you know when i lived there again i don't know so i'm not sure. bearing witness global news that matters. made from minds. this is d.w. newsline from thailand teaches it stranded schoolchildren how to die on forces prepare for the worst to say consider how to free the group trapped inside a flooded cave complex they're in good health but could face a dangerous swim to safety also on the program. processed as a. supreme court with a new low for some judges into early retirement the government says it's an overdue reform the european union is outraged. can be e.u.

when a trade war with the united states tit for tat tariffs mean neither side is backing down so who really has the upper hand. plus angling to break the world cup penalty . the three lions were in their first ever world cup penalty shootout beating colombia in dramatic fashion by climbing the last place in the quarter so. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. ty authours is a giving diving lessons to a young football team trapped in a flooded cave system the twelve children and their coach have been stranded for an eleven days but the floodwaters rise they could be stranded for months or even drown and the rescue efforts going to be extremely challenging for the non-swimmers

amongst them the latest footage shows them in reasonably good health. weak but in good spirits the boys receive medical treatment and food after more than a week underground they are now being cared for by the tiny the seals the video footage has reassured their loved ones officials are working to install a cable so that parents can talk to their children it is not yet clear how or when the teen will be brought to the surface after their harrowing ordeal authorities aren't taking any risks. we need to be one hundred percent confident in order to get the boys out. and it does not have to happen all at once. it depends on the circumstances. but they don't have to come out at the same time because they're all in a different condition. recessing the situation now and if there is any risk we will

not move them out. the rescue operation with little room for error medics and soldiers rehearse bringing the boys and their coach to safety. with the rainy season just beginning the group has enough supplies to survive for months and as officials debate how to free the team the governor has promised they will care for the boys as if they were their own. so let's have a look at the options facing the rescuers here's an approximation of the tunnel out the boy is a truck out here about four kilometers from the tunnel entrance as you can see it's completely cut off by floodwaters one option would be to wait until the horses recede so they can just leave forts monsoon season assessing in the brings even more rain so that option could take months teaching the boys to die would be the

fastest and most. realestate option but arguably also the most dangerous and it's not even clear if out of the boys can swim let alone dive the british cave rescue council is advising this rescue efforts there chairman there assistant chairman is gary mitchell and he described the risks any attempt to deny nom divers out of any length or is this really quite serious undertaking. and we believe that tire thirty's are potentially coming up with sort of one or two plans one to take them out by the mountain stages and there is a separate pockets along the way but the total length of that it has it is in the region of a kilometer long so it's a six shooter and the taking of anyone that's really experienced by let alone young lads never or so rescuers are also scouring the mountainside for a place where there might actually drill in the chamber to lift the boys out but

creating a shaft large enough to do this would be extremely complicated and take a long time in the meantime authorities are pumping flood water out of the cave to try to limit the damage of further rainfall a significant factor weighing on rescuers minds is the risk that the caves could become completely flooded. first though some of the rest of the day's news hundreds of people have taken part in angry demonstrations in poems capital warsaw they're protesting against controversial changes to the country's judicial system they're also demanding judicial independence a new law lowers the retirement age for supreme court judges forcing a third of them to go before the end of their terms become trees right wing government says it is modernizing a system that is left over from the communist era. european flags flying outside poland's highest court in warsaw once again thousands of poles have gathered to protest the government's judicial reforms the highest profile dissenter is mortgage

outargue asked of poland's top justice she turned up for work on wednesday in defiance of a new law forcing supremes court judges to retire earlier the government wants the twenty six highest judges to step down at sixty five instead of seventy. the law has seen polish prime minister jet ski come under fire in the european parliament politicians across parties say warsaw is just trying to get rid of opposition judges and is threatening democracy and rule of law in the country but it very bluntly it's a community of values and i have to tell you very openly that putting judges on the political control this effect makes no part of the value of warnings to the polish citizens now trust the e.u.

