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Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines indonesian authorities locate the flight recorders of the passenger plane that crashed into the sea on saturday, minutes after take off from jakarta. A senior democrat lays out the possible timeline for impeaching donald trump after at least 180 democrats give their support to a draft article of impeachment. Amazon follows google and apple in suspending parler the social media app popular with right wing protestors. Fresh warnings that the nhs under increasing pressure could soon be overwhelmed by coronavirus cases. The uk Health Secretary says people should all play their part in helping stop the spread amidst calls from some that the rules are not tough enough. Now on bbc news, our world. On september 8th, the moria refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos went up in flames. Gabriel gatehouse investigates the events surrounding the blaze. On the night of 8th september, europes largest refugee camp went up in flames. The greek Authorities Say the fire was started by the refugees themselves, angry at conditions in the camp. More than 12,000 people already living in dire conditions were burned out of their tents. Among them was a group of young filmmakers, most of them refugees from afghanistan. Theyve shared their footage with us. And what file number is that . A huge archive of evidence from the fire and its aftermath that raises troubling questions about the blaze and about europes dysfunctional policies on migration. Camera beeps since his early teens, yaser taheri has wanted to be a filmmaker. Now 16 years old, he arrived on lesbos with his family in january after a ten month journey from afghanistan. Moria was built as a temporary camp to house 3,000 refugees. By the time yaser arrived, it had burst at the seams with 211,000 People Living in squalor, waiting sometimes for years for their asylum claims to be processed. Crying violence, disease, and Mental Illness were commonplace. Yaser found an organisation called refocus, an ngo that teaches camera skills to help the residents of moria document their lives in the camp. Then came the pandemic. Since march, the camp had been under lockdown. But it wasnt until the start of september that they diagnosed the first positive case. The authorities began isolating suspected cases in a specially built Quarantine Zone inside the camp and that may have been a catalyst for what happened next. So this is, were back to 8 september, yeah . In the footage that yaser shot on the night of the fire, we see a red car with its window smashed in. Yaser follows the crowd to the covid zone where the migrants release those held in quarantine. Two hours later, what was a disturbance has become a riot. And its now that the blaze really gets going. Just tell me what were looking at here. Who filmed this . Milad ebrahimi, 21 years old, also from afghanistan, is another member of the filmmakers group. Protests were not uncommon in the camp, nor were fires, but theyd always been kept under control until this night. Screams was the camp torched by migrants as the greek authorities maintain . Some of the fires were lit by refugees. On that, milad and yaser both agree, but they dont believe thats the full story. So, in your understanding of what actually happened, who started the first fires and then what happened . Small fires in protest . Among the residents of the camp, few believe the official greek narrative. Instead, they blame the fire on angry locals and far right activists. Just a few miles off the turkish coast, lesbos has long been one of the main entry points for refugees and migrants coming to europe. At the height of the migration crisis five years ago, thousands of people were arriving on boats here every day. When we came, we found local people who were proud of a long tradition of hospitality. Then came the eu turkey deal, agreed in 2016, which effectively closed off europes borders and turned islands like lesbos into permanent detention centres. When we returned here in spring this year, the mood had changed. There were reports of vigilante groups attacking migrants and ngo workers. A fire at a smaller Refugee Centre was blamed on far right activists. Near the camp in moria village, angry locals had set up a roadblock. The Regional Governor arrived to try to calm things down. Are you worried about the rise of the right . Very worried, very worried. Because i know that many times, many countries, the extreme right take profit out of the situations. If this situation continues, then what will happen . It will be catastrophic, it has to stop. In moria village today, we could find only one person who was willing to talk to us. Panagiotis deligiannis, hes lived here all his life. But as the camp grew, so did divisions within the village. Some were making money letting their fields to the government or ngos to house the refugees. 0thers felt swamped as migrants at times outnumbered villagers by a factor of more than ten. 0n the night of the blaze, panagiotis called the fire brigade, who initially told him they were busy with other fires elsewhere on the island. You know this area, you know how fires thereve been fires here before, youve seen them happen do you think this could have been an accident . No, no accident, no no, no. If locals were somehow involved in the fire, people here will almost certainly know about it. And if so, theyre not saying. Less than two miles from moria village, thousands of refugees are still camped out by the side of the road. Theyve been here for days now without shelter, without sanitation or proper access to food and water. Nearby, a new camp is being built. Some refugees are already moving in. But many worry it will be harder to come and go freely and for us, finding witnesses to the fire may become more difficult. But for now, there are still people searching through the remains of the old camp, and here, we find someone who can tell us more about what happened. So yaser says that this guy says he saw some local greeks helping set fire to the camp. It seems that some people who were not refugees or migrants were, at the very least, seizing the opportunity to stoke the flames. Its 5 30am and we get a tip off that the police are about to start clearing all the refugees off the road and into the new camp. Well, the police have stopped us from driving through at the checkpoints, so were taking the back roads and trying to climb in over the mountainside. As the camp wakes up, news of the Police Operation begins to spread. Beyond the police cordon, officers in protective suits are clearing the roadside. Section by section, the riot police move forward, while officers in plain clothes tell the refugees to pack up. And they dont like the cameras. The new camp is built on a disused military firing range, enclosed by the sea on one side and fences on