this is a prefer the alternative and we've spent saying from the beginning there are no good choices here understood thank you very much and we'll have continuing coverage of what's going on in thailand for you here on al-jazeera. if the o.p.'s prime minister is in neighboring eritrea and the first such visit in almost thirty years these are the latest pictures coming into us here showing crowds in the capital as mara now the prime minister ahmed was greeted by the eritrean president. at the airport ahead of a summit between the two regional rivals ethiopia and eritrea to force a war in the past over eight disputed border but last month there were signs of a thaw as ethiopia's new prime minister accepted a peace agreement and restarted flights for the first time since one nine hundred ninety eight. south sudan's warring parties have agreed to another power sharing deal under which the rebel leader weak much chop will be reinstated as vice president the announcement was made by the foreign minister of neighboring sudan

regional leaders have been mediating peace talks in uganda to end south sudan's civil war a similar deal to this one was signed in twenty fifteen but it fell apart a year later the conflict has killed tens of thousands of people displaced millions since twenty thirteen. well we've still got lots more news still to come for you here on al-jazeera including these ones the group claims responsibility for yet another deadly bombing in somalia plus. the thrills and spills of running with the bulls we lost participants why do you do it. and i there it is staying hots for many of us in western europe and for many places it's also been very dry over the last few weeks as well that's called

a problem with wildfires the some places including here in the western parts of germany and here it's going to stay dry over the next couple of days and it's also going to stay hot snouts really what we're expecting over many parts. of western europe the unsettled weather is generally a lot for the east the first of all this is larry of low pressure here that's giving us a lot of wet weather and more in the way of clouds as well and we're also seeing some severe thunderstorms down in the southeastern parts of europe these gradually will spread their way towards the west as we head through monday and this area of cooler weather will also be working its way westwards into sweden so stop no high than a round of twenty one but the west impulsive you're staying hot and draw as well now a bit further towards the south of so many of us here the weather is pretty hot at the moment because it is that time of yes i fifty eight degrees fairly average there for cairo at this time of year for the west though it's a bit different here we've got a temperature of twenty six in robots which is fairly average but forty now is we're up to thirty that will gradually ease off

a little bit as we head through monday because the ads coming down from the north so it should be slightly cleaner as well china is the whole be hot that's there's a full.

just joining us let's just recap the top stories for you early divers have started the string the dangerous operation to rescue twelve boys under a football coach from the depths of a cave system in northern thailand thai army commander says the entire operation could take two to four days depending upon the weather conditions. crowds have gathered in the eritrean capital as morrow where if the o.p.'s prime minister has arrived for his first visit in almost thirty years of the us mess was greeted by the eritrean president. at the airport ahead of a summit between the two regional rivals ethiopia and eritrea have fought a war in the past over a border dispute but relations have since improved. and south sudan's warring parties have agreed to another power sharing deal under which the rebel leader rick machar will be reinstated as vice presidents regional leaders have been mediating peace talks in uganda to end south sudan's civil war. the us secretary of state has

brushed off north korean accusations of making gangster like demands in his push for the country to be denuclearized the north koreans made those comments after mike pompei or went to pyongyang for the latest round of talks he's since been in tokyo to brief japan and south korea about progress mr pompei o says there's still a lot to do but he is confident that the north korean leader kim jong un will stick to the promises he made during the singapore summits with donald trump. i am determined to achieve the commitment the president made and i counting on chairman kim to be determined to follow through on the commitment that he made. and so if those requests were gangster like there the world is a gangster because there was a unanimous decision at the un security council sarah clarke now with more from the south korean capital so. also in the message we got out of that press conference

this morning was that talks were on track or the tactics of the accusations that north korea had made against the u.s. in the waiting gauged the north korean delegation in the pyongyang talks he played that down he suggested that they had a good and open lengthy discussions with north korea about complete dinny theorize ation across a range of weapons and he stated if a broad it's a broad definition and the north korean officials understood that now and interesting quotes he said if those requests were gangster like the world is a gangster because there was a unanimous decision at the u.n. security council about what needs to be achieved so as mentioned the north korean other accusation suggested the talks were grettir ball and the relations were in danger. it was quick to to remind everyone turned to look for that one particular line in the transcript or the the foreign ministry message stating that from north korea we still cherish our good faith in president trance so they're hanging on to that particular message suggesting that all is still ok with regards to the next

