journalist tim newton joins us now from thailand temp thanks for taking the time rescuers originally said the best option might be to wait for water levels to recede after monsoon season but why is this no longer a viable. well you can imagine when they found the team the announcement that they might be giving them provisions for a four month white for the monsoon to pass was surprising a lot of people now the problem with the monsoon is that when it rains here in thailand it's torrential rain so they've had to respond for around about four days as the ryans held back even an opportunity to get some of the water level down but if the rhine starts again it makes the exit out even more complicated complicated further today with the death of the thirty eight year old former time navy seal some mancow nun who died was working as a volunteer to try and help the team that died on judy mom you mentioned professional diver who died on duty can you explain to some of our viewers that are watching around the world the makeup of this cave and why this is so dangerous well this is not a small ca

i'm joined now by journalist tim newton he's joining us from thailand with the very latest in ten i mean how likely is this incident to impact more raul joining the ongoing rescue operation. hi sara well obviously after the jubilation on monday night following the discovery of the thirteen football is this death has put a real stall on what was going to be a rescue over the next couple of days or that was what was foreshadowed that now it's clear that getting the team out is much more dangerous than they are imagining when you have the death of a highly qualified thirty eight year old former time navy seal in the time long caves up in chiang rai so i would say that rescue was announced scrambling to try and find alternatives or at least a site for a way of getting the boys out because it seems getting them out through the why they came in is going to involve a very risky situation and sarah such a tragedy hair what do we know i mean we're looking at images now of the boys themselves they appear in these images to be getting medical attention what do we know about their condition. because

tim newton with the very latest now from thailand and thank you so much for telling us a little bit more about what has happened there in the past twenty four hours or for shit. saying in thailand divers have scoured the whole of a boat that sank in turbulent waters off the resort island of cat the death toll is now twenty one but that number is expected to rise authorities say that high winds at the five meter high waves caused the vessel to overturn the rescue workers have pulled around fifty people to safety but dozens more are still unaccounted for. and i'll get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world because the junior partners in german chancellor angela merkel's coalition government the center left social democrats have signed on to her new tougher line on migration it was a key demand to have her interior minister forced example for who leads merkel's conservative the varian sister party the c.s.u. . japan's justice ministry says that she. has the former leader of a doomsday cult responsible for the sarin gas attack on the tokyo subway has been executed a

sections of the cave and that is incredibly risky but i want to find out more now from journalist tim newton who joins us now from thailand tim originally we had heard that the best option here might be to wait for the water levels to recede and then try to get the boys out why is that no longer viable. sara well the problem is that there is a monsoon season in thailand and it started a little bit earlier this year up in the chiang rai area in the phone north of thailand usually goes from about july to toivo november and when we talk about the monsoon we're talking bad very heavy rains indeed true insurance. and when just after the boys into the cave on june the third at the twenty third it captured them in the air some of the divers that were trying to get in there in the early phases of the rescue describe some of the water going through the caves like the colorado river like whitewater rafting so there is the water is the big problem and once those monsoon rains released even though they've had three or four days of relatively dry weather once the monsoon starts again by just one be able

anybody out soon so we will be interested to hear wolf the governess is absolutely right that is tim newton for us joining us from thailand thank you very much. but here's a look now at some other stories making news around the globe saying in thailand divers have scoured the whole of a boat sank in turbulent waters off the resort island of cats the death toll has now risen to at least twenty one rescue workers up to hold another fifty people to safety dozens more though still unaccounted for. pakistan's anti corruption court has sentenced former prime minister nawaz sharif to ten years in prison on corruption charges he was convicted after failing to prove a legal source of income for some luxury apartments he purchased in london sharif is in london and he wasn't present for his trial is described these charges as politically motivated german chancellor angela merkel has reached a deal over migration after weeks of infighting that had threatened to topple her government the junior partners in a coalition the center left social democrats have signed on to a new tougher line in dealing with