the government says nhs volunteers are still there to help. how h ow ofte n how often have you heard stories about a big financial when ruining french ships? not in wisconsin. a lottery winner in the us has split his jackpot of $22 million dollars with an old friend because of a "gentleman's agreement" they made nearly 30 years ago. tom cook and joe feeney played the wisconsin lottery separately but they'd made a pact in 1992 to share any major wins. tanya dendrinos has the story. it's the stuff dreams are made of — cheesy grins and a cheque for $22 million. it's not every day you win the lottery. it was quite an experience

when i read the first two or three numbers and i kinda froze and handed it to her and she froze. and i said, are you jerking my bobber? it is a friendship that has lasted a lifetime, so there was no question when it came to upholding a gentleman's agreement made almost three decades ago. a handshake is a handshake, man. we said whenever the big win comes, we would split it, so we buy every week, not really thinking it would happen. but it did. the odds of winning the powerball jackpot are estimated to be around one in 292 million and for these graciousjoint winners, it's not about grand plans but the opportunity to enjoy their retirement and make the most of precious time with theirfamilies. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich.

hello, the weather we've got across the uk today is a far cry from what we had a year ago. the 25th ofjuly 2019 was the day when we set the uk's new temperature record, 38.7 celsius. but nothing like that today. these are the best temperatures you can expect, 19 to 23 degrees and quite a few heavy downpours drifting through. some thunder and lightning mixed in with some dry, bright spells in between. i think the emphasis will be on more dry weather as we go through tonight, many of the showers will fade, we'll keep some going up towards northern ireland and western scotland. not as mild as last night. tomorrow, a lot of fine weather around with some spells of sunshine, a few showers here and there and some more persistent rain into north—west scotland. it is going to be quite a windy day tomorrow, those are the average wind speeds, gusts will be a little bit stronger than that, and it is going to feel fairly cool and fresh out there with top temperatures between 17 and 23 degrees.

this is bbc news. the headlines. gyms and swimming pools reopen in england but up to a third may stay shut because of financial trouble. the opening comes as experts warned being overweight or obese brings a greater risk of serious illness or death if you contract covid—i9. further restrictions have been introduced in spain and catalonia amid fears that a second wave of the virus has arrived. wiley has been dropped by his management following a stream of anti—semitic comments made on his social media account. now on bbc news, my colleague philippa thomas hears from people from around the world about their extraordinary experiences during the pandemic and how covid—i9 has changed their lives.

welcome to coronavirus: your stories, a programme about how covid—i9 is changing the lives of people around the world. i'm philippa thomas. this week, we'll be hearing stories of youth activism in the face of this crisis. in the philippines, we hear about a family aid program to feed thousands of neighbours who've lost access to jobs and to food because of lockdown. in the us state of pennsylvania, a 17—year—old tells me how she's managed to finish high school while taking on 30 hours a week as a supermarket worker to help fund herfamily. but we start with the story of a teenager in stockholm who's been helping to get vital information about virus protection to vulnerable migrant communities. the parents of 17—year—old warda abdalla brought her from somalia to sweden when she was just a baby —

giving her opportunity she says she would never have had otherwise. and as covid—i9 hit sweden, she tried to do her bit to help those who are vulnerable to misinformation or panic. me, alongside the other ambassadors, had one critical assignment, and that was to share information about the coronavirus — basically how to take precautions, how to protect yourself and how to protect others. so, we handed out leaflets in around 2a different languages. so, anything from finnish to arabic to russian to somali. and as ambassadors, we had different nationalities and we knew different languages. and that also gave us a kind of a wider approach. and this was to make sure that the information reached every single citizen in need.

and i believe that the swedish community as a whole were in need of this information. and what was it about these communities that made them so vulnerable, do you think? why? why were they at risk? i believe that any community can be vulnerable and in a risk without the correct information and the proper procedures. i believe that, as a community, there's always going to be loopholes. there's always going to be exceptions. and that's why our work as ambassadors were so important, so that every single person could take advantage of the knowledge that we were providing and handing out. when i was talking to people face to face, i was giving my community some kind of comfort and trust, because if i was walking and i met someone trying to help me as a citizen, i would kind of feel safe and a bit more calm. why did this matter to you so much personally? were you thinking about your own parents, your own family, as well? i was already working with the county on a democratic project for the youth before the pandemic started, and i do believe that my engagement

