hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. there's been a huge fire at a migrant camp hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. there's been a huge fire at a migrant camp on the island of lesbos. thousands of people have been left with nowhere to stay. the greek government says the blaze was started by some of the residents who'd been quarantined for coronavirus. we had to take these people into a quarantine area that created disorder which led to the fires. multiple fires. boris johnson's government has published details of how it wants to override parts of the brexit withdrawal deal. this is the message from ireland. meaningful negotiations can only proceed on the basis of mutual trust. in belarus, another leading opposition figure has been taken away by masked men. every one of the opposition leaders who posed for this photo last month,

has now been detained or deported. and one of the most high profile covidi9 vaccine trials has been paused. though we're assured that's a standard part of the process. 13,000 people are homeless on the island of lesbos. they had lived in the largest migrant camp in greece — but this was last night. explosion. a fire destoyed the moria camp — the only welcome news being that no—one died. already around 400 unaccompanied children are now being flown to the greek mainland. and germany is urging eu members to take in migrants — we'll see if they choose to. we've also had this tweet from the president of the european commission.

let's hear more about those who need that help. amanda munoz de toro leads an organisation which provides legal aid to refugees in lesbos. at the moment, there are thousands of people that are just on the streets with out any type of access to medical aid, water, food, blankets. they spent the whole night, they just lost all of their belongings, the last things they had. there are thousands on the streets and outside the camps, there are police checkpoints where people are not allowed to leave a specific area, and also not allowed to access or provide aid. there are people with disabilities, people who have suffered torture, sexual violence and this experience is always re—traumatizing. well next let's hear from the greek authorites. the bbc has spoken to the greek minister of migration and asylum. it appears it started from asylum—seekers, they did not like vulnerable people will be arriving in the port in the next few hours,

and then we only have around 2000 people left without shelter and we are providing emergency accommodations near the camp. now unfortunately it's no surprise that there has been a disaster at this camp. it's notoriously overcrowded — almost 4 times its capacity — and tension‘s been rising because of a series of cases of covidi9. here's the minister again on how the fire is believed a further 3a cases were then detected and the camp was put under lockdown. aid agencies had raised concerns that social distancing and good hygiene were all but impossible at the camp, given its squalid and cramped conditions. here's the greek minister of migration and asylum again, on what led to the fire. it appears it started from asylum—seekers who did not like the quarantines. we found 35 positive covid—19 patients out of 2000 tests. we had to take these people into a quarantine area. that created disorder which led to the fires and multiple fires. of course, the fire brigade and police will be

investigating. there will be zero tolerance for such acts of violence. thousands of people have arrived on this island in years, they were placed in this camp and couldn't leave until thousands of people have arrived on lesbos in recent years. they were placed in the camp and couldn't leave until their asylum our population correspondent stephanie hegarty has reported from the moria migrant camp previously. here she is on who has been housed there and what conditions were like. the majority are from afghanistan, about 70%, but the rest is made up of people from 70 different countries, a lot of syrians, obviously. this is an arrival point for people who mostly by boat from turkey. we have seen quite an uptake towards the beginning of this year of arrivals on that route. there's also a very tense situation on the island of lesbos as there has been the last few months even before covid—i9 where some far rates groups have travelled there, some local population had expressed a lot of animosity towards migrants, so a really tense situation already

in lesbos, and this is not going to help them anyway at all. well already this tragedy is being linked by some to broaderfailures. here's the international president of medecins sans frontieres tweeting that "what remains of this camp is a testimony to the neglect & that's echoed by any number of commentators. this is greek journalist matina stevis—gridneff writing for the new york times — and daniel howden is at the refugee studies centre at oxford university, arguing... "lesbos is part of a european system of warehousing & deterring desperate people, with moria as centrepiece.

needless to say the eu and greece do not see what has happened in these terms. here's the greek minister of migration and asylum again — this time on the broader issue of migration into the eu. we cannot have amended capacity to cope with migration flow. greece has been asked to carry a burden which was too high. we have been the largest entry point to the eu in the last five years. that's something very difficult for us to cope with and especially for the five islands. they took of the majority of 2019 arrivals in that year. next let's hear from astrid castelein from the united nation refugee agency — the unhcr — in lesbos. we estimate that about 5000 to 5500

asylum—seekers and refugees have lost their shelter last night. it might be even worse as the second fire has started again this evening. what we are doing as the un high commissionerfor what we are doing as the un high commissioner for refugees is to work together with the government to find suitable solutions in order to reestablish temporary sides, and to protect the most vulnerable including the migrants that are currently being transferred to the mainland. with an overcrowded site where on several occasions we have urged the government to decrease the population. we are extremely concerned with their living conditions, especially in the

context of coro navi rus conditions, especially in the context of coronavirus where crowding does not allow them to comply with the basic precautionary measures. the eu wants an emergency meeting with uk officials — that's because the uk has published new legislation that will seek to over—ride parts of the brexit withdrawal deal that it signed — and that will, by its own admission, break international law. here's the european commission's vice—president. i expressed out concerns and sought assurances that the uk will fully and timely comply with the withdrawal agreement including the protocol on ireland—northern ireland. in this context, i will call for an extraordinary joint committee on the withdrawal agreement to be held as soon as possible so that our uk partners elaborate and respond to our strong concerns on the bill.

