didn't which is now being investigated as a murder but the investigation led by britain's counterterrorism unit has yet to confirm whether or not the same batch of novi chalk is behind the two incidents sturgis and her friend came into contact with the parties in the town of amesbury just eleven kilometers away from source bree where the scriptures were attacked britain's public health authority has tried to calm locals fears of contamination the risk of it helping themselves very small and it is very small because there's not a lot of it is a very large area and you have to come in contact with it with your bare skin because it's all through the skin but if you do we know this is after the march attack on the script holes british politicians were quick to point the finger at moscow sparking the biggest western expulsion of russian diplomats since the cold war but mystery still surrounds how a deadly nerve agent ended up on the streets of the usually quiet corner of

southern england she won the silver zero. whether it's baxter a man bearing the mental scars of war a year after eyesores defeats in its so-called capital a report finds children there are still living in constant fear and confusion in brazil after courts issue contradictory orders on the release of the former president over the silver. hello there the hot weather is easing for many of us in western europe it's been dry and hot for many of us here over the last month really and now things are finally beginning to change for some of us at least we've got a bit more cloud is just drifting its way southwards and of it does so there's a little area of low pressure that's developing within that and that's what's dragging down our temperatures so that whole thing is working its way southwards

and the temperatures are dropping look at berlin only twenty degrees or the maximum there on tuesday and force in london in paris will be no higher than around twenty four they'll still be a good deal of sunshine around here though plenty of thunderstorms across the eastern half of europe stretching all the way down towards the southeast corner and still a fair amount of cloud in a few outbreaks of rain there around moscow across the other side of the mediterranean very very hot now in cairo all the way up at thirty eight degrees no change for us as we head through monday or tuesday for the west a little bit of change force in our jails where our temperatures will be rising from around twenty eight to probably around thirty two as we head through the next day of say a bit further towards the south and there's plenty of showers here as you'd expect at this time of year and they will rumbling their way towards the west they are pushing a bit further northwards now into some parts of tap chad and into nisha we're also seeing quite a cluster of them around the south coast here are some of them very heavy indeed.

to. the top stories on al-jazeera the mission to rescue twelve school boys and their

football coach from flooded to northern thailand has entered its second day the lead divers brought four of them out on sunday crews then paused for several hours to replace oxygen tanna stores along the treacherous escape routes amy and mark court has ordered two journalists to stand trial accused of illegally obtaining state secrets so while lone who worked for the wrong turns news agency were arrested in december while investigating the killing of a hinge on muslims they pleaded not guilty and say police planted evidence on the key british government's minister leading the u.k.'s negotiations with any of the e.u. as quits david davis stepped down as breck's at secretary after prime minister to resign may announce she was going to take her cabinets plan for leaving the european union to parliament on brussels the u.k. is scheduled to leave the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march next year. the japanese prime minister has counseled a planned overseas trip. killed at least

a hundred people evacuation orders are in place for nearly two million people and multiple landslide warnings have been issued a large scale rescue operation is underway. scheduled to visit belgium france saudi arabia and egypt. is in tokyo with the latest. indeed but it shows we have been. very much of the i've been in there and the problem with very few efforts is that most of the years there in the countryside we've maybe not it was three. months and it's going to mean that the board. of defense forces go out of the fast there more than forty thousand troops have been dispatched to go to those areas it means that it's difficult for them to do the patients to help that's done the people and also even with the using those it would be difficult to learn in such places and taking into consideration that most

of the areas that i think. we all believe that i feel. that it's the people that many of us for it's not depending on the local people themselves and neighbors about you know that they are stranded or they know they are missing out to know that it will be about ninety eight people and it's good that is good it's more within the coming hours or days and there are more than fifty eight people still missing until now six civilians including four children have been killed in an air strike by the saudi emirates a coalition in yemen it happens in our ties in the southwest of the country coalition air support is being used to back the government troops in the fight against filthy rebels in the country there are reports off another israeli attack on an air base with a large iranian presence in syria as homs province syrian state media says its military struck an israeli fighter jet and shot down six missiles targeting the t

