destroyed by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in the country. the death toll currently stands at more than 2,000. after the controversy over this kiss last month — the head of spain's football federation finally resigns. it was very emotional, yes, because it was very emotional, yes, because i can't continue my work. us presidentjoe biden is visiting vietnam to sign a new diplomatic partnership, amid china's growing influence in the asia—pacific region. we're not looking to hurt china, sincerely. we are all better off if china does well, if china does well by the international rules. hello, i'm tanya becket. in morocco, the race is on to clear debris from roads up

into the atlas mountains — the epicentre of the massive earthquake — with the red cross warning that the first 48 hours are vital in preventing what it calls a "disaster within a disaster" if water and food aid don't reach survivors. the death toll continues to rise and is now past 2,000 with a similar number injured in hospitals. this is the small town of asni in the atlas mountains. very few buildings have been left undamaged. who is in marrakesh. essential aid is on the way. the moroccan military has been deployed to distribute food and clear the landslides. international assistance is starting to arrive. spain and the czech republic have sent search and rescue teams. british aid charities are coming, too. inside the ancient city of marrakesh, miles away from the epicentre of the quake, a quarter of the population

has been affected. this man told me he would rather be at home with his family but he can't afford not to work. if you want to help the people of this country, come to this country because this country, especially this city, need the tourists more than in the past. this is a unesco world heritage site. the un's cultural agency says it will help morocco to assess the damage and come up with a repair strategy to reconstruct these cherished cultural assets that attract visitors from around the world. everything just started shaking, the whole room is going like this. this couple are here for their honeymoon. everyone was just panicking, women were in tears. there was just so much uncertainty on what was going to happen next, do we go back, do we wait here? there are buildings surrounding

us so we are scared they are going to fall down. all the buildings have cracks in them now. tourists have been queueing up to donate blood, hoping their presence here can help those who have nowhere else to go. as we mentioned, rescue teams have reached the town of asni after the moroccan army cleared a landslide on the access road. but other small rural communities remain cut off by rock falls and there are reports of entire villages flattened. 0ur correspondent nick beake has made it to another community in the atlas mountains: in the atlas mountains. she sobs. the grief was unbearable. and found in every corner of this tiny community. their spirit crushed a little more every time news arrived of another body recovered. the bricks and stones of their traditional houses no match

for the size of this quake. the village of tafeghaghte levelled in seconds. abu rahman was being comforted by everyone who saw him. he tells us he's lost his wife and his three boys. he wants to take us to where his family lived so happily until friday night. a walk through the rubble of this remote atlas mountain wilderness. "our house was up there", abu rahman tells us. "you can see the white blankets and the furniture, too. "everything else has gone." he ran home after the earthquake and says he started screaming out for his kids but there was nothing. "we buried them yesterday", he says. "i felt so sorry for them. "when we found them, they were all huddled together,

"the three boys asleep. "they all went down with the earthquake." we've been told that about 200 people used to live here in this village. of those, 90 are already confirmed to have died. many more are missing, somewhere here beneath the rubble. others are in hospital. and when you look at this and try and take it all in, you realise people simply didn't stand a chance and the scene of devastation is replicated right across this vast mountainous region. sitting among the only possessions she now has left, we meet this woman, mourning her son—in—law. translation: we pray for god to help us - and the government too, and the king. the first professional emergency teams to arrive here are spanish firefighters. it's not a search for signs of life but for the dead.

