and saying that he didn't want a long extension in britain would be a big disturbance in the european union as an unwilling member everybody thought oh dear this is going to last long but then in the end they could figure out this compromise till the thirty first of october rather quickly so it's going to be a helloween breaks a date unless of course britain can no trees of may or ho successor can get the deal over the line much earlier than that it means if she could for instance do it in the next weeks before maybe to may of the twenty second. britain wouldn't even have to participate in the parliamentary elections but if she can't if the opposition takes their time and her bursa cheers won't deal will continue not to deal then of course they will but it's a much shorter time than she had originally feared so for her this is a pretty good result yes we said barbara she has to october thirty first then you

saying what you leaders are saying there would be a review in june what would that entail. and that means that in june when they have their regular summit they're going to look at the way things are proceeding in britain they're going to evaluate will we have all the facts that at some point in time or in they will also of course reviewing how britain comports itself in within the european union will there be any disturbances will britain trying to play the bad boy in the european union and so on and so force trees may has done that during the whole withdrawal process at all we don't know how long she's going to be in office so everything is possible this is something that the french president wanted in particular and the of the e.u. leaders gave it to him because they thought it doesn't matter we can talk about this one more time right alex coming to you this is what the french president wanted it's what theresa may want well you can probably say yes and no and for some of the reasons that bob i just said. you can say no because

a she wanted june the thirtieth she wanted that deadline and she said it did not want does not want the u.k. to have to take part in these parliamentary elections her party will be furious about that and obviously there is still the possibility that if she can get some kind of deal through parliament they can pull out of those elections but it doesn't look like that is the case at the moment on the other hand one of the pluses well look there is not going to be a brick sit no deal cliff edge on friday so that has been kicked down the road until the thirty first of october that's a plus for two reason makers she didn't want that also for herself you know what happens to two reason may she had said she would step down when a deal goes through parliament a deal hasn't gone through parliament because she now say to her party you really want her gone look i've now got another six months i am going to get is out i feel that that is my giusti to get the u.k.

out we need to see it through trust me please trust me still and allow me to do this that is still a possibility and perhaps she can persuade some people in her party to come around to supporting some kind of deal otherwise as we know bracks it may never happen what can she do that your letter let's come to you in london now that is the question how will briggs and tears there see this news. well the hotline us here have been saying they would have been perfectly happy to leave without a deal on friday so this long extension is something they've been really dreading and now if it is a reality they've been dreading the long extension they've been dreading these cross party talks with jeremy colvin with the labor party they see him miss the enemy they don't want that exists to succeed succeed of course but they've been also dreading the thought of taking part in the european elections and i think that is the point so there might be a possibility that some of the break city is actually going to rally behind to

resume a deal because they want to avoid taking part in these european elections and if that withdrawal agreement as barbara said before is the u.k. would not have to take part in those european elections but in any case series a may is going to have a very hard time when she returns to london with those brick city as it had tory party shows or what about british people are they ready for another six months of bragg's a negotiation. well it's been discussed here a lot on the streets of london pro europeans of course now hoping that there might be a chance for a softer brecht's that coming out of these cross party talks for possibly staying in the customs union for a second referendum leavers of course saying we want to leave now and dreading those long extension but if you talk generally to people on the streets they are saying look we're tired of this political infighting we've been talking about bricks it for three years now and this topic has been dominating the news agenda government and parliament and we just want to get on with it and that even meaning

we would leave without a deal so this becomes more and more. evident here on the streets of london that people are really really tired of this process right so they're frustrated alex that i want to ask you you know looking at the possibility now that six months more brags that negotiations where does all of this leave the state of breaks out of this deal it's a very good question and just with in those six months that it's now i think the possibility that they could be a referendum because it you have to have a certain amount of time to have a referendum so many of those who want this so-called people's vote the second referendum say that would give them enough time to do that if that's the way parliament goes bought everything is still on the table and particularly with two reason may as she still wants to get deals through remember the e.u. have said they will not open that deal that agreement that they agreed to with her she has to get it through parliament can she have a bit more time to get the party talks with labor so they could come to some kind

of consensus to get it through it will give her a little bit bored time but i'm afraid to say we can't say what will happen now we've breck's it everything is still on the table and nothing nothing is sorted but the next deadline is a least a little bit further away and barbara just one more question to you there in brussels is there at least a sense of relief you know we heard a lot to say that people in britain are frustrated that drags it has been dominating everything public discourse and of course it has been dominating everything in brussels as well is there at least a sense that there is now a respite until october thirty forced or at least to the review in june. absolutely and the european leaders are now determined to sort of take care of their own business and to sort of let london sort their own problems out so if inflicted pain that's what they say they look at it was really a dread the political kaos in britain and say this is what happens if you turn your back on to the european union you're not prepared for it and you don't really know

what you want and so the one sort of prophecy of bricks and cheers that the beginning of this painful process that other countries would follow far from it there was no voice of dissent heard dissension heard here tonight other than mccraw sort of talking for a short extension everybody else was toeing the line in saying no we are unified we stay and we stick together and now we turn towards our own future right that is a positive note then two and then ahead on our correspondents covering the story for us barbara fazel there in brussels for a lot of what's in london and alex for sweating with us here in our studio thank you all very much now to some other stories making news around the world australian prime minister scott morrison has announced that his country will hold a general election on may eighteenth that is despite polls showing more since conservative coalition trailing the opposition labor party more taxes climate

