lambs to the slaughter democracy is dying i think the longer it goes on the more extensions the more the the power of the paper by parliament. reminders and we will not get brecht's it is simple as that i think it's delaying tactics so i can reverse the decision of the people we had the people we don't need in our people we should leave. and that's it it goes without saying that syriza may is now being pulled apart by both of these forces in parliament it will inevitably be her downfall abandon braxton revoke till the u.k. where to go and just leave increasingly it looks like this will be the u.k.'s choice and gareth and jeffrey can both have their way in this disunited kingdom this green and pleasant lands now so full of uncertainty and anger enormous decisions are about to have to be made lawrence leigh al-jazeera.

thanks mostly to come here on the news hour for you including sudan's president under pressure as protesters call for him to step down growing louder. and one of cuba's veteran baseball players hits out at president trump's decision to shut his countryman out of the major leagues. now after a bitterly fought campaign benjamin netanyahu is set to win a fifth as the israeli prime minister netanyahu likud party has secured thirty five seats in the one hundred twenty c. knesset he'll now push to get the support of smaller right wing parties to form the largest grouping a necessary move us the centrist blue and white party of his rival the former chief of staff benny gantz also won thirty five seats who may be poised to become israel's longest serving prime minister but he's also facing possible indictments for bribery and breach of trust offenses we begin our coverage with harry forces

from tel aviv. after a night of wild be diverging exit polls benjamin netanyahu waited and waited until it started to move in his favor at two in the morning he took to the stage to declare what he called an unimaginable victory. we've already tonight i have started talks with the heads of the right wing parties our natural partners already tonight almost everyone declared publicly that they will recommend i form the next government they will recommend it to our president i intend to work quickly to establish a stable national government i want to make it clear it will be a right wing government but i intend to be the prime minister of all israeli citizens right or left jews and non jews alike israeli citizens. the proven master of israeli electoral politics well aware that his carefully cultivated right wing block of smaller parties gives him the edge in the decisive business of building

a governing coalition but across town in tel aviv they had already been another declaration of victory benny gantz israel's former army chief and leader of the blue and white party put together in essence to remove netanyahu from power said he should be given the opportunity to do just that if you want to serve in the winners and losers in elections but we have to win as we might be new but we're not naive we understand we've got to wait for the true results but within a few days will work to calm a government as big as possible. it's up to israel's president ruben rivlin to invite the most likely prime minister to form a coalition balancing two factors who leads the biggest party and who has the clearest path to a governing bloc for netanyahu that's complicated by a couple of his natural allies such as his education ministers under threat new right to party hovering around the threshold for a place in the israeli parliament or knesset for a time palestinian israeli parties warning their voters that low turnout could

threaten their presence in the knesset as well they complained of intimidation by liquid activists bringing hidden cameras to the polls this bruising bitterly contested election is not over just yet the challenger is raising his arm in victory but netanyahu insists he's done enough to retain the title after for now. final few days of campaigning in which he via to the right from a sing to an extent legal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank and convinced his voters fit his premiership was in mortal danger. but exactly was leaving the stage telling me that he's ready to leave the political it is. one of the cynics it's a. rejection against the rocks pieces that are high in. this election very very valuable one as in about four years ago. was it out a little. and we're covering the story from all angles in a few moments will speak to what

a comedian west jerusalem first let's get us reaction from kimberly helka who joins us here on the news from our bureau in washington kimberly as far as mr trump is concerned is this pretty much what looks like it will be the results he absolutely would want. absolutely and we've been seeing these signs for a few weeks now there's no question that donald trump and benjamin netanyahu have made it very public that they are firm supporters of one another we saw that recent weeks when we saw the israeli prime minister here in washington appearing in the oval office it was a carefully orchestrated photo opportunity in advance of the israeli polls in order for donald trump to once again endorse an even you know campaign on behalf of the israeli prime minister in turn the israeli prime minister said to donald trump that there is no better friend than donald trump when it comes to israel that he serves the interests of israel it seems the two have been very public about their shared

goals and in return because of that partnership donald trump has done a number of things he's moved the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem in twenty seventeen more recently we saw him make a proclamation of the u.s. recognizing what it says is israel's sovereignty over the occupied golan heights and then just this week we understand at the request of the israeli prime minister donald trump in fact declare that the in the iran's revolutionary guard corps the i or g c declaring it as a foreign terrorist organization now all of these shared goals if you will some of the request of the israeli prime minister donald trump saying from the white house today that he believes that this latest victory of the israeli prime minister will in fact allow for the u.s. to pursue its goal of peace. the fact that. i think will be some pretty good gems of peace not everyone said and i never made

