this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin the riddle of the chinese the bird peace prize when the usual rule leaves china to start a new life enjoy a new shot is due to arrive in berlin this evening after years of house arrest the german government has been pushing for release since her husband died in prison a year ago also coming up. ten boys are now free in thailand dive was raised against the clock to rescue the remaining members of the youth soccer team trapped for eighteen days in

a flooded cave real go live to our correspondent for the baby. and belgian make a play for history of the world cup in tonight's bronston a father will fight it out with a medieval bronze for a place in the final for the very first die. hello and welcome i'm the tachi ma the riddle of the chinese nobel peace prize winner ball has left china to start a new life in europe she's expected to arrive in budden this evening you had been kept on miller total house arrest with no formal charges since two thousand and ten when her husband was awarded the nobel peace prize her husband's cause for democracy had angered beijing. she's finally free lucia the widow of the nobel peace prize laureate lucia. for years she longed to

leave china and live in exile but she was confined to this suburban compound for years under house arrest cut off from the world as if she were a criminal. but she never actually broke the law her only crime was being married to her husband the late civil rights activist china had labeled him a criminal because he advocated democratic change in china. he was already in prison when he won the nobel peace prize in twenty ten he was never released this empty chair at the awards ceremony in oslo symbolized china's refusal to free him. even his wife lucia was not allowed to travel and accept the award on his behalf beijing called her an accomplice to her husband and placed her under house arrest. but i never expected him to win the nobel prize and i can't leave the house it's

absolutely absurd. even kafka couldn't have written this with any. of. us. for eight years she lived under constant observation she shaved her head in protest and suffered from deep depression. only at the very end of her husband's life was she allowed to visit him in hospital he was in the final stages of liver cancer she remained with him to the end then attended the state's history organized burial at sea from the very beginning germany pushed for lucia to be allowed to leave china but beijing downplayed the case saying she would be prosecuted under chinese law. we will not tolerate any international interference. lucia's lawyer says the chinese government's

actions were always unlawful. what's truly exceptional about lucia's case is that she can't do anything about her situation. she hasn't committed a crime has been no judicial ruling handed down so it is simply illegal that they're restricting her movement. i mean. after years of negotiations with numerous setbacks new shabbos widow has been released but it will likely take a long time before she can return to a normal life. is in taipei and following that story when he china had rejected outside intervention fit and so what led to their shells released now and what go to jimmy's diplomatic campaign plane these developments. actually going to be a mason all else friends who has a close relationship with her they have. actually child claim to believe

with the chairman and person in china and this time she's not coming by any of the chinese or so it shows that this campaign it's actually motivated by the chairman and only interesting point is that about the timing some of the friends said actually the chinese authorities has told that the chinese government is allowing her to leave china and you know this is not zero eight august. to be early before any first year of staff which is on friday that is an obvious icing point so the chinese government denying keeping her on their house arrest and claiming that the. free citizen that actually she has been she has detainee at her home for almost a serious so this has never meant that today that they can see any relationship between. china's premier league visits to germany and you shall believe and so i

think the media from all around the bow they are looking for more details for the show they kept until now as you said it could be first to the anniversary of this friday tell us about what kookiness wife played in china's dissident movement. in fact. it's not a political activist says she is a poets and artists but just because she hasn't has an area to fall and it's. her face into that that's missing so. one of the famous political activists in china. apple case the office read on constitutional reform and lloyd in china and he's also one of his also the first chinese awarded the nobel prize in two thousand and ten so both of them are very symbolic

thinkers in china advocating for social reform so that's why. it's having a. good deal because. in taipei thank you very much. turning now to time and be getting reports the divers have brought on two more of the boys who were trapped in the flooded cave for more than two weeks that means the now only two boys lost their football coach left inside the cave early this morning a dive was taught to the fun and feeds off the rescue operation officials said the rescue is intended to extract oil evacuate the remaining members of the youth soccer team today the ten boris who've already been daughter out are getting medical care and are set to be in good condition risky as want to finish the operation before full cost heavy rains hit the region. and if we do indeed obvious correspondent who is near the cave complex in the

