In sport, officially the best footballer in the world Christiano Ronaldo wins fifas best male player award for the second year running beating messi and neymar. And we meet the man who wants to become the first person to walk across the antarctic alone and unaided. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Today for many of us, its going to be a fairly cloudy day. There is rain or drizzle in the forecast, but there are bright spells and ill tell you where in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Hospitals in england could carry out 280,000 extra operations a yearjust by making better use of operating theatres. Analysis by the watchdog nhs improvement, due out later this week, suggests that more than two hours a day on average are lost because of late starts and other delays. Heres our health editor, hugh pym. Waiting lists for routine operations are growing and theres a continuing debate over whether more money is needed for the nhs or whether it could be more efficient. Now
Overnight. He is taking Anti Inflammatories and then a decision will be taken in the morning as to whether or not he will be able to tee off in the masters. He is the short odds over it for the masters. He has won the last three tournaments and has been the commanding presence on the golf tour so commanding presence on the golf tour so far this year. Well, as iain carter was saying there, dustinjohnson has won his last three tournaments and thats why hes the hot favourite to win the masters. Speaking before his fall, johnson said he wasnt taking victory for granted clearly aware that its 12 years since a world number one, or pre tournament favourite, last won the title. Golf is a funny game, you know, it doesnt matter how good you are playing, you can still not win. Its the same that goes for this week. If ito win here, everything is going to have to go well for me. Everything is going to have to be, you know, really good. I have a lot of confidence in my game right now. Especially the
We begin our developing news out of the hague in the netherlands where the International Criminal court will begin a preliminary inquiry into possible war crimes committed in palestinian territories the president signed up to the rome statute in december that is the document that establishes the jurisdiction of the International Criminal court. The move was taken by abass a day after palestinian leaders failed to get a resolution passed at u. N. Security council calling to an end to israeli occupation. It followed a conflict in july and august last year between israel and hamas that devastated the gaza trip 21 o0 killed and 70 were civilians according to the United Nations, almost 500 children among the dead and more than 250 of them were women. And israel also suffered casualties, 66 military personnel killed along with six israeli civilians and a ty national. Lets speak to a u. N. Special rap and good to have you with us and many have long complained of impunty and lack of accountabi
Everyone thought hillary would win. Obama comes out of the blue from nowhere and swedes everything away. He with two terms. Leave it to the democrats to come up with someone on the left of Hillary Clinton. Host which is what we talked about yesterday. Think the Democratic Party has a lot of the same internal divisions but the democrats are more cohesive. They are poised to run for president on the democratic side that tend to be, if you look at haveon and warren, probably a lot more support within the wings of the party than the republicans do and the republican field is a little more unsettled. Really near the end of his second term, and i mean in the final year as the up, the issue is does hillary run or not. If she does not, it is probably a wideopen yield on their spot. And you the presidency, have a political figure that at least appears to be a consensus candidate at this time. It is different for republicans are now. They have been out of power for a while. They have not had imm
First, the deadline has passed the talks continue in switzerland this wednesday. World powers have been trying to reach a deal with iran, seeking to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon. The French Foreign minister has artie left the meeting, citing a lack of progress. John kerry says he will stay on until thursday morning. Ive been i foreign ministerrans. They need to exhibit flexibility in order to move forward. Iran has shown willingness to move forward with dignity and we urge our negotiating partners to ease the moment and use the opportunity. We are told just why they are not keen on to details in the agreement. The reason the iranians want to remain if they do not check the mandate from the highest power, the Supreme Leader to go ahead and sign some kind of the detailed written statement. The reason for that is there is concern that if the opponents of the deal, israel, saudi arabia, talks will be able to destroy that the problem is washington need something a little bit