b.w. news live from berlin out safely after a grueling and dangerous rescue in thailand the first boys have been brought out of a flooded cave alive after more than two weeks trapped inside a team of divers worked for hours to extract them and their mission is not over yet . also on the program russia's world cup fairytale comes to an end the host nation crashes out of the tournament after losing to croatia on penalties and agony for russia joy for croatia now advance to the semifinals.

and welcome to the program officials in thailand say they have extracted four boys from a flooded cave after they spent more than chew weeks underground a team of international diverse spent ten hours leading the first children to safety but have now paused operations overnight eight more boys and an older soccer coach remain stranded but the local governor hailed the first stage of the rescue effort a success. sixteen days today's the day we've been waiting for we are seeing the wild boars in the flesh. it's the outcome the world has been hoping and praying for the first voice from the soccer team called the wild was extracted safely from the cave and on their way by

helicopter and ambulance to hospital. after days of preparation expert foreign divers and members of the time navy's elite seal unit launched a daring and dangerous mission to rescue the youngsters and their coach a hazardous nature of the operation highlighted by the death of a diver on friday. the boys and their rescuers must travel four kilometers from the elevated shelf where they were found to the entrance to the cave each boy will be tethered to two divers who will supply them with their fixed ropes and lights have been installed to guide the group through the darkness and tank strategically placed along the route for resupply the t. junction or sam yak is the most critical part and narrow for where there's only room for one person at a time here they will have to remove their tanks and dive through to the dry area as night fell the rescue mission halted to give the teams time to get ready for the

next phase of the operation and. we will continue the rescue operation when we are ready we need to lay out all the air tanks along the way again what we have used up everything we had today only some ninety divers are taking part in thirteen separate medical teams have been lined up one for the coach and one for each of the twelve boys bringing them out will be a long and painstaking process each trip will take around six hours. at latest now the correspondent florian nourish joins us from near the cave complex in northern thailand florrie on the rains began. short while ago we have heard the critical role weather has and will play are officials concerned about the rising water levels before the rescue operations resume tomorrow. well if they are concerned they are not telling us about it so the last official

word that we have heard was the governor that you have displayed on this press conference that took place about two hours ago. but i think it is safe to assume that up to this point authorities are still quite positive about this whole rescue mission so far it is raining right now as you can see behind me but it's not needed to rensil tropical rain storm yet and we also heard during this press conference that the water levels inside the cave were actually lower than previously expected so i think this rain right now is not. causing too much of a concern to the rescue operation down the rescue boys have been taken to hospital they've been trapped in the caves for over two weeks now do we know anything about their condition. no we only heard from the chief of the rescue operations that they have been

extracted they are saved and they are in opaque a health condition so you didn't go into any further details what we do know is you know just from observing that apparently read up those boys have been taken to the summer arrived provincial hospital which is about sixty kilometers away from where we are right now. they have been taken there by ambulances one has been flown in a helicopter so i think it is safe to see them that this one out of the four that has been exacted is and not such good shape but none of. that is what the provincial governor said none of them is in any serious life threatening condition floor on these first rescues appeared to have been completed much faster than they originally expected this sounds like optimistic news heading into tomorrow this is why they brought out the first boy about three hours prior to the original timeline that they had given all the journalists this early this morning and we just learned

or we've learned at this press conference that all the rescue efforts have been suspended now for ten to twenty hours the reason being that they need to install new oxygen tanks that they have to refill those oxygen tanks that they have to pump more oxygen into the cage because doing this rescue operations oxygen levels have dropped again and obviously those rescue divers they also need to rest so we're not sure of the next phase will begin in ten to twenty hours and so tomorrow we will have to wait and see five and hopefully to see the next group of boys come out but this daunting mission is far from over and so we are expecting at least the next two or three days before everyone will hopefully be extracted safe d.w. correspondent florian noonish near the time line cave complex and northern thailand thank you. now some of the other stories making news around the world turkey's

