio. so besides actually to be opened up, which is an 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 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 summer on a poor g. it's

a bit, but she is with try to figure shoes, but she's moving, you know, hes going further for the shoes. and one moment 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 said, doctor, we are here that don't get that money, right? not given a kind of a like, you know, the war is not roman, as you can see or to some of filled with something for that is, is a terrible than the, probably the lowest, the level of where the human being can be. there is no proud there is no dignity one sketch 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 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 to come together again and work again together? i'm definitely for a 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 shawna dusty again, but he wanted that turned in belgrade. but i, i can auto formula bogus and not filming so this is absolutely out of mind. so if we want to come to soil and film 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 and thousands of 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 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 lister and their predictions for the future of yugoslavia. and it was basically a too bad to be true. but 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 silo. but only connie, of our that should a portion of the people here lived in some kind of a lullaby. oh no, no, no, no nanny's, in the middle of a book tul, promoting his new memoir, closing time and 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, i was like, i was like, jackie,

i'll just have to make a visit to get them. events will be with me. so really old, someone put jessica e burnett. i opened direct met clinical, a ram it up tonight with toys. oh, my god, what i be plethora with them has a reputation of being the only authentic artistic movement and form with

i guess it was over with . i just wanted to listen to that kind of you can watch everything with what about the comedy? why are they so funny? in 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, yes, some comics i was i have a chat with you later. when the book signing is over nan a heads to a bar where a local band is performing. we've heard he may take the stage later. then 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 with you. good. now just seems alive and well in not the sad

zen it to dr. you throw. 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 wasa with zan it. i'll 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 because

everywhere i've come to a petrol station to meet nellie. i'm traveling with him to the next stop on his book toll zaya chart, a remote town in east and 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. okay. 3 bedroom, spacious, really of? yes i. i spent 2 3rd of my life pool stations for a railway station said to talk to him, i i have the to 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 c, florida. thank you. french, god, thank you. have been anything me? we were the xle top police done. i did all the stuff. of course there were another

guys even more talented. we are like potter 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 call police done other elysa as a part off their life. but for me and for then it took blister was our life, you know, and we'd sacrifice our lives to that bludgeon. discover a world of difference determination. i'm coming down with me, but we are moving freedom miss. now char sanchez, among the 16 people with corruption, with an compassion, al jazeera world,

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