in the chiang rai province near the border with me and ma and laos it is one of the longest caves in the country stretching ten kilometers through the door and mounts range the boys are stuck just past a coven known as party of beach now looking inside the mountain one point five kilometers from the main entrance navy seal teams the sit up a base and a cabin and no one is trying to three three kilometers in a semi in junction it forks off to an exit but that's flooded the cave widens to large cabins and narrows to passages so small that rescue is need to crew to get through the passageway climbs and drops which means when it rains water builds up in these sticks four kilometers in is passing a big the boys are about four hundred metres after the spot and eight hundred to a thousand meters below the surface to get the boys out through the flooded patches rescuers have attached a guideline and daughters emergency oxygen tanks every twenty five to fifty metres

the plan is that as they swim one navy diver will be beside them another one behind keep in mind some ways don't know how to swim there are strong currents and the water is dark and muddy they being given with suits boots helmets and a scuba mask but no tank the proposal being they'll get from their dive buddy supply now it will take at least five hours to get each boy out so i know it may take a couple of days to complete the risk you. bring in our stuff culture to talk more about weather conditions and how it may impact the rescue effort so as scott was saying it was really a race against time or a race against the rains and we know that it is monsoon season right now in thailand so the risk of showers there is high at this time of year has to be you get about three hundred millimeters of rain in a month and we haven't had any for several days so the chance of seeing come in the next day or the day after that are really getting higher and higher so. if the

water level was that are low in the caves now is really the time to go and go fast because it's going to take a while to get all of them out and we've got to up that is brilliant but there's a lot more still in the cave and how long will it take to get them out so we've got another day probably two where there won't be too many showers it looks like on the forecast and if that's true we maybe can get them all out in that time because by wednesday or thursday it looks like the showers will be back and when they come back they're likely to be really very heavy that's what i want to ask them when they come back how how is that going to be they could be light they could be heavy biz no telling with these monsoon rains but wednesday thursday it looks like there's more of them in the area and if you catch one it could well be very heavy and that could be all it me needs to make the water levels in that cave rise again and make getting them out that more difficult you have to dive further you have to swim further you know it just makes it more difficult ok surf will leave it there thank you. you're watching al-jazeera still ahead in just

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really we're not talking just the marshall islands we're talking the whole smooth motion. al-jazeera where every you. hello again you are getting reports that the first three members four members that is of the trapped tie soccer team may have been recovered from the came elite diver is in northern thailand have begun

a dangerous operation to rescue twelve boys and their football coach from the depths of the cave complex. well now speak to chris brown he is a cave rescue diver he's joining us on the phone from adelaide australia some reports coming in that four boys may have been rescued just give me your initial reaction. on the good cheer like to hear that i've actually managed to get pull out which is what the doctors there are doing to trying these boys in an alien environment in a cave have succeeded in getting to a level to get them out that is a very positive thing we had earlier heard that we expected to see the first boy emerge in about two hours from now just under two hours so this is telling us that this rescue operation is well ahead of schedule i think

it's very very good because it's working that will. be preparation put in by everyone involved including the. government and all those people and to get these young boys to learn sufficiently to handle themselves in a very i mean an environment without panicking it's a very very successful. what's happened what is the key in your opinion you're a diverse so what is the key to assess a successful rescue right now what do the divers have to do. well one thing is these young boys have never dived and supplies from what i've been using some and able to swim but to teach them to use scuba gear to have to breathe underwater which is an alien environment

a whole. time enough to then go into a kind of a dark khyber underwater much probably with the water limited visibility. to mine coal enough so that the rescue dogs can bring them out shows great courage the boys but also more importantly to the people who are trying them shown and i've got them to level with i can come out this. time and how do the divers keep the boys calm because as your thing they are thoroughly not experienced diver thumb of them don't know how to swim and they're having to maneuver through these very very difficult circumstances so what do you think the divers would be doing at this point. my assumptions because i don't understand how i see what's going on but what i did is a lead diver leading him out of a kind of. one of the boys behind and the second dive dive that appears to be with

