— but have grown in to wider discontent about the country's failing economy, corruption, and poor public services — as rich preston reports. they are calling for change for an economic reform the revolution. thousands have ta ken to the streets yet again. welcome to bbc news, i'm mike embley. they want to bring down those our top stories: they hold responsible for corruption a murder investigation is launched and poverty. after british police find 39 bodies in the back of a lorry that came from europe. on wednesday, streets filled in beirut and elsewhere in the country. banks have been closed since last friday and will reman it's that came from europe. absolutely imperative that closed throughout thursday. these protests are largely peaceful, operation it's absolutely imperative that the operation is conducted with the driven by young people. utmost respect for the 39 people who the army says it is refraining from force. have lost their lives. republican members of congress there have been some disrupt the trump impeachment inquiry — barging into a hearing room moments before a senior pentagon specialist scuffles, though no reports was due to testify. president trump says he's lifting all sanctions against turkey, after ankara says its offensive against the kurds in syria is over. of any serious injuries. and a quantum leap for computers — on monday the prime minister google says its new machine unveiled economic can calculate in minutes reforms promising to cut politicians what would take a normal computer thousands of years. pay and reduce public debt. but protesters say their moves don't go

far enough. translation: everything the political class is doing now is clearly to buy time. the reform list that the government in what's now a wide—ranging presented is clearly a lie. murder investigation, today the demand is for british police are working the government to fall. to identify 39 people found dead lebanon is a country divided along sectarian lines — in the trailer of a lorry, shia muslim, sunni muslim about 30 kilometres outside london. and maronite christians. one was a teenager, but it's not yet but these protests have brought people together. confirmed who any of the dead were, the country's most senior christian cleric called on the government or where they came from. to listen to the people. translation: we called on the president to begin the lorry driver, who's consultations with the political from northern ireland, has been arrested on leadership and the heads suspicion of murder. of the sects to take necessary our special correspondent decisions regarding the people's demands. ed thomas has this report lebanon is seen as a stable country from the town of grays, in essex. in an otherwise turbulent middle east, while protesters here demand revolution, that is about 30 kilometres from the capital. governments elsewhere just before 1:40am, will hope any changes ahead will be smooth. paramedics call police. the doors of the lorry container had been opened. inside, 39 bodies. 39 lives. people with hopes and ambitions. the youngest was a teenager.

that's tragic. absolutely terrible. yeah, such a shame. 0bviously trying to get over here for a better life. google says it has achieved it is heartbreaking for me. a breakthrough in computing with a revolutionary machine feels very sorry for them. that dwarfs the power of conventional supercomputers. it says the quantum device — named sycamore — performed a calculation in minutes that it's horrible. would take a normal computer thousands of years to process. a rival team at ibm says the claims of quantum supremacy a re overstated. it's quite difficult to believe that that's happening quite close to the place where you are working every day for many years. so, just how significant is this? we've obtained this cctv i asked john preskill, from 1:13am this morning. professor of theoretical physics at the california close to where it was found, the lorry passes at speed. the final moments before its journey ended. when paramedics arrived, all 39 people were pronounced dead. institute of technology. the trailer is believed to be refrigerated, i think huge is probably with temperatures as low as —25. an overstatement but i do think if you step back this is as close as the police and look at what's happened, what was announced today will allow us to the lorry, from the perspective of the history and all morning forensic of technology, significant teams have been coming and going from that tent. milestone has been reached.

we still don't know who put these people on the lorry. we have had the understanding we don't know exactly how they died. for some time that is quantum all we know is that the lorry computers continue to advance, was found here they will eventually, in the early hours of this morning. we know the truck was registered in bulgaria. at least for some police said the trailer arrived, on a ferry from zeebrugge, of us be able to far in belgium, into purfleet outperform our most powerful digital on the river thames, supercomputers and what we have docking just after midnight. the driver of the lorry has been named in northern ireland as 25—year—old mo robinson. he is being questioned now seen as either on suspicion of murder. this matter has attracted national and international interest, and it's absolutely imperative that the operation is conducted technology has matured to the point with the utmost respect for the 39 that at least for special, people who have lost their lives. narrowly defined purposes, quantum pictures canned now far out reform the most grays is at the centre powerful digital computers we have, of a huge haulage network. they can perform a competition with a very significant speed up. where the lorries are stopping overnight and people on the other hand, are coming out of them. we should not have unrealistic expectations about what this means in terms some here are shocked, of those technological advances impacting but not surprised. over it allows for a while. this cabbie says he and his colleagues are often approached by desperate people. all they do, is they come up, it's going to take they can't speak english,

