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Transcript: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” April 5, 2026

2026-04-05T12:12:00-0400 / CBS News

Updated on: April 5, 2026 / 1:44 PM EDT / CBS News

The following is the full transcript of an interview with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on April 5, 2026, moderated this week bysenior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe_**.

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ED O’KEEFE: This morning, the Artemis II crew is closer to the moon than ever before. Here’s a look at the exterior of the Orion capsule this morning. The four astronauts inside are prepping a six hour fly by around the far side of the moon tomorrow. For an update, we go now to NASA Administrator, Jared Isaacman, who is inside Houston’s Mission Control. Administrator, thank you so much for being here with us. The four astronauts on board are roughly halfway through their mission now. What, in your view, is the most critical moment of the next 24 to 48 hours?

JARED ISAACMAN, NASA ADMINISTRATOR: Well, I would say, and first good morning, Happy Easter, Ed. The primary objective right now for this phase of the mission is continuing to gather data from the ECLSS system, the life support system on the Orion spacecraft. This is the first time we’ve ever had humans on board the Orion spacecraft. We want to gather as much data as we possibly can for that. Of course, there’s various science experiments, there’s lunar observations, but learning as much as we can about Orion is critically important, because Artemis III is a year away. That’s where we’re going to test the same spacecraft with our lunar landers, followed up in 2028 by Artemis IV, where we’re going to use this spacecraft transfer crew to the landers and put American astronauts back on the surface of the moon.

ED O’KEEFE: You make a good point. This is a test mission, and it’s testing as much the, the vessel that they’re in, as much as what they’re looking for, but they are going to have to spend some time on Monday, essentially looking out the windows and looking for parts of the moon that we essentially have not really seen before. What specifically are they looking for?

ISAACMAN: Well, I would have to say, after a 250,000 mile journey away from Earth to the far side of the moon, it would be pretty hard to keep them away from, from those windows, but they

ED O’KEEFE: Absolutely–

ISAACMAN: – absolutely have observation responsibilities on that. They have a series of different cameras. They’re going to get data from that for sure, they’ve actually had an opportunity for three and a half years to train for this mission, to work with our scientists on the information they would like to gather most about the far side of the moon. But all of this comes together to inform subsequent missions like Artemis III, but most importantly now Artemis IV, which is where we’re going to actually get those astronauts back to the surface.

ED O’KEEFE: Yeah, to your point, you want to land one and possibly two missions on the moon just two years from now, NASA hired SpaceX and Blue Origin to build the lunar landers that will deliver astronauts to the surface of the moon. What are you doing to ensure that at least one of those two companies is going to be ready to do that?

ISAACMAN: Well, I’ll tell you, we’re doing a lot of things different over the last couple months, right? I mean, President Trump gave me a national space policy that called for America’s return to the moon with frequency, to establish an enduring presence, to build the moon base and do other exciting things, like nuclear power and propulsion. And we got $10 billion worth of resources out of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” the working family tax cut act. Now we are actually going to work. We are taking NASA subject matter experts, and we are embedding them across the supply chain, every prime contractor, subcontractor, every component on the critical path, from the rocket itself to the landers to the suits that astronauts will need to wear on the surface of the moon. And we are driving outcomes, we are not going to be passive anymore. We’re not going to let budgets – you know get over budget or behind schedule, not when there’s so much at stake when it comes to America’s return to the moon. So we are driving outcomes, and that certainly includes the lunar landers.

ED O’KEEFE: Quickly then how does a budget, proposed budget cut of more than 20% potentially affect these plans?

ISAACMAN: Yeah, so I certainly support President Trump and, and his 2027 budget request. Look, we have a 20- we have 26 appropriations. We have $10 billion in supplemental funding that came out of the, President Trump’s signature legislation, the working family tax cut act. I mean, this is the biggest in-, you know, supplemental investment in NASA since the Kennedy era. These resources are the only reason we can accelerate production to get to the moon, to add a mission in ’27 which is Artemis III, to build the moon base and do all the other things, like launching the first interplanetary nuclear powered spacecraft in 2028 that’s going to go past Mars, release a bunch of copters and a whole lot of other science missions. I think the, the American public and the taxpayers should be judging NASA based on outcomes, and not how quickly we can spend money every year.