that boy most probably having physical contact with him at all times so that he few time i sort of lapped that there is a calmness because it can feel someone there and stopping him from panicking because panic on the water in a situation like that would could be quite disastrous obviously managed to create a system which has kept the boys as calm as possible in a very big arm and obviously a risky operation for the boys as your thing but what are the risks for the divers themselves. i think a worse problem. if one of the boys did have a serious panic there's a lot about the problems here as well such as when you used to saying the water is going to be if you have to equalize the water pressure with you he is if you don't

do that you can do this in a drum if you need drum you get water in geo middle. daughter will get most probably the most on the water. side i've got to be up to get these kids so slow the guy down a clause the pressure maybe is through the trying the limit or trying to hide i mean type i mean if that goes wrong they might have problem with some involvement thing on the water. also by panic. because on the wall to trying to control them very very difficult it sounds as though that managed to alleviate those problems from the limited trying that. we will leave it there chris brown we thank you very much for speaking to us on the phone from australia. now and marmor cave expert on us national cave rescue mission coordinator he says the safety and health of the trapped children are a priority in the mission. for the team themselves of course there's the risk that

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 standpoint of course those are also the same dangers the other fact that they 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 and they have not simply had time to recover the situation did not allow them enough 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 by the fact that they're just right close they're well move on to other news and ethiopia's prime minister does a neighboring eritrea for a historic summit it's the first such visit by any leader in more than twenty years was greeted by eritrean president i.z.'s f. worki at the airport as head of a summit between the two regional rivals ethiopia and eritrea fought

a costly war between one thousand ninety eight and two thousand over a disputed border but there have been signs of improving relations in recent months after prime minister abi agreed to accept the terms of a peace deal that ended that conflict how to louis alou the is the program director of a money africa he thinks the shared history of the two countries are more important than the differences. this isn't just between two countries to ordinary countries for two or three neighbors if you can your three you have video of each history shared culture shared religion and shared to be in trouble so if your peers any of us foreign policy and regional engagement has been significantly been shipped by this water and this film it does followed for eighteen years and the two countries acknowledges that you know the film at the no water no weave no peace policy has significantly damaged their. economies the

regional security and the political situation in the two countries and the two countries have huge potential you cannot make cultural and political cooperation that will have a great impact for there seems to cutesy and integration of the horn of africa and the because eastern africa south sudan's warring parties have agreed to another power sharing deal under which rebel leader react my char will be reinstated as vice president the announcement was made by the foreign minister of neighboring sue don regional leaders have been mediating peace talks in uganda to end south sudan's civil war 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. it's agreed in principle. for the. excellence you said but you will work. together with his brother the thirty which

are for the sake of peace understand reality of south sudan it's agreed that you will be harboring. the vice president of. the company president of continual. these are challenging doctrine which i would assume the position of first vice president for. tens of thousands of south sudanese children have been separated from their families some have been reunited but in a country with poor going to zation and facilities tracing the families of many others is challenging morgan reports from juba. it's a moment of joy but also nervousness for eleven year old as she packs 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 and i hadn'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 thirteen 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 war chill 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 made kong when one of my barker 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 and then. tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war and a third of that 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 with 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 one flight security's of a very challenging 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 warm from seeing his children for years and which gives my hopes will not and i heard your fertility for a long awaited reunion with her family. people morgan al-jazeera juba. wanted more had on the show including returning home syrian refugees make the journey back

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that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international networks months to be able to do it united nations these people are out there growing anti-riot. we are challenging the voices were challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going. well again you're with al jazeera we're getting reports of the first four members of the trapped thai soccer team have now been rescued from the cave and the divers in northern thailand have begun a dangerous operation to rescue the twelve boys and their football coach from the

depths off the cave complex scott heide lara following the story from very close by to that cave joining us from jang grier what can you tell us about the four boys that have now been taken out of the cave. that i mean but we know that the rescue operation took less time than an initially estimated by the the head of the mission the head of the rescue mission here he said it was probably going to take between ten to twelve hours it took about eight nine hours at least for the first four now we're not sure it has been confirmed how many boys were in this first group we do know that for out we know that at least one of them was helicoptered to the hospital in chiang riper eventually capital which is about sixty kilometers away we don't know where the other three boys are if they're still at the field hospital pointing because this is where the mouth of the cave is the field hospital right by that right next to the mouth of the cave or they've been taken to the help pad which is on this side of me to be choppered over to chiang

