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 spain, where prime minister pedro sanchez and his main rival alberto nunez have cast their votes in the capital madrid. lam i am live at up polling station in madrid. spaniards are deciding whether to give pedro sanchez for more years in office. and it's day 4 of the women's world cup, where france and jamaica are going head—to—head in the last of today's group matches.

firefighters on the greek island of rhodes are struggling to contain a wildfire that's prompted the evacuation of thousands of people. locals and tourists alike 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. the budget airline, jet2, says it's cancelled all flights that were due to go to rhodes today. the company will instead fly five planes there with no customers on board, to bring back people to the uk. tui group says it's also cancelled flights to rhodes until tuesday night. and we can bring you some breaking news from greece now... and afp is reporting that a bridge under construction has collapsed in western greece,

near the city of patras, with people trapped underneath, rescuers told afp. this is a devloping story and it's not clear yet whether the collapse is connected to the hot weather in gtreece. we will bring you more on this as we get it. our reporter azadeh moshiri is in athens. i asked her what she's hearing from the greek authorities. they've said that these fires have spread, that they are expecting to have to evacuate more people today. three villages in the east, including lindos, which is a popular tourist destination. and they've said they think it might turn into 1,200 people that will be evacuated today. and the problem is they've said even though it can dissipate in the morning, these winds have made these fires very difficult to contain, they're spreading. and therefore, with the temperatures that are rising with these difficult weather conditions, it's going to present further problems for them. that's why they're not

optimistic about the future. they believe that the situation could get worse not only in rhodes, but also the mainland where they believe fires could reignite. because remember earlier this week, that's where the focus of these wildfires was. but they do believe that the situation is particularly difficult to contain in rhodes, because this has been days that they've been trying to get a handle on the situation. we've been hearing accounts from tourists who basically have been describing scenes of panic on rhodes, images of fires spreading quickly down beaches, people having to go into the water to try to stay safe. is there any concern that this could lead to a real injury or a loss of life? i spoke to a volunteer, maria, who worked all throughout the night to help tourists, locals and firefighters. she did that on behalf of the hellenic red cross, and she said that there were no casualties, that some may have been injured, but they would have been minor

injuries as they were trying to help others, that in general people ended up safe. but the hellenic red cross, she and other volunteers were providing first aid. they were providing psychological support as well, because they said that this was traumatic for some people. in fact, she said that when she thinks back to it, it was devastating. everywhere she looked, fire everywhere, it felt like they were completely surrounded. and so, of course, there is a real harm there that's been caused in terms of notjust physical risk, but also the trauma that these tourists experienced and the locals in homes where they felt safe. is greece getting any regional help to battle these wildfires? it is getting regional help throughout the week, even before this fire in rhodes, european countries came in to help. italy and france, for example, sent planes to help firefighters.

israel sent planes as well. there are many hundreds of firefighters who have joined from countries like slovakia. the firefighters from slovakia, in fact, were the most involved in the fires in rhodes. but there were also firefighters throughout the mainland from places like poland, bulgaria, the list goes on. and that's because they realise that greece does battle but the fact is these wildfires are becoming so much more frequent, so much more severe that greece needs help. andrea is a british tourist from cheshire who is on holiday in rhodes. i spoke to her about the situation she found herself in. we were running down the beach, people had suitcases, we had towels wrapped around our head because there was ash falling on us, and then a boat arrived, which we think was from the authorities, and they were only taking women and children. a friend that i was with was having severe breathing difficulties and was in shock so i was trying

to get her on the boat for them to take her. and then that was a little bit tricky and while they were dragging her up i did actually crawl under her legs, which i did more for her than anything because she actually needed me to be with her. so, we were really lucky, we got off the beach, but there were hundreds and literally thousands of people still on the beach, and everybody was screaming, they were fighting, it was... it was like armageddon. they were in the sea, there was nowhere for them to go. we could see that the fire was chasing us down, there was nobody there, there was no—one telling us what to do. so, this boat took us to lardos beach, they left us at lardos beach, there was no taxis, there was no phone signals, and again, i was very lucky that the guy at the apartments there knew somebody who worked at my hotel, they then sent somebody from their staff, our hotel, and the greek people, i have to say, have been unbelievable.

