jonathan head, bbc news, chiang rai, northern thailand.ys was a high—risk operation, elite divers, some of the best in the world, came here to jamraya and they said to the thai authorities they could do it. on sunday they were given the go—ahead and thai authorities said with the support of their parents. then the nation held its breath. on day one they brought out for boys safely. day two, anotherfour day one they brought out for boys safely. day two, another four boys but still it wasn't until last night we had a visual confirmation that all 12 boys had been brought out not only alive but also relatively healthy given their ordeal and people celebrated —— official confirmation. you heard in jonathan's report the cheers that rang out here last night. the bbc‘s lucy williamson has been speaking to some of the rescuers. congratulations. how are you feeling? exhausted. there in relation hidden by exhaustion, eric and his collea g u es by exhaustion, eric and his colleagues arrived back from the mountain tonight with barely the words all the

i'm sophie long, live at the cave in northern thailand. word looks like the operation to bring the remaining boys to safety is now resumed. four out — nine more to go. divers get ready to start what they hope will be the last part of the cave rescue. they're racing to complete their mission before the forecast of heavy rain brings more flooding underground. and i'm nkem ifejika in london. also on the programme: here in the uk, the brexit minister david davis sensationally quits the government. and, a british woman who'd been exposed to the nerve agent novichok has died. the prime minister theresa may says she's appalled and shocked. —— where it looks like. hello and welcome to bbc news. i am sophie long live at the cave in northern thailand were looks like the operation to bring the people remaining in the cave to safety. in the last few moments, we have seen five ambulances go down that track towards the cave. it is deep in the cave, in that mountain, four kilometres in that nine people were made. there have been there now for more than t

jonathan head, bbc news, chiang rai, northern thailand.t four boys and the courage came out the caves and will waking up came out the caves and will waking up this morning, in a comfortable bed. divers came from all over the world to help thai authorities. some said it would never work, that it was too dangerous and complex but on day one they brought out for boys, day one they brought out for boys, day two, another for boys came out safely. and then official confirmation that all 12 boys and their coach had been wrought out, not only alive at relatively healthy given their ordeal. the bbc‘s lucy williamson has been speaking to some of the rescuers. there is a nation hidden by exhaustion. they arrived back from the mountain tonight with barely the words and energy to tell their story. good. very good. these are the men who won against a mountain, heroes from all walks of lives, all corners of the world, united not in a single act of bravery but in dozens a single act of bravery but in d oze ns of a single act of bravery but in dozens of th

welcome back to northern thailand.ere the boys and their coach are being treated after being trapped in a cave for more than two weeks. the last of the boys to arrive here last night were in there for nearly 18 days. for the first nine days none of the boys had anything at all. a few months ago —— moments ago i spoke to a professor of nutrition. they would have been using some of their muscles stores, their protein stores around their muscles, in order to provide their brain with some glucos. and they would have also used quite a lot of their fat stores. and that's been used again for their brain. the brain of a human is huge, and it demands 20% of our energy requirements on a normal day. if you are resting, like these boys were, it's probably using about 50% of the energy that's being generated by the body. but they are using their stores, and you'll be able to see that. they will look a bit skinny, and they will soon, maybe within a week to ten days, they'll be back to their normal weight. yeah, we've heard from sour

let's bring in correspondent who is on the cave complex in northern thailand can you give us an update on the rescue operation at the moment. yes the diet and the day here in northern tip of thailand actually started with the officials moving all the quote non essential people to the rescue mission away from the cave entrance so that's why i'm actually standing here right now in a makeshift parking lot pretty much you can see the mountain behind me this is where the boys have been trapped for over two weeks now so we're about two kilometers away but the official said that they need the space right in front of the cave to establish a first aid rescue. operation system apparently there are ambulances for every single boy that is in the caves there are helicopters parked so officials are prepared for any eventuality when the boys will come out so it's a huge operation and also a dangerous one what do the rescuers have to bear in mind. yes it is still a very daunting task and like you said it has been underscored by the death of an experienced navy seal diver so. just to give you an idea f

libyan mission in northern thailand thank you very much for being us up to date on that breaking news story. and the story of course being that the twelve boys who had been in the underwater cave have been biscuit along with their coach turning now to the riddle of the chinese nobel peace prize winning book she has left china to start a new life in europe she's expected to arrive in berlin in a few hours time you have been kept on the net talking house the wrist with no formal charges since two thousand and ten when the husband was awarded the nobel peace prize her husband schools for democracy had angered beijing. she's finally free to charge the widow of nobel peace prize laureate you know. 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 lucero bore the late civil rights activist china labeled him a criminal because he advocated democratic change in china. he was already in prison when h

