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Collapsed has ordered an immediate audit of all buildings of a similar age five people have been confirmed dead. The us braces for an extreme and dangerous heatwave in the northwest with supplies being handed out to the homeless in many areas. And wales� s euro 2020 dreams are over, as theyre beaten 4 0 by denmark and italy knock out austria with a 2 1 victory. The Uk Health secretary, Matt Hancock, has resigned, a day after admitting hed breached social distancing guidelines by kissing a colleague in his office. Calls for him to step down had come from some of his own conservative party, after the publication of images showing him embracing his aide, Gina Coladangelo. Mr hancock told the Prime Minister he was resigning in a letter, saying hed let people down. He then made a public announcement on social media. Borisjohnson said Mr Hancock should leave office very proud of what hed achieved. A few hours ago the former Home Secretary and chancellor, Sajid Javid, was announced as Mr Hancocks replacement. Our political correspondent, ben wright, has the story. One of the most familiar faces of the pandemic, the Health Secretary at the heart of Decision Making as the country battled covid, and often seen at his side was this woman, Gina Coladangelo, a former lobbyist, adviser to the Health Secretary and long term friend. But yesterday came this image of them kissing in Matt Hancocks office, breaking, as he admitted, the governments own covid guidelines and plunging his career into crisis. This evening, he quit. I understand the enormous sacrifices that everybody in this country has made, that you have made, and those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them, and thats why ive got to resign. Matt hancock hoped to ride out the storm, a Cabinet Minister with big ambition, who had the backing of the Prime Minister. Number 10 considered this matter closed and it was Mr Hancock who decided to step down. To be frank, it shouldnt have come to this. Borisjohnson should have shown the guts, the spine, the awareness to have sacked him on friday. You cannot have a Health Secretary who designs the covid rules, so blatantly breaking the rules in the way he did. Neverfarfrom a podium, but hancock wrote rules the rest of us were told to follow. For some tory mps, Mr Hancocks credibility was shot. What has been clear over the last 2a hours is that, for a sizeable minority or even majority of the public, they no longer had confidence in Matt Hancock. It wasnt the affair, it was the apparent hypocrisy of being someone who had made the rules but then broke their own rules. There was another big problem. Last september, Gina Coladangelo was appointed to the board that oversees the Department Of Health on a taxpayer funded salary. The government said the Appointment Rules were followed, but labour demanded an investigation. Tonight, Mrs Coladangelo stepped down from her role. But hancock has been close to politics and power from the start of his career. Chief of staff to George Osborne in opposition, entering parliament in 2010 and clocking Up Ministerialjobs once the conservatives were in power. He became Health Secretary in July 2018 and even stood for the leadership of his party. I want this campaign to be about the future of britain. A marker, a signal of intent. But for now, his ministerial career is over. In his letter to Matt Hancock this evening, borisjohnson said leaving hisjob, but hancock thanked those he had worked with. Im very proud of what we have done to protect the nhs at the peak, to deliver that Vaccine Roll out, one of the fastest in the world. And i look forward to supporting the government and the Prime Minister from the backbenches. Morning, mrjavid. The former Chancellor Sajid Javid now returns to the cabinet as the new Health Secretary, taking over during a pandemic that is not yet over. Thank you very much indeed. In his Resignation Letter, Matt Hancock apologised to his family for putting them through all this. A spokesman declined to comment, but tonight its understood Mr Hancock has also left his wife. Ben wright, bbc news. Earlier i spoke to the political commentator Tim Montgomerie he suggested Matt Hancock was allowed to resign because the Prime Minister was reluctant to push him out of office. Yes, i think that is a fair reading, rich. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister hesitated, when i think it was obvious to most members of the public i have been speaking to in recent days. Certainly, there was an ominous silence from conservative mps who didnt call for him to go publically, but certainly werent supporting him on social media. And i think there was an awareness, certainly outside of 10 downing st, that in the middle of a pandemic, you cant be a coauthor of the restrictions to protect britain from the covid epidemic, and then break those rules. And i think number 10 should have been faster to recognise that public mood and i think probably best to focus, now, on the fact that the Health Secretary has resigned, which was the right thing to do. Otherwise it would have been impossible, i think, for the Health Secretary to have stood up at a future downing Street Press Conference telling the british people this is what you need to do to ensure that we defeat covid and people would have turned away and in disgust, i think, because i think a lot of people would