ahead of that advancing cloud we will see clear skies and may be temperatures close to freezing. it clouds over quickly from the west and we see rain pushing northwards and eastwards, heavy rain probably over the hills of wales in northwest england and heading up toward scotland in the afternoon. maybe some sunshine and showers following into northern ireland and a stronger wind around on sunday. particularly around coastal areas, quite strong winds here in the woods coming in from the south or southwest and temperatures in scotland in the northeast of england, seven or 8 degrees, mild or elsewhere and possibly 1a celsius in the southwest.

hello, this is bbc news with maryam moshiri. the headlines... talks between the eu and the uk have continued in brussels with both sides warning they're unlikely to reach a post—brexit agreement by tomorrow's deadline.

four royal navy patrol ships are being put on standby to help protect britain's fishing waters, in the event of a no—deal brexit. the uk, china and india are among the countries to have made pledges to cut carbon emissions at a virtual climate summit. we are putting our foot to the accelerator, in a carbon friendly way of course, with a ten—point plan for a green industrial revolution. the us regulator authorises the pfizer/biontech coronavirus vaccine. donald trump says it'll be rolled out immediately. now on bbc news... in the 1990s, vienna placed female architects at the heart of a big revamp of their city. now barcelona is trying to replicate this, via their mayor, architects and organisations.

cities are supposed to be built for all of us, but they aren't built by all of us — because most cities, if not all of them, are designed and built by men. but what would a city look like if it was built by women? in 2019, we came to barcelona to meet a group of influential feminist leaders to hear their plans to redesign the city. but a year ago, we never could have imagined just how much the world would change. so we've come back to barcelona to find out how a city

that was trying to work better for women has weathered the biggest crisis of our lifetime. barcelona is a city that has a long history of reinventing itself with brave and adventurous urban design. over 6,000 years, generation after generation of men have put their mark on this city. but when we came here in 2019, it was in the midst of a feminist takeover.

in 2015, the city had elected its first female mayor, ada colau. and it wasn'tjust the mayor. barcelona's feminist revolution involves everyone from writers to urban planners, architects and economists, and all those who make up the fabric of this evolving city. playgrounds were being reimagined, streets were being named for women, public transport was changing so women didn't have to walk alone at night. and the city was saying no to sleaze.

but then the pandemic hit. and just like so many other places, barcelona is reeling. so how are these feminist ideals withstanding a pandemic? and did it teach us anything about how the legacy of this virus will impact women? someone who could explain this better than most... masqaretes. ..is judit vall castello. as a health economist and a mum, she's had a very busy few months. my husband is an essential worker, so i was alone at home. and working full—time? and working full—time, so, yeah, we had difficult situations where i posted some postits

in the door in the dining room — "it's forbidden to enter now!" brilliant. did it work? no major incidents. judit‘s been studying the economic impact of the pandemic, particularly on women, and she's found something interesting. so, basically, the previous crisis that we had in 2008, it affected very much certain sectors that we know have a higher incidence of men working there. the situation is completely different now because the biggest sectors that have been affected are the service sectors. and we know that in those sectors, there's a higher proportion of women working there. so this is a pretty short—term effect. so in the short—term, it's very clear and we can already see the stats for several countries. the situation might be different in the long term. why is that? well, there are mainly two reasons. the first one is that some

of the firms have been forced to flexibilise the employment situation, to make employment more flexible, to allow working from home, and in the long—term, this is going to beneficialfor women. then the second thing is that women working in the health care service, women working in the cleaning service, these women had to keep working during the lockdown situation, and so their partners, the fathers, had to stay at home, and so this has been proven to change the gender roles for the children at home. do you have an idea of how many families this is affecting, how many families are changing their gender roles as a result of this pandemic? in 10% of the families, the fathers were in charge of the children during the lockdown situation. 0k. and some fathers who weren't before, so this is a new pattern emerging? exactly.

for lots of people, it's been a difficult year. for some, it's been life—changing. we met conchi braojos in 2019 because she had been working with the feminist collective to find a solution to the problem of getting to work. she's a cleaner in a hospital and she had to walk alone in the middle of the night because of the lack of bus connections. none of us could have imagined the year that was in store for her, as the hospital she worked in became one of those at the centre of the pandemic.

and after all of this, conchi still has to walk to work in the middle of the night. during the peak of the lockdown, she also found she was ferrying things like phone chargers to and from the hospital, because spain had one of the strictest lockdowns in the world. people were only allowed

to leave their homes if they absolutely had to. children had to stay inside for months. that rule came from central government, and it's something that mayor ada colau said she disagreed with from the start.

when we met the first time, colau spoke about her vision of feminist politics, that it was built around consensus. and that was important, because her left—wing party didn't win a clear majority in the last election and she's in power with a party on the right. before she became a politician, ada colau was an activist,

fighting against evictions, but she has been criticised for failing to stop a rise in evictions in the last few months. there's a project that mayor ada colau was keen for us to visit, aimed directly in women.

