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four of the boys have been rescued and taken to a local hospital. they have been trapped in a complex cave system for two weeks. a team of divers helped the children through a difficult part of the route and the rescue effort has been suspended until tomorrow. the next days, bringing out the remaining eight boys and their football coach, they are still inside the caves, but the authorities say they are safe. as borisjohnson criticises theresa may's brexit proposal, support from michael gove who says the plans are realistic, but the uk should be prepared. if the eu is not flexible we may have to contemplate walking away without a deal. the home secretary sajiv javid visit salisbury and says the city is open for business after the poisoning of a couple in amesbury. there is now a race against time injapan to rescue people after days of heavy rain. a dramatic rescue attempt
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to save the young football team trapped in a cave network in thailand has so far managed to save four boys. the operation started this morning with two brits leading a team of thai and foreign divers. eight players and their coach are still trapped — with time against the rescuers as more heavy rain is forecast. the four brought out are recovering in hospital. a warning that our south—east asia correspondentjonathan head's report contains flashing images. it began with more divers and air ta nks it began with more divers and air tanks going in and all other nonessential vehicles being sent
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out. a daring and complex rescue was under way. the governor, who commanded the operation, described it as d—day. conditions will never be better, he said. after their dramatic discovery on monday, the boys have been fed and treated by an army medic on the rock shelf where they had been forced to retreat by rising water. they were judged fit enough to make the journey. none rising water. they were judged fit enough to make thejourney. none had ever dived before. it involves two divers swimming with each child who is tethered to the diver in front. they follow a previously laid guide rope. the narrowest part of the route is less than a0 centimetres wide. the boys are helped through by the diver in front before resting on a rocky outcrop and then continuing. as the light outside faded, the side
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of flashing lights and the sound of helicopters told us at least some of them were out. there were then flown to the city. this is when all of those who are involved have been waiting to see. we saw two ambulances go into the hospital earlier and that is another. the boys are coming out. then the governor made this announcement. after 16 days of waiting, today we we re after 16 days of waiting, today we were able to see the faces of the boys, the wild boars, referring to the nickname of the football team. the four who were brought out today we re the four who were brought out today were described by one rescuer is doing remarkably well. they hope to get the remaining nine over the next 2a hours. our correspondent dan johnson has been near the exit of the cave in tham luang, where the amount of rainfall is being closely monitored. this is what the officials in charge
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of the rescue always feared, that it would start raining really heavily and that would increase the water level in the cave, possibly putting the boys at risk because if the water level went up any further, they would run out of space to stay clear of the water. they said they had a window of weather in the last couple of days and that is why they chose today to start this rescue attempt. the man in charge of the operation said it was d—day and that underlines how daring this rescue attempt is. perhaps this shows you why they needed to get started. he has made clear that if the water levels do start rising and there is a risk to the boys and the coach, they have an emergency evacuation plan they can bring forward to move people out even more quickly. if the rain does not affect the water level inside the cave too quickly, too much, it looks like they will carry on at the steady pace they have
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opposed thisjob with, on at the steady pace they have opposed this job with, taking on at the steady pace they have opposed thisjob with, taking care and time because it is such a complicated task and there is still a lot of risk and uncertainty associated with it. everyone is aware that one man lost his life, an experienced navy diver who had some experienced navy diver who had some experience of cave diving. these boys do not have that benefit, they have only got the advice and the training they have received over the last few days from the international cave diving experts. and it is those experts who need to be back on scene tomorrow feeling fresh, able to concentrate to give this their full determination to make sure the rest of the group gets out safely. our correspondent, nick beake, was at the hospital where the four boys have been taken to in chiang rai. it is at this hospital to night that the doctors and nurses have the responsibility of looking after these four boys, the first to be brought out as part of this extraordinary rescue operation. they we re extraordinary rescue operation. they
