asia by jeff thieves all. he needed the publicity of her you publicity, but we're giving him today for this business venture. well they, i'm glad you're here explaining what's going on because clearly i didn't know the difference between a parachute and also whatever it was atlanta beforehand. we do one across back to you very shortly, but let's just watch now and tap into the live feed. and here comes our crew back into the desert. everybody's newest ashan us. 596979899. like everything you'll ever stand by touch down. standby touch down there and the capsule touch down. well, come back. the new is to astronaut audrey powers, william shatner, our customers, glenda reeves and chris paws, housing. what

a day for you? well, come back. i cannot wait to talk to them, jackie, and just get what the experience up there this morning. what a clean and beautiful flight from the rocket for our astronauts, what an absolutely stunning flight. and i also loved hearing that audio of them on their way back. how about how this experience was for them? and i can't wait to hear their stories. well, you, you heard william shatner say this is like nothing i've ever experienced. okay, thank you. i mean, we're going to bring you back to me now because they have safely landed back on a 10 minute flight and millions and millions of dollars. what do you think people's reaction will be, you know, given the fact that this money could be spent helping people back on us. but, you know, with, with same shutting to go up into space and arrive back down. and it's been 10 minutes and millions of dollars just a bit, maybe even talk to the character, lee success, publicity,

the song. there's no question about it. i should mention that for about 4 minutes today, there were 2 tours in space because we mustn't forget that there is already an actor living and working aboard the international space station. she's a russian actor along with her film producer who flew to the space station last week and they will return to earth aboard if we appear to have just lost the layer. and right then we'll try and catch shame shortly. let's go to andy. now our reporter, unfortunate, we've also lost to andy to however, the, the, the blue origin has landed safely. so we don't have our reporter or guest unfortunately. but the good news is we do have blue origin here and they have landed safely back on their journey. was about 10 to 11 minutes up until space.

they had 3 minutes of gravity and they would have seen the curvature of the earth. and no doubt, people are very much looking forward to hearing watch william shatner's experience was an update in years. shots of our for astronauts in the capital awaiting the recovery team. i understand from cap com. we will cross back to this event shortly . and we'll hear more hopefully from william shatner in the 3 of the people that were on board. but just repeating our top story here, the star trek actor has boldly gone when no other 9 year old has gone before becoming the oldest person to fly into space. and it seems to have gone off without a hitch. the launch was successful and the landing too was successful, so we'll call back to our expert and to our reporter shortly when we have more information. okay, to the rest of the day's news now. and a global energy crisis has dominated conversations around the world on wednesday.

demand is soaring, is economy's re open, but supply isn't keeping up. in moscow, president vladimir putin insisted russia is not withholding gas supplies to europe and is standing ready to help prices continue to skyrocket. improved and blame situation on the year and suppliers like the u. s. the european commissions just revealed its plan for how governments can mitigate the crisis. options include tax cuts, emergency support for companies, and households, and jointly purchasing fuel. and i is trying to come up concerns about surging prices. after extreme weather shot had nearly half its coal power power cots of effected households and industries, which in turn have disrupted a global supply chains. and late is in india, a warning that k regions, including the capital, could face a power crisis after coal stocks dropped to critical levels. federal bureau is the

executive director of the international energy agency, which is calling on governments to triple. they're spending on clean energy in its latest report. he joins us live from paris. hello, their 1st up, what's behind the global energy crisis and what needs to be done? in the immediate 10? i think d, a van will look at the global energy markets today. v c, guess coal and electricity prices are going up and up. and this is mainly driven by layers strong growth in a global economy. and the global economic growth needs energy and therefore missy, especially guess and cold demand cleaned up. and at the same time, we are seeing a lot of disruptions on the production on the supply side. lots of plant and on plant outages,

as it is out of maintaining airports in south as it is in others, floating into others. ad drugs is also becoming a problem. so putting this big growth in the demand together with the on the supplier production site to production facilities. a lot of disruption being such this high in nature guess process and it is time in my view, major gas producers and some of you. but some of them you mentioned to step up and to bring more energy to their customers. and i think it is a good time for those producers to qualify as a reliable supplier by providing additional volumes to their customers. i even in a position to step out there, the likes of rush, aaron cosign a position to ramp up production and supply inertia. according to our

a numbers our data. russia can easy increase. it is exports above that 15 percent to europe, which will definitely com. the european markets, and i do hope that day will do so. and did they are, they can underscore that they are partner when it comes to cut. cut is different in a reliable export to our next, but i expect cut out to continue. and if possible increase it is supplies, but in general, the for the got the industrial i would like to give a message. gus, in his b natural gas has been presented as reliable and affordable as a cleaner companion to clean energy during transitions. but

