this phase anyway what do you think has made that possible well when we do contingency planning in rescue we always try to think of it in the longer run simply because. we make the plan based on the more the worst case scenario and that way we have adequate materials supplies personnel and timing to know that we can take care of the problem and usually it it works out that we actually have cedar expectations and in this case it sounds like they dramatically exceeded their expectations which is a very good thing under a number of levels one of course the boys get out quickly but it's also they've proven that their plan works and so that that actually decreases the risk for the remaining boys and they are there's still a risk but it decreases that risk so slowly decreases the risk you say we're hearing that they're suspending the operation for ten twelve hours why would that

be the case i mean i've read some articles where some doctors have said that part of the reason they're doing this rescue at night is because the boys haven't seen daylight in almost two weeks and they wouldn't want to shock them if they did the rescue operation during daytime is that is that a factor or are they out of factors involved in suspending the operation right now . that's the issue daylight really is a non-issue especially in an area that has a lot of overcast and rain but when they brought the chilean miners out of the mine in two thousand and ten they were out in the middle of the atacama desert where it's bright sunlight and they put dark sunglasses on them and yes you do want to protect their eyes from sunlight but you can do that and that's not a problem you know the the suspending of the operation for now is simply the resupply you know you had you have a lot of divers who are going in through there they need rest as they need to be make sure that they're at their peak that the equipment needs to be resupplied

through there and all of that takes time and what these young boys i mean you talked about a dive is about the but the young boys have enjoyed is absolutely terrifying and you know for the four that have been rescued they're safe but they're so nine there and they're going to have to swim some don't even know how to swim i understand they have to climb wait how one of the divers these expert divers guide them through survival how they keep them calm what goes into such a rescue operation well a lot of it involves the planning we call it pre-planning so filled the divers have spent the last few days building a relationship of trust while they're training them and it the training them serves a lot of different functions of course that serve them to be able to get out and help themselves get out and the helping themselves get out is very important psychologically because that empowers them and gives them confidence in themselves which is very important but it also builds a relationship of trust with the people who are teaching them and so they they will

have more confidence in the people who are helping them to get them out which makes it in turn easier to do and these people who are helping get them out these experts i mean vale still face risks because we're talking about cave diving here they seasoned experts but it's also extremely dangerous for them isn't it. oh absolutely and what's really fortunate about the situation at this stage is that the cave has been pumped down anough so that the risk is been dramatically less and instead of having two or three more serious dives my understanding is there's really only one serious dive left and so that just minimizes the exposure time in which the people are placed in danger. all right and marm is i thank you so much for your insight on this one mom is that is from the u.s. national cave rescue commission he was joining us today from indiana thank you for your time we appreciate it let's bring in our social media producer now and a ship and of course this story is huge online has been huge for the past two weeks

certainly is full it is the biggest story in the world on twitter right now especially as people go on to get those additional updates on each of the rescue children and their coach and most of them are many of them rather using a hash tag high cave rescue and as you can see on this trends map here it's of course a big story in thailand but it's also a really big into other countries the united states and the united kingdom now on facebook there is one helpful source of information that i'll share it's for the high navy seals their facebook page and they've been posting updates this one refers to four members of the wild boar football team which i realize with some help from google translate and you'll see a lot of people who are tweeting out that number for how many of the thirteen have officially been rescued that's twelve children aged eleven sixteen who are accompanied by their coach so hopefully as we keep following these tweets that number will continue to count up to thirteen and joan here i think captures why many international viewers are watching this story so closely and this user says if

you need your faith restored and humanity there are several rescuers risking their lives to save thirteen strangers right now in a dangerous cave in thailand echoing this or adding to this that the tight navy seals posted an image earlier saying we the thai team and the international team will bring the wild boars home share here says that last post for you this is right now at the world cup going on this is the one soccer team the whole world is rooting for right now so we'll be returning to the story a bit later so you can send us whatever questions or comments you may have on twitter just use the hash tag as your news grid or if you're watching us on facebook live leave us a comment and we'll. yet there as well andrew thank you very much and you know if you were to get all the latest on this very complex rescue operation under way you can follow developments on our web site al jazeera dot com we've got a special page up including the rescue operation in pictures and an operation that