change and inequality looks set to loom large in the campaign. german police have raided more than thirty properties in berlin and the east of the country they are linked to suspected far right extremists around four hundred officers took part in the dawn operation targeting around twenty suspects they're alleged to have established a network linking the hooligan martial arts and neo nazi seeds gerry and have kept up their protest against the country's political elite that's despite the new interim leader announcing fresh elections for the fourth of july the country has been rocked by weeks of protests which pushed out ailing leader of the us is beautifully. astronomers have revealed what they're calling a groundbreaking development is a global left work of telescopes they photographed the edge of a black hole for the very first time black holes are celestial objects with such strong gravitational fields that even light gets sucked into. this is the image that has changed astronomy forever eight radio telescopes in different locations

across the globe have made the invisible visible. at the heart of our swirling milky way as a massive unseen object a black hole it's so dense it sucks up anything that comes close even light itself the point of no return the boundary beyond which there's no escape from the black holes gravitational pull is called the event horizon. world famous scientist albert einstein predicted the size and shape of this boundary one hundred years ago. in one thousand nine hundred fifteen albert einstein imagined that this idea very big weight turns forms of geometry that when the masses to has he you make a hole a mysterious hole where nothing can get out of it where all its absorbed.

astronomers can't see the milky way's black hole they in. heard it existence from the strange orbit of the stars around it. and they say you'd need a radio telescope as large as the earth to image the hot matter swirling at the event horizon of the black hole but by using the eight telescopes in various locations synchronized with atomic clocks they could gather enough data to create this remarkable image. you may wonder how this image was made in the first place event horizon telescope data it's like incomplete puzzles that we actually only see the pieces of the real true image i then we have to feeling these gaps of this missing pieces to construct their true sickly possible image that is actually matching our data people from forty countries work together to create this virtual observatory called the event horizon telescope and analyze the data. astronomers

want to explore how matter can disappear from our world forever and take a deeper look into einstein's theory of relativity and his initial theory on black holes. from a distance black hole seem wonderous but of course there are the most terrifying things in the universe. let's get more on this groundbreaking development with mark macor kryten sr site advisor in the directorate of science that the european space agency e.s.a. and mark is also responsible for communicating results from the essays astronomy planetary and fundamental physics missions mark thank you for joining us so explain to us why this is such a spectacular breakthrough. well we've known for quite a long time that something like black holes must exist partly for mind stein's theory of general relativity but also there's a lot of in direct evidence that we gathered from looking at other galaxies looking

at the remnants of stars in our own galaxy of a century a black hole is a place where there's a very small volume with a very large mass inside it is so dense that light to confiscate from the gravity so high that we've never seen a picture of one before or of the environment of one and that's what's so significant significant about today's release from the event horizon telescope a real image of a black hole for the first time is this a real image of a black hole because a black hole is of course that not visible it's just black so how is it impossible to take a picture of it well as the black hole pulls material in around for all stars and gas and dust which surround the black hole without intense gravity it spirals around the black hole in what we call an accretion disk and as it does so it heats up through friction and that can give all very intense light x. ray wavelengths and other wavelengths and so what that's what you're actually seeing here is the accretion disk just before it spirals in and disappears over

what's called the event horizon that point at which no light can ever escape from the black hole again so we are seeing the black hole if you like as a silhouette against the accretion disk surrounding it we heard in our report that the black holes are dangerous why is that. well if you were to get close to one all sorts of strange effects would actually happen to you you would at some point disappear across the event horizon and because light can't get out you would never be able to get out again giant black holes like this one actually this is six and a half billion times more massive than our sun it's actually relatively slow the process that will happen as you cross over so probably not a lot would happen to you but from the outside we would actually never even see you cross the event horizon because the rules of general relativity is so crazy that time slows down as seen by people looking from the outside and we would just see you stuck only edge of the event horizon forever if the black hole was much smaller

and we do know there are much smaller ones just maybe one oft times the mass of our sun there are the gravity changes so quickly as you fall in it would rip you apart completely so they are indeed quite dangerous it really is a fascinating phenomenon mike you know this is a breakthrough for astrophysics as we said what about for ordinary people what can we take out of this. well i think one of the things which is really important here and you'll be said that is that this is a worldwide collaboration this is something that no one country no one continent could do on their own only by collaborating all across the world we needed to telescope the diameter of the earth to be able to get the level of detail seen here so that involved years of work in collaboration and getting on with each other as we we think is the way forward for solving many of the problems in the world and also i think it it's a demonstration another validation if you like that on stein's theory of relativity from over one hundred years ago is right and it's

