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which they say pose a threat to afghanistan, security and carving out a new life. we made the syrian refugees who have found a way to preserve their traditional crafts. ah, the actor who played one of tv best known space captains has just returned from his flight. his 1st flight to space william shatner who portrayed captain kirk in the original star trek series has become the oldest man to make the journey. the 90 year old blasted off from texas on a blue origin craft, the space tourism company is owned by amazon fattah, jeff bezos. what you have given me is the most profound experience. so filled with emotion,

but what just happened? i just, it's extra, extra. we got to get and he got a guy, easy in miami and has been covering the space flight. thanks for joining us, andy. this was life imitating. what more has shanice said about his experience? well it's a science fiction meeting science fact we have james t kirk, the captain of the u. s. s. enterprise actually going into space and you saw just how emotional he got when he came back from that. something like 11 minute journey and the flight couldn't have gone off better. yes, there was some delays due to high wind, but this automated new shepherd rocket did exactly what it was designed to do. so you heard shut that once, he came out of that caps, you're talking about the fragility of the emotion of the experience itself. and remember, the new shepherd rocket has some of the biggest windows of any spacecraft ever made

. so you can only assume that he got not only to experience about 3 minutes of weightlessness, but to see the curvature of the earth. just how thin the atmosphere that protects this is. and that was the message you want to get across. even before this launch went ahead, but jeff pays off who owns blue origin? this was a public relations to he got perhaps the most culturally significant. starship captain in t. v. history to go up and really get all eyes on blue origin. because remember, he's not doing this alone mosque is doing this too. as a richard branson. and that's some ego involved. i would have to imagine between the 3 characters but for bays off on the blue origin program. this was a flawless flight, an amazing publicity. andy, apart from the enormous amount of publicity and the egos that you are talking about, what you're in the aim of this launch was well,

the idea behind all of this, all the 3 programs that we're looking at right now is to make space tourism more accessible to ordinary people at the moment the seats are about half a $1000000.00, a piece is only for people on the cap fuel, but eventually it's hope that they will all become more accessible to the rest of us. and there's no one more accessible and related to. busy them william shatner, but you can underestimate this is at the end of the day, a 90 year old man who went on this journey. you cannot imagine the pressures that were on his body and almost as soon as it landed that capture line did. you could see william shatner giving the thumbs up clearly he had the experience of a lifetime. and that's something that bayes often musk and branson want to share with a wider audience. going ahead. so i think mission accomplished for bays off and captain cook finally reached the final frontier. and you were me with a need to start saving our pennies. thank you very much. andy gallagher, reporting live in miami and leo and ryan is a space journalist. he says launches of this kind of joy writing, but it will be

a boost for jeff based on this is certainly been a success for bay. well, as we've been saying, he needs it, abbey, 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 a truly embarrassing report and criticizing the way in which is company is wrong. so these are the needs successes. he will try to launch one more time this year. there are 6 people hooked to fly later this year. this sort of thing is genuinely just going right we don't, would be more than welcome to come down with the real money and the real progress for humanity comes when you go into orbit around the earth,

which requires an order of magnitude more energy and to get past it up, just stay in orbit around the earth. i don't know it's just phases has been told yet, but just in the past few minutes ill on most kids arch rival has let it be known that he intends to do a test firing. and he is determined to launch the most powerful rocket ever built into orbit possibly before the end of this year. i mean, clearly quite deliberately targeted today for this important test. the rest of the day's news in progress towards clean energy is far too slow, and governments must triple, they're spending. that's the urgent call from the international energy agency. in its latest report, as it stands, the world is 60 percent short of its target to cut emissions to net 0 by 2050. that's what's needed to limit global warming to just to 1.5 degrees. the i. e a

says the use of fossil fuels like coal and oil is increasing. as a result, energy prices have risen to record lead levels. the year is being particularly badly here. it's been at laying out a plan to protect people facing huge bills are answered do what should be done is to float 1st, our immediate priorities to protect your consumers, especially the most vulnerable 2nd, we have to make our into system better prepared and more resilient. so that we don't have to face a similar situation in the future. the short term member states are best placed and equipped duct addressing, and i to barbara dunn. protecting consumers is a longstanding u priority. so it means that our rules already allow and in fact encourage the member states take action. natasha butler has more from brussels,

