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mmfw wu.- ' wwrm e‘fir urll g the humidity and heat finally disappearing. you notice this change as we go through the week, looking cooler in london as we head towards next weekend and perhaps some showers around as well. many of us need some rain. is there any in the outlook? there is a chance of showers. the west— north—westerly wind, there will always be across western and north—western parts of the country. what we will see is something much cooler. two thirds of all plastic food packaging sent for recycling is buried or burned because it can't actually be recycled. donald campbell's rebuilt bluebird is back in the water, more than 50 years after it crashed on coniston water. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the business journalistjohn crowley and the author and journalist
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yasmin alibhai—brown. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the sunday times has an interview with the international trade secretary, liam fox, who puts the odds of the uk leaving the eu without a deal at 60—40, placing the blame on the european commission. another ongoing political issue, the row over anti—semitism in the labour party, makes the front page of the sunday telegraph. it says the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, is facing criticism for his links to a smear campaign against a jewish leader. the nhs has been warned it's at risk of breaking the law if it doesn't offer transgender patients awaiting surgery access to fertility treatments. that's according to the observer. the mail on sunday claims information about britain's new stealth fighterjets has been leaked to an as—yet unidentified third party, in what the paper calls an "audacious honeytrap plot". a story we've covered today
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features on the front page of the sunday express. detectives searching for missing midwife samantha eastwood have found a body and made three arrests. and, like some of the other papers, the sunday express also carries an image of the duchess of sussex, who attended a friend's wedding on her 37th birthday. well, thank you both forjoining us this evening. lots of different, interesting stories in the papers, and let's start with the latest on labour's anti—semitism row. yasmin, tom watson, labour deputy leader, some strong language in this interview with the observer. yes, and what he said is that the party, in quotes, will disappear into a vortex of eternal shame and
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embarrassment and render itself unfit for government unless it finds a way of immediately putting a halt to this thing, which has been a festering wound, a sore for the longest time, and i agree with him, as do many other people. you know, this has been the worst example of procrastination, lack of understanding of what political leadership should be about, and i wrote a column this week in our newspaper, saying, jeremy corbyn, who i admire in many ways, is guilty of political vandalism on this. however, when watson says, as he doesin however, when watson says, as he does in the observer, that labour should immediately adopt the full international holocaust remembrance alliance definition, along with its examples, i disagree with that. but that's at the heart of this row. the thing that should have been done and needs now to be done is the definition and its examples are part
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of the debate, if you like. for me, i. of the debate, if you like. for me, i, andi of the debate, if you like. for me, i, and i say this absolutely, so everybody can hear me, all my life i've supported the right of israel to exist, and i completely understand what this homeland means forjewish people. but i think there isa forjewish people. but i think there is a suppression of legitimate criticism of israel which is within this, the examples, that we need to talk about. and that is jeremy corbyn‘s argument, but extraordinary, john, to hear the deputy leader of the party, in an interview with the observer, openly criticising the leader. ease the deputy leader. why doesn't he have a conversation with the leader in private? i'm sure he is, but the fa ct private? i'm sure he is, but the fact they are playing this out in public again, it's like an open wound, and it appears to be any vortex of eternal shame and harassment, new, evocative, descriptive ways to say that labour
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is imploding. and it does feel kind of like that, as there is more blood—letting to come, i think. i find that unforgivable. we are at the worst time in our history. the country is divided, completely lost with this brexit thing, and here is labour, getting involved in something it could have dealt with much sooner. however, there are also people who, i feel, are fanning the thing, and certainly when i read the jewish chronicle saying there was an existential threat and so on, so it's a bad mix, and the leadership, and i'm glad tom watson has come out and i'm glad tom watson has come out and said he's said in the strongest language, and maybe this is a wake—up call. language, and maybe this is a wake-up call. well, my view is that there is politicking probably at play, but would jeremy corbyn have allowed any other accusations of racism about any other ethnic or
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religious group to go on for so long? it's kind of gone to another level in the last few months. this isn't a new thing. since he's become leader, these accusations have dogged him for the end he hasn't dealt with it. he came out with a statement in the guardian earlier today, which i thought was, it stopped short of being an apology. and widely criticised in manyjewish people. not alljewish people and widely criticised in manyjewish people. not all jewish people feel like this, i have to say. i had a meeting with quite a lot of labour supporters who are jewish at portcullis house last week, dogs but people feel very strongly. we saw that big demonstration at westminster. but i still think we have to distinguish between the politicking and the genuine pain that true labour supporters are feeling. this story is also reflected in the sunday telegraph, which has a different take on it for