story this hour: divers have rescued all 12 boys and their football coach from flooded caves in northern thailanderground by heavy rains. let's get more on that cave rescue in thailand. kasha ibrahim is a wilderness medicine instructor and shejoins us from victoria in australia. good to have you with us, kasha ibrahim. what will be the initial things they are looking for, the medics who are treating and observing the boys? thank you for having me. initially the main things they will be looking for is treating any immediately life—threatening injuries and assessing the presumed hypothermia after such a long exposure down in the cave. but that can all be done relatively quickly, so those kind of assessments should be done within the first day after the boys come out and just looking at their vital signs and any injuries obviously that they have that could deteriorate. what about beyond that? what is the medium to longer term observation that they will be doing? so, in the next couple of days, and certainly up to the week, there will be some samples taken of bodily fluids to look for any signs of in

jonathan head, bbc news, chiang rai, northern thailand. while ago i spoke to edd sorenson, an american it has become like here in the last half hour or so and we have seen police officers going in and vehicles coming out. it seems in the next two hours or so that the rescue operation that was paused at 9pm local last night will resume. it got off toa local last night will resume. it got off to a good start with four boys brought out to safety. a short while ago i spoke to edd sorenson, an american technical diver who has conducted a number of successful underwater cave rescues. he told me what he thought of the rescue attempt so far. it is just amazing that they got four of them out so far. we are hoping for a good outcome for the rest. it appears that the flow has subsided a lot and if that stays down will help them tremendously because that was what hampered divers originally, the high flow. so if that diminishes it will be a whole new ball game. we were surprised here, watching it closely, that it happened so quickly. initially we were

twelve young boys and their football coach enter a cave in northern thailand and disappear. with water levels rising how will rescuers find them and bring them out alive. i'm steve chair on this episode of what i want to east the inside story of one of the most extraordinary rescues of all time. saturday afternoon june twenty third twelve boys and they saw her courage heading to the rugged mountains of northern thailand for a trick. they posted photos before writing to the tom no one cave a place they have visited before. they are expected to return home to the nearby village later that day. a dozen members of a youth football team and their coach a missing after they entered a cave in northern thailand investigators believe the teenage boys and their coach called into the cave and they never came out search and rescue crews are on the same trying to locate the boy's billings attains been trapped by a flooded strain in the cave entrance. within twenty four hours of the boy's going missing a search operation is underway. the boys bikes and backpacks of found near the entrance

or we begin the day with a rescue into the white a day in northern thailand some of the world's most skilled and specialized divers completed what may be the biggest mission of their lives safely leading a soccer team of twelve boys and one coach out of the flooded network of kids that have held them captive for two weeks one of the rescue divers lost his life trying to make sure that the other divers had enough oxygen one kilometer beneath the earth surface of this rescue has been an international effort divers from across the world military specialist from as far away as the u.s. all focused on saving lives in a world that seems more polarized than ever what mattered most this week was the glue our shared humanity and that shared instinct to leave the cave even in asia greece plato wrote in his allegory of the cave about that innate longing to escape the darkness in the shadows just to feel the light and instinct that brought an estimated one billion people together this week to watch a successful escape from the cave. it was the outcome the world had been hoping and praying for th

jonathan head is at the entrance to the caves in northern thailand.this week since they found those boys, there's been a debate here among thai officials about what they should do with them. now, many of the divers who've been going in to see them have said the route out is just too dangerous to risk, they should be left where they are. that thinking is clearly changing, the impending monsoon makes staying where they are unviable, they could be there for months, they might even lose their only dry spot. we're hearing very much today about preparations to take them out. the kids can't swim, they're being taught now, they are practising wearing masks. lots of consultations are going on in particular with the british cave divers, who are still playing a leading role in this rescue and it seems now it's not imminent, but the authorities have decided at some point they're going to have to take a chance on the perilous route out with the divers. diver: how many of you? their discovery on monday seemed miraculous, but their rescue has confounded those trying

