this is you don't really use life from girl in the mission accomplished all the boys are and try ground and finally the moment that everyone was waiting for is here the boys and their coach out of the case after a massive international effort also coming up the widow of the jail chinese dissidents and nobel peace prize laureate leaves china for girl and you shop to spend almost eight years under house arrest never charged with a crime the german government has been pushing for her release since her husband

you show both died in custody a year ago. i'm way ahead thanks so much for your company everyone well it seemed impossible just two weeks ago but against all odds all twelve boys and their soccer coach have been freed from a flooded cave in thailand ambulances brought the last of the boys and their coach to a hospital in the city of chiang rai a short time ago they're receiving medical treatments but are said to be in good condition the boys aged eleven to sixteen spent over two harrowing weeks deep inside the cave living a nightmare after water sealed off their were to return route well last week a thai diver who lost his life in the caves are making preparations for the perilous rescue operate. so much needed good news our

correspondence of foreign issues is near the cave complex in northern thailand and the w.c. daniel koch is standing by for us at the hospital where the boys have been with off today i want to start off with you where the boys are following the rescue attention is now shifting to the boy's house how are the boys doing yeah during the press conference we got another update how the boys are actually doing it seems that they are under the circumstances in actually pretty good condition also earlier this morning we had a press conference here from the health minister he was sharing that in fact most of the boys are doing pretty good he was saying that for example one was suffering a little bit with too high a blood pressure he was then he was then receiving medication but in general it seems that they are in a very good condition and let me also share with you later when those ambulance

cars were passing by here just you know about twenty minutes ago the scene here i mean there are so many people i mean not just hundreds of journalists from all around the world but also you know local residents here from shang right there were standing at the street cheering and applauding everybody here you can really feel the atmosphere is so extremely relieved at the moment all right and talk about relief have parents had the chance to meet their children see them hug them. no they were not able at least for the moment to hack them it seems that the doctors here at the hospital they really want to make sure that the health status of the kids you know it's going to remain stable there for parents can only see their kids at the moment through

a window i mean we have to remember those kids were in the cave for days i mean without food with just very little water most likely as well so i mean even though they are doing pretty good at the moment they are a little bit warry the doctor says they could maybe suffer an infection florian things were looking so bleak at one point but they pulled it off hats off to that. yes just a few minutes ago we have seen the final press conference for today. chief of the rescue operations came down here with a few of his. colleagues and there was a lot of thanking all around there was a tribute to the rescue diver who lost his life so tragically and there was the acknowledgement basically that thailand wasn't really up to this job they

said they really need to. found a task force now they have to put all these lessons learned and especially these lessons learned from the international helpers that came here they want to found a task force now to make sure that something like this will never happen again and if it does that thailand by itself will actually be able to handle that crisis right daniel i mean the whole nation has been praying for the the safe return of these boys and the coaches i mean the entire world has been watching this rescue operation with trepidation i mean what's the mood there right where you are right now. yes i was mentioning i mean here we are i'm about one hundred fifty meters away from the hospital i mean you really you can see it at the moment they are on both sides off the streets about i would say i hundred to one hundred fifty journalists but not journalists yet

earlier when those ambulance cars were coming here arriving a true the hospital we really saw local people form right coming through the streets cheering applauding i saw a one woman who was even in tears i don't know i don't speak to have to admit it she was crying because maybe one of her kids or one of her relatives was in this ambulance car but you can really feel people are charged and very moved with what's happening at the moment all of us have been touched thank you so much florian usher reporting from near the cave complex in northern thailand all this time and today you said daniel cope standing outside the hospitals where the boys are being treated as we speak thank you gentlemen. all right now let's bring up to speak with some of the other stories making news around the world. the death toll has now risen to one hundred fifty six people in japan due to flooding and landslides

caused by last week's to wrenshaw rains as waters begin to receive more than seventy thousand rescue workers have been deployed in search of victims and survivors and where in the western part of the country it's one of japan's worst weather related disasters in decades. he was president donald trump has nominated conservative judge greg tavern obtuse fill the vacancy on the supreme court if confirmed the fifty three 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 democrat says trump seeks to shift the nation's highest court further to the right for the bible. the widow of the chinese nobel peace prize laureate you shall bow has left china to start a new life in europe she is expected to arrive in berlin later you shot had been

