and for more let's bring in correspondent florian nose who has been covering the story from the very beginning and he is near that cave complex in northern thailand hello to you florian we understand that the rescue operation has resumed where do things stand right now. yes it has been officially confirmed that the rescue operation is the place to one should say of the rescue operations has started just a few hours of gold so that means the same divers that actually got the four boys out yesterday went in again to get another four boys out so we have no more information that is confirmed whether they have actually reached the boys given the time frame that it takes about four to five hours to reach that end of the cave where the boys are trapped we would assume that this second batch of boys is on their way out. but meantime florrie and it rained overnight and this was something that the rescuers they fear because of rising water levels in the cave so what sort of conditions are they facing right now. while the weather remains an issue and just earlier today i was afraid i would just

joins us for more hi florian so today's operation has been underway for several hours now what's the latest you can tell us. we haven't heard any official updates yet but just within the last few minutes there have been rumors swirling around that actually the ninth boy is our recount confirm this excuse me we cannot confirm this but these are the rumors that we're hearing so apparently this rescue operation seems to be a huge success we have seen on the facebook page of the naval navy seals they have posted a couple hours ago that this might become a long day before everyone is out but so all we are hearing is that this best commission is still accorded going according to plan going that's very good news has been such a dramatic and emotional story and you know what about the boys who have already been rescued they've been taken to the hospital what can you tell us about them how are they doing. what we were told this morning that the eight boys that are in the hospital they're all in overall good to health. heard that the first four boys so the group that was taken out on monday th

correspondent florian newish who's following the story from the site florian there is an activity where you are what's happening this hour. well once the rain has started falling as you can see about an hour ago it has been pouring down quite massively now it's just a light drizzle but it doesn't auger well for the rescue effort but it was basically what everyone was expected so the weather forecast was like this and this is why rescue help those trying to rush things now we have seen about an hour ago that they've put up this green and by just behind me this is the entrance to the cave so we don't know exactly what that means but there was some activity after an otherwise quite an eventful day now there is one very unfortunate incident that i have i can report about it's four of the mountaineers that were actually on top of the mountain sign to find alternative routes into the caves and potential drilling side on their way back from the mountain there as you've even heard off the road and fell down a few meters into a cliff so apparently we out of those four have been only injured have

correspondent florian news who is following the story from the site florian there are preparations for a possible evacuation in the coming days what are you hearing there from officials about the likelihood of rescuing the group. well that is the big problem here there is very little information given by the officials and at the same time we have hundreds of journalists who are all over the place. who might be talking to someone behind the scenes to someone who is definitely not an official they are tweeting information that we cannot corroborate so it is actually quite difficult to to really get the hard facts that we can really take as fact so the last official statement was this morning by the governor of the ex governor one must say now but he is the chief of the rescue operation here and he has basically said that they are still going forward with the diving. scenario they are trying to. get the boys into shape and to teach them the skills that they would need to actually dive out the two other options waiting it out or maybe until the monsoon season is over is basically off the t

florian: there were a few. found it to be quite interestining, for example, when the only boy that was actually able to communicate in english told us about his first encounter with the british rescue divers. so, he said that at first, the group had heard something, they were not sure what it was. they told each other to bebe quiet. thenen they actually heard voic. and they were very surprised to hear english being spoken and not thai. so, the one boy said that his brain n was very slow this after nine days in the cave, h he reay had to muster all of his english and think on his feet and talk to those rescue peoeople. ththat was quitete heartening to hear. what i alslso found interesting was the fact t tt during thehe first night, they were not even that worried. when they could not get out on the first day, they talk to water would subside and by tomorrow we can n just walk out agagain. maybe we'll get a scolding by our parents because they do not know where we are, but it only daunted on them after that first

