:00:07. > :00:09.A brilliant student in Pakistan is brutally murdered in the name
:00:10. > :00:22.The mob think he is a blasphemer. This is where he tried to hide from
:00:23. > :00:25.the mob. They found him here. They kicked him, beat him, hit him with
:00:26. > :00:28.sticks and shot him. and how British Imams should be
:00:29. > :00:32.responding. I've therefore decided to step down
:00:33. > :00:39.as leader of the council. It's ridiculous he thought he could
:00:40. > :00:44.hang on. It's really great. Kensington and Chelsea
:00:45. > :00:47.council leader steps down We speak to Jon Ronson,
:00:48. > :01:02.co writer of Okja, the latest film to confront our
:01:03. > :01:23.insatiable carnivorous habits. Good evening, first, more on the
:01:24. > :01:28.controversy over lading and buildings razed by the Grenfell
:01:29. > :01:33.Tower tragedy. Newsnight discovered crucial details about why so many
:01:34. > :01:38.about buildings managed to get cladding installed that does not
:01:39. > :01:41.meet normal safety standards. Chris, what have you found out this
:01:42. > :01:46.evening. We have to take a step back to
:01:47. > :01:50.remember how you get cladding signed off by the building inspectors. The
:01:51. > :01:54.first way is to test all of the parts of the cladding you wish to
:01:55. > :01:58.put up in a laboratory and check it is basically impossible to set on
:01:59. > :02:03.fire. The second thing you can do, we have a video showing it, is if
:02:04. > :02:10.you want to use a bit of material that is a little flammable, is you
:02:11. > :02:13.can put that material into a furnish arcs effectively, in the
:02:14. > :02:19.configuration you want to use it to see if it holds up. But there are
:02:20. > :02:24.other routes, one is a desktop test. You say, you have done a proper fire
:02:25. > :02:30.test in a laboratory, I want to do something similar to that, so I'll
:02:31. > :02:35.get an engineer to say what you are proposing is the same as that over
:02:36. > :02:41.there. What we discovered over the last few weeks is that the desktop
:02:42. > :02:45.tests are used more widely than anyone respectable or responsible
:02:46. > :02:49.thought and there are serious problems with the quality. We think
:02:50. > :02:54.they are widespread. We have managed to get hol of a couple of things
:02:55. > :03:02.that are secretive. These are documents. We managed to get hold of
:03:03. > :03:09.two produced by a company. They relate to using combustible
:03:10. > :03:13.insulation like a Grenfell Tower with aluminium composite panels on
:03:14. > :03:18.the outside like the Grenfell Tower. They relate to quality like Grenfell
:03:19. > :03:24.but the same sort of design. The thing about the panels, is that they
:03:25. > :03:28.behave oddly in a fire. It is two bits of aluminium around the core of
:03:29. > :03:34.a substance. Some have plastic inside? Some do.
:03:35. > :03:41.In the fire the aluminium can expose what is on the inside. So in a fire
:03:42. > :03:45.that is dangerous. So aluminium combustible panels behave in an
:03:46. > :03:54.unusual way. We have two of the examples and a quote here. It shows
:03:55. > :03:58.that they say, they believe that the panels, if tested would believe the
:03:59. > :04:03.same as a test that they conducted with ceramic tiles. They do not
:04:04. > :04:08.behave in a fire in a similar way to ceramic tiles. The documents are
:04:09. > :04:12.handed over to a building inspector, and on the basis of them say that
:04:13. > :04:20.you have done the work, tick. We know that for example, this research
:04:21. > :04:23.was used in Portsmouth in Unite student accommodation. This is
:04:24. > :04:28.justifying stuff going on this buildings. We spoke to people who
:04:29. > :04:35.did not believe that this was being used. But this is how some of this
:04:36. > :04:39.stuff is on the buildings. What are the implications tonight?
