Thursday, they may drift steadily north wards on thursday, very hit and miss, you will feed to keep abreast of the forecast buzz the position of the showers and the frequency mayjust change a bit but as we go through thursday, dry, settled sunny, very warm if not hot and that story is set to continue as we head into the weekend as well. Thanks, louise. And thats bbc news at six. Hello, and welcome to sportsday this monday night. Im chetan pathak. Coming up on the programme. The newly turned pro wholl be playing for europe at the ryder cup. Well talk your through todays wild card picks. The biggest match of his Life Canjack Draper Reach his first grand slam quarter final . Well bring you the latest from new york where the womens world number one has already been knocked out, who can replace iga swiatek at the top of the sport . Also coming up on sportsday. 500 up for the 90 year old whos Setting Records at parkrun. If whos Setting Records at parkrun. I cant do it today well if i cant do
I played a really good match against a really great Tennis Player and being able to do that after i think having, pretty solid level this entire tournament, ijust. Ithink pretty solid level this entire tournament, ijust. I think i have plenty of good tennis left in me. Now to golf where we now know europes full team as they aim to win back golf s ryder cup which begins later this month. Before monday rory mcilroy, jon rahm, viktor hovland, tyrrell hatton, Matt Fitzpatrick and Bob Macintyre were the automatic qualifiers for the team, through the european and world points lists. That meant six other players could be selected by captain luke donald and hes now revealed his wild card picks. The most eyecatching is this one. Ludvig aberg, the 23 year old from sweden who only turned professional injune and who won yesterdays european masters in switzerland has now become the first ryder cup player in history whos never played at a major. Tommy fleetwood, sepp straka, justin rose, shane lowry
Welljust a few months out from the olympics in paris. Earlier, i spoke to olympic bronze medalist beth tweddle. And began by asking how positive the silver was in the lead up to this summers olympics . It isa it is a Huge Positive result. The team will be really pleased with that. We had a mixture of experience and a mixture of youth, and they all handled the pressure. Yes, we cannot ask any more of that team today. Obviously it was a team result, but looking at individual performances, we have got to single out a number of people, becky downie and also Alice Kinsella as well. Alice kinsella as well. Becky downie, Alice Kinsella as well. Becky downie. An Alice Kinsella as well. Becky downie, an obviously Alice Kinsella as well. Becky downie, an obviously disappointed after yesterdays competition, she went for a more difficult routine and did not quite pay off. Came back out today to prove that absolutely she can do that routine. And went out and produced a huge score for the team, and
in iowa just six weeks away. also this hour, the u.s. aid to ukrainian forces about to run out, the white house is turning up the heat on congress. arguing the war against russian aggression will be kneecaped on the battlefield. i ll get reaction from the ukrainian ambassador to the united states. and the israeli military now says its objective in northern gaza is nearly completed. as the ground assault against hamas expands in the south. the united nations says the number of civilian deaths is rapidly increasing in this new and intense phase of the war. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with presidential politics as the nation closes in on the first contest of 2024. one of donald trump s most vocal republican critics is offering a very chilling new assessment of what his second presidency would actually look like if, if, he s re-elected. here s kristen holmes. a fres
good morning. we begin this hour with a look at one of the most influential and controversial figures in the world today, elon musk. it was just over a year ago the spacex and tesla ceo completed his acquisition of twitter. since then, he s had no shortage of battles, we spoke about it with walter isaacson, his biographer. talk about writing at elon musk during a volatile time of his life publicly. talk about the challenges and awards as an author you got out of that. first of all, he has been volatile his whole life. as a kid, 2018, he s going just as crazy at times as you see him in the past couple of years. when i started this book, when we first started talking about it, he was the guy bringing us into electric vehicles and the only person who could send people into orbit in the u.s. i thought, good technology story. then a year into my reporting, he is secretly buying up twitter, going to hawaii in a two- to three-night binge and deciding to take it over. it became a