round of talks between north korea and the united states at least sixty four people have died and dozens of others are missing after floods and landslides in japan the military is now being brought in to help after heavy rains pummeled cities across western japan for several days millions of people have been ordered from their homes. syrian troops have been celebrating the recapture of the main border crossing with jordan which had been held by rebels for three years the border crossing is in there are province almost three weeks of fighting in the area displaced more than three hundred thousand people it ended with a cease fire deal on friday. the troops raise syrian flags as they took up positions along the border under the deal rebels have to give up their heavy weapons government troops will leave for villages in the province the russian military will oversee the ceasefire. thousands of people displaced by the fighting and returning her. most were living in tents near the jordan border and the israeli

occupied golan heights having fled there when the airstrikes began in june. at least eight people have been killed and dozens more were injured in a car bomb attack in the somali capital the armed group al-shabaab says it was behind the attack near the interior ministry building in mogadishu barbara and has more. once again the city of milk addition is living through the aftermath of an attack and once again this responsible al-shabaab fighters the armed group has been battling somalia's government for twelve years it's launched more than half a dozen attacks this year alone and i. thought i was close to where the explosion happened the car on through the checkpoint barrier into the ministry building then it exploded there was smoke everywhere many people died in there but i wasn't able to count al-shabaab is fighting to overthrow the government and was pushed out of milk addition in twenty eleven but it continues to talk at birth government sites

and civilians. i saw ten bodies with my own eyes and eight wounded the car exploded inside the ministry building there was a lot of confusion screaming and lots of gunfire. these attackers entered the ministry of interior following the explosions and exchanged gunfire with security forces inside somalia's government says all three have been killed their mother and the security forces and all government departments responded to the attack as soon as it happened and they were able to end it very quickly but while there is involved in this attack may have been killed al-shabaab remains a significant threat to millions of somalis and their country's stability barbara and al-jazeera. to spain where the running of the bulls first of all is taking place in pamplona five people have already been taken to hospital on day one after being gored and trampled by the bulls injuries happen every year as five hundred kilogram bulls chase a daring festivalgoers through the cobbled streets sculpin hole is there for us

though called you're not actually running ahead of the bulls so clearly you've got to be a bit certifiably mad to take part in this. yeah no hum certainly not running ahead of any bull not today or any other day peta in fact today's been bull running event well that ended just a few moments ago but it's a going on now for another five days so still plenty of time for those who wish to step into the enclosure and run ahead of the half ton bulls running at twenty thirty miles an hour down the street it does remain and intensely dangers that today sunday well there was an intense downpour just before the running started that made conditions very slippery and treacherous both for the bulls and the bull run as so far however red cross reporting only slight injuries to around four people although there could be more reports that come in in the course of the

afternoon but what of course we wanted to know was for those intending to run with the bulls why are they doing it. just minutes to go before with the bulls. going fine still in there and you are seeing there is. your. friends come from california to pamplona facing down danger together. was. this time is made objection from colorado the sharing some safety advice you get when you hear that story. for you and your guy there at american or through an east hemingway's favorite bar he made the bull running world famous in his nine hundred twenty s.

