agree with that unfortunately i don't know a lot about what the conditions in the cave a lot because the money hearing what the news. i would show in the flood is not excessive at present time but either the flow depended your swimming with the flow or swimming against the flood it with with the flood you get a bit of a free ride on the way out if it's against the flow then it's a lot harder kicking but i've got a right through the wood shouldn't that be pulling themself along it going into the flow you end up using more air the more you breathe the harder you breathe the more unnerving it will be for the boys trying to get outside hopefully the flows not too bad and if it's any way it's going out of the cave not coming in as you were saying we too obviously have just been learning about what's going on through the pictures that we've been seeing from chung right given your experience and what you have seen of the rescue so far how confident are you that the rest of the boys could be

brought out safely. well i think the people doing the training on the boys in the cave appear to done a very good job today they have got to teach these boys how to scuba dive which anonyma done before. when you go underwater with a mask on i believe they're using full face masks which is very sensible so they can breathe through the mouth and through their nose so it's more natural but when they first get under water the fear of the water on top of them they'll have a bit of trouble getting used to that and also more importantly if the water's any deeper than about three meters that from the cave then they have to teach the boys how to equalize the ias because it is close as they go down the water pressure increases thus the middle ear needs to have air force top into it by holding a nose and blowing if the boys don't learn to do this properly and a conservatory made is and maybe gets down to six metres that if that can equalize

they is they'll be in a lot of pain and there's a chance they might rupture one of the drums from what i can seen and heard so far it sounds that the the people trying them in the cave have done a very very good job to teach them how to do the basic scuba diving and why they bring him out to keep them calm so i think it's my great it's a great credit to the people doing the training that i've achieved to get four people out with apparently no major mishaps really interesting to get your view on this chris brown thank you very much indeed for your time in office here. the british government minister in charge of leading the u.k.'s bragg's at negotiations has resigned david davis quit as bragg's it minister just hours after prime minister to resign may announce he was going to take on cabinets plan for leaving the european union to brussels in his resignation letter to the pm davis claims the

current policy will leave the u.k. in a weak negotiating position may has struggled to unite factions within her ruling conservative party over how the u.k. will proceed with briggs it tom brooks is a professor of law in government at durham university and he says the resignation is going to be hugely damaging for prime minister theresa may. he was a very key minutes secretary of state in her cabinet the lead negotiator for bracks it she's only just brought together her katter full cabinet for the one and only time to agree what their backs it will be and during the next few days was going to release their their white paper explaining what exactly the government specs its final breck's it view was to be for brussels for him to leave were right now quite literally that the crunch time is as calamitous for the britons brecht's it go

shay sions i think it's very bad for her leadership and will really cause for some problems the next hours and days to come on the one hand the kind of the part of her support that's very firmly for what's called kind of a hard rex at the full break from the european union there are a minority i mean they're not the biggest group and the tory party they're not the biggest group in parliament but they're a sizable group they are. very full of conviction for their view and they've held the prime minister's tried this kind of uneasy alliance of folks in our party who've been both for very strong breakfast and those who who are against. the campaign so there's going to be an easy alliance which he's been trying to kind of piece together but this resignation from the moz the biggest high profile short of boris johnson for breakfast in her cabinet the chief negotiator is going to i think there's been signals in the past of of letters calling for

a leadership challenge i would not be very surprised i'm not predicting anything right now but i would not be surprised if david davis was possibly going to be challenging her personally or if he is in his resignation in the morning going to throw his weight behind someone else to challenge it could be. jake it be smog it could be boris johnson it could be someone like this but there is going to be a challenger i think almost certainly in the next hours or days u.k. pundits have confirmed that a woman exposed to the nerve agent chalk last week has died forty four year old dong sturgis fell ill after upon clay handling an item contaminated with a substance in the town of amesbury a male friend she was with at the time is also critically ill police suspect it was the same batch of novacek used on a russian double agent and his daughter in march but more ahead on the news hour including. this person will do a great job but i am very close to making

