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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge decide to sue a French magazine | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
which has published topless pictures of her. On tour in | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Malaysia, St James's Palace calls the invasion of privacy "grotesque | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
and unjustifiable". The pictures were taken while the couple were | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
sunbathing in a private chateau in France. The magazine editor is | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
unrepentant. TRANSLATION: One should not | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
dramatise the pictures. The reactions are disproportionate. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
What we saw in the pictures was a young couple that have just married, | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
who are in love, who are beautiful. We look at how it may affect | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
relations between the royal couple and the press. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Also tonight: Western embassies come under attack | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
across the world in response to an anti-Islam film. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
On trial - the City trader who lost nearly �1.5 billion of his bank's | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
money. As an MP in the Russian Duma is | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
expelled from parliament, how Vladimir Putin is cracking down on | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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dissent. Are you being punished for opposing Vladimir Putin? It is a | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
kind of political harassment and you have seen it. | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
And new technology reveals a work by an Impressionist master. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
In Sportsday: Ricky Hatton annouces his return to | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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Good evening. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
have taken the rare step of suing a French magazine which has published | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
pictures of the Duchess topless while on holiday in the south of | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
France. St James's Palace called the invasion of privacy grotesque | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
and reminiscent of the worst excesses of the paparazzi during | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. The couple are continuing | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
their tour of the Far East. Nick Witchell has been travelling with | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
them and sent this report from Malaysia. | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
It was a day to be demure. Friday, the Muslim holy day. William and | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Kate were making their first visit to the mosque. Kate's head was | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
covered. They both removed their shoes. At that stage they had heard | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
about but had not seen the photographs. They were said nearly | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
to be saddened by the incident. But after they had left the mosque, | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
officials started to receive copies of what the French magazine had | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
published, and the intensity of the reaction suddenly changed. Instead | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
of sadness, there was fury. Officials who are used to dealing | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
with the media started talking about a red line having been | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
crossed. William instructed his spokesmen to issue an official | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
statement. It said the photographs had invaded their privacy in a | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
grotesque and totally unjustifiable manner. Then, tellingly, it invoked | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
the memory of his mother. The incident is reminiscent of the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of Diana, | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
Princess of Wales, and all the more upsetting to the Duke and Duchess | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
for being so. William and Kate had gone last week for four days to a | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
chateau in France owned by his cousin, Viscount Linley. It is | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
extremely secluded, according to officials, and yet, unknown to the | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
couple, a photographer was staking the place out. The photographs were | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
published this morning in a French gossip magazine on the front and | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
five inside pages. The editor appeared not to understand what the | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
fuss was about. TRANSLATION: One should not | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
dramatise these pictures. The reactions are a little | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
disproportionate. What we saw in the pictures was a young couple | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
that have just married, who are in love, who are beautiful. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
relationship that Diana, Princess of Wales had with the press was a | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
complicated one. Her friends say that she was constantly hounded and | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
the same thing must not be allowed to happen to Kate. I have seen what | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
damage is done by a constant intrusion into your life, how | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
impossible it is to relax and have downtime if you have always got at | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
the back of your mind, perhaps there is a camera there. These | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
people are humans. Yes, they are the Royal Family and lead a life of | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
immense privilege, but they should be allowed to have complete privacy | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
when they are not doing their duty. Everywhere they go on a tour such | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
as this, William and Kate are surrounded by cameras. That is | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
something which, as members of the Royal Family, they know they have | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
to accept. But as they left Kuala Lumpur for their next destination, | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
William looked preoccupied. He remembers only too acutely what | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
happened to his mother. He is determined to protect his wife. He, | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
in particular, seems to regard this as a watershed. Tonight, after a | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
day of real anger here and close consultations with a lawyers in | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Paris, the confirmation that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
to take action and sue the French magazine in the French courts for | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
the a breach of their privacy. British newspapers were offered the | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
controversial pictures but chose not to publish them. Just a few | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
weeks ago, Prince Harry was photographed naked at a party in | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Las Vegas and those images were reproduced in the Sun newspaper. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
This time, Buckingham Palace says a "red line has been crossed". Nick | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
Higham reports. She is beautiful, elegant and | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
constantly on camera. It is her role to be photographed. But some | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
pictures of Kate are simply beyond the pale, according to the Palace. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
A French magazine may have published topless photos, but for | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
the past 10 months at the Law Courts in London, Justice Leveson | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
has been investigating press regulation in Britain. His report | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