novel fiesta go to keep him here a. little movie with things running. running. running i don't know the fastest one out there. i have to be doused with someone else you know that's my right we're going to bring you and. me. next morning this is that emotion and i coughed combos eight hundred fifty meat is insane how fast it will determine your fairly new arena and actually you know you were right behind you in the pool right there it was it's epic it's like you're running and you're looking for the fools and someone just standing there and you just well we're going to say my goodness you know i don't

know. if you can hear radio you can. read everything. i do is true instincts are right went out the window i can go tomorrow there's more days. the photos tell of a trip they'll never forget and this video postcard from pamplona. which you will hear. now the lead up to this year's fiesta was overshadowed by very fierce debate about sexual harassment and sex crimes and the issue of how to keep women visit as safe here when they come to power while at the same time of course defending their right to party as hard as the men last year alone there were more than two dozen sex crimes reported during the fiesta to the police and the number of unreported instance almost surely much

higher but a little like ernest hemingway said in that nine hundred twenty s. novel once the fiesta here begins the drink begins to flow the da. lansing starts and that gives way to this pretty unreal atmosphere where the fiesta goes on day and night no stopping and that is what is going to happen between now and next weekend. thanks very much. professors in the u.s. city of chicago have shut down traffic on a major highway to highlights the number of shootings that they marched along interstate ninety four after earlier with the police officers had warned that anyone walking on the road would face arrest but the mayor of chicago supported them having two hundred fifty two murders and eleven hundred shootings in the city so far this year mostly in predominantly black and low income areas.

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al-jazeera. and. pacifying syria's southern front government forces a back in control of most of data and the border with jordan that follows a cease fire deal with rebels but one. and others in the region this is inside story. welcome to the program. after more than seven years of war in syria rebel fighters of lost control of the southern province of delta where the revolution began some rebels will hand over their heavy weapons as part of

a cease fire deal with the government others will be given safe passage to the rebels last stronghold in northern province jordan and israel are cautiously watching the developments as the syrian army inches ever closer to their borders and of course the government's victory also brings big changes for the three hundred twenty thousand people who fled will be our guest in just a moment but first al-jazeera has been at smith reports from jordan's border with syria. some of the thousands of displaced syrians who've been camped for up to two weeks along the syrian jordan border just behind me they started going home last night according to the jordanian military not long after the cease fire and surrender was agreed with the rebel groups here across the border in southern syria the jordanians hope that the rest of those refugees in the coming hours and days will feel safe enough to go home and one of the most important things about making them feel safe enough is security guarantees that they'll be given that is that the

russian military police maintain overall control of security along the border area because many people have been living under rebel controlled fear rebel fear of reprisals from the syrian regime also important for the jordanians is that there are no iranian backed hezbollah fighters along this border side that was one of the major jordanian concerns they are expecting only to see syrians and russian forces along this area no involvement from the hezbollah fighters who were part of the initial campaign to retake the dead up province. well let's get the thoughts of our guests joining us today from amman is london so the only who's an independent journalist and commentator on middle east issues from west jerusalem we're joined by robi sable a professor at the hebrew university of jerusalem and from beirut rami corey a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the american university of beirut and

welcome to you all rami if we can start with you some context here first to what extent does southwestern syria's pivotal location mean that any military offensive in that region would have had stakes the transcends syria's civil war. that's a very strategic area in terms of the relationship between lebanon and hezbollah and syria and israel and jordan and iran all together they are interested in this area and the russians of course behind the syrian government the russians are trying to prevent wars regionally but all these other actors or involved in confrontations and have been involved in wars over the years it's a very strategic area and the golan itself the border area the go on has become even more important now because historically it was southern lebanon and northern israel that was the where fighting used to take place all the time between hezbollah and israel it shifted in recent years to the shebaa farms area which is

in between syria lebanon israel and palestine and then it shifted now once more to the golan heights and that's really where mr a critical area that has to be addressed politically ravi's able in west jerusalem russia has mediated this this deal what kind of security guarantees has it given to israel as part of this deal what is always in two cities is the mentality of the agreement we had and i said before with syria which has a buffer zone where that no civilian military troops and a limited force limited forces either side of the border is about twenty five kilometers in other words what we're interested in is that that be maintained and that no hezbollah will elayne forces be in the area i think these are two main strategic interests why is israel so concerned about. hesitate to call them this but i'm going to say to ragtag bunch of iranian backed militias operating so

close to it to its border is it just paranoia of iran that that's driving this. it's not such a bad they were operating under the commands of the evolution of god of iran and where syria has an interest in maintaining it maintaining a quiet border of the soon visas iran doesn't it has a contra inverse to want to stop trouble therefore we are very very apprehensive about any invading persons on the insert on the golan heights or insert all lamas and only the jordanian foreign minister was in moscow just a few days ago what sort of guarantees would he have received concerning the the syrian border with his country. i'm not sure he has received guarantees but i know what he's asked for i have also to point out that until the june twenty third jordan and the palace the decision makers were under the impression that russia and