there are no miracle rescues here in tafeghaghte — this epicentre of pain and suffering. nick beake, bbc news, in the atlas mountains. luis rubiales has resigned as president federation following widespread criticism for kissing spain luis rubiales has resigned as president of the spanish football federation following widespread criticism for kissing spain forward jenni hermoso after the women's world cup final. hermoso said the kiss during the presentation ceremony after spain beat england in sydney was not consensual. she filed a legal complaint on tuesday. rubiales announced his intention to resign on the television programme �*piers morgan uncensored'. you've come under ferocious pressure for three weeks now on you and your family. it's been very difficult for your daughters, they're young girls. i can only imagine as a father myself, i have a daughter who's around the age of one of your girls. incredibly difficult. there comes a point, perhaps, when the pressure

is just so relentless. that you do think about what you should do. with yourself and your future. many people think you should resign as president. what are you going to do? i love them so much, my daughters and they, they love me so, so much. i'm very happy. i'm very proud of them. very, very proud of them. they are very dear to me. about my resignation yes. i'm going to do that. you're going to...? yes. because i cannot continue my work. what was the final moment for you? was it talking to your family, your dad, perhaps? yeah. my my father, my daughters i spoke with them, is not, my, my father, my daughters i spoke with them, is not, they know this is not a question about me, and some friends very, very close to me. and they say to me, luis, now you have to focus on your dignity

and to continue your life, because if not, probably you are going to damage people you love, the sport you love, and the bit you build with some people long time ago now it's very, very near the resolution, not september in one year. then when someone is not thinking only about himself because i had to support a lot this three weeks. but it's more a question of not only me and then an attitude, an attitude of me can affect third party is very important and this is the... in this situation now the more intelligent and the thing i had to do. shortly after the interview was aired, luis rubiales published a statement confirming his intention to resign.

live now to our correspondent in madrid, guy hedgecoe. rubiales is resigning but still fighting it seems. yes, that's right, because he's been under pressure from so many different fronts. i suppose the most obvious fight he has to wage is that, against the spanish legal system. just a few days ago, prosecutors opened a case against him for possible sexual assault because of that case that he gave jenni hermoso at the end of the world cup final. and jenni hermoso has testified herself before spain's national courts. so that has begun against him, and also of course he has been suspended by football's

world governing body fifa. and there has been a huge backlash against him as well. there has been huge pressure on him from different fronts for the last three weeks. interestingly if perhaps, he gauged public opinion wrongly. yes. interestingly if perhaps, he gauged public opinion wrongly.— interestingly if perhaps, he gauged public opinion wrongly. yes, i think he did. public opinion wrongly. yes, i think he did- and — public opinion wrongly. yes, i think he did. and just _ public opinion wrongly. yes, i think he did. and just a _ public opinion wrongly. yes, i think he did. and just a few— public opinion wrongly. yes, i think he did. and just a few days - public opinion wrongly. yes, i think he did. and just a few days after i he did. and just a few days after the world cup final and the now infamous kiss, he appeared before his own federation and many people expected him to resign. it was widely reported in the spanish media that he was going to resign that day. and he sort of changed his mind, and in it rather defiant speech, he said he would never resign, and the kiss being consensual. it was perhaps that speech that turned many spaniards against him, peoplejust speech that turned many spaniards against him, people just thought that he was clinging on to the post and the momentum was against him. and then after that, of course, we

had the suspension from fifa, the legal action, the government trying to remove him. and itjust seems that mum so much was against him, and opinion polls also have suggested that most spaniards felt he should have stepped down. i{finite he should have stepped down. quite an interesting _ he should have stepped down. quite an interesting moment _ he should have stepped down. quite an interesting moment though for spain, women's football getting providence in an important win for spain, and the women's team getting a win and yet it was overshadowed. yes, this was a tremendous achievement for the women's team, winning the world cup for the first time. this is only the second world cup that spain had ever won. there was a feeling that they should be celebrating this for the days and weeks after victory in sydney, and instead, really, by the time the team had returned back here to spain, a few hours later really, this whole controversy had blown up. and it was starting to overshadow