is truly global efforts with experts from the united kingdom united states china australia japan laos and myanmar and a lot of you have been commenting on this story today a lot of you interested wanting to find out what is happening to these boys allie kahn here on facebook says they should have checked the weather forecast before taking the children are such a risky exploration trip during the rainy season sophia watching from mexico says all our love to the families and the rescue was thank you so much for your comments would love to hear from you on this story again we will discuss it a bit further in the program half way on the news great so if you want to get in touch with us connect with us using the hash tag a.j. news great and all the other ways to get in touch on your screen right now now as a workers in thailand continue their rescue mission four thousand kilometers away in japan officials are dealing with a natural disaster that's caused widespread damage at least eighty five people a dead and hundreds more are missing after days of heavy rains led to flooding and

landslides across the country max banja has ports. large parts of japan haven't seen flooding like this in generations the country inundated by high water and rivers of mud dozens are already did swept away in swollen rivers buried by landslides and its hole is expected to rise even though even though we haven't been able to confirm the safety of a lot of people in there are many who are stranded facing the terror of impending inundation and waiting for rescue the life saving operation is now a race against the clock. nearly two million people have been ordered to evacuate their homes another two point three million asked to leave voluntarily the south and western regions have been particularly hard hit. in chorus hundreds of patients were risk huge from this hospital elsewhere in the city more than a thousand people remain trapped some of used social media to plea for help others

are taking the risk use upon themselves just a little from what i went to my father's family home but it's hopeless. study we were hoping to find to pay for it but we found only one japan is used to natural disasters earthquakes volcanic eruptions and flooding a common but seldom on the scale more than fifty thousand rescue workers police and military personnel have been deployed this rainfall is hitting basically everywhere at once so there's no it's difficult for the emergency services to prioritize where they should go first because there are so many things happening all at once and obviously if a road is washed out or bridges destroyed even if you have a nice fire engine or ambulance you can't get to some of the places that you need to go to in coach twenty six centimeters of rain fell in three hours the heaviest downpours since records began more than forty years ago and monday's forecast

office little comfort and. heavy rain will continue in the area from western to eastern japan and it will be historic torrential rainfall which could be the heaviest rain ever recorded. in some places flood waters have receded leaving grim saw it's like dead fish and crushed cars the search for survivors could take days the cleanup possibly much longer next banya al-jazeera. this are not attention to other world news nine ethiopia and eritrea have been on war footing for much of the past twenty years now that's all changed with a historic visit and peace summit if european prime minister abu ahmed landed in riches capital us maro way he was greeted by leaders by the leader as is often wacky it's the first such a visit by any ethiopian leader to every tree a in recent years thousands of eritreans came out to welcome him ethiopia and eritrea have not had diplomatic ties since they fought a war twenty years ago it's one of africa's longest running conflicts that's killed

an estimated seventy thousand people and its face tens of thousands more the fighting began in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight near the border town of bad me a disputed area under ethiopia's control over the next two years the two sides fought along their entire one thousand kilometer boundary it ended in december two thousand with the signing of the algae is agreement a border commission was set up a spawn of the peace then a un batch willing in two thousand and two granted contested territories to erect including bad me but ethiopia refused to withdraw its troops that was until the new prime minister ahmed came to power in april he's agreed to fully accept the terms of the g. is agreement and normalize relations with every tria let's bring in matt bryden now he's the chairman of the think tanks the hon he joins us on skype from nairobi in kenya thank you very much for being with us if you. have not had diplomatic ties as

we've said since one nine hundred ninety s. so just how important is this visit and what does it mean and where do you see things going from here. this is this is a historic moment after two decades of no peace no war since a conclusion that combat border conflict we're seeing really tectonic changes in the horn of africa and this affects not just the relationship between ethiopian or traitor it's going to impact the domestic situations in both of those countries and also the rest of the region because the dispute between the two countries has played itself out amongst its neighbors and it's destabilize the region one of the reasons the united nations and or sanctions on are trained so i mean we're really seeing what looks like the first step towards very promising and exciting progress right prime minister abbott has as we said agreed to the terms of the algaes agreement which ended the conflict in two thousand and that means ethiopia handing

back control of disputed territories including bad may do you think he's going to go through with the promise still will he keep that promise i think we've seen these in terms of the statements he's made and the speed and the scope of the political changes that he's introduced in ethiopia that we should probably take that commitment at its word but it's not quite that simple it's not it's not only about if you're withdrawing forces from. there are a number of distinctive territories along the border and territories will move in both directions to eritrea and ethiopia and there are going to be communities that are likely to resist being finding themselves transferred to another national jurisdiction or divided by the new order so the implementation is something that's going to have to be handled very carefully sensitively and really gritty of

