hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. survivors and relatives of the 72 people who died in the grenfell tower fire are calling for resignations from the london fire brigade a report says more lives could have been saved if the building had been evacuated sooner — and found "system ic fa ilu res" in the fire brigade response. relatives and survivors called it heartbreaking. we believed the firefighters who came and knocked on her door and who came and knocked on our door and told us to stay. so we believed them and we stayed. today saw the last prime minister's questions before the general election. the leaders clashed over the nhs, the economy and brexit. we'll have a look at what the campaign could hold. wildfires are raging across california — and near los angeles, the ronald reagan presidential

library is under threat. we'll report from the scene. just on the hill by the presidential library where there is a massive effort to get this blaze under control. they are fighting it from the air and the ground, but the wind is blowing very strongly. and in the last hour, twitter‘s announced it's stopping all political advertising, all around the world. we'll look at why we begin with the grenfell fire that killed 72 people in june 2017. today a report into the tragedy was released. and it calls for the government to treat its response as ‘a national emergency‘. lucy manning has this report. my family!

why?! the last thing i was hearing from my aunt was where are the firefighters? and i rest it at that, where are the firefighters? i pray every single day, since the grenfell tower, to die sooner. because i have no meaning in my life. no inquiry can comfort them. no blame brings them back. n0 warm words ease their harsh reality. grenfell was a national tragedy but their deeply personal one. he lost his daughter, her husband, their two children. leena, six—month—old, died in her mothers arms.

why?! this is our family! the cladding that surrounded the building from spreading these the building for spreading these flames broke building regulations. the fire so fierce because grenfell‘s walls were covered in a material that was flammable. the focus of the inquiry is what happened on the night, despite the bravery of some firefighters, the fire brigade is heavily criticised for institutional and systemic failures. telling people to stay put in these flames cost lives. he was told to stay put in the building, his five—year—old son did not make it out. on the night, i was there,

i was suffering and still suffering from the situation. there was no excuse. we should have been rescued and helped by the firefighters! she lost her mother and aunt. and helped by the firefighters! they're responsible to a job, they had training, they had legislations that told them what to do if compartmentation is breached and they did not do it. they should be prosecuted and i am not saying individual firemen. they did a hard job, bless them, they probably do not get paid that well, but the seniors at the top, they get good money to do a serious job. the most senior officer is being criticised for her remarkable insensitivity for her words at the inquiry. i would not change a thing we did that night... today, she apologised to the families. the 72 lives lost for the worst thing ever in the london fire brigade are truly sorry that we could not save everyone's life that night.

do you accept more people died that night because you did not evict me do you accept more people died that night because you did not evacuate the building in time? i think it'll be very difficult for us to draw that conclusion and i think even some have no expert evidence to draw that conclusion. will you resign as some of the families are asking? no, i won't. i will return in six months' time because i will make those changes, if i resign, i cannot do that. they were warned that there could be a serious fire moments before it happened. months before it happened. we first met him on the morning of the fire in the clothes that he fled in. my life was saved by a brave firefighter from the 16th floor who came and rescued me when i was taking my last breaths and in the report, they point out that there are many, many instances of brave and courageous acts by firefighters. my own personal view is that she needs to be dismissed from her post. in the commons, they stood silent for a minute as survivors and bereaved looked on at the politicians they feel let them down.

they asked for the truth and we promised them the truth. we owe them the truth. and today, the whole country, the whole world is finally hearing the truth about what happened at grenfell tower. the shameful fact of it, mr speaker, is that feet have been dragged. the exact same cladding is on similar high—rise blocks, sprinklers have not been fitted and thousands of people will go to bed tonight and tomorrow night not feeling safe in this country. this tower is a devastating testament to the companies that made the cladding. the authorities who allowed it to be put on in the fire brigade who saved some but failed others.

to all intents and purposes the uk is in an election campaign. so today's prime ministers questions was almost certainly the last of this parliament. and borisjohnson and jeremy corbyn took the chance to show us their election pitch. privatisation and tax hand—outs for the rich, this government that has put her in hs crisis, this election isa put her in hs crisis, this election is a once in a generation chance to end privatisation and give it the funding that it needs and give us the doctors, the nurses and the gps and all of the other staff that it needs. i do indeed agree that there isa needs. i do indeed agree that there is a stark choice facing this country and it is between economic catastrophe under the labour party and the labour party, £196 billion programme taking away money from