your energy commissioner laying out that list of recommendations for mental states who want to try and healed consumers from those rising costs. bills will be going up, they warn and of course we are heading into winter here in europe. so there is a lot of concern about how people are going to be able proceed their homes, for example. now some of the recommendations from the commission with things like reducing tax on energy bills or helping poor households with financial aid checks, vouchers aren't card thing. anything that can help people, whether the storm, if you like, in some cases, i said simpson, the bill should be frozen altogether for the most vulnerable people in the block. now, across europe, government has been trying to decide what to do to try and shield their own populations from the energy crisis. we've seen, for example, in countries like france and italy, they are considering these tax cuts already on energy bills. and fraud says already

been put a cap on energy bills, but other countries are also saying that what is needed is much more of an e. u wide response. these recommendations might not be enough. what they are pushing for a much larger responses to this course in spain. for example, i says it would be good if the you would be able to jointly by natural gas and then distributed amongst the block or, or work on joint storage of natural gas or things which could help more vulnerable member states. either way, those issues are all going to be on the table when you lead does meet next week. for some of the energy crisis, very much. one of the main things on the agenda is not just to energy shortages that countries are grappling with as they emerge from the pandemic. global supply chains have been disrupted, and many goods remain missing from shelves. reduced factory output across the past 18 months and shipping backlogs are being blamed. now you as president joe biden is

intervening to help ease some of the pressure at white house correspondent, kimberly, kimberly how kit has the details. the port of california in los angeles is a really good example of where the problems lie. that is a port that accounts for in terms of unloading container ships from overseas, about 40 percent of the goods that americans buy. and right now, it is at a backlog. now adding to the problems, the fact that there are containers that need to be unloaded is there is a shortage of truck drivers to take those containers across the country to fill the stores and pack the shelves of american stores. and there's another problem too. there is a shortage of workers to unpack those container boxes and put them on the shelves. and so you see what's happening happening here. there's a bit of a ripple effect and the treasury secretary says that this is something that they

believe is temporary. what has happened, what is created, this sort of backlog that is turned into a shortage of goods for consumers. is that when the economy shut down, due to the coven, 19 pandemic. people stop needing goods, or rather they needed more goods and they stop needing services. and so that's what created the shortage, that's what created the backlog. and now this is an administration working hard to turn this economy back on and get this backlog. worked out the televisions, calling on the international community to unblock billions in funds, which it says risk undermining. security is acting foreign minister is meeting us and european invoice here in kata and says banks need to operate freely in order for people to be paid is growing concern of the humanitarian crisis as afghan. this time remains cut off for much of the world. busy with his assets frozen abroad, 50 deca has more on the story from cobbled the talk doesn't mean that they're recognizing the legitimate government and not because of certain amendments they

want the taliban to make. when it comes to more inclusive cabinet, particularly the right protecting rights of minorities and women. but the warning there from the acting foreign minister saying that there could be an increase again in migration, particularly when it comes to the economic situation here. i mean, this is accurate from what we're seeing. there is no money. there's no money in the country. people don't have access to money. people haven't paid their salaries in month, even the bureaucracy here, the little broker, see that remains seems to be crumbling. to interesting me the security situation is an issue ice. okay. iceland, i've got his daughter stepped up its attacks over the last 2 weeks or so coming, you know, from the north to the east of the country. also here in cobb, there remained a very active security threat against one of the main high profiles targets here. and also interestingly, we've just had a press conference from the spokesperson of the interior minister for the 1st time addressing the taliban and saying that they cannot be taking matters into their own

house. like going out the house. but significantly, when it comes to security, saying if anyone is found to be part of vital to have infiltrated the taliban, that they will be held to account under a law that the whole unit that they are part of including the commander will be dissolved. i think this is the 1st time that they're publicly addressing, what could be an issue of infiltration. so i think security issues moving forward and again, even the telephone hasn't been paid their salary. the people will tell you that over time, that could also be an issue when it comes to defections. towards isolate. still ahead on al jazeera, more conflict around, appears to drive region. the un recalls to senior officials are the accusations. the organization sympathizes with rebels. and we'll tell you why a group of palestinian prisoners have gone on a mass hunger strike in israeli jail. ah, it's another beautiful sunny day of 35000 feet. the weather sponsored by cattle

