terms well the may side will say you might not like what we're doing but just think about what the alternatives are an hour and twenty leave it there for now noisily keeping on today keeping us up to date with what has been a dramatic day in british politics all of course coming as a result of britain's decision to leave the european union the strategy to leave the european union at the heart of this crisis let's get the view from europe now on this and we're joined by the former swedish prime minister cabell taze via skype from stockholm thank you very much for speaking to us so how is europe a saving this crisis in britain right now we may spend deeper already because the u.k.'s in the turmoil that we now see in london which was to some extent unavoidable because of the inability of the british government to come up with vision earlier it is because of worrying the clock is ticking there is a need to have an agreement on the terms of the united kingdom within a hundred days and there are quite

a number of complex issues that the sort that out there with the turmoil in the chaos in london that becomes even more than it is right now a viable negotiating partner as far as brussels is concerned and well at the moment it doesn't look like that is off to new because it clearly going to take some time to sort out the issues in london. but we do see there is a problem is the white paper from the government on thursday and that's going to put be put on the plate but with brussels next week i think there are significant question marks from the brussels point of view where that particular policy mind that there are so many is not of that it would actually work might not work and then we are in another of the problem there. right the position agreed collectively by the british cabinet on friday was to continue the association with a single market maintain the movement of goods but not maintain the movement of

people they agreed on something that they knew with the european union was going to reject a no the european union is going to reject you know why bother pursuing this path it is going to advance negotiations any further that's what they hope by i guess but it is it impossible to meet the fundamental issues so that there are no good solutions to that situation whichever way they choose is going to be something that is about the one where you go about it now and now to some a has juice of the sort of sort. to bind with the language of the holidays because he is saying with time no customs union no single market at the same time as he wants to be as much as possible in these things and that is of course go to be extremely difficult to sort out you know good solutions you say mr belton there's been a lot of talk recently about the norway model for the u.k. would that be a workable option. i don't think the nor a model would be acceptable for them because the normal. use affected your

satellite situation where you know we are under more or less formal education to all of the root of the you've been a union but without having any say in reality in the decision making. i doubt that we've been except. for that so in your view in your opinion what kind of model could work for for the u.k. when it comes to things like trade for instance. i'm i honestly don't know because it is a fundamentally very difficult situation that only the only very bad options to choose between. from the point of view they have choose which they want career and then the. so. they won't. thank you very much for sharing your views with this call bill's former swedish prime minister joining us here on al-jazeera thank you very much for your time we appreciate it. or let's move on to another breaking news story this hour on

al-jazeera israel says it will shut down a key economic lifeline into the gaza strip the care abu salim crossing is a vital access point for supplies into the besieged territory israeli authorities are also stopping fishing boats from operating more than six miles off the coast and now israel's defense minister has signed an order declaring the hamas affiliate channel that operates from lebanon on a terrorist organization let's bring in our correspondent gary fossett who is in a western islam hero harry let's start with the crossing that's being shut down this is a main commercial crossing into gaza why is the israeli government taking this action now especially when they recently talked about improving the humanitarian situation in gaza what's the objective. that's right i think this is what's taken so many people by surprise we just had the u.s. envoy is jason green blatt in the region by all accounts trying to drum up both

israeli and international support for some kind of intervention in gaza some sort of restructuring in gaza in return for a long term cease fire the palestinian authority saying that israel and the united states were trying to wedge gaza away from the rest of the palestinian territories by doing so in a political move the israeli army had apparently been arguing in recent months very strongly for increased humanitarian assistance for gaza because they were worried about the effect on the security situation as gaza slides ever deeper into economic crisis and now we have this i think it's very clear why they're doing it it's because of the political pressure on the israeli government on benjamin netanyahu the prime minister over the in century kites and balloons which have been flown into israeli territory have been setting fire to thousands of hectares of forests and fields in side israeli territory there was some within his own coalition who are calling for targeted strikes killing the very people who are launching these

these kites a so far the israeli military had been targeting hamas bases inside gaza instead firing warning shots at people firing people launching these kites now we have this very large economic measure the israeli military at so all of the israeli prime minister himself saying that he was acting with a heavy hand and it could cause real economic damage to the two million people already struggling so terribly inside gaza there and we'll be talking about the impact on the people of gaza shortly with the death i want to talk you have about the mounting campaign against hamas and things from israel where the channel now being labeled a terrorist organizations. that's right it is something that the israeli defense minister announced a little bit earlier as a result of a decision made by the new israeli body anti terror finance body the