the other. Those who want to remain outside must now avoid the police. Milad has been on lesbos for about nine months. Hes afghan but he has come from iran his parents sought refuge there when he was a young boy. His decision to leave behind an imperfect relatively secure situation was a complicated one. So far, for milad, europe has not turned out to be that kind of place. He and yaser are still resisting the new camp, trying to help us unravel what really happened. In the footage they filmed in the aftermath of the fire, there is another piece of the puzzle. Yaser, did you find yourfamily . Yeah. Where are they . Are they over here . These pictures were filmed a little after 7pm the evening after the fire. This is insanity, man. The american voice you hear is doug herman, who runs refocus, the filmmakers ngo. They walk through the half burned camp to check on yasers family. Hello, stranger, how are you . Im good, thanks. Good to see you again. And then this. Oh, man. At 7 23, a second fire. Much of the camp had burned the previous night, but not all of it. Now it looks like someone is back to finish the job. Its really going up now. Oh my god. The fire spreads rapidly through the remaining tents. What is he trying to get . The cat . Oh come on, come on, dont go in there no, no, no. Oh my god, this is hot. Stand back but heres an odd detail. Going back through the footage again people are packing up and leaving before seven oclock, before the second fire starts. It seems like a lot of refugees in the camp knew what was about to happen including milad. So it seems the second fire, at least, was not a spontaneous event. But if it was planned, then by who and who else knew . The filmmakers tell me about a conversation they overheard among a group of camp residents earlier that morning. If thats true, that means the locals basically helped a number of refugees to burn this whole place down. We managed to track down one of the migrants in this conversation. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he told a different story. He said the fire was the work of fascists the term many migrants use to refer to local far right activists. One thing seems clear, many residents of lesbos, locals and migrants alike, found themselves in an intolerable situation they felt powerless to change. They felt stuck . And in a way you can understand the locals as well, who have been with this for five years. In their attempt to stem the flow of migrants across europe, the greek government and the eu turned lesbos and other islands into pressure cookers. The moria fire was, perhaps, an inevitable consequence. Its ten days since the fire. We get a message from yaser. Yaser, hey, whats going on . The authorities now say anyone who wants their asylum claim to be considered must first come here. No one knows exactly what to expect. Will yaser and milad be separated . The families from the single men . Once inside, will they be allowed out again . Most people here say theyd be happyjust to make it off the island. Yaser and his family hope one day to reach germany. The old moria embodied the failures of the eus migration politics. Now its gone, in brussels theyre talking of a new start. But behind these fences it feels like theyve swapped one prison for another. In ten years time, when this is all over, where do you see yourself . In ten years, well, since this situation is so uncertain i dont really know, i cant really plan for it. Iam going i am going to be making my first movie. Or maybe in ten years i am going to still be in this closed camp. I still dont know. Yes, accept the reality. This is the world. Its like people dont respect the differences between each other. But i still have hope that the world is notjust darkness. Theres a narrow, bright light inside this dark world. Hello, there. We had some beautiful weather watcher pictures sent to us earlier today across southern england where the Early Morning fog had liquid water below 0 degrees, super cold water and as soon as that hit cold surfaces, it froze instantly creating this beautiful layer of ice on the street. Today has been another chilly day across southern areas of the uk but for most of us it has been getting slowly less cold through the day and that trend to mild weather continues into tomorrow with some temperatures up at10 degrees as we head into tomorrow afternoon. 0vernight we have rain around, heaviest across west scotland where combined with melting snow, we will see a risk of some localised flooding building in and for most of us it is a night that will be frost free, so mild compared to recent nights but the exception is shetland where it remains cold with a few wintry showers. For monday, the mild air will continue to slowly slop across the uk accompanied by south westerly winds and a breezy day than we have seen over recent days under cloudy day with rain across North Western areas in the still heaviest in scotland with cold air feeding into the north so we might into the north so we might see the rain turn to snow for a time across the Higher Ground of scotland with some centimetres accumulating over at higher reaches of the highlands, but otherwise a mild day, temperatures eight to ten celsius and not something weve seen in recent days. For tuesday, the cold air comes back southwards across northern and eastern areas of the uk so for many parts of the uk tuesday will be a cold but sunny day and there will be a few showers or northern scotland and a few showers running into norfolk, thick cloud and towards the south and west but for most, feeling colder, temperatures between three and five celsius with cloudy, damp weather affecting us around nine or 10 celsius through tuesday afternoon. There will be further temperature contrast midweek and we can see a weather system moving on from the atlantic bringing more rain but as it bumps into the cold air we could see a spell of snow for a time over the Higher Ground. Its across Western Areas we will see the continued mild air pushing in with temperatures between nine, ten, 11, but across North Eastern areas of the uk we have cold air so temperatures between three and five celsius. That is your weather. The public are urged to follow lockdown rules, as hospital admissions continue to rise. Ministers are not ruling our further restrictions, amid concern about whether enough people are complying. We can all do something to help, which is to stay at home. Because every time you try to flex the rules, that could be fatal. In some areas temporary morgues are being set up to cope with the high numbers of covid deaths. With hopes pinned on vaccinations, theres a new promise every uk adult will be offered the jab by the autumn. Also tonight as democrats in washington push for President Trump to be impeached, were with his supporters in arizona. Theyre hoping he stays in or returns to office

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