oh. joy in thailand and around the world as divers rescue the last four school boys and their football coach from a flooded k. . alone barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up on the program. the life. of the old you don't have. a blunt message from the e.u.'s president trump sets off for what's expected to be a stormy nato summit nigeria's army releases a hundred and eighty three children some as young as seven after clearing them of times to block it out and free at last after eighty years under house arrest china

allows the widow of nobel peace prize winner usually go to fly to germany. it was the moment the world had been waiting for after seventeen days trapped deep inside a flooded cave system all twelve type boys and their football coach have been rescued in just three days and then the team of divers has succeeded in navigating dangerous passages of flooded caves to bring them out to safety the last four boys and their twenty five year old coach were rescued earlier in the third and final phase of the operation they're all now recovering in hospital where they are expected to be quarantined for a week. meanwhile we are glad we are so happy that all thirteen from the soccer team have left the cave today we're giving away. apple's giving away everything

food water every thing i would like to thank everyone who helped me i will feel like all ties i feel now after going through their roller coaster of emotions all the way after two weeks plus everybody will feel relieved to know it was a vast and is 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 side navy seals were 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 floor voice and it caused an uproar so well a lot of dangerous and it was

a very difficult call to make for the authority 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 there 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 cave 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 adjenda 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 thailand especially thailand as a big sigh of relief here everyone is very relieved that this has and so well. latest there from outside the cave in duggan joins us from outside the hospital that's treating the rescued boys jimmy less seventeen days in a cave and then that journey to get out of the cave for some of them five six hours for some even longer than that how are the three boys and the coach doing. well there have no effect there's no official bulletin so far as to those who have been rescued today the ones that were issued in terms of the medical bulletin were

sunday and monday and they're doing well we were told that two of them contracted lung infections there under observations and they most likely will stay in the hospital for over a week now what we're expecting though is that the ones who have been delivered today to the hospital are largely going to be under stable condition still they have to go to several tests what we also know is that there have been no physical contact yet between the children and their parents but we were told that the parents were able to see some of their children through a glass window that's what we know so far after the last two convoys that passed through us when the gate while the streets were closed they have now been made open basically signaling that all of them are now under hospital care barbara and really it was such a complicated operation when first of all just finding the boys when they first went missing and then trying to get them out of the cave and it has all gone fantastically well it's a good news story so what is reaction being on the ground to this rescue.

well this is something basically that not grip not only thailand as you know headlines all around the world it is something that connects everyone who's been a parent or a sibling the solidarity here created the global solidarity created here is what makes it unique you know we've got thailand working with different countries which is now seen this situation as a test case as to how other humanitarian coordinated efforts should be done not just in southeast asia but all across the world so now what remains to be seen though is how this can spiral into other coordination with other countries especially in the region in southeast asia where infrastructure continues to lag behind barbara to really get outside the hospital there in chiang rajan the thank you.

u.s. president donald trump says meeting vladimir putin may be the easiest to parse of risk three nation the european tour this week well he's currently on his way to brussels for what looks set to be a contentious things of summits with america's traditional allies that it's on to the u.k. for his first official visit there and finally on to finland for a face to face meeting with the russian leader now he's vowed that european countries will not take advantage of the u.s. trump is accusing them again of not spending enough on the goods dado just to get their way but i think we'll work something out very far too much as a safeguard to little but we will work it out. for countries to be happy the u.k. that's the situation that resorts below. so i have to say though. i asked the u.k. which is somewhat serve or an absolute frankly maybe double fault

which they would say. well ahead of the summit the european council president donald tusk said the u.s. ought to remember who its friends are the america up to shit your allies after all you don't have that many. and you europe spend them all on your the firm's because everyone respects and they're like that is well prepared and equipped money is important about generating solidarity is even more important. the un has criticised israel's closure of the only crossing point to get goods into gaza in response to palestinians launching incendiary kites over the border the qatar level salim 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 are being blocked with only humanitarian aid medical supplies and food

allowed through the u.n. special coordinator is urging israel to reverse its decision and gaza's rulers have asked to stop the case carrefour says is that the crossing. where there are trucks moving here at the exit point of the carriage 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 materials 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 it was really 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. a 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 those