national bureau for counter terror financing and as you say this television channel based in lebanon affiliated to hamas with some mid twenties of staff members here in inside them in israel and the most of them in the occupied west bank we understand the two of their correspondents work directly for the channel the others work for service providers who provide the pictures and the technical equipment and so on all of that is we understand going to be ruled illegal so this is another way that the israeli government is trying to put pressure on hamas there is as i say at this time a lot of pressure on the israeli governments to try and come up with some way of targeting what has been an incredibly simple but very effective measure coming out of out of gaza the use of these these kinds these balloons and so far despite all

of the attempts to try and counteract them with technology that has been trailed it's not working every day there are more fires ok harry thank you for that harry fossett live for same west jerusalem or less all speak to marsha care who is in ramallah in the occupied west bank he's the israel and palestine director at human rights watch thank you very much for speaking to us the camp crossing between gaza and israel when assad would be shut to all goods but not humanitarian supplies such as food and medicine those will keep going till what impact do you see this having on the people of gaza. i think it's very significant impact what we need to understand here is that israel for over a decade now it's kept the gaza strip virtually sealed and just had a generalized ban on the movement of people into and out of gaza travel out of gaza and twenty seven t. was just one percent of what it was in september two thousand and eight that similarly very limited restriction or very significant restrictions on the entry

and exit of goods to the point in which the g.d.p. in gaza today is about twenty percent less than it was in one nine hundred ninety four they've made kerem shalom the only commercial crossing that exists now for palestinians ruffa the crossing with egypt is largely a crossing for people and it's largely closed leaving only this crossing so closing kerem shalom more than you know the entry of food and medicines which may be exempt as you just mentioned the biggest thing is affecting the power of people to have a basic economy this is a manmade crisis that it's very hard the dignity of palestinians to earn a living to have money to be able to live a dignified life what was so what recourse then if any do the people of gaza have i mean if if this crossing is shut down and as he say no goods very limited once again coming anyway what can they do about this and what you know what can the

international community do. at the end of the day israel remains in full control of gaza controls the air space the water spaces controls the orders it controls access and goods in people's the rates the custom rates the population registry at the end of the day and this policy israel's been very explicit it's not even hiding its unlawful motives it is collective punishment it is punishing the nearly two million people as a result of some people's action to fly kites so ultimately what's needed is pressure on the international community that must speak clearly with one voice israel must and it's all lawful and cruel decade long closure of gaza if you look at any metrics gaza is on the brink seventy percent of the people rely on humanitarian aid unemployment is over forty percent for women it's at seventy percent you have you know such a desperate situation and the number one way that you can address that is to

israel's almost full closure thank you for speaking to us all marsha care these are in palestine director at human rights watch joining us there from ramallah in the occupied west bank thank you they spent to morehead on this al-jazeera news hour including two journalists who had been reporting on the range a refugee crisis ordered to stand trial marc klaas warnings of extreme danger after me one hundred people are killed into rental rains and flooding in western japan and roger federer assails into the last eight on a busy day of action at wimbledon they tell us with joe coming up later in sports. but first to thailand it's been another successful day in the dangerous mission to rescue school boys and their football coach from a florida cave for more boys have been brought to the surface they have been lifted to a nearby hospital they have joined four others who were rescued on sunday all are being

kept away from their parents for now as they're monitored. four infections the other four boys and the coach will have to wait in the cave for the next and hopefully final rescue effort to begin let's speak to step boss in life or is in chiang rise as we've said it's been a successful day the rescue mission is going faster than was previously expected bring us up to speed with the latest for us and the conditions of the boys who have been rescued. well exactly it's and then not are extraordinary day here in john where i in the north of thailand the government has just announced that it's confirmed that the four boys have come out while and alive today so it's a second batch in the in the second day of this rescue operation he described him as being healthy and conscious so and after that they all been airlifted to a hospital nearby in chiang rai where they are going to be in isolation together

with the other boy so in total eight boys are now in isolation because they want to check first if the boys have caught some contagious diseases inside the cave they're worried about some water borne diseases that could also be spread to their parents so to power lines are still kept at the basically they're not allowed to to hold or have to do voice even after the ordeal that they have been going through so it must be pretty agonizing the parents are allowed to see them through a window but not get closer to them yet the governor also during the press conference conference he has announced that tomorrow after ten to twenty hours after this second operation is finished this the third. be rescued from the cave there's still five more inside so far it's always been groups of four so it's not clear if the old five will be coming out tomorrow or or if there's going to be