what many would say, starting to taint that famous victory, and that last three weeks really, we haven't been talking about how or why the spanish team won that world cup, we've been talking about luis rubiales and the backlash against him. so i think many people are upset that that's been the case. thank you very much, guy had scope joining us now from madrid. transforming we can speak now with jane purdon, who is a director at women in football — an organisation dedicated to transforming attitudes towards women working in the industry. i'm glad he's gone, he hasn't covered with any credit from the moment of the trophy presentation until now, but this is bigger than just one bad apple.— until now, but this is bigger than just one bad apple. across football interact nationally _ just one bad apple. across football interact nationally in _ just one bad apple. across football interact nationally in many - interact nationally in many countries, there is systemic and historic prejudice against women,

don'tjust support women. so we know that this has to be a moment of change and a moment of reckoning, and according to fifa and the other international bodies to fit some... fundamentally has been a failure of leadership. fundamentally has been a failure of leadershi -. ~ . fundamentally has been a failure of leadershi-.~ . ,, . , fundamentally has been a failure of leadershi, . ,, . , ., fundamentally has been a failure of leadership . ,, . , ., leadership. what specifically do you think is wrong _ leadership. what specifically do you think is wrong with _ leadership. what specifically do you think is wrong with the _ leadership. what specifically do you think is wrong with the structure? l think is wrong with the structure? it's not enough at senior level, there aren't enough women. leadership should always reflect the community is that it aims to serve. and a lot of things that we now take for granted across the world, for instance in public companies, football just doesn't have instance in public companies, footballjust doesn't have so it doesn't have independent people sitting on its most decision—making bodies. it doesn't have proper recruiting processes for those leaders, and then the mechanisms to protect all players and all employees can often be weak and they need to be robust, they need to be clear, they need to be understood by

everybody, the discrimination of use is not acceptable. it needs to be clear reporting lines and clear process if somebody steps out of line. and thisjust process if somebody steps out of line. and this just sadly does not exist enough in football. the spanish team are not alone. we have also seen the slovenia national women's team write a letter about the circumstances they've had to endure, we've seen the zambia head coach accused of sexual abuse, and it goes on. this is a widescale football, government and leadership problem. football, government and leadership -roblem. football, government and leadership roblem. , �* ., ., problem. there isn't a clear line of complaints. _ problem. there isn't a clear line of complaints. but — problem. there isn't a clear line of complaints, but it's _ problem. there isn't a clear line of complaints, but it's very _ complaints, but it's very interesting thatjenni hermoso, the footballer that luis rubiales kissed in that ceremony, she's not going through the process, she's going through the process, she's going through the process, she's going through the court. the through the process, she's going through the court.— through the court. the kind of default that _ through the court. the kind of default that we've _ through the court. the kind of default that we've come - through the court. the kind of default that we've come to . through the court. the kind of| default that we've come to see through the court. the kind of. default that we've come to see is teams, 20 or 30 women, writing

letters. this is what the spanish team did a year ago. this has not been a one off, it's an obvious culture of circumstances and conditions for players, for at least a year, actually for longer, but they are not alone. we see this in other teams as well, and i think it must be a matter of desperation if you have to write an open letter to the media to whoever, to, because other routes are not available to you. i think you are right, these roots, these proper protection processes don't exist in the way that they should. d0 processes don't exist in the way that they should.— processes don't exist in the way that they should. do you think if luis rubiales _ that they should. do you think if luis rubiales had _ that they should. do you think if luis rubiales had apologised - that they should. do you think if| luis rubiales had apologised and said this was hubristic, it's a bit over the top, i apologise, right at the start, then he could have continued in that role? i don't know, i think _ continued in that role? i don't know, i think he _ continued in that role? i don't know, i think he would - continued in that role? i don't know, i think he would have l continued in that role? i don't - know, i think he would have been in a better place, and listen, we must all get a second chance, you know. but actually the problem wasn't just him, it was what the spanish federation did next, and they didn't