is due in November. The British press will think long and hard | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
before following the French lead. The Sun said today it had no | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
intention of publishing the photos, but it did Prince -- print pictures | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
of Prince Harry naked in a Las Vegas hotel. The difference was | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
that he was at least partly to blame for what happened, unlike | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
William and Kate, and the paper invokes the public interest. That | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
hardly applies here. Public interest is usually defined as | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
exposing crime, corruption, hypocrisy. None of those things | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
apply. If these pictures had been taken, say, on a public beach, in a | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
public place, we would be talking a very different thing, because she | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
would have chosen to be in a public place. She chose to be in a private | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
place, so they are certainly private photographs. The royal | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
couple will be suing for invasion of privacy and the French courts. | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
But this French paparazzi photographers as he cannot | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
understand a refusal of the British tabloids to publish. For me it is | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
stupid. Because she is a young lady. She is nice. She is not fat. She is | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
beautiful. So you have to show that. Are you going to show the pictures | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
on your programme? Of course not. It is a kind of hypocrisy. Very | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
British. But what pictures British newspapers choose to publish is | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
increasingly irrelevant in a world of social media and the global | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Internet. And the law is also struggling to keep up. The genie is | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
out of the bottle. We live in an international environment. We have | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
social media that is so different to how things were 10 to 15 years | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
ago. And it news spreads fast, and photographs are published almost | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
instantly. The pressure from the palace, combined with public | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
sympathy for Kate, and a press made ultra-cautious in the run-up to | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Lord Justice Leveson's report, means that these photos are | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
unlikely to be published by any British newspaper or magazine. But | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
that will not stop the paparazzi taking them and selling them abroad. | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
It will not stop anyone with a mobile phone taking them and | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
sharing them with their friends. And it will not stop anyone looking | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
at them online. The royals will not find it easy to stop similar things | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
happening in future. As protests against an anti-Islam | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
film spread across the world, there have been attempts to storm the | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
British embassy in the capital of Sudan. The demonstrations, some of | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
them violent, have swept across countries in the Middle East, Asia | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
and Africa. They were triggered by an amateur film, made in America, | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
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which mocks the Prophet Mohammed. Jeremy Bowen reports from Cairo. | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
On the banks of the Nile, more Tear Gas and more stones. Protests that | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
started in Cairo on Tuesday night are still going on, and have spread | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
across the Arab Middle East and beyond. The police fired repeated | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
volleys of tear gas to keep them away from the US embassy, the | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
target here and in other countries, because the anti-Muslim film that | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
they hate so much was produced in America. The anger about the film | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
is still the driving force. Here in Cairo, other grievances, including | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
hatred of the police, have been grafted on to it. This is about a | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
lot more, now, than the film and dislike of America. It has got tied | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
up with the fractures in Egyptian society since the revolution. This | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
has been an unhappy place, and the splits are getting wider. In | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Khartoum, Sudan's capital, protesters broke into the German | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
embassy. America's Western allies are being blamed, too. In every | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Muslim country, the violence, as well as the film, Paul's plenty of | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
people. But what is happening is also tapping into assumptions that | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
the West is against them. Later, they attacked the British Embassy | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
and moved on to the US compound. And the storm caused by the film | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
ended another life. In Tunis, at least two demonstrators were killed | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
as the US embassy was stormed. Later, the American school was | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
burned down. Across the region, local factors are also feeding the | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
anger. In Tunisia, this could be exploited by hardliners known as | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Salafists, who are agitating against more moderate political | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
Islamists who won the election after the revolution. In Tripoli in | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
northern Lebanon, American-style fast-food outlets were targeted. | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
The City is a stronghold of Sunni political Islamists. And the | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
protests have spread beyond the Arab countries. This was Bangladesh. | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
One film on the internet is deepening anti-Western feeling | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
across a broad swathe of the world. In the United States, the Americans | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
brought home the bodies of their dead ambassador to Libya and three | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
colleagues who were killed when their consulate in Benghazi was | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
attacked. The crisis shows the limits of American and Western | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
influence in a part of the world where they once had real political | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
power. We can talk to Jeremy in Cairo's | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
Tahrir Square. The anger prompted by this film shows no sign of | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
abating and demonstrations are spreading. No, it does not. It | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
maybe because today was the Muslim day of prayer, it could be a | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
combination, people may feel that honour has been satisfied, but | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
individuals have been killed and it's not underestimate the extent | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
of the insult people have felt as a result of the film. -- let us not | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
underestimate. But even if it all ended and people went home, there | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
