i'm sophie long, live outside the caves where rescue teams will shortly resume their operation to bring the remaining boys to safety. four out — nine more to go. divers get ready to start what they hope will be the last part of the cave rescue. they're racing to complete their mission before the forecast heavy rain brings more flooding underground i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: here in the uk, the brexit minister — david davis — sensationally quits the government. a british woman who'd been exposed to the nerve agent novichok has died. prime minister theresa may says she's appalled and shocked. this is bbc world news. it's newsday. it's 1am in london, and 7 in the morning

here in northern thailand where the mission to rescue eight boys and their football coach from a cave is expected to restart in about two hours. the remaining boys have spent their 16 night stuck in the cave, they have been in there now for over two weeks. the dramatic rescue mission started at 10am on sunday morning. expert diet is supported by a team of over 70 international and thai divers entered the cave to attempt to guide the boys to safety. medics assessed the boys to safety. medics assessed the group to determine who would come out first. then, in total darkness, to divers swam with each child is whether to a to the diver in front. it is reported the narrowest pa rt is in front. it is reported the narrowest part is only a0

centimetres wide. the boys will be helped through by the diver in front for continuing. 0nce out of the cave the children are taken to hospital by ambulance. the day started with rescue workers and extra dive tanks going in. a daring and complex rescue was under way. waiting nervously for the outcome, the man who has coached the boys football team, nicknamed the wild boars, forfour years. it was his assistant who went into the caves with them. i asked him what he would say to them when they came out. translation: i don't know what i will say when i see them again, but i do know that i want to hug them. after their dramatic discovery on monday, they have been fed and treated by an army medic on the rock shelf where they have been forced to retreat by rising water. they were judged fit enough to make the dangerous journey, though none has ever dived before. inside the now sealed—off area around the cave entrance, ambulances waited to carry those

rescued to hospital. and outside, as the light faded, the sound of helicopters and the sight of flashing lights was our first sign that at least some of them were out. then governor narongsak 0sottanakorn, who has led the operation, made this announcement. translation: i would like to inform the public at home, and all those who have given us support, after 16 days, this is the day we are waiting for. we're finally seeing the faces of the wild boars. as he spoke, the first two boys arrived in a hospital in the city of chiang rai. an hour later, we saw the third coming in. well, this is what all those who have been involved in this operation have been waiting to see. we saw two ambulances go into this hospital earlier. that is another. the boys are coming out. the four who were brought out today are described by one rescuer as doing remarkably well.

there are nine more still in the caves, but this first day went better than many had feared it would. jonathan head, bbc news, chiang rai, northern thailand. there has been a certain amount of activity here in the last hour also since the sun came up. vehicles coming and going and we know that the rescue operation is now about to resume. we will follow the same procedure, we believe, as yesterday with 13 expert international drug divers leading the rescue mission. it got off to the start they had hoped for with four boys already in hospital now. however they have a long way to go. a short while ago i spoke to edd sorenson, an american technical diver who has conducted a number of successful underwater cave rescues. he told me what he thought of the rescue attempt so far. it is just amazing that they got four of them out so far. we are hoping for a good

outcome for the rest. it appears that the flow has subsided a lot and if that stays down will help them tremendously because that was what hampered divers originally, the high flow. so if that diminishes it will be a whole new ball game. we were surprised here, watching it closely, that it happened so quickly. initially we were told it would take at least 11 hours to bring each boy out and they came out far more quickly than that. did that surprise you? is that because of the water level? i cannot speculate on that but it appears the flow has diminished considerably so if they were having to do this in the first seven, eight, nine days when the flow was up that

high, i am not sure that they would have had this outcome. it shows resilience of these young boys that they were able to do something that most people would not be able to do. it is great that they have gotten so many out so far. we hope for the best rule the rest. —— for all the rest. can you give us an indication of how difficult it is? not just for the boys but for those performing the rescue operation. i am sure you have seen maps of the cave, there is almost like a vertical u—shape that they need to go down and then up again. there are so many treacherous obstacles in this rescue. there is severe up and down climbs, zero visibility. they had extreme high flow originally which was one of the really bad ones. they have inexperienced divers who have never

been in the water for any period of time and have never to swim nor used scuba apparatus. they have so many inherent dangers to cope with and most people would not be able to get through that tight a restrictions in zero visibility. it has been miraculous so far. incredible and wonderful news that all boys have already been brought to safety. celebration with their family is tempered as their teammates and their coach are still in the cave. this operation is farfrom over. can you give us an indication of what your thoughts are about the next 2a hours? they only have four out and there is still a long way to go. they have a long way to go and i would say that the biggest obstacle they will have besides deteriorating conditions, if they bring the stronger ones out first, that means it will get increasingly more difficult as they get to the weaker, less healthy individuals.

