welcome to newsday. i'm sharanjit leyl in london. the headlines: croatia come from behind to beat england and book their place in the world cup final. they'll play france on sunday. showdown in brussels — as president trump demands nato countries double their defence spending. i'm rico hizon in singapore. also in the programme: fears of disease injapan as the flooding death toll passes 170. and we're doing fine — first pictures of the rescued thai boys recovering in hospital. live from our studios in london and singapore, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. it's midnight here in london, 7am in singapore

and 2am in moscow where croatia have beaten england to reach sunday's world cup final. the balkan team fought back from a goal down, to win 2—1 and end english hopes of glory after extra time. it's the first time they've ever reached a world cup final in their fifth appearance at the tournament. they'll now play france who beat belgium in the other semi final on tuesday. olly foster is in moscow with a full round up. the 80,000 people there at the luzhniki stadium were richly entertained, they got value for money. world cup semi—final was a lwa ys money. world cup semi—final was always going to be gripping in its own way, just astonishing from croatia who have now played three lots of extra time in more than a knockout matches. they knocked out the danish on penalties and then the hosts on penalties. this one didn't

go to hosts on penalties. this one didn't gotoa hosts on penalties. this one didn't go to a shootout but croatia had to dig deeper because england made a wonderful start, ciaran trippier with a lovely kick over the croatian wall, and croatia were absolutely stunned. harry kane thought he should have kicked a couple but this is where our croatia's experience began to tell because when they pulled one back with 20 minutes to 90, pulled one back with 20 minutes to go, england lost their way a little, lost their shape. croatia so experienced, they have on average 30 more per man than england. and then extra time in the second period of extra time in the second period of extra time, just when we thought we we re extra time, just when we thought we were going to penalties, english hearts were broken and absolutely jubilant scenes with all those croatian fans with their distinctive

red and white chequered tops. wonderful achievement for croatia that absolute desperation for england who really were starting to believe that they could reach their first world cup final since 1966. it's croatia who are into their first world cup final just 20 years after they made their debut at this tournament. as you say, i wonderful start but heartbreak at the end for those players yet for croatia, we know this is the first time this fairly small country has made it through. it's an astonishing story, this, because it's one of those newly formed balkan state countries that formed balkan state countries that formed out of all those troubles there are and they have got such a footballing pedigree. a population of just over four footballing pedigree. a population ofjust overfour million footballing pedigree. a population ofjust over four million and they made their debut in france 98, felt they should have to. who beat them?

the french, in the semifinals in went on to win it. it. who are they facing on sunday? the french again. but obviously the croats here next moscow will be parting of the next three nights. and that the full—time whistle when they realise, all their millions of fans, i'm pretty sure the population will be watching. this seems a fantastic. our correspondence was at one of those found parks. this is a very, very happy crowd of people here tonight. just before the end of the match, one fan came up to me and said, if croatia wins, i'm going tojump into the me and said, if croatia wins, i'm going to jump into the fountain me and said, if croatia wins, i'm going tojump into the fountain and they have been jumping going tojump into the fountain and they have beenjumping ever since. this is a moment to cherish for croatia, a small country, just 4 million people but they have proved they can play football on a world —class they can play football on a world—class stage and everyone here is hopeful that they may perhaps win

in the final. i am sure they are but thatis in the final. i am sure they are but that is the world—class stage, the luzhniki stadium, where they will ta ke luzhniki stadium, where they will take on the french. the french will be heavy favourites remember, they are the team that knocked argentina out and they are looking stronger as they progress through this tournament, one more match for them. it's the third world cup final. they w011 it's the third world cup final. they won it on home soil in 98. they have some world—class players. whatjaffa mbappe. but croatia will feel this is finally their year, their squad has been together for years and they know each other well with the likes of modric and rakotic in the squad. they are world—class and we hope it

should be a wonderful world cup final. for england, that third—place play—off, the match that nobody wa nts to play—off, the match that nobody wants to play as they face the belgians on saturday in petersburg but all lies, really, on that stadium behind me, croatia against violence for the right to be called world champions. —— against france. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. us president donald trump has urged nato member states to commit 4% of their annual gdp output to military spending — double the current target. he made the remarks during the western military alliance's summit in brussels. nato's secretary—general, jens stoltenberg, acknowledges disagreements, but said the alliance was forging ahead. in the history of nato, we have had