a consultation what does every trade. get out of this we consolation with ethiopia . well eritrea has been internationally isolated not just because of the dispute with their trip but of course the government has sort of defined its place in the world in the region for the last twenty years in terms of this tissue. and with this dispute now coming to an end i think we will likely see eritrea as international isolation also winding down we see a step towards the lifting of un sanctions. but we are also going to see challenges right president osiris our work is likely to come under serious pressure now to implement a constitution that's been suspended since the ninety's and to open up the political system to something more democratic and representative says afterward he has used

this conflict as you know the ethiopian conflict to say that he is to his people that everyone has a cell in the military and as a result tens of thousands of every chance i fled because of this not wanting to serve in the military what do you think we consultation and the improvement of relations will mean now for those millions of itto every trans of left their country. well i think we're going to be watching carefully to see how the eritrean government actually puts in place and negotiates the normalization of relations with the opiah assuming that the border issues can be worked out there are also questions about movement of people and goods across their common border ethiopian access to this sea fruit or. exchange controls for currency and questions about the status of the hundreds of thousands of eritreans who fled their country in recent years and what kind of treatment will receive upon return

so i think we should expect the diaspora to be watching closely europe which has been the main recipient of a major eritrean migrants is also like to be watching watching closely so and the moment all lights are green everything is positive but the devil will be in the details and implementation is likely to be slow and arduous thank you very much for speaking to us matt bryden joining us on the news great from nairobi in kenya let's bring in and a ship and a social media producer once again. about the reactions angela especially from eritrea and you've been taking to that now we've seen so many symbols of unity from both countries today and as we saw perhaps earlier the streets of eritrea's capital asmara have been decorated with flags of both countries and welcome banners you can see a similar sort of sentiment online and on the online street if you will there's twitter users from both countries who are sharing their excitement both online and off and

for many this meeting feels a bit surreal with the majority thinking that this is one step closer to peace that we've been speaking to a few eritreans here's what neela had to say. this. doesn't have a stage for the past and it's. hope. it's. not she. wanted it's. bringing peace so that you can actually crisp a different. direction. for him not just to. give that also for the region as a whole to do any indeed since historic day and like anybody else i'm very elated by that evolution of the longstanding confrontation between the two countries i would just only if there is a greater window and vividly remember the fear intimidation we've. twenty two

confided to educate bonded as marine one thousand nine hundred eight so many people many people rather are using the names of the two countries as the main hash tags and one of the more practical talking points online that we've seen is about the telephone lines connecting eritrea and ethiopia which we're hearing are now open so if you're able to make a call between one of the two countries do us a favor send us a little video because we'd love to see that happening for the first time we're also seeing lots of messages like this one from jarod as i showed you right there which i've been circulating online but still we haven't heard an official announcement that the phone lines have been restored now but says that it's a humbling surreal and extremely powerful experience to watch this emotional reaction by the eritrean people to the arrival of the prime minister what a scene to behold others like some who are reflecting and saying that for three years we worked around the clock for returns of peace and coexistence today as we

clearly see that is one step closer we're seeing plenty of other very colorful photos of people sharing their experiences of the prime minister's visit you can see there as well as others showing at pictures of the two leaders on one shirt which is a nice and wonderful sight but not everyone agrees with this meeting or does you know people do have some criticism there are a few critical voices here like this ross says that it was. the prime minister should have basically waited for political reform and a new leadership in eritrea to prompt this and gave me however he does stand behind the prime minister on this effort to bring us closer together so if you're in ethiopia or eritrea let us know what you think of this meeting you can tweet us using the hash tag into a news group or mr me directly a major shapiro yeah and i have a tweet here andrew before we take you to that opinion piece a tweet from a man about average realises when i first saw a picture of the cuban prime minister and richer in leaders hugging i almost cried

i can't believe this is happening thank god for everything i'll get to see as for the first time this summer this isn't a rich man who left rich area and is now hoping to return now very interesting opinion piece as i was saying on our website by abraham t.'s area who is executive director of penn every tree at in exile has written an opinion piece about what he calls a beautiful friendship between the two countries you can read it on our website at al-jazeera dot com. as you're watching us on facebook coming up our bonus story about how scientists are using reproductive sounds to bring back the northern white vinyl and still ahead on the grades on the daring rescue operation to free the remaining members of a thai football team who have been trapped in a cage for more than two weeks to stay with us. the a.