the british embassy and tui and jet2 have been appalling. so no communication really in terms of what you should do or what dangers might have been? nothing. not one text. no one is answering phones, we have sent messages, you can't get through to anybody and there are coaches driving around and people trying to scramble on them, banging on the coaches, honestly, it was like the end of the world. it was horrific. we met one family who had to abandon...that abandoned all their luggage and nappies, no food for the babies, everything was abandoned when they got on the boat. so we got back to our hotel last night and were very lucky they had sent staff in their own cars to pick us up, myself and my friend, and we were in bed and at 1am they came banging on our doors and i opened the curtains

and we could see the fire coming over the hill basically. and they put us on a minibus, this was the hotel by the way, not tui, they sentjust a generic message saying follow government guidelines but there are no government guidelines. so they put us on a minibus, we were driving around in the minibus trying to... there were schools, gymnasiums, all full of hundreds of people with just water. bathrooms but no toilet paper, no facilities, nothing at all. people were, i don't know if you had any photographs but there were people laying on the floor. you are talking about you are talking about your you are talking about your friend you are talking about your friend having breathing difficulties. what

was the ear and the temperature like? it was to —— it was horrific. i also have breathing difficulties. it is very scary. it is very humid and very scary. it is very humid and very hot. there is no answers. you do what you think is right for you but nobody is giving you any advice and nobody is helping us. what is your plan? you are safe where you are at the moment? i still cannot get hold of the travel company. our government needs to stop flights leaving the uk and any other country in 21, no more flights should be coming in. we are in a hotel, we are lucky, we got the last hotel in rhodes. 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. live now to madrid where we canjoin news reporter sergi forcada freixas for an update on the spanish elections. you are at a polling station. what is big on the agenda throughout this bitterly fought campaign? it has been quite a polarised

campaign. we have two main blocks. right—wing parties on one side, left—wing parties on the other. one thing people are worried about is cost of living, inflation. that is what people see when they go to the supermarket. prices rising, as in many other countries around the world. this has not been the main topic. politicians have been focusing on what happens from tomorrow. once there is a new parliament who will form a government with who? all opinion surveys suggest no party will have a majority, it will come down to negotiations and packs. left—wing parties are criticising the conservative party, the popular party, with its possible alliance with box. right—wing parties are criticising pedro sanchez because he has been relying on basque

nationalists and catalan nationalists and catalan nationalists to stay in power, the right—wing parties are seeing it as a choice between spain or pedro sanchez. let us focus on vox party, who are they, what do they stand for? they are a relatively new party. the immersion spanish politics five or six years ago. they are now the third largest party in congress, in elections in 2019 they got over 50 mp5, the difference is that now they mps, the difference is that now they may be the kingmaker. the conservative party, if it wants to make a coalition or get a prime minister elected, they may look to vox. vox is known for being tough on immigration, gender issues, lgbt

issues. they have ties with other right—wing parties across europe, for example, in france marine le pen, meloni in italy. we have heard many of the social policies that pedro sanchez have been passing over the past four years. it looks busy behind you? how has it been? there has been a heatwave going on in spain. elections don't normally take place in the summer, will that affect turnout? possibly. over 2.5 million spaniards have already cast their ballot, not here but at the post office in the last few days, that is a record. we are in the midst of a heatwave.

there were concerns when these elections were called in a few months ago, because it was said, there has never been a spanish general election injuly or august, this is the first time that this happens in recent democracy. many criticised pedro sanchez for calling for those snap elections in the middle ofjuly. now it is lunchtime here, people are coming and going as they are voting, one thing many people were worried about was how hot it would be in polling stations. this is the school, it has no air conditioning, but there are some fans that have been brought to places like this one. in madrid it is around 30 celsius, and the south it is even hotter. you'll have to see how this affects turnout. what has had an impact so far is already on the postal voting, that is a record for the general election. so good to have you there for us. thank you very much. we will come back to you throughout the day.

