the coolest is the present and then this is an expert discussion this grand jury disputes off topic one d. w. news and business. news. is you don't be a news line from berlin the race against time to rescue the trapped children in thailand authorities say the clock is ticking for the twelve boys and their soccer coach stranded in a flooded cave system monsoon rains are forecast and oxygen levels in the caves are falling a situation which killed one rescue worker also coming up. china slaps retaliatory

tariffs on certain u.s. products after the u.s. imposed duties on billions of dollars in chinese imports beijing says it's the largest trade war in history. a quarter finals of the world cup are underway in france scored first against or of why i will tell you if that gold held up as one of the biggest sporting events on the planet enters the last stretch. and i have a quote boss and welcome to the program rescuers in thailand say time is running out as they work to free twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped inside a flooded cave system just how dangerous that mission is is even more evident following the death of a professional diver working on the rescue with oxygen levels dropping and more

monsoon rains on the way authorities warn the window of opportunity to extract the group is limited. it's dark dangerous work water levels are high narrow passages flooded. and still the volunteers continue their mission but with news that a former tiny navy diver has died no one can ignore the risks involved. salmon pune and who was thirty eight had successfully delivered tanks event to the trapped boys and their football coach but he lost consciousness on his dive back it is very risky please think about it the navy seal just passed away last night so how about a twelve year old kid. there's a renewed sense of urgency to find a way to free the twelve boys and their coach they've been stuck in this cave for

almost two weeks with oxygen levels drilling and more heavy rain expected officials are aware there is no time to lose. previously we thought the boys could live there for a long time. but now everything is changed we really only have a limited time. for the boys relatives it makes the waiting even harder. over here to watch the news and it is still dangerous to come out here . for their home worried he has never dived but can swim a little right now. rescuers are trying to provide a line of air to reach the youth football team but as they're trapped four kilometers inside the cave nothing about this operation is straightforward. journalist tim newton joins us now from thailand temp thanks for taking the time

rescuers originally said the best option might be to wait for water levels to recede after monsoon season but why is this no longer a viable. well you can imagine when they found the team the announcement that they might be giving them provisions for a four month white for the monsoon to pass was surprising a lot of people now the problem with the monsoon is that when it rains here in thailand it's torrential rain so they've had to respond for around about four days as the ryans held back given an opportunity to to get some of the water level down but if they're running starts again it might the exit out even more complicated complicated further today with the death of the thirty eight year old former time navy seal some mancow nun who died was working as a volunteer to try and help the team that died on judy mom you mentioned a professional diver who died on duty can you explain to some of our viewers that

are watching around the world the makeup of this cave and why this is so dangerous well this is not a small cave the team are actually almost six kilometers into the cave from the entrance it's an eleven kilometer cave system and it goes some five hundred meters underground not only that the prospect for example of trying to drill in from the top will drill in from the side you've got kilometers of solid rock to drill through so it makes the prospect of drilling almost impossible which means really the only way they can get out is the way they came in and the path back to the entrance is that long it's cramped and it's at least partially submerged sam talent interior minister is scheduled to speak we've been waiting for that press conference what can we expect to hear from the minister. well i wish i knew what he was going to say i don't now the problem is here it's just off to ten pm on friday

evening it's a rather strange time to be holding a press conference i made it would be centered around the urgency the urgency that the writing is about to start again in the next couple of days they've had a few days without crying which is giving them everybody good opportunity to get things sorted out but once those running start again it's going to make the mission much more complicated my tip is that they might try and get some of the future boys out as soon as they possibly can but off to day's death it just makes the whole process so much more risky journalist tim newton in thailand thank you for your insights my pleasure to a trade dispute now between two of the world's biggest economies china has taken its first shot against u.s. goods and what it calls quote the largest trade war and economic history it's responded immediately to new american tariffs by imposing its own and says they're

already in effect the u.s. levies a fax on eight hundred chinese products we're talking cars planes and hard drives to the tune of thirty four billion dollars in while china's retaliatory tariffs target u.s. agricultural products legislate beans and the chinese are turning their response into a propaganda victory. ever since u.s. president ronald trump first announced tariffs on chinese exports beijing has been open about their own plans for a tell you treat tariffs on u.s. soil beans among other products for american farmers soybeans used to be one of the top exports now china is working hard to increase its own soybean output furthermore beijing is scoring political points by opening its doors to other asians why produces the chinese government has announced plans to scrap tariffs on soybean imports from india bangladesh laos and sri lanka they also announced that they would reduce tariffs on other products from asian countries despite president

