roll well with it. really. we're not talking just a martial art we're talking. joy in thailand and around the world as divers rescue the last four school boys and their football coach from a flooded k. o i maryam namazie in london you with al-jazeera also coming up. thousand celebrate in the streets of paris after france beat belgium to progress to the final of the world cup. the life. after all you don't have to be a blunt message from the e.u.

as president triumph lies in what's expected to be a nato summit. and free at last after eight years under house arrest china allows the widow of nobel peace prize winner new job oh to fly to germany. it was the moment the world's been waiting for after seventeen days trapped deep inside a flooded cave system all twelve thai boys and their football coach have been rescued in just three days an elite team of divers has succeeded in navigating dangerous passages of flooded caves to bring them out to safety jamila and are going to has more now from chiang rai. after their seventeen deep underground or deal all boys and their coach sought to light for the first time.

and being able massive international rescue effort that made headlines worldwide it began as a local search and ended after experts from men could she see a clue and to help was what me on high. today team thailand the government officials and the private sector as well as the media members and the world's mobile support we must do something that we've never expected we could do it well first let me look. this search began on june twenty third when the football team and their coach were reported missing after deep gone exploring in a cave. to wrenshaw rain flooded the cave system dimly the search for days for the first contact was made with the team more than a week after disappearing expert divers found them alive in darkness sheltering on the dry ledge they were hungry but in stable condition the boys were given food and

medicine for minor wounds getting them out was going to be complicated initial reports said it could take months and experts debated the best options. rescue worse pumped millions of liters of water out of the key complex while mountaineers continue to look for a safer exit above the dangers were enormous a former tiny the seal diver died after running out of oxygen four days ago then on sunday the first success with the rescue of four boys and another four on monday then on tuesday afternoon confirmation that all twelve boys and their coach were safe. from fear too cautious optimism then to relief and celebration. all of them are no under medical supervision for a week in this hospital here in chiang rai two of the children have contracted long

infection and they are receiving medication while laboratory tests done and everybody is expected to last for several days at this point we don't know for sure whether they have been physically reunited with their families since they are still under quarantine we were told though that their family some of the parents were able to see their children through glass windows but again the reunification is something that is everyone here that everyone here has been looking forward to and there is something that is expected to come in about a week or so. oh ok. so jubilant scenes in france tonight with football fans celebrating their team getting through to the while cup final millions watched as the french side triumphed in the semifinal against belgium where the goal early in

the second half natasha butler reports from paris. it was the moment they'd been waiting for a fixture of the belgium and france on its way to the world cup final at a fan zone in paris twenty thousand people had watched the game some that are growing up but i'm so happy there is no worlds we are in finals were done from us oh wow i mean a mixture of anxiety and hope after the first half without a goal because it is. the case it's very difficult we're under pressure it's very stressful we hope it will get better in the second half. but defenders not militant t.t. scored in the second tough and changed france's fortunes at all throughout the i was told that that was on the base but up to the time i was offered up i was out of my eyes the celebrations began there was

a thought for those who had lost all ability going to the numbers just to know was that we like belgium because they're our neighbors it's a great team has i was great but we held strong and it was a wonderful semifinal as the party kicks off so does the countdown to the final france hasn't won the world cup for twenty years france here and now dreaming of a victory natasha bottler al-jazeera paris i paul brennan was with a slightly more disappointed crowd of belgian fans and what. they're the best minds in the spirits but i'm afraid the bubble is bust for this crowd in. the belief they really really believe that this team this time was going to go all the way it's just not worked out that way football is very cruel sometimes it.

was was obviously. to my. friends wasn't. it kept some of the kids in my life i don't get me to church. i don't think so they made a goal we didn't. follow with the us. a lower city proper go proud of a certain. point for god no. the. us was the perfect golden generation to get all fired. up all the time the best tree frogs. are from your mothers it turns out that. now police in pakistan a saying a prominent politician has been killed along with thirteen others in

a suicide bomb attack in the city of bashara officials say the bomber targeted a political rally killing the needer of pakistan's awami national party i will. allow is due to run in local elections later this month at least sixty five others were injured and choose days blast. u.s. president donald trump says meeting russia's vladimir putin might be the easiest part of his three nation european tour this week he's now in brussels for what's shaping up to be a contentious nato summit with america's traditional allies before leaving washington trump again accuse them of not spending enough on defense and he was given this blunt message from european council president donald tusk the america up to shoot your allies after all you don't have the money and europe spend more on your the firms because everyone expects that if you will prefer that they quipped money is important but gentlemen solidarity for even more

