thousands of people on the greek island of rhodes are forced to flee their homes and hotels, as wildfires continue to spread. polls have opened in a snap election in spain, where prime minister, pedro sanchez, is hoping to fend off an attack from right wing parties. and its day 4 of the women's world cup, as an injury—time goal clinches a two one victory for sweden against south africa in the group g opener. hello. welcome to bbc news. firefighters on the greek island of rhodes, say they expect wildfires to become more intense today, as temperatures rise. 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 coastguard — picking people up from beaches

on the east of the island. 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. azadeh moshiri reports from athens. they came for blue skies but met orange haze. tourists have fled their resorts as fires engulfed parts of roads. we were told by the police that we had to evacuate the building because the, erm, the air was just unbreathable. it had turned bright orange and black above our heads from the hotel. so we were evacuating immediately. so we're one of the very lucky ones. we managed to get on the authority boat and this is what we're leaving behind. that's the beach. thousands were evacuated by land and by sea as buildings were consumed by flames in the south. some hotels burnt down altogether. and yet a number of tourists decided to shelter in place.

we had a national alert saying| the area was being evacuated, but we were being told at that time that our hotel wasn't. _ we locked ourselves up in our room. we had people sort of running past on the road, hundreds of people i filing down to the beach, - asking for water, wet towels. the fire service has told the bbc it apologises for what it called "a mess", but insisted they are trying their best in difficult conditions. rhodes' abundance of trees makes it a popular destination for tourists. however, that is exactly what makes wildfires so likely and just so difficult for firefighters to respond to. people are living very different realities across greece. there are those who are battling wildfires. forced to evacuate. but then there are people like the locals behind me who are coming here for the golden hour of the beach to escape the heat. but this is high season in greece

and some tourists are finding that they're not getting everything they were expecting. temperatures are set to break records. forecasters say this could become the hottestjuly in 50 years. these extreme weather conditions mean the threat of wildfires is not over. firefighters are on high alert. when asked by the bbc whether sunday would bring better news for the island and the country, the fire service had a simple answer — no, it will be worse. azadeh moshiri, bbc news. and our reporter, azadeh moshiri, joins us now from athens. i understand you have been speaking with the greek fire service. what more have they been telling you? they've told me that because of the winds the fire has spread, and that is why they expect to evacuate 1200

people today from three villages including the popular tourist destination and they said even that around 60 to 75 fires burn every day in greece, rhodes is where they are focusing their efforts. the green pines make it difficult to respond to and i spoke to a volunteer with the hellenic red cross who was part of the team helping people on rhodes last night and they said that they worked throughout the night and they were all taking it in shifts and said it was simply devastating that everywhere you looked you saw fires and they said that they were essentially providing lots of food and water to tourists, locals and firefighters themselves who were battling the fires and also providing psychological support for those who are suddenly on holiday

and find they are being evacuated and find they are being evacuated and running away from flames. it is difficult because greece's tourism industry is important to the economy and it was getting back on its feet after years of covid difficulties. absolutely. tourists are very important to greece. they are a priority. the economy needs them and thatis priority. the economy needs them and that is why closing archaeological sites from noon to 530 during these potentially record breaking temperatures is a really big decision and even the acropolis behind me a shot between noon and 530 but it doesn't stop torres from flocking here. we saw this morning more buses full of tourists travelling and we saw queue up on queue of people literally all the way into the city, on their streets trying to get up the acropolis in the morning before it shut and that is why the hellenic red cross is still distributing water bottles in front of the acropolis at the ticket office to keep people safe and

hydrated. 50 office to keep people safe and h drated. ., , hydrated. so what can the country exect hydrated. so what can the country expect moving — hydrated. so what can the country expect moving forward _ hydrated. so what can the country expect moving forward in - hydrated. so what can the country expect moving forward in terms . hydrated. so what can the country| expect moving forward in terms of the weather because as you mentioned in your story those high winds are really exacerbating some of the fires. . , really exacerbating some of the fires. ., , ., ,, . fires. that is what the fire service told me, that _ fires. that is what the fire service told me, that they _ fires. that is what the fire service told me, that they are _ fires. that is what the fire service told me, that they are fighting - told me, that they are fighting fires in difficult conditions and they are trying their best and they apologise for any mess we are seeing on roads right now that torres might experience and they said the problem is whether conditions are expected to get worse and the spokesperson for the fire service talked about the winds, humidity, the dry heat and meteorologists say this could be the longest heatwave that greece ever experiences in its recorded history and july could be the hottest month, the hottest they have had in 50 years and predictions of how the fires will develop are not great. the fire service told me that they expect things could be worse.