rai hospital now we do know though that obviously this is a success this is the first showing of this rescue operation it's been planning and they've been planning and planning it painstakingly over the last several days the reason they went ahead with it we've been hearing over the last two days i should say is that because the conditions were about as perfect as they were going to get in today was deemed by the head of the the rescue mission as d.-day that they needed to go forward they pulled the trigger they got the green light to go ahead in and the divers went in at about ten o'clock this morning and just within the last hour we've seen these boys the first boys come out now what they went through in this process first the divers had probably about four to five hours to get to where the boys are and then obviously about four to five hours to come back out i say more for because we see them coming out in total time about eight and a half hours what they went through they went through each boy had two divers with

them you know there's some type of communication we're not sure if it was actually in mask comes as they call it so the divers could actually talk to a walkie talkies in the water or if it were just hand signals one probably had a hand on the boy the one behind and there was a lead diver the boy didn't have a tank in the. on his back in self one of the divers i had it or they might have a hose that he was using in his mask as they went through these very tight passages very tight passages to diving sections and then once they made it to chamber three then there was that what's called the t.v. intersection and then after that a chamber three that's where a lot of the rescue effort has been orchestrated from inside the cave they made their way there and then they were able to walk the last three kilometers out of the cave and that happened in just the last hour or so you know we don't we haven't gotten any reports of just what condition the boys are in we heard that you know based on their condition the be taking ambulances the sixty kilometers to chiang rai capital or they'll be taking

a helicopter we know that at least one boy has been on the helicopter so we'll have to see what the conditions are when they get to the hospital and fully given given inspection but we know that a doctor saw them as soon as they came out of the cave here at the field hospital just the cave mouth that we know that they were going to be brought out in groups scott so do we know if these four boys that are now alex were part of a group one and does that mean then we should expect to see more rescues in the next perhaps couple of minutes or hours so. well i think what first let's determine we don't even really know how many boys were in this group this first group we know that initially we we were hearing five so there may be still is one boy yet to come out in this first group what we do know is there will be multiple groups we don't know exactly how many numbers are going to be in each group that will take days this isn't a question not to say that it's

a rescue operations are continuing but because of the time it takes for the divers to get in and then the take the boys out this is going to take three or four days now day one pretty much is over so we have you know two or three more days of this process know how that will go is a groups of three is another group of four is this one of five we don't know yet and i would imagine part of the reason we don't know is it's a fluid situation in there the health of the boys the condition of the boys the psychological standing of the boy if he says yes i'm good to go but then all of a sudden something happens and he's not a quick it's can fail break malfunction so you know they might intentionally it intended i should say to take five out but one of those factors could have come to play that set it back and only for coming out that we don't know those things and i would imagine with the spotty and difficult communication in this process you know that's not there's probably not that much real information coming out in obviously it's important for all of us to know what's happening it's important for the world

to know because everyone's been a lot of people have been very focused on this but the most important people are the family members so i would imagine that the family members will be getting the detailed information the names of the boys who are are out there their physical condition and then who's coming next or who still in the case those things will come out i imagine but right now we do know four boys tast excuse for boys have exited this cave a week and one day two weeks and one day after they went in ok as scott thank you for that update let's speak to neil bennett he's a diving expert at new zealand diving joining us live from new zealand vi. thanks very much for speaking to us or as we now get news that four boys have been rescued just just give me your initial thoughts and initial reaction and talk to us about the risks for the divers themselves and what they might be going through right now as they pursued this operation it's an amazing achievement for both the

first but she is still having success of most of. the rights of them so well imagine the trauma probably those eternal policy group that always go along with all of the got probably a little bit with the pay very there were even. probably not just. that was gone over one guard and one of the other probably doesn't take them along with the workers so this is. in the works really well so their head of security and . they are supposed to be going through but the response it's really trying. to get it routed rove is going to report that the problem. is that when further boys most of whom do not know how to dive some of whom who in fact don't know how to swim how difficult is this type of environment for them as they have to maneuver through the dark caves through very narrow passageways. if you go over that

incredibly with your entire room full of. the other thing that we're relying on such and there was no roads around them. that we have computers with them banged around the wheel because especially if you use that to move. the you've been sitting on the stand in various books is in the white so i want to know what's coming and i'm going to see anything and everything wrong and those i'm probably going to let alone we're going to be very happy we're both birds there. and until we find out exactly how this took place and how this happened there are reports that the two divers will be accompanying each boy perhaps guided by a rope placed by the rescuers how would that actually work. but when you're actually running a. bar it's going right. to long in the first place because you're long on the guy going if you're going to be in the other because it's the

