like other such policies can be washed and reuse. the design that we've come up with, ethical, sustainable, and entirely made in the u. k. it looks like face most to the parts of many people's lives, at least in the short term, whatever. calling the way they're being urged to consider where it comes from and where it'll end up. i count down to take off british millionaire richard branson is minutes away from blasting off on a mission to kick start space stories. ah, are you watching al jazeera life from bill? how with me fully by people also ahead. i. 7 see a somber anniversary in bosnia herzegovina, another 900 victims of the 70,

some masika buried as a country marks 26 years in the genocide. crowds ready gathering ahead of the euro . 2020 footfall final. although there is they could be causing coven 19 to spray and kidnapped while at school in nigeria, we meet this student who determined to pursue his education, despite the risks involved. ah, the billionaire space race is due to blast off in about a half an hour's time with entrepreneurs, her richard branson fit to join his company. virgin galactic for its 1st fully crude flight to the edge of space. these are life pictures from the spaceport in new mexico, where branson and his team will be lifting off from the launch has been slightly delayed because of the weather. the flight is a milestone in the effort to ushering a new iraq private commercial is travel. and one of the words you're going to hear

a lot from now on is sub orbital. that basically means the spacecraft won't be going fast enough to orbit are planted instead, passengers will spend a few minutes experiencing weightlessness and enjoying a view of earth from above. the vss unity will fly to an attitude of about 80 kilometers, which, according to some definition, isn't actually in space well governing body, the f i a puts out a space at above 100 kilometers above earth. on july, the 20th a 2nd billionaire jeff basis could also be up there on board, a craft owned by the company blue origin. both flights will be far below the international space station. which of it's about 400 kilometers above earth space facts, the company owned by a 3rd millionaire on 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 at the virgin galactic space. sport in sierra county,

new mexico. excitement is building up. rob, how is this all going to go down? the rocket? i understand is going to be carried 1st by a much bigger plane. yeah, that's right. excitement is building here the crew and the passengers including richard branson, are near the plane now that will take them into space. first the, the space plane unity which looks something like a very futuristic private jet will be attached to the belly of a custom made aircraft called eve. eve will take it up above the earth and at the certain point of the space plane will detach. and then will start its own rockets and go into that sub orbital area that you mentioned.

there are dangers involved here. this is not just the walk in the park by any means . in fact, back in the 2014, there was a fatal accident and the disastrous mid air destruction of a prototype of this same aircraft that killed one of the pilots virgin galactic and injured another. that was all laid down eventually in the investigation to human error. but it underlines the fact that this is a serious undertaking. richard branch, it will be 71 years old in a week's time. that's pretty old for an astronaut. excuse me. bit dusty here. and of course, branson himself, in addition to his money making, pursuits is no stranger to the perilous adventure,

sees the flown across the pacific and the atlantic in a balloon is piloted and drove various high speed craft and boats. so he's done a lot of that sort of thing, but this is definitely going to be something different altogether. and it is the fact that this is the part of the, the launch of commercial human space exploration really underlines the differences between today's events and those events. in the early days of space, exploration in 1961 soviet cosmos, yury, good gar, and blasted into outer space. and as his was stop, rocket blasted off guard and 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 travelled 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 dock in houston and go for doc 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 want 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, ex 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 on all staff for lab 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 di coons may not have the right stuff, but they've got all the bucks. and of course, if you have the money, it's up to you how to spend it. they are choosing to spend on space exploration. and the, the event that we're going to see today the lift off of richard branson and company on the unity space plane will be the 1st step towards several other tests of that aircraft. and then, spacecraft,

i should say, and then if all goes well, perhaps the, the company plans, the 1st faith tourists will be taken off next year and 2022 price tag $250000.00 for a 90 minute trip. thank you for that. rob reynolds lived there in new mexico. let's bring in leo and rights. once again, it is space on list. so joining us from, i say, in the south of france to talk about what is a historic day really a hotly anticipated space flight. is there anything that could, could go wrong? i'm afraid of money. there's quite a lot that could go wrong. this is not proven technology in any real sense of the word, the space plane that they're getting into, as we speak, has only flown to the edge of space pre times before. so it's still somewhat