hello there we don't have a great deal of trout across parts of the middle east at the moment we just have a little bit drifting its way across the caspian sea there is nothing to kazakstan that's where we see most of the showers then as we head through the next day or so but elsewhere so looking draw i and find we still have winds feeding down from the north in the eastern parts of our map so not quite as hot here but for baghdad very hot forty six degrees will be our maximum as we head through the next few days you can see the winds feeding down through kuwait and down the gulf they're working their way towards us here in doha in doha it's been incredibly humid over the last few days some glasses of steamed up instantly but all of that's going to change because the winds will be picking up that we quite fierce on monday but at least they'll bring in some dry as so it looks like it'll be hotter forty five degrees will be our maximum but it will be a dry heat when that eases again in the winds swing easterly for tuesday it will stay humid once more and forty two degrees will this time beyond maximum down

towards the southern parts of africa we have a few bits and pieces pieces of cloud here we've also got a few showers around as well most of those around the northern parts of south africa there some of them rather live a pushing their way up into botswana to we've also got quite a few showers around the coast of mozambique and madagascar. with. this is one of the most flood parts of our judicial system what to do with children examining juvenile justice he did not divulge crime he's got to face an adult sons adolescents should not be demanding the rest of their lives for actions that are taken at that period of their lives is just as guilty as suffers the same consequences that's the law exploring the dark side of american justice system with joe burden on al-jazeera. i remember the

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yatta yatta yatta yatta yatta yatta in our top stories on al-jazeera and of course our top story on the news great today and the rescue mission for those twelve and their football coach trapped in a mine in a cave rather in northern thailand and we're going to revisit that story now the d.-day rescue operation of that tie young football team trapped in that fight a cave is what that's being called d.-day operation fintan monahan takes a look now at how events unfolded before and after the trial voice and the culture for us found in the cave last week. it was the first sign of hope.

the first sign of life from the stranded thirteen found by a pair of british divers nine days after they disappeared into northern thailand long cave hungry a few minor injuries but say. the tiny baby seals have stayed by their side ever since food and water were sent in as rescue plans were sketched out by an international team of divers a few people who live near the cave know a bit about what the truck have been going through into in cherry and says he got lost for five hours in the caves narrow passages and huge caverns when he was a teenager then was scared off. you have to walk like you're. on a tree you can walk like when you. when you want you know

i think you know everything in your house. and you turn around and you couldn't find a way no right way to go. ask whoever was being pumped out of the cave and the fun with the put together to ferry the children the rescue team lost a member someone who was a retired tiny baby seal diver who was brought back for the search early friday morning and he was ferrying air tanks deep into the cave and he passed out under water a fellow diver pulled him out attempts to resuscitate him he died from lack of oxygen . and death underlines just how risky the conditions are and what dangers the boys face their families and the whole of thailand kept vigil but what i hope all of them come out safely not only my nephew everyone who stuck in the cave on friday divers brought handwritten notes from the trapped thirteen delivered to the eager

and worried parents outside cave this was the first direct contact they've had since the boys went missing one read i love you mom i love you dad. and he placed an order for his first meal when he gets out barbecued pork a sealed eyebrow to note don't worry everyone is strong finns moment him al-jazeera and i speak to amy for p.r. in cumberland rhode island via skype she's an associate professor of geosciences at skidmore college thank you very much amy for being with us on the news groups so what do you think has made this rescue mission move quicker than they were expecting they were talking about three to four days initially but at least four boys have been rescued today do you think it's the conditions within the caves that is making this move quicker well i think there's a couple of factors one is that the oxygen levels in an eva are continuing to drop and that's an immediate danger to the boys health and safety and secondly the other

danger is the water level has been slowly dropping because the weather's been dry for the last several days and all of the pumping that's been going on and slowly allow the water levels down a little bit but mayor standing is that the weather forecast is bringing a lot more rain into the area which is typical for this time of year at the wet season during the monsoon and these periods of wetness come and go and so when the rains do come out the water level will go up and that will put the boys and you know their immediate dangers that those combinations of the factors that with doing it right and nine boys are still in the cave right now if as you say the oxygen levels. of no a decreasing. why would they suspend the operation for ten twelve hours i mean those nine boys are in great danger are they not they are i understand that they have been able to pump in some compressed air which would add some oxygen and