four air base israel isn't commenting on the reports but has carried out dozens of fair strikes on iranian targets in syria during the course of the war the four air base was also targeted back in april with syria iran and russia all blaming israel meanwhile the united nations is calling for unrestricted access into syria as that ophrah. to deliver aid to tens of thousands of people it says are desperately in need both the syrian government and the rebels are accusing each other for breaching a ceasefire that was reached on friday the fighting has displaced more than three hundred thousand civilians in the past two weeks that is the largest exodus of the seven year war following all these developments joining us from beirut to first talk about the israeli attack on the t four air base in homs what more is the syrian government saying about. well the syrian government is blaming the israelis for that strike that for air base like you mentioned in the central

province of homes was targeted in the past now according to the syrian observatory for human rights iranians were killed in that strike in the last attack in april there were reports as well that the iranians were using their bases along with their. militias that they support in syria and they were also the target of the attack now we've seen in recent months really israel step up its targeting of of these bases saying that it will not allow it is a red line for israel for the iranians to set up any military presence in syria it has been a while since the last strike but clearly this is a message from the israelis that ok if we allow the syrian government to approach our borders in the golan heights it doesn't really mean that we will stop put in forcing a red line and that is to prevent the presence of iranian forces in syria there have been a lot of reports really that israel is in one way or another accepting this

military operation near the border because it has the russian guarantees that the iranians and the iranian backed militias will not approach the border so a message from the israelis if in fact this was israel was behind this latest strike and for what's happening in that our province and we know the in the past couple of weeks fighting has really displaced hundreds of thousands. people up to three hundred thousand is one figure that we're getting but at the same time the u.n. is saying that many people on the border with jordan and syria and are returning into that are what is the situation there. what you said more than three hundred thousand yes but sixty thousand of them went towards headed towards the jordanian border and it's those people who according to the united nations have returned to their homes but there is really little transparency on the ground the united nations is not present on the ground and even activists cannot confirm to us what happened to these people once they returned to their towns and their villages which is now under the control of the government according to some reports a few hundred men stayed behind close to the jordanian border so we can understand

that maybe these are rebel fighters or people who are too scared to go back because they fear arrest now tens of thousands of others are still camped out close to to the border and these people are really afraid to go back in the absence of any security guarantees or international guarantees there isn't a an appeal a short while ago by activists opposition journalists asking international organizations to help them because simply working as a as a journalist supporting the opposition you are dubbed as a terrorist by the syrian government so this is really the problem we hear about ceasefire deals that we hear about the rebels handing over territory to the syrian government but in the absence of security guarantees there's really a lot of fear among the civilian population right jennifer to giving us the update from beirut thank you. it's a year since iraqi forces and their allies brought eyesores three year occupation of mosul to an end but iraq's second largest city remains in ruins and as marianna hong reports many living in the rubble feel their government and the world have

abandoned them. oh 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 bakar 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 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 is old city was destroyed in the nine months of finances 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 i saw a fight is still lie decomposing under the city of rubble it's littered with unexploded suicide belts hand grenades artillery and booby traps few structure is a livable there are no basic services like running water electricity or medical care and little prospect of work yet of saddam a shot that has them 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 generation vulnerable to exploitation. i still inflicted over three years

of unimaginable horrors across the so-called caliphate and in the historic and until then 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 plagued 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 made in the home and al-jazeera brazil's former president and the reason assume that the so will stay in prison for an hour earlier a judge ruled the be released sparking a series of contradictory judicial decisions over the politicians fates the confusion who is finally settled by an appeals court chief justice who serves the former president must remain in jail for the time being luka is serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption. or has more from one of cyrus.

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 serving the city of good cheer on corruption and money laundering charges but one judge in the southern city of deliberate ruled on the rich the pay vs corpus or the president should be allowed out to finish off the appeal procedure should be free to be able to do that then the initial judge the judge who sent to that prison in the first place back in april he said that that judge did not have your thorazine to allow former president ruler out of prison it went to and fro with other judges and stepping into the federal court judge was finally asked to make a ruling he said the president or president lula silver should at least end the night in prison but the impasse is by no means over other judges are likely to step