city you know visibility. so it was mostly that long as they were going to use that long ago and. you know it's pretty good. and we know with diving obviously the rules are that there is a buddy system in place so each driver accompanied by someone else but for the boys how important is it for them to feel like they can trust the divers that are with them how do the divers build that trust with the boys themselves. that we're going to be an issue coming for them but we're going really you know if you're probably going to become we're going on the border. but even with the thought of going close but since you did i'm going to actually hold on to the cost of the bit of the building the reporting that cross the very early stage to go of joining me. here

crucial cross and someone in front of your bar really just it's just not going to work so they go it's going to be there wouldn't work for them to go wrong. all right bill bennett's we thank you for speaking to us from new zealand. so let's just look at a timeline of the efforts to find and free the boys and their football coach they first ventured into the cave on saturday june the twenty third after football practice one of the boys mothers reported him missing when her son didn't come home that night for more than a week local and international divers search the caves braving flooding and treacherous conditions as the boy's parents held vigil outside then on july the second they're finally found alive deep inside the caves about four kilometers from the entrance the following day food medical and oxygen supplies were immediately sent to the boys and extraction began but a tragedy on friday showed just how dangerous this operation is an elite diver died

in the cave after passing out while returning from inside the chamber in other news we're looking at here on al-jazeera the syrian military and the rebel group in the southern province of that are accusing each other of breaching a cease fire deal that was only agreed forty eight hours ago opposition activists say at least four people have been killed in airstrikes targeting areas to the east of the city the russian brokered deal so rebels agree to hand over heavy weapons in exchange for a security guarantees and safe passage to other areas government troops took control of a border crossing with jordan and promised to leave four villages bernard smith has more from. we understand that one rebel group is holding out in an area to the north of crossing a crossing is a very strategic crossing for the syrian regime it links jordan to syria and

through to the ports of beirut in lebanon and the syrian regime wants to get this crossing open again one group in america the north of the crossing says that the russians and the syrians are not holding to their part of the cease fire deal on the cease fire deal was essentially that the rebel groups opposition groups would hand over that heavy weapons they would be given safe passage to opposition groups held areas in the north of syria and that the russians would oversee security along the border areas that particular aspect very important because people down there are concerned syrian forces without russian supervision might take retaliatory steps against people living there but anyway what this great accusing the syrians and the russians of not regarding the cease fire agreement it's not clear what part of the cream and they are not respecting or being accused of not respecting but that has prompted an outbreak of fighting as strikes we understand shelling on the ground more than seven hundred thousand revenge or have fled me and mar into

neighboring bangor there since a government crackdown began in august last year it's become one of the world's fastest growing refugee emergencies mohammed jump through met one family in a campaign cox is bizarre. she's the head of four generations of family and the bearer of forty years of suffering. a heart or a hinge a refugee in her ninety's has fled persecution in me and more three separate times in her life first in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight then one nine hundred ninety one and finally in two thousand and seventy five. she speaks softly and slowly telling me that while age may have left her unable to remember everything she'll never forget the constant horrors her family suffered at the hands of security forces in me and more over the years. war they beat us they kidnapped as they detained does google and her family span almost

a century in age bonded through blood and displacement they now all live in a single hut located in the world's largest refugee kenya. her son only ahmed first fled rackrent state and came to bangladesh as a teenager he recounts just how awful the crackdown by security forces was in two thousand and seventeen i didn't know at that out of if we couldn't have made our way here we would have been killed like stray dogs muhammad are you his goals graham son in law he says he'll always be haunted by what he seen back home in minus the horrible you know that no one could even ask questions about locals disappearances even a brother didn't have the right to ask about his missing brother distant we had no clue who was disappeared into way we just had to remain silent about it here the signs of trauma are everywhere and fear is clearly etched on faces.

