temperatures a little bit down compared with where we have been today, but still on the mild side. a chillier night, on sunday night, a touch of frost in the east. hello this is bbc news with reged ahmad. the headlines: former conservative prime minister, sirjohn major, accuses borisjohnson�*s government of acting in a "shameful" manner — over the owen paterson row. i think the way the government handled that was shameful and wrong and unworthy of this or indeed any government. at least 98 people have died in an fuel tanker explosion, in sierra leone after the lorry collided with another vehicle in the capital, freetown. rapper travis scott says he's "absolutely devastated" by the deaths of eight people, incuding a m—year—old, at the texas festival where he was performing. tens of thousands of people march through glasgow — demanding new steps to tackle global warming — one of more than 100 climate protests taking place across the uk. now on bbc news, it's time for our world. bethany bell looks at the consequences of the recent wildfires in greece. this summer, greece was on fire. thousands of wildfires were fanned by its worst heatwave in decades. hardest hit was the country's second largest island, evia. the government has blamed climate change. i'm a firefighter for 23 years and as i can remember, there is no similar situation. here, the fires were catastrophic. around a third of the island was burnt. thousands of people had to flee their homes. and a way of life was destroyed. evia, off the coast of mainland greece. dense pine forests, beautiful beaches, and the sea. but this summer, a wildfire tore through the north of the island. it was the largest fire in greece since records began. over 50,000 hectares of woodland were burnt. it took almost two weeks to bring the blaze under control. i was sent to report on the fires this summer. two months on, i've come back to see the aftermath. this is lieutenant colonel stratos anastasopoulos who's responsible for co—ordinating firefighting aircraft across greece. chopper whirrs. he'd offered to take me up to see the extent of the destruction. i'm a firefighter for 23 years and as i can remember, there is no similar situation. it was a war above the fires because we had a lot of fires all over in greece. almost 100 fires per day for five or six days period. so it was very, very difficult for us. what was different about the fires this year? i think that the conditions, the weather conditions was very different from the other years. i think all of us, we can see the climb of changes. so we must think about all our lives and the life of natural environment. that is not only greece problem or americans problem or italians problem, no, it's a global problem. the forest i saw with stratos was evia's economy. on this island, many rely on the woodlands for their income. nikos dimitrakis is a farmer and beekeeper. he's one of hundreds of people here to have lost his livelihood. he feels the authorities should have sent more firefighters to put out the fires. are you ready? honey. how does it look? is it healthy looking? it's all right. it survived. it's incredible. the government is blaming climate change for these fires. hundreds of foreign firefighters were sent to greece to help. the government said it did all that was humanly possible to combat the blazes. but it said the fires were too intense for their defences. honey from pine trees accounts for 70% of greece's total honey production. and until the fires, two—thirds of greek pine honey was produced here in evia's huge forests. goat bells ring. the fires have affected the honey trade across the country. alexandra kakarouna lives 500kms away, in western greece. she started beekeeping as a child with her father. now she and her father run a honey business. like many greek honey producers, she used to take her beehives to evia for the pine tree pollen, but that's no longer possible. where does this honey come from? where did it use to come from? how many other honey producers are being affected? are you worried about the future of honey production here in greece? the forests that nikos and alexandra rely on for their bees will eventually regenerate if they can be protected from future fires. but the trees will take up to 30 years to grow back. chainsaw whirrs. there is a real danger of erosion and flooding when the rains come. chainsaw whirrs. the race is on to create protective terraces of logs to stop landslides this winter. the forestry department has hired teams of locals to cut down burnt wood all over northern evia to make space for new trees to grow. chainsaw whirrs. it wasn't just the island of evia. this summer, athens was burning too. we came here in august, we stood here and we watched, first of all there was smoke coming over that mountain, and then we saw the flames coming over the mountain and the hillside burning. to see all the, where the fire actually... elias tziritis works for the world wildlife fund and is also a volunteer firefighter who worked right here in this suburb this summer. he is concerned that megafires will happen again and again, unless there is more focus on prevention. here we are in the... ok, we are here. in the beginning, we think that it was one more fire to fight. this is the fire that get out of control, very easily, and with no wind. and what happened right here, how did the flames get so close to the houses? as you can see, the forest is mixed with housing. the majority of