more than their own government. here. your government prime minister takes hold and away from the posse of jim ocracy we greens fully support the article seven procedure and we very much thank the commission for also starting in a french mint procedure in order to stop this supreme court act. parliamentarians also highlighted poland's contributions towards here paying unity they urge to also not to isolate itself from the rest of the bloc of european view boylan. we want poland at the center of europe we want you to contribute but don't destroy democracy in your country we. are of yet ski defended his government's reforms saying they would strengthened not weakened the polish justice system he said poland would not tolerate brussels telling it what to do national road there's a. continent has been shaped by its cultural institutions a hundreds of years welsh on the vine your perspective on national identities is

part of the trust that has been built in the e.u. because the constitutional pluralism in article four of the treaty is one of the great values of the euro and every country has the right to set up which legal system in line but its own traditions. that you have to change but the demonstrators in warsaw have made clear that opposition to the reforms along with the e.u. they're set to keep up the pressure on the polish government. brussels bureau chief max hoffman has been following that debate in the european parliament he outlined the use next steps article seven procedure of the groundwork for that is already laid what does that mean article seven eventually could lead to the stripping of the e.u. voting rights of poland although that seems highly unlikely because some countries have already said they would veto something like that especially hungary although you never know how it's really going to turn out in the end but something that could really hurt poland is the money because they're getting

a large amount actually the biggest amount of the cohesion fund. funding from the european union and there has been talk and there have been lots of discussions about tying those funds to the state. of the country in this in this case of course we're talking about the judicial system in poland if this is really the case they get less money because of that this could pose a huge problem for poland and its government was max hoffman in the brussels let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world counter-terrorism police in southwest england are investigating an unknown substance that's made two people critically ill the incident occurred a few kilometers from where a former russian spy and his doctor were poisoned the nerve agent in march samples of this latest substance of been sent to a defense research the bar for testing french authorities have appealed for calm after police killed a young man sparking violence in known rioters torched

a building and cars after officers shot and killed a twenty two year old during a traffic stop on tuesday an official says the dead man it's a police officer with his car. a woman from tunisia is moderate islamic party has become the first female elected man of the country's capital tunis pharmacist abderrahim run one of the second rounder for two by the city council and she describes her victory as a point of pride the wind fortune is here where. germany's chancellor has defined into a new buy gratian policy in parliament a day after reaching a compromise hardline interior minister to limit illegal immigration i'm going back will said europe's future depends on the way it deals with this issue she also tony holland you make every effort to avoid a trade war with the united states. but is that here not without business one hundred could germany be making concessions to washington over this whole business

you just gave it away phil were all right well yes ok back to reason. he's told by thunder it's what it sounds like at least the german leader as you just heard from phil angela merkel saying it's time for germany to try to avert a trade war with the united states is not the time of hikes from washington led by e.u. levies of its own next in the firing line is germany's treasured auto sector is the chancellor. so i get it but right now we're witnessing something full time which we've always considered a constant namely the role of multilateral organizations we now have tariffs on a limb in yemen steel and we have a far more serious issue too should levies be raised on cars imported to the u.s. . and ladies and gentlemen this has the traits of a trade come i'm not ready to call it anything else just yet. but it is worth putting all our efforts into trying to diffuse this conflict before it does become

a war that of course both sides have to be involved and that's really why that. speech came as european commission president heads for the u.s. for talks with washington the e.u. has a lot to lose in this trade conflict one compelling reason to stand together but analysts also say without reform the block is too weak to win big battles. so is the e.u. ineffectual and bogged down a visit to athens might suggest otherwise after years of financial crisis greece with the e.u.'s help has turned a corner or so says european commissioner pm must give each. received. each with. its. soothing. those european partners now have three other economic headaches to deal with first italy which is sitting on

a mountain of debt some two point three trillion euros worth saving italy might prove an even tougher job than greece could this mean and atallah exit. then there's brics it britain is waving goodbye to the e.u. but what this will ultimately mean is anything but clear how much of a handle does brussels have on the situation and its costs. and last but not least donald trump he's threatening tariffs and the e.u. use vowing to strike back with levies on some two hundred fifty billion euros worth of u.s. exports joining forces against trump for the e.u. that could be a show of solidarity and strength. that's. enough financial correspondent in frankfurt conrad what sort of fighting position is the e.u. in. in a very difficult position europe is sort of sitting on the fence between the u.s.

and china let's not forget also the europeans have a lot to criticize when it comes to chinese business practices and business policies but the americans don't seem to understand that they could in a unified way tackle those problems with china also when talking about the trade balance both sides europe and america seem to have fundamental misunderstandings if you include in the calculation the services for example and the large business that many large american internet companies have here in europe and it's not the e.u. that has the trade surplus it's the americans but the trumpet that administration doesn't seem to acknowledge this is another strange one from the trump administration trump blasting how the davids and moving some of its production abroad to evade e.u. tariffs now he's trying to get other motorcycle manufacturers to come to the u.s.

