to get her withdrawal agreement through parliament and british m.p.'s are yet to agree on an alternative plan may is asking for an extension to june thirtieth but certainly leaders think the u.k. should be given a longer delay and take part in european parliament elections well before we before going into the meeting the prime minister reiterated her support for a shorter delay on breaks it i've been clear that the u.k.'s request is for the extension to the thirtieth of june i could be working to make sure that we leave european union indeed we could have left the european union by now the parliament didn't pass the withdrawal agreement so we need that extra time to work to ensure that we can get a deal through parliament this enables us to be even more to the way that's in everybody's interest i think what matters is that we are able to the the european union at the point which we ratify got withdrawn agreement that would enable us to leave by the twenty second of may well any extension longer or shorter must be

ratified by the remaining e.u. twenty seven member states and the chief negotiator says that may must provide a clear reason for it. if i may still try as i may sir request to divert attention of the article fifty. one forges before too much in the extension. to be used. on shelves of the full force. and our common profession is to get it right if you can of the which drawer agree. the record of this. drug is the only way to ensure. which during the day you can reduce the overall interest in a moment we're going to speak to burn smith who's in westminster first though let's go to natasha butler in brussels the paschal good to see you first of all what's the latest from the meeting when are we likely to hear any kind of resolution.

well that's a big question we don't know when this meeting will end but what we do know is the british prime minister trees amaze milked in a room with the other e.u. twenty seven leaders and she is trying to persuade them to support eric quest for an extension of osco fifty and didn't they breaks it yet again she says that she needs more time to try and find a way for britain to leave the european union in an orderly fashion well as you can imagine that is something that even leaders here feel they've heard many times before there's growing frustration with this whole break that process and well when theresa may arrive thirty she said he looked great chickpeas if perhaps she believes that she is going to receive this extension but it's mobile decided those are the words of the french president a man who might call what the ole miss leigh in indicated that there would divisions among the e.u. leaders as to whether or not she would be given an extension that saves the e.u.

council president donald tusk has indicated that an extension can certainly be on the table if it is the question would be how long would it be she wants june the thirtieth but don't toss has made it. that he doesn't think that she could come up with some sort of breaks it a plan by then so he's proposing a much longer extension to for these ongoing deadlines and summits but other leaders such as again the french president omar called want to push extension if want to assert a lot of question marks right now over the length of the extension but what about conditions on it what do we know about that. but i think if there is an extension granted to theresa may it is very likely to come with some conditions and again don't the toss you council president suggested as much because of course e.u. leaders do not want to send the message to the u.k. that it's easy to leave the european union or you can just keep asking for as many delays as you want and that is why some of the suggestions he conditions i should

say he suggested things such as the reopening of the withdrawal agreement also that the u.k. asked a boy to e.u. rules for as long as it is in the european union so that would mean it would have to take that britain would have to take part in the european parliamentary elections at the end of may something that many european leaders were against but if the u.k. is in the e.u. then it simply has to abide by the rules and we also showed that many e.u. leaders want some checks on britain remains in the e.u. to make sure that it doesn't disrupt do you business use its veto when it wants because of the concern here is that breaks it to simply overshadowing much of the work that is done in brussels potential partner with the latest there from brussels natasha for the moment thank you well earlier to resume a hinted in prime minister's questions that a second referenda may need to be on the table in order to get her deal through her brakes a deal which has been voted down by parliament so three times so let's go live to

bernard smith who is in westminster bernard the issue of a second referendum has been so controversial just a few weeks ago we saw hundreds of thousands of people marched through the streets of money. when asking for a second referendum doesn't now look like it actually could be a possibility. the prime minister made it clear in prime minister's questions that she and her party's not in favor of a second referendum and it's been one of her red lines but of course part of the talks between the labor and conservative parties has been from the labor side a suggestion that they might want a second referendum if they are to agree to block the prime minister's gregg's it deal but said there's no indication at all there's even a majority in the house of commons for a second referendum so they are the chance of them legislating for one is remote at the moment it really depends on how those talks between labor the conservatives go their share jule to start again on thursday when the prime minister returns from

brussels barbara and burn it obviously bracks it has been dominating all business in the house of commons one reaction there in westminster to talk of a longer delay why no vamose the year you've been. exactly in that well the major frustration of course here particularly for conservative party members conservative members of parliament is the short term future of britain's relationship with the or repeating these now out of their hands has been left in the hands of the twenty seven other leaders of the european union and you had a furious conservative m.p.'s in the commons today saying that they should not have to wait and see what the european union has to say the united kingdom should just leave but the likelihood of the united kingdom just crushing out of the european union is now extremely remote what is more than likely is they'll be some sort of extension granted the prime minister wants june the thirtieth the european union leaders their suggestions it might be longer but all of those decisions out of the

hands of m.p.'s say to reason may will be given some sort of extension deadline is expected and she's going to have to take it and she's going. i have to present it to n.b.c. and they are going to have to put up with it as well barbara smith with the latest from westminster thank you so the brakes a crisis continues let's get a sense now of just how divided britain is over it lawrence lee visited two areas of england which share the same name but want to entirely different outcomes to the crisis. this elegant part of london is the epicenter of still it it's a bricks it's rich powerful people live here the entire notion of brecht's it is regarded as barmy unhinged would economically speaking cook the u.k.'s goose. the centrist liberal democrats who have only a handful of seats in parliament dominate politics here have defiantly nailed their

colors to the council mast and they say get rid of brecht's it once and forever kill it stone dead it will have to be revoked because there simply isn't the time to put the legislation in place for a second reference if if revoke is going to be cleaver let's just do it it wasn't possible to still have a break that i think people will understand that we just have to be honest and say what you are solves the trace the threat sixteen. was a lot to be honest it was just something which couldn't be delivered it is absolutely impossible to overstate the sheer sensible thing that people in places like this have towards brics it's their feeling of national betrayal towards those politicians who would take the u.k. out of the european union with no deal. becomes a vis richmond's and you're likely to get the opposite view here very many regard opposition to bracks it's as a form of treachery. this richmond is every bit as pretty as the other one it was

voted the best place to live in britain yet the mood here can be venomous towards both the e.u. and the british governments they dismiss entirely the idea that bracks it is some kind of mythical creature as their opponents claim britain they say is being led like a lamb to the slaughter democracy is dying i think the longer it goes on the more extensions the more that the power of the people by parliament who are reminded and we will not get brecht's it is simple as that i think it's delaying tactics so that i can reverse the decision of the people we had the people we don't need in our people we should leave on. 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 tell 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 barnsley al-jazeera and that is it from me and the team here in london now let's go back to peter. baba thank you so much the u.n. security council has met to discuss the deepening crisis in venezuela the us vice president mike pence called on members to recognize the opposition leader as the legitimate president venezuela has been hit by another huge power outage with reports of twenty to twenty three states affected mr gordo wants people to come out and protest against the ongoing public services failures the president nicolas maduro is blaming us sabotage for the power cuts mike hanna has more now from the u.n.

vice president mike pence says he was sent by president trump to give one simple message to the united nations that it must revoke the credentials of the venezuelan ambassador in the body and that it must support a change in governance within venezuela itself the time has come for the united nations to recognize interim president wanted wide oh as the legitimate president of venezuela and seek his representative in this body this body should revoke the credentials of venezuela's representative to the united nations recognize interim president won by doe and seek the representative of the free venezuelan government in this body without delay with all due respect mr ambassador you shouldn't be here. you should return to venezuela. and tell nicolas maduro that his time is up it's time for him to go but support for the

madeira government from others within the security council in particular russia which says that the real threat to venezuela comes from without from bodies such as the united states rather than inside that country itself change within venue as well as say of the russians must be determined by been as well in some selves not by outside forces so like on so many other issues the security council deeply divided on the issue of venezuela and who should lead it. still to come here on the news hour the president of sudan is under pressure as protesters calls for him to step down grow louder. and in sport tiger woods says the time could be right to end his decade long waits for a major title. however

that 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 africa sixty two plenty of cloud around that's making its way across iran brought the skies come back in behind next area cloud that slides alex if keen to know the parts of syria because through with a chance of want to showers just light in the way into northern areas of iraq much of iran will be dry and settled twenty three celsius therefore to around the west the weather making its way across afghanistan more than possible to stand up towards took many with the usual wintry flurries and with 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 those 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 and watches cacho sportive and i think the u.a.e. saying the wetter weather that's more the case as we go on through friday we'll see temperatures in abu dhabi getting up to around twenty nine celsius what is still in riyadh thirty one homes here in doha with twenty seven. isn't a problem for your candidate but you may not have a hell of a question mark over him but he does have a corruption question markers really doesn't look good for the israeli particularly are not going to do anywhere probably because no matter what you say red you get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the u.n. across the globe to survive it is called for and then breaks doesn't build confidence it breaks will join me man the hot sun on the front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories i don't think issues here and i'll just say. he came from a wealthy background in paris and became an artist against his family's wishes he

were. on to bring a fresh perspective to oriental if painting falling in love with some harlem culture making him do you his home and converting to islam. al-jazeera world tells the story of nothing to envy me and his unique artistic work. the french oriented list on al-jazeera. welcome back ok let's recap the top stories for you so far here in the news benjamin netanyahu is main rival has not conceded defeat in the general election the announcement by benny gantz his blue and white party clears the way for the

prime minister to form a coalition government and secure a fifth term in office however promise to make netanyahu time in office a quote living hell. british prime minister it's a reason may is in brussels asking the e.u. to accept a short delay mrs may wants to move the deadline to june the thirtieth as britain faces crashing out of the e.u. without a deal on friday. the u.s. vice president mike pence has called on the u.n. security council to recognize the opposition leader. as the president of venezuela he was speaking at a meeting on the deepening crisis in the country. sudan's president is under increasing pressure as western nations and their voices to calls for political change on tuesday protesters hold a fifth straight day of a city and outside the army headquarters the continued into the night sudan's information minister says eleven people were killed during security incidents in the capital regular mohamed reports. determined to make their voices. heard

sudanese protesters continue to come out in their numbers chanting outside army headquarters in the capital khartoum for another day one of the us dollar being under this president we have been displaced because of him they do to us as they please we ask for the killer to be ousted. but on monday and tuesday security force personnel opened fire on demonstrators staging a sit in later some soldiers intervened and others expressed their support for the demonstrators. and this is a message to our colleagues in the armed forces the people of brothers and have a right to speak their minds. these are mid ranking officers power still lies with the higher level of command despite some saluting the army and calling for them to part ways with the government a spokesman for the military says the armed forces and security forces remain

united the mold i hope but i mean what 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 very well prepared plan has helped us to control the situation in a peaceful way. opposition leaders say they are seeking talks with the army to plan a transitional administration and they now have the backing of the u.s. u.k. and no way the three country said in a joint statement sunni's authorities must now respond and deliver a credible plan for this political transition but some activists believe more needs to be done is number if you committed the genocide in darfur everybody knows the military leadership that i'm never here so to actually just try to have a negotiation or a settlement is not enough you asked me a strong statement where change happened and das to be a way for him to leave power omar al bashir has not commented on the past few days

of protest but state t.v. showed pictures of him chairing a meeting of the country's supreme commission for national dialogue. the anti-government protests started last december fueled by food shortages and rising prices human rights watch says more than fifty people have been killed in violence since then forgot how to go in february a state of emergency was brought in but it's fails to contain these protests the biggest challenge yet for all the shares a thirty year rule. as to don 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 his. mohamed al jazeera. a three way battle is heating up in the mountains of eastern afghanistan eisel fighters started their offensive against the taliban in the provinces two weeks ago the fighting's force around twenty thousand people from their villages and afghan

