hello, this is bbc world news, the headlines, the first boys are out, four of the children trapped for more than two weeks in a cave system in thailand have been rescued. they we re in thailand have been rescued. they were taken straight to hospital where they are being assessed by doctors. the operation involved two divers helping each child to the submerged and narrow caves, the rescue effort has been suspended for the night as the team rests but more heavy rain is forecast. the next stage bringing out the remaining boys and the coach will carry on, they are still in the cave but authorities say they are safe. and the japanese prime minister says the race to save people trapped by heavy rain isa race to save people trapped by heavy rain is a race against time. 57 people have died in some regions and almost 5 million have been told to leave their homes. at ten o'clock a full round—up of

the day's news, first it's our world, we lived through a war — compton. we have a pursuit. they are on the freeway, they are coming east. it's very, very busy for law enforcement. but, again, it's a very small percentage of people that are causing the problems. all right, bad guyjust crashed. all right. i'm going to get us a little bit off because we have, like, 17 guns pointed in this direction. radio: they are starting to take the occupants into custody.

a night patrol with the la sheriffs in the city of compton. two suspected members of the southside compton cripps gang are under arrest. it would be really unsafe for them to be in their rival‘s area and if they are there they are going to have to have protection, because it's almost expected for them to be armed. police estimate there are almost 4,000 gang members in compton. 0urarea, ourservice area, is ten square miles. fireworks explode fireworks. ten square miles. so for every square mile that we have, we have six active gangs.

37 gangs compete for control in a city ofjust 100,000 people. it's always gang on gang, gang on gang. the violence is there, the major, major problem is when we have an innocent person who gets caught in the crossfire, or, and it happens way too often, that case of mistaken identity. sirens wail compton gained its grim reputation for gang violence during the ‘80s and ‘90s at the height of america's crack epidemic. this is a mad man gun. a double barrel. a mad man's gun.

a man that goes and kills with this is really mad. out of that mix emerged west coast gangsta rap and one of the most influential groups of all time, nwa. 30 years on, the trauma of that era lives on. yeah, i grew up around here. this was my childhood home. born and raised right here in this house. i had a history of taking things that wasn't mine. if i saw it and liked it, i would take it. i would protect him by any means necessary. i would protect him the same way.

even if it means hurting someone else? pretty much. i mean, ultimately, if i had to hurt someone to keep him from being hurt, ultimately, that would be my choice. compton's notorious street gangs, the cripps, the bloods and the pirus, were formed in the late 1960s. their clothes, their tattoos and even theirjewellery all marked which gang they belong to. wearing the wrong coloured shirt would have, and still could, get you killed. there'd be all different types of shootings happening on this street. willjoined the cripps when he was just nine years old. i went through this alley, i was going to the store to get some kool—aid and i saw the guy pass me and he looked at me and next thing i hear is a whole bunch of gunfire. right here?

yeah, right here, where we're standing. sirens wail trombone music today, compton is on the up. a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line, butjobs are coming back and there's a sense that things are starting to turn around. will works as a community activist, trying to stop youngsters from ending up in gangs. i see you! you know i'm going to come over there and give you a hug. i love you! i love you too, girl. keep up the good work! this is really nice! i'm a definitely do that.

i'm a mother who lost sons and when my kids got killed and other mothers' kids got killed, they came here and he helped us. i didn't have no money. she lost two sons within 60 days and that's where her motivation comes, to get out here. she's also out here in the trenches with us. compton's youthful mayor, aja brown, has made it her mission to transform the image and the economy of the city. in 2013, early into her first term, and after 16 killings injust four months, aja brown decided to hold a crisis meeting. she put a call out to the bloods and cripps to try to bring about a truce. it was rocky at first. you know, we had a few people

threatening to leave and i said, the ground rules are we have to stay until we're finished. what gave you the confidence to do that? this is my community, i'm not afraid of my own people. it was just really interesting to hearfrom them. but they are very pragmatic. they talked about the need for employment opportunities that they can access, they talked about the barriers to their employment because of their criminal records. but i told them, it's not aboutjust what can i do for you, i told them, "i'm willing to work with you if you all can make a commitment as well." compton has switched from a majority black to a majority hispanic town. but half the gangs are still african—american, and it was to these gangs that aja brown turned first. most of the time, like he said, we wouldn't be sitting at a table together, but she did it.

