The NHS is to pay for five-year-old brain tumour patient Ashya King's proton beam therapy treatment in the Czech Republic.
His parents Brett and Naghemeh King sparked an international police hunt after they took their son out of Southampton General Hospital and travelled to Prague for the treatment which was not available for him on the NHS.
The family of missing five-year-old Ashya King has uploaded a new video showing the youngster alive and apparently alert.
In the video, King's father Brett gives a lengthy explanation as to why he took his son out of hospital in Southampton to seek "proton beam treatment" - a procedure not available under the NHS.
He says: "We decided to try and sort it out ourselves, but now we're refugees ... the police now are after us."
"I'm not coming back to England if I cannot give him the treatment I want," he adds.
Ashya King's parents told the Daily Mail they fled the UK after being told NHS treatments would leave him with life-long disabilities.
The head of the police force which applied for a European Arrest warrant against the parents of Ashya King has now urged their release.
A British mother whose son's life was saved by proton therapy has told ITV that she defied NHS doctors' advice to pursue the treatment.