if you will. be. part of it find us on facebook. dot com. this is. mission accomplished those twelve. were trapped inside a cave in northern thailand have all been rescued. the last one members of the wild boars football team. earlier today they joined the others in a local hospital also in good condition also coming up the widow of

a. nobel peace prize has been freed and has arrived here in the german government had been pushing for new release since her husband died in custody. it's good to have you with us we begin with an ending that seemed almost impossible two weeks ago tonight against all the odds all twelve boys and their soccer coach have been freed from a flooded cave. ambulances took the last of the boys and their coach to a local hospital today where they are said to be in good condition the boys aged eleven to sixteen spent more than two weeks deep inside the cave after water sealed off their exit route. one rescue diver died last week or today an underground

nightmare finally came to where. it was the outcome the world had been hoping and praying for there was jubilation as news reached the volunteers helping with the rescue operation all twelve of the boys and their coach safely out of the cave and recovering in hospital today is a great day older boys a safe no. triumph two for the regional governor who led the has a to smelt a national mission to get the boys out and no one thought we could do it but we did it it was a first for the world thanks to the thai people government agencies and the private sector. specialist foreign divers and members of the time navy's elite seal unit succeeded against all the odds in bringing out the group a difficult and dangerous process with two divers leading each of the boys and their coach through more than four kilometers of dark narrow and partially flooded

underground tunnels the hazards highlighted by the death last week of a former tiny baby seal diver whose ass supply failed a fleet of ambulances transported the rescued boys from the cave entrance to a hospital in the nearby city of chiang rai. for the families that had been an agonizing wait eighteen days hoping against hope that their loved ones would be brought out alive. i want to thank everyone who took part in the government and all the officials the police the soldiers and the seals both from thailand and abroad. joy and relief on all sides that for the football team known as the wild boars their harrowing underground ordeal is finally over. what an incredible rescue operation i guess nobody here in thailand was believing that this rescue operate. would go as some moves and as

a positive as we have seen it here happening in the last days and i was talking to an expert early and he was shared with me that he things that the governor here of the state and also the government of thailand they did the right decision they said that they would need it help also from abroad that they couldn't do this just on their own and we have to remember that this was really an international task force that has been working here almost twenty four hours a drink in the last days and weeks together with divers for example from denmark and also from the united kingdom and that because of this this mission was at the end really this big success you know a big success indeed so what happens now i'm joined here at the beginning of the talk about that by on been show she is a psychiatry is based here in berlin her specialty is post traumatic stress disorder and been it's good to have you on the program thanks for having me we know

that the boys in the carriage are in good physical condition but what about their minds are there complications that could arise now that this ordeal is over well there are such really two things here they faced near death experience that's one the second thing is they went from being normal teenage boys to being the most famous boy in the world right now so that's the finale at this connection from the reality or the work that they used to know so i can expect that they may be an acute stress reaction do you think they are prepared for the world that is now excited to see them alive. well. i think that it really depends i mean to stress reaction it's normal for the boys to have for two to three days and i think that's correct they may need some time where they spend time with their families and tom the word that they used to know maybe

perhaps not so much in the media so much because that's definitely what they didn't know before they did that before we also been told that all of the boys are being kept together for as long as possible why is that well i think there are reasons why people get that i mean i can't imagine the some boys take solace in the five of they're not alone and surviving this catastrophe that they know that they're all the people that are out there survive but i can also imagine that the boys may want to spend more time alone may want to spend more time with their families or their friends because cars are reminders to look at the other survivors and be reminded of the things that happened being trapped in a cave i mean for over two weeks we could be an imagined what that would be like what kind of symptoms might these boys with their coach. develop i mean what would you if you were their physician what would you be looking for well i would actually ask if they're experiencing any of the things that happened there so that would be

like interests of thoughts that would be of a life flashbacks of wealthy and nightmares that they have and i think of a watch out for any suicidal ideation because that's what the for me rest lacke where we should intervene and how would you go about treating these symptoms i mean because again it's hard to imagine that these young boys are back with their families that they wouldn't be filled with joy but as you accurately say that may not be the case so how do you treat them. well essentially the accuse stress reaction is completely normal any mentally healthy person and person that expands this trauma may have accused us reaction so i think it's important not to over a pathologist think it's important to tell these boys it's it's ok to have these feelings that's ok to feel this fear but if that goes on for about four weeks we can talk about acute stress disorder and not for weeks about the postures and traumatic stress disorder and then we have to decide to therapy such as i'm cognitive behavior therapy and the final question running out of time will these