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 gaza economy. excitement is building for the first semifinal of the football world cup which kicks off in just under an hour european neighbors of france and belgium will face off for a place in sunday's final let's go live to the pascha butler who is with french fans in the capital paris so a lot of people gathered behind you there would you say that the french fans are quite optimistic seeing is that actually want to world cup before.

their imagination you can probably hit the fans behind them just that way so that you can actually be revered said to be sixty town the rule and the french the mare paris or should say i actually said that if problems was to get into the semifinals then she would invite people to watch on this big screen twenty thousand people are here they're still coming in actually some of them have been queuing for a long time it is the sea of red white and blue everyone's favorite very excited you know the politics going to be a tough opponent but they say the fans i spoke to said they don't care thank you for the power to make quite certain that their team is going to win and you know what we got a nice spirit because sometimes it goes they said really nice the france is playing well jim in this the semifinal be close to two countries are very close they share of food so that they are makers they can shake the language some of them and one

told me you know to be like playing thank you to me and you played with the same time. that passion but there are there in paris with just fifty minutes to go before the start of the semifinal the passion for now thank you well unsurprisingly fans are also out in force in the belgian city of and paul brennan is there for us whole what's the atmosphere there. when you are. trying to think you can hear the atmosphere then you probably see it as well oh my shows us twenty five thousand pounds came down here to see thousand feet were still soon gone in the course of the final we're expecting a similar number here the seething despite a drizzle temperatures down in the kind of high scenes instead of the heat wave that we've been enjoying in europe for the past couple of weeks on the island seems to be good for about the mobs and the belgian coach to get an unbeaten record since he took her into the pulse of belgium on the head to head meetings between the two

nations seventy three of them saying soft shell is a muslim compared to crown so on the winning frenzy for it is going to be a tough game and the people here that we've been speaking to acknowledge they know that the team is a golden generation of the not take anything for granted the prime minister the child to see all the fans on social media and says i how confidence i think we can win and we can put our differences in the fridge he said recently put him on ice today just supermarkets are closed in order to allow people to stop at circulating to watch the game with less than a crawl i think you're going to hear next simon says that in the building we can hear indeed paul brennan and live in antwerp hall for the moment thank you. and still to come in this half hour the cleanup begins after a catastrophic flooding in japan officials say at least one hundred and fifty six people have died and two vice chair is from terry's amaze conservative party become

the latest to prate over the prime minister's breck's its strategy more after the break. welcome back and look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia and it's looking largely fine here at the moment tashkent is looking very hot at the moment and really temperatures upper thirty's low forty's for most bank that nearly forty five degrees but i think for again it looks at could be a another day of temperatures up to fifty degrees who go to sea breezes of course around the mediterranean coastline so twenty nine degrees in beirut is quite pleasant summer so temperatures are to head on through into thursday so let's move down in theater a b. and potentially on the western side not a great deal of change temperatures are into the mid forty's on the eastern side

we've had a wind pick up the showers come through and just taken a lot really humid air away with it but the winds will start to ease off again so we're going to see a humidity creeping ever our ports of in the next few days so forty four degrees and high humidity expected here in doha as we head down into southern portions of africa the weather is looking mostly fine because some clouds along the coast of mozambique which may just give the old chap but otherwise fine conditions here how this big sunny and seventeen degrees and not a great to change heading through into thursday up into central parts of africa some pretty heavy showers here of course but it was the gulf of guinea and lagos nigeria could see the old downpour.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera all twelve boys and their football coach trapped inside a leather case system in thailand for seventeen days have been rescued and now recovering in hospital and are expected to be quarantined for a week u.s. president donald trump is a new to brussels for what's shaping up to be

