Welcome To Sarajevo Page #2

No,

this is not the lead story.

What lS the lead story?

The Second Coming?

The Duke and Duchess of York

are getting divorced.

Or separated.

I can't remember which.

Excellent!

Michael! Hear your network

had a big scoop today.

Duke and Duchess of Pork,

or something?

By the way, your Queen...

She's the richest woman in the

world, but what does she do?

- I'll drive.

- OK.

(# The House of Love: "Shine On")

Hi!

- Hi.

- Hi.

Risto, have you got the key?

The little one, here.

Come through here.

Michael...

That's good!

There's a little

one. Move him to the front.

'For these children, home

is the Ljubica lvezic Orphanage

'on one of Sarajevo's

many front lines.'

- You should wear them.

- I quite like them.

Everyone else is wearing them.

That RTL driver was saved by his.

- Wear them on petrol runs.

- Mm, all right.

I don't know if we

can get insured without them.

- I know you don't like them...

- Shh! Listen.

'I buried these children

in the garden...'

Wonder if she's insured (!)

'..everyone can see we are dying.

'So I will not put them away,

out of sight.

'Everyone must know we are dying.

'So...tell them.

'Keep on telling them

until they will move us.'

'If it is possible

to treat children there,

'near to their families, with

people who speak their language

'and in relatively

familiar surroundings,

'then that is the best way.'

(# Bobby McFerrin:

"Don't Worry, Be Happy")

# Here's a little song I wrote

# You might want

to sing it note for note

# Don't worry

# Be happy... #

God, I've never seen

such clean- looking people.

# In every life we have some trouble

# But when you worry,

you make it double

# Don't worry

# Be happy #

Orphanages and hospitals

are being shelled daily.

Will you evacuate

the children and the sick?

We are here to consider

a range of options.

I know it's difficult but we

have to keep our perspective.

We deal with 13 countries

in the world

which are WORSE than Sarajevo.

Sir, just out of curiosity,

what are those other 13 places?

Are we slidin' up or down that scale?

'Emira has been here

since she was a baby.

'Now she's so frightened,

she can't sleep at night.'

'Sead's mother was killed

in a mortar attack.

'Zaned is from a village

near Sarajevo.

'His father and two older brothers

'were taken prisoner

by Serb irregulars,

'the feared Chetniks.

'His mother was shot by a sniper

whilst queuing for water.'

Got a permission letter

from Radovan Karadjic

so we can get behind Serb lines.

It can't

be much of a story, then.

Anyway, we've got a story.

and nobody's paying any attention.

We've done that story.

We've STARTED that story.

They're still there.

As long as the UN's here

I'll keep those kids on screen.

Same message - "Get me out."

That's not news. That's a campaign.

I don't care.

I'm gonna get those kids out.

What's the problem?

Big guns, little children,

evil men - great television.

- If it works.

- Good night.

- Won't listen, will he?

- Oh, dear!

Since the war,

the orphanage has taken in

not only babies

but also older children,

many of whom have witnessed

terrible events

as well as being separated

from their families.

'One day my mum went to work

'and was told she couldn't

work there any more

'because she was a Muslim.

'Then it was announced

that all Muslims had to leave.

'There was shelling,

all sorts of things.

'There were dead people around.

'I've got nothing to say about it.

'It was terrible.'

'Where my house is.

I'd like to go back there.'

Yours, yeah?

Hello. Yours, yeah?

She ask if this

is where you come from.

Ah! Yes. Yes.

It's changed a bit since then.

She want to get out of Sarajevo.

Your film would help

to get us out of here?

Yes. I hope so.

She wants a promise.

It's a promise.

It's a Haggadah.

It's the story of the Exodus.

Oh.

It was in the museum. When

the Nazis came, it disappeared.

When the war was over, it was back.

And now it's disappeared again.

- It's lovely.

- Yeah, it's nice.

On the real one you can see

fingerprints and wine stains

where it's been used.

People say that after this war,

it will return.

But it's been sold to buy weapons.

No, that's not true.

When the museum was bombed, the

old guy, Professor lmamovich,

he found the book in the rubble.

Now it's somewhere safe.

It'll be back.

- What are you doing?

- I use books to cook with.

It's all there is.

If you have to burn books,

you should at least enjoy it.

You know - special occasion,

special book.

Besides, I could never

relate to the Exodus.

(# The Happy Mondays: "Donovan")

You know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to make

a concert here in Sarajevo.

Is that such a good idea?

I will defy death in the name of Art.

What about the audience?

The audience will die happy

listening to me.

But I'm not going to do it yet,

because Sarajevo is only

the 14th worst place on Earth.

I'm waiting until we're number one.

- What is number one?

- LA, of course.

Help with the babies.

You want the children upstairs?

- Yes.

- OK.

'We came here this evening

'to make another report

on the Ljubica lvezic Orphanage.

'When we arrived, the building

next door was on fire

'and one room of the orphanage

had been destroyed.'

Roadrunner's coming.

Roadrunner's coming.

Come on. Let's go.

The Bosnian government

is against any kind of evacuation.

From their point of view,

the Serbs want the city empty.

If they evacuate,

we're helping the Serbs.

Evacuation is actually

collaboration,

and that's a quote.

It will take time to find

a solution to the problem.

Thus we must have patience.

This is cold.

Here, have mine.

- Zeljko!

- No, I want a fresh cup.

- Is that hot?

- I want a fresh cup.

- Got a pen?

- Give me your book.

Look at 'em. They're like vultures.

Look at US. We're like vultures.

Working vultures. It's grand.

Great.

That's mine

and Mr Henderson is inside.

- Happy?

- Thanks.

- Thank you.

- OK. Bye.

Just a sec. Thanks.

It's extraordinary, is it not,

that with children trapped

in the most dangerous corner

of the most dangerous city on Earth

that this plane will fly

out of here completely empty.

'It would be a simple matter

to move the children

'but someone somewhere along the

bureaucratic line is saying no.'

Cheer up, Michael.

You'll be back in London by Tuesday.

Put that back.

That's my lucky hat.

Working wonders for us.

Six years in that -

I've never been shot.

Swap it for my lucky knickers?

- No.

- Charming.

I'm not gonna film a war

wearing your knickers.

On your head!

Do they stop you getting shot?

No. I just get lucky wearing them.

Flynn!

Where've you been? Thought

you'd gone to the seaside.

Met a lady who needed a lift.

- Hi, Henderson.

- Hi.

- Annie.

- Get it?

- Yeah.

- Got what?

- Was it terrible?

- Yeah. It WAS terrible.

- Where've you been?

- Uh, Omarska and Trnopolie.

It was...a real party.

'lTN was given

permission to visit these camps

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