superfriends we're going back to a poor south african neighborhood where music and tradition come together in an annual competition with people who. we want on al-jazeera. jubilation as rescuer is a celebrate the safe least of all twelve young thai footballers and their coach after being trapped in a flooded cave for seventeen days. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up on the program. america. a life. of the old you don't have. a blonde tribute for donald trump from

europe as the u.s. president heads through what's shaping up to be a contentious nato summit. the trucks a stop here israel closes the last commercial crossing into gaza to all but aid and medicine and free after eighteen years of house arrest in china the widow of nobel peace prize winning decided to go arrives in your. welcome to the program it was the moment the world had been waiting for after seventeen days of being trapped inside a flooded cave system officials have confirmed all twelve tibe boys and their football coach have been rescued in just three days an elite team of diverse succeeded in navigating dangerous paths passages a flooded caves to bring them out to safety. tuesday was the third and final phase

of the operation the boys and their coach are now recovering in hospital where they're expected to be quarantined for a week. me one so we're glad we're so happy that all thirteen from the soccer team have left the cave today we're giving away apples giving away everything food there so if anything i would like to thank everyone who helped i'll feel like all thais will feel now after going through their rollercoaster of emotions all the way after . everybody will feel relieved. said fasteners more now from the rescue site in chiang rai. this is as far as we can get to the case where this incredible rescue operation has now been completed of course it's the best news that we've heard since a long time that now the twelve boys and a coach all safe and sound outside of the cave including the tide navy seals who are with the good doctor with been staying with them for

a whole week and it's been a very very tricky and dangerous rescue operation taking place over three days the first two days every day four boys were taken out today five people have been taken out of the four boys and it caused an uproar so well a lot of dangerous and it was a very difficult call to make for your forward to give the go ahead to this rescue operation because they knew it was very risky and very dangerous but they had to do it because at one stage of course the weather was giving them not much more time to delay it it was a lot of predictions of perhaps product coming in the next few days and also this morning it was already a very bad writer and there was a very high risk that the water levels in the case would go up again and make it a lot more dangerous for the boys to come out so they had to make this call and they did it and the boys who had no experience with diving let alone cave diving some of them couldn't even swim they had to go through this very narrow very narrow

gateway which at some point was only like forty centimeters you can not imagine how scary that must have been it was completely dark very murky water and they had to go move themselves through that and the boys and their coach have been proven extremely resilient condom agita have been in the cave for ten days without even knowing they would ever be rescued then they had to wait for a whole week if they could actually be rescued through this very dangerous gateway and then they had to cave dive something they've never done before and of course the whole world and also high. especially thailand has now a big sigh of relief here everyone is very relieved that this has and so well. the size of the cave will go real in the going to south side the hospital that's treating the rescue boys she joins us live as we were hearing of course of the whole world really very relieved very happy about this news but tell us

a little bit about how these boys are doing especially the last four that were rescued along with the with the coach would be in the cave for seventeen days what is their medical prognosis like all we know barbara basically is that those who have been rescued sunday and monday are basically doing very well they are in stable condition two of the children have been diagnosed with lung infections and they are now being treated most of them have are being basically under quarantine there are laboratory tests that need to be run and so they will have to be under medical care for about a week we are not sure if is it go contacts with the parents have already been established there are reports that some parents were able to see their children through the glass window what we know is that everyone is in relatively good health just about two hours ago the last batch of rescued the player and the coach had

been sent back there's no report to how they're doing but there is basically an assumption that they are doing as well as others to reel in dog and with the latest in china right outside the hospital with the boys are being treated jamila thank you. president donald trump is on route from the united states for a three nation european tour it will take him first to brussels for a nato summit then on to the u.k. for his first official visit there and finally to finland for a face to face meeting with the russian leader vladimir putin trump has already said his meeting with the russian leader in helsinki may prove easier than those with his nation's traditional european allies he's vowed that european countries will not take advantage of the u.s. accusing them of not spending enough on the feds. i don't think it is fairly but i

