after. i am. sure. this is v.w. news live from berlin and brags it chaos in the u.k. as the government's top official for to go shooting britain's divorce from the e.u. resigns david davis steps down after a scathing attack on the prime minister in a serious blow to the beleaguered theresa may davis says that the government's bragg's it policy leaves the u.k. in the ad best negotiating position we will ask what his departure means for a broad set and for the british government just nine months before britain leaves the e.u. . also coming up four boys are out and say today

a high risk rescue operation in thailand restarts to get the remaining eight boys and their football coach out of the vast flooded cave system with fears of rising waters the talk is taking and this used to be a city full of shops and homes it's used to be western mozo we will bring you an exclusive report from iraq's second biggest city still in ruins one year after its liberation from the so-called islamic state. plus all the action from stage two of the tour de france it was decided by a sprint to the line peter sagal and just about did and off to seize victory after a massive pileup thinned out the fields. i'm

sara kelly welcome to the program british police say that they have opened a murder investigation after a woman exposed to the soviet era poison nova chuck died in the hospital forty four year old dog sturgis and her boyfriend became ill two weeks ago in southwest england not far from where a russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with the same substance earlier this year london has blamed moscow for that attack which has been described as the first chemical weapons used in europe since world war two. and staying in the u.k. the prime minister to resign may is facing fresh turmoil in her cabinet with the resignation of the most senior official in charge of negotiating the country's exit from the european union on his way out bribes it minister david davis accused at the prime minister of undermining bragg's it with her plan to keep close trade ties with the block his resignation comes just two days after may's announcement that her government had finally reached consensus on a divorce deal with the e.u.

the british cabinet gathered last week at the prime minister's country retreat outside london top of the agenda ending the infighting between hardline brick city is and rival pro euro ministers mission accomplished set to resume a on friday. the cabinet has agreed to all collective position on the future of all negotiations with you and offer you a proposal will create a new free trade area it was a consensus which only just lost it over the weekend. breaks it minister david davis was very much a hard line davis clashed frequently in publicly with his european union counterpart michel bania a despite particular positive spin on the strained relations. that unite says. the devices. will undoubtedly be challenging

times ahead of us in the negotiations and we will do all we can to ensure that we deliver a deal that works in the best interests of citizens explaining why he quit david davis says he fears to reason may's approach will leave the u.k. in a weak negotiating position with less than nine months to go until britain leaves the e.u. this high profile ministerial departure will be seen as a significant setback. and for more let's bring in data is very on barbara bezel who has the latest from brussels and you know as we just heard there barbara we are nine months away from the brights the deadline now we have british prime minister theresa may finally agreeing on a policy line with her cabinet and two days later her brags that minister resigns what does brussels make of all of this. yele skeptics already fear it's friday night that the checkers piece might be just a momentary thing and might not really stand up under the under the pressure of the

bricks and tears in her cabinet and particularly in her party who had been on the sleaze silence throughout this whole checkers meeting and immediately afterwards so one of the main breaks to choose michael gove he sort of the head to reason he's back so she was probably believing that she could get the rest of the party now david davis has thrown all the sort of totally open again for brussels means that still nothing can happen until the british government had sorted itself out and that sort of reiterate what people have been saying here negotiators have been saying for months the british government is negotiating with itself people are negotiating among themselves and we can't do anything till they have solved their own crisis well let's talk a little bit more about the plan that they have now because we know that for example that davis resigned because he says that the plan for the future trade ties that was hammered out by may's cabinet on friday will not deliver

a proper bright said tell us a little bit more about what exactly they worried. the reason may propose is to come up with some sort of complicated customs arrangement that leaves britain sort of half way in half way out her main aim is to have no border controls because industry had been massively protesting throughout the last weeks and saying this is going to kill us if the banks will be held up little have sort of piled the piled them up to the arisan and so she came up was a technical arrangement with britain is going to sort of collect the customs for the e.u. and will somehow stay in and on the other hand she also wants to stay in part of the single market and respect european rules and have some sort of average duration court in order not to be for any more to the european court of justice so all of this is sort of like a half baked solution and she is trying to save british economy on one hand and also to deliver some sort of tricks it now for the european side this looks pretty

