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and jessica elgot, political correspondent at the guardian. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. the guardian has a picture of the anti—apartheid campaigner winnie mandela who has died today at the age of 81. the paper leads on the story that thousands of nhs ambulances are unable to attend 999 calls because of delays at a&e units. the nhs is also the lead in the daily telegraph which features an interview with the former health secretary, lord lansley who blames government cuts for not spotting his cancer sooner. the metro reports an increase in violence against teachers in the classroom. britain's largest teaching union says children as young as four are attacking staff. the ft says the electric car manufacturer tesla is facing pressure from investors, following an admission that a fatal crash in los angeles last month involved one
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of it's auto—pilot systems. the daily mail leads on a warning from the company who wants to make the new blue british passport that the government awarding the contract to a french company could lead to hundreds of job losses. the times has an exclusive report about disclosure failures and claims that some police are trained in avoiding making all material available. and finally, crime lords of the rings is the headline in the sun. the papers says thousands of phones, stolen by moped gangs on british streets are being sold in nigeria for hundreds of pounds. so let's begin. lets delve into the papers. the story of the day is winnie mandela's
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death at the age of 81. she is featured on the front page of the guardian. what is your response to her legacy? that's what people are looking at. there is a photo of winnie mandela on the front page of i think every single paper tomorrow. the guardian makes an interesting point in this short story on its front page. it set her off and negative —— often negative image abroad contrasts with how she is viewed within south africa. activist groups pointed out that she got criticism for how she ran soweto in the 90s but also she was convicted of fraud. clearly in south africa, the main legacy will be the champion of the anti—apartheid struggle, sticking with nelson mandela while he was in prison. i think one of the
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things, she was a really impactful campaigner in herown things, she was a really impactful campaigner in her own right. she is obviously not just known for being the wife of nelson mandela. they we re the wife of nelson mandela. they were together for 38 years. for almost three decades of that, they we re almost three decades of that, they were apart because he was imprisoned and she was one of the people who was keeping up the struggle and also keeping his ideas alive. desmond tutu is one of the people saying that she inspired a whole new generation of activists threw her activism and the guardian makes the point on the front page but she is one of the few remaining representatives of that particular generation of activists who led the fight against apartheid. —— through
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her activism. turning to the ft. you mentioned desmond tutu. he paid tribute to her that just mentioned desmond tutu. he paid tribute to her thatjust to bring back to the dark days. at the time she was made to stand in front of the truth and reconciliation commission, he said, he did point out that she was a tremendous stall wa lt out that she was a tremendous stall walt of the struggle and icon of liberation but something went wrong, horribly, badly wrong. —— stalwart. we had a thing earlier in our report where she was talking about necklacing. john carlin wrote a book on which it was based on. he made the point that she went through so much trauma and it's difficult now, even he has had to stop and reflect how she came through that and how she is regarded. the picture on the front of the ft, fists raised with her then husband, she was persecuted during his incarceration. she was an angry woman in the years, the awful
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yea rs, angry woman in the years, the awful years, that followed that. her death comes at an interesting, pivotal moment for south africa. she was one of the last of that generation of anti—apartheid activists still alive. she has now died at a time when south africa has a new president, part of a new generation, jacob sooner was forced out of office earlier this year. —— jacob zuma. he is going to stand trialfor corruption. it is a moment and south africa can reflect on that complicated and deeply awful time and get on with trying to forge a new modern south africa. let's turn to the telegraph. budget cuts meant "my cancer wasn't spotted". the former health secretary, lord lansley. it is quite an extraordinary story. he said he was receiving —— he is receiving
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chemotherapy of bowel cancer. he tried to introduce a screening programme under david cameron. these are strong accusations from andrew lansley. health secretary under david cameron, it is thought was to introduce this i—off bowel cancer test at the age of 55 for men. he said if that happened that he would of had that screening and it would have caught his bowel cancer early. it's striking how that come about. what is interesting is that not only this is a deeply personal and specific case. andrew lansley is talking about the scheme in which he tried to introduce. it speaks to a nightmare going on within the conservative party at the moment about whether it is now time, after
