a new ceasefire has come into effect in the deadly conflict over the disputed territory of nagorno—kara bakh. the humanitarian truce was announced in identical statements from armenia and azerbaijan, and came after the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, spoke to both sides. french officials say that the man who beheaded a teacher in paris on friday had been waiting outside the school and had asked pupils to identify his victim. it's thought the teacher, samuel paty, was targeted for showing cartoons of the prophet mohammed. a national tribute will take place for him on wednesday. australia's state of victoria's easing some of its coronavirus restrictions. people from melbourne will be able to travel 25 kilometres from their home, rather than five. other changes include the reopening of hairdressers and golf and tennis clubs. the rspca says it's dealing

with a surge in the number of horses being abandoned because of the financial pressure faced by their owners. now, the charity is asking other horse lovers to help, as duncan kennedy reports. for these horses, this is a field of dreams. somewhere for now that becky, hallie, brett and bert can call home. hello! juliette cox is one of those who now looks after them. julia, they're incredibly friendly. yes, these two are... she says it is hard to understand how anyone could treat them like this. good boy, bert! i just wish that people would ask for help, because there is help out there, so that you don't have to leave them, abandon them. there's been a surge in the number of abandoned horses across the country. this huge group was found recently in northamptonshire. many are in a terrible state. the rspca is now caring for around 750 abandoned

horses, the highest number since 2009. rosie russon from the rspca says owners are getting rid of their animals during the covid crisis because they cannot afford to keep them. people are on furlough at the moment due to covid, they're struggling financially. they're struggling to pay for food costs for their horses and the breeders are still breeding, unfortunately, and no—one can buy these horses. the cost of keeping abandoned horses is huge. animal charities don't get any covid—related support from the government and the rspca says its income has dropped by half since march. the rspca says horses like hallie, brett and bert here often arrive having been starved and ill treated, but they say after a few weeks of care and attention here by the rspca staff,

they become friendly and able to be rehomed in a perfectly safe fashion. that's why ahead of winter they're desperately appealing for help, from horse lovers like alison hargreaves. she has agreed to take in one abandoned horse named nelly. i have got two alpacas. she gets on well with them and with my other horse as well. she is a very quick learner. she loves to be busy and doing things and i think we're going to have a load of fun together, aren't we? hey? the rspca thinks the problem of abandoned horses will get even worse as the financial difficulties of covid deepen. an equine dimension to an economic crisis. duncan kennedy, bbc news in kent. now on bbc news: on september 8, the moria refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos went up in flames. gabriel gatehouse investigates the events surrounding the blaze. warning this film contains scenes some viewers a warning: this film contains scenes some viewers

may find upsetting. moria was held. thenifs then it's like a burnt health. on the night of 8 september, europe's largest refugee camp went up in flames. the greek authorities say the fire was started by the refugees themselves, angry at conditions in the camp. more than 12,000 people already

living in dire conditions were burned out of their tents. among them was a group of young filmmakers, most of them refugees from afghanistan. they've shared their footage with us. and what file number is that? a huge archive of evidence from the fire and its aftermath that raises troubling questions about the blaze and about europe's dysfunctional policies on migration.

since his early teens, yaser taheri has wanted to be a filmmaker. now 16 years old, he arrived on lesbos with his family in january after a ten—month journey from afghanistan. moria was built as a temporary camp to house 3,000 refugees. by the time yaser arrived, it had burst at the seams with 2a,000 people living in squalor, waiting sometimes for years for their asylum claims to be processed. crying violence, disease, and mental illness were commonplace.

yaser found an organisation called refocus, an ngo that teaches camera skills to help the residents of moria document their lives in the camp. then came the pandemic. since march, the camp had been under lockdown. but it wasn't until the start of september that they diagnosed the first positive case. the authorities began isolating suspected cases in a specially—built quarantine zone inside the camp and that may have been a catalyst for what happened next. so this is, we're back to 8 september, yeah?

in the footage that yaser shot on the night of the fire, we see a red car with its window smashed in. yaser follows the crowd to the covid zone where the migrants release those held in quarantine. two hours later, what was a disturbance has become a riot. and it's now that the blaze really gets going. just tell me what we're looking at here. who filmed this? milad ebrahimi, 21 years old, also from afghanistan,

is another member of the filmmaker‘s group. protests were not uncommon in the camp, nor were fires, but they'd always been kept under control — until this night. screams

was the camp torched by migrants as the greek authorities maintain? some of the fires were lit by refugees. on that, milad and yaser both agree, but they don't believe that's the full story. so in your understanding of what actually happened, who started the first fires and then what happened? small fires in protest?

