are a couple of stories here, yesterday was 17 degrees, back down to around eight or nine for thursday and friday but it will get chillier because we have a weather front coming, some much needed rain. this weather front coming, some much needed rain. this weatherfront is the coming, some much needed rain. this weather front is the colder air but once that weather front moves through there is very little rain on the horizon for the rest of february. high pressure is in, by friday staying into the weekend and the beginning of next week and we need the rain, it could turn out to be one of the driest february is on record, scotland have only had about 50% of the rainfall, in england only a few millimetres and even though we have cloud with us it is dry for the most part. misty and murky around the coast and we have that weather front looming but again even though we expect heavy rain in the room lest it might petered out in the east. where we see sunshine, perhaps around the mor
what does the future hold for liverpool, with the club s owners insisting the club s not for sale on the eve of their crucial champions league tie with real madrid? it is mild again but there is something cooler on the way. your full forecast on breakfast. it s tuesday the 21st of february. junior doctors in england have become the latest health workers to vote for strike action in a dispute with the government over pay. members of the british medical association are expected to stage a 72 hour walk out, possibly as early as mid march. our health correspondent katharine da costa has this report. this winter s seen the biggest wave of industrial action in nhs history affecting nurses, paramedics and physiotherapists. nowjunior doctors in england willjoin other health unions on the picket line in an increasingly bitter dispute over pay. when 98% of us vote to strike, i think it says a lot. dr andrew meyerson moved from the us to london eight years ago to study medicine. now a
a political clip for instagram. and a senior un official visiting kabul says progress is being made to ensure that afghan women continue work with aid agencies, despite the taliban ban. you are watching bbc news. now newscast. hello, it is chris, back in the studio in westminster and no longer in edinburgh. here in the studio. we have got this week, we ve had to guess in recent weeks in the first edition of newscast in this, we have three. forthe edition of newscast in this, we have three. for the price of one. we have brigid phillipson, labour, shuttle education, we have grand, the business secretary and we have the deputy leader in the house of competence. and we ll talk about that in the second and an issue that has dominated our lives down the last couple of days which is the coming together of two very naughty and complex and controversial issues and complex and controversial issues and what is the uk constitution and the other one is this planned lot of the other one is
until these recent walk outs. she s doing it because she says the service is being run into the ground due to a lack of investment. we ve had instances of people pulling up into the ambulance area in their own cars with very, very poorly people. and that s devastating. that doesn t make you proud. what are the comments that you re getting that are negative from people? get back to work. there were expletives in there. get back to work, you lazy, greedy so and so s, that kind of thing. does any of that hurt? not really. i just take that as people are not actually understanding the whole bigger picture. what s the mood like here today? awesome. it s a really good turnout. i think people are kind of. we don t want to be on the picket line. this is not where we want to be. there ll be some people watching at home who say, everybody wants a pay rise, but you guys do such an importantjob that you shouldn t be going on strike. what do you say to that?
sarah is going on strike and we are following her. this is the fourth one we ve done, so, yeah, feeling all right. fourth one? fourth one, yeah. are you not getting fatigue? fatigue? it s the reason that we re doing it, so i keep going. sarah s never been on strike until these recent walk outs. she s doing it because she says the service is being run into the ground due to a lack of investment. we ve had instances of people pulling up into the ambulance area in their own cars with very, very poorly people. and that s devastating. that doesn t make you proud. what are the comments that you re getting that are negative from people? get back to work. there were expletives in there. get back to work, you lazy, greedy so and so s, that kind of thing. does any of that hurt? not really. i just take that as people are not actually understanding the whole bigger picture. what s the mood like here today?