a decision as. president on prepares for an announcement that could reshape u.s. domestic politics for decades. packed five to a cell no bigger than a car report from behind bars in venezuela and coming up in sports peter will tell you the latest in a tight formula one title race. at least eight hundred people have been killed and dozens more have been 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 operations been launched and prime minister shinzo abhi describes it as a race against the clock knocks bunya reports. 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 though 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 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 full 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 the 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 off his 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 next banya al-jazeera. as fighting salamis in tokyo funny the scale of this is extraordinary and some of the pictures seem to be heartbreaking how was the search and rescue operation going. and did the big show as we have seen in shows very pressured the i've been in there the problem with very secure way for us is that most of the years there in the countryside we maybe not it was three. months and it's going to mean that. the defense forces will have the facts there more than one thousand troops have been dispatched to go to go say yes it means that it's difficult for them to do those locations that's done to people and also even with the using chemicals there

is it would be difficult to learn in such places and taking into consideration that . they have. with all but with that i feel so to be difficult to even reach the people that many of the force not depending on the local people themselves and neighbors that you know that they are stranded or they know they are missing and to know that about ninety eight people could raise more within the coming hours or days and there are more than fifty eight people still missing until now thanks very much indeed. if and at a trail of restoring diplomatic relations and opening their shared border after twenty years of history lety their leaders have been meeting in the editorial capital a smart for the historic peace summit priyanka gupta reports. i see that was hard to imagine even a few days ago and if you'll be in prime minister locked in the embrace of an every

trade lead on everything going soil the two countries haven't had diplomatic relations in twenty years but it was a gesture and an opportunity that eritrean president is a yes a forty welcomed with warm smiles and a red carpet this is just peace between two countries to ordinary countries for two or three neighbors if you're paying your three i have very rich history shared culture shared religion and shared memory in trauma. thousands of people lined the streets of the capital a smile to greet these motorcade they stood among flags of the two nations once at war. nearly a hundred thousand people were killed during that conflict over a disputed border between one thousand nine hundred eighty and two thousand but over the past few weeks they have been signs of improving relations last month if you would be as new reformist prime minister ahmed agreed to accept the terms of

a peace deal that ended the two year conflict it was his biggest and most controversial decision yet since coming to power earlier this year there are a number of disputed territories along the border and territories will move both directions. and there are going to be communities like resists 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. the dispute has taken a toll on both sides of the border. atreus isolated regime and its focus on the border conflict with has forced thousands of people to flee the country diskeeper its mandatory military conscription abby meanwhile wants to put a few back on track as one of africa's process growing counties with access to editing us posts but for many it's

a symbolic coming together of the better for was that i have raised hopes for peace in the horn of africa priyanka gupta al-jazeera. it's been decided the brazil's former president lewis and also a little silver will not stay in prison for a bit longer judge granted an injunction for lula's release sparking a series of contradictory judicial decisions over the politicians fate the confusion has finally been settled by an appeals court chief justice who said the former president must remain in jail for the time being it has been serving a sentence of twelve years and one month in prison for corruption has more from what he says. there's been a day of high drama in brazil with different judges in different cities around the country disagreeing with one another on whether the former president of the suitable should be allowed out of prison he's serving a twelve year one month prison term in the city of quick chiva on corruption and

money laundering charges but one judge in the southern city of work with the leg break rules on the writ of habeas corpus or the president should be allowed out to thinnish off the appeal procedure should be free to be able to do that then the initial judge the judge who sent to prison in the first place back in april she said that judge did not have the authority to allow for the president to look out of prison it went to and fro with other judges stepping in and so the federal court judge was finally asked to make a ruling she said the president or president of the silver should at least spend the night in prison but the impasse is by no means over other judges are likely to step in the country is polarized the country its limits on whether the former president should be allowed out on not he has expressed his innocence all along he says is the victim of a political vendetta and what many believe is easel out out and is allowed to stand

the presidential elections in october he would in fact we're supportive believe this and opinion polls seem to indicate that would be the case so a very difficult situation now in which president look at syria that depending on the legal wranglings with the spending twelve years in prison or perhaps by the end of the year it could be president again or brazil still ahead and al jazeera a bittersweet homecoming thousands who fled the violence in mosul one year ago finally returned only to find a city in ruins a common bond jam and chinese leaders meet to discuss their opposition to donald trump's huge international tyrus and in sports the tour de france has a second later in as many days later we'll tell you who it is and how he did it in sport.

