Rman Level 0 and Level 1

Hi Everybody
I have to schedule my rman backup in the following manner.
1. Weekly once level 0 backup has to run
2. Rest of the other days level 1 backup has to run to disk
3. In between the week if we moved all backup to some other destination, the backup schedule has to run the level 0 instead of incremental backup automatically.
Then level 1 backup follows the level 0 backup.
Can anyone help me out how to schedule this task that satisfies the above three condition.

Thanks Aman
My manager he needs like windows backup that level 0 run at once in a week and level 1 follows till end of the week if we remove the backup or moved within the week then backup folder will be empty that time level 0 has to run instead of next incremental backup.
For example: I am schedule the rman by following manner by windows schedule task with script.
1. Level 0 is scheduled at saturday only
2. level 1 is scheduled from sunday to thursday.
My manager he don't want like this. level 0 should not run by day like saturday. he wants script will check the disk if level 0 is existing or not
if existing it will replace the level 0 with new one.
if not existing it will create the new one.
Is there possible to run level 0 and level 1 in the same script.

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