. that's true and they come from countries that donald trump tries to punish with his tariffs but that's probably not the way how donald trump would see this. if you look at this through his eyes all he wants is to create the manufacturing jobs in the united states he's not really really interested from where those jobs are coming from and the case of harley davidson has shown that it's not the well being at least of this american company that is on his mind how do davidson had to do what it has announced it had it has to transfer production out of the united states to other countries in order to stay competitive here in europe but that's not something that's done with trump or seeing it's all about running a business not just running a continent. thank you correct. well u.s. commerce department has temporarily lifted part of a sales ban on the major chinese. the ban all but shut down the company in april

this year when washington accused of contravening sanctions against iran and north korea now restrictions have been lifted at least for the meantime. the temporary reprieve is only until the end of july and conditions under which that t.-e. will be allowed to resume business as strict the chinese tech giant will be able to maintain existing telecom networks and mobile phones in the usa and to carry out security patches to continue operating the company must pay a one billion dollars fine replace its executive team and hire u.s. compliance officers it was only in april that the company suspended most operations after the commerce department imposed a seven year ban from buying u.s. components and technology said t. he relies on u.s. companies for nearly one part in every four that go into its networking hardware and smartphones. pleaded guilty in march two thousand and seventeen to having

shipped equipment to iran and north korea in violation of u.s. sanctions after they were slapped with a fine the company promised to discipline employees involved in the scheme but the commerce department said this week that those employees were paid bonuses instead. time to talk football. those are anger and found sort of racing over british capital yesterday after their team's winter games to come up here and dishes of football's coming home chopped off a dramatic day of the world cup so the three lions go through the quarterfinals for the first time since two thousand and six. d w social media editor janet drita actually an expat from use water here to talk us through the action probably both to start with you yannick so good when there's

a game is marginal favorites how did that play out here so the game was fairly evenly matched there were two evenly matched sides but england did go in as far as i would as you mentioned manager the fact that colonial missing their best player their star man has riggers due to injury so england were the better team over the ninety minutes you would say but it was a very scrappy match there a lot of fellows quite a bit of play acting from both sides and most of them to the colombian players but as is the case a lot of the time was with football even when the spectacle is not great on the field there's always plenty of drama as we'll say in the highlights coming up. kerry came penalty after fifty seven minutes put england in the lead against an ultra defensive colombia side without the services of their injured star rodrigues . in injury time england keeper jordan pickford had to produce his best save but was powerless on the ensuing corner when yet he mean up pounded the ball into the

net for the last ditch colombia equaliser i mean it was third goal at this world cup sent that match into extra time when england was only two minutes away from advancing to the quarterfinals. after a goalless extra time anglin tad to go through that dreaded penalty shoot out jordan pickford saved carlos parker's attempt and then up stepped eric dyer and finally england not only won a penalty shoot out but made it through to the quarterfinals two. so you have. a lot of. this victory means a lot for england fans yeah hundred percent i think most england fans have been through years if not decades of this national side thirty here. thirty four years now so it's been a long time that they've had any joy and for me i mean hof my family is english so

i know firsthand how ecstatic they would when the last one in i was having numerous messages coming through my phone of my family just absolutely ecstatic. but the reason this main so much to england fans is firstly this is the first time they've won a world cup match since two thousand and six but most importantly the win came on penalties england have a very very bad history with penalty shoot outs they've never won a world cup penalty shoot out until now they've tried and failed three on's which is an on wanted woke up record and so to win on penalties i think was a beautiful thing for england fans most of them hate penalties that. to say that they don't even hear about them so for them to win i think it really does. you know give them a big confidence boost it shakes a big monkey off their back and i think england fans are starting to believe that they actually win it as we saw in the jubilant scenes across the world. so i'm guessing that social media exploded so you carry people are absolutely going

