this is bbc news. i'm philippa thomas with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk health secretary, matt hancock resigns, over the publication of pictures showing him kissing a colleague, in breach of covid guidance. he'd led the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic from the very beginning and says he's let people down. i understand the enormous sacrifices that everyone in this country has made. that you have made. and those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them and that is why i have got to resign. as rescuers search for survivors of the miami apartment block collapse, news that there'd been warnings three years ago, about the building's safety.

and wales�*s euro 2020 dreams are over, beaten four nil, by denmark — as italy knock out austria, with a 2—1victory. the uk health secretary, matt hancock, has resigned, a day after admitting he'd breached social distancing guidelines, by kissing a colleague in his office, in the department of health. calls for him to step down had come from some conservative mps, after the publication of images showing him embracing his aide, gina coladangelo. mr hancock informed the prime minister he was resigning in a letter, saying he'd let people down, and then he made a public announcement on social media.

borisjohnson has said mr hancock should leave office very proud of what he'd achieved. our political correspondent, ben wright has the story. one of the most familiar faces of the pandemic, the health secretary at the heart of decision—making as the country battled covid, and often seen at his side was this woman, gina coladangelo, a former lobbyist, adviser to the health secretary and long—term friend. but yesterday came this image of them kissing in matt hancock's office, breaking, as he admitted, the government's own covert guidelines and plunging his career into crisis. this evening, he quit. i the enormous sacrifices that everybody in this country has made, that you have made, and those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them, and that's why i've got to resign. but hancock hope to ride out the storm, a cabinet minister with big ambition who had the backing of the prime minister. number ten considered this matter closed and it was mr hancock who decided

to step down. to be frank, it shouldn't have come to this. borisjohnson should have shown the guts, the spine, the awareness to have sacked him on friday. you cannot have a health secretary who designs the covid rules, so blatantly breaking the rules in the way he did. neverfarfrom a podium, but hancock wrote rules the rest of us were told to follow. for some tory mps, mr hancock's credibility was shot. what has been clear over the last 24 hours is that, for a sizeable minority or even majority of the public, they no longer had confidence in matt hancock. it wasn't the affair, it was the apparent hypocrisy of being someone who had made the rules but then broke their own rules. there was another big problem. last september, gina coladangelo was appointed to the board that oversees the department of health on a taxpayer funded salary.

the government said the appointment rules were followed, but labour demanded an investigation. tonight, mrs coladangelo stepped down from her role. but hancock has been close to politics and power from the start of his career. chief of staff to george osborne in opposition, entering parliament in 2010 and clocking up ministerial jobs once the conservatives were in power. he became health secretary injuly 2018 and even stood for the leadership of his party. i want this campaign to be about the future of britain. a marker, a signal of intent. but for now, his ministerial career is over. in his letter to matt hancock this evening, borisjohnson said, "above all, it has been your task to deal with a challenge better than any faced by your recesses, and you have written to that challenge". risen to that challenge". leaving hisjob, hancock thanked those he had worked with. i'm very proud of what we have done to protect the nhs at the peak, to deliver that vaccine roll—out, one

of the fastest in the world. and i look forward to supporting the government and the prime minister from the backbenches. morning, mrjavid. the former chancellor sajid javid now returns to the cabinet as the new health secretary, taking over during a pandemic that is not yet over. thank you very much indeed. in his resignation letter, matt hancock apologised to his family for putting them through all this. a spokesman declined to comment, but tonight it's understood mr hancock has also left his wife. ben wright, bbc news. let's talk to the london evening standard columnist and radio presenter ayesha hazarika. .. lovely hazarika... to lovely hazarika. .. to see lovely hazarika... to see you. boris johnson lovely to see you. boris johnson was a very clear, case closed, private matter, let's move on. what change? i think the chief whip _ move on. what change? i think

the chief whip got _ move on. what change? i think the chief whip got contacted i move on. what change? i think| the chief whip got contacted by a lot of conservative backbench mps because this was not the case closed and this was not just a westminster village gossipy sort of tittle tattle. this was starting to really get under the skin of constituents, starting to break through, there is a very big by election happening in the country, i heard from mps that this was starting to come up on the doorstep. i think it reminded a lot of people of the very controversial affair last year involving dominic cummings and his trip to the barnard castle and i think the public will tolerate a lot but with covid, they will not tolerate hypocrisy from the people making the rules, lecturing other people about the rules but then breaking the rules themselves.— but then breaking the rules themselves. ., ., themselves. matt hancock made that point. _ themselves. matt hancock made that point. did — themselves. matt hancock made that point, did he? _ themselves. matt hancock made that point, did he? it _ themselves. matt hancock made that point, did he? it is - themselves. matt hancock made that point, did he? it is about. that point, did he? it is about sticking to the rules that you declare command that is so live now as to watch the delta variant spreading covert i9