think we'll work something out very far too much they say far too little but we will work it out. countries will be happy the u.k. that situation. so i have they don't. have the u.k. which is somewhat turmoil and i have both frankly put maybe double would say. who would indeed well ahead of the summit of the european council president said the u.s. will to remember who would say friends are the america up to shit your allies of the old you don't have the money and you europe spend them all on the old firms because everyone who spoke the truth will prepare it creeped money's important about gender and even more important. well one of the european countries

that is on track to hit the nato target of spending two percent of g.d.p. on defense is poland it's came to establish a permanent u.s. military presence on its territory and says it's willing to pay two billion dollars for the privilege of a change of reports now from the polish capital warsaw. the thought of their russian neighbor looms large and polish mine ministry has proposed setting up a joint armored division which would have fifteen thousand u.s. troops and a total of two hundred fifty tanks and armored vehicles. they say establishing such a force would present an unequivocal challenge and the terence to what they described as russia's increasingly bold and dangerous posture towards europe. the pentagon is reported to be actively engaged on costing the plan but moscow has warned it will retaliate against any nato expansion on its western flank part my

gotten this is the dream of all military people including me and that i believe many many people in poland citizens for the last thirty years were dreamt were dreaming about because soon as we join nato we felt kind of like a second great member or second second well second great member of the of the alliance because we could not have. permanent or even temporary and nato bases here the monuments in warsaw marking the second world war show all too clearly why the poles want to shelter under the wings of washington six million of their citizens died most of them civilians under the successive occupations by nazi germany and the soviet union and the poles are very conscious that one of the reasons why. the second world war happened why they suffered so much was because of the facts not just the lack of security guarantee as those were actually in place but the actual

lack of real armed forces that could have to for. potence when called. after the turbulent g. seven summit maybe not enough diplomatic paper to cover the cracks in this week's nato summit whatever the outcome though poland hopes to benefit the most david al-jazeera warsaw the only remaining crossing point to get goods into gaza has been shut down by israel in what has mass is calling a crime against the palestinian people the karma will sell and point is an economic lifeline for residents already struggling with a nearly twelve year blockade of gaza by israel and egypt commercial and industrial goods will be blocked only humanitarian aid medical supplies and food will be allowed through harry for says he is at the crossing. well there are trucks moving here at the exit point of the caramel crossing known as the kerem shalom crossing in israel the crossing itself is a few hundred meters down that rather winding road towards the israeli border but

the trucks that we've been seeing coming through have been those carrying in the instances we've seen animal feed that is part of the humanitarian goods that israel says will still be allowed to cross along with food and medicine but they're shutting down all other materials in just the material commercial consumer goods largely construction material is the crucially important thing for the gazan economy and they're doing that in response to what we've been seeing over the last several weeks now several months the flying of kites and balloons carrying except in century material from gaza into israeli territory setting fire to thousands of hectares of israeli agricultural and forest land the responses changed from what had been a military one targeting hamas sites within gaza it continued and so now they're trying this economic group that is of course going to be hugely damaging to the two million people living inside gaza forty percent unemployment the economic crisis that is currently there the only real alternative could be what is just over here

this is the exit point for goods that come from egypt through the rougher crossing and since mid may egypt has decided to keep that crossing open currently about thirty or forty trucks come through every day largely carrying construction goods the question is whether hamas will be able to source all the other things that usually come through israel through some kind of egyptian route if they do then conversely it could be good news for hamas because they would then start collecting the tens of millions of dollars a month in taxes on those goods that are currently collected on behalf of the palestinian authority of mahmoud abbas in the occupied west bank the p.a. which has been trying to squeeze hamas in terms of its finances as well that could be a very complicated process to try and organize the logistics involved in totally resourcing the hundreds of trucks worth of goods that come into gaza every day in the shorter term this is going to have a severe impact on the already crisis ridden gazan economy. still to come here on

