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Johansson pushes her brain to the limit in the thriller Lucy, and the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
rest of this week's top releases, with Anna Smith. Welcome to our | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
lookahead at what the papers will be bringing us. With me are Tim Stanley | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
from the Telegraph and the journalist Shyama Perera. Tomorrow's | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
front pages first, starting with: Death of a screen legend ` the | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Independent pays tribute to Richard Attenborough on its front page. Lord | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Attenborough's death is also on the front page of the Times, the | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
newspaper singling out the film Ghandi for praise. The Daily | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Telegraph leads on the British aid worker with the Ebola virus brought | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
from Sierra Leone to the UK for treatment. The Foreign Secretary is | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
warning about the possibility of an attack by Islamic State in the UK is | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
on the front page of the Express. While the Guardian concentrates on | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
the forces ranged against Islamic State in Iraq. The Daily Mail has | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
more detail on the British aid worker suffering from Ebola. And the | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Sun also leads on the Ebola patient coming home for treatment. So let's | :01:03. | :01:34. | |
make a start. And sad news this evening, in The Independent, with | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
this wonderful picture of Richard Attenborough who we have learnt in | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
the last 1.5 hours has died aged 90. Interesting choice of picture, many | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
have the smiling bearded face, but this is the face of the dreadful and | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
rather sinister Pinkie from his early career. It is the first thing | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
I thought of, in the end of the movie, what you want me to say is I | :02:00. | :02:11. | |
love you, but I don't, but the record catches, and it just said I | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
love you, I love you. Good timing that we have the First World War | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
season, Oh, What a Lovely War actually improves on the stage play. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
His acting could be very subtle and incredibly creepy. His performances | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
can be so still, magisterial, cunning, devious, it actually makes | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
your skin crawl when he says to his victims how about a nice cup of tea? | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
It is very scary. When you look back at his work and think about what | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
stands out, it is those very quiet performances like Pinkie that held | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
your attention even though they didn't demand it. What is so | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
fascinating is that contrast to the many saw in real life. And people so | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
fond of him because of that great smile and that open attitude and | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
compassion he showed in other areas of his life. absolutely, and unlike | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
him I am not so familiar with his body of work. I just know him from | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
Gandhi, as the old bloke in Jurassic Park, thespians refer to him, and | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
you always saw him turning up doing appeals, and he was just larger than | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
life. And of course, he spawned a brilliant director in his son | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Michael Attenborough. This just draws your attention, every now and | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
then there is the dynasties. It suddenly starts to disappear. I | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
think part of my reaction to this is that sense of loss, of history. A | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
piece of history is going, and it just reminds you that there are | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
sometimes families that make a difference. In particular way, and | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
that is the family led by Richard Attenborough. The politics and the | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
art art inseparable. Gandhi is a great film, the entire apartheid | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
films are excellent `` and the apartheid. He is a voice for | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
compassionate liberal progressivism `` Anti`apartheid. He was respected | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
in the developing world and the West, and it is a really sad loss. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
We will miss him. And some lovely photos for people to look at in the | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
front pages. On the Times, that much more familiar face, really. A much | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
more recent picture, the glasses and that wonderful beard, and such an | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
open face. So remembering Richard Attenborough. As we look at the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Times, let's change turned slightly, and turn our attention to | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
their main story on the left`hand side, referring to the death of the | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
American hostage James Foley, and the suggestion that the video was | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
very stage`managed. Yes, they seem to be implying that it was filmed | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
for a particular kind of western audience. And the execution happened | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
at a different time. It is a disturbing thing to have to | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
consider. It suggest, if correct, that this was aimed at a western | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
audience, and particularly a British one, but they managed it so it would | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
have a particular impact on people watching. What is remarkable about | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
this outfit is its sense of what propaganda is. I have never | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
understood why ISIS or Islamic State or whatever they call it, doesn't | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
sell itself as a more illuminating and enlightened force. I don't | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
understand why it is trying to reject itself across the world as a | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
grotesque, murderous, terrorist movement. And it speaks to the death | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
cult like nature of it. You have to put it in the same racquet as the | :06:13. | :06:24. | |
Khmer Rouge or the SS. The idea that they are projecting that throughout | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
the world is chilling. We don't want to talk too much about the details, | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
but the suggestion is that this tradition man might be what they | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
call a front man rather than the actual killer used at the beginning | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
of the video. `` British man. Somebody very cunningly thought we | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
need a British person as the front man of this piece. Two as I | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
understand this was commissioned by The Times, a forensic look at the | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
video. And somebody is quoted as saying my feeling is that the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
execution may have happened after the camera was stopped, and they | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
show, an English guy because he is an English speaking member for an | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
English`speaking audience. It sends a powerful message that it doesn't | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
matter where you are from, your allegiance is with the Islamic | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
State, and one`day Islamic State will encompass the entire world in | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
terms of their thinking. It is exactly as we are describing. But | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
this is just one reading of how it has been managed. We don't know if | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
this is right either. What it does, I think this whole Islamic State | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
press campaign is just extraordinary. I think the way they | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
have used Twitter, and it reminds you of a kind of horrendous | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Reservoir dogs thing, where they discuss hamburgers and the next | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
minute go out and shoot people `` Reservoir Dobbs. It is very spooky | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
how they have played this `` how Reservoir Dogs. It is that strange | :08:10. | :08:19. | |
mix of savagery but also being both a with Twitter. An odd mix of the | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
mediaeval and the post`modern `` aux fait. And picking up on that idea we | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
discussed a few weeks ago with other videos, with British people in them, | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