in the country of polarized the country is split on whether the former president should be allowed out or not he has expressed his innocence all along he says is the victim of a political bent that many believe it is it is allowed out and is allowed to stand the presidential elections in october he would in fact with his supporters believe this and opinion polls seem to indicate that would be the case so a very difficult situation now in which president sue 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 germany's chancellor is set to meet the chinese premier for talks on trade tensions with the u.s. both leaders have criticized donald trump's new international terrorists and his dominic cain reports it's not just american trade policies that unite beijing and berlin. when they meet on monday angela merkel and likud chair. 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. 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 why don't we humans die on p.r. we now have tariffs on alimony and 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 berlioz 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. we'll but they're all 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 i'm going to medical meet it may well also be a meeting of minds dominic k. al-jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the mission to rescue twelve school boys and their football coach from flooded caves in northern thailand has entered its second day elite divers brought four of them out on sunday crews then paused for several hours to replace oxygen canisters along the treacherous escape routes a me and our court has ordered two journalists to stand trial accused of illegally obtaining state secrets. while lone who worked for the reuters news agency were arrested in december while investigating the killing of

a hinge on muslims they've pleaded not guilty and say police planted evidence on them the british government minister in charge of the u.k.'s negotiations to leave the e.u. has resigned david davis quit as breck's at secretary just hours after prime minister it's a reason may announced she was going to take her cabinets plan for leaving the european union to brussels may has struggled to unite factions within her governing conservative party over how the u.k. will proceed with its departure. the japanese prime minister shinzo while bay has canceled a planned overseas trip after two rental rains killed at least one hundred people evacuation orders are in place for nearly two million people and multiple landslide warnings have been issued a large scale rescue operation is underway they were scheduled to visit belgium france saudi arabia and egypt six civilians including four children have been killed in an airstrike by the saudi erotic coalition in yemen it happened near its highs in the southwest of the country coalition air support is being used to back

the government troops in the fight against who the rebels in yemen there are reports of another israeli attack on an air base with a large iranian presence in syria's homs province syrian state media says its military struck an israeli fighter jet and shot down six missiles targeting the t four air base israel isn't commenting on the reports the base was also targeted back in april with syria iran and russia all blaming israel meanwhile the united nations is calling for unrestricted access into syria's province to deliver aid to tens of thousands of people it says are desperately in need both the syrian government and rebels are accusing each other of breaching a cease fire that was reached on friday the fighting has displaced more than three hundred thousand civilians in the past two weeks those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera we'll have more news for you after inside stories they let us.

on counting the cost car wars the world's biggest exporters attempt to steer away from a damaging trade war with the us plus our online streaming services are taking on hollywood bollywood and beyond. counting the cost almost zero. two weeks after they went missing the first boys have been rescued from a cave in thailand there was an operation that involved many divers and experts from around the world this is inside story. me. hello there and welcome to the program i'm laura caro rising waters for ling oxygen levels and no easy way out it's a treacherous situation for anyone especially twelve children and the football

coach who've been trapped in a cave in thailand it's a story that has gripped the attention of much of the world and on sunday several of the trapped boys were successfully rescued and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment elite divers guided the boys through hours of walking crawling and swimming with an oxygen tank out of a deep cave complex the team mates along with their coach had been trapped for more than two weeks the rest of the team is still making its way out but monsoon rains off threatening the dangerous mission so all about us takes a look now at some of the challenges of this operation. the tome one caves in northern thailand in the chiang rai province near the border with me n. ma and laos it is one of the longest caves in the country stretching ten kilometers through the door mountain range the boys are stuck just past a cabin known as party of beach now looking inside the mountain one point five

kilometers from the main entrance navy seal team to set up a base in 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 rescuers need to crawl to get through the passageway climbs and drops which means that when it rains water builds up in these steps four kilometers in is passing a bitch the boys are about four hundred meters 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 meters 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're being given wet suits boots helmets and

a scuba mask but no tank the proposal being they'll get from the dive buddy supply now don't 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. well an extraordinary rescue let's join our guest to talk about it joining us from goes in the u.k. mike tipton professor of human and applied physiology at the extreme environment liberty at the university of portsmouth he joins us via skype in london on drugs unless child psychologists at king's college london and consultant of morley hospital and from all good. also via skype neil bennett he's a diver and managing director at new zealand diving more get to you all in just a moment but first let's talk to bill white house he's a spokesman for the british cave rescue council and has been in direct contact with the british divers helping with the rescue in thailand he joins us on the line now