. the musk us with the support of trump as well how it really it took a political solution so they were taken aback when russia allowed this collision over russia was not just preventing the war it allowed a. military solution to their our situation so but i know what they are asking for their asking for first. that this agreement will hold no for this collision and support in. solving the crisis of the refugees they did ask also that a pro iranian militia forces should be fifty in a kilometer away from the borders this is the official position not my on and that there has to issue should be dealt with separately then the whole settlement so that it will not so that they would guarantee at least quiet at the borders i don't

know how many guarantees you have thought but there's a feeling and official feeling of great dismay and fear they felt the sea of by the way that they were not informed that there would be any skill ation that did not expect jordan's vehemently refused to let any or any more syrians across its border is that just because simply because jordan can't cope with any more refugees or is it more to do with with security concerns is it more to do with exactly who might come across the border. i am i think that the initial decision to close the border was a quick fast as response to this collision that was not expected and to pressure all parties to go back to the table they wanted a solution i thought of the think it was well thought out of and then there was a complaint in jordan against the yes security score sans are are there and they

want to pressure also the international community community to give more in but it has created divisions inside the country over the refugees issues many jordanians are not happy there and you know about the campaign to open the borders and of course their proper player opinion is divided because we have a segment of the population general and the support the syrian. there syrian regime and the syrians and they consider it effectively for assad from a korean knows they will open the borders without any guarantees and i'm not sure there will be an opening of the borders without certain guarantees from russia and by the way the government what i know and i'm sure of that there has been a communications director lee between jordan and the oscars for the last month saw

that could be that could help either not probably corey will russia ensure that no violation of this peace deal takes place and what would happen to the the deescalation zone that i thought that this this area was supposed to be. the deescalation zones are kind of like the arab israeli peace process they're there on paper but they don't really exist they're a bit of a figment of people's imaginations the syrians and the russians prove those the escalation zones but said they have to keep fighting terrorists which of course every government should do but they define anybody that they don't like as a terrorist therefore the fighting continues and this we've seen this happen throughout the country so there they deescalation zones were a means that were used for two reasons one to heighten the diplomatic leverage that russia has including a little bit with iran and turkey in the broader process of political reconciliation in syria which would eventually go back to geneva but also to

increase the leverage that the syrian armed forces have in the short run to be able to continue operations as they've done in several parts of the country near damascus and now in the south and they will continue their last push to the western part of the province in the south so the deescalation issue shouldn't be taken literally but as part of a complex diplomatic negotiation in which the russians and the syrian government have come out pretty much on top and the short run the iranians and hezbollah and others are watching jordan has serious real legitimate interests and concerns but everybody wants to end the fighting send the refugees back home let them live in peace and open up syria again as a trading partner and transit zone lebanon and jordan will both mentally benefit from reopening the borders for trade and these sort of the brig are issues that

people need to start looking at but the fighting is not over and the last point to make is that one of the really tricky parts in this is people talk of the rebels and the government the rebels are made up around thirty or forty different kinds of groups they're organized groups there are tribal groups or local people some of the rebels and. shitted agreements local cease fires with the government through that all kinds of different groups that don't agree and that's why the rebel broadly they failed the syrian. army was not able to triumph and getting a full agreement in the south means bring with you know dozens and dozens of different groups who have different interests and we've seen that happen already but in the long run the government is going to triumph probably sable as a tool of russia's guaranteeing security in this deal. is it possible that we could see russian forces operating in the golan heights or is that is that a no no i don't think russia is interested in having its ground forces operating