are important lessons. For governments in the countries | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
affected, it is a sign of the frustration and anger that is not | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
far from the surface the whole time. And for Western countries, there is | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
something else as well. There should be the realisation that just | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
because dictators have been taken away in a lot of places round here, | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
it does not mean to say they are dealing with the countries is going | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
to get any easier. It is going to be more challenging because they | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
are always moving into new territory and there is a lot of | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
instability about. As for this place, Tahrir Square, not a bad | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
atmosphere at the moment. There are a lot of people hanging around. But | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
200 yards over there, clashes are continuing between police and | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
protesters and there have been reports that one individual busy | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
evening has been killed. So it goes on. -- won the individual this | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
evening has been killed. The Chief Constable of South | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Yorkshire has raised the prospect of the force being investigated for | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
corporate manslaughter because of failures during the Hillsborough | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
disaster in 1989. David Crompton also said he was considering asking | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
the Independent Police Complaints Commission to investigate whether | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
individual officers should also be prosecuted. | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
Police say a British girl who survived a shooting in the French | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
Alps which claimed the lives of three members of her family is | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
understood to have returned to the UK. Seven-year-old Zainab al-Hilli | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
was shot in the shoulder and sustained head injuries in the | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
attack near Annecy last week. Her father died, along with his wife, | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
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Iqbal, her mother, and a local A City trader who lost �1.4 billion | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
of his firm's money in high-risk trades went on trial today. The | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
court heard that Kweku Adoboli exceeded his trading limits to get | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
a bigger bonus and to boost his ego. The bank's share price dropped by | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
10% as a result of his actions. Mr Adoboli denies fraud and false | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
accounting. Kweku Adoboli - a man accused today | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
of being just a gamble or two away from destroying Switzerland's | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
largest bank. The prosecution described him as a master fraudster | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
and a greedy banker who was out of control and out for himself. The | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
court heard that it was here at the London office of UBS that Mr | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
Adoboli had racked up losses of �1.4 billion through unauthorised | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
risky trades, using his knowledge of the bank's accounting system to | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
cover his tracks. The jury was told Mr Adoboli had been cooking the | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
books since 208. Any suspicionly large profits were hid no-one a | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
slush fund and used to make up for any losses. Last summer, losses | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
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began to spiral. The prosecution The court heard that at one point | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
Kweku Adoboli had exposed this bank to potential losses of more than �7 | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
billion, putting its very existence at risk. It was only when things | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
started to unravel and questions were being asked that he finally | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
revealed what he had done. In a bombshell of an e-mail to | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
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Kweku Adoboli later changed his story. He will now claim, in his | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
defence, that others knew what he was up to, including the management | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
of his bank. He denies all the charges. | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
Coming up on tonight's programme: High the Government wants to make | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
it easier for bosses to sack workers. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Russia's Parliament today expelled an outspoken opponent of Vladimir | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
Putin. The decision to expel the MP paves the way for similar action | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
against others who joined the opposition movement. It is a clear | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
sign that the Kremlin is intensifying its crackdown on | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
political dissent. Moscow's summer holiday season is over. Politics | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
have returned and the Kremlin is re-enforcing its control. Russia is | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
seeing the biggest political clampdown for 30 years. Angry and | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
on the verge of tears, a veteran MP, Gennady Gudkov, was stripped of his | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
seat as police investigate his business interests. REPORTER: Are | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
you having this trouble because of your political opposition of | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
Vladimir Putin? Of course. His real crime seems to have taken part in | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
the biggest street protests in 20 years. He says that is why the | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
police are targeting him. TRANSLATION: They are carrying out | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
an order. I think the order comes from the Kremlin. In fact, I know | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
it was. Now the question is whether the country will continue on this | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
path of lawlessness, or whether we can stop it and slip it back to the | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
1930s. The clampdown is affecting ordinary citizens too. Moscow | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
student and dance lover is seen here in January with his girlfriend. | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
In May, he was among the tens of thousands who took to the streets | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
to protest at Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency. Accused | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
of injuring a police officer that day, on the most flimsy of evidence, | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
he and ten others have now been in prison for three months, with no | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
sign of bail and Alexandra is getting desperate. Absolutely | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
everyone can see they are not criminals. These are people like | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
you and me. People like salesmen and managers. | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Despite the mounting evidence, President Putin insists that the | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
opposition is not being specifically targeted by police. | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
TRANSLATION: Talking of what some people are calling a crackdown, as | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
we see it is only a simple rule that everyone, including the | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