northern thailand florinda hearing reports that a two will boys have been brought down the divers have been in the cave complex for several hours but give us an update on the rescue operation. you know i'm very happy to confirm that we really have ten boys out so that means that only we remain. so that is a very positive sign all along officials have exuded confidence that they would be able to get all the five remaining boys out by the end of two days so three of them have been extracted. already. where this is all still not one hundred percent confirmed but the time navy seals have again posted on their website number ten is out. it's on the one hand everyone is

elated but at the same time there is almost a businesslike. atmosphere here because everyone even the journalists even the experts about a year everyone was getting so used to number eight number nine number ten so there wasn't. even any cheering or anything because yeah it was basically a given that by the end of today. we would see all the thirteen out and say and it looks like this is what's about to happen because the success and success of the risk you operation must cause immense relief many of the boys have already risky to be doing florian. but we only know about the eight boys. have been taken to the hospital by last night so the first two groups we have heard and that has been officially confirmed that they are all in overall good shape they were taken to the hospital they are still

sort of blindfolded stay want to stay the doctors want to. protect their eyes out for having spent so much time in a dark cave their eyes are very sensitive they have been given antibiotics and given some ib drips some vitamins but they're all pretty well they have been talking to them they haven't been able to embrace death amalie yet that's due to precautions because they might have caught some blood disease. blood samples top been taken and they have been sent to the capital bangkok so now we have to wait for about two to three days but again you know the first boys were taken out today is already a goal so now. maybe they will the first group will actually be able to embrace their parents by now but then again this is just a precaution for the parents if they have caught any diseases underground feel really good in thailand thank you very much for that update. they've been

having up to date with some of the stories making news around the bond at least one hundred fifty six people have died in japan due to flooding and landslides caused by last week's torrential rains as water. begin to recede more than seventy thousand rescue workers have been deployed in search of victims and survivors in the western part of the country it's one of japan's worst weather related disasters in decades. u.s. president dr trump has nominated conservative judge gets governor to fill the vacancy on the supreme court the fifty two year old catholic is expected to be less receptive to abortion and gay rights than his predecessor the nomination sets up a confirmation battle with democrats as trump seeks to shift the nation's highest court further to the right. according to a u.s.

government attorney only hoppe of the approximately one hundred children under the age of five who've been separated from their parents will be reunited with them by the court ordered tuesday deadline another two thousand older children remain separated from their families separations game under us president donald trump's zero tolerance policy that prosecuted parents for illegally crossing the border. if you've been airline says it will resume flights to editorialize capital us tomorrow after nearly two decades this comes a day after leaders of the neighboring countries declared an end to their war and agreed to restore diplomatic relations a tree a broken gratefully theo pia in one thousand nine hundred three and more than eighty thousand people died in a subsequent war. british prime minister theresa may is trying to reach authority within her divided cabinet after a string of high profile resignations or will have brakes

a strategy those of foreign secretary boris johnson and brags that minister david davis resigned in protest jeremy hunt the u.k. is long serving health minister and a close ally has been appointed as the new foreign minister hard. as interest them is conservative party fear she's giving up too much ground as the government negotiates the u.k.'s departure from the war. for jeremy hunt the latest disarray in the u.k. government means a promotion on steps up from running the health service to one of the very top posts in charge of foreign affairs. preschool job at a time of most importance for our country it's just. that the prime minister said that we should get through an agreement with. his better known predecessor porus johnson will now have to watch banks it unfold from the sidelines he had

first accepted the proposal for a soft bricks it agreed by the cabinet last week the prime minister to resign may's country retreat but on monday changed his mind saying the brics it dream is dead. first to go hours earlier was david davis the hardliners supposedly in charge of bracks it he and other right wingers say the prime minister is making too many concessions to the european union i'm worried that what the european union will do simply take what we've offered and ask for more white for more and i think if you've got your time or get a bit tougher with them and this should be in a time. so far the british prime minister has emerged surprisingly unscathed to reserve may's hurried cabinet reshuffle replaces hardliners with pragmatists but with less than nine months until britain leaves the bloc may still has to get a break sit plans through parliament let alone convince a u. skeptics in brussels.