experimental and it involves technologies which have to work for the crew to survive. so this is not a straight forward undertaking. so they'll be flying to the edge of space and not into space itself. what, what is the experience going to be like? what are they going to see? the experience will be pretty much the same for both of these billionaire joy ride offerings, both 11. sorry, i beg your pardon. both jeff b sauce and richard branson will offer people for about a quarter $1000000.00 about 5 minutes of weightlessness where they will be weightless and will have magnificent views. both both spacecraft, both designs have very large windows and although jet b saucers, vehicle the windows are extraordinarily large to biggest ever flown into space. but the bronson offering is also quite an experience in terms of the view that they

will get during those 5 minutes. how significant leo is, is today's launch in the wider history of space, exploration, and for the future of scientific exploration. this is a little bit of a side road because really this technology is doing what the americans were doing. back in the 1950s. there were aircraft designed by the americans, the famous ex, 15 flu to these altitudes, and even higher, back in the late 19 fifties and early 19 sixty's. so the technology is not new, but they've advanced sufficiently to feel that they can offer this safely to commercial customers. if anything, where to go wrong today. and of course, we sincerely hope this will be an overwhelming success. but if anything were to go wrong today, it would be

a devastating blow to this nice market of sending people on quick joy rides to the edge of space in the fifty's and sixty's. of course, you have the space race between the americans and the russians. is this race for space between branson and bases? is it a healthy one? do you think? you know, it could be perhaps dangerous towards the commercialization of space? i think that generally speaking, competition is good in the space business and having to billionaires funding development of 2 entirely different types of rocket must have benefits. i mean, there are all sorts of arguments about whether they should be spending this money and how they earned this. but there is no question that in the development of cutting edge technologies, it's exactly this sort of competition between billionaires that can actually produce the sort of breakthroughs that you and i,

one day one day will benefit from you. thank you so much for talking to us. and of course we'll look forward to talking to you again when the launch actually happens, leo. and right. joining us there from us. s. look at other world news now. and the delta variant of coven 19 is spreading rapidly in a number of countries with a strain fueling of rapid rise in cases in the u. k. british authorities, a warning against large gatherings. that's a 65000 people are due to phil wembley stadium for the euro 2020 football championship final. it will be the biggest crowd at the british stadium since the sound of a pandemic in fine fans are gathering in large numbers. already. australia is also grappling with the delta vary in cases that continue to rise in new south wales and they haven't gone down despite the countries biggest city, sidney being it is 3rd week of locked down the number of people exposed in the community. 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 there is south korea, which will impose tough restrictions in the capital after another $1300.00 infections in the last 24 hours. soul and neighboring areas will move to the strictest level of social distancing for the 1st time. from monday, we'll hear more about the situation in south korea from rob mcbride very shortly, but 1st he is 20 a 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 where the legal requirements are due to be lifted out, while the vaccines, minnesota deans, the hall, we had spoken about the fact that people will still be expected to wear mall and 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 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 variants 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. as we mentioned, the situation in north korea, south korea rather is also very concerning. he is rob mcbride with more on that. i think what's really worried the oh, sorry to hear just the speed all that this surge, the pretty much over night. we've seen almost a doubling of 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 people. premise show the it seems to letting down that god in part it's partly 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 in that 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 got messages saying that if i 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 ever now you need to be where we go mosque in public. if you're completely vaccinated, you can be meeting in larger groups. and this is 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 the people who've been getting infected in these clusters would have been largely impacting around the soul area. have been younger people, people in the twenties and thirties a while around a 3rd of the population has been vaccinated. they've that sexual population, which is largely unvaccinated and somewhat vulnerable. still ahead on al jazeera wildfires for people to see their homes in the us size or heat wave brings near record temperatures. the silver screen goes green will tell you what this is cam film festival is doing to help the environment.