it was over... how many of us? 50, 60, 300 in a room together. so you were all there at the first meeting, when everybody got together? to be in there with 300 guys... that's disrespectful. ..that‘s terrible. terrible to sit down and listen. a lot of men wouldn't do it. why is she doing it? she came in the room and it was disarray when she came. and they got it in order and we got to business. did they listen to her, cynthia? yeah, they listened to her. they listened to her, yeah. because this is a first. this is a mayor where if it's the middle of the night and you need to call her, she'll say, what's wrong? what's going on? she's there. you don't get that, not even in other cities, from people that i spoke with. so you don't get that from a lot of mayors. and then, like he said, in the room with a bunch of men. i'm gang banging! i'm in there looking at 'em sometimes, thinking, they crazy! some of them are on drugs...

don and fred are from rival gangs. don's a blood, fred's a cripp. fred, if you had come across don in the street ten or 15 years ago? well, there would have been a problem. what do you mean, a problem? it would have been a fight or a stabbing or a shooting. one of the three. because you are on rival gangs? because, like i said, you know what i'm sayin‘, i was young and dumb. you know what i'm sayin‘, i didn't have an understanding of life or nothin‘ else. all i cared about was my gang and representing my gang to the fullest and didn't nothin‘ matter but my gang. so you would have hurt him? he'd have tried. yeah. he would have tried, you know? is it still the same today? no, it's not like it used to be. it's not... no, it's watered down. it's not like it used to be, but it's still crucial. the majority of these guys don't like the way they're living. they don't like having

to watch their back, having to worry about getting shot, can't go here, can't go there. they don't like that lifestyle. they're in it because they're caught up in their comfort zone and they don't know how to go outside of the box. i remember when i was working custody, some of the gangsters there, just because i would see them every day, i had a rapport with them, a lot of them were so, so afraid of the one thing that you and i love, and theirfear is being out here. one of them, who was a very, very important person when it came to the structure, he told me, "i have a son, i don't know how to be a father," and he goes further and tells me, "i wouldn't know how

to survive out there, "i don't know how to have a job, i don't know how to be "a regular person, all i know is violence and i promise you, "if i get out of here, i'm going to hurt someone else, "and i don't want to do that anymore, i'm tired of it." regardless of whom is in the white house, there is not going to be a helicopter that comes and descends into compton to fix all of our issues. that's just not happening. the height of the crack epidemic saw an explosion in violence as rival gangs fought for control of the drugs market. 87 people were murdered

in 1991 alone. in 2017, that figure was 19. will served 12 years in prison for a string of offences, including car—jacking and gun possession. in december of 1999, he decided to try to turn his life around. i was significantly depressed, emotionally distraught, you know, i was suffering from a lot of the traumatic experiences i've suffered, you know. you were thinking of killing yourself? definitely, i was thinking about killing myself. i mean, that was the solution to the pollution.

i'd decided i needed to go see my mom, it was two days after christmas, i decided i needed to go see her at least one more time before i came back and did what i felt i needed to do. i sat right on the street around the corner with an ak—47, ready to just end it all. he didn't. he went to see a preacher. he was basically saying, "you're not the first one who's felt this way, "and you're not the first one who are going through "what you're going through. "but the difference you can make is to hear what i have to say "and make a change." you'll find a lot of the kids, they're looking for something when theyjoin gangs, there's something missing. and the gangs have learned to cater to those things that are missing. the steady fall in crime since the '90s is partly due to smarter policing.