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were ready and primed and earlier this evening the first patient arrived. we saw an ambulance raced to this place. they went straight to the main entrance. a short time later a second ambulance arrived. after that helicopter overhead and then another helicopter and those boys were brought into another entrance. we believe they have undergone checks this evening. they had a plan in place for basic checks like blood tests, looking to see if they had picked up any infection in they had picked up any infection in the water. it has been more than a fortnight now since they were trapped in this cave and how they would be plucked to safety looked extremely difficult indeed. but we know tonight four boys are here and they are being looked after. joining me now is dr andrea danese, child psychiatrist at kings college london 5 institute of psychiatry, psychology & neuroscience. thank you for coming in. such an
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anxious wait for these parents. what will have been the best way to prepare the boys for their rescue?” would have described exactly the procedure in terms and ways children would understand, so easy words. and also rescuers have spent time with the children to build report and hopefully the children feel they can trust the rescuers stewed anything major occurred during the rescue. very frightening prospect to be led through that cave system. how are the ones left behind going to cope? it is difficult to say. i hope the response will be one of hope seeing some of the other boys have left the cave and they are safe and sound. what sort of state emotionally and
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physically would you expect these boys and their coach to be in when they emerge from the cave?” boys and their coach to be in when they emerge from the cave? i expect many of them will be exhausted by the physical circumstances they found themselves in. i think probably many of them will be elated by finally being rescued. 0thers will probably be tearful, anxious, irritable. these are normal symptoms that most children and adults find themselves experiencing after traumatic events. what long-term impact might there be if they do not get the right help?” impact might there be if they do not get the right help? i would expect a minority of children, perhaps 20%, will develop longer health problems, including depression and anxiety disorders and post—traumatic distress. particularly with all the attention that this rescue has had i imagine they will be getting some kind of counselling. what sort of
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support will they get from medics in thailand? absolutely, these are very much treatable conditions, so it is important that they are screened for their ongoing mental health and symptoms. for those who do develop psychiatric disorder, they will receive the correct form of treatment. it is notjust counselling, not just treatment. it is notjust counselling, notjust coping with emotional symptoms, but specific forms of psychotherapy that have to do with the individual problems like depression and post—traumatic stress disorder. how can their parents support them best? they will be essential to help the children. perhaps the single, most important thing they can help them with is to get them back to normal life, so helping them claim that there normal life, normalise their living conditions and get them back to their routines. thank you very much
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for coming in. the environment secretary michael gove has defended the prime minister's brexit strategy which was agreed with the cabinet on friday. foreign secretary borisjohnson reportedly criticised the plan, and said the deal falls short of what most brexiteers wanted. but mr gove said it's important to be realistic although he also said britain should be prepared to walk away next march if agreement can't be reached with the eu. vicki young has the details. she gave them little choice, back this deal all resign. the uk would be tied to eu rules on goods, a closer relationship than many pro—brexit minister wanted. but the prime minister has crucial support from one of the league campaign's most prominent figures.” from one of the league campaign's most prominent figures. i am a realist and in politics you must not, you should not, make the perfect the enemy of the good. one of the things about this compromise
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is it unites the cabinet, collective responsibility rains. and i think for the cabinet, all of us, our responsibility is to work together in order to ensure that we can get the best possible deal for britain. at chequers ministers were allowed to speak their minds. borisjohnson told colleagues in typically direct language that they were being asked to polish a turd. it did not honour the place to take back our own laws. but he says he is not resigning because he wants to continue to make his case. 0thers because he wants to continue to make his case. others are prepared to go further. i cannot support this, the offer was so bad that i would not supported even if the eu paid us. if she sticks with this deal, i will have no confidence in it and if she sticks with it, i will have no confidence in her. more than 100 business leaders have described the plan for a combined customs