the current is sky high, very high nature, the gas prices, and the current station. is that a good one? and i think the nature of the guys industry doesn't get good marks from millions of consumers around divert. which in turn is that the good news for the repetition of natural gas. therefore, i would urge the natural gas producers to step up their efforts and to provide additional volumes to their customers around direct. that's how this energy crisis effects the agenda of the upcoming climate summit, which is happening a little later this month. yes, you are right. we have only a few days on to the climate summit, vertically at summit in glasgow, and in, in the u. k. a. there is

a bit of confusion that some tried to portrays this current. high energy prices is the 1st crisis of clean energy transition. and this is inaccurate and to unfair. this has nothing to do with decrease energy. it is mainly driven by the, as i said, the huge growth coming across the fuse and the unexpected disruptions on the supply side. if there is something to do here, is that because we get too much energy, maybe we had to little energy that we're ending up this s dish. and therefore, my expectation from the climate summit in a glasgow is that countries around divert leaders of those countries that

come together united way to try to divert is the future. is clean energy and we do all care about the head of our planets. well, we appreciate your insight. thank you very much for that. all right, we're going to cross back live now to texas, where the blue origin has landed successfully. jeff bezos was there to welcome back to william shatner and his 3 passengers. the 90 road has blasted into space reaching the final frontier aboard. a ship that we mentioned was built by jeff bezos. the blue origin company, the star trek hearer, and 3 fellow passengers thought to an estimated 106 kilometers over the west of texas. in the fully automated capture and then safely parachuted to the desert floor in flight, the laughter just over 10 minutes and cost millions and millions of dollars shut in . there is the oldest person to be launched into space eclipsing the previous

record set by a passenger on a similar joint on a spaceship or launch in july by a few years. all right, let's bring layer and right back, sees a space commentator and joins us for free from dublin. what are you making of these pictures? and jeff are saying they're to welcome everyone. what do you think the passengers on board got to say? well certainly we've already heard from them they broadcast as they were descending we think what chapter said was that he's never experienced anything like it they have been this is certainly been a success for baseball. as we've been saying, he needs it. because his company has been criticized in the media in recent weeks. indeed, even in his own newspaper, the washington post, just this past monday, which published at truly embarrassing report, criticizing the way in which his company is wrong. so these are the need successes . he will try to launch one more time this year. there are 6 people hooked to fly

later this year. and then next year, where we think that may be a layer, i'm going to have an interrupt. you, again, are we looking at phase us and william shatner himself, the great thing william shatner is actually getting off the craft now and they are hugging, which is really lovely. things are customers looking forward to hearing what he has to say about your flight and what and what it was like seeing from older kilometers up in space and feeling no gravity or gravity for 3 minutes or something like that . these lovely scenes out of texas some big hugs from their loved ones. it away. oh, that's what i thought to work on your work. because not only is that different from

what you thought. oh well, you know what? i. 7 that i never a, i don't, i want to hear that i have a champagne showers, a really taking in the moment, clearly with

everybody in the world to be a everybody. i mean, they are, they are really wonderful scenes that we're seeing now. i want to ask you about your thoughts on the impact on william shatner's body being 90 years old and having all that pressure on him going into space. what are the impacts physically for him? do you think? well, i think the biggest problem for him was probably getting back into the capsule in the 1st place. he says he has a bit of discomfort though it might have been a bit difficult for him. once he gets up into space, he can just close out of the seat. so it's kind of perfect for a 9 year old man because only if he wants to move around. he just touches his finger against the side of the capsule. so i can absolutely understand why he is so

blown away as it were, by the experience it must have been really quite amazing. barb. what's the significance of all of this from a technical logical point of view. i mean, the fact that now we're saying a man and trailer of passengers being launched into space and no problems just up there, 10 minutes back down to earth like they're going to the grocery store almost. yeah, i mean it's a, it's a quite limited application to be honest that this sort of thing is genuinely, just going writers are going up and coming back down there is, there's very little there is some science that can be done with these rockets that go up and come down, but, but it's quite limited. and the real monique, and the real progress for humanities comes when you go into orbit around the earth, which requires an order of magnitude more energy to get fasted up to stay in orbit around the earth. i don't know if jeff bezos has been told yet,

but just in the past few minutes, he lost his arch. rival has let it be known that he intends to do a test firing of your identity. your super booster. this is down on the texas co, b brownsville. and he is determined to launch the most powerful rocket ever built into orbit possibly before the end of this year. and he's clearly quite deliberately targeted today on this important test. it's the yeah, battle of the billionaires assemblies. let's look at the live pictures again in listening to william shatner about talking about his experience so filled with emotional about what just happened. i just, it's extra extra i hope i never recover from this. i hope that i can maintain,

but i feel now i don't want to lose it so so much larger than the meaning of life. it hasn't got anything to do with the little green, or it has to do with the normandy, at the quickness and the sun, this life, the death of the home by yourself. so beautiful. yes, beautiful its way, but no, i mean your were oh my words. i can't even begin to express what i, what i would love to do is to communicate as much as possible to the jeopardy the the moment you see how book the vulnerability of everything. so,