a promise. but everybody said you can't have peace in the middle east with israel and the palestinians i think we have it and i think we have now a better chance with bibi having won but there is an awful lot of questioning going on about the trumpet ministrations commitment to reaching a peace deal with the israelis and the palestinians given some of those very public side taking if you will with israel in fact one of our senior producers in a background briefing with top white house officials did confirm that there are no public conversations going on right now between the trumpet ministration and the palestinians in fact when asked directly about this in a back and forth the white house official confirmed that when they were recently out meeting with arab leaders in poland that in fact it was the arab leaders that identified peace in the middle east between the israelis the palestinians is not

the priority but instead the priority is confronting iran and it appears that the white house is now pivoting it is a result not only of this election but some of the now x'mas that it has made in recent weeks that although it says that their peace till they've been promising for two years is imminent it doesn't appear that's the priority but instead with this election announcement perhaps now the partnership and goal is moving toward some sort of confrontation with iran kimberly thanks very much sort of alchemy joins us with the latest live from west jerusalem hoda good to talk to you how is this all shaping up do we think. well certainly yesterday while benjamin netanyahu was holding his victory speech and lot of his supporters were carrying banners saying trump of make america make america great again that just shows you know that the relationship between benjamin netanyahu and donald trump is very public and is very friendly but also the supporters of benjamin netanyahu

actually do like donald trump as well actually as kimberly was saying as a last ditch help or at least that's how benjamin netanyahu sold it to his supporters just twenty four hours before the polls opened when do you as they cleared the iranian revolutionary guards with a terrorist organization well in germany to now told his supporters that that's because he had president trump to do so now where does that put the chances for a peace deal i mean really said the palestinians have been kept in the dark so far they have had no conversation whatsoever with their child but ministration but they see what's unfolding and over the eighteen months the past eighteen months there's a whole new reality kimberly said there the recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel to move of the u.s. embassy the recognition of the. israeli sovereignty over the golan heights and now

does also announcement order last sort of election pitch by benjamin netanyahu about two days before the elections that he would then announce the annexation of the settlements and outposts in the occupied west bank which are illegal under international law so all of this gives you an idea of how all this is shaping the is a new reality underground that is it. is unfolding the palestinians are watching the have nothing to say in all of that and when. and this is is going to be finally revealed but many think that you know most of it will be built on this new reality that has been has been shaping up or thanks very much well on a national army is on the p.l.o. executive committee she says palestinians must now regroup to face the challenges ahead i think the whole goals of the game are changing because now

this clearly superimposing greater isn't all of historical palestine. and therefore they have totally cancelled and the agreements they have not only fight the two state solution they have totally gated that requirements of peace they have totally violated international law and so on so now we need a whole new strategy to deal with this but here let's put all that in a broader context for you joining us live here in the studio is senior political analyst marwan bashar it seems kind of counter-intuitive that the americans as we're being told george cushions just about to put up a peace plan kind of half being hooked by some people to the israeli election results that the americans aren't having back channel talks with the palestinians absolutely this is but so paradoxical and i agree with your hundred percent why. i think there's a number of reasons but primarily i think the main reason is that what president

trump thinks of as a peace is a peace between him and prime minister netanyahu they reckon that if america and israel are i've a formal offer sort then that would be the formula to be imposed on the palestinians and the arabs it's not only the palestinians out in the dark the arabs are also in the dark or what exactly are the americans thinking about and so in so many ways now that trump and then you know agreed. present the american president think this is a victory for the united states and for peace because this is a victory for their peace proposal in so many ways this is not so much a peace with the palestinians this is a peace despite the palestinians anik seeing the west bank was electioneering or something much more potentially significant and dangerous i mean look amazing to us that the only in the senate secretary pompei o was asked do you or do you not

agree do you or do you not support do you or do you not object to israel's annexation of parts of the west bank he would not answer he wouldn't answer he wouldn't answer if the acquisition of territory by force by israel in the west bank is ok or not but what we do know is that that the united states has already on the record through american proclamation supported the israeli annexation of the syrian golan heights they already also agreed to israeli basically effect an accession of east jerusalem so on the record this is already. an open and open story that that is seen by everyone it is clear that it is not electioneering it is clear that the likud prime minister netanyahu wants to annex not only the settlement blocks as he stated also the fatah was settlements or so-called