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territory as costly and unworkable. labour agrees. it has got fudge written all over it. if you look at the facilitative customs arrangement, the heart of this, it isa arrangement, the heart of this, it is a rebadging of the partnership and is based on the idea that at the border you can distinguish between goods that will stay in the uk and those going to the eu. it is unworkable, a bureaucratic nightmare. it seems theresa may's cabinet has reluctantly in some cases decided to fall into line, but what about her mps? there is no doubt that many brexit backing conservatives are deeply disappointed, some furious with what is on offer. tomorrow she will meet them in the commons to try to persuade them this is the best option. 0nly persuade them this is the best option. only then will we know whether the talk of a leadership challenge is happening. the uk government is calling on brussels to ta ke government is calling on brussels to take it seriously and in the meantime it has promised to
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accelerate preparations to leave the eu without any deal at all. accelerate preparations to leave the eu without any deal at all. i'm joined now by our chief political correspondent, vicki young. we are uttering words we never thought we would have to say on live television. how much of a hard sell is this deal going to be? it will be difficult for theresa may, she has relu cta ntly difficult for theresa may, she has reluctantly managed to get her cabinet behind it, but we know they have deep reservations about it because they feel this is the beginning of the negotiation, this is the bit of paper that will go to brussels and they will look at it and the fear is amongst the brexiteers is they will ask for more compromises. theirfear brexiteers is they will ask for more compromises. their fear is we will be even more closely aligned to the eu than we would otherwise. she has to talk to her backbenchers now and there are a vast number who want to get behind her, who realise it has to bea get behind her, who realise it has to be a compromise. but the key question will be how many of them do
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not agree with michael gove? how many are so not agree with michael gove? how many are so unhappy that they feel they have got to overthrow her? there is no suggestion they have the numbers to do that, but still they are going to be making it very clear where they see the problems with this. her answer to all that is you have to look at the reality. michael gove was talking about the 2.0 brexit, that this is the beginning and when the parliamentary numbers change in the future, it may be that we diverged a bit more and negotiate again. but that is for the future, for now theresa may has got to get through this week and hope she can get this document to the eu and they look unfavourably. at the moment it is about getting support for it within her own party. any people say it is ridiculous two years after the referendum and they were having a crunch meeting to decide what kind ofa crunch meeting to decide what kind of a relationship we are going to have with the eu. there has been too
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much time wasted arguing amongst themselves, rather than having got that ready to go before article 50 was triggered. time pressures mean we might be forced into a worst deal. also the agreement the brexiteers have got is this commitment from theresa may that they will up the preparations for a no deal scenario. the question is whether brussels thinks there is any likelihood that the uk would walk away without the deal given that march 2019 is not that far away. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. our guests joining me tonight are tony grew, parliamentary journalist and caroline frost, entertainment journalist & broadcaster. the headlines on bbc news... four of the boys trapped in a flooded cave system in thailand have been rescued and taken to a local hospital. as borisjohnson criticises theresa may's brexit proposal, support from michael gove who says the plans are realistic but the uk
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should prepare for all outcomes. the home secretary, sajid javid visits salisbury and says the city is open for buisness, after the poisoning of a couple in amesbury. the home secretary, sajid javid, has visited the wiltshire town of amesbury, a week after two people fell critically ill after coming into contact with the nerve agent novichok. after meeting emergency workers and local residents he reassured people that the risk to the wider public is low. i want to say to anyone that is listening now, this is a beautiful part of the country to visit, so if you want a good day out why not come down and show your support and at the same time as having fun with your family. it is a lovely part of the country to visit. also, i want to take the opportunity to say to everyone, but especially local people, that the risk to the public remains very low, that is the clear advice
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of public health england, it is the clear advice of sally davies, the chief medical officer, and finally of course for all of us i think our thoughts are with the man and the woman that are impacted by this latest incident who are still in hospital, still in critical condition and we are thinking of them and of course their family and theirfriends. 0ur correspondent katy austin sent this update from amesbury. the cord and here is just metres from charlie rowley‘s house. we cannot see the property, but we believe it is below those houses. we have seen a number of emergency services coming in and out carrying various bits of kit. there are fire personnel and ambulance staff and some of them appear to be wearing protective clothing. this is an number of sites that they are trying
