cambodia's longstanding prime minister casts his ballot in an election he's almost guaranteed to win. thousands are forced to evacuate from the island of rhodes as wildfires rage in greece for a fifth day. and it's day four of the women's world cup and we'll have the latest from the pitch. hello. i'm carl nasman. one of the world's longest—serving political leaders has just cast his ballot in an election he is all but guaranteed to win. hun sen has been cambodia's prime minister almost continuously for a0 years, and sunday's vote is mostly for show. the opposition has been barred from running, making mr hun�*s victory a foregone conclusion. but mr hun may nevertheless be on his way out — in an interview

with a chinese tv station broadcast on thursday, he said his eldest son, and annointed successor, hun manet, could take over as prime minister injust a few weeks�* time. let's go straight to our southeast asia correspondent jonathan head who is in cambodia's capital, phnom penh. we heard this is almost a foregone conclusion in terms of the results. the opposition party, the candlelight party, has been banned from running in the election. however their supporters expected to vote today? —— how are their supporters. today? -- how are their sweden-— today? -- how are their su--orters. , . . ., , supporters. they have various 0 tions. supporters. they have various options- they _ supporters. they have various options. they might _ supporters. they have various options. they might not - supporters. they have various options. they might not shot| supporters. they have various i options. they might not shot to vote. there are some penalties for that. you can't run for office if you fail to vote. they could try to spur their balance which is also being criminalised. i think some will turn up and vote for one of the 17 alternative parties that is allowed to contest the election but those parties are really tiny. they have one very few

votes in the past and probably won't win any seats. there are 125 seats in the assembly, currently the cambodian people's party, the prime minister's party, has all 125. they banned the previous opposition in the election five years ago, the same pattern. while the election is completely predictable it isn't inconsequential. horns and is preparing for this once in a generation hand over to his elder son, generation hand over to his elderson, hun generation hand over to his elder son, hun manet. generation hand over to his elderson, hun manet. —— hun sen is preparing. the preparations have been in place for a long time. he has been successful at neutralising his opponents outside the party, but his own party, the cambodian people's party, is factionalised, with powerful groups in there, and what he wants is an impressive turnout in the election to show that he is still respected by the people. he has been running on this record that he has been running on for decades that he is the man who has delivered peace and prosperity to cambodia, which is largely true. everybody will remember the things that happen in the �*705 the things that happen in the �*70s and �*80s, it has been

growing very fast in the last couple of decades. younger cambodians don't remember the khmer rouge in those years and many would like a fairer society, one with less inequality, less environmental damage, and if it were a free election i think many would have voted for the candlelight party. in the end it is a question of how many turnout and how smooth the succession which we think will happen probably within a month of the election goes.— election goes. what more can ou tell election goes. what more can you tell us — election goes. what more can you tell us about _ election goes. what more can you tell us about hun - election goes. what more can you tell us about hun sen? i election goes. what more can| you tell us about hun sen? he likes to call himself one of the world's longest serving leaders. what kind of leader has he been?— has he been? pretty extraordinary - has he been? pretty extraordinary in - has he been? pretty. extraordinary in many has he been? pretty - extraordinary in many ways. this is a man who came from a small village updated vietnamese border and narrowly escaped being posed or killed by the khmer rouge in the 70s. went to vietnam, came back during the civil war when cambodia was isolated and impoverished, and started as the world does big yard de mcguinness prime minister in 1985. he is smart and pugnacious, prone to outrageous

comments. —— the world's youngest prime minister in 1985. he was banned from facebook over comments he made earlier this year. he has allowed enormous amounts of wealth to be committed by people around him. he is very rich himself. he is intolerant of criticism. he is one of asia's great survivors. it is getting on in years. he has the problem that all autocrats have, he has eliminated so much power, he is worried about what happens to him when he lets go, which is why he wants his own son to take over. a lot of people around him, ministers and so on, handing onto their sons. he has created a dynasty here. as long as the economy is going a lot of people put up with that but cambodia is vulnerable to global changes, dependent on tourism and trade. if it goes bad, his son, who is untested, may find it difficult to deal with the dissatisfactions of the cambodian people. fin dissatisfactions of the cambodian people. dissatisfactions of the cambodian --eole. , cambodian people. on his son, hun manet. — cambodian people. on his son, hun manet, do _ cambodian people. on his son, hun manet, do we _ cambodian people. on his son,