another day again yes so the ordeal in not over yet for at least five people four boys and their coach this has been a global rescue operation a truly global one because there are teams involved from different countries time as well as international teams tell us about the reactions because this is a story that's gripped the entire world everyone has been watching to find out the fate of these boys. yeah totally every minute of this rescue operation and the whole damn dramatic disappearance of the voices two weeks ago has been followed very closely by the people here in thailand and around the world and the prime minister off thailand's channel child went to see the rescue workers just a few hours ago near the cave there's a couple of hundred people right there at the moment not only the divers the cave divers the experts that have been flying in from all over the world but a lot of auto rescuers are actually at the side and the governor was saying that it's when so fast today because it took so much faster it was only five hours until

the boys came out while it took nine hours the first day he said it was all because they have used many more rescuers today than they did before so it's a huge operation it's it's hard to imagine what has been involved to make sure that these boys come out alive thank you staff for that service and bringing us any to say from chiang rai in thailand japan's prime minister shinzo lobby has canceled a planned overseas trip after to rental rains killed at least one hundred people evacuation orders are in place for nearly two million people and multiple landslides warnings have been issued and large scale rescue operation is underway as rob mcbride reports from the city with some fifty thousand emergency workers deployed. this was the first. to reduce father could return to see what's left of this house and possessions he abandoned it with his wife and young children in the middle of the night still waters inundated his neighborhood. we were told to

evacuate so that's what we did we took nothing little sick cept what we had. he showed us how the waters quickly rose to the upper floor of his house his father can't remember rains like it. was because i've never experienced anything like this is not a city that is prone to disasters this part of the city was one of the worst affected areas here as elsewhere the river simply couldn't handle the incredible surge of water and it broke its banks in three places inundating thousands of homes and sadly claiming lives with the break in the weather and waters receding emergency teams have stepped up their efforts to look for the missing the rising death toll has already made this one of the most lethal storms japan has experienced in decades at its height a broad swathe of western and southern japan were affected stretching emergency

teams to the limit many people couldn't escape the unprecedented rainfall in time and had to be rescued thousands of people remain displaced wondering when they can go home along the banks of the river rinku russia keep pumps work around the clock to bring down water levels in the coming days for the cold water family rebuilding their lives will take a lot longer so it's hard to express my feelings in words tatsuya tells us that he hopes he'll never have to again. ride al-jazeera akiyama prefecture japan. russia bedouin has been sown in for a second term as turkey's president at a ceremony in ankara i don't want to sue ms office with sweeping new powers after a controversial referendum on the role of the president in april last year critics say the changes undermine the strength of the country's democracy and centralize decision making in the office of the president meanwhile turkey's economy is

struggling and the currency has fallen significantly in recent months let's speak to the cinema correspondent in. in ankara send him tell us about these new powers. the president is going to assume under this new system and what have been the reactions to this new turn. beginning from one of the house hours ago president became the head of the state and head of the government and for the first time turkey has a president who is aligned with a political party so in many terms this is first and turkey this is what they call executive presidential system which has never been tested before in any of the countries and the ruling party and presents have always have that this is a turkish president a presidential system now turkey has a parliament and the president the president has many executive powers as well as

legislative powers and the despite the number of lawmakers in the parliament have been increased in the last election on june twenty fourth many critics say that the parliament is not as effective as before because it will not have the chance to monitor the presidency but even though. this by these critics the parliament has the right to. ask questions through the cabinet and the wise presidents of course. president are gone had more than fifty two percent in their lection he became the president but he has many critics as well first this is seen as the biggest overhaul of governance since the since the modern turkey was established on the reins of the ultimate state almost a century ago and many opponents say that this focus of this new system focuses on the majority and this leads to more also tarion ism because all of the powers most

of the powers are given on a silver plate to one. these are what the critics say on the other hand the president and the ruling party have been saying that and now turkey has a much stronger parliament and much stronger leader which means things will be much easier it will be much easier for turkish parliament to take decisions with the new ministers with the new cabinet was surprising thing is that the new cap as as an electoral pledge president that none of the lawmakers in the parliaments will be in the cabinet so who are who are going to be in the cabinet this is a question mark don is going to announce a new cabinet in a couple of hours at the end of his is ceremony but we know that there will be techno cross and there will be some former ministers who have taken place on the political scene off turkey yeah and now everybody's eyes are on add on

who will be the new president cabinets members especially the ministry of economy and the ministry of foreign affairs are very important because it turkey's economy have been suffering for a while due to the weakening turkish lira so everybody's curious whether to get a canonical measures are going to be a man who will definitely be an orgy almost see if it was big growing more peaceful it will be definitely watching those cabinet appointments with you know our correspondent in ankara turkey thank you very much for now is still ahead on al-jazeera we'll have more reaction on the resignation of boars johnson as british foreign secretary plus a british woman who came into contact with a nerve agent has died police want to know who's responsible and how this french legend will go up against his countrymen in the last war of the world cup joel have the details coming up to stay with us.

