Six In The Morning Tuesday July 3

Thailand cave rescue: boys may spend months trapped underground, rescuers warn 

Divers have found the football team in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave but experts warn it may be months before they can be safely rescued

• Full report: Rescue of boys trapped in Thai cave could take months, military warns

Matthew Weaver (now), Kate Lyonsand Mattha Busby (earlier)

Tue 3 Jul 2018 09.38 BST

Sky News reports that Thai police are considering whether to prosecute the coach for leading the 12 boys into the cave.

But for now the focus is on getting the boys and their coach to safety.

The US embassy in Thailand said the US is doing what it can to support the rescue efforts.

In a statement, the US Ambassador to Thailand Glyn T Davies, said:

“The American people join Thais in celebrating the discovery of the football team and their coach in Tham Luang cave. We will continue to support Thai authorities in their efforts to safely bring home the players and their coach.‎”

Italy gives Libya ships, equipment as more migrants reported lost

Italy has said it will donate more ships and equipment to help the Libyan coast guard intercept Europe-bound migrants on the Mediterranean Sea. The news came amid reports of another shipwreck.

Rome announced late Monday that it would send 10 motor launches, two ships, dinghies, equipment, vehicles and other material to help Libyan maritime authorities increase their capacity to manage illegal migration.

Italy's new government wants Europe-bound migrants found in boats coming from Libya to be taken back to the North African country, rather than allowing them to move on to Europe.

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The odyssey of Senegalese fishermen from Lorient to Joal-Fadiouth

A multimedia report by Sebastian Daycard-Heid
Photographs: Guillaume Collanges

Fishermen throughout time have crossed the sea in search of more bountiful waters. They set sail from Brittany, Norway, the Basque country, Galicia, and now, Senegal… 

These sailors hail from the small sliver of coast that stretches from the Senegalese capital of Dakar to the coastal town of Joal-Fadiouth. They have crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean for the past 10 years, docking at Vigo, A Coruña and Santander on Spain’s northern coast, making their way to the ports of Lorient, Guilvinec, Roscoff, Saint-Vaast and Cherbourg in northwestern France. 

NYT: Trump sent letters to NATO allies demanding increased defense spending

By Marc Rod, CNN

Updated 0346 GMT (1146 HKT) July 3, 2018

President Donald Trump sent letters to the leaders of NATO allies, including Germany, Belgium, Norway and Canada, demanding that they increase their defense spending and threatening to alter the US global military presence if they do not, according to a report in theNew York Times on Monday.

The letters were sent last month, according to the Times, before a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, next week.

A source familiar with the letters confirmed their existence to CNN but did not confirm the language in them. A separate diplomatic source briefed on the letters described them as "very tough" and said they requested more defense spending and warned the US was losing patience.

China and its influence at the World Cup in Russia

China's football team failed to qualify for the World Cup but its presence is being felt in Russia.

by Katrina Yu

Jun Tang was 14 when he was first inspired to attend the football World Cup.

He remembers his high school headteacher cancelling afternoon classes so that students could watch China's World Cup debut in 2002.

"It was a big deal because cancellation of classes rarely happened," Jun told Al Jazeera.

The teacher even brought his own TV from home because, at that time, we didn't have one."

A Year Later, the Fascists of Charlottesville Are Back for More — This Time Outside the White House

Natasha Lennard

July 3 2018

THE “UNITE THE RIGHT” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year ripped away the last shred of plausible deniability about the white supremacist fascism of the so-called alt-right. A neo-Nazi plowed his Dodge Charger into a crowd of anti-fascist counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring others. A young black man was beaten bloody by racists with metal poles in a parking lot near a police station. White supremacists marched Klan-like, with burning torches and Nazi salutes, around a Confederate statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee while chanting, “Jews will not replace us!” It was a gruesome pastiche of 19th-century American and 20th-century European race hate, newly emboldened under Donald Trump. The president later declared that there were some “very fine people on both sides” — a remark that winked at the side with swastikas and “Sieg Heils.”