d.w. 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

d.w. 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 has claimed tens of thousands of lives. jap