:04:40. > :04:45.We have to say that the Unite students who own that building in
:04:46. > :04:50.Portsmouth says it has a large number of fire safety measures, they
:04:51. > :04:53.were open with us, doing routine fire testing and taking up the
:04:54. > :05:01.Government's offer much the free testing of the cladding. They were
:05:02. > :05:06.open with us. Kingspan, they paid for the reports, they make the
:05:07. > :05:10.insulation, they paid the engineers to produce the reports so that the
:05:11. > :05:18.insulation is used in the context. And said that they always get this
:05:19. > :05:22.from the UK's most respected fire inspecting consultancis, and they
:05:23. > :05:26.are confident that they are not compromised.
:05:27. > :05:30.But another company, refused to comment throughout on the basis of
:05:31. > :05:34.client confidentiality. We have some of the reports but they are yet to
:05:35. > :05:36.respond for comment. Keep going. Thank you, Chris.
:05:37. > :05:40.The brutal killing in Pakistan of Mashal Kahn exposes deep
:05:41. > :05:43.divisions in the country, and puts pressure on British Imams
:05:44. > :05:45.to distance themselves from the country's blasphemy laws,
:05:46. > :05:47.and the way they are used to legitimise violence.
:05:48. > :05:49.A brilliant student, Mashal, was brutally murdered by a mob
:05:50. > :05:52.on a university campus in Pakistan earlier this year after he was
:05:53. > :05:57.The killing has caused widespread outrage and has even led to calls
:05:58. > :06:02.to change the country's strict blasphemy laws.
:06:03. > :06:12.A horrific lynching captured on camera on a university campus.
:06:13. > :06:21.The mob, though, think he's a blasphemer.
:06:22. > :06:24.This was Mashal Khan's room, where he tried to hide from the mob.
:06:25. > :06:29.They kicked him, they beat him, they hit him with sticks
:06:30. > :06:36.The issue of blasphemy has long divided Pakistani society.
:06:37. > :06:41.And some hope this case could finally lead to some reform.
:06:42. > :06:49.But others are deadly opposed to that.
:06:50. > :06:54.This is the village of Zaida in Pakistan's northern
:06:55. > :07:11.And it's where his family still live.
:07:12. > :07:13.Mashal was an outstanding journalism student with an interest
:07:14. > :07:35.Abdul Wali Khan University is one of Pakistan's newest institutions,
:07:36. > :07:37.with a student population of over 12,000.
:07:38. > :07:39.It is just an hour's drive away from Mashal's village.
:07:40. > :07:47.The campus has been closed since Mashal's murder.
:07:48. > :07:50.Over there, that building is the Department of Journalism
:07:51. > :08:01.Over there is the hostel that he lived in and it is where he died.
:08:02. > :08:04.This is him alongside Abdullah, who had also been
:08:05. > :08:12.accused of blasphemy, and another journalism student.
:08:13. > :08:14.Mashal would debate with more conservative students.
:08:15. > :08:16.He described himself as a Muslim but also as a liberal.
:08:17. > :08:27.Over time, debates turned to threats.
:08:28. > :08:30.He used to discuss with religious fanatics.
:08:31. > :08:33.He knew that but he used to discuss these things.
:08:34. > :08:44.He was accused of being an atheist agnostic.
:08:45. > :08:53.Blasphemy allegations are often used in Pakistan as a way
:08:54. > :09:03.Mashal's father believes this video of him criticising alleged
:09:04. > :09:06.corruption in the university a few days before his death led
:09:07. > :09:10.Police have also collected evidence suggesting student politicians,
:09:11. > :09:14.jealous of Mashal's influence, wanted him out of the university.
:09:15. > :09:19.It is hard to know what of that is true.
:09:20. > :09:22.What we do know is that most of those who took part
:09:23. > :09:28.in the violence did believe Mashal was a blasphemer.
:09:29. > :09:31.I think at one time the notion was, that if somebody wanted
:09:32. > :09:35.to get somebody killed, they will go hire what are known
:09:36. > :09:51.He will either be killed or forced to leave the country.