ED O’KEEFE: In 20 seconds or less as they pass on the other side of the moon tomorrow for about 40 minutes. What’s going to- what are you going to be thinking about as the astronauts do that?

ISAACMAN: Well, I got to tell you, people have been asking me questions about the, you know, the loss of comms as we go around the moon. That is something we’re very used to in space flight mission control. As you said, astronauts are used to that as they go through training. So less about the loss of comm on the far side of the Moon. I’m always going to be thinking about the life support systems on the vehicle, because it’s a test mission. But I’ll tell you, most importantly, I’m thinking about the thermal protection systems, and when these astronauts are under parachute safely in the water so we can get them back to their families.

ED O’KEEFE: Administrator Jared Isaacman in Houston, thank you so much for joining us on this Easter Sunday. We appreciate it. And that is it for us today. Thank you for watching, Margaret, will be back next Sunday until the end for Face the Nation. I’m Ed O’Keefe.

Transcript: Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” April 5, 2026

2026-04-05T12:12:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the full transcript of an interview with retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, former commander of U.S. Central Command, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on April 5, 2026, moderated this week by senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe.

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ED O’KEEFE: We’re joined now by the former head of U.S. Central Command, retired General Frank McKenzie. General, Happy Easter.

GEN. FRANK MCKENZIE: And the same to you, Ed.

ED O’KEEFE: So it took just under 48 hours to find the missing weapons systems officer. After the jet they were in went down in a remote and mountainous area of southwestern Iran, the weapons officer was hiding in a mountainous crevice. We’re told by a senior administration official, what’s your assessment of how the search and rescue operation went?

GEN. MCKENZIE: So I think I’d draw two lessons from it, Ed. First of all, the excellence of the joint force, our ability to rapidly pivot, to look for a downed air crewman. We train for this endlessly. It’s a part of every time we send air crew over enemy territory, we have detailed, elaborate plans to go get them. It’s a very basic part of who we are as American fighting men and women. So that plan swung into action. I think it was executed pretty effectively. As always, you’ve got somebody on the ground, may be injured. They got to get to a position where they can hide until you can get to them. All that seemed to work out very well. And you know, we did, in fact, lose a couple of aircraft in that in that mission. But I would just tell you, it takes a year to build an aircraft. It takes 200 years to build a military tradition where you don’t leave anybody behind. You take the aircraft trade any day in a situation like this. The other lesson, I think, is a hard lesson for Iran. First of all, they were not able to find the missing air crewman. Second, you know, they put out a broad appeal to their people to turn him in reward, asking for all kinds of leads, that does not appear to have been successful. And that would- I think that’s maybe a sign of disaffection, don’t know, but you can’t, you can’t be happy with that if you’re a senior leader in Tehran this morning.

ED O’KEEFE: Yeah, you know Iran’s Revolutionary Guards now claiming responsibility for attacks on petrochemical plants in the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain. They warn its attacks against U.S. economic interests will intensify if attacks on civilian targets in Iran are repeated, does Iran and its proxies retain the capacity to inflict serious damage at this point?

GEN. MCKENZIE: They have the ability to inflict damage. They do not have the ability to gain mass effects. And by mass effects, I mean firing many, many dozens of rockets, missiles or drones. I think that capability has been eroded steadily since this campaign began. And frankly, at about plus 30 days into this campaign, I think if you’re at Central Command, you’ve got to be reasonably satisfied with where you are right now. In fact, Ed, when I was the CENTCOM Commander, if you had given me this situation at plus 30 days, I would have rejected it as being too optimistic by far. So we’ve had good effect. Our effects are going to continue. It’s going to be increasingly harder for them to launch missiles and rockets. We may not get to zero for a while, and I think there’s still some time ahead, but everyone realizes that. But I think we’re on track here. This campaign is moving very effectively, and I believe the pace will pick up every day.