just double down, they tripled down. they put a huge amount of pressure on the player to say she consented, when she refused to that they put out a statement that said she consented anyway. when the spanish government got involved, they did then wrote to you if, please suspend spanish football from all european competition because of political interference. this is not an organisation that has grown men, not just one man, but it has seriously lost his —— it's way. on a visit to vietnam, president biden has defended the united states' engagement in the pacific, against a background of rising chinese influence in the region. mr biden told reporters in hanoi that american actions were not about containing or isolating china, but about maintaining stability in accordance with international rules. i don't want to contain china, i just want to make sure we have a relationship with china

that is on the up and up, squared away, and everybody knows what it's all about. and one of the ways you do that, is you make sure that we are talking about the same things. the centrepiece of president biden's visit to vietnam is an upgraded strategic partnership between the two countries, almost 50 years after the end of the vietnam war. so what do ordinary people make of the american leader stopping by? the bbc has been allowed rare access to hanoi for the visit, accompanied by vietnamese government officials. 0ur asia pacific correspondent, laura bicker has this report. star-spangled banner plays. from wartime foes to firm friends. the united states is drawing china's neighbour closer. chanting and cheering. this new relationship excites vietnam's next generation. even as they sing songs about appreciating what they have, it's clear they want more.

this country's young and talented workforce has attracted foreign business here instead of china. a lot of, like, korean and then japanese technology is pumping money into vietnam to develop, like, technology centres. and then they come to us. i can see in the future vietnam will become another like silicon valley for the us and for everyone to come here and work, and can't wait for it to happen. vietnam was once one of the world's poorest nations, but is now one of the fastest—growing economies in asia, and it wants to stay that way. this e—scooter start—up was built by a vietnamese entrepreneur who learned his craft in the us. because i want to realise my vietnamese dream. i was exposed to the american dream, but i think i have a stronger desire for my vietnamese dream. it's the right time, the right generation to make the vietnamese dream come true.

that drive to succeed is attractive to america. the deal being done will bring washington and hanoi closer than they've ever been before. it's all part of a us strategy to try to contain china. but while vietnam might be wary of its largest neighbour, it's certainly not going to walk away from beijing. vietnam will try to balance the two superpowers. this communist country with its own brand of capitalism will not want to pick a side. laura bicker, bbc news, hanoi. russia has termed the g20 summit held in india a success. the wording of the joint declaration around the war in ukraine has been substantially watered down compared to what it was after last year's summit, with no direct reference to moscow's involvement. india, the host country, which has maintained a neutral stance on the war took the lead in getting consensus on the statement. the bbc�*s south asia correspondent

yogita limaye reports from delhi. a poignant start to the final day of india's g20 presidency, a moment to remember the country's most revered leader, mahatma gandhi, and his message of peace. but war and regional conflict has meant the summit wasn't a full house. the presidents of russia and china didn't attend. and whatever national views these countries might hold about the war in ukraine, when it came down to business, concessions were made. g20 leaders summit declaration. "we've reached a consensus on the joint declaration." india's prime minister, narendra modi said. it was a statement that significantly watered down moscow's role in the war. the paragraph about ukraine made no mention of russia, and today, in response to a bbc question, its foreign minister said they were surprised that all countries agreed to it.

no option to just wait a minute. translation: speakingj frankly, we didn't expect that we were 100% ready to defend our honest wording of the text. the indian presidency played a decisive role and other countries also played a part. the fact that western countries consented to the language is a step in the right direction. later in the day, the french president responded to questions about the summit being seen as a win for russia. translation: i don't think it's a massive diplomatic victory i or anything other than the reality | of isolation and minority status. | many questions were asked about what could really be accomplished at a summit where both the russian and chinese presidents were not attending. but what india has effectively done is it's displayed its influence. the evidence in the paragraph about the war in ukraine, in the joint statement, consistent with india's own stance on the war and the inclusion of the african

union into the g20, something which india has been advocating for. this summit is a big step forward in this country's effort to project itself as the voice of the developing world. yogita limaye, bbc news, delhi. in the worst single act of violence since the war began in sudan five months ago, at least a0 people have been killed when air strikes hit a market in the south of khartoum. charity medicins sans frontieres said more than 60 people were wounded in the attack. rival military factions have been fighting since april when the country was plunged into a civil war. rishi sunak has expressed "significant concerns" to china's prime minister about what he called beijing's "interference" in british democracy. the comments come after it emerged that a parliamentary researcher had been arrested and accused of spying for china. 0ur political correspondent, nick eardley, has more.