:09:52. > :09:54.The day of the lynching, it seems, began like any other.
:09:55. > :09:56.Mashal apparently had no idea what was about to happen.
:09:57. > :09:58.A group of students demanded to see the lecturers,
:09:59. > :10:01.accusing Mashal and two of his friends of having
:10:02. > :10:09.As the mob continued to grow, Mashal was frantically
:10:10. > :10:16."They are falsely saying I insulted the Prophet".
:10:17. > :10:18.His friend replies, "Mashal, where are you?"
:10:19. > :10:27.Then the mob made their way to Mashal's hostel.
:10:28. > :10:30.There, they found him hiding in his room on the second floor.
:10:31. > :10:41.I came here the day after the murders.
:10:42. > :10:45.Now, over a month, and nothing has changed.
:10:46. > :10:47.These are the bloodstains where it seems the authorities think
:10:48. > :10:54.that Mashal was lined up against the wall and shot.
:10:55. > :10:57.At least two eyewitnesses that I have spoken to say that
:10:58. > :11:00.after he was shot he was still alive and they tried to carry his body
:11:01. > :11:08.To try to get him some help because after the shots rang out,
:11:09. > :11:11.the mob dispersed and they were able to try and rescue him.
:11:12. > :11:14.But when they got to the bottom of these stairs, the mob had
:11:15. > :11:18.reassembled and they managed to grab his body back.
:11:19. > :11:20.From this point, Mashal's last moments are captured
:11:21. > :11:25.His fellow students beat him as he lay dying.
:11:26. > :11:27.The videos were instantly shared across Pakistan.
:11:28. > :11:39.Mashal was eventually dragged outside.
:11:40. > :11:41.Even long after he was dead, they continued beating his body.
:11:42. > :11:46.Police were present but were either unable or unwilling to stop them.
:11:47. > :11:52.Dozens of Mashal's fellow students who appeared in the videos
:11:53. > :11:57.Some were members of religious student organisations.
:11:58. > :12:07.I wanted to understand what was behind their brutality.
:12:08. > :12:11.Wajahat is not accused of having beaten Mashal but of helping incite
:12:12. > :12:15.the attacks by accusing him of blasphemy in front
:12:16. > :12:21.We have got hold of a letter written by Wajahat to a number of religious
:12:22. > :12:22.scholars he is effectively encouraging to support
:12:23. > :12:35.And in it, he goes into a lot more detail about the alleged blasphemy
:12:36. > :12:39.He talks about one conversation in particular that he had
:12:40. > :12:42.with Mashal about Adam and Eve in which Mashal is saying,
:12:43. > :12:45.why is incest forbidden in Islam if Adam and Eve's children
:12:46. > :12:50.would have had incestuous relationships with each other
:12:51. > :12:58.Mashal's killers have their sympathisers.
:12:59. > :13:00.This was a rally just weeks after the murder,
:13:01. > :13:07.It was addressed by a number of former MPs, including this man,
:13:08. > :13:31.a leading local figure in an Islamist party.
:13:32. > :13:38.Whatever he might, or is alleged to have said, nothing can justify
:13:39. > :14:04.killing someone, and especially not in that way.
:14:05. > :14:19.After the death, the family are hosting a memorial.