give them more time. also they have been lowering the number of people that are in there with them and so this is how a lot of action levels to give them a bit more time ok more time then and what tension they wouldn't be extending the situation with a absolute must all right official said a region e-file that the group might have to say where they were until the rainy season ended and that could have meant months underground is it possible to spend months on the ground i have a question here from one of our viewers on this in fact to ask you know how the thirteen people of the children and their coach stayed so many days in the dock and without food. that's a terrific question in fact we can evil comfortable and alive underground indefinitely as long as you have air water food and you can maintain

a warm in a temperature so the temperature in the here it is actually fairly friendly to human beings although the boys have been chill they're a little wet. they can keep warm with a little bit of blanket so. keeping those basic conditions of life going you can easily stay alive underground for quite a long period of time if they were to well keep the boys in there if it was safe to keep them under there for weeks or months they would certainly bring in lots of light sources so that they would be not be in the dark. any let me just ask you about cave diving because we've been talking about how dangerous it is and so on what makes it so dangerous. to the producer was telling me that even though you're an expert you refuse yourself to go cave diving why is that right well for me i find that it's not necessary for the science that i do you know and it's a. too much of a risk for my family i've got a ten year old boy so i can really my heart really goes out to the families here

whose kids are stuck beyond their reach and. as a mom i can really appreciate that i don't take that risk with my own life so he's diving is particularly dangerous for couple reasons first of all giving is a and activist for it involves some dangers but if you use the right equipment and you have the right training you can heave safely just like a lot of. a lot of slightly dangerous boarding activities or scientific kinds of expedition similarly with diving there are a lot of listeners i'm sure who are divers and diving is again require skill or are as equipment but if you take the risks into account and you're careful you can dive quite safely. he diving combines those two in ways that really accelerate and exasperate those breath so for example if you are diving and you have a problem with your regulator many times you can simply blow a service at a reasonable pace and yet get air. in cave diving when you're under

a rock that's not often an option and so simply servicing to get air doesn't work if diving has other dangers another one is when you're diving underground it's dark and you would typically use dive way to help you to see. but if your cave diving if you pick up a little bit of settlement. that can cause just a little of liber in some time and this mud will then come up into the water and the visibility can go to nothing and so even though you might have the brightest lights you can still see nothing that can make it impossible to navigate safely through the system so case divers have dive for many reasons one is lack of oxygen to a spot with one of the rescuers another is becoming lost and not being able or they run out of air and the cave diving really combines a number of dangers from heating and from diving in ways that are impossible and another factor is that in heating an airfield case like what i do.

you don't have to worry about your airline becoming wrecked or becoming snagged as as easily as you can underwater in this edition of cave diving is really difficult and dangerous occupation the people who do it are amazing explorers and but we're really fortunate the the team of boys and their coach and have some of the best case divers in the world out there helping them and it's really a tribute to how far cave diving has and that we have people who actually know how to do this well and a fascinating time to thank you so much amy for being with us on the news great amy for pierre cave geologist joining us from rhode island in the tank thank you. let's move on to other news in chinese for me a leaked chang is in europe looking to both the ties and put on a united front with e.u. leaders that's in the wake of course of the hit for tat trade war that's broken out between the u.s. and china domany cain has our report from berlin. when they meet on monday

angela merkel and likud chang will do so as partners on the world stage trade links between germany and china are strong but right now all eyes are on their collective commercial relationship with the united states the policies of the trumpet ministration have caused them real concern on the ball garion leg of his european visit the chinese premier spelt out why bush is here with about views that trade war is never a solution china would never start a trade war but if any party resorts to increasing tariffs in china will take measures in response to protect china's development interests uphold your fortean efficacy of the w t o and safer multinational trade regime operating within that trade regime has generated vast amounts of revenue both in berlin and in beijing germany's total trade with china was worth two hundred thirty billion dollars in twenty seventeen a ten percent rise on the previous year but despite this the united states remains