variant spreading covert 19 cases rising again.- cases rising again. yes, absolutely. _ cases rising again. yes, absolutely. even - cases rising again. yes, | absolutely. even though cases rising again. yes, - absolutely. even though the vaccination programme has been going well and the country, there are a lot of different variants that are here now and people are still worried. we had to delay the freedom they come of the 19th ofjuly, a lot of people have had a very great personal sacrifice is whether it is not being able to to say goodbye to loved ones are not being able to get married in the way that they wanted to a lot of businesses are struggling as well so i think everybody pots my patients is really being tested at the moment and when people hear that the lecturing the public are not sticking to the rules committee just makes people so angry and a lot of people were saying to me on my radio show, what if we have to impose more restrictions, some new variant comes, how will the health secretary have the moral authority if he has been breaking the rules so i think he himself came to that right

decision by a lot of people are asking questions why the prime minister thought it was ok to hang onto him.— hang onto him. what kind of authority _ hang onto him. what kind of authority do _ hang onto him. what kind of authority do you _ hang onto him. what kind of authority do you think- hang onto him. what kind of authority do you think the i hang onto him. what kind of l authority do you think the new health secretary has? it is very interesting that sajid javid has made this come back, sajid javid, a very different than the prime minister, he was a staunch remainder, quite an experience cabinet minister but he inherits a very big entry from matt hancock, only does he have to carry his own dealing with the pandemic split the nhs is having a really tough time, huge waiting list particularly with important treatments like cancer and there's a lot of staff burn—out because of the covid crisis, a lot of staff shortages, big problems with aduu shortages, big problems with adult social care, but friendly enough matt hancock was about to unveil. ibig enough matt hancock was about to unveil. �* , ., , ., to unveil. big new plans for restructuring _ to unveil. big new plans for restructuring the _ to unveil. big new plans for restructuring the nhs - to unveil. big new plans for restructuring the nhs on i restructuring the nhs on monday. in the house of commons. there is a lot for the new health secretary to take on. b.

new health secretary to take on. �* . new health secretary to take on. ., , ., new health secretary to take on. ~ ., , ., ., new health secretary to take on. ., , ., ., , on. a final personal note, this meant some _ on. a final personal note, this meant some rather— on. a final personal note, this meant some rather nice - meant some rather nice exchanges on social media about the fact he is the son of a bus driver. , , . driver. yes, very nice exchanges _ driver. yes, very nice exchanges from - driver. yes, very nice i exchanges from another driver. yes, very nice - exchanges from another son of driver. yes, very nice _ exchanges from another son of a bus driver, sadiq khan, who is the labour mayor of london. they both had this buddy relationship were they do talk about the fact that they are sends a bus drivers, joke saying you wait ages for a bus to come along and then to come away. they make the same jokes about each of the bing sends a bus drivers and politics. lovely to talk to you. thank you very much. rescue teams searching for survivors after an apartment building collapsed in florida, say their efforts are being severely hampered by fires which have broken out in the rubble. it's emerged there'd been warnings three years ago about the structural safety of the building. five people are known to have died, with almost 160 missing. will grant is near the site in surfside, north of miami and sent this report.

this rescue effort is slow going, methodical, and deeply upsetting. since the 12—storey apartment block came down, only a handful of people have been found. dozens are thought to be somewhere under this rubble. the rescue is being hampered by a persistent fire, which firefighters are struggling to contain. if any resident is still trapped in air pockets in the debris, it makes their chances of survival even slimmer. we're facing incredible difficulties with this fire. it's a very deep fire, it's extremely difficult to locate the source of the fire, and so they've been working around the clock. a small offering of solace to those still unaccounted for, but to add to their families' distress, it's been revealed that a survey on the block three years ago found a major error which affected drainage and waterproofing, and abundant cracking in the structure of the parking garage. as the days passed, the residents of surfside are beginning to accept that they may never see

