me, do you want to help save the world? needs into your own. ah, ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, this has been use are on al jazeera, really bad people live for my world headquarters in doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. count down to take off british billionaire richard branson is about to blast off on a mission to kick start space stories. fears football crowds could work in the spread of corporate 19 in the u. k. but the government is pressing ahead with

reopening plan. oh yeah. a somber anniversary involve me a has to the vina, another 19 victims that these are beneath the masika, buried as a country last 26 years since the genocide also this our kidnapped while at school in nigeria, we meet this student who came in to pursue his education despite the risks involved and for to arch in tina or the new copa america champions. fabian brazil, one now to claim their 1st major trophies in 1993 i thank you very much for joining us. the billionaire space race is due to blast off within the next couple of hours with entrepreneurs. sir richard branson said to join his company, virgin galactic for its 1st fully crude flight to the edge of space. i show you

some live pictures from the spaceport in new mexico, where branson and his team will be lifting off. people have been gathering anticipation building there. the launch has been slightly delayed. i understand because of the weather. the flight is a milestone in the effort to assure, in a new era of private commercial space travel. and one of the words you're going to hear a lot from now on is sub orbital. that basically means the space kraft won't be going fast enough to orbit our planet. instead, passengers will spend a few minutes experiencing weightlessness and enjoying a view of earth from above. the v. s. s. unity will fly to an attitude of about 80 kilometers, which according to some definitions, isn't actually space the while governing body, the f. i a put out a space at about a 100 kilometers above earth. now in july, the 20th a 2nd billionaire jeff, pathos could also be up there on board, a craft owned by company blue origin. both fries will be far below the

international space station, which will be about 400 kilometers above earth space. thanks. the company owned by a 3rd billionaire ilan mosque has already delivered astronaut to the international space station. his commercial flights are due to launch later this year. let's go live to rob reynolds, who's the virgin galactic space, 14 sierra county new mexico. so a lot of excitement, rob, how is this all going to go down? when's take off expected? well, if everything goes according to plan fully in about 90 minutes, the unity space crap will be taking off. it is a bright and sunny morning here in new mexico. it looks like a perfect day for a job in the space. and the crew, along with richard branson, consists of 2 pilots and 3 executives from his company,

virgin atlantic. this will be the 1st time that the unity space plane has had that full complement of 6 people on board. now i want to just tell our audience, this is you're not going to see a rocket going straight up into the atmosphere. branson, it has a space plane. unity looks a little bit like a really futuristic version of a private jet. so a specially designed aircraft called eve, will take the unity up to about 15000 meters above the earth. at that point, unity will break free from eve, and it will engage its own engines and fly up to the sub orbital area. just shy of space. as you mention, the internationally recognized the so called karma line is 100 kilometers above the mean sea level on earth that is considered where space begins. branson and company

will go to about 80 kilometers which in the highly technical language of aerospace engineers is called close enough. now, after sometime at that altitude, the space plane will reorient itself and then come gliding back in land here on a runway, which you can sort of barely see behind me in the desert here. and it will glide in the whole trip take about 90 minutes. and the whole thing will be on the web. it'll be on youtube and on the virgin galactic se own channel. now, the said the event will be hosted and given commentary by the u. s. comedian and talk show who steven cole bear. there will be other celebrities here, including ilan muff too, of course has his own space venture. it's all quite

a bit different from those early days of space. exploration in 1900. 61. soviet cosmos. you're good gar. and blasted into outer space, and as his last stop rocket blasted off guard shouted cheerfully. that means let's go. the guards, 108 minutes and space was the beginning of the space, age and age of space, heroes, gar, and was idolized at home and travel the world cheered everywhere by jubilant crowds, his american counterparts. allen shepherd, followed by john glenn were similarly lauded as courageous adventurers. glenn later became a us senator and random successfully for president pasco is go for docking. houston is go for dock and it's up to you guys. the space race was a cold war era. strategic competition between the soviet union and the us with

military overtones. but it also had a genuine air of optimism and idealism, seen by many as the next great stage in the human saga. and perhaps a forest for global brotherhood around the world. kids dreamed of growing up to be space men and women, and lift off of discovery. well, things sure have changed from symbols of national greatness and demonstrations of dueling ideology. space travel today is all about money and ego that russia actually started the rich space tourist trend, offering seats on a. so you spacecraft for half the fees, they feel i dream will become a reality. richard branson, never shy of the media. spotlight will swoop space ward aboard a version good, lactic spacecraft from a base in new mexico, followed by amazon founder jeff bezos,