though there may be russian military police which would help supervisor zone there's a certain amount of joint interest between israel and russia in not having it done . in the area although they iran has helped assad's regime i don't think that russia is interested in that continuing presence and therefore i think we will see wash and support for the israeli position that there should be no it lady and toups in if not in syria certainly no in near the border israel has always seemed fairly ambivalent towards bashar assad despite the assad regime regime serving the. the vital but i mean strategic and security interests of israel since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven how going forward do you think will israel deal with with syria politically if as. rami says that the syrian government will win what's the

thinking now. israeli government doesn't always make wise decisions but i think one wise this isn't the maid was not to him to be to the syrian civil war we provided who manito in a fight medical aid we have known to be and i think we're going to continue to see this we will not be interfered intervening in the syrian civil war we will however maintain our security problems that is again to make sure the the women said before game is kept the buffer zone will be and will be free of any military forces will be limitation forces and that we will see in radians on the. any when there is was border. underneath as the been communication between israel and jordan in the light of the humanitarian crisis in indonesia i'm not sure if that is about it but as you know it in our office is jordan just a few days before this collision and it was about partly about the southern front

of this southern syria i think it is it is involved in all of us and i think any understanding would include the israelis so more squints for america there are understanding between putin and. netanyahu but i want just here to save me i mean for the israelis to make a big deal about who is on the golan heart when the golan high are the borders when there are the pond hides itself is under occupation it's progressed to us in the end it's about syria itself and with itself and its sovereignty and its unity and but israel is totally involved and its program is emerging as one of the victorious parties unfortunately. it's really using stewie pausing as if it's thick their protector of jordan as one. protector over jordan when that's if it if it's trying to provide its protection is

like providing jordan with a poisoned chalice so people are very aware of that and very wary of that. in the whole set up in jordan really say what do you want to comment on what you just heard the again probably i should add that i don't think the world is appreciated what jordan has done for the three g.'s it's absorbed taken large numbers of soon a few g.'s and i think we should see world war world support for this we have a dialogue with jordan we have a dialogue with with russia again israel's interests of a limited here we want to make sure that we have a quiet border over the syria and the agreement is kept we're not going to get we weren't involved and we're not going to get involved in the actual syrian civil war rami khouri in beirut what options now are there for president assad in southern syria if he tells iranian backed forces to leave the area as part of this deal where does that leave him in his relationship with iran. i think this

issue of iranian forces near the israeli occupied golan heights. reflects a lot of the bizarre approach that israel and zionism have to our region and this is just another example of israel saying its sovereignty its security are more important than the sovereignty and security of its neighbors they can do anything it wants in lebanon and syria and and gaza and it can kill it could shoot it and destroy things and it does this all the time i mean the idea that israel hasn't been involved in the syrian war is a little bit fantastic and they've been attacking targets regularly that have in one way. hurt the syrian government or has below or the alliance between them and iran so hezbollah syria and iran are really one unit that haven't worked together since the early one nine hundred eighty s. when israel has fought for oceans lead to try to weaken them and it hasn't been able to do so so far so i think we need to take some of these statements and in

a wider context the syrian government now has a big. responsibility an opportunity to use the dinner hour situation when it finally drives out all the rebels and the isis terrorists and a few others and regained control to perhaps use it as a laboratory for reconciliation and governance we've already heard signs today and yesterday that some of the local agreements being made include allowing some of the rebel leaders and officers to be involved in joint governance mechanisms at the local level and this is what i mentioned before there were dozens and dozens of local cease fires that were arranged over the last five or six years or so so the syrian government has one major priority after it regains sovereignty over its territory it's to regain legitimacy with its people it have the syrian people don't trust it they're afraid of it because of the terrible vicious things that have happened in the war on all sides so it's got huge obstacles and regain. ending.