twelve young boys and their football coach enter a cave in northern thailand and disappear. with water levels rising how will rescuers find them and bring them out alive. i'm steve chair on this episode of what i want to east the inside story of one of the most extraordinary rescues of all time. saturday afternoon june twenty third twelve boys and they saw her courage heading to the rugged mountains of northern thailand for a trick. they posted photos before writing to the time the one cave a place they have visited before. they are expected to return home to the nearby village later that day. a dozen members of a youth football team and their coach a missing after they entered a cave in northern thailand investigators believe the teenage boys and their coach called into the cave and they never came out search and rescue crews are on the same trying to locate the boys believe the team has been trapped by a flooded strain in the cave entrance. within twenty four hours of the boy's going missing a search operation is underway. the boy's bikes and backpacks of found near the en

cnn's david mckenzie is live in northern thailand following the story. and david, one can only imagine what it means for these families not to know first of all which boys have been rescued and of course when these other rescues will take place. >> imagine as the ambulance screams behind me heading to the general intersection of that cave complex. imagine if you're a mother and a father after now more than 16 days of your child being stuck in that cave and according to a source of the family members that the key family members are still in that area where they've been held for many days near the cave flex huddling together and waiting. they say they will not leave until the last boy and the coach have in fact been rescued from that cave. and quite incredibly that same source says those key family members don't know whether their child has been rescued or not. they might have of course heard through rumors and social media. but officially they haven't been told. and those four were sent yesterday in ambulances with lights blaring to a regional hospital. t

coming out in northern thailand of video are released by the government. let's start with the rescue attempt the government releasing clips from the video they shot inside the cave. which show an absolutely treacherous path for rescuers to carry the kids out. rescuers braving very dangerous conditions. carrying boys out on the stretchers. at some points they have to hoist the stretchers up onto a pulley system. parts of the cave were so steep. they actually had to hoist the stretchers up to get the boys out. running water and how murky it is. just a difficult task for rescuers. you see them giving initial medical treatment inside the cave. really good insight we didn't have before into how difficult the rescue operation turned out to be for the brave volunteers and the military. they came here to get these boys out. between video of the rescue attempt and video of the hospital we are getting more and more insight into this situation overall here in northern thailand. >> thank you for that. >>> croatia will make its first trip to the world cup final. they d

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walter mooney/usgsthe location of this crisis is in northern thailand in a very stable area. there are no earthquakes. there is virtually no chance that the cave will collapse due to an earthquake like might happen in japan or some seismically active regionfour options have been discussed among rescue experts.. leaving the boys in the cave until the water recedes so they can walk out the way they came in.. teach them hot to scuba dive so they can make what's been described as a gnarly five hour journey or drill into the gave to pull them out. but experts agree... it is a feat that requires experts from all over the world. dr. walter mooney/usgs every cave is different and they're very complicated. a simple diagram might make it look like a walk down a hallway but it's anything but that. and the cave passage (hermela) experts experts don't seem to concerned about the concerned don't seem to concerned about the condition of the boys at the moment. they appear to be fine. the biggest challenge is to send rescue teams down safely.. especially after losing in the process. live in

matt rivers for us in northern thailand. the news has been all good, a fifth child rescued from that cave. we're watching more to see if more will be pulled out. the expectation is that we could see more shortly. joining us now, michael mcdonald, a cnn chief medical correspondent. it was an hour and a half ago the child was pulled from that cave. i assume that we should shortly see more if all is going well. >> that is correct, yes. now they're on a roll and they have continuity and they will want to do as much as they can. so it is more of the same and the rescuers will want to keep going and bring as many as they can out for the operation. they don't want it to drag on much longer. >> we heard initially there was reporting that the healthiest, making decisions about who would come out first, but the four that came out first may have been among the healthiest which is sort of counter intuitive, but it could give them a better sense of what they need to do? >> yes, this is a judgment call being made at the time, but you're a

and let's get the very latest now with florian no she's near the cave complex in northern thailand and 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 i

