this is the w.'s live from valley authority is in thailand slowed down their efforts to free children trapped in a flooded cave deficient leading the rescue effort says the twelve boys and their football coach are not yet ready to make the dive to freedom rescuers want to give them more time despite fears that conditions could worsen also on the program. china imposes retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products after the us places levies on billions of dollars worth of chinese imports beijing is describing the dispute as the largest trade war in history. and from saw

the first team through to the world cup semifinals followed next to nil a victory over a scrappy. i'm still gal welcome to the program officials in thailand have to jump and hopes that any plans to rescue twelve boys in the football coach in the flooded cave system would go ahead since the regional governor has been telling reporters that's a rush to aeration to free the police would not be undertaken on that's necessary but experts are warning that the oxygen levels in the cape dropping and more monsoon rains on the way the window of opportunity is limited and the dangers involved came into sharp focus where one rescue diver died on friday of bringing supplies to the trapped group. mills broadening the gaze and cave rescue expert

right here in germany welcome to d.w. what sort of dangers are facing the boys and the rescue as they try to get them out . good evening from germany yes they are different parts we have to focus on one is. described a lot of itself so the passages have to be dived slim and some has the just try where you have to crawl or walk and on the other side the boys are a long time in the cave they are maybe not in good conditions better lower and they have to have enough. force to came out but the main thing is the diving problem because we have bake current in the cave we have syrah visibility underwater and you

never can dive up if you have problems because there is a ceiling or roof of the cave right so with monsoons all the way water levels likely to rise quickly what do you think of a likely to risk going ahead with a rescue attempt. makes no sense to. take a higher risk to the children because of water rises it's every time the best that the diet was which are on side in the cave maybe the fish . boys can die or not. and has the rescue team got enough time to prepare we've heard reports of some of the boys can't even swim. he is ok swimming is not the big problem is you can give them some support in their swimming passages like life jackets or something like that and the main thing

is the diving itself and last. time to learn diving on one side in a swimming pool or so but diving into caves really really difficult and we have just a few experience in the world which can dive under such conditions will it save so it's a big risk or a big problem to learn them diving as much as they need it so let's look at it then from from the rescues point of view we're talking so that the technical challenges facing the divers and the rescues yes. it's really the main thing is that you're always diving safe and there you need a lot of equipment and also a lot of experience in diving in caves it's not enough to be

a really good diver you have to be a really good cave diver and such floating conditions. and this we've we've seen in the news where one very experienced diver has has already died as a result of running out of oxygen how does an accident like that happen. i'm not sure what are the correct conditions but there are as i know from the rescues network he has not enough. air left in. bottles and so he get problems. but this diver was not experienced cave rescue or a cave director was in iraq from the swat team from the military and so is a really experienced diver but diving in a cave is really different to diving outside he thank you for your time your expertise mills have brought in thank you you're welcome for. the

largest trade war in economic history is how china described america's imposition of thirty four billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese goods america has its eye on products like cars planes and hard drives china responded immediately by targeting u.s. agricultural products and cut the car sector and medical products as well as scoring a propaganda victory. ever since u.s. president donald 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 oil producers 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 target a total of five hundred billion dollars in chinese imports. take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world of course in turkey a sentence two prominent journalist to jail terms. that he's. given eight years and nine months in prison for links to turkey's failed killing twenty six both men worked for a newspaper with ties to cleric for to the glen. blames for instigating the coup attempt. and residents of

a bedouin village in the israeli occupied west bank mocked for demolition have been celebrating victory after an israeli judge blocked the demolition proceedings human rights groups say removing the bedouins would allow israeli settlements in the area to grow and further fragment palestinian controlled territory. has the prime minister's country residence for. crucial talks on devising a plan for future trade with the e.u. corporation sharply criticized recently his approach the c.e.o. of air bus which employs forty thousand people in the u.k. so that mrs mace government has no clue about how to leave for european union without inflicting severe harm and repeated awarding the jobs could be lost. to zimbabwe now where the country's gearing up for elections at the end of this month president emson the one god is looking to seal his position and secure a popular mandate it took over from zimbabwe's long term dictator robert mugabe

last year after an army crew is promised a complete break from the garveys role but accusations from his past are dogging his election campaign. now and then when you cleans the grave of his son it's all the huns left to remember him by he was killed at the age of fifteen along with other local children. and i always says his life changed forever thirty five years ago when soldiers turned up at his village. they walked away with nine of the children were all about five to three days we found them dead in their bodies smelling. they'd been beaten up with large wooden logs on their entire bodies never knew it was so painful remembering the size of the logs that beat their flesh right. after that of a shotgun a book through almost gone. zimbabwe's army carried out a series of massacres during the one nine hundred eighty s.

all here in the region of much of the land rights groups say twenty thousand people lost their lives. the man who is now president and mizzen man and god were from the zanu p.f. party was in charge of national security at the time it may be decades later the voters here in the town of pull away i have not forgotten the massacres that go by the name of. these two allies in the it's all. to me a muslim and that is adel fault was it still is it so basically out in what was i. don't think any sane person can vote for islam appear. coaches in matter be land account for fifteen percent of the electorate so man and god what is king to win support here but he's not address the issue of the massacres he's cast himself as a reformer and has invited international election observers to zimbabwe for the

first time in years last month he held a campaign rally here that was targeted by a grenade attack. the celebrate atmosphere quickly turned to panic. man and god escaped unscathed he later dismissed the attack as the work of outsiders. but melbourne and when year doesn't trust him he along with many others here plan to vote for the opposition movement for democratic change. france has become the first team to book a place in the world cup semifinals after beating two nil up match played out. i . i thank i wish

i transferred our take on the winner of the brazil belgium match which is still being played a tough loss for a guy who are now going home in the first half full of fouls one proved costly for your of white when current team to lisa was brought down and torn greaseman whipped in a fierce trust and rafael verano did it home thank towering header from the rail madrid defender to put a smile on the french fans faces. two minutes later europe why nearly equalise with a one to one remake of the gold had put them behind this time martin kassir is let the highest but a stunning say from hugo to respect things level. and in the sixty second minute france went further ahead thanks to a howler from finn on don't lose lera desperation for the sky blues as their keeper spooned what looked like

a fairly tame shot from anton griezmann into the net. for france a brilliant stroke of luck on what was to be their afternoon euro why are left wondering what might have been a star man cavaney had been available their world cup campaign ends here. so just a handful of teams left for the chance of the world cup title some like sweden and russia weren't expected to be there while footballing heavyweights like germany crashed out of the competition early so who is the favorite now if for that question to the fans at moscow's red square. i hope i will come to russia we will be in and a really whole but i think over countries because it paid they are very strong and so i think that it is going to be very complicated well now that colombia got eliminated i think brazil can win the world cup for us to go to redo because they have good quality materials and. the obvious team which i think

may be belgium or president and find it would be you and russia right now as we saw in the tournament open not more favorites because now we have teams the star really showing a lot of really good soccer and i thought that someone we don't think about who will win. now here's a birthday party with a bit of a difference taipei zoo is marking its giant pandas fifth birthday and celebrated with not one but two cakes students can take us as the sweet treats contain a favorite ingredient somebody else in our lives and grapes but during the festivities she seemed far more interested in something else but i think i was talking about the clash. with. the i know you are.

just times reminded our top story this hour of ours in thailand of one of the children trapped in the flooded cave system not yet ready to attempt an escape the rescue workers are trying to teach them to dive before monsoon rains for its oxygen levels become dangerously low. its fuel subsidy. how do you think it's going to be a little chippy. the measure of the scores. dating soccer world cup on t.w. news.