as for. the weather sponsored by qatar airways hello there was a very heavy downpours around parts of china at the moment most of them are in the northern parts of amara you can see the showers histories their way towards the western force in chengdu doesn't like it'll be pretty wet as we head through monday and tuesday to just on the edge of our chart their own choose day you can see some rather strong when it's just the edge of all storm maria that's going to work its way just to the north of time and then slam into the fusion am province as we head through the next few days so something to keep an eye on as we head through the week a bit further towards the south and for many of us here there's some sunshine particularly through parts of borneo down into java bali but elsewhere but also showers and some of them are pretty lively across the philippines at the moment and then we've got a line of them that stretches down through k.l. and singapore further north of plenty of showers there of course many parts of thailand some of those are likely to be pretty heavy particularly as we head

through tuesday and into wednesday and thursday as we head across towards the west that is very lively monsoon rains here particularly over the western parts of india but also we're seeing a little circulation beginning to pull itself together for the east so you can see this is circulation here more intense rains are expected over the next few days they could well be some flooding here it's drier towards the west. the weather sponsored by cattle waste. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the powerful to account. how does this radical transformation occur. i mean if i mean if you want to go shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people. on al-jazeera.

a group of opinion and waits that take that view is no point to make an argument that i have no basis in fact or not was an esteemed chamber of debate i was in every important think of an examination of the ideas the thinkers the theorists and the leaders so a lot of people see them as victories for me to infer from that i haven't been victories for anybody search for itself infinity or a new series of head to head coming soon on al-jazeera. there watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour rescuers are poised to resume the risky operation to extract a youth football team from

a flooded cave in northern thailand four boys were pulled out in the first phase of sunday but it was put on hold for divers to replenish supplies. the government minister in charge of leading the u.k. out of the european union has resigned david davis said he quit as bragg's it minister because he believes current policy would leave the u.k. in a weak negotiating position. ethiopia and eritrea restoring diplomatic ties is important in their shared border after twenty years of still ety leaders met in the head to train capital s. model for the historic summit the country severed ties in one thousand nine hundred eight when the war began over border areas killing eight hundred thousand people. president donald trump is due to announce his latest candidate for the u.s. supreme court on monday it's going to be the second time he's been able to choose a justice in the past eighteen months and it's significant because his decision will probably swing the court firmly towards the right white house correspondent

kelly holcomb reports. few us presidents so early in their first term have had the opportunity to leave their mark on their country like donald trump does the supreme court is the final judge in all cases involving laws made by congress so those who are appointed matter these raise your right hand donald trump his first nominee a conservative judge neil gorsuch was confirmed last year just as gorsuch we had a home run there and we're going to hit a home run here and step by step we are making america great again trump interviewed at least seven candidates to replace retiring justice anthony kennedy his announcement is expected to kick off a contentious nomination process president trump has proven that he wants the best of the best on the supreme court he conservative groups have launched an offensive to shift the nine member court to the political right this video is just part of

that multimillion dollar lobbying effort but democrats are spending to determine to block republican efforts i don't like judges who want to make law rather than interpret law so i don't like judges too far right now i really don't like judges too far left either if confirmed by the u.s. senate the incoming judge has the potential to remake the ideological balance of the supreme court potentially overturning precedent setting decisions on health care gay marriage and even the landmark one nine hundred seventy three ruling which legalized abortion in the united states yes that's why grassroots groups on both sides are mobilizing to influence the confirmation what we have is the american people and our side if you look at the poll numbers if you ask people what they want out of a jurist what they want out of the supreme court it is not the kind of people who donald trump has on his short list democrats are pushing to delay the confirmation

