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The surgeons who think they could be close to finding | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
This man was paralysed from the chest down. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
A cell transplant repaired his spinal cord, a technique surgeons | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
This will be history, this will change history. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
If we succeed, we will find a cure for paralysis. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
We'll be looking at the long-term implications it could have | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
for thousands people who are paralysed. | :00:34. | :00:34. | |
Also tonight: Facebook is set to pay millions more in tax in the UK | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
from next year after criticism and public pressure. | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
A bomb disposal robot is sent in after a device explodes under | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
Police in Los Angeles carry out tests on a knife apparently found | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
How the 15th century Italian painter has influenced artists and designers | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Andy Murray got | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
Great Britain's Davis Cup title defence off to a winning start | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
against Japan's Tara Daniel but Dan Evans lost against | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
Surgeons in Poland say they could be close to finding | :01:10. | :01:35. | |
Two years ago, the team announced that this man - | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
a former fireman who was completely paralysed from the chest down - | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
could walk again after a cell transplant repaired his spinal cord. | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Now they're launching a worldwide search for two people whose spinal | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
cords have been completely severed to see if they can reverse paralysis | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh has this exclusive story. | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
He is the paralysed man who walked again. | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
This is Darek Fidyka in 2014, after his regenerative cell | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
transplant, documented by the BBC's Panorama. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
Now, a bigger test, to ride this tricycle. | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Remember, this is a man who had been completely | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
paralysed below his chest after being stabbed. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Now, he is relearning how to control his legs, | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
sending commands from his brain down to his muscles, | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
and receiving sensations back, all flowing through his | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
The effort is as much mental as physical. | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
TRANSLATION: If I really think, I can feel each muscle, | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
The brain is very important and I appreciate it | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
plays a crucial role in cycling, or any other exercise I do. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
The big question now is whether Darek's extraordinary | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
achievements can be repeated in other patients. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
Only a clinical trial can show whether or not the cell transplant | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
does indeed represent a revolution in the treatment of paralysis, | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
which would make it one of the greatest | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
That's why his surgeon is launching a worldwide search, | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
via a website, for two patients with highly unusual injuries. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Their spinal-cord must be completely severed, | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
Help them, and it will silence any doubters. | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
We can prove once and forever that we can repair | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
There would be no speculation if we succeed to reconstruct. | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
This would be history, this will change history. | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
If we succeed, we'll find a cure for paralysis. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
The patients will have one of their olfactory bulbs, | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
at the base of the brain, shown in green, removed. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
It processes the sense of smell, and is the only part of the nervous | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
In a second operation, cells from the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
bulb will be transplanted into the spinal-cord to provide | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
a pathway for nerve fibres to grow back. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
The patients selected for the trial will | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
undergo intensive physiotherapy, both before and especially | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
In all, they will have to commit to spending three years | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
living at this rehabilitation centre in Poland. | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
The research will be independently assessed by this team | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
They will use equipment like this magnetic stimulator | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
to monitor the patients' neurological pathways | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
As a proof of principle, I'm very excited, because | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
this is a novel treatment that holds a great deal of promise. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
This would open up hope that an alternative | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
But it is going to take some years to refine it. | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
The treatment will cost ?250,000 per patient, | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
and is being funded by a small British charity set up by a chef, | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
David Nichols, whose son was paralysed in a swimming accident. | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
If the trial is successful, it might mean patients | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
For Darek, the return of muscle control and sensation has brought | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
other improvements, like bladder control and sexual function, | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
which he says are just as crucial to his growing sense of independence. | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
Extraordinary to see that but how long before we know build it works? | :06:01. | :06:10. | |
It's going to take about a year to search and select those two patients | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
and then maybe a further two years before we know whether this | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
treatment can reverse paralysis. If surgeons can do it in patients with | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
a severed spinal cord, they will move on to help patients with a more | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
common form of crush or compression injury. There are three million | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
people in the world paralysed, this will help a small proportion of | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
