repeat of the good. player play. play play. play play back. this is d w news live from berlin israel's benyamin netanyahu is on course to win a rest called fifth as prime minister is calling it a colossal victory it was a tight trace against his nearest rival the religious right wing parties looks set to the balance in netanyahu saying also coming up it's almost been a day to get britain's trees i'm a prepares to ask european leaders full i'd not to delay to bret's it if they refuse the u.k. to crush out of the e.u.

interest today's time. farewell to a boss get the election germany's duck the bit sequence time on a glittering two decade korea in north america and be a. plus prepare to be suckers up to now the only pictures you'll have seen of black culture it's all computer animations like this one later today for the very first time scientists will unveil the first real image of a black hole we'll explain why this is such a milestone. i'm on your group as mckinnon thank you so much for joining us. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu appears to have secured victory in the country's general

election with most of the votes counted he is running neck and neck with his main challenger benny gantz of the centrist blue and white party but netanyahu is in a stronger position to form a coalition with the support of a number of rightwing posse's across israel in a moment first this report. that were pyrotechnics and music from netanyahu when he took to the stage at the likud party event in the wee hours to claim victory. i am very moved that the nation of israel has once again given its trust to me. and done so for the fifth time. so. they have again given their trust to us and to me oh it's unprecedented. when did

we ever get so many seats i don't remember what they could only get a little more to go to google. a fifth term would make netanyahu israel's longest serving prime minister even surpassing the founding father of the jewish state had been good. after voting ended exit polls appear to indicate a neck and neck race between netanyahu and his closest rival benny gantz if the centrist blue and white and i and indeed around the time netanyahu made his victory speech counts were saying the same to his supporters the flag. in elections there looses in elections they're winners and we are the winners i but that optimism may have turned out to be premature as the night went on and vote counts came in it remained a close run thing. all right let's get the latest from jerusalem now where our correspondent tanya claim a is standing by for us tanya thanks so much for joining

us you've been speaking to people in jerusalem about tuesday's vote what's they saying what are they one of their reactions. one of them expection is over here of course supporters of mr netanyahu are absolutely thrilled that he made it again there is an expression that you hear very often here in the streets it's only baby only bibi can do that. becomes another time prime minister if you can for this kurdish and then of course you have those who are very much disappointed those people who voted for a change for mr guns and his team they came out very strong if you think about it that this party wasn't even there three months ago and they're of course disappointed because they came out strong but they cannot. have to fight would have difficulties to form a coalition and they have wanted a change so this of course disappointment there so as you say binyamin netanyahu

supporters very excited and yet he's battling a looming indictment on on charges of bribery corruption and they don't but they don't worried about that. it seems those people voted for him then north korea about that they actually most of them would say this is a compelling against him they were saying that this is sometimes because of doubt boating for him to support him and of course those who don't want wanted him to be another time prime minister they wanted to change they were concerned about this now his position is a bit up in the air because basically what the attorney general said it's an intention to indicted for corruption charges now we need to wait for a hearing it's not quite clear when this hearing will happen and then there will be a decision whether to indict him or not so then it's of course the question

about his coalition will this stand by him or not at that time you mention his coalition it would obviously be built with right wing parties what does that mean for israel in particular in relation to the palestinians and peace efforts in the middle east. well wolf you seem cons constantly here is a shift to what's right and also in this coalition it looks like you will have a comports of the majority with probably the also also talks parties and the smaller writing parties and most of them do not support a two state solution also he has spoken before the elections that was just two days before the elections that we have to wait and see if he comes through that to annex parts of the occupied west bank so that would of course pass and you hope you know to even start negotiations or to think about talking again with the palestinian side but there are also speculations that maybe the u.s.