florian thank you very much that was do the obvious florian nourish with the latest on the rescue operation in northern thailand. while there is really for the parents of the boys who have been rescued other families are desperately waiting to hear when their sons might be brought out safely along with the rest of the nation they're tracking every step of the ongoing rescue operation and praying for its success. their ordeal has gripped the country the success of sunday's operation has fueled hope for the remaining team members trapped in the cave. those who can't help directly send prayers. i'm watching the news every day. i want to read about them as if they are my own kids. i hope they come out safely. i'm a keeping up to date on their situation from afar i want to send more support and i pray for them all to be safe and to come out as soon as possible. it's an agonizing wait for relatives of the group this family was informed that their boy was one of the four rescued on sunday. that i was wondering if he'd be alright i told myself he will be alright i knew but i didn't say it out loud

correspondent florian nourish is near the cave complex in northern thailand for and we just mentioned there was a short window of opportunity but i can hear the rain what's going on. yeah it has been raining again for the last hour or so it's not a massive downpour but it's pretty hard rain so this might affect the rescue mission of the nine boys that are still trapped inside the cave about an hour ago we have heard the cib of rescue operation give a press conference just behind me here and he confirmed officially confirmed that four boys have been taken out of the cave they happened taken to the hospital and songwriter which is the provincial capital about sixty kilometers away from where we are right now and the chief of the rescue operation actually said that they are in perfect health condition now i guess he was getting a little bit carried away but he was very enthusiastic during this press conference that was cheering when he announced officially announce that those four boys so safe what we are hearing is that they are in ok condition for real those boys have been shuffled ove

correspondent florian newish reporting from thailand thank you very much. now some of the other stories making news around the world in japan of least thirty eight people are dead and it's record flooding in some areas dozens more are reported missing a week of heavy downpour has triggered landslides and caused reverse to burst their banks across western parts of the country over a million people have been evacuated and the forecast calls for even more rain in the somali capital mogadishu at least nine people were killed when two car bombs exploded near the interior ministry militant then opened fire on security forces about a lasting several hours followed islamist group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack. british prime minister treason maze divided cabinet has given its backing to her brands of plan after a marathon meeting at her summer residence may says her plan would see britain enter a common european market on goods but not services once it exits the e.u. more juicy matches on the menu at the world cup today all eyes will be on und

to florian good to see you so there must be a lot of relief and a lation among their classmates today. definitely and just a few minutes ago this. area where we're standing was thrilling with kids but classes have just resumed so they are not out here anymore but we talked to a few of them we even found one boy who is playing soccer in the c.n.n. same team and he told us that he had tried to text a few of his friends that were actually that i'm in the hospital right now he wanted to know how they are but he said he never received any any information back so we can assume that those boys are not having their cell phones with them so they don't know how they are but this is not just talk of the town this is talk in this school they told us that every in every classroom before the lessons could commends they would just talk about what happened yesterday so everyone is just so relieved that this miss. really was accomplished so a lot of relief there florian we can't forget though that one diver did lose his life during the rescue operation on hearing anything now and if you can hear is th

and correspondent florian nash has been covering this story from the very beginning and he is near that cave complex in northern thailand good morning to you florian what more can you tell us has the rescue operation resumed. but we're still waiting for an official notification that the second phase of the. of the rescue operation today has resumed we don't know that yet but media reports are coming in from colleagues who have seen for example a truck with a navy seal divers that have gone up to the cave again all within the last hour or so we're assuming that if they haven't already been resumes already was zoomed in the operations will resume very very shortly now tell us a little bit more about why there has been this positive because we know that the the other four boys they were extracted already yesterday so why has the team waited to conduct this next phase of the operation. well as the chief of the rescue operation you explained to us in his press conference last night they said they would have to wait ten to twenty hours before they could go in again full ones because they want

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 afte

right to give these florian nish with the very latest from northern thailand florian thank you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world a third day of monsoon rains has brought flooding to parts of the indian city of mumbai the heavy rainfall is caused instruction to road and rail links and meteorologist saying it is expected to continue for another four days the government has declared a holiday for schools and colleges. and hundreds of supporters of nicaragua's president or to go have attacked a group of roman catholic priests who were helping anti-government protesters trapped inside a church it happened in the sense of a basilica south of the capital managua the attack comes a day after at least fourteen people were killed in a raid by a pro-government. and according to a u.s. government attorney only half of the approximately one hundred children under the age of five have been separated from their parents will be reunited with them by a court ordered state deadline another two thousand older children remain separated from their families of the separatio

right to give you florian nish with the very latest from northern thailand florian thank you. not some other stories making headlines around the world u.s. president donald trump has nominated conservative judge brett kavanaugh to fill the vacancy on the supreme court 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 democrats as trump seeks to shift the nation's highest court further to the right thank you according to a u.s. government attorney only half of the approximately one hundred children on the under the age of five were been separated from their parents will be reunited with them by a court order to state deadline another two thousand older children remain separated from their families now the separations came under president trump's zero tolerance policy that prosecuted parents for illegally crossing the border. ethiopian airlines says it will resume flights to eritrea's capital us mara after nearly two decades this comes one day after leaders of the n

thailand florian some of the boys have been rescued from the cave what are you hearing this hour about the operation. for the first time today i can actually officially confirm that four boys have made it out of the cave and they are actually quite well that is what the chief of the rescue operation the former governor has just said behind me a few minutes ago so four have been safely moved out of the cave they have been taken to the hospital but their health condition is ok actually the governor spoke of perfect health condition i think that was a little exaggeration so he was very cheerful he was very optimistic there was a roar of applause when he actually confirmed that these four boys have been found and have been successfully taken to the hospital which is about sixty kilometers away some of them shuttled over there with ambulances one apparently has been flown by helicopter his condition it says they need close monitoring but again they're out there safe. but it's for only so there are nine boys remaining in the cave and the governor also told us that rescue operations will be s

ok florian so just to say that of course this information has not yet been verified and we are still waiting to independently verify that information that that's just talk about some of the challenges that the boys are facing when they actually do make their way to the cave what more can you tell me about their rescue and the challenges. yes it is even if it's true if it turns out to be true that two boys have made their way out there is still there are still eleven others trapped inside the cave and this ordeal is far from over we have heard from the experts and navy seal divers how daunting this has is even for a professional diver to get through this reading narrow caves that in part still flooded with water so you have to imagine there are parts of this extraction route that are so narrow that the boys would basically have to go through those shore parts by themselves they cannot be guided by a professional rescue diver so this has these daunting is specially for boys that a week ago didn't even know how to swim so we still have to wait and see how this all turns out and even if

correspondent florian nourish near the tom line cave complex and northern thailand thank you. the dangers of operation are even more evident on friday when an experienced diver lost his life when he was delivering oxygen tanks to the cave of take a look now at the mission facing the rescue diverse the group must travel four kilometers from the elevated shelf where they were found to the entrance of the cave each boy will be tethered to two divers who will supply them with their fixed ropes and lights have been installed to guide the group through the darkness and air tanks have been strategically placed along the route for exchanging the most critical part of the operation is the t. junction or sam yak an extremely narrow fork in the cave which can only accommodate one person at a time here the group will have to remove their oxygen tanks and dive through to the dry area the boys in their coach will be brought home one by one it's estimated each trip will take six hours. earlier we spoke with a cave diving expert and sorenson he described the stressful conditions inside the ca

really hoping and praying that movie them out by tomorrow encouraging signs indeed to the use of florian were porting on the cave rescue operation in northern thailand thank you. well to turkey now rich of tayyip erdogan has been sworn in again as president comes after his sweeping victory in the last in last month's election but in the last few days thousands of civil servants have been sacked for allegedly links to terror groups critics accuse the want of using the state of emergency imposed after the failed coup attempt to two years ago to target opponents turkey remains deeply divided over his policies and his intentions as do you leon reports from istanbul. the president's likeness is everywhere across turkey ledger typed out one thing. 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's running a bitterly divided country

from the site florian there are some activity where you are what's happening this hour. exactly first of all about five minutes ago it has started raining as you might be able to see so this is what everyone was dreading i mean it was clear that the rains would start sooner or later now they have actually started i don't know if this will turn into a to rental tropical rain shower so far it's just a light drizzle but it's not a good sign the second thing the green fence that you can see behind me that has just been a wrecked it so. we don't know exactly what that means but thai officials have blocked the cage the entrance to the cave off even more than they had done so before so this is definitely some activity that we have seen we don't know exactly what that means one very sad activity or one sad development that i can tell you about is that. for all the mountaineers that have been out on the mountain to find alternative shafts and possible entrances to the cave their vehicle has. has left the road has fallen into a ditch three people had only minor injuries but the fo

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 see

correspondent florian noonish near the time line cave complex and northern thailand thank you. now some of the other stories making news around the world turkey's government has fired more than eighteen thousand state employees over alleged links to terror groups those sacked hold police officers military personnel and teachers it comes a day before president will be sworn in for another term under the country's new executive presidency more than one hundred ten thousand public sector workers have been fired since the failed coup attempt in two thousand and sixteen. a brazilian appeals court has sparked a legal route by ruling that former president luis. be released from prison serving a twelve year sentence for corruption the judge who presided over the original case says the judge who ordered his release lacks the authority to do so. the leaders of ethiopia and eritrea are holding historic peace talks in the eritrean capital asmara it's the first time leaders of the regional adversaries have come face to face in nearly two decades of diplomatic thaw to and a border war that h

by off and i think we have been able to confirm that it was four boys who were arrested yesterday florian and also as you just mentioned there they're going to use the same method as they did yesterday to understand that correctly and is it is it also the same team. i couldn't hear you now but yes they they are using the same method. as they were trying yesterday i know that there are also lots of information coming in by the likes of you in moscow about other companies that are offering gadgets that might actually help we're hearing that. a team from the space x. company is here they're trying alternative methods i've seen like extraction prods videos of that but my understanding is that all these other extraction methods all these devices are still too big to actually fit through the cave and they have never been tested in any situation that is even remotely close to what we're facing here so i don't really see those gadgets coming into effect especially not as long as the method that they have used yesterday works so well ok we were just watching some video of some of those gadgets flo

and our correspondent florian issue is near the cave complex in northern thailand where this lifesaving mission is underway florian a former boyles boys pulled out of the cave what can you tell us about this. well just a few minutes ago there was the official press conference that everyone had been waiting for and so it is really officially confirmed that those eight boys are not just out of the cave but in the hospital the last boy was taken there about an hour ago. it was confirmed that today's mission only took nine hours as opposed to whilst yesterday's which took eleven hours so in this quite lengthy press conference do officials praised the rescuers for having learned from experience from yesterday's experience so that everything went more smoove lee. and at the very end they were asked about the conditions of the health conditions of the four boys that were taken out today and unlike yesterday when those same officials didn't hesitate to say that they were all in overall good health today the same official said don't ask me i'm not a doctor so this was something quite remarkable

florian: i don't think so. trump's perspective, the thing that counts the most by far is how to deliver to his voter base. when we reflect on u.s. policy priorities since trump has entered office, he has focused on what he thinks will keep his support up and not necessarily what european allies would have hoped. guy: what does the u.k. get out of this? the u.k. needs the u.s. more than the u.s. needs the u.k. pursuing aoks to be deal with the eu that involves goods and services. that means the big part of the british economy needs to find a way of progressing in a wider landscape and that presumably involve the united states. what does the u.k. need to happen here in order for this to sink together? and the what the u.k. government needs is a visit that progress is calmly and without the president actually throwing focusingto the work by on controversial issues such as agriculture, which i think the u.k. would like to bracket because demand there, the u.s. has put forward time and again, will be almost impossib

florian know she is near the cave complex in northern thailand and he joins us he's following all the latest developments for us to see you now the divers we understand have gone back into the cave is there an update on the remaining boys and their coach. yes we have received official notification that during this third phase of the final hopefully finally a rescue operation they will try to get all five of the remaining boys the four boys and their coach out that means that they're adapting their rescue tactics their rescue plan that they had applied for the last two rounds when they only got out four so there was this nobody knew exactly if they were would stick to this plan only take out four but we were given the information by the official that they were going for five and they were very optimistic during this press conference they said this rescue mission today even though they will take out five might even go more quickly than yesterday's now yesterday's was even more quickly than on the day before so it seems that those divers are really getting more experience and they also t

when the women's event and germany's florian gruber continued to dominate the men's competition winning his third consecutive title in southern italy. you're watching t w news still to come a sham election keeps cambodian prime minister hun sen in power but that means new worries for the economy as punitive sanctions loom. that story plus trade talks between the e.u. commission president and us present donald trump that within the next. story that people will hold on for you on facebook and twitter. to date and in touch. climate change. waste. pollution. isn't it time for good news. for go people and projects that are changing our environment for the better it is up to us to make a difference let's show the. legal limit for the farming magazine. d w the. critics call it a sham alexion the opposition says it's the death of democracy cambodian prime minister hun stand extends his hold on power as his ruling party claims all parliamentary seats in sunday's election other countries could apply punitive sanctions that would cripple the economy. zimbabwe's. besides or is it the economy that w

them ever since we understand all thirteen are in safe and in good condition tonight because one of florian there she joins us now from the thai capital bangkok he is on the story for us this evening for ian hello to you the boys we understand they have been found and we understand they're all alive but they haven't been rescued yet what more do we know. exactly and i think it's very important to note that despite all the jubilation and elation and you know everyone is happy right now that they found the boys that. a very big part of work still lies ahead of the rescue teams and because the boys are still a few kilometers inside that huge cave and large parts of the cave are still flooded by water so now the rescue teams have to come up with the plan how to extricate the boys and so now there are different options one is to just wait until the water subsides by itself and also with the pumps the water pumps that are still trying to get the water out but that might take a few days and so that is probably not an option one option that i've just read about online is that they're actually debat

what the rescue teams will come up with what kind of plan how to extract the boys we're talking to florian in bangkok. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world but lazio's former prime minister najib razak has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of billions of dollars from a sovereign wealth fund he founded a decade ago the investigation into malaysia's one and the corruption scandal set up by a jeep successor engulfed him since his spectacular defeat in may selections. australian sort of wilson has been sentenced to twelve months detention for covering up the sex abuse crimes of a priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. archbishop wilson is the most senior roman catholic cleric to be convicted of concealing child sex abuse a court will decide whether he can serve his sentence. all right. or germany's chancellor i'm going to america has a verse of the collapse of her government by resolving the dispute with her hot line interior minister horses a hole for over migration policy despite the conservative leaders haven the deal as a succe

since day one sees the title and a nerve racking final race to win the women's event and germany's florian gruber continue to dominate the men's competition winning his third consecutive title in southern italy. are extreme sports might seem like a modern innovation for adrenaline junkies but in the bosnian town of lost our diving has been a test of courage dating back centuries several thousand spectators lined the banks of the river. to see forty daredevils brave the twenty seven meter jump into the depths below my star natives the moron's lister won the competition for the second year running it's his twelfth the win over all the other divers weren't in it for the win though they just wanted to test their courage and cool off. all right we still have lots more to come ben is up next with the bid. sarno just get this song. the musicologist began searching for the source of the baby. in the rain forest in central africa and the look to the look was a baby book. by their culture. only.

and the tie in even see who lost his life in this operation this was a very international operation florian who was on guard and now. a key let me say and who was involved in this international rescue operation because of the international team wasn't in because the army i cannot hear anything now but if you like i could just continue and tell you what an extraordinary mission this has been . there were rescue divers and how different. areas present here on site throughout the last days sometimes even from the pretty much from the very beginning what we're hearing is that those initial three british rescue divers that were here and actually found the boys after nine days having been trapped in the cave. that they pretty much made the difference and when they started being part of this operate. this whole rescue mission that at the beginning had been sometimes a bit chaotic they. managed to pull together to. bring in their experience it was not the first rescue mission that successful rescue mission that they had been part of so but it there were also divers from the u.s. from australia the

the rescue teams will come up with what kind of plan how to extract the boys we're talking to cure florian in bangkok. germany social democrats have told the country's chancellor that they need more time to decide whether they can back her new migration policy the compromise agreement was rushed out between i'm going to hard line interior minister whole say hoffa after weeks of wrangling chancellor merkel has been holding talks with the social democrats to see even trying to convince them to back the deal and keep a coalition government afloat. politicians of merkel's c.d.u. and say her first on their way so convinced a third party in germany's grand coalition yesterday to accept their heart for the agreement the two conservative sister parties agreed on a late night compromise after being at odds over immigration for weeks but the social democrats leader made it very clear that the party would be pressured. and c.s.u. damaged each other in recent weeks the bloc damaged the trust and confidence in our democracy we don't have great need for consultation and will take whatever time is necess

friends of the track graves are anxiously racing as they die for his work to bring them a portion of florian nurse mash one teenager who plays football with the boys and almost went on a trip inside the cave but ended up having a look. it's a realisation that weighs heavy on pies on jupiter he came within a whisker of getting trapped himself but the thirteen year old didn't join his teammates for the cave trip his mother didn't allow it so he stayed behind avoiding the fate of his friends and their coach. my best friend tad is in the cave he says smallest one one of the best play is i miss him i'd like to see how he is. my son's family belongs to the aka an indigenous hill tribe in the region their religion is strongly influenced by animism and ancestor worship by psalms mother believes that an evil spirit lies within the cave that's why she told her son not to go. but with the hope of bringing him and been i'm so happy that he obeyed my orders one thing he's generally a very quiet and well behaved boy not a troublemaker in my i'm so grateful i don't have to worry about it and when i am goin

notice that the niche is from the cave miscue operation in northern thailand thank you very much florian. as in recent days rescuers dug through mud and rubble bracing to find survivors tens of thousands of emergency workers have been deployed to help more than two million people were ordered to evacuate their homes. two journalists from myanmar have been charged with breaking the country's strict secrecy laws for their reporting on the rogue pinch of crisis they were arrested in december in a sting operation critics have slammed the case as an assault on press freedom saying that is aimed at stifling reporting on the government's crackdown in broke into communities. in haiti violent protests over 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 planned price increases but there has been no let up to the end rest. or we're going to head to the u.k. now where the prime minister to resign may is facing fresh turmoil in her cabinet after the resignation of her

and also a nightmare for the families as well involves the rescuers are also working under pressure florian there are new rains coming up and there are reports that the oxygen level in the cave is dropping what more can you tell us about that. well my latest information is that the oxygen level is actually ok it has been they have been able to stab allies that it's not like the level is in. but it's actually ok because they have managed to put in an air hose already a few days ago but c o two levels are rising and you could imagine that the situation in that cave also the hygienic conditions in this cave it's they are trapped on a square. ten square metre narrow. area so the conditions there you can imagine were becoming less and less conducive to the health off the boys so this is why authorities said today's d. day the conditions conditions are not getting any better a storm front is about to hit so let's get them out now. and let's not forget that the boys has been there for almost two weeks i mean what kind of shape are they enter the even ok to die right now. what we have heard from th

you know obvious florian news has been reporting extensively from the scene for us he sent us his assessment of a momentous day. it is the end of an exhort unary and very long day here in the north of thailand early this morning we were presented with an official timeline of when the first boys would actually be extracted from the cave then all of a sudden wee hours prior to this original timeline we first heard only rumors and a few hours later the official confirmation that four boys have actually been able to to get out of this cave they are in stable health conditions they have been transferred to the provincial hospital about sixty kilometers away from where we are right now and the mood here in this makeshift press camp as well as anywhere around has been very very enthusiastic for the last few hours this news that they actually made it stows for boys really was met with grades searing and so one can safely say that the first stage of this rescue mission has been a success now what we mustn't forget is that even though four boys hours nine are still trapped in the cave and as you can s