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thejohn, this which has a different take on it for the john, this is which has a different take on it for thejohn, this is talking aboutjohn mcdonnell, the shadow chancellor, and he has now been, according to the telegraph, been dragged into the i’ow. the telegraph, been dragged into the row. a convoluted story and a hard one to get into. the labour representation committee, a campaign group of which he is the president, highlighted how the former president of the board of deputies and welcomed trump's elections and went on to praise trump's decision to move the us embassy in israel to jerusalem. this comes on the back of peter wilson, a member of the labour national executive committee, who had said and i think he'd blamed jewish trump fanatics for making up allegations. it's another story, jewish trump fanatics for making up allegations. it's anotherstory, but it's more open fighting. it's also the right—wing press, and it's going for this, aren't they? talking about islamophobia, and i don't like the word, the racism against muslims in the conservative party, which
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baroness warsi has been going on and oi'i baroness warsi has been going on and on about. we don't talk about that. there is open season, i think, against labour and within labour. but there are many in the labour party itself... margaret hodge and ian austin, who have gone up to jeremy corbyn and told him what they thought, in rather fruity language, and now they find themselves being investigated. this is to go back to the observer splash, it's one thing tom watson is saying should be dropped, but i think we should recover to drop this disciplinary investigation to both of them. both of them lost family members in the holocaust. margaret hodge's came over to the uk as a four—year—old as a refugee. from ajewish over to the uk as a four—year—old as a refugee. from a jewish family. over to the uk as a four—year—old as a refugee. from ajewish family. ian austin comes from a jewish family, too. and this needs to be addressed, and jeremy corbyn, and this goes back to the point, he hasn't grasped
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the metal. he has failed to address this time and time again.” the metal. he has failed to address this time and time again. i thought his piece in the guardian debate was convincing. but too late. there are many other stories who want to discuss. let's look at the sunday times, which is talking about brexit no deal, no—deal brexit, which is also on, says the trade secretary. yasmin, you are shaking your at this. i think we are being governed and pushed around by a group of real brexit rabids, not just and pushed around by a group of real brexit rabids, notjust normal brexiteers, who one can talk to and discuss and respect, but liam fox, jacob rees—mogg and so on... discuss and respect, but liam fox, jacob rees-mogg and so on... he is a senior government minister.” jacob rees-mogg and so on... he is a senior government minister. i know, it doesn't mean anything. good and bad people make it into the hierarchy. it's crazy to say we'll use hierarchy. it's crazy to say we'll use this as a threat against the eu. he is saying he thinks this is what's going to happen! exactly! the government has been going around
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europe and saying, this will fall into russia's and if you go to this. theresa may, what's going around the back of michel barnier, but trying to talk to other leaders in europe. there is the warning of what will happen if there is a hard brexit. the thing that gets me was that, just a few days before, the governor of the bank of england, mark carney, was criticised himself for saying there was kind of a higher likelihood of having a hard brexit, and he himself was criticised by the brexiteers will be in the high priest of project fear, and now we have liam fox fear mongering himself right now. of course, you could just be saying what he thinks will happen, given the state of the negotiations. i think the fear mongering amongst brexiteers has been appalling. they said over and overagain, been appalling. they said over and over again, look, i been appalling. they said over and overagain, look, ithink been appalling. they said over and over again, look, i think there should be a people's vote on the
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deal we should have, i've always backed that, but they are saying, if we have any kind of other question, there will be riots in the street. do is fear mongering? let's look at a couple of other stories, because the sunday times, on the subject of the sunday times, on the subject of the leading campaigners, saint david cameron —— saying that david cameron brands michael gove a lunatic. the former prime minister obviously has meant was to sell, perhaps to a sunday newspaper in the not too distant future, but obviously at the time of the referendum he begged for michael gove tojoin in. i think he brought michael gove into the cabinet. he was a formerjournalist and he came into politics, part of the notting hill set. i think cameron feels he was stabbed in the back. extraordinary that he seems to be turning his anger, according to this account, at michael gove rather than boris johnson. exactly,
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everybody knows who boris is, but i don't think michael gove is a lunatic, he's playing a long game. and i think he is very, very smart and he's actually exceedingly charming. isee and he's actually exceedingly charming. i see him as my ideological enemy but, when we meet, he treats you like his best friend. that is a skill. i was speaking to a civil servant who worked in government and said he was the best minister you worked with, but i don't think she politically agreed with him, and obviously civil serva nts with him, and obviously civil servants can't express their views, but michael gove got engstrom, he was good at being a million. but i don't want to be him prime minister! —— michael gove got things done. don't want to be him prime minister! -- michael gove got things done. the sunday times, boys league slump in university applications. love island, i say. all they want to do island, i say. all they want to do is build their muscles and older
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girls. i think it's having a terrible act. and you think this is encouraging boys, instead of studying for a degree? its role models. i'm a father of two young boys at my seven—year—old wants to play professional football for qpr, which is a mid—ranking championship could team. these people are put on pedestals, from love island, the muscles and looking good, footballers earning lots of money, and there is actually something serious to say. i think a role models for boys is something that probably isn't high up on the cultural debate, and i think more needs to be done to extol positive role models for boys. yes, a terrible shame. and also being studious, being good is seen as being as uncool. girls who are studious, if they do well, they don't come under the same pressure, but boys, if you are seen as a swap, you are looked down upon. yeah. the