among the residents of the camp, few believe the official greek narrative. instead, they blame the fire on angry locals and far right activists. just a few miles off the turkish coast, lesbos has long been one of the main entry points for refugees and migrants coming to europe. at the height of the migration crisis five years ago, thousands of people were arriving on boats here every day. when we came, we found local people who were proud of a long tradition of hospitality. then came the eu—turkey deal, agreed in 2016, which effectively closed off europe's borders and turned islands like lesbos into permanent detention centres. when we returned here

in spring this year, the mood had changed. there were reports of vigilante groups attacking migrants and ngo workers. a fire at a smaller refugee centre was blamed on far—right activists. near the camp in moria village, angry locals had set up a roadblock. the regional governor arrived to try to calm things down. are you worried about the rise of the right? very worried, very worried. because i know that many times, many countries, the extreme right take profit out of the situations. if this situation continues, then what will happen? it will be catastrophic, it has to stop. in moria village today, we could find only one person who was willing to talk to us. panagiotis deligiannis, he's lived here all his life.

but as the camp grew, so did divisions within the village. some were making money letting their fields to the government or ngos to house the refugees. others felt swamped as migrants at times outnumbered villagers by a factor of more than ten. on the night of the blaze, panagiotis called the fire brigade, who initially told him they were busy with other fires elsewhere on the island.

you know this area, you know how fires — there've been fires here before, you've seen them happen — do you think this could have been an accident? no, no accident, no—no, no. if locals were somehow involved in the fire, people here will almost certainly know about it and if so, they're not saying. less than two miles from moria village, thousands of refugees are still camped out by the side of the road. they've been here for days now — without shelter, without sanitation or proper access to food and water. nearby, a new camp is being built. some refugees are already moving in.

but many worry it will be harder to come and go freely and for us, finding witnesses to the fire may become more difficult. but for now, there are still people searching through the remains of the old camp, and here, we find someone who can tell us more about what happened. so yaser says that this guy says he saw some local greeks helping set fire to the camp.

it seems that some people — who were not refugees or migrants — were, at the very least, seizing the opportunity to stoke the flames. it's 5:30am and we get a tipoff that the police are about to start clearing all the refugees off the road and into the new camp. well, the police have stopped us from driving through at the checkpoints, so we're taking the back roads and trying to climb in over the mountainside. as the camp wakes up, news of the police operation begins to spread. beyond the police cordon, officers in protective suits are clearing the roadside. section by section, the riot police move forward, while officers in plain clothes tell the refugees to pack up. and they don't

like the cameras. the new camp is built on a disused military firing range, enclosed by the sea on one side and fences on the other. those who want to remain outside must now avoid the police. milad has been on lesbos for about nine months. he's afghan but he has come from iran — his parents sought refuge there when he was a young boy. his plan to leave behind an imperfect relatively secure situation was a complicated one.

so far, for milad, europe has not turned out to be that

kind of place. he and yaser are still resisting the new camp, trying to help us unravel what really happened. in the footage they filmed in the aftermath of the fire, there is another piece of the puzzle. yaser, did you find yourfamily? yeah. where are they? are they over here? these pictures were filmed a little after 7pm the evening after the fire. this is insanity, man. the american voice you hear is doug herman, who runs refocus, the filmmakers‘ ngo. they walk through the half burned camp to check on yaser‘s family. hello, stranger, how are you? i'm good, thanks. good to see you again. hmm? and then this. oh, man.

at 7:23, a second fire. much of the camp had burned the previous night, but not all of it. now it looks like someone is back to finish the job. it's really going up now. oh my god. the fire spreads rapidly through the remaining tents. what is he trying to get? the cat? oh come on, come on,

don't go in there! no, no, no. oh my god, this is hot. stand back! but here's an odd detail. going back through the footage again people are packing up and leaving before seven o'clock, before the second fire starts. it seems like a lot of refugees in the camp knew what was about to happen — including milad. so it seems the second fire, at least, was not a spontaneous event. but if it was planned, then by who and who else knew?