programmes and putting it on a pointless re—nationalization programme, putting taxes on pensions, businesses and that is the economic catastrophe that he wants. this is from pippa crerar, daily mirror here's a clip to back that up. the biggest ever investment in the nhs,14 new the biggest ever investment in the nhs, 14 new hospitals that we are building asa nhs, 14 new hospitals that we are building as a result of the measures we are taking. as for these for about 40 hospitals, that figure dropped to 20 and then dropped to six. these claims, mr speaker that the nhs is safe in his hands. why

then has nhs privatisation doubled under this government? helen catt, westminster how do you leave their tactics? yes, both sides are very much pushing what they will be doing in the campaign in the run—up to the general election. so it is looking like labour is more keen to talk, not just by brexit like labour is more keen to talk, notjust by brexit as the conservatives would like to, but more about public services. talking of this radical campaign of change in the nhs is strong ground for labour and one that he would push at most elections and coming back strong in the course of this campaign. returned to the liberal democrats, their policies to stop brexit right away. here's their leader. here's their leaderjo swinson.

they have a choice between more than just the two tired old parties. people deserve to hear from a leader who wants to stop brexit. tonightjo swinson was asked by the bbc‘s andrew neil whether the lib dems would go into coalition with labour this is what she had to say. i have been really clear, jeremy corbyn is not going to be put into number ten on the back of liberal democrat votes nor is borisjohnson. they both want brexit that happened in neither are fit to be prime minister. we have liberal democrat mps elected because we are about to go to mps elected because we are about to gotoa mps elected because we are about to go to a general election. helen catt, westminster they are in favour of coalitions, based on compromises. how does this

fit in with the policy later today? i think what she is trying to do here is the way of making the liberal democrat policy very clear. with a voice that is if we work to get a majority liberal democrat government, then they would be in a position to instantly revoke article 50 because that would be a new clear instruction from the people. it is a way of setting out a clear policy but the liberal democrats have suffered because of their time in coalition with the conservatives and allow the grassroots are very unhappy about that and some voters drifted away from them over the yea rs drifted away from them over the years because they were into coalition with the conservatives. so i think this is very keen to draw this decision that they should be seen as a this decision that they should be seen as a party in their own right and not just. seen as a party in their own right and notjust. how long will we see them in factories and shops? wind we get that stage? bc boris johnson in

schools and hospitals, so i think very quickly we are going to see them out on the ground in parliament has officially dissolved at the minute past midnight next wednesday when the campaign starts and will see it all very quickly. the speaker of the house, this isn'tjust going to be the last prime minister's questions, it's going to be the last one of the outgoing speaker of the house of the seas. he has had many critics, still has many critics remains of the centre of allegations of bullying, something he has always denied but he has played a pivotal role in this brexit saga and the whole thing has made him and his unique style known around the world. behave your self! be a good boy, young man! leave the chamber, get out. i couldn't give a flying from flamingo fletcher view is i am not

having get in this chamber. that is the end of the matter! order! calm! order! order! quiet. calm yourself. take up yoga. very route, members. that is the beginning and the end of the matter. it is interesting curing that montage to the difference of how his voice has shaped this parliament. he has a distinctive style, not just in parliament. he has a distinctive style, notjust in delivery but not as heavy as shake parliament, but he has been a controversialfigure but has been a controversialfigure but has done a lot to increase the power of parliament and its ability to hold to some administers, to hold them to account. he has had quite an effect on parliament but remains very divisive figure. let us turn to

a story relevant to the election. twitter‘s ceo jack dorsey has tweeted an important announcement good evening. a long thread, and essay about political advertising. he says that internet political ads present challenges to civil discord. talking about machine learning, optimising messaging using aa techniques to add misleading information, defects, all of that increasing velocity of

sophistication. this is a whole new world where it is hard to spot what is going on and we saw that in the 2016 presidential election in the united states and it turned out to bea united states and it turned out to be a lot of political advertising on facebook if people did not really know how it was targeted until afterwards. and he is saying that basically it is too dangerous and we have to get out of it. one interesting tweet in the middle of thatis,itis interesting tweet in the middle of that is, it is not credible for us to say that we are working hard for these people to spread misinformation, but if they want to pay to have a political act, they can this is coming to quite a lot of pressure over its policy and basically saying, you can have a political add, you pay for it and we will not check with the information is, if it is misleading, will edit past. you will not have a fact checking. in the moment i started

reading that thread i started thinking about facebook and itjust reminded me if he does fancy heading for the moral high ground, because it was time for a pr hit on his rival? you could say that comfort you could also say that is it that lucrative of an area. a number of speeches defending his policies, saying that we are not in it for the money because there's not a lot of money because there's not a lot of money in the political adverts, we are in it to give everyone a level playing field and in some people this minds, he has made some questionable statements on social media and being helpful to underdogs rather than people in positions of power already. but this is certainly raising the temperature and for the may general election, it could be even more key for spreading messages. and while twitter is a very big

company, it is pretty small compared to facebook and its reach and as he was saying, you'll find plenty of political advertising on facebook which will be the bigger impact when it comes to the election and other elections coming down the track. an extreme weather alert is in place in california as wildfires continue to burn. this affects los angeles, and ventura and san bernardino counties. wind gusts are now approaching hurricane—level speeds which is of course making things worse. here's a tweet from the federal government. and it released this map of the fires. well here are some of the latest pictures we have.