ah, the, the the sees no rains which have been really quite heavy as you know, last few days in japan it's really backed off. in fact, even in china, does anybody, one large area of significance that sorting out through beijing, not for the science where you're not expected. yes, this to the trailing tail across the yangtze. but beyond that we draw north and south with x. the obvious exemption. there are showers in japan and there are 12 dark blue centers suggesting heavy shaft near tokyo. and yes, the ground is quite wet, so there is still that risk. slight risk of lanced by more likely to flash flooding . but it's a better situation than you were in a we could go there hong kong, whether is recorded or reported as very hot. now this rental variation tension,

hong kong is about 30 to the record, about $36.00 to $33.00. 34 is considered very hot. in hong combine. dr. picture otherwise said hubert, lot of heavy weather him for we're big thunderstorms. he's developing a moment throughout malaysia and indonesia exception. probably a java. but this is the focus soon away in southern bornea in next couple of days. so some unknown reason. the monsoon rainy's reimbursing ever a good part of india and it's reached roger, stan and central pakistan. the when freedom of the press is under threat in oh, you just call thought genuinely about your thoughts toward 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 a handy little prefect,

the prime minister to clamp down on the press covering the waves. the news is covered for listening post on the o. a welcome back. a recap of our top stories on al jazeera u. k. billionaire richard branson is due to blast off to the edge of phase in his company's rocket ship in just a few minutes. the trademarks the official start of the race to send paying passengers into orbit for an astronomical price. you can, the phone is the warning against large gathering fast cases of the call, the 1900 delta variance wise. but london, hosting a massive 40 event this sunday, 65000 people are expected at wembley stadium for the euro. 2020 football,

fine and protest now against the palestinian authority are taking place in the occupied west bank. they've been called for weeks now for palace, senior authority, pro present mahmoud abbas to quatre after the death of an activist in p. a custody and go live to bernard smith was in ramallah in the occupied bank. his throat as have been going on for several weeks, not going at 10 o'clock, was happening today. foley but not died now a couple of weeks ago that he was arrested by palestinian security forces on an autopsy formed on behalf of palestinian rights groups. as he was severely beaten, people saw him beaten with metal rods, 14 members of security forces. i've been in custody since death. he was a major critic of president mood about nobody's been charged, but this debt was a capitalist approach across the policy. okay. 5 pilots in the entire she's just

one in ramallah today, although it's relatively small scale, perhaps a few 100 people a chance think the justice for and is i've been out for my mood about to go with me . all parties very, very sensitive to any type of protests in previous times. in the last couple of weeks to process. i've been violently broken up by the palestinian security forces at the moment, electing this one. go ahead, but my mood abbas been ruling by decree effectively for the last 15 years is that the last time they were election there was supposed to be election left the bumps they were cold. busy off again, which is extreme sensitivity to protests because this is really the only outlet for position to the palestinian authority that people have printed. thank you very much, ron i, brenda smith, i live in rama in the heights of thousands of people in bosnia and herzegovina.

have passed to honor the victims of the 199578 from africa as part of the memorial to mark the 26 anniversary of the genocide. the remains of 19 newly identified victims were buried. it was the worst mass matter in europe since the 2nd world war . fabian forces killed more than 8000 people, mostly muslim men and boys. $20000.00 civilians were also expelled from the area around stir beneath tide. duramax of each has been covering the barrier for us and his mom has more from the memorial insurance. 26 years later, 19 victims of the 7th, the genocide have found. there it is. the youngest, among them, was just 16 years old when he was killed in the oldest, who had 63 years after the memorial, there is still a community that lives in reverence and some of the challenges they face. one of the challenges they face and they emphasize on is the genocide denial. and that's

was the theme of the collaboration the genocide denial has to stop the genocide. denial is the lay of the latest or the last stage of genocide and it can indicate on other future suffering. that is why this issue is really important for the victims. bosnia herzegovina doesn't have a law that forbids genocide denial because the bosnian serbs have the power of you know, in the parliament and they are using that power to block block, bringing that law into power. on the other hand, the international community has tools in the office of the high representative to bring that law into power regardless of the parliament and veto in the parliament. there are some indications that the current high representative, valentin in school who is leaving office at the end of this month might in the next days or weeks bring the flow into power. and in a way to bring a legacy to his tenure as the as the high representative of international community