their missing neighbours again. if that wasn't harrowing enough, the fact that serious flaws with the building were flagged up as long as three years ago is enough to extinguish the final vestiges of hope that this community is clinging to. will grant, bbc news, surfside, florida. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news... large numbers of people have been leaving the bangladeshi capital, dhaka, ahead of a nationwide covid lockdown. from monday, people in bangladesh will be allowed to leave their homes only in an emergency. bangladesh has seen an alarming increase in cases since mid—may, many attributed to the delta variant. in iraq the authorities authorities say a third wave of covid infections has started, as the country's case numbers surge. a health ministry spokesman said this latest spike was much worse and more dangerous than the previous two. one of the host cities in the euro twenty—twenty football tournament, st petersburg, has recorded its highest ever daily death

toll from the coronavirus. the russian city reported 108 deaths in the previous 2a hours. it's due to host the first quarterfinal on friday. five people have died in a hot air balloon accident in albuquerque, new mexico, in southwestern united states. the accident caused power outages in the area for several hours after the balloon came into contact with a power line. police said the wind had pushed the balloon into power lines where it then caught fire. here is one witness — describing the crash. around seven, we were just getting in the car, we heard a loud bang, my reaction was to tell my girl to get down, i didn't know if somebody was shooting but i looked up when i saw the balloon and she is screaming

and everybody is screaming about the balloon. it was by itself and i said where are the baskets. i immediately reacted and started running this way. i got to right here, another gentleman and a few others and the thing was on fire. activists attempting to stage a banned gay pride march in the turkish city of istanbul — have been forcibly dispersed by police. the march, which forms part of pride month, has not been permitted in turkey since 2015, with the authorities citing security" and "religious sensitivities". additionally there are now covid restrictions. attempts to stage the rally in recent years have been met with strong police intervention. you are watching bbc news, the main story this hour the uk health secretary, matt hancock resigns, over the publication of pictures showing him kissing a colleague, in breach of covid guidance. let's have more on that story. i've been talking with our uk politics correspondent rob watson about why mr hancock had to go. i think the big problem that he faced is that if you are telling people, you are telling millions of people, 64 million people, that they shouldn't hug,

that they shouldn't have any sort of social contact with people out side of the little bubble, the whole household, then these pictures and videos, they just look terrible when you think about what everybody has been through so national laughing stock. you know, philippa, even my kids this morning said, "have you seen all the memes about matt hancock, dad?" so, that tells you, when teenagers are taking an interest, you are in big trouble. perhaps, rob, if he had been seen to be felt less seen to be fault—less as a health secretary, he might have hung on, but he has faced a lot of pressure. i mean, it is an ugly combination. you have the latest problem that the charge of hypocrisy, the humiliation and laughing stock. but his time as health secretary has not been unblemished. 0ne thinks perhaps of the critique that has come from the prime minister's former senior adviser, the incredibly public scathing critique from dominic cummings,

who has also been releasing messages he has got from the prime minister describing matt hancock with an expletive in the middle, before it as hopeless. absolutely, there has been this criticism, if you like, of his personal behaviour, but also of his professional handling of the pandemic. that said, of course, you will find people to come to matt hancock's defence and say, you know, he had one hell tricky spot being that britain's health secretary in the middle of a pandemic. there has also been criticism, of course, of his boss, of borisjohnson, for hanging on to him but loyalty did seem to matter to mrjohnson. yes. i mean, one of the things that is most striking about this, philippa, and people watching around the world will know this, is people were wondering what on earth do you have to do to either get sacked or resign

from borisjohnson's government? because it is very much his style, neverapologise, never explain, and incredibly sort of aggressive attitude towards any criticism, so he stood behind other ministers who have done extraordinary things, ministers who have been accused of bullying, ministers who have been accused of messing up people's education results. but i guess in the case of matt hancock, this is just so out there and you just have so many people just laughing at him, poking fun of him, and given that they are all these tricky decisions still ahead on health matters, you could see that his position was untenable. but i think, if he were to ask, philippa, does one think that borisjohnson is going to change his style and that ministers are going to have to behave to a higher standard? i mean, i think that seems rather unlikely that mrjohnson will change his pugnacious approach to standards in public life. one more brief thought, rob, you refer to tricky decisions ahead, and given the covid figures right now and the delta variant spreading in the uk, mrjohnson is presumably very aware of that but matt hancock's phrase was we have to stick to the rules.

