play. the blame. blame blame blame blame. blame blame blame blame blame blame blame blame blame blame blame the but. this is d. w. news live from berlin israel's benyamin netanyahu is on course to win a record fifth term as prime minister he's calling it a colossal victory it was a tight race against his nearest rival that religious right wing parties except to tip the balance in netanyahu take the bull so coming up another big day for britain's to reason that he as she prepares to austere appear that pm leaders for

a delay to bracks it if they refuse the u.k. could crash out of the e.u. in two days' time. and farewell to a basketball legend germany's dirk nowitzki calls time on a college for a two decade korea and north america as the n.b.a. . playoffs prepare to be sucked it up to now the only pictures you will have seen of black holes all computer animation like this one but later today for the very first time scientists will unveil the first real image of a black hole it will explain well this is such a milestone. i manuscripts mackinnon thanks so much for joining us. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu appears to have secured victory in the general election with

most of the votes now counted he is running neck and neck with his main challenger that benny gantz of the centrist blue and white posse but nesa yahoo is in a stronger position to form a coalition with a number of right when posses will trust israel in a moment first its reports. that were pyrotechnics and music for 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 to go to move to. the if i. do 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 money go to do little. a fifth term would make netanyahu israel's longest serving prime minister even surpassing the founding father of the jewish state been good on. after voting ended the exit polls appear to indicate a neck and neck race between netanyahu and his closest rival betty kens of the centrist blue and white and i and indeed around the time netanyahu made his victory speech dance was saying the same to his supporters. in elections there looses in elections they're winners and we are the winners so i put 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 today's vote what are 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's 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 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 is that this party wasn't even this three months ago and they're of course disappointed because they came out strong but they cannot. have different 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 they not worried about that. was it seems those people voted in the north koreans about that they actually most of them would say this is a compelling against him and they were saying that this is some time because of the voting 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 there 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 were. be a decision whether. or not so then it's of course the question about

his coalition will this stand by him or not at the 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 . few seem comes constantly here is a shift to the right and also in this coalition it looks like you will have a comports of the majority with probably the others who are also dorks parties and the smaller rightwing 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 you come through that to next parts of the occupied west bank docket of course and you hope you know to even start negotiations or to think about talking again with the palestinian side but they're also speculations that maybe the u.s.

administration might poplars a release their so-called peace plan they've 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 the w. senate came out injuriously and thank you. have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world these events 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 of just feeding chest pain a spokesman said the eighty three year old is in a stable condition and has been ordered to rest exiled to. betton spiritual leader said recently you hoped to live long enough to see political change in china.

german police have raided ninety offices across the country belonging to islamic organizations they suspected of financing the palestinian militant group hamas which is on me used terrorism baptist officials 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. brazil's president. is marking one hundred days in office today the far right leader's first three months in power has been marked by chaos and blunders in his own administration a recent poll showed that also narrows approval rating had slipped to thirty two percent that's the lowest for any elected first brazilian president. in years still to come. high unemployment is driving many young people to the gallon be obsolete the country that we speak to one young man who is telling them why they should stay. now astronomers are

set to reveal what they're calling a groundbreaking development in a few hours time the information will be presented at news conferences and in six different cities around the globe all taking place at the same time is the result of years of work and for the first time the scientists will unveil a real image of one of the most mysterious objects in the universe a black hole. black holes like cosmic vacuum cleaners sucking up anything that comes to 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 matter is squeezed into a single point called the singularity. black hole 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 where the mass and gravitational pull of four million stars like our sun. so far stronger must have been unable to see the milky way central supermassive black hole directly they 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 syncro noised radio observatories are coordinated with atomic clocks to synchronize them and all that data is combined after the fact in two. it was called a correlator and that correlator is 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 a powerful gamma radiation that admits as it pulls up matter of burst so strong and so final astronomers call it the death scream of a doomed star. fascinating stuff let's talk about rex it now british prime minister tourism a is facing members of parliament in her weekly prime minister's question time later today though she'll be heading back to brussels where e.u. leaders are expected to grant a second delay to the u.k. leaving the bloc may will be requesting an extension until june thirtieth but the e.u. leaders are expected to debate to debate allowing a longer to get delay with conditions to avoid any future prime minister of damaging interests all right for the very latest on this let's bring in our brussels correspondent ben do you get we're just two days away from britain

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 at the same point at three that we were on fourteen days ago the you has to save britain hard to break said again and to ground delay an extension through the breaks is 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 direct sit in an orderly fashion in case they feelings of a frustration of eve has been clear and has said it wants

a clear or exit plan from the u.k. how confident is the e.u. that to reason 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 that the you so the leaders with last 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 they 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 the french president on a cough to speak into driesum a yesterday is now in the same boat because there's no turning to the u. once to prevent breaks it at any cost. does not want to take the blame for brakes it's so the only choice is to give the brits more time to organize themselves but this extension of the compass two conditions a you have to take in the parliamentary elections for the european parliament in may and britain has to grow. a sincere cooperation so it cannot block any decisions of the you take in the next months all right they get in brussels thank you so much for your reporting. and the w.'s book at mosques has been talking to