ED O’KEEFE: To your earlier point, the president said something interesting to Fox News this morning, revealing for the first time that the U.S., earlier this year had sent a quote, lot of guns to the Kurds, who live in northern Iraq, northern Iran for use by protesters. So he wanted them to use these weapons. And said, you know, inferring now that he was sending weapons to have the Iranian people rise up on Wednesday night, though, in his big speech, clarifying what the war is all about, he said, This campaign is not about regime change, but if they are now, in fact, arming protesters. What might that signal?

GEN. MCKENZIE: Well, I think you want to put pressure on this regime in every way that you can. Arming Kurds certainly increases pressure on the Iranian regime. We know from history that leadership in Iran responds when existential pressure is applied to the regime. Arming the Kurds moves you a step closer toward that even if your ultimate aim is not regime change, getting the regime and Tehran to a place where they’ll make a deal that’s to our liking, is going to be the inevitable by product of intolerable pressure that’s placed over- on them. And I think all of these add together to do that.

ED O’KEEFE: You said last week, a success for the White House is that the Strait of Hormuz reopens, but that vital passageway, of course, remains effectively choked off. The president this Easter morning, used some, shall we say, colorful language, to threaten Iran again to reopen the strait, if the U.S. launches its own military operation in the coming days to open the strait, what’s it going to take militarily to do that?

GEN. MCKENZIE: Well, let me, let me say, first of all, we do have the ability to open the strait. Should we choose to do it in what you’re seeing now are the- what I would call the precursor of the initial steps in such a campaign you want to reduce Iran’s ability to fire short range rockets and missiles into the strait against warships. You want to take out their fast attack craft. Think of them as cigarette boats, large, powerful outboard engined boats that can race out and get among ships and cause direct damage that way. What we’re doing is we’re going after all those vessels. And that’s where a 10s attack aircraft, attack helicopters and other slow moving, low altitude platforms are so very effective. So we’re in the process of removing those right now. At the same time, we’re working to get rid of Iran’s mine stockpile. The mines are very dangerous. They had thousands when the war began. I have no doubt we significantly (UNINTELLIGIBLE) them, now. Of course, it doesn’t take many mines to cause a significant blockage to world shipping. So all of that is underway right now, and you want to reduce those to a low level before you put your warships up there to actually sort of test the waters in that strait. I have no idea what Admiral Cooper’s decision making process is going to be for that, but I think we’re well on the way to achieving those goals.

ED O’KEEFE: Can the strait be reopened with an air and naval campaign or are you going to need ground troops?

GEN. MCKENZIE: I think it could be opened with an air and naval campaign, and the use of ground troops would probably be along the line of raids. And remember, a raid is an attack with a planned withdrawal, where you don’t plan to stay. The one exception might be Kharg Island. I know the president has talked about it. I think it has a unique place in Iranian culture, because of one thing, if you seize it, you’re holding Iranian soil. Secondly, it is the critical mode through which all their oil supplies pass. By seizing it, you have the opportunity to cut that off, inflicting grievous damage on the Iranian economy, and yet with the opportunity, perhaps, to return it as part of a negotiation process. Further, you don’t permanently damage the global economy by destroying the infrastructure. So I think Kharg Island is a very lucrative target. I’m sure we’re looking at it hard right now. I have no idea if we’re going to choose to go up there.

ED O’KEEFE: In our last 30 seconds or so, here, General, bottom line this. The president says two to three weeks is all that it’s going to take? Would you agree with that? Or is it going to take longer?

GEN. MCKENZIE: You know, I always hesitate to put time on a- to put a timeline on a military operation like this, but I would say the Iranians would be very well served to listen to President Trump when he says he’s going to hit him because he’s pro- he’s proven that he’s willing to do that. So that’s the lesson I would learn from from his most recent pronouncement, and from actually what we’ve done in the war to this day, if the president says we’re going to do something, we’re probably going to do it. And it probably is good time for the Iranian leadership to take note of that fact.

ED O’KEEFE: All right, we’ll leave it there. General McKenzie, happy Easter again. Thank you for spending some time with us this morning. We appreciate it.

Former CENTCOM commander calls rescue of U.S. airman a “hard lesson for Iran”

April 5, 2026 / 1:26 PM EDT / CBS News

Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, a former commander of U.S. Central Command, outlined some takeaways from the search-and-rescue mission for a missing U.S. airman on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” Sunday — and argued the mission’s success could deliver a “hard lesson for Iran.”