it is so relevant right now. yes, absolutely, and i think, by the way, that the focus will move on quite quickly to those rules. i suspect that matt hancock is going to end up as an extremely tiny footnote in british political history. the real focus will be now on what do they do about the rules? we know that boris johnson is a lockdown sceptic, he would absolutely love to end restrictions on july the 19th. will they? who knows? matt hancock was appointed health secretary in 2018, leading the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. 0ur health correspondent, cath burns looks back on his political career, and the enormous challenges he faced running the health department. this is what the government wanted us to be talking about this weekend. they are calling it "grab a jab", telling every adult

in england they can turn up for a vaccine without booking. and the timing is serious — cases are going up. more than 98,000 people have tested positive in the last week. i don't think we need this bit on camera. but instead, the focus is now all on matt hancock, the most recent former health secretary. all done. his resignation letter admitted "we didn't get every decision right", but he also pointed out his achievements, including that the nhs wasn't overwhelmed during the pandemic. but we, like so many others, have been rocked by covid. we've seen previously unimaginable numbers of people dying after being infected. there have been issues with how long it took to lock down, with difficulties getting adequate ppe and with the test and trace programme. recently, the criticism went to another level. the secretary of state for health should have been fired for at least 15, 20 things, including lying to everybody. the main charge was about how the health secretary protected care homes. the government rhetoric

was that "we put a shield around care homes, blah blah". it was complete nonsense. and it didn't stop there, with messages published recently, apparently between dominic cummings and the prime minister, calling the health secretary "totally hopeless". are you hopeless, mr hancock? i don't think so. but he did get a chance to defend his record... that was a planning assumption for 820,000 deaths, and i was determined that that would not happen on my watch. ..but also point to this, a turning point in the pandemic. maggie keenan becoming the first person to be vaccinated outside of clinical trials. now the uk has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. matt hancock says the nation is on the brink of a return to normality, but that is not the case for the nhs, with a record 5 million on waiting lists in england. before the pandemic, about 1,600 people were waiting for a yearfor surgery. that number has now rocketed to 385,000.

and now sajid javid, the son of a bus driver, takes the wheel at the department of health. with long covid, a plan for social care and dealing with exhausted nhs staff, he has got quite the in—tray. catherine burns, bbc news. football now — and at the european championship, wales have been knocked out — losing 4—0 to denmark in the first of the tournament's round—of—16 matches. the welsh conceded three goals in the second half and had a player sent off. hywel griffith was watching the action in amsterdam. they should have been walking down the aisle. instead, caitlin and jake's big day was spent cheering for their team. the pandemic forced the couple, who live in the netherlands, to postpone their wedding. so no cake, just

plenty of danish. we feel lucky to be one of the tiny minority of wales fans are here today. denmark also had loved ones that couldn't be here. christian eriksen still recovering, their inspiration. wales, outnumbered again, started well, getting the ball to bale, but unable to make it count. denmark changed tack and found their flow. now wales were frustrated as the pressure builds. and as kasper dolberg cut inside, he broke wales' spirit. denmark strike first! from holland to back home. wales needed to find a way to disrupt denmark? dominance. instead, they faltered, and dolberg doubled the lead. it's a terrible clearance. there was no choice. wales threw everything at it, but simply couldn't turn the tide. and that is the end for wales. a fourth felt cruel. the final whistle perhaps a relief for everyone.

i'm disappointed for the players. i'm really proud of them. we have got a great group and i have said to them we have got to learn from this and bounce back bigger and strongerfrom having gone through this experience. having crisscrossed the continent, wales have reached the end of the road and are heading home crowd and outplayed by a danish team who, after the most difficult start to this tournament, are living a football fairy tale. hywel griffith, bbc news. in the second game of the round of 16 italy have beaten austria 2—1 to qualify for the quarter— finals. all three goals came in extra time. italy will now play belgium or portugal in the quarter finals. like many tourist destinations across southeast asia the covid—19 pandemic has had a hugely detrimental impact on cambodia's tourism industry. but, for the temples of angkor, a respite from the steady footfall of up to three million tourists a year, has given unobstructed access to the temple's most hard—to—reach corners to a unique band of temple guardians. nick wood has more.

