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
with those conversations continuing, we are in for a crucial few days. super league champions st helens are back home after becoming the first british team to win the world club challenge in australia for 29 years. they ll now get ready for the start of their super league defence where they re hoping to win a fifth successive domestic title. st helens beat nrl champions penrith pathers13 12to win the world club challenge on sunday in a nail biting finish. many say it shows how far british rugby league has come. i think considering everyone else wrote us off, but the self belief within the group, we always knew we had what we was capable of going over and doing. but i think we ve got a very honest and hard working playing group which can compete with anyone on the day and we ve got the skill level to compete with the very best players in the world and we ve shown that. the uk is among 30 countries that have pledged support to an ongoing ban on russian and belarusian athletes, competing
his coach offered some support. he s upset, the changing room, the group are upset for him but we ll make sure we look afterjack dixon. the players will stick together and rightly so. they have a job to do and part of the job is protecting themselves as well, and it is important that we step up to the plate as a union and show the emotion and character that the players showed today. getting the players to sign any new deal is proving problematic and here s why. 0ne proposal will seem them guaranteed just 80% of their salary. the other 20 would depend on a range of factors, one of them being whether their team wins or not. cardiff should look something like this on saturday, england the visitors, a bumper day generating £10 million for welsh rugby. but without a resolution, the game is still in doubt and the clock is ticking. tomos dafydd, bbc news.