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grinding years of austerity, to turn it off. andrew lansley seems to be talking about, despite being a harbinger of the early cuts in the coalition government, he is saying the government seems choose need to start spending more —— needs to start spending more —— needs to start spending more —— needs to start spending more. it looks like a relaxation of austerity which is exactly what philip hammond, the chancellor, is saying the government should not do, at least not yet. we seem should not do, at least not yet. we seem to hear very vocal cries from mps once they have been personally affected by diseases. for example test match all stocking about allowing patients to travel abroad. there are so many stories are that families fighting to take their children abroad for a treatment. and it takes it —— takes it to be a
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personal thing for the mps to actually understand —— tessa jowell. i think that is one of the great things about parliament. you probably don't hear me or henry being uncynical about politicians very often. quite often, the personal experiences lead to very powerful speeches in the house of commons and i wonder if this very personal call on the front of the telegraph from lord lansley might be a thing to kickstart it. we hope so. let's go back to the guardian. the hidden toll of ambulance delays. ame putting lives at risk. —— a&e. hidden toll of ambulance delays. ame putting lives at risk. -- me. the guardian says 600,000 amulets as have faced waits of more than 15
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minutes while they are basically handing over a patient to a&e staff before they can get on and look at the next case —— ambulances. the nhs says those delays are a potential threat to life. everyone of cases, it -- threat to life. everyone of cases, it —— every single one of those occasions is when an ambulance is too slow to get to a heart attack, stroke or another medical and urgency. i'm not a health expert and it doesn't seem clear why these ambulances are delayed but it is something to the department of health is going to have to sort out with the government. leigh patients are waiting in ambulances. they are outside hospital. —— patients are waiting in ambulances. clearly, it's a very serious matter if you have called an ambulance. you have patients waiting outside a&e before they can treated. it often comes down to money in the end. let's turn
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to the times. russia relations worse than cold war. not really surprising that headline. these comments from sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister. there was a press conference with borrowed —— boris johnson a few months ago. they traded witty barbs. he says, and some people will think that takes some people will think that takes some cheek, uk the us and other countries have cast away all decency. they are resulting to open lies and blatant misinformation which are very good report in the times yesterday said russia itself was doing. as ridiculous as some of the language and claims might be, it does just show how quickly relations with russia have deteriorated. it wasn't that long ago that barack 0bama was talking about normalising relations with russia that we are clearly now in a very, very
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different place. did in russia is surprised that the world has turned against them? that's how they regard it, isn't it? i don't know whether they are surprised. they may be surprised at the uniformity of the response and adding that has been something that has been quite striking. the uk government has clearly managed to persuade dozens of countries that it has such evidence that they should expel their own diplomats, they should try to dismantle whatever russian intelligence network exists in their own countries and it has been a dramatic response. it is a dramatic thing to happen, what happened in salisbury. but it has been a dramatic response. are they surprised? it's hard to know whether they expected it to go so far. did they expected it to go so far. did they expected it to go so far. did they expect relationships to deteriorate having done this? probably they did, yes. are a final
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look is at the daily mail and it is the blue passport. —— ourfinal look. this story is about where they are being made. there was the row early this year about the fact that government is awarding the tender to a franco dutch firm, passing over the burgundy coloured passports which you based in gateshead. the franco dutch firm are willing to ta ke franco dutch firm are willing to take the home office to court over this. the government has insisted throughout this that they merely chose to straightforward tendering process based on quality, security and price. the company in gateshead said they have been undercut. do you have a legal argument? just those
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three things, as henry said. whether it is true, as the government claims, that they were under all three of those things, quality, security and price. if it is just price, the government seems to have claimed it is all three of them in so claimed it is all three of them in so that may be where they start to have an argument. it is £120 million the government says that having them manufactured in france rather than britain will save if it is no compromise on security. we may yet see that tested in court. the saga of the blue passport. that's it for the papers tonight. thank you, henry and jessica. coming up next: the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news.
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to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so mark, what do we have this week? a very exciting week, we have ready player 0ne, steven spielberg adventure, stop motion from wes anderson in isle of dogs, not that one! and journeyman, a paddy considine drama that really packs a punch. steven spielberg, what did you make of it. the setup is that real life in the future is squalid and people spend their time in second life as avatars in this great big computer game called the oasis where they can get possessions and accrue things. but if they get killed in the game they will lose everything.