breaking news from greece now, the bridge under construction that has collapsed in western greece, rescuers see people are trapped underneath. that is not clear yet whether the collapse is connected to the hot weather in greece. we are going to try to bring you images live. rescue services on hand at the scene of that bridge collapse in patras. we will be bringing you more information on this bridge collapse as soon as we can. afp is reporting that some people were thought to have been trapped under the collapse of that bridge. we were bring more details on that as comes in.

in russia, president putin is meeting the belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko for the first time since mr lukashenko helped end last month's mutiny in russia by wagner paramilitaries. mr lukashenko had agreed to host some fighters and wagner's leader, yevgeny prigozhin. he told president putin he's now having to restrain wagner fighters who are eager to move into poland but he's keeping the forces in central belarus. the party of long—serving cambodian prime minister hun sen has declared victory in the country's general election. a contest that had been widely dismissed as a one—sided sham aimed at cementing the party's decades—long rule. the election is expected to back an imminent transfer of powerfrom hun sen, who has led cambodia for almost a0 years, to his eldest son, hun manet. let's get some of the day's other news now. in ukraine — extensive damage has been reported after russian air strikes on the port city of odesa.

authorities there say at least two people have been killed and 22 wounded. odesa 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. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said he was fitted with a pacemaker on saturday night. in a video on social media, mr netanyahu said he'd been living with a heart monitor for the past week — and when the device had beeped on saturday, it had been decided to implant a pacemaker. he expects to be released from hospital on monday — in time to vote on his controversialjudicial reforms. a decline in childminders in the uk

could lead to a shortage of places, early years providers are warning. a fifth of carers have quit in the last three years — many because of low pay and a lack of appreciation. overall, childcare places have fallen by 2% this year, but the government says the population of pre—school children is also decreasing and the picture is broadly positive. ?our education reporter vanessa clarke reports. have you done that? do you want to put some stickers on now? childminders tasked with the vital job of teaching and caring for our youngest children. this group of rural childminders in merseyside gather together every week. but the government's plan to extend funded hours to all pre—school children of working parents has made some here consider their future. this is where the children play during the day. nikki griffiths, who runs the group, is worried. it becomes overwhelming, some more may leave because they're thinking, oh, this funding isjust not going to be compatible or viable

for me financially anymore. so if it's not addressed, they will, they will leave because even myself will question next year, is it going to be financially viable for me to continue? one charity is predicting that in the next decade, the number of childminders will drop to below 1,000, leaving parents with little choice. those children that will flourish and grow, and have that wonderful early education and start in life in a childminder setting will no longer have that. and that's an awful shame. and we'll look back in 20, 30 years and see the damage that caused. overall, the number of early years workers are falling. there is a big one! these children are on a mission to find some minibeasts and guiding their hands are dedicated staff... isa, have you got a worm? ..like cheryl. obviously. a pay rise. everyone would love that. but it's not... it's not even about that. it's about being recognised more. the staff here have a wealth of knowledge, but the nursery itself

makes a loss with most of the children here using the government's funded hours. as part of a social enterprise, it's subsidised by nurseries in more affluent areas, a successful model but staffing is one of its biggest obstacles. we would love to expand and open new nurseries, but until the workforce problem is resolved, there's no hope. what is this going to look like in two years' time? it worries me because there's an awful lot of women who won't be able to get back into the workforce after they've taken maternity leave because there won't be the places available. the government says it's rolling out the single biggest investment in childcare to help working parents and will be investing hundreds of millions of pounds each year to increase the amounts they pay providers. vanessa clarke, bbc news, milton keynes. 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 it go live worldwide �*tomorrow�* — the billionaire tech entrepreneur did not provide any further details. earlier i asked james greenfield, the ceo and founder of branding agency koto studio, whether he thinks logos are important. pretty important, particularly when you're a social media network, when the currency that twitter�*s interested in is your time. and they want us to take our phone out of our pockets, they want us to click on that little blue bird as it is right now, and they want us to spend time in that app because that's how they make money, because they show us adverts and those advertisers pay them. and so i think, you know, in this case, the logo is very important. so if the logo is so important, why would elon musk take a risk to drop something that presumably is quite recognisable? well, i think in elon�*s case, since he purchased twitter, which i think is about six months ago, a little bit longer now, it's not gone so well.

