this is bbc world news. the headlines... the spanish capital, madrid, and the surrounding region are to be put under tighter coronavirus restrictions to deal with a surge in cases. but workplaces will stay open to limit the damage to the economy. uk prime minister, borisjohnson, has said a second wave of coronavirus is on its way. it comes as the who warns countries in the northern hemisphere that they must prepare for a winter battle against the disease. the trump administration has issued new rules aimed at banning the chinese—owned tiktok and wechat from us app stores. the restrictions will ban the transfer of funds or processing of payments through wechat from sunday. the barrister amal clooney has said she is resigning as the uk's special envoy on media freedom. her decision is over what she

describes as the government's "lamentable" suggestion it could violate international law over brexit. now, philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiences during the pandemic and how covid—19 has changed their lives, in coronavirus: your stories. tonight at ten, a stark warning from the prime minister, as coronavirus infections in parts of england double every seven days. welcome to coronavirus: we are now seeing your stories, a second wave coming in. a programme about how covid—19 is changing lives we've seen it in france, we've seen around the world. it in spain, across europe. i'm philippa thomas, and this week i'm afraid it's been we're hearing about homelessness, about whole absolutely inevitable communities in desperate that we would see it in this country. circumstances, and the personal from tuesday, large parts stories of two men of the north west of england, who have managed to turn the midlands and west yorkshire, will be banned from their lives around. socialising at private homes.

from mexico city, we'll hear pubs and restaurants about the hundreds and hundreds of people in rural will close early. guerrero state being forced if it keeps people safe from their homes by violent and secure and saves lives, gangs, and why that's making people should do what we're so many more vulnerable to the requested to do, and if they lock us virus. down, they lock us down. here in london, we have we have to do something to get rid of it. a personal story from hersukh, who feels the pandemic it's like fighting a war saved him from homelessness and addiction because he against something we can't see. was given a room of his with new restrictions affecting own during lockdown. a fifth of the population, we'll start in athens with michael samolis, who lives in a shelter and works on the streets, selling the greek newspaper, shedia. shedia translates as "life raft", and that's what it's been for him. but, all around michael, he sees evidence of the new homeless. greece, battered by the last economic crisis, is now facing this new one. let me go back a little bit, michael, just to tell your story. how did you come to be on the streets? how did you come to be homeless? because of the crisis. you must understand, that,

until 2009, homeless people in athens, they were people that had problem with drinking, problem with drugs, and things like that. but after 2009, with the crisis, people like me, we lost everything and we ended up homeless. we are the new homeless people. and, in 2012, i had a truck, a lorry, a big lorry, and i was working very well, but somebody stole my truck. i went to the police and they found nothing, so i lost myjob. because of my age, it was impossible to find a newjob. you know, unemployment in greece, under 30 years old now, it's very big, it's very big. and you can imagine, all these people looking forajob, and me, i couldn't find a job so i survived one year with the money i had

in the bank and, after that, i did stay homeless. michael, i want to go back to your previous life. you, ithink, had travelled, studied. did you ever think something like losing your home could happen to you? no, i never thought. i never thought. like everybody, right? i never thought that one day i would end up homeless. it never passed through my mind, never. and then the paper, shedia, what does that mean to you? my life changed completely, six years ago, when i started working for shedia. and that's why i'm smiling now. he chuckles it wasn't only the money, it was the contact with the people, because the people that support us and buy that paper, very nice people, they want to help us, and this changed my life completely. how is business now,

selling the paper? it's not so good. it's a bit down because you must understand that people don't have the money to buy the paper now, and things are getting worse and worse and worse every day. and that's a result of the coronavirus? yes, because many people, they lost their jobs, and they don't have money anymore. people i knew, that they usually buy the paper, they stop and say, "hi, michael, i want to buy the paper, but i have one or two euros in my pocket," and are not able to do that. so it's harder for them and for you. how have you found the last six months? well, actually, it was very bad but, as you know, i live in a centre, the centre of athens,

in the mixed part of athens, with the measures to protect us. i feel very safe living in the centre because from the beginning, we have shop, we have antibiotics, we have vitamins, we have everything, masks, everything to protect us. but the problem is that we couldn't work and it wasn't very easy for us to survive without selling the paper. michael, you're witnessing a lot. you see a lot in your city. and do you see more people becoming homeless because of covid? every day, new people, they come at the shelter and they are asking for a place to sleep. that's why the shelter, it's full now. we cannot accept any more people. but it's getting worse, not every week or every year, it's getting worse every day.