in many ways what's happened to this particular extended family really mirrors what's happened to so many other rohinton who face decades of repression and abuse their hinges aren't just the world's largest group of stateless people they're also among the world's most persecuted minorities. more than anything muhammad i you've once his children to be able to experience peace and to get justice he says there's only one way that can happen atrocities that are being committed against a middle women should be heard by the international criminal court so that we get justice and if it's not be satisfied satisfaction is not a sentiment goal is familiar with for her pain has been a constant and time continues to be as cruel as life has been hard. at the coup to prolong camp in cox's bazaar bangladesh and yang gillies the un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in rena marsh she's calling for

they were of in georgia to be officially recognized as refugees. we feel those who recognize their identity in this city and their current status denies them the right to which they are entitled not least the rights of non rich toland to ma'am second we must also acknowledge not only the religious status as states people but the way in which this. came about were hinted citizenship rights have been systematically discriminated back since the one nine hundred seventy s. and they have been effectively barred from accusing them since the introduction of the nine hundred eighty two citizenship law the mere non-governmental discriminatorily the night position to them since that time and continues to do so while i was in ca i met with refugees who showed me documentation related to

citizenship held by previous generations including their parents and grandparents that they have charitably preserved when we speak of the future of the rangers citizenship we must speak of its restoration by the government and not use vague terminology such as a pathway to citizenship the u.s. secretary of state has brushed off north korea accusations north korea and accusations of making gangster like demands in his push for the country to denuclearize the north koreans made those comments after my campaign went to pyongyang for the latest round of talks he since been in tokyo to brief trip pan and south korea about progress compare says there are still a lot of work to do but he's confident the north korean leader kim jong un will stick to the promises he made during the singapore summit with the u.s. president donald trump. the road ahead will be difficult and challenging

and we know critics will try to minimize the work that we've achieved but our allies like the republic of korea and japan president trump and i believe that peace is worth the effort. and that's something that we all want as allies we share and are committed to the same goal the fully verified final denuclearization north korea has agreed to by chairman kim jong il sarah clarke is in the south korean capital seoul. 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 way to engage to 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 denuclearization across iran angel weapons and he stated it's 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 accusations suggested the talks were aggressive bull 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 a good faith in president trump 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 still to come on al-jazeera haiti's prime minister gives into pressure from protesters angry about plans to raise fuel prices details coming up.

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has suspended a proposal to raise fuel prices after three people died in violent protests cataloged as hard a un as more. the outrage was immediate and haiti's government got the message it canceled its plan to increase the price of fuel after ngo poured into the streets roads were blocked in major cities businesses were looted demonstrators burned cars and set fire to at least two police stations seven percent that's about them this is a message to our president look at all the cars are burning prices and local markets are going up the situation is bad the president. must listen to us the plan called

for a sharp increase of up to fifty per cent for fuel prices the leader of diesel would rice would be out four dollars roughly five dollars for regular gas with eighty percent of workers earning less than two dollars a day protesters call the move unrealistic and insulting yeah that's got kids who grow up and who are families can't go to school the price of gas and other goods are already high people want to eat but the price of rice cooking oil it's all going up. how does prime minister jack off entente announced the plan would be suspended until further notice the unrest lead some major airlines like american delta and jet blue to temporarily cancel their fly support a process on saturday. night president of anomalies took office last year promising to improve the economy the price increase was part of that plan the government says fuel subsidies cost too much and are hurting the country's economic growth in exchange for stopping the subsidies haiti was to receive aid from the

international monetary fund the caribbean nation is dealing with extreme poverty on top of that is struggling to recover from the devastating earthquake that destroyed much of the country eighty years ago about forty thousand people live in makeshift camps. some called for an uprising after the gas hikes were announced even though the plan has been suspended or there still anger along with fear that the cost of living is going up while wages stay the same katia locus of the young al jazeera spain's week long running of the bulls festival has kicked off and pamplona every year people are injured and sometimes even killed those five hundred kilogram balls chased them through the cobbled streets. and to find out. just minutes to go on the phone with the bulls i was going i'm still over it in

there and your thing over this i could be awesome. i have friends come from california to pamplona facing down danger together. i was. this time is made of victualling drama from colorado he's sharing some safety advice for you guys get out there when you get i that's very helpful. for you and your guy there at american author ernest hemingway's favorite bar he made the bull running world famous in his nine hundred twenty s. novel fiesta gotta keep your head on the see if you don't know what's going to happen next. so running back to get. ready i don't have a fast one up there but i have to leave the house with someone else you know that's my baby right we're going down i didn't break and so i

