britain can get the breaks it deals through parliament it can leave early or it could even if it would manage to get the deal over the line before the twenty second of may not have to participate in european elections everybody however news everybody in london that it is quite unlikely and leaders here in brussels at the summit have been very skeptical about the prospect. they say we give britain and not the half year this is how i feel less than the longest proposition had been because the president of the european council had originally said let's give them another year till date spring but it is also a bit more than tourism a had wanted and particularly the french president mccraw had wanted so a good european tradition is a compromise the thirty first of october hello we practice it how we present barbara but there is a cab the at that there is supposed to be a review in june what does that mean. there is

a review june about how britain has been behaving itself on going and still existing member of the european union that is something that the french particularly wanted because they really raised fears here on the top of some press are two rings coming from london of some hard line breaks the cheers they've been raising the fears that britain would sort of be really obstructive. on going member but unwilling member in the european union and sort of really sort of be a against and to stick. put a stake in the wheels off for the european business and so therefore it's there's a review clause have they been sort of holding themselves back have they not voted against this have to not try to obstructive then everything goes on otherwise there's going to be trouble and we are seeing you can counsel or president at all to saying that the e.u. twenty. evan and the u.k.

have agreed to this a flexible extension until october thirty first meaning as you said barbara another six months so alice coming to you know we heard barbara call this the how we break that another six months does this mean that teresa mayes nightmare continues well clearly well clearly it does continue whether it continues for two reason may we don't know because everything about her premiership is obviously being questioned at the moment she wanted until the end of june issue is said it would be until the end of june she's now got as you said until the end of october to try to somehow persuade parliament if she's still in place to accept her deal that was the deal that she agreed with back in november and she has not been able to get it through parliament has been defeated three times so she has that nightmare if you like to try to sort that out and she's trying to control a very very very difficult party the conservative party and they do not want as

their leader but at the moment they all stuck with her what do you think they're going to say to this extension of six months of the brics it is. didn't want an extension anyway many of them wanted that to be a no deal bricks it. on the twenty ninth of march so two weeks ago and we're quite happy to see one this coming friday that's obviously been taken off the table they do not want there to be an extension they do not want the u.k. to be involved in the european elections at the end of may absolutely furious about that and even before they get to those there are local elections in the u.k. and they are very concerned that they are all going to be the party is going to be destroyed almost because people are so angry that bricks it has not happened on the conservative party's watch it should have happened they failed and it hasn't happened so many are again tonight talking about her going when will be the day that she goes could. being made the beginning of may or will she be able to

persuade enough of them to support her until the autumn we'll have to wait and see for that so her party is definitely not happy and barbara coming back to you in brussels there's somebody there who is maybe not entirely happy with the extension that has been agreed upon is france's president and i know marco you touched on this he was against a long brags of delay he want to short or shorter period why didn't he get his way . he didn't get his way because there was such a strong majority to ground britain in the extension everybody told him come on be reasonable now we don't want to crush out this friday and we don't want another short extension in the sense of having another emergency brakes at summit four weeks from now and the one two months from now that doesn't make sense in anybody's eyes so much wrong had his hour he really played the bad cop here and tried to be as strong against britain and beat them was

a big stick but in the end it was expected that he would back down somewhat and there was a typical european compromise somewhat in the middle don't give them a year give them half a year and more or less everybody can go home happy now but for how great is the sense of relief there are breaks it is certainly not over but the next cliff edge if you will is not until the end of october. of course everybody is wiping their brow that's done and going home and having a sleep in their hotel rooms because what this is is just. a constant headache for the european union they want to deal with own issues they have problems of their own they want to look towards the future there's going to be a new commission after the european elections the elections might be very tricky for europe because populist parties are expected to rise so they have enough on their plate and they really want to get rid of this trouble so. a member state

that's the united kingdom rather sooner than later but they have decided to show patience because that is the more reasonable and the smartest thing to do so they will now turn away and deal with european matters again and just wait till the for thirty first or. right barbara hazel for us in brussels and of course our break that analysts with us here in our studio alex for sweating thank you both for your analysis. let's move on now to some other stories making news around the world australian prime minister scott morrison has announced his country will hold a general election on may eighteenth that is despite polls showing more since conservative coalition trailing the opposition labor party taxes climate change and inequality will be the big campaign issues. algerians 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 abdul aziz but