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article says some of this is due to article says some of this is due to a demographic dip in the number of 18—year—olds, but universities are also been hit in a slump in order and part—time students. there are obviously reasons, it's notjust about love island. partly to do with the cost, perhaps, but also to do with... yes, we've long had this thing going on that girls were ahead in results in certain professions and so and i think we should worry about what boys and men are doing. the cost is very high, and people are beginning to worry what the future looks like. can i pay my debt? it applies as much for girls as for boys. speaking as the dad of as for boys. speaking as the dad of a seven—year road , as for boys. speaking as the dad of a seven—year road, just trying to get boys to sit down and concentrate on work, that's where the work begins. a big mention of pictures on the front pages of a lot of front pages on the duchess of sussex. on
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her 37th birthday, the wedding of a friend. she was probably delighted her father friend. she was probably delighted herfather didn't get friend. she was probably delighted her father didn't get a story for a sunday newspaper! he must be hiding behind the trees. probably on the inside of one of the other papers. thank you both very much. that's it for the papers this hour. yasmin and john will be back at 11:30pm for another look at the papers. i'll be back at i! with the main stories of the day. next on bbc news, it's the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is james king. so james, what do we have this week? well, for comic book fans, there
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is evangeline lilly creating a buzz in marvel‘s ant—man and the wasp. for music fans, there is nick offerman following his dreams of rock stardom in hearts beat loud. and for gemma arterton fans, there is gemma arterton, just being awesome in the escape. let's start with ant—man. did we need a sequel? is the world crying out for this? apparently so. it is three years since the first one. this is ant—man and the wasp. paul rudd and evangeline lilly are the title characters returning, better known as scott and hope. michael douglas is back as well as hope's father, dr hank pym, the science boffin. this time, villains are after his secrets. they're after what he knows about shrinking. there is a lot of shrinking in this film. let's look at evangeline lilly as the wasp in action.
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i wouldn't mess with her. she is cool. there is a slight difference to the first one in that it does feel more like a three—hander. paul rudd, who is ant—man, shares pretty much equal screen time with evangeline lilly and michael douglas. so it feels more like an ensemble piece. if you look at the way marvel has been going, they love an ensemble movie now. this fits into that, although the mood is of course much lighter. there are dark marvel movies and epic marvel movies. there are silly marvel movies. this one has its own personality, as it should, and it is the more child—friendly marvel movie. it is a bit more flippant and funny and frothy and pacey, and there is nothing wrong with that. but ultimately, it is slightly less memorable because of that. but there's nothing wrong with that in august as long as there's something for adults and children, as that's what we all need at this time of year. absolutely. i was a little disappointed that michelle pfeiffer, who plays hope's mother, is not in it that much. admittedly, she has been trapped
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in what they referred to as a sub—atomic quantum realm for the last 30 years, so she has essentially been shrunk in amongst the atoms. she is in it a bit, but it is michelle pfeiffer and i would like to see more of her. but if you are an eight—year—old viewer, they probably don't care whether michelle pfeiffer is in it. who is michelle pfeiffer? it is pacey and fun and there are great action scenes around san francisco. they have a lot of laughs with it, and that is the main thing. there is a lot of fun to be had with shrinking and enlarging things, and they make the most of it. hearts beat loud, i am intrigued by this. should we call it a musical or a drama? it is a musical drama. very big on the festival circuit like south by southwest. it's about a father and daughter, nick offerman and kiersey clemons, who have been playing and jamming together as father and daughter. they live in brooklyn and the summer before
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she is about to go to university, they start to take things more seriously and start to write songs together and upload them and get a bit of attention. so you have a film about people embracing change and coming out of their shell a little bit. i think it's impossible to dislike this film. it is so good—natured and so warm—hearted. it's really about the therapeutic power of music and how it can bring people together. that is gorgeous, and the music itself, which is original music, is gorgeous. there is a downside in that it is not exactly edge of your seat. a bit more threat would not have gone amiss. but ultimately, it's full of good nature and optimism. i love that theme about the power of music. exactly. of course, the music had to be good in it. that is the key thing because if they start playing and we in the audience go, "it's not that great",
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the whole thing would fail but the music is genuinely good. i hope it crosses over from the festival circuit into the mainstream. and your third film this week, is this gemma arterton‘s bid for an award? i would love to see her get an award for the escape. dominic savage is the writer and director about what seems to be a very everyday suburban housewife, a wife and mother. got the car in the driveway, the two children, a husband who is ok—ish, played by dominic cooper. it's a normal suburban life but on the inside, she's having a breakdown. she wants to escape and be someone else and somewhere else. you're a great mum. you love them to bits. hey. that's what you do for kids. you look after them, you bring them up and they treat you like crap most of the time. that's what happens, everyone knows that. i don't care about them.