this pilot project aims to help 1,200 children, and that will help women, because, despite all the progress made in recent years, the pandemic showed us that women still do the overwhelming bulk of childcare. in families where the two partners were staying at home, were teleworking from home, and had children's responsibilities, women were interrupted 50% more

of the time than men. and also they were dedicating... in these two—parent families, they were dedicating four more hours per day to the caring of the children than their husbands. and there's a simple reason why women here could be affected more than most. barcelona is a city that relies on tourism, and tourism is a part of the economy that, more than a lot of others, employs a majority of women. a year ago, this was a very different city. this square would have been full of people. and now... from a city that used to be overwhelmed with tourists... ..the streets in some parts of town are now eerily quiet.

this is a place that entertained up to 8.9 million tourists a year. and it was an invisible army of women who kept the hospitality industry going — cleaners. vania rana came to barcelona from peru 28 years ago. now, she's at the centre of a collective of women who advocate on behalf of cleaners. and when we first met her, she was campaigning to have cleaners treated more fairly. but now their industry has been decimated.

wow. the collective of women just try to support each other where they can.

it might be years before tourists can come back to enjoy barcelona like they did before the coronavirus stopped us in our tracks. but the city still vibrates with the rhythms of ordinary life. and some people see the pandemic as an opportunity for change. how are you, fine? yeah, good. very strange, this situation. so strange! yes. what a year. that's ba rcelona's councillor of urbanism, janet sanz, when we first met janet, we watched one of barcelona's oldest traditions — the castellers — something that seems almost impossible now.

this year, the atmosphere is a little less festive. but the pandemic‘s not stopping janet sanz and her plans to transform this city. to reclaim the streets from cars. the project is called the superille, or superblock. in almost every city, cars take up more space than any other road user. the idea of the superblocks is to reclaim the streets for pedestrians, for cyclists or even just for hanging out.

the plan takes nine blocks and forms one big superblock, which are closed off from through traffic. 0nly cars that need access are allowed in, and the speed limit is reduced to 10 km/h. parked cars go underground. so instead of busyjunctions, you have parks, picnic benches and play areas. do you think there'll be a resistance?

scaling up means creating 21 more of these squares and turning the streets between them into green hubs, filled with plants and trees. like most of europe, the city's dealing with a second wave of the virus, and bars and restaurants are closed. the superille is busier than ever, but not everyone is thrilled about that.

building a consensus to change a city is hard work, so barcelona has brought people on board who are studying the city from a deeply feminist perspective. the last time we came here, we met blanca at her studio in the city. then, her collective, punt 6, were doing deep research into how men and women use the city differently.

now, they're working with the town hall on a very specific project — making the bicycle network work betterfor women. there's a huge increase in the number of people using bicycles since the pandemic, especially women, but there's also been a few issues.

this is a city that was hit hard by the pandemic, and its long—term legacy is onlyjust beginning. like no other recession, it seems women are bearing the brunt of this one. but a city that's trying to work better for women could teach us how we can all weather this crisis... ..to build up cities that work better for everyone.

hello there. tomorrow we've got some rain to come in from the atlantic that will affect more of the uk. today, there was some lovely winter sunshine across many western areas. it wasn't a bad day at all. further east though, the skies look very different. there was rain and drizzle, it was grey and rather misty, especially in the hills as well. that was on that weather front there which is slowly pushing away into the north sea. the next weather system, though, to bring the rain tomorrow is going to be moving in from the atlantic with the winds picking up, the cloud arriving and some rain too. but for a while, we're going to have some clear skies, even across an eastern parts of england, that cloudy, damp weather will move away, and we will see temperatures dropping. the northeast of scotland will see some rain persisting, and then later in the night, the temperatures will rise in northern ireland, wales and the southwest as the cloud thickens and we get some rain in here. but ahead of it, though, temperatures won't be far away from freezing in those clearer

skies, so there is a risk of a frost, it will be colder than it was last night and one or two mist and fog patches. but cloud increases very quickly from the west during sunday, and we get these outbreaks of rain coming in, the heaviest of the rain over the hills across these western areas pushing northwards into scotland. some showers and maybe some sunshine returning to northern ireland the afternoon. there will be a stronger wind tomorrow as well coming in from the south or southwest, fresh and strong winds around coastal areas. and temperatures still like today, around seven or eight degrees across much of scotland, the northeast of england, milder elsewhere. possibly making 1a degrees in the southwest. that wetter weather continues to push its way eastwards during sunday evening, some heavier rain for a while across eastern parts of england and then we see those showers following him behind. so, our weather system moves away actually on sunday night into monday morning, so it is very mild, actually, and low—pressure states states towards the northwest of the uk feeding in those brisk south to south—westerly winds. and essentially, it's sunshine and bands of shower, some wetter weather across more western areas, pushing northwards into scotland.

quite a few showers running through the english channel, so the drier weather, though not completely dry, may well be across the midlands and eastern england. fairly mild, temperatures 11—12 degrees for much of the country. still very mixed, though, through the rest of the week. the winds not quite as strong on tuesday, fewer showers, but some wet and windy weather on thursday and probably returning on friday as well, but thursday looks like it should be a bit drier and brighter with some sunshine.

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