this is a new fire in simi valley in ventura county. they're calling it the easy fire, but it's proving hard to put out. here you can see animals being evacuated. this has put the ronald reagan presidential library under threat — it's right there next to the fire. it's home to millions of documents and the resting place of the 40th us president and first lady nancy reagan. los angeles times photographer wally skalij. our correspondent sophie long is close to that fire. we arejust on we are just on the hill where there is an effort to get this blaze under

control their fight to get on the airand ground but control their fight to get on the air and ground but the wind control their fight to get on the airand ground but the wind is blowing very strongly. and it is the wind that is their greatest enemy. it is ferocious here, with gusts of up it is ferocious here, with gusts of up to 70 miles an hour. it has propelled this fire through more than 1000 acres in just propelled this fire through more than 1000 acres injust a propelled this fire through more than 1000 acres in just a few hours. the winds down south are going to be very serious, this is a very serious fire danger situation developing across southern california and i am concerned for southern californians down there. this is just concerned for southern californians down there. this isjust one of many fires burning across california, there is a state of emergency that is been put in place on sunday. they are dangerous and they are disruptive. hundreds of thousands of homes have been evacuated and many more are without power. roads are closed and also our schools and businesses and hot and dry conditions are expected to continue

with a strong centre and a wind for another 24 hours at least. the us federal reserve has announced it's cutting interest rates in the us again. vivienne nunis is in washington. what are the reasons? this is an insurance policy and this is how they have framed the last interest rate cuts and it was the way he framed the interest rate cut again today and we are now seeing the federal reserve cut interest rates by 25 basis points so we're looking atan by 25 basis points so we're looking at an official interest rate at 1.75% and they characterize that as an appropriate rate, saying that if economic indicators such as strong consumer spending, if they remain the same and inflation stays near the same and inflation stays near

the targeted 2%, we be looking at the targeted 2%, we be looking at the centrist level for some time. someone like for them to go farther, what are his reasons not considering cuts in the near future? he has not been ruling out the types of cuts in the bank is saying that it will monitor headwinds, including manufacturing output here, there is also business investment because of things like the trade war between the us and china and also the global slowdown, but on the other hand, there been some bright spots in the economy and there have been as i mentioned, strong consumer growth and they are spending and so we get the impression from him that he will put the rates on hold for now and will not see any cuts. vivienne nunis in washington the boss of boeing has come under fire from senators for the a second day — dennis moo—len—berg also acknowleged the company made mistakes developing a new safety system — which has been a key focus,

following two deadly crashes involving 737 max jets. here are some of the exchanges that we have seen. is anybody working for free to reduce this? congressman, it's not about the money. are you giving up any money? we will conduct a co nfe re nce any money? we will conduct a conference of review. so you're not giving up any compensation at all? you're continuing to work to making $30 million a year after this horrific two accidents that's caused all of these relatives to go and disappear. was at all like that? that was the tastiest part of the hearing that we heard —— trying part that we heard today. asking him

about accountability and responsibility and whose responsibility and whose responsibility is this and he said it was his companies and it is also his as well. there are also a lot of questions about his compensation when when congressman pointed out that after the first crash, he still got a $50 million bonus. he is invited, but what is the point of this process? what are they hoping to achieve? do not forget, this is been two days of hearings and so you have heard from senators yesterday and from people in congress today that after this, they asked a lot of information and questions on him and his colleagues and the people where they could affect some changes regulation in this could give them guidance in terms of what can't

regulation that they want —— kind of regulation that they want —— kind of regulation they want and one of the issuesis regulation they want and one of the issues is the oversight of if scene from the faa, and the legislation they have had over boeing. saying that the relationship has become too cosy and that could be why these planes were allowed to fly and that is where we could see some real change. let's go back to the uk general election — and december‘s will be the third in less than five years. throw in the 2016 brexit referendum and you can understand why some might be suffering from voting fatigue. but others think the december poll is necessary to break the deadlock. here's a snapshot of what people on the street are saying. we suspect it will come down to a brexit issue unfortunately, because a general election should be about a lot more than just brexit.