McKenzie noted that Iran was unable to find the missing weapons systems officer, who hid in Iran for more than a day, even though the country’s leaders put out a “broad appeal to their people to turn him in.”

“That does not appear to have been successful,” he told CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe. “That’s maybe a sign of disaffection. Don’t know, but you can’t be happy with that if you’re a senior leader in Tehran this morning.”

McKenzie, a CBS News contributor, spoke to “Face the Nation” after one of the most harrowing two-day periods in the U.S.’s five-week-long war with Iran.

The American F-15E fighter jet was downed by Iranian fire on Friday. The plane’s pilot was rescued by two military helicopters later that day. But the jet’s second crew member had remained missing in Iran’s mountainous terrain, armed with only a handgun to defend himself, sparking an intense search operation involving dozens of American commandos and several dozen warplanes and helicopters, U.S. officials told CBS News.

President Trump said early Sunday the missing airman, a colonel, was found “deep inside the mountains in Iran.” It was a risky operation in which U.S. personnel used bombs and weapons fire to keep Iranian forces away, CBS News has reported.

McKenzie lauded the success of the search-and-rescue operation, saying the plan was executed “pretty effectively.”

“We train for this endlessly. It’s a part of every time we send air crew over enemy territory, we have detailed, elaborate plans to go get them,” McKenzie said. “It’s a very basic part of who we are as American fighting men and women.”

During the rescue mission, two transport planes were unable to take off from a remote base inside Iran and were destroyed to prevent Iran from seizing them, U.S. officials said. And on Friday, an A-10 Warthog that was part of the search operation took fire, forcing the pilot to eject over the Persian Gulf, where he was rescued.

The former CENTCOM commander noted that while the U.S. lost a couple of aircraft in the mission, “it takes a year to build an aircraft.”

“It takes 200 years to build a military tradition where you don’t leave anybody behind,” he said.

What NASA chief Jared Isaacman is looking for in the coming days as Artemis II loops around the moon

April 5, 2026 / 1:12 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman outlined on Sunday the most critical moments he expects in the coming days as Artemis II astronauts continue their journey around the far side of the moon, describing it as a key test mission in the quest to return humans to the lunar surface.

The Artemis II mission launched last week, marking the first piloted moonshot since the end of the Apollo program more than five decades ago. On Monday, the operation’s four crew members are set to surpass the Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance from Earth that humans have traveled.

“The primary objective right now for this phase of the mission is continuing to gather data from the ECLS system, the life support system on the Orion spacecraft,” Isaacman said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”

The mission is intended as a test flight to lay the groundwork for future efforts to land astronauts on the moon, traveling in a crew capsule known as the Orion. Isaacman noted that “this is the first time we’ve ever had humans onboard the Orion spacecraft.”

“We want to gather as much data as we possibly can for that,” he said. “Of course, there’s various science experiments, there’s lunar observations, but learning as much as we can about Orion is critically important, because Artemis III is a year away.”

Isaacman outlined that Artemis III, slated to launch in mid-2027, will test the same spacecraft with lunar landers, followed by Artemis IV in 2028, “where we’re going to use this spacecraft, transfer crew to the landers, and put American astronauts back on the surface of the moon.”

Humans have not visited the moon since NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

The Artemis II astronauts are set to make history Monday as the first humans to see some parts of the far side of the moon. Isaacman said, “after a 250,000-mile journey away from Earth to the far side of the moon, it would be pretty hard to keep them away from those windows.”

Asked by CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe what the astronauts will be looking for, Isaacman said they will have “observational responsibilities,” with a series of different cameras and data collection duties.

“But all of this comes together to inform subsequent missions like Artemis III, but most importantly now Artemis IV, which is where we’re going to actually get those astronauts back on the surface,” Isaacman said.

Isaacman is a billionaire entrepreneur and a veteran private astronaut, who has strong ties to SpaceX founder Elon Musk. He was the first private citizen to carry out a spacewalk.