aboard blue origin. a week later, i want to go on this flight because it's the thing i wanted to do all my life. what's really significant about the mission, the 3rd space billionaire ilan mosque says he's interested in taking one of his space x rockets to the moon one day. and after that may be mars away. most can be those are duelling for contracts to supply the international space station and nasa's lunar lander. branson wants to create a space tourism industry for well healed travelers willing to pay several $100000.00 for a quick jaunt. there is big money to be made at one for lab prevail. somehow it all seems a little less noble than in the early days when the apollo astronauts left behind on the moon, a plaque reading. we came in peace for all mankind. the new space tie coons may not

have the right stuff, but they've got all the bucks. and of course, this is a brand new era in spades. it's a commercialized space era. of course, there are those who would argue that that is in fact, the best way for peaceful exploration and exploitation of space and its resources. as we mentioned on the 20th of july, jeff bezos, the richest man on earth by some measures will go aloft in his blue origin space craft into space. that is by coincidence, or not. the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 landing on the moon. thank you very much for the moment. rob rentals live fare from you mexico. led to speak not to leo and right to the space analyst. and he's joining us from my say in the south of france. very good to have you with as a hotly anticipated space right today. how exciting is this launch today in the

wider history of space exploration? do you think the hype is justified? well, the hype is interesting because these 2 men, both be off and brown. some are children of the apollo era, and there is absolutely no question. but both of these fabulously wealthy men have devoted enormous amounts of money to rekindling the apollo spirit that was so allied 50 years ago. so it has potential to get people fired up about access to space. but of course as we already acknowledge several times, this is very much at the moment. a rich man's a rich woman's club. right. when most people think about space slide, they think about an astronaut circling the earth floating in space for at least a few days. this that's not going to be what's happening today with, with richard branson. is it talk us through what's expected if everything goes to

plan? of course. what's the experience going to be like? what is he going to see? well, the reality is that they're going to take many of the risks the astronauts take when they go into orbit. if you think of going into orbit is taking to the high seas, and that is they remain in orbit around the earth for days, weeks, or even months. these people will be rather like getting into a dinky and going out into the harbor here in mar, say it's a, it's a much less ambitious, a technical enterprise, but the dangers are absolutely real. right. there is a reason why rob was talking to us from the middle of the desert in new mexico. and that is because the u. s. government wouldn't let them launch this thing near people because it is so danger. what could go wrong? there is a lot unfortunately that can go wrong. we pray obviously,

that nothing happens today to spoil the event. but, but this is extraordinarily dangerous. stop. it is not safe to get into a rocket. that is the simple reality. there is the additional complication that via fast the unity has. it's called the virgin spaceship unity. this is only it's 4th flight into the edge of space if there's only flown 3 times to the edge of space. that is an extraordinarily small number of test flights before you start risking civilians on board. so what's different between today's launch for us is what we're going to see on july 20th with a jeff base or you could, you mentioned the competition between the 2 men. of course, do you think it's a healthy one? yes. and is interesting. one of the benefits, there are many, many arguments against billionaires spending all their money on pet projects. but

one of the good arguments in favor of this is that this sort of competition drives technical innovation. and the argument is made by developing 2 entirely different types of spaceships to take rich people enjoy rights to the edge of space is actually increasing the envelope of technical ability. each one of them is x is entirely different. brown, sun is, is flying in a rocket plane. today's beat us, we'll get into attempts to rather like you are a guarantor cap steel all those years ago and would be blasted straight off. whereas branson will be carried by a mother craft released at 15 kilometers altitude and we'll then burn is rocket play an engine, which incidentally is fueled by laughing gas. and robert, that is the fuel for this flight today. thank you so much for talking to us leo.

and right, and thank you for your inside. of course, we are waiting for the space flight with great anticipation, we will bring your life pictures when things start to happen there in new mexico. thank you very much, leo. in the meantime, let's move on to the world news and the current i spend demick in the advance of the delta vary and across many countries. while the strain fueling a rapid with a strain rather fueling a rapid rise in cases in the u. k. authorities there warning against large gatherings, but $65000.00 people will fail wembley stadium in london for the year or 2020 football final in just a few hours. it will be the biggest crowd at a british ground since the side of the pandemic. australia is also grappling with the delta strain with its 1st groan of ice deaf this year. cases are now on the rise in new south wales, even though the biggest city, sidney it is in its 3rd week of lockdown. the number of people exposed in the community. you have not, i'm anticipating the numbers in new south wells will be greater than

a 100 tomorrow. now, that's what i'm anticipating and i'll be shocked if it's less than a 100. this time tomorrow, if additional new cases. so we can't stress enough the importance of not only following the rules, but also realizing the risk and from monday to for restrictions will come into force in the south korean capital. so, and neighboring areas will move to the strictest level of social distancing. we'll hear more about the situation in south korea very shortly, but 1st he has sonya guy ago in london. the government seems to be still proceeding on its mission to unlock the legal requirements on the 19th of july. now this is caused a lot of concern from scientists from across the medical community, as well, with more than 120 scientists writing the medical journals along that criticizing the government. but conducting what it says is an unethical experiment on the health of, of the people in the u. k. and in england,

