that they did have the engine burn for full duration and so you can the on flight in flight video even shows folks floating and g. and so this is the highlight of the ride is to get a view of the curving earth and to spend a few minutes and weightlessness get out of your seats and, and do do a role, which apparently they're doing. so this is the big, this is the big moment. this is and you know, kind of frustrating the images. i mean, as would be expected the images from inside the cat and a little dog. yeah, going and then that far above above the earth you would expect as much. i mean just really wanted to pull images. what, what are these guys going to be experiencing up there? i mean, you would imagine the views would be incredible. the speed must fail quite unusual if you're not used to going up on a rocket ship. right. so it's

a few minutes weightlessness. it's not a normal flight, but it's pretty thrilling in the view as fantastic you. you can see the terrain were beneath you. the slight curve of the. ready of the earth and the black sky and space above. and so that's what people are going to pay, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars to see and then they have to quickly get back into their seat. they're probably doing that right now and experience a few g of acceleration on the way down. and so it's like a roller coaster ride. really, the best part is at the top of the ride, but there are some real to be had on the way up and on the way down as well. and so they're getting ready for the glide back to spaceport america. it's an up and down flight. they are staying in the same area. it's not as if they're going anywhere, but this could be the beginning of type of travel that will get people places faster than ever. did the re entry coming back down to land. this isn't

the landing i was reading is going to be much like a plain kind of a very soft land it can you can you run us or what the landing is like? well it's really a glider landing that the space ship. one rocket plane is designed so that it actually tilts its wings during the descent in a way that the seller rates the plane from supersonic speed. and then that straightened dollar length and becomes the glider and then takes circling flight down. it takes maybe 20 minutes or a half an hour to get back to land, but it's very much like an airplane landing. and from all evidence, it looks as if the lighting part of it is proceeding just according to the norm. and so they've really been through the roughest part of life, and it's all gravy from here. all right,

thank you very much for that allen boil there, contributing editor and key choir. let's go to rob reynolds, who live at the virgin galactic spaceport in sierra county, new mexico and rob. we've had that that, that high point, i guess you like everything seems to be going off without a hitch. flawlessly, folly, at the moment everything seems to be as you say, going off absolutely perfectly. the separation went, the went flawlessly, then the, the engine burn, bringing the unity spacecraft up near to space, the 88 kilometers about the surface of the earth. that went perfectly well. just about 30 seconds ago, we heard that double sonic boom. that the announcer on the virgin galactic live stream mentions which we carried on our air and we heard it off to the, to the east in that direction. so it is now as you

probably just listen to richard branson normally answer this and say well you got to say and just like that, he's gone back. right. so we'll have to catch a little live broadcasting from several but all space is how i guess i can sympathize with the poor mr. branson because i've had my share of audio problems as well over the over time. but they're having a little trouble with the, the live feed, but everything else, the important stuff is going very, very well from everything that we can see right now. and while the, the cameras on board might not be working perfectly. that's just the detail in terms of the flight itself, but certainly i can guarantee you that richard brandt will have plenty to say as soon as he gets his feet back down on earth. yeah, i mean, he's gone to this class. obviously a lot of planning has gone into this. this is

a big, i guess, p marketing moment. i thought it was quite interesting that commentators saying spaces now virgin territory. i mean, you know, they had, they had a lot of board meeting to decide on what they were going to say, and that's what they came to. a lot of this, you know, there is this, this race isn't there. there's billionaire race there is a big billionaire rates and you know, branson moved up his flight and then said, oh by no means was it in any way intended to upstage ship basis. he's going to go up in his rocket on the 20th of july, and if you believe that i've got some property on the planet jupiter, that i'd like you to have a look at. there's a lot of ego involved here as well as a lot of a lot of money. and i think that certainly branson being that

more i think of that of that showman, that, that the kind of public figure exuberant public figure more so than jeff basis, who's really, you know, a technocratic type of figure in the ceo business ban. of course, with an enormous a business empire that really dwarfs richard branson. but branson is really good at this kind of showmanship, base us maybe not so much, but basis is going to have his time to. we'll have his moment on the 20th. and i'm sure that with him, bringing on board his brother and bring on board wally funky, you mentioned a short while ago. that's going to be touching, i think that'll, that'll be some very emotional territory there. so we'll see how that goes. and then we'll see what, what eli musk can pull out of his head another showman with, with the reputation for a lot of surprises. we all remember that capsule, the,

that rocket ship that headed off to mars with the david booey song playing in the, in the cockpit. so mosque has yet to unveil his his big show. but this is really, yeah, it's kind of like 3 really rich bars. men, bailey, kind of show me and doing their thing in space, and it's definitely captured the attention of so many people around the world can not this similar way, i guess, to those 1st those early space flights by people like you are a guard and john glenn people are, are interested, they want to see this work and they want to see how it might affect them in the future. now i guess it's capturing the imagination, isn't it? i was, i was interested real because branson is a keen environmentalist. he arrived to the flight on his bike,