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 a

coming out in northern thailand. of videos released by the government. let's start with the rescue attempt. the government releasing clips from the video they shot inside that cave. which show a absolutely treacherous path for rescuers to try and carry the kids out. what you see in the video is rescuers braving very dangerous conditions. carrying boys out on stretchers. at some points they actually have to hoist the stretcher. part rs of the cave were so steep that rescuers couldn't carry the stretcher safely. they to hoist them up to get the boys up. running water and how murky it is. incredibly difficult task. you see them giving initial medical treatment inside that cave. so really good insight that we didn't have before. into how difficult this rescue operation turned out to be for the brave volunteers and the military. and the international military. they came here to get the boys out. between video of the rescue attempt and video of the hospital. we are getting more and more insight into this situation over all. here in northern thailand. >> all ri

jonathan head, bbc news, tham luang caves, northern thailand.o florida to talk to edd sorenson, one of the founding members of international underwater cave rescue and recovery. it is an amazing and wonderful that they survived and were found but getting them out will be tricky. they survived and were found but getting them out will be trickym really is. i am elated to hear that they found them all alive in good health so far, so it is going to be a difficult rescue from here on out. how difficult? well, i am working with limited knowledge from here so it depends on how far the completely flooded passage is. but in a situation like that it is usually zero visibility, you have got rocks and obstacles in the way. taking a dive into circumstances like that is extremely dangerous, someone who has had a near death experience is even more dangerous and someone who is not scuba certified is unbelievably dangerous. had you think it is likely to be done? this group, the kids and their teacher are clearly tough and have managed to survive this and have in

florrie on newish near the tom long cave complex in northern thailand thank you. the dangers of the operation are highlighted on friday when an experienced diver lost his life when he was delivering oxygen tanks to the cave let's take a look now at the mission facing the rescue divers. 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 teach unction 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 coats will be brought out one by one it's estimated each trip will take six hours. earlier we spoke to a cave diving expert ad sorenson he described the stressful conditions faced by the r

correspondent laura newish near the cave complex in northern thailand loran some of the boys have been rescued from the cave what are you hearing this hour about the operation it's just what i can tell you the things that are definitely very out there as good as this one. yeah but i think it is like to get excited. speed up your reports that's why it's taken off who can talk a lot of the pieces of sixty kilometers in some ways it's got a flow. spawn. of about thirty. six for these days is that it's getting the relief it's. got something out of the seas trust fund both ways. so they'd go to the states of course does do they have definite treaty was with them. if you want taken but i think so i says that it's the development of to do not think so on scale that we feel thank you my lord and satisfied always the floor and nourish near the cave complex in northern thailand we apologize for the quality of that call now from the other stories making news around the world the leaders of ethiopia and eritrea are holding historic peace talks in the eritrean capital asmara it's the first time lea

asked of those twelve boys and their soccer coach emerged today from the caves of northern thailand and underground nightmare that claimed the wife of one diver and at the same time gave the one billion people watching a glimpse of the best of our humanity i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. today the time people change thailand agencies and the private together with media and all the international support. we could make it. it was a first for the world. it's a lot of time now everyone is leave. ok so i mean this. is this that this. also coming up tonight friends have booked their place in the world cup final thanks to a one nil victory over belgium in st petersburg samuel the second half header sending live to a first final in twelve years. we begin the day with a rescue into the white of day in northern thailand some of the world's most skilled and specialized divers completed what may be the biggest mission of their lives safely leading a soccer team of twelve boys and one coach out of the flooded network of caves that had held them captive for two weeks one of the rescued diver

and we will be live later in northern thailand to get the latest from our correspondent who is therer departure from hospital. now, our other top story. the pressure on britain's prime minsiter theresa may over her strategy for brexit shows no sign of letting up. on tuesday her government saw off an amendment to a trade bill, brought by pro—eu members of her conservative party, which would have kept the uk in a customs union with the eu — that's if no deal is agreed on a trade arrangement before january next year. but, as andrew plant reports, the coming few hours have some equally difficult moments. the ayes to the right, 301. it was yet another close contest that theresa may's government needed to win. and it did, byjust six votes. sidestepping a push by pro—eu mps for a customs union clause in the brexit contract. so the noes have it. the noes have it. if that was a tuesday of turmoilfor it. the noes have it. if that was a tuesday of turmoil for theresa may, nest will surely come a worrisome wednesday. first she will face last prime minister's questions before parliament breaks fo