The spacecraft carrying the Artemis II crew is expected to temporarily lose communications with Earth for an estimated period of about 40 minutes Monday as it travels around the far side of the moon. But Isaacman said it’s “something we’re very used to in space flight mission control.”

“Astronauts are used to that as they go through training,” he said.

For Isaacman, he said he’ll be thinking about the life support systems on the vehicle as they travel around the moon. But most importantly, he said, “I’m thinking about the thermal protection systems and when these astronauts are under parachute, safely in the water, so we can get them back to their families.”

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Trump admin urges restoring ballroom construction in emergency motion: ‘Time is of the essence’

April 5, 2026 12:00pm EDT / Fox News

DOJ motion argues ‘this order is untenable,’ puts Trump security at risk

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The Trump administration filed an emergency motion to restore White House ballroom reconstruction, warning “time is of the essence” and saying President Donald Trump and his staff’s “security and safety” are at risk by the judge’s “untenable” ruling.

In the filing, Justice Department lawyers said the partially built project includes “deep Top Secret excavations, foundations, and structures” that must be completed quickly to protect sensitive construction and security features from exposure.

“This order is untenable and must be stayed in that the building is under construction, with deep Top Secret excavations, foundations, and structures, already built, and ready to receive heavily fortified, for security reasons, steel, bullet, ballistic, and blast proof glass, and drone proof roofing materials, which must be finished quickly, and not allowed to be exposed to the conditions and elements of an open construction site,” Friday night’s motion urges.

“Time is of the essence!”

JUDGE WARNS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AGAINST ‘IRREVERSIBLE’ WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM CONSTRUCTION WORK

President Donald Trump displayed renderings of the privately funded $400 million White House ballroom project that is being blocked by a recent injunction issued by a federal judge.(Mandel Ngan/AFP)

The appeal asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to stay U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s order halting the project, which Leon ruled cannot proceed without congressional approval.

The administration argues the judge himself acknowledged that work needed to secure the White House grounds and protect the president and staff can continue.

“In granting this shocking, unprecedented, and improper injunction, one that could have been sought long ago, prior to the start of construction (in that there was full knowledge, through large scale media attention and publicity, that the White House ballroom was planned to be built, and there would have been a great deal of time for them to object, long before the start of construction, even though their objection would likewise have been baseless and frivolous), the district court took the erroneous, sweeping view that Congress did not authorize the ballroom construction at the White House — yet correctly allows construction ‘necessary to ensure the safety and security of the White House and its grounds, including the ballroom construction site, and provide for the personal safety of the President and his staff,’” the DOJ argued.

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Also, the lawyers wrote, the judge ignored the administration’s overtures to have him visit the site to see the privately funded $400 million project.

“The judge was given an opportunity to see the construction taking place at the site, but surprisingly, never responded to our invitation,” Trump Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate wrote.

Preservationists challenging the construction say the administration unlawfully bypassed federal review and authorization requirements, but the DOJ rejected the judge’s claims that congressional approval is needed for a privately funded ballroom.

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A rendering of the proposed White House ballroom shared by President Donald Trump on Truth Social on Feb. 3, 2025.(Donald Trump/Truth Social)

“For decades, Congress has vested the President with overlapping statutory authorities that allow the President to make the improvements he deems necessary to White House grounds and structures,” Shumate wrote. “Yet, a district judge ordered the President to halt ongoing reconstruction of the East Wing of the White House by April 14, leaving a massive excavation and structurally completed site adjacent to the now open and exposed Executive Mansion and threatening grave national-security harms to the White House, the President and his family, and the President’s staff.”

“Almost 400 Million Dollars of private donations and contributions (No taxpayer dollars are being used to build this long sought, and desperately needed, ballroom!) have already been committed, or spent, in the purchase of heavy, large scale, and other types of building materials. The path to this injunction confirms its unfairness, untenability, and danger to the White House and the people working and living within its walls,” he added.

TRUMP PAUSES OIL EXEC SUMMIT TO PEEK AT WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM’S PROGRESS

A McCrery Architects rendering provided by the White House of the new ballroom.(White House)

The new motion filed by the National Park Service said the federal district court lacks the constitutional authority “to entertain this suit, which rests on a single pedestrian’s subjective architectural feelings.”