many disagreements and we have been able to overcome them again and again. because, at the end of the day, we all agree that north america and europe are safer together. nato is good for europe and nato is good for north america. china says it will hit back, after the us raised the stakes in a trade war between the countries with a 10 percent import duty on a further $200 billion worth of chinese imports. the tariffs will be due on hundreds of food products as well as chemicals, coal, handbags and cat food. more on this coming up later in asia business report. roger federer has been knocked out of wimbledon. he was beaten by kevin anderson, who fought back from two sets down in a gripping quarterfinal matchup. the top seed, who is aiming

for a record equalling ninth singles title, mitch —— a match point in the third set which proved to be pivotal. the duke and duchess of sussex are visiting dublin in their first official overseas engagement since getting married. prince harry and meghan markle met the irish president michael d higgins and first lady sabina coyne at their residence alongside their two dogs. rescue workers injapan are continuing their search for dozens of people missing after torrential rain caused flooding and landslides in central and western areas. at least 179 people have died in the worst weather for decades and around eight million people have been ordered to evacuate their homes. earlierjapan's prime minister shinzo abe visited the city of okayama to inspect the damage, as michael bristow reports. when the scale of the flooding

became clear, shinzo abe cancelled a planned trip abroad. he went to see this natural disaster for himself. he visited a shelter for people who have been washed out of their homes. the prime minister promised them everything they needed to rebuild their lives. the government has put aside extra money and pledged to make sure they get it quickly. the emotion of the ordeal told them the voices of some of those shinzo abe met. the clean—up has now begun. people are sorting through the items that can be saved and those that must be discarded, and there are co nsta nt must be discarded, and there are constant reminders of more carefree times. somehow, the floodwater that this miniature horse stranded on a roof. she fell off but was unharmed.

the search is now on for her foal. japan's worst flooding in decades is being blamed on more unpredictable weather caused by climate change. japan is one of the best prepared countries in the world when it comes to disaster risk reduction, disaster risk response. they are supremely well prepared, so the magnitude of the casualties of the destruction that we are seeing now really is an indication ofjust how big and how extreme this was. nearly 200 people have died. tens of thousands of homes are still without clean water. many have no power. japan has detailed plans to cope with earthquakes but some say it's done far less to get ready for flooding. when rebuilding is finished, that will no doubt change. michael bristow, bbc news. let's cross live to tokyo and speak to michael penn,

from the shingetsu news agency. what can you tell us about the area in which this is occurring? this is indeed the deadliest natural disaster since 2011. overnight, there were some good news in the sense that there was a lot of people listed as missing who were a p pa re ntly listed as missing who were apparently found so the total number of dead plus missing is now lower thanit of dead plus missing is now lower than it was last night, which is good. most of the roads are now being repaired, and bridges, to make sure the areas that were cut off now largely reconnected with suppliers including water food and everything else that comes down those arteries. some things will take longer to repair but there are no areas we know of that are completely isolated. what can you tell us about the area in which this is occurring.

is it often susceptible to flooding? to be honest, there is nothing particularly special about these areas, whether flooding happened particularly special about these areas, whetherflooding happened and where this disaster happened was the entire western half of the country, it wasn't confined to any special area. the prefectures hit hardest we re area. the prefectures hit hardest were hiroshima, okayama and ehime and those of all major prefectures of western japan, nothing particularly unusual about that area. as the death toll rises, getting ever so close to 200, there are currently reports or fears of disease is spreading in the area. yes, in fact there are quite a few warnings since the rainstorm broke, the sky sort of cleared up in very hot weather. in hiroshima yesterday

and today, the forecast is around 32, 33 people out there working and trying to clean up and repair things, they are doing it under very harsh heat conditions which is another threat. also, food poisoning is another thing which people have been warned about because with the lack of refrigeration of foods and with the hot weather, they have to be careful about what they are eating. earlier we saw the report about shinzo abe visiting evacuation centres. what is your view on this? is the leadership doing enough in responding to the needs of these evacuees? i particularly agreed with the part about how japan as were the best prepared countries in the world to deal natural disasters. the whole infrastructure of city and local

governments practice these things, they unfortunately get a lot of opportunities to use it because natural disasters happen so frequently. there was criticism the government was slow to realise what was happening and in their initial response, they didn't see it is that serious when they began to realise the full scope of it, the prime minister cancelled a foreign trip and he began to address it seriously. briefly, michael, what more can be done to help the people in these flood stricken areas? one of the main things is there are thousands of people without homes living in evacuation shelters and we know from past experience here in japan, that can be months of living on basketball court laws and things like this. obviously trying to figure out what to do with the people who lost their homes and to