from buxton in the u.k. so bill is what a relief to hear that these first boys have been coming out and the head of shuttle as well what are you hearing about the rescue efforts. yes increase in incredible. good news the operation to bring the mouse it was is extremely dangerous and frankly very risky. and there's been a lot of planning going on in the last few days. in preparation for if the time for it is gave the go ahead to to try don't have rescue. to the way to do it well whatever way they have done is they seem to have got it right because if they were if they however many you come out now if this is the process is they use work for them then god willing there's a chance that it'll work for the others as well so if it's excellent use.

we were as we all recording this program on sunday night the whole time it is six point we believe that is being brought out you're in townsville on you with the british dive a who are involved in this operation the two men who festival found the boys what role are they playing in this part of the operation in this part of the operation well we can't be sure of course because once things once things started of course being communicator that are probably underground now rick rick stands in and problems and who were the two divers who first gone through to the boys. a while ago now isn't it. still on the site one site i don't know for certain that were involved in today's dive i would be astonished if there weren't and then there are there are now on site. seven british

cave divers. and there are one some from other nationalities and there are the the navy there the titan a.v. seal drivers who are not cave divers they open water divers who have been operating for and more to dive in a very unusual you know. and vironment for them and what they've been doing is truly heroic. and it's very sad that one of them lost their lives during the process the other day in the ok i mean this is a very it's cave diving is a very serious and different type of dry diving to open water diving there are all sorts of considerations that come in about the way equipment is used the different kinds of risks and things which have had to be built into any of the rescue operation and bear in mind that these children are not and they are

listening not cave divers but they're not divers and not even swimmers i gather ok the white house we appreciate you taking the time the to join us at the top of our program here inside story thanks very much and let's go straight now to talk andre in london six point out at this stage of course this program will be airing and they will be hearing of more boys coming up on the coming to. me what an enormous sense of relief for them and for the families and they for the rescue is. fantastic news and. i just talk us through what because those things i'm oceans all as you will as you know been rescued. i would expect that most of the children will be probably late and by the rescue after the longer deal that have been subjected over the past few days. many of them will

probably become quite emotional i would expect actually most of them to experience some emotional symptoms over the next few days this may become evident as being particularly irritable or becoming tearful of course they would be very happy but they will have very strong intense emotion to cope with that because lee was right they might we know that they are being flown straight to hospital by helicopter on the top hospitals in chiang rai region physically how are they likely to be well i understand alone get methink seems unconfirmed that the first boys to come out were the ones that were regarded as the weakest so i suspect you know if people are able to distinguish how well the different boys are the ones or the weakest are probably the ones that are suffering most from dehydration malnutrition and perhaps even from hypothermia or getting cold so they

there's nothing that should have happened to them physically that can't be corrected you know after the event i think probably the longer term consequences will be psychological rather than medical physiological ok you know that bodes well doesn't it if the weakest are being brought out fast and they have come out as quickly as they have it both well for the rest of the rescue operation. i'm allowed some of the going to run to the as a species to tear we're going to need stronger ones to deal with the more complex situations so keeping the require on the first thousand through but transfers them out and sort them out in these years and missions that's bode well for that since they've now have the risk. of course diving was always the big concern has part of this rescue operation what were the risks to the children who were having to dive

and indeed the divers who were leading them well those images certainly survive. the pumping of the water has actually reduced that quite considerably allowing them to move out large sections of a really healthy situation but. you've got to think of some of the most part plants that some of the. meat is in the marsh substance of the poor four hundred meters three. both and so through hospital chest injuries that sort of lead the premier respiratory problems and then you have the narrative which in itself is probably the most extreme part of it because it can work in school. but he preaches like a nuisance or on stand a building or person shops and so if that stream of violent to be in if there are visible it's. certainly how. these guys are actually

facing probably the biggest challenge of a lot of strength. absolutely i mean from my limited experience of diving trying to remember to breathe normally it's very difficult when you're under water i understand that these boys are being fed with a full face mask which is easier than a mouthpiece. yeah what was the concern is that we all imagine that if a child climbing tries about the circle of existence or another environment one thing people do mcdermott's is that you seek out the last to have a full face mask reduce the problems of being a mother going to be is not lying to someone risk your. child in the middle of the nursery with my daughter to decide to get that regular the back into the mouth is quite limited so we reducing the possibilities is if there was a post. under how is it best to try and keep these boys calm.

