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Tonight at 10 o'clock: Hard choices ahead, say ministers, as they | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
struggle with the budget deficit. The Chancellor tells the | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
Conservative conference that more welfare savings must be made to | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
bring down the deficit. We need an effort from each and every one, one | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
nation working hard together. We are still all in this together. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
Mobbed on arrival. Boris Johnson comes to the conference declaring | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
his loyalty to the party leadership. We will have the latest from | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Birmingham on the economic challenge for the coalition. Also | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
tonight: In court, the man charged with the murder of five year-old | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
April Jones breaks down in tears. Returned to Aleppo. We have a | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
special report on the rebels' military supplies and continued | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
fighting. The atmosphere on the front line is incredibly tense and | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
almost eerily quiet. Every now and again you can hear the sound of | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
battle going on. The scars of this intense fighting of yes everywhere. | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
And the British Nobel winner who was once dismissed as a no-hoper. | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
Later we will have Sportsday on the BBC News Channel with the latest | :01:27. | :01:36. | |
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reports, interviews and features The Government is facing more hard | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
choices this autumn as it tries to tackle the deficit. The Chancellor | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
confirmed plans for further cut in welfare spending of �10 billion | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
early in the next Parliament. George Osborne insisted that the | :02:07. | :02:15. | |
economy was healing but taking longer than hoped. | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
One thing was crystal clear at this Conservative conference today. The | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Chancellor was not changing his view. When Margaret Thatcher in the | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
1980s, he was keen to convince his party that he would not buckle or | :02:30. | :02:40. | |
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give up. We shall overcome. The at defiant rhetoric made necessary by | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
the fact the Government will not meet its own targets for borrowing. | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
On December 5th, he will publish the official deficit forecast, | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
showing that they are of course. There will be a new round of cuts | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
and tax rises to come in 2015. George Osborne tried to revive an | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
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old promise today. We need an effort from each and every one. One | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
nation working hard together. We are still in this together. His it | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
is the claim that many question because of the Government's | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
decision to cut the taxes of the richest in the land. He knows that | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
but today he was not apologising. It is a completely phoney | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
perception of fairness that you stick with a tax rate you know | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
raises no money, that you know weakens the economy, just to say | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
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that you are hitting the rich. promised the party there would be | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
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no Lib Dem inspired tax on rich Sun Inn business clone it is too | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
hard to hire and fire. The new deal was offered. You and your employees | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
give new shares in the business. You replace the rights of unfair | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
dismissal and redundancy with new rights of ownership. Get shares and | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
become owners of the company that you work for. Owners and the taxman | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
and the company, all in it together. The Labour leader had not mentioned | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
the word deficit. Their reply was that from beginning to end the | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
Chancellor did not utter the word growth. In just a few weeks, George | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Osborne will have to stand up in the Commons to say that he is | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
missing his borrowing targets, missing his deficit targets, and | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
maybe missing his debt target, too. His message here was that he was | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
sticking to the course. The speech summed up by a simple message, the | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
Chancellor, just like the lady, is not for turning. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Boris Johnson has declared his admiration for David Cameron and | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
insisted the Government is doing exactly what is needed to rebuild | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
the economy. The Mayor of London was addressing the meeting on the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
fringes of the conference this evening, where he was given a | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
thunderous reception. James Landale has been assessing the attitude of | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
party workers. This report contains flash photography. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
He is one of the most popular politicians in Britain. One of the | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
few known by his first name alone. As Boris got on the train for his | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
party conference today, there was only one question. Can the Joe | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
Keane chief also be the great white hope for the future of the Tories? | :06:17. | :06:27. | |
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-- joker In Chief. Lisa -- he has got the media's attention but can | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
he get everybody else's? At the conference there is something | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
approaching a personality cult. Some are already fantasising about | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
which cabinet he could choose if he walks through the doors of Number | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
10 one-day. He is a winner, he is amusing, and he reaches the parts | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
of the Conservative Party that no one else, including the Prime | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Minister, I am afraid, can reach. suspect everyone is in love with | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
him. Are you worried by the arrival of Boris Johnson today? Not up all, | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
I am delighted. He is a huge personality and one of the great | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
entertainers but a very intelligent guy. Undoubtedly ambitious, he is | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
not an MP with no power base in Parliament and not many years left | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
as London Mayor. You cannot do this for another three years. On a | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
certainly cannot walk around like this for another three years! There | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
was no attempt to hide from the cameras today. The Tories do not | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
just like Boris Johnson because he is funny but because he wins the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