so it is only going to get more difficult from here and if mother nature decides to give them a lot of rain, which will bring the flow back up, it could get real bad. this rescue operation has always been a race against time. leading the rescue operation they call it a war against water and the heavy he could still complicate the mission. —— heavy rain could still complicate the mission. let's look at how events unfolded over the last two weeks. the group went missing on the 23 june after exploring the tham luang cave. heavy rains struck, with floodwater trapping them inside. a search operation was set in motion — and ten days later the group was discovered alive deep inside the caves by two british divers. but the danger of the rescue

mission was put into tragic perspective by the death of saman gunan — a former thai navy diver, who had volunteered to help. after several days of training, divers began to bring the boys and their coach out at around 10 am local time on sunday morning. it took almost eight hours before the first boy emerged from the cave. three more soon followed. butjust before 9pm local time the operation was suspended. it is now just it is nowjust about it is now just about to it is nowjust about to resume. it is another long day ahead for those boys and the diving experts bringing them to safety. even out of the cave and taken to the hospital, their journey will be far from over. earlier i spoke with child trauma psychologist dr ricky greenwald. everybody is going to be different,

but this is such an extreme experience that it will have to have significant impact on every kid there as well as the coach. of course they will have felt that they would be alone and dead and not rescued and then people show up but they are still not rescued. so all the fear and hopelessness and all kinds of thoughts of self blame and everything else. when they come back there will be considerable challenges. for one thing they will have survivor guilt. we have already lost one rescue worker and we don't know how the rest will go. those who do survive will have to deal with the fact that at least one person did not. of course the first focus is on survival, rescue, medical treatment etc. but then they have to come back to their lives. and it is like somebody coming back from combat to their life. you can see the same places and the same people but you are not the same person

and it does not feel the same any more. so these children will be coming back home and they may not feel at home. so the challenges of course will be for the families and communities on the one hand to welcome them and have everything be as normal as possible, which is reassuring. and on the other hand, to accommodate the challenge that these kids may be feeling. somebody may be withdrawn or angry, some may have unusualfear or anxiety. everybody will be different but with an event this extreme they are most likely to need some specialised psychotherapy to really recover from this. heavy rain is forecast here and that

is quite unwelcome as it could complicate the rescue operation. they have prepared and planned to this operation. dams have been built on the mountain to divert the water so on the mountain to divert the water so it does not refloat the cape. in operation is set to resume imminently and we will keep you up—to—date with the details to get another long day ahead. now let's head to london for the rest of the news of the day. breaking news from here in the uk. the politician in charge of the brexit negotiations — david davis — has resigned from the government. the news comes just two days after the cabinet of prime minister theresa may approved a compromise document intended to guide the negotiations over britain's departure from the european union. the departure of the brexit secretary came just before midnight local time here and within the last half an hour or so it's being reported that steve baker — david davis's deputy in the brexit

department — has also resigned from the government. that is the latest coming to us now. joining me now here in the studio is our news reporter andrew plant. what more do we know? the repercussions, the repercussions from this will be bouncing around not just westminster here from this will be bouncing around notjust westminster here in london right now but also in brussels, not least because david davis, seen as theresa may's first line of defence in the brexit negotiations, hisjob was to deliver britain's exit from the european union. she has been under pressure from many different avenues over recent to outline britain's except policy and what exactly we will do with some of the main issues that people wanted clarity on, things like trade policy, border control, what would happen with the european court of justice in regards to britain's laws. david davis was at the

forefront of all those negotiations. what happened this week was that all the ministers gathered together at the ministers gathered together at the uk prime minister's summer residence chequers and went over what we called a policy document do what we called a policy document do what they came out with were the proposals that theresa may would ta ke forward proposals that theresa may would take forward to the eu to say this is how we want our future relationship with the eu to look like. what they wanted was unity on these matters. and she was harsh about it in the sense that like it or lump it, if you do not toe the line then resigned. and here we see the first very high profile resignation in her cabinet. and now, of course, in the next few hours we will blow over this, whether this house of cards collapsing around her. ringing you some information that theresa may has responded to david davis's resignation letter, still waiting to get the contents of that letter and his exact words but she says he disagrees with david

davis's characterisation of brexit policy and the parliament will regain control of britain's laws. the unity that they came out of a meeting with on friday seems to blasted a little over a8 hours and then david davis, the most high—profile member of her brexit team, and his numbertwo, high—profile member of her brexit team, and his number two, leaving as well. we don't know exactly why he has risen iron to. we can presume he did not feel that those policies separated the uk enough from the eu. —— why he has resigned. we had a lot about trade deals and language like about trade deals and language like a common rulebook for good in terms of the uk's diverted eu rules. people thought they did not go far enough and we can presume that david davis was offered opinion. we also have a statement from the uk prime minister saying she disagreed with david davis's characterisation of the brexit policy they came up with, t parliament would regain control of british laws after brexit. presumably that was blossoming he agreed on. further information about what exactly he said to theresa may,

