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 victims schoolchildren families of the victims and the people of samara. saudi arabia and its allies accuse healthy rebels of using civilians as human shields but for most here the coalition is to blame. tough new laws banning military style semiautomatic weapons are due to come into force in new zealand by the end of the week parliament voted on the gun reform bill

just weeks after fifty people were shot dead during an attack on two mosques in christ church during friday prayers when a new zealand's one hundred twenty m.p.'s voted for the bill which also outlaws parts that can be used to modify banned firearms scientists have unveiled the highly anticipated first picture of a black hole or gravitational monster in a galaxy more than fifty three million light years away holes have been impossible to see because they're so far away but a global call collaboration and all the network of telescopes has made this first picture possible the debate now began on whether the image supports or shatters the theory of general relativity or science and technology editor mariana han. people have long tried to imagine what a black hole looks like. we know they're out there months does of space that scientists believe exert enormous gravitational force and start. 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 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 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.

and the months to black hole that anchors 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 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 very go 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 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 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 hond al-jazeera. chief astronomer at the franklin institute science museum he says even better images are all away. what's really impressive here actually is

the collaboration that went into creating the instrument that allowed us to gather such highly resolved data so what was done is eight radio telescopes around the world spread across the globe had their images synthesize together time wise so that we could create a centrally a telescope that is not only the size of earth remember this is a synthesis zation we're taking the signals from a different telescopes and blending them together and doing this makes it seem as if the telescope was the size of the earth and then what was done was they took images as the earth rotated around the sun and as it rotated on its axis and what that does is it fills in gaps that would be in this data because there are only eight telescopes so doing this actually gives us the resolution of a much bigger instrument the images that will come after this will be images that provide more information so this isn't a ray of telescopes if more telescopes are added or more data points are taken this

is going to fill in the gaps of clarity and resolution that we need to help us give us an even better image of what we see so this instrument can be used to observe other black holes and other locations and subsequent observations will provide more data that will improve the image we have already and to help us to confirm even further these ideas about gravity that proposed silat on al-jazeera the mahler saying gaza approving a disability is no barrier to playing the game they love.

time for sport with tara thanks very much barcelona have beaten matches united away in the first leg of their champions league quarter final alou shot on goal giving barsad victory that lay 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 to. eventis were held to one one draw in their first leg match i x. . gave you a the lead just before the break but narrow as got the equaliser just thirty seconds into the second half the quarterfinals of europe's second tier club competition the elite begins on thursday arsenal host napoli in the pick of the last eight ties this is our souls final chance of winning a trophy in tonight emory's first season in charge last time the club tasted european success was winning the now defunct cup winners' cup twenty five years ago

they come up against a napoli side sitting second in syria. we have gone through this but we know we really need to be. very consistent in into much of this is with a big preparation with the west but then also with fast in believing in. our new project and god says giving hope to palestinian amputees he 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 bahama jam jim reports. in a place where hope always seems in short supply these football players are showcasing nothing but determination a life and everywhere i go i like to prove myself these radio key 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

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. sports 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 they don't want me to tell them what to do they want me to healthful suppose a little go at it and that's all we're here to do that's the other players say that so far the plan is working. in the case of top of enough 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 going to 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 dizzee into gaza. my governing body of australian rugby is

investigating one of their biggest stars israel folau over a social media rant the thirty year old put up a banner on instagram warning that hell awaits adulterers liars fornicators themes atheists idolaters and homosexuals rugby australia has called the comments unacceptable all out was also warned over his anti-gay remarks he posted last year . and formula one will be celebrating its one thousand world championship race on sunday in china but the milestone doesn't seem to faze the current world champion lewis hamilton that's because a mercedes driver is celebrating his own milestone the britain who trails his teammate valtteri bottas in the standings has been more successful than anyone in history of the chinese grand prix he's going for his sixth title in china. what is it. is going to be a given to me. it's the years you're. going to be.

and that's all you sport for now more later that's all for me richelle carey for the news hour back keep it here much more news coming up on the other side of the break including the latest developments with the delay and are. when we live in a time of war and tragedies crimes against humanity. and 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

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course for crew and child soldiers and the have the fake exploitation of women the door to me is a. part of the radicalized. tunnel designer. you know what. i'm. hearing that the. european union leaders offer u.k. prime minister theresa may an extension to brics it. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. voting ends in israel but the coalition negotiations are just getting started. you should return

to venezuela. until nicolas maduro that his time is up. it's time for him to go and as well and later nicolas maduro accuses the u.s. vice president of arrogance after he calls on the u.n. to recognize. president dataset for algeria's presidential election after weeks of protests calling for an overhaul of the entire political system. back to the breaking news out of brussels the european union has offered to extend the brics a deadline if accepted it means the u.k. will not crash out of the e.u. on friday the president of the european council donald tusk is waiting on a response from u.k. prime minister theresa may it's being reported that the deadline will now be october thirty first with the review in june may actually wanted a shorter delay until june thirtieth tashi butler joins us live from brussels so