a general election should be about a lot more thanjust brexit.|j a general election should be about a lot more than just brexit. i feel we should have another friend in and instead, this isjust confusing the issue. where most likely going to end up with a hung parliament again, so we are end up with a hung parliament again, so we are going to give virtually nowhere with the christmas election. i think politically, everything is a mess as it has been for the past couple of years and we just want to build stability now and i'm not sure whether an election can give that. brexit if it happens or does not happen, my main point of concern is how we take the country forward. happen, my main point of concern is how we take the country forwardlj was how we take the country forward.” was a how we take the country forward.” wasa remain how we take the country forward.” was a remain but i think boris is doing a good job. i have lost faith in all of them. i think they should just get something and to be honest, i think this might be the first year that i will not vote for any mp5. that is so strong i feel about everything but what is been going on. turning back to the uk politics

inafew on. turning back to the uk politics in a few minutes because lots of people have announced that they're going to be standing again, we will see who they are. hello there. we are going to look at tropical storms, cyclones and very large temperature changes and there's only one place to start inez california, the wildfire still raging on parts of the state, the biggest one in the northern california, being fuelled by this very dry and very gusty wind that is been coming down from the mountains. gusts of 65 miles or more, the stronger winds of been in the area of high pressure that is weakening and changing position and it means that the winch attempt to ease over the next few days but stays dry. that high—pressure brings down the corridor across the plains all the way to the gulf coast and behind that band of rain there is a weather front and very wet weather and storms heading towards the eastern

seaboard and as you encounter that cold air, there may be some snow as well. modern denver than has been of late, but we have seen temperatures in denver over the coming few days that stays dry and sunny, you should see temperatures rising and it will clear from atlanta and new york, he gets fresher and drive some sunshine. this area of cloud marks a position of what was a tropical storm that has slammed into central parts of vietnam and continuing to bring in some heavy rain. this area of cloud here could be the next cyclone to develop into the north, that area of cloud is been around for a while and it is a very powerful cyclone that is weakening rapidly and it looks like it would ta ke rapidly and it looks like it would take a track to the south and not expecting to make landfall. there could be a bit more cloud coming in with the likes of moscow and one or showers for a while as well. your showers for a while as well. your showers likely and across the southern parts of india where we

have had wet weather recently. showers coming into parts of us were in australia which is turned cooler western australia and that weather front is a band of clouds and rain. to the north of it, northerly wind which is really upping the temperature in melbourne, we have seen temperature in melbourne, we have seen massive swings of temperatures here because of the wind direction changing and we can see what happens in that rain comes in and the wind direction changes in temperatures get much lower by contrast it is going to get much warmer in new zealand where we hit 30 degrees and parts of canterbury. across europe, he can see clearly that that we have got colder air across northern parts of europe where is been very cold in northern parts of scandinavia to the south, it is milder and wetter in the spritz of rain can be heavier and thunder he was can bring some flooding though coincided with some gusty winds as well. let us have a look at parts of europe and generally across the uk and france, it has its own wet and windy air and

will turn cooler in madrid but less so in brisbane.

hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. survivors and relatives of the 72 people who died in the grenfell tower fire are calling for resignations from the london fire brigade. a report says more lives could have been saved if the building had been evacuated sooner — and found "system ic fa ilu res" in the fire brigade response. relatives and survivors called it heartbreaking. the firefighters who came and told us the firefighters who came and told us to stay. so we believed and we stayed. with lots of high profile mps saying they won't be standing in the election, we're going to look at what kind of parties might emerge after december 12th we'll have the latest from the ongoing impeachment inquiry where two diplomats have testified about donald trump's

dealings with ukraine. this is what the capital of chile looked like earlier. 12 days of protests have now caused the government to call off two international summits. protests are also continuing in iraq and lebanon — we'll hear from the bbc‘s middle east editor about what they have in common. chile's government say it can no longer host two big international summits. the capital santiago was supposed to host the asia pacific trade talks known as apec later this month. and the un's cop25 climate change conference was also supposed to be in december. here's the chilean president.

translation: we deeply regret the problems and inconveniences this decision will have on these conferences, but as the president of chile i have to always put the interest of the people first. chilean cities are currently witnessing the country's most serious civil unrest since military rule ended nearly 30 years ago. some protests have been peaceful — but others have looked like this. this is santiago on tuesday. there are armoured trucks firing tear gas at protesters — and protesters throwing stones in return. at least 20 people have been killed since the protests began. and more than 7,000 people have been arrested. in response the government has declared a state of emergency and night—time curfews are in place in many major cities. to understand what's happening we can't just look at the chilean economy — according to government statistics, poverty has been falling over the last decade and wages have been increasing over the last five year.