historian and pro europe commentator timothy garton ash in the u.k. he told her about his take on the current impasse and what he believes would be the castle struck fick effect of a no deal breck's it. guard as he recently had breaks into a soap opera but is it really is so bob rose that a serious threat to the continent of europe well a british tragedy is also a fosse right and it it's both those things at the same time in my view the negative consequences for europe could be even more serious than those for britain and what way. because we already see a lot of forces of populism nationalism and disintegration in different ways in the european union and brics it could give a big big push to those forces and is there anything that the european union can do to counter that i hope that they will be doing it this even

when they give a long flexible extension for that gives the for a democratic process which will end up with a second referendum and britain may be staying in the you which would be if charles for europe or with a softer bricks it both becomes a less for europe then you think that there is also in europe inception that britain needs to go through this i hear more and more the argument in continental europe that. britain is going to be such a problematic member of the e.u. the metaphor of poison is used but if we're thinking about long term the decades the prospects of the european union long in relation to china trumps america to climate change then it's clearly better to have britain inside so it wouldn't be easy initially but we'd get for it and we'd be

a better place at the end what do you think if there was no idea what would be the actual outcome what it would it mean for for their relations with the i think it would be poison for a generation. i think there'd be huge blame game. we would blame it on continental europe the brits would blame it on your not me but the brits the continental europe for braman on the brits and then the economic fallout would be really very very serious indeed. some breaks it is obvious actually it's would be better for europe better for the e.u. to not have britain because than europe could move on and could be more integration ist this may be a surprising form for many of your view. in the end i think britain or maybe just england will be ok we'll sort of muddle through somehow we'll be poor a week or less influential but we'll be ok but i'm not so sure all of the european union. will be ok and i think that in this thank you very much my country.

to west africa now where youth unemployment in the gambia is pushing many young people in particular to leave the country but twenty five year old cycle. is one who's chosen to stay and he's encouraging other young gambians to do the same he. reports now from the capital banjul. 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 they don't have any money if i had the money i would go. youth unemployment is high roughly forty percent in the past people mainly wanted to leave the gambia because of its former president rule

due to fear and suppression until twenty seventy now there is a new government in placing a new freedoms. of jobs and that is what keeps pushing young people away. 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 the morning everyone is 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 focused mainly on unemployment and irregular migration an estimated three and a half thousand migrants have returned to the gambia in recent years and say khun is interviewing one of them today. so this is your home

mom. returned last year the twenty six year old says he endured beatings for months in a prison in libya but lisa do you have full names. of anyone in the world. you know until travel. 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 story stalled in his writes about all his brothers who left the country but only to return to 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 from north america going to the supreme i have to make my way over my country he's proud that more than seventy five thousand people read his website per month but when does he think it would be true success then rearward to reach out to every young person in the country. to get their new complement reduced to a walk of course and rearward to influence the government and what is more sekou says he intends to keep pushing young people in his country to stay while also holding the government accountable for helping the next generation. some football now and there are two champions league quarter finals taking place tonight. juventus in amsterdam while manchester united take on the mighty barcelona at old trafford and the last round on the gun assault team completed a remarkable comeback against barry sargent and the united coach is not fazed by the spanish giants. since taking over as coach in december all the

scare has transformed the mood at manchester united the no each in has turned his squad loose with paul and marcus rash furred spearheading a lethal attack united managed a dramatic three want to weigh win over perry sandra man in the champions league last sixteen overcoming a two nil first leg deficit but barcelona as visit will mean they'll have to stop not only a certain argentinian forward. it's not like. it's messy against much as united. there's so many good players become a just focus on one player to play against eleven of them. but messi in particular has been proving time and again that he can conjure up the

magic when they need it and his coach knows how valuable messi is to. the ministers but themselves you know sometimes there are ways to neutralize certain players and i think we will see if it's possible. we expect a lot of things from him i mean normally deliver us. with so much firepower on both sides expect a desolate display under the floodlights of old trafford. the german basketball great no whisky has announced his retirement the force year old has been one of the n.b.a.'s most successful european import some was adored by fans in dallas and which he led the mavericks to the only n.b.a. title in two thousand and eleven and was crowned the league's most valuable player in two thousand and seven he bid an emotional farewell off to twenty one years in dallas was as you guys might expect this is my last home game

of a blow of a bit so i want to thank my family lot of people flew in from all over the world and lots of folks from germany mike that's where my sister lives it's been amazing i've thank you guys so much for coming i was now the german has come a long way since he first arrived in the united states more than two decades ago let's take a look back now with skis stella korea. forty one. down to earth superstar. drayton 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 record this is now six the n.b.a. all time points better than any european player. it all began in his hometown of

spared it 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. skills 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 two thousand and eleven finals against the miami heat admits 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 nowitzki had last year 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. oh i'm totally speechless was. 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 nowitzki the greatest european basketball player in history and a towering personality. just a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you today israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu looks to secure victory in the country's general election but most of the votes counted he's running

a neck and neck with his main challenger benny gums and netanyahu is in a stronger position to form a coalition with a number of right wing politicians. the news for now coming up in just a moment made in germany looks at cyber crime so now behalf of the whole team here in berlin thanks so much for watching.

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