especially when the legal requirements are due to be lifted out, while the vaccines, minnesota deems the hall. we had spoken about the fact that people will still be expected to wear more than crowded indoor situations. the fact that it comes down to personal responsibility as the government has been housing really is leaving people and scientists, especially in deep consent. that said, this is just simply not enough, that's a lot of people are going to write off the pandemic as being something that is fading away. it's most certainly is not fading away. over the past few days. in england, you've had infections of about $30000.00 plus every single day of people who are coming down with as many of the delta various as well. of course, the successful vaccine program has weakened the link between getting infected with cobit and resulting in hospital or even dying as well, but that's not to say that those cases are non existent. meanwhile,

the new measures in south korea include closing schools and boss rob mcbride is in . so with more on the surgeon infections, i think what's really worried, the thirty's here is just the speed all the search, the pretty much overnight. we've seen almost a doubling up new cases being recorded in the last few days received over 1300 new cases per day. a lot of this seems to be have to do with the people premier. surely it seems letting down that god imparted the due to the delta variance, but only a small number of those cases. largely, it seems to be people going out more not taking the kind of restrictions that they should do and then in parties because as we roll out the vaccination campaign around 30 percent of the population have now had at least one job. and as we are getting people vaccinated, the government has been putting out messages, saying that if really try to incentivize people, that when that number comes up,

they will get the vaccination. so for example, if you've had one job than that, but now you need to be where we go masking public. if you're completely vaccinated, you can be meeting in larger groups. and this has had the effect of almost telling people that we are emerging from this. and of course we haven't been people have been going out for and the people who've been getting infected in these clusters would have been largely impacting around the sol area. have been younger people, people in the twenties and thirties a while around a 3rd of the population has been fascinated. they've that sex the population, which is largely unvaccinated and somewhat vulnerable. thus more had on this news hour, including pack up and get out and extreme heat emergency in the western united face, 5 bridge in several states. the widow of have a canadian president speaks out for the 1st time. find out what she's saying about the attack that killed her husband, an injured head and in schools a painful night for the world's most famous mixed martial artist details feature in

the program. ah, for thousands of people in bosnia and herzegovina have paused to honor the victims of the 199570 from africa as part of the memorial tomorrow. the 26th anniversary of the genocide. the remains of 19 newly identified victims were buried. it was a worst mass measure in europe since the 2nd world war. sevien forces kills more than 8000 mostly muslim men and boys. 20000 civilians were also expound from the area around server needs and speak to tag to me of a chill joined us from the memorial in seventies to tie, talk us to how the event today unfolded so many families that finally have kosher. our apologies with ross our connection to our correspondent mer, in bosnia, we will hopefully get back to him as soon as we reestablish that link. as move on and the widow of haiti's assassinated president has spoken out for the 1st time

since gunmen storm to the couple's home and killed her husband. shipping on ways, his widow has accused political enemies of organizing his killing to stop democratic change. uncertainty about who will lead the island nation now threatened to deepen its political crisis. political hand reports a sign of how scared people in haiti are a false rumors, spread on social media that the us we're giving out. the says, a massive crowd showed up at the embassy only to be disappointed that it faced with this reality, the haitian people are left to themselves. they cannot go out. they want to go to safe places. when people heard the rumors saying that the u. s. embassy is giving exiled to the people they came, the patient officials about the us for more than that, a contingent of us troops to help secure the country without asking for condition of the country we're asking for what schools to see and help us. the

us, me to report the troops will not be deployed. instead they will send law enforcement to help with the investigation into the assassination of job and elmo eas. his widow also injured the shooting, sent this message on social media, not call me you knew who the president was fighting against these people, hired mercenaries to kill the president and his family due to the projects for roads, electricity drinking water supply, organization of the referendum and elections for the final abolition of political transitions. the president has always believed in institutions and stability. it's not clear who paid for the mercenaries who allegedly carried out the attack, many of them former members of the columbia and military. but while that investigation continues, so does the little uncertainty bally ugly, the intern prime minister cloud. joseph says he's in charge, but he was said to be replaced before the killing by ariel henry, who now along with politician joseph lamb. bear says they will take over land bear

tweeted that is saturday and your ration was postponed. there is a behind the scenes pushing the country and in washington to figure out the way forward. but so far, there is no clear solution for a poverty ravaged country battered by gang violence. the corona virus. and now political incited patty calling l g 0. washington. returning now to bosnia and herzegovina which is marking the 26th anniversary of the starboard need for masika last spring back i correspondent, tag to mess of h, who is at the memorial which ended just a short time ago. terry talk us through the event and how it unfolded around 10000 people gather here to commemorate and to lay to the ground the remains of 19 victims of the 3rd. and it's a genocide which was committed to 2626 years ago. as i said,