opposition, must comply with Russian law. This law will be | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
consistently enforced. There was a time when he aspired to be a | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
unifying President, a leader of all Russians. Increasingly he seems | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
prepared to turn on his own citizens in order to suppress the | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
growing mood of dissent. The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
says he wants to make it easier for bosses to dismiss workers without | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
having to go to the complex tribunal system. He is calling for | :19:09. | :19:19. | |
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a cut in the maximum that employees can claim for unfair dismissal. | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
Excessive regulations, form-filling bureaucratic procedures, the sort | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
of things most businesses hate. It is known as red tape and today saw | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
the latest initiative to cut through the burden on employers. | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
This company makes specialist components for electronics and | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
aerospace. It needs to expand but says it needs more flexible rules | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
for managing its workforce. At the moment, there is a lot of red tape. | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
There are a lot of procedures you have to go through. You have to | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
involve a lot of people in the organisation. Somehow we need to | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
simplify that. Ministers believe companies like this would employ | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
more people if it was easier to get rid of under performing workers. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
The latest measures, they say, will help small businesses. They are | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
worried if things go wrong about finding themselves in a tribunal | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
with complicated procedures, costs and delayed. We want to help them. | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
At the same time we don't want to undermine basic labour rights. | :20:23. | :20:33. | |
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Labour say changes to the rules on wrongful dismissal will erode the | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
safeguards for employees in the workplace. They are making it | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
harder for people to claim for unfair dismissal. They are reducing | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
the amount of compensation that you can receive at a tribunal where you | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
have been treated badly, which up until now has acted as a good | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
deterrent for unscrupulous employers seeking to do over their | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
employees at work. It comes after a political row inside the coalition. | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
Downing Street commissioned a review. It was recommended a no- | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
fault dismissal, giving employers a free hand to get rid of staff | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
whenever they wanted. Vince Cable confirmed he will not go down that | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
root. Some -- route. Some say he should have done so, removing more | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
red tape in the workplace. The Welsh economy requires a new | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
deal for jobs and growth, according to Plaid Cymru. Addressing her | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
party's annual conference for the first time as leader Leanne Wood | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
said her party should back a green agenda. One of the first acts of a | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
Plaid Cymru Government will be to establish our own National Power | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
house. Green energy, investing in our national infrastructure, from | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
tidal energy to community-owned wind and hydropower. Focused on our | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
own energy needs, and yes, where appropriate exporting this valuable | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
commodity. Here is the difference - repatriating the profits and | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
reinvesting them for the benefit of the people of Wales. Thousands of | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
people lined the streets of Cardiff and Glasgow for official Olympic | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
and Paralympic parades this afternoon. | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
In Scotland, Sir Chris Hoy joined his fellow athletes, who between | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
them won 24 medals at both Games. Today's reception proved that the | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
impact of the London Games spread across the whole of the UK. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
A painting owned by a British family has been revealed to be the | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
work of Edgar Degas. It was thought to be a fake. Cutting-edge forensic | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
techniques are making it possible to establish the authencity of | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
pictures in ways never before. The work, depicting a ballerina, has | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
been re-evaluated. I followed the investigation, which proved it to | :23:11. | :23:19. | |
be by one of the world's best loved painters. Blue Dancers, a painting | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
by Edgar Degas. At least it was until the 1950s when the foremost | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
Degas expert decided it was fake. Its owners were left holding a | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
painting once valuable worth a few hundred at best. What didn't he | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
like about the painting? A few things. The face of the dancer, | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
which I think he called "trivial." The position of it. He said it was | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
not a formal pose. And the draftsmanship. Painting like those | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris are among the most sought after. After | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
lengthy investigation it is possible to trace the bills of | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
sales of the Blue Dancer back to the moment it left Degas's studio | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
in 1882. Today's Blue Dancer could have been a later copy of the | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
genuine work. So art expert Philip Mould took the painting itself to | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
be tested for the presize pig meants used. You are going for -- | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
precise pig meants used. If there is white in the painting, used only | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
after Degas's death, the painting had to be fake. This is very | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
encouraging. As you can see here the main elements found is lead, | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
which is good, because it indicates probably lead white was used. | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
about the criticisms of the position of the painting's dancer | :24:49. | :24:57. | |
does not look right? In one of the Paris opera house rooms a dancer | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
tries to recreate the pose. Yes, looking down, facing forward. | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
That's exactly it. That is it. The new evidence about the Blue | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
Dancer was enough to force the foremost authority to say it was | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
genuine. We have the pleasure to inform you that the painting is an | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
authentic work by Edgar Degas. It is a real lesson in not giving | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
up. I didn't think it was possible. Blue Dancer can now take its place | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
among the Degass in galleries around the world. A painting | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
rediscovered, from the brush of one of the finest impressionist masters. | :25:45. | :25:50. |