the biggest market for german companies in the last twelve months for which we have figures the u.s. trade deficit with germany reached nearly sixty seven billion dollars a fact president trump believes is justification to impose tariffs on alumium and steel imports and which the german chancellor worries may lead to other measures it's a lot of other medium and started on p.r. we now have tariffs on alimony m and steel and we have a discussion which is very serious it appears cost who will be imposed with tariffs when they're imported to the us ladies and gentlemen this has the character of a trade conflict i don't want to use any other word for now it's worth every effort to try to defuse this complex so it doesn't turn into a war but this obviously takes to. trade is not the only area of policy where beijing and burns interests coincide both were instrumental in arranging the nuclear deal which brought iran in from the cold. both were united in their

opposition to president trump's rejection of that deal but there are still some policy differences on significant issues such as china's approach to human rights on which the two countries do differ and yet it's clear that when likud chang and anger merkel meet it may well also the a meeting of minds dominic keynes al-jazeera berlin. now with half a million troops stationed in indian administered kashmir it remains one of the most heavily militarized regions of the wild well then seven decades after british colonial rule and it's a new generation of kashmiri separatists are challenging indian rule two years after a young rebel leader was killed by indian troops and years back with more on that story thankfully indian administered kashmir is on lockdown at this moment troops are out in force and mobile internet services have been suspended with two types of images coming out of kashmir over the last day or so one is like this marketplaces schools and offices which have been closed across gar to answer the call made by

separatist leaders for a general strike indian security forces impose restrictions on several parts of the city which now as you can see look like ghost towns now the other images that we've seen over the last day are of collective anger thousands of people took part in funerals on saturday in the southern district of cool gum chanting a variety of anti india slogans that was after three civilians were killed indian paramilitary forces fired on demonstrators after their army patrol was hit by stones and a top police official told al-jazeera that the incident was very unfortunate and is under investigation while saying that mobile internet services have been suspended to prevent any law and order problems now one of the separatist leaders mir weighs in march through tweeted that firing bullets killing young boys and girls reflects that there was a green signal given to the indian armed forces to wipe off kashmiris with absolute impunity to hold onto their territory we're seeing other commentators from the

indian side regrets he shoot and she's in new delhi she says that these recent deaths are collateral damage in her words and that the army was left with no choice you can see how sensitive and polarizing the situation is in indian administered kashmir depending on which side of the india pakistan rivalry find yourself now sunday is the second anniversary of the killing of a twenty. two year old rebel leader turned social media sensation whose death by indian forces sparked months of clashes in indian administered kashmir now more than one hundred protesters were killed by indian security forces following his death and today pakistan's government is commemorating the anniversary of his death and promoting rallies on the pakistani side of the line of control now for his supporters he was essentially kashmir's che a bigger nightmare as this user says for the indian army after he fell and while his critics say that he was a poster boy for an organization called the his bold which i had seen that's the

largest indigenous rebel group fighting against indian rule in the himalayan territory they were declared a foreign terrorist organization by the united states last summer but because of four hundred wanting more and more young kashmiris appear to be taking up arms to fight indian rule. this is a special day for us indeed this is not a black day for us this is a day off for this is a deal frizzy learns this is a day off resistance for us and the full vonnie is the face of business turns he's the face off hold after the mahdi. was up for the money had to go to production other should struggle in a newbie in a new directions and now what do we do that you'll see i'm not making any kind of compromise with india and we have sucked the frying up pretty ships life was fired just. so let us know what you think especially if you're watching us from customer you can tweet us your views using the hash tag to newsgroups or message me directly i mean or chapell andrew thank you very much if you're watching us on facebook

knives coming up a story about a jackass festival that faced criticism for hosting a mostly white group forming african-american stay songs and after that don't be here with the sport and we'll hear how the russian football fans are feeling after that well one was brought to an end by croatia to stay with us. the foreign ministry. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much and put in contribution to

a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would think what it is that it is that eternity the about it but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories does us men do is to deliver individualism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. my. right joe is here is our boss for saying the world cup of course absolutely i know your happy family and we've gone from thirty two teams just a few weeks ago down to four left at the world cup croatia england france and belgium will play in the semifinals but hosts russia have gone out to croatia

fifteen thousand fans in zagreb went wild in the city's main square after a penalty shootout victory but contrasting scenes in moscow where they were tales from russian fans as a team exited the tournament and i was also tense backstage at some pieces burghs mccallum theatre where ballerinas from both russia and croatia watched the game in between performances of swan like and it's hard because like they're quite late for traffic and they're really strong and i'm only one thought it's hard but still it's also interesting to see them. cheering and being it's like if you if you watch in the streets it's crazy how many people is there so it's also really nice to see since i live here it's also really nice to see them play evelyn acing as well. precious coolidge during the interval i was changing my costume and i had the reaction of my colleagues who were watching the game and there was also lots of

