rob mcbride, al jazeera, so ah the news day on out of the real estate you through the headlines amazon found a 1000000000 at jeff phase on has returned from his maiden space voyage. the new shepherd cross blasted off with its crew including bathing his brother and the youngest and oldest people to have now ever made it into space. the capital reached a height of about 100 kilometers about the earth before touching down around 10 minutes. later. the most profound piece of it for me was looking out at the earth and looking at the earth atmosphere. every astronaut ever who's been up into space, they say this that it changes them and look at it and they're kind of amazed and off struck by the earth and its beauty. but also by its fragility. and i can vouch for that. when i look up, you know, who were sitting in this room were driving our cars were moving around the planet in our normal was the atmosphere so gigantic. were these tiny little things in the planet, the atmosphere so big. but when you get up above it, what you see is it's actually incredibly thin. it's this tiny little fragile

rob mcbride al jazeera, so ah the news day on out of the real estate you through the headlines amazon founda building at jeff phase on has returned from his maiden space voyage. the new shepherd cross blasted off with its crew including bays off his brother and the youngest and oldest people to have now ever made it into space. the capital reached a height of about 100 kilometers about the earth before touching down around 10 minutes.

rob mcbride, al jazeera, so dozens of european union border patrol officers are being deployed to listed as border with bella. luce, you ascending it's rapid response. scene master lithuania made the request more than a 1000, mostly iraq, a migrants of costumes, of the country this month. the through any, assess bella, ruth is deliberately sending them in reprisals for e u sanctions. billionaire jeff bezos will blast in space in a few hours. his blue origin company will launch the new shepherd. rockets bays off will be accompanied by his brother and a crew that consists of the youngest and oldest people ever been in space. like hannah reports. all this is where the journey began. altitude for the moon landing that inquired. i've been 5 year old to dare to dream. it's no surprise that the launch of the new shepherd is planned for the 52nd anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing. so he definitely wants to tie the legacy of his new company to the sort of aura and the mystique of the accomplishments of nasa during the space race . i want to go on this flight because it's the thing i wanted

rob mcbride al jazeera, so i leave the norwegian women's beach handle team has been defined for wearing costumes that were not skimpy enough. and a widget is in red hair will short instead of the prescribed bikini bottoms in the european championship match against spain and european handball federation, find them $1700.00. this team photo shows the contrast between the norwegian, men's and women's attire, and always federation and sports minister says it's completely ridiculous. ah, top stories are allowed to 0. the world's richest man has flown to space on a private rocket. jeff is off his brother and 2 others may be nearly 11 minute journey. is the 1st commercial flight for the typhoons blue origin space tourism company is all says his goal is to help save the we're going to build a road to space.

rob mcbride al jazeera, so ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, amazon founda and billionaire jeff pathos has returned from his maiden space voyage . the new shepherd croft blasted off with his crew including basis his brother and the youngest and oldest people to have ever been into space capsule reached a height of around 100 kilometers above us before touching down at t plus 10 minutes. rob reynolds has more now from near the lawn sites in van horn in texas. sure, it was in part ego driven by the world's richest man in part, an attempt to launch a lucrative space tourism enterprise. but the lasting impact of this may be to get some people a little more excited about the idea of journeying beyond earth and seeing what possibilities there might be for mankind. in doing so. not simply as a stunt, but as perhaps some way of finding lasting scientific discoveries and contributions for the people of earth that have been 3 rocket attacks in the afghan capital cobble they could be heard as president ref ghani was leading the ead prayers of the presidential palace, molly's interim p

rob mcbride al jazeera so and if we can catch up anytime on our website address that is 0 dot com and watches live by clicking on the orange line icon. that's it for me not to for news off. we have more news in a minute. ah ah ah ah ah, 2020 the year are locked down and social distance saying you can't reach across the screen and get someone to re explore one of the global pandemic. biggest side effects loneliness, everyone who lives alone has been forced to be socially isolated for the 1st time ever highlighting its effects on physical and mental health and discovering unique ways of coping control and being alone together. episode of all hail the locked down on al jazeera with energy and say to every part of our universe or small to continue the change all around the shape by technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you and your business. after a one year delay the tokyo and picks up, find the growing opposition by running costs in japan, thousands of athlete will compete in mt stadium amid the corona virus pandemic. audi 0 will be inside the bubble to bring them late

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rob mcbride, al jazeera, so for the 2nd year in a row, only a limited number of people have been allowed to visit islamic holiest site in mecca to mark the beginning of a lot to her. it is usually one of the world's largest religious gatherings that attract more than 2000000 from any 60000 and vaccinated saudi resident, they're actually taking part in this is had pilgrimage because of corona virus restrictions. return to our top story. that is the blue origin flight today by amazon found the jeff phases which went to the edge of space, of course, in a 10 minute flight. returning to it safely, the beginning of a news conference now with well, they've been called astronauts, i guess when you go to the edge of space, you more of an astronaut than most ah, and they are about will they look like they're receiving some sort of metals or pins at the moment. let's have a little listen. i had received a special gift of the astronaut perspective. i know that you will do good things with it and make the world a better place. congratulations. yeah. did you join me please? so excited for you guys. pa