well i think first of all is it really important to find ways and words to explain fux very easily to them so think about the kind of communication the rest for might have with their own children and so minutes to find ways in which communication is clear and there for children know exactly what is going to happen what are the things that they can do if anything should go wrong so that they would know at least the facts secondly it's really important i think for a director to build some report with the children spend some time with them which i understand has happened over the past few days so that the children can learn about them and effectively find ways to trust them should they need to in emergency situations you talk about the fact that one wonders how honest you have to be with children when you're asking them to take risks i mean presumably there is no way

that they would have mentioned the fact that the former navy seal died on friday and he was axed in the cave i would assume they wouldn't have what i was referring to is the instruction on what to do when the resident ration where i'm going so it's really important that they knew what was happening to them because having unpredictable things happening to them of course would only increase the risk of them becoming distress as the rescue occurs do you think age might be on their side head do you think that adults we tend to panic more and look at the worst case scenarios where as a young boy might perhaps in something like when trackpad might see it more as an adventure. perhaps perhaps it's really difficult to say what we do know is that actually an adolescent it's actually more difficult to cope with these intense emotions so what you may be referring to is the idea that they may think this is a challenge in some ways or another and they're for be motivated to do their best

rather than being anxious and restricted their actions throughout the rescue operations but the funny thing i would expect are the lessons to. struggle coping with these more intense emotions right like the physiological impact i mean this is a one to two kilometer journey it took five hours for experienced cavers to complete its diving crawling hiking and it's incredibly taxing physiologically speaking how these children going to build up the straight the how did they build up the strength having been malnourished the nine days. yes i mean it's quite remarkable it's not the kind of thing you'd want to take on if you were you know fully fit and healthy so they obviously they obviously maintained their physiological status pretty well over those first nine days and the very fact that they survived nine days tells us that you know some of the major stresses like

dehydration and low oxygen levels weren't really present and affecting them so there's that there's that aspect to it i mean i think the other important point to make is although we've said the weakest of come out first as assessed by a doctor that doesn't necessarily mean the weakest in terms of their ability to undertake this task right because it will of those initial decisions will have been based on a on a health bice's rather than i physical fitness or ability to dive so you know we're halfway there but we're certainly you know we've certainly got some way to go my concern would be things like not being able to meet the physical challenge. you know a wet suit is fine but if it's a poorly fitting wet suit it's next to useless and as we've already heard the way people react to having to go breathe underwater had no experience of doing that

is something somewhat unpredictable we've we've taken lots of naive people and taught them to use emergency breathing systems saw helicopter on the water escapes and the reactions you get of quite unpredictable some people just find it almost physically impossible to take a breath in when their head is underwater now hopefully none of those will apply in this case and we'll see you know a successful completion but we're certainly you know we're certainly not out of the woods yet i nailed think that the rescue teams spent three four days training for this and then they trained the boys do you think they would have taken the boys on their practice dives in the water to get them used to breathing underwater. absolutely not the thirteen guys who we have out there were enough or over the receivers in the computers that the person is in effect among the water like that you rely on so that we can use the recent fruits and such in prison for as long as

you're on the water a lot of people. probably are rightly says when i get water around the fight was likely to cease i mean were around them are still blocking the mass throughout the day that would be the most of the scale what i can expect and the struggling through the banks that doesn't have this problem where all the recent months or is going to wait for them out there by fifty seven or even slower so that will worry about it but continue to be regular in all of us so the cities are going to experience as a shock to get through this time you have to be made aware and the other thing as well we were kind of overlooking that the flow was through with going to be a man so not only have to go to deal with the water conditions they're going to be out of the over the current city that we saw in that movie physically demanding or them but they have to build that report with the rescue research i have to be doing right now for the rescue so start going pretty well mike what sort of state is the body in after being two weeks underground. that is almost

