Thailand rescue

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Rescuers are working out how to free 12 boys and their soccer coach, who have been found alive in a flooded cave complex in Thailand. They had been missing for nine days. Food and medical supplies are being taken in. Host Carol Hills gets the latest from Nopporn Wong-Annan, editor of the BBC’s Thai Service.

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