after he travelled hundreds of miles with his wife — who had virus symptoms — during the lockdown. the government defended him — saying he wanted to stay with family to ensure he had childcare if he got symptoms of coronavirus. businesses in the uk will be expected to pay a quarter of the wages of furloughed workers — from the start of august. and guernsey becomes the first part of the british isles to remove nearly all its lockdown restrictions. funerals have taken place in pakistan after a plane crash in a residential area of karachi kills 97 people. spain's prime minister, pedro sanchez, says overseas visitors can visit the country from july and top flight spanish football will resume behind closed doors next month. now on bbc new, spain is one of the countries hardest hit by coronavirus. our world follows the lives of some of those at the heart of the crisis.

this is the story ofjust a few of the people making sacrifices to save lives. i follow their efforts through the peak of the epidemic in spain. until the lockdown begins to be lifted.

spain is under one of strictest lockdowns in the world. people are only allowed to go out on their own to buy food or medicine and walk their dogs. it is forbidden for children to go outside. in just a single week, the number of covid infections has tripled. and hospitals across spain are struggling. the uk has started its own lockdown. i've travelled the world making documentaries. now, for the first time, i'm making a film about my own country from my home in london.

la mancha, a region two hours south of madrid has been hard—hit by the virus. i've made contact with a nurse, loli.

loli's husband, jesus, is supporting her. loli and jesus have two children. when the crisis started, she took them to live at her sisters‘. she hasn't seen them for two weeks but today she's going to visit them to give them their schoolwork.

in madrid, the army has turned a convention centre into spain's largest medical facility injust ten days. they have even laid medicinal oxygen pipes under the floor. it is now treating hundreds of covid—i9 patients. blanca's a gp who has volunteered to work at this new hospital.

the level of police to enforce this lockdown is unprecedented. there are checkpoints on major roads, and aerial surveillance. her cousin has been in hospital with the virus.

first, they need to collect their ppe — personal protective equipment. —— lucia's cousin. when the crisis started, the central government took charge of sourcing ppe, but some local authorities say they couldn't do it quick enough. in madrid alone, hospitals need 200,000 masks every day. a couple of hours south of madrid is this small village. a group of people have volunteered to make ppe for loli's hospital. esperanca is one of them.

clinical fabric is scarce and the red cross is distributing blankets to operating theatres. this town has a population of 8,700. nearly all of the women in the village have joined the effort. esperanca's 58—year—old

brother—in—law is in intensive care with covid—i9. this evening, her son, jose luis, is volunteering to disinfect the village. spraying with disinfectant is happening all across spain. the army has been brought in to disinfect the streets, hospitals, and care homes. at home, esperanca keeps sewing.

a few days later, her 89—year—old mother gets the virus. esperanca has been helping care for her mum so she has to destroy the masks in case they're contaminated. esperanca and her family have decided that their mother won't be going into hospital.

esperanca and her sister have moved in with their mother. a few days later, esperanca's mother dies. esperanca has contracted the virus too but for now is well enough to stay home. la mancha has had more than 10,000 cases of the virus and loli is working 12 hour shifts at the hospital.

undertakers are preparing for a huge numbers of deaths. there already have been 15,000. indoor ice rinks have been turned into mortuaries, and families grieve at drive—through funerals. shortly after infections in madrid reach a thousand a day, cases of the virus start to increase in barcelona.

marius is a nurse who volunteers to deliver ppe. he's on his way to a nursing home outside the city. marius is met by the manager.

more than 18,300 people have died of coronavirus in nursing homes. that is nearly 70% of all the deaths in spain. when the army was disinfecting care homes, they found elderly people who had been abandoned and some were found dead. the prosecutor's office is investigating more than 140 care homes for alleged criminal actions. bells tolling it's easter. for the first time,

the bishop in majorca is blessing an empty cathedral. this is loli's first easter away from her children. the death toll is finally starting to go down, but madrid's field hospital is still working at full capacity.

blanca and her colleagues work hard to keep morale up. many of loli's colleagues have caught the virus. spain has the highest percentage of infected healthcare workers in the world, with at least 15,000 cases.

by the end of april, the number of patients admitted to hospital is going down. this icu team is trying to come to terms with what they've been through. before the crisis, spain had 11,500 intensive care beds, by the end, icus have treated nearly 11,500 patients.