more significantly, as drug markets stabilised, there were fewer turf wars between the gangs. but there are worrying signs. hi, captain thatcher! how are you? i'm doing great, how are you? have a seat. 30% less gang shootings this year than we had last year... oh, wow, that is significant. a lot of your older gang members now, or people who had gang membership in the past, are having a hard time directing the activities of the younger gang members. it's not like it used to be. right, they consider the younger gang members lawless. we had an understanding with the gang members as to what was and wasn't within boundaries as to how we treated each other, and we've lost control of that. i appreciate your hard work, sir. 0ur crime rates are below the rest of the county, for the most part. well, isn't that a great success!

laughs. thank you. we're getting an emergency call. it's a vehicle collision with injuries. siren wails. who was driving? i was driving. you were driving. are you 0k, just a little shaken up? yeah. ok. do you have your driver's licence? yeah. as far as the violent crimes, it goes up and down. there are times when gangs, they'll have a truce and they'll kind of settle down, and then out of nowhere, like if someone turns on a light switch, they're at it again. the reason why the homicide rate has dropped, it's not because the violence has gone away, someone didn't just sprinkle fairy dust on the city and it's gone. it's there. the reason why the homicide rate has dropped significantly is because of the advancements

in medical science — doctors right now, more than ever, more than five years ago, they're saving more and more lives. siren wails. why are you filming me? cos you're in trouble, that's why! this is handy‘s. i've been coming to this store since i was going to that elementary over there, so... all this has changed, we got a lot of homeboys get killed up here, just hanging out, because this was almost a shared store between two rival gangs, and so, in the process of that, a lot of people lost their lives up here, you know,

a lot of shooting, a lot of drive—bys would happen here. will now spends most of his nights out on the streets, trying to stop conflicts from happening or getting out of control. you know, wejust all hitting corner to corner, communicating with those that are always out, you know, a lot of times we need that ourselves, so we can understand what's going on in the communities. because they're out here, sometimes they see stuff we don't see, you know, it helps us determine who we need to go talk to. bye! can i get a cigarette? in order to survive, many families had to leave the city altogether. of course, this is my mom,

my beautiful mother deborah. when will's mum saw things getting out of control, she uprooted her family and fled to nearby san bernardino. my uncle lester, he was killed in 1987. woman: in compton. in compton. shot in his face. so we've been victims of the violence too, you know. i think this was our family's first experience of the violence in compton. i'm willing to bet you there's not a family in compton that didn't lose somebody or someone nearand dearto them... to gang violence, in some shape, form or fashion. we lived through a war. it was a war. it was like a war zone. i've seen a lot, and it's weird because, i always tell my friends, i'm a nurse now, but i kinda think

i seen more death as a child than i have as an adult. there were plenty of days, you know, i'd be playing outside, and we knew, "oh, that car don't look familiar," we probably got about two seconds to get into the backyard and sure enough, by the time we get in the backyard and lay down...bang, bang, bang. come out, and here come my mama, driving down the street, "get in the car, got to get in the house!" it'd be like, all right. but it became a way of life. itjust became... it was not normal, but then it was normal, you know what i mean? i know, as a young kid, i didn't show that as much, but i always loved my mom and it hurts to know that she went through that, to know that she had to suffer, that we put more on her table than she should have had on her table. that's something i have to live with, cos the thought occurs every now and then and it makes me cry, it hurts me, even though i've been living like this for 20 years, good, doing good work, great work, it still hurts me to know that 20—something years ago,

i took my mom through what she had to go through and suffer, you know, and so it's something that i'll have to live with the rest of my life because i can't change that. but it hurts, it hurts, you know? the whole neighbourhood is totally different. and it's sad when you see, because you know, that dude used to live over there, but he's dead. 0r next door, they all died. it'sjust sad. 0rthey injail for the rest of their life. the ones that ain't dead, they injail for the rest of their life. there's only a handful that made it out. it's sad. it's really sad. down this quiet street in compton is aja brown's former family home. my grandmother was a registered nurse, so she worked overnight