but chile ranks as the most unequal country among a group of 30 of the world's wealthiest nations. that means the relative gap between rich and poor is most pronounced. and that has created anger. katy watson is in sao paulo in brazil. when you were there's a few days ago, did you think what was having office on such a scale that chile would have to give up these big moments in the international spotlight? certainly the dates are looming and just a few weeks before never one you wondered how quickly these protests would calm down and whether chile would be ready to host them. i cannot see how world leaders would come to chile and come with

the protest getting more intense every day. the decision is momentous ina every day. the decision is momentous in a massive deal but i can see how he is wanting to focus on events back at home and trying to solve those problems before dealing with big international events, ithink chileans are feeling exec the same thing that any sort of problems out at home before he deals with becoming, inviting world leaders to santiago. he has turned 10096 of this crisis but what in practical terms but he built off of the protesters in order to calm theirfury? but he built off of the protesters in order to calm their fury?” but he built off of the protesters in order to calm their fury? i don't think it started very well because when the protests kicked off he took quite an aggressive approach initially talking about the fact that chile was at work i'm obvious that chile was at work i'm obvious that it did not go down well. it took a softer approach by offering concessions that people thought were cosmetic such as a tax on the rich and wage increases. he has since

tried to shake up the cabinet and people feel that's just not enough and people want to massive structural changes, changing constitution and the way that politics is done, notjust a question of the old school big political parties sitting around the table but ngos, environment of groups much more inclusive society because as you pointed out chile is a wealthy country especially in this pa rt a wealthy country especially in this part of the world and it's also one of the most unequal approach donor countries in the world. people want to be included and we a shake—up of how chile is run. just finally, are the protests growing in size, how are the evolving as this movement continues? as we speak, protesters are gathering in the focal point of the protest throughout the last week or so. we saw a massive protest at

the weekend, this weekend coming. we are people are not giving up, the expectation is that people will be coming out onto the streets every day. these are largely peaceful. it has to be said. the vast majority, it's a family from the event, everybody from all walks of life are attending these protests. yes it sometimes get harry and andrew do seniors tear gas being thrown around and criticism of the authorities on the streets throwing chair grass and being aggressive in their approach, but largely these protests are peaceful and they're but largely these protests are peaceful and they‘ re calling but largely these protests are peaceful and they're calling for meaningful change. thank you very much indeed. latest on the impeachment inquiry into president trump. two diplomats are testifying today — and while that's happening, we're still digesting the testimony of a top national security council official who was on a july phone call between donald trump and the ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky. we know in the call president trump encourages ukraine to investigate his democratic rival

joe biden and mr biden's son. the allegation is that mr trump threatened not to release substantial us aid to ukraine unless this happened — you'll hear that called a quid pro quo. the official is alexander vindman. he's a decorated army officer and the first serving white house official to speak to the inquiry. to no—one's surprise he's now under attack. "yesterday's never trumper witness but several senior republicans have come to mr vindman's defence. here's one. we are talking about decorated vetera ns we are talking about decorated veterans who have served this nation and put their lives on the line. it is shameful to question their patriotism, their love this nation and we should not be involved in that process. this is some of the testimony.

us media is also reporting he said some details of the call were omitted from the official transcript, despite his attempts to have them included. anthony zurcher, washington. help them out here, anthony. to the president tried to get them to investigate? it's the more important thing of whether that was in exchange for the usa. right, exactly. i think that's a lot of what they're looking at, and also in this conversation donald trump had with the ukrainian president that talked about stuff that would like to be capable of stepping on the ground in the ukraine, and also in the white house were members of his staff helping to effectuate this policy essentially or people who we re policy essentially or people who were outside of his staff like rudy

giuliani attempting to pressure ukraine into gathering evidence that that was actually happening. it's one thing for donald trump to blustar and say this perhaps but another thing to actually see it being carried out and the pressure being carried out and the pressure being put by other people in the administration to try to get what you described as a quid pro quo. that there would be a white house visit. a freeing of a military aid in exchange for these investigations that can prove politically helpful domestically for donald trump. tell me about mrvindman. domestically for donald trump. tell me about mr vindman. he calls you and never trump her. is it political in the role he is performing? when donald trump uses that term, just a few days ago he also described never trump errors as humans come so he is a very negative connotation of that term. it's not just a very negative connotation of that term. it's notjust donald trump lodging these attacks, there were

