season, and we're in it right now. apart from liverpool, tottenham, southampton and newcastle. fa cup replays have got in the way this week, although for the league leaders sunshine beats another match against shrewsbury tomorrow night, and they are sticking with their plan to play a reserve side at anfield. here's alex gulrajani. a pre—match press conference with a twist for liverpool. yes, you are right, that is notjurgen klopp. he and the league leader's first team are having a break. he supports young players unbelievably well as he shuns by the season. —— as he has shown so far this season. his presence is always felt by our younger players and bite me. —— and by me. people are always speaking about younger players not getting enough opportunity, they are getting an opportunity now. that is because

the premier league has brought in a season the premier league has brought in a season break. deeley came up with a solution out of burn—out. the premier league fixtures are split over two weeks. at two games this saturday, on sunday. what the other 12 teams play their fixtures from friday to monday, the following week. chelsea and manchester united do the best out of the break between premier league fixtures, neither of those sides have fa cup replays to content with as well. unlike newcastle. it will give the team, every tea m newcastle. it will give the team, every team a bit of time off. it is not as long as i would like to give them but they will have 11—5 days off and have a long weekend, which is better than nothing. it is what we get for not winning the first one. winter break is not a new phenomenon. leagues in spain, italy france and germany and closer to home, scotland have all had time off mid—season. so who will benefit? the

players for starters, some already getting some sunshine. while clubs in european competitions get a chance to refresh and clubs at the other end of the table, time to regroup. and don't forget this man. as england got the summer adventures in the european championships. —— as england put the summer adventures. so whilst the premier league goes into semi—hibernation, lots going on in europe and cristiano ronaldo keeps on raising the bar. he scored twice for juventus in their 3—0 serie a win over fiorentina. stand by for some stats. he's now scored 50 goals in 70 appearances for the italian champions. he's also scored in nine consecutive matches, he's the firstjuve player to do that in 15 years. staying in italy there was a bit of history as daniel maldini became the third maldini to play for ac milan. he follows father paolo and grandfather cesere to wear the famous red and black stripes.

and another son of a former footballer continues to break records in germany. erling onlyjoined only joined dortmund a onlyjoined dortmund a couple of weeks ago, he is the first player to score seven goals in his first three bundesliga games. a couple of premier teams wanted him. after winning the test series, england's cricketers take on south africa in a one—day series that starts tomorrow in cape town. it's their first 50 over match since that incredible super—over victory in the world cup final against new zealand injuly. eoin morgan contemplated his future as captain after that lord's euphoria, but he's quite happy in the role at the moment. we have two t20 world cups that i am focused on. i think once i have made the decision to continue on, certainly history suggests that decision, whether you like it or not,

is taken out of your hands, given performance, given individual performance or team performance. my mind is set on the next two t20 world cups. if i make it to the 50 over world cup, i think it will be great. let's have a look at some of the other headlines today. the japanese prime minister says his government is in close contact with the world health organization, to prevent the coronavirus outbreak having an impact on the tokyo olympic and paralympic games. there have been 20 confirmed cases so far injapan. world champion hannah cockcroft is one of 46 para—athletes to make the latest world class funding programme. inclusion is based on an athlete's potential to win medals at the tokyo 2020 or paris 2024 paralympics. and bronze for great britain's katie ormerod in the snowboard slopestyle at the us grand prix sees her lead the world cup standings with two races to go. it's her third podium

finish in a row, great britain's hockey teams were in action in the pro—league over the weekend. playing two matches against the hosts. they woman last saturday. they look to be getting their revenge yesterday before a storm saw the game abandoned. that was only the game abandoned. that was only the start of their frustrations. they got a bit upset about it, what happened? gb were 1-0 up against australia before half—time when the match had to be cancelled because of bad weather. timing is key. if the match had gone through to the fourth quarter, whatever the result was a would have stood. so, the rules at the moment state that if one of the matches, one of the two matches is cancelled, then the winner of the first match gets double points. australia won the first match 2—1 is that they are the ones to walk away with six points, which might seem alarming at first but if you think about it, if both of the matches