have remembered Matt Hancocks inability to abide by his own rules. He is to be replaced by Sajid Javid. He is a friend of yours. How do you think he will perform . Yes, i think you probably wont get the most independent view of Sajid Javid from me. I have known him since university days. He is a man of integrity. He resigned from boris Johnsons Cabinet last year in protest at what he thought was disproportionate influence of Dominic Cummings. He was the first and very most senior member of the government to warn borisjohnson that this sort of almost Rasputin Ego to warn borisjohnson that this sort of almost Rasputin Figure could cause his government difficulty. I think in bringing him back, borisjohnson is recognising that Sajid Javid was probably right about the now former downing street advisor. And he has held a number of former governmentjobs. As well as chancellor, he was Home Secretary for a period, business secretary, culture secretary. He certainly has been around the block once or twice. He knows how whitehall works, and, given the huge challenges that will face the national Health Service after the pandemic, i think his experiences certainly going to be needed. Finally, tim, and briefly, does this Damage Boris Johnsons Reputation . We are still dealing with the pandemic. Will this cause issues for him . Certainly doesnt help. But i think conservative mps will be relieved that, although it perhaps took 2a hours too long for Matt Hancock to resign, compared to the Dominic Cummings Controversy when he tried to hold onto his job for four or five days until the media moved on from their interest, at least it has been nipped in the bud as a controversy. To the us, where Rescue Teams searching for survivors after an Apartment Building collapsed in florida on thursday, say their efforts are being severely hampered by fires which have broken out in the rubble. The local mayor has ordered an immediate audit of all buildings of a similar age. Five people are known to have died, more than 150 are missing. Will grant reports from miami. This Rescue Effort is slow going, methodical, and deeply upsetting. Since the I2 Storey Apartment block came down, only a handful of people have been found. Dozens are thought to be somewhere under this rubble. The rescue is being hampered by a persistent fire, which firefighters are struggling to contain. If any resident is still trapped in Air Pockets in the debris, it makes their chances of survival even slimmer. Were facing incredible difficulties with this fire. Its a very deep fire, its extremely difficult to locate the source of the fire, and so theyve been working around the clock. A small offering of solace to those still unaccounted for, but to add to their families� distress, its been revealed that a survey on the block three years ago found a major error which affected drainage and waterproofing, and abundant cracking in the structure of the parking garage. As the days pass, the residents of surfside are beginning to accept that they may never the fact that serious flaws with the building were flagged up as long as three years ago is enough to extinguish the final vestiges will grant, bbc news, surfside, florida. Whose Mother And Grandmother are currently missing. There is not really any updates. They are still looking for my mother have passed by we know there is no hope of them being alive. Were just hoping that maybe find some remains of something. But there is no real ongoing information sharing. What part of the building were they in . My Mothers Unit was in the 11th Floor of the first tower that collapsed. So you see the video which is all i can see when i close my eyes her unit was the second one down from the very middle of that tower and then the other building fell on top of it. So when i see that video that is the moment i am watching my mother and my grandmother die. Had your mother raised concerns about the maintenance of the building previously . She had so had several other unit owners. They expressed concerns about mismanagement from the board, about potential corruption, aboutjust the condition in the garage, around it is unconscionable that they would even that the building get to the point it was at in 2018 when the report was done, it is the Boards Job and the buildingsjob to maintain it is the Boards Job and the Buildings Job to maintain the Buildings Job to maintain the building to allow it to get into that state of disrepair, where the building does not exist, that is clearly, clear negligence on the part of everybody involved. Have you been going everybody involved. Have you been going down everybody involved. Have you been going down to everybody involved. Have you been going down to the everybody involved. Have you been going down to the Site L Everybody involved. Have you | been going down to the site to see the Rescue Operation . I have been down there twice, i went down the day that it occurred, and then i went back down to give a dna swab yesterday. I have not been down there since, i have friends that are involved in Rescue Efforts, and i have updates from them but not their official channels, i know the first responders are tirelessly doing the best that they can, but information is not forthcoming, there is not a lot of hope for any of us, and it is a devastating situation. This happened on thursday, have you been given any sense of the timescale for you or other families when you may