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lou . ah, hello, you're watching al jazeera, i'm emily anguish. a reminder of our top story is this our, the actor who played one of these best known space captains has safely returned from his 1st flight to space william shatner known for playing captain kirk in the original star trek series. is the oldest man to make the journey progress towards clean energy is far too slow and governments must triple spending. that's the call from the international energy agency. it says the world is set to miss its net 0 target by 2050, by 60 percent. and the telephone's calling on the international community to unlock and billions in funds,

which it says risk undermining security. it's acting foreign minister, is meeting us and european envoys here in kata. the united nations has recalled to senior officials working in ethiopia because of concerns about their safety. it comes after an unverified recording surfaced in which to un workers, se official, sympathize with rebels in to grime. the investigation into that recording comes days of the ethiopian, expelled at 7 un employees, accusing them of meddling. the un secretary general is calling on ethiopia to allow unrestricted access to deliver humanitarian aid to, to gray, where the government is fighting rebels. malcolm web is following the story from nairobi. the audio recording, which was published online to women, can be heard saying that they work for the u. n. in ethiopia, speaking to a freelance journalist and saying that they believe senior global level,

you an official, some senior global level, un officials of bias and sympathetic to the to grey and forces. great reason in the north of the country, the fighting. the government treats that a conflict that the gun just under a year ago, un officials obliged to be neutral, an independent now the voices news agency says through other un work, i tend to fight these to you and officials, one who work for the un population funded another one who worked for the international organization from migration in ethiopia, that view and having confirmed the identity of the people. but it house that it is following its own internal mechanisms to address this issue. it's been quite a lot of tension over the last few months between government and not just the u. n, but other international leg, 8 organizations who are working in ethiopia, those 7 officials that the government said it was throwing out there on tanya,

tara is the secretary general did reject that explosion. that was just the most recent in a, in a number of statements from the government when it's been very critical of various staff members of international humanitarian organization. can you, the president says he will not recognize a ruling by the international court of justice. the judgment largely favor somalia in a long running maritime border dispute at stake is control of 100000 square kilometers of the indian ocean. it's rich in oil and gas. can you says it's maritime borders should be drawn in the straight line. eastwood's parallel to the line of latitude, but somali as is the border, should expand southwards, extending its land for down. 100 kenya should instead see the decision of the court as an opportunity to strengthen the relationship of the 2 countries and the collaboration of their neighboring people. somalia did not choose to be

a neighbor with kenyana, but it was the willing of the almighty god. so that we're forced to live as peaceful neighbors. so marya was committed to that forever and welcomes it. now. this decision is in the circumstances, a 0 sum game, which will only strain the relations between our 2 countries. it will also reverse the social, political, and economic gains and potentially aggravate the piece a security situation in the fragile horn of africa region pattern. so it has mo, from nairobi, this statement by kenya's present to her looking at the account as no surprise, even before the court truly governmental officials had been saying they will not respect if somewhat anticipating the outcome of it. they say that they will defend kenya will defend its territory. they will not give up an inch of it with all too hard from president of somalia for my bills and says that this is an opportunity

for the 2 countries to see and talk very unclear to see what can is willing to take that position right now. because they have held a very hard line position, if you remember, can we do from this case back in march, and now it has said that it will not suspect the decision of the court. the court does, does not have the decision to enforce its rulings that this is very difficult to see what can happen going forward. the court ruling, however, is final that the decision of the court is final. but then any group country can go or place it grievances to the un security council. the little people are waiting to see what's going to happen going forward. that would be a push for more talk between the 2 countries. is kenya going to soften it sounds a bit, but at this moment, can you say that will not respect the court, the court decision, and it will do anything to protect it? boundaries? islands, foreign minister says the

e u is to remove the majority of customs checks between britain and northern ireland. it comes as the u. k asked the blog to rewrite the part of the brakes. a deal has created checks between great britain and northern ireland. it says these cause challenges in the region. the you will officially unvil its proposals shortly . protest is in peru have gathered around a statue of christopher columbus in the capital to call attention to the treatment of indigenous people. they say colonization create tid deep inequities on the continent. the protest comes during hispanic heritage month, which commemorates the arrival of columbus in the americas. a 2nd group gathered to protect a statue. tens of thousands of government support as have been rallying in some of the live years in biggest cities. it follows days of anti government protests against her proposed law. the bill gives authorities the

power to investigate citizens assets without a court order. daniel schriner reports, ah, it was a show of strength for the socialist government, a direct response, the anti government protests across bolivia. on monday. president luis r. c. a drift crowds in bolivia is 3 main cities, coach of amber, santa cruz and la bus 13 or if they don't respect the election results, if they don't respect democracy, if they don't respect the popular vote, them will make sure they respect us in the streets. i oh, he's promoting a law designed to tuck, elicit earnings that he says will help the fight against drug traffickers and money laundering. the lower house of congress passed it last month. however, the government is put off, pushing it through. bolivia is oper, house law group. i'm was occupied, i looked at the women are here to fight. we won't rest,