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easter eggs in the game are hidden within it by its designer who is a benevolent figure who has now passed on. 0ur hero, his avatar, in the game, is looking for the keys that will give him the domain of the game. however ben mendelsohn's slimy businessman is also trying to get those keys so you have the interplay between the avatar world, the unreal world, and the real world. it works surprisingly well. here's a clip. wade owen watts born august 12 2027. i know where you are, you were seen entering the trailer, three days ago and you haven't left since. what are you doing? with all going on in this world do you think anyone gives a damn about some explosion in some ghetto trash warren in columbus? don't do this, i'm running in there. not for long. pick up, pick up, alice! it looks expensive, i will say that much. it is a steven spielberg film!
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realworld, unrealworld, one of the things i liked about it is the interplay between the two worlds. the other thing is that the virtual world is packed with pop culture references from the 70s and 80s, early on someone produces the spaceship from silent running. i was won over, then that is the delorean from the film back to the future. you think this could become just about spotting the references but it is a real popcorn sugar rush thrill ride. you can tell spielberg loves the avatar world he has created.
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and you get emotionally engaged with the characters. it would be easy this to become just a technical exercise, when you spot the references and look at the visuals but you care about the story, the story makes sense and believe me if the story is set in a computer game and makes sense to me, it will make sense to anyone! i went in, with trepidation and i watched everything with a huge smile, i laughed, i was excited, swept along by the action. i loved the constant pop culture references, some i got, some i didn't, it didn't make a difference. i thought, it is a really great popcorn candyfloss film making by a master who understands how to do this and who obviously has created many of the pop culture references to which this film refers. self—referential but in a way that didn't distance me from it, i would not have anticipated that. that is our easter viewing sorted! a shame because i was going to go home and say i want to see
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isle of dogs. i am a dog lover, very excited. i'm also a dog owner and a cat owner. it's stop motion from wes anderson set injapan in the future. all the dogs have been taken to nagasaki city and sent to this trash island on the pretext of protecting humans from an outbreak of dog flu. all these dogs are dumped on this island and a young boy separated from his dog which has been sent to the island flies there to try to find him. when he gets there he finds a pack, they describe themselves as scary indestructible alpha dogs, their battle cry is let's have a vote.
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they help him find his lost dog. read this as a parable about outsiders and closed borders, or a story about leadership and pack action. you can see it as a lovely film about a boy and a lost dog. there is... is it fun, serious? both those things. really good fun, often very funny and because it is wes anderson, quirky and offbeat. some things in it are quite grisly. there's a sort of live sushi sequence, our young hero gets a propeller pop stuck in his head at one point and one dog is told to stop licking his wounds, literally, and you even get an organ transplant, so it's not entirely cute and cuddly. it is scratchy. notjust the dogs, it's the animation. it has this lovely tactile quality and a very good voice cast, bryan cra nston, scarlett joha nsson. the visuals are breathtaking. as i watched i thought, i must see this again because you miss so much on a first viewing. every time you look at a frame it is full of delights, you want to watch it again. some things about it are beautiful, some are harsh, you have to see both of them. you have to see that
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and ready player 0ne. i'm so excited about paddy considine. i feel physically winded from watching that film but in a good way. this is journeyman, starring paddy considine, he has a title to defend and he's also a husband and father. in a boxing match he is punched heavily and severely injured. he has a life changing injury and suddenly finds himself having to rebuild his character because the injury has changed who he is and what he knows and what he does. and also what he can remember about his life. this is a clip. that'sjackie. he's in your corner. who's that. that is ritchie, your trainer. and my dad?