trump's claims that it would be easy to win a trade war american farmers are already finding themselves on the losing side. meanwhile the president is ready to further escalate the situation announcing tariffs on an additional sixteen billion dollars in chinese goods taking effect in two weeks after that trump said the u.s. is ready to talk of a total of five hundred billion dollars in chinese imports. discuss this further detail you senior business editor of ben joins me ben trump is the leader of the world's biggest economy what's his strategy here in trying to pull off this dispute with china strategies quite simple and threaten the others into doing your antiquated way of doing business basically something trump has got wrong because the world is a very different place to the world of business he was introduced to back quite a few decades ago i point out but these are no longer threats of course you have to

remember that these tariffs of come into effect it's a slew of tariffs and this steep tariffs and now that he's talking about. time saying that by ten i mean we've got fifty billion in total over the next couple weeks in the next month five hundred billion i mean that's crazy stuff we could really see a full blown trade war and that could backfire could backfire on him but does either side the u.s. or china have an upper hand here. the u.s. still has the upper hand in that it's the world's biggest economy it can do what it wants but trump doesn't realize that it could really backfire and the question is how much longer is he going to have the up ahead because the chinese economy is still growing a quite some pace you know six seven percent annually and at some stage the chinese economy will overtake the u.s. economy that is a given question is when and if trump keeps acting the way he's acting now he could

speed up the process i mean if the chinese are in charge of standards in the world order you know the chinese you know china's human rights record you are also aware of how china bullies. businesses into doing business the way it once business done so you know at the moment you don't have much of a choice when it comes to who's in charge the u.s. or china the impact of all of this will eventually trickle down who are the biggest losers at the end of all of this at the end of all of this it's you and me the consumers are going to be the biggest losers we're already seeing prices going up in some respects some companies saying the absorb the prices into their profits but they can only do that for so much time the multi national companies dealing with this much better because they have production facilities all over the would be in tariffs on american products but it's the consumer you really do have to worry about at the end of the day we're going to have higher prices less choice and less

competition. to run check on as she's the executive director of the international trade center in geneva we asked her about whether or not we are on the precipice of the largest trade war ever. well i think we are facing the largest trade conflict since the second world war but more importantly is that this conflict is already having an impact on the ground it's already affecting workers that are being laid off as a result of this issue and especially in america to move out of the country and produce elsewhere given that it's having an impact on businesses that are not making capital investment decisions because of the uncertainty of the situation but let's not forget our taxes taxes that the consumer will have to pay it will make it is making already american consumers. pay more for the goods they buy and it's making american companies less competitive because the the inputs the import

in the a manufacturing chains will be more expensive so frankly who wins from this conflict is a big question mark today a very uneasy. gonzales speaking to us let's go over to the call calm and collected coverage boos in in frankfurt to walk us through the global financial market reaction which has been quite calm today or would you put it down to caution conrad. it's more caution it's true given all the negative implications start marketeer has kept up relatively well this friday but we should not forget that the events today had been really well flagged so market participants have a lot of time to get used to them to price them in and this has happened here over the course of the last few weeks three weeks ago the german share index stacks

traded about five percent higher than right now. conrad you would have heard me talking about the u.s. wanting to increase these times to five hundred billion dollars what that would be the amount of imports from china to the u.s. last year i mean that would be a full blown trade war and it would leave both sides with very little the chinese would be able to match that the u.s. would be able to do much after that would it lead then to a currency war where the two biggest economies in the world manipulating exchange rates to get the upper. that's the scenario that some are talking about but most of them are still economists and other experts traders at the moment i talk to here don't think that we have to brace immediately for something like a currency war for donald trump it's not as easy to manipulate the u.s. dollar than it is to impose tariffs he would need the federal reserve for that and

the new fed chief general powell has not made himself a reputation of being donald trump donald trump's puppet the chinese on the other hand if they really want to continue to be the good guy in this game to play the good guy if you want you know the side that really accepts the double to u t o rules then they better not consider manipulating their currency the way they have done in the past you heard it from going to use in our financial correspondent in frankfurt. so how did we get here when donald trump became president he promised to put america first when it comes to world trade is gripe is that the u.s. has the short straw. terrorists have long been one of donald trump's favorite topics even before entering the white house last january he promised to slap levies on u.s. come acres with plants in mexico initially he seemed content just to hand out