but you'd think that space flight would, would be pretty bad on the old robin footprint front. well yeah, that's a quite, it doesn't require of a lot of fuel to be expanded. it's not necessarily the type of fuel that we use in our, in our vehicles or in jet planes. but nevertheless, it does create a lot of combustion and that is a factor definitely in a global warming. but you know, some of the things that, that elan musket said that kind of kind of lend itself to the idea that maybe space is the place for the human race. i'm not trying to make a poem here. maybe space is the place for the human race to go. if our planet becomes uninhabitable due to our own activities. now you know that one could,

one could argue another side to that, but yes, there's definitely, i can hear. i can hear planes in the air now. i'm not sure. i think you must want to fail to see it. it looks like it's coming down. and it has landed. it's down. that's it. that's it. it's landed. yeah. it's down. it's down perfectly and it's going along the, the runway coming to a stop now. looks like everything with just picture perfect. people are applauding here. yeah, i mean it's, it's, it's, it's an important moment. it's quite incredible. you think about space, flight and reentry space, but you don't think we don't imagine i didn't anyway that, that, that said to croft would come down and land like any other aircraft your standard aircraft. but there we are. told me through the that's

a fan fist surrounding the landing in the ocean, or i can cause bedroom, exactly the fanfare because franklin has said that he was going to make some sort of announcement after sydney. right. he said he'd have a big surprise and i don't know what it is. you don't have any he, he's got something up his sleeve. obviously i have, i haven't got richard branson here at the moment, but we'll find out pretty soon as soon as they get checked out of their their spacecraft. and then there will be a, a press conference. they'll tell us about what they experience, how they felt about it, what their thoughts and feelings were. i mean, this is got to be a life changing experience in a, in a way, i think, you know, remember that the, the, the people who went to the moon in the apollo program, some of them really were changed wherever they had spiritual experiences up there.

some of them were more technocratic and did not but, but this is got to be something that is, is very powerful for the human mind. rather branson is it's obviously very confident that that commercial space tourism is not that far away. so confident. in fact, he's already sold seats for commercial flights. not cheap. right, 600 seats. told me after that, i mean that how, how are they willing to pay a quarter of a $1000000.00 to each? right. if it is incredibly well before today, they cost to the cost $250000.00 each. maybe after today. you know, this could be a marketing opportunity and the price could go up. but we have been told by virgin galactic the company that there's a list of people 600 people so far who have indicated that

they will pay that amount of money to put some money down to to make a space like several years ago here. when there was a test flight, i spoke to one of those people was a woman from the united arab emirates and was very excited about the process. i said this is going to be years from now. she said, i don't care. this is something i want to do and you know, i'm willing to spend the amount of money to have this personal experience and also learn cheaper than the to see if this is a lot of paper then the $28000000.00 that and i know and mystery person has bids to fly with bays. so, so yeah, i mean it's a very expensive, not as expensive as that. we're going to buy for us rob, just to recap, if you've just joined us here on al jazeera, what you are looking at live pictures from syria county where we have seen richard

branson of virgin galactic. take a sub orbital flight above the earth where they had a few minutes of weightlessness. this is virgin galactic taking its 1st fully crude flight to the edge of space on board. they had 6 people in total, 2 pilots for mission specialists of which were richard brents. and was one, although they, they could have reached a max altitude of 800 kilometers the well governing body puts our space at 100 kilometers. so that's a little tough linear about whether this qualifies as space. this was the space plane took off attached to especially designed aircraft, the vs eve, which carried the rocket power space ship vss unity. after reaching 50000 feet the plane. 5 was released and dropped for a moment in the rock rocket ignited. and then the unity climbed to sub orbital space before making its re entry,

which was very smooth indeed. to avenues now into extreme heat is building in the western united states with reco breaking temperatures, forecast for california, and nevada becomes just weeks after another dangerous hint. wife is alexia bryan, reports me. this is the largest wild fire of the year in california, burning 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 dome, 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 the impacts, the cute impacts are happening. decades before, even the scientists i predicted with scorching temperatures across penn state's

30000000 americans are 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, they're wanting so dangerous conditions could cause heat related illnesses. this latest surge follows the hottest june on record for the us and historic heat waves estimated to have killed nearly 200 people. the searing temperatures baking visitors at california, joshua tree, national park, thought is place hires like this is a hot, it's never been hotter. it feels like we're in and out in the nearby death valley.