administration might publish a release this so-called peace plan they have said that many times but some u.s. officials had suggested that after the israeli elections they might release parts of this plan so this would be also very. important to see how this will play out. in jerusalem thank you. ok let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world new zealand's parliament has voted to ban military style weapons in the wake of last month's deadly mass shootings just one lawmaker voted against the ban fifty people were killed in the attack on two mosques in christ church a white supremacist is facing murder charges. the dalai lama has been taken to hospital in delhi as a precautionary measure after feeling chest pain a spokesman said the eighty three year old is in a stable condition and has been ordered to rest the exiled tibetan spiritual leader said recently he hoped to live long enough to see political change in china. german

police have raided ninety offices across the country belonging to islamic organizations that are suspected of financing the palestinian militant group hamas which is on the european union's terrorism blacklist official said the main targets of the raids are believed to have collected funds under the guise of humanitarian aid for hamas which rules the gaza strip. now european european union leaders are meeting for a crisis summit in brussels today to discuss british prime minister to resume a request for a delay to bret's it diplomats say london could be offered a flexible extension of up to a year if there's no agreement britain could crash out of the block on friday night ahead of the meeting prime minister may paid visits to paris to plead her case. although she received a friendly french welcome in paris it was an easy going for theresa may president

emanuel across is often seen as the european leader with the toughest demands may was lucky this time france softened its stance and said delay within limits was an option for the long awaited brecht's that still france and other european countries are getting increasingly impatient we want to understand what the u.k. need this extension for and what is the political surroundings that took series a may to have this extension before her visit to paris may also travel to berlin to ask german chancellor angela merkel about the extension but like many bragg's arrangements things didn't quite go as planned to reset may arrive a little too early and merkel wasn't there to welcome her. after their meeting merkel said bracks it could even be extended to the beginning of twenty twenty but many european leaders are urging the british to provide more clarity. this was the call on tuesday morning at a meeting of the e.u.

foreign ministers. and we're waiting finally on for substantive steps in the right direction up to now it's nothing at all that's changed and we are of course thinking about an appropriate extension of the deadline and also about a longer extension i must however come with very strict conditions on guns. now with official visits to berlin and paris complete theresa may has to brace herself for the emergency summit in brussels she'll need the support of all twenty seven members to get the delay she's looking for. all right for the very latest on this let's bring in our brussels correspondent bam you get back on we're just two days away from bresson potentially crashing out of the e.u. without a deal what is the mood in brussels right now. it is a mixture of anger frustration and disbelief because here we go again

the same point at three of the fourteen days ago the you has to save britain hard to break said again and to ground delay an extension to the breakfast negotiations. it will be surely a flexible office so britain can leave at any point at once but has to leave until next march or the end of the year that has to be decided tonight but still the e.u. has to save the united kingdom because the brits are not able to organize their own break sit in an orderly fashion u.k. say feelings of a frustration of eve has been clear it has said it wants a clear or exit plan from the u.k. how confident is the e.u. that terrorism may can deliver that any time soon but there's not much confidence left actually in the in the british prime minister because. actually she's coming

with an empty piece of paper people frayed here with the talks with the labor party with the opposition back in london is not bearing fruit so far there is no way forward how to organize a majority in parliament for the biggest roll agreement with the you so the leaders with mrs may again tonight how will you proceed and they have prayed that there will be no clear answer and that's why they will extend the negotiations up to one year because they say until june this is what mrs maple is demanding until june the vill be no solution on the table ok but all of a united in granting view a u.k. more time i mean could some of them block an extension and then the u.k. crashes out briefly if you could. but as far as we know all member states are now on the side of the yukon's a president who says we want fixed tension of the french president on a cough to speak into driesum

a yesterday is now in the same boat because there's no i'll turn it to the you once to prevent heart breaks it at any cost and the does not want to take the blame for how it breaks it's so the only choice is to give the brits more time to organize themselves but the this extension of the compass to conditions a you have to take in the parliamentary elections for the european parliament in may end britain has to grant a sincere co-operation so it cannot block any decisions of the you taken in the next months all right and they get in brussels thank you so much for your party. astronomers are set to reveal what they're calling a ground breaking development in just a few hours time the information will be presented at news conferences in six different cities around the globe old taking place at the same time now it's the result of years of work because for the first time scientists are able to unveil