be reunited with your relatives . We have not. We have not been given, or at we have not. We have not been given, orat least we have not. We have not been given, or at least let me not speakfor everyone, i have not been given a timeline of when we may be able to expect any kind of any information, just to go back to the second point of expressing concern, the night before it happened, i talked my about 7pm that day, and she told me she had woken up and she told me she had woken up around three or four and she told me she had woken up around three orfour in and she told me she had woken up around three or four in the morning because she had some creaking noises that were corrupt, she did not go back to sleep, she didnt really think much of it, to be honest i didnt think much of it, buildings dont really make those sounds, but it didnt occur to us that it was at this level. Then, after i saw the footage, it haunts me now that we should have paid more attention. Five people have died in a hot Air Balloon Accident in albuquerque, new mexico, in the southwestern united states. The accident caused Power Outages in the area for several hours after the balloon came into contact with a power line. Police said the wind had pushed the balloon into Power Lines where it then caught fire. Here is one witness describing the crash. Around seven, we were just getting in the car, we heard a loud bang, my reaction was to tell my girl to get down, i didnt know if somebody was shooting but i looked up when i saw the balloon and she is screaming and everybody is screaming about the balloon. It was by itself and i said where are the baskets. I immediately reacted and started running this way. I got to right here, another gentleman and a few others and the thing was on fire. This is bbc news, our main headline the Uk Health secretary, Matt Hancock has resigned over the publication of pictures showing him kissing a colleague, in breach of covid guidance. Hell be replaced by Sajid Javid. Lets have more on that story. Matt hancock was appointed Health Secretary in 2018, and led the Governments Response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our health correspondent, cath burns, looks back on his political career, and the challenges he faced running the health department. This is what the government wanted us to be talking about this weekend. They are calling it grab a jab, telling every adult in england they can turn up for a vaccine without booking. And the timing is serious cases are going up. More than 98,000 people have tested positive in the last week. I dont think we need this bit on camera. But instead, the focus is now all on Matt Hancock, the most recent former Health Secretary. All done. His Resignation Letter admitted we didnt get every decision right, but he also pointed out his achievements, including that the nhs wasnt overwhelmed during the pandemic. But we, like so many others, have been rocked by covid. Weve seen previously unimaginable numbers of people dying after being infected. There have been issues with how long it took to lock down, with difficulties getting adequate ppe and with the Test And Trace programme. Recently, the criticism went to another level. The Secretary Of State for health should have been fired for at least 15, 20 things, including lying to everybody. The main charge was about how the Health Secretary protected care homes. The Government Rhetoric was that we put a shield around care homes, blah blah. It was complete nonsense. And it didnt stop there, with messages published recently, apparently between Dominic Cummings and the Prime Minister, calling the Health Secretary totally hopeless. Are you hopeless, Mr Hancock . I dont think so. But he did get a chance to defend his record. That was a Planning Assumption for 820,000 deaths, and i was determined that that would not happen on my watch. But also point to this, a Turning Point in the pandemic. Maggie keenan becoming the first person to be vaccinated outside of clinical trials. Now the uk has one of the highest Vaccination Rates in the world. Matt hancock says the nation is on the brink of a return to normality, but that is not the case for the nhs, with a record 5 Million on Waiting Lists in england. Before the pandemic, about 1,600 people were waiting for a yearfor surgery. That number has now rocketed to 385,000. And now Sajid Javid, the son of a bus driver, takes the wheel at the Department Of Health. With long covid, a plan for social care and dealing with exhausted nhs staff, he has got quite the in tray. Catherine burns, bbc news. Parts of the us are seeing an extreme Heat Wave with temperatures expected to intensify. All of washington and oregon and parts of idaho, wyoming and california were under an excessive Heat Warning as temperatures are set to soar 20 to 30 Degrees Fahrenheit above average throughout the region during the weekend and through next week with dozens of Daily Record high temperatures are expected to be set, with monthly and even all time records broken for more on this lets talk to Dr Jennifer vines, Health Officer for multnomah county, 0regon Thank You for being with us. How bad is this heatwave and how dangerous . Irate how bad is this heatwave and how dangerous . How bad is this heatwave and how dangerous . We are referring to this as lifethreatening to this as life threatening heat for this region. It is fully in our Summer Heat for this region. It