just kind of continued from there. but the main reason as to why i wanted to help was because of my parents and the influence that they have on me. we are a family of help and i always picture when i'm working... i always picture myself a family, a home with parents new to the country who probably have gone through hell and back and have struggled to find a safe home for theirfamily. and they're trying to adapt in this difficult time. they're trying to adapt to this new language. and on top of that, there's a pandemic going on and they don't know how to get information or understand the information. and that's why it's so important to kind of reach out to them. and even though covid—i9 is affecting a certain risk group, i believe that no one is safe. and therefore, i chose to spend my easter holiday protecting those families because i think of them just like i think of my own. tell us a bit more

about your family. i think you came to sweden when you were a baby. yes, i came to sweden when i was a baby. my parents brought me to sweden. that obviously came with difficulties. and i'm sure that many people can relate to them. them being old and having a hard time learning the swedish language doesn't come as a surprise. my parents also came to sweden a very long time ago to provide me a better life, yeah, to provide me and my siblings with a better life, to kind of ensure our safety and our future. and i do believe that the hardship that they have gone through day in and day out gives me the dedication to truly do everything at heart. and that's why i work with the democracratic project, with the youth, because i want kids to understand democracy. and my dad, being one of those in the risk groups, just makes me realize even more how important the job that i was doing was. because if i managed to inform just

one person who may not realize that they had symptoms and kept that person off the streets, i may have saved someone from contracting the virus. and ijust believe that life is so precious and my parents have taught me to never take it for granted. you are talking about the importance of understanding and i'm thinking about members of your community who might not speak english as articulately as you do or even speak swedish. there's then the potential for getting the wrong kind of information, isn't there, about something scary like a virus? yes, i do believe that the wrong information... when facts are going around, especially on social media, people are getting the wrong information in the wrong language because they might not understand english or they might not understand the swedish language. and that's why it's so important, again, that the youth workers are out there giving out the right information. so people are not scared and feeling afraid and feeling anxiety over covid—i9.

i'm now thinking about you as youth workers being out there. and we know that sweden hasn't had an official lockdown like many other european countries. what did you think about that? personally, i do think it's kind of, like, hard to understand why. but i do believe that whatever decision that they made was with good intentions. it is the country that i live in and i'm being raised in. and what i seem to understand is that in the beginning, i think i was scared when the first news came out that the pandemic was real and was on the move. i believe that i'm not the only one that felt panic, felt anxiety, or just felt the feeling of being afraid, the feeling of fear. did you feel a pull there, a tug, because teenagers want to go out and want to be with their friends? i think in the early stages i was understanding and i do think that teenagers all around the world were understanding. we knew what was at risk.

people were dying. you know, covid—i9 has ta ken people's grandpas, aunts, mothers, sons. you know, we understood the necessity of staying home because we were protecting the people that we love and were taking responsibility. but i do think that when you stay home for this long, just something happens. you may not be able to, you know, go out orjust a feeling of being close to other people kind of affects you, you know, kind of affects your mentality. i believe. so, age doesn't really matter. i think the maturity that you sit on is what determines if you're understanding. if you're understanding enough to think about others rather than think of yourself. we havejust been, like many teenagers around sweden, taking online classes. so, i haven't seen my classmates for so long. and adults stay home if they can work from home and they haven't been able to see their colleagues. so, i think there's

a balance to therefore being a teenager and being adult. it's the same thing. we're all, you know, having a hard time. how confident do you feel about your future? i believe in the swedish government, so i do feel very confident. i am pretty sure that we're all going to be just fine. i am very positive and optimistic about the future. warda abdulla in stockholm, sweden. let's take you now to philadelphia in the us state of pennsylvania, where i've been talking to one of thousands of teenagers who've been picking up more essential work as the adults around them either get or shield from covid—i9. gloria lumbrano—torres has been working around 30 hours a week in a supermarket as well as trying to finish high school. i was working more hours, so the amount of time that i had to do my homework was minimal, but i could have still done it because it was online school, so it didn't really matter what time of the day i would be able to log

in and do my homework. tell us about the juggling you were doing with your work and school. i tried to manage time, but at the time i fell back on my schoolwork, cos i was more focused on work than school, i think. and your work was essential. tell us about the juggling you were doing with your work and school. i tried to manage time, but at the time i fell back on my schoolwork, cos i was more focused on work than school, i think. and your work was essential. i mean, you were one of the key workers. ithought, you know, essential workers were like firefighters, but i never really thought i would ever be in a position where i would call myself an essential worker, you know? were you worried or frightened? working as a cashier at a time when this virus is going around. yeah. at times, cos you never know who is coming down the line or coming down your register

