China has launched a spacecraft taking three new astronauts, including the country’s first civilian, to its space station. The Shenzhou-16 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan launch centre on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China.

Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu reports from Beijing, China.

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