welcome to newsday, i'm babita sharma in london. who isn't colorado. a lot of people who are in charge of things are thinking the headlines: about cannabis 25 years ago, 30 the mueller report says there's no evidence the trump campaign colluded with russia over yea rs about cannabis 25 years ago, 30 years ago, a0 years ago. that is not the 2016 us election. the president claims victory. what these kids are smoking, so this isa what these kids are smoking, so this is a very important wake up sign. the nhs is saying children are coming in with mental disorders. because the brain hasn't developed, has it? and they are smoking, we there was no collusion with russia. need to pay attention to this there was no collusion with russia. there was no obstruction, none because these children are suffering whatsoever. and it was a complete and total exoneration. as calls grow for the release in these hospitals. let's turn back of the entire report, to the times, it seems there is a senior democrat says president trump still proof at last. we are born faces serious questions. different! what is this essentially saying? the moving part about this is that they are trying to discover this report does not amount to a how brains develop, if there is a male brain and a female brain, and theissueis male brain and a female brain, and the issue is there are disorders that men have, like autism, more men

have autism than women. they want to find out why. so, it can become a frivolous thing but it is important to find out why men suffer from it, why little boys have this and little girls don't. it is a very heroic exercise. it seems to be suggesting, and again we haven't got the full detail of it, but of course it has previously been argued that the differences are down to socialisation, and this is saying no, it starts before that, and obviously socialisation can come on top of that, but they have been looking at this with a work involving foetuses in the second term of pregnancy, and they have managed to find neurological structures... and they want to know why this happens for more boys than girls. beautiful science. martin and bonnie, it has been a real pleasure.

good to see you! bring on the next week. that's it for the papers tonight. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. thank you, martin and bonnie. next on bbc news, the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so, mark, what is showing

at the kermode picture house this week? ok, so we have the white crow, which is an early—life biopic about rudolf nureyev. we have us, the new film byjordan peel, who made get out. and minding the gap, a skateboarding documentary that's not really about skateboarding. the white crow — i'm quite intrigued, it sounds really good. yes, an interesting story directed by ralph fiennes who also has a role in the film, and it's about rudolf nureyev‘s defection to the west. so, the film opens with fiennes‘s character pushkin being asked what did you know, why did this happen? he says very enigmatically that he wasn't political, it was all to do with dance. he says he had an explosion of character, which is a great phrase. the film then retraces itself and we see the progress of this kid from a fairly impoverished

background who makes his way up the tree and comes to dance with the kirov, who then go to paris, where he sees paris and kind of falls in love with it, to some extent, is seduced by it, which is something the russian authorities are not happy with at all. here's a clip. everything is ok, don't worry, don't worry. stay with me, pierre, stay. they're trying to kidnap me. keep it calm, please. look, look, look, look, if this is a punishment... it's not a punishment. can i just say, if this is because rudy spent time hanging out with me and my friends, can i just say, never did rudy say one word against his country, against his government, or against the company. never, not one single word, ever. 0k, 0k, just keep it under control, 0k? it's ok. and 0leg ivenko is the star, and i gather ralph fiennes

scoured the former soviet union looking for somebody to play nureyev. he needed somebody who could dance, because he said if you were going to get a body double in, it would double the time of the film and the budget of the film, they couldn't do that, so they needed someone who could dance. as you can see from the clip, i think he is very charismatic on camera. he is a good actor and gives you that sense of, on the one hand everything that's attractive about nureyev‘s character, but also, everything that is kind of dangerous about it. because what the film is really about is east and west, control and rebellion. so, at the centre of it is ballet, which, of course, is something which requires really strict discipline, something the russians are very strong on. but he is a rebellious spirit. he's told at one point, you're not technically very good, actually, in some ways you are quite clumsy, but your spirit is perfect, and that's really what the film is about. i mean, hats off to fiennes for not only getting his head around the complexities of ballet, but also russian... when the characters are in russia, they speak russian, they don't do that thing

about speaking english in sort of cod russian accents. and although it's a fairly well—known story, watching the film, you realise how much you didn't know about it. and i do think it was a really smart decision to get somebody who can convince you as a dancer. so, you watch the ballet sequences and they are every bit as much part of the narrative and why his character does what his character does, as all the dialogue and all the rest of it. i thought it was really interesting, and i am somebody who knows nothing about ballet. i doubt that's true. the next is from jordan peel, who did get out. which i absolutely loved, that was stunning. get out was great. the thing with get out was it was very much in the style of ira levin who wrote stepford wives, it was a film about the way in which liberal america was still deeply racist. this is slightly more broad and slightly harder to pin down, but i like that about it. it's essentially a family who go for a holiday up by santa cruz, and outside their house turns up

another family of doppelgangers. and in the title is a pun. the film is called ‘us‘, but ‘us' is us. and there is a line that rings through it in which somebody says, "we're americans." and you can watch the film and think, ok, maybe it's about the way in which everyone has a shadow side, you know, kind of like a jekyll and hyde thing, or maybe you can see it as a parable about the way that affluent societies have a kind of parasitic relationship with the hidden underclass. or you can just see it as a sort of jack finney bodysnatchers—style horror tale that is really, really well done. and the clever thing about it is, remember all the stuff at the golden globes about get out being a comedy? i think somebody said, "well, what should it be?" and actually, it should have been a documentary. in the case of this, the scary bits are properly scary, the funny bits are properly funny, and all the way through, it's thought—provoking and really, really well textured. it is the kind of film you would come out afterwards and you would go for a coffee

