i'm tom brooke.s programme, we'll be bringing you highlights from the recently completed london film festival. dev patel headlining the cast of the opening—night film, a portrait of greed from michael winterbottom and steve coogan, memorable directorial debuts from first—time film—makers, plus a documentary on a london community forever changed by gentrification, and timothee chalamet and robert pattinson star in the king. all that and more in this special london film festival edition of talking movies. the london film festival opened with an adaptation of what is believed to be charles dickens‘ novel of his own writing, david copperfield. dev patel takes the title role in this production which has a glorious cast that includes tilda swinton and hugh laurie. emma jones reports on the personal history of david copperfield. this narrative is far more than mere fiction. are you david copperfield? lam indeed. the costume drama is the most traditional item on british film wardrobe but this is as fluid, mo

tom. >> brooke, look at five of the complaints from the whistle-blower here. the first, key one being that the president of the united states is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 u.s. election. specifically going after one of the president's mown domestic political rivals joe biden and his son who did business with ukrainians. now we know the whistle-blower said that, and from the transcript of the president's call, yes. the president's talking about biden's son here and biden and saying, yes, whatever you can do to look into that, that would be great. first complaint, that checks out. look at the second complaint from the whistle-blower. one of the second ones here. the president pressured mr. zelensky to assist in reportedly uncovering allegations of russian interference in the 20916 presidential election originated in ukraine. sounds conconvoluted. pushed a conspiracy theory it wasn't the russians who interfered with the 2016 election. it was a plot that started in ukraine and it wasn't to help donald t

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brookings. >> that's one that haldeman decided not to do, but it pails in comparison to this obsession that trump has with 2016. i agree with toms trump's white whale. this could be the thing that really brings him down. and if it does, no chief of staff will be around to talk about it. >> how much time does mick mulvaney have with this title, which apparently is all he has is the title? >> well, again, the title is symptomatic of the fact that there is no functioning white house chief of staff right now. and therefore i don't think trump is in any hurry to replace him. he clearly has no interest. in a chief of staff. he's unchained. unbound. we're all seeing the results of letting trump be trump. >> and the -- the mulvaney holding on to the omb job at the same time, wasn't that mulvaney's way of saying i know this chief of staff thing cannot possibly work? >> i can't imagine what the motivation was, but it's clearly -- you know, clearly this is just a -- the most dysfunctional white house we've ever seen. more dysfunctional by the day. and it's unclear who's in charge of what. is jared kushner the white house chief of staff? i

. >>> let's get perspective with tom brooks. a professor of law and government at durham university in england joining us this hour via skype. good to have you with us. >> thank you. good to be back. >> boris johnson wants another vote. the question, will he get that vote? it all comes down to whether the speaker will allow that to happen. this particular deal has been brought up. how do you see it playing out? >> exactly right. this issue first arose of course during theresa may's time as prime minister where three times she presented the exact same motion for a vote hoping the second or third time with the same thing she would get a different result. that didn't happen. i expect they will not allow this extra vote. i think it will decide that on saturday that that already happened. i think that is poignant for the prime minister. folks saying yes or no for the idea but it still left that. it took the legislation back. it was all still to come and very much still up in the air. >> also want to talk to you about those contradict