them, it's expensive, complex surgery and requires a huge | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
commitment from the patients. Darek is now nearly four years | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
post-transplant and is still undergoing hours of intensive | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
physiotherapy every day. There are no easy gains here. But even a | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
partial recovery like his will give people hope and that's why this is | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
so important and promising. Thank you. | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Facebook is set to pay millions of pounds more in tax in the UK | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
The company - which has global profits of more than a billion | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
pounds every three months - faced heavy criticism | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
after it was revealed that in 2014 - it only paid around ?4,000 | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
The move is likely to put more pressure on the way other | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
multinationals like Google, Amazon and Starbucks pay their tax | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Here's our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, who broke the story. | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
They like to portray themselves as the cuddly social media site, | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
but of course Facebook is a very serious and very profitable | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
business, it makes money out of the millions of us who use it | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
everyday because we are valuable customers of the major businesses | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
that spend millions of pounds advertising on Facebook. | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
Facebook, apparently, have chosen, off their own volition, | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
to change their tax arrangements, and that shows it's possible for any | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
And to have companies bleating it's not their fault, | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
it's just the international tax laws, that really is not the case. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
They have the choice about how they set up their tax arrangements. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Facebook is one of a number of controversial, often | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
Google and Apple have also faced criticism for their tax affairs. | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
At present, it routes most of its UK sales through Ireland where business | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
taxes are lower and corporation tax there is 12.5% compared | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
And for a global company that makes a significant difference. | :08:28. | :08:37. | |
The company pays a very low amount of tax in the UK, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
That is less than many people pay in income tax. | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
For a company that globally makes over ?1 billion of profit every | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
three months that has caused controversy. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
From April, Facebook will abandon that structure and start accounting | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
for sales activity in the UK, that is set to increase its tax bill | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
With the first payment made to the Treasury in 2017. | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
That could cheer up this man George Osborne, who has said | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
he would like global multinationals to pay more tax. | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
Whilst we offer some of the lowest business taxes in the world, | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
we expect those taxes to be paid and not avoided. | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
Political pressure was growing on Facebook and the tax | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
There is also the small matter of its often young audience. | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
They may have received criticism and they may have just internally | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
reviewed it and decided given their position | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
and their position with millennials and centennials, | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Given their purpose as a company, they may have thought this | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
is something they should do and they should be congratulated | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
for having made that course of correction. | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
The tax authority HMRC is investigating its tax affairs. | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
Put November 2017 in your diary, the date when Facebook | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
will announce its first payment under the new structure. | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
Will it be large enough to put this tax controversy to bed? | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
A prison officer has been seriously injured in Belfast | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
Police fear the attack could be the start of a campaign of violence, | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
by dissident republicans, to mark the forthcoming centenary | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
of the Easter Rising - the rebellion against British rule. | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
Chris Buckler is in Belfast for us tonight. | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
There's been widespread condemnation of today's attack, but tonight there | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
is also deep concern about further attacks. The police are convinced | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
the dissident republicans are going to try to overshadow commemorations | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
for the centenary of the Easter Rising in the most sinister way | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
possible, by attempting to murder soldiers, prison officers and police | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
officers. And members of the security forces are on high alert | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
tonight. I should warn you this report does contain some flash | :11:05. | :11:05. | |
photography. If 1916 was a year of rebellion, | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
dissident republicans want to make This morning, they planted a bomb | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
that exploded under this van, seriously injuring the prison | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
officer who was driving it. The police say it was an attempt | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
to murder and they are fearful that this is just the start | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
of a campaign to kill, to coincide with the centenary | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
of Ireland's Easter Rising. When I say I'm deeply concerned, | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
I mean I'm deeply concerned. I believe that there are people | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
within dissident republican groupings who want to mark | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
the centenary by killing police officers, prison | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
officers or soldiers. The Easter Rising was an attempt | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
in Ireland to break away from British rule and is being | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
marked by official events And Irish republicans are amongst | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