much like pick remakes of pick and mix approach and they're not sure whether this route of flight anyway but it seems that the great the cheers are not going to swallow it so we are back to zero in brussels people are of is all but the latest progress report or shall we say lack of progress report in this instance thank you so much for your reporting. well now let's get a check of some other stories that have been making news around the world in haiti violence protests over a fuel price hikes have entered a third day protesters looted and vandalized shops and set up roadblocks in the country's capital port au prince on sunday the government suspended its plans price increases but there has been no let up to the address. supporters of former brazilian president lula da silva had demanded that he be released from prison earlier an appeals court judge had ruled that lula who was serving time for allegedly taking bribes should be freed but the chief justice of

a higher appeals court then decided to keep the former president behind bonds. and the japanese government says that at least one hundred people are dead or presumed dead after heavy rains and mudslides in recent days rescuers are. racing to find survivors tens of thousands of urgency workers have been deployed to help more than two million people were ordered to evacuate their homes. well now to thailand where the rescue operation to free a young football team from a flooded cave is set to resume today a team of international divers will guide the boys through four kilometers of dark and at times tight passageways on sunday the first four of them were extracted from the cave and brought to the hospital details of their condition has not been released the elite divers now have to replenish their tanks placed along the route before they can continue it is a six hour journey from where the boys were trapped to the entrance of the cave the

team spent nine days unaccounted for before they were found perched on an elevated shelf. and correspondent florian know she has been covering this story from the very beginning he is near that cave complex and northern thailand and joins us now so florian what more can you tell us about the situation has the rescue operation resumed. well i can tell you that at least officially we haven't heard anything we are not sure if the rescue operations have been resumed just a few minutes ago there were helicopters circling above us landing nearby close to the entrance of the cave so we're assuming that rescue operations if they haven't already started yet will resume shortly but the press conference that has been taken place always around ten o'clock local time has not happened yet and by now

it's one pm local time so we don't know why there hasn't been a press conference that was originally announced we don't know if this is a good sign if this is a bad sign it has just started raining again not really have the rain but rains are coming that is for sure and that doesn't are well for today's second phase of the rescue operation but we do know florian that they did take a pause after those four boys were extracted do we know why they took that pause mean why wait to conduct the next operation if those rains are encroaching as you mentioned. yes but that was made clear by the chief of the rescue operations in this press conference last night he already said that they would have to suspend the of rescue operations for ten to twenty days and we're still within that timeframe so. and they actually said that they need this time first for the rescue divers obviously to use to rest they want

to use the scene rescue divers that extracted the four boys yesterday because they are the best equipped for the job but also because they need to see replenishing the tanks the oxygen tanks of the divers they needed to replenish oxygen levels even in the in the in the cave itself so this is why it's taken so long apparently they're still busy. replenishing those tanks. florian we know that yesterday that those four boys were saved that they were distracted do we know anything more about their condition. well. we have been told officially that they're all in well fairly good health and none of them is critical but that is all we know we don't know the identities of those boys to our names flying around the internet but all these names have been confirmed so we don't even know if it's the fittest boys or the weakest boys there

are also conflicting rumors here so i would like to get more into that we don't know which four boys are out but we know that those that are out are in ok shape they're being treated at the provincial hospital in chiang rai about sixty kilometers from here the deadliest flora and nash but the very latest from that cave rescue operation in northern thailand thank you so much for a. full one year ago today the battle for mosul came to an end with the iraqi army recapturing the country's second biggest city and finally pushing the so-called islamic state group g. hottest out one year on the city is still in ruins and hundreds of thousands of people remain displaced a team of reporters went to mosul to talk to residents who have decided to return to their devastated and dangerous homes here's their exclusive report.

