now 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 spoke internet and yell to congratulate him earlier he told reporters a benjamin netanyahu victory was a step towards peace in the middle east. the fact that he was i think we'll see some pretty good returns a piece that every would say and i never made the promise. but everybody said you can't have peace in the middle east with israel and the palestinians i think we have a we have now is better with bibi having won. the u.n. secretary general has called for a ceasefire in libya to avoid what he calls

a bloody battle for tripoli the security council is just how that emergency closed door meeting on the situation in the capital as fighting there intensifies dozens of people have been killed and that includes at least thirty fighters loyal to the eastern warlord have tied his forces are trying to take tripoli from the u.n. backed government the u.n. says at least four thousand people have been displaced and many more are trapped it still time to stop it still stime for a cease fire to take place for a suspicion of all still it is to take place and can afford the worst which would be a dramatic bloody battle for tripoli but it's still time to recognize there is no military solution only political solution scale apply to situations like the one in libya. still to come the calls for change are growing louder protesters demanding the sudanese president step down get support from several western nations

when all elections are announced that will cheer yeah but will it be enough to satisfy protesters their demand the train. into. hello there is pretty cool for some of us in australia at the moment the winds are all feeding up from the southwest and it's this corner here where we're seeing the rather cool conditions the temperatures will slowly rise as we head through the next few days they say for melbourne we get to around seventeen on thursday and by friday will be up to twenty two there is another weather system that is edging its way towards us and that's already over parts of western australia for friday so some fairly sharp showers here i think perth though should be drying out temperature of around twenty six degrees now for new zealand here a lot of heavy showers at the moment you can see this great big belt of cloud and rain here is the south island where we've seen most of it so far but that's

gradually transferring northwards it'll be the north island for thursday and then on friday saturday things will begin to dry up it won't be that warm behind it they say christchurch will only get to a maximum of around and levon degrees if we head further north there's also been quite a few wintery outbreaks here all thanks to this little area of low pressure that's moving away though so on thursday there just be a few outbreaks of rain and snow in the northeastern parts of japan and that should clear entirely as we head into friday more in the way of drawing weather then just perhaps one or two showers for the west a lot of warm and now beijing up to twenty one degrees by friday. 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

underway. but could the dog days of civil war still retired. people in power investigate a frontline nicaragua on al-jazeera. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera leaders are locked in emergency talks over whether to grant the u.k. a break said the leg prime minister to resign for an extension until the end of june but the block has shown resistance to another short delay israel's blue and white party has conceded defeat in the country's general election the announcement

paves the way for prime minister benjamin netanyahu to try and form a government and the u.n. secretary general has called for a cease fire in libya to avoid what he calls a bloody battle for tripoli the security council is just an emergency closed door meeting on the situation there as fighting intensifies. there's been a fifth day of protests outside the army headquarters in sudan's thousands of demonstrators are calling for president omar al bashir to step down he's coming under increasing pressure after several western nations added their voice to calls for political change or heal mohammed reports. determined to make their voices heard to these protestors continue to come out in their numbers chanting outside army headquarters in the capital khartoum for another day and a starving 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. some soldiers intervened and others expressed their support for the demonstrators. this is a message to our colleagues in the armed forces the people who are brothers and have a right to speak their minds these are mid ranking officers power still lies with a 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 law 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're 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 countries 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 of if you committed the genocide in darfur everybody knows the militaries that need to it are shit i don't have it here so to actually just try to have a negotiation or a settlement is not enough you asked me a strong statement where change to happen 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 four of the out of the 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. al-jazeera. algeria will hold a presidential election on thursday the fourth of july after. weeks of antigovernment protests that will stray sions lead to the end of a bell as he's beautifully guess twenty year rule but protesters want to revamp of the entire political establishment. reports was algeria's protest movement has grown in size and scope despite the appointment of an interim president many people say they feel betrayed by their political elite and have lost trust in the government. they also don't believe that are the. is the

right person to run the country of this critical moment they have to go they have to go the whole government the whole gang that it's enough to came out today because they pointed and we do not want him to governors we want them to leave all of them the army chief but gates saga has expressed support for the entering president warning against what he said attempts to create a power vacuum and. countries are trying to push some people to the forefront of the current scene and impose them as representatives of the people with the hope of leading the transitional period and implementing their plans aimed at destabilizing algeria and create a rift among the algerians. but this bite those warnings antigovernment protesters seem determined to continue their rallies until the political

establishment is gone for the protesters the government and the interim president will all staunch allies of the former president. and should have resigned when he stepped aside the fact they're still in place is fueling concerns the old guard maybe even moving to maintain its influence. as iraq. funerals have been held in yemen for the victims of an air strike on a school in. who the control city of sanaa the saudi amir r.t. coalition raid on sunday left fourteen children dead and more than ninety others injured in german doc where reports was they are carrying the coffins of yemen's young the girls many of whom are under the age of nine caught in the blast while sitting in class was while some children are in hospital fighting for survival others are being laid to rest their families saying their final goodbyes was the