they hand you a phone, some time, to realise you speak to someone applications for quantum computing on the other end of a phone, that will really have practical and they ask you to take them impact. to an address. from the point of view of science, it's normally round by london. from the point of view of physics i've seen six people getting out is a real milestone, of the back of a lorry in the same location. it's a very impressive experiment this man didn't want that the google crew has carried out. to be identified. if you can, what is say to people who said that he has as has my best friend, seen people running out of a lorry, demonstrated they had control over and scattering in all directions. it, they have relatively the error rates but were decades away from an actual quantum computer he walks past the place where they can solve problems the lorry was found most mornings. stop you would need something much more it seems everybody's had precision to have a full experience, that i know, scale quantum computer. especially in that area in particular, and itjust seems to be a thing that no—one i agree, it's important seems to care about. today, the prime minister and labour leaderjeremy corbyn spoke to understand the quantum computers of their shock and sadness. that we have now and that the google this is an unimaginable tragedy crew use has a hardware which is not and truly heartbreaking. i know that the thoughts and prayers so reliable. the competition is a series of all members are with those of operations and in each who lost their lives operation there is a probability and their loved ones. of error which is sufficiently high all of us should just think that if you try to perform to longer for a moment what it's like to be computation you are probably not a police officer or a firefighter, to open that container going to get the right answer this. and have to remove 39 bodies from it, and deal with them in right now that a serious limitation of the power of the technology

an appropriate and humane way. and you might be right, it might take decades for some of the applications tonight, the lorry and the people still inside have been taken away. that we currently envision to become police said their dignity and finding their loved ones comes first. to fruition. but we now have quantum devices that we can ed thomas, bbc news, grays. start of a rabid and search for applications and it has been hard to anticipate exactly how quantum computers can be used because it's such a different way of processing information. and now we have reached a point where the devices have sufficient we will have more detail to come on power that the potential for applications is there and we can that in just we will have more detail to come on that injust a we will have more detail to come on that in just a little while. proceed to try and develop them. republican members of congress have disrupted the impeachment inquiry against president trump, how does a quantum computer work? barging into a hearing room as a senior specialist from the pentagon was about to testify. democrats see it as a way to prevent more evidence emerging that mr trump withheld aid to ukraine's government until they investigated his political rival, joe biden. the president has urged republicans to toughen their opposition to the impeachment inquiry. i asked our north america correspondent david willis differentially her son to straight if the inquiry is likely to start and towed its hallows hole. this deficit given to a school, this is a national touch, we explain. getting even more confrontational.

this could be a sign of things to thomas is 18 years old. he wants to be a magician. come. we saw two dozen testers, "this is the false bottom," he says, the school where we have lessons. hogwarts, it is not, republicans, they believe there is a but if card tricks and sleight lack of transparency to what is of hand are your thing, taking place and they believe there is an attempt behind closed doors to then this is the place for you. overturn the outcome of the last translation: magic is a passion, american presidential election. it's a bit like music or an artist who wants to sketch all day. their protest succeeded in delaying it's really engrossing. you don't notice the day go by. proceedings by about five hours, but alexandre runs the school with her father. this contention that the proceedings she says her profession of of psychology, improvisation and practice. are not transparent enough or are lots and lots of practice. thousands of hours of weighed against the republicans is a little difficult to swallow when you bearin little difficult to swallow when you bear in mind perhaps that use of the three committees that form part of training, then hey presto, this impeachment investigation have republicans on them and they are granted equal time to question witnesses. added to which, the chairman of one of those committees, abracadabra, that's magic. the house intelligence committee, translation: we have a diploma which is recognised by the state as the equivalent of two years of study the house intelligence committee, the chairman of which is out of post high school. this means it is entitled to public shift, he has promised that they funding just like any other training

would be public hearings and he will forjobs in the arts. be releasing testimony in public —— chairman adam schiff, once the fact—finding element of this whole thing has been completed. you mentioned lauren cooper, sees the pentagon official who was due to give evidence just as the process began today as the person who so it's huge. basically oversaw aid money going to ukraine. she obviously has a very interesting role to play in all of this, particularly since we heard and you can get in touch with me from the acting ambassador to the and most of the team on twitter — ukraine, william taylor, the other day, that there was a period pro quo i'm @bbcmikeembley. —— quid pro quo, an agreement to go to ukraine in return for the ukrainians launching an investigation into joe biden. ukrainians launching an investigation into joe biden. david willis, our north american big lies in the back of october and corresponded. we have another week to come and more rain, for the next few days.

