this is d w news live from berlin astronomers reveal one of the mysteries of the use of us until now black holes had only been seen as animations like this one but in a few moments scientists will unveil the first real image of the plot hole we'll take you there live and explain why it's such a milestone and also coming up. another big day for some reason may as she

prepares to offer european leaders for a delay to press it if they refuse the u.k. crush out of the new in two days' time. my manuscripts mackinnon thanks so much for joining us with starting with threats that european leaders are gathering for an emergency summit in brussels later today and they're expected to grant a second delay to the u.k. leaving the bloc british prime minister to resign may is being facing members of parliament in her weekly question and answer session mase requesting an extension to bret's it to june the thirtieth but e.u. leaders are expected to develop a debate allowing a longer delay with conditions as you may insist it's in no one's interest for a person to leave. without

a deal. i still believe that actually the best sit for the u.k. is to be able to leave in an orderly way to be able to leave with a deal and i do want to ensure that that breaks it does indeed all of the result of the referendum there are members of this house who don't want to alter the results of the referendum i do. now the german chancellor angela merkel is one of the e.u. leaders who will be decided impressions fate out awesome urgency summit in brussels this evening she's come out in support of giving the u.k. a long extension. that's why i argue that we can absolutely prolong the extension for several months if there is a large majority in support of it today but we shouldn't delay when britain makes its decision it should be able to exit the all right for the very latest let's bring in mass who's standing by in london for us but it's looking like the e.u. would prefer to offer a longer breaks that extension how's that going down in london. well it's no

coincidence that reason may has again asked for an extension until the end of june because she knows that breaks it is here london and many of her own cabinet colleagues are really on happy about a longer extension of the u.k. having to participate in the european elections for example so here's and even though he's here in the house of commons have said if this is happening they are asking for the rules to be changed they want another leadership challenge for them this is really another man and also here in the house of commons there are many protesters also behind me they are saying well we just need to get out we don't want to wait for months and months so there is a lot of criticism if that really was to be the case so what's the reason they hoping is going to happen if she gets the shorter extension what she want to achieve by getting national traits attention. she wants to just prohibit that the u.k.

needs to participate in the european elections as you want to keep up the pressure on m.p.'s she wants them to sign up to had deal that she has repeatedly tried and failed but she's hoping that this can happen however there are also people here in london that think that a long extension is actually good news those that are fighting for example for a second referendum soon we spoken to timothy garton ash one of the leading pro european voices historian an oxford and let's listen what he had to say. garden as you've recently had breaks into a soap opera but is it really is prose that 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 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. the for a democratic process which will end up with the second referendum on britain maybe so staying in the you would be a fantastic charles for europe or with a softer brit both. for europe and 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 along 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 deal what would be the actual outcome what would it mean for for their relations with the e.u. i think it would be poison for a generation. i think there'd be a huge blame game. and we would blame it on continental europe the brits would blame it on congo you're not me but the brits the continental europe for bringing it on the brits and then the economic fallout would be really bizarre very very serious indeed. some brags that he is arguing actually it's would be better for europe better for the to not have britain because then europe could move on and

could be more integration missed this this may be a surprising fork for many of your viewers. in the end i think britain or maybe just england will be ok we'll talk a 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's thank you very much my custom. abutments of timothy garton ash the casting doubt on whether the e.u. is going to survive can people like him offer a solution for the current political deadlock the u.k. is in. he doesn't pretend that he has a magic wand but he hopes for the democratic process to take over he puts his open palm and he says democracy is messy and sometimes it takes time but we need to go through this we need to go through this process and it might take some weeks it might take months but he's hoping that parliament in the end will find

a solution and he said he's actually very proud of paloma that the moment he's proud of the the stance that many m.p.'s have been taking and a passionate speeches they've been giving and he wants to see this transformed into action he also says well if they haven't got there by the end of the year though even he is giving up. all right good enough reporting for us from london thanks so much. now astronomers all set to reveal what they're calling a groundbreaking development it's being prison. right now at news conferences in six cities around the globe they're all taking place at the same time this is the result of years of work for the first time scientists will be unveiling a real image not just a computer animation of one of the most mysterious objects in the universe a black hole.