we re about it, if both of the matches were cancelled, each of the teams would have got three points but in this case, it was only one of the match is cancelled so the april week at the fih decided last year to give six points to the winner of the first match —— so the professional league. we saw at this weekend. but the usa and the dutch have had this before, the usa decided to only play one of the two matches following the death of their team manager. australia —— the dutch agreed to this, both were aware of the rules knowing that whoever wins will get double points. the dutch ended up winning 9—0. both teams understood the rules and at the end of the day, rules are the rules and at the end of the day, rules a re rules. the rules and at the end of the day, rules are rules. those are the rules, what reaction has there been from great britain? the gb hockey players have been gutted. one player

in particular maddy hinge says the rule is obscene and ridiculous. gb hockey said they fully respect the decision to cancel the match, i have spoken to the federation of international hockey who reiterated that all of the countries agreed to this real and that there is no particular plan to reconsider this at any stage. however, there is a season review in september. if any of the teams in the professional league want to bring this up again, they can at the end of the season. this rule only applies to the professional league, not the olympics. it has no effect. the gb hockey team are heading into the olympics in tokyo as reigning champions. next up for it gb is new zealand, so gb are seventh in the pro league, new zealand are fourth. they face them on sunday and gb will be hoping where they will not get in the way this time around. they will

know what the rules are, won't they? exactly. rory mcilroy will return to world number one this week, without playing a shot. the northern irishman will replace brooks koepka, mcilory will be back in the top spot for the first time since 2015. super bowl l four, one of the great quarterback performances we saw. patrick mahomes leading kansas city chiefs to go with that final quarter performance. edge of your seat stuff at the hard—rock stadium in miami, apart from that fellow who clearly had a hard day. hope you will go up by the final quarter when it all happened. let's have a look again, there we go, let him. obviously not a separable fan. i wonder how much his ticket was. that is it for now,

we will have more for you throughout the rest of this evening on bbc news. goodbye for now. it will remain windy throughout this evening and overnight, especially in the north with lots of showers and further south we had this area of rain. that area of rain is clearing away, leaving drier skies behind as you can see. under the clear skies we could see temperatures and close to freezing by the showers become more widespread elsewhere, significant amounts of snow in the hills in scotland, even covering for northern ireland and england over the hills. they went should remain strong enough to keep us whilst free

—— frost—free. gusty winds likely to cause disruption with the snow, blizzard conditions as we head through the night and into tuesday morning. the winds will become more dominant across many parts of the uk as we go through into tuesday morning. strong and gusty with the showers combined nasty conditions on the road. it showers are continued to migrate southwards to the area of the pressure but it will start to dry upa the pressure but it will start to dry up a little bit across northern ireland, wales, the south—west and west of scotland. went out to dry up a little bit across northern ireland, wales, the south—west and west of scotland. when structure is that for most of us it is a bracing north—westerly, it will feel colder and there will be showers hinges on the way, though showers, those winds will start to ease and the reason is we will see the return of high pressure after some ten days or so. we are going to the settled weather for two or three days. let's follow the showers as they ease a wetter in the showers as they ease a wetter in the evening and overnight. lighter wind, thank you enough in the north and west, largely frost—free but for

most of us it will be a cold night. some areas injanuary have not had a frost at all. that high pressure stays with us to give settled weather through wednesday, thursday and for many of us, ready as well for these weather fronts start to wea ken for these weather fronts start to weaken as a coming to the area of high pressure. you can see we may have two or three, possibly four dry days across the uk, but it means temperatures will not be high by day. there is no strength in the sunshine and we will have chilly nights with patchy fog but as we head towards next weekend, we started cb winds escalating once again with the return of more heavy rain. the warnings are online.

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