fighting overseas for Islamic groups, the idea that they are very | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
slick and as recruiting tools they make it look somehow very menacing, | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
very appealing to people of a certain mindset, and think that | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
could be met, and somehow for the darker minds, it is... Hooters this | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
appeal to? Friend of mine to the study at Cambridge of the Columbine | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
massacre. He addressed Wade is that so many people who do school | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
shootings in the US turn out to be fans of Hitler. His theory was that | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
when you feel like an outcast in society and hate everyone else, you | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
pick the figure whose society has most consistently rejected and | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
loathed. So there isn't really a substantial Nazi ideology behind | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
people who do terrible things in the name of Hitler, but they identify | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
with what society most Paetz. And I wonder if there is an element of | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
that in this. They are trying to appeal to bear people who are very | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
lonely, hate everyone else, and latch onto people who everyone | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
despises. If you look at the broader series of events in that part of the | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
world, what I find shocking is for we went into Iraq, I can remember | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
the footage of UN inspectors being shown around the parts where the | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
so`called weapons of mass destruction were supposed to be | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
hidden, and it was women showing them around. And you just saw women | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
in everything. Now you don't see that anywhere, which goes to show, | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
to me, that everybody is capable, actually, quite a change in the way | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
they think. It is these societies have gone from being secular, from | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
being fairly equal, from being quite open, just like that, into being | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
tribal, male dominated, that says to me that could happen anywhere, quite | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
frankly. All it requires is the right argument at the right trigger. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
And these guys are just, they were closer to the trigger and the rest | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
of us. Let's turn our attention to the Daily Telegraph. Like many of | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
the newspapers they have picked up on the return of the British Ebola | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
victim who has been flown into an RAF base this evening and is being | :10:48. | :10:57. | |
treated at the Royal Free Hospital. And he raised an eyebrow. I am not | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
worried about the NHS solving the problem when the worker was here, | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
what I'm unsure about is how much it cost to transport him here. It is | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
either funded by the government by the RAF or by the agency for which | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
he works, or it is funded by medical insurance, because if he has fallen | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
ill overseas, and I am interested to know how he was brought here, how | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
much it cost, and who paid. Because that has quite big implications. And | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
if you are asking me whether the government should pay, I think the | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
government has to pay very hard. If it is privileging British people | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
dying in the rest of the world but not everybody else dying around | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
them, and spending hundreds of thousands that might save half of | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
those people there, heading that one person out, actually, is that right? | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
I'm not sure I think so. And I also wonder if, when we choose to go into | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
places where we are putting ourselves at risk, we should expect | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
our government to come in and save us, when something goes wrong? Well | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
I would. I would certainly hope they would. You would like to think when | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
you have gone for a noble purpose, to help and to volunteer... I don't | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
think it matters what the paper says, I think you're asking to | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
congregate at a question about something which the rest of us think | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
is just fantastic we have done. I just think it is great that we have | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
gone in, got this guy out, will treat him, and that will be | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
fantastic. I am focused on that. The British government is there to look | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
after British subjects. So if one of our people is overseas, they are our | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
priority. And this is a unique circumstance. Because of the | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
particular nature of this disease, and maybe we have some self interest | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
in making sure that it doesn't spread, because our British person | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
staggers home and end up spreading it that way. I don't know what the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
reasoning is. As I was saying earlier, I like to think of this as | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
NHS SAS style operation, nurses swooping in on parachutes and | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
getting this guy out. I think it is fantastic and a price worth paying. | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
We are starting to get a little bit more information. 29 years old they | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
are naming him as William. It has captured the public imagination. | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
What is slightly worrying, as you are saying earlier, the lack of | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
resources when this guy does get home. The report I was reading about | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
the particular hospital he was going to, it only has two beds of the | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
riding needed to deal with this kind of disease. And is the only one in | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
the UK, possibly in Europe. And the beds cost money ?5,000 each. Serious | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
stuff. Let's look at the Guardian. They | :13:33. | :13:50. | |
have got the Independent debate between Alistair Darling and Alex | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
Salmond. They are talking about the NHS. I just want to know what the | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
answer is. What will they do in Scotland that is different to what | :14:05. | :14:17. | |
we do here for the NHS? I want to know how they will be in charge of | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
it and how it will be a much bigger fish that they have two Fry. I don't | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
see how he can get past the issue of the currency. It doesn't matter what | :14:28. | :14:39. | |
subjects he brings up tomorrow. It's that argument that if you vote for | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
independence, you will get a socialist utopia. They will get the | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
debt that is 86% of the GDP. If they formed a government, he would have | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
to be more conservative fiscally than the current government in | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
London. What is upsetting is that he is setting the union against itself. | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
He is saying that Scots will always do vote for a Liberal government. It | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
implies that all English people vote Tory in fact there is something | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
wrong with voting Tory. If that is what the United Kingdom has voted | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
for, and that government is at liberty to do it. If you don't agree | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
with that, vote for a different party, but do virtually. `` but | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
don't vote to leave. Are you going to watch the debate? Not a lot of | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
enthusiasm. Stay with us here on BBC News. At midnight, we look back at | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
the life of Richard Attenborough, one of the country's greatest | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
actors, who has died aged 90. Coming up next, it's time for the Film | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
Review which was recorded before the death of Lord Attenborough was | :15:56. | :15:56. | |
announced. Hello and welcome to the Film Review | :15:57. | :16:28. | |
on BBC News. To take us through this week's cinema releases is Anna | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
Smith. Welcome. What do we have this week? A lot of action, a little | :16:35. | :16:35. |