what's most important to you now in life, michael? selling the paper, i speak with a lot of people, and this thing helped me to, you know, to live again. and i feel great. i have very good purpose now, to inform the athenians what's the situation now in the centre of athens. we are talking about 500m from parthenon, 500m from syntagma square. i live there, in the centre of athens, and i say to the people, living around, i'm talking about shelters, soup kitchens, drugs, everything, and i'm very proud of that. because i show to the people that we are here, we exist. and, for our viewers, what would you say that this

whole experience has taught you, what have you learned? i think that the whole situation made me a better person, because i start caring for other people. people like me, and people, that live in the roads, you must try to understand how they feel, and now i know how they feel, and i'm helping them. that's changed me a lot. and i think that's what the coronavirus did to the people. many people, they start caring about your neighbour, other people, you know, because when i stay in the centre for five months inside, we were getting out for a few minutes and then go back in. i had many phone calls from friends, if i need something, many people, they used to come with food, with clothes, with everything. what keeps you going,

michael, day to day? what keeps you going? surviving, life — it keeps me going every day. i am a survivor. michael samolis in athens. next, a different kind of homelessness. what happens if hundreds of people at a time are forced to flee their homes, to become internally displaced because of the fear of violence? well, if they flee to the same places, they become much more vulnerable to the risk of catching coronavirus. that's what's happening in the mexican state of guerrero. it's perhaps best known for the city of acapulco, but behind the glitter of that coastal resort, there is darker story. nestor rubiano is a mental health expert with medecins sans frontieres, working with displaced people in guerrero. there is a war ongoing her

in mexico, in guerrero, between 20 and 30 small groups army groups fighting amongst them, to take control of the land and to displace people and so on, but at the same time, the health system is not present at all in the whole guerrero. nestor, describe for us what it's like to be a villager in the state of guerrero with this violence around you, threatening you. surviving, for many of us, surviving every single day has been the best way they can and situations can change very quick. in a couple of minutes, a couple of hours for you, you can be a in a safe way today and tomorrow, you just have to run away and leave every single thing behind you. and i suppose that means that, even though, in a pandemic, we are not to crowd together, you will get people crowding together in whatever building they can be in? exactly, totally.

totally. what else you can do with your family, if you have to move your family and run away? they say, to run away, to escape to the situation. so you join, whatsoever, you can join an extensive family or friends or whosoever is going to provide the kind of support for you. or, if you are lucky and you find an empty physical space, you willjoin them, but there are many of the small villages, theyjust cannot move. the groups are inside and the groups are fighting among them but they cannot get out of the circle, and why? because the groups are controlling everything. let me ask you more about that control of people by violent groups. do you think that control has increased because of covid—i9? we are speaking about a specific state, which is guerrero, they have thousands of medical people who don't want to work there, with past

consequences of covid, and the economic situation has getting worse. it's such a desperate situation. you're telling me about a lot of people facing violence and now facing coronavirus as well, so nestor, what are you trying to do to help? we are providing mobile clinics, we reach the communities with a doctor, with a psychologist, with nurses, and then with primary healthcare, we can say. the majority of the people living in those areas are speaking here speak about medical conditions, most of them, they have these special chronic disease. one of the main ones is mental health disorders. this has been acknowledged by our doctors. what it shows is that people are facing not only a physical condition but also by the mental condition as a consequence of virus in the last years. do you struggle?

do you feel unsafe given these double threats, violence and the virus? what we care is about people, what we care is about the health of the population, and everyone knows what we are doing, everybody knows us, but we do not feel scared unless there is a fight and we get the middle of the situation and we are in the middle of it. do you think the outside world cares? there is so much on people's minds with this emergency, this pandemic. do they care about what is happening in guerrero? i doubt that, to be honest. i don't want to generalise but what i can say is that the situation in the whole mexico and in some specific states in mexico is getting worse and we need to do something about it. nestor rubiano in mexico city. you're watching coronavirus: your stories, a programme about how covid—i9 is changing lives around the world.