surrogates or advocates of his on cable news going so far that because michael was born in the soviet union and he might have some sort of affinity for the place of his birth, ukraine that he was talking in ukrainian with the ukrainian officials and essentially had dual loyalty towards the ukraine. that was what prompted cheney in that clip you played to have such a visceral reaction to the criticisms. just help us step back here and see with the last couple of days events help fit into the broader impeachment story, where are we in this? well we are going to have another week or so of behind closed door testimony. there is a very big one. tim morrison who will testify tomorrow who is in other white house aide. the person in charge of russia and eastern europe and he's one of the people that an earlier testimony was said to have direct evidence or

first—hand hearing of the pressure being played by members of the trump administration on ukraine. so essentially these testimonials are depositions are trying to build, a step—by—step who knew took place, what pressure was applied, who was witnesses to that because one of the critiques to hear from witnesses to that because one of the critiques to hearfrom donald witnesses to that because one of the critiques to hear from donald trump and republicans is that this is all second—hand from a third hand accou nts second—hand from a third hand a ccou nts of second—hand from a third hand accounts of what was taking place. now we are starting to get first—hand accounts from people like vindman, from people like morrison tomorrow. democrats are trying to build the case is a serious violation of power in presidential trust and then they will bring that to public hearings and in public hearings perhaps make a case that donald trump should be in keep up to the back impeached because of that conduct. we'll speak to the bbc‘s middle east editor map in a moment — because large anti—government protests continue in iraq and lebanon. first iraq. this is the city of karbala.

protests there have continued despite reports that up to 18 people have been shot dead by security forces — a claim officials deny. and this is baghdad. these demonstrators are defying curfews when they go out on the streets. there have been demostrations across iraq — but in the last few days, the focus has increasingly been tahrir square in baghdad. this picture show protestors taking over towers that surround the square. the protests have been going for a month now — and more than than 220 people are believed to have died. there are two main demands — change the political establishment and fix the economy. iraq's prime minister adel abdul mahdi is accused of failing to meet his commitment to stop corruption. he's under pressure after the influential shia cleric

moqtada sadr said he would join forces with another powerful politician to bring the prime minister down with a vote of no confidence. as for the economy. this shows unemployment rates in iraq — the top line shows the percentage of young people out of work which is considerably higher than the total labour force. that's iraq, in lebanon protestors also want economic and political reform. this is beirut today where some main highways have opened after nearly two weeks of road blocks by protestorss. more broadly the demonstrations are having an impact — on tuesday, prime minister saad hariri said he would resign. also yesterday. that supporters of the shia militant group hezbollah attacked anti—government protestors. drove hundreds if not thousands of people the way and of course they we re people the way and of course they were hurt in that as well.

lebanon's president has asked the government to stay in a caretaker capacity — so that doesn't offer an immediate change. and protestors are going nowhere. lina sinjab is in beirut. it's a heated debate in every corner in lebanon and here in the square people are gathering, the limits of more people coming on it let to continue with their protest. people are discussing what will happen next. protesters a re are discussing what will happen next. protesters are adamant this is a great step forward from that the government has resigned that the president accepted in the government is now a caretaker government. but they want to make sure that the new government that will be formed as representative of their demands, as representative of their demands, as representative of their demands, as representative of a government that is not corrupt and reproduction of the old guard per se. they also say

this is not enough, that they want a note to all the politicians are responsible for living here today. the problems in the economy and problems with corruption and lack of jobs, and also in the sectarian system that is ruling lebanon since the civil war. the one a whole change when the president to resign and they want early parliamentary elections. maybe that's too far to look at. now their debates and discussion are focusing on the next steps that they will take to make sure that the government is representative of their demands. the bbc‘s middle east editorjeremy bowen has written this article exploring whether we may be seeing a repeat of the 2011 arab spring uprisings. i've been talking to him. not quite the turning point in 2011 that people were hoping for. it did not lead to a period of freedom for

the region. egypt did not become sweden. but things undoubtedly changed. and now that there are demonstrations going on again in beirut and baghdad particularly, also demonstrations going on in the police stay in egypt. it's also worth making a comparison to see the causes and whether they have changed. what we saw in 2011 was some of the protesters were feeding off of other protesters. they are seeing with having other countries, do you think those those connections between baghdad and lebanon at the moment? that may be an element of that. i think the copycat element is probably not quite as strong as it was a 2011 when there was a very heavy novelty factor. i think the things which are held in common between now and 2011 of the same kind of grievances. the same demographic factors, the fact that