natasha what are the details were coming out what do we know so far. right now we waiting to hear from the e.u. council president donald tosk for more and more details are exactly over this extension that's been agreed all we know right now is that an extension has been agreed on by all twenty seven a huge members don't know tosk has met with the british prime minister to resume a he's told her about the extension and she apparently has accepted that it is reported this extension would be until october thirty first that is no longer the reason may have dos forward she came here earlier many hours ago that was actually on wednesday evening without those day morning here in brussels to resume a had wanted an extension until june the thirtieth we have now reports of october thirty first but what we do know was that for many hours either leaders were knocked in a discussion over exactly how long this extension should be it seems that many

leaders wanted an extension maybe to the end of the even further along to give britain more time to really sort out its bugs it crisis if you like to give everyone a bit more breathing space but the french president in model rockhold he's taken a very hard line during this whole briggs it process apparently refused to back a long extension of us being quite dramatic in the group he simply wanted a shorter extension because he said he is fed up with brakes it overshadowing so much of the e.u.'s agenda so what do we know about what this means now for elections in parliament. what we do know is that any extension would probably come with some pretty straight conditions the e.u. of course would not want to send the message the u.k. that it's easy to leave the european union and you can just sort of get any delay you want with when you will so we are expecting to hear from donald tusk exactly what those conditions would be he had written

a letter to officials on wednesday on tuesday i should say actually suggesting things like no renegotiation of the with the jewel agreement he would suggest that the u.k. as long as it stays within the european union has to adhere to e.u. rules and under the rules the u.k. would have to take part in the european elections of parliamentary elections to take place in may it seems very unusual to many that the u.k. that voted to go out of the e.u. and will in theory the one point with that have to send any peace to the european parliament but those are the rules and e.u. leaders here are adamant that the u.k. continues to maintain the rules for as long as it is part of the bloc ok natasha butler with the latest out of brussels natasha thank you. smith now has a latest from london. reg's is supporting m.p.'s haven't wanted any extension to the ukase departure date from the european union they wanted it to happen on friday

they wanted the u.k. to crash out that is now not going to happen the u.k. has been given a reprieve the challenge is now for tourism is conservative party and jeremy cauldrons labor party to see if they can somehow find a way forward a common stance on braggs that they can take to parliament get it passed through the house of commons both sides say they've been involved in sincere discussions those discussions will continue on thursday but the problem is there seems to be no indications that the two sides can come together on what sort of way forward they should see for braggs it so there is now the very real prospect that the u.k. will be sending members of the european parliament back to the new parliament after the elections are held towards the end of may this is going to be very very difficult particularly for the conservatives because they had promised their supporters that they would no longer be taking part in european parliament elections. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu looks set for

a fifth term after his main rival conceded defeat in the general election this despite benny gantz winning as many seats and it's very fast that airports are. expected to get the support of small or right wing parties to form a coalition government. 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 to mean. that they 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. 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 of 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 that surprise. that could end

up costing the palestinians more than anyone 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 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 superimposing greater all of historical palestine. and therefore they have totally cancelled any agreements they have not only five. their two state solution they have totally gated that requirements of peace they have totally violated international law and so on so now when the 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 exposed 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 out west jerusalem and so on president nicolas maduro has accused u.s. vice president mike pence of racism following a speech at the united nations security council or made the comments during a televised address and watching also accuse pence of what he called tremendous hatred hence he demanded that the u.n. recognize opposition leader one interim president. my paying a sin going to be the vice president of the united states mike pence was making predict a security council in the united nations you can understand the city's races supremacy they believe they are superior to us and they believe they give orders to venezuela to get world they believe they are the emperor who gives orders that governs that takes that gives no mr parents in venezuela you should know the president of the republic is not put here by you mike pence or donald trump i can't reports on the

united nations 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 bastard or some will among carder should stay and accuse the us soft plotting illegal regime change should thoughts of a new pursuit to issue in venezuela is not a threat to international peace and security however external players are a direct threat to the peace and security in venezuela itself we just heard that

today while discussions in the security council continued the us vice president pressed his point to the media outside saying the us 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. my kind i'll just hear a united nations still ahead on al-jazeera to dance president under pressure as protesters call for him to step down. plus scientists unveil one of the mysteries about our space. and i bet the clouds are gathering once more over parts of southeastern china for take a look at the satellite picture we can see the clouds at first it just in the north

drifting their way towards the east but then a few bright white areas of cloud beginning to develop to the south of that and this is the area we've got to watch over the next few days that really gets going and then we see some very heavy downpours that thursday and on friday the whole thing is moving southward so so on friday it will be the growing area and the going down province where we see the worst of the wet weather really does it very wet here i mean further towards the south in the some sunshine for most of us in the southeastern parts of asia but also some shop showers around some particularly heavy ones have been there over the southern half of the philippines but we're also seeing plenty of oppose a born through java and into simone ship from the north west impulses also want to see showers here particularly over positon island and those will be stretching through cambodia and into parts of viet nam for friday as well one or two of us are likely to see a few showers here there's also some showers a further towards the northwest as well if we look at the satellite picture we can see them making their way across parts of bangladesh when those one sees i think we'll just see more develop.