The initial lawsuit against the construction was brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit organization, alleging Trump exceeded his authority when he razed the historic East Wing and launched construction on the new building.

Friday’s motion argues the claims are “legally baseless” and “no Trust member has standing.”

TRUMP ADMIN DEFENDS WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM AS NATIONAL SECURITY MATTER

A McCrery Architects rendering provided by the White House of the new ballroom.(White House)

“The President has complete authority to renovate the White House,” Shumate concluded.

The East Wing was originally built in 1902 and expanded four decades later during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency.

The ballroom is part of Trump’s broader push to reshape Washington’s monumental core, which also includes plans for a 250-foot (76-meter) arch and changes at the Trump Kennedy Center.

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“I would like to thank the hardworking Commissioners and Staff of the National Capital Planning Commission, who just voted overwhelmingly, 8-1, to approve the magnificent White House Ballroom now rising on this Hallowed Ground,” Trump wrote Thursday night on Truth Social.

“I am pleased to announce that even Board Member Senator Rand Paul, known as an extraordinarily difficult vote, voted a strong YES,” Trump said. “For more than 150 years, every President has dreamt about having a Ballroom at the White House to accommodate people for Grand Parties, State Visits, and even, in the Modern Day, Inaugurations.”

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“I am honored to be the first President to finally get this much-needed project, which is on time and under budget, underway,” the president added. “When completed, it will be the Greatest and Most Beautiful Ballroom of its kind anywhere in the World, and a fabulous complement to our Beautiful and Storied White House!”

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Trump has lamented legal challenges to his administration’s agenda, rebuking “rogue judges” siding with “baseless” Democrat lawyers and lawsuits.

“In the Ballroom case, the Judge said we have to get Congressional approval,” Trump wrote this week on Truth Social. “He is WRONG! Congressional approval has never been given on anything, in these circumstances, big or small, having to do with construction at the White House.”

Reuters contributed to this report.

Eric Mack is a writer for Fox News Digital covering breaking news.

安哥拉暴雨引发山洪导致15人死 数千户家庭受灾

2026年4月5日 23:12 / 联合早报

非洲国家安哥拉各地遭遇暴雨侵袭，造成15人死亡，4000多户家庭受灾。

法新社报道，这场持续数小时的暴风雨引发山洪，导致首都罗安达（Luanda）以及南部大西洋沿岸城市本格拉（Benguela）街道被洪水淹没，基础设施受损。

当地消防部门在一份初步报告称，本格拉是受灾最严重地区，共有12人死亡，罗安达则有三人遇难。

罗安达贫困社区的一名居民娜塔莉娅描述，她的家因洪水变成了一个“游泳池”。“我几乎失去了一切，也不知道该去哪里。”

在这个西南非国家，雨季期间强降雨并不罕见，但科学家指出，人为导致的气候变化正在提高此类极端天气事件发生的概率、持续时间和严重程度。

在邻国纳米比亚，赞比西河水位急剧上涨，迫使沿岸数千居民被迫撤离。

王毅：中俄应在大是大非问题上体现公道

2026年4月5日 22:36 / 联合早报

中东战事持续之际，中国外长王毅与俄罗斯外长拉夫罗夫通电话时说，中俄作为联合国安理会常任理事国，应在大是大非问题上体现公道，采取客观平衡做法，并争取国际社会更多理解和支持。

据央视新闻客户端报道，王毅星期天（4月5日）应约同拉夫罗夫通电话，就当前中东形势交换意见。

王毅表示，中俄作为联合国安理会常任理事国，应在大是大非问题上体现公道，采取客观平衡做法，并争取国际社会更多理解和支持。他说，中国始终主张通过对话谈判政治解决国际和地区热点问题。当前，中东局势仍在恶化、战事还在升级。解决霍尔木兹海峡通航问题的根本是尽快停火止战。