is fully in oursummerand fully in our summer and overnight lows fully in oursummerand overnight lows will be a be about the same as usual seasonal highs, so we have been very aggressive about getting word out that this is notjust uncomfortable heat but dangerous for outdoor workers, people living on our streets and elderly who live alone who will need people checking on them to make sure they stay call. I5 them to make sure they stay call. ,. , call. Is it the elderly and the frail at risk call. Is it the elderly and the frail atrisk no, call. Is it the elderly and the frail atrisk no, in call. Is it the elderly and the frail atrisk no, in fact call. Is it the elderly and the frail atrisk no, in fact we i frail at risk no, in fact we worry about many groups on any given night, we had thousands of people sleeping on our streets, im sorry to say here in portland, we do worry about older people, anyone taking medication because that can affect your Bodys Ability to stay call, we worry about children and pets who depend on others for water, and even people who are young and healthy can find themselves overtaken by heat if they make the wrong choice about gardening or going for a run. We have been very cautious with our proactive responses. What our proactive responses. What services are our proactive responses. What services are being our proactive responses. What services are being offered our proactive responses. What services are being offered to l services are being offered to people . Services are being offered to eole . ~. Services are being offered to. Eole . ,. ,. , people . We have done large communications people . We have done large Communications Push people . We have done large. Communications push through people . We have done large i Communications Push through a lot of local media and social media, the county has three Calling Centres open 24 7 with free transportation organised for which is a universal helpline, and transported people who dont have Bus Or Transport fare, so were hoping it will take advantage of those options, we also have calls to low income Apartment Buildings giving specific instructions for managers to check in on people twice a day. If someone has friends people twice a day. If someone has friends or people twice a day. If someone has friends or relatives people twice a day. If someone has friends or relatives they has friends or relatives they are concerned about, what practical things can they do to help . Practical things can they do to hel . , ,. , practical things can they do to help . Heat Illness And Heat Exhaustion Help . Heat Illness And Heat exhaustion are help . Heat Illness And Heat exhaustion are all help . Heat Illness And Heat I Exhaustion are all preventable by calling somebody down at the first sign of heat illness, so making sure people know to be watching out for feeling dizzy all week, developing a headache, making sure that they have cold water, and making sure they have a plan for how they are going to cool off if they are going to cool off if they need to. People here may underestimate how hot it will be, notjust during the day but also overnight when you 10th to rely on our call the Evening Temperatures to get a break. You mentioned Calling Centres, we are still in the middle of a pandemic, how do you have to work around that . Life pandemic, how do you have to work around that . Pandemic, how do you have to work around that . We have been very clear. Work around that . We have been very clear, covid work around that . We have been very clear, covid precautions very clear, covid precautions are second to getting people inside and called off, but they are not absent. Everyone in our Calling Centre is wearing a mask, we have large spaces where people can spread out, and plenty of hand sanitiser, Hand Hygiene and other distancing precautions. Doctor jennifer vines, distancing precautions. Doctor jennifer vines, thank distancing precautions. Doctor jennifer vines, Thank You distancing precautions. Doctor| jennifer vines, Thank You very jennifer vines, Thank You very much for being with us, appreciate it. Large numbers of people have been living the bangladesh capital as part of a nationwide lockdown. People in bangladesh will only be allowed to leave their homes in an emergency. Bangladesh has seen an alarming increase in cases since mid may, many attributed to the Delta Variant of the virus. 0ne Delta Variant of the virus. One of the host cities in the euro 2020 football tournament, st petersburg, has recorded its highest ever daily Death Toll from the coronavirus. The russian city reported 108 deaths in the previous 24 hours. Is due to host a quarter final on friday. Football now and at the european championship, wales have been knocked out, losing 4 0to denmark in the first of the Tournaments Round of 16 matches. The welsh conceded three goals in the second half and had a player sent off. Hywel griffith was watching the action in amsterdam. They should have been walking down the aisle. Instead, caitlin and jakes Big Day was spent cheering for their team. The pandemic forced the couple, who live in the netherlands, to postpone their wedding. So no cake, just plenty of danish. We feel lucky to be one of the tiny minority of wales fans are here today. Denmark also had Loved Ones that couldnt be here. Christian eriksen still recovering, their inspiration. Wales, outnumbered again, started well, getting