completely dependent on the amount of fluid you've received the amount of food you've received in the amount of exercise you've been able to undertake i mean one extreme you wouldn't survive that long you know you are estimated survival time without any flu it is just a few days. you know at the other extreme provided that you've got fresh water and food and you've been able to exercise you should be able to remain reasonably capable but you know i would you know you would expect to see a pretty significant reduction in their maximum physical capability and they may well need to come close to that to make an escape the other big thing we see. which is we don't really understand it's a sort of psycho physiological phenomena is the way people react to being rescued there are significant number of people who actually fight and fight and fight for their survival and do really well and just at the point of being rescued that can

they condition deteriorates and they're the ones that need to be looked after particularly carefully in this case you know to the end of the rescue and on reaching the surface so you know as i say this is very very variable it's very in between individuals as well ok you know it's going to be a significant challenge under that's a fascinating phenomenon isn't that that you're fighting so much to survive and just the point when you reach that you gave up why might that be yeah so what we know about these kinds of situations is that when we are exposed to stress boots acute or chronic there is an elevation stress hormones such as cortisol. what happen quite often is that after acute stresses when we effectively start relaxing that cortisol also goes though. what we see is that the amount of energy and activity that has sustained people throughout the stress. all experience

will then translate in a lot of weakness and tartness and in some ways even cognitive impairment after that experience so i entirely agree that we need to really have a holistic understandings of what his children will go through thinking about their physical threats and limitations including of course darkness but also food and factions as we have discussed and this will partly have an effect on how they will respond after the rescue operation would be hopefully successfully over there let's hope that the rescue operation continues as it's begun but let's just visit briefly the scenario where it is aborted under what conditions might that be the case. from the moment we. felt that looting or something of a blockage in the system will not achieve in that scenario then they're going to

have to turn people. slap say well if the mood right which is one of the money back what pushed it forward if you didn't have a star increase in the plan right. then she. and that money will also go back to them are going to kill that one either. among other things that probably didn't touch on that he remarked proceed with the man of peace in atlanta. no not and so on but on the twenty problems any sort of buildup in the lungs that's really going to effect the thought of moving forward. with something really. keep up with the problems of the thinking yeah mike how low to those action levels get. the report i heard was about fifteen percent so that's down from a normal twenty one percent that's still ok because i'm in that sea that's where you can translate those percentages into altitudes so that's a bit like going to you know just around about two thousand meters so that's not so

much of a problem but you know once it got down to thirteen or twelve percent percent then you're starting to see some of the symptoms of hypoxia so i think probably as we just heard this particular option was the sort of least worst option so if we get to the situation where we have ticks you know retain some of the boys in the car even then clearly there's going to have to be some fairly significant interventions there the other problem that kind of gets missed is not just the reduction in oxygen but if you're in a situation where you're not getting fresh air into into that situation you're also going to get a buildup of carbon dioxide and that in itself can be potentially very hazardous so if those numbers were right and we were down to about fifteen percent then it was getting pretty close to the time to go under and just lastly even if when the boys are all out you know dale's not over is that one of the sort of long term mental

health impacts one must be watching for in this team and not forgetting in the coach as well absolutely so i would expect first of all that all the children will be screened for a considerable amount of. and for their psychological consequences after dysart deal and i would expect that discriminate will detect at about ten to twenty percent of them will develop injuring mental health problems or psychiatric disorders because of such utter disorder that can be developed after these kind of traumatic experiences. break into programming to take you live to chiang rai in northern thailand where police are holding a news conference about the operation to rescue a group of boys from flooded caves. and

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wherever. so you're looking at live pictures live press conference going on right now by the police in chiang rai in northern thailand they're holding a press conference giving a bit of an update about the operation that is going on right now to rescue a group of boys from the flooded cave you'll recall the day one of that rescue operation started on sunday and we understand they have now commenced the second day off of that rescue operation let's cross over to stuff she's joining us from chang right steph what can you tell us about how the second day of the operation is going. well yes only now we got confirmation that they actually have started another rescue operation today and bringing out the next batch of boys from the soccer team it's expected that it's going to be again four