elections. Can this razzmatazz take him all the way to the leadership | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
of his party? Not in the short term. Very few Tories expect that. But | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
his sheer charisma and popularity win over San in Number 10. No | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
surprise that the Prime Minister came to listen, and tonight at | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
least Boris Johnson was in good mood and on good behaviour, | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
admiring David Cameron. He, George Osborne, the rest of the Government, | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
doing exactly what is needed for the rest of the country. Inside | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
they loved him but outside there were some doubts. Would you trust | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
him with his finger on the nuclear trigger? I would not because he is | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
unreliable compared to this gentleman. He is your Mayor. County | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
run the country? Don't be so stupid. Boris Johnson, a court jester today, | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
maybe something more tomorrow. What is your quality? The ability to get | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
through a huge scrum of journalists and out the other side! J Mrs | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
Mandela, BBC News. -- James Landale. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
Stephanie, let's start with the Chancellor's speech. Did he change | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
our understanding of the nature of the economic change ahead? We did | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
not learn anything fundamentally new but that told us how little | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
room for manoeuvre he has got. This Chancellor has centred his strategy | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
around achieving two things, deficit-reduction and growth. He | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
cannot be completely confident of achieving either of those things | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
this year. The economy will almost certainly have shrunk in 2012 over | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the course of the year. At the moment borrowing is running ahead | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
of last year. We also know that in the next few weeks, as Nick | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Robinson was suggesting, the Office for Budget Responsibility will give | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
him a new forecast to help him prepare his Autumn Statement. They | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
are likely to show that not only is borrowing running ahead of the | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
forecast but that he has got a good chance of missing the crucial | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
target that he has got to have the total stock of debt, past borrowing, | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
falling as a national share of income in 2015. He will miss that | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
deadline if he does not announce more tax increases and spending | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
controls. Not just for the next election, one more will be coming, | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
but over the next two years. He did not say whether he will choose the | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
target or having more pain. But he indicated that he would not mind if | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
borrowing was higher if it was just because of a weak economy. Sir | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Mervyn King has suggested that would be the right thing, to give | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
up on the target. That might give him some cover if he has to make | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
that decision but you can see why he would not want to dwell on it. | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
How do you read the political calculations behind the speech? | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
eight weeks' time, the Chancellor knows that he will either have bad | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
news to unveil or very bad news. I think he is trying to prepare for | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
that, in a sense. Unusually, he does not know the forecast, he does | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
not even know the first cut of what the forecast might be. What he is | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
telling us is that however bad the news, he is not going to cut | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
spending slower, as the Labour Party want him to do, but he is not | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
going to cut it faster as many Conservatives want him to do. He is | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
saying, steady as she goes. He might find 1 billion here or there | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
from current spending to reinvest in current spending that he hopes | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
will we boost growth. He is also telling us that he knows there is a | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
bit negotiation to be had and soon about further spending cuts and tax | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
rises for 2016. He is signalling that his key target his welfare. | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
The reason he is in a rush to do it is not primarily an economic but | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
political. He wants to make cuts that he can turn round to the | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
Labour Party and say, this is our choice, what would you do? Thank | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
you. A man has appeared in court in | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
Aberystwyth charged with the abduction and murder of five year- | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
old April Jones, who disappeared a week ago. Mark Bridger appeared | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
tearful as the charges were put to him. He was remanded in custody. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
Police are continuing their search in the Machynlleth area. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
As the police convoy arrived, the van carrying Mark Bridger to his | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
first court appearance met with the full anger of the crowd. Flanked by | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
two guards, the 46 year-old wept as he was asked to confirm his name, | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
age and address. Then he was asked if he understood the charges of | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
murder, child abduction and attempting to pervert the course of | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
justice. To reach, he answered yes. -- to reach one. After a hearing | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
that lasted just four minutes, Mark Bridger has been taken away to be | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
remanded in custody until his next appearance before a Crown Court on | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
Wednesday. Seven days after April's disappearance, the police have | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
refocused the search. They insist for now that there is no end date | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
to the operation. As long as we think there is something out there | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
to search and we are satisfied that we are making good use of the | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
resources, and they are valuable resources, then we will be doing | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
this for the family and we are determined to do what we can for | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
that family. There has also been a clear change in tack. Pure rescue | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
teams have more forensics. Signalling that this is also a | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
murder investigation. -- fewer rescue teams and more forensics. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Drivers were asked exactly where they were one week ago today. At | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
the same time, many in Machynlleth prepared lanterns to show that | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
their belief is not don't. We want to show everyone that week have got | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