al-jazeera the cleanup begins in japan after catastrophic flooding as officials say more than one hundred fifty people have died and the bass all over arab homeland in central asia it's pitted farmers against the mad occurred and forced hundreds from their homes. welcome back to take a look at weather conditions across eastern parts of china and taiwan it's typhoon maria which is the main concern is going to go just over the northern parts of taiwan and then hit very close to food issue and it's going to be associated with some extremely strong is a big seas we're looking at way fights well in excess of ten to twelve meters and there could well be some coastal inundation here over the next twelve to twenty

four hours as the system moves on shore so it's likely to hit around zero g.m.t. into wednesday so terentia rain is likely flooding the mass evacuations across this area i think hong kong is largely in the clear maybe more shower activity will be a bit windy and cloudy but i don't think was home to many worries that across the rest of indochina scattered showers for laos and vietnam some big rainfall totals being reported here the same goes for total parts of me and more yang gong looks to be pretty wet across into south asia we've got this area of cloud in the circulation to the northwest of. poor some heavy rain down through the western ghats but generally across much of india the monsoon rain is at its peak some very heavy rain calcutta could be wet but the most part delhi should get away with it largely dry. with over forty foundation people killed under his roof it took twenty five years

to bring him to a court of law but why for so long was such a brutal dictator considered an ally of the west who are reporting to the congress that the press there were. al-jazeera unravels the history of trads notorious former president is saying dictator on trial on al-jazeera. a reminder now the top stories on al-jazeera all twelve boys and their football coach trapped inside a flooded cave system in thailand for seventeen days have been rescued they're now

recovering in hospital and are expected to be quarantined for a week u.s. president donald trump is on route to brussels for what could prove to be a highly contentious summit he's accused nato partners of not paying their way and there's really has closed that cut him up and salim crossing the last commercial entry points into gaza israel says it will now only allow humanitarian aid and medical supplies and food to. the wife of the chinese dissident a nobel peace prize winner and bull died last year has arrived in germany after being freed from eighty years of house arrest usually air flow first from beijing to helsinki before heading to berlin and for medical treatment her husband died while serving an eleven year jail sentence for inciting subversion adrian brown's war now from beijing. lucia had said she was prepared to die under house arrest her family feared that was

a real possibility as her depression and health problems worse of the artist was never charged with any crime but spent the last eight years of virtual prisoner in her beijing home emerging only occasionally to talk to journalists and her lawyers she was married to lucia who in two thousand and ten became the first chinese person to win the nobel peace prize his award placed symbolically on an empty chair his acceptance speech written just before his arrest. i firmly believe that china's political progress will not stop and i filled with optimism look forward to the advent of a future free china. died of liver cancer almost a year ago he'd been allowed to leave prison for emergency treatment but was banned from leaving china for medical care china's most famous dissident was serving an eleven year sentence for subversion. for now lucia will live in exile

in germany which is where china's premier league chung was on monday so fair to assume luiz release was finalized during his talks with germany's chancellor but on tuesday a chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman denied this saying lu had travel to germany in accordance with her we'll see whether it is related to the high level diplomatic meetings going on at the moment i don't see any connection lou shells release comes at a time when china is seeking to strengthen alliances with countries which like china oppose the trading policies of the united states next week a summit of chinese and leaders of the european union will be held here in beijing so it's possible that the decision to free lu is a goodwill gesture china's president xi jinping has presided over a three year long campaign against most forms of dissent what was permissible

a decade ago can now land you in jail which is where many human rights lawyers political activists and journalists now languish in adrian brown al jazeera beijing with the rescuers in southwestern japan they're searching for survivors after its worst flooding from metal decades fifty six people are still missing and at least one hundred fifty people are now confirmed dead with thousands evacuated from their flooded homes rubble bride reports now from the city. right soldiers and emergency crews go from house to house to make sure no one has been missed in the flood scale. hello they call out is there anyone there with dozens of people still unaccounted for the rescuers appeals are being repeated in affected communities throughout this part of japan. a couple of streets away hiroshi issues that he and his extended family have returned to see what they can salvage from

