yeah, and then use the head of things. the truth is still our us intelligence agencies, a band just wrapped up a study of u. f. o encountered by american military bats. and the 4th as well as the lakers title defense over the crushed out of the n b a player. ah ah, hello there. the heat persist across the middle east. temperatures across the gulf, states are continuing to come up above average from what we expect to see at this time of year. q weight is really seem to heat. if we look at the 3 day forecasts, we're going to be touching 50 before things start to cool down slightly. and it's a similar story for saudi arabia. riyadh at $46.00 and catan, doha at $45.00, slightly cooler in the south, among seeing muskets come in at the mid thirties. for similar story for yemen,

we might, we may have some showers in the western areas. then we also have showers across ethiopian rift valley as we move to the horn of africa. he's looking fairly dry in kenya and uganda. much of the stormy weather is going to be across the gulf of guinea. nigeria could see some of those thunderstorms this we can, things are looking cooler as we move to the southern parts of africa, but swanner, seeing cooler temperatures, 18 degrees in harbor on it. and it's a similar story with bob weigh 17 degrees in her body, and things are looking cool along the east coast of south africa. we've had wet and windy conditions for those rains, affecting southern parts of mozambique. we could see flooding, but it's fine and dry cake dump 21 degrees. the who's on county. the cost of that war economy gives way for more security. as the us we drove through how the congo

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a. this is the news hour from al jazeera and these are the headlines, the vigil in hong kong for victims of the 1909 t on them and square massacre has been stopped by police. some people did gather but were dispersed, the organizer, the vigil was arrested on friday. hundreds of supporters of molly's military jones rallying and the capital bama code. they back us the me going to who took our last month from suspended joint military operations with molly adding to international pressure for a return to civilian leadership and unoccupied instruments and hundreds of people who have held running down to with palestine in families facing false expulsion dozens of palestinians living in 2 neighborhoods around the threat of losing their

homes to his race as an international tribunal for lebanon has cancelled a new trial against the man convicted of the 2005 assassination of prime minister ruffin. hurry, as because quite simply, the courts run out of money. a 2nd case to prosecute sally my us for a tax on 3 prominent lebanese politicians was going to begin 3rd families of the victim say they've been denied justice center. caught up with the support from barret family, members of political figures, and others killed and attacks survivors. their lawyers, they all came together to say they won't give up on justice. a special un tribunal for lebanon was about to start a new trial into assassinations and attacks from a decade ago when a funding crisis force to, to cancel the case. the victims called for this because nobody is unable and unwilling to prosecute these crimes. so if we stop now, to set back for the victim to very bad message,

lebanon is nearly bankrupt and can't pay it share, and voluntary contributions from donor countries haven't been forthcoming. the have based court could be shut down. in july, we're asking if there is any, what is the car even after it's just a matter of money? that's our question. we need a trial. you cannot give us a reason. there is no more money. last year, the court convicted in absentia a member of the lebanese armed group has the law for the 2005 murder of then former prime minister rhetoric of how do you to solve my yes, has since been linked to 3 other attacks. and his prosecution was due to begin this month. one man was convicted for the part that was not the work of one man alone to the court achieved in spite of great on. again, for more than a decade after, how do you this killing, a number of assassinations followed they targeted anti has below an anti syrian government figures. journalists as well as investigators family members say their

wounds are still open. if anything, there was one lifeline left. when it came to impunity and a string of political assassinations and general crime in this country, all types of violence was that we could get to the bottom. and we could do the thing to the special tribunal. the tribunal is the 1st independent investigation into a political murder in a country where attacks like these largely go unpunished. political violence has not ended a few months ago. a prominent anti hezbollah critic, look monthly, was found, shot to death in his car. authorities promise an investigation like they did in pass cases, then like now, there has been no outcome, no consequence, no arrest, no trial. the court has had its share of criticism, but the international community will have to answer now as it watches what is supposed to be a tool for justice prematurely shut down. so there else is eda balte. the

russian president vladimir putin says his country's economy is close to returning to pre pandemic levels. thanks partly to the completion of a $12000000000.00 gas pipeline to germany, who should also urge russians to get their cova jabs quicker. the pace of inoculations is slowed down, and russia even invited foreigners to come and get the job. i think it was, but got me. but we've been very swift in deploying vaccines in russia, but we haven't forgotten our friends and we've helped them to. in russia, every citizen has full access to vaccines. there are many immigrants who come to russia and workers as well as those involved and trite. we not only fully supplying our own needs, but also administering to those people who come to russia. china, with objecting to president, jo biden's expanded list of banned chinese companies. now off limits to us investors, hallway and the china national offshore oil corporation are on the new list of