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to figure out how the couple came to be poison. there are four other cordons and one of them is at the local boots chemist and one is at a baptist centre. that remains all cordon off with a number of tense as police carry out their frantic investigations. there is also the queen elizabeth park near salisbury city centre. all of this is about trying to establish the movement of the couple before they became hospitalised and whether there is any implement that can be found, that can give a clue as to how they became poisoned with what sajiv javid said was the exact same novichok agent that was used in the poisoning of sergei skripal and yulia skripal. he was trying to reassure people, repeating the advice we have heard from health officials about the risk to the public being very low. he did say he thought it was the same novichok
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used. he did not directly drop a link between the two incidents and said it was the peace's working hypothesis. he said they needed to be given more time to carry out the kind of work we are seeing here going on today. we believe there are about 100 counterterrorism officers working on this investigation and the home secretary was keen to praise their work. he spoke to a couple of local businesses and asked about the support they received. local residents say they wish he had spoken to more local residents. there will be a meeting on tuesday evening at 7pm in amesbury where businesses and people can question the local and national people running the investigation to get updates. updates are few and far between at the moment. all we know isa between at the moment. all we know is a very thorough investigation is going on about tracing the movements
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of the couple before they became ill. they are still in critical condition in hospital. the only other update, a police officer who we know had hospital treatment as a precaution is now fine and it is not believed they have been poisoned in this case. millions of people are being told to leave their homes injapan because of extensive flooding and landslides that have already claimed more than 60 lives. record rainfall has caused rivers to burst their banks in hiroshima and other areas as caroline hawley reports. more than 50,000 rescuers are now involved in what the authorities are calling a race against time. these hospital patients were saved by the japanese military. this is where they were rescued from. the only escape was either by helicopter from the rooftop or by boat. and here, we see why. some people are reported to be still stranded in the hospital and they are not alone. a swathe of western japan has been hit by unprecedented rainfall that's caused flash
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flooding and landslides. many people died because they weren't able to flee in time. among them, an 80—year—old couple and a three—year—old girl. and the death toll will certainly rise. translation: i went to my father's home, but it was hopeless. we were looking for two people and only found one. several million people have been told to move to safer ground if they can. those trapped in their homes have been advised to move to higher floors. some are already as high as they can go and have tweeted desperate calls for help. translation: even now we've not been able to confirm the safety of quite a lot of people and there are many who are stranded, facing the terror of impending inundation and waiting for rescue. nature has delivered this part ofjapan a devastating blow and it's not finished yet. more rain is forecast and with it, officials say, a serious risk of more landslides.
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caroline hawley, bbc news at least 10 people have been killed and more than 70 injured after a train came off the tracks in the north west of the country, according to reports from turkish media. reports say five carriages derailed on a section of track near the town of chorlu, about 100 miles northwest of istanbul. it's unclear what caused the derailment, but speaking to turkish tv a local politician has blamed bad weather. the train was carrying more than 350 people. a british teenager has died in ibiza. the 19—year—old was pulled from a pool in the early hours of sunday morning, it is understood. the foreign office has said it is providing assistance to the family of a british man who died on 8july in ibiza, and are in contact with the spanish authorities. donald trump's visit to the uk this week will put "unquestionable pressure" on security forces according to the police federation. the us president will spend time in london, and windsor as well as visiting chequers during the
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2—day working visit. thousands are expected to protest and police forces from across the country have been asked to send officers to assist. the home office said other forces can be "recompensed by the hosting force". so the summer is always busy. a presidential visit will always be busy. the world cup will always give more of a need for police. and then salisbury and other incidents around the country. what we have got is a perfect storm that uk policing is struggling to cope with because of all the cuts we've had to endure. north korea has issued strong criticism of the us just hours after the secretary of state, mike pompeo, left pyongyang after two days of talks. the foreign ministry says america made too many demands, and that it had displayed a regrettable attitude. the north korean statement says trust between the two countries was at risk of breaking down. the statement also accuses mr pompeo of insisting on unilateral denuclearisation, which it says is against the spirit of the summit.