so this error which is keeping a soul is thinner than your skin it's, it's a, it's a, it's a sliver it's, it's immeasurably small. when you think in terms of, of the universe. it's of, it's not, it's negligible. this air mars doesn't have right with nothing. i mean this way. and when you think we have the oxide change to oxygen, what is it 20 percent lives on that level? it just ain't our life. it's so in 222 dirty. i mean, that's another whole new, so that was to receive a shooting through so fast, so quickly, 50 miles in your just in black, you're, you're in bed. in the moment this life, this is like a bad day and it's in this in an instant. wow. that's death. that's what i

saw. that's amazing. ok, let's ringing reporter and gallagher now who's joining us? live from miami. william shatner was clearly emotional talking about his the variance. but the launch went off without a hitch. whatever that raises that. yeah. yeah, it was a perfect launch delayed due to high winds, but once it went up as a whole automated program, we're just as it should, came back down within 10 minutes. and you see there are very emotional william shatner talking about what he planned to talk about all along. just how fragile upon it as just how raise us in the atmosphere that protects us from the why the universe is. but for just phase also, i think a huge publicity. you can only imagine that william shutting didn't pay for the seat in there about half a $1000000.00 per ride, but the publicity that blue origin and yet phase of got from william shatner, one of the most culturally important signs fiction. starship captains of old time,

getting millions of people around the world to watch it is something of a qu for him. i think because remember, this is essentially a 1000000000 as boys club grace, the space you've got. a law must already announcing just for the last few minutes that he's going to launch and even bigger rocket. you've got richard brian in the race as well. all of this in the big picture is to make space tourism more accessible to ordinary people. when those prices come down, we don't know it's very expensive at the moment, but i think for bays off as he pushes towards this space tourism program. this was great, great publicity between these 3 tech giants that are ready, racing for dominance in this race for space tourism. so i think the anti walls, the watching this hanging on william shut every word because after all, he is james t kirk and he just went to the final frontier. he's suddenly did. thank you very much and i think that's a perfect way to finish out coverage of that launch and also a thank you to layer and right who was asked by the commentator. i appreciate his

time as well. all right, moving on to the rest of the day's news, and it's not just the energy shortage in many countries. i grappling with as i emerged from the pandemic. global supply chains have been disrupted, and many goods remain off. shells reduced factory output over the past 18 months and shipping low gems of being blamed. now you as president joe biden is intervening to help ease some depression at white house. correspondent, kimberly help it joins us live. now. tell us a little bit more. kimberly about the supply chain issues facing the u. s. and the backlog in the delivery of critical good. that will very simply what happened here, according to the treasury secretary, janet yellen, is that during the global pandemic when much of the us economy shut down and people were in their homes, the demands for services like going out to eat and, and those sorts of things really declined in the united states and in the interim, what happened was the demand for goods went up dramatically and that's where the

shortage is started to occur. and what we're seeing is a number of problems all kind of cumulative at one time. because in addition to this sort of shortage of goods, what we have are shortage of workers. many people went out of the workforce during the pandemic and have not returned. so what we're seeing is this backlog of goods, and particularly in los angeles, where 40 percent of the goods passed through the port of los angeles and throughout the united states. add to that we have a trucker shortage. so both folks that would not only be unloading these goods, but then shipping them across the united states and trucks are also in short supply . and then the workers that would unpack these good from the trucks, put them on the store shelves. well, they're in short supply as well. and as a result, there is a real log jam, if you will,

are bottleneck is the white house who's calling it. and so what they're trying to do is come up with creative solutions in order to alleviate what they insist is a short term problem due to the pandemic. so kimberly, how does the white house believe if you will actually help resolve those issues? well, there are a number of things that are already in the works. we know that one of the solutions the white house has come up with is to work with the union that staff reports in overseas. the workers in los angeles as well as some of the other smaller ports along the west coast. and what they've done is essentially made this so that this is a 247 operation. something that wasn't the case before. people working around the clock add to that we know that the president will be meeting today with some of the top executives of companies like a u. p. s. federal express and even retailers like wal mart because what they're concerned about is that with these shortages,

this could spill over into the holiday season when people are buying gifts for their families. so they're trying to work with that to alleviate some of this problem. but what the president critics are saying is that the white house is partially to blame for this issue. they accuse the corona virus relief package, that $1.00 trillion dollar packets that allow people to stay home as driving up some of these prices increasing or a new sort of contributing to some of these problems. and so there's a real kind of debate going on the united states right now about whether or not the white house policies are going to lift the americans out of the problem. they find themselves in or drive it down deeper. so we're here from the president, the coming hours as well as the white house press secretary as they insist that this is a short term problem. and the bottom policies are working to dig americans out of the situation. they find themselves in. well, let's hope so. kimberly healthcare, they're joining us live from the white house. appreciate your time there. there are