i'm joined now by. science desk to talk about this with name or this is such a anticipated event how significant is what we could potentially be about to see it is it is huge really i mean i was excited by so i dreamt about this. and it's really exciting because so far we have only seen simulations about black holes and this is not the first image we just saw. and so it's you know it's huge it was widely anticipated and of course we can see the whole itself still because black holes are by definition invisible but now we have an idea about about you know the whole construct which is for example in the middle and at the center of our milky way and at the center of many other galaxies and a big big important part in our universe which is still not fully understood now

how do scientists known for a long time what what black holes looked like i mean why are these images such a big deal now actually scientists haven't known what they look like they had just simulations that calculations they have theories what they had where only in direct observations so far for example how move around some gravitational really strong center and they thought that this would be the effect of a black hole but there was there's no real proof so far for exist for the existence of a black hole now this image is approved and it's really it's a really huge it's big it's a big. science strip ok tell me a little bit about the teamwork the international cooperation behind this obviously this is this is being a sort of a global finance project to make to make this happen what we're seeing today you know without teamwork it wouldn't. it would be possible there are in total

a telescope so far that work together in different parts of the world and they're all syncrude eyes and time very accurately with atomic clocks that only lose one second every hundred million years so it's a very accurate word down there their telescopes and ceiling and hawai and on the south pole if the u.s. and mexico and spain eight in total so it's a very important scientific network and that works very accurately to gather all those important data rightly am ok well we're actually going to go live now to the press conference. to find out more about what these international scientists have got to reveal at one the size of the distance between these telescopes truly turning the earth into a virtual telescope all the sites that we used to seeing here we have telescopes from hawaii to arizona to mexico to chill

a to the south pole and spain but even these even this broad global network is not enough by itself to make an image you can think of them as being silvered spots in a large global mirror the key is that the earth turns during a night of observing we are able to sweep out more baselines more coverage of this virtual mirror to make our image so on the left you'll see the earth turning every pair of telescopes provides us with one point on the center panel which fills in the earth size virtual lens and on the right you see the evolving image the more and more data we get the more we fill in this virtual mirror the sharper our view of the black hole becomes until you wind up seeing what we have as the final image there. so we've taken advantage of a cosmic opportunity it's remarkable when you think about it light that left near the event horizon travel all the way through interval actiq space it hits our telescopes the earth just happens to be the right size so we get resolving power so

that we can see the black hole an immediate seven whose mass and distance let us observe it and then the earth turns to fill in our mirror so that we can make this image is it's really remarkable it's almost humbling in a certain way. and we are four members of a large collaboration and it's our distinct honor to be here to represent that collaboration we are two hundred members strong we have sixty institutes and we are working in over twenty countries and regions and we consider ourselves really to be explorers to international cooperation and innovation we've exposed part of the universe that we thought was invisible to us before it's our responsibility now to report these findings and we're doing that today to the national science foundation to our funding agencies international and foundations and to all people who support pioneering research and also to the taxpayers nature has conspired to let us see something that we thought was invisible this is a long sought goal for us and we find it the tremendous and we hope that you will

be inspired by it to thank you and now let me introduce dan roni who is literally gone to the ends of the earth to collect some of the data that we've seen here today. thank you cool. thanks ship. so i hope it's. there you go. so the heart of our measurement is of course the each here a it would have been an expensive enormous undertaking to build a dedicated array just to do this experiment so we didn't do that instead we built an international partnership that allowed us to use some million telescopes all over the world in fact we used basically all of the sun moon or telescopes in the world to make this measurement one that none of them could have done on their own

when you take a heterogeneous collection of telescopes and build them into one giant telescope it presents a lot of technical challenges and so in the years leading up to our twenty seventeen experiment we went telescope by telescope all over the world installing the specialized hardware we needed to do this most of the telescopes had detectors that we could use but almost none of them had the atomic clocks we need and certainly none of them had the very fast data recorders that we use some places we had to do even more a good example of this is the only telescope in chile it's a sixty six telescope array it's by far our most sensitive telescope and it's sensitivities transformational for our experiment. but in order to use it we didn't just need the basic hardware we also need to the special piece of hardware that could summon the light from all the telescopes before we sent it to our recorders this alone was a many year project using an international collaboration of people from the h.t.

and also from the oem project. another good example is the south pole telescope the south pole is a special place in our way it's so far south that it doubles the resolution of the h.t. from sources it can see. but the s.p.t. was designed to do a completely different kind of measurement studies the cause of microwave background and so it's detectors are not the detectors and we need so in addition to bringing down an atomic clock and all the tens of crates of hardware that we needed we had to build a special receiver that would detect the light the way we needed to tech did special optics to relay the light to it and install it and get it to work in the cold and sometimes harsh antarctic environment this was many years of work for many of us many trips down to myself and graduate students and postdoc and other engineers and each team but at the end of it we had a cell full telescope that could be any station. now getting this all right now that was coverage from washington where science and scientists were announcing

images very first images of an actual black hole i'm joined by leah from science desk so leah we just heard some extraordinary things there would see a large collaboration two hundred members working in twenty countries one of the scientists speaking called it a humbling experience this research that that's happened and exposing parts of the universe that we thought was invisible incredible stuff now a black hole by definition should be invisible it's black and yet we now have these extraordinary images how was this how was this possible first of all you're right it is invisible black you can see a black hole what we can see now auntie's he mentioned the name event horizon that's what we see it's actually if we imagine the black hole is as a as a hole and and we see a rounded we see this growing gases and dust for example and that's what we

