explosion a different way it just didn't stop it was going. to get. this is you don't really use a lawyer from butting now safely off to a grueling and dangerous rescue in time the first boys have been brought out of a flooded a cave alive often more than two weeks trapped inside a team of elite dive this works for hours to get them out and the mission is not over yet. it was the coming out rush as well called fairy tale comes to an end to

the host nation crushes ounce of the tournament off to losing to croatia on penalties agony for russia joyful croatia now evolves to the same time. the long. time head of the home free glad he could join me officials in thailand say they've managed to get four boys out from a flooded cave off they spent more than two weeks on the ground a team of international dive a spent ten hours leading the first children to safety but have now paused operations overnight eight more boys in the twenty five year old soccer coach remain stranded but the local government hailed the first stage of the rescue effort a success. sixteen days today is 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 boars 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 the 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. and when you fell in issues been reporting from the scene for us he sent us his assessment of a momentous day. it is the end of an extraordinary and very long day here in the north of thailand early this morning we were presented with an official timeline of when the first boys would actually be extracted from the cave then all

of a sudden we hours prior to this original timeline we first heard only rumors and a few hours later the official confirmation that four boys have actually been able . to get out of this cave they are in stable health conditions they have been transferred to the provincial hospital about sixty kilometers away from where we are right now and the mood here in this makeshift press camp as well as anywhere around has been very very enthusiastic for the last few hours this news that they actually made it stows for boys really was met with grades searing and so one can safely say that the first stage of this rescue mission has been a success now what we mustn't forget is that even though four boys hours nine are

still trapped in the cave and as you can see it is raining right now and it is still a race against time and weather so this daunting mission here in the north of thailand is far from over. w.'s finally an initial reporting that will to understand more about this arduous mission which joined on the line by ed sorenson he's a veteran diver and a regional coordinator of the international underwater cave rescue and recovery organization thank you for coming on the program now the thought of teaching children to dive in in a matter of days seems extraordinary what would they learn before they attempt to leave the cave complex. well there's no way to tell there's a lot that has to go into teaching somebody to dive in an overhead environment for scuba certified for that and he'd know how to swim. then you need to get experience

in the open water where the ending goes wrong servers then these are caverns you have the years of age and a good number of hole in the water to that point then each segment along the way there's or after an introduction of a person. and even after all that all that training where each step a little more grinding learn a little bit more safety procedures on how to be some of the things are going to need no use doing the repair or ready for what they have to go through so giving a crash course like this is. unbelievably dangerous and. it just shows the resilience and the boys to be a little bit of training. and sensitive never even been in the water and never had to go underwater getting through something this behavior is. that

as somebody who has taken part in many rescue diving missions just self i'm wondering what kind of thing goes through your mind as you undertake a mission like this. well there's just so many hazards that can come into play and usually one or two of them come in to each it's an incident and every case is different every recipe is different every recovery different. so at least on this one they're in. absolute each one of the recipes i had to do they were really waterville caves or everything had to be done instantaneous and there was no chance or time to think about the next step or what to do everything i'd be done to me i mean it does appear that this team of about ninety dive is

a very well equipped and prepared i mean what is key to a mission like this there's absolutely no way to tell there are so many factors that they're having to deal with the constant threat from mother nature on how much rain going to one of the water levels going to do where the oxygen level where the c o two levels. the restrictions along the way they are just so much that goes into. the team that they have and so i have that information they're making disaster decisions remember you always want to make decisions that are going to be safe not her. sorenson regional coordinator of the international underwater cave rescue and recovery organization great to have you with us thank you and now some of the other stories making news around the world the natives of ethiopia and eritrea have agreed to end this decades of

conflict and reopen diplomatic tight first meeting between leaders of the african neighbors in nearly twenty years a.p.a.p. and eritrea began a border war in one thousand nine hundred eighteen relations remain tense until now . turkey's government has fired more than eighteen thousand state employees over election links to terror groups those sacks include police offices military personnel and teachers it comes a day for president edouard will be sworn in for another term under the country's new executive presidency more than one hundred ten thousand public sector workers have been sacked since a failed coup in twenty sixty. we want to ask you was there says the ten people have been killed and dozens more injured off to a trade deal railed in the country's northwest heavy rain caused a landslide on to the tracks near to kiev dad about one hundred twenty kilometers west of istanbul.