a flick of. 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 suspect they're alleged to have established a network linking the hooligan martial arts and neo nazi. astronomers have revealed what they're calling a groundbreaking development using a global network of telescopes they have photographed the edge of a black hole for the very first time buchholz are celestial objects with such strong gravitational fields that even light gets sucked into. this is the image that's changed astronomy for ever. eight radio telescopes in different locations across the globe have made the invisible visible. in a faraway galaxies called m eighty seven there's a black hole a massive unseen object 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 a black holes gravitational pull it's 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 of very big weight transforms geometry but when the mass is too has he you make a hole a mysterious hole where nothing can get out of it where all its absorbed astronomers can't see black holes they inferred their existence from the strange orbit of the stars around them 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 a black hole but by using the telescopes and 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 puzzle set we actually only see the pieces of the real true image and then we have to feeling these gaps of this missing pieces because tracked there physically possible in it that is actually much 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 back home. from a distance black hole seem wonderous but up close they are the most terrifying

things in the universe. all right let's get more on this groundbreaking development with mark macor credit senior science advisor in the directorate of science that the european space agency the 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 from weinstein'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 essentially 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 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 off a 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 is 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 off times the mass of our sun there that 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 your piece 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 is 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 rightwing parties leaders for guns as blue and white party say they will make life difficult for netanyahu and the opposition. benjamin netanyahu triumphs again he was confident of a win on election night even before official results were announced the united states a night of colossal victory colossal i am very moves 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. ok we're going to break in with some news now and had to brussels where as we said the e.u. leaders have agreed to grant the u.k. an extension to break the talk till october thirty first and we have a commission and council president that donald tusk and about to speak let's listen in the press conference following this special meeting of the you can council on brics it without further ado are first in line to the president of the open council but it's also to take the full thank you . with the president the president. tonight the repeal of goals of decided that through grants the united kingdom a flexible extension of the article fifty period until the. first of october this means another six months for the u.k. . during this time. because the function would be entirely in the u.k.

so and. it's can still out there fired there was rogue remained in which case the extension would be terminated. it could also reconsider the whole rigid strategy. and that might lead to changes in the political declaration but. it was the old agreement. i'm through the end of this period david kay we also have the possibility to revoke the good fifty and briggs it all together. ok we'll continue to see a corporation as a full member state with all its rights and as a close friend and trusted ally in the future let me finish with a lesson to our good friends. this extension as flexible as i expected. and so a little bit shorter than i expected about that nearly enough. to find the best

possible solution please. do not waste this steiff thank you thank you and now president you say you can commission we. don't know what spawns them and don't invest your new cell phones and. we call for the if you see in me to through poke the puppet this year if you didn't know what to do then i call that event so they are a big boy we need. to jump on it as you should never do is going to the fish to lose it as you go to new. york goes for the feds because there's also the defense have to figure out there is no evidence of the sons of b.b. to nuke. the few to cool the fools. who volunteered for their part commision to these join in defaults to stop. all the

defense at the moment you know. if you're all zones of you kids it is will to p.q. for the us to traduce you are still listening to him there and for some he was speaking french we were hoping he would speak english like donald tusk adjusted to the european council president we have our correspondents of course back with us alex and barbara who've been listening into this. well we've been waiting alex and barbara for a statement after the news was announced that the twenty seven leaders decided to grant an extension to bragg's it barbara i want to start with you since you're there in brussels that we heard donald fehr say please do not waste this time the next six months what did you make of his words. yeah i mean that is the plea to britain to sort of now come up with something useful either being to sort of push the brakes a deal over the line get it passed in parliament and just leave on an orderly and good terms with the european union that is something that is really close to his

heart now he had wanted a longer exemption he had written rather nicely in the invitation letter to this emergency summit there are times when you have to give time but then the twenty seven leaders and to kill of the french president. had different ideas about that and so to student quite get what he wanted bought he still sort of pleads for britain to now use this second or shall we say third chance they get to sort of somehow sort breaks it out because he really wants inharmonious exit here because he is looking like a mark of the german chancellor to the future richard will have to have a relationship was the european union its biggest trading partner and so they have to there has to be not too much bad blood but reasonably reasonable working partnership it appears we have found a feed of speaking english let's listen to that. european election in the

united kingdom that may seem a bit old but rules are rules and we must. respect european law and we will see what happens. i do rather regret the fact that we only talk about berkshire which i read to the european press this morning for breakfast to break shit. but president chose and i reached an agreement that no one expected with china and yet there was hardly anything in the into. national press well let's swap of course gave a detailed report from it it is true. after all. reports well one thing is