need shelter and accommodation is a key point at this level. michael, thank you for keeping us up—to—date. also on the programme: the first images are released from the hospital where 12 thai boys and their football coach are being treated after being rescued from a cave. we have the latest as new details emerge of that rescue operation. croatia fans go wild as their team beats england 2—1 for a place in the final of the fifa world cup. central london has been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks. 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,

and 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. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. i'm sharanjit leyl in london. our top stories:

croatia have made it to the final of the football world cup for the first time, after defeating england in extra time in the semi—final. rescue workers injapan are continuing their search for dozens of people missing in floods and landslides. at least 179 people have died and around 8 million are being evacuated. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the straits times leads on the junior football team and their coach rescued from the cave in thailand. it has printed a picture of a few of the boys sitting up in their hospital beds, one of the giving the victory sign, looking remarkably well considering their ordeal. the japan times leads on an ironic twist from those devastating floods. it says hundreds of thousands of people in affected areas are now suffering with water outages,

their homes being completely cut off from water supplies. and the international edition of the new york times says china is investing billions in high—tech systems to track and control its people. the picture is a screen image that shows facial recognition software in use on a street in beijing. now, what stories are sparking discussions online? and the story about the instagram model who got bitten by a shark is trending worldwide. katarina zarutskie was visiting the bahamas with her boyfriend last month when she decided to get in the water to take a picture with a pack of nurse sharks. one of them bit her wrist and pulled her underwater. she managed to free herself and get out quickly, holding her wrist up to stop the blood getting in the water. you can see in the last picture

the shark's bite marks. her boyfriend captured the entire incident on camera, clearly not keen to jump in and save her. the first images have emerged from the hospital where 12 thai boys and their football coach are being treated after their remarkable rescue from a flooded cave, and new details have been released about the complexity of the rescue operation. it has been confirmed that the boys were heavily sedated ahead of the rescue effort to prevent them panicking in the dark, narrow, passageways, which were underwater in parts, as our correspondent lucy williamson reports. these are the luckiest boys in thailand. still weak, still in quarantine, these pictures the first we've seen since a rescue diver filmed them huddled together in the cave. their schoolboy poses

for the camera hiding the miracle that they are here at all. what happened here at the cave over the past two weeks inspired horror, then awe, and now curiosity. a dozen boys who couldn't dive, or even swim, trapped two miles inside the cave. rescuers said the biggest risk was that they would simply panic. so how did they get them out? the incredible story of their rescue from tham luang is onlyjust emerging. this is the first footage of the mission itself. each boy wrapped in a special kind of stretcher and carried along by hand. in parts of the cave where it was impossible to stand, rescuers built a complex system of pulleys to transport them out. and, where it was flooded, scuba divers strapped the children underneath them and carried them through — a feat described by one rescuer as superhuman. several sources have told the bbc the boys were sedated during the journey.

watch his arm. not unusual for normal mountain rescues, experts say, but much riskier with children and scuba diving conditions. you have to be real. we think that our plan is perfect. we try and try and try, we test and test and train. 0k. and you've got the best team so you have to believe them. leaving from chiang rai airport tonight, the british cave diver who starred in the rescue denied he was a hero. it's not like that. if you could do the same for someone else's child, you would, i hope. but what most people see when they look at the rescuers and their boys is the most incredible show of courage from one, from the other, incredible trust.

lucy williamson, bbc news, chiang rai. i've been speaking to the bbc‘s howard johnson, who is outside the hospital in chiang rai. he told me the volunteers who helped in the operation are returning home. they spent the day at the chiang rai airport seeing people coming and going. lots of people now scaling down this operation, leaving for their home countries or different parts of thailand. this morning we saw a team of climbers going back to bangkok. they said that they were proud to be part of this operation. he said that they were tired, but that they were happy to be going home. we also heard from the british divers later on in the day. i spoke tojohn divers later on in the day. i spoke to john and jason, and divers later on in the day. i spoke tojohn and jason, and i asked them, actually, whether they felt that... whether there were any moments of doubt in the operation, and john told me that they were very breeze, pleased with the results because they speak for themselves. so john, one of the guys that are spearheading this operation, now on his way back to the uk and we expect to hear more details from the british cave diving association in

the coming days. and all these hundreds of volunteers from around the world have joined this operation, howard, our heroes. i mean, saving these 12 kids and their coach deep inside the cave. yes, the message today we heard from lots of these volunteers was the pride of taking part in this operation. we spoke to lots of divers today. there was a spanish diver who was just leaving the airport, and we grabbed a quick question with him. asked him how the boys were, and he said that when he saw them that they were sedated, which is what lucy was explaining in her package, that the boys were unconscious and they were breathing. so it adds to this detail, that the boys were given some sort of sedative to get them through this ordeal. they tried to keep them relax while they were going through these twists and turns of the caverns, the flooded caverns.