important diplomatic editor james bays has more on what we can expect from this summit. president trump arriving in brussels and eighteen months in office he's not hidden his disdain for international organizations in his sights in recent days the us is most important military alliance he's been tweeting about it and he made these comments at a rally last week. to tell nato you get a said paying your bills the united states thank you thank you he would last year on his first trip to nato trump was far from diplomatic here he pushes past montenegro's prime minister he denounced allies who did not but the nato target to spend at least two percent of the gross domestic product on defense twenty one out of the twenty nine nato members are still not over this threshold last week trump wrote blunt letters to some of his counterparts at this year's

meeting watch carefully his interactions with canada's prime minister justin trudeau who he called very honest and week after last month's g. seven summit but his meeting with another leader could be even more difficult just listen to him again at last week's rally and i said you know what. but we're protecting you and it means a lot more to you they're protecting us i don't know how much we get by protecting you but the partnership between angela merkel and president trump is certainly at a very low ebb at this time it remains to be seen exactly what happens at the summit but i would suspect that chancellor merkel is going to challenge our donald trump on is assertions over defense spending she's very defensive over this issue she will point to limited increases in german defense spending. as leaders arrive

here in brussels the nato secretary general has been making the case for smilies yet diplomatically why the u.s. needs twenty eight hour lies need a force multiplier for united states allies have stood with united states on battles for battlefields from korea to afghanistan the pentagon has reportedly been reviewing u.s. troop numbers in germany in recent weeks the white house has since denied there will be reductions but some u.s. allies are worried it's almost seventy years since the alliance was formed the treaty was signed in washington never has there been a u.s. president who sent such mixed messages about his commitment to it james al-jazeera brussels. well in all the developments donald trump's government says it's complying with a court deadline to reunite migrant toddlers with their families u.s.

officials say seventy five of the one hundred two children under five who is separated from their parents are eligible for unions and of those thirty eight are likely to be back with either their mother or their father by the end of the day a judge had imposed a deadline of choose day for the government to ensure that all of those children were back with their relatives speaking to reporters at the white house before he left the president pushed back against court rulings opposing his administration's migrant attention policies are other stories you tell people not from your drug dream illegally that you sure don't come to our drug illegally. the people do. legally. still ahead for you on the program to vice chair as from trees amaze conservative party become the latest to quit over the prime minister's breaks it strategy. and packing lights the football fans who say they have all they need to show their support for the england manager and his team.

welcome back the weather across the strait is dominated by one big area of high pressure so it's a largely fine picture having said that some of the winds and optically warm from melbourne are just twelve degrees some big surf on the northern beaches of sydney so move on through into thursday not a great deal of change expect to really is all looking fine across the bulk of the country will be quite as well across times mania where it's been very wet and windy in recent days as we head across into new zealand here things are looking mostly quiet at the moment low pressure moving away and looks are both on and soon a good deal of dry fine weather and that continues it head on through into thursday so fine conditions in oakland fourteen degrees not too bad for this time of the year heading into northeastern parts of asia good news is that the weather across central and southern parts of japan is improving the still some heavy rain around

the region but largely across the korean peninsula we've had some very heavy rain affecting pyongyang i think so might well see some rain at times and across northern parts of japan there will be some rain but that is likely to clear away and indeed through much of thursday weather conditions are going to be fine across japan showers very few and far between another area of low pressure will give some rain across northeastern parts of china into the far east of russia highs of fifteen degrees in a lot of our stock. a beleaguered paying the price for his political maneuvering in the middle east now desperate for american recognition good to be absolutely denounce the. goodies how did the p.l.o. find strength and support from their only lifeline oppressed palestinians living in the occupied territories chronicling the turbulent story the struggle for

a palestinian homeland p.l.o. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. a quick look at the top stories now all twelve of the boys and their football coach trapped inside a flooded cave system in thailand for seventeen days all out they are recovering in hospital and are expected to be quarantined for a week. juvonen scenes in france as football fans celebrate their team getting through to the world cup final winning against belgium with a go early in the second half they will now face either croatia or england on