a real image of one of the most mysterious objects in the universe the black hole. black holes there like cosmic vacuum cleaners sucking up anything that comes through close any matter that crosses the so-called event horizon is gone forever. black holes are created when dying stars collapse in on themselves or when two stars collide and their masses merge. the gravitational forces become so massive that the matters we used into his think point called the singularity. black holes start small but as they suck up more and more material in their path they can begin to grow and eventually become super massive black holes like the one at the center of our galaxy the milky way. with the mass and the gravitational pull of four million stars like our sun. so far astronomers have

been unable to see the milky way's central super massive black hole directly be inferred its existence from the motion of the stars orbiting around it. the event horizon telescope has spent two years gathering signals from the black hole at the center of our galaxy the telescope is actually a global network of synchronized radio observatories the coordinated with atomic clocks to synchronize them and all that data is combined after the fact into what's called a correlator and that correlator as ultimately produces data that can be constructed into an image and that image will be the first time astronomers and the rest of us earthlings will have a direct visual representation of a black hole along with the powerful gamma radiation that it emits as it gobbles up matter a burst so strong and so final astronomers call it the death scream of a doomed. fascinating stuff amnesty international today reports

a dramatic drop in the use of the death penalty around the world amnesties annual report on the issues shows numbers were down by nearly a third last year six hundred ninety people are known to have been executed worldwide in twenty eighteen but that figure doesn't include china which remains the top state killer thousands are thought to be executed the every year but the figures are a state secret iran remains in second place terror on executed at least two hundred and fifty three people last year that's actually a fifty percent drop brought about by a change in the country's drug laws saudi arabia is with one hundred and forty nine executions but despite the drop in numbers overall some countries saw an increase in executions including the united states while japan

and thailand while thailand resumed executions for the first time in nearly a decade. we are joined now by stephen cockburn amnesty international's deputy director of global issues in london stephen thanks so much for joining us a steep decline in iran but which other countries have seen a decline. here we seen a decline in the number of countries but you for that really make the biggest proportion of the kinds of of or in some ways quite unlikely countries in the sense that they are usually those that execute very large numbers are we talking about iran or iraq arcus done in somalia. they're all countries that still use the come in much much more than that then they should much more than the global global average but they are countries that represent the drop as you said iran has a quest writing fifty percent reduction because of drugs laws pakistan has been

declining over a couple of years around maybe at least fourteen executions last year whereas twenty fifteen there were more than three hundred. you know and somalia iraq that kind of go up and down a little bit of course also according to this security situation in the country so there is a you know it encouraging trends in terms of the reduction of executions especially in these countries but also more globally there are other countries that are moving away from the death penalty as well as we've seen other moves in bikini's faso to move the only their gumby has signed a treaty to to take a step towards opposition malaysia has promised politicians has a good policy right now to move the monetary death penalty and we also saw the governor of california last month put a moratorium on executions as well so there are jobs in excuses but there are also all the pope wasn't trends that are too ok however the situation in japan in the

year the u.s. is getting worse and thailand has resumed a using the death penalty so what's driving that. so various things in different countries in thailand the husband as a hardening of the context those over the last few years and we believe that this reflects that there's been a break in that in the long long standing policy of not providing royal pardons for people who've been sentenced to death so though it was the first execution in more than a decade. and there are others many many others on death row who could be at risk of execution in the future if this execution was a sign of a change in policy going forward which of course remains to be seen weight of those who are not known to do gots in the usa we've had a it's the second year in a row there's been an increase in the number of executions there were twenty five executions last year now that that increase is. partly because of there was