boys that are going to be taken out it seems that the military has planned this in batches four by four and by four and then the last one to coach probably so it's thirteen in total we don't know exactly when they're going to come out it's a long and difficult journey out yesterday it all went quicker than expected basically they came out after nine hours and it was expected to do to last a lot longer so it all went very well probably also to the water levels help that was lower water level so that before the rain had stopped for a while it could be different today because there has been some rain and some quite some outdoors here during the day so that could complicate of course the rescue operation today prime minister prayuth child will visit the cave and will want to talk to rescue operation probably will get much much more information also when the prime minister is arriving it's been a bit of a media blackout during the day and only now there was this announcement and step

but while the police commissioner is speaking we're still looking at the live picture as he's also said this that the four rescued boys on sunday are fine they're being kept apart from their relatives because of infection concerns that's according to the chief of mission and he's also saying that they are hungry but in good health so once the boys are out of the cave what happens then what are the next steps and where do they go. yes exactly that being held in isolation because the authorities worry about contagious diseases that they might have called during their stay of more than two weeks in this dark cave basically they were of course prone to all kinds of diseases because they are also not in fact very well so the condition of course is very easy for you weak so you can imagine that this is very difficult for the parents until now it seems that

they haven't been able to meet their own children since they've been rescued only tonight probably the parents can go in but there has been some information that they're not allowed to hawk or kiss their own boys because of the fear of contagious diseases hopefully we'll get a clearance on the information later today because maybe we won't will know what kind of diseases but one of the diseases that is mentioned is leptospirosis it's basically a disease you get from containing water basically rat infested contained water which is basically a fatal disease of course they need to check if the boys are not contaminated with that disease and just a reminder of that even though on sunday things seem to go pretty smoothly they are fighting against time fighting against rain that is and they need to get this operation underway and try and rescue the remaining boys and their coats before the rain starts. exactly it's enormous because

they first have to hurry up because of the rains that are coming but also they don't want to rush this operation with all the risks involved it's a tough operation the divers also need their rest it's very it's a huge impact on your body if you're diving for such a long time for nine hours in a cave so they need to take their time to recover and go in safely again and that's why the commander of this operation said it will take around ten to twenty hours for them to recover and be able to go in again so basically that's what's been happening and that's why there was this time when nobody knew if there's an operation happening or not but now finally we actually know that we will hope to see a lot of batch of boys coming out of the cave life so. thank you for that update for the time being from china. in other news to journalists have been ordered to stand trial in me and mark accused of breaking the country's colonial era secrecy law so

who and why loon who work for the reuters news agency were arrested in december while investigating the killing of muslims. they pleaded not guilty and say police planted evidence on them. we did not commit any crimes but i would like to say regarding today's decision by the judge that we will never give up today's court decision does not mean that we are guilty we still have the right to defend ourselves florence that we has an update from kuala lumpur. the two reuters journalists have been charged under the official secrets act which carries a maximum penalty of fourteen years in prison the case will now go to a full trial which means it could be several weeks possibly even months before a final verdict is given now the defense lawyer had argued that this case ought to be thrown out because the prosecution failed to prove that these men are threat to national security that the so-called secret documents they had of them were already in the public domain the court also heard testimony from a police witness that

a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to plant the documents on one of the reports is to trap him yet these two men have been charged now and there are several things troubling about this case apart from the circumstances of these journalists arrest one concerns the issue of press freedom these two men have been arrested they've been denied bail since their arrest in december for simply doing their jobs as report says the second concerns what's happening in rakhine state as some rights activists put it these two reporters have been locked up for trying to expose the truth about what's happening there where the myanmar military has launched a crackdown since august twenty fifth causing more than seven hundred thousand ethnic rule hinge on minorities to flee to bangladesh to escape persecution the u.n. itself has described the crackdown as containing elements of genocide as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing yet the myanmar government and the military

continues to deny or downplay the seriousness of what's happening in recalling state and as human rights watch puts it the authorities in myanmar appear to be falling back on an old tactic of locking up those who are trying to tell the truth . the british government minister in charge of negotiations to leave the e.u. has resigned david davis quit as secretary just hours after prime minister to resign may announced she was going to take her cabinets plan for leaving the european union to brussels in his resignation letter davis wrote that the current policy will leave britain in a weak negotiating position may have struggled to unite factions within her governing conservative party over how the u.k. will proceed with its departure live to lawrence lead joining us from london what's the reaction to this resignation lawrence. well i think it's inevitable really i mean it's a complete crisis it is of an absolute flood crisis now and the government could