day that made us all of my sister rest in peace was the nation whatever discipline stands us are any disallowed goal will take revenge the children of done nothing wrong our lot of them where are the rights of yemeni children where are the rights of these female students who carry pens and papers not a bomb or a missile raids against homes schools and wedding halls show the coalition's fadia . the saudi emma rotty coalition air raid devastated the school the blast shattered windows glass and shrapnel spraying students as they sat in class since the start of the year hundreds of children have been killed and injured in yemen according to the u.n. the organization has condemned coalition forces for the killing of children in a conflict that has seen the overall death toll soar into the thousands and pushed millions to the brink of starvation since two thousand and fifteen the crowds of

people came to pay their respects to the young victims school children families of the victims and the people of sana'a. saudi arabia and its allies accuse who three rebels of using civilians as human shields but for most here the coalition is to blame. al-jazeera. the u.n. security council as well to discuss the worsening. humanitarian crisis in venezuela u.s. vice president mike pence called on the council to revoke the credentials of president nicholas for the us government he's the man during the un recognized opposition leader when wedo as the country's legitimate leader by cannot reports now from the u.n. in new york proceedings delayed while waiting for the u.s. vice president to arrive with no u.s. permanent representative yet appointed mike pence is sent to make president trump's

case and he demands that the u.n. recognize one as the legitimate leader of an as well or at the current ambassador to the u.n. be expelled 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 some others in the council insist on best some will among stay and accuse the us soft plotting illegal regime change so do not see the new puts the situation in minutes well or does not represent a threat to international peace and security however external you players are a direct threat to the peace and security of venezuela itself and we just heard that today discussions in the security council continued the u.s. vice president pressed home his point to the media outside saying the u.s. will seek a resolution to formally withdraw the accreditation of the material government

a resolution that may well have to be decided in the general assembly mike hanna al jazeera united nations. wiki leaks says its founder julian assange is being spied on in the ecuadorian embassy in london the activists or political asylum there in two thousand and twelve when he was being pursued on rape charges he said he could face torture or death of extradited to the u.s. for his role in releasing classified information and songes relations with his hosts have turned sour in recent years. tough new laws banning semiautomatic guns will be in place in new zealand by the end of the week parliament that the just weeks after fifty people were shot dead during an attack on two mosques in christ church all but one of new zealand's one hundred twenty m.p.'s voted for the gun reform bill it also outlaws parts that can be used to modify banned firearms. scientists have unveiled the highly anticipated first picture of a black hole in

a galaxy more than fifteen million light years away until now they've been impossible to see because of their distance from earth science and technology editor mariana hawn 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 based so far away no one had ever seen one at forty four million kilometers across the said to tear. the super massive black hole at the same to ravel 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 in

kilometers that's two point three and seventeen zeros scientists say it's like taking a photograph of an epilogue on the merton to see a black hole that size would need a telescope as wide as the earth's. sound impossible well two years ago experts 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. down and the months to black hole that anchors the giant galaxy 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 mentioned 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 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 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. amazing story we can find out more about that and everything else that we have been covering on our website you can see one of our top stories there the results of the israeli elections the web site of course al jazeera dot com. now a reminder of our top stories. are locked in emergency talks over whether to grant the u.k. a break said extension prime minister to resign me has been trying to convince the block to grant an extension until june thirtieth but evaders have shown resistance

the granting of a short delay it's expected that they're going to offer to resume until the end of the year or even next year without an agreement the u.k. will crash out of the e.u. without a deal on friday israel's blue and white party has conceded defeat in the country's general election the announcement by benny gantz clears the way for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to form a coalition government that would secure him a fifth term in office the u.s. president on trump says he has spoken to and yell to congratulate him earlier he told reporters and netanyahu victory was a step towards peace in the middle east. the fact that the one i think will be some very good actors in their germs are based on their every word. and i never made it a problem. but everybody said you can't there be peace in the middle east with israel and the palestinian 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 calls a bloody battle for tripoli dozens of people have been killed there in recent days that includes at least thirty fighters loyal to the east of warlord highly for half that it was forces are trying to take tripoli from the u.n. backed up algeria will hold a presidential election on thursday the fourth of july after ongoing anti-government protests demonstrations led to the end of abilities beautifully twenty year rule but protesters want to revamp of the entire political establishment algeria's army chief is promising a transparent political transition but is calling on people to be patient. and there's been a fifth day of protests outside the army headquarters in sudan thousands of demonstrators a calling for president omar al bashir to step down he's coming under increasing pressure after several western nations added their voice to calls for political change those are the top stories on al-jazeera coming up next its people have power

thanks for watching a by. methamphetamines from a man of flooding into countries across asia. one zero one east asks why all forces can't seem to stop the mic. on al-jazeera. in april twenty eighth street protests against pension reform plans unique to rocky road grew into a world wide spread antigovernment the country some to mr regime under president the new rule take a crackdown on over the following year hundreds were killed thousands more were exiled retained independent review was suppressed as negotiations to resolve the crisis finally got underway we went to investigate.