60% of the population of the region is under the age of 30. more in some places. and those are people who do not feel satisfied with the system the way it is now. they feel excluded and feel the national cake is certainly not big enough and particularly angry about corruption. in iraq at the moment which is one of the most corrupt countries in the world by most measures that the big issue and lebanon as well which is not quite as bad but pretty bad, in terms of corruption people are also concerned about that. and you can find the article of his by the bbc news app and bbc news website. the uk's upcoming general election won'tjust change the make—up of the parties in parliament, but the make—up of mps within those parties. in the past couple of hours the culture secretary nicky morgan tweeted this. "for the first time in 18 years i won't be a candidate in the next general election." she's a prominent moderate

in the conservative party, and supported remain in the brexit referendum. her departure continues something of a trend. around 30 mps on the conservative side have already announced they won't stand for re—election. and most of those mps could be described as centrists. here's one of them. mr speicher i'm not standing in the next election and i am fast approaching the end of 37 years of service to this house. for which i've been proud and honoured to beyond words to be a member. i am truly very sad that his shin and in this way. sir nicholas was one of 21 tory rebels who were expelled from the conservative parliamentary party back in september for voting against the government. we think eight of those 21 rebels will not be standing again. and they include some heavy—hitters. rory stewart was a

contender for the party leadership four months ago. stating it is independent in the race to be the next london mayer. ken clarke is the longest serving mp — with 49 years service. he's held a range of senior ministerial positions in previous tory governments — and he's a long—standing supporter of the uk being in the european union. here's the speaker paying tribute to him today. as the father of the house of leaves this place after 49 years without interruption, i for one want to salute him. hear, hear! the right honourable and learned gentleman is one of the most popular and respected politicians in our country. another round of applause, don't see that you offered in the house of commons. now ken clarke is 79—years—old

and was due to retire anyway. but other moderates are stepping down despite being in the prime of their careers. there's the former home secretary amber rudd. there's david lidington, who was effectively deputy prime minister under theresa may. and there's jo johnson — the brother of the prime minister, and government minister who resigned saying he couldn't choose between the national interest and family loyalty. they all argued in 2016 for the uk to stay in the eu. and can all be described as "one nation tories". that term refers to a strand of conservatism that supports the welfare state, well—regulated markets, and building consensus. though many would quibble — borisjohnson insists he's leading a "one nation" government, and one of his ministers was out making that case today. that's why they're putting forward this optimistic positive agenda on delivering brexit with a deal and then this domestic agenda.

but many are questioning just how moderate a conservative government will be after the election. this is from ruth wishart, a journalist for the scottish herald newspaper. and this is from lionel barber, the editor of the uk's financial times. that's a reference to more left wing activists coming into the labour party, we'll take a look at the changes in the labour party in a moment, but first here's rob watson on the conservatives. an anti—european right—wing faction of the conservatives who have been on the fringe of the party for the

last 40 years, they are now in charge and it's worth remembering the conservatives have been very pro—business and pro—european. now they are not. interestingly when mr johnson fits into all of that it's quite hard to say previously, pretty liberal and pretty pro—business but he was of course the leader of vote leave and the perception of the conservative party is the difference faction that's now in charge. a different faction has already been in charge of the opposition labour party for the past few years. and their leaderjeremy corbyn now has one less rival in the party. in 2016 this man owen smith unsuccesfully challenged jeremy corbyn for the leadership — advocated a centrist approach in line with tony blair's leadership. but he won't be standing on december 12. ifjeremy corbyn is able to win, it will be a very left—wing government by uk standards.

here's rob watson again. jeremy corbyn, is a genuine unapologetic socialist. he believes the problems in the world are to do with the west and capitalism, and he thinks there should be a socialist solution which is of course very different than tony blair which was much more of a social democrat. some of that thought that actually the labour party can a part of the left could manage capitalism better than conservatives. both parties are very different than from what voters were traditionally used you. our colleagues in bbc trending have been looking at reactions to the snap election on social media, carousel specifically in facebook groups, both for and against brexit marianna spring is one of the journalists who has been looking into this 1+1 we talked with his close facebook groups before and look at them regularly come funnier in this case.

it's very interesting because we are able to tap in the conversation that's going on and could not before. did not know what people we re before. did not know what people were talking about in their kitchen ta bles were talking about in their kitchen tables or family groups. of these both closed and public groups which have thousands of members were able to see with the kind of conversation that's going on with regards to their decision—making and a lot of people reacting to the election being called and also reacting to how they can vote tactically which is really interesting because i believe this election is about brexit in many ways and a lot of remainers and liberals want to work out who they can vote for in order to get to break the outcome they want. this is because we have a first past the post system so to get power needed mps that represent particular constituencies. exactly so you want to make sure the mp that selected for your area the partition that will represent you, perhaps that will represent you, perhaps that opposes or proposes the bugs policy alike, in terms of the we have actually found, and we have found the remain groups there's a lot of division over who people want

