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:00:00. > :00:00.Johansson pushes her brain to the limit in the thriller Lucy, and the

:00:00. > :00:21.rest of this week's top releases, with Anna Smith. Welcome to our

:00:22. > :00:29.lookahead at what the papers will be bringing us. With me are Tim Stanley

:00:30. > :00:31.from the Telegraph and the journalist Shyama Perera. Tomorrow's

:00:32. > :00:34.front pages first, starting with: Death of a screen legend ` the

:00:35. > :00:37.Independent pays tribute to Richard Attenborough on its front page. Lord

:00:38. > :00:40.Attenborough's death is also on the front page of the Times, the

:00:41. > :00:43.newspaper singling out the film Ghandi for praise. The Daily

:00:44. > :00:46.Telegraph leads on the British aid worker with the Ebola virus brought

:00:47. > :00:49.from Sierra Leone to the UK for treatment. The Foreign Secretary is

:00:50. > :00:53.warning about the possibility of an attack by Islamic State in the UK is

:00:54. > :00:55.on the front page of the Express. While the Guardian concentrates on

:00:56. > :00:58.the forces ranged against Islamic State in Iraq. The Daily Mail has

:00:59. > :01:02.more detail on the British aid worker suffering from Ebola. And the

:01:03. > :01:34.Sun also leads on the Ebola patient coming home for treatment. So let's

:01:35. > :01:39.make a start. And sad news this evening, in The Independent, with

:01:40. > :01:44.this wonderful picture of Richard Attenborough who we have learnt in

:01:45. > :01:49.the last 1.5 hours has died aged 90. Interesting choice of picture, many

:01:50. > :01:56.have the smiling bearded face, but this is the face of the dreadful and

:01:57. > :01:59.rather sinister Pinkie from his early career. It is the first thing

:02:00. > :02:11.I thought of, in the end of the movie, what you want me to say is I

:02:12. > :02:21.love you, but I don't, but the record catches, and it just said I

:02:22. > :02:30.love you, I love you. Good timing that we have the First World War

:02:31. > :02:36.season, Oh, What a Lovely War actually improves on the stage play.

:02:37. > :02:41.His acting could be very subtle and incredibly creepy. His performances

:02:42. > :02:48.can be so still, magisterial, cunning, devious, it actually makes

:02:49. > :02:57.your skin crawl when he says to his victims how about a nice cup of tea?

:02:58. > :03:01.It is very scary. When you look back at his work and think about what

:03:02. > :03:07.stands out, it is those very quiet performances like Pinkie that held

:03:08. > :03:11.your attention even though they didn't demand it. What is so

:03:12. > :03:16.fascinating is that contrast to the many saw in real life. And people so

:03:17. > :03:19.fond of him because of that great smile and that open attitude and

:03:20. > :03:25.compassion he showed in other areas of his life. absolutely, and unlike

:03:26. > :03:30.him I am not so familiar with his body of work. I just know him from

:03:31. > :03:37.Gandhi, as the old bloke in Jurassic Park, thespians refer to him, and

:03:38. > :03:45.you always saw him turning up doing appeals, and he was just larger than

:03:46. > :03:50.life. And of course, he spawned a brilliant director in his son

:03:51. > :03:54.Michael Attenborough. This just draws your attention, every now and

:03:55. > :04:01.then there is the dynasties. It suddenly starts to disappear. I

:04:02. > :04:07.think part of my reaction to this is that sense of loss, of history. A

:04:08. > :04:13.piece of history is going, and it just reminds you that there are

:04:14. > :04:19.sometimes families that make a difference. In particular way, and

:04:20. > :04:23.that is the family led by Richard Attenborough. The politics and the

:04:24. > :04:31.art art inseparable. Gandhi is a great film, the entire apartheid

:04:32. > :04:39.films are excellent `` and the apartheid. He is a voice for

:04:40. > :04:45.compassionate liberal progressivism `` Anti`apartheid. He was respected

:04:46. > :04:50.in the developing world and the West, and it is a really sad loss.

:04:51. > :04:56.We will miss him. And some lovely photos for people to look at in the

:04:57. > :05:02.front pages. On the Times, that much more familiar face, really. A much

:05:03. > :05:06.more recent picture, the glasses and that wonderful beard, and such an

:05:07. > :05:11.open face. So remembering Richard Attenborough. As we look at the

:05:12. > :05:15.Times, let's change turned slightly, and turn our attention to

:05:16. > :05:20.their main story on the left`hand side, referring to the death of the

:05:21. > :05:26.American hostage James Foley, and the suggestion that the video was

:05:27. > :05:30.very stage`managed. Yes, they seem to be implying that it was filmed

:05:31. > :05:34.for a particular kind of western audience. And the execution happened

:05:35. > :05:38.at a different time. It is a disturbing thing to have to

:05:39. > :05:42.consider. It suggest, if correct, that this was aimed at a western

:05:43. > :05:47.audience, and particularly a British one, but they managed it so it would