and could possibly have it. in the end, you did get covid—i9, didn't you? how was that? yeah, i did get it. it was not severe for me. but there's a few people that i know, that are friends of my family, that have passed away, so i'm grateful that it didn't hit me as hard. and tell us something about how you doing more hours at work and bringing home more money was able to help your household. there are quite a few people in your house. itjust gave more leniency towards my aunt and she's been my provider, my guardian, since i was three years old. so, i think, like, just bringing out that stress for her was a big relieverfor her, since she wasn't working at the time. your aunt's been looking

after you since you were three. tell us a little more about that. so, my mom was in a coma for ten—and—a—half years and my dad was never really in the picture. so, she is... she took me in when i had nobody. and she's been taking care of me since my mom got sick and she's... she's my all. gloria, ifeel as if you have had to grow up very fast. i know you've now graduated high school, but it must have been quite a source of tension for you having to deal with what's going on and being at the frontline. yeah, i think so, but i think all your, like, life experience, like the fact that i don't have a mom and dad...

again, i still have to, like, get my things on my own, not like any other kid. just that itself is, like, an obstacle. so, if i could overcome one obstacle, i think i could overcome multiple. so, you've got through high school graduation, you've made it through high school, gloria. and i think, unlike your mom and your aunt, you're a us citizen. what do you want to do next? what opportunities do you want to get to? well, i want to go to collard's to montgomery community college for my four years and then eventually go to temple for a business degree. like my aunt, she didn't get the same experience that i did. she never really got an education when she was young at the age of five. she was put to work. so, she never really got that

education, so i'm going to take advantage of my opportunities and get the education that i want. gloria lumbrano—torres, looking forward to a brighter future. you're watching coronavirus: your stories, a programme about how covid—i9 is changing lives around the world. i'm philippa thomas. 0ur third personal story comes from the philippines, where a 24—year—old and her siblings have set up a food aid project because they realised that in their town, lockdown meant the loss ofjobs and the loss of access to food for thousands. well, my family and i, ever since march started our program, which is basically similar to our own personal relief operations. afterfour months, we managed to procure and distribute up to 200,000 pieces of food and relief in order to provide for tens of thousands.

ever since march many have lost — either temporarily or permanently — their main or sometimes only source of income. because the lockdown has spanned four months long, people have ended up using up all of their savings. people have ended up selling off almost all of their items at home just to be able to get whatever form of income. you're talking about some essential food. there's also a need for milk, for children, for babies. at our peak, i think i was receiving 30 to 50 messages on facebook messengerfrom different mothers in the community asking for help because their children couldn't just drink water, couldn't drink coffee, sometimes couldn't drink water with sugar, they needed milk. and so we used our general donor fund to procure children's milk on a daily basis and to distribute this milk, to the different households of the mothers we were in contact with.

so, at the peak, we were distributing milk to about 100 mothers every week. this is a lot of work and a lot of organization for you and your brothers. tell me something about you and your family. what made you so determined? my father and my mother... they're both doctors, but for a majority of their profession... in fact, for my father, for all of his professional career, he's chosen to serve the underserved. he chose to forgo private practice in order to service the patients in government hospitals. sometimes he hardly charges anything because he feels medicine and health before anything is service to the people. and i think growing up, this is the type of upbringing we've had and this has really embedded

in us a call to service, a call to use our profession, our capabilities and our resources to see what kind of impact we can have on others, especially the underserved and the marginalized. and so clearly, when we saw a need in our very hometown, my brothers and i reallyjust had to act. and what do you think gave you and your brothers the stamina to keep going with a project like this? so, i've been a badminton player for ten years of my life. i'm pretty sure my coaches have trained me enough to do the heavy lifting on and off the court. my brothers, likewise, are national athletes. 0ne brother is still in high school. but my brothers and i are national athletes for basketball, i think that this, the competitive, the drive and the never say die spirit that was inculcated within us through all those years of athletic training and competing really helped us continue on,

despite all the challenges, despite all the trials and despite all the, again, negativity that we may face and that we have been facing over the four months that we've been conducting this food program. and for everyone that you've helped during this time of coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, what are you hearing back? what kind of messages do you get? honestly, we've been hearing the best of messages and i say this not with a boastful heart, but with a very, very grateful heart. people in the communities, especially those that we've reached, that we've helped give milk to, give relief packs to, would send messages, would send videos and pictures of their children with

the milk or with the food. really just thanking us for the support and the food or relief we've given them. and, honestly, when you think about it, we gave five kilos of rice, 14 pieces of canned goods, maybe a box of milk. to a lot of people that's nothing. that's something that's part of their grocery lists. but to be thanked the way they thank you, itjust shows that to them, what you gave, regardless of how small you think it is, actually means the world. to a lot it mightjust be their world because they survive on a day to day basis. and so really when you think that when you give, you're the one on the, again, giving end, but really, when you give, you're the one on the receiving end because you're touched, you're changed and you're basically allowed to be the type