i'm philippa thomas, and this week we are hearing personal stories about homelessness. hersukh lives in london. he was homeless for three years, addicted to heroin, on the streets. and, for the first time, he's telling his story about how the pandemic gave him another chance, brought him back from the depths. he started by telling me what it was like. it was absolutely terrible. not knowing where you're going to sleep, if you're going to eat. yeah, it was absolutely terrible. not having anybody to talk to or nobody to turn to, and it was absolutely... i have never, ever experienced anything like that. i guess you saw things you never expected to see and witnessed things as well? yeah, a lot of things. 0bviously, when you think

of homelessness, people seem to think, you know, drunks and druggies and, in some extent, that is true and, in some extent, it isn't as well. but i did see a lot of drug addicts and drunks and stuff like that, and how people were sleeping on the streets, and some people were actually worse off than me. and you ended up taking drugs? idid, yes. it happened three years ago when, basically, i split from my wife and i was going through a bad patch in my life, and the circle that i was around, that circle of friends i was staying with, were all drug users, and i sort of got into it with them, and i found that it was helping me forget about all my problems and forget about everything that was going on in my life.

and little did i do know it was going to be the biggest mistake of my life. i can hear it's difficult to talk about it. taking heroin, what did that do to you? the only way i can describe it is like being imprisoned. heroin is a drug that it's not something you can do one day and stop the other. it's not like that, it's something that you need every day. and if you don't have it, you start going into several withdrawals and, yeah, you would do anything to get it, commit crime, you know, rob money from somewhere, anywhere you can, really. and, yeah, it had a really big hold on me at the time as well.

but the thing was, because i didn't know what i was getting myself into and that was the first time in my life that i'd actually really ta ken drugs and unfortunately it was the wrong choice. and then, hersukh, the pandemic happened and britain went into lockdown, and somebody found you. tell us what happened, how you got your chance? well, i always said to myself i didn't want to do the drugs anymore because i'd had enough. you know, doing the same thing every day and it was just getting too much for me, and i said to myself, i need to sort of find a place where i can keep my head down and get away from it all. and itjust so happened that i was sleeping at the hospital one night, the local hospital, and there was a charity group coming around, st mungo‘s, and they came and found me sleeping rough at the hospital, and said that,

you know, they could help me, and get somewhere to sleep which i was, you know, i wasn't pretty sure if it was going to happen or not, and because i'd heard those sort of things before and nothing has really happened, but they actually did follow through. and the pandemic happened and they phoned me and said they had an emergency hotel if i would like to go. and when you moved in, hersukh, what kind of state where you in? they asked me when i got there if i had any health conditions or alcohol use or drug use and i was open about it to them and said, "yes, i'm

and they got me help straightaway, a nurse to see me the next day. and they saw that i was in a bad state and they sort of medicated me and that's how i ended up getting off the drugs. and you just said they brought you food so you didn't have to go out, you didn't have to worry about seeing the wrong people. no, no, i didn't even have to get out of my room. i wasjust, you know, if i wanted to, i could have stayed in there all day. i had my own television, my own bathroom, and they'd come to your door to give you your breakfast, lunch and dinner, so you literally didn't have to go out to see anybody. you made some good friends there as well? yeah, i mean, i met some really nice people there as well. the staff were all friendly they all used to talk, even the security, they became friends as well. you had somebody to talk to, i suppose, even ifjust a couple of times a day. they were also very encouraging in coming off the drugs, which was a very, very, you know, gave me real motivation to actually do it because seeing people

rooting for you, and itjust gives you a big, big boost that you're doing the right thing and going about things the right way. what do you think might have happened to you if this intervention hadn't come along, this lockdown room and the help you got? to be honest with you, think i would be in prison by now and that is the honest truth, i honestly think i would be in prison by now. do you ever worry now, hersukh, about it falling apart again? i know it's been, for a few months now, you've got a place, you have a home, but is it still in your mind? it is, yes. it never leaves your mind, you know what i mean? you're always... even now, i'm still sort of afraid to go out most times. i don't not really go out anymore, i keep to myself,

i talk to who i need to talk to over the phone, but i don't tend to go out. the only time i go out is in the morning, first thing, 7 o'clock, when the local supermarket opens to do some shopping and then i am back indoors. i don't go out at all. that's just because i feel still quite vulnerable and i don't want to see the people i used to see, and things like that. are you back in touch with yourfamily, your old friends? not as yet. it's only been six months, and six months you might think is a long time, but it's not really the right time yet. i'm still trying to get myself together, still trying to get my life together. i have done the first big step, which is coming off the drugs, that's first big step. i have a place now, i've got a job ijust need to get myself in the right place and show the people who i have sort of...