to vote for. some would say they rather go for the lib dems because they been cleared they want to revoke brexit and other sainthood quite like to vote for labour because they think they are more likely to get seats in government. in the past we have talked a lot about tactical voting and have not seen about tactical voting and have not seen it manifest itself in a grand scale but it's not scientifically based and the conversations you are looking at you people seem more willing to do it than perhaps they might have done previously?‘ willing to do it than perhaps they might have done previously? a lot of discussion about it whether people are keen to actually enact the ideas behind it is perhaps debatable. on the group supporting base that there's more willingness to get involved in tactical voting and lots of brexit party supporters saying it will vote for the conservatives because that's more likely to get brexit done than voting for the brexit done than voting for the brexit party. whereas on the groups there seem to be less willingness to vote for those candidates who perhaps might not align with the party views but could go for remain. thank you very much indeed. thanks

for those of you for watching and remember if you are lots of background on the election you can get it through the bbc news website and confined her article. i will speak to you in a bit. hello there. time for a look at the weather for the week ahead. whilst many of us have seen a good deal of dry and often sunny weather to start the week there are some real changes on the cards. over the next few days will be milder but with that it will turn cloudier with the wet weather as well. the reason for this this area of high pressure that's been keeping thing settled will edge its way further east and that will allow for the weather fronts to feed into the south and west. i is still with us the south and west. i is still with us first thing thursday morning, actually start across scotland and northern england that you could wake up northern england that you could wake up to northern england that you could wake uptoa northern england that you could wake up to a touch of frost but again a good deal of sunshine for many, cloudier scots for northern ireland and her parts of wales and the southwest of the rain tending to ease across the southwest is the day wears on. temperature is between

eight and 14 celsius. into the evening in the cloud will continue to thicken in the west with outbreaks of rain feeding eastwards. this rain is courtesy of the weather fronts, friday is looking like a fairly unsettled picture with a massive weather front also going to drag in some milder air. so for thursday night the temperatures will initially dip away, particularly for scotla nd initially dip away, particularly for scotland parts of northern england but as the night wears on you will see the temperature is recovering. so here's the temperatures look first thing friday morning, and noticeably milder starch to the day, but a very different looking day across the board. plenty of cloud and could be some missed and to merck over high ground and sorts the rain is the day progresses. temperatures at a max of around nine to 14 celsius. 12 to 16 across the south. a noticeably milder day to come on friday and into the weekend there's a little bit of uncertainty in the detail. looks like low pressure will be in charge but if

the positioning of the centre of that low that will affect where we see the wettest weather and strongest wins. at the moment saturday is looking like an u nsettled saturday is looking like an unsettled day misspells of rain and looked like there could be some fairly strong winds. we will keep you up—to—date as we get closer to the day and we have pinned down those details. to purchase a touchdown or what we will see on friday, still staying double figures the most. it is sunday and low pressure is still with us. looks like it will start to fill those and other unsettled day on sunday but not a total wash—out. spells of rain around and there will be a fair amount of cloud. in between there will be brighter spells. temperatures on sunday still in the double figures. highs of around 12 or 13 celsius across the south. more like 11 or 12 or 13 celsius across the south. more like 11 or12 in or 13 celsius across the south. more like 11 or 12 in the north. as a movement to the start of the next week in that area of low pressure sta rts week in that area of low pressure starts to edge its way further east and we will dragon some cooler air across the top of it so it does look like we will see something a bit

cooler across the north of the uk as we move into monday but it will be another unsettled day a fair amount of cloud around and outbreaks of rain as well. temperatures little cooler in the north, hides around eight to 11 celsius. further south around 11 or 12 celsius. generally when you take a look further ahead we see we are on the cooler side of the jet stream later in the week it looked like that will allow for another area of low pressure to form and feeding so it looks like we will see further unsettled weather as we move to the second half of next week. whilst we have seen lots of dry and bright weather to start this week looks like it's a real change in the cards to something milder and more unsettled as well. goodbye.

tonight at ten, a report on the grenfell fire, criticises the london fire brigade, and says the tower did not meet building regulations. the fire — injune 2017 — claimed the lives of 72 people — the report is based on the initial phase of the official inquiry. there have been calls for the head of the london fire brigade to resign. the victims‘ families and survivors say it would be the right response. the last thing i was hearing from my aunt was, where are the firefighters? here are my family... why, why? in the house of commons — as part of their debate on the report — mps stood in silence to pay their respects to those who lost their lives. we'll have the latest on the grenfell report, and the recommendations it makes.