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

jonathan head, bbc news, tham luang caves, northern thailand.urvived and they were found. bbc‘s howard johnson is there. do we know any more about how they survived? we understand that before they went into the cave complex they were planning to celebrate a birthday party and had taken in some food with them. the feeling is that they had some food with them, obviously lots of water, it is free flowing, it is potentially drinkable. they were found in a chamber close to pattaya beach, a shelf that was raised above the water. it looked like in that area there was enough air to breathe through the week. they were obviously relatively dry. not immersed in the water. and when the divers found them last night they were in relatively good spirits. they are clearly tough and they clearly have a great incentive now to get out. but a lot of cave rescue people are telling us that will be very tricky. very much so. this is a labyrinth of caves, tunnels, all flooded, different chambers they will have to pass through to get back to the entrance. this morning t

jonathan head, bbc news, chiang rai, northern thailand.s search and rescue shows a percent to excess. 23 hours ago that we had official confirmation that the evacuation part of the operation had begun the. the 13 international expert divers backed up by five expert divers backed up by five expert thai divers were going in to start bringing the boys and their coach out. and 9pm local time yesterday on sunday we were told that that part of the operation have been suspended so that divers could rest, so that air tanks could be refuelled. has been a lot of activity here this morning, counting six ambulances going towards a cave entrance but we do have any information that any of the divers have gone back into reach the boys again. they said that four of their teammates again. they said that four of their tea m mates yesterday again. they said that four of their teammates yesterday who we now know made it successfully out of that cave and are now with in hospital. there is a long way to go, still nine remained trapped in a cave behind me. we ca

there near the cave complex in northern thailand story and what is the latest there i mean there are reports coming out that two of the boys have been recovered from the cave what more can you tell me. yes i want to be may be very careful in reporting this but indications are and maybe you just received a confirmation by some local officials that apparently he told reuters agency that the first two members of the taj football team have been rescued so cue kids are out according to this report that is still tentative they are currently at the field hospital near the cape we have no possibility to corroborate this information because the media has actually been moved away from the case clearly this morning so. i cannot confirm it but the indications really are that this rescue mission has been successful at least for two boys that apparently are. 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 actuall

near the cave complex in northern thailand what is the latest on the rescue operation. the latest we've heard this statement from the rescue center which basically said that the thirteen elite divers internationally the divers have i'm now in position and has been in position to bring the boys out of the most difficult first kilometer off the cave since two pm local time that's a that's a few hours ago they said that thirteen three of them will be helping supporting the boys why ten others will be lining up basically in this one kilometer stretch of a very tricky and difficult diving condition including a very small passageway that experienced divers. struck goes to get through it's not very clear from the statement whether the children has been diving or not and the statement further sad that medical doctor is inside the cave assessing the health of the bars as well to choose who should come first so it's not very clear how many people if indeed they have been extracted or not and at what time they will be destroyed extracted the other part of the statement also said t

i'm sophie long live outside the caves in northern thailand where rescuers are getting ready for what they hope will be the final day of their mission to free twelve boys and their football coach. so far, eight of the children have been brought to safety — all are said to be in good health. the rescue teams will go in again in the next few hours. one diver tells us about the difficulties inside. when i saw the diver and the kid on the horizon, we can't see that far, maybe 50 metres, i still didn't know if it was a casualty. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme. two big brexiteers resign but prime minister theresa may appears to have strengthened her position. and japan mourns more than a hundred people killed by floods and landslides following unprecedented rainfall. it's one am in london, and seven in the morning here in northern thailand where divers have rescued four more boys from a vast cave system on the second day of a complex operation. the thai navy seals leading the rescue mission have confirmed that eight boys in total have been extracted in what is a race agai

these twelve boys and their soccer coach see the light of day again but tonight rescue teams in northern thailand are weighing the options and the risks and offering no answers not yet i burnt off in berlin this is the day. that the old paul and i are all we have any one hundred percent confident that there's no risk to the boys before we try and get them out and all the time that it will be done even one option but we have to train them so it's safe and not let them go it is really cool visibility you have no life. you relying basically on the field when you want to talk you want to be reasonably fit and well back to talk about teaching them to drive and then berates invests a bit on the show to be honest i would have sold them if you want to be one i don't know one look at the amount. but i can assure you we haven't stopped working for single minute since day one. also coming up tonight islamic state tried to wipe them out the u.n. calls it the genocide of the people in northern iraq where four years later our u.s. has been driven out but many of the daughters who were taken away have not come