:14:20. > :14:21.40 days after Mashal's death, the family are hosting
:14:22. > :14:24.A rally this large in support of someone accused of blasphemy
:14:25. > :14:28.Most Pakistanis, religious or not, are sympathetic to Mashal's case,
:14:29. > :14:31.But none of the political parties are seriously talking
:14:32. > :14:33.about reforming the blasphemy law because of the resistance
:14:34. > :14:38.Unlike extremist groups such as the Taliban, the law does have deep
:14:39. > :14:39.support in many quarters. the law does have deep support
:14:40. > :14:41.in many quarters. Mashal's family are torn
:14:42. > :14:43.between hoping that his death could lead to a more open,
:14:44. > :14:45.tolerant society and worrying alleged failings by the police
:14:46. > :14:48.and the university could be covered You can see a longer version
:14:49. > :15:20.of Secunder Kermani's film on Our World on the BBC
:15:21. > :15:24.News Channel at 9.30pm on Sunday night and,
:15:25. > :15:27.of course, on the iPlayer. We're joined by Haras Rafiq,
:15:28. > :15:31.who is the chief executive of the counter-extremism
:15:32. > :15:44.organisation Quilliam International. What is your reaction to that film
:15:45. > :15:48.and what happened? I have seen some of this before and this is the tip
:15:49. > :15:52.of the iceberg, since 1987 thousands of people have been accused of
:15:53. > :15:59.blasphemy and charged and at least 65 of them have not made it to
:16:00. > :16:04.court. In the case of accusing someone of blasphemy, has that been
:16:05. > :16:08.a cover in many ways to attack them? Obviously lynching is not allowed
:16:09. > :16:14.but has that been a copper because he expressed left-wing views or is
:16:15. > :16:18.it a straight blasphemy accusation? Will not, if you look at the
:16:19. > :16:26.blasphemy laws, at some stage you do not need witnesses. At the top end,
:16:27. > :16:30.the long sentences somebody to death, then you need witnesses and
:16:31. > :16:36.what we have seen is instances where people have used it to settle scores
:16:37. > :16:40.but more than that, there has been a deep sanitisation of the normally
:16:41. > :16:45.very tolerant versions of Islam and people are believing that the law
:16:46. > :16:51.gives them the opportunity to behave that way. How does that correspond
:16:52. > :16:56.to attitudes here and what the imams are saying here? This is the most
:16:57. > :17:01.recent one and there was a case before this were a politician was
:17:02. > :17:08.actually killed for daring to challenge reform of the blasphemy
:17:09. > :17:12.law, killed by his bodyguard, who was from the moderate tradition.
:17:13. > :17:17.Moderate yet Conservative, moderate in every other way when it comes to
:17:18. > :17:22.Islamist and terrorism but on this issue, very focused on the blasphemy
:17:23. > :17:25.law and when his killer was sentenced, he was praised, the
:17:26. > :17:29.killer was praised here in some of the largest mosques in the country.
:17:30. > :17:37.Are you suggesting that there would be a situation where what happened
:17:38. > :17:41.to Mashal would be condoned here? It was, the killing of somebody because
:17:42. > :17:48.they dare to challenge blasphemy laws was condoned and by imams...
:17:49. > :17:54.Interestingly, some imams will be very vociferous about this but do
:17:55. > :17:59.you think that people still fear speaking out, even to say that
:18:00. > :18:05.blasphemy law should be changed? We have been talking about repealing
:18:06. > :18:09.the blasphemy law in Pakistan because it is not fit for purpose,
:18:10. > :18:14.it is not Islamic, it was brought there by the British Empire. Why is
:18:15. > :18:21.it so important for people here to relate to the blasphemy law? If you
:18:22. > :18:26.look at the last census, nearly 69% of Muslims in this country, from the
:18:27. > :18:31.Indian Pakistani and Bangladeshi region and the overwhelming majority
:18:32. > :18:35.come from Pakistan, they control the imams, who have been supporting the