two men have been arrested, one in his 30s was arrested in 0xfordshire, another in his 20s was arrested in edinburgh. this all happened actually in march this year, so it was a few months ago, it's onlyjust emerging now, but it is the latter man we are particularly interested in because speaking to various people who work in parliament, it is a parliamentary researcher, someone who has had contact with some pretty senior conservative mps actually, people like the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, alicia kearns, people like the security minister, tom tugendhat, although my understanding is that this contact was before mr tugendhat had that cabinet role of security minister, but it has raised three key concerns i think. one is about the level of scrutiny and vetting that goes on for parliamentary pass—holders. the other is the level of contact that some mps have with researchers who they perhaps do not know a great deal about, and the third,

the big debate that i think is starting to reignite today is about the uk government's position on china, because the uk has been having more contact with china in recent weeks than it has for years. the foreign secretary james cleverly was in beijing just a couple of weeks ago. there are a lot of conservative mps who are furious about that frankly and are going to use this situation, this arrest and the allegation that this man has been arrested over spying claims linked to china, they are going to use that to reignite that debate and say we need a much stricter approach when it comes to the regime in beijing. the terror suspect daniel khalife has been formally charged with escaping from wandsworth prison. the 21—year—old former soldier was charged with the escape after he was recaptured yesterday on a canal tow path in west london, following a manhunt. the justice secretary says that in the wake of khalife's escape some a0 inmates have been moved

from the category b gaol "out of an abundance of caution". from the category b gaol "out before we go, let's take a look at the world's only penny farthing race. thousands lined the streets of cheshire today to watch the race, which is only held every ten years. penny farthing enthusiasts came from as far as new zealand to compete in doing as many laps as they can in three hours. stay with us here on bbc news.

morning all. it for this evening, fairly widespread thunder sound, possibly through the south and our weather front which has been more potent in the north, will start to push southwards. there will be some

unsettled weather around, foremost, again, comfortable and close for sleeping —— uncomfortable and close for sleeping because the humidity remains high. which will take a while to clear, then we'll see some brighter sky and some cloud for england and wales, close by northern island and southern scotland, northern england for much of the day, brighterskies northern england for much of the day, brighter skies with a few showers behind, and fresher here across the north of scotland. again the humidity is high and we'll see some temperatures mid to high 20s to the southeast, it's unlikely we're going to seat 30 degrees again. through monday evening and overnight that weather front may well pipe up again. ahead of this weather system combining with that whether front seeping south, humid night southern areas, scotland and northern ireland even a touch of ground frost potentially in the glens and the north this week. tuesday again see

is that whether front pushing southwards, it will reach more southern areas later in the day, ahead of that some brightness listed, more manageable day, humidity gone with quite a pleasant sunshine in the north, scotland and northern ireland much, much brighter. the temperature is a little lower, the humidity is gone, and it's a generally changeable showery picture.

rescue teams in morocco are trying to reach remote communities destroyed by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in the country. aid agencies warn of a "disaster within a disaster" if people aren't able to access clean safe water. the death toll currently stands at more than 2,000. the president of the spanish football federation confirms that he will resign. luis rubiales steps down following the controversy over forcibly kissing a member of spain's winning team at last month's women's world cup. and a top—ranking us military officer warns that ukraine's army has little more than 30 days left of fighting before the weather hinders its counter—offensive. general mark milley told the bbc that the ukrainian attack was going more slowly than hoped, but was progressing at a steady pace.

hello, i'm tanya.