for england s six nations opener after being punished for a dangerous tackle in club rugby on friday. good afternoon. ambulance workers in england and wales are striking over pay for a second time. managers are warning the impact is likely to be worse than last month s stoppage, because this time call handlers are also on strike. the prime minister has said it s terrifying that people don t know what will happen if they call 999. but ambulance staff have said they will leave picket lines to respond to all category one emergency calls where there s a threat to life, such as a heart attack. our health correspondent dominic hughes is in manchester, dominic. good afternoon. picket lines like this one in manchester are now in place outside ambulance stations across almost all of england and wales. the strike involves around 20,000 workers from the ambulance service. paramedics and also call handling staff. principally the strike is over pay. the unions say an offer of 4.75% is
Will combine to welcome 48 nations for the tournament. The six counties who will stage the matches are argentina, morocco, paraguay, portugal, spain and uruguay and they will all qualify automatically. Our sports news editor dan roan has more on this. Dan, how can this Work Logistically . It is an amazing deal that has been struck by fifa today along with a number of configurations that represent the different continents of the football landscape. If fans thought the idea Of A Winter World Cup was a novel proposition, they will be just as amazed perhaps is the announcement today. For the First Time Ever at the world cup will be staged across three continents. It will be staged in three countries in 2026 in the us, canada and mexico. Fifa have gone one better it seems with this. Six Different Countries over three continents. Spain, portugal, morocco are effectively the co hosts of this tournament, but in a move that is meant to honour and mark the centenary of the inaugural world cup in
the budget director, mark, so maybe you can tell us what the impact of these decisions would be. the budget director said that these decisions would be. the budget director said that the these decisions would be. the budget director said that the united - these decisions would be. the budget director said that the united states i director said that the united states is almost out of money, and that s certainly true. it is true that the money is committed. it s not all spent. that means there won t be any new money, new purchases, but there will be a flow of previous purchases and previous commitments going to ukraine. that will decline over time. what that means is that over time, as this flow decreases, ukrainian military capabilities will decrease also. militaries and back need to constant flow of munitions and supplies to replace what s lost and supplies to replace what s lost and used up, and without those, they become less effective, and we will see that happening wi