what used to be their home like most of his neighbors they go about the task with a quiet stoicism. and like many japanese here they believe the storms have been getting worse so i can connect. recently around here there's been more rain and the river bank is just over there so i've been worried the river defenses in this city are formidable but even they couldn't hold back the torrent of water all japanese cities have in place elaborate plans for dealing with natural disasters but these rains were so unprecedented it led to a surge of water that it seems talk the local governments as well as people here completely by surprise. once this cleanup is over city leaders will be asking how better to prepare for the next time. hiroshi issues zacky isn't sure he wants to face

a next time. my feeling is i won't live here because something like this might happen again. preparing for the future is never certain made all the harder by apparently worsening weather bride al-jazeera city japan. there have been more resignations from terrorism a conservative party over the prime minister's breck's strategy to vice chair is say they are now quitting that's after breaks and they go see it today with davis and the foreign secretary boris johnson both resign for the same reason over a twenty four hour period john holl has more trooping into downing street a brand new brags it minister and a brand new foreign minister surrounded by revamped cabinet to resume a survives as prime minister after a turbulent few days but in the current state of british politics there's no guarantee that living to fight another day means any more than just that.

principle job at a time of massive import structuring is to stand behind the prime minister so that we should get through an agreement with the european union based on what is agreed by the cabinet last we checked this. process that is a strong constant but. global britain recent days have seen two senior ministers resign in protest at war tourism a has chosen as her preferred approach to breaks it a business friendly strategy with close trade ties to the e.u. some of those who favored a clean break have called it a sellout among them now former foreign minister and titan of the pro breaks it campaign boris johnson and david davis the minister who had been in charge of negotiations with the e.u. in his resignation letter johnson wrote briggs it should be about opportunity and hope it should be a chance to do things differently that dream he said is dying suffocated by

needless self-doubt there had been concerns inside downing street that johnson widely thought to cover the top job might launch a bid to unseat the prime minister but that would require the support of other senior breaks its supporters in cabinet and downside people like michael gove the environment minister. and what do you think of course johnson's decision and david davis decision to resign my mind boris and david very much i'm sorry that that went. and histories are may now in trouble as a result of all this you know. tourism a said she was looking forward to getting on with a busy week england in the semifinals of the world cup u.s. president donald trump on a u.k. visit. one hundred years since the birth of the royal air force the prime minister trying to give the impression of a leader not in crisis jonah hole al-jazeera london. the major ian army has

released a hundred and eighty three children after they were cleared of any ties to the armed group boko haram the un children's agency says the miners were released the might agree the capital of northeastern state borno the children aged between seven and eighteen were detained while being investigated for any links to boko haram fighters. or further south a decades old fight for land between farmers and the magic cattle herders in central asia area has forced hundreds more people from their homes the dispute over grazing rights is often led to extreme violence between the two sides and as a credit risk now reports from the heart of farming country there are fears it could affect the nation's food supplies. this plant has been producing confectionery for more than half a century it's located in just the epicenter of ethnic and religious violence in central marjorie. over the past twenty years it has lost staff revenue and

equipment it's turned green he was a crisis that the company has been impacted at local level real hard to be confronted with the time shall start this inflict on our staff the morale of brokaw's and generally does will affect productivity but also we have had to contend with a logistics and supply chain is it's impacted by in terms of where we have to move goods across the room on this the governor of florida state agrees for now we had a lot of proposals from investors rushing to bloodlust it in fact it was difficult for me in the last month to decide would you invest all or be given a priority to go money this on their own blood to what does it have been. you find. already. there's already rising as that.