boys they will they have this episode with them for the rest of their life in some form. of trauma can lead to many things not only p.t.s.d. it can also lead to other psychiatric disorders but it can also lead to more resilient and may have other positive effects they they know that they survive the thing that was almost impossible to survive so that's we certainly hope that will be the case for all of them so i can just and been show based here in berlin we appreciate you taking the time to be on the show and i thank you thank you for having me well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the british man poisoned with the nobody choked nerve agent ten days ago has regained consciousness charlie rose was poisoned along with his partner dawn sturges who died on sunday the couple collapsed in your souls buried the city where former russian spy sergei scruple and his daughter were attacked

with a nerve agent back in march in germany the trial is about to end of neo nazi suspects in a murder spree that left ten people dead over five years the trial in a munich court has been going on for justice law making it the second longest trial in post-war german history evidence in court suggested that the alleged murderers got away with it for so long because of police incompetence. the widow of the chinese nobel peace prize laureate has left china to start a new life here in europe she arrived in berlin a few hours ago lou she has been kept under total house arrest without formal charges since two thousand and ten when her husband was awarded the prize his calls for democracy angered beijing. the aircraft carrying news the landed in berlin on tuesday evening that ends eight years of what critics of the

chinese government say was virtual imprisonment for the widow of one of china's most internationally well known dissidents. lewsey i was confined to her home a few days after her husband lu shall bow became the first chinese recipient of the nobel peace prize in two thousand and ten lu shall bow called for political reforms and the end of one party rule in china views that earned him an eleven year prison sentence. he died of liver cancer in july twenty seventeen. but i never expected him to win the nobel peace prize and i can't leave the house it's absolutely absurd. even kafka couldn't have written this with any more certainty for temperature. lewsey is reportedly also ill and suffering from depression her release comes amidst government consultations between china and germany china says louisiana's release

is not political patrick and shipping and even though she's going to germany for medical treatment in accordance with her own wishes. there is no connection with the governmental talks going on right now in berlin means. many observers think it's hardly accidental that lewsey was allowed to leave china just as german chancellor angela merkel welcome chinese premier he couldn't charge to berlin with the us threatening a trade war with both china and the e.u. the two leaders could be seeking to forge closer ties both in trade and diplomacy. political who responded very neat is on the story boards she's here with me now here you were to the airport here in berlin when. touch down were you able to speak with her nor was the press were actually able to speak to her today when she

arrived in the end it was a very private affair rating which is quite understandable after the experience that she's had over the last eight years and she was quickly taken away in a block car and said i was reading much to be said where expect to know where she's expected to actually seek some medical help now that i actually heard from some of her friends just before she was released from house arrest in china and many of her friends that said both friends that she has here in berlin and china has said that they had been concerned for her mental health especially since the death of her husband last year earlier we spoke to john used to say that i way way listen to his take on she was really nice. on the she has being unsorry putting all surprised of for so many years which is such a dreadful situation and the. whole international community has been argue about

this should be afraid on the specialty one germany. you know tensile are paid so much attention about a douche us case on a made such effort in a german has. come for a long time to go to to negotiate to his chinese government about chinese political prisoners and their new shots or it is a positive. some tint you know part of our pop possibly was a sign for the international effort. he brings up a good point i mean germany has been very active in this case why did berlin take up the case of she'll of course as we've seen in recent years as china's economic success has grown this question are the conditions and state of human rights in china has really slowly fallen off the radar and i think very germany lennon and

quite a personal level chancellor angela merkel sees it reading as a responsibility to keep this question of human rights in china at the foreground and of course as you mentioned before. the deterioration in trade relations between the you know the u.s. and china as well is leaving china to look for new allies and both merkel was a lin and beijing have said that they're keen to improve economic ties but merkel has said time and time again at the same time while trade is important she's also seeking bilateral meetings to discuss human rights we've got to go thirty seconds do we know what's going to happen next with news is she or you've heard so far that there is a flat ready for her here in. that she will be seeking medical attention but i'm sure that we weren't i've heard the last you know life for her in any case political correspondent bradys always kate thank you very much. you're watching the

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