the opportunity to showcase their work. we ll be covering different aspects of the festival, asking if co founder robert de niro s strident anti trump rhetoric interfered with tribeca s celebration of cinema. he wants to do everything possible to mess things up. we ll also be seeing how activist or political films were making an impact, and films from around the world, including the story of a young somali girl who became an olympic athlete. and we sit down with one of america s great independent film makers, richard linklater. it s not hard coming up with the films you want to make. it s hard to get them financed sometimes, but people are going to make films somehow, some way. since 2002, lower manhattan has hosted the tribeca festival. among those instrumental in bringing it into being was the legendary actor robert de niro and his producing partner, jane rosenthal. originally, it was more of a civic restoration project designed to bring life back to the devastated tribeca
I will be talking to the British Chambers Of Commerce about their manifesto. The sound of spring, but for how much longer . Wejoin the sound of spring, but for how much longer . We join the the sound of spring, but for how much longer . Wejoin The Dawn Patrol as they go in search of the nightingale. In sport a third Crucible Crown for mark selby. He fights back to Beatjohn Higgins and become only the fourth man in the modern era to successfully defend a world title. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Again today we are looking at a fair bit of cloud coming in across the east of the uk, accompanied a noticeable breeze. There will be a few showers, but for many of us it will be dry. There will be some sunny spells, the lions share of which will be again gcioss lions share of which will be again across the north west of the uk. I will have more details 15 minutes. Inis minutes. Good morning. First, our main story there has been further fallout from last weeks talks on brexit between
Code of conduct. Good morning and welcome to bbc newsroom live. More than a0 of Maternity Wards in england closed their doors to expectant mothers at least once in 2016, according to data from the labour party. 42 out of 96 trusts in england that responded to a Freedom Of Information Request said theyd shut Maternity Wards temporarily on 382 occasions. The most common reasons given were too few staff and not enough beds. But the government says the numbers are misleading. Our health correspondent, Dominic Hughes has more. For some years, Maternity Units have been struggling to recruit enough midwives. The Royal College of midwives says theres a shortfall of around 3,500. Now, based on a Freedom Of Information Request, labour says a growing number of Maternity Units are closing doors to new mothers. In england, 136 nhs trusts offer Maternity Services. Last year, 42 of them closed their doors to new admissions at least once. There were 382 separate locations where units were closed, up b