let's get some of the day's other news: but heavy as well however as we do ambassadors from european union countries, meeting in brussels, have delayed a decision because at the month at the centre on whether to grant london's request for an extension to the brexit process. we re because at the month at the centre a decision is now expected on friday were likely to see the change was of on how long any extension might be, a different trend, dry but it will and what conditions may be attached. feel colder by day. and bad. they a controversial extradition bill, which sparked months of violent protests in hong kong, here and out of the cups of fronts has been formally withdrawn. the legislation would have allowed across england and wales producing criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland china. ca rd across england and wales producing the bill sparked mass demonstrations card and flatbread jewellery is a that have turned into the worst sink south—east, the wind will strengthen and this is going to crisis for hong kong since it was handed back by britain to china more than 20 years ago. enhance showers for the rate of the day, over the start of the male in there have been more clashes between protesters and security the morning just fast, by their forces in chile. equal signature, at the morning we protesters have rejected reforms from president pinera, stand fog, this week with the aimed at ending days of violent unrest. they say it's not enough to heal fronts, driving its way south and deep social and economic problems. at least 15 people have died and more than 5,000 have been east but be hired greater variance and sunny spells going. for that detained in protests so far. president trump says the united states has brokered with some particular forced gusts at a permanent ceasefire in north—east times, the doctor measures 11— 14 syria and that he's going to lift sanctions against turkey. degrees, is that they purchase up to

jargon from all that is going to induce a call so so don't subdivide in the field and the type of the the government in ankara has said it will stop military operations weather where good to see. as against the kurds. inventor friday with low pressure fierce fighting has forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee just enhancing but if showers is an since turkey began its assault north—west myth: a kick in with the on kurdish fighters. but mr trump declared it was someone else's fight. 0ur washington correspondent nick bryant reports. high ground, at the same time we got on a day that donald trump claimed an american diplomatic triumph, some pulse of wet weather moving it the facts on the ground contradicted his words. these were russian forces and once advised it is you see for consolidating their power in northern syria, in an area that, quite some time. some rain, as it just weeks ago, was home to a key pushes in general and wales. that us base in the region. the dividing line between the cold and these were turkish soldiers and turkey—backed syrian rebels unveiling their flags in triumph air, so milder condition down to the in a border town they've now taken from the kurds. surface culture but unfortunately america's forces have been thatis continuing their pull—out, surface culture but unfortunately that is conveyor belt of rain fell much to the fury of their kurdish allies in the fight friday into saturday across roger against islamic state. wales, and often taken before as not sure it will be away during the these images have come to define a major power shift. departing us soldiers, stages of saturday afternoon. but be former brothers in arms, pelted with potatoes. prepared for some deception for wales and of the standard, we could

in washington, the president tried have another hundred millimetres a to turn what's been condemned time of the already wet month. she as a tale of american betrayal, into your bread to track your radio into a story of personal success. stations. anyway, will have a chilly today's announcement mornings, some frost, dry and sunny validates our course of action conditions. high—pressure with turkey, searchability conditions. high—pressure sea rchability and from conditions. high—pressure that only a couple of searchability and from the atlantic and quite thinks down over the next weeks ago was scorned, few days. and now people are saying, wow, what a great outcome. let someone else fight over this long—bloodstained sand. but the great outcome is for president erdogan of turkey and his russian counterpart, vladimir putin, who met yesterday in sochi, to shape the endgame in syria's eight—year civil war. america is no longer a significant player in determining syria's future. from capitol hill, the president has been pelted with criticism, and it's come from senior republicans. if not arrested, withdrawing from syria will invite more