plenty of sunshine across the middle east normal service really has been resumed here barely a cloud in the sky actually it is going to be dry as we go through the next few days the winds of greater significance i suspect take a look at the temperatures mid forty's to kuwait city and also for baghdad that key when that sliding out of iraq pushing down towards the arabian peninsula twenty nine association by really lovely sunshine here this is the place to be similar valleys as we call and into the middle part of the week so still getting up into the mid forty's there from baghdad at forty six celsius to thirty sixth for a couple of praise here as well the much to see wanted to showers the into is back in style but otherwise it's generally try southeast of pakistan could see a little bit of wet weather now right in the forecast across the maybe potentially more sunshine that came wind continuing here in qatar over the next couple of days

hopefully easing off a touch as we go into wednesday but notice bit of an easterly feed so that my will just pick the humidity up once again meanwhile well this last you draw across southern africa a little bit of cloud into the southeast of south africa having said that eastern side of the country seeing a little more in the way of clouds possibility of one or two showers just around the mozambique channel. from mother to daughter an ancient croft kept alive by a bustling matriarch. from start to finish. old traditions intertwined with new designs making this family's place unique into an easy as rich cup of st louis the threads on a jersey. and

monday put it world on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. you're watching the news on al-jazeera reminder of our top stories now britain's

foreign secretary boris johnson has resigned less than twenty four hours after breakfast at minister david davis quit this comes after prime minister theresa may secured a hod want to remain from senior ministers on a strategy to leave the european union israel says it will shut down an important economic lifeline into the gaza strip the care will saletan crossing is a vital access point for supplies to the besieged territory israeli authorities are also stopping fishing boats from operating more than six miles off the coast and in thailand. it's been another successful day in a dangerous mission to rescue school boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave for more boys have been brought to the surface been airlifted to a nearby hospital and will join four others who were rescued on sunday. and the u.k.'s counterterrorism police say it's unclear whether the nerve agent that killed a british woman came from the same bad shot struck down a russian double agent four months ago. authorities believe forty four year old

dawn sergius may have handled an item contaminated with a substance normally charged in the town of amesbury a male friend she was with at the time is also critically year the pair came into contact with the poison in a town the city eleven kilometers away from seoul sperry where the script problems were attacked in march let's go to sonia go in solsbury son is a police trying to figure out whether there's a link between these two cases tell us first about the latest in the investigation . well folly there's just been another road that's closed close to salzburg the station where it it appears that a man has been taken ill on a bus there's no indication that it may have anything to do with the ongoing investigation into the navi chop poisonings but just give you some idea exactly how how the police are taking no chances with any of this and of course it doesn't

really do much to necessarily reassure the public already feeling quite nervous about this although reoccurrence of navi chalk poisonings but with that in mind yes the counterterrorism police chief did say that that so far it is unclear whether there is any link between the two chalk poisonings and a but it's certainly having . putting pressure more on the diplomatic. issues between london and moscow even though moscow already said on monday that even though they do feel sorry for the victims who succumbed to the novacek poisoning but they still maintain that they have nothing to do with it and it's purely a british matter ali right and tony i imagine of the people who live in this area and souls were extremely worried tell us about the reactions there. well it's sort of there is the sense where you see some people already having been

used to it for the first time it happened back in march it was very worrying for them to see this reappearance to get a lot of people feeling quite worried about it as well but there are others that we've spoken to was one of them have said look this is not necessarily surprising and maybe it was a case of these latest two victims that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time but still it's the the lack of definitive information which is really worrying people of course. and the fact that the police are trying to re trace the steps of both sturgis and male friend it's very difficult for people to actually have any sense of comfort in their own hometown when they're all these are knowns about as well and that with every sort of alert there is and with every person that takes a live course the first that comes to mind is that is it anything to do with that but of course police and public health england still say that there is

a low risk to the public and that's what people are hoping for even though they are still very nervous folly ok thank you for that sonya live for us insults very. germany and china have played a commitment to global trade order at a meeting between chancellor merkel and prime minister in berlin the pair signed a number of economic cooperation agreements between german and chinese companies lee's visit to germany comes in the wake of a tit for tat tariff war between china and the us will praise beijing for opening up its markets to foreign investment. the fact that so many ministers from various sectors are participating shows how intense and broad our cooperation is i think a reliable cooperation is particularly important in times of worldwide insecurity and is also important to openly discuss the issues we are not agreeing on. but are achieving success at the same time. syrian government forces have surrounded rebel