two thousand and nineteen. forty years after an insurgency overthrew a us supported dictatorship sending nice to supporters gathered to pay homage to the man at the home their socialist revolution was named. how would a sunday know who was betrayed and killed in one thousand thirty feet up to defeating a u.s. invasion. but in one nine hundred seventy nine the movement piece by it fought a war a civil war and current president that in our data came into power for the first time. but it. was. not.

over the four decades since this and the nice to have been voted in and out of government but in two thousand and seven or they are returned to the office he still holds today now but they get up ministration you see next then show crisis itself i was saved by claims of savage's repression human rights abuses and the ledge to murder people thousands of opponents because i was once again under u.s. sanctions once again it's been called the police state. we've come to find out why. that crisis began in april two thousand and one must protests against a penchant for group in top white spread and take government class. which

responds to strict. i international n.g.o.s claim that one thousand five hundred people were disappeared in one thousand exiled and eight hundred detained as political prisoners u.n. investigators tried to find out more but were asked to leave the. those investigating. the gun and jump around about one university students joins the pension reform. i they were first attacked by masked men and then. i see demonstrate this with killed and hundreds wounded single bloody day. porting to severely restrict it and make that. demonstrate against the government. even waving a national flag in public could send you to jail. facing international condemnation

the government has struggled to find foreign loans and faces a deepening economic crisis. president out of big ceased on the sunday nice to me verse or a sound opportunity to address participants. thank you thank. you thank you i thank you i but the boy little buddy. better get them that they don't. look in the film a little. here it was said after what bob dylan read all that are you amazed at the time it was rather disappointed. or less general cornum words it will. not end up with someone who thought thanks i thought it was. great.

thanks to the teacher. that was journalists just i must be a good thing i had changed the editors of the country's only twenty four hour news network independently for the newspaper and online sites have been forced into hiding works out i disciplined rather cold to. actually care just for those fields protests. forty years ago when i was crowning years of underground armed resistance to the bloody some more something pay to ship. the you. know how tall was one of those volunteered to fight for the revolution in its war against the us finest guerillas had bled the country for

a decade. that he was a tin. can remembers meeting fellow revolutionaries in this old colonial house in the city of leon for. students protesting against the seventies to government ceased it in two thousand and eighteen. her house was burned down in the region. to receive him with the amateur virtue out of. each other one of those of the year the fourth of the. act. you are. more monday look william was. brought up in any other you know when you know the good stuff. his camp he's also terrific at the military service in his car since the recent troubles began he's hoping we prove he's published in recruiting stations stopped

by the police. another day another car journey this time we're going on to find victims of the recent violence there were several readers in mind we drove a few miles away from the capital to meet one of the student leaders still in hiding that the government wanted to arrest. them all and. like. to walk up and down. one of. these two. or. the opening of this one down the aisle last hour or. so i thought i don't know if that's going to hold up at the end i think you know i think i'll have a long rest there. paramilitaries loyal to

a bigger surrounded the students set up barricades. and. some people i've got. to get. along. and looking much back. i used. to quote i lucked out with a number of them and they also put up with the. phantom want to. know what i mean either. or both of us think either.

way one that's in there. three or five i. want to. bring it to him or maybe i didn't get them but they were about. messed up by the young and i would do it for myself if they don't have the water. yet i've been right is the young. one of the mother but what are all. human rights organizations like amnesty international say that that's in some cases of torture and sexual abuse and i was attention so. we went to nine university campus. its gates with no guarded by the

government twenty four. this is the more they get there when you have seen so many women that. think the same thing you know how to make sure that you. know when you are going to see. this and the nice to student either he's now in charge of deciding which students are allowed to enter to come because he claimed that the revolt means. talk to me complain think of those who may work out of this i thought they were pretty impressed by. the fire you seem to have fighting the mantle that you know who are in some beneath . but the momentum also know that up a lot of it's if i just. don't know what the home yet on the scene i bet the only way to see the band. what the he'll be up all of

the people. in. little. then say they look pretty metal in fine. in them and they like it and they don't play. but i hate the mathematical but. then right the only good yeah i mean michael moore near the human rights violations committed by paramilitary forces in the protests are not part of the ongoing negotiations with the opposition. yet they were at the core of the political crisis former revolutionary we begin with yet took us to see a church close to the university. for the scars of conflict. this is this is the play out of the south. but.

it doesn't need to. know more than just knowing the punkin hope it will be a key its own frank is that only a young miss in the local nobody got out a don't know yet i gotta give me. nothing got to work for you here because if you listen tough or. not. the priest of this. irish has since taken refuge in that make up the damage caused by the assault had been left untouched. as a memory to the guy. to save us or for. you and i don't want to have to say i'm not enough for him to have been able to have that if i don't know how. i.