:18:36. > :18:38.blasphemy law there and the killers still control a lot of mosques in
:18:39. > :18:43.this country and the largest mosque outside London was actually
:18:44. > :18:52.supporting the killer of Salman Taseer publicly. What should be
:18:53. > :18:55.done? You are in organisation trying to stop radicalisation of you
:18:56. > :19:00.suggest there is no appetite amongst imams to speak out? The problem is
:19:01. > :19:05.not the appetite, it can be dangerous. If you look at before
:19:06. > :19:10.Finsbury Park, the last three high-profile killings in this
:19:11. > :19:15.country were done by other Muslims because you were considered
:19:16. > :19:20.non-Muslim enough, Glasgow, Rochdale and London. It can be dangerous as
:19:21. > :19:23.well but above that, there is a tradition, but I come from, where
:19:24. > :19:28.the majority of Muslims in this country who want everything else are
:19:29. > :19:32.moderate but on this issue still support the blasphemy law. We have
:19:33. > :19:34.no idea what the attitude is in the mosque you are talking about but
:19:35. > :19:37.thank you very much for joining us. It has taken pressure
:19:38. > :19:39.from Downing Street and nearly two weeks of condemnation but finally
:19:40. > :19:42.today the leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council has resigned
:19:43. > :19:44.over the Grenfell Tower tragedy. In a statement, Nicholas Paget-Brown
:19:45. > :19:47.said he accepted his share of responsibility for the perceived
:19:48. > :19:50.failings of the authority. The latest of those was his refusal
:19:51. > :19:53.to let the local residents and the press into a council
:19:54. > :19:55.meeting last night.... Then, when a court order
:19:56. > :19:57.overruled his decision, He has faced a barrage of criticism
:19:58. > :20:02.since the night of the fire, criticism which came from all sides,
:20:03. > :20:06.not least about the council's chaotic response and his refusal
:20:07. > :20:10.to admit they could not cope. I have to accept my share of
:20:11. > :20:13.responsibility for these perceived In particular, my decision to accept
:20:14. > :20:20.legal advice that I should not compromise the public enquiry
:20:21. > :20:24.by having an open discussion in public yesterday has itself
:20:25. > :20:30.become a political story. I therefore decided to step down
:20:31. > :20:34.as leader of the council. Almost immediately after
:20:35. > :20:37.Paget-Brown stepped down, the deputy leader of the council
:20:38. > :20:40.also resigned and, earlier today, Robert Black, the chief executive
:20:41. > :20:43.of the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Association, announced
:20:44. > :20:47.he was stepping aside from his role Pilgrim Tucker is a community
:20:48. > :21:01.organiser who is working Quite a lot of activity today but
:21:02. > :21:08.what difference will this make to residents? Hopefully, now that Mr
:21:09. > :21:12.Paget-Brown has gone and the Deputy Leader has gone, we can replace them
:21:13. > :21:18.with people who are competent and care about the residents. It is the
:21:19. > :21:22.case that Sadiq Khan is denied saying that the council should be
:21:23. > :21:27.set aside and new commissioners should be put in by the government,
:21:28. > :21:32.would the residents support that? I think trust in the Cabinet has gone,
:21:33. > :21:36.trust in the console and they were not confident in them years ago.
:21:37. > :21:42.They were complaining and trying to raise these this year's and the
:21:43. > :21:48.aftermath has been disastrous, as we can see, and new people need to be
:21:49. > :21:52.put in place. In terms of on the ground, a council workers augmented
:21:53. > :21:58.by central government civil servants, how either residents
:21:59. > :22:01.doing? Westminster is still struggling, there is a lack of
:22:02. > :22:06.communication, they are unclear about what is happening in the
:22:07. > :22:12.future to them regarding housing. They are still confused. Are they
:22:13. > :22:19.all highest? They are in temporary accommodation. -- highest. Hotels?