the focus here is northern ireland — and a protocol that comes with the withdrawal agreement that the uk signed. northern ireland, is part of the uk and the republic of ireland is in the eu. and there have been no border checks or any type since a peace deal in 19905 — that ended violence between unionists who want northern ireland to remain in the uk — and republicans who want northern ireland to join the republic. and avoiding a hard border is seen as key to maintaining the peace. to prevent any customs checks on the border, the uk agreed to two things — that northern ireland would continue to follow some eu rules and so remain aligned with the eu's single market. and that there would be some checks on good moving between britain and northern ireland. this new uk legislation gives the uk the option to unilaterally change which goods are checked. which is right at the heart of how the whole thing works. here's our reality check correspondent chris morris. in order to achieve that, it meant there had to be some additional bureaucracy between northern ireland

and the rest of the uk, between northern ireland and great britain, so one of the things it said was that the goods moving from northern ireland to great britain would have to fail in an export declaration form. no one of the things the internal market bill says is that no longer has to apply, or ministers would have the right in the event of there being no trade deal to decide to unilaterally to change that measure. swire would you do ireland's prime minister has called the uk's actions "disturbing". here he is explaining why. the degree to which it drags northern ireland back into the centre stage is very, very regrettable. it has a potential to be divisive in that context. and we must all work to make sure that that doesn't transpire. michael martin also raised concerns about what this would mean for future talks around trade. here's more from him. meaningful negotiations can only proceed on the basis of mutual trust. unilateral actions which seek to change the operation of measures

already agreed included in an international treaty and incorporated into domestic law do not build trust. we've also heard from sirjohn major — the british prime minister who started the peace process in northern ireland. the government argues that this agreement is different. a spokesman for the prime minister said this today. he went on to say... it's worth remembering who was pushing for that speedy timetable. jim pickard from the financial times

tweeted this a little earlier: i have been speaking to the former brussels correspondent, and now presenter of the podcast newscast, adam fleming. at the time the deal was signed last year, a few of us we re was signed last year, a few of us were saying that some of us there still some holes and think they need to be sorted out in the ireland protocol and it will be worth keeping an eye on the joint committee which is the committee made up of officials from the uk and the eu who meet every so often. they've got some detail to fill in, and that's what this is all about. i have to say the reaction from all of my old contacts in brussels today has just been universal horror. it just depends what and if the scale of the horror is that. that's all

the reflected publicly as well. you have the president of the european commission and the european council getting to the back that tend not to getting to the back that tend not to get involved both tweeting pretty strongly today, and the phrase they're all using is this. latin for agreements must be kept, deals must be stuck to. what they're really annoyed about is that first of all this about ireland, the peace process and avoiding a hard border. everyone put so much effort, emotion, thoughts, going backwards and forwards into that bit of the brexit deals of the idea that it's being tinkered now after the deal was done is quite worrying to them. there something within the withdrawal agreement called article four which says this deal will have direct effect in the uk, whatever british law says. the government in

the uk is now proposing a law which overwrites that and in brussels we ask if they can override this bit what else by the override in future? the uk government is also facing criticism over this in parliament. here's one example. if ministers think it is acceptable for this government to not obey the law, how on earth can the prime minister expect the public at home to do so? mr speaker, we expect everybody in this country to obey the law. borisjohnson also used prime minister's question time to talk up his bill. here's some more. this internal market bill is about protecting jobs, protecting growth, ensuring the fluidity and safety of our uk internal market and prosperity throughout the united kingdom. interestingly, the leader of the oppositon keir starmer didn't use any of his six questions to raise brexit — all were focused on the government's handling of the pandemic.