hun manet, do we have - cambodian people. on his son, hun manet, do we have any - cambodian people. on his son, l hun manet, do we have any clue as to what he might bring if he does gain power in a couple of weeks after the election? bier? weeks after the election? very few indications. _ weeks after the election? very few indications. he _ weeks after the election? very few indications. he is - weeks after the election? - few indications. he is western educated, studying at west point in the us. he was a commander in the military for a while. he hasn't held political office. he has a different kind office. he has a different kind of person, softer, smoother talker. in many ways he will appeal more to the younger generation. power had been managed brutally in cambodia. it is a ruthless game. but can he manage the factions who have grown so rich under hun sen that many of whom have their own political ambitions, that is where the real question lies? ., . . . is where the real question lies? ., ., ., ., ., ., lies? jonathan head there at a ollin: lies? jonathan head there at a polling station _ lies? jonathan head there at a polling station in _ lies? jonathan head there at a polling station in cambodia's l polling station in cambodia's capital, phnom penh, thank you very much. to greece now, where wildfires are burning out of control on the island of rhodes. thousands of people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on the island. three hotels have reportedly burnt down and many others are in the danger zone. private boats have joined

the greek coast guard picking people up from beaches on the east of the island. the greek army has also been helping get tourists to safety. no injuries have been reported. plumes of smoke can be seen blanketing the island with its many resorts. the fires have been burning for five days now. the country's deputy fire chief says the blazes in rhodes are the most difficult greece is facing. it comes as the country suffers its hottest weekend in half a century. one climate expert says the current heatwave could last up to 17 days, making it the longest since records began. earlier, i spoke to the bbc�*s warren muggleton, who himself has had to evacuate from the wildfires in rhodes. you have been staying there in rhodes. you've been near these fires yourself. we can see that you're in some sort of hotel. can you take as to what is happening where you are? thank you carl, yes, ifind myself in faliraki, which is six miles south of the capital, rhodes,

which is in the north of the island. 25 miles south of our position is where the wildfires have torn through this country. i was staying in lindos, which is a few miiles down the south on the coast, on the east. that is itself about ten kilometres away, where the wildfires started off, which weren't controlled through the week, came together. you saw the pictures earlier in the week. we are two hours ahead of the uk, so it is coming up three o'clock in the morning over here. you can probably see by me some tired bodies — people from hotels from all around the island, who have all come to this place, in faliraki, they're on beds, taking towels and even to my right shoulder there are some people on medical beds as they take some treatment for their bodies, as well. we got the alert on our phone, we got an emergency alert, atabout 11:30pm our time, and we are on the bus at midnight at the time, and what you could see is we got on this bus and there was a red glow over the top of the hills, where you could see

the fires that these firemen and the army have been trying to battle. and you can see that glow, and you could sense it was close, but with the operation by everyone was able to — away from lindos, away from pefki, which were the areas in danger on that south east coast of the island, into faliraki, where we find ourselves now. there are more people coming into the hotel and there will be more people resting here, and i'll walk you around here, carl. warren, let me ask you, as you walk us around, we see many people there, as you mention, it is three in the morning — how people are holding up, what is the sense there in the hotel? it is a mixture of sort of exhaustion and high emotion as well. there's young families here, there's are elderly couples as well. people come to rhodes to get sunshine, to get an escape, to get a bit of hospitality as well, from five star resorts like this one, which have kindly opened the doors to a lot of people.

sorry to hop in, but we see people sleeping on the floor. is this hotel so full of people now that have had to leave from these areas where the fires are burning that they are having to sleep on the floor or in the lobby? what is the situation with beds? that's right. let me pan around so you can see, families — and this was actually like this earlier when coaches were arriving as well. there was no room in the hotel already. they already had to get these beds out and put them in position, so even before people started to arrive in flocks, in masses, they were already having to put these beds out. just come in here. if you can still hear me, you mentioned that you got a lot on your phone warning that you might have to leave the area. just curious as to what response you have seen from authorities and from locals in the area? the response has been strict and fast and very efficient, very brave as well. even as we were making our way away from the area that there were buses going towards

the area to pick up people on holiday who were still caught up in this. lindos is very tight — if you imagine very ancient, gridlocked systems, they had to cut the system and there was a massive run of people, trying to get on buses. but there were police all the way down the roads. i think these tourists were weary from soaking up the sun, but also from this high emotional moment, you can see behind me families as well. of course, there were forest fires back there in 2008, so this is a government that knows what the situation is like, but they have been as this one very well. while maybe the army and the firefighters are battling the fires, the tourists are being kept safe, even if they have to bunk up on the floor. warren, i want to ask you one more question, and obviously there's many people, there, as you mentioned on holiday or on vacation to relax and people living