:05:48. > :05:51.have a particular impact on people watching. What is remarkable about

:05:52. > :05:57.this outfit is its sense of what propaganda is. I have never

:05:58. > :06:01.understood why ISIS or Islamic State or whatever they call it, doesn't

:06:02. > :06:04.sell itself as a more illuminating and enlightened force. I don't

:06:05. > :06:08.understand why it is trying to reject itself across the world as a

:06:09. > :06:12.grotesque, murderous, terrorist movement. And it speaks to the death

:06:13. > :06:24.cult like nature of it. You have to put it in the same racquet as the

:06:25. > :06:28.Khmer Rouge or the SS. The idea that they are projecting that throughout

:06:29. > :06:33.the world is chilling. We don't want to talk too much about the details,

:06:34. > :06:36.but the suggestion is that this tradition man might be what they

:06:37. > :06:44.call a front man rather than the actual killer used at the beginning

:06:45. > :06:52.of the video. `` British man. Somebody very cunningly thought we

:06:53. > :06:56.need a British person as the front man of this piece. Two as I

:06:57. > :07:05.understand this was commissioned by The Times, a forensic look at the

:07:06. > :07:09.video. And somebody is quoted as saying my feeling is that the

:07:10. > :07:13.execution may have happened after the camera was stopped, and they

:07:14. > :07:20.show, an English guy because he is an English speaking member for an

:07:21. > :07:24.English`speaking audience. It sends a powerful message that it doesn't

:07:25. > :07:29.matter where you are from, your allegiance is with the Islamic

:07:30. > :07:32.State, and one`day Islamic State will encompass the entire world in

:07:33. > :07:37.terms of their thinking. It is exactly as we are describing. But

:07:38. > :07:40.this is just one reading of how it has been managed. We don't know if

:07:41. > :07:48.this is right either. What it does, I think this whole Islamic State

:07:49. > :07:51.press campaign is just extraordinary. I think the way they

:07:52. > :07:56.have used Twitter, and it reminds you of a kind of horrendous

:07:57. > :08:02.Reservoir dogs thing, where they discuss hamburgers and the next

:08:03. > :08:09.minute go out and shoot people `` Reservoir Dobbs. It is very spooky

:08:10. > :08:19.how they have played this `` how Reservoir Dogs. It is that strange

:08:20. > :08:24.mix of savagery but also being both a with Twitter. An odd mix of the

:08:25. > :08:32.mediaeval and the post`modern `` aux fait. And picking up on that idea we

:08:33. > :08:37.discussed a few weeks ago with other videos, with British people in them,

:08:38. > :08:42.fighting overseas for Islamic groups, the idea that they are very

:08:43. > :08:48.slick and as recruiting tools they make it look somehow very menacing,

:08:49. > :08:53.very appealing to people of a certain mindset, and think that

:08:54. > :08:58.could be met, and somehow for the darker minds, it is... Hooters this

:08:59. > :09:02.appeal to? Friend of mine to the study at Cambridge of the Columbine

:09:03. > :09:06.massacre. He addressed Wade is that so many people who do school

:09:07. > :09:10.shootings in the US turn out to be fans of Hitler. His theory was that

:09:11. > :09:14.when you feel like an outcast in society and hate everyone else, you

:09:15. > :09:17.pick the figure whose society has most consistently rejected and

:09:18. > :09:22.loathed. So there isn't really a substantial Nazi ideology behind

:09:23. > :09:27.people who do terrible things in the name of Hitler, but they identify

:09:28. > :09:31.with what society most Paetz. And I wonder if there is an element of

:09:32. > :09:36.that in this. They are trying to appeal to bear people who are very

:09:37. > :09:43.lonely, hate everyone else, and latch onto people who everyone

:09:44. > :09:46.despises. If you look at the broader series of events in that part of the

:09:47. > :09:51.world, what I find shocking is for we went into Iraq, I can remember

:09:52. > :09:53.the footage of UN inspectors being shown around the parts where the

:09:54. > :09:56.so`called weapons of mass destruction were supposed to be

:09:57. > :10:00.hidden, and it was women showing them around. And you just saw women

:10:01. > :10:06.in everything. Now you don't see that anywhere, which goes to show,

:10:07. > :10:10.to me, that everybody is capable, actually, quite a change in the way

:10:11. > :10:15.they think. It is these societies have gone from being secular, from

:10:16. > :10:20.being fairly equal, from being quite open, just like that, into being

:10:21. > :10:25.tribal, male dominated, that says to me that could happen anywhere, quite

:10:26. > :10:30.frankly. All it requires is the right argument at the right trigger.

