praia de _ case. madeleine mccann's vanished from her room in praia de luz- case. cann's vanished from her room in praia de luz in - from her room in praia de luz in 2007, as her parents were in a restaurant if you yards away. despite months of extensive searching, no trace was found. in 2008, a private search of the reservoir, funded by a portuguese lawyer, found nothing of relevance to the case. it is here that police are searching again. the surrounding area of the arade dam is about 50 kilometres from where the family was staying. the search is expected to take at least three days. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford joins us from near the reservoir. it's been interesting, the german prosecutors have said they are not going to give details of exactly what they are doing in order to protect the integrity of the case. but just watching the protect the integrity of the case. butjust watching the activity today, it is quite clear that it is focused on this one promontory at the moment, which has a car park on it and it is sticking out into this quite a pr

madeleine mccann vanished from her room at the ocean club in praia de luz in 2007, as her parents weresive searching, no trace was found. in 2008, a private search of the reservoir, funded by a portuguese lawyer, found nothing of relevance to the case. it is here that police are searching again. the surrounding area of the arade dam is about 50 kilometres from where the family was staying. the search is expected to take at least two days. lets you bring your pictures now of that reservoir, you can see on the banks of the reservoir, the police are trying to dig in search around the foliage, the few bushes and hedge5 you entries you see in the area. earlier, we were sent a few lines of copy that told us that around 20 police officers, apparently, were seen digging around apparently, were seen digging around a specific area just next to the reservoir. again, information is very difficult to come by in this case but we have been told that this pertained to some information regarding an area where that key suspect, the arguido amaz portuguese prosecutors call him, christian brueckner, may h

asked for a series of digs around the praia de series of digs around the praia te tw— series of digs around the praia te tee enee— series of digs around the praia de luzalgarve. as joins me live from the algarve. ae tne— joins me live from the algarve. as the ent— joins me live from the algarve. as the ent ot— joins me live from the algarve. as the end of the— joins me live from the algarve. as the end of the day- joins me live from the algarve. as the end of the day approaches and darkness falls. mark white any progress, any anything to add to the story really well, we've certainly not heard that they've found anything significant so far today . significant so far today. nigel, the search itself was eettet— nigel, the search itself was eettet ott— nigel, the search itself was called off a— nigel, the search itself was called off a little earlier than nrotettw— called off a little earlier than probably planned because we had a probably planned because we had even— probably planned because we had a very severe thunderstorm over the a very severe thunderstorm over tne teet— a very severe thunderstorm over the last couple— a very severe thunderstorm over

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you can't even hear the sound of traffic from here, and it is about 30 miles away from praia de luz wherent missing in 2007, but it is where we are expecting later this morning german police to begin their search, and the reason for that is because of the reason for that is because of the actions of one man who you just heard about there. christian brueckner is in prison in germany for the rape of a woman in the same area where madeleine went missing. german police say he visited this area when the three—year—old went missing, and we are expecting official confirmation of the search taking place here within the next couple of hours. and although it's important to note that christian brueckner has never been formally charged with anything in relation to madelyn�*s disappearance, and has always denied any involvement, local media have reported that an area of the reservoir was sealed off by the police yesterday, and that the search is expected to take place today and tomorrow with around 20 police officers taking part in that search. this dam has been searched before. it was just a year aft

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