$59.00 companies. the earlier list creation of donald trump was only 31. the revision adds companies that washington says contribute to surveillance of religious and ethnic minorities and commit serious human rights abuses. now this is interesting, united airlines says it will buy 15 supersonic jets, a move which could revive the industry of high speed commercial air travel. the jets make a boom supersonic says it can flight twice the speed of today's leading aircraft, cutting travel time from for example, new york to london to 3 and a half hours. united airlines plans to launch the service in 2029. the high speed travel market failed to recover after the air france concord crash in 2000, which killed 113 people. with some guy from boston now is todd curtis and a v ation analyst, the founder of the website as safe dot com. nice to have you with us, todd. my 1st. well, thanks. my 1st thought when i heard the story was,

this is cool. i mean, it's just exciting. concord was always this amazing sort of thing which people wanted to do want to aspire to. in 2021. is it worth doing? will it be cost effective? will people be able to afford it? well, those are all the questions that are interconnected. i think that will be segment of the population who have the money and the willingness to try this technology out . the real question is whether over time, this will be something that will be profitable for the airline. and i have to add that with a order of 15 aircraft, this would actually be larger than the operational suite of concord toward the end of its lifespan. so if the company, boom, supersonic is correct, that there is a market for hundreds, maybe even a 1000 of these aircraft by 2035 or so. this could be a real big change versus what concord was a few years ago that look,

just we just look at some pictures of the, you know, the animations, which united to put up in a smaller than concord don't die. so maybe that's the idea going to sort of smaller planes and more of them or something. why this aircraft will see it about 55 passengers and a business class configuration. similar to what was in the sense of concord was not coach. and 1st class, it was 1st class only and from the at least the production of photos, marketing photos. they put out. these would be seats and accommodations. that would be an upgrade from concord. simple because a technology, a passenger entertainment has gone away higher than it was 20 years ago. sure. the other issue i can think of other than what we've just discussed, cost and availability. and all these things is actually where it can fly jets which fly past the sound barrier. they can't go over land really can make is they made a heck of a noise, so it's limited to transatlantic pacific flights. things like that. that's correct

. it's also limited by range, unlike your common airliners, like triple 7 or the a $330.00. this could fly from, for example, the east coast, the united states to london. but it wouldn't be able to fly from the west coast of the united states without a fuel stop going. as you stated before, many countries ban supersonic flights by commercial airliner. so would have to be subsonic over north america, canada large parts of europe and, and middle east, etc. is there a sort of romanticism with supersonic flight? i remember visiting a concord in museum once, and i mean it's beautiful to look at. and when you think about it that it actually was built in the, in his, in the seventy's, it was way ahead of its time. and it's just this, it's this extraordinary level of, of, of air travel which you could take. is that part of the appeal here? well, whether its aircraft or cars or any sort of moving vehicle, speed is always an attracting attractive thing for people. and this is an aircraft

or fly over twice as fast as other airliners that are out there. so if nothing else, even if you're not in a hurry to get someplace, i think there'll be some people who want to go on the aircraft just to experience what it's like to fly supersonic. but over time practicalities have to take a front seat. that is this aircraft hass actually make money for the manufacturer for the users of that aircraft. it could be airlines, it could include governments, they could include specialized v i p transport or executive aircraft. this is a market that is at the beginning of being realized. it may be a decade or more before the industry and the manufacturer has a very good idea of who actually wants his aircraft and who can fly, profitably, fascinating stuff, and i maintain my original position that it would be very cool. thank you talk curtis, joining us from boston today. thank you. now, another great story here. the white house,

which they the report by us intelligence agencies on an identified aerial phenomena that would be what we call you. a focus has still not been finalized over the years us air force and naval officers have reported numerous encounters with other worldly objects. once this report is finalized or it will actually be sent to congress and only some parts of it would be made public awesome and jordan has more idea of you. f photos of contact from other planet has excited entertained and even scared people for millennia. but there have been sightings of what's called an identified aerial phenomena or you a p for decades. now, according to the new york times, us intelligence agencies have concluded they don't know for sure if you a p are real thing it's rotated. louis elizondo ram. the close by defense program researching you a p. r government has already stated for the record that you f o,