all around are reminders of previous violence that him that economic growth and hurt investor confidence this used to be just central market it was burned down in violence in two thousand and two it used to be the biggest source of revenue for the state government but efforts to rebuild it was abundant twice some say because of political or ethnic considerations. book or below he says he lost two hundred fifty thousand dollars when his five shops along with hundreds of others were burned fifteen years ago many owners have not fully recovered what is the mood with those who will date some of left the city the rest are just hanging in there all traders will be is here as are the markets were shut down you can imagine. in the agricultural production areas of central nigeria many farmers have abandoned the fields for fear of attacks so have the nomadic herdsman whose settlements were destroyed the two communities have been trying all of her land and other resources

these shortages of. agricultural produce food pretties in the market this is what we're seeing currently and the presence of such goods as well tomato potatoes and what have you were the increase because farmers have been threatened. for now the violence has been brought under control but tensions remain and the displaced city is taking refuge as some of them know over the last two decades it only takes a small spark to ignite another cycle of killings and mosque displacement. al-jazeera. excitement is building for the first semifinal of the football world cup in just under two hours the european neighbors france and belgium or face off for a place in sunday's final fans have been gathering in the belgian city of and torp of paul brennan has joined them and he joins us live from there so paula how are

the belgium fans feeling ahead of this game. i will if it is quite nervous i have to say the gates of the found zone here open just twenty five minutes ago people started coming in with the. hot sun the fly in the sailors in their horns to buy the space to close to the big screen as they possibly want to be but there isn't really an overconfidence that i'm detecting here speaking to people in town. the belgian shirts are everywhere belgian flags being the taxi drivers there that they're worried they know that this is a massive game and they know that the team is papal bull but belgium has come close to slipping up before me you look at the last sixteen where they went to kneel down to japan before scoring three goals in quick succession to rescue that particular match being the preseason return of the favorites is not necessarily a guarantee of success so that the fans here are hopeful it believe that their team can do it but they're not counting the chickens just yet i guess they're not and

also they're facing france which has won the world cup before twenty years ago but how important do you think of victory or just being in a semifinal is the belgium. this is massive i mean it's a small country eleven million people a vocal hold their academy system to bring through. cool to see young players now and that seems to be paying dividends with the generation of players that we've got playing in this team now the other thing is you know the best belgium of ever done before was mexico in eighty six when they reached the semifinal then only to be beaten two nil by argentina the great maradona's team and then they went through to the third place play off and guess who beat them in that match france so the really keen to go one better this time at least one better win the semifinal go through the final and they hope to win the whole thing but they too paul brennan life precedent for a whole thing. and much more on the world cup and everything else that we have been

covering here on al-jazeera on our website there it is the address al jazeera dot com. and the reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera all twelve boys and their football coach trapped inside a flooded cave in thailand for seventeen days have been rescued in just three days an elite team of divers the succeeded in navigating the dangerous cave system to bring them out safely they're now recovering in hospital and they are expected to be quarantined for a week. before i meet one so we are glad we are so happy that all thirteen from the soccer team have left the cave today we are giving away apples giving away everything food water if anything i would like to thank everyone who helped but i will feel like all thais will feel now after going through their rollercoaster of

emotions all the way after the two weeks was everybody will feel relieved to know. u.s. president donald trump is on route to brussels for a nato summit an organization that he's been highly critical of from then heads to the u.k. and then to finland for a meeting with the russian president vladimir putin has said that meeting putin may be easier than meeting america's traditional european allies saying they do not spend enough on the fence. israel has closed the. crossing the last commercial entry point into gaza israel says it will now only allow humanitarian aid medical supplies and food to the point is an economic lifeline for residents were struggling with the nearly twelve year book aid of gaza by israel and egypt have called the move a crime against the palestinian people the wife of the late chinese dissident

and nobel peace prize winner has arrived in germany after being freed from eight years of house arrest you jeab flew to helsinki before heading to berlin for medical treatment her husband died last year while serving in eleven year jail sentence for inciting subversion. and then the jury an army has released one hundred eighty three children after they were cleared of ties to the armed group. the u.n. children's agency says the miners were released the might agree the capital of borno state unicef says around a thousand miners have been abducted by the group since two thousand and thirteen we'll bring you more on that story and everything else we've been covering in the half an hour i'm going to be back with another half hour of news and stay with us though coming up next if you find a latin america. viewfinder

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