kept under near total house arrest without formal charges since twenty ten when her husband was awarded the prize his calls for democracy angered beijing. she's finally free to charge the widow of nobel peace prize laureate new trouble. for years she longed to leave china and live in exile. but she was confined to this suburban compound under house arrest cut off from the world as if she were a criminal. but lucero never actually broke the law her only crime was being married to lucho bore the late civil rights activist china labeled him a criminal because he advocated democratic change in china. he was already in prison when he won the nobel peace prize in two thousand and ten he was never released this empty chair at the award ceremony in. china's refusal to free him or

even his wife. beijing viewed lucero as an accomplice and put her under house arrest for eight years she lived under constant observation she shaved her head in protest and suffered from depression. the strain was evident when western journalists managed to visit her in two thousand and twelve. but suddenly i never expected him to win the nobel peace prize and i can't leave the house it's absolutely absurd to even kafka couldn't have written this with any one of sympathy for temperature. only at the very end ever as bones life was she allowed to visit him in a hospital he was in the final stages of liver cancer she remained with him to the end then attended the state's hastily organized let's see. from the beginning germany pushed for luke child to be allowed to leave china but

even after her husband's death beijing said she would be prosecuted under chinese law. won't change if we will not tolerate any international interference in this matter i need a. lawyer says the chinese government's actions were always unlawful. what's truly exceptional about new shows case is that she can't do anything about her situation. she hasn't committed a crime there's been no judicial ruling handed down so it is simply illegal that they are restricting her movement. in egypt which if it was. after years of negotiations and many setbacks lucia has finally been released but it will likely take a long time before she can return to a normal life should. already be reported cambridge is on this story for you she's at the airport where you saw is due to land any

moment now to any side of her so far i can tell you later that she has in fact landed just a few moments ago on a finish right from helsinki in fact and but she was quickly taken away in a blackout car obviously by a private moment this arrival here she is expected to be greeted by friends she has a number of friends waiting waiting for her in. many of whom had of course shortly before her release from house arrest in china had expressed concerns over her mental health and we're expecting now for her to receive and any necessary treatment him now in the right role just to repeat where you were reporting your shot has indeed a land in berlin why did she decide to come to the german capital what's the reason you think. well germany and specifically

german chancellor angela merkel has been a strong advocate for calling for her release and also for her husband's release prior to his that last year and she is angela merkel has spoken just yesterday as well to chinese state i mena as he was it is in germany this week and it's kind of speculated as well that she did call once again for her release and of course at the moment germany and china are looking at improving trade ties as well but of course merkel is not going to let the humanitarian situation in china go unnoticed all right to keep reporting from the airports on the arrival of the widow of the jail chinese dissident and nobel peace prize laureate you both thank you so very much kate will check in with you in our later bulletins.

soccer's world cup is galloping toward the finish line with the first semifinal match up tonight in st petersburg a powerful france team play their neighbors belgium and belgium are on a roll there i'm beaten all the way back to their world cup qualifiers but they've never reached a world cup final france all the other hand are looking for their second world cup title having won the trophy back in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight well it should be another griffin clash in a world cup so far full of exciting games well despite the host team being knocked out at the quarter final stage russian football fans are still gulu to the competition out of the semifinals you give you spoke to local fans to find out who if anyone they would be rooting for. the host nation might be out but the world cup still dominates russian t.v. repeats of the course of final matches all running on a loop in restaurants around moscow. it's

a bittersweet feeling for the locals they're proud of it team but they wish the adventure could have lost the just a little bit longer. russia for certain people here. read a beautiful game writer beautiful boy. that success has boosted football's profile in ice hockey mad russia the next generation is already preparing for a future but the russians now want to win the world cup which will because oprah so i. i don't know begin as that might be. a word which i know many people like in belgium with the high chances of winning. a cruise ship nobody will support croatia because they be thrown unfortunately so probably france. the party is coming to an end and

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