the filmmakers tell me about a conversation they overheard among a group of camp residents earlier that morning. he said that, you heard him say that? if that's true, that means the locals basically helped a number of refugees to burn this whole place down. we managed to track down one of the migrants in this conversation. perhaps unsurprisingly, he told a different story. he said the fire was the work of fascists — the term many migrants use to refer to local far right activists. one thing seems clear, many residents of lesbos, locals and migrants

alike, found themselves in an intolerable situation they felt powerless to change. they felt stuck? and in a way you can understand the locals as well, who have been with this for five years. in their attempt to stem the flow of migrants across europe, the greek government and the eu turns lesbos and other islands into pressure cookers. the moria fire was, perhaps, an inevitable consequence. it's ten days since the fire.

we get a message from yaser. yaser, hey, what's going on? the authorities now say anyone who wants their asylum claim to be considered must first come here. no—one knows exactly what to expect. will yaser and milad be separated? the families from the single men?

once inside, will they be allowed out again? most people here say they'd be happyjust to make it off the island. yaser and his family hope one day to reach germany. the old moria embodied the failures of the eu's migration politics. now it's gone, in brussels they're talking of a new start. but behind these fences it feels like they've swapped one prison for another. in ten years‘ time, when this is all over, where do you see yourself?

in ten years, well, since this situation is so uncertain i don't really know, i can't really plan for it. or maybe in ten years i am going to still be in this closed camp. i still don't know. yes, accept the reality. this is the world. it's like — people don't respect the differences between each other. but i still have hope that the world is notjust darkness. there's a narrow, bright light inside this dark world.

hello. sunday will be the last day in this spell of fairly quiet, settled weather. that said, there will still be enough cloud out there to produce a little patchy rain in a few spots as we go through the day. but some of us will actually end up being a little bit brighter than we were on saturday. we're just in this weather pattern waiting for something to come along and the signs are there in the atlantic as low pressure starting to form and heading our way to bring some very different weather in the week ahead. as we'll see in a moment. this is how we start off on sunday morning. the thickest cloud through northern ireland, scotland, through northern and eastern england giving some outbreaks of mostly light rain. so some of us getting off to a damp start. there may be some early sunny spells in the far northeast of scotland. that will cloud over. and as all of this starts to push north again it will stay damp for some in scotland. but northern ireland

will brighten up for a time. and parts of wales, and across the midlands, and southern england — a great chance of seeing sunny spells on sunday compared with saturday. it will still be another rather cool day. but for now the winds are light. some rain will push across northern ireland on through sunday evening, on across the northern isles too, and more widely into scotland, into parts of northern england as the night goes on. south of that there will be a few clear spells around. for all parts, the breezes starting to pick up. starting to come in, though, from the south. look at this. it has been so quiet, it is much more active on the big picture here, though, for monday. weather fronts out towards the north and west. and, of course, low pressure taking over. and during monday there will be some further heavy rain, particularly into northern ireland and scotland. but some outbreaks of rain also affecting some of us towards the west of wales and western fringes of england. whereas elsewhere cloud's going to increase. still some hazy brightness. again the wind is starting to pick up as well. but it's a southerly breeze. those temperatures are a little bit higher. that spell of rain will push its way east across all parts during monday night. on tuesday, still some further heavy rain in northern scotland, further heavy showers elsewhere in scotland and northern ireland.

a few elsewhere on this brisk south—southwesterly wind. but that flow of air will bring some milder weather in, particularly into england and wales, where some will reach towards the high teens. temperatures trail off again later in the week. as the week goes on there will be further spells of rain clearing to showers to end the week. bye— bye.

this is bbc news. i'm james reynolds. our top stories: armenia claims azerbaijan has broken a new humanitarian ceasefire — minutes after it came into effect — over the disputed region of nagorno—karabakh. tributes are paid to samuel paty, the teacher beheaded in paris on friday, in what the french president has called a "cowardly" attack. opening up in australia — the state of victoria eases some of its toughest coronavirus restrictions. and thousands of lebanese mark the anniversary of a mass protest movement against a political elite, now blamed for august's deadly blast in beirut. people have no means to survive or continue, and the ones who came here today are sending one message: they are here to stay, and waiting for the change.