is under way on the island of rhodes as crews struggle to contain the blaze which is burning out of control. tens of thousands of people have been moved to safety including both locals and tourists. a bridge under construction has collapsed in western greece, near the city of patras. a number of people are reported to be trapped. it's not yet known if the country's heatwave is the cause of the bridge collapse. spaniards are taking to the polls in a snap general election. the opposition centre—right people's party is expected to win the most votes, but would most likely need support from the far—right vox party. a record number of postal ballots are reported, with many spaniards irked by having to vote during their summer holidays.

now on bbc news, the travel show. chile: land of extremes. each day before the sun rises in northern chile's atacama desert, people venture up and up, across bumpy terrain to where the altitude is high enough to make you light—headed. the air is thin, and even in summer, the temperatures are near freezing. so these are one of the main draws for tourists coming here to the atacama desert, an incredible place. it's the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere. and here in the andes mountains, at over 4,000 metres, it's the highest in the world. but what i find especially incredible is that we're

in the atacama desert. i'm sure you've heard of it. the driest place on earth. but i'm notjust in chile sightseeing. i've come because bubbling up in this country has been an appetite for change. 30 years on from the era shaped by dictator augusto pinochet, many here still want change. and in 2019, millions took to the streets, angry at inequality and poor public services. but by 2020, there were celebrations. a once—in—a—generation rewrite of their constitution was voted for. i visited as the finishing touches were being put on the new draft, which, voted in next week, supporters say will bolster public services, give environmental protections and recognition to chile's indigenous communities for the first time. i wanted to see for myself some

of the ways that the country is changing as it considers reshaping not only its constitution but also its fundamental identity. which is why 18 hours later i find myself in the middle of the desert as night presses in. so it's 11:30 at night. ifeel like i'm in the middle of nowhere. i'm not quite sure what i'm getting myself into. the new constitution would also enshrine individuals�* rights to water, a precious resource in a country suffering droughts and something crucial for the indigenous community of the atacama.

this ceremony brings together members of the atacama indigenous people who live around northern chile and have a deep respect for nature. having adapted to life around the desert, they've given us special permission to come along.

mabel passes this drink around the group, a drink with hallucinogenic effects made from the cactus plant.

singing it was quite a serene experience and it was amazing just to see these local people and how they were so passionate and so emotional about this ceremony. i feel really privileged that we were able to be invited to something like this. you can still hear the drums

in the background. it's after 4:00 in the morning. i might leave them to it. but a community rooted in tradition has been rubbing up against a world evolving at pace. like at the nearby town of san pedro de atacama, which has expanded significantly over the last two decades due to tourism. 0k, look at this — there's a restaurant here, there's a tour operator over there. a cute little gift shop and a store selling hiking boots over there, buskers on the street, hotels with all their swimming pools. this is a town thatjust revolves around tourism. i can't imagine how much water that uses up. outside of the town,

here in this hostile, barren desert, there isn't much that grows, but still, techniques passed down by the indigenous people allowed them to live here in harmony with nature. i wanted to catch up with rosa, the water bearer from last night's ceremony, to find out a little more about how their position in the modern world here is changing. rosa, how is it so green here? this is crazy! it's like magic, thanks to the water. the idea is we respect the cycle. in winter, the mother earth rest. some of the techniques here use ancient atacama methods like irrigation channels, which allow these plants to be watered sparingly, just once a month. the idea of this project — teach to the world how important

is preserve and protect the mother earth. when you come to the desert, not only is landscape and picture. it's introduced and understand how live the local people, how important is the water. and we can live and we can protect the wildlife too. there are other big changes afoot for the wider community here. can you talk me through what this will mean for your people? well, this is good opportunity for recognise the indigenous people in chile in the constitution. we have other concepts than life, and that is very important because they give more tools for protect the area, especially the water. recognition is beginning to take shape. some tourist sites like the gizas are now co—managed by the indigenous

community, allowing them to take an active role in their changing world. but the atacamao weren't the first indigenous people to call chile home. i left rosa and headed further up the coast to arica. between 7000 and 1soobc, the hunter—gatherer chinchorro people lived here and developed complex mummification practices, which have astounded 21st—century researchers. last year, chinchorro burial culture was officially recognised by unesco, who placed it on their world heritage list. but despite this, the chinchorro still haven't entirely caught the public�*s imagination. the small fishing village of coletta camarines is the closest

town to one of the world's top sites where the chinchorro mummies have been found. but here, chinchorro enthusiasts will find little more than a themed restaurant and some statues. so before we came here, some people said you could see the mummies in the ground and some said you couldn't, so i wasn't sure what we'd find. but while we were having lunch, we got talking to the guy who runs the place, and he says he can show us some mummies in the ground. so and it's two minutes down the road, so we're on our way. currently, the mummies buried in the ground are being left there by archaeologists for their protection. ok, here? and as we approach, we take great care not to disturb any of the remains. wow. it's so close to the road.