held parts of their os city where the uprising against president bashar assad began seven years ago the siege comes just three days after a russian brokered cease fire was agreed to four day raw harder reports from beirut . most of that are provinces now under government control tens of thousands of displaced people have returned to their villages they left makeshift camps close to the border with jordan after a ceasefire deal between the rebels and the russian military which has been negotiating on behalf of damascus but there are tens of thousands of others who are still camped out along the border with the israeli occupied golan heights. some of them are wanted by the syrian authorities for engaging in opposition activities it is risky for them to return without international guarantees. the people here are really shocked from what's been happening lately we can't believe how the rebels have been handing over territory to the government with no real guarantees the russians for example guaranteed government forces would leave

for towns under the cease fire deal those troops have been left and people can go back they fear arrest and executions and now some of them are under siege the rebel controlled part of the divided city of daraa is surrounded by government troops a few thousand people are trapped inside among them fighters their family members and members of the opposition rebel commander say the russian military is violating the cease fire deal by failing to provide safe passage to those who don't want to reconcile with the state they were supposed to be bussed to the opposition held areas and the norse that evacuation may now happen on tuesday government forces are already in control of more than seventy percent of that our province either through military force or surrender deals the opposition was in a difficult position the rebels didn't get any support from their regional international allies they were divided and they faced what they described as a scorched earth policy the government and its allies are close to regaining

complete control of the province where the uprising against president bashar assad's rule began over seven years ago they have taken most of the areas along the jordanian border except for the yarmouk valley under the control of the eisel affiliate armed group. and they consolidated control over the last strip of the main highway to the syrian capital damascus their target is not just that are they also want rebel areas in the neighboring province of connector they have the upper hand and the government is on the road to a final victory in the south so what they're actually. beirut. six civilians including four children have been killed and as strike by the saudi erotic coalition in yemen it happened near ties in the southwest of the country coalition air support is being used to back the government troops in the fight against the rebels in yemen. it is he and every tree have signed a declaration of peace and friendship and agreed to restore diplomatic relations

the two size of been on a military standoff for more than twenty years the decision came after a landmark visit by ethiopia's new prime minister to every tree of priyanka has the latest. with smiles at had chicks if your p.s. prime minister left eritrea and their decades long military standoff behind him addie abbott's visit was high on symbolism but also led to the most significant steps yet to its peace between the two longtime regional rivals at the but they don't know where you are now the chances and the opportunities were there for us and we were hoping to use them but they were locked away from us for the past twenty five years for twenty five years is not a short time the last we incurred in the past twenty five years cannot be recovered but today we feel like we have not lost anything we feel as if what we've lost has been regain. our forty. the wall that was built between our people against

their will for the last twenty years needs to be demolished the war that took the lives of thousands of wasted many years and cost us dearly financially and finally become war without. abuja took the first step weeks ago by surprise and controversial decision to accept the terms of a peace deal base signed of the year two thousand that ended a two year conflict over the shared border. and now be to leaders have decided to take it a step further by opening that border and reestablishing their embassies presuming flights and developing ports. but the forestall to peace has some sobering reminder there are a number of disputed territories along the border and territories will move both directions. and there are going to be communities like resist being. another national jurisdiction were divided by.

the border dispute has taken a toll atrios isolated regime and its focus on the conflict with has seen thousands of people flee the country to ski puts mandatory military conscription i.v. wants to put landlocked a few back on track as one of africa's spots to score economies with access to eritrea straight seaports but for many it's a coming together of the bitter force that have raised hopes for peace in the horn of africa. and to syria. the son of former south african president jacob zuma has been released on bail after corruption charges linked to his father's time in office thirty four year old. is a nature have tried to bribe a former deputy finance minister in two thousand and fifteen on behalf of the go to family the influential business sami's accused of benefiting from favorable

government contracts and mining deals during summers presidency to design is almost case has been postponed until next year. rights groups say at least fourteen people have been killed in nicaragua during a raid by pro-government armed groups street protests and the crackdown that followed have killed at least two hundred twenty people since april activists accuse president daniel ortega of repression and demanding he stand down his refuse and has also ruled out early elections. india's supreme court has rejected an appeal by three men convicted of a gang raping a woman on a bus in new delhi in two thousand and twelve the men had been hoping to have the death penalty sentence commuted but their plea was dismissed the case font widespread protests across india the victim later died of her injuries. two journalists have been ordered to stand trial in myanmar accused of breaking the country's secrecy laws. and while lone who work for the reuters news agency were

