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this is why. britain in turmoil to senior resignations force prime minister theresa may to reshuffle her cabinet first achieve a break david davis quits then tonight foreign minister boris johnson can survive as the deadline for britain to leave the e.u. tips ever closer to london in brussels also coming up president. is sworn in for a second term this time with enhanced powers under a changed constitution but the nation remains deeply divided we'll have
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a special report from istanbul and in thailand ambulances take more boys rescued from the flooded cave to the hospital meanwhile teams of divers have been working to bring out those who are still trapped inside. it's good to have you with thoughts to come that resignations in twenty four hours have rocked the british government both overbroad sit and with just months to go before the u.k. leaves the european union the events have triggered a major cabinet reshuffle in a bombshell move the foreign minister boris johnson resigned he was one of the most vocal campaigners for brights it he will be replaced by former secretary jeremy hunt he favors keeping close economic ties with the e.u. just like the prime minister to resign may has also. had to appoint
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a new brakes it minister after david davis resigned on sunday. over now may's conservative party appears to be rallying around the prime minister but she faced a stormy session in parliament earlier today as she thanked the two ministers who had just quit turning her back seat mr speaker i want to pay tribute to my right elbow friends. the men because. the man was the man this whole surprising how didn't i talk speech in south reisman. we. do not agree about the best way to differing our shared commitments to one of the results of the referendum but i want to recognize the work of the full of a sect of state accepting the european union for the work he did to establish a new car and steer and steer through parliament some of the most important not just nation for generations and some of these you recognise the passion full of
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foreign secretary demonstrates its latest. information seeing. information all dogs are the litany on seemingly at was. all i want to hear about these important matches. yeah you could say it was certainly loud in the british parliament today to talk about what happened today i'm joined now by banks we get our correspondent he is in london tonight good evening to you berent a chaotic day for theresa may and her cabinet can she survive all of this. mrs may is facing a huge challenge but at least she is still fighting she vote in parliament that she will not alter her color approach to express it and she appointed jeremy hunt as a new foreign minister mr hunt is one of the remain until the republican for a friend of over the next two years ago now he's also fighting for it but he is
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more or less on the same pas as mrs may now is and he's the opposite of boris johnson the foreign secretary. who resigned as he was he was more or less a loose cannon in this cabinet of a dangerous threat to mrs may all the time but the boys knew mutiny in the conservative party tonight no votes for no confidence vote to set in motion a but there's still the possibility that there will be a challenge to the leadership of mrs may of the conservative party and the person to challenge could well be mr johnson himself the now former u.k. foreign minister boris johnson he released a statement a short while ago he wrote that it was with sadness that he had stepped down from his role as board minister he said that may's softer negotiating position meant that the brakes it dream was dying in referring to the plan to remain closely aligned to certain e.u. laws joe johnson wrote that the u.k.
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was headed for the status of colony. you know she said that she was a little surprised over johnson's resignation she thought that she had support for her negotiating plan so where did this come from. i. thought that she had hammered out a deal with a cabinet just on friday last week that basically says we want the you to give us a free trade deal or free trade zone and she was surprised that then two senior ministers said no to that after only a few days. but now she will follow this approach and she will issue of white paper on thursday laying out her position and then if she will go with a new directive negotiated to brussels trying to convince the you to give her what she wants she said very loudly and clear today again she wants to be the internal market and she wants to leave the custom union if the e.u.