illegal illegal settlements so and so many ways i would put it this way and i've been talking about this now for several weeks but i just found out what is it that we're talking about why did israelis vote for netanyahu unearth and how coalition government what here it is they were giving the choice do you want security. by guns or total victory by nothing else ok to take a surety victory hold me for interrupting you the idea of total victory once he gets his coalition together if he gets his coalition together all the indicators are he will is he pivoting towards going a different road so that israel at its core for the palestinians is about something different to just being a democratic homeland for israelis oh absolutely because look i mean look at it israel is a young state it's seventy one years old. out of the seventy one years old israel

has controlled almost as many palestinians as jews for fifty one years take for example the city of hebron in the city of hebron there's some two hundred thousand palestinians and a thousand plus jews the thousand plus jews had corning boots they voted the two hundred thousand palestinians in hebron did not vote so what you have now and what you've had over the last fifty one years is a defacto excuse the word i know a lot of people in is or don't like it and our party system it is separate but not equal jews can vote all the palestinians in the west bank and of course gaza cannot vote so what we have now is the jews in israel in their majority have voted for a right wing bloc that wants to annex the rest of fifty or sixty percent of the west bank and basically have some sort of an alternative but since they think gaza

this is the logic that's winning it's not a logical peace between two parties palestinians and israelis it's peace between washington and tel aviv between that and trauma that will be imposed as they think on the palestinians what i have news from and the electical perspective from a historical perspective. arabs israelis americans and europeans have tried to impose a solution on the palestinians for a century a century dividing the land promising the land occupying the land and mixing the land and so on so forth but the palestinians are there there are some seventy eight million of them not moving anywhere rejecting all of those so-called solution that been imposed on them and i think this will be another phase in the long phases of historical failure for not recognizing that the palestinians are a people that deserve a state like the israelis apparently do moment thanks very much still to come for

you here on the news are forced from their homes thousands of afghans are displaced by fighting between the taliban and i saw. in the sports news tiger woods says the time could be writes to end his decade long wait for a major title all those stories when we come back. we've got signs of some improving weather coming in across northern parts of the middle east over the next couple of days there's still a few showers in there for sixty. the plenty of cloud around that's making its way across iran process guys coming back in behind mistery a cloud that slides out came to know the parts of syria says we go through with day toss of wanted to showers just like in the way to northern areas of iraq much of iran will be dry and settled twenty three celsius therefore to run the west whether

making its way across afghanistan will the possible cost on up towards took many with the usual wintry flowers and the high ground then more the same as we go on through friday by friday you might just see want to shout just creeping back into northern parts of iran maybe over towards the western side of the country just sliding out of east and iraq want to show the showers will make their way further south across the arabian peninsula not wall to wall sunshine here. little bit of class still in place that just around southern sections of the gulf even here in doha watches cacho spot of rain i think the u.i.a. saying the wetter weather that's more the case as we go on through friday will see temperatures in abu dhabi getting up to around twenty nine celsius what is still in riyadh at thirty one highs here in doha with twenty seven. and when we live in a time of war and tragedy it's crimes against humanity. activist

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welcome back you're watching the al-jazeera news piece a dobie these are your headlines the prime minister series in may is now in brussels for that emergency brakes of meeting with the leaders to pluto case for an extension due to leave the block on friday that mrs may want to move that to june thirtieth. benjamin netanyahu looks set for a fifth term as israel's prime minister despite the passing of his main rival winning as many seats but mr netanyahu is expected to get the support of smaller right wing parties to form a coalition government. the u.n. security council is meeting to discuss the deepening crisis in venezuela with the u.s. vice president mike pence taking part venezuela has been hit by another huge power cut with reports of twenty to twenty three states being affected the opposition

leader. wants people to come out and protest against the ongoing public service failures president nicolas maduro is blaming u.s. sabotage for the power cuts in a moment we'll speak to jamal sheil who's in caracas but first let's go to the u.n. and my colleague mike hanna so mike when it comes to this issue of venezuela what's the the difference between the different stances on the part of the united states and the united nations. well within the united nations security council as on so many occasions there's deep division on this particular issue the council has been briefed on the humanitarian situation that is indeed dire some seven million people in need of humanitarian assistance according to the undersecretary for humanitarian affairs at the meeting being attended by u.s. vice president mike pence the society in up the trumpet ministrations concern and from mike pence the insistence that there must be a change of leadership within the venezuela that one guy though