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but speaking in tokyo after talks with his japanese and south korean counterparts, mr pompeo said he was encouraged by the progress made during his recent two—day visit to north korea. we had lengthy discussions about the scope of what complete denuclearization means over the past two days. they acknowledged that this is broad, this is, as my two colleagues have said from weapons systems to the physical materials, the production facilities, enrichment facilities, across the range of weapons and missiles, it is a broad definition of denuclearization and north koreans understand that and have not challenged that. second, they also understand that denuclearization makes no sense, absent of verification. they acknowledge that as well. there will be a verification connected to the complete denuclearization, that is what president trump and chairman kim both agreed to, and so people can try to parch words should they choose to do so,
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but the most important is that the north koreans understand and the demands that the world is making of north korea and that can be unmistakable, the scope of what denuclearization means to the north koreans. i've been very clear with them. there are warnings that organised criminal gangs are using increasingly dangerous ways to smuggle migrants across the channel into the uk via kent, including so called "coffin hides" on board lorries. the national crime agency also says that there is evidence that a small minority of eastern european lorry drivers are complicit with the gangs in people smuggling. lynda hardy reports. ever since the so—called calais jungle camp was closed down numbers of migrants in calais trying to cross the channel into kent have fallen. but attempts from elsewhere in france and europe continue and the national crime agency is warning people smuggling by organised criminals is an increasingly lucrative industry, with lorry drivers being offered a minimum of £2000 per migrant to hide them in the backs of their trucks. we have seen some evidence
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of drivers from eastern europe who have been prepared to act on behalf of the organised crime groups. let's not forget in order for the organised crime groups to be successful they must have access to complicit lorry drivers to be able to move people across the channel to the uk. the freight transport association says it is hugely concerned that criminal gangs are turning to more dangerous methods of smuggling people into the uk. we have seen what we would describe as coffin concealment, tiny areas within vehicles in which to hide and secrete people, and that includes women and children as well as men. working tirelessly to stop people breaking into britain as they are trying to do is always a battle. what we do know is the numbers of people breaking into britain through dover from calais has been falling ever since the jungle was dismantled, so we need to keep up the battle and keep vigilant. something the national crime agency says it is focused on,
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disrupting one of the biggest organised crime threats to the uk. england football fans are continuing to celebrate the fact that their team are just one win away from the world cup final, after their comfortable victory yesterday against sweden. millions watched as harry maguire and delle alli's goals set up a semi final clash with croatia. darren lewis, football correspondent for the daily mirror canjoin us now, from st petersburg. thank you very much for taking time to talk to us tonight. now you have had time to think about it, have you got any reflections on the england win over sweden? it was one of the most easiest wins for england at this stage of a competition for quite some time. we had not won a
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knockout game for 12 years and we we re knockout game for 12 years and we were struggling to comprehend the idea that we could make it to this stage. it really was a victory achieved with a minimum of fuss, two good goals and fans celebrating. i am quite surprised with the confidence the team have and the they have left going the tank in the final two games. croatia will be a different kettle of fish. they will indeed, 1998 semifinalists. a team with a lot of quality players in their side, including luka with a lot of quality players in theirside, including luka modric, who has won the champions league in the last four seasons. and the juventus striker mario mandzukic. they have got a lot of quality in that team and they will be several levels up on the sweden side we faced at the weekend. you can understand a certain amount of exuberance from the english fans, but there has been anti—social behaviour as well, like vandalism in
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some places. what have you seen of that? it is interesting, before the tournament began england were concerned about the potential for disorder here in russia and yet the first disorder i have seen when i logged on in the internet, i have seen what has gone on in the uk. that would not be tolerated in russia because of the way they come down on disorder. not only has the football in this tournament been fantastic, but it is the way it has been organised and the lack of disorder here. i have been to five different venues and i can give you a broad opinion, but i have had nothing for the daily mirror's website to report on negatively as far as disorder is concerned. the first i have seen has been in the uk. let's hope it continues. in the past some national sides and their
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managers have had a bit of a rough ride with the press. i am thinking of the turnip headlines for graham taylor and wally with a brolly for steve mcclaren. how different is it with gareth southgate? is it down to how well the team is doing or the kind of man he is? it is an number of things. we have so often given stick to the football association, but they have done superbly well to break down the barriers between the england national team and the press and the public. they have not mollycoddled them treated them like rock stars. they have encouraged
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