hope. We want to show everyone that we care and we are supporting the | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
family. After a week which has exhausted many in the community, it | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
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is still united by his refusal to BBC News has uncovered evidence | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
which seems to suggest that Syrian rebels are receiving military | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
supplies from the Gulf region. Three crates from an arms | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
manufacturer addressed to Saudi Arabia have been seen in a base | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
being used by rebel fighters in the city of Aleppo. Our correspondent | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Ian Pannell and cameraman Darren Conway are among the few Western | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
journalists to have witnessed the start of the battle in Aleppo in | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
July. They have just returned to the city and sent this report. | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
Thousands of years of history have marched through the streets. An | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
ancient city that has been fought over many times before. Today, | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Aleppo was at war again and the further you go into the old city, | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
so the sound and fury of battle grows. Those who stayed behind must | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
cheat death every day. A simple sign reads "do not cross, sniper to | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
your left". Eight people were killed here last week, he says, | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
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The rebels have moved into the heart of the old city. A media | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
activist took us there. A World Heritage Site, where the scars of | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
battle run deep and the devastation is mounting. Aleppo is a city under | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
siege. EXPLOSION. The fighting is now street by street, house by | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
house. GUNFIRE. The fighters have been calling for owls would help | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
for many months. Now for the first time, a strong indication they will | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
get it -- calling for help. A Ukrainian weapons firm made the box | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
and its contents of. Board is in it is unclear but it suggests someone | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
in the Gulf is a leading Assad, and privately, ministers admit they get | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
help from neighbouring Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The atmosphere on the | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
frontline is incredibly tense and eerily quiet. Every now and again, | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
you can hear the sound of battle still going on and the scars of | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
this intense fighting obvious everywhere. Snipers have been | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
shooting into this position. There is an era that the rebels had been | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
using to try to get a sense of what is going on -- a mirror. The | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
government response: Massive firepower to try to crush the | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
rebellion. Iran is no need to sponsor the Government's side, too, | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
and so this has become a proxy war between Arab nations, Iran, and the | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
West. But it remains a vastly uneven battle, as the fighters try | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
to move unseen towards loyalist forces. Despite its overwhelming | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
strength, government forces have made few inroads. We were shown one | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
of their checkpoints, just 200 metres away. They may be fighting | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
for the future of Syria but both sides are also struggling over | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
small bits of turf. The empty streets are testament to the | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
thousands who have fled Aleppo. But some say they have no way to go, | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
that no where is Safe. Abu Stayf has lost his wife and six children. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
All of them were killed when a rocket landed on his house. | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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TRANSLATION: To lift is to die. Men, animals, Assad is hounding us. You | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
will diet wherever you go. They say foreign aid is being provided, we | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
have seen nothing. Just let us die and get it over with. Aleppo has | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
become the defining battle in this brutal civil war. Neither side can | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
afford to lose but in truth, neither side is winning. What does | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
seem to be happening is the slow, painful death of Syria. | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
Coming up on tonight's programme: A valuable painting defaced at Tate | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
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Modern, but the man responsible A British biologist who was once | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
told as schoolboy that there was no hope of him studying science has | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John Gurdon | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
and the Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka have both been recognised | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
for their pioneering work on stem cell research. The Nobel committee | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
said their research had revolutionised understanding of how | :18:35. | :18:45. | |
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cells and organisms develop, as David Shukman explains. | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
50 years ago an investigation into cells reveal something completely | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
unexpected, that they all have the genes needed to make any type of | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
cell. The discovery opened the way to new treatments. Most scientists | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
thought this could never happen but a landmark experiment proved that a | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
cell from one part of the body could become a cell for another one. | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
Today, the scientist behind this work, John Gurdon, said basic | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
research like this brings benefits years later. May be almost 50 years | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
before the venue, the potential value, of that fairly basic | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
scientific work has come to life. The prize was shared with a | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Japanese scientist, Shinya Yamanaka, who built on the work by finding a | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
way intending any cell into a stem cell. The Nobel committee said the | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
work of both men could revolutionise standstill treatment. | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
This involves taking a cell and adding a few genes, which turns it | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
into eight stem cell, which can then be grown into anything, like a | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
cell for the muscle to repair the heart. Early days but huge | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
potential. Today, at Sir John Gurdon's laboratory in Cambridge, | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
research continues. This is where he sits, his mind on higher things | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
perhaps. His colleagues are delighted. People have been | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
