this is state of the news coming to you live from berlin a risky and complex rescue operation begins in thailand a team of and meet diver and start their mission to extract twelve boys and their football coach from the flooded cave complex they have to navigate through the narrow submerged kasich ways that took the life of a diver on friday and with more damp or is forecast it's a race against time. also on the program russia's world cup very tail comes to an end the host nation crashes as of the tournament after losing weight shot on penalties so it's agony for russia and joy for

a shattered. that's where they'll face england who defeated sweden two goals to nail to make it to the centuries as well it's the first time in the entire play this this far in the tournament since one thousand nine take. a man o'donnell thank you for joining us for days the face of twelve boys and their football coach in thailand has gripped people all over the world they've been trapped in a flooded cave for over two weeks and missionary feared dead then they were found a lawyer and now after weighing all the options on the risks a team of elite divers has entered the cave complex to bring them as it's a race against time and against water the plan is for the divers to bring the group i was one by one through the twisting submerged tunnels. workers have been coasting

into the tunnel walls to widen the narrow passages and make it easier to get the stranded youths as emergency medical teams are waiting outside to whisk them to hospital the first boys are expected to emerge sunday evening local time. well the local governor in charge of the rescue ses that the current weather conditions provides a shores window of opportunity it's monsoon season and more water is expected to soon poor into the underground cave system i need. right now where as ready as we can be and it's. at ten am thirteen professional cave divers along with five navy seals into the cave to extract the children were. briefed on how to do so. let's bring in the lawyers correspondent. near the cave complex in northern

thailand what is the latest on the rescue operation. the latest we've heard this statement from the rescue center which basically said that the thirteen elite divers internationally the divers have i'm now in position and has been in position to bring the boys out of the most difficult first kilometer off the cave since two pm local time that's a that's a few hours ago they said that thirteen three of them will be helping supporting the boys why ten others will be lining up basically in this one kilometer stretch of a very tricky and difficult diving condition including a very small passageway that experienced divers. struck goes to get through it's not very clear from the statement whether the children has been diving or not and the statement further sad that medical doctor is inside the

cave assessing the health of the bars as well to choose who should come first so it's not very clear how many people if indeed they have been extracted or not and at what time they will be destroyed extracted the other part of the statement also said that other rescuers from thailand the us astray european countries and china are also lining up between a section another section a dryer section of the cave and installing poorly systems to help it. the children come out once they are through it's very unclear at the moment where the children are but as far as we know the extraction operation has started so it is under way and it's an extraordinarily mammoth task that they're faced have it also has been raining heavily so what does that actually mean for this mission. but we know in the past few weeks when the such operation started and the voice was

not found that heavy rain usually follows the rise of or rather has become the cause of the rise of water level inside the cape we've seen how quickly this water rise is have a spell of heavy rain on one day the next day this water rises so quickly and the current become more rapid that elite navy see you divers tiny two divers have to retreat it from dennis to search this was last week but of course right at this time the rain demonic rain it has been raining today but it hasn't been that heavy so. he basically said that this is the right moment right now to begin this dangerous and daring exploit to really extract the child extract all the thirteen people trapped inside and gradually bring them out one by one. and the cave has also got very narrow parts in it as well and one rescue where they're actually died

diving a couple of days ago so tell us more on the challenges of the dive and sav and also how long it would actually take them to complete this. well the challenge of the dive is it's very very difficult as we are told by divers themselves and high and you see you we are told that an all round trip could take about eleven hours so six hours in against the current and five i was out and that's just the divers we've bought the boys so it is very difficult to say but what we've been told i was always that. the sections. of the cave to cave mouth have the water level has has dropped so so much so that in many pots you can walk through a crawl through the cave so that's a positive development because since a very beginning of this operation we have seen that in many parts of the cave you

need to die so that's to leave so that one kilometer stretch which is very dangerous. near the mill cave complex in northern thailand thank you for bringing us up stace thank you and families and friends of the track graves are anxiously racing as they die for his work to bring them a portion of florian nurse mash one teenager who plays football with the boys and almost went on a trip inside the cave but ended up having a look. it's a realisation that weighs heavy on pies on jupiter he came within a whisker of getting trapped himself but the thirteen year old didn't join his teammates for the cave trip his mother didn't allow it so he stayed behind avoiding the fate of his friends and their coach. my best friend tad is in the cave he says smallest one one of the best play is i miss him i'd like to see how he is. my

