islington. new. and eve ryo ne downing street. islington. new. and everyone with the same message.u. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. it is a national thank you. david sillitoe, bbc news. more than a million people around the world have now contracted coronavirus. in spain — one of the hardest hit countries —nine hundred and 50 people have died in a single day — that's the highest daily number anywhere in the world. it's the sixth day in the row that the daily death toll has risen above 800. more than 10,000 people have died in spain so far. in francejust over 4,000 500 people have died in hospital, but tonight the government revealed that at least 800 more have died in care homes so far and they said that number was incomplete. italy still has the highest death toll with nearly 111,000 people dying since the outbreak began. 0ur europe correspondent, mark lowen is in rome. with europe the epicentre of the pandemic, the daily death tolls are indeed shocking, but spain and italy say that with the infection rate, well, that is now peaking and that the curve is st

downing street, islington, newark, and everyone with the same message. thank you. some more upbeat news now. after months of severe droughts, one of the world's great natural wonders, the victoria falls, has roared back to life. the flow of water for the southern african waterfall is now well above the seasonal average following heavy rainfall further up the zambezi river. but few people will get to enjoy the spectacle because zambia and zimbabwe, the borders the falls sit on, have closed viewing areas as part of a coronavirus lockdown. don't forget, there is much more on the bbc news website. you watching bbc news. hello. temperatures topped out at 15 celsius in hampshire on thursday. they will take a step backwards, those temperatures, on friday, but then into the weekend they're on the up. a frost for some of us, especially across the north and east of the uk. plenty of cloud to follow, but sunny skies arrive at the weekend, and yes, those temperatures are heading up, but with a strengthening wind. high pressure pretty much in control of things, so still a lot o

downing street, islington, newark, and everyone with the same message. thank you. a reminder of our top story. coronavirus pandemic has continued to spread rapidly with more than 50,000 people having died from the outbreak. there are more than 1 million people infected worldwide, double number from this time last week. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @richpreston. hello. temperatures topped out at 15 degrees celsius in hampshire on thursday. they'll take a step backwards, those temperatures, on friday, but then into the weekend they're on the up. a frost for some of us, as friday starts, especially across the north and east of the uk. plenty of cloud to follow, but sunnier skies arrive at the weekend. and yes, those temperatures are heading up, but with a strengthening wind. high pressure pretty much in control of things, so still a lot of dry weather around for the next couple of days. low pressure gathering in the atlantic, though, as the weekend goes on will strengthen a southerly flow coming into the uk, and that's why those temperatures are going to be headin

is really welcome that we got £i.6 billion from government a few weeks ago but my own counsel in islington others have pretty much spent all of that money already. some other councils are in slightly different circumstances and are spending it a bit slower, but everybody will have spent the first slice of cash within one or two months, and i think everybody thinks this crisis is going to last at least that, so councils will start to either go bankrupt or they will have to start heavily rationing services jet we hear very quickly that more money is coming our way. so, i would that more money is coming our way. so, iwould imagine that more money is coming our way. so, i would imagine you would say that there is very little capacity to cut services further, given what you have outlined 7 to cut services further, given what you have outlined? i think that is absolutely right. council services have been heavily cut already in the last decade and councils have responded very well, i think, to this enormous national crisis that we face now. councils have set up help lines, we've rapidly got homel

with me is fiona dwyer — the ceo of islington—based domestic abuse charity, solace women‘s aid and alsoals to our services, they are receiving huge levels of referrals from the police. what we have seen in terms of our advice line is we saw 49% spike in the days leading up to the lockdown, and we have seen a decrease sense. however, what we are seeing is an increase in the complexity of the cases coming through. many of the women getting through our homeless. they are desolate, nowhere to go. we are they are desolate, nowhere to go. we a re really they are desolate, nowhere to go. we are really concerned that the lockdown is placing immense pressure on survivors of abuse. can ijust ask whether you think there is a danger that one of the reasons why possibly numbers of calls from some types of those in need may have gone down is because they can‘t actually get to the phone in privacy? absolutely. i mean, what women and men experiencing domestic abuse is that they will have no access to their mobile phones. isolation and controlling behaviour limits the use of technology, phones and socia