a difficult nato summit trump then heads to the u.k. and then to finland for a meeting with the russian president vladimir putin and the u.n. has urged israel to reverse its decision to close the karama processing the last commercial entry points into gaza israel says it will only allow humanitarian aid medical supplies and food. then the jury an army has released one hundred eighty three children after they were cleared of any time to the armed group boko haram the u.n. children's agency says they would release them by the glory the capital of northeastern state borno aged between seven and they teen the children were detained while being investigated for any links to boko haram fighters unicef says around a thousand miners have been abducted by the group since two thousand and thirteen well off with more now from the capital of. the children aged between seven years and eighteen eight girls and one hundred and seventy five boys and they were taken

into administrative custody according to one security source different times and in different locations some of them are told to be members of family family members of book white on fighters others are thought to have escaped from boko haram camps and some indeed rescued by the army following approaches north positions in northeast nigeria so it's difficult to say whether there were taken all of the same time but what we know we've seen abducting a lot of to britain. recruiting them to carry out suicide missions exploding suicide devices in crowded places in northeast nigeria so the army is saying that these these children was viciously considered to be dangerous to society and it has taken them this long to verify that they have no links whatsoever to book white on fighting in the northeast of nigeria and of course the neighboring countries

between two thousand and seventeen and this year hundreds of them in fact thousands of these children have been released by book by the nigerian security forces because they were found to be not connected to a book quite of fighters and so there was no need to sort of keep them in administrative custody though handed over to the united nations children's fund unicef and social welfare offices in borno state my degree now they are going to undergo a long process of rehabilitation before they are fully integrated into the society . rescuers in southwestern japan are still searching for survivors after the worst flooding in 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 from. mcbride reports. 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 have a man. 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 impressive dented it led to a surge of water that it seems took 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 that he isn't sure he wants to face in next time we can what beginning last monday 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 rob mcbride al-jazeera city japan. the british prime minister terrorism a has the fend that her plans for brakes said in the face of more resignations within her party in protest to vice chair as of a conservative party have now stepped down following on from the foreign secretary boris johnson and the minister for break said david davis but no way says the

negotiating position of reid with the cabinet last week well let the u.k. leave the e.u. in a sloth and orderly way on the issue of where we are in terms of the checkers agreement and the proposal that will be coming out in more detail later this week with the white paper that absolutely keeps faith with the voters british people we will bring an end to free movement an end to the jurisdiction of the european court of justice in the united kingdom an end to sending vast sums of money every year to the european union will come out of the common fisheries policy will come out of the common agricultural policy but we will do this in a way which will be a smooth and orderly brix it breaks it that protects jobs protects livelihoods and also meets our commitment to no hard border in northern up between northern ireland and on and. well speaking alongside me in london the german chancellor angela merkel welcomed the fact that britain has now come up with a set of proposals. does define what matters now is that the negotiating

process moves forward and the fact that the u.k. will present a white paper represents a big step now we the remaining twenty seven countries under the leadership of michel barnier will reach a view and react collectively to the proposals but what i can say already is that it's a good thing there are proposals on the table that speak to jenna hollows outside the u.k. parliament for us so we've got angola merkel saying it's a good thing the u.k. now has concrete proposals on the table but all of that hinges on tourism actually remaining as leader she had seemed out of the woods when it came to a leadership challenge now we have these new resignations does that change the situation for her. well these are not senior level resignation is politically they are not in her cabinet they are an indication of course that opposition is high remains high inside her extremely divided party