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can bring that or agree to that that has to be seen time is running out is the deadline our correspondent on the story for us tonight in london thank you very much with the bricks in crisis deepening there has been reaction from brussels we've seen a tongue in cheek reaction from the president of the european council donald tusk he tweeted today that politicians come and go but the problems they have created for people remain i can only regret that the idea of breaks it has not left with davis and johnson but who knows. you know he does know our very own dear watson is in brussels on the story for us tonight georg the european union doesn't seem very impressed with what we saw today in london how are european countries how are they going to deal with the chaos that is unfolding right now. rex it from the european perspective has proved to be very costly both regarding
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time and effort not to mention goodwill and so there was some hope here on the part of the european union that finally the the u.k. was about to put a plan on the table because from the european perspective what is holding things up in this whole negotiating process is the lack of vision of the u.k. a clear vision with bullet points on a piece of paper a plan how they want to do this practice it and the fact now that this is being trump itote by two ministers who took part in finding this compromise are now stepping down resigning from their posts has put all of that in jeopardy and we know that theresa main is fighting to basically save her political life and to save her government there's even talk that she may ask for an extension of that date when the u.k. leaves the e.u. next march i mean how worried are you negotiators that an orderly brecht's that is
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is not going to happen. well not only negotiators but also member states have already started preparing for a scenario where the u.k. will crash out not even a hot bricks it's an aria by the real no deal scenario which is on the table there's some people in brussels here who say there's even a fifty fifty chance and with these two resignations that the chatter the oughts are are even higher now but they want what brussels also know is it knows that that the scenario of may which is now called a smooth and let me get the wadding right here a smooth and orderly breck's it is also not as a lifesaving vote because the compromise she has reached may be good for her own party which which is in disarray but it will certainly not fly in the european union. i mean we've heard of a heartbreaks of soft bricks and now we're talking about a smooth rocks we will see a record spondon in brussels tonight to your majesty or thank you to turkey now
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where i should tell you carol one has been sworn in once more as president it comes after his sweeping victory in last month's election he now has expanded powers thankfully changing the constitution and they don't want to peers to be continuing his crackdown on dissent in the last few days thousands of public sector workers have been fired for alleged links to terror groups. of turkey remains deeply divided over his policies and his intentions as g.w.s. you'll yohan reports now from istanbul. the president's likeness is everywhere across turkey reject typed out one thing to ship thank you for his reelection which had made him almost all powerful head of state out on is now president party leader and head of government rolled into one he can hire or fire ministers and some senior judges to solve parliament and rule by decree is powers of virtually unchecked but one thing hasn't changed he is running a bitterly divided country and that is particularly evident here in istanbul. the
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district of s. in the for example is an ad stronghold most of those living here are pious and conservative almost seventy percent voted in favor of the president and people are happy that he remains in charge. he's a source of pride for us that he represents us well on the world stage he's our leader because. our president has done what needs to be done so far and i'm sure he knows what the path forward is to the. system that's one of choice being so happy since the elections that you can visit our country is going to make huge progress and god willing off future is going to be bright. buz in the cutty k district of very different many young people live here students artists most of them oppose. the prospect of him ruling for at least another term scats them.
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with. a whole generation grew up in the air one it's going to be another five years and i'm sure after that another five years he's imposing his education system is idiology on us that's not good and that's a regime. do about it's not my president i see a dark future we don't know what to do we have no hot jobs we have. in the article i too tired of talking about democracy. we still know what it is but we're not children. the problems that turkey faces are far from over so gene inflation high youth unemployment the war in neighboring syria the president has promised a solution for all these issues but his biggest challenge off to roll maybe how to
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reconcile deeply polarized society. here is some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world ethiopia and eritrea are hailing what they call a new era of peace and friendship after historic reconciliation talks the two countries' leaders agreed to end the state of war between them their twenty year conflict claimed thousands of lives the two neighbors have already begun restoring telephone in-flight connections the japanese government says at least one hundred twelve people are dead after days of heavy rain and mudslides rescuers have been digging through the mud and rubble racing to find survivors tens of thousands of emergency workers have been deployed more than two million people were ordered to evacuate their homes. or rescuers in thailand have freed four more boys from that flooded cave in the country's north a total of eight have now been brought out safely while for more remain trapped inside with their soccer coach the team went missing more than two weeks ago.
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on the road to recovery after over two weeks in darkness these ambulances on route to the hospital with the latest group of boys saved from the top of the one cave complex it marked the end of a second day of high risk rescue operations in the province of china. he. rescued for the boys we started our operation at eleven am to eight pm all forwards unsupported to the hospital but i think they are now all safe but he got my eight a one. prime minister prior has met personally with all eight of the boys rescued so far on monday he paid a visit to the cave site to inspect the operation and was greeted with cheers from navy rescuers. divers are racing against the clock to save those still trapped inside the cave.
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heavy monsoon rains are forecast this week which could again flood the cave complex with fast moving water divers have been hard at work tightening guide ropes and replacing oxygen tanks all along the escape route treacherous work that's already cost one diver his life. but rescuers are confident they'll be able to quickly free the remaining victims. that. we succeeded like i have said we were two hours fostered this time than on sunday. and. we expect that with the preparations and plan discussed we think that rule do even better for the next mission and we will succeed one hundred percent. of it. right at the end. officials say the boys and soccer coach still trapped in the cave are in good health if the weather remains favorable they're hoping to free all of
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