European heatwave: Wildfires burn across Spain

Firefighters are warning the burning area could get five times as big, as they try to douse the flames.

Wildfires are burning across nearly 4,000 hectares in Catalonia in north-eastern Spain and there are fears they could get much worse.

Spain is baking under temperatures of 43 degrees Celsius.

France, Italy and Germany are also suffering unseasonably hot temperatures – as southern and Western Europe swelters under a heatwave

Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports.