mung them i'm on of with the. party and i'll kill a shadow of the party for india's most populous state with the provision which is eighty seats and then there is the bene g. of the all india trinamool congress from west bengal where forty two seats are up for grabs so who will 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. still to come on the program a huge test awaits arsenal. all the details coming up in sports. business update. going places together.

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scientists have unveiled the highly anticipated first picture of a black hole in a galaxy more than fifty million light years away until now they've been impossible to see because of their distance from earth science and technology editor mariana hold reports. people have long tried to imagine what a black hole looks like. we know they're out there monsters of space that scientists believe exert enormous gravitational force on stars and everything else around them. but if we one of these images is a guess there's so far away no one head of the seen one at forty four million kilometers across the said to terrace ice 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 murder and 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. and the months to black hole that anchors the giant galaxy sivan they picked up on the high energy radiation emitted from the jets and swirling disks of white hot gas and mesha around a black hole's 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 image is so significant that astronomers held similar tiniest global news conferences 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 virgo constellation it's still too early to conclude whether the sophisms or challenge is what we know about the laws of physics and space but einstein's theory of general

relativity seems to be holding up so far this is 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 einstein 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 maidana hand out to zero. or two hundred scientists across the world made this all possible astronomer derrick war thompson is one of them he joins us over skype from preston here in the u.k. sir thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera an amazing feat made possible by cooperation all over the world tell us a little bit about what went into it and how it came about. well yes as you say it was quite an amazing feat of collaboration between eight dollars goes right

across the planets essentially by linking them together creating one giant planet sized telescope and linking them together was not easy the timing of the signals that every telescope has to be exceedingly accurate and was measured using an atomic clock at every one of the telescopes and then as you said in your reports that the data were flown on external hard drive disks to a central location for all of the data to be linked together and and correlated i guess a lot of potential there for things to go wrong so how did you feel when you actually did see the picture had black hole. it was a fantastic feeling to to see a picture of a black hole and to realise actually it looks just like all the artists impressions

that we thought we thought we would look like and that's of course because that be their brains on einstein's theory of general relativity and its predictions and so far it looks as if everything relativity predicts we've seen and we've we've confirmed. so i guess it could lead us to probe more predictions made and also what else do you think we can learn or it can lead us to learn about the universe. lope are studying these images in detail we can really test they theory of relativity to to to to to a greater degree than was ever possible before because a black hole environment is one of the most extreme and environments in the universe and if the theory still holds up there then

it's doing pretty well now we hope next to take some pictures of small black holes. to arms more telescopes into our array and to sharpen up the images because then by comparing the similarities of the difference between different black holes we should be able to really probe the theory in every aspect of so that the astronomer derrick ward thompson one of the two hundred scientists across the world that made it all possible the picture of the black hole sir thank you thank you. it's going to far now and though for the sport barbara thank you so much to have been manchester united way in the first leg of their champions league quarter final the spanish side won one nil a live shot on goal giving bar civic to get side are trying to become european

champions for a sixth time and are chasing a trophy travel this season the second leg will be at the nou camp next choose day eventis were held to a one one draw in their first leg match and i accept christian rinaldo gave you a the lead just before the break but debbie nair as got the equaliser just thirty seconds into the second half a quarter finals of europe's a second tier club competition europa league begins on thursday arsenal host napoli in the pick of the last eight ties this is arsenal's final chance of winning a trophy in an i am race first season in charge the last time the club tasted european success was winning the now defunct cup winners' cup twenty five years ago they come up against and napoli sides sick of sitting second in syria. we have gone through this but we know we really need to be. very consistent in in too much of you with a big prefer a showdown with the west but then but also with the past even of believing in.

our new project and god says giving hope to palestinian and t.t.c. want to carry on playing football over the last year one hundred and thirty six people have lost limbs after being wounded in border violence behind the gem gym reports. in a place where hope always seems in short supply these football players are showcasing nothing but determination a life of clinic and everywhere i go i like to prove myself these radio patient 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 about 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 though we want pity they want to be self-sufficient and they want to get to do their own thing and then i will need to tell them what to do they want me to healthful suppose a little go at it and that's all we had to do that's it the other players say that so far the plan is working. if i've got that enough see 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 completely and events in the region 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 small. 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 fact that all of them they left whatever they had to do on this particular day if they came here to play sports just shows how we put on 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. the governing body of australian rugby is investigating one of their biggest stars israel folau over eighty social media around the thirty year old put up a banner on instagram warning that house awaits adulterers liars fornicators thieves atheists idolaters and homosexuals rugby australia has called the comments

on acceptable folau was also warned over his anti-gay remarks he posted last year. magic johnson has resigned as president of the l.a. lakers it comes after the team missed the playoffs for a sixth straight season you know how we do with le bron coming i think this summer with that other star coming in who was going to bring him here i think this team is going to be in this into really can two for the championship with the growth of the young players formula one will be celebrating its one thousand three . hundred but the milestone doesn't seem to faze the current world champion lewis hamilton that's because the mercedes driver is celebrating his own milestone the britain who trails his teammate valtteri bottas in the standings has been worse successful than anyone in the history of the chinese gone prix is going for his sixth title in china. and that fell us what for now it's now back to barbara in london far as thank you very much and that is it for me barbara starr for this news

hour do stay with us though i'm going to back in just a moment with more of the day's news and the latest from brussels where of course that meeting is going on between interest and reason. we live in a time of war and tragedy is crimes against humanity. an activist repression. enforced disappearance arbitrary arrests. extrajudicial executions brutal torture the list goes on. who investigates who judges the criminals. who compensates the victims the international conference on national regional and international mechanisms to combat impunity and ensure accountability under international law. organized by the

national human rights committee. united nations human rights office of the high commissioner. european parliament. and global alliance of national human rights institutions. what began as a small extremist group in africa's most populous country we met at deaths and death to from the government to just shoot him soon turned into a battle front for the nigerian government. yeah why. the torrijos for abducting

more than two hundred schoolgirls the killing and displacement of thousands of people al-jazeera investigates the origins of blood the rise of a rob on al-jazeera. two days to break sit negotiations continue in brussels at an emergency meeting to consider whether to delay brace hymns exit from the block and for how long. are you watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up benjamin netanyahu is one step closer to a record fifth term as israel's prime minister after the blue and white party can

see the future. with all due respect mr ambassador you shouldn't be here. the u.s. vice president's message to the venezuelan representative at the united nations i never believed that this black hole was as big as people said until we saw. that and more on the global collaboration that's given humanity its first glimpse of a black hole fifty five million light years away. emergency talks are continuing in brussels of a whether to grant the u.k. a break said extension british prime minister to resign may was hoping for brakes it to be delayed until june the thirtieth she's been unable to get her withdrawal agreement through parliament and british m.p.'s are yet to agree on an alternative plan. 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 can leave the 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 these the european union at the point at which we ratify got withdrawn agreement that would enable us to leave on the twenty second of may. but some e.u. leaders think the u.k. should be given a longer delay and take part in european parliamentary elections any extension long or short must be ratified by the remaining twenty seven e.u. member states and the chief negotiator says may must provide a clear reason for it. if i may still try as i may. request to divert cruiser attention of the article fifty. one people. in the extension of

the house to be sure i'm sure the poultice and i were coming from push to get to the right if you can of the we drive. the record on this. drug the only way to ensure an all delete. of the u.k. which is the owner of common interest. let's go live to brussels now and speak to the tasha butler who is following developments for us that tasha any idea of what's going on inside the meeting what are some of the sticking points like. what we're now into the early hours of thursday morning here in brussels and these discussions have been going on for several hours earlier that the british prime minister to resign may try to persuade convince e.u. leaders to grant her an extension of article fifty and delay breaks it again she wants the delay until june the thirtieth that she has left and the e.u.

leaders are still deep in discussion but it seems that it's taking so long because that all some real sticking points the french president emmanuel might call he's taken a very color blind during this whole process has made it very clear that if an extension is to be granted he does not want a long extension of his reasoning is that the longer the u.k. is in the european union the longer the e.u. will be disrupted overshadowed by this whole breaks it process is also very concerned about the e.u. parliament tree elections coming up at the end of may and do you rules the u.k. would have to take calls in those european elections if it still is in the e.u. again that something good about all michael and several other e.u. leaders have said is of great concern it just doesn't seem to make sense for them so we have a. really pushing against a extension even saying things like look out no deal breaks and breaks it now isn't such a bad thing because maybe it's better that the u.k.

goes out now than stays any longer but we know that other leaders such as the german chancellor angela merkel are saying let's have a longer extension the e.u. council president donald tusk is saying let's have an extension which would be flexible so that at any time in let's say different period perhaps over a year the u.k. could leave if the reason they managed to get some sort of deal passed by u.k. m.p.'s so discussion discussions ongoing i should say we don't know how long for but it does seem as if no decisions have come out yet and as you say it's already midnight there in brussels the passion butler for the moment thank you let's go live to bernard smith he is in westminster bernard we see how divided the e.u. twenty seven are about a longer extension or a short extension how is all of the extension issue generally being viewed by politicians here in the u.k. . well barber of course who brags that supporting m.p.'s brags it was all about taking back control while at the moment the at least the short term relationship

between the united kingdom and the e.u. is in the hands of the european union's two other twenty seven heads of states brags supporting m.p.'s all m.p.'s he can only watch on and see what they the decision they make of course the briggs's supporting m.p.'s didn't want this to happen they see it as an m. barrus means they think we are the united kingdom should just leave the european union on friday and crash out remain supporting in peace of course are hoping for some sort of extension the challenge though is if the extension is granted want to resume a is able to do with it to resume a the conservative party in the labor party meet again on thursday to see if they can thrash out some sort of agreement on the way forward with bragg's it's an extension of the european grants them will mean that the heat is off for the time being the pressure is off to come up with some sort of quick deal so that may allow them to spend more time talking and to resume a has said in the indications are from brussels she's going to stay in power stay

prime minister until the withdrawal agreement is through parliament breaks it supporting m.p.'s and hope they'll be able to get rid of her after this extension was granted remains supporting m.p.'s wanted it to stay in power to prevent any sort of more bragg's it friendly prime minister taking over that also is what the european leaders recognise to resume is a sort of an on it's a broker at the very least and they would rather err in the prime minister's chair than some brags that supporting the future prime minister barbara pernice with the latest from westminster thank you. benjamin netanyahu as main rival has conceded defeat in israel's election the announcement by benny gantz is blue and white party clears the way for the prime minister to form a coalition government and secure a fifth term in office harry for such reports now 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 leader ten lots of the gulshan given the size of the blocks this is the reality the fight isn't over the dialogues continue you know give it came in. the day brought only growing certainty that the former army chiefs project to unseat israel's prime minister had failed. i believe 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 they learned 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 of that anyhow in these elections are was to get

a majority in the parliament in the knesset that will enable aim to make legislation that will give him immunity and protect him form the charges that he is going criminal charges it's going to face a few months 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 is 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 endorse the annexation of all israeli settlements in the occupied west bank palestinian politicians fear it's more than an 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 so that imposing greater is on all of historical palestine . and therefore they have totally cancelled any agreements they have nullified their 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 hole in your 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 under 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 or the bill hamid has the latest now from west jerusalem. blue and white did concede defeat but also said

that it was preparing for the twenty twenty election basically hinting at the fact that come july after a hearing benjamin netanyahu could very well be indicted and not be any more the prime minister by the end of the year benny gantz also did say planning to lead a very strong and loud opposition bloc within the knesset the israeli parliament and he said that he will turn benjamin netanyahu is life quote a living hell on his side the incumbent prime minister is going ahead with his plans to lead the next government the final results should come out on thursday next week the israel's president rivlin will start consultations with the different political parties who will each recommend who they see most fit to become prime minister and that will be benjamin netanyahu at the end of that process the

president of fish really awesome benjamin netanyahu to form a coalition government he has twenty eight days to do that it could be extended by fifteen but by the looks of it and by the numbers it's should be a fairly easy process for mr netanyahu well the u.s. president says he has spoken to netanyahu. earlier he told reporters a benjamin netanyahu victory was a step towards peace in the middle east no the fact that he was i think we'll see some pretty good returns that everyone said and i never made a profit. 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. the u.n. secretary general has called for a cease fire in libya to avoid what he called.