p 's are very real and were in fact we are, we have established the task force to study that you don't, you don't establish a task force to study something that's not there. the u. s. navy declassified videos captured by name because they show objects travelling at very high speed or shaped like a pyramid, or suddenly plunging into the water wash splash that up and from july 2019. this leaked and identified flying object near san diego, swarming a us naval ship. and there have been a lot more sightings than those made public. now congress will find out what the protocol knows and what's been done with the information. it will get to report one that will be made public. the other classified eyes, only for members of congress, expected the speculation to go into overdrive. there's something that shows up on

these cameras, and because the navy doesn't seem to know what it is, i don't know if they do or not. but because they don't seem to know what it is, people jumped the conclusion. oh, it's aliens. and there's no reason to think that it's aliens, it could be all sorts of things. the military released a report more than 50 years ago, all about us foes. it concluded that 80 to 90 percent of sightings were ordinary event, which just seemed extraordinary but could be explained. the remainder though were mysterious with no obvious answer. if we can all agree that if there's something flying around and controlled us aerospace that that, that it's not and there's not a whole lot we can do about it. there's a potential threats while many believe this could be aliens among us. the bigger concern for the us military is that the threat comes from some rivals here on earth, possibly russia or china. that someone has developed advanced technology, which could put national security at risk. and there will be things that cannot be

easily explained. that mean speculation will continue to grow about what really is out there going against the when they, when the plan asked what rosalyn jordan al jazeera washington poor weather is hampering efforts to prevent a thinking container ship from causing more damage to should i because coastline official say most of the 300 tons of oil on board is probably burned up by now. the vessel caught 52 weeks ago. but environmentalists are still concerned about the plastic pellets on board, which a washing ashore. michelle fernandez has more from off the coast of columbia and basically around a kilometer and a half away from the wreck of the we put what you can see just over there if we can show you is a mangled wreck. obviously the remnants of that infer know which basically it through the $1486.00 containers on board. that with just around us we can

see a number of vessels. these are obviously the salvage vessel. the tug boats the coast guard, the lankin coast guard, as well as the indian counterpart. there's also just over my other shoulder, a navy door, a board, and they ensuring that no one gets too close. we've been warned ourselves that some of those containers that fell overboard, toppled overboard or essentially mangled wreckage of containers is just on the ocean floor, their cables. so it's quite dangerous. they have told us to maintain a certain safe distance from that wreckage so far. the m, we, paul, the wreck seems to be holding steady. it doesn't have any where to go quite frankly . it's have the c bed and one part of the stern is supposed to have a dug into the mud and sand. but this is what is such

a dilemma for everyone concerned? how do you get on board a determine what exactly the situation is whether the structure is weakened. you can see obviously in this little while, how unsteady it is, where obviously on the ocean. so even for x, but when they have to dive to the base of the west, when they have to look at the structure, they have to deal with these challenges. just before we hit the break, an update on the donald trump facebook story, you know that he's been banned by facebook for 2 years from january 2021. so including the period he's already been banned, but it's an extended to 2 years. just a statement. he's put out next time in the white house. there will be no more dinners at his request with mock succubus the head. if i spoke up as he and his wife, it will be all business. so don't or trump is not happy and well, next time i'm in the white house. is that him saying yeah,

i am definitely running in 2024. as with donald trump, who knows anything about them other than that your sports news is coming up with sarah power to the fan, the owners of manchester united to agree to give that has parental support and an ownership thing ah ah ah

ah ah ah ah ah, ah, the here is sorrow with us for corporate america. yes, no. well, that's a big question. it's been going on and we're just less than 10 days away. so that brings me on to tell you the call from our co looks to be in jeopardy again,

just phase from the start of the tournament, which is june. the 13th. now the hosting and the event has become a contentious point with current of ours cases. surging across south america, brazil is set the host the tournament. now all the origins, tina, i can be removed as co host, but the brazilian team has been debating whether they'll even play on time. so and now the may have read the generic is warning. he'll cancel again. if there's a rapid bike in coven 19 cases. well more on all of this good standing, why he's in the audience in the capital one is there is done you. what more doing higher about these discussions by the brazilian plays has been this fog has been happening for a while now. has sar, i'd like you to go on to some time that still isn't one. this will worry well for the fans to be objecting to the football being played, but when the players themselves start to object as much of this arose because a press conference given by the brazilian team,