this used to be a city shops homes this used to be western most of. the rubble is strewn with d. king bodies and unexploded bombs. that i have to cut dan lived through fighting she and her family spent two weeks in the siege in their home directly opposite the famous a new remus that's where i asked titus hit from the international coalition the coalition bumped the city around her. it is nothing and no one was spared i was death and bombs and explosions everywhere it simply didn't stop it was awful i got out in the future. they fled but was no where else to stay they soon had to return back to their ruined neighborhoods to the two rooms of their house which were still intact now they rarely venture out fear of the munitions scattered all around them keeps their family at home at

a home here and there are still loads of shells lying around the house opposite was destroyed and they found something there a mortar grenade or something if it had gone off yet. explosives expert mark while barton has been in many crisis regions but he says muscle is something you. they have found many bombs grenades mortars and thousands of booby traps that high as left on their retreat. they've been very well built but on an industrial scale it's not solved just. a few people building the pay even though this has been sort of an industry to build them to this scale and this amount this was a schieffer hospital it was a modern clinic until i guess turned it into the headquarters for. the search and

clearance team work through it by hand piece for piece meter by meter the u.n. mine action service has sixty people in muscle it's nowhere near enough to shot it to the eye yes hidden explosives so well that if you're not extremely careful you don't see them but if someone goes in somewhere where we haven't been yet and doesn't look out very carefully they can get blown up york is a lot center for your body. as more people return it becomes more urgent to clear the deadly explosives still hidden in the debris or at least to mark which areas are safe but none of this is happening fast enough the remnants of the bitter fight for muscle are all over the place. because it was isis his final stand war what we have found here is a lot of suicide belt this is being without

a doubt the sort of main threat here. this is what he's talking about is suicide belt among the rubble. if you move around the corner if you tell everyone but way around the corner we move out of the danger zone in case of close up it's soon clear. the belt had to be packed with metal ball bearings to maximize damage we can clear a street one day but then we're going to go back the next day because people find things in their houses they shouldn't move them they do and then we have to really require them the u.n. estimates that to clean up a festa muscle will take a decade but the residents don't want to wait that long they are eager to return to their homes. but every shuffle of rubble the risk setting of a booby trap rebuilding their homes is fraught with hidden danger. santa says she's happy that people are coming back to western mosul she hopes that each

returning families will increase the pressure on the international community to help them rebuild their city. the semifinal match ups of the world cup are set and the four remaining nations are setting their sights on the matches that can launch into the final it's an all european affair from here on out to france will battle belgium in st petersburg on tuesday and croatia will face england in moscow on wednesday and we can cross over now to moscow where our world cup correspondent oliver moody is standing by with the latest from those niki stadium and that stadium that we can see there behind you it will host the final in under a week's time as we just heard but russia are no longer in the running having lost that nail biter on saturday night against croatia of course how have the fans there

been taking it. well they say it's the hope that the most in the end russian fans have no hope at the start of the tournament they were built up and then of course cruelly done so it's a difficult one for them but that hasn't stopped them from recognizing what an unlikely achievement this is for the russian seen russian fans turned out in the tens of thousands to welcome the team back to moscow here after their loss to croatia in sochi. i think there's a real recognition despite the disappointment that russia has massively over performed at this tournament and given the fans means to cherish their home told them and so they're very proud of that very grateful the fans i want to talk a little bit more about russia because we know that russia doping there are two words that have gone hand in hand in recent years for all the wrong reasons and that's what we need to ask this because the country really performed spectacularly until they were eliminated at this tournament in light of what has happened in the

past can we read anything into that performance. yeah this is where it gets a bit tricky isn't it i mean we're only four years on from the sochi winter olympics where russia dominated in part with a huge helping hand from massive doping program a program that the russian authorities repeatedly denied was state sponsored despite widespread evidence to the country particularly from whistleblowers like gregory rowe cenk of who actually ran the lab in question. and the denials from russian authorities i think of allowed key figures to stay in positions of power like italy for example then the sports minister now the deputy prime minister of russia who was believed to be complicit at least in the doping program to the point where the i.o.c. actually banned him from the olympic games for life he still though the president of the russian football union so i'm sure russian i think today including

footballers would say that it's not fair to judge them on the crimes of others but the fact is the russian authorities have given us plenty of reason not to trust them ok so a dose of skepticism there in moscow oliver moody reporting on all of it for us thank you. let's turn now to formula one and sebastian vettel has taken a tenth race of the season the british grand prix he got past britain's own lewis hamilton who actually started the race in pole position have a. sensation in silverstone right from the green light surpassed in fact it was a rory flew straight into the lead while a slow start for lewis hamilton was made even worse when kimi reich units ferrari sent him to rearing off the track a time penalty for the fin and a long way back for britain's federal established himself at the front door and by the sadie's drive of how terry bow ties with the end approaching vettel had dropped