thank you. reporting from athens. polls have opened in spain's snap election, which could see the far right winning a place in government, for the first time since democracy was restored, after the death of general franco almost 50 years ago. voters face a choice between a centre—left government supported by the far—left and a conservative led government, backed by the far—right �*vox party'. this was the prime minister, pedro sanchez, casting his vote — as his party seeks to fend off the challenge from the far right. as we said, this has been a bitterly fought campaign, but a campaign that no party had a lot of time to prepare for. what is the mood going into the vote today?— into the vote today? people are aware this _ into the vote today? people are aware this is _ into the vote today? people are aware this is an _ into the vote today? people are aware this is an unusual- into the vote today? people are i aware this is an unusual election, an election that has been called in

the middle of summer which has never happened before in spain and there could be some consequences of that, for example it could affect turnout, because of the heat we are seeing, that will be up in the mid—30s today in madrid hotter than that in some other areas of the country and many people have gone on holiday so those issues create all sorts of uncertainties surrounding the election but what we do know is what you mention is that it's been an acrimonious campaign and spanish politics is extremely polarised between the left and right and we should get a campaign with a political left warning against a victory for the conservative people's party because they say that it full short of a majority and it looks likely they will rely on the far right vox which would bring the far right vox which would bring the far right vox which would bring the far right into a coalition government potentially. that has

been the tone of the campaign and certainly a lot of uncertainty around today's vote. can certainly a lot of uncertainty around today's vote. can you tell us more about — around today's vote. can you tell us more about the _ around today's vote. can you tell us more about the vox _ around today's vote. can you tell us more about the vox party. - around today's vote. can you tell us more about the vox party. what - around today's vote. can you tell us more about the vox party. what is l around today's vote. can you tell us i more about the vox party. what is on their platform?— their platform? they are a nationalist, _ their platform? they are a nationalist, populist - their platform? they are a i nationalist, populist far-right nationalist, populist far—right party that they are unusual in the european context and that their initial popularity came about six or seven years ago, not because of the classic issues you tend to associate with the far right, in particular immigration, but they took a very fiercely unionist stance on the issue and that paid off for them. in terms of votes, certainly back in 2019 and that has made them the third biggest party in spain which i'm standing outside right now. the lady talk about some of the other issues that far right parties talk about they want to set up a naval

blockade around the coastline to stop migrants arriving from north africa and they have been battling theissues africa and they have been battling the issues like the gender reforms introduced, the gender equality reforms introduced by this government, reformers on equality in terms of the lgbt q government, reformers on equality in terms of the lgbt 0 community, so these are the interests of them and it looks like they will be battling by the dash for the third or fourth place in this election. you mentioned _ place in this election. you mentioned that _ place in this election. you mentioned that it - place in this election. you mentioned that it was - place in this election. you | mentioned that it was very place in this election. you mentioned that it was very rare, unheard—of to hold an election at this time of year and as a consequence i understand the number of postal ballots have been filed because many spaniards are away on holiday and not going to be going to their regular polling station. do you know if the postal system, the electoral system is equipped to deal with this unusually high number of postal ballots? irate with this unusually high number of postal ballots?— postal ballots? we are told more than 2.5 million _ postal ballots? we are told more

than 2.5 million postal— postal ballots? we are told more than 2.5 million postal votes - postal ballots? we are told more| than 2.5 million postal votes were cast and that is much higher than normal, obviously. and that's because of the election being called at this time of year and many people wanted to go on holiday so they cast in the postal ballot and then they could go on holiday. we don't really know, necessarily the impact that having the selection at this time of year is going to have. for example, on turnout we don't know if it's going to put off people, perhaps older people from turning up because of the heat but in terms of the postal vote we are told that the postal vote we are told that the postal system has been reinforced in terms of personnel and all the votes that needed to be processed have been processed. there was a bit of controversy a couple of weeks ago when the conservative candidate seemed to cast some doubt on whether the postal system was equipped to handle this but as far as we know it's been able to handle this, so in that sense at least we know that is

one less worry for the authorities and seems to have worked. guy's, thank you. — and seems to have worked. guy's, thank you. and _ and seems to have worked. guy's, thank you, and we _ and seems to have worked. guy's, thank you, and we will— and seems to have worked. guy's, thank you, and we will follow- and seems to have worked. guy's, thank you, and we will follow the i thank you, and we will follow the story closely throughout the day and getting updates from spain. thank you. voters in cambodia are going the polls today in a general election. with the main opposition party banned, prime minister, hun sen, is almost certain to extend his 38 years in office. he cast his vote earlier — and recently said he was ready for a transfer of power — signalling that his successor could be his eldest son, hun manet. here's our south east asia correspondent, jonathan head. voters have been lining up at this polling station in kandahar, south of phnom penh, since early this morning. but in reality, these voters have very little choice over who governs them. the 17 other parties which have been allowed to contest the election are so small they've got no hope at all of challenging