the manager was there today. but the captain of the team, kathy middle, the rail madrid, laugh fail to turn off when it turned out that him and many of the brazil's european based players have been discussing the same issue. it's leaked out into the brazilian media and they're disquiet discontent. about the told them and being played in the midst of the corona virus pandemic has come out when people are talking about this. but what they've said, what the manager said is they've got 2 other big games to deal with before that today, they're playing a world cup, qualify against ecuador next tuesday against the power g y. and the players will make their opinions, heard off to those games have been play. they want to concentrate on the football for now. and then they will talk about what they think about playing corporate america in a situation which out. many other players, not just the brazilians, we've had circular where all the time expressing his discontent, the origin sign manager leon l just go and he's saying he didn't really understand

why it was been played in brazil, which was as bad as argentina under we swat as uruguayan player saying much the same that he's unhappy about that. so this really is growing with many more players expressing their unhappiness about the condition. i mean, as you were saying earlier on yesterday, we were talking about how not only we're talking about praise now, but there's been protests. so a few days ago, the supreme court, one of the supreme court judges, had said that you wanted more details on all of this, brazil's argument has been that they have the capacity, they have the state in this state. do you think there is any chance of the tournament being canceled altogether? well, i think there's a big chance of that, and i think that will become clear once he's woke up qualifying games are out of the way. i mean, just a very fact the players are expecting that discount discontent. you mentioned the mayor of rio de janeiro, eduardo bias, he's unhappy. he says the co mabel,

the regional footballing body, didn't even discuss this issue with him. of the 4 cities of radio is one of the 4 cities where the $28.00 games are going to be played into of that stadium. you would have thought was a city or far it is, would have been included in those negotiations. he has said, although the situation is bad, now if it gets much was he would invoke the powers that he has as the mayor to counsel some of those games. so that starts to happen, then all ready difficult. so that gets thrown into disarray. so really for now the concentrating on the football, but i think as the days where on as we get closer to that june, the 13th kick off in brazil. yeah. between brazil and venezuela. more and more opinions will come to the 4 and the really, that's all of them and i think is very much in the balance for i love to keep an eye on that. thanks a lot, daniel. i'm a from one of those without well, take a 2020 present psycho how she might so is acknowledge that next month and then picks could have to be cancelled. but i need, if i decide not to come to japan in the 1st place, the country is struggling to contain,

rather the current of virus and hostility tote is under a state of emergency. any question to you? if it is a question of whether the games will be held, even if the guests and athletes can not come naturally, that will not be the case. the situation in the world are changing day to day, and i think we need to monitor the corona virus infection. situation to make an appropriate decision regarding cancellation. it is our mission as the organizing committee to make preparations in order to be a 100 percent able to hold the games. i know that the 2016 and then pick 100 meter, how those time looks, that to miss take care off the she was given a 5 year bon until the violation record brianna mcneil had already been handed a one year back from the thing 3 out of competition after the rio and then picks, mcneil denies testing for the, for any band substances. and the 29 year old could still compete in japan. the if appealed to the courts of arbitration, the sport is successful. and russians. tennis pe, yanna susie cova has been arrested in paris on suspicion of match fixing at last he

is a french opened the allegations relate to a 1st round, doubles match last year that 26 year old last investigative reportedly been looking into unusually high betting activity around particular games in the much says the cova denies the allegations. serena williams is one step closer to equaling the all time record for grand slam titles. williams is through the law, 16 at road and gary off through straits. that's when i was fellow american. danielle collins, 3 is now the highest rank, less than half of the draw. she's looking to win a 24 grand slam title and says she needed to dig deep to come back from full one down in the 2nd fit to day in particular i just this whole, this whole week so, so thus far i just need, i just needed to when you know, i needed to, when tough matches, i needed to win set. so i needed to en, being down i needed to i needed to find me,

you know and know who i am. nobody else is sitting out here. it's me. it's pretty cool. the bay champions the lake has been knocked out of the playoffs. the phoenix suns run out of a 30 point lead by half time they eventually one game, 6 of the theory, 113100. the 1st time in 18 years. the bron james has not long passed the 1st round playoff games, a string of injuries for his games. a team get the full amount of the united end of agreed to give the clubs console funds and ownership stake in the club. now that's because fans have been increasingly unhappy with the actions of their owners, especially also they find the come up for the now defunct european super league following a found form job lays agreed to establish a fun scheme that has the same voting rights as the owners of fund advisory board would also be stablish to allow support to place darkly united senior leaders and owners for your support. for now, i'm back in

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