and her schedule was a bit different, and there was a home intrusion and then someone raped and murdered her. no—one else was home when this happened? no, just my grandmother. she was all alone? yes. i don't ever remember not knowing what happened to my grandmother, because i remember my mother at the holiday time being really sad, and i would ask my mother, "mommy, why are you so sad?" and she would just say, "i miss my mother." no—one was ever brought to justice and the case remains open. the loss of a life is not a moment in time, the loss is for a lifetime, and there are holes that are created that can never be filled and so it gives me a level of compassion, respect and even insight and a perspective into what most people are dealing with in my community. aja, when you look at this house in this street, what does it make you feel? it's bittersweet for me. it's nice to be able to know where my family spent a lot of their time growing up, but at the same time,

it's such a place of despair for my family. it's a solemn place, i would say. the mayor's story isn't uncommon. there's a level of post—traumatic stress in this town that comes from decades of extreme violence. but maybe it's that shared experience that could also drive people to end the violence. hello. the two complaints i hear most

about this weather, and yes, there are some complaints, too hot, too dry. we will briefly address one of those in the week ahead, but only briefly. certainly plenty of heat around again on sunday, with the blue sky, temperatures top 30 celsius in the hotspots in the uk once again, but look at this. in the week ahead, things will be briefly cooler, but that other concern about the dry weather, still high pressure, and most places will be dry for another week. but this weather front is important. it is bringing cooler air gradually southwards across the uk, monday into tuesday. so yes, a change in the feel of the weather, and a bit more cloud around for a couple of days as well, but still some warm, sunny spells. from the cloud, you may see the odd spot of rain, but that is just about it. temperatures will still be near 30 celsius in the hottest spots in southern areas during monday, the heat to be found across south wales, the west midlands and southern england, but much cooler in south—east scotland and northeast england compared with what we had over the weekend. here is that weather front

completing its journey south as we go into tuesday, so it will bring that somewhat cooler air further south to where we have seen the highest temperatures recently. on tuesday, more cloud around, although it is still dry. we will not be into the high 20s, just mid—20s, across southern england and south wales. cooler colours to be found elsewhere, so temperatures closer to normal for the time of year, and while most are dry, you could see patchy rain affecting northern parts of scotland and the breeze is coming in towards the north sea coast so it will feel cooler compared to how it has been. this area of high pressure is coming in from the north northeast and there is a decaying weather front towards the far north—west of the uk, which on wednesday could produce patchy rain for north—west scotland, perhaps the northwest of ireland, not amounting to too much but cloudier skies associated with that. elsewhere, a fair amount of cloud, but warm sunny spells and the temperatures creeping up again on wednesday, so in the south, into the mid—20s,

not as cool towards the north sea coast, as temperatures here are starting to recover as well. the picture towards the end of the week, there is a big swathe of high pressure from the west of us all the way towards scandinavia, and so, we are absolutely within that. that is why it is so settled. still the chance of patchy rain towards the north, north—west of scotland, and an isolated shower cannot be ruled out, perhaps into the far south—west on thursday, but the temperatures are starting to creep up again, and a little bit further on friday, still with quite a bit of sunshine to be had, just dotted about and isolated, but possibly heavy and thundery showers, but more spots getting into the 20s and the further south you are, it could be near to 30. we will carry the heat forward into next weekend, even though low pressure starts to approach us from the north—west, it looks like it will hold off high—pressure maintaining

plenty of dry, settled, quite sunny weather, and very warm to hot weather again going into next weekend. temperatures in the hotspots once more will be near 30 celsius but it is into the following week, it looks like low pressure from the atlantic will maybe have more of an impact on our weather, and there is a greater chance of seeing something wetter coming our way into the following week, and that is what we will be watching closely on upcoming editions of weather for the week ahead. a team of 90 expert divers were involved in the rescue mission. well, this is what all of those who have been involved in this operation have been waiting to see. who have been involved in this we saw two ambulances go into this hospital earlier, that's another. the boys are coming out. hospital earlier, that's another. eight boys and their coach still trapped, wait for oxygen supplies to be replenished. still trapped, wait for oxygen also tonight — still trapped, wait for oxygen a murder inquiry is launched as dawn sturgess, one of two people being treated for nerve agent exposure, dies.