prime minister hun sen's nearly a0 year hold on power. the candlelight party, which was barred from taking part, is only the latest in a series of opposition movements which have been either crushed, disabled or outmaneuvered by hun sen, who has proved himself to be one of asia's great survivors. now he's running on his old record of delivering peace and prosperity to cambodia. those are not insignificant achievements when you remember the terrible years of war and revolution which afflicted this country in the 19705 and 805. but half of these voters are under the age of 35. they don't remember those times, and many of them are increasingly unhappy at the cost of hun sen's model of economic growth, which has brought with it corruption, huge injustices and yawning inequality. the governing party, the cambodian people's party, though, is pushing for the highest possible turnout. they are planning a once in a generation transfer of power. hun sen's son, hun manet, is expected to succeed him within weeks of this election.

twitter�*s logo might change as early as later today — that's if we are to belive the platform's current owner, elon musk. mr musk says that �*soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds' — adding that �*if a good enough x logo is posted tonight, we'll make go live worldwide tomorrow�* — the billionaire tech entrepreneur did not provide any further details. i'm joined now byjames greenfield, the ceo and founder of branding agency — koto studio. thanks forjoining us. take us through it. this is not something we think about on a daily basis but how important are the tiny little logos we see so often?— important are the tiny little logos we see so often? they are important when ou we see so often? they are important when you are — we see so often? they are important when you are a _ we see so often? they are important when you are a social— we see so often? they are important when you are a social media - we see so often? they are important when you are a social media network and the currency twitter is interested in is your time and they

want us to take your phone out of your pocket and they want us to spend time on that. those advertisers pay them. and in this case the logo is very important. if the logo is so important why would elon musk take a risk to drop something when it is quite recognisable? it’s something when it is quite recognisable?— something when it is quite recognisable? something when it is quite recoanisable? v ., ., recognisable? it's not gone so well for the last — recognisable? it's not gone so well for the last six _ recognisable? it's not gone so well for the last six months _ recognisable? it's not gone so well for the last six months and - recognisable? it's not gone so well for the last six months and quite i for the last six months and quite often a lot of people when things are not going well they look for a rebrand because you can leave that past behind you and you can have a bright future, so to speak so in this case i think elon musk has some aspirations to bring it closer to the other brands he owns like space x and tesla and i think you properly have some plans to add functionality and features and in this case is probably reading between the lines thinking i can leave old twitter

behind and create something new with this x moniker he seems to have announced. fit, this x moniker he seems to have announced-— this x moniker he seems to have announced. �* , , ., , ., announced. a fresh start might be on the cards. announced. a fresh start might be on the cards- do — announced. a fresh start might be on the cards. do you _ announced. a fresh start might be on the cards. do you have _ announced. a fresh start might be on the cards. do you have any _ announced. a fresh start might be on the cards. do you have any other - the cards. do you have any other examples where a company radically change their logo and it worked out for them and they grew to regret it? there's lots of cases and examples of success are mostly brands do well and when they are controversial it's often when public funds are involved or it's something very well loved and a good example of one change recently which has been mixed has been facebook when it rebranded to mehta and its said that mark zuckerberg is very bullish on the metaverse but it's not planned out how he expected and it will be interested to see what happens. in terms of examples of it being great, there are myriad brilliant ones out there are myriad brilliant ones out there and all this about doing is

taking your time there and all this about doing is taking yourtime and there and all this about doing is taking your time and doing it seamlessly and taking people on the journey. where elon musk might have some trouble is his late—night announcements and then suddenly crowdsourcing the new logo and doing it in 24 crowdsourcing the new logo and doing it in 2a hours. there might be some unforeseen circumstances in that example. unforeseen circumstances in that examle. ., . . ., , unforeseen circumstances in that examle. ., . . ., ., example. how much creativity can go into designing _ example. how much creativity can go into designing a _ example. how much creativity can go into designing a logo. _ example. how much creativity can go into designing a logo. presumably . into designing a logo. presumably the x, you can't put much into it but i'm not a logo designer. what kind of things do people think about when designing a logo? {line kind of things do people think about when designing a logo?— when designing a logo? one of the most important — when designing a logo? one of the most important things _ when designing a logo? one of the most important things you - when designing a logo? one of the most important things you have i when designing a logo? one of the most important things you have to | most important things you have to think about is where it will be used and how it will manifest itself and in his other businesses, tesla, it has to appear in a car or charges or a steering wheel and has a myriad of different places to be used. in this case it is a social network at the moment and in that case it's case it is a social network at the moment and in that case its proper going to work really well on a phone home screen which is a busy space because we have lots of apps installed or it will work in a