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

near the cave complex in northern thailand thank you for bringing us up to date. thank you. max some of the other stories making news around the world. the death toll from flooding and landslides in japan has climbed to more than sixty with dozens of people still missing torrential downpours has caused flash flooding across central and western parts of the country prompting evacuation orders for two million people forecasters say the situation is extremely dangerous. in haiti at least two people have been killed during violent protests over a few price hikes the clashes erupted after the government announced double digit increases to prices for gasoline and diesel haiti's prime minister has since backtracked and suspends of the decision hundreds of anti gun protesters shut down a major expressway in the us to go for several hours the demonstrations called on the city's majors to end violence chicago has by far the highest murder rate in the u.s. he says he saw more than one pays in one hundred choosing in the first half of this year. thousands of displaced syrians are return

the one cave complex in northern thailand thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the death toll from heavy rain and landslides in japan is talented more than sixty with dozens of people still missing the trench downpours have cause flash flooding across central and western parts of the country prompting evacuation orders for over two million people. hundreds of anti gun protesters shut down a major expressway in the u.s. city of chicago for several hours demonstrations called in the says he's leaders to end gun violence has by far the highest murder rate in the u.s. the says he saw more than one ties and one hundred shootings in the first half of this year alone. thousands of displaced syrians are returning home to the southern province of daraa after russia brokered a ceasefire between the government and rebels the deal was reached after weeks of bombardment by russian box there in forces is seen as the cradle of the uprising that sparked syria's seven year civil war. offensive has displaced more than

the bbc‘s sophie long is in northern thailand. is a race against time, a race against the weather, as more heavy rain is forecast to fall in the area over coming days. they were caught out more than two weeks ago when they were cut off by torrential rain. the dramatic rescue mission began at 10:00am sunday morning local time. 18 expert divers, supported by a team of over 70 international and thai divers, entered the cave to attempt to guide the boys to safety. medics assessed the group to determine who would come out first. then, in total darkness, two divers swam, with each child tethered to the diver in front. they followed a previously laid guide rope to help over difficult terrain. it is reported that the narrowest part is onlyjust under a0 centimetres wide. the boys will be helped through by the diver in front, before continuing. 0nce out of the cave network, the children are taken to hospital by ambulance. jonathan head now reports. the day started with rescue workers and extra dive tanks going in. a daring and complex rescu

and to our correspondent daniel cope is closer to the hospital in northern thailand where the rescued boys have been that west off to daniel good to see the boys have been trapped in the caves for what now two weeks what do we know about their condition. here how they're laying out what we had a press conference about an hour and a half ago the local governing here off the stage was talking and he was saying that the boys that have been rescued from this case already are given the circumstances actually in a very good conditions and you know i can tell you we have been seeing relatives and also buddhist monks here in front of the hospital throughout the day as these kind of news i mean everybody here simply was cheering and was blogging and we also hearing and i actually found this quite interesting that the boys are actually in very good spirit that seems to be at least in that case they have been asking for their favorite food which is a very spicy attire a douche with pork and with rice but it seems that doctors here still are a little bit careful and are putting them still a littl

correspondent for a new she is near the cave complex in northern thailand and has been monitoring the situation from the florian formal boys have reportedly been pulled out of the cave what more can you tell us. well what seemed so on likely only a few days ago now seems to go like clockwork by the looks of it so what we're not getting is any official confirmation what we are getting reports from colleagues that i'm not just here at this press center but a little bit further up the road at the entrance to the cave journalists are not allowed to go any further and they have been reporting ambulances coming out i've actually seen quite a few ambulances myself we have seen helicopters just flying towards chiang rai chiang rai the provincial capital so by the looks we really have another four boys out apparently. that's what we're hearing is not confirmed already at the hospital one will come out shortly we might even see him come by we don't know yet but this operation really seems to be a huge success that's right and the operation seems to have quickened but out is still concerns of mo

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

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 get soaked from the rain now i'm actually getting more of a sun

correspondent florida new is near the cave complex in northern thailand and joins me now from the floor in the fifth and sixth border have reportedly been pulled out of the cave what more can you tell us. well i can definitely tell you that there has been a lot of movement in this past hour or so we have seen ambulances pos by we have seen helicopters fly by i can pretty much confirm that the fifth boy has been taken out of the cave and has already reached the hospital in chiang rai so i've just spoken to a colleague who is at the hospital and he said the first ambulance has definitely arrived in chiang rise so we can pretty much confirm that the fifth boy is out there are rumors that the six boys out as well and it would actually not surprise me because the governor and his press conference a few hours ago he actually said bad rescue operations were ongoing and they were going even more quickly than they had originally expected so it actually seems like . things are moving quite quickly now so yesterday the first boy came out after seven and a half hours now it only took them five and