they're known as the ninja gardeners of angkor, and their mission, which they readily accept, takes place in a destination unlike any other — cambodian's famed angkorian—era temples. to the untrained eye, these vertiginous daredevils look like regular gardeners, but these guardians of the temples have a unique talent — and responsibility. translation: our team need to climb up into the hard-to-reachl parts of the temple to cut the tree roots and saplings, because otherwise they can quickly damage the temples by dislodging stones. for decades, the 30—member team of gardeners has daily gone into battle with the invasionary forces of nature, a surrounding jungle whose bird population regularly deposits droppings packed full of fruit seeds

in gaps between temple stones and sculptures. with only a few hard hats, ladders and safety ropes, the job of protecting these magnificent temples is not for the faint of heart. it requires a firm grip, a head for heights, and the sure—footedness of a mountain goat. translation: we can't use | climbing equipment or shoes and rarely use ropes, because the carvings in the stones are very delicate and are easily damaged by ropes rubbing against them. chanting. prior to the global covid—19 pandemic, the angkor park had been one of the top tourism destinations in the world, but visitor numbers have fallen dramatically, allowing the gardeners a relatively unhindered opportunity to care for the centuries—old temples. following the ousting of the genocidal khmer rouge in 1979, preservation works slowly restarted, but archaeologists quickly realised that many of the temples had been almost entirely reclaimed by the jungle. the modern day custodians of the temples are a mixture of

young and old, but they share a passion passion for protecting the country's rich cultural heritage forfuture generations. translation: i'm still young, | but many of the team are older now and in the future they won't be able to keep doing this, so it's important our generation learn to do this work to help preserve the temples. conservation officials are searching for liquid agents to help eliminate tree roots and minimise the perilous nature at the ninja gardeners�* work. but, for now, their essential duties continue as they have for decades, perhaps even centuries. nick wood, bbc news, cambodia. so impressed by them and i would be so frightened up there. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @ philippabbc. thanks for being with us here on bbc news. do stay tuned.

hello there. the first half of the weekend brought us plenty of dry weather. for many places, the second half of the weekend promises more of the same. but in southern areas, there's quite a big change on the way, blue skies in swanage on saturday afternoon, sunday afternoon will bring grey skies and some outbreaks of rain in the south. courtesy of a very slow moving weather system. you can see this curl of cloud and an area of low pressure that has become marooned just to the northwest of france. it will be throwing this band of rain northwards across the channel islands into southern counties of england through sunday morning, the odd shower running ahead of that into east anglia, the midlands, into parts of wales, more persistent rain to the south midlands and south of wales later, but all the while northern england and ireland, much of scotland will be

dry with sunny spells although thicker cloud could bring the odd spot of rain in the far northwest of scotland. 15 degrees in stornoway, 22 the high in london. some of this rain could turn pretty heavy with the odd rumble of thunder. it will move north overnight into parts of east anglia. maybe even clipping into parts of northern england. northern ireland and scotland stay dry with clear spells and temperatures staying in double digits for most of us. the slow moving weather system will still be with us into monday. that means further outbreaks of rain at times across the south with high—pressure building in further north and that is where we will see the driest of the weather. wet start across parts of wales in the southwest of england. a few more showers developing for southeast england, the midlands and east anglia through the day, maybe one or two into northern england, northern ireland and scotland should be dry with spells of sunshine, i think we see the highest temperatures across western scotland, 23, maybe 2a degrees.

those showers in the south not great news for the start of wimbledon. there could be interruptions to the play on monday and indeed heading into tuesday because our slow moving weather system will still be with us, further pulses of rain across the south of the uk where further north our area of high pressure will keep things drier, sunnier and warmer. we could see temperatures in glasgow on tuesday getting up to 25 degrees, but always the chance for outbreaks of rain further south.

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the uk health secretary, matt hancock, has resigned, after he breached social distancing guidelines by kissing a colleague in his office. mr hancock informed the prime minister he was resigning in a letter, saying he'd let people down. former chancellor sajid javid has been confirmed as the new health secretary. rescuers searching for survivors after an apartment building collapsed in florida say their efforts are being hampered by fires which have broken out in the rubble. it's emerged there'd been warnings three years ago about the building's structural safety. five people are known to have died, with almost 160 missing. five people have died in a hot air balloon accident in albuquerque, in southwestern united states. the accident caused power outages in the area after the balloon came into contact with a power line. police said the wind had pushed the balloon into power lines, where it then caught fire. now on bbc news, an investigation by the bbc�*s

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