ventilators have been key to expanding the number of icu beds. eduardo fernandez and his association of entrepreneurs have sourced and donated over 110 ventilators to hospitals all over spain.

i asked the spanish government about what people had told me in this film. they said ppe and other forms of medical supplies were provided in the regions at the beginning of the crisis.

today, children under 1a are allowed out for the first time. spain is the only country in europe where children were not allowed out during lockdown. loli's children are going for a walk with her sister. children are still only allowed out for one hour each day and only with the one adult. madrid's field hospital has closed, but the oxygen pipes haven't

been dismantled yet, just in case. blanca is on her way back to her gp practice. a week later, adults are allowed out at specific times to exercise. loli has finally been tested, the result is negative.

she's back with her colleagues, nursing non—covid patients. now she can bring her children back home. and loli's parents have come up for the first time to see their grandchildren. piano and violin plays

hello. well, it's certainly been a little on the fresh side for some of us this weekend. very blustery weather, particularly across the northern half of the uk and some heavy rain in places too. but the good news is that sunday is looking much calmer right across the country. those winds really will be dying down through the course of saturday night. here's the satellite picture, and it shows this big weather system just to the north of scotland there moving into the norwegian sea and its weather fronts stretching across scandinavia, central europe all the way down into southern france and even northern spain. now, behind this weather system, high pressure is starting to develop, and that also means that the weather will be settling down across a large chunk of western europe, so it will be warming up here in the uk and many other parts of the continent as well. so the forecast for saturday shows a bit of cloud and may be some rain across the north for a time in the morning, but then cloud here will thin. the sunniest of the weather,

however, i think across wales, the midlands and the south, and here also lighter winds, so it'll feel warmer — 22 in london. and a little bit less cold there in the lowlands of scotland — around 15 after a day of only around 10 or 11 degrees with the rain. so here's monday's weather forecast. high pressure in the south but weather fronts are still quite sneaky. they are trying to sneak into north—western parts of the uk, but it does look as though this warmer current of air from the south is going to win and bring warmer weather, at least to most of the uk. so monday's weather forecast suggests a lot of fine and dry weather across wales, england, much of scotland, but the western isles and northern ireland closer to this atlantic weather front, so cooler conditions here with some cloud and rain at times, but look at that across the south—east of england — up to around 26 degrees. now, here's the high pressure on tuesday across the uk. within that high pressure, we have this awkward weather front stuck. that also means that there is not going to be much wind in the high

pressure to move that weather front around so we will have to wait for the clouds to break up and allow for that sunshine to come through. now, top temperatures on tuesday probably around about the mid—20s in the south—east but, even in the north—east of england, there temperatures will be getting up to around 20 or so. and the same pattern continues into wednesday so, yes, high pressure is here, but weather fronts are never that far away from the west or the north—west of the uk. and if anything, for a time, there could be some rain moving across parts of northern ireland and into scotland, at least for a time, on wednesday. exactly how much and weather this will be further north or south is still a little questionable, but i think, on wednesday, most of us should have a dry day. now, here's wednesday night and into thursday so, again, that high pressure is with us, but it's starting to push away those weather fronts, and they are making more of a detour in the direction of iceland. and you can see these southerly winds. that's an indication that that warmer air from the south is winning, pushing the rain clouds away towards the north, so i think,

by the time we get to thursday and friday, it does look as though much of the uk will be under the influence of that warmer current of air from the south. it will be spreading right across the uk, much of western and central parts of europe and also into scandinavia, so the indication is that we are in for a fairly prolonged spell of warm weather. most of the time, it's going to be sunny and, apart from those weather fronts during the week, brushing north—western parts of the uk, it is going to be dry for most of us. bye— bye.

tonight at ten... the prime minister's top adviser, dominic cummings, declares he won't quit, after driving hundreds of miles during lockdown — with his wife sick with symptoms of coronavirus. reminding journalists to remain two metres apart, mr cummings insisted he'd behaved " reasonably and legally". it's a question of doing the right thing. it's not about what you guys think. cabinet ministers have defended him, arguing he wanted to stay near family for childcare, in case he too contracted coronavirus. mr cummings is, you know, in the public eye. but the reality of the matter is that a four—year—old child's welfare, i think, is the important thing. but labour is calling for an inquiry, and the snp says dominic cummings should resign

for flouting the government's