now the quarterfinals of the world cup in russia done and dusted let's get a round up of the results what on saturday croatia beat rusher off to a thrilling penalty shootout and england defeat is with sweden in friday's quarterfinals from school the better of year ago i am belgium east past brazil that means the semifinals and now say france will battle belgium and st petersburg on tuesday in croatia will face england in moscow on wednesday. well then time to take stock i'm joined in the studio by former professional footballer that's fun and stale he's now head of international relations and scouting at the bundesliga side hoffenheim great to have you with us here today you know it was an incredible match between the hosts russia of course and croatia on saturday crow i had a coming out on top can they go all the way what do you think you know i think they

played a brilliant two and so for luke expression in the group stage very strong for looking at the last two games in the knockout stage they did have their problems they had to go all the way in the penalty shoot out twice but here i mean they have a brilliant scored looking at motegi and rocket teach them a very personal and absolutely world class players and those of the taking side this month to kitchen of their city beach looks very very strong so i think yes they do came through in the way but it's a very difficult game of course to get in for informing absolutely you know talking about that much against england in the seventy finals. sweden of course what do you make of gareth southgate side. well i'm very surprised positively surprised i think so skate really is the key factor that the three lions doing that well you know it's a mix between experience and very very young players england for a long time seem to have a goalkeeper respect for really doing well i think it was always one of these issues in english football that the goalkeeper makes mistakes at world cup level so

far as absolutely outstanding but of course hurricane delhi require all very interesting players top class players and i think england is for me know in a shaper they really can win the title all right well let's take a look at the other side of the door we've got front facing belgium belgium who got past brazil what makes the belgian so dangerous over meets at the moment the best counter-attacking team in the world it's speed was front luka could have so much temple on the wing specially when they win the ball in midfield to go directly up and actually counter-attack. so really cold brazil very very cold and i really had brazil on the list to win the world cup but the belgians had the exact right tactic and i think also martinez as a head coach doing a brilliant job really working on a different kind of tactic and i think he transformed the belgium side not just in to see could favorite now the chile a team which can challenge for the title that said france looked equally convincing

against argentina and uruguay is this something that you can see and france is all snow which looks to be their weapon of choice very young but very very slowly though i think the mix between old and young players is perfect. one of the most interesting players griezmann have to work closely with both for me country in midfield he's thick effective because he's the balance he's filling all the rooms all the spaces he runs the socks off and he's just the guy which is maybe the key factor against belgium side which is expression be on the side of the counter to take dangerous so country will be the guy who will close that down and i think it's a very open game fifty fifty i can't think a favorite all right but it has been an incredible wild cup so far of enjoyed every moment that you have any moments that were just your favorite yes i think the whole situation where russia was like the laughingstock of their own country nobody had them on the list to actually go anywhere and suddenly the whole country is behind

them they perform outstanding churches so fit a great job but i think russia became a footballing country during that vote cup and i think that was true in the stadium the way the stadiums of built the whole world cup so far is a fairy tale and i'm actually very very proud that russia menage that this by the all the critics that it take before the tournament well that fairytale is of course at this time around so here's your pick to lift the trophy i would go for england because i have a bit of england in my heart so let the three lions actually win the title they were waiting for a long long time write me six why is this fantasy have thank you very much indeed. well the second stage of the tour to fall so a new overall leader emerge that must crash to count song front runners in the one hundred eighty three kilometer right through western fronts one of those involved was colombian fed and the get idea you had won the first stage to take hold all of the yellow jersey now the remaining sprint is bullshit out for the finish line

which have ak and you just saw that power going to taken over a lead of six seconds. you're watching news plenty more coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime of course you can always get the latest anytime on our web site that is d.w. dot com i'm headed home free thanks as i have a few companies see you show. where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers one official information as a journalist i have worked at all of history for many characters and their problems are always the same or do the social inequality

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