arrested en december while investigating the killing of muslim ranger they have created not guilty and say police planted evidence on them throwing three has more . defiant and determined while lone and emerge from a court in yangon after pleading not guilty to illegally obtaining secret state documents when you know why did we have whistle blower on human rights violations and corruption in russia and state by following journalism ethics because of that we face trial the two reuters journalists have been charged under myanmar's official secrets act they were arrested in december shortly after they were handed some documents by policeman who had asked to meet them the two reporters had been working on an investigation into the killing of ten muslim in rakhine state the military launched a crackdown there in august after a hinge of fighters attacked some police posts more than seven hundred thousand

revenge have since escaped to bangladesh amid allegations of murder rape and acid attacks by security forces the defense lawyer had urged the judge to throw out the case arguing that journalists had been set up to block their reporting on rakhine state police captain also told the court in april that a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to plant documents on wallowed to trap him the chief operating officer for reuters says he's disappointed in the judge's ruling on the face of it and certainly following the line of evidence we think they should be freed we think the charges shouldn't have been laid to begin with but we certainly hope that the court will see reason after this trial and so a creep. the case is being viewed as a test for press freedom this film is proving that they'll go to any length to sort of quassia any independent or credible reporting of the conflict that's going on in

rakhine state we have to keep in mind this is the government of the nobel prize winner who at one time which is a staunch defender of freedom of expression and now this government's overseeing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity as well is a really remarkable crackdown on press freedom for now it's back to prison for. to await trial the case is agenda to next monday. al-jazeera. had eggs on the faces brazil seem a ride home from the while kept a hostile one that's coming up next with us.

all right time for sports history ali thank you well manic monday is in full swing at wimbledon all the round of sixteen matches will be completed in the next couple of hours a time when a roger federer wasted no time in booking his place in the quarterfinals the defending champion eased past twenty two seed twenty second seed. france six love seven five six full federer has now won the last thirty two sets he's played at the all england club this place will face either gammon fiesole kevin anderson for a place in the last four on wednesday meanwhile the highest ranked player in the last sixteen in the women's draw carolina prisca is out the czech well number eight was beaten in straight sets by kiki persons of the netherlands all of the ten top women seeds have exited before the quarterfinals and that has really opened up the

draw for serena williams she's just beaten fellow mother of kenya or dino in straight sets to reach the last eight well serena will continue her bid for an eighth title against unseeded to tellen camilla. joji on tuesday but since he put venus williams out as well as discover will face thirteenth seed judea and two thousand and sixteen runner up and meets russia's derek kena two thousand and seventeen french open champion yelena also penco plays domenico civil cover. it would it would. of course we're counting down to the semifinals of the world cup founts france played belgium in the last four on tuesday and the richardson has arrived in st petersburg for that game andy how it both sets of fans feeling about the match that's coming up. while those that

are here if i'm quite confident has to be said there's not many of them here in st petersburg yet we keep seeing a peruvian in brazil found somebody really needs to point out that that seems almost longer to bowl but they seem reluctant to go home i think both the france and belgium arrive here with confidence and for good reason i mean it's quite funny actually bearing in mind that their neighbors geographically and they've played each other more than seventy times in terms of the world cup they haven't met that often the played in the first round back in nineteen thirty eight played in a third or fourth place play off in one thousand nine hundred six at this point for the most important game these two teams have been involved in with each other. from start to this tournament quite quietly their group stage culminating in that nil nil draw with denmark probably the worst game we've seen at these finals but since then they've really exploded in so large beating in siena for three that game seeing that the iraq war really on a global stage of that scene a striking killing and they followed that up with

a very controlled measured performance because you're quite willing that want to know and i asked for belgium they're the only team that have won all the games at these finals so far that the top school was with fourteen goals and they've just beaten brazil so both seems full of confidence in them both sets of fans with good reason thinking they can move on from st petersburg to the final in moscow on sunday and tell us about the role that the area really is playing in this rivalry it's quite interesting. it's a funny one isn't it he's front sees all time top scorer he sort of emerged as an international player that the world cup in one nine hundred ninety eight when he was twenty years of age when they want to win the title he's now the second assistant coach with belgium. belgium a. this problem they've got war class players but they talk of the funding really to bring in an absolutely top level manager roberto martinez is the man in charge at the moment the former wigan everton manager brought in two years ago the players

