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have Minecraft Launcher 1.4.4 and can run minecraft 1.7.10 also have snapshots enabled but cannot see the latest snapshots

the console only shows:
[ ERROR]: Unexpected exception refreshing version list
java.net.UnknownHostException: s3.amazonaws.com
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.7.0_55]
at com.mojang.launcher.Http.performGet(Http.java:54) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.RemoteVersionList.getContent(RemoteVersionList.java:27) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.VersionList.refreshVersions(VersionList.java:85) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.MinecraftVersionManager.refreshVersions(MinecraftVersionManager.java:60) ~[launcher.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.launcher.Launcher$1.run(Launcher.java:88) [launcher.jar:?]
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_55]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_55]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_55]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_55]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:1.7.0_55]



any ideas on what to do?

Are you connected to the internet?

yes can connect to the net and to minecraft servers and email just not whatever s3.amazonaws.com is

try re-installing the launcher.

cannot reinstall as cannot connect to the download of minecraft at s3.amazonaws.com page not loading