he was unpersuaded that the government's negotiating approach would not just lead to government's negotiating approach would notjust lead to further demands for concessions from brussels. this information is developing. i know you have some reaction is well and there has been a lot on social media. the leader of the opposition, jeremy corbett, he has tweeted? two schools of thought on this, really. jeremy corbyn said he thought the government was in chaos and had no authority and should now be clinging to power. people speculating saying that other prominent members of her cabinet, people like boris johnson, prominent members of her cabinet, people like borisjohnson, chris grayling have not given their backing to the agreement that was reached at chequers on friday. and are speculating that there could now bea are speculating that there could now be a leadership contest. she is due on monday to go to parliament to ta ke on monday to go to parliament to take those proposals reached on friday to other mp5, labour mps in the house of commons. that is something that happens on monday but two schools of thought. other people are saying well, she has survived quite a lot of high—profile exits

from her government. 18 over the past few years. this could be another of those. we will see at again, more detail coming through of that resignation with david davis saying that the general direction of policy will leave us, at best, in a week negotiating position and possibly an inescapable one. that comes from reuters news agency reporting on what was said from david davis, the secretary —— brexit secretary in his letter of resignation to theresa may. to give very much for that. to the next hours, iam very much for that. to the next hours, i am sure this will dominate uk headlines —— more to come in the next hours. in the past few hours, police here in the uk have said that one of the two people infected with the nerve agent novichok last week has died, and that a murder inquiry is now underway. dawn sturgess was admitted to hospital after being exposed to an unknown source of the chemical. hours later her partner, charlie rowley, was also taken ill. the couple's symptoms were the same as those of sergei and yulia skripal, who were poisoned

in march in the city of salisbury, a few kilometres away. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. well, dawn sturgess took ill last saturday at this flat behind me. this is the home of her boyfriend, charlie rowley, and he collapsed a few hours later. the couple had spent much of the previous day together and it is believed that in those 2a hours they had become exposed to this nerve agent. they were being treated at salisbury district hospital, the hospital that saved the lives of the skripals. the hope was they would also be nursed back to health. tonight we had a statement from the assistant commissioner, the head of counterterrorism in this country, and he describes this as shocking and tragic news and says it only serves to strengthen their resolve

to identify and bring tojustice and personal people responsible for what described as an outrageous, reckless and barbaric act. what it appears has happened is that an international murder attempt has ended in the death of a mother of three who was living in a hostel in salisbury, and this is now a murder inquiry. in the past few minutes we've also had a statement from salisbury district hospital, who offer their condolences to dawn's family, and say they worked tirelessly to save her. we'll have more from sophie a bit later in the programme. also, the latest from japan and the race against time to save people trapped by flash—flooding and landslides after days of heavy rain. central london has been rocked police say there have been many casualties and there is growing speculation that al-qaeda was responsible. germany will be the hosts of the 2006 football world cup. they pipped the favourites south africa by a single vote.

in south africa, the possibility of losing hadn't even been contemplated and celebration parties were cancelled. the man entered the palace through a downstairs window and made his way to the queen's private bedroom, then he asked her for a cigarette. and on the pretext of arranging for some to be brought, she summoned a footman on duty, who took the man away. one child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. education is the only solution. applause this is newsday on the bbc. divers in thailand prepare to continue a challenging cave rescue after an overnight break. four boys are out.

nine more people are still stuck inside. they are racing to complete their mission before the forecast of heavy rain brings more flooding underground. the british minister for exiting the european union, david davis, has quit his job only a few days after the government agreed their policy on brexit. we will have a look at the papers in a moment. let's have a look at some of the other news. millions of people injapan have been told to leave their homes because of extensive flooding and landslides, that have already claimed more than 80 lives. record rainfall has caused rivers to burst their banks in hiroshima and other areas. many people remain trapped by the floodwaters, as caroline hawley reports.