weren't particularly happy about what he's done very well at this tournament bring in as an assistant it's been been a bit of a stroke of genius really he's quite happily done it for a very small way cheese in fact donating out ways to a charity and he said he's quite open about the fact he's using it really to to gain experience get his coaching badges and then to move on to another job but in the main it's really sprinkled some some start over the coaching team and the players that in the past of had issues with that with the coaches belgium and might about an issue with martinez have really taken as a consequence they're buying into some martinez's tactics and and we've seen in the games against you. and against brazil but to be flexible that they're moving around as martin is one so much about it's down to one region for us yeah will be interesting to see how to carry on re celebrates and be the site school andy thank you. well brazil's homecoming for the world cup has left them with egg on their faces well it could have been if they weren't inside the bus that was pelted with

stones and eggs when they returned on monday brazil's team managed to scramble away before anyone was hurt all right that is a a school for now peter will have more eight hundred g.m.t. joe thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera do stay with us plenty more world news coming up very shortly from our team in london including the latest on the political crisis in britain to stay with us on al-jazeera. on counting the cost car wars the world's biggest exporters attempt to steer away from a damaging trade war with the u.s.

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program flown to safety for more boys are brought out of the flooded cave in thailand and the airlift at the hospital. choking off gaza's key economic lifeline israel announces the closure of the main crossing for goods into the gaza strip and more than one hundred people killed in floods and landslides that have devastated large parts of japan. hello welcome to the program u.k. prime minister to resign may has lost two of her a key cabinet ministers as disagreements over the best strategy for leaving the european union threaten to tear her ruling conservative party apart first david davis resigned this breaks at secretary he was swiftly followed by the foreign secretary boris johnson a leading figure in the referendums leave campaign paul brennan has more. on

friday the british prime minister theresa may announced agreement for a breakfast strategy in which the u.k. would align itself closely with many e.u. rules three days later it's all falling apart the resignation of boris johnson as her foreign secretary goes beyond policy differences this has the potential to become a leadership contest boris johnson was a figurehead of the twenty sixteen campaign for bracks it and he has long held ambitions to be prime minister himself the news of his resignation came shortly before theresa may came to parliament to explain friday's agreement and she was met with laughter and derision from the opposition and stony faces from her own side in the two years since the referendum we have had a spirited national debate in the. way through past abuse occurring around the cabinet table as they have on prepress tables up and down the country how can anyone have faith in the prime minister

getting good good deal with twenty seven european union governments when she can't even broker a deal within her own cabinet. first late on sunday david davis the man tasked with actually negotiating bracks it with the e.u. chose to resign rather than present a strategy he did not agree with in his resignation letter he wrote the general direction of policy will leave us in at best a week negotiating position and possibly an inescapable one to resubmit a replied i do not agree with your characterization of the policy we agreed on at cabinet on friday i'm sorry that you have chosen to leave the government when we have already made so much progress the internal divisions of the conservative party were one of the reasons the previous prime minister david cameron called the two thousand and sixteen british referendum and the narrow victory for the leave campaign has done nothing to resolve the political gulf between the hardliners who

reject the e.u. entirely and. other members who want to so-called soft bricks it's staying closer to the e.u. but one such hard line a says it's not yet time for this prime minister to quit this is about policy and also about the individual but the policy needs to go back to what it was before the status quo and after mr davis's departure the prime minister quickly promoted a junior minister dominic robb to replace him whether she will last long enough to appoint a replacement for boris johnson is uncertain paul brennan al-jazeera. well let's go straight live down to westminster and speak told is there is lawrence leigh lawrence sometimes it's hard to remember really that it's been two years since the actual vote and that in nine months the united kingdom should actually be leaving the european union where do we stand now when it comes both of course to terrorism a the leadership of the conservative party do you think there's any chance of a possible general election. i'm not sure about a general election no i think i think there's every chance though of

a leadership contest for the conservative party and i'm sure that's the reason his office now is potentially expecting want to come from boris johnson or someone much like him and i think it will you know it looks like there's a threat to her on a more level because there is this very hard core group of right wing conservative plays that regards the dealership trying to push the european union as a betrayal of the brics vote the problem for them is that actually it looks like they probably don't have the votes inside the conservative party necessarily to unseat and i think there's possibly a sense in which the reason may have people have decided eventually to draw these people out of the woodwork to force them to come out against even if it means a leadership on sized on the assumption that it's a leadership concepts that more likely than norse she would win and if that happens