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a number of homes and unfortunately there's no help for weather on the call it's the showers generally speaking over a little bit further towards the east and these will give us some lightning that could spark off new showers for the east that's where the wet weather is down in the southeast corner it's wet here. the weather. this is. you're watching the news hour live from our headquarters in doha i'm terry navigate with our extended coverage of breaking news out of thailand where the first boys from a football team trapped deep in a cave for more than two weeks have been freed during a daring rescue operation. so

with least four of the boys trapped in caves in thailand have been brought to the surface as a daring rescue operation seemingly happens much faster than first expected they have been taken to a field hospital near the cave and there are still as many as six more boys and their football coach who need to be brought out through twisted and narrow and jagat passageways that in some places are completely flooded they've been stuck for more than two weeks talk to scott heiler joining us from chiang rai so quite a fast moving story right now scott what are you hearing about the at least four boys that have been rescued. yes those four boys were confirming have come out no it was again as you just mentioned out in a couple of hours earlier than what the head of the rescue mission said earlier

today we know that the mission started at ten am and now it's just after eight pm he said that we really wouldn't start to see the boys the first boys come out of the cave until nine pm and they've been out for a while about an hour hour and a half so it is faster than they initially expected what we don't know there are some some reports out there the more than four boys at this stage there are some reports saying as many as six are already out we cannot verify that we cannot confirm that but what it shows is that bit might be a bigger group then we initially thought it was going to be you know there could be factors behind that as you mentioned that there could have been because it was going very well because it was going quicker than they thought they stepped up the process if you will you know initially it was described to us and it hasn't been that does this description has been changed by the officials yet it is going to take three or four days you know i guess you can kind of consider this to be the end of the first day two or three more days but if we're hearing that there could be more boys coming out the could be as many as six that this is definitely going better and quicker than they initially thought or they initially told us what

they've been doing is it's amazing quite honestly when you look at it you've got these divers this group of eighteen divers thirteen of them international divers from from various countries several countries and then five ton navy seals and what they were doing they're bringing the boys out each boy had two divers assigned to him and they were kind of escorted out as you mentioned parts of the cave are flooded to parts of still flooded right now used to be three but the water level went down and one so these divers one leaving one behind and they would go through very narrow passages there are some passages that these boys had to go through by themselves the diver would lead dogs would have gone through and then the one behind him would have fallen sort of way but he was by himself because of the circumference of the area they had to go through such. that he had to go solo so it's an amazing amazing rescue that's ongoing right now and again you know details aren't really coming out officially just yet we have sources that are telling us they're talking to officials but

a press conference we expect maybe in the next hour we haven't heard anything officially since ten am sorry since eleven am saying that the operation started ten am so we expect that to be coming soon but right now at least four boys amazingly are out of that cave that really is amazing scott and when we were speaking to you earlier on you were reporting helicopters flying above so do we know now where those boys are going the ones that have been rescued and how far is the closest hospital from from that cave. well yeah they're there you know there are a couple of things set up there's a field hospital that has been set up and has been set up for a week plus right by the mouth of the cave so right out of where you know meters away from where these boys would have come out of the cave exit of the cave we know that all the boys went there first. initial an examination lead doctor there was waiting for them we know that the interior minister went up there to take

a look at the boys and then from there it was decided how quickly they needed to get to the hospital the most sophisticated hospital in this area is about sixty kilometers away in chiang rai city the capital of chiang right province where we are it's about an hour drive one we know for certain could have been more than one on this helicopter that took off when we were speaking about an hour and a half ago daddy that took off from the help out that's just over me about a kilometer away from from me in this direction actually the how a pad is on the football pitch where these boys are practicing before they went in the cave on june twenty third it's now a military helicopter we know that the other boys might have stayed in the field hospital maybe there's something they needed to do there straight away maybe they're taken by him once we're not quite certain exactly what stage they are but we do know those boys who are out of the cave are receiving medical attention and story scott that has really really gripped not only thailand but the entire world i suppose so much relief now from the families of these boys as well as the football coach. absolutely you know this is something that