expecting it to happen for a long time but for it to happen while I | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
am here is phenomenal. It is very exciting for all of us. A lot of us | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
have felt this has been a long time coming for John because this has | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
been what he has been working on for decades. Ironically, the school | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
report said John did so badly in biology that any idea of a career | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
in silence -- science was ridiculous. I was bottom in biology | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
out of 250 people, and my teacher heard of talk of John Gurdon | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
wanting to be the scientist and I was told it was completely | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
ridiculous. So, an entire new science offering great hopes for | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
people starting with a boy no good at biology. | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has been re-elected for a | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
fourth term. Thousands of supporters took to the streets near | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
the presidential palace to celebrate his victory. Mr Chavez, | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
who won 54% of the vote, said Venezuela would continue on its | :21:17. | :21:26. | |
socialist path. The BBC has promised a full | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
investigation into allegations that the late Jimmy Savile sexually | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
abused girls while working for the corporation. But George Entwistle, | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
the director general, said the questions would be addressed after | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
the police had finished their inquiries. Mr Entwistle apologised | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
to all the women involved, as David Sillito reports. | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
I will tell you what we will do, ladies and gentlemen, top groups, | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
Top Records! At that time, his image was that of the eccentric DJ | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
with a heart of gold. 40 years on, the BBC said sorry for what they | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
did not seek in the light of accusations of sexual abuse. | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
would like to apologise on behalf of the organisation... | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
director-general of the BBC told Radio 4's Today programme that the | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
corporation would carry out its own investigations at the right moment. | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
When the police have finished everything they have to do and when | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
they give the assurance that there is no danger of us compromising | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
their investigation, I will ensure that any outstanding question are | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
properly answered. Another question was why Newsnight did not broadcast | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
its report on the allegations last year. He said that when he was in | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
his old job as the head of BBC Television, he was told Newsnight | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
or investigating Jimmy Savile. The director of BBC News said it might | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
have had scheduling implications. George Entwistle insists no | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
pressure was applied to Newsnight, but in December, Newsnight dropped | :23:03. | :23:13. | |
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the edition for editorial reasons. Then at the BBC issued a programme | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
affectionate be looking at Jimmy Savile. One former employee he said | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
there were rumours, but only rumours. People have reputations, | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
people speculate about other people's behaviour all the time. | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
You cannot act on every rumour that you hear. You need evidence. The | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
great sadness of this is that nobody felt able to complain, for | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
reasons are perfect the understand. It was only a week ago that | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Scarborough were erecting a street sign in his honour for the money he | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
raised for charity. He was a local hero, now it is gone. Even his | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
charity is thinking of dropping his name. That reputation is in shreds. | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
The man who vandalised a painting by Mark Rothko at Tate Modern in | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
London has told the BBC he believes he may have increased its value. | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
Vladimir Umanets has been arrested in the past hour. As Will Gompertz | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
reports, the attack has renewed the debate about security at art | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
galleries. This is Mark Rothko's 1958 painting | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
Black On Maroon, a fine example of his sombre and thought for art. Now | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
defaced by Vladimir Umanets, who considers his actions to be neither | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
illegal or destructive. He thinks he has increased the value of the | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
work. In one sense, I am really happy. I really can have a good | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
laugh from it, you know, but from another side I am sad because | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
people still cannot see what it is all about and how beautiful it is. | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
There is a long history of interventions involving art works, | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
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including Cornelia Parker wrapping rope around the Kiss. Most of them | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
a temporary or prints or they are done with permission, and so this | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
one wasn't, this was very difficult and quite a destructive act. It is | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
more akin to graffiti in my mind. The trouble facing places like the | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
Tate is that they have an unwritten contract with the public, that they | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
won't put undue security measures in front of the artwork as long as | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
the public do not tamper with the pieces. Incidences such as this | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
book that principle under pressure and make the gallery think twice | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
about being so open with their art. The late American artist who gave | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
the work to the Tate in 1969 is not alone in having a painting attacked. | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
Lastly at the National Gallery, the adoration of the calf was sprayed | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
with red paint. Such acts could lead to works of art been placed | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
behind glass, with alarmed ropes keeping people back. For now, that | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
is not the intention of the Tate. The focus been, to repair the | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
Rothko, which they should be able to do. There is a fantastic team | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
working at Tate who are really knowledgeable about Rothko in | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
particular. They have got to the Tate very quickly and I think there | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
is every hope it will be cleaned with that any problem. It is | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
difficult to clean but that it will be back to how it used to be. | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
Whatever reasons Vladimir Umanets might give to justify his actions, | :26:38. | :26:44. |