army special forces are being ordered to join the battle our correspondent charlotte dallas has the story. the afghan army controls the roads and karuna but isolate and the taliban contests the countryside a police a school would you in convoy one of the few ways to access these areas further. violence between the armed groups has escalated in recent weeks than twenty thousand people from their homes villages from the worst area of chpa daraa have arrived at this health clinic looking for help. but there i sort of arrived in our village and we were dressed like this we took nothing and we just fled by foot we left everything behind and came here some of our families are still living and i saw and with the ongoing fighting this is shereen his son mohammed saeed he was shot in the leg during a taliban isolate clash. the situation is very bad in our village and those who can

make it they can come down here but those who aren't physically able are stuck there it's impossible to survive there i said on the taliban have been fighting in this area for some time but about two weeks ago i saw. on the taliban in the mountains around trying to push we understand about fifteen hundred francs in the syria from which they more text locally in kabul and then also further abroad where rived at the governor's house and cruel to ask him his response to this crisis. has been the governor for ten months much of his territory is contested by the taliban now the government must tackle both. groups. of the our military are on the outskirts of shock but they have gathered there and started but appropriations they are waiting for special forces to begin the operation the air force will also help us so hopefully in three days will capture the territory back

. the timeline is empty and these elders from chaff adar annoyed this meeting with the looking for help they want temporary accommodation for the families in a government held area until they have guarantees it's safe to return. to. their wives or even more he says hint these four women have twenty eight children between them they are convinced their children and in the in. what was the situation like that of the taliban. or did i say. i still arriving at our house and there was a big fight and we were not able to survive so we came here the whole mountain was under eisel control we were not able to live there they kept coming down to our village there were so many bullets flying all those who fled told us they were more scared of i saw in the taliban that they are the basis of two evils the priority

now finding a place for their children to raced till they feel safe to return home. turning our attention to algeria where the government has announced elections will be held on july the fourth licenses for ten new political parties meanwhile the interim president. was a long time ally of the former president because he says he has no political ambitions but many algerians do remain skeptical. this is the one who will lead algeria for ninety days until a new president is elected. the speaker of the upper house of parliament. was appointed interim president by the parliament a few days after our lives he's beautifully how he signed his decision followed weeks of unprecedented protests against his book but with a political as

a replacement faces a daunting task he's widely unpopular and seen by many algerians as a member of the same elite accused of corruption votes and inefficient governors eager to build bridges with skeptical opponents made to public statements on tuesday and announced the setting up of an independent committee to oversee the presidential elections in any year i want to unify the nation and carry out elections which are transparent and proper the government will also instructed the department to supervise these elections honestly in a fair and impartial fashion i urge everybody to overcome our differences and work together to cooperate to lay the cornerstone for a new old area the interim president also emphasized he had no intention to run in the upcoming elections but on the streets the discontent continue years the

same protesters who wanted to flip out unhappy with appointment and they are determined to push for a real change is happening because we have come out today in order to oppose ben salah ben feller leave we don't need you. we are here so the ones who are governing the country leave because they are robbing and not building the country they are destroying it i was serious political crisis began in february when president with a announced he would be seeking a fifth term in office has been in power since nineteen ninety nine but rarely seen in public since some. bring a stroke into thousand and thirteen after weeks of protests calling for him to step down the army withdrew its support for the eighty two year old president and the longest serving president eventually resigned but for many are serious their

fight is far from over they want a clean sweep of the political establishment and the national unity government to lead the transition to democracy. the u.n. security council will hold another emergency meeting on the crisis in libya as the fighting there continues dozens of people have been killed in recent days that includes at least thirty fighters loyal to the warlord holy for after his forces are trying to take the capital tripoli. has more from tripoli. the situation is still a very tense in the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli following get yesterday's clashes between forces loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar and others loyal to the end of baghdad police based government of national accord have to us forces manager to open a new front in the southern eastern outskirts of tripoli namely in