threats. twelve months later however the situation was more serious on the twenty second of january two thousand and eighteen the us introduced tariffs on solar panels and washing machines the focus cheap imports particularly those from china then on march first trump's attention shifted to steel and he announced plans to slap duties on them too including imports from the e.u. trade wars are good and easy to win he tweeted that same day mexico canada and the e.u. were granted a period of grace on the second of april china an ounce to punitive tariffs on one hundred twenty eight u.s. products tensions increased dramatically between the two countries until finally talks began. europe also tried to wind trump around between vein on the first of june the us introduced tariffs on european steel and twenty five and ten percent

respectively but brussels wasn't prepared to take that lying down on the twenty second of june it put levies on jeans peanut butter and much cycles. in response trump threatened to tax european cars. china and the u.s. have also failed to reach an agreement from today around eight hundred chinese goods is subject to twenty five percent levies by the u.s. beijing has issued immediate counsel then it's the u.s. is turned then probably more from beijing and that one for the first time in decades global free trade looks like it's on to serious threats. more analysis and coverage of the trade conflict with a full fifteen minutes of business except for thanks ben you're watching the news still to come the elite eight of the world cup begin battle in russia and this goal turns out to be the winner as friends powers past or of why in the first quarter

finals match up. now some of the other stories making news around the world residents of a bedouin village in the israeli occupied west bank mark for demolition have been celebrating victory that's after an israeli judge blocked the demolition proceedings human rights groups say removing the better wins would allow israeli settlements in the area to grow and further fragment palestinian controlled territory. british prime minister trees a man her cabinet have gathered for crunch talks on devising a plan for future trade with the european union that's as poor peroration are sharply criticizing her approach the c.e.o. era bus which employs fourteen thousand people in the united kingdom says may's government has no clue on how to execute greg that without severe harm he repeated a warning that jobs could be lost. divers in thailand have scoured the hall of

a boat that sank in turbulent waters off the resort island of new cat the death toll has now risen to at least twenty one rescue workers have pulled around fifty people to safety but dozens more remain unaccounted for. german chancellor angela merkel has reached a deal over migration after weeks of infighting that had threatened to topple her government the junior partners in her coalition the center left social democrats have signed on to her new tougher line in dealing with migrants it was a key demand of her rebellious interior minister. who leads merkel's conservative bavarian sister party the c.s.u. so it's a truce for now but the route has exposed the fragility of merkel's splintered coalition. meeting before the summer break and a breakthrough on migration policy that concerns people entering germany after they've already claimed asylum in

a different european union country. the deal will mean a transfer out of germany back to those countries where they first claimed asylum. they'll be no kemp's migrants will be held in police stations while their papers a process. the government will also draw up on immigration policy this year. as that kind of not there will be no unilateral action at a national level and no unilateral rejection of migrants at the border we will implement an expedited border procedure instead we don't need any changes to the law for this it's all based on existing law so there will be absolutely no camps kind i like. the grand coalition has been wrecked by weeks of infighting. now actually in her interior minister ha see how far we are at loggerheads over what to do at the borders. germans are unimpressed when polling firm in fred

to steam up asked how satisfied are you with the government's performance a large majority more than three quarters said they were not only twenty one percent of voters said they were satisfied with the government's record. yet angle america's own popularity has hardly suffered from the dispute she remains the country's most popular politician more than twenty percent ahead of her would be challenger see her for. the first quarter final of the world cup is in the books and mark medals from sports is here to tell us all about it mark favored france versus earth which also happened france won two nil and deservedly so there were five by far the better team against what turned out to be quite a poor europe why side if we're honest we can have

a look at the goals as they come in now i mean you require famous for being strong in defense not in this game they gave away a very silly free kick here close to the goal and that gave france the chance to. take the lead off of the ram or the great headed there into the corner of the net not much the keeper could do with that one was right in the corner but now we're going to see the second goal and wow what a mistake from the keeper it sounds one great man with a shot it's a fairly regulation show and unfortunately phenomenal muslim has let it go right through his fingers very reminiscent of course of the champions league fun and low risk areas so friends are free and as i say they play for the deserved it. year ago i well the problem for them they had edison cavani out injured their second striker luis suarez if he'd been on the pitch it might have been a different story but as it was they had no chance really so ergo i wasn't up to snuff but did france performance show that they belong in the semifinal of world cup yes i mean when you beat argentina as they did and then beat year ago i in