王毅也说，中国愿同俄罗斯在联合国安理会继续合作，在重大问题上及时沟通，为局势降温以及维护地区和平稳定和世界共同安全做出努力。

据报道，拉夫罗夫则表示，俄罗斯对中东形势持续升级高度关切。关于当前战事和霍尔木兹海峡问题，俄罗斯主张必须立即停止军事行动，回归政治和外交轨道，解决冲突产生的根源。联合国安理会应为此发挥建设性作用。俄罗斯愿同中国密切沟通协调，继续为推动停火止战发声出力。

美国与以色列于2月28日对伊朗发动袭击，战事至今已持续一个多月。

OPEC+警告：能源设施修复耗时 全球石油供应或受长期影响

2026年4月5日 23:32 / 联合早报

伊朗针对基础设施的袭击以及在霍尔木兹海峡对油轮的威胁，已严重限制波斯湾地区的石油出口。 （路透社）

石油输出国组织及盟友（OPEC+）警告称，近期袭击中受损的能源设施“修复成本高昂且耗时漫长”，这可能会在未来相当长一段时间影响全球石油供应。

法新社报道，OPEC+星期天（4月5日）发布声明强调，保障国际海运航线安全以确保能源供应畅通无阻至关重要。

伊朗针对基础设施的袭击以及在霍尔木兹海峡对油轮的威胁，已严重限制波斯湾地区的石油出口。

对此，OPEC+星期天同意再次提高石油产量配额。OPEC+包括主要产油国沙特阿拉伯和俄罗斯，以及好些正遭受德黑兰袭击重创的波斯湾国家，已“决定实施日增产20万6000桶的产量调整”。

商业区孵化雏隼疑撞上玻璃外墙毙命

2026年4月5日 23:01 / 联合早报

一只雏隼星期六下午被发现卧尸在中央商业区的地面。它是本地一对游隼2月于市中心的华侨银行大厦孵化出四只雏隼的其中一只。 （慈母舰）

两个月前刚在华侨银行大厦孵育出的一只雏隼，怀疑在飞行时撞上一栋建筑的玻璃外墙后丧命，星期六（4月4日）被发现倒卧在中央商业区的地面上。

这只雏隼是本地目前已知在非圈养环境繁殖后代的一对游隼（sǔn），刚在2月于市中心的华侨银行大厦孵化出四只雏隼的其中一只。

游隼，又名花梨鹰（peregrine falcon），是一种主要在白天活动的中型猛禽。

国家公园局野生动物管理研究首席研究员苏自强博士，星期天（5日）回复《联合早报》询问时说，这只雏隼星期六下午被发现卧尸在中央商业区的地面。

当局仍在调查这只雏隼的死因。

至于其他三只雏隼，苏自强说，有两只已开始学飞，还有一只羽翼还未丰满，估计近日也会开始飞行。

一名自称Val的女目击者告诉网络媒体“慈母舰”（Mothership），出事的雏隼星期六事发时曾试着躲避一群乌鸦，后来撞上大华银行大厦一座（UOB Plaza 1）大厅的玻璃外墙。据她提供的视频画面，腹部朝上倒卧在地的雏隼，似乎没有外伤，它的其中一只脚套着一个有 “G02”字样的标签。

有目击者称，雏隼星期六出事前曾试着躲避一群乌鸦，后来撞上大华银行大厦一座（UOB Plaza 1）的大厅玻璃外墙后，横尸地面。（慈母舰）

这名目击者在事发后通报公园局，当局工作人员过后到场把幼鸟尸体移走。

本地首次记录到在非圈养环境繁殖后代的一对游隼，去年4月首次在华侨银行大厦孵化出两只幼鸟。今年2月，它们又在当局于这座大厦34楼设置的人工巢箱内，孵育出四只雏隼。公园局不久前曾装置摄像机，通过社媒平台直播四只幼鸟成长的过程。

苏自强说，目前剩下的三只雏隼，近日在学飞当儿，可能会不小心落到地面上，他吁请公众若发现有雏隼在地面上，可拨打动物应对中心（Animal Response Centre）热线1800-476-1600，向当局提供信息。

在本地，飞鸟撞上建筑物的事件不时发生。《联合早报》2月曾报道，新加坡国立大学李光前自然历史博物馆设立的亡鸟热线，去年收到约650次通报，是2020年通报次数的五倍多；这些鸟的死因八至九成是撞击建筑物。