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was in the bush me i was can i because i do think the have the new situation when i'm when that is well, i have to run the fight and said that we should move up to anything. can hopefully even weigh you said dilution. we'll have to go with the women. did that able to through to you, she would to now disclose new school now to him line. so not to support his anti. thank you so much can will it's late in with a chance of a pretty unique sporting double football team, of course, as a shot at winning the european championship. and right now my favorite seni is playing in the wimbledon final bird seine charge to come the 1st it's highly. and when this title is taking on world number one, no joke of which in that final, the serbian, well he's aiming for a record equal 20th. the grand slam title,

it's currently one settle the who's well england. and it's really counting down to the final of further european championship fans gathering at london's wembley stadium in the home team. i me to win this title for the very 1st time english any previous apparently the major final that was back in 1966 on that occasion that germany in the world cup final without game being played, wembley since then. no england famous might have passed the semi finals that either world cut all the or the new season the tournament. so i haven't gone so well. one important for this team and over the last 4 years they've not down so many barriers and they've come through. so many different challenges, different ways to win matches had to come back from being behind,

had to go through extra time to go through penalty shootout. so they're resilience and experiences as a team of really prepared them well for this moment. a 1000 it's the fans are being allowed to travel in switzerland for the games of voters have to fight in and out of the country on the same day. all men have any contact with the general public italy hoping to win the years for the 1st time. since 1960. but that l a fina we hope we can hear our fans at the end of the game up during the match. we'll have to think about other things we'll have to think about performing, creating chances, scoring goals, defending well, so many things we have to think about during the match. so i hope i can hear them at the end when the last a 28 years without a major trophy. thousands of origins. indian fans now celebrating the victory over brazil in the corporate america. finally, a 1st off goes off the clench a hard for game. in brazil, the new one, le reports for from one is aries. within minutes of the final whistle blowing an

american stadium in rio de janeiro, ultram fans the gang gathering in the center. when osiris and towns and cities across the country to celebrate winning a trophy, they captured $993.00. before many of them were born. i'm already gone dance and we are very happy. the truth is with these difficult times we are living through. this has made us very happy. we are going to celebrate with the children. i really, really, i'm happy, i'm happy. i've been waiting for this moment for my whole life. it makes me very happy about. thank you. messy for being argentine. oh, my heart is bursting with happiness. not wanting the copper america or the wolf top is simply not good enough rugs in time football fan who consider their team one of the best in the world left with the best player in the world. in leonor messy. yeah, he's been a beaten finally several times and the 34 years old,

many were wondering what ever left a major international trophy now he have many fans is happy for him if they are for jim tina. it was a difficult told about the container, brazil, both suffering very high infection and death rate was a cobra 19 pandemic. this moment of the fraction of light relief, what has been a very difficult time of the people across south america who missed a tournament and never happened to they did in the midst of the corona virus pandemic until it turmoil container and columbia being forced to withdraw his co host this week before it started and brazil offering to host at the last minute. despite the controversy, despite the cobra 19 restriction, the football went ahead and ordered tina little messy emerge, victorious the celebration. delighted to continue for some time to come. yeah,

and why they're just hearing what a song or is almost as champion, he came out see almost participation in the olympic golf tournament. sees under threat. he tested positive for coven. 19 months. he, on the who in april became the 1st japanese man. so when a golf major is considered a content to light the colder at the opening ceremony on july 23rd, at least he was the 29 year old. so i mean, self isolating since july, the 2nd he's also withdrawn from next. next week's sorry, open championship. disappointing in 2 calling regarding the latest you have see fights, the irishman left leg collapsing beneath him. towards the end of the 1st rounds, each conduct employee and las vegas, he was unable to continue for winning by technical accounts regarding his being beaten twice in the last year by the american. it's ox, it's brutal. it's, you know, it's not the way you want to see fights and so you know, dust employee a fight for the title and connor's healed and ready to go. you do the rematch?

i guess i don't know and i can tell you just moments ago, joclett scrubbed a 2 to one lead in that wimbledon final. ok, that's useful for now. thank you very much. and i fear the con film festival has gone green. the long over due commitment include several measures to offset it's carbon footprint. it also launched and you stand alone section focusing on climate change that has butler, that one of its ambassadors, french dom mary on compared to produce one of the 7 film selected documentary bigger than off follows environmental campaigner malati visa as she travels the world to meet other young activists for injectors, mario katya produced the film. she says the young people in it give her hope because they have a lot to teach us. they have a lot to say. and just because they're aware of the situation more than older generations. and,

and because they act, they do things because now says one of a number of films about climate change, the film festival, when organizes if given ecology, top billing for the 1st time visit, the can have to pay a green tags. it is money that is used to all set for festivals. carbon footprint is an example of how the movie industry is increasingly trying to tackle it's nursing practices with foss. thanks knowledge, cruise, transportation, and travel, film productions can be big, polluted. but paul, to the industry are changing. profile studios, near my say offers a more sustainable way to make films. solar panels provide power, set for recycled and light. so no energy marshall. there's only this. i want to leave a better planet for my children. and sustainability is also important in terms of marketing, because many movie companies want to film and clean green studios. so this gives us an advantage on the power set of historic drama to furnish president this

consultant says sustainable filmmaking, which uses waste and cost to this dummy the heavier we can easily lower films, carbon footprint, but not using generators for example. but we also try a whole system for everyone, including suppliers to think differently. because yeah, it's essential that the industry adapt. i'm really thankful that they're taking this you know this turn because because it's, it must face an act. a film festival that attracts tens of thousands of people from around the world isn't an obvious standard bearer for the climate emergency fight. but when it comes to raising awareness, what happens in can gets noticed. natasha butler. i'll just sarah, can listen, you got to go away though. go back in just a moment. the more today's ah

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