those concerned that dissidents will try to steal attention away | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
from the commemorations There can be no justification | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
for anybody going out with a gun or a bomb against the backdrop | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
of the massive transformation that has taken place in our society | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
over the last 20 years. It is just over three years | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
since another prison officer, David Black, was shot dead | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
as he drove to work, by a group calling | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
itself the New IRA. And there is an ongoing dispute | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
between the prison authorities and dissident republican | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
prisoners at Maghaberry, Northern Ireland's | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
high security prison. We've lost 30 officers in the past | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
through these attacks. It did not change anything | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
within the prisons and this is not going to change anything, | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
attacking prison officers. The police say they have already | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
started to increase security ahead of Easter, a necessary precaution | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
against this rising threat. A heavily pregnant woman has been | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
stabbed in the West Midlands. The victim, who's 40, | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
was airlifted to hospital this afternoon from Sutton | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
Coldfield town centre. Tonight, police say her baby has | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
been delivered safely but the woman A number of passers-by | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
who tried to intervene, Our Correspondent, | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
Kathryn Stanchesin reports. A brutal attack in broad daylight. | :13:14. | :13:29. | |
In a side street in Sutton Coldfield town centre, heavily pregnant woman | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
was repeatedly stabbed, just yards from a busy shopping centre. As | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
these eyewitness pictures show, emergency services were quickly on | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
the scene. Speaking exclusively to the BBC, this man gave first aid to | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
the victim. I saw the guy on the floor being restrained by the | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
police. I tried to get involved and then moved towards the woman and | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
tried to treat the woman as best I could. I saw lots of blood. It was a | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
difficult thing to see. West Midlands Police says members of the | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
public intervened, a brave act in a dangerous situation, leaving two men | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
with minor injuries. Thanks to those individuals who got involved, | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
members of the public who dived into a volatile situation with complete | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
disregard for their safety. Their actions should be commended. If | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
41-year-old man is being held on suspicion of attempted murder. The | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
area remains cordoned off while investigations continue. Officers | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
are keen to reassure the public they are not looking for anyone else in | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
connection with the stabbing. The woman remains in a critical | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
condition after giving birth. The baby is reported to be doing well. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Some of the day's other news stories. | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
Two men from Syria have been jailed for four years in Turkey | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
in connection with the death of the three-year-old Syrian boy | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
who drowned while trying to reach Greece with his family. | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
Aylan Kurdi, see here on the left, drowned last September and his body | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
It focussed the world's attention on the risks facing migrants trying | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
Hundreds of Syrians in rebel-held areas have taken advantage | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
of the current truce to hold small anti-government protests. | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
Demonstrators in parts of Homs, Aleppo, and Damascus called | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
The partial ceasefire came into effect across Syria a week ago. | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
The leader of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood, has criticised | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
the Government for deciding to hold the EU referendum so close | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
to the Welsh Assembly elections in May. | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
She was speaking at the party's annual spring conference and said | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
she supported Britain's membership of the EU. | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
Police in Los Angeles are carrying out DNA testing on a knife | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
said to have been found at the former home of OJ Simpson. | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
They're trying to establish if it has any connection with the murders | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
in 1994 of Simpson's ex-wife and a male friend. | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
OJ Simpson was cleared of their murders in 1995. | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Our correspondent James Cook is in Los Angeles. | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
Yes, Sophie. The OJ Simpson trial split the United States, not least | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
along racial lines. He was a famous American football star when he was | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
accused of the murders in Los Angeles, and more than 20 years on | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
this sensational and heartbreaking case is back in the headlines. | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
OJ Simpson, accused of murdering his ex-wife, | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
A bloody glove which did not appear to fit was at the heart of the case. | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder. | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
As the sport superstar learned his fate in 1995, | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
it felt like the whole world was watching. | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
At first, Simpson had run, fleeing in this white vehicle, | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
with police and paparazzi in hot pursuit. | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
When Simpson's house was demolished in 1998, | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
a knife was reportedly discovered and handed to a police officer, | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
I do not know whether he was retired at the time | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
that he allegedly received this item from the person who claimed | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
they found it on the property, or whether | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