10000 people gathered here, that means that the logical situation was and it was stable. there were no official measures taken in regard to the number of people who can be in attendance. basically the only repercussion of the and then it was the global dignitaries who could be who, who wished to be here. they couldn't, they sent their video, their messages via video video links. let me walk you through it through the official members. now, more than a 1000 people have been killed in july of 1995. around 6700. have been very up to this day. another 1000 have been identified, but only a bone or 2 that is due to the cover preparation, conducted by the buzzing serves in the autumn of 98995. when they went to the primary mass graves with heavy machinery and relocated bodies, and another 1000 people are still still to be found and are regarded as missing

persons. the genocide of february is recognized by the international and domestic course as a genocide. but how do people in bosnia view it cause well that was the theme of the come on the ration. plainly speaking, not everybody to recognize it as a fact mainly was the service but also republic of serbia, the neighboring country to buzz me. they officially denied the genocide around the decade ago. sort of be a was reluctant to recognize 70 to massacre as a genocide. but in the recent years, we are witnessing a open campaign of genocide denial. now they are not denying the massacre itself. they're just denying the legal qualification of the genocide. therefore the victims and people in bosnia, they're kind of sensitive to the threat and it's

a massacre. although it basically it was a massacre. but because of this denial, the victims strongly emphasize the need to do to express this as the rabbit 7. and it's a genocide now doesn't have yet law that forbids genocide, denial. but there are some, there are some signals that that could happen in the next month. or 2, thank you very much for that tiger mess of h live, insure beneath them. at least 12 people have been killed when the mini birthday wish they were traveling and crashed in eastern turkey. the vehicle caught fire after tumbling into a ditch in van province, near the iranian border. it was carrying migraines from afghanistan, pakistan, and bangladesh. the owner of the boss has been arrested time. not for a check on the world whether his rom had the current widespread store in the u. s. is that of heat not excessively high in the east coast, but woman after 32 dc. but further west,

you get the halter. it gets left to through california so that he's been counted by very drug by the all the way up through oregon, washington and towards the british columbia and in southern oregon. the latest wild fire burning not really contained is one of many down that west coast. ask for temperatures, we may if it's a record of death valley in california, that's a world record to be verified. but last vegas where rather more people live 47.2 is recorded yesterday. so it's probably new record or las vegas might hit the same again. on sunday and on monday it's not going to be far off. this whole area is really very hot, precise in the heat for some big shower and they're all wandering eastward. now they were big enough in nebraska to call significant damage with gas, but a 130 kilometers per hour. and cricket ball sized hair, you can imagine the damage that could do. these aren't quite as vicious, but they still got that potential as they move slowly eastwards and then study diane, i think on monday the be very few often, but they are still around. in the caribbean,

the showers have returned frequent daily, mostly light bill in almost all the islands wrong. thank you very much for that. still ahead on the news, our, the confederate statue that sparked a deadly white supremacy is running. the us becomes a thing of the past guys, it's removed in charlotte, failed, failed. the screen goes green, will tell you what this cam film festival is doing to help the environment and in fort england get ready to play the biggest match in 55 years. the final of the year of the championship is 2000 a year. when freedom of the press is under threat, you just taught genuinely about your thoughts towards the vacant government step outside the mainstream. there has been a implement here, some of access points to shift the focus. the panoramic that's turned out to be

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he wants from and use are on i'll just 0 reminder of our top stories u. k, be an average branson is said to take off on the age of space in his company's rocket ship shortly. the trip marks the official thought to the race to send paying passengers into orbit for an astronomical flight price. the launch has been slightly delayed. you can always have warning against large gathering various cases of the covered 1900 delica, very and rise. but london, hosting and massive sporting event on funday, $65000.00 people are expected to wembley stadium for the year 2020 final and the remains of 19 victim. the $995.00 are beneath the massacre being laid to rest on the anniversary of the genocide. the battle in bosnia and herzegovina was 26 years in serbian forces killed more than 8000 muslin men and boys

thank stream heat is building in the western united states with record breaking temperatures, forecast for california and nevada. it comes just weeks after not a dangerous heat wave, alexia bryan has told me this is the largest wild fire of the year in california, groaning along the border with nevada. a combination of 2 fires, sparked by lightning, are doubled in size between friday and saturday. fires rolling down here, it's one of several fires, straightening homes across the wasted united states, blamed on so called heat, dome's pockets of high pressure which push warm air down, forcing temperatures up this job. and those are the effects of climate change here . it's real human induced impacts. acute impacts are happening decades before even the scientists i predicted with scorching temperatures across 10 states. those he met.