then those people that block of people would then be completely sidelined and she would have a much clearer upon with the european union to negotiating something and that in turn would be much clearer for the european union as well so it sounds like high stakes but it's been a long time coming for months and months and months now we've been waiting to see which side treason is going to go on and what the fallout would be it's now eventually happened the dams broken and it almost needs they sort of bloodletting to come out and to see which way it falls because it can carry on like a housed in since really the last eighteen months and laurenson just over the weekend it had seemed that their tourism a did put together some kind of deal to put to the european union what do they stand now when it comes to negotiations. well i think the european union side i think one level i feel

a bit sorry for some reason may because they understand that she's trying to bridge the unbridgeable inside her own party now clearly if assuming that she carries on through this week whether or not there's more talk about egypt on says she will publish a paper on thursday and of the same time will go to the european union and then they'll get a chance to look at it and next week the negotiations with them the e.u. side are supposed to start and eventually the e.u. sides will have a paper from which a negotiation can begin but the other thing you can say with absolute certainty from the e.u. side is that they see a conservative party in the government in this country that is really close to mortally wounded and therefore very weak and fragile and that puts them in a very strong position in trying to push and coerce the u.k. side and see into accepting more and more of the things they want because they do want to trade deal with the with the u.k. they want to keep the u.k. as close as they can to its even if the u.k. ends up leaving and so you know the it starts to len's over the course of time and

through the summer and the old some to the idea that instead of being a very hard brics states assuming boris johnson loses leadership and says they will be a very soft brics it will potentially no brics is a tool of through all this time all right sleepy with the latest there outside westminster lawrence thank you. for more school boys have been brought to safety from inside a flooded cave in thailand bringing the total number rescued to eight now the boys are said to be recovering well in hospital that fastens has the latest. finally they saw daylight after spending weeks deep underground in a flooded gave the second batch of boys emerged much sooner than expected after a dangerous for kilometer journey to level flooded passages with life fully into

the hands of cave divers let flown in from all over the world to guide them out the boys are being kept in isolation to make sure they didn't get any infectious diseases inside the cave an agonizing wait for their parents who were allowed to see them but not get near to them yet because. i want to report some progress the boys are happy and well that chang right hospital this morning one of the boys was hungry he asked for a mission chile dish with rice barons feared the worst when their boys disappeared more than two weeks ago after entering the caves just before it got flooded only to be found nine days later in relative good health it was a tough call to make to rescue the boys who concert him nor die for this flooded and narrow gateway it could only work if the boys wouldn't panic and fully rely on the rescuers for guidance although details of the rescue operation have yet to

emerge it's safe to say that this tricky plan has so far been successful authorities say the boys are doing fine despite their ordeal by details about their medical conditions have not been released dramatic disappearance of the football team and their equally dramatic rescue has not only captivated thailand but many worldwide help has poured in from around the globe something the parents of the boys say they will never forget as long as they live step fasten al-jazeera at that time long cave in northern thailand. well as we've been hearing the rescue operation is a difficult and dangerous one well this is the journey of the boys have now made and the journey which still faces those remaining four boys and their coach are still trapped here on a muddy bank four kilometers inside the cave system while to get out each boy is guided by two trained cave divers using ropes through

a series of narrow dark passages in several places the cave is submerged in there on the water for up to fifteen minutes at a time further on that they have to exchange their diving gear for climbing equipment to get up steep rocky slopes before reaching the cave entrance that's a total journey of five to six hours well scott heide larry joins us live now from outside the hospital at chiang rai so we understand that eight of the boys are there what do we know about their conditions called. however yes they are the last four as we heard from step story right there that you know the last four boys were brought out in today's monday's grouping we saw them trickle in they came in by ambulance just over my shoulder and they're in the hospital building behind me there's a floor in there that's dedicated that was set up just for them thirteen beds waiting for the thirteen to come out eight are full now they want to fill those

other five their conditions now we know are in relatively good health we haven't gotten too much detail at all as to what that means other any complications where there are any ailments but what we do know they're not taking any chances the medical professionals and the officials here in thailand they are keeping them quarantined. as we heard from step it's a worry about infectious diseases i would imagine yes if they caught anything in the case but i also would imagine because of that the ordeal they've gone through their immune systems must be taxed so they're also worried about other bacteria and other diseases other infections being passed on to them too so right now they're being extremely careful good spirits they're described as being in very good spirits obviously if they're out but right now we don't know the specifics of what their health condition is other than it's good well i guess it is a release anyway that they are out but there are as you mentioned still four boys and the coach still in the cave what do we know about when they will be trying to

get out and also what their condition is like there because of course is to six.