a move as states the how to executions on hold because of various legal challenges around the legality of the death penalty. including on using on the on using methods like peaceful injection some of those legal processes i've been exhausted and so some of the numbers they start to resume executions since the second year in the row that we've seen this increase it is much lower still than it was twenty years ago so that the bigger picture of the usa as it has gone down the longer term but this does worry is that this could be the start of an uptick. on what we saw this year was the highest in more than a decade fifteen people executed thirteen of those people was was were very specific case our own terrorism case back in one thousand ninety five you may remember there was a little bit more starring on a subway in tokyo all right i'm stance national theatre company thanks so much for your time. to west africa way youth

unemployment in the gambia is pushing many young people to leave the country but twenty five year old cycle. is one man who's chosen to stay and he's encouraging other gambians to do the same. reports now from the capitol hill. it's known for its beautiful coastline and the sex tourism that it attracts but for some young man prostitution is the only opportunity they have to make any kind of living one in two people live in poverty here young people dream of a better future. i thought about leaving gambia but i don't have any money if i had the money i would go to. youth unemployment is high roughly forty percent in the past people mainly wanted to leave the gambia because of its former president rule the fear and suppression until twenty seventeen now there is

a new government in placing a new freedoms. and that is what keeps pushing young people away but. it is different he has no intention of leaving two years ago at the age of twenty three he launched an online newspaper called the storm circle its aim to give the youth of voice. it's coming to be. a very tedious read because. a lot of stories are really doing morning conference the team of five for free they all juggle second jobs they want to make sure the paper can keep going they focus mainly on unemployment and irregular migration an estimated three and a half thousand migrants have returned to the gambia in recent years and cycling is interviewing one of them today. so there's

a home for my. return to last year the twenty six year old says he endured beatings for months in a prison in libya. yes you know until. after his return most of us set up an association to advise other migrants about the benefits of staying at home sekou is all too familiar with the stories he's stalled in writes about all his brothers left the country but only to return one never made it back to life from libya who tells me why did you stay. i'm a believer that. my country. where a lot of people in america are for most of it couldn't disagree with me to make my

way over my country he's proud that mood has seventy five thousand people read his website promote when does he think it would be true success then rearward to reach out to every young person in the country when we. were going to give employment reduced to a walk of course and we were to influence the government and more say koom says he intends to keep pushing young people in his country to stay while also holding the government accountable for helping the next generation. shannon basketball great which he has announced his retirement the forty year old has been one of the n.b.a.'s my successful european imports and was adored by fans in dallas i know which he led the mavericks to their only n.b.a. title in twenty eleven and was promptly league's most valuable player in two thousand and seven. i doubt the german has come a long way since he first arrived in the united states more than two decades ago is

a look back at his korea. forty wars with. a down to earth superstar. greatest success may have been an n.b.a. title eight years back but he kept another milestone just weeks. ago shooting his way up the records of it is now six than n.b.a. all time points better than any european player. it all began in his home town of. events he was a slam dunk talent in germany's and significantly less popular basketball landscape lanky it great with the ball his standout play led him to the n.b.a.'s dallas mavericks at twenty years old. stills and lots of hard work led to novitsky becoming the first european to win the league's most valuable player title he got similar recognition for his starring role in the twenty eleven finals against the miami heat events he pushed the mavericks to their first ever championship he was

achieving his dreams after thirteen years in the u.s. . his accomplishments made him a superstar in the united states and his recognition wasn't limited to the sports world. it's fair to say that we have very rarely seen a better playoff run than dirk when he had last year it was. his stardom and the more than two hundred fifty million dollars he's amassed over his career haven't kept novitsky from staying grounded humble team player he's also helped to lift up germany's growing basketball scene he received a hero's welcome in his homeland after winning the n.b.a. title i swallow i'm totally speechless five. despite plenty of success for club and country one of his biggest honors remains

carrying the german flag at the opening ceremony of the two thousand and eight olympics. he's been bestowed numerous awards on both sides of the atlantic dirk novitsky the greatest european basketball player in history and a towering personality. that's the news for now coming up next few eco india thanks for watching d.l. in. fresh

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