our correspondent florian nourished that well for the first time the children have been able to communicate with their parents many of whom are waiting anxiously outside the cave let's have a closer look at the messages. of hope and desperation it's been two weeks since the ordeal began now letters handwritten by the boys have emerged from the cave delivered to their loved ones by a diver. in won the twenty five year old coach apologizes to the parents to all the parents the kids are still fine i promise to take very good care of them thank you for all the moral support and i apologize to the parents. the boys reassure their families some right light hearted jokes. i'm doing fine the air is a little cold but don't worry and don't forget to prepare for my birthday party. if i get out can you please bring me some group or can vegetables. to my dad mom and sister i love you you don't need to be worried about me i love you all with efforts to install a phone line so far unsuccessful this is the only way for the two sides to communicate directly. and now some of the other stories making news aro

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but as florian has captured over the years, the most common creature is the caribou, and not just a fewthousands. the kind of herd unseen since the plains buffalo were wiped away and when florian is here with his family, he can't help but wonder how long it will last. >> we need to keep some of these places untouched. we are changing the world everywhere so fast, but why not leave a few places unspoiled. >> for almost 60 years, that was the rationale that protected anwar from this. these are the oil fields that fill the famous pipeline and power countless lives. but since there are billions of barrels elsewhere, nature lovers have long argued there is no need to drill here, and for decades, that argument held until -- >> one day a friend of mine in the oil business called. is it true that you have anwar in the bill? i said, i don't know, who cares. what is that? he said, you know, reagan tried. every single president tried. i said, you got to be kidding. i love it now. and after that, we fought like hell to get anwar. >> december's tax cut bill also opened anwar to drilling thanks to al

so a lot of very happy children there florian who spoke of course in this moment of joy he must also pay tribute to the one time navy seem to lost his life trying to save his voice so to be a nurse in northern thailand thank you very much. that now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the officials that have gone in stance a gunman have stormed the department of education in the eastern city of jalalabad at least eleven employees were killed and ten wounded security forces exchanged gunfire with the attackers of five oz before killing two of them is the second attack in jalalabad in as many days. brahman chinese political campaign conman has been sentenced to thirteen years in jail after a court fontanne guilty of subversion of state power. jailed as a counter-revolutionary in the one nine hundred eighty s. and has already spent a total of twenty two years in prison. see a suicide bombing at an election rally in the country's northwest has killed a secular politician. and at least. fifty people were also injured in the attack at the yvonne ridley party even

florian schmidt is a local councillor with special responsibility for planning and construction he says property investors need to be reined in one way is to invoke neighborhood preservation rules to prevent apartments being turned into luxury homes so poor people are pushed out of areas facing gentrification just as for the construction industry and the property industry that's not so good for business and expropriation socialism. my job on the local council is to promote development in the city that's focused on human needs and if. people have to have a home made of social cohesion needs to be maintained we don't want things to my fall apart or. must often starts out as i'm hopeless in berlin the battle lines have long been drawn with tenants and landlords pitted against each other especially in neighborhoods considered desirable. local authorities have so far established close to fifty neighborhood preservation areas that gives them the right to buy property under certain conditions to prevent speculation. this marks a significant turnaround. until a few years ago the city was sellin

boys their parents be safe at a correspondent for you know sean the story for us tonight in bangkok florian thank you very much. still writes here in germany tonight the government is in crisis and it is over a feud over migration policy and it is threatening to bring down the government of chancellor angela merkel the conservative leadership is meeting at this hour in talks aimed at reaching a compromise interior minister horst as a whole for sparked the crisis by pushing for chancellor merkel's who adopted a harder german line on migration on sunday he repeated his threat to quit over her insistence on and e.u. solution a european wide solution if he does resign it could lead to the breakup of the decades long conservative alliance here in germany and it could potentially cost miracles government its parliamentary majority. costs you will fare seems quite relaxed as she enters the city use headquarters in berlin. but. let's hope it's still light when i return to see her first rebellious bavarian c.s.u. and its sister party a chance to angle a more close city you are looking for a way to r