a very important theory that in fact much of our modern economy depends on when it comes to things like navigation satellites and other systems einstein's theory is right in there and so it's really good to have it proven right this image looks just like the simulations that yes that it would right mark mccracken from the e.s.a. thank you so much for joining us my pleasure now israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has secured victory in his country's parliamentary elections his main challenger benny gantz conceded defeat it was a neck and neck finish at the polls but netanyahu is expected to form a majority coalition with support from a number of right wing parties a leaders for against his blue and white party say they will make life difficult for netanyahu and the opposition. benjamin netanyahu trying to get in he was confident of a win on election night even before official results were announced there no doubt

it's a night of colossal victory colossal i am very moves. but until his rivals concession benny gantz and his centrist blue and white party insisted they had one too that's what the first exit polls suggested. the the president must give us the task of forming the next government because we are the biggest party. results on wednesday proved otherwise with the backing of israel's religious parties netanyahu and his likud party are more strongly placed to form a government together they have a majority of sixty five parliamentary seats out of a total of one hundred twenty. nation of israel has entrusted me for the fifth time. with an even greater trust. that baba when did we ever get so many seats i don't remember. netanyahu

looks set to become israel's longest serving prime minister but only if he remains in office after possibly going to court over corruption allegations he appears unruffled about the chances of an indictment. netanyahu as new government could drift even further to the right and his present one in a bid to bolster support he promised to annex the west bank an unprecedented move the territory is home to more than four hundred thousand settlers considered illegal by the international community. netanyahu as victory comes as a blow to palestinians. all it's really going to work against the palestinian people. especially this government they've grouped all the right wing extremists around netanyahu. and home we are not over reaction among israeli voters with mixed i'm devastated absolutely devastated. we're surrounded

by right wing radical people who want to air next mall here it's henri's in this part we're never going to have peace i'm terribly upset here of the saracens and it's the shock of my last i was sure that this time we would win i'm very pleased about it because the fingerprint always a great leader. is rarely a strong country. it's the world's country and i think it will be better no i don't think the. girl and certainly appeared ever enough experience. and that's the reason i'm very happy about the result of us president trump is. so pleased he's convinced netanyahu can advance the middle east peace process he offered his congratulations as did the austrian chancellor. the official results

are due thursday and the pentagon has already conceded israeli president groovin rivlin still has two weeks to decide whom to assigned the task of forming a new government. our jerusalem correspondent tanya kramer sent us her take on the results of the israeli election. it was a tight race but despite. and the strong by the newly formed pro and white party netanyahu appears to be on track to form another quit government with the hope of right wing nationalist and religious parties his fifth term marks another shift to the right in israeli politics. now china's likud chang is in croatia ahead of friday's joint economic summit with sixteen european nations it is the first visit by a chinese premier to the country and his father offers of cheap loans and infrastructure projects but some in the e.u. fear that china strategy is to divide and conquer using economic incentives to

create divisions in europe. military honors for an honored guest chinese premier league asia and his creation counterpart under a plane coverage quickly got down to business deals spanning from tourism to trade and infrastructure projects. this is a major turning point in our two countries relationships and i'm exceptionally satisfied with our substantial talks today which realistically set the ground for future cooperation on the development of projects including industrial services railway infrastructure economic digital technology projects science education agricultural and financial services projects. an impressive list of power for the course when it comes to china. beijing is investing billions to court sixteen eastern and southern european countries each part of the so-called sixteen plus one group which is designed to expand future economic cooperation between participating nations and china. beijing hopes the group will further cement the foothold in

europe for its belt and road initiative. it would see china secure a transit corridor for its products from beijing to the heart of europe. the european union is taking a cautious stance to china's new economic push. it's warning that china's cheap loans can get beijing too much leverage over its business partners. observers fear the sixteen plus one group represents a wedge designed to drive europe apart. but there's no sign of those reservations in croatia or leak asia assure the talks were of crucial importance for china's future in the region. which now for the night's big soccer results in the first leg of the champions league quarter finals manchester united lost at home to barcelona one nail luke shaw's own goal was the only difference there under god's eye x. meanwhile pulled off a one all draw with star studded event. german basketball great darkness at ski has

announced his retirement the forty year old has been the national basketball association is most successful import and he was adored by fans in dallas texas and it's he led the mavericks to their only n.b.a. title in two thousand and eleven and he was crowned the league's most valuable player two thousand and seven he did an emotional farewell after twenty one years in dallas as you guys might expect this is my last home game of the i was so i want to thank my family a lot of people for the word from all over the world there are lots of folks from germany about that you're my sister it's been amazing i've thank you guys so much for coming out with well he's come a long way since he first arrived in the u.s. more than two decades ago let's take a look back at novitsky stellar career. was a. bit

of a down to earth superstar. straighted 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 but it is now six the n.b.a. all time points better than any european player. it all began in his hometown of that 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 twenty 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 in 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 the wins he 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. whoa 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

novitsky the greatest european basketball player in history and a towering personality. for minor now of our top story that we're following for you here on t w e a leaders have given theresa may in the u.k. a break that extension until october thirty first she was summoned back to an emergency summit of the other twenty seven european union members to share the early morning decision and with the delay it is expected that britain will need to participate in the upcoming elections. deep w. business is that coming up next an elder milan will have your business headlines in just a few minutes don't go away. please .

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