of person we all were supposed to be, which is basically persons with and for others, especially those who need help and need support the most. shawntel, would you describe for our viewers around the world what your town, what cainta is like? a lot may not know this outside of the philippines, but cainta is the catch basin of manila. so, when the typhoons come in, and they do so every year, we always are heavily affected. but this has resulted to us and our people being as resilient, as caring and as, say, really supportive as we can in terms of helping one another. so, this is really the kind of power that we have. in our language, we have what we call the bayanihan spirit, which is basically a heroic spirit. but a type of heroism that is rooted not in, say,

self glory and strength, but in your ability to reach and help other people out. and over the course of the lockdown, we've seen this bayanihan spirit within our town, thousands upon thousands of people donating what they can for our marginalized communities. someone even donated washing machines. so, really, i think that if you were to have me describe our town, i'd give you the figures. we have 322,000 people. we're a suburban town. we are small, relative to maybe other cities in the country, but we are one of the most resilient, hardworking and caring people. and, shawntel, i've heard about the resilience in your community, but that resilience is really needed now because i guess, in the philippines as a whole, covid has hit quite hard. yes, indeed. 0ur cases are still rising

and we still have a lot to change to improve and refine, in terms of our programs, our policies and the support we give to our marginalized communities and sectors. resilience really is key. but, you know, honestly, more than any form of leadership, i believe in the power and, again, the resiliency of the filipino people. we've gone through a lot. we've gone through typhoons, through colonialism, through a lot of other factors, such as a martial law. and we will get through this pandemic because, again, i believe in the power of the filipino people. i believe that throughour resilience and our capabilities, we can find a way to change what we have to change, improve what we have to improve and do what we have to do in order to get through this pandemic even stronger, better and in greater shape. shawntel nieto ending this week's edition on youth activism in the face of coronavirus. i'm philippa thomas.

thank you forjoining me for coronavirus: your stories. hello, the weather we've got across the uk today is a far cry today may not be a wash—out but it isafar today may not be a wash—out but it is a far cry from the weather we saw a year ago. last year on this day, we had the highest record. no near that this afternoon. there are some further downpours of rain to come as we head on into the evening. this is how we are expecting things to look at around seven o'clock. persistent rain effect in the south—east corner and heavy showers moving into the midlands, east anglia, some more showers, all 70 in northern ireland with some pandemic strain. through northern england, a bit dry as we in

the day. further showers into western scotland and some thundery —— thundery rain drifting across shetland. as we drift through this evening, there showers and downpours will continue for a time. they will fade tonight but we will keep some showers in northern ireland and west of scotland. very breezy through the night, not as mild as tonight —— last night but not cold by any stretch. ii to 14 degrees. tomorrow isa stretch. ii to 14 degrees. tomorrow is a drier day on balance, some spells of sunshine, still some showers, medically western and northern parts and we could seem more persistent rain getting into western parts of scotland. it is going to be quite a windy day, unusually windy for this time of year and towards the far west of the north west of the uk, it could be a0 mph or mile. i ratherface —— fresh feel, temperatures from 11 in glasgow to 23 and under. 0n feel, temperatures from 11 in glasgow to 23 and under. on monday,

another area of low pressure and this one threatens to bring some very wet weather in places as we start the new working week, this heavy rain ploughing its way across much of england and wales, clipping into northern ireland and getting into northern ireland and getting into southern scotland, we suspect, for a into southern scotland, we suspect, fora time, into southern scotland, we suspect, for a time, still some uncertainty about the exact track of this exact weather. it will be fairly blessed to be as well and other cool side for this time of year, ia to 20 degrees. but things will change as we head through the week, it looks like things will turn drier and for some of us, medically in the south, quite a bit warmer as well. —— particularly in the south.

this is bbc news, the headlines at five: gyms and swimming pools reopen in england, but there's a warning up to a third may stay shut because of financial troubles. and for us it's all been about balancing the experience the members had prior to coming, or prior to lockdown and making sure that they feel safe and secure. it comes as experts warn being overweight or obese brings a greater risk of serious illness or death from covid—i9. and all of these extra pressures and strains on the body are likely to be part of the reason why people, when they contract covid, if they're also overweight, have these extra chances of being really sick. police say they're looking into a series of anti—semitic comments posted by the grime artist,

wiley, on his instagram