we don't do enough correspondent florian news he is near the cave complex in northern ireland and be monitoring the situation from dead spots a couple of weeks feel really happy and after a long ordeal fill us in on the latest from. that. indeed it sounds like a mission impossible was just made possible. just within the last few minutes. it was there was this information confirmed on the facebook page of the thai navy seals that all thirteen are out and this is on the one hand what everyone was hoping for but quite honestly i had my doubts that this would actually happen just a week ago when we were told boys that were not even able to swim would have to get through a flooded cave that is challenging even for experienced rescue divers so there were so many things that could have gone wrong but now we know they didn't go wrong the must be a lot of gratitude and excitement about the success of this operation and this was an international effort wasn't it for real and not without risks one time navy seal died trying to save the boys tell us more about this operation the pressure that th

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

since day one seized the title in a nerve racking final race to win the women's event and germany's florian gruber continued to dominate the men's competition winning his third consecutive title in southern italy. wall street worries from friday are spreading across global markets today guys. that's right and that's despite the u.s. probably publishing solid growth figures but this us economy may be peaking stock exchanges in tokyo shanghai and solar broadly posting declines with european markets following the u.s. lead analysts are skeptical that the record four point one percent g.d.p. growth in the u.s. is sustainable consumer spending and a surge in soybean exports were the main drivers of that surge in quarterly growth companies in china and the e.u. stockpile then ventre is the mid trade war it is. now shed some light on these developments talk to cast brush he's the chief economist at g. db and joins us now from frankfurt caused those u.s. figures don't seem to impress anyone has u.s. growth really peaked. you know out of the in or not really i think the u.s. can still benefit from t

as florian has captured over the years, the most common creature is the carabu. >> we are changing the everywhere so fast. why not leave a few places unspoiled? >> for almost 60 years, that was the rational that protected anwar from this. these are the oil fields that fill the famous pipeline and power countless lives. since there are billions of barrels elsewhere, nature lovers have arguing there's no need to drill here. for decades, that argument held until -- >> a friend of mine in the oil business called. is it true that you have anwar? i don't know. who cares? who is that? he said, reagan tried. every single president tried. you gotta be kidding. i love it. after that we fought like hell to get anwar. he talked me into it. >> december's tax cut bill opened anwar to drilling thanks to alaska's senator who slipped in the provision, knowing it would only need 51 instead of 60 votes to pass. >> it's wrong for those from the outside looking in who have taken a nice trip into an area and said, this must be protected. >> conservationists point out, there is already a huge glut of america

the writer sent from a d w correspondent florian a no show and they tie capital bangkok oh welcome florence so we just heard there then the boys found but not yet rescued. yes exactly and even though there is a great degree of enthusiasm and relieved here in bangkok i would say that the most difficult part might still lie ahead because this is one of the biggest caves in thailand it's about ten kilometers long and so the boys have been found in a place that is several kilometers into the cave and there is still a high level of water inside the cave and so now the rescue helpers need to decide how they will actually extricate them so there is still a lot of work ahead the first measures that are taken now is that they want to get . medical staff doctors into the cave to assess the condition of the boys to bring them food so that they can gain strength before they start any kind of extract extrication because they said this might actually still take a few days and have we heard we have the government talking about the contact between the boers and the potential rescuers have we heard how they

. >> reporter: up in the refuge, photographer florian schultz is one outsider who has spent years hereof this place, and he hopes everyone, including the good folks at kaktovik, will take the long view. >> i'm using resources. i'm driving a car, but i feel we need to think in new ways. we need to think in new technologies and stay with the value of keeping wild landscapes, because once they're gone, they're gone. >> it's incredible when you think about that this is happening, a lot of americans didn't realize this is already starting. it's happening. >> it's happening. >> and you spent obviously almost a week covering this, doing these pieces, and tomorrow another one. >> another one. we're going to go from black oil up in the north to the yellow kind down in south. take you to the site of one of the last great salmon runs on the planet. million surge through crystal bay up through the streams to spawn in the exact place where they were born. it gives billions of dollars to the fishing and tourism industry. but in a place that many consider too close for comfort, a canadian mining comp