we also spoke to a thai navy seal diver. he used to be with the devi seals but had been called back up by his friends. he said that he saw many of the boys sleeping in their stretches. some of them, their eyes rolling when the doctors tried to pull their eyelids up. he said that they were sedated as well. so it adds to this idea that they got the boys out by making them relaxed, using some sort of drug to calm them down and to get them out without any struggle. and now, briefly, howard, eve ryo ne struggle. and now, briefly, howard, everyone is awaiting the reunion of these 12 boys with their families. and we are not sure at the moment when that will happen. yes, some of the families have been able to see the families have been able to see the boys today. we have seen images of them staring through the glass, trying to contact their children through the glass, which must have been very difficult for the parents. but what we do know is that they will be inside this hospitalfor a week, and then once that period is

over they will be allowed to go back to be with their parents. they have been told to stay at home for another seven days, and to be looked after by their families. so we can expect to see them back in their family homes within a week. you have been watching newsday. stay with us. coming up: from eels to anvils, we will have more on us president donald trump's latest round of import restrictions, and what it means for the markets. and, before we go, let'sjust leave you with these pictures. after all, it is the first time croatia have made it to a world cup final. this was the reaction when they scored that first goal, which changed the course of the game, and that win sets up a world cup final clash against france. that's all for now. hello there. temperatures dipped a

little bit at the start of this week. wednesday was a warm one, and does temperatures are going to continue to rise towards the end of the week. some places could be really quite hot during the course of the weekend. we also had a few showers around. they will tend to fizzle out but we could start thursday morning with one or two across some western areas, maybe north—west england, in towards wales. there could be quite at muddy start to some of the larger towns and cities across southern england and cities across southern england and southern wales. now, we start thursday, then, on a rather cloudier note. clubs will tend to break up, with some sunny spells developing, although the eastern coastal areas remaining a little bit cloudy through the day and then showers will develop. and we think most of these will be across more western areas. now, some could be quite heavy, particular across south—western scotland, maybe the western side of england to the west of the pennines, in towards wales in south—west england. and they will be very slow moving, it almost stationary. some areas could get quite a lot of rainfall. the ground being so dry could lead to some localised flooding, so watch out for that. but he warned, though, where

you get the sunshine, especially in the south—east, 2627dc. as we hurtle towards friday, looks like the risk of showers and thunderstorms begins to increase in some of them could be on the side. friday starts off mainly dry, with the sunshine. although there will be showers from the word go across parts of north—west england and southern scotland. these will become more widespread across parts of wales, into the midlands, maybe southern england as well. like i mentioned, some of them could be quite intense with the risk of some local flooding. temperature—wise, around 25, maybe 26th celsius, and some eastern coastal areas may hold onto that cool breeze. now, as we head on in towards the weekend, a big area of low pressure will be anchored to the north—west of the uk. this may bring further cloud, maybe outbreaks of rain, the scotland and northern ireland, but it is also going to draw much warmer airfrom ireland, but it is also going to draw much warmer air from the ireland, but it is also going to draw much warmer airfrom the near continent. so from saturday it is definitely a north—west south—east split, with outbreaks of rain across the north and west of scotland, maybe into the far north—west of england as well. much of england and wales, though, dry and sunday.

locally hot in places, maybe 28, 20 nine celsius in the south—east. on sunday it is a similar picture. easier, with more cloud from northern ireland and western scotland. with outbreaks of rain, could see a few showers pushing into wales, north—west england. but elsewhere, across most of england and eastern wales, hot day to come. we could see one or two locations in the south—east reaching 30 or 31 celsius. so, for the end of the week it looks that we will see an increase of showers and thunderstorms for a time, and then it starts to hot up as we had on into the weekend. —— head on. i'm sharanjit leyl with bbc world news. our top story. croatia has beaten england 2—1 in the world cup semifinal. they are now through to the final where they'll play france in moscow on sunday. this is the moment croatia scored the winning second goal. earlier on, england scored in the fifth minute and led for more than an houruntil

croatia equalised. rescue workers are searching for 70 people missing in floods in western japan. the death toll has reached 179 and more than 8.5 million people are being evacuated. and this video is trending on bbc.com. the first images have emerged from the hospital where 12 thai boys and their football coach are being treated after their remarkable rescue from a flooded cave. new details about the rescue operation have also been released.