a must be acknowledged by the un as the legitimate leader nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power and nicolas maduro must go but for all the suffering the venezuelan people. across venezuela in. cities large and small people are rising up the rising up against their oppression and deprivation. today those courageous venezuelans will take to the streets again and as president not long ago the fight for freedom in venezuela has just begun well not so says the russian ambassador he pushed back very strongly against the suggestion not regime change within venezuela insisting that nicolas maduro remains the elected and recognized leader saying that the humanitarian situation have been as well as should be addressed by those within the country

themselves insisting that outside forces such as the u.s. are intensifying or know already critical situation within that particular country so the security council on this issue and on so many others remains deeply divided mike thanks very much live now to the venezuelan capital caracas and our correspondent john l. l. sheil jamelle what's the situation with the aid coming in now. well the president was there a few minutes with the head of the red cross late on tuesday and you have peace on the agreed that the red cross will be allowed to deliver aid to those most effective there wasn't a clear statistics as to exactly what type of means and how much aid would be delivered but c.n.n. has an admission that there is need for some help but also it is being done so according to the government according to their terms obviously they want to come in

without any political strings attached to it and obviously the independence from the red cross probably think that's they were looking for but what's important to note here is that there is a large section of society as well as the governments themselves who believe that while there is a dire need for aid that has been exacerbated because of the u.s. sanctions that have been imposed because the government is unable to access more than fifty percent of its cash flow because of the hyperinflation that has been caused by those sanctions from the u.s. so at least among supporters of nicolas maduro and they are knowledge in numbers they believe that these sanctions are actually made to create a humanitarian crisis and we just through change the political situation here are in venezuela and are not designed to punish the government and when it comes to that issue the u.s. sanctions jamal i mean very difficult for any country to come back from a situation of you talking there about hyperinflation so even if the sanctions were

taken away which they probably won't be i guess we'll have to wait to hear from the vice president mr pence coming back from that is very hard. looking for structure in this country is outdated it's old there is definitely a weak basis for the economy in the sense that despite being the wall having the balls the largest oil reserves the way in which the economy has been set up hasn't helped in terms of developments here there's no denying the fact that even if those sanctions imposed but you would still be talking about a developing nation as they tried to buy psychologically and not develop one at least according to the government you can see that power outages to the extent that they are you wouldn't see the hunger at the expense that it does in terms of going back to its well theoretically now they're going to turn in darley the government is opening up different according to them different relations to try and bolster

the economy serious working about the heavy russian influence of talking about an increasing trade between turkey and venezuela obviously the chinese are here as well all of that would be part of the program to try and maybe come back from that hyper inflation but all of this congress will happen so long as there is the instability in the political sums of what's interesting is we were listening to the vice president there mike pence talking about people rising up to try and paint this situation as if it is one side clearly having a majority over the other is just an actor it's we've seen protests large numbers on both sides in fact here where i'm standing in the center of practice what is known as liberation square where the opposition are usually meant to be gathering well there were claims that their opposition would be going today to protest till now there isn't anyone behind whether or not will be later on or not we'll wait and see but definitely there is no side that clearly has. a sizable advantage over the other two miles thanks very much. the president of sudan is under increasing

pressure as western nations add their voices to calls for political change on tuesday protesters held a fourth straight day of a city outside the army headquarters that continued into the night is really the moment. i. tens of thousands of people calling for change big and gathered outside army headquarters in sudan's capital khartoum for a fourth day and stayed into the night i was like we need clean water and no more unfairness we've had enough. of this world before but we are starving under this president we have been displaced because of him. just a day earlier security force personnel opened fire on demonstrators staging a sit in but later some soldiers intervened and others expressed their support for the demonstrators i think this is

a message to our colleagues in the armed forces that people have brothers and have a right to speak their minds a spokesman for the military says the armed forces and security forces remain united the mold i hope but i mean what about the police national security and intelligence forces are supported by the army we needed to consider certain things before moving the enthusiastic protesters outside the area the very well prepared plan has helped us to control the situation in a peaceful way. the protest is a calling on the army to withdraw their support for the government and opposition leaders say they are seeking talks with the army to plan a transitional administration and they now have the support of the u.s. u.k. and norway the three countries said in the statement so dani's author artie's must now respond and deliver a credible plan for this political transition. refusing to step down president al bashir recently chaired a meeting of the country's supreme commission for national dialogue he's long been