its legitimacy and coming up with a government system that everybody agrees on the last point to make here is that the really the most fascinating aspect of this and it's come through in our little discussion is the role of the russians there i mean ph d. students of international relations around the world should be studying what russia's been doing in the middle east for the last five years. in detail because it's one of the most fascinating examples of a big power coming into the region and new and new ways forging new relationships making itself pivotal and central talking to everybody russia's talking to everybody in the region and and trying to maintain a long term strategic role for itself which benefits its own national well being presumably and its allies so i think the russian role is going to be there for a long time and it'll keep evolving with turkey with iran with saudi arabia and not

with jordan and you might end up with russian jordanian joint patrols or mechanisms for refugee security or trade issues on the border you know it's amazing what the russians are doing and i think we need to keep our eye on that robi sable professor what do you make of that i mean is russia a force for good in the region is israel at all concerned that its that its ally had the u.s. had nothing to do with the brokering of this deal on its border that russia is the one that's firmly in control here. i think it's a fact we can't dispute the united states has more or less disappeared from the area and its loss of that has that influence i would however seriously dispute the statement just made that iran has by law and syria a one unit they're not syria's an independent state and if you want to have good relations with israel it cannot have foreign hostile elements in it therefore has allowed to go back to lebanon iran in force should stay in iran and we can reach an

agreement with syria but it's not it's punishes to have to rein in forces near is was a border it's dangerous to the middle east it's dangerous to israel it's dangerous to lebanon i don't think any of the actors in the area for want to see. iranian forces. anywhere near the israeli border russia is certainly the major actor and that's why we've maintained a dialogue with russia russia has its own interest it's not operating out of israel in first or syrian interest it has its own strategic interest in the middle east which is not necessarily the same of his world but we maintain a dialogue with them and we and i believe that at this stage russia is not interested in invading and presence. and only of course jordan had a lot to lose if that been a full scale military offensive in the southwest and syria. does this deal is its concerns as a collective sigh of relief and. if

a first of its a partial sight of three because this is fire should be just is step one step towards an agreement that is a stint in that hour and eventually in the horse or ophelia secondly. there if you just is it because not just because it's presence pressure on jordan because they say to every human turn and disaster and this is another issue the other issue i think there's mistrust now because as i told you the georgian officials the significance for the deceived by the russians as well as by the ally the us who or they think knew that there would be. a syria. jordan syria and russian warning of that are there other issue i want to point out

is it's very ironic that a president is that of an occupying power is talking about the sovereignty of another of another nation i wish israel should stop interfering and stop bombing and not talk about war or ground when it's an occupying power and supplying syrian lands that will really make it easier for syria and to go back to. china we're almost out of time robbie said well just very quickly if you want to respond to that before i throw it back to what rami khouri yes our neighbor is syria i hope we can reach an agreement with syria we don't want to see you on or hizbullah anywhere and i don't think it's in the terms of jordan all of lebanon to see a lady and troops of all that rami khouri that the battle in there has shown a as as you've said as you pointed out that had has has won the war what message does that send to other were able groups in other areas of the country i'm thinking

about of course i mean the dream of defeating asset is now history is that. oh pretty much yeah i mean you will still have some local groups that might put up some local resistance you might find syria becoming like algeria and morocco today where those dozens and dozens of small demonstrations on but but pretty much nonviolent in the long run they have a big lesson out of syria if you look back over the international community the so-called international community doesn't care what you do in your own country even doesn't care when foreign powers like russia come in and help you you can kill as many people as you want as long as you don't use chemical weapons in the same way that the world doesn't care about what the u.a.e. saudi is americans and british are doing in yemen killing killing thinning and destroying country so the total lack of concern of the international community about internal issues like this is a really stark lesson that people are going to get from this situation and that the governments in the area will say they can use as much force as they want against

their own people put thirty forty thousand people in jail like egypt has done and nothing happened so this is a problem for the whole region now in terms of the political and social economic rights of ordinary people where both military force and political repression can be used that will without any serious international intervention hopefully some wiser minds will prevail in the arab world in israel and turkey and iran and everywhere and figure out how to solve the underlying problems the early israeli conflict and other issues and take away the need for these kinds of wars that i'm afraid is where we must leave it thank you to you all on this and only robbie sable and rami koori. thank you two for watching to get you can see our program again at any time just by going to the web site at al-jazeera dot com to further discussion join us at our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle at a.j.