the first well cup semifinal kicks off this evening with france taking on belgium marc webb is from the sports desk is here to talk about a very intriguing encounter welcome as the two countries are neighbors how big is the rivalry between them well no bigger than a world cup semifinal i mean this is the biggest game the two teams have ever played i mean it's all quite overseas some of the belgian players who speak french as a first language some of them have played in france like eden hazard to actually show you some footage of a ball on the french building balder and they're all a bit confused there because the barmaid seems to be supporting france most of the clientele is supporting belgian that's another whole town called key of us now tonight is going to get quite heated in the end no doubt when the two go together i suppose france are the biggest football nation given that they have won the world cup before in one thousand nine hundred eight belgium and never wanted before

obviously when france won it they were with him as captain now he's their coach but now the teams are pretty well matched to ferraris i think france really want to recover from losing the final on home soil in the european championship two years ago so they sort of a bit more big game experience but hugo lloris is pretty worried about this belgian side let's have a listen to the french captain and goalkeeper. i think belgium of the most complete team in all possible aspects of the game at this tournament they know how to defend well in their hearts were tack to counter-attack very strong in the air strong in everything. which may have everything they need to be a great team and they are a great team. it's a fantastic generation and to beat them we will have to play a great match. so france is not being complacent and they're preparing for

a tough encounter what about belgium they'll be looking for french weakness is what they seek to exploit i think they might look at the fullbacks of france and say that is maybe france's weak spot because and as i haven't really got any great international experience they were quite surprised picks for this tournament they don't well so far but have they really been tested so far even though they've played argentina and uruguay and you think the likes of divine and even has a bombing down not those wings for belgium can really cause problems to the french fullbacks and also marion for lane is proof of belgium so far as to how good he is in the yeah and they both quite small those four bucks so he might look to try and isolate one of them trying its head on the ball to score a goal so belgium have frets throughout their team we can a civil list now so how confident they are ahead of this big encounter. belgium are just one game away from reaching the world cup final for the first time in their history. the red devils have been one of the most exciting teams at the world cup

sending their fans into a frenzy was after knocking out the favorites brazil supporters believe their neighbors archrivals france will be the next team they send home i was after this match i believe anything is possible so they're gonna win i feel like i got play against everybody everything so no problem will be them all belgium is a small country as we know. live in a million people living there and we are proud of what we can achieve we can do as a group. belgium have scored more goals than any other team in russia they have one of the best goalkeepers in. and their assistant coach french starting area on really knows how to win a world cup. really only euros in the world cup so for us it's very important. a lot of players look up to him because he's

a legend in football and these belgian players now have the chance to become legends in their own right and bring home the world cup. so moch two teams hungry to win what will be decisive all who will be decisive in this battle tonight in st petersburg i think there is a trio on either side that can make the difference i mean obviously for france you've got killing him back pay paul pogba for belgium you even has the point i'm normally look through which one of those trios plays best will probably decide the match and that means it could be a fantastic game if you're thinking about all the attacking potential normally world cup semifinals have a real tight affairs as we might see with england croatia tomorrow or the like said more when germany beat brazil so here's hoping for a similar exciting storyline absolutely i'm looking forward to a really exciting game and mark made as well of course be talking about this and it's all over thank you very much for coming in and sharing your expertise with us

. meanwhile more good news for belgium as the country's greg. martin claimed the giller jersey in the tour de france that after monday's team trial van very much marked b. and c. racing team bids to high temperatures and of course to reign supreme there were four seconds faster than chris froome and team sky over the thirty five kilometer course but that was that allowed for him to move up in the overall standings as he bids for a record equalling fifth to a tighter. create tensions between the u.s. and china are prompting companies to change their business strategy now that we have left those tour de france but just. to do business with you to also an exciting if it depends on how you look at it and read a story and it's only

a week since the latest tit for tat terrorist from china and the united states but multinationals are already scrambling to readjust supply chain so bad goods bound for the united states don't pass through china and the first american car makers are raising their prices on the chinese market to make up for the higher duties. tesla is the first american company announcing that it's raising prices in china. the move comes in response to beijing's decision to impose tariffs on a range of u.s. products. china is the world's biggest car market and tesla cannot afford to be priced. plans are already underway to build a factory in shanghai which would enable the company to avoid tariffs in the future . germany's b.m.w. is also planning to introduce price hikes in china that's because customers there buy s.u.v.s produced at the m w plants in the united states. the company