accused of human rights abuses and corruption. anti-government protests started last december fueled by food shortages and rising prices human rights watch says since then more than fifty people have been killed in violence four of the how to in february the government brought in a state of emergency but it's failed to contain these protests the biggest challenge yet to all the shoes thirty year rule. as sudan appears to be heading to a political breaking point protesters say they'll continue to take to the streets until their demands are met. for he mohammed al jazeera. tough new laws banning semiautomatic guns will be in place in new zealand by the end of the week the parliament acted just weeks after fifty people were shot dead drone attack on two mosques in christ church during friday prayers all but one of new zealand's one hundred twenty m.p. use voted for the gun reform bill which also outlaws parts that can be used to

modify banned firearms. sciences seven bale the highly anticipated first picture of a black hole a gravitational monster in a galaxy more than fifty three million light years away black holes have been impossible to see because they are so far away from us but a global collaboration involving a network of telescopes has made this first picture possible the debate now begins on whether the image supports or shatters the theory of general relativity in science and technology editor mariana hunt. people have long tried to imagine what a black hole looks like. we know there are out there monsters of space that scientists believe exert enormous gravitational force on stars everything else around them. but if we one of these images is a guess there's so far away no one head of the sane one at forty four million

kilometers across the said to terrorists the super massive black hole at the same two of the milky way galaxy as at least thirty times the size of our sun you'd think that would be easy to spot but at twenty six thousand light years away and kilometers that's two point three and seventeen zeros scientists say it's like taking a photograph of an epilogue on the moon to see a black hole that size would need a telescope as wide as the earth's sound impossible well two years ago experience from the event horizon telescope project did the next best thing creating a global network of observatories to form a virtual telescope the size of our planet they zeroed in on two black holes terrace ice down and the months to black hole that nk has the giant galaxy in may she seven they picked up on the high energy radiation emitted from the jets and

swirling disks of white hot gas and measure around a black holes event horizon the boundary from which nothing escapes and a few days the observatories had collected so much data it couldn't be uploaded and had to be flown to the united states to be processed what they head waves on the electromagnetic spectrum they started off as images like this and after about two years of piecing it all together and rendering scientists can now reveal this i never believed that this black hole was as big of people said until we saw that. and major so significant that astronomers held simle tiniest global news conference since it's an image of the black hole at the heart of the giant in may she seven galaxy more than fifty three million light years away in the very

constellation it's still too early to conclude whether this affirms or challenges what we know about the laws of physics and space but einstein's theory of general relativity seems to be holding up so far disease the first ever image and this gives us great confidence that relativity is the one we understand in the strong field regime where coverage is very very strong actually follows exactly what i said predicted. the debate on the significance of this first image of a black hole has only just begun but for many already seeing is believing medium to hand out to zero ok let's talk to david super all he's an astrophysicist and a physics lecturer at lancaster university he joins us from that city right now they were surprised why doesn't that image look like the images that we've grown up with in science fiction and on t.v.

i think in a way that they do it's surprising how they resemble the image resembles actually some of the predictions i mean given the still limited resolution that we have at the moment and i think to resemble even more something like from the movie interstellar then we would need a telescope the size of the earth we needed to ask obama's the size of the entire solar system so that's really the limitation quite taken pictures like this what do we learn from it. i think there's a lot of reasons and one is i mean as human kind this is a norma said she meant and it shows what we can do if we actually work collaboratively together i mean to image something essentially the size of the solar system fifty three million years away it's basically like imaging the size of what we thought the entire universe looked like about just a dozen years ago so it completely confirms our idea that black holes really do

exist and now the next step is we can start doing physics with it we can really start to test the predictions and perhaps learning something new if something gets sucked into this one and it's a big wood being told i think i think i'm right in saying it can consume something like two of our sons every two days as you and i guess not s.o.m.'s. if something gets sucked into this where does it go or does it just get completely atomized and destroyed because of the gravitational pull. that's a very good question i mean because this is really a beast this is as a mass of almost ten billion suns in it already so obviously that to grow across billions of years sensually and i mean at the moment we actually don't know what happens inside a black hole because our basically break but we know that whatever comes in sensually is not being able to get out because it would need to travel faster than

the speed of light and the only process that we think exists for something to actually get out as was shown by c. for knocking of. radiation a very complicated quantum mechanics a fact that could actually work but apart from that if something does get in that said there will be locked in forever and what's happening inside essentially when time itself is stopping compared to us we have no idea. but we do know that our universe the solar system is peppered with several more of these things not not the solar system itself but definitely our galaxy so as to made that essentially all stars are much more massive than than the sun they they explode a supernova they actually produce all the oxygen that we've read so we should be tankful for them and they leave behind most of them

a black hole and essentially those should be all across the galaxy and in our own galaxy we have one of these beasts it's basically about a ten about a dozen times smaller than the one in m. eighty seven but that's essentially i guess the next goal is to image our own since we already image the black hole the super massive black hole of a nearby galaxy david good to talk to you thanks so much for coming on thanks very much. proving the disability is no barrier to playing the game. thank.