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with his asian allies america's top diplomat shrugs off north korean accusations that he's behaving like a gangster. plus russian fans expressed disappointment but also pride after the host nation is eliminated from the world cup. our top story divers in northern thailand have now begun a risky operation to rescue twelve boys and the football coach trapped in a cave complex plight as transfixed the world as the authorities struggle to devise a plan to get the team through twisting narrow and jacket passage ways that in some places are completely flooded the rescuers hope to bring all of them out before monsoon rains forecast for later on sunday cause even more flooding the boys have been trapped for more than two weeks. today our readiness has reached its peak today we're carrying out the d.-day operation at ten am thirteen cave divers went

inside the cave to start the evacuation of the kids the thirteen kids know about the operation that's being carried out and they're ready to come out with us they're ready to face any challenges let's bring in my colleague scott tyler who's live for us this ensuring right scott as far as we we know how's it going so far. so far it seems to be ok we haven't heard any word you know that this mission has been going on now this rescue mission this evacuation has been going on now for five hours we know there eighteen divers involved thirteen of them foreign divers foreign experts and then five navy seals as the commander of this mission said those are the five best navy seal divers and experts from around the world growing through this cave system with these boys we know that there are two divers per boy coming out so we would imagine it's going to be in kind of rounds we know too that the water level has been as we heard him say that the commander this is this

mission that you know the situation the conditions were as bad as good as they're going to be the best that they have been since they've been plotting out this rescue mission but what water level has gone down so much as though there were going to be three dives for these boys now there's only two the two most difficult ones and fortunately the third less difficult dive has been eliminated because the water level is down and they'll be able to walk in that stretch where they are in this process peter we don't really know presumably if this timetable is about right they expected it to take about ten eleven hours we're about hour five right now presumably they're halfway through you'd think but again it's good that first bit is the most difficult and again they'll see some medical professionals in the cave even before they continue on to that last leg and we see them come out hopefully in the coming hours peter and the divers and the kids sort of psychological reaction to their immediate situation when the doing this dog i guess is counter-intuitive in a way they have to fight the desire to accelerate and move quickly because if they

move too quickly that's dangerous because that's when the guy ropes get snagged. get fractured and the column that. absolutely not and one thing to bear in mind too if they didn't get to dangerous dangerous levels but the oxygen levels in this cave system both for the rescuers and for the the boys and their coach they had diminished so that diminishes your capacity for your energy is lower your capacity to move as quickly is lower so yes obviously when they get in the water when they know i would imagine that they're going to be on the process of getting out they'll want to go quickly it's exactly right that would be human nature peter but i would imagine those very trained very professional divers will try to keep them back and keep them at a pace because they need to keep it at a slow pace because it is such a arduous long journey that they'll be making that they need to reserve their energy and we know too as there are stages in this varying degrees of difficulty

that they'll be a resting spot at certain point to so that they can catch their breath if you will and hopefully you know get checked out and hopefully they'll still be in good health to continue on with that journey peter and for those boys who are still in the cave the cave in which the been marooned for more than two weeks i suspect the the stress of this increases in terms of their emotional like librium when they see the first child starting the journey and then the second child starting the journey if you will one of the group still in the original cave your stress levels must increase. absolutely and you can imagine though that this entire preview of this entire ordeal two weeks in a day. high levels of stress throughout absolutely and then anxiety and then dips and then high levels of stress so obviously it's been an emotional roller coaster but yes you can imagine you know when you start to see those first boys and possibly the coach start to leave yes that spikes again absolutely one thing that i

found to be very endearing and kind of emblematic of maybe how they are as a team you know this is a this is a sporting this is a football team they've worked together on the field they've spent a lot of time together they used to you know go through this cave on their own many times before after practice is so they know the cave they know each other they work well together hopefully that still exist to this day and one thing that i think shows that it does the letters that went back and forth we had letters come out from the cave to parents from the kids and then parents letters going back into the cave in reading some of those letters they're all very concerned about how the other people are the kids are concerned about the parents telling the parents to calm down not to worry not the stress obviously the parents saying that and then you know the coach apologizing to the parents for taking the boys in there in the in the in the first state so to me that indicates that there is still some of that camaraderie there are still working together as a team they are thinking about other people so hopefully that mitigates that stress