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yes, you know him. that's matt. matt. that's me. yeah. my friends? yes. who are they? that is a good question. that is one of the most poignant parts, because those friends... they don't know how to deal with it. what i love about this is, paddy considine is a personal film maker making films that come from the heart. the title isjourneyman which means one thing that it is the story of a man going on a journey. i thinkjodie whittaker, who plays his wife, is brilliant. you feel her presence even when she isn't there. the narrative is straightforward but you believe every minute of it, he's struggling to
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remember something. you can see him struggling, what he is doing through his physicalisation he is externalising something which is interior which is very hard to do, there's one scene when he's on the phone tojodie whittaker. his wife. i was in pieces. in floods of tears. i am so glad you liked it. i thought it was terrific. you completely believe in the characters. i don't know anything about boxing. i have never been to a boxing match. i couldn't watch one, i can't watch something where you think somebody might get hurt and by definition this is what happens. although is evident that paddy considine has great affection for boxing. i think it's really interesting. three really interesting films, go and see any or all of them, it will be a packed weekend.
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i'm going to be busy. what is the best of the bunch. have you seen this film by lynne ramsey? promise me that you will see it. let me sell it to you like this. it is tough, joaquin phoenix plays a hit man character going to get a lost teenager and it has violence and brutality but it is done poetically. done in a way which is moving, often funny and touching. and very poetic. not the film it sounds like when you describe the plot, i promise. in the same way thatjourneyman is not a story about boxing, it's not really about boxing. you will love it. dvd of the week? ingrid goes west, this young woman who can't distinguish between social media and reality. it reminds me of the brilliant film the king of comedy. it is kind of like a stalker story, on the one hand dark and sinister, on the other hand comic and it walks that tightrope very well. didn't get a big audience in cinemas
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but deserves one on dvd, i thought it was terrific. thumbs up across the board. so much great stuff to watch. i'd be really interested to know what you think of ready player 0ne and the isle of dogs. i will see them both. thank you mark. just a reminder, you can find all the film reviews from across the bbc online. this is the address. all our previous programmes are on the bbc iplayer of course. particularly, this easter long weekend, enjoy your cinemagoing because there are some real treats to watch. a busy weekend ahead. bye bye. good evening. well, for some parts
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of the country it has been a light east, especially for scotland and northern england, over the hills we have had a fair bit of snow, and it is still slowing out there at the moment. through the rest of the night, further outbreaks of rain at lower levels but snow mainly over the higher ground. if we take a look at the satellite image you can see all cloud piling its way northwards across the country during the day. some clearer skies following on from the south behind that area of cloud but it is also importing some milder airfrom the but it is also importing some milder air from the south and south—west. a change in wind direction, you can see yellow colours returning to the map through tuesday. the weather will be turning milder in places. we still have those blue colours in scotla nd still have those blue colours in scotland so we will hold on to the weather here, real contrast in temperature throughout the country. milder in the south but if we focus across scotland you can see it will
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be snowing through the night. temperatures closer to freezing here. we could see several centimetres falling over higher ground. towards the south, for the southern up lines, for instance, that will mostly turning to rain later in the night through the early hours of tuesday. elsewhere across the country, it is a mild night. so in the south some of us are staying in double figures tonight. further spells of showery rain working in the south—west, and they will be pushing their way northwards and eastwards. looking through tuesday, low pressure still in charge, moving in from the south—west. we have that front wringing further snowfall across the north of scotland but certainly not a washout on tuesday. we start off tuesday with a lot of cloud and some showers moving their way northwards and eastwards across england, wales and northern ireland. in sunny spells, with light winds, quite pleasant out there. temperatures of 1a or 15 in the south, compared with four or five across scotland. as we move through tuesday night and not into wednesday
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we have this area of low pressure starting to move off a little bit towards the east. i think certainly for that snowfall across scotland, it will ease for a time but there are further showers, some of them quite heavy during the day on wednesday. some hail and some thunder mixed in as well then my state it is turning a touch cooler once again. through the end of the week the milder air returns, and we have these southerly winds developing. there could be some rainfall especially in the west later on friday, are looking towards the weekend, some of us will be back into the high teens. we're i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore, the headlines: us markets fall nearly 2% as china retaliates in the us trade row. pork and wine are among the us imports targeted — so what does washington do now? i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme. tributes to winnie mandela,
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the controversial anti—apartheid campaigner, who has died at 81. in the midst of depression, she was the voice of disk —— defiance. and just what made north korean officials issue an extremely rare apology?
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