of the chaos that breeds terrorism and creates a vacuum our adversaries will certainly fill. the withdrawal of most of america's forces from syria means a waning of us influence in the middle east and maybe beyond, but this is a commander in chief who campaigned on disentangling his country from costly and unending conflicts, and many of his supporters will see this as he does, as a case of mission accomplished. nick bryant for us there. so, is this is bbc news. this the victory that president the headlines: donald trump thinks it is? british police have launch a murder jonathan katz, is an expert inquiry after finding the bodies on us—turkish relations at the washington—based think tank, of 39 people in a lorry container the german marshall fund in south—east england. of the united states. i asked him whether he thought the vehicle had come the situation in northern syria looked like the victory that mrtrump has claimed. overfrom europe — this is not a victory for the united states, despite what president trump has said. in fact, it is a victory the driver has been arrested for isis, for mr putin, on suspicion of murder. they're now trying to mrassad, hezbollah and iran, identify the bodies,

which include a teenager. republican members of congress have but it's not a victory disrupted the trump impeachment inquiry — barging into a hearing for the united states. room moments before a senior pentagon specialist as you mentioned earlier, was due to testify. in washington today, democrats say it's a way to prevent there is a bipartisan consensus more evidence emerging against the president. that the president's policy in syria was a disaster that leaves mr trump says he'll lift all sanctions imposed on turkey the united states more vulnerable over its incursion and our allies as well more vulnerable. and when you see the devastation, against the kurds in syria. how it has impacted kurds, hundreds of thousands he says the government in ankara who have been displaced, promised him its military operation hundreds killed, how can in the region has stopped. you call that a victory? the critics are saying this is president trump claiming credit for providing an answer he created. yep. but i suppose he has a point that the disengagement from this area begun from president 0bama, drawing redlines he never backed up. i do not think that is what is at stake here right now. president trump's policy, his twitter policy, the policy to withdraw troops without consulting his own staff and the pentagon,

the state department, even the white house, was done in a hamfisted way that has left the united states more vulnerable today than it was before and you see this already wet us troops are suggested to be going to iraq. the iraqi government has said us troops are not welcome. we have not figured out what comes next in this conflict and it leaves both syria and the syrian people who have suffered under war in a very difficult position. i also want to add also, when talking about victories and we're talking about the united states, it is important to remember why the us was there, which was to fight isis and according to the us military and to our diplomats, the fight against isis needs to

continue so, if that isn't the case, why would the us be withdrawing right now? the president and his supporters were saying they were a bunch of american voters and interests out of that area. if you heard fox news and other allies, you really saw a push back back amongst republicans. i think those republicans know what people in the districts want, and president trump, maybe in this case, may have been trying to change some of the audience away from the impeachment enquiry into this conflict. and unfortunately, this conflicts with national security. bolivia's leader evo morales is continuing to claim victory in the country's presidential election, and has accused the opposition of trying to orchestrate a coup.

clashes between supporters of mr morales and those of his rival — carlos mesa — broke out on wednesday in the lowland city of santa cruz. the latest official vote count, showed mr morales ahead of mr mesa, but still short of the io—point lead needed to avoid a second round run—off. much more to come. still to come: we'll tell you how the magic art of abracadabra has now been officially recognised in france's education sector. a historic moment that many of his victims have waited for for decades. the former dictator in the dock, older, slimmer, and, as he sat down, obedient enough. dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside korem, it lights up a biblicalfamine, now, in the 20th century. the depressing conclusion, in argentina today, we've had controversies in the past with great britain. but as good friends, we've always found a good and lasting solution. concorde bows out in style. after almost three decades in service, an aircraft that enthralled its many admirers for so long,

taxis home one last time. this is bbc news. the main story this hour: british police launch a murder investigation after they find 39 bodies in the back of a lorry that came over from europe. more on that now. a short time ago our europe correspondent damian grammaticas sent this update from the belgian port of zeebrugge, where police believe the vehicle came from. so that

s0 that trailer was loaded onto a boat across the channel and this is nowhere the focus of the enquiry is, the prosecutors have received information, to say from the uk side they have become their own enquiries. focus of the enquiries if you try to tab where the trailer originated is shiny, visited belgium? was it outside? possibly said that it over. was loaded and how to let proceed through here to the uk? belgian authorities have 00:17:36,546 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 been cooperating with some