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oi. you don't mean that. you're a mum, that's what mums do. don't care if they don't finish their dinner. don't care if they... oi, oi, oi. don't care. don't care if they go to school, if they don't go to school. what are you talking about? stop it. but i make myself care, make myself do it. i make myself be funny... all right. ..and happy, silly. .. all right. like you. i think they hate me. shut up. i think they can feel what's going on. all right, this has got to stop now. is it quite claustrophobic? claustrophobic at the right moments, and then things change which i will not give away. a lot of it is improvised, which really helps. i didn't realise that when i watched it, ijust had a sense as a viewer that it felt very natural. it really flowed very casually. and then afterwards, reading about it, a lot
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of it was improvised, which makes sense and really helps with the realism of it. very believable and very good at capturing the minutiae of suburban life, of being a parent, the frustrating things about being a parent. there is this underlying menace throughout the whole thing and the music really helps with this. you just think, things aren't going to go well. things are going to implode. things are going to go badly. i think it's her best performance. it reminded me of films that i associate more with coming out of france, those sort of unhurried character studies, grown—up movies with kristin scott thomas in or isabelle huppert someone like that. i thought it was just fantastic. it is her best performance and utterly heartbreaking. and we're not giving any plot spoilers, but that sounds like one to watch. in terms of the best out this week, you could feel the money in mission: impossible. there was a big budget for that film.
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and it has made a lot of it back already. the biggest opening weekend for a mission: impossible film in the states, ever. 22 years after the first one, this is number six and still doing incredibly well. last week, we talked about the action scenes, which are brilliant. we talked about the realism of it. a lot of it feels very contemporary and plays with the fears we have. iforgot to mention vanessa kirby, who is great. she pays a black—market arms dealer. she is best known from the crown, where she plays princess margaret. she really radiates cool in this. you can see her there. and the brilliant sean harris, who returns as solomon lane, the bad guy. lowestoft‘s finest, sean harris. he is spine—chilling, as always. so a couple of very good performances, as well as tom cruise. who still looks about 38. looks 38, throws himself headfirst into the action, has a great relationship with christopher mcquarrie, the writer and director. they bring out the best in each other. it is a terrific watch.
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and a quick thought on a dvd for anyone staying in? l'amant double, the double lover. psychological thriller. real nods to the greats like hitchcock, about a young woman who falls in love with her psychiatrist, suspect that he has a double life and is hiding secrets about his family. lots of mirrors, lots of split screen, lots of references to split personalities, all the classic psychological thriller stuff is in there. it is hypnotic and mesmerising and pretty seductive. it earns its 18 certificate. it becomes like 50 shades of frasier by the end of it. but i think it is really classy and there is a lot of panache there. 0k! you don't look won over. there's nothing more i can say about that without actually seeing it. i was fine until you mentioned fifty shades of grey. thank you very much. lovely to see you.
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thanks for being with us and enjoy all your cinema—going this week, whatever it is you choose to go and see. have a good week. see you next time. bye— bye. a mainly dry night ahead with a bit patchy rain for the far north and we st of patchy rain for the far north and west of scotland, but is further south some breaks in the cloud and skies in england and wales, with some patchy mist and fog in the early hours. not assume it was last night, those between 11 and 16. i crash in charge tomorrow. that means much of the country will be dry again. the best sunshine in england and wales pulled some cloud for northern ireland and scotland, but some bright and sunny spells. rain in the far north—west later on. 15 to 19 for scotland, 21 to northern ireland, mid—to high teens —— 205 in
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england ireland, mid—to high teen5 —— 205 in england and wales. on monday, the front wheel 5lip south, bringing cloud, outbreaks of rain to scotland and northern ireland, and maybe the far north of england. further south, it stays dry with 20 more 5un5hine oi'i it stays dry with 20 more 5un5hine on monday and tuesday. very hot in the south—east. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00 — detectives searching for the missing midwife samantha eastwood say they have found a body — three people have been arrested. labour's deputy leader tom watson warns the party is in danger of making itself unfit for government — unless it halts the damaging arguments over anti—semitism two thirds of all plastic food packaging sent for recycling is buried or burned because it can't actually be recycled. what we need to do is drive
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