desktop setting, so in that case there needs to be more consideration about things like colour and 70% of us are visual not verbal people say things that stand out and work, and you have to take into account colour blindness accessibility and other things. a lot of creativity, and one of the most important things to do is make it distinctive. there is a lot of logos out there and they look similar, so one of the key things is that it similar, so one of the key things is thatitis similar, so one of the key things is that it is its own thing in a world where that is increasingly hard. well, it might be a short wait until we get to see the new x logo unveiled. james, thank you. let 5 get some of the day 5 other news now. in ukraine — extensive damage has been reported after russian air strikes on the port city of 0desa. authorities there say at least two person has been killed and 22 wounded. 0desa has been bombed multiple times since the start of the invasion — and has been attacked repeatedly since moscow pulled out of a grain export deal last week.

in mexico, 11 people have died after a suspected arson attack on a bar near the us border. authorities say a drunk young man threw a molotov cocktail at the bar in the northern state of sonora, after being ejected from the bar for harassing women. around 2000 penguins have washed up dead on the coast of uruguay, in the past ten days. officials say the young penguins died in the atlantic ocean — and that the cause remains a mystery. environmental groups have blamed a rise in penguin deaths on illegal fishing and overfishing. to the womens world cup now — and sweden scored a last—minute goal to win 2—1 against south africa. sweden reached the semi—finals in 2019 — and are ranked third in the world. later, the netherlands take on portugal and france open their campaign against jamaica.

live now to polokwane in south africa where we can talk to lethabo kganyago, a footballjournalist and expert in women 5 football at idiski times. thank you forjoining us. tell us your reaction to the game and to south africa's performance. good mornin: south africa's performance. good morning and _ south africa's performance. good morning and thank— south africa's performance. good morning and thank you _ south africa's performance. good morning and thank you for - south africa's performance. (13mm morning and thank you for having me on your programme. there is a legendary saying by a former coach from the men's premier division in south africa who said once upon a time that football can kill you a real death and i think that is how most of us south africans are feeling this morning after they took the lead and it looks hopeful and then when it all crumbled, i honestly thought we would get something out of the game but maybe they panicked after the game and we could not settle. we are dying a real death right now every sunday

morning. real death right now every sunday morninu. ., ., ., ., morning. you might not have got some oints but morning. you might not have got some points but the — morning. you might not have got some points but the team _ morning. you might not have got some points but the team got _ morning. you might not have got some points but the team got a _ morning. you might not have got some points but the team got a lot _ morning. you might not have got some points but the team got a lot of- points but the team got a lot of attention in the team has developed attention in the team has developed a bit in the last few years. can you take me through the women's team journey? take me through the women's team “ourne ? �* , ., ., ., take me through the women's team “ourne ? �*, ., ., ., .,, journey? there's a lot that has happened _ journey? there's a lot that has happened since _ journey? there's a lot that has happened since the _ journey? there's a lot that has happened since the first - journey? there's a lot that has - happened since the first appearance at a world cup finals. but we didn't have a women's leak to speak of but then we saw the start of the hollywood super league, the domestic league and it's still very much semiprofessional, not professional at all, but it's playing week in, week out and has been three years so far so the girls are able to play most of the goals that were part of the french team have earned international contracts to go and play in europe or overseas it has been quite a number of things you could see where we are going in the

women's champions league as well and the ladies who are the defending champions in the domestic league have been terminating and even in the current squad one of the defenders to date was playing who did well today is also playing and on the bench today, yes, there's been steps taken to get the women's game moving but it's still a long way to go but there has been a lot of things that have happened since our first appearance at the world cup. pa. our first appearance at the world cu -. �* ., our first appearance at the world cu . _ �* ., ., our first appearance at the world cup. a lot of opportunities to play in a lot of popular— cup. a lot of opportunities to play in a lot of popular support, - cup. a lot of opportunities to play in a lot of popular support, but i in a lot of popular support, but what about the money? how much financial support is the women's team getting in south africa compared to the men? you team getting in south africa compared to the men? team getting in south africa com ared to the men? ., ~ ., ., compared to the men? you know what, i think that compared to the men? you know what, i think that is — compared to the men? you know what, | think that is the — compared to the men? you know what, i think that is the global _ compared to the men? you know what, i think that is the global problem, - i think that is the global problem, not a south african problem and i feel that with this current world cup that is where we've seen a lot of women's teams speaking up whether