see actually so we see this said though of the glycol against the backdrop of dust and gases that are. a role in the black all of this great taishan of scent and it is so strong that everything is drawn into it which comes which goes beyond the event horizon that's actually the point of no return and after this point you don't have there's only dark there's only darkness and no return so everything with guns in there doesn't come out again. what about the what about the technology behind as how complicated a process has that process has it been to pull list a together and make this possible it has been really complicated because first of all they needed a lot a lot of data imagine if you want to observe a black hole for example the black hole in the center of our milky way it's it's like observing that it's like counting the individual dimples on a goal. all that is four thousand kilometers away or else two thousand five hundred

miles it's really far so what they needed to count this to do to get those signals is was a really big telescope that it would need the size of earth of course we can't have a dish that's the size of earth so that's why they simulated this size of a dish with different stations with different telescopes and different parts of the world as was on the and the press conference as well. still there are gaps you can without this big dish you can't have all the signals that come from the black hole. now they have those they still have those big data and they try to put them all together they have this fake that you can't even transmit them by internet just you know just as an image you need to store them on hot and ship them and ship them to the supercomputer that can analyze them and can make up

the image so it's not a photo but it's an image made up of big huge data that was gathered so far right i'll brush from d.w. science desk thanks so much for filling us in on the part of you know the universe we thought was invisible but now we can see that. all right 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 west in the wake of last month's deadly shooting was the prime minister just made an emotional speech backing the measure fifty people were killed in the attack on two mosques in christ church where 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 arrest the exiled tibetan spiritual leader said recently that he hopes to live long enough to see political change in

china. so. german police have raided ninety offices across the country belonging to islamic organizations they're 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. to come bodie and now which has long been an essential part of the south east asian travel experience for backpackers but the country is now also firmly on the map for mainstream tourists and that's led to a building boom which is having an unpleasant side effect on cambodia's beaches. so you look at a city that wants to be the next global tourist hot spot it's known for its pristine beaches and clear blue water but one thing might spoil it all. rule

sewerage pumped into the or directly into the ocean. environmental activist who had the water tested and the results were alarming. but the clinic discovered many dangerous diseases in the sample. there are parasites and lots of other bacteria in the water. the water is dangerously polluted and the health risk by this. that. scores of new casinos and hotels are being built along the coast but serious and waste management systems haven't kept up with the change piles of trash or another eyesore keeping tourists away. and you sense if there's a trying to keep the problem in check but development races ahead blighting the very beach that visitors come for. the. first sellers like me

it's quiet very quiet me. the young people have guest houses where they can work but for me it's bad. it's not coming yet. on islands off the coast plastic is washing up right under people's homes like in this fishing village on costar touch much of the waste is discarded by locals themselves because there's no service here to pick up trash scientists are testing the health of coral in nearby waters and they've issued a warning. so development in places like giving us a good example of what we want to avoid here in the future so i'm check development . go out into the ocean and that's a real problem for coral reefs and sea grasses in particular. but developers say construction would benefit the region if it's done right. we have

a couple of issues that we need to deal with the issues of infrastructure basic sewage sanitation. electricity incineration waste. this is the way forward in the way that the city will win and then they can become a world wide destination. but activists say right now greed is winning out over green and they feed beaches like this where it just become a paradise lost. football now and there are two champions league quarter finals taking place tonight host eventis in amsterdam while much to you nice to take on the mighty barcelona at old trafford and the last round on the gun a socialist team completed a remarkable comeback against paris angela and the united coach is not fazed by the spanish giants. since taking over as coach in december all the good scare has transformed the mood at manchester united the know each and has turned his

squad loose with paul pogba and marcus rushford spearheading a lethal attack you know to have managed a dramatic three want to weigh win over perry sans your man in the champions league last sixteen overcoming a two nil first leg deficit but barcelona as visit will mean they'll have to start not only a certain argentinian forward. it's not like. it's messy against much as united as good senora. there's so many good players we cannot just focus on one player we know we have to play against eleven of them. leo 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 business but you know sometimes there are ways to neutralize certain players

you know we'll see if it's possible. we expect a lot of things from them 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 to ski has announced his retirement the forty year old has been one of the n.b.a.'s most successful european imports and he was adored by fans in dallas the wicki led the mavericks so the only n.b.a. title in two thousand and eleven and was crowned the league's most valuable player in two thousand and seventy thank you bed an emotional farewell after twenty one years in dallas as you guys might expect this is my last home game. i was you know i'm. so i want to bring my family lot of people flew in from all over the world. from germany but that's where my

sister it's been amazing have they grow so much in common i was just a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you today an international scientific team has unveiled the first ever image of a black hole advancing the understanding of one of the most mysterious objects in the universe is considered a milestone in astrophysics. that's the news for now coming up next on news asia correspondent jeanne thanks for watching.

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