:10:31. > :10:35.And these guys are just, they were closer to the trigger and the rest

:10:36. > :10:38.of us. Let's turn our attention to the Daily Telegraph. Like many of

:10:39. > :10:47.the newspapers they have picked up on the return of the British Ebola

:10:48. > :10:57.victim who has been flown into an RAF base this evening and is being

:10:58. > :11:02.treated at the Royal Free Hospital. And he raised an eyebrow. I am not

:11:03. > :11:07.worried about the NHS solving the problem when the worker was here,

:11:08. > :11:10.what I'm unsure about is how much it cost to transport him here. It is

:11:11. > :11:17.either funded by the government by the RAF or by the agency for which

:11:18. > :11:21.he works, or it is funded by medical insurance, because if he has fallen

:11:22. > :11:26.ill overseas, and I am interested to know how he was brought here, how

:11:27. > :11:30.much it cost, and who paid. Because that has quite big implications. And

:11:31. > :11:34.if you are asking me whether the government should pay, I think the

:11:35. > :11:38.government has to pay very hard. If it is privileging British people

:11:39. > :11:42.dying in the rest of the world but not everybody else dying around

:11:43. > :11:46.them, and spending hundreds of thousands that might save half of

:11:47. > :11:50.those people there, heading that one person out, actually, is that right?

:11:51. > :11:55.I'm not sure I think so. And I also wonder if, when we choose to go into

:11:56. > :11:58.places where we are putting ourselves at risk, we should expect

:11:59. > :12:02.our government to come in and save us, when something goes wrong? Well

:12:03. > :12:07.I would. I would certainly hope they would. You would like to think when

:12:08. > :12:11.you have gone for a noble purpose, to help and to volunteer... I don't

:12:12. > :12:17.think it matters what the paper says, I think you're asking to

:12:18. > :12:20.congregate at a question about something which the rest of us think

:12:21. > :12:24.is just fantastic we have done. I just think it is great that we have

:12:25. > :12:28.gone in, got this guy out, will treat him, and that will be

:12:29. > :12:32.fantastic. I am focused on that. The British government is there to look

:12:33. > :12:37.after British subjects. So if one of our people is overseas, they are our

:12:38. > :12:40.priority. And this is a unique circumstance. Because of the

:12:41. > :12:44.particular nature of this disease, and maybe we have some self interest

:12:45. > :12:47.in making sure that it doesn't spread, because our British person

:12:48. > :12:51.staggers home and end up spreading it that way. I don't know what the

:12:52. > :12:58.reasoning is. As I was saying earlier, I like to think of this as

:12:59. > :13:01.NHS SAS style operation, nurses swooping in on parachutes and

:13:02. > :13:05.getting this guy out. I think it is fantastic and a price worth paying.

:13:06. > :13:12.We are starting to get a little bit more information. 29 years old they

:13:13. > :13:15.are naming him as William. It has captured the public imagination.

:13:16. > :13:17.What is slightly worrying, as you are saying earlier, the lack of

:13:18. > :13:20.resources when this guy does get home. The report I was reading about

:13:21. > :13:23.the particular hospital he was going to, it only has two beds of the

:13:24. > :13:30.riding needed to deal with this kind of disease. And is the only one in

:13:31. > :13:32.the UK, possibly in Europe. And the beds cost money ?5,000 each. Serious

:13:33. > :13:50.stuff. Let's look at the Guardian. They

:13:51. > :13:57.have got the Independent debate between Alistair Darling and Alex

:13:58. > :14:04.Salmond. They are talking about the NHS. I just want to know what the

:14:05. > :14:17.answer is. What will they do in Scotland that is different to what

:14:18. > :14:22.we do here for the NHS? I want to know how they will be in charge of

:14:23. > :14:27.it and how it will be a much bigger fish that they have two Fry. I don't

:14:28. > :14:39.see how he can get past the issue of the currency. It doesn't matter what

:14:40. > :14:43.subjects he brings up tomorrow. It's that argument that if you vote for

:14:44. > :14:51.independence, you will get a socialist utopia. They will get the

:14:52. > :14:54.debt that is 86% of the GDP. If they formed a government, he would have

:14:55. > :15:00.to be more conservative fiscally than the current government in

:15:01. > :15:09.London. What is upsetting is that he is setting the union against itself.

:15:10. > :15:14.He is saying that Scots will always do vote for a Liberal government. It

:15:15. > :15:19.implies that all English people vote Tory in fact there is something

:15:20. > :15:25.wrong with voting Tory. If that is what the United Kingdom has voted

:15:26. > :15:29.for, and that government is at liberty to do it. If you don't agree

:15:30. > :15:38.with that, vote for a different party, but do virtually. `` but

:15:39. > :15:45.don't vote to leave. Are you going to watch the debate? Not a lot of

:15:46. > :15:49.enthusiasm. Stay with us here on BBC News. At midnight, we look back at

:15:50. > :15:52.the life of Richard Attenborough, one of the country's greatest

:15:53. > :15:55.actors, who has died aged 90. Coming up next, it's time for the Film

:15:56. > :15:56.Review which was recorded before the death of Lord Attenborough was

:15:57. > :16:28.announced. Hello and welcome to the Film Review

:16:29. > :16:34.on BBC News. To take us through this week's cinema releases is Anna

:16:35. > :16:35.Smith. Welcome. What do we have this week? A lot of action, a little