the fires start from cities to the forest. so these are red areas. what did you think when you heard the government blame climate change for this fire? the politicians here in greece say the problem of forest fires is climate change, but you know, climate change is one of...one of the criteria to have more intensive forest fires, it is not the ultimate criteria. and the forest fires don't start from climate change. we have 10,000 incidents in the country, 40% of them are negligence. elias says forest management is essential. fires can be stoked by dead, broken branches and dead leaves. known as forest fuel, this can be highly flammable and needs to be cleared. the main problem in greece with forest fires is the concentration of forest fuels. so we must find clever ways to decrease the forest fuels. post—fire management is very crucial, we must take the correct decisions to protect forests, to protect soil, to prevent erosion. if we don't solve the causes of fires, you have done nothing. are you worried that if there are more heatwaves next year and then years to come, we're going to see more huge megafires like this? the recent scientific results showed us we're going to have more heatwaves, more days of fire danger, so things are not so optimistic about forest fires and the beginning of megafires in the future. if you ask our colleagues in spain, portugal, italy or turkey, they are going to explain to you that the new trend in forest fires is megafires, megafires are affected by climate change. we must believe in prevention to answer climate change. and we see the effect of climate change across europe, when you see countries that recently were not affected from forest fires, like romania, poland, sweden, scandinavian countries, so you see that fires are going up north in europe. how do we fight climate change? we must take serious political decisions. we must cut the emissions in order to stop or to slow climate change. on the other hand, we must prepare the citizens to adjust to the new reality. i am very confident about nature, nature is going to do the work. the mediterranean forests are used to forest fires. it is inside the rehabilitation mechanism. so i trust nature. what i am not trusting, i don't trust humans. laughs. applause. back in evia, nikos is getting married. he has invited us to the civil wedding. he and his wife evmorfia are expecting a baby. a little boy. traditional music plays. your son is going to grow up with the forest, in a way, so he is going to grow up with a new forest that's growing now. a day after his wedding, i met nikos again in his half burnt orchards. he had brought some honeycomb from his hives. mmm, that's good! that's really good. i have never had honey out of a, directly out of a hive before. so good. he told me it felt like the end of an era. evia's forest will eventually grow back, if new fires can be prevented. but these burnt trees are an unsettling reminder of how fragile this landscape is — especially if megafires in the mediterranean become the new normal. saturday has been a day of largely cloudy skies. although a brightened up cloudy skies. although a brightened up across a large part of scotland, there have been blustery showers on there have been blustery showers on the other part of the weather story is kicking in now. close to this area of low pressure, it is a windy night but in scotland with severe gales in places and gusts in excess of 60 mph. might be closer to 80 in a few spots of exposed coasts and hills with further outbreaks of rain in northern scotland. showers across western areas as the night goes on the clear spells to these. mild night, temperatures six to ten celsius. tomorrow morning, it is windy in northern scotland, only slowly during the day these winds will ease. also going to be some high waves around the coast, the risk of travel disruption. it will be in if across northern and eastern parts of scotland until the winds subside later on. outbreaks of rain still easing. the odd shower into the west where there is plenty of cloud. bright or sunny spells across eastern parts of the uk. looks best in north—east england in the afternoon, parts of yorkshire. it is cooler compared with where we have been today. the winds continue to ease during sunday evening and night. the cloud will increase towards the west, whereas in the east there will be long, clear spells and it will be a chilly night and across eastern areas going into monday morning, the lowest temperatures will be close to freezing. there will be a touch of frost around. that should be it for the frost for the week ahead but it is looking like a mild week with low pressure to the north—west. there is weather front is going to gradually work its way southwards across the uk. ahead of it maintaining west or south—west winds. we will see cloud across western part on monday, rain into northern ireland and scotland may see some of that in cumbria, much of wales and england will stay dry and if you bright or sunny spells across the east and south—east of england and temperatures for the most part in double figures. as i mentioned, it is a mild week, often cloudy but some outbreaks of rain slowly heading southwards. that is your latest forecast. this is bbc news, the headlines. former conservative prime minister john major accuses borisjohnson�*s john major accuses boris johnson's government john major accuses borisjohnson�*s government 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