what was it like growing up here? did you see many mummies when you were a child? there are thought to be thousands of mummies still in these hills and evidence of the chinchorro

is scattered all around the area. behind the scenes of the san miguel da zappa museum, the careful study and preservation of the majority of the chinchorro mummies takes place. there's so many mummies here, vivien. how many? yes, we have about 70 mummies, chinchorro mummies in this store. let me show you. it's quite small. what can you tell me about this mummy in particular?

cos if it was me, i would be very scared to, to work here. what do you love about yourjob? it's very interesting. but these fragile relics, which date back as much as 2000 years before the egyptian mummies, are deteriorating at an increasing rate in part due to climate change.

there's no air conditioning here, and rising humidity levels are a big threat to the mummies. but it's hoped that a new $25 million museum will help protect them. so is the local people's relationship with these mummies starting to change? do you know what i find really amazing?

i'd never even heard of the chinchorro mummies until i came to chile. now, this is crazy, because they're the oldest mummies in the world. and everyone, of course, has heard of the egyptian mummies, but not the chinchorro mummies. so i get the feeling that things here are slowly changing and maybe in the future, they'll get the recognition that they deserve. and along with this renewed appreciation of ancient chilean culture, there's also a greater focus forming on the stunning and unique landscapes and wildlife that you'll find here. i headed south to patagonia's new route of parks. here, 17 old and new national parks are joined together to create a huge network of wild areas to explore an area the size of switzerland. it's been one outcome from the largest private land

donation in history to create a conservation project on a vast scale. myjourney to its heart takes me six hours in a 4x4. so we've blown a tyre, and as you can see behind me, the road is pretty rough. we've hit one of these huge potholes, and i guess that's part of the story of tourism here. you know, the infrastructure is still a work in progress, but fortunately all the locals are being super helpful. for two american philanthropists, doug and kris tompkins, the route of parks was just one part of a decades—long project in both chile and argentinean patagonia. over the course of 30 years, doug, chris and the tompkins conservation 0rganization bought two million acres of land across chile and argentina.

i am very proud of what we do because every hectare we have ever purchased goes right back to the people of the country. if you want to conserve a territory and bring back species who've gone toward a point where their numbers are quite low, you have to, a, consult the geniuses of the place who are the people who've lived here for a very long time. because we're coming in and we don't really know that much about how these areas function and they do. the chilean gaucho traditionally is a horseman skilled at protecting cattle and sometimes hunting predators. but gaucho don daniel now has a wider view of predators, which are an important part of the wildlife ecosystem. he now monitors and protects native deer.

today, he uses modern techniques to track the huemul nearby. so, the signal is quite strong when we point the antenna that way. it's like one of those tv antennas from the �*70s or �*80s that you had on your roof. but it seems to be doing the job. oh, yeah, i can hear it.

99% of the original huemul population are thought to have been lost, placing the breed on the endangered list. with don daniel's help, we soon spot something in the distance. gosh, look at don daniel, go. so we've actually found huemul deer. can you see him in the distance? he's just sitting there in the grass and he's quite well camouflaged. we move for a closer look and quickly see that there are, in fact, three huemul together.

so we're approaching the deer from a lower ground angle so we don't scare them. it's unbelievable that now the numbers have grown and we've been able to track them within the space of a quarter of an hour. and here we are and we're able to get this close to them. doug tompkins sadly never

saw his plan with kris finalised, as he passed away in 2015. a good friend of mine from new york city wrote to me just a few days after he died, and she said, "look, "you have a choice here. "you can be the long—suffering widow or you can get out of bed and go do these things." and she was right. that was a conscious decision i was going to have to make. and so ijust thought, "ok, let's go for it." and that's when i started trying to tie up everything and within two years, we had them all donated. wow. and that was a lot of work. and i think it saved my life needing to do that. yeah. i think there's a tremendous amount of enthusiasm in chile right now, young and old.

and certainly the environment is one of the big platforms of this new administration. ijust don't think i was expecting what an amazing place of contrast this country is. but at the same time, there's lots bringing it together at the moment, like a new focus on the environment and conservation and ambition to set a new course for the future — treasuring their common heritage and their common land for generations to come. 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 that 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.

moved to safety in the country's live from london, this is bbc news. live from london, this is bbc news. thousands of people on the greek thousands of people on the greek island of rhodes are forced island of rhodes are forced to flee their homes and hotels. to flee their homes and hotels.

police say 19,000 people have been police say 19,000 people have been moved to safety in the country's largest ever evacuation. a bridge under construction has collapsed in western greece, near the city of patras.