money factor is that x. series at its plant in north carolina and each year around one hundred thousand s.u.v.s produced their go to china b.m.w. is also ramping up production in china in response to its new tariffs on u.s. imports. and yet another country is taking measures against the u.s. terrorist on steel and other minium switzerland has launched a complaint at the world trade organization in all eight w.t. all members have now started such a challenge the united states says the duty is aimed at protecting national security of the swiss economy ministry says that's unjustified the w.t. old now has sixty days to settle the dispute which. chinese president xi jinping has promised credit and other financial backing to arab countries totaling twenty three billion dollars it's a clear bit to gain influence in the middle east the pledge includes

a fifteen million dollars aid package for palestine and further humanitarian support for syria lebanon yemen and jordan she announced to the initiative at a conference of arab leaders in beijing. a coffee chain starbucks is the latest corporate giant pledging to eliminate plastic straws it expects all of its twenty eight thousand stores to have switched to alternatives by twenty twenty plastic straws will be replaced by recyclable lids with a small raised opening customers who come for go straws will receive paper straws one is made of composite plastic the huge environmental impact of plastic straws is making them increasingly unpopular with consumers. and my colleague last holiday our financial correspondent is following that story for us and he's joining me now in frankfurt last what's behind that move is it really all about saving the environment. of course the a bottom line is monica that it is about saving the environment but there's

a little bit more to it and that is exactly the reason why the policy and straws is rolled out globally in twenty twenty by the little bit earlier in seattle and vancouver because starbucks has to ban straws seattle and bank hoovers who are the first two cities in north america who are banning plastic straws or single use straws and so all the restaurants all the restaurant chains they have to obviously follow if they want to stay in that particular market seattle of course being the home market for starbucks of course this whole thing is making an environmental impact is specially with starbucks having twenty eight thousand stores globally and with sales of cold beverage of course the cold beverage are the ones that you drink with a straw those make up more than fifty percent of total sales by now it was only about a third five years ago i believe that mcdonald's is planning to do exactly the same and they all targeting eco friendly melendez now in the hope to gain new customers

. yes that's pretty much behind it is a p.r. move obviously of course mcdonald's is showing some environmental responsibility here too but generally of course the environmental footprint of mcdonald's is still huge their public health record might be dismal but they want to move a little bit away from that image or at least they're doing something and they want to do more not only banning just plastic straws but by twenty twenty five they want to make all their packaging recyclable. are there with mcdonald's and starbucks in frankfurt are there thank you very much for bring us up to date paris has its problems growing flow of visiting millionaires who haven't been able to find suitable accommodation in the city of love to the rich should be breathing a sigh of relief now as nearly two hundred luxury rooms and suites become available . paris can be stressful there's so much to see in the french capital

but after the bustle and noise of paris streets at the end of the day one wants reasonable accommodation. a few days from now the legendary hotel lutetia built in one nine hundred ten in paris as soon as your mount district will reopen some two hundred million euros have been tipped into the restoration of the hotel where picasso and hemingway once stayed experts say the renovation work was urgently needed for the forest not because there's no such great good news for your dogs in some of the rules we have or if you like. palaces and berries but if we called the wrong most of. new york or all of the international economy where wall wide will still be behind the income of supplies there is two sisters customers have waited for years to come back to the lutetia now they can have a room for as little as eight hundred fifty euros a night and a suite very affordable at one and a half thousand. and i say well here's

a reminder of the top stories we're following for you the widow of the chinese nobel peace prize winner you shall both has left china to start a new life in europe she is expected in berlin later today lou was under house arrest since two thousand and ten was and was awarded the nobel peace price. and the final stage of a rescue operation is underway in thailand to get the remaining members of a youth team out of a flooded cave diverse have already brought out ten boys and there are reports that an eleventh person has just been rescued. you're watching the news coming live from there and then more coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website system.

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