also growing concerns over food shortages in the u. k. after an impasse that the country's largest commercial port, england's port felix door handles, 36 percent of the countries imports. but a shortage of drivers is prompted some companies to divert the shipments. the u. k . has had trouble with its post pandemic economic recovery with low fuel and food supplies more than a year after the u. k. left the european union. both sides is still on, so the trade in northern ireland, the u is unveiling proposals to address the dispute u. k. has off the block to rewrite the part of the brakes it deal that's created cost checks between great britain and northern ireland. it says these cause challenges in the region. the proposed changes are expected to ease the flow. busy of goods including mate, plants and medicine. so what exactly is the protocol that the, you and britain a divided about? well, no,

the island is the only area where the u. k. in the blocks physically made, there's a 500 kilometer board. keeping that open is a crucial part of the 998 good friday agreement. the court ended the long running conflict in northern ireland that killed more than 3000 people to avoid any physical border checkpoints, the protocol, created a customs, divide in the irish c instead, which is inside the u. k. and to add to the complicated process, northern ireland must follow a rules as a condition of bricks it or the same by the european court of justice. but the u. k is adamant that must change for more on this story. let's bring in the al jazeera is andrew simmons who live for us in belfast. hello the andrew. what's the latest on the talks between the 2 on this you or these rather new proposals? well, for some people, particularly business people in northern ireland, its good news. the european union commission is going to announce within the next

hour, a whole raft of concessions on these checks. and these formalities over this border in the sea. in other words, the customs controls at seaports in northern ireland. and this is, these are extensive and this is going to, it would seem solve all the major issues that have sat back. companies are business people, absolute chaos at times. and what we're hearing is that there will be, and in fact this is confirmed now by the irish foreign minister member of the you, the irish republic. and simon company has confirmed that there is a massive reduction or off of these checks. and they range right across the board, and there are identity goods such as chill meet sausages, traditional pies exempt from the checks. these have been a big issue in the domestic media in the u. k. and indeed in northern ireland. medicines are from britain will now be guaranteed to be available in northern

ireland. and that is going to be intensive negotiations now with britain to try and solve this, sir. this, this big a log jam of, of, of, of issues which has been building up and getting very tense. but nothing is simple with breaks it. and boris johnson is intent, it would seem on pushing a whole raft of other measures across to the european union. and the looks like being a possible serious dispute. anyway, we're going to get some explanation now from matthew or to a who is said that bricks it spokesman for the social democratic and labor party for the northern islands assembly, which is just behind him. and where we will be hearing later reaction from loyalist leaders in an eunice leaders. so i say about what the view is on, what's going on? what is the issue, the issue? what is it with with forrest johnson now that please explain to us he wants now? it would seem that he's been speaking via david frost. the bricks administers work

in portugal, saying that the has to be different jurisdiction has to be independent arbitrator that this, this, this what's happening that was, is, doesn't seem to be enough. well, i think it's, 1st of all, we're saying that northern i was always going to be vulnerable in unique position because the brakes are in a unique position inside the u. k. we needed unique arrangements. the arrangements we have are called in or the non protocol. it's not perfect, but we need it because it protects us from some of the worst consequences in fitting a border on land on the island divided. so we need to do special reasons, but they've been simplified today by the european union, which is really welcome to, based on us in a position where we can make them work. we can also take advantage of the opportunity to the european single market. as you say, bar johnson seems to want to not just deliver simplifications. he wants to, through the baby, out with the bathwater and turn this into a huge fight over, i think will the europe court of justice, which frankly most people in northern and most businesses don't get to hit somebody . they simply want these processes to work well. moving on from there because it's not just bar johnson, it's c units. parties in the building behind you who are driving the same message

that they're not happy about any aspect of the european you didn't have an interest in northern ireland. well, i think the thing to bear in mind is that it's been recognized from the very beginning of the breaks or process. indeed for breaks. it was a fact that northern and was in a unique position where on a different land mass we have a peace agreement. the place is often very particular circumstances. just to give an example. people in northern ireland has a permanent right to ease citizenship via their irish citizenship. were different from the rest of the u. k. for a whole number of reasons, we needed particular arrangements and it is true that many unions dislike the principal of the protocol. but the truth is that the majority of your people, the majority people in with the non voting for me and, and most of those people do like the fact that brags it happened. so we are going to need a difficult compromise to make it work. and i hope today's compromise, and today's really ambitious announcement from the huge is embraced by both the u. k. government and also by union parties here. because a lot of the things that they've been worried about and complaining about over the past year. and many of the issues that businesses have rightly dropped,

wanted arrest argue to be addressed in a fairly substantial way by the.