:22:20. > :22:25.Yes, but I know there are families in unsuitable accommodation,
:22:26. > :22:31.children sharing rooms with adults, in one room, and so on. You have
:22:32. > :22:36.worked with the residents would you talk about the fact that people
:22:37. > :22:40.actually have not been exercising their rights, is a feeling that in
:22:41. > :22:44.the past, although you have been pushing for the residents because
:22:45. > :22:48.they have serious concerns, that there is a feeling that the
:22:49. > :22:54.authorities seem to know best? Those residents really tried very hard to
:22:55. > :22:58.exercise their rights and that console, two of those councillors
:22:59. > :23:05.have stepped down, those councillors did not respond and would not
:23:06. > :23:10.listen. That is a big problem with democracy and accountability. And
:23:11. > :23:14.they listened more to the private sector. Do you think there is a
:23:15. > :23:18.democratic deficit, not least because you do not have the same
:23:19. > :23:24.system of local papers and so forth to dig stuff out? There is a
:23:25. > :23:27.democratic deficit, we also have this increasingly powerful private
:23:28. > :23:33.sector involved in local government. And councillors in this case wanted
:23:34. > :23:37.to listen to them but I think even in other areas of London, where
:23:38. > :23:41.councillors are trying to respond to residents, the private sector has
:23:42. > :23:46.too much power and we need to increase scrutiny and oversight and
:23:47. > :23:49.I think we need to diminish the role of the private sector in local
:23:50. > :23:54.government and increase regulation and start to appreciate the
:23:55. > :24:02.important things that the state and regulation can give us. That is the
:24:03. > :24:06.vehicle for us to have democracy. You talk about things that can
:24:07. > :24:09.change and it is often hard to see what good could come out of this
:24:10. > :24:15.dreadful tragedy but do you think there could be further re-engage
:24:16. > :24:19.meant in local politics and a different way of doing council
:24:20. > :24:24.activity? Hopefully people will recognise the importance of our
:24:25. > :24:28.local governing institutions and the importance of them really being
:24:29. > :24:33.responsive to the people who have elected those people, councillors,
:24:34. > :24:38.government, locally and nationally, have a duty of care, they command a
:24:39. > :24:41.lot of resources on our behalf and it is very important that they are
:24:42. > :24:47.responsive and this is a terribly horrible example, the build-up to
:24:48. > :24:51.this went on for years with people trying to get these people to
:24:52. > :24:55.listen. These people need to step down and the whole council needs to
:24:56. > :25:00.step down. What is important that the government must start listening
:25:01. > :25:05.to residents and the public enquiry. Before that, this new deadline for
:25:06. > :25:08.next week for people to get houses, what are the chances of not being
:25:09. > :25:15.met and what would happen if it is not met? I think the only thing they
:25:16. > :25:19.have assured us is more temporary accommodation so I think there are a
:25:20. > :25:25.lot of promises which are not being met and fluffy statements which are
:25:26. > :25:30.temporary buffers to keep people happy for now. And the really
:25:31. > :25:33.important thing is, like the residents have said so very clearly
:25:34. > :25:39.to politicians, be honest with us, treat us with the intelligence and
:25:40. > :25:44.respect that we deserve and most important is the public enquiry. Do
:25:45. > :25:47.not give us false promises, we are intelligent people and we will hold
:25:48. > :25:52.you accountable. Thank you very much indeed.
:25:53. > :25:54.The plight of animals bred and either paraded as entertainment
:25:55. > :25:57.or slaughtered for the delectation of humans has long been fertile
:25:58. > :25:59.territory for Hollywood, from Charlotte's Web to Babe
:26:00. > :26:09.But the latest feature film to confront our insatiable
:26:10. > :26:12.carnivorous habits has been made not for the big screen but by Netflix
:26:13. > :26:18.for our tablets and iPads, and packs a much more visceral punch.
:26:19. > :26:22.I will be joined by the director in a moment but first, a club.
:26:23. > :26:25.Okja is the new film by Korean director Bong Joon-ho and stars
:26:26. > :26:28.an adorable giant pig-like creature called Okja and her even more
:26:29. > :26:32.beguiling friend, Mija, who grow up together
:26:33. > :26:42.But the big, bad American food corporation who created her
:26:43. > :26:55.I'm joined by the film's co-writer, Jon Ronson.