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time story with our peter thank you so much the second night of the champions league quarter finals kick off later on wednesday barcelona take on manchester united at old trafford the spanish champions are looking to win europe's premier club competition for a sixth time the catalans are in line to complete a trophy trouble this season bob they come up against a manchester united side resurgent under new boss only garcelle sure don't p.s.g. out in the last round. i mean but i think there is something in the little divorce manchester united go into this match with a spirit sky high they want to show their worth and they want to go through all of us to be we have to be careful of the pieces of the counterattacks all of their players enthusiasm and the support of their fans and the project and giving hope to palestinian amputees he want to carry on playing football over the last year one hundred and thirty six people have

a lost limbs after being in wounded in border violence one of the reports. in a place where hope always seems in short supply these football players are showcasing nothing but determination a life we're going to look at and this will everywhere i go i like to prove myself the israeli occupation believes i've become disabled and then i'm useless but i am not disabled i am useful i can now do things that i couldn't even do when i had two legs. bassam up or a bit tells us that like many here his leg was amputated after he was shot by an israeli sniper while attending one of the weekly great march of return border protests. last year he is one of dozens of amputee football players from gaza happy to be taking part in this new program organized by the international committee of the red cross or i.c.r.c. schools have got better simon baker founder of the irish amputee football association and also an amputee has traveled here in order to both train and

inspire he's all odd by the resilience he sees all around him they don't want sympathy don't we want pity they want to be self-sufficient and they want to get into their own state and i will need to tell them what to do they want me to have a full suppose we'll go at it and that's what we're here to do that's it the other players say that so far the plan is working. in the case of top of an f.c. it made me develop myself to be a real football player and not to think about my amputated leg when i come here to play and i forget about it coming at me and i've been some allusion of the end of the practice may be tough but spirits are high according to the i.c.r.c. this is the first such program of its kind here in gaza and over the course of the next several days sixty players fifteen coaches and twelve referees will receive training despite the smiles on display organizers are keenly aware how tough it is to survive in gaza you need to find work you need to you know like a lot of effort just to get by every single day the fed that all of them they left

whatever they had to do on this particular day and they came here to play sports to shows how important this program really is for now though it's camaraderie and competition a decision to revel in the fun of football no matter how many difficulties life has thrown their way. and gaza. magic johnson has resigned as president of the l.a. lakers the basketball legend played a key role in bringing le bron james to the franchise but for a six straight season the team had missed out on the playoffs. you know we're half way there with le bron coming i think this summer with that other star coming in who i was going to bring him in i think this team is going to be in position to really continue for a championship with the growth of the young players. factor woods says he's confident his major winning days aren't behind him woods has and thursday's masters

without a win at one of the four major championships since two thousand and eight a four time masters winner has had multiple back operations in recent years but has recovered to reach twelfth in the world rankings. but i just feel like i have improved a lot in the past twelve fourteen months but more they think i just proved to myself that i can play at this level and you work my way back into. you know one of the players that when abouts. now the u.s. has ended an agreement that made it easier for cuban baseball players to sign up for american teams the deal had meant that players no longer had to defect in order to join major league baseball and gallacher reports from miami. when president obama visited cuba in two thousand and sixteen it was hailed as a new era in u.s. cuba relations a so-called normalization process began to thaw decades of animosity and part of

that sore intense negotiations over of all things a sport both countries love baseball the two countries eventually agreed on a baseball player transfer deal it enabled cubans to play major league baseball in the u.s. without being forced to politically defect and then suffer being banned from ever returning to their home island but president trump has now scrapped the agreement saying it violates u.s. trade laws that's because player transfers involved a payment to the cuban government's baseball federation something orlando gutierrez who broadcast radio programs to cuba says is a clear violation of the sixty year old u.s. embargo on cuba the idea that he would be for federation has an identity different in this thing from the comments are doing is totally false so payments were would would have been made to the cuban government to a customer in order to buy these these players are slaves in havana the trip administration's decision is being viewed as a loss for cuba but i will tell you how this month says talented players will never realize their full potential. another says it's broken the future for young players