here's adam fleming again. with labour, the reason that starmer did not want to go there is that he didn't want to give poor shots of the opportunity of presenting him, the opportunity of presenting him, the leader of the labour party, as either pro—eu or anti—brexit. he wa nts to either pro—eu or anti—brexit. he wants to avoid even getting into that issue. you mentioned the eu and how this plays with that, but i'm hearing that, not a household name but the vice president of the european commission, he shares that joint committee which is working on working out the details of the brexit deal, and how it affects ireland, might be coming to the uk in the next couple of days. i wonder if he is now being presented in a nightmare vision of the future from his point of view, and debates of the ireland protocol of the brexit deal that need to be worked out, but being worked out in a way that is more ina being worked out in a way that is more in a british view than is in an eu view, and all of this is incredibly tactical. just posing the

question. if you don't already subscribe to newscast i recommend putting that right. you can find it wherever you get your podcasts from. we are going to talk about a search for a coronavirus vaccine because one major trial is to be put on pause after a suspected adverse reaction, we will explain why that reaction may actually have nothing to do with the trial vaccine. borisjohnson has been setting out the reasons for new coronavirus restrictions in england. from monday, social gatherings of more than six people will be illegal. here's the prime minister. you must not meet socially in groups of more than six, and if you do you will be breaking the law. this will apply in any setting, indoors or outdoors, out home or in the public. the band will set out in law, and set out in law and it will be enforced by the police, and anyone

breaking the rules risks being dispersed, find and possibly arrested. this single measure replaces both the existing ban on gatherings of more than 30 and the current guidance on two households to me indoors. now you only need to remember the rule of six. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story... the largest migrant camp in greece has been destroyed by fire, leaving thousands without shelter. the crisis in belarus continues to escalate. another prominent opposition leader has been detained. this is maxim znak — he's a key figure in what the opposition calls its co—ordination council. he missed an interview this morning

and when a colleague called him, he said someone had arrived and hung up. he later messaged the word "masks." that's believed to be a reference to the facemasks worn by security services. and sure enough — it's now been confirmed he's been detained. and he's not the only one. this is another opposition leader, maria kolesnikova — she was detained by masked men on monday. she then foiled an attempt to deport her to ukraine by ripping up her passport at the border. she's now in detention under suspicion of state treason. the authorities are targetting the opposition because there there have been weeks of anti—government protests over last month's election. to no—one's surprise alexander lukashenko was declared the resounding winner — but many disputed the result. and as a response — these opposition figures formed a coordination council. as of today, everyone pictured here has either been arrested or have fled the country. jonah fisher's been covering this story in detail. here's his latest. the real questions would be, is he going to be kept and held inside belarus and perhaps put on trial for something? or is he going to be given

the choice which many of the opposition leaders are given — which is effectively you stay here injailorwe take you to the border with ukraine, with poland, with lithuania, and you can effectively choose to go into exile instead. so, i would expect in the next 12—24 hours, we will probably hear a little bit more about where he is. perhaps he might pop up in another country. there is one member of the council leadership who remains free — the nobel prize winning author and journalist svetla na alexievich. and she now appears to be facing threats. here's a tweet from the belarusian journalist hanna liubakova: "no rules and no limits. sviatlana alexievich, the nobel laureate, asked journalists to come to her apartment in minsk, because she gets calls from unknown numbers and somebody tries to get to her apartment." diplomats from several countries have joined her at herflat — here she is speaking to journalists at the doorway. she has, not surprisingly, had a lot to say. jonah fisher has the details. she said, "they have stolen our

country, now they are trying to object the best of us. but hundreds of others will come to replace those who have been taken away from our ranks. it wasn't the coordination council that rebelled, it was the entire country that rebelled." that's really reflecting a broader point, really, that though the opposition leaders are being rounded up — it seems pretty much one by one — that is unlikely to have much of an impact on the demonstrations, because they are very much decentralised, organised by groups of strikers, of workers, of students, not particularly led by these opposition figures. so i would not imagine that the crowds will drop at the demonstrations. a huge amount of hope is being pinned on efforts to find a vaccine against coronavirus. the news of a suspected serious adverse reaction in one of the volunteers who'd been injected with one potential vaccine, from astrazeneca — was a setback. here's the uk health secretary.

i would rather this went completely smoothly. however, we are absolutely clear that safety comes first with the vaccine. so there has been a pause while they investigate an incident this has happened before, and then the pause has been lifted. but itjust shows how much of an emphasis we put on the safety of the vaccine, even though, of course, we are all desperate to see it work. the volunteer was a british woman who had to go to hospital after developing an inflamation in her spine. the story was broken yesterday by the us website stat, they're now reporting. that astrazeneca's ceo has told shareholders the trial participant had "serious neurological symptoms" — but that she could be discharged from hospital today. it's very possible this volunteer getting sick had nothing to do with the vaccine — about 18,000 people have been injected with it so far — and in any group that large, sometimes people will fall ill —

for a variety of reasons. one british doctor involved in the trial has been tweeting about how they monitor people. what if something serious happens? earlier i spoke to dr eleanor murray from boston university school of public health. yes, so i think ideally obviously we would like to see it no adverse events coming out in the vaccine trials, but really the fact that this has been reported and so quickly, and that they are taking action in terms of halting the trial and investigating whether that's good news, because it shows that they are taking safety seriously as

they are taking safety seriously as the other comments mentioned, we have been given this vaccine and things will happen to people during trials that may or may not be due to the vaccine. they can be pretty challenging to figure it out, but that's an important thing to do, and this is why we don't rush of vaccines, while we have phase three trials that will help us. to help us understand this, would it be stated for a large—scale vaccine trial to be paused at some point? yes and this is actually the sum time that the trial had been paused. it's not surprising to have a trial pause for an adverse event even if someone falls down the stairs that needs to be investigated to make sure it's not related to the vaccine. i think this is normal business as usual, and everything working the way it should. right — let me show you latest video of the wildfires in california.