i don't know how you want to put it... ..disappointed because they all knew what i was doing but i was just too ashamed to admit it. nobody wants to admit that, you know, that they're on drugs or anything like that. but they know now, and ijust want to get myself in the right place, and show them that i am not that person anymore — this is who i am. it sounds like the pandemic has brought something good for you, but it's still a process. you're still working at this. yes, definitely, definitely. the pandemic, it came at the right... not in a bad way but for me, yes, something good came out of it. ithink, hersukh, you're speaking in public about this for the first time. what would you like us to understand about being homeless?

um, there is help out there. a lot of people think there isn't, but there is. you've got to be willing to help yourself at the same time. it's not a very nice place to be. i know, because i've been there myself and this is the first time i am speaking in public about this. but it's not the be all and end all. there is help out there, as i said, but you've got to be willing to help yourself as well. which is why i took the steps that i did and i knew that i wanted to change my life. hersukh, who also wants to thank the outreach workers from the charity st mungo‘s who helped him to turn his life around. i'm philippa thomas. thank you for watching coronavirus: your stories. hello. over the next week to ten days

the weather is expected to turn much more unsettled and much cooler. so, if you're hoping to get and about, it may well be worth making the most of this weekend. for most with sunny spells just the chance of a shower in the south. and will be fairly breezy. this is what's going on, this is thejet stream and the main body of the jet which of course drives all the weather systems around the world, is well away to the north of the british isles. however, there is this piece of the jet stream digging down here that's become cut off from the main body of the jet. that has sprung up what we call a cut off low. there is nothing much to push it along it isjust meandering, spinning across the bay of biscay. and at times to saturday there is the potential that cut off could through the odd shower north across the channel islands and into some southern parts of england. maybe south wales as well.

some low cloud plaguing northern and eastern coast of scotland and northeast england. 0therwise some spells of sunshine, breezy across the southern half of the uk. and temperatures getting up to around 17 degrees in aberdeen. 22 in cardiff, 23 in london. as you move out of saturday into sunday, our area of low pressure will still be there. it's filling, though, it's losing its intensity. maybe one or two showers making it into the channel islands possibly southern england by far most sunday is a dry day. there will be some mist and work for north and eastern coast of scotland and northeast england. temperatures between 15 and 2a degrees. relatively quiet on monday. there could well be some patches of fog to start across southern areas. the winds will be significantly lighter by the stage. in the sunshine, we should get to 25 degrees. however, you can see a frontal system bringing rain up to the northwest. and that weather front is set to develop along this frontal system. we'll see an area of low pressure spinning itself out. could be quite a deep low perhaps as close to the northwest of scotland.

the frontal system, this cold front will bring outbreaks of rain, showers ahead. behind our cold front, things will start to turn colder. as the name suggests. by wednesday, our cold front is likely to be pushing southeastward across all parts of the uk. a bit of uncertainty about the exact timing. then we will see showers or longer spells of rain along with sunny spells. look at these top temperatures, 11 degrees in glasgow, 16 in london. for the forecast further ahead we have to look out into the atlantic. because right now here we have hurricane teddy. over the next few days that can make its way northwards towards the eastern areas of canada and as that dose of tropical moisture moves northwards, it's going to buckle the jetstream. it will force the jetstream northwards and a bit like flicking a skipping rope, that ripple in thejet stream runs its way through and leaves us in something of a dip in thejetstream. we are going to spin up what looks like a potential deep area of low

pressure for the second half of next week. that will bring showers and longer spells of rain. very brisk winds and it's likely that we will start to tap into some very, very chilly air. some cool days and nights with temperatures that could will be close to freezing. big changes next week. spells of wind and rain on the way. and it is going to turn much, much cooler. that's all for me. 00:27:28,805 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 bye for now.