that you're talking about peter scott we'll talk to you later i'm sure in the meantime thank you very much. coordinates keep rescue missions in the u.s. earlier he explained to us about the challenges of keeping the boys safe as they are. for the team themselves of course there's the risk that is as they're bringing the boys out there can be something that goes wrong in one of the dives and either one of the boys panics or has some type of medical emergency such as vomiting into the regulator mask which is it can be deadly and if they panic they can potentially also take the rescuer with them so from a team standpoint that's one of the biggest dangers they face from the boy's standpoint of course those are also the same dangers the other fact that they that we have to look at is that they had nine days of starvation so they're still fairly weak they it takes a long time to recover from the nine days of starvation they had and they have not

simply had that time to recover the situation did not allow them and their time to become fully strong and and i'm hoping that they have drilled well enough that there are any problems but it is still a huge risk these boys had nine days of living on adrenaline and high cortisol levels their metabolic processes are. completely out of whack. the divers themselves have built a level of trust with the boys and that's part of the psychology of getting them out is having that level of trust and they having them there most of the places the diver can have they can touch and be right next to them there are those few spots where they cannot be side by side but again they can they can communicate with them by the fact that they're just right close their. we move on ethiopia's prime minister is in neighboring eritrea and historic summit it's the first such visit by

any ethiopian leader in more than twenty five years was greeted by crowds of supporters in the capital asked mara where he's meeting president is. the two regional rivals fought a costly war eighteen years ago over a border dispute but there have been signs of improving relations in recent months after prime minister agreed to accept the terms of a peace deal that ended that conflict. south sudan's warring parties have agreed to another power sharing deal under which the rebel leader rick machar will be reinstated as vice president the announcement was made by the foreign minister of neighboring sudan regional leaders have been mediating peace talks in uganda to end south sudan's civil war now a similar deal was signed in twenty fifteen but it fell apart a year later the conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions since twenty thirteen. tens of thousands of south sudanese children have been separated from their families some have been reunited but in

a country with poor organization and facilities tracing the families of many others is a challenge morgan from juba. it's a moment of joy but also nervousness for eleven year old as she packed her clothes . she's about to fly thousands of miles to see her parents and she hasn't seen for more than four years since just before the start of south sudan civil war. my aunt took me to stay with her for a while and then the war happened my parents thought i was still with my aunt but i was taken to an orphanage i haven't seen my family in a very long time. is one of thousands of children who were separated from their families the war started in twenty fifteen when president salva kiir accused his former vice president riek machar of attempting a coup since then many children have arrived unaccompanied at refugee camps after fleeing their homes were told was in the capital juba when fighting started in his home town find his children were displaced and it was nearly five years before he

saw them again. in one of my barker i had come to juba for treatment with the children's mother the war happened and i couldn't contact my children i even got sick and lost weight because i was worried about them sometimes thinking that they were dead. tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war and a third of the told me in population displaced sixty percent of them children aid organizations say more than seventeen thousand children have been separated from their families since the start of the war and the fighting continuing and more families displaced it's likely even if some children are being reunited with their families even more are being separated. the process of tracing families and getting them back together is no easy task some children are very young and you need to have a lot of. stuff you know to get information from children and the wide search area the transportation of children because no routes and it's only flights security is

a very challenging thing sometimes you know we identify families and we know where the parents are and the children in this kind of situation really storing the links between family and the child because we cannot reunify the child due to some of the security situations and security situation that's kept a war from seeing his children for years and which hopes will not deny her d. opportunity for a long awaited reunion with her family people morgan al-jazeera juba the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has brushed off north korean accusations of making gangster like demands and his push for the country to denuclearize the north korean officials made those comments after mr pompei went to pyongyang for the latest round of talks he's since been in tokyo to prove japan and south korea about progress.