the ball to bale, but unable to make it count. Denmark changed tack and found their flow. Now wales were frustrated as the pressure builds. And as Kasper Dolberg Cut inside, he broke wales spirit. Denmark strike first from holland to back home. Wales needed to find a way to disrupt denmarks dominance. Instead, they faltered, and dolberg doubled the lead. Its a terrible clearance. There was no choice. Wales threw everything at it, but simply couldnt turn the tide. And that is the end for wales. A fourth felt cruel. The final whistle perhaps a relief for everyone. Im disappointed for the players. Im really proud of them. We have got a great group and i have said to them we have got to learn from this and bounce back bigger and stronger from having gone through this experience. Having crisscrossed the continent, wales have reached the end of the road and are heading home proud and outplayed by a danish team who, after the most difficult start to this tournament, are living a football fairy tale. Hywel griffith, bbc news. In the second game of the round of 16, italy have beaten austria 2 1 to qualify for the quarter finals. All three goals came in extra time. Italy will now play either Belgium Or Portugal on friday. Pride marches have drawn crowds of people around the world in support of lgbtq rights, after events were cancelled last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Hundreds of people marched in Mexico City on saturday, Waving Rainbow Flags and calling for protections for the countrys gay communities. Around 30,000 people turned out in paris, starting for the first time in one of the capitals Working Class Suburbs before finishing at Place De La Republique in the city centre. In rome, marchers supported an anti Homophobia Law currently going through Italian Parliament that provides stronger measures to prevent and combat discrimination and violence on the basis of sex, gender, sexual orientation, Gender Identity and disability. Meanwhile in istanbul, police in Riot Gearfired Tear Gas to disperse revellers at a banned gay pride parade. Around 20 people, including a photojournalist, were detained. Hello there. The first half of the weekend brought us plenty of dry weather. For many places, the second half of the weekend promises more of the same. But in southern areas, theres quite a big change on the way, Blue Skies in swanage on saturday afternoon, Sunday Afternoon will bring grey skies and some outbreaks of rain in the south. Courtesy of a very slow moving Weather System. You can see this curl of cloud and an area of low pressure that has become marooned just to the northwest of france. It will be throwing this band of Rain Northwards across the Channel Islands into southern counties of england through sunday morning, the odd Shower Running ahead of that into East Anglia, the midlands, into parts of wales, more persistent rain to the South Midlands and south of wales later, but all the while Northern England and ireland, much of scotland will be dry with sunny spells although thicker cloud could bring the Odd Spot of rain in the far northwest of scotland. 15 degrees in stornoway, 22 the high in london. Some of this rain could turn pretty heavy with the Odd Rumble of thunder. It will move north overnight into parts of East Anglia. Maybe even clipping into parts of Northern England. Northern ireland and scotland stay dry with clear spells and temperatures staying in double digits for most of us. The slow moving Weather System will still be with us into monday. That means further outbreaks of rain at times across the south with high Pressure Building in further north and that is where we will see the driest of the weather. Wet start across parts of wales in the southwest of england. A few more showers developing for southeast england, the midlands and East Anglia through the day, maybe one or two into Northern England, Northern Ireland and scotland should be dry with spells of sunshine, i think we see the highest temperatures across western scotland, 23, maybe 24 degrees. Those showers in the south not great news for the start of wimbledon. There could be interruptions to the play on monday and indeed heading into tuesday because our slow moving Weather System will still be with us, further pulses of rain across the south of the uk where further north our area of High Pressure will keep things drier, sunnier and warmer. We could see temperatures in glasgow on tuesday getting up to 25 degrees, but always the chance for outbreaks of rain further south. We could see temperatures in glasgow on tuesday getting up to 25 degrees, but always the chance for outbreaks of rain further south. This is bbc news, the headlines the Uk Health secretary, Matt Hancock, has resigned, after he breached social distancing guidelines, by kissing a colleague in his office. Mr hancock informed the Prime Minister he was resigning in a letter, saying hed let people down. Former Chancellor Sajid Javid has been confirmed as the new Health Secretary. In the us, rescuers searching for survivors after an Apartment Building collapsed in florida say their efforts are being hampered by fires which have broken out in the rubble. Its emerged thered been warnings three years ago about the buildings structural safety. Five people are known to have died, with almost 160 missing. In the us, five people have died in a hot air balloon

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