a neighborhood old call that aims are and eyewitnesses that say that hundreds of families would leaving the area because of the clashes and meanwhile the government of national accord accuses have to us forces of targeting civilian areas with heavy with heavy weapons or random shelling have random shootings have been landing in civilian areas and also have air force has been targeting get the government to force locations in the outskirts of the libyan capital meanwhile the government of national poll says that its air force has conducted civil air strikes targeting have to us forces locations around the city of again around one hundred kilometers to the to the south from the libyan capital tripoli government sources say that they have been recaptured sixteen. fighters and also military vehicles the situation remains very tense and it seems that despite the

fact that civil international institutions have been calling for called including the united nations and the european union but it seems that need that one of the evil factions on the ground is listening to the international calls but generally speaking this situation is collation it seems to be dealing with the peace talks name need their general national conference which was due to be held on the fourteenth of this month in the city of of them it's. foods as in india begin casting their ballots on thursday in the world's biggest election the prime minister narendra modi is seeking a second term but results will be a long time coming with voting spread over several weeks explains what's at stake. it's the world's biggest exercise in democracy electing representatives in the

lower house of the indian parliament and choosing a new government the number is simply staggering they are about nine hundred million eligible voters this time that's more than the entire population of europe and almost three times the number of americans more than fifteen million indians a young first time voters five hundred forty three seats in the lower house are at stake two are reserved for india's anglo indian community now these are indians who trace their ancestry to europe and their representatives are no mineta by the president the magic number needed here to form a government is to seventy two in the last general elections five years ago promised in the interim or these party agenda party won two hundred eighty two seats with the main opposition party the indian national congress fall behind winning forty four seats the big chunks over there are the powerful regional parties such as the a idea and the all india trinamool congress with thirty seven and thirty four seats

so who are the main contenders this time well they're in your movie leads to ruling b j p his main challenger raul gandhi is the leader of the indian national congress party there are also powerful regional parties which have formed what they call a grand alliance against more the and may hold the cards if national parties don't win an outright majority among them a moderate the. party and kill a shadow of the party in the us most populous state with the probation which is eighty seats and then there is the better g of the all india trinamool congress from west bengal where forty two seats are up for grabs so who would lead more than a billion indians for the next five years well for that we have to wait to come to day on may twenty third. my colleague rahman has been speaking to people about

their hopes for the next government. to millions of indians the wheels of life don't stop turning and that includes those like migrant workers up on course from the state of west bengal in the east of the country he's been a rickshaw rider in new delhi for twenty years with few job opportunities moving to the big city was the only way to support his family. it would be wonderful if my son and daughter get an education that's my only wish and nothing else as a responsible rule water i go to great lengths to cast my vote but the politicians take my vote and then disappear where is the promised help millions of farm workers have converged on india's major cities to find ways to survive economic pressures back home they're relying on politicians to keep their election promises to the. millions of indians voters for the party or b j p led by a right wing populist leader the red remote in twenty fourteen he promised a lot to the electorate especially the young are being young. we want the country

to progress then we need to develop their skills that's my mission this is my promise to develop skill india where the promises were made that where there really is skill india training and there may be something. so hope was really rising but in forty years nothing happened you know ninety five percent of startups have failed i don't see any end in a start up making up for years. if you give the capital new delhi aspiring fashion designers are close to graduating and many in this class like books and the leisure of first time voters because i wasn't give my promise that i was one of the men who keeps their promises just not for the stakes sake of getting what in the next election is but to be dead for the people as me graduate out of course the first thing which we will look at. and that's what we want these are just some of the estimated fifteen million graduates that will join the job market each year the

. government forecasts that manufacturing will increase by eight percent that's good news to the students. up and go she is not the first to look for work in the big city and he won't be the last but he'll be heading back to his village to vote hoping his choice of candidates will keep his election promises. al-jazeera new delhi. scientists have unveiled 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 of the distance but now a global collaboration involving the network of telescopes has made this first picture a possibility the debate begins on whether the image supports or shatters theory of general relativity is a science and tech at the ronald. people have long tried to imagine what a black hole knocks like.