crazy because he was saying when it comes to penalties in going has you know somewhat complicated history rhythm news even tweeted these as the game was underway i might add why do you always lose that penalties clearly speaking too soon because one fan rebutted from leeds and came back with this not anymore across social media there are hundreds of videos like this one he capturing the moment i see the anti and i just lost it and then bristol rocks in celebration and plenty of fans are almost more excited about how england won rather than i actually won i don't care what happens now we won on penalties the. huge deal so even if england doesn't win we have the moral victory. we have won the world cup it's it's all over now about the sharks and they'll be plenty of that what about the team itself of course delighted but this is pretty big for their manager gareth

southgate because he's known for at the nine hundred ninety six euros he missed a penalty kick which cost england this semifinal match against germany here we can see side by side images of that night twenty two years ago and the. sportswriters summing it up to your personal trauma into a life lesson and a victory a very very sweet victory. so you have experience which seems a big teams crush this year on the world's best two players leo messi and cristiano ronaldo they've attacked their backs they've got oh so who are the fans turning to now yeah i mean it's been an unpredictable world cup and i think no one really knows who will be the next superstar but it's nice let's say it's kind of nice that messi and ronaldo have gone because now it is a chance for another player to step up and correspondents in russia actually went out and asked the fans exactly who they thought might be the star this woke up so

let's check out what they said. john john. obviously neymar is up and coming but then he doesn't need to dive all the time he's too much of a star not that much of a player right now it's not the world cup of stars. this period off win and also. obviously losing big stars is it's tough you expect them to win a world cup but they didn't have the teams that got them up about this in the night i think he's. very sure but maybe the last work out for them you go to can see if he is the best goalkeeper in the world it was great it's a huge throughput on the cakes and he was good though on four four course.

i believe he was very good cast british michael was a very good goalkeeper. is . a young space neighbor seems to be something of a fan favorite so who do you think is going to steal the show yeah i mean neymar is undoubtedly a superstar and he's produced some magical moments already in this world cup he hasn't played the best but he's he's he's really stood out in some ways but kim and buffet is the one from a that i think really has the potential to show the world what he's made of the france forward is only nineteen years old and he has this this rule pay some power that can really just turn a game on its head as i said he's only nineteen and if he can lead france to the final and then win the world cup he'll go into the history books amongst. pele.

and the brazilian or not oh and that's something messi and cristiano ronaldo have never managed so i think the one for me to look out for good thank you for that young expat jared rethink it. so as the total it continues germany's team coach love is already looking to the future after agreeing to stay on the job he's now just over two months to get the site in shape before a clash against france in september let's take a look at what's at stake you can love will keep going but surely things will have to change after a failed world cup title defense no more coasting on his reputation as a world cup winning coach. well you know the guy as coach i'm also responsible i have to question myself and find out why we couldn't make it that will take some time to get this right beside you did you can. despite the early exit was given

a vote of confidence by the german f.a. a full analysis of the failure is yet to come but it will be conducted by those responsible for it the plan is backed by the head of the german f.a. reinhard grindle who had extended love contract before the tournament. we are extending the contracts of yogi loving his entire coaching staff until twenty twenty two. earth was once a breath of fresh air at the f.a. bringing new ideas to a tired organization he got rid of the old guard and backed young talents with great success in twenty fourteen germany won the world cup with the once innovative coach then played it safe relying on his old guard for continued success early signs of a decline awake nor two years ago germany faltered in the semifinals of the euros. versions right when we were knocked out in twenty ten and twenty twelve our opponents were better than us that wasn't the case today we were better than france

but not in terms of goals and the result. is also the talk. of. a new beginning which requires a new york in love but can really turn back time will he be able to review his own shortcomings if he can success may return otherwise the german f.a. is just delaying his downfall. start reminder of our top story this hour tell your sources have begun teaching the dozen boys trapped in a flooded cave how to dive as i prepare for possible rescue attempts new footage shows the boys in good health rescuers say they still don't know how or when they'll be able to bring them to safety. that's it you're up to date are both of you. at the top of the other day. long i'm going to move.

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