sunday. and u.s. president donald trump has arrived in brussels for what's shaping up to be a difficult summit with his nato allies he's admitted to meeting russia's about demir pollution might be the easiest positive his european tour this week. on now haitians are cleaning up the streets of the capital following days of violent protests of a fuel price hikes businesses were looted and dozens of buildings burned down rest the sore at least for protesters killed the announcement by the government on friday that the field price would increase by up to fifty percent and that has now been canceled people are demanding the immediate resignation of president than why is he. has more from the capital port au prince. call has been restored to the streets of haiti but make no mistake about it this is still a country that is in deep political crisis and haitians are mad they're mad at this proposed fuel increase that was proposed by the government it would have been

a thirty eight percent increase in gasoline forty seven percent increase in diesel fuel and in over fifty percent increase in kerosene kerosene would have been particularly devastating. an increase in the price of that particularly to poor people because they rely on kerosene to power their stove and also electricity for their homes these gasoline increases would have had a ripple effect through out the country a country where hundreds of thousands of people make less than a dollar a day and that's why we saw these protests some of the most intense protests we've seen here in this country for many years the government says that these these rate increases were necessary to fund projects such as a building of more than three thousand kilometers of roads throughout the country as well as other projects as well but right now there is still many haitians that are calling for both the president and prime minister to step down so far neither

has given any indication they plan to do so. well to yemen now where at least forty six people in the port of data have died from cholera in just under a month the u.n. spokesman farhan hug made this announcement saying the fatalities occurred between june thirteenth and july seventh access conditions in the western yemeni city have been worsening contributing to an increase in disease meanwhile saudi arabia is saying that who's the rebels of trying to attack the port city of near the border with yemen state say media says that saudi forces have intercepted a missile fired by the rebels who sees of launch dozens of missiles at saudi arabia in recent months in response to the saudi that operation to drive the mouse of yemen united nations is saying that south sudan's government forces have killed and raped hundreds of civilians in areas held by the opposition three military

commanders are accused of burying the greatest responsibility environments that broke out in a unity state between april and may the un's human rights chief said what they did might amount to war crimes tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced in south sudan's nearly five years civil war. well now the nigerian army has released one hundred eighty three children after they were cleared of any ties to the armed group boka haram the u.n. children's agency says they were released in my do great the capital of north east and borno state aged between seven and eighteen the children were detained while being investigated for any links to boko haram fighters unicef says around one thousand miners have been abducted by the group since two thousand and thirteen. well now a decades old fight for land between farmers and pneumatic cattle herders in central nigeria has forced hundreds of people from their homes the dispute over grazing rights often led to extreme violence between the two sides and as interest

reports from the heart of farming country there are fears it could affect the nation's food supply. this plant has been producing confectionery for more than half a century. it's located in just their percent of ethnic and religious violence in central marjorie. over the past twenty years it has lost staff revenue and equipment it's turned to have been he was a crisis that the company has been impacted at the local level really hard to be confronted with the time shown stuff this inflict on our staff the moral of raucous and generally does will affect productivity but also we have had to contend with how our 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 the desire would you invest all or be given a priority to go money this on their own blood to what the middle of this is happening. if i. didn't already trained there's already rises in 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 to 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 the 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 with the increase because farmers have been threatened. for now the violence has been brought under control but tensions remain and the displeased cities taking refuge of some of them are over the last two decades it only takes a small spark to ignite another cycle of killings and mosque displacement.

al jazeera joss. soulsby hospital says the british man who was exposed to the deadly novacek nerve agent has regained consciousness officials say charlie rowley has experienced a small but significant improvement and is now in a critical but stable condition the forty five year old was poisoned along with dawn sturgis who died on sunday the nerve agent used on the pair was the same type that former russian spy service cripple and his daughter were targeted with in march now they've been more resignations from the u.k. prime minister to resign may's ruling conservative party over how brakes its strategy to vice chair say that they are now coursing this is after bracks it negotiated david davis and the foreign secretary boris johnson both resign for the same reason just within twenty four hours of each other john hart reports. trooping into downing street a brand new minister in charge of briggs it dominic robb and the brand new foreign

