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:00:00. > :00:00.will take Muhammad Ali through the streets, to allow anyone who was

:00:00. > :00:14.there from the world to say goodbye. Welcome to our look ahead

:00:15. > :00:19.to what the the papers will With me are the Mirror columnist,

:00:20. > :00:28.Susie Boniface and Philippa Kennedy, The digital Independent carries

:00:29. > :00:34.an image of the man who's on the front of virtually every

:00:35. > :00:44.paper tomorrow morning. He died on Friday night. That is a

:00:45. > :00:46.rather humourous image. 20 by the serious ones.

:00:47. > :00:54.The Express on Sunday shows a picture of Muhammad Ali in his later

:00:55. > :00:57.years, with the quote, "Don't count the days, make the days count".

:00:58. > :01:01.The Sun on Sunday shows a picture of a young Muhammad Ali back

:01:02. > :01:04.when he was still known as Cassius Clay.

:01:05. > :01:06.The Observer also shows a picture of Ali and

:01:07. > :01:13.in the corner has a poignant quote from President Obama and his wife.

:01:14. > :01:17.The Sunday times also has a picture of Ali but leads on reports that the

:01:18. > :01:20.Royal Navy have been asked to patrol the english channel to look for

:01:21. > :01:25.The Daily Mail leads with claims that the the campaign for Britain to

:01:26. > :01:36.leave the EU has been infiltrated by dozens of far-Right extremists.

:01:37. > :01:44.Inevitably it is Muhammad Ali pretty much all the way. What do you make

:01:45. > :01:51.of the coverage? Well, he has always been absolutely beautiful. I think

:01:52. > :01:56.they are trying to outdo each other to find the best picture. Many I

:01:57. > :02:03.haven't seen before. The Sun on Sunday has chosen one when he was

:02:04. > :02:06.very young. The Observer is featuring one when he looks a little

:02:07. > :02:19.bit older. The physical presence is what comes out. He loses -- oozes

:02:20. > :02:23.charisma. He really grabs the lens. Absolutely. He was one of the first

:02:24. > :02:36.sports men really to create this as a credible... Reaching out to

:02:37. > :02:47.teenage girls. I never knew one single boxer before he came along.

:02:48. > :02:52.He became so much more than that. The papers have given him a very

:02:53. > :02:59.good sendoff. Just look at the number of pages the Sun on Sunday

:03:00. > :03:07.has given to it. Extraordinary. I think his whole legacy, the whole

:03:08. > :03:13.idea of him being a black icon at a time when racism was rife in

:03:14. > :03:18.America, he actually reached right across the world. Why was that? It

:03:19. > :03:23.has got to be because of his total charm, as well as his skill and

:03:24. > :03:27.beauty. For UN died we are not really old enough to remember him at

:03:28. > :03:36.the peak of his powers as a boxer. -- for you and I. Probably most of

:03:37. > :03:42.us remember him at the Atlanta Olympics. I have been as fascinated

:03:43. > :03:46.about Muhammad Ali as somebody who has actually seen him fight. And it

:03:47. > :03:51.does make a difference. The fact that this is someone who is no

:03:52. > :03:58.longer with us, his impact and the effect he has had is still affecting

:03:59. > :04:02.young people is-- young people, who have never seen him box. He was the

:04:03. > :04:08.first sports a megastar, certainly the first black megastar, who was

:04:09. > :04:14.crossing cultural boundaries. He was young, handsome, witty, clever, fast

:04:15. > :04:19.on his feet, beautiful to look at. Opting vans, people who weren't

:04:20. > :04:27.boxing fans, everybody wants to see him. -- boxing fans. That's what

:04:28. > :04:31.enabled him, when he did become criticised, he could have this

:04:32. > :04:37.massive impact. Had he not been a boxer, had he stayed in Louisville,

:04:38. > :04:39.I do think the American Civil Rights Movement would have looked very

:04:40. > :04:44.different and may not have had the success when it did. Certainly for