noise from people celebrating outside the window well on the richardson also i watched that game in sochi and even though russia are now out there fans are pretty pleased with their team's performance. four years ago the fish stadium in sochi was the venue for the closing ceremony of the winter olympics well on saturday it was the stage for the final acts in what's been a long and unexpectedly exciting drama involving the russian national team at this world cup now prior to their first game the moscow times ran a headline saying they were doomed to failure and they were the lowest ranked side in the tournament well the players responded to the challenge in some style they won their first two games schooled eight goals and qualified for the knockout rounds with a game to spare there followed a penalty shootout win against twenty ten champions spain in the last sixteen and they came within a couple of spot kicks of beating croatia in the quarterfinals but it is croatia and their fans going forwards who are first semifinal in twenty years they'll be taking on england in moscow on wednesday. really little so does the.

final. and we will win the final game raids speed really. really talking to your top marks for sure i feel like go to georgia close game. but the rituals get the unpredictable nature of this world cup is revealed in the semifinal lineup with france taking on belgium and creation playing in that it means that for the first time in world cup history none of germany argentina or brazil will be involved now when the disappointment of russia's final defeat was digested here warm applause reverberated around the stadium a show of appreciation for what the russian players have achieved over the last few weeks and that these finals will finish with russian football feeling good about itself is arguably the biggest surprise of all. well croatia will now play england in the semifinals that's after england beat sweden fans caught the game in any way

they heard say some watching their team score while they were on a flight following unions passage to the semifinals the streets of london focused celebrating fans aware one who climbed onto a bus also destroyed a bus shelter as he tried to dismount. and on the theme of trashing things it continued at swedish store ikea in london as fans celebrations got out of control so speaking of ike here this picture has been circulated a lot in the last few days of gareth southgate in fact heading to the home furnishing store to pick up england's trophy cabinets for me i want world champion luiz hamilton jumped on the bandwagon with his tweet after securing pole position at the british grand prix pole and goals and also a day for english sports he finished second there in sunday's race and serena williams who's playing at wimbledon this week also got in on the act of spent a lot of summer weekends in london in my life it's something feels different about

this one and she added three lyon and bogeys symbolizing the ingham badge all right on the subject of serena wimbledon is just her fourth tournament back after becoming a mother and she's the favorite to win the title but doesn't seen it doesn't seem to faze her in fact she was asked how it feels to be one of the best and one to beat and her response has gone viral every single match i play whether i'm coming back from a baby or surgery or it doesn't matter these young ladies bring a game that i've never seen before and it's interesting that i don't even scarier as much because when i watch them play it's a totally different game when they play me. this will make me great always played everyone at their greatest and i have to be greater. all right well peter will be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now it's back to the great thank you joe one word for you for. that we do

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including elite foreign and tiny navy seal divers. i would like to inform everyone at home and all those who have been giving us support all along but after sixteen days today's the day we've been waiting for you're seeing the wild boar football team in the flesh now. well from the cave entrance authorities say it is an eleven hour round trip to reach the boys and their coach some of it under water but it's turning out to be a lot faster in fact the football team is stuck four kilometers inside huddled together on a muddy bank and to get out they're traveling through narrow dark passages sometimes barely half a meter wide while the rescue is happening alternative ways to get them out of still being explored including drilling holes from above where the operation has now been suspended for ten to twenty hours as the rescue team prepares for the next phase scott heidi our correspondent is in chang right near the mouth of the cave.

in an operation that was once dubbed mission impossible not only was this mission possible but it went better than expected that coming from the head of this rescue operation now and they say was supposed to take about ten to twelve hours it took less than that before the first boy walked out of the cave first of four boys who walked out of the cave on sunday and. we were told that it would happen at nine o'clock would see the first board walk out he came out before six o'clock and then three more after that so on that front very successful but there is still a lot of work to be done now we've been told that this operation this by the the head of the operations for this rescue mission saying that it could take several more days because what we saw today took about eight nine hours and then now what has to happen is they have to reset all the equipment and the next team has to get ready for this operation that again will take eight nine hours we don't know if it's going to be another group the same size that we saw today but it's going to