they've taken action or not and we've seen them speaking about lack of money and our domestic league is not professional and you can see the have and have—nots. the university teams and teams can do better and they are in touch with a premier league division which has got a lot of money but most of the players they are playing football and the pitches are sometimes not the very best, so there is a lot to work on and the sooner women's football, and to an extent women's sport in south africa is professionalised, that is when we will get to maybe see real strides made. because in most countries, the men's division there's not been to say you have a women's team and that's been initiated by the governing body to

say if you are going to compete in the intercontinental club competitions like the champions league, you need to have a women's team and that will only come into effect in the new system we are going into. currently they have announced the new teams that are in the premier division that will help the premier division that will help the women's teams and that is where we are seeing the difference and whatnot. really, for me. i’m we are seeing the difference and whatnot. really, for me. i'm 'ust wondering — whatnot. really, for me. i'm 'ust wondering if fl whatnot. really, for me. i'm 'ust wondering if you i whatnot. really, for me. i'm 'ust wondering if you could i whatnot. really, for me. i'm 'ust wondering if you could focus h whatnot. really, for me. i'mjust l wondering if you could focus briefly on the current world cup. many people watching back home in south africa? are they tracking the progress of the team? absolutely. even from last _ progress of the team? absolutely. even from last night, _ progress of the team? absolutely. even from last night, everybody i progress of the team? absolutely. i even from last night, everybody had been talking about on social media and even through watching the game, the team is one of the most important international teams in south africa and you look last year,

they've come second at least five consecutive times, so yes. but they are getting good support.— are getting good support. that's treat to are getting good support. that's great to hear— are getting good support. that's great to hear and _ are getting good support. that's great to hear and thank - are getting good support. that's great to hear and thank you - are getting good support. that's great to hear and thank you so l are getting good support. that's great to hear and thank you so much. a mass march by thousands of israeli protesters has reached the parliament injerusalem, where lawmakers are due to pass the first bill in the government's planned overhaul of the judiciary. 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 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. here's what some of those protesting had to say. stay with us here. lots to see.

it's not all doom and gloom, the weather story for this sunday and we've already had lovely sunshine in devon earlier on. there is some rain and some of it quite heavy and persistent. this was lancashire earlier this morning and most of the heavy rain across northern england, north wales and northern ireland and it is stubbornly sitting there as you can see from the latest radar picture this morning so to the north and south it is sunny spells and scattered showers but underneath the cloud and rain it is cool and disappointing and just on the edge is manchester and liverpool, the cricket and the golf which might be impacted today. some of the rain quite persistent and the totals will top up and we will see at least two or three inches of rainfall before this it is in addition to the rain we've already seen. but we will have sunny spells and a few scattered showers in scotland and the same for

england and wales and with a little more sunshine and temperatures will be a degree or so higher than yesterday with top temperatures expected of 23 degrees, 73 fahrenheit. underneath the cloud and rain it's been a cool afternoon in the rain will continue to shift its way very slowly southwards and it will weaken a little and behind it a northerly flow will dig in and we will have clearer skies so a cooler start to monday morning across scotland, milder, with the cloud and rain around. that front is still to clear during monday morning and really will be across the bristol channel towards lincolnshire first thing and some showery outbreaks of rain sinking south. sunshine behind but because of the northerly component, it will drive in some showers across the far north—west of scotland and it will be that bit fresher. and the temperatures are disappointing this time of year, 1a to 20 degrees as the overall high. looking further ahead, tuesday will be a quiet story as well but as we

move into the middle of the week we do it allagain, move into the middle of the week we do it all again, another low will start to push on from the atlantic bringing yet more wet and unseasonably windy weather for the time of year, so sally through the middle part of the week it's quite unsettled. sunny spells but still the temperatures are disappointing for the end ofjuly.

this is bbc news, the headlines... this is bbc news, the headlines... thousands of people on the greek island of rhodes are forced to flee their homes are forced to flee their homes and hotels — as widlfires and hotels — as widlfires continue to spread. the country has been engulfed the country has been engulfed in fires for several weeks, as europe continues to see in fires for several weeks, record breaking heatwaves. polls have opened in spain, where polls have opened in spain, where prime minister pedro sanchez has cast his vote in the capital madrid. the election was called after his party and coalition partners suffered heavy losses in the regional elections in may. and its day four of the women's world cup where the netherlands are leading 1—0 against portugal while sweden beat south africa earlier today and france will face jamaica in a few hours' time. now on bbc news — scandalous: phone hacking on trial: episode two.

allegations of phone hacking.