:04:45. > :04:48.the times when he came to Britain, to Brixton, the impact he had on

:04:49. > :04:57.people here... They probably loved him or hear at one point. -- more

:04:58. > :05:04.here. There was one time when I was terribly disappointed, when he

:05:05. > :05:08.wouldn't join the army. We were close enough, I wasn't born during

:05:09. > :05:13.the Second World War, but I am close enough to remember the legacy. You

:05:14. > :05:20.hear your parents talking about conscientious objectors. He took a

:05:21. > :05:26.big risk. Effectively he was stripped of his boxing title. Very

:05:27. > :05:31.crucial years, yes. Never mind that a lot of Americans would have been

:05:32. > :05:34.angry and resentful. But he was right. Look how everything has

:05:35. > :05:40.changed in America and how they view the Vietnam War now. He was a hero.

:05:41. > :05:46.But he was absolutely denigrated by a lot of people in America, and all

:05:47. > :05:52.over the world, for draft dodging or whatever it was called. I suppose he

:05:53. > :06:00.didn't even dodge it, he was upfront about it. The Independent, the

:06:01. > :06:03.digital Independent as it is now, I dearly wish they were still

:06:04. > :06:07.publishing. You can imagine these pictures on the news stands. They

:06:08. > :06:14.would catch your eye. I mentioned the comic on, the one in black and

:06:15. > :06:23.white. Impossible is a big name thrown around by small people. That

:06:24. > :06:32.picture of him looming over someone after he has floored him. No

:06:33. > :06:38.shortage of pictures of him. Let's move on to another story. Also in

:06:39. > :06:50.the Sun. This is, well, quite a bold headline. 'Dangerous Dave. PM can't

:06:51. > :06:58.protect Brits'. There is some reason to say this when you look further

:06:59. > :07:03.in. It's a slight stretch... You might have to make a judgement next

:07:04. > :07:06.week about it. It says you can't trust the Prime Minister, you can't

:07:07. > :07:12.protect Britain's money. Boris has written an open letter, saying, we

:07:13. > :07:16.are not sure whether in the future Britain might have to bail out other

:07:17. > :07:27.governments in the eurozone, because we are not members of them and we

:07:28. > :07:35.don't have to bail them out at the moment. Boris basically says he

:07:36. > :07:38.doesn't trust and the public can't trust the EU. The government

:07:39. > :07:44.promises we might have to pay at some point in the future. You don't

:07:45. > :07:49.think it is such a stretch? I don't. The third paragraph of the letter

:07:50. > :07:51.says the public can't trust the EU or government promises that we will

:07:52. > :07:58.pay for the eurozone bailout, given the history of how we have been

:07:59. > :08:04.outvoted. That's fair enough. You can't trust Boris or the EU. It is

:08:05. > :08:09.the same letter! It leaves you wondering what will happen after the

:08:10. > :08:14.referendum. The day after when they have to sit around the table again.

:08:15. > :08:22.Exactly. Boris will be given the department of... Of paperclips or

:08:23. > :08:26.something when he is back. An award for his loyalty to the Prime

:08:27. > :08:31.Minister! Quite. It is very confusing. We were talking earlier

:08:32. > :08:35.about how in the end when we go to the ballot boxes we are going to

:08:36. > :08:41.vote the way we thought about this six months ago. You don't think it

:08:42. > :08:49.will change very much? David Cameron must be regretting calling a

:08:50. > :08:53.referendum. A referendum he didn't need to call and was done purely to

:08:54. > :09:01.try... A couple of use ago, to keep UKIP in its box. Now UKIP isn't much

:09:02. > :09:04.to be seen, it isn't such a worry, as much as the fact as the Tory

:09:05. > :09:08.party is stabbing each other in the face. Meanwhile, there is a far

:09:09. > :09:14.right plot to hijack wrecks it, according to the Mail on Sunday. Who

:09:15. > :09:16.thought racist would want to join a campaign where you don't want