there as well under threat by the wildfires, but what comes next for you and for tourists? will people head home, or what comes next? certainly for myself i am trying to get home as soon as i can. i was meant to be flying home on monday, i have put myself in an earlier flight. lots of people have been speaking to around here have been getting on the easyjet websites, talking to their providers likejet2, on the beach, talking to private companies, trying to get on earlier flights. a lot of the flights were already booked up. there were only individual seats. i was lucky i was travelling alone and was able to get a flight. lots of people are waiting until monday and just hoping that the fire stays under the control. carl, there are lots of emotions around here as well. and then all sorts — people travelling for different reasons, some travelling as families, a couple i spoke to just got engaged 2a hours ago. wow. their holiday — they had a wonderful moment out in lindos, but it

hasn't ended the way they want. it is for a lot of people maybe exhaustion taking over for a lot of people now, and just getting some rest. but lots are still scouring those websites, trying to get the flight home. i hope that you are able to get some rest, warren, and everybody is safe. the bbc�*s warren muggleton reporting for us, very close to where the wildfires are taking place in rhodes, greece. to israel, now, where prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that will be fitted with a pacemaker overnight between saturday and sunday. speaking in hebrew in a video statement released by his office, mr netanyahu said that he had been fitted with a monitoring device a week ago, which has now indicated he requires an operation. he said, quote: "i feel great but i need to listen to my doctors." last weekend, he was hospitalised with apparent dehydration after spending the day outside. mr netanyahu had said that he hopes to be discharged from hospital by monday to vote on his controversialjudicial

reforms. in response to those proposals, a mass march by thousands of israeli protesters reached the parliament injerusalem on saturday. tens of thousands of people have joined the march since it set off from tel aviv earlier this week. they plan to set up tents at the knesset as they stage a last—ditch effort to try to prevent or delay the final votes on a bill that would curb the supreme court's ability to void decisions by the government that it deems unreasonable. earlier, i spoke with aaron david miller. he is a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace in washington and for more than 20 years, he served as a state department middle east analyst and negotiator. thank you so much for being here. we saw and heard from thousands of people gathering outside the knesset this weekend. what chance do you think they have of delaying or even derailing this legislation? you know, it's hard to say. so far, this is the 29th week of protest. sometimes, if you want to defend your democracy, voting is necessary, but not sufficient. sometimes, you need

to vote with your feet. and i think it's a valuable lesson to all established democracies that face authoritarian back fighting. they have checkmated the prime minister but on monday, he has the votes to make those to pass the second and third reading of this law. which is — extrajudicial overhaul is the euphemism — basically restructure the israeli judiciary system. i don't know what the outcome will be. i know the minister of defence is willing to delay the vote. you have thousand plus israeli reservists committing to the security establishment that the conflict readiness has been compromised because of these reservists in intelligence and the air force are willing to go on strike.

so, i really don't know, and i've been wrong plenty of times in the past thinking about middle eastern issues. we will have to wait till tomorrow to see what the outcome, what the outcomes of the streets, and whether the prime minister can be restrained. you mentioned the widespread discontent from members of the military to just ordinary citizens on the street. why do you think prime minister benjamin netanyahu is insisting on going ahead with this reform? you know, he looks at the polls, and right now, the latest polls, if the elections were held today, his coalition would not be able to create a majority, and instead it'd go to the opposition. and he's under immense pressure to keep the government together with its radical, fundamentalist, extremist ministers. it's also telling the prime minister is on trial for three yea rs in a jerusalem court for

bribery and breach of trust. one of the problems with denying the legislation is it could easily be construed as deployments and dismissals and there is great fear that the government will consider the current attorney general, who is presiding over these matters, to have committed an unreasonable act. isn't there an argument to make the balance of power between the judicial branch and the other branches of government is too heavily weighted towards the judiciary? that is one of the arguments in support of the bill. right, and i think every judicial system, including ours here, is controversial and needing reform. on a number of issues. if that was what was at stake — just a matter of reform — i think there would be a way to compromise, but that's not what is going on here. this government is the most fundamentalist, extremist in the history of the state.