will defend our country more united than ever. or then we bought us up one other grassy. we used to defend democracy in for the units eve, the bolivian people. we reject separatism and division, and those who don't represent our country opponent say the law give the authority is unprecedented powers and is a step towards the totalitarian state. they include business owners in small traders, but also some trade unions and indigenous groups in the country divided mama we're against law because it means we will be inspected. they will inspect what we sell every day and also the assets we've obtained. our houses are cars and years of earnings, so we don't agree they are threatened to resume their protests if the government does not scrap the law in the next 3 days. the challenge is clear, both sides. the said they will not back down. one bo sec, the bar like are you,

let me when they take to the streets? unfortunately, it means the institutional spaces have shrunk. this is not a good sign. both the government and the opposition are showing their force. while the law they're fighting over has been put on hold for soon with a divisions and believe in society again visible on the streets, a return to the social and political term. all those plague the country throughout much of its history now seems inevitable than china out to 0. more than $250.00 palestinian prisoners from the islamic jihad movement have started a hunger strike. prisoners say they have been facing further punishment after 6 inmates tunneled their way out of the maximum security jail last month. need. abraham has more from ramallah islamic jihad, the saying that this batch will be joined by more and more prisoners in some of them, or even from different political parties, with a 100 of them intending to stop drinking water at the later stage. in addition to

that hunger strike dirty man is that they want their situation inside this prison to resume back to how it was. in september before 6 spouse, indian prisoners escaped and his prison, 5 of them odd from the slam, had movement. and members of that movement say that they've been singled out by israel, by solitary confinement, as well as interrogation. now, over the years since the 1900 sixty's, we're talking about more than $23.00 hunger strikes and a 70 percent of them according to observers, have been successful. now the success is very when it comes to how much of these demands, where much, by the way the prison service, and sometimes the is ready for the service back trucks on those demands that were agreements that were made earlier, prompting more prisoners to go into hunger strike and it is still seen as the most powerful tool prisoners have inside the prison. now when it comes to this strike,

this time, prison, the say that israel is affecting the way prisoners, specifically those from atlanta to had, are dealing with their life inside prison and organizing their life. they are. and this has been one of the demands that was met in previous hunger strike. the war in syria has created a, dies for of refugees who have taken their talents and dreams with them to new countries. in jordan, syrian artisans have found a way to preserve a traditional type of woodworking ravine throughout the middle east. natasha can aim reports from a man just is trans into branches are 2 trees. traditional middle eastern woodworking has formed and guided the direction of abdel rough man to banish his life. from the age of 10, the syrian artisan has been fine tuning his craft in the techniques of mother of

pearl and wood mosaic in lay. 8 years ago, the war forced to banish to close his well regarded store in damascus and move to an man. even as the country he knew was disintegrating, he was determined not to let his life's work disappear, but it was the girl. yarmouth lou louise, when i'm walking and doing something new, the memories fill my mind. i keep remembering the old days when i was young and working with my teacher older than i was in my shopping, damascus. especially when i need the materials, it was easy to find them because they are originally from syria, meager. a non profit organization founded by the prince of wales, called turquoise mountain, is reviving handicrafts of the past. and providing artisans like to banish, with their future. there is a dwindling number of skilled craft workers and declining interest in this most arab of styles. so designers recruit and work with artisans to reimagined

creations, more palatable to contemporary consumers in the region. and beyond has been fulfilled their businesses and developed in the new products, but putting into consideration the importance of physical elements in our culture. and in terms of to, to craft, in general. so it's, and it's very satisfying, actually seeing for the company life to protect what turquoise mountain described as endangered handicrafts is ensuring a new generation. learn centuries old skills from wood and metal working to basket weaving, says 2019. it is trade about $250.00 people and paid both artisans and apprentices. mohammad ibrahim is a palestinian refugee who has been training for 3 years. goodness, he hunt. hm. small, good. what attracted me most is that the skill is rare in jordan cannot gonna dora

master craftsman abdel rock man to manage hopes to reopen a store and damascus with his sons one day. but by coming to jordan, he has already created a legacy. he may not have anticipated, he sharing his rarefied skills and cultural pride in a country where there's never been a history of this kind of woodworking. natasha, her name el jazeera, i'm man jordan. ah, hello, you're watching out his ear and these are the top stories. the sam star trek actor william shatner has safely returned from his flight 1st flight to space. the night hero blasted off from texas on a blue origin craft shanna who played captain kirk becomes the oldest man to have gone to space.