:26:56. > :27:04.Good evening. The film starts off very much as a lyrical fairy tale,
:27:05. > :27:10.incredibly soft, and then you get into a really visceral world where
:27:11. > :27:19.actually, a lot of dreadful things happen to this wonderful creature or
:27:20. > :27:25.potentially? Who is a film for? I think it is finding its audience,
:27:26. > :27:30.people are watching this and loving it, the director, Bong Joon-ho, is
:27:31. > :27:36.so great that he can do these crazy tonal shifts, sometimes it is like a
:27:37. > :27:41.children's movie, beguiling, like fable, and then becomes dark and
:27:42. > :27:44.upsetting and is appealing to all those people although it should not
:27:45. > :27:51.be watched by young children because it does get incredibly and dark
:27:52. > :27:54.later on. It does pack a punch. Is it a straightforward campaigning
:27:55. > :28:02.film or is it more nuanced about human feelings? It is not a
:28:03. > :28:08.campaigning film, what it is, most of all, I hope, is a beautiful film.
:28:09. > :28:16.It is enchanting and disturbing and dark and entertaining so I think we
:28:17. > :28:19.valued aesthetics over ideology. However, it is really dark and it
:28:20. > :28:23.ends up in a slaughterhouse for magical animals and as a
:28:24. > :28:30.consequence, a lot of people will become vegetarians! You say this is
:28:31. > :28:36.not a campaigning film but if you look at a number of other films,
:28:37. > :28:40.Hollywood movies, the inexorable drive is towards vegetarianism. Is
:28:41. > :28:46.that what you think is the message of the film? It is not the message
:28:47. > :28:50.of the film, it is the inevitable consequence. I guess one of the
:28:51. > :28:58.messages is about cognitive dissonance. We treat ourselves into
:28:59. > :29:02.believing that the meat that we eat has nothing to do with the pets that
:29:03. > :29:06.we love but we know that pigs are just as adorable and smart as dogs,
:29:07. > :29:12.so to eat the meat you need to see inside the slaughterhouse. What is
:29:13. > :29:19.so amazing about this film is the director has made the scenes inside
:29:20. > :29:23.the slaughterhouse which most other directors would make grotesque, he
:29:24. > :29:28.has made it haunting and beautiful. But it is absolutely visceral, we
:29:29. > :29:32.must not shy away from that. Much more so than any other of these
:29:33. > :29:40.Hollywood movies. Netflix has made this! What do you make of this? No
:29:41. > :29:44.one else would have. This is a $50 million movie, half of this is in
:29:45. > :29:50.Korea and it ends up in incredibly dark places and no studio would have
:29:51. > :29:55.allowed Bong Joon-ho to do this but Netflix did so and I think it is
:29:56. > :30:01.giving us freedom and money in a way that Hollywood has rarely done since
:30:02. > :30:12.the great days of early Martin Scorcese and Woody Allen, Bonnie and
:30:13. > :30:19.Clyde. This is a golden time. And anyway, this film celebrates direct
:30:20. > :30:24.action? Yes. We have an animal liberation front in this film but
:30:25. > :30:31.they are not entirely heroic, they are stupid at times and slapstick.
:30:32. > :30:34.One character is so determined not to leave our carbon footprint on the
:30:35. > :30:40.earth but he has given up eating entirely. There are very funny
:30:41. > :30:45.moments. Yes, so they are not entirely heroic. The bad people in
:30:46. > :30:50.this film are not entirely bad and the goodies are not entirely good.
:30:51. > :30:53.Like humans, there are grey areas. Thank you very much.
:30:54. > :30:56.But before we go, you won't have been able to visit
:30:57. > :30:59.a great maypole in London unless you were around in 1672.
:31:00. > :31:02.It was then that the capital's pole was blown away be a storm.
:31:03. > :31:04.Now a competition is underway to replace it
:31:05. > :31:08.If anyone is thinking of taking on the challenge -
:31:09. > :31:13.NEWSREEL: In this festive season, Coronation celebrations are the rage
:31:14. > :31:18.Here we are at Elstow Green, Bedfordshire, where Phyllis Izzard
:31:19. > :31:22.drives to her throne to be crowned May Queen while the people
:31:23. > :31:25.of the village turn out in force to attend this old English pastime
:31:26. > :31:37.The May Queen of 1935 is crowned by her predecessor from 1934.