for many reasons, the ultra—0rthodox want the end ofjudicial review. mr netanyahu, once a defender of initial review and the independent judiciary, he needs to protect himself and his trial, and you have religious zionists who see the court as an impediment to their plans to policies to annex the west bank in name only — except in name only. so, i think israelis are out in the streets waving a flag because they believe that the identity of their country, what it means to be a israeli, is literally being threatened. and i think that's why 29 weeks of protest. and i worry, and there is no guarantee that things won't deteriorate and get worse. i want to ask you one more question, because you are saying you think things could deteriorate. what you think would happen if the process were to go

through and pass? what would happen in israel? well, i don't think you're talking about a complete breakdown of the system. this is only the first phase of a variety of legislative acts that the prime minister and his coalition want to — want to propose. but if you have competing centres of authority, you have the prime minister ordering his ministry of defence and chief of staff to do x, y and z, and you have protest, particularly in the israeli defense forces, in the private sector, arguing that we signed up to support the kingdom not the king, or the country not the government. you end up with a israel with a constitution but with a fundamental constitutional crisis of competing centres of authority and i don't want to talk about violence and conflict, but that

is extremely serious. aaron david miller, senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace, thank you forjoining us. pleasure. the women's world cup is in full swing in australia and new zealand. live now to katie silver, who's in sydney for us. a beautiful backdrop there. just wanted to ask you about the matches coming up. the netherlands and portugal, this should be the matches coming up. the netherlands and portugal, this should be a the matches coming up. the netherlands and portugal, this should be a one, the matches coming up. the netherlands and portugal, this should be a one, right? the matches coming up. the netherlands and portugal, this should be a one, right? it should, and the two are battling it out to try to progress from this group stage to the next knockout round. to give you an idea, they are sharing their group with the usa and vietnam and us have been the clear favourites to get through to the grand final so if they make it through, it's between two quite strong european teams, the netherlands and portugal, as to who will progress so a great one to watch. the other interesting element is the netherlands have

been struggling because the base they've been given, the training base facilities actually have a cricket pitch in the middle of the football field so we have heard from the manager calling this, quote, amateurism. apparently it was meant to be fixed ahead of time and has not been, and to give you an idea, a cricket pitch is typically quite hard and firm. nothing like the ground of a football field. if the players were to train on it it could perhaps cause injuries, the ball will respond differently so they are having to train around it or next of it so they are different —— disappointed by that, they are based in kalamunda, it is in the north island of new zealand so it shows what some of these teams are working with when it comes to facilities and it comes —— i hope that it is not going to come to their detriment. fine come to their detriment. one shutters to — come to their detriment. one shutters to think _ come to their detriment. one shutters to think of _ come to their detriment. one shutters to think of it - come to their detriment. 0ne shutters to think of it may have taken place during the men's world cup. i want to ask about the weather. it has been hot in many places around the world but australia and new

zealand are not one of those places because it is winter time and this is the first world cup held in winter. what kind of factor has the colder conditions meant?— conditions meant? well, obviously _ conditions meant? well, obviously right _ conditions meant? well, obviously right now, - conditions meant? well, obviously right now, the | conditions meant? well, - obviously right now, the sun has come out earlier today when we were talking i was well and truly rugged up with big jumpers and i'm in sydney which is not even the coldest base with stadiums, eldon is typically colder and then new zealand and auckland and dunedin are even colder —— melbourne. dunedin where netherlands and portugal are playing is the coldest place. typically, the temperatures can be less than 10 celsius so i will let you do the maths on that in fahrenheit but it certainly impacts play but what it means and some of the teams have mentioned is that it provides something of an advantage to the european teams and american teams that are accustomed to playing in the cold. some asian teams, vietnam for example who we met within last weekend, they are not

accustomed to playing in the cold or being in the cold. we saw them as they came off the bus ready to start their training shivering, freezing, and they were trying to warm up their muscles are so certainly different teams will respond to the temperature in different ways and as you say there has not been a world cup in winter before. with the last year in qatar that was in their winter but certainly not quite as cold as australia and new zealand is in the winter and yes, let me get rid of any doubt, australia certainly does have a winter and it can get quite cold here, carl. . ., ., �* and it can get quite cold here, carl. . . ., �* ., carl. nice weather and i'm glad ou are carl. nice weather and i'm glad you are staying _ carl. nice weather and i'm glad you are staying warm. - carl. nice weather and i'm glad you are staying warm. katie - you are staying warm. katie silver in sydney. meanwhile, zambia made its debut at the fifa women's world cup on saturday and, despite its loss to japan, the national team is hoping to be competitive after the return of disqualified players. during the qualifiers, four players, including captain and star player barbra banda, were removed from the squad due to gender eligibility regulations in place for that competition. barbra banda is the poster girl of zambia's female national football team. she will captain the squad when they make their debut at the world cup this year.