more than 50,000 rescuers are now involved in a mammoth emergency operation. these hospital patients were saved by the japanese military. this is where they were rescued from. the only escape from the hospital was either by helicopter from the rooftop, or by boat. and here, you see why. some people are reported to be still stranded at the hospital, and they're not alone. a swathe of japan has been hit by record rainfall, that caused flooding and landslides. many died as they could not flee in time. the dead include an 80—year—old couple and a three—year—old girl, and the death toll is certain to 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

ordered or advised to move from where they are in they can. but the waters rose so quickly that many are trapped, with no way out. some area 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 is not finished yet. more rain is forecast, and with it, officials say, there is a serious risk of more landslides. caroline hawley, bbc news. let's return to our main news this hour, the rescue of the boys who have been trapped inside a cave in thailand for a fortnight. the rescue teams faced a pressing deadline, with the danger that heavy rains could fall at any moment, posing a risk of flooding the cave system and making it impossible to bring the boys out. we understand the operation is continuing this hour. we expected to get under way at 8am

local time. in the last 30 minutes we seen local time. in the last 30 minutes we seen 20 or 30 thai military people. they had been working inside the cave. we have seen a lot of shift changes in the last few days as this rescue operation got under way. yes, the operation in earnest was suspended at 9pm local time last night and we are told it should get under way soon, largely so they could refill tanks and divers could rest. they are making a long journey in and out of the caves, notjust diving themselves but guiding young boys, many of whom couldn't swim and certainly had no diving experience at all. each of the boys were led out by two divers each. at some points of the cave they are very narrow and jagged, and they have done everything they could to prepare for the operation, clearing any obstacles they could, and they will be guided by two divers. in the

very narrow parts they have to take off theirairtanks, guide very narrow parts they have to take off their air tanks, guide them through and we secure them. there are places along the way where the boys are assessed and they can rest to see if they are ready to go on. but that is all due to get under way again, imminently. more from sophie in the hours to come as we continue to follow that situation. more now on our breaking news from here in the uk: britain's chief brexit negotiator has resigned. david davis's decision comes two days after the cabinet agreed its new plan on future trade relations with the eu. mrs may has thanked the former minister for mrs may has thanked the former ministerfor his service mrs may has thanked the former minister for his service in the brexit negotiations, and he said he felt the prime minister's policies we re felt the prime minister's policies were undermining wrecks that negotiations with brussels. that's all for now. stay with bbc world news. well, it's been another glorious weekend. if you do like your weather hot,

dry and sunny, just some subtle changes in the weather, i think, as we head over the next few days. some more cloud and things will turn a little bit cooler, too. but here was the picture on a sunny afternoon in wiltshire. beautiful blue skies and not a cloud around. bit of fair weather cloud here and there are through the week, quickly things will turn cooler and cloudier but staying largely dry and temperatures picking up once again into the latter part the week. but we start the new week with high pressure still in charge. a weak cold front will be just heading its way south across the country, introducing some slightly cooler conditions initially to the north and further south. so, on monday, it won't be quite as warm as it has been across parts of scotland and northern ireland, northern and eastern england, with a shift in wind direction. more cloud than we've seen here, too. holding on to the warm and dry weather for much of the country.

a bit of drizzle in the far north associated with a bit more cloud. you can see the red colours indicating that warmer weather across southern and western england and south wales, but north, not as warm. in fact, some places about 5—10 celsius cooler than they have been. 16 in newcastle monday. contrast that with london, still at around 30 degrees or so, but that dry theme sticks across the board. and then, moving through monday evening, then, still a bit more cloud around the north and east, and we'll start to draw in more of a northerly wind, as you can see the wind arrows around the east coast of england. so a noticeable breeze heading through into the early hours of tuesday morning, and temperatures overnight not as hot and muggy as we have seen. but down towards southern and western parts, still around 16 degrees, so fairly sticky overnight. tuesday, quite a breezy feel if you're exposed to the north sea wind around the east coast, breezy through the english channel too. but less windy further west, with spells of sunshine and a bit of cloud around too, but staying dry across the board once again.

temperatures on the cooler side than what we've seen recently, so typically around about 17—2a degrees or so. and then, as we move through tuesday on into the middle of the week, down to wednesday, high pressure stays with us. with that cold front to the south, we're in slightly cooler air mass, so i think through the middle of the week, a slightly cooler interlude but temperatures in the low to mid—20s and then towards the end of the week, it looks like those temperatures are going to pick up, turning hot and staying dry into next weekend. have a great week. i'm babita sharma with bbc world news. our top story, thai divers preserve them are prepared to resume a challenging rescue operation from a flooded cave in the north of the country. for boys from a youth football tea m country. for boys from a youth football team have already been retrieved on the cape. another nine people are still inside. ——

retrieved from the caves. here in the uk — the ministerfor exiting the european union — david davis — and his number two steve baker have resigned. it comes only a few days after the government agreed a position on future relations between britain and the eu. and a woman in britain who was poisoned by the nerve agent novichok has died. dawn sturgess and her partner, charlie rowley, handled an item contaminated with the same substance used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter in salisbury, in march. and a story making headlines here in the uk. prince louis is being christened today.