vote on donald trump's supreme court nominee until after november congressional. elections republicans made the same argument back in two thousand and sixteen had successfully blocked third appointment to the supreme court their argument now blowing back that americans should have the opportunity to weigh in on a justice with the potential to influence the supreme court for at least a generation kimberly health at al-jazeera washington syrian state t.v. says the country's air defenses have hit an israeli warplane and shot down missiles that targeted the tea for air base in homs province it says six missiles were aimed at the base and several was shot down as well has carried out dozens of air strikes in syria over the course of the war hitting what it says were on the shipments on their way to iran backed hezbollah fighters as president bashar al assad consolidates his control in syria some of those who fled the country are returning

home a million syrian refugees are registered in lebanon and the government there is keen for them to leave but many a worried about what will happen when the recross the border from us all in the north east of lebanon is in a heart of reports. their years in exile are now over the syrians are on their way home. they are the latest batch of refugees living in the lebanese border town of our south to voluntarily return. there haven't been mass returned yet but these people are among those who can make the journey back to a syria now mostly under the control of president bashar al assad. yes she was. saved many homes are destroyed but ours is falling the circumstances are different for every person. can't happen before syrian authorities screened the names of the refugees and approved the applicants request to return lebanon's general security. the process. so far the returns have not been in

significant numbers the united nations says thirteen thousand refugees have gone home in recent years there are over one million syrian refugees registered with the u.n. here government says hundreds of thousands more are not registered. lebanese politicians are pushing for speedy returns because of the economic burden on the country but the united nations says we turns our premature it refuses to organize them because it believes conditions are not right syria is still not safe and assurances need to be put in place many refugees fled persecution and continued to be considered a security risk by the syrian government. there are refugees who don't want to return because they don't feel safe there waiting for circumstances change they want international guarantees. among them refugees from the syrian town of qusayr

at least forty thousand of them are in lebanon and tens of thousands of others are displaced across syria has not just been totally destroyed there was mass displacement mainly among the muslims who make up the bulk of the opposition. ibrahim it greece is from that town he says he joined the calls for democracy but never took up arms that however is enough to be called a terrorist by the syrian government. under the unit we fled often is because of the regime another one has to return home to the regime how can we have our towns are destroyed and we face security risks because syria is just one of many areas where the regime is making demographic changes. those who come from areas like qusayr which form the backbone of the uprising cannot make this journey back they say they are unwelcome and their safety and security are at risk there is still little reconciliation and peace in the new syria but there are still

northeastern levanon well it's a year since iraqi forces brought isis violence three years patient of mosul to an end but iraq's second biggest city remains in ruins and as many on a hundred ports many living in the rubble feel the government and the world have abandoned them. many people only heard of the islamic state of iraq in the levant just four years ago that's when in two thousand and fourteen abu bakr al baghdadi stepped up to the pope put of mosul's thousand year old grand jury musk and declared an islamic state covering huge swathes of iraq and syria four years later i still fight his blew the mosque up their last stand in mosul they defected capital as iraqi forces closed and it was in july last year that iraqi prime minister haider on the body into to mosul and declared victory over i still but the city he and his forces left behind was in ruins. more

than ninety percent of waste in mosul's old city was destroyed in the nine month offensive by iraqi forces backed by the u.s. led coalition. it's been described as the most intense urban combat since world war two. a year on the bodies of civilians and isis fighters still lie decomposing under the city of rubble it's littered with unexploded suicide belts hand grenades artillery and booby traps few structures a livable there are no basic services like running water electricity or medical care and little prospect of work not civil yet of saddam of a shuffle optimism wherever you go there's awful destruction it's impossible to bring our families to such a place where the smell of death is still lingering. that's left an estimated seven hundred thousand people displaced many living in camps or among the rubble