has gripped this nation you know pretty much right after it happened you know happened on june twenty third and reports started to come out that you know they were reported missing on the twenty fourth and then it really took off here because of just the situation that it is and many thais know this area they know this cave the famous cave here in thailand and it really just kind of picked up steam and then you know because they were missing until monday they weren't even discovered until monday last monday soo much attention has been giving the given to it like how could they not be found what's going on and then there are found then the tension just kind of exploded quite honestly we've been here we were here just a couple of days three days after the boys went missing and just to see the the media presence in the attention and interest in the story so well in the nearly two weeks that we have been years quite remarkable and on the scene because it's quite a remarkable story and that story we hope we're seeing the last chapter four and we

hope that that chapter will come to to a very happy conclusion for everybody involved in this process because it has been gut wrenching too because you know just two days ago there was you know they were trying to put a communication line directly into the part of the cave where the boys in the coach were sought refuge. hardline communication so they could talk to the parents and they can coordinate. technical difficulties prevented that from happening so what took place just two days ago a letter exchange notes boys wrote notes the coach wrote a note they were handed liver to the parents who were staying at the mouth of the cave then the parents wrote notes back to the boy's endearing notes i love you dad i love you mom i'm a sister one kid said one boy said i hope we don't get still school is still in session here i hope the teachers don't give us too much homework because we've missed so much school asking for fried chicken when they come out asking for barbecue pork when they come out so they're enduring a personal touch to what's been going on here because you know it's such an amazing story but you know you have to remember there are thirteen families that are

involved in this thirteenth them. he had been watching this much more intently than any else anywhere else of us have been so it's amazing that at least at this stage we hear that there are happy endings for at least four of those boys and we hope to be able to report that there are many more nine more in the coming hours ok a scott thank you for that update well here's a timeline of the efforts to find and free the boys and their coats they ventured into the cave on saturday june the twenty third after a football practice one of the boys' mother has reported him missing when her son didn't come home that night for more than a week local and international diverse search the caves braving flooding and treacherous conditions as the boys' parents held vigil outside then on july the second they're finally found alive deep inside the caves about four kilometers from the entrance the following day food medical and oxygen supplies were immediately sent to the boys and an extraction plan began but

a tragedy on friday showed just how dangerous this operation is and lead diver died in the cave after passing out while returning from the chamber and on the dangerous will not speak to mt everest he's a former chairman of the british caving association he's joining us from hole in the u.k. thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera so we are getting the good news that at least four of the boys have now been rescued but it's still worth noting that it is a very dangerous and complex operation for the boys as well as the divers yes absolutely. the what the boys have to do is keep cool calm and collected the. emphasize that that's the main thing they need to do and clearly from the outset they they've shown composure and lack of panic and that's what they need to do to breathe underwater when they've never breathe underwater before that's the critical thing here is that the the divers the cave divers who are actually

undertaking this operation have to convince the boy he said that they they are comfortable they will survive breathing through their breathing operators on the water but once not been overcome they they then have to get them out but they are saying they're they they will be accompanied all the way i say the toilet sections will be difficult they'll have to one diver have to go in front one behind and then have to sort of pass them through but they are in the best hands the best story was in the world they're helping with this rescue cave drawings thing is very very different from a war to do i think not least a mindset difference in you know more to diving in the sea you can always go up and you've got a report of you in the cave you can't do what is it that the teams the divers have to consider in an environment that's virtually dark. not virtually dulcie

certainly totally. i mean that's that's why the kids did so well to start where they were they were sitting their first day in complete darkness when you don't know where you're always the road will close it's a new experience for you when the first glimmer of light he's wonderful it's a tremendous moral big story when when the lights of the divers first ball in the pool in front of them are a week ago they would have been utterly static that is the first time another probably realized that there i saw it was still working but i know i've been there done it it's terribly debilitating thing to be in complete darkness for a long period it's going instantly bawling and along with twelve other people so they kept their cool and you know there's every indication that they're keeping their cool under war so it's a wonderful wonderful story we're now getting confirmed reports that six boys have

been rescued and what's quite astonishing is that we had expected the first boy to start appearing in about an hour's time but this so is that this rescue operation is way ahead of schedule what do you think the reason is for this the crease rescue time i think they were learning for contingencies to start with the third it takes a long time to set it up to bring the they obviously they've been setting up for a week the most important factor to start with was to find a way through the port a line through to get in there originally they were fighting against very severe water currents so to get in through water currents coming towards them was.