there are at least 25 major fires that are out of control — and strong winds and a historic heatwave are making them worse. so far more than 2 million acres of land have been burned — that's also a record. the largest fire is called creek fire. it began in the sierra mountains on friday trapping groups of hikers and campers. cbs correspondent, danya baccus, is there. firefighters are working around—the—clock to try to contain the fire here. we are near the creek fire that has now burned more than 100,000 acres. like you mentioned, there were dramatic rescues. we saw more than 100 people being rescued yesterday being reunited with their loved ones after being trapped surrounded by the fire for almost three days. what we do know right now is that firefighters are also preparing for a wind event that is expected today. the wind could actually fuel the already very large flames here. thousands of people are having to leave their homes who are actually driving through an evacuation zone to get

to the location where we are now. we were at the cal fire command post, this is where firefighters are meeting up, getting their assignments before they actually go and try to tackle that fire. what we saw where a lot of dark streets, police barricades not letting people go past the barricades to get to their homes. we are talking to people who are just kind of waiting to see what will happen. many of them are fearful that they will not have a home to return to. firefighters are battling three of the top four largest fires in the state history. so resources are stretched thin as they try to get all of them contained. that's it for outside source, whether you're watching in the us or anywhere in the world, or on the bbc news channel, or watching us back on the iplayer thank you forjoining us and we will be back at the usual time tomorrow with more details on

the biggest stories from around the world. goodbye. good evening. the cloud and the odd spot of drizzle that we have had over our southern parts through today is clearing away, that is a weak weather front and it is weak because we have got a ridge of high pressure building across the uk at the moment and that is also reducing the amount of showers that we are seeing in the north, they are becoming confined to the north—east of scotland. and actually, the cloud will tend to melt away as we go through the evening and overnight notjust the cloud either melting away but the winds will fall light. so, ingredients are there for a chilly night. it was quite muggy in the south in particular last night. it will be distinctly chilly overnight. the glens of scotland are expected to fall to freezing in a few spots. and further south through the countryside areas, into low single figures. the towns and cities as you can see here are low enough. so, a distinctly chilly start to our thursday morning. there could be a little mist around,

even a little shallow fog and some of the river valleys. but that should clear and we should have plenty of sunshine, an abundance of sunshine first thing. the cloud will tend to build up through the day. it mightjust produce the odd shower for northern ireland but more so for western and northern scotland. further south and east, mostly dry and staying mostly dry for england and wales but notably, the temperatures are several degrees down on recent days. i still think it will feel pleasant enough because of the light winds and the sunshine. it's still early september but it's a notable change. and so a chilly night will follow in the south tomorrow night but by that time, we have got low pressure establishing itself. so, showers merge into longer spells of rain, and quite heavy and substantial rain across the scottish mountains and also for northern ireland. northern england will also see some rains before it brightens into showers in the north but again, further south and east, largely settled and dry on friday, just a bit more cloud around. that weather front just about fizzles away, then, through friday night as it crosses into southern england but again to the north, we are watching that next pulse

of rain come in on our next area of low pressure. so, initially starting as showers end of saturday. by the end of the day, it looks like we will see heavy rains spilling back into probably northern ireland, more so scotland. whilst elsewhere, parts of eastern scotland, much of england and wales largely dry, feeling warm with the light winds. and then as we change our up our wind direction into a more southerly for sunday, we will see it warm up again and our first pulse of rain clears away saturday night, so quite a wet night and potentially some more rain for the far north—west than into sunday. but by that stage 2a in the south.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. tightening of coronavirus restrictions in england — from monday social gatherings of more than six people are banned — with the new law enforced by police

i wish that we did not have to take this step. but, as your prime minister, i must do what is necessary to stop the spread of the virus and to save lives. anyone going out to eat or drink in england will now be forced to give their contact details and there'll be new covid marshals on the streets to enforce social distancing. it all comes as the coronavirus testing system comes under huge pressure — the prime minister tells people to only get a test if they have symptoms in other news — borisjohnson calls on mps to support new legislation — which would alter the brexit withdrawal deal — even though the government admits it breaks international law. the inquiry into the manchester arena bombing hears that fire engines didn't arrive until 2 hours after the suicide bomb