down to second behind us with hamilton and reichen in third and fourth vettel pulled off this plucky maneuver to brigade the lead with five laps to go and he had gone to meet crossing the line first the only disick in ever time at silverstone hamilton and reichen and rounded off the podium the race for the past the great crowd. yeah i think really a race that i enjoyed a lot that the people enjoyed a lot so yeah but it is amazing day. that's all now has a cushion of eight points over defending champion lewis hamilton at the top of the driver's standings. cycling now and slovakian writer peter sagal sprinted to victory in stage two of the tour de france when gives him the overall leaders yellow jersey the race saw the line saw yet another mass crash that eliminated his nearest rival and here is how it happened. the tour

headed inland for stage two waving through one hundred eighty three kilometers of french countryside the veteran silver shover know it was his eighteenth tall and he broke ahead in front of cheering home fans but after one hundred fifty kilometers the packet caught up again as the peloton entered lower rush to your for the final dashed the pace increased with the sprint specialists just lean for position chaos struck just before the finish line with a mass crash taking out a number of riders including the yellow jersey holder. that left the leading pack to fight the podium finishes amongst themselves slovakian pair to saga to tally and sorely carrboro only an hour of france in the final sprint. with this stage victory saga and also claimed the yellow jersey as the tools overall leader. or turkish president wretch of type two one is preparing to be sworn in today and investors are wondering what to expect as he takes on expanded powers monica jones

has that and all the other names so much more sara thank you so much well turkey's economy certainly has struggled finn's the attempted coup two years ago which raised questions about the country's stability the lira has tumbled and growth has been propped up by government spending and on sunday another eight hundred thousand public servants were fired accused of threatening state security they could be the last casualties of the state of emergency in post after the coup at a one has pledged to lift it he's also expected to give a speech after the inauguration in which he will outline his vision for the economy . what china's biggest tech company says it plans to spin off its news extreme ng service on a stock exchange in the united states ten cent says it hasn't decided on how it plans to sell ten cent music in a filing to the hong kong stock exchange where its shares traded it said the deal

had been given regulatory approval the service counts more than seven hundred million active users analysts say news of the initial public offering reflects a more upbeat recording industry. where chinese premier league is in germany to meet with chancellor angela merkel the leaders attending a forum on economic and technological cooperation today china is one of germany's top trading partners and both countries have similar. ambitions when it comes to the future of command fracturing the german a strategy is called industry for dog in which smart machines to find the next step of industrial development it's the blueprint for china's made in china twenty twenty five program which has come under criticism of from u.s. president adama drum for in claims of take them to the plan aims to make china the world leader in ten key industries electric vehicles information technology and

robotics the german chinese talks on operating in these fields comes as washington cracks down on some chinese firms doing business with the united states. of course a trade relations between berlin and washington have also started since the u.s. imposed tariffs on european steel now for more on germany's and china us plans for industry and how they fit into the current global trade scenario i'm joined by ilya norton argo foreign trade expert at the association of german chambers of commerce and industry good to have you with us let me start by asking you where do you see opportunities for german industry to cooperate with china and want to be a win win situation for both. industry four point zero is the leading topic in the next decade china's the biggest market the biggest trading partner of germany so of course we have to talk about the question how do we call parade how do we do

innovation together because as we see right now in that fragmenting trade world it is very important in new topics to build up a level playing field all around the globe in germany and china together with europe very very important partners in that ok now this meeting of course today comes at a time when the united states is pushing towards a trade war with china how does that raul impacting german chinese economic relations. well it's impacting german businesses in china in the u.s. and in germany interlinked it is very very close the global value change chains are very old in german companies in china and the u.s. is a very important market for them is there an upside to it though. well of course the question is how do you react to a threat of the world trading system in europe is has the chance to build up lines of willing. countries to stand for free trade china itself doesn't have the

best record in free trading both in the last few months and weeks they're opened a lot of markets lower tariffs for companies so maybe there is a partner at least in keeping world trade operating. and would not go for a trade expert at the german chambers of industry and commerce thank you so much thank you. and watching d.w. news like a crumb of the lens will be back with the latest at the top of the hour see you then.

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