and this is you playing baseball he's playing ball in cuba in the beach santamaria beach the four year old gonzalo not i hope played in the major leagues his career in the u.s. began in the one nine hundred fifty s. during the cuban revolution the former pittsburgh pirates player says politics has no place in sport but we are in the middle all the host of the ballplayers how we call model that in the best way we can recall where we got no wrong calling through we. who want to play baseball the cuban baseball federation say the decision only harms athletes and their families trump administration says when cuba is a democracy things will change in all more than thirty cuban players would you to transfer to major league baseball under the old bomber agreement but their fate now seems to have been sealed like many others seeking a better life in the united states their only option is to defect in a statement major league baseball said they stood by the goals of the agreement to ensure and trafficking from cuba and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida and that's

all you sport for now more later actually peter thanks very much when i come back and also the break we'll take a live update from brussels in london among your much more saying the e.u. hasn't decided whether to postpone the brics it or not is set for friday so use it . as protests over welfare cuts exploded nicaragua's phone trying government launched a brutal clampdown. now after a year of deaths detentions and political suppression crisis negotiations are

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methamphetamines from me and ma of flooding into countries across asia. one o one east asks why all forgeries caught same to stop the myth. on al-jazeera. with just over forty eight hours to go before another that deadline the european union holds an emergency meeting to hear to resume is plea for yet another extension. of watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up.

benjamin netanyahu is set to become israel's longest running prime minister after his party secures a toy in the country's elections also. u.s. vice president mike pence calls on the u.n. to recognize the interim president and white over and tells venezuela's representative to go home. i never believed that this black hole was as big as people said until we saw. that the world's first images of a black hole scientists unveiled one of the mysteries of outer space. britain's prime minister to resume is in brussels right now for an emergency breaks it meeting with e.u. leaders to plead her case for an extension which is may wants to delay the u.k.'s exit from the e.u. until june the thirtieth with the possibility of an earlier departure if the withdrawal deal is ratified but the european council president is proposing

a far longer extension of up to a year. many people beatrice straight through to the summit is taking place to chill out because the u.k. should learn to use by now hands i greatly regret the fact that parliament has not been able to pass a deal that would enable us to be in this movement also the way that i and the government continue to find a way for which we can talking with your positions being serious constructive to say they will continue to more of the purpose of this summit is to increase an extension which gives us more time to agree a deal to enable us to leave the e.u. in that smooth and orderly way and ok we'll talk with my colleague john hall in london in just a moment first live now to brussels and our correspondent there david chaytor david she's saying she's clear she wants a short delay but it's not hers to take surely it's theirs to give. exactly she's actually coming here to ask for the sort of extensions she wants but

it's entirely in the hands of the e.u. to twenty seven to decide exactly what she gets now most importantly we've been looking at to two days to december thirty first and march twenty twenty years possible long extensions to this whole process and they will come with conditions but i was listening to the french president daniel macron before he went in and he said very clearly that all options were still on the table and now he's continuing is hard line stance and it looks like with those remarks it could be quite a difficult discussion between the e.u. twenty seven who'll be listening to stories in may trying to understand how and why she can get a deal through the house of commons with the talks with the opposition party the labor party led by jeremy corbyn by june the thirtieth because frankly there is great distrust having seen the scenes in parliament for so many weeks now that she

can actually come through with any deal that can be ratified in that time lang. so at the moment. it looks as though those the long the extension dates. will be the most likely outcome from this evening's talks but the trees i'm a will put up points to the twenty seven then she'll have to leave the room they'll discuss it then gone to dinner and this could take a long time yet especially with the french president. keeping his hard line he's been saying all along that if we're going to have a long extension if they're going to go into the european nations may twenty third and the twenty six then britain's got to sign some sort of good behavior clause maybe they should lose the e.u. commission lose their place of the top table maybe they should lose their veto all these would be very difficult things for two reason me to accept it depends how much the pressure will be put on the french to step down step back from their hard

line stance but it's going to be a long night ahead understood we'll talk later thank you jon a whole joins us from london journal what's the likely response to a long extension going to be in westminster. resume will have to come to the house make a statement to this. meeting she does that she will lay out the terms of this extension if it is indeed a long one and a distributed one will should get a pretty futile response to your own backbenches rodent piece that you will be furious that breaks it is again delayed by a longer period of time theorist this country will have to fight parliamentary elections they'll point out to her that just a couple weeks ago she said this prime minister she could never accept an extension beyond june the thirtieth there may be calls or suggestions that she resign but in the end they will know i think that there is a great deal they can do about it parliament has legislated for an extension of the conservative party has run out of mechanisms to get rid of the prime minister and put in place somebody they might think would do