over this proposal reached last friday at her country residence checkers it's now simply dubbed checkers. a lot of people a lot of hard line breaks it is on the right wing of her party rejected out of hand saves extremely dangerous it will prevent this country from from electing its own trade deals that is the end to the sis of everything they voted for and everything that breaks it was supposed to be but she is sticking to her guns a smooth orderly process she expects to see in front of her that may indeed be wishful thinking negotiations in earnest will begin again with the e.u. next week once it sees concretely what this proposal actually is in the form of a government wide paper that's due to be launched on or to be presented rather on the day but the worrying aspect about it i suspect will be that it does represent some of the e.u. has rejected out of hand from the very beginning and that is cherry picking it is just one part of what the customs union and single market represents free trade it

rejects the other parts that something they've always said they would not accept and it may well be that these sort of leadership challenges that we seem so strong and prominent just yesterday are now in abeyance with some of those hard core breast is perhaps simply waiting now in the expectation that the e.u. itself throws this plan out before making the next move so things far from stable now and it seems in the british government i mean even the party far from united and yet time is pressing on because it's less than a year now until the u.k. will leave the european union. absolutely i mean by october the expectation had been they would have a workable trade agreement in place and then of course it's march next year when the e.u. when britain the effect of the exits e.u. there is a transition period agreed after that but the warri will be that with the continuing

turmoil and chaos in the government here that they can't get their act together and that the possibility of no deal. the much feared no deal by some anyway no deal breaks that scenario comes into play next march a small amount of comfort and support perhaps from michel barnier the eased chief negotiator he said today eighty percent that a deal was eighty percent done the further twenty percent of that deal would be done by october he was pleased that britain would find to come up with something they could talk about a week before he said if they soften their red lines will soften owsa perhaps off the back of mrs merkel's comments today some support some encouraged from the you. from westminster thank you. the wife of the chinese dissident peace prize winner who died last year has arrived in germany after being freed from eighty years of house arrest flew from beijing to berlin via the finnish capital helsinki

she'll receive medical treatment for depression. her husband died while serving an eleven year jail sentence for inciting subversion brown has. said she was prepared to die under house arrest her family feared that was a real possibility as her depression and heart problems worse of the artist was never charged with any crime but spent the last eight years of virtual prisoner beijing. emerging only occasionally to talk to journalists and her lawyers. she was married to lose shall book 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 lose release was finalized during his talks with germany's chancellor but on tuesday a chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman denied this saying lou had traveled 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 adrian brown al jazeera. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera all twelve boys and their football coach trapped inside like the cold and thailand for seventeen days have been rescued in just three days an elite team of divers succeeded in navigating the dangerous cave system to bring them out safely they are now recovering in hospital

and are expected to be quarantined for a week. out leave me one so we're glad we're so happy that all thirteen from the soccer team had 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 me i will feel like all thais will feel now after going through their rollercoaster of emotions all we have to do we suppose everybody will feel relieved you know. u.s. president donald trump is on route to brussels for a nato summit an organization he's been highly critical of trump's then heads to the u.k. and then to finland for a meeting with the russian president vladimir putin he said that meeting putin may be easier than meeting america's traditional european allies saying that they do not spend enough on defense. the un has urged israel to reverse its decision to close the cut him up and salim crossing the last commercial entry point

into gaza israel says it will only allow humanitarian aid and medical supplies and food through the point is an economic lifeline for gaza's residents already struggling with the blockade by israel and egypt how much says the move is a crime against the palestinian people. the nigerian army has released a hundred and eighty three children after they were cleared of ties to the armed group boko haram the u.n. children's agency says the miners would release them by the glory the capital of borno state unicef says around the thousand miners have been abducted by the group since two thousand and thirteen. that's it for now and sad story next for.

judging the u.s. supreme court democrats are alarmed that donald trump's choice of justice to join the highest court in america they say brett kavanaugh is a public loyalist he's too conservative and the right wing so can he win an expected confirmation battle in the senate this is inside story. over welcome to the program i'm laura kyle the latest political battleground in the u.s. senate as soon set become donald trump's choice for supreme court judge the president's nomination a republican loyalist but cavanagh is opposed by democrats base say trumps trying to tilt the nine justices in the highest.