it's the highest level of football when it comes to the world cup so, i'm very happy and excited. like, it's a dream come true to me. she currently plays club football in china but her journey to the world cup has not been a smooth one. banda was not allowed to play at the african qualifiers last year by zambia's football federation, but is now able to play in the fifa tournament. it was very difficult because i was with the team throughout, so i think the encouragement and the morale that i was giving to the team, i think it added value to the team, and here we are — we are together going to the world cup, celebrating together. i think that's what's important, mostly. and i being a captain, i have to be on top of everything, whether bad or good. ijust have to keep on pushing my team. this was because following a gender verification test, the striker was found to have exceeded the testosterone limit for female players. the zambia football federation had to perform this test for the african tournament. fifa say their competitions

are categorised by sex and age. to ensure a level playing field, countries must make sure the players they select meet their respective criteria for participation. this means some countries may conduct gender verification tests for their female players, which often leads to controversy. unlike other football rules, when it comes to these gender issues, there is no one standard across the game. caf, the confederation for african football, asks for all female teams to conduct gender tests prior to its tournaments. this is mandatory, but fifa only tests when there are concerns about gender. so, i think the fifa one respects the privacy of the individual more than what the caf one was saying, but we do not foresee any issues — and fifa have not raised an issue. these verification rules in football have existed since 2011.

currently, the body are reviewing the rules in this area and are hoping to have clarified their position after the women's world cup. it's a very, very complex topic and there are many, many people who have their views on it and as fifa, you know, we're the global governing body. 0ur role is to take all those views into consideration — you know, the research, the evidence, the individual situations, of course, the human rights side of things. for now, banda is focused on the competition. just by qualifying, it means a lot to our mothers —— our mother zambia. our main target to go and expose ourselves. zambia will face japan, spain and costa rica in the group stage. they might not be the favourites to win the tournament but they hope to make a spectacular debut in ghana. celestine karoney, bbc news. stay with us here on bbc news.

hello there. well, the weekend certainly started off on a soggy note. plenty of rain around. not that it made much difference for these surfers enjoying the waves coming in at newquay. mind you, there weren't many sun worshippers on the beach. it was pretty dismal, wasn't it? not much sunshine around at all. most of us, you had extensive outbreaks of rain around, although it was a different story across northern scotland, poking out in the sunshine here. actually, we had temperatures as high as 22 degrees in highland scotland, and this beach in tiree kind of looked caribbean—esque in the sunshine. now, back to the wet weather story. we've got more of that rain to come over the next few hours, particularly for northern ireland. across northern england, the rain heavy. the rain easing off for a time over the next few hours for the south of england, southern parts of wales but there'll still be some patches of drizzle around, a bit of mist and fog, too. for the most part, it's not too cool but temperatures dipping down into single figures in scotland, but it is here where we'll start the day with a bit of sunshine. that rain band, then, still

with us for sunday morning. the rain probably starting to fizzle off in northern ireland but particularly wet across a swathe of northern england, where we're looking at around 20—30mm of rain, double that over the cumbrian fells, the north york moors and across the pennines could bring some localised surface water flooding. south of that rain band, brighter weather for southern wales, southern england, sunny spells and just a few showers. and with the winds coming up from a south—westerly direction, temperatures do get into the 20s, so it will feel quite pleasant in the sunshine. cooler air, though, for scotland. sunny spells, yes, but there will be some passing showers as well. 0n into monday's forecast. 0ur area of low pressure that's brought us the wet weather through the weekend starts to clear off into the near continent but before it does do, we are looking at a bit of rain to start off the day, particularly across the midlands, east anglia, south—east england monday morning. that will clear away. and then, it's a day of sunny spells and just a few showers, perhaps some longer spells of rainjust coming into the north—west of scotland, but overall, i think a slightly better kind of weather day. temperatures, though, still below average for the time of year with those

north—westerly winds. fortuesday, more showers in the forecast. and then, the middle of the new week sees another area of low pressure. well, you know what that means — a lot more rain on the way. so, no sign of any prolonged, nice, settled sunny spells of weather. it's staying unsettled. showers around on tuesday. longer spells of rain later in the week.