a better job i think they will know that they've pretty much got to grin and bear it. she's been having these discussions with the labor leader on the opposition benches jeremy coleman how are those talks likely to be impacted. well they're supposed to resume on thursday the labor party has said that they've seen no sign of the prime minister's willingness to move on her red lines famous red lines to take in the idea of a customs union that of course labor wants the big test will be once they resume is she going to go in earnest into an effort to reach a deal has she simply been using these talks bubbling away in the background as a pretext to ask the e.u. for the extension that she wanted another possibility and don't be surprised if this happens is in the next week or two she comes back and asks for a fourth time in parliament to accept her thrice defeated deal banking perhaps on the idea that m.p.'s have reached

a point where they've simply had enough. benjamin netanyahu looks set for a fifth as israel's prime minister despite the passing of his main rival winning as many seats but mr netanyahu is expected to get the support of right wing parties to form a coalition government or a force that begins our coverage from west jerusalem. just hours after claiming victory came a different tone from the man now likely to become the leader of israel's opposition. people want to different way and we're going to deliver it i told you that i came for ten years this is only the first morning there's plenty of work ahead of me. and nothing is over we are making our moves were surprised until now we'll see what the days bring in reality the day brought only growing certainty that the former army chiefs project to unseat israel's prime minister had failed.

only b.b. king bibi had been a chance in the early hours of wednesday and once again benjamin netanyahu backed up his boast that there really is no one like him in israeli politics. very moved that the people of israel put their trust in me again for the fifth time a greater trust even he managed to take enough votes from right wing rivals to gain seats for his likud party without undermining support for his preferred coalition partners personally as well as politically the stakes have never been higher i think the main purpose. is to get a majority in the parliament in the knesset. to make legislation that will give him immunity and protect the. charges that he is going criminal charges it's going to face. israel's attorney general is due to hold hearings for netanyahu and his lawyers where they can challenge his intention to indict the prime minister in three separate corruption cases it's considered likely however that charges will be

brought one of the key questions now. as exactly what kind of a price the smaller far right parties might try to extract from netanyahu in return for their support especially if they're expected to go to the wire for him to help him defend against the corruption cases he faces and it's a price that could end up costing the palestinians more than anyone else in the final days of the campaign netanyahu endorsed the annexation of all israeli settlements in the occupied west bank palestinian politicians fear it's more than election ploy rather a consequential political shift just weeks ahead of the planned publication of the trumpet ministrations peace plan i think the whole goals of the game are changing because now this clearly says that imposing greater is on all of historical palestine. and therefore they have totally cancelled any agreements they have not only fight the two state solution they have totally gated that requirements of

peace they have totally violated international law and so on so now we need a whole new strategy to deal with this. netanyahu stands to make history twice over within months becoming israel's longest serving prime minister and potentially its first to serve the stain of indictment for all his opponents talk of its being time for change enough israelis have decided that what they really want is more of the same very force it al-jazeera west jerusalem we're covering this story from all angles in a moment we'll get u.s. reaction from kimberly hellcat in washington first let's bring in meet in west jerusalem this talk out of the election mr netanyahu was talking about the annexation of the west bank how quickly could that actually happen. well there's two things that need to happen first the main one being that he needs to form his own government now consultations will start with the israeli president next week

some time they could go quickly they could go slowly but they have here. has twenty eight days to form that government and then he needs also to foster to pieces of legislation at the moment only the settlements are illegal under international law but they do come under israeli jurisdictions you have the issue of the outposts those are still not under israeli jurisdiction so the knesset will have to vote for that and then probably he can go ahead and declaring him is an exaggeration now he seems quite confident about it because just moments about an hour ago so he benjamin netanyahu tweeted thanking president trump telling him. thanking him for. declaration thanking him for the support over the extension of sovereignty on the occupied golan heights and telling him i am sure we can work together again very soon and many fronts so you do get

a feeling when you listen to benjamin netanyahu that he's quite confident that all of this he can provide to the israeli people he does have the support of president drum and he did say that actually too many times to. head the elections and actually just twenty four hours before devoting day a he did come out on social media saying that a he when he wants something from president terms he gets it and he said that if president trump they declare the revolutionary guard a terrorist organization simply because. asad has asked him to do it so he's quite confident he can do it very much complete washington so kimberly the trumpet ministrations their reaction like. will donald trump tweeted in the last couple of hours showing a picture of benjamin netanyahu victory party and the fact that some of those in attendance for wade.