a high proportion of them a children save the children says mosul's youngsters are haunted by constant fear and intense sorrow it warns of a new lost generation vulnerable to exploitation i still inflicted over three years of unimaginable horrors across the so-called caliphate and in the historic undone today in religiously diverse city of mosul. reconstruction has yet to begin only thirty percent of the estimated eighty eight billion dollars needed to rebuild has been pledged meanwhile discontent of he is to be growing towards the government and the forces that came to liberate them but who now seem to have abandoned them maybe on the honed al jazeera. the solidarity march for migrants has reached its final destination in london ten weeks after setting off from the italy france border hundreds of charity workers and volunteers retrace the steps of refugees and

migrants through france they were welcomed with a special event at london's hyde park that in bob's their. well this gathering in london's hyde park is bringing together refugees people who've made britain their home and volunteers who worked with some of them in cali including in that notorious jungle camp which was destroyed about two years ago they've also been joined by a group of pro migrants activists who've walked right through france to highlight some of the issues facing refugees and migrants right now i'm joined with one of the maya can foresee my it tell me exactly what messages you've been trying to put out during that moment we basically wanted to ask for a better dignified and open welcome of refugees and we wanted to do that in no happy joyful way and to show that a few men in front many many people are open to the welcome of refugees

open air how to them are very in gauging a cause for refugees this is what we wanted to show and we clearly showed that we had thousands of people joining us are just very quickly the situation in cali is still not perfect by any means definitely not we have a lot less refugees and at the time of the bring big jungle we have about five or six hundred refugees however they are living in a horrific conditions namely because the government is doing everything to discourage him from staying there so they constantly chorusing them in any way they can and they actually also do the same towards us to see asians would help them well just today some of the group twenty three people in fact were refused permission to come here to travel to england because they didn't have a visa just another reminder of the different rights that different groups of people have and that's one of these issues that the activists are calling for

they're calling for britain and france to meet their legal obligations to help these refugees but also for the right to travel. rioting and looting continue in haiti's capital even though the government is suspending a proposed hike in fuel prices. lisa fired warning shots of the crowds to strip supermarkets which were set on fire in june two days of violent protests at least three people have died since the demonstrations began on friday. conditions inside venice well as jails are in the tory asli bad with overcrowding and frequent violence but for some prisoners the lack of space means they're being kept locked up for years in prison stays in police stations which aren't meant to hold people for more than forty eight hours john homan has more. five men to a police station holding cell but smaller than a car. with no excited yard no beds they stuck in here twenty people

seven snatching sleeping blankets slung up his makeshift hammocks the bottles waged in the bars a few urine ating. but at least it's for a maximum of forty eight hours that's what venezuelan law says anyway reality some of actually been here for years one and a half in this man's case he's desperate to get to a real jail. there are moments when there are lots of prisoners they bring them and bring them but there aren't transfers to anywhere else and that's really difficult because the holding cells sometimes are a little and you collapse. venezuela's jails are completely overcrowded that means the prisoners across the country are stuck in police station lock ups while they wait for space to be freed up for many family visits are their only hope of food and your investigators claim that several detainees have died of hunger. venezuelan enzio window to freedom monitored almost two hundred temporary detention centers

last year they found that nearly two thirds were cleaned so rubbish and human waste holed up and this is was rife more than sixty percent didn't have separate cells for women and that lock ups were two hundred fifty percent of their maximum capacity the crush of people has led to many police forces resorting to a radical and illegal solution keeping prisoners simply struck some patrol cars when they run out of cells. meanwhile the wheels of the venezuelan justice system turn slowly to speed them up or at least make conditions will bearable you have to pay. lack of asylum and the just in that is swell and the whole penitentiary system is the big mafia that produces a lot of money. taking you to the tribunal to continue your judicial process getting the transport to get you anywhere. they can charge you to eat for the officer to take the food you drill into brings from the door of the locker.

especially for those who don't have the cash this is their reality of what can be years on end john home and.