minister jeremy hunt at a meeting of her revamped cabinet this was a display of to resume a's or thought after an especially turbulent few days but with further conservative party resignations on tuesday afternoon it's clear she's not on safe ground yet and in the current state of british politics living to fight another day can mean little more than just that at a press conference later the prime minister wasn't in the mood for answering difficult questions about the state of her government speaking alongside german chancellor angela merkel she offered only general comments about a smooth and orderly brix it 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 british people give us the on 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 words of cautious optimism there from chancellor merkel for to resume may and her new breakthrough plan that in visitors keeping close trade ties with the e.u. negotiations kick off again in earnest next week but with just months to go before the u.k. formally exits the block it may well be that negotiators are just pleased they're finally here's a plan recent days have seen two senior ministers resign in protest at the plan the pro breaks it figures say limits the u.k.'s ability to strike trade deals outside the e.u. and binds the u.k. to e.u. rules without having any say in them in his resignation letter former foreign minister boris johnson said that would make the u.k. a colony the dream of brics it he said is dying to resume a meanwhile said she was looking forward to. with a busy week england in the semifinals of the world cup u.s. president donald trump or 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 joe the whole al-jazeera london or that royal air force anniversary provided some or spite for londoners from political turmoil with an impressive display over the city it was the world's first independent air force when it was set up as a separate entity from the army and the navy in one thousand nine hundred just fifteen years after the first ever powered flight queen elizabeth was among those admiring the planes from many areas areas of our a.f. history allow the wife of the chinese dissident a nobel peace prize winner new job oh who died last year arrived in germany after being freed from eight years of house arrest. flew from beijing to berlin fi the finnish capital helsinki show received medical treatment in germany husband died while serving an eleven year jail sentence for inciting subversion adrian brown has

more from beijing. lucia 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 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 chang 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 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 shell's 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 good will 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 . when al group of anyone football fans are heading to moscow for wednesday's well cup semifinal match against croatia and then donning some usually stylish attire for the. waistcoats are a tribute to manager gary southgate has become known for his sophisticated sideline fashion during the world cup campaign and came retailer marks and spencer is fast running out of stock as fans try to copy southgate's trademark look fans are dubbing it why scope wednesday. well funny through the things the sort of the management show caught on. and i'm sure she now will return it with

a special coverage. on the very help going to. all who doesn't love a good waistcoat as more never they were covering right here al jazeera dot com is where you need to go for comment analysis and video on demand you can watch us live right there as well. quick look at the top stories now all twelve boys and their football coach trapped inside a flooded cave in thailand for seventeen days has been rescued in just three days an elite team of divers succeeded in navigating the dangerous case system to bring them out to safety they are now recovering in hospital but will also be quarantined for a week let me comply. today team thailand government officials and the private sector as well as the media members and the world's mobile support will move to do something that we've never expected we could do is world first that

we're all jubilant scenes tonight in france as football fans celebrate their team getting through to the world cup final look at that millions have been watching as the french side triumphed in the semifinal against belgium with a goal early in the second half france were champions back in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight they are set to play either england or pro asia in the final on sunday. police in pakistan say a prominent politician has been killed along with thirteen others in a suicide bomb attack in the city of the shower officials say the bomber targeted a political rally killing the leader of pakistan's awami national party how. well i was jus to run in local elections later this month. donald trump's touchdown in brussels for promises to be a fractious nato summit he then heads to the u.k. off to that it's finland for a meeting with the russian president vladimir putin which ciampa said might be easier than meeting america's traditional european allies meanwhile trump's

government says that it's complying with a court deadline to reunite migrant toddlers with their families as this by admitting that seventy five of one hundred two children under the age of five who is separated from their parents are eligible for unions and of those only thirty eight are likely to be back with either them mother or their father by the end of the day and haitians of cleaning up the streets of the capital following days of violent protests over fuel price hikes businesses with dozens of buildings burned and on rest that sort east for protesters killed it followed a government announcement on friday that fuel prices would increase by up to fifty percent that has now been canceled as the headlines that for myself and the team in london but more news coming out from doha in about twenty five minutes time. it's like the wild west they can do anything and the really hard for them to get the powerful internet is both a tool for democracy and a threat somebody who controls ten thousand balls at home falling under thousand

voices and they distort the debate in the echo chamber world of fake news in cyberspace the rules of the game have changed there are no precedents people as out investigates disinform ation and democracy part two on al-jazeera. al-jazeera where ever you are. in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. sixteen years later in one thousand nine hundred sixty four the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since.

after years of bloody infighting the various palestinian factions began to resolve their differences. to mull to us events in the region were to prove both a solace and a setback for the palestinian cause. yet by nine hundred eighty seven the various factions of the p.l.o. had come closer together after the past four years of into palestinian strife. the palestinian parliament in exile the palestine national council met.