the second impeachment process against donald trump could begin as early as monday — according to democrats who've circulated a draft of their resolution to remove him. the uk has now recorded more than 3 million cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. nearly 60,000 people tested positive for covid—19 on saturday — with more than a thousand deaths. it comes as queen elizabeth and prince philip both receive coronavirus vaccinations at windsor castle. and donald trump is suspended from twitter permanently over concerns about the further risk of inciting violence. now on bbc news, on september 8th the moria refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos went up inflames. gabriel gatehouse investigates the events surrounding the blaze.

0n 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. 0thers felt swamped as migrants at times outnumbered villagers by a factor of more than ten. 0n 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 tip—off 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 decision 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. 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 turned 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 there. the weather's turning gradually milder this weekend. we'll see more atlantic influence, bringing stronger winds from the west and also more cloud, with outbreaks of rain. that's certainly the case across the northern half of the country through sunday, weather fronts bringing outbreaks of rain here. further south, closer to an area of high pressure, it will tend to stay dry. and it'll be a chilly start again, some frost, a little bit of fog around for sunday morning, a bit of ice for eastern scotland, north—east england. but generally speaking, eastern scotland, much of england and northern ireland and wales should see some sunshine through the afternoon, whereas northern and western scotland will be breezy and pretty wet at times. and with temperatures beginning to creep up for all areas, but especially across western scotland, the heavy rain combined with snow melt could lead to some localised flooding. it stays very wet for northern and western scotland on sunday night. further south, as well, the south—westerly wind begins to pick up, importing this milder air, cloud and some spots of rain across western areas. so it could be, sunday night,

for many of us, it'll be frost—free, with temperatures ranging from around freezing or one degree up to around seven in the north and the west. so, monday looks much milder, a breezy day for all, outbreaks of rain across northern and western areas. some of this will be heavy across western hills. and still some cold air looming across northern scotland, to allow for some snow here, certainly over the hills. but some drier and brighter weather in the south—east. those temperatures range from seven to around nine or ten degrees across western areas. that weather front and heavy rain clears away during tuesday night into wednesday. we've got a ridge of high pressure but northerly winds, so it looks like it'll turn colder again across most areas. the northerly wind's quite strong across northern, eastern scotland and down eastern england, making it feel raw. but because it's a ridge of high pressure, we should see a lot of drier weather around, with some sunshine. feeling colder in the north. still fairly mild in the south—west but cooler generally across the board. well, to tuesday into wednesday, that ridge of high pressure breaks down slowly with the cold air, and we start to see another frontal system pushing in from the west.

more cloud, outbreaks of rain, stronger winds to western areas. some of the rain will be quite heavy. as it pushes eastwards into the cold air, we could start to see some sleet and snow developing on its leading edge, but i think generally northern and eastern parts of the country will stay cold, dry with some sunshine before that rain, sleet and snow arrives. it looks like it could grind to a halt, though, as we move into thursday across northern and eastern areas, so a mixture of rain, sleet and snow, maybe down to lower levels. stay tuned to the forecast for this. it looks like another ridge of high pressure builds in behind it, so things will settle down further west. temperature—wise, well, around the seasonal average, still quite cold across northern and eastern areas, particularly where we have that sleet and snow, which will tend to ease down through the course of the day. so, as we move further ahead, deeper on into the week, you can see we're constantly in a battle of air masses, colder influxes with milder air masses at times. and it will be flip—flopping from settled to unsettled, areas of low pressure moving in, bringing outbreaks of rain, stronger

winds, then milder incursions, followed by areas of higher pressure bringing settled conditions but some colder air, as well. and this is how it's looking as we move deeper on into next week. you can see the milder incursions bring some rain at times, followed by higher pressure to bring something a bit cooler and more settled, perhaps, with some sunshine. generally, though, next week it will be less cold than what we've had of late, those areas of low pressure bringing rain at times as they bump into the cooler air. as they spread eastwards across the country, we could see some snow at times, particularly on northern hills. that's it from me.