no noise or site. which of course is true outside the european union. did reports on what i consider to be historic agreement it proves is that we are over focused on matters relating to brics it's an insufficiently focused on other matters that we work on so yes i'm very happy that an agreement has been reached amongst the twenty seven i think it was essential to demonstrate its. c twenty seven stand united in their analysis and in action and in october we'll see what happens all along you know they are meeting with two long beach. thank you and the floor is now open for your questions and i think the first question goes to chris is the

gentleman to all right. thank you bourbon is chris morris and b.b.c. and president as you said the extension is a little shorter than you expected isn't it from your perspective in some ways the worst of both worlds not short enough to really put on the pressure in the u.k. parliament to get a deal passed quickly but not long enough to allow you to set aside breaks it to focus on other things for any useful period of time and secondly as you know article fifty says nothing or doesn't rule out multiple extensions is there anything in the language agreed today which says october thirty first is the final deadline or is it possible that come mid october mid to low. it's october we once again be having a summit like this and working out how much longer we're going to extend again. i think it's always better to have a. base of something than all of nothing and.

we should do that in six months and more than six six months and three weeks and it's. it could be enough for a good solution if there is goodwill and and much already for some solutions in london of course and i was of come and. general i'm satisfied because it's. as you know not only that today's discussion but also our preparations. showed the this idea of flexibility extension of. not so obvious for some about this and this is why. i think we have to be. maybe not happy but so the fight by the by the solution our intention is to finalize the whole process in that. but

and the political intentionless clear among the member states that. i will wish and our hope is that the u.k. will be ready with and with the final solution in until. the end of october but i am too altered to exclude. another scenario he said i think it's still everything is possible it's. and the second question. listen. to. don't let that let your actions we've all to do would be to just us everyone knows it so we have to do everything to avoid gets well done of them us of trying to do good to know we have been quite successful. i'd like to decision have taken to not tonight because they see it as being fixed on the third.

of hope. i have to leave. my job on the first of. these so my guess would be the true reason i have not the night session because if we had i have to leave to meet you have we thought. thank you and i think just the gentleman too i want lift was next jim thank you good morning jim breuer you've been listening to that press conference happening right now in brussels where john cloud younker and donald tusk we've been listening in. as well alex i want to come to you first because we were just listening to a question from a journalist there is this extension really long enough you know we heard her say you know this is the best solution and no deal would be a disaster and we needed some sort of compromise but is this six months really

going to be enough well enough or what lines to get to resume may's deal through parliament we don't know if that's going to be possible we don't know if two reason may was still be prime minister by the thirty first of october we don't know whether there is going to be some kind of. consensus found in parliament for them to agree on what kind of bricks if they want a new fairy clear yet again they're from listening to donald to skin. that they are not going to reopen that withdrawal agreement agreed with to resume a at the end of last year so it's basically that or it's nothing in other words they're sticking with ireland they're not throwing island under the bus over this and they are expecting and hoping that somehow the u.k. is going to come to some agreement and consensus on what they want particularly looking at that the second document that goes with it the political declaration it

is certainly hoping that so barbara coming to you in brussels knowing that where are we going to be on october thirtieth october thirty first. that is really hard to say because it is completely unpredictable what will happen in britain we know what will happen on the european side they're going to be european elections that may probably shake up the political balance in europe we will have a new commission we will have a new council president every single be new after the summer a new personnel all around so there will be a completely changed sort of setup here in brussels even though the same principles hold true and we will still see most of the twenty seven who have been around the table here today basically they saying what everybody every reasonable person would saying six months are enough to hold an election to have a second referendum or even to have a real revolution you could do anything in six months so it should finally be long

enough to sort of sort out breaks in britain but now they're turning their back on it they let them get on with it because they really want to take care of their own business as particularly the commission president stressed as we said everything is still possible our correspondents are based on brussels and alex for us waiting with us here thank you both. and we will have more breaks it coverage for you at the top the heart goes. the situation in venezuela could hardly be more complex the united states along with some two dozen countries is backing the new interim leader one going to russia and china support the incumbent nicolas maduro how's it going to play out my guess this week here in brussels or is proud yes i learned of how vera who is venezuela's ambassador to the european union with the record of appalling human rights abuses

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