:09:17. > :09:23.racists in the -- immigrants in the country? What is interesting is that

:09:24. > :09:28.The Daily Mail during the week said, you need to leave the EU. It

:09:29. > :09:34.is dreadful. And then the Mail on Sunday, with a different editor,

:09:35. > :09:37.said something different. I would be interested to see how The Daily Mail

:09:38. > :09:45.responds on Sunday. I bet they will save Remain campaign has a line of

:09:46. > :09:55.extremism as well. It will shake up middle England. Should we really be

:09:56. > :09:58.voting for a Brexit? I was struck by what you said, that you think people

:09:59. > :10:05.may vote how they would have voted before the campaign began. But one

:10:06. > :10:09.of the opinion polls published today suggests there has been a shift of

:10:10. > :10:12.one percentage point. It is within the margin of error, it is only one

:10:13. > :10:18.poll and you have to look at the trend. It does make you wonder how

:10:19. > :10:26.much is being achieved by all of the effort, or the campaigning and

:10:27. > :10:30.publicity. When did you ever believe anything an opinion poll actually

:10:31. > :10:34.said? They are very seldom write about general elections. This feels

:10:35. > :10:39.like a general election. It is turning very nasty. People are

:10:40. > :10:45.becoming quite personal about air attacks and who they trust. I think

:10:46. > :10:47.we will just look at the people who are actually fronting these

:10:48. > :10:54.campaigns and think, who do you trust? Tony Blair? Iain Duncan

:10:55. > :10:59.Smith? They've got horrible people on both sides! They are all equally

:11:00. > :11:09.loathsome. George Galloway or George Osborne? Or Boris? Let's go for some

:11:10. > :11:11.other news. The Sunday Times. As well is a terrific picture of

:11:12. > :11:15.Muhammad Ali at the height of his powers, to the right of that, the

:11:16. > :11:20.navy called into Control Panel for migrants. This is a reaction to the

:11:21. > :11:22.revelation of a boat that was found to be sinking in the English

:11:23. > :11:33.Channel, with migrants clutched to it. They were duly rescued by the

:11:34. > :11:38.coastguard. Here now that all of these little boats will go from the

:11:39. > :11:44.French coast to the English coast. The navy is not about to patrol the

:11:45. > :11:50.channel. It is a bit of a stretch. What has happened is the Border

:11:51. > :11:55.Force, which has three rubber armbands and a little polystyrene

:11:56. > :12:00.float has asked the Royal Navy for help unsurprisingly and the Royal

:12:01. > :12:11.Navy are proposing to offer several offshore boats, by which Royal

:12:12. > :12:16.Marines can go up the beach. They can reach certain speeds and they

:12:17. > :12:24.will have machine guns and so on taken. -- taken off. The media has

:12:25. > :12:34.been asked for help because nobody else has ships. -- the needy. --

:12:35. > :12:41.navy. Moving on to a little story at the bottom left. This is intriguing.

:12:42. > :12:45.Alastair Campbell in the clear, it says, in the Chilcott report. This

:12:46. > :12:49.is interesting. If you read this carefully it looks like something

:12:50. > :13:01.that has been leaked by the Tony Blair camp. He hasn't received an

:13:02. > :13:06.e-mail, outlining where he will be ticked. This maximisation process.

:13:07. > :13:12.You get a chance to fight it. That's probably why it has taken so long,

:13:13. > :13:21.so far. Anybody who is going to be criticised has had their more years

:13:22. > :13:31.poring over this for years now. The dodgy dossier was so deep at the

:13:32. > :13:38.time. It seems only wish all to me that Alastair will not be censored

:13:39. > :13:44.in some way. I can't believe in 2.6 million words, that John Chilcot

:13:45. > :13:49.hasn't found a future say about Alastair Campbell. Sadly we don't

:13:50. > :13:55.have that many words left. Thank you both very much for being here

:13:56. > :14:01.tonight. We have The Film Review coming up next. We will be back with

:14:02. > :14:02.more news at the top of the hour.