with a friend and go, 0k, what was it about? what was actually happening? what was the message? it's not straightforward, it's not simple, but it's really crowd pleasing, i think it will do really well. he's a terrifically good director. did you find get out scary? more sort of intriguing rather than scary, i guess. i watched it twice because it made sense more the second time you've seen it. ok, then the same is true of us. once you have seen us the first time round, if you go back and watch it, there's loads of very clever things. that you've missed the first time, yeah. exactly, and the bits that are meant to be scary are properly scary. not in a gory way, there is some violence in it, but it's just because it's really well—placed. so, a bit scarier than get out? yes. right, minding the gap you've told us a documentary about skateboarders that is not a documentary about skateboarders. no, so bing liu started this, he was filming him and his friends skateboarding when he was a teenager, and originally what he was doing was trying to make a film that, in their own words, shows them having the best time of their lives. but then, as they grow up, the film becomes about a kind of crisis in masculinity

and what is actually happening to his friends as they go from childhood to manhood, and they all start to discover that their love of skateboarding was kind of a way of escaping from things in their background, in their past. we start to see evidence of domestic violence, of problems of poverty, of repeating sins of the parents being passed down through the children. and the brilliant thing about it is, it does all this in a way that never feels like it's anything more than an intimate look at friends who had found something in skateboarding. here's a clip. what happened? do it. hey, is this the skateboard? yeah. keire, he held in a lot. and his dad, you know, he was really kind of strict on him. you know, his father

was...he was a carpenter, and he wanted keire to do that. 'cause he couldn't get the other boys to follow in his footsteps, but keire didn't like it. hurry! do it! sometimes, i'd know that i had to work with him, so i would sneak out my window, like, threw my board out first and just climb out. then when i got home, i got disciplined. it was no escape for a while. so, i mean, i thought it was really moving and engrossing, partly 'cause it is very intimate. also because in the same way as the skateboarding is the thing that the young men use to escape, obviously the film—making is a therapy for the film—maker who goes back to confront his own demons and things in his own past. and it shifts very gently from being something which is a little bit like

richard linklater's boyhood or maybe that documentary dogtown and z boys, into something which really gets under the skin of these young men, as they now are, wrestling with the fact that they still have things in their past that they haven't dealt with. i thought it was really terrific, and i went in knowing nothing about it at all other than it was about skateboards. laughs. i know a little bit about skateboarding because when i was a kid, i used to skateboard, but... i can imagine you were pretty good actually. yeah, no, i used to fall off quite a lot, but it was the thing to do. right, for those not watching the bbc news channel this weekend, what is best out at the moment? ok, so this is the last week i'm going to do this, i'm only ever allowed two. kindergarten teacher, the maggie gyllenhall film, you have to seek it out because it's not playing in a lot of theatres. but it's a story about a kindergarten teacher who becomes obsessed that one of her pupils is the new mozart. the whole film is really about, is the kid actually a brilliant poet or is it all to do with the projection of the kindergarten teacher, who is played by maggie gyllenhall? i think she's brilliant, i think

the film is really, really smart. i actually do want to see that one. yeah, it's great. and best dvd is something that i know you loved, i kind of liked, but didn't love as much as you. i was amazed that widows didn't get more attention from the awards. it's based on the lynda la plante tv series, it's directed by steve mcqueen, who of course cast lupita nyong'o in 12 years a slave, and she's the lead in us. i thought this was great, a brilliant ensemble cast headed up by viola davis. what didn't you like? i didn't like that it didn't develop all the women's characters, i didn't feel...to a full extent. all right, i mean, i remember, no, it's — i was going to say it's a fair criticism. but it was enjoyable. yeah, but i think it's more than enjoyable, i think it's actually really profound. i think from a film—making point of view, i think it is a brilliantly—made film. profound how? because what it does is, it shows you a group of characters who you think you understand, and then you realise that you actually don't know them. and it's one of those films in which action is character. people don't explain what they're doing, they do it, and that explains what they're doing.

maybe i'll go and see it again, on dvd. mark, thank you so much, as ever. mark kermode there. that's it from both of us for this week, though. thank you so much for watching. goodbye for now. hello there. many southern parts of the country had a lovely day today, lots of sunshine and very mild. across the north, windy conditions with heavy showers. this is the last of the unsettled weather you will see for awhile. this high pressure remains across the uk for the coming week. monday, a cold note, but lots of sunshine around. cloudy across northern ireland and scotland. a wea k northern ireland and scotland. a weak front moves in, northern ireland and scotland. a weakfront moves in, bringing outbreaks of light and patchy rain. quite mild here, top temperatures across 13 degrees across southern areas. a bit of rain across the northern half of the country as we

had through monday night. across the south, it will turn quite cold and a touch of frost out of town, a bit of mist and fog as well. i pressure sticking with us for much of the week. some dry air of the near continent so it looks like we will see quite a bit of sunshine. by day, it will be mild and very sunny for most of us, drawing some dry air from the near continent.