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thousand people have begun returning from the border region near jordan. finally we can go home with more than five hundred people from our villages and. thanks to god we will return we are how the. russian backed syrian forces had been bombarding targets and for more than two weeks the goal forcing rebels in the province to surrender. retaking daraa would mark a symbolic victory for the syrian regime but for civilians the fighting meant being compelled to seek shelter elsewhere the violence prompted what's thought to be the largest displacement of people since the beginning of syria's civil war as people return much uncertainty remains in the weeks ahead. some will be lacking their houses and basic necessities after weeks of bombing others fear a return of regime control could spell trouble for them and their loved ones.

were all cup hosts russia have been hailed as heroes despite losing to croatia in a nail biting penalty shoot out thousands of cheering fans greeted the team back in moscow today at the capital spend that's to bring us up to date on the world cup i'm joined in studio by nick mechanic line from for it's nick this match had all the twists and turns of world cup classic a sort of a date it was quite tense and fans it into their seats of course because it went all the way to the nicias minute and then to penalties there's a certain amount of back and forth which is lovely for the neutral fan but of course the fans the two teams would have been really a bit worried russia were hoping to reach their first world cup semi final since one thousand nine hundred sixty six of course back then as the soviet union but unfortunately failed croatia held out and let's see how they go. the host took the shockley just past the half hour mark. denny's chair a chef smashing home his fourth goal of the tournament since spectacular style i

believe was short lived however as a dry cry marriage headed home less than ten minutes later to level the scores. a goal the second half meant extra charm and after a short break croatia took the lead down a rising highest from a corner to one. but russia worked on finance has made it too warm to send the match into penalties. and off to russia missed two of their spot kicks it came down to even rockets which and the parcel load a midfielder kept his cool sending croatia into delirium. for their opponents russia their world cup is now over. plenty of drama perhaps nick more than many were expecting in that match where does russia go from here while our world cup correspondent ali moody sent us this update. for

a couple of hours last night fans here at the fish stadium in sochi created noise levels like i've never heard in a stadium before but then it all went very quiet the russian fans deal with their disappointment they should focus on the positives their team performs far above and beyond what anyone could have expected before the tournament and get a nation many moments to cherish and they could produce results for years to come as well a generation of kids can't help but be inspired by the performances here and the way that the country has been swept up in the enthusiasm a generation of kids that will want to be the next a go i can fail dentist chair a chef or attends uva and that is the real game from this tournament. so it wasn't to be for russia but glory for croatia how special was this win for them is incredible for them of course because in the second time they've reached well cup semifinal the last time twenty years ago in france but football is never just football in croatia it's before the tournament there was mixed feelings from the fans they weren't sure if there's a person support the team or not because quite often in the past politicians views

the football team's success for their own political gain so there was this far reaching social and political and political implications but in the pictures we saw last night you see how these fans are celebrating how much they enjoyed the fact the creation had reached the semifinals and the football federation is set for a while they want the image of the national team to unify creation and just seeing here they really have done that to maybe creations run this world cup with a connection to she needed to kind of bring him thing back together and they can continue on that run but they have an obstacle standing in their way in the next match they do indeed the obstacle is in and of course they beat sweden yesterday two nil massive performance from them we can actually forget what sweden did before this tournament they they stopped holland from making the world cup they beat italy in the playoffs they of course and he just narrowly lost against germany they're actually a very good team but end of last night dominates that game winning sunil england on just how he came for example when he's scoring all the goals it was other players were him standing who's been getting a lot of criticism recently is actually doing really important runs to open up play

you've got jordan henderson and john stones who are keeping the structure for england of course jordan pickford the goalkeeper funny thing the goalkeeper who's actually good at what he's supposed to be doing gow southgate is playing this team to their strengths whether it's from set pieces or how they run and finally end and have a chance to perform well at the tournament and it's going to a cracking game wednesday when they face gratiot moscow make mechanic climb from sports thank you very much. minor of the top story we're following for you the first four boys have emerged alive from a flooded cave in thailand authorities rushed them to hospital after they spent over two weeks underground a team of international divers will resume afeard still rescue the rest of the group on monday. you're watching the news more coming up at the top of the hour and you can get the latest any time on our web site w dot com and out while awesome in berlin thanks for joining us. on.

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