easily collapse in the next few days because of this but it is inevitable because for so many months to resume a fails to take a decision and take a position one way or the other to make it clear which on which of the two warring sides of her own cabinet she stands issue on the side of those people who want to abandon the european union completely hard as it's called cut off all links including trade links with the european union or is she on the side of those who say well hang on if we do that it will be catastrophic for business the economy might collapse and in the end she tried to do this or the one foot in three feet out sort of arrangement where the u.k. would sort of more or less leave except except in the interests of keeping the movement of goods going but that's been falsely far too much for the harbor exeter's who see it as a complete betrayal of the referendum results and so that's why you've had

a resignation of david davis and a couple of others and they could easily be more she's got to go and speak to all the conservative m.p.'s tonight to explain to them what the position is and they may take the view that she's not worth hanging on to and so you know it is a complete crisis now and it is only a few months ago until brakes is supposed to happen and there is no absolutely no sense of direction whatsoever because if unless the she can actually get through this and keep the government going that few days yeah so this must really it throws some doubt on how to secure the government's present strategy going forward lawrence. well yeah i mean she's got problems on more than one front clearly her own position is now in because it depends how much of the conservative party wants to keep her more or wants to get rid of it looks frankly on that score as if she might be able to hang on only because the hard core of absolute is smaller than those who think it's probably not a good idea to lose

a relationship with the european union completely but the other problem she's got is what about the european union because it's assumed that when she takes his plan to brussels as you mention in your introduction then they're going to say well ok that's that's fine let's do that plan and they might not say that because of the moment the europeans position has always been you can't do the movement of one without the movement of everybody else are you going to move the goods without free movement of people and she's saying she wants to stop free movements of people but continue the movements of goods but not willing to service is what is really complicated and it would break all the european union's rules and their red lines as they put it over what the u.k. callen can do now if the european union says we don't accept this plan either the mayor will have to resign because it's our plan and she's now eventually nailed to the miles around it and so for all those reasons it is a deeply deeply perilous position that finds itself in right lawrence leamer thank you for that update from london. british police have confirmed that a woman exposed to the nerve agent from her last week has died don sturgis fell ill

after apparently handling an item contaminated with the substance and now health authorities are trying to calm residents in a community that seen several military grade poisonings in a matter of months to sell the reports. for over a week doctors at salzburg district hospital battle to save the life of dawn sturges to no avail they've now confirmed the death of the forty four year old mother of three who had fallen critically ill after being exposed to what british authorities believe is the same deadly nerve agent known as. chock used to target a former russian spy and his daughter in march i want to express my condolences and those of everyone here at seoul's bridges st hospital to john's family our staff are talented dedicated and professional and i know that they will be hurting too they did everything that they could we continue to treat one other individual who

remains in a critical condition the circumstances under which sturgis and the forty five year old man charlie rowley came into contact with the military grade substance are still being determined but he tweet from the british prime minister following the news of sturgiss death leaves no doubt as to the nature of the investigation theresa may said i am appalled and shocked by the death of dawn sturgis and my thoughts and condolences go to her family and loved ones police and security officials are working urgently to establish the facts of this incident which is now being investigated as a murderer. but the investigation led by britain's counterterrorism unit has yet to confirm whether or not the same batch of novi chalk is behind the two incident sturgis and her friend came into contact with the parties in the town of amesbury just eleven kilometers away from source bree where the scriptures were attacked britain's public health authority has tried to calm locals fears of contamination

the risk. is very small and it is very small because there's not a lot of it is a very large area and you have to come in contact with it with your bare skin because. well if you do we know it's. after the march attack on the script falls british politicians were quick to point the finger at moscow sparking the biggest western expulsion of russian diplomats since the cold war but mystery still surrounds how a deadly nerve agent ended up on the streets of the usually quiet corner of southern england won the silver. so heads on al-jazeera will have more on our top story the thailand rescue operation as the rest of the boys wait to be brought out we'll talk to a man who helps cordon.