. in bosnia, extreme heat is building in the western united states where the record breaking temperature is forecastle, california and nevada. it comes just weeks after another dangerous heat wave alexia bryan has more. 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, 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, dove pockets of high pressure which push warm air down, forcing temperatures up this job. 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, 30000000 americans of facing extreme heat. this wildfire and oregon doubled in size

on saturday, pushed by strong winds. officials with cold, ablaze, unpredictable and erratic. some areas have been evacuated, others have been told to pack up and be ready to leave at any moment. the heat and the fires, putting pressure on the power grid, people are being urged to conserve water and electricity, old system then they just tend to break on hot day. they can take the heat, they over heat their warnings, a dangerous conditions could cause heat related illnesses. this latest surge follows the hottest june on record for the us and historic heat wave estimated to kill nearly 200 people. the searing temperatures baking visitors at california, joshua tree, national park, thought is place on our site. this is hot. it's never been hotter. it feels like we're in and out in the nearby death valley. also in the mojave desert reached 53

degrees celsius on saturday. 54 on friday. if confirmed it would be the highest recorded and more than a century and close to the highest ever measured on earth. the conditions of so extreme and the air so dry that some of the water dropped my aircraft to fight the fires, evaporates before it reaches the ground. forecast is say, even if temperatures don't continue to break records, the widespread, oppressive, and long lasting heat remains the threat alex here brian al jazeera at he's 12 people have been killed after the mini bus crashed in east and turkey, the vehicle caught fire after tumbling into a ditch and van promise, sir. the rainy and border is carrying migraines from. i've got a stand pakistan and bangladesh. the owner of the bus has been arrested. i was an election that was seen as a test for if you'll be a foreign minister and results show his set to serve another term. i b, m,

it's ruling party, won a majority of seats in parliament of old ti calls historic landslide victory. the june election for the prosperity party and sure i'll be, i'm in a 2nd turning office, but it was overshadowed by a boy caught by the opposition ethnic violence and conflict in northern to great catherine. so he has won the results from ethiopia. capital, i just have a this announcement really comes as no surprise prime minister obvious, be amid, as far as the party has been leading from the very start. and it's also an election really that has been voice quoted, was boy quoted by on some of the countries biggest opposition parties in the lead up to the election. some opposition leaders was arrested also voting does not take place tall in dozens of constituencies because of security problems. so some on a list of been talking to a saying they're very worried because now that parliament is dominated. 5 by

members of parliament, of prime ministers, prosperity parties, good very hard for the m p. 's to properly hold the prime minister and government to account to ask the tough questions. this thing that what we might see going forward is more opposition. from outside parliament. more afghans are taking up arms, enjoying the fight against the taliban, as the group continues, its rapid advance north citizens and afghan security forces battled taliban fighters on the outskirts of conduce on saturday. groups made gains in recent weeks and claims to be in control of 85 percent of the country by the army commander intern do says these forces have managed to keep them out of can do city itself. i returning now to our top story this our in the private space race is finally here is one of 3. billionaire

businessman is closer to his out of this world. dream of taking torres sent orbits . richard branson in 5 members are due to leave a very soon for from new mexico, southern desert on a flight that will take around 90 minutes. virgin glass takes 1st full commercial flight isn't until next year though, but it will cost you a quarter of a $1000000.00 for a seat, $600.00 tickets, already reserved, and ingest a few days blew origins. new shepherd rocket will head to space with its owner and amazon boss jeff bezos is rather an 82 year old female pilot mary wallace was trained as an astronaut, but denied a chance in the 60s to go to space because of agenda shall soon get her chance on a flight that will last 10 minutes. and while ill on mosque space facts has already taken a cool to the international space station. i know civilian, cool, we'll go into orbit later this year. the tesla found assess charges for his private fights will go toward moon and long missions inspiration for will.