and quite often lots of people when things aren't going so well look to a rebrand to kind of change things because you can leave that past behind you and you can have a bright future, so to speak. and so in this case here, i also think that elon has probably got some aspirations to bring it closer to the other brands that he owns, like spacex and tesla. and i think he's probably got some plans to add some new functionality and features. and so i think in this case, he's probably reading between the lines thinking, "i can leave old twitter "behind and create something new here with this new x moniker," which he seems to have announced to the world recently. so a fresh start might be on the cards. do you have any other examples where a company radically changed their logo and it worked out for them? or maybe they radically changed their logo and they kind of grew to regret it? well, there's lots of cases and examples of success. i think most rebrands go through and do well. i think when they're controversial quite often is when public funds

are involved or whether it's something that's really loved. i think a good example of one that was changed recently, which maybe has been kind of mixed, has been facebook when it rebranded to meta. you know, it's been on record that mark zuckerberg is very bullish on the metaverse. and so, therefore, he went all in on that. that's not really kind of panned out how he expected it to, i think. so interesting to see what happens there. in terms of ones that have been examples of it being great, there's myriads of brilliant ones out there. and i think all all it's about doing is about taking your time about and doing it kind of kind of seamlessly and kind of taking people on the journey. so i think where elon might have some trouble on his hands is his kind of late—night announcement and then suddenly kind of crowdsourcing the new logo and doing it all in 2a hours. i think there might be some unforeseen circumstances in that example. and how much creativity can go into designing a logo? i mean, presumably the letter x, you can't put that much into it, i would think. but i'm not a logo designer.

what kinds of things do people think about when designing a logo? well, i think one of the most important things you've got to think about is where is it going to be used? how is it going to manifest itself? i think, you know, in elon�*s other businesses, you know, tesla, it has to appear on a car, it has to appear on chargers, it has to appear on a steering wheel. it has a myriad of different places where it's got to be used. in this case, it's a social network at the moment. and so in that case, there, it's got to probably work really well on a phone home screen, which is a pretty busy space because we've all got lots of apps installed or it's got to work in a desktop setting. and so in that case there, i think there needs to be a lot of consideration about things such as colour. 70% of us are visual, not verbal, people. and so things that stand out, things that work. then you've also got to take into account things like colour blindness and accessibility and a lot of other things. so there's a lot of creativity and one of the most important things you've got to do is try and make it distinctive. there's a lot of logos out there and a lot of them look really similar. and so one of the key things is making it feel

like it's its own thing in a world where that's increasingly hard. let's return to that breaking news from greece now... and the bridge collapse near the city of patras. afp is reporting that a bridge under construction has collapsed there in western greece. rescuers say people are trapped underneath. it's not clear yet whether the collapse is connected to the hot weather in greece. there are some live pictures coming into us now. public television in greece said that five people have been seriously injured although this information has not been immediately confirmed. we are going to try to get that confirmed for you. i should add, the cause of the collapse is not immediately known. more information is available on our bbc website. stay with us here on bbc news.

hello there. good weather for ducks at the moment, but 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 of that, 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 may well be impacted today. some of the rain quite persistent, rainfall totals will tot up and we will see at least two if not three inches of rainfall before the system clears through 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 temperatures will be a degree or so higher than yesterday with top temperatures expected of 23 degrees, that's 73 fahrenheit. underneath the cloud and rain it's been a cool afternoon and that 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 the rain around. that front is still to clear during monday morning and really it will be across the bristol channel towards lincolnshire first thing and some showery outbreaks of rain sinking southwards. sunshine behind but because of that northerly component, it will drive in some showers across the far north—west of scotland and it will be that bit fresher. temperatures a bit disappointing for 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 all again, another low will start to push in off the atlantic bringing yet more wet and unseasonably windy weather for the time of year, so certainly through the middle part of the week it's quite unsettled. sunny spells but still those temperatures disappointing for the end ofjuly.

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thousands of people on the greek island of rhodes are forced