son's family belongs to the aka an indigenous hill tribe in the region their religion is strongly influenced by animism and ancestor worship by psalms mother believes that an evil spirit lies within the cave that's why she told her son not to go. but with the hope of bringing him and been i'm so happy that he obeyed my orders one thing he's generally a very quiet and well behaved boy not a troublemaker in my i'm so grateful i don't have to worry about it and when i am going i will be. for the past two weeks by son has been glued to his smartphone most of the time following any update on the rescue efforts he's confident that he will see all of his friends again. but i want them out as soon as possible so that we can play soccer again. since the group went

missing there hasn't been any regular soccer practice but pass on and some of his friends keep on playing they say it helps to take their mind off things. but for them it's not about winning or losing on the pitch at the moment they're rooting for their friends hoping they can pull off their biggest victory yet. some of the other stories making news around the world. the death toll from flooding and landslides in japan has time to more than sixty with dozens of people still missing torrential downpours have caused flash flooding across central and western parts of the country prompting evacuation orders for about two million people forecasters say that situation is extremely dangerous. hundreds of anti gun protesters shut down a major expressway and the u.s. city of chicago for several hours demonstrations called on the city's leaders to end gun violence choco has by far the highest murder rate in the u.s.

says he saw more than one hundred thousand to one hundred choosing in the first half of this year. a host russia of the world cup after losing to croatia in a nailbiting penalty shoot outs i'm joined in the studio by leaving her taxi from v.w. sports desk and by our world cup a correspondent all over muti who is in such a venue of that game i'm going to start off with you a lemur first of all and what a game it was i mean russia the under and underdog playing with the attitude of a champion but at the end creation was just a number too big for them still as you said this was a nail biter why don't we take a look stalker shockley just past the half hour mark. dennys cherish of smashing home his fourth goal of the tournament since spectacular style. the lead was short lived however as a dry kraemer it showed at home less than ten minutes later to level the scores. a

goal the second half meant extra taught him and after a short break croatia took the lead to rising highest for the corner two one. but russia was done mario finance has made it to wall send the match into penalties. and after russia missed two of the spot kicks it came down to even racquets here church and the pass alone a midfielder kept his cool sending croatia into delirium for their opponents russia their world cup is now over. well i mean they did croatia religions are two and. they just because of the fighting spirit and the sheer quality on this team but they haven't made it easy for themselves this is the second time that they've gone into extra time into a penalty shoot out and i want to know if all that mental and physical exhaustion

if that will play a factor when they face england in the semifinal on wednesday. and let's not forget that it was agony of course for russia i'm going to turn over to ali now who's standing by for us in at the sides of the cry so to speak how are the fans taking it all. well obviously it was a bit of a rough night for the russia far as they gave it seems such incredible support to get in my opinion i mean what's the last words you gave it was even more intense this time some of the phones were almost hysterical especially when that extra time equaliser went in for about two hours we had this phenomenal noise level it was very very loud and then suddenly it was very quiet but the russian fans took it about as well as could be expected. to remember the expectations were through the floor before the tournament started so i think rather than being disappointed a lot of fans are really just proud of what the team achieved. and there's still plenty for them to be proud of of course but do you reckon it was just

a once off. i mean this russia team let's not forget was the lowest ranked team going into the world cup so i think it would be unlikely to see this team go on and repeat this kind of performance in the coming years i think what russia can really gain out of the performances of the russian team at this tournament is the inspiration of a generation of russian kids the kids growing up watching this tournament will want to be the next eagle rock in favor of the next dennis cherish. they'll want to be the nation's heroes because everybody has got so swept up in this as a kid you couldn't help want to be those people so i think that's where russia can can really look at the game from this sort of footballing perspective and they certainly did a great job i mean they kept hoping right to the very end but what about creation croatia now i'm looking forward they go through to the semi's waiting for that and

so up against the three lions against a man who had to have exceeded expectations at this chinaman in and took the lead in the after half an hour thanks to if you can get the video up of that match yeah there you go thanks to harry require of all people who rose above the rest inside the box to score his first ever international goal and get this the three lions have netted poor goals from corners at this world cup that's more than any other team and then we had more of the same in the second half across from jesse lynn got was turned in at the back post by delhi and in and now advance into the world cup semi final for the first time since one thousand nine hundred ninety. absolutely amazing and great for them i wonder are we going to have to listen to a lot of football's coming home. in the coming days and weeks from our colleagues but anyway thank you to look for us here at studio to use an email talking here is

to thank you very much on olly moody reporting for us from russia thank you. as that you're up to date and you are watching due to the news coming to you from berlin i'm not a dollar to stay with us we have plenty more coming up at the top there and you can always get any news and information on our website on do you dot com. league. load. of please. please elaborate. hello. hello daryn.