successive knockout games you deserved to be in the world cup semifinals i mean they started the twenty one quite slow in the group stage but that's always the best way don't waste your good performances early on build up slowly and they are looking good now one problem though the semifinal opponents will have a lead brazil or belgium or belgium will find out tonight because that match is set to take off or kick off rather in just a couple of hours what can we expect from this battle i'm thinking it might be quite high scoring you know that two of the best attacking teams in the tournament obviously brazil are the favorites for the whole thing but many people have got belgium has dark horses so yeah i think it's me a really great game in canada and another thing that makes brazil game so special are the fans because they really create a great carnival atmosphere lets see how the fans have been preparing for the match never mind the players. brazil have carnival two. two games from the final their momentum is picking up and the fans aren't fussed about the criticism their star name or has been receiving for his play acting and all games people try

to hurt him like. his he's only doing what anyone in his place who. do and everybody's criticize him but it's hypocrisy because everyone does it every player in soccer does it so. there's no doubting the magnitude of name os talent to make a difference against mexico with one goal and want to see but coach teach a says there's much more to him than just attacking flair lois shaw called wallace you know it's not just with the ball and not just dribbling there are moves and defensive transitions so if you look you see how much he's been participating in the team what you bought it was call it use. one man who will have been watching closely is belgium coach roberto martinez he also has plenty of talent in his own side champions league regulars and premier league winners abound but brazil have one thing that belgium. brazil is the team that he brings that mentality of knowing

how to win will collapse that's probably the biggest trend and that's something i would have to overcome on the on the night. brazil don't just know how to win world cups they also believe in their own right to be champions nonetheless the belgium game will be their biggest test of the tournament so far. mark the coach mentioned neymar there depending on which version of him shows up how decisive could he be tonight he could be very decisive because he was brilliant in that mexico when i mean you scored a goal set up a goal he was found fabulous with the bullet his feet but then when he started rolling around to the tiniest of touches on his ankle it really was pretty silly and social media was going wild basically saying look this guy's a great player but what is he doing now when even children start taking the mickey out of you you know something's wrong with a look at a video here which can display this. this is kids in switzerland now not.

obviously. pretty much what he was doing to be fair though over exaggerating a little bit but as i say when children. doing things like that then you know you've got a problem so i'm pretty sure he's seen the social media backlash and tonight he'll be a good boy just concentrate on football because if you just let his football do the talking he's one of the greatest players in the world guard to belgium dark horses once again but surely they could be a good bet to be the brazilian side yeah looking at it they're one of the teams that can do it because they've got plays in midfield who can cook true what let's be honest is probably a bit of a dodgy brazilian defense and not really been tested so far in this world cup but belgium and got players like kevin the point. they can really pick that past. make that difference so that's why i think it will be a high scoring game but i actually think brazil will just nick they'll just nick it out plenty of action left in russia not just this game that's coming up but certainly more games to come but there's turmoil here in germany what's going on

well you might remember before the world cup and there was this photo that a moved with the took as president alongside to germany players miss it was ill and . and they got a lot of trouble for meeting the president of one jimmy fans saying well look we know you're of turkey's heritage but who side are you on and now there's been even more of a backlash because the germany team manager all of a big come out with some very interesting quotes such like the graphic will come up it says we never force germany players to do anything but try to convince them we didn't succeed with ms that so we should we should have considered dropping him from a sporting point of view now those are pretty heavy wood some of the big holes especially because he's not actually the coach he's the team manager is sort of in charge of kits and organizing what where the boss picks them up and things like that so for him to come out and say that a not you can live to say that it's both a not looking good for the future in the jim lee side and also some people will say well isn't that undermining you can live especially after such

a disastrous world cup plenty of drama for germany even though they are out mark madoff from the detail the sports department thank you very much. our minder of the top stories we're following for you authorities in thailand now say time is running out to free twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped inside a flooded cave this after the rescue mission claimed its first fatality a former navy diver who ran out of oxygen. china's foreign ministry says. on certain u.s. products have gone into a fact it says they began at noon beijing time immediately after of washington imposed duties on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese imports. washingtonians from berlin join us again at the top of the hour thanks for joining us.

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but that's shaking families and society to the core. my father would be angry sometimes i think the way he did to. those starts july eight w. . the. football is a simple game twenty two men chase a ball for ninety minutes and at the end the germans the croatians the english raj shah the euro why and the belgians the brazilians the swedish the farm the french always when. i was in my name is coming welcome to a well well.