take some time to get everything set there saying between ten to twenty hours we'll see this next group out or this attempt to get the next group out on monday one thing that could potentially be putting that into a little bit more jeopardy though maybe what we saw today on sunday is the rain has started to fall and now this is something that has always been a concern for rescue attempts in the cave because rainfall raises that level of water inside the caves making it more difficult in the flooded areas because of currents but also in areas that didn't have water today on sunday might have water on monday so that could potentially make it more difficult for this second group to come out but again right now we're in the reset mode supplies being put back inside that cave and the next wave of divers are getting ready well as the u.s. national cave rescue commission coordinator and he says it is a very risky operation. 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 the 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 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. at least eighty five people have been killed and dozens more are missing in japan after three straight days of torrential rain evacuation orders are in place for nearly two million people and multiple landslide warnings have been issued a large scale rescue operation has been launched the prime minister has described

it as a race against the clock max bunya as this report large parts of japan haven't seen flooding like this in generations the country inundated by high water and rivers of mud dozens are already dead swept away in swollen rivers buried by landslides and its hole is expected to rise even though even now we haven't been able to confirm the safety of a lot of people and there are many who are stranded facing the terror of impending inundation and waiting to risk you the life saving operation is now a race against the clock. nearly two million people have been ordered to evacuate their homes another two point three million asked to leave voluntarily the south and western regions have been particularly hard hit. in chorus hundreds of patients were risk huge from this hospital elsewhere in the city more than a thousand people remain trapped some of used social media to plead for help others

are taking the risk used upon themselves just a little from what i went to my father's family home but it's hopeless study we were hoping to find to pay for it but we found only one japan is used to natural disasters earthquakes volcanic eruptions and flooding a common but seldom on the scale more than fifty thousand rescue workers police and military personnel have been deployed this rainfall is hitting basically everywhere at once so there's no it's difficult for the emergency services to prioritize where they should go first because there are so many things happening all at once and obviously if a road is washed out or bridges destroyed even if you have a nice fire engine or ambulance you can't get to some of the places that you need to go to in coachy prefix twenty six centimeters of rain fell in three hours the heaviest downpours since records began more than forty years ago and monday's

forecast office little comfort and. heavy rain will continue in the area from western to eastern japan and it will be historic torrential rainfall which could be the heaviest rain ever recorded. in some places flood waters have receded leaving grim saw it's like dead fish and crushed cars the search for survivors could take days to clean up possibly much longer. al-jazeera. the syrian military and the rebel group have accused each other of breaching a cease fire deal in the region agreed only two days ago the russian brokered deal so rebels agreed to hand over heavy weapons in exchange for security guarantees and safe passage to other areas government troops took control of the main border crossing between syria and jordan believe smith has more now from amman 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 an area to the north of the crossing says that the russians and the syrians are not holding to their part of the cease fire deal and the cease fire deal was essentially that the rebel groups opposition groups would hand over their having weapons they would be given safe passage to opposition groups held areas in the north of syria that the russians would oversee security along the border areas that particular aspect very important because people down there were concerned that syrian forces without russian supervision might take retaliatory steps against people living there but anyway what this group accusing the syrians and the russians of not regarding the ceasefire agreement it's not clear what part of the agreement 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 the united states is reassuring its asian allies that

progress is well on track to rid north korea of nuclear weapons u.s. secretary of state might pump a zero has been in japan after another round of talks in north korea show yang who's accused of making in its words gangster like demand sarah clarke reports now from south korea's capital. the u.s. secretary of state was among friends when he arrived in tokyo met by japanese prime minister shinzo ave my palm pio brief the u.s. ally playing down accusations he engaged gangsta like demands of the to die talks in pyongyang and so if those requests were gangster like there that the world is a gangster because there was a unanimous decision of the un security council about what needs to be achieved instead he described the meeting as productive making good progress he said north korea agreed to destroy test sites and the next round of talks to sit down for later this month. north korea reaffirmed its commitment to complete

denuclearization we had detailed and subs in discussions about the next steps towards a fully verified and complete denuclearization. of north korea painted a very different picture describing the talks as regrettable and relations were entering a dangerous phase in a statement released by the foreign ministry it said the fastest shortcut to denuclearize action is to leave deep rooted distrust in the past and prioritize building trust via new solutions and phase by phase actions criticism aside north korea did declare we still cherish a good faith in president trump on the second leg of his asian tour my pump a zero reassured the japanese and south korean foreign minister is the talks was still.