rob mcbride al jazeera, as promised dandy richardson now sports correspondent, live in tokyo. now exactly what the organizes of these games and what the, the people of japan didn't want. corona virus basically becoming the story of the games they really is and such strong words from the japanese prime minister talking not only about the unprecedented speed of this particular outbreak, but also warning of a surge and younger generations as well. in terms of the state of emergency being expanded in terms of geography and duration, that's quite significant for the paralympic games is now being extended until at least august the 31st. the had been hope for the start of the parliament games on august the 24th. that would be some fans inside the venue start. now it looks very unlikely about the games. do go on until september. the 5th is still a chance that the latter stages of those events could see the turnaround in that policy. in some spectators may be allowed in the state of emergency. it is an interesting one. it sounds very dramatic, but it's not a law or an order. it's a req

rob mcbride, al jazeera and hundreds of people in syria have demonstrated against civilian deaths in the south. had been protest across the northwest, including an ellipse 50 as well. people government to stop coming campaign in that province. 18 people were killed in the latest on. so on thursday, the u. n has a nice 2 and a half 1000 have been displaced in the last 3 days. series military is trying to crush rebellion by attacking the former positions from home with miss elton authentic shelling. now, tens of thousands of migrants from the caribbean and africa converging in a remote town in columbia to convenient hopping off point to get into central america. but at the final goal, the united states is still thousands of kilometers away. last america added salisia newman has this report. the tiny colombian town before play has few attractions except strategic locations. just to ferry right away from the panamanian border on the other side of the gulf who have exhausted my doings from haiti, cuba, and as far away as the gout, governor and fossil are converging the town by the thousan

rob mcbride al jazeera and will have more on the situation in japan and its impact on the olympics with peter in sport, kenya is extending it's not time curfew and banning all public gatherings as it struggles to contain a search in covered $900.00 cases. the health minister is warning the hospitals are overwhelmed and people who fall thick will not get a bad candy has been under some form of curfew since march last year. it's now recorded more than 200000 cases, at least 3900 death and neighboring uganda. the death toll from corona virus has gone up 6 fold since late may only around 1000000 ugandans out of a population of 45000000 have been vaccinated. so far. the president is about to address the nation on the outbreak shortly. i'll come, webb joins us now live from no. rosie malcolm. first let's talk about kenya. will, can you tell us about these extended measures? well, the curfew, as he mentioned, has been in place in the panoramic ridge, kenya, in march last year. and the minister of how speaking earlier today was just saying that he is going to continue. and actually in some part

rob mcbride al jazeera, so ah, hi there. i'm kim vanelle in doha, with the headlines on al jazeera. hey, he has a new prime minister after 2 weeks of uncertainty following the assassination of president arial, only as a 71 year old neurosurgeon and public official. he's calling for unity. and as promising to build consensus, he replaces interim prime minister or joseph, who took charge of the president. and maurice was killed and signed his home. and galico monitoring developments from miami. now what we have as a prime minister, who's already put his cabinet together with one real goal in mind, and that is to take haiti to new elections. remember, hadn't been elections in a t since 2017. that's when you have now, maurice was elected the elections in 2019 was so problematic that they basically fell to pieces. so this is certainly from the international communities point of view, the necessary next step for this impoverish nation. ordinary haitians have been extremely scared over the past couple of weeks, not knowing what will happen next. now the goal is to whole free and fair elect

rob mcbride, that brings us the very latest form. so rob, thank you. there's lots more still ahead fear on al jazeera, including sure lank and narrowly avoid default on a serious financial problems remain. we'll have the details from colombo, cuba remembers fidel castro's revolution celebrations are quieter than usual. ah, ah. hello nessa, serious and severe thunderstorms gave us a deluge in london in some spots of london reported about a 100 millimeters of rain and just a single hour. so you see water log streets like that. it's track where this energy is right now and where it's going. we see it hanging out toward the british shells . western france, the boat countries, southern portions of scandinavia, the baltic states rate down into the elves. and particularly for the northern outs, i think that's where you're going to see some intense weather. same goes for lithuania into areas of bella. ruth on tuesday. now it is smooth sailing. as we look towards spain, we've got some high temperatures here as well. cordova, 38 degrees, you know, where else heat is building as we get toward the bulk and look

al jazeera johannesburg in now south korea just report that its highest daily infection counts since the pandemic began restrictions in the capital. so now at the highest level so far, where rob mcbride joins us live now from so i rob. so south korea is now facing even tougher restrictions nationwide. what is all of this mean on the ground? that's right here in the greatest sol metropolitan area. this is home to around half of south korea population. we've been under the most stringent measures since the start of this week. but this is where most of the new cases are occurring. but there is increasing concern about what's going on out in the provinces with reports of new daily infections, more than doubling recently. and there's a real concern that as we get further into the summer holiday season, south koreans this summer, as they did last summer by and large, can't be taking that vacations overseas. so they tend to head for all of the coastal resorts on the east coast. the south coast, the island of gedge you, all of these a tourism destination is become very busy and there's a real concern that unless the government puts these greater restrictions in place across south korea, we'r