he was still in fact an LAPD officer and retired some time after that. | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
It is being treated as we would all evidence. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
They are going to study it and examine it for all forensics, | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
including serology and DNA, and hair samples. | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
The law of double jeopardy means OJ Simpson cannot be tried again, | :17:34. | :17:43. | |
He lost the civil case brought by the victims' families, | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
and is now serving 33 years for armed robbery. | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
This extraordinary story, it seems, never ends. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Researchers in the United States say they may have found the first | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
evidence that the Zika virus does cause birth defects in babies. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
which is spreading rapidly in Central and South America, | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
normally only causes mild symptoms in adults. | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
But there's growing concern that if pregnant women are infected, | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
their babies can be born with damaged brains. | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
Caroline will never develop normally. | :18:23. | :18:32. | |
She is one of hundreds of babies born in Brazil with the condition | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
It is a terrible outbreak made more worrying because so little is known | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
Last month a doctor at the centre of the crisis | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
The white dots marked damage in the babies' brains. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
She was convinced that the cause was the Zika virus, | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
but establishing proof is incredibly hard. | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
So, teams of scientists have been investigating, | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
that key question of whether Zika is to blame. | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
Today the World Health Organisation said it was looking | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
The evidence that there may be a causal relationship has continued | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
to accumulate and, as importantly, we have not seen the counterfactual, | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
the fact that there is evidence it is due to something else. | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
So, what do we know other than the fact that the Zika virus is carried | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
Because the threat only emerged a few months ago there has not been | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
One study found traces of the virus in the fluid of pregnant women. | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
Another spotted Zika in a handful of babies born with damaged brains | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
So, in a new project, scientists took samples of the virus | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
and applied them to human stem cells, | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
Within three days, up to 90% of them were infected and damage. | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
This is an important finding but because it involves stem cells | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
in lab conditions, it still is not cast-iron proof. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Amid all the anxiety for pregnant women like Jessica in Colombia, | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
Even a very basic question like how the virus could damage | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
It's very important that we do understand whether Zika is causing | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
brain damage or whether it might be due to something else, | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
because we need to try and find a way to address the problem. | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
And try to prevent this rise in microcephaly that is occurring | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
A pregnant woman in Brazil, comforted after hearing | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
Zika has sread to more than 50 countries, and scientists are racing | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
to understand what that could mean. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
Meanwhile, Brazil is having to deal with the biggest corruption scandal | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
It centres on the state-owned oil company and involves | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
Today, police detained the country's former president, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
He was later released and denies allegations of corruption, | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
as Julia Carneiro reports from Sao Paulo. | :21:07. | :21:19. | |
Outside Lula's house, police clashed with protesters, both supporters and | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
detractors, as news of the former President's detention spread. He was | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
taken to a police station for three hours of questioning over claims he | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
and his family had benefited from illegal payments. | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
TRANSLATION: We are looking at evidence that the former president | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
and his family received advantageous payments. We are still at the | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
investigation stage but we found no plausible motivation for these | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
payments. After being released, Lula was driven to the headquarters of | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
the governing workers party. He denied any wrongdoing. | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
TRANSLATION: I have been hurt, you know. I feel offended. I didn't need | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
this. I feel outrage, as if I was a prisoner. But if they have tried to | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
get me, they haven't succeeded. These corruption investigations have | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
dominated Brazilian politics for months now, but the brief detention | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
of former President Lula today signals a new phase and increases | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
the danger for his protege, the current president, and the future of | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
the workers party. At the heart of today's detention lies a corruption | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
scandal involving the state-run oil company Petrobras. It investigates a | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
scheme to divert money through overpriced contracts. Now | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
prosecutors say they have significant evidence that Lula | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
benefited from the scheme, and his nonprofit organisation is under the | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
spotlight. During his eight years as president, Lula was the face of the | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
Brazilian boom. His detention today is a significant moment. When such a | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
figure is reached by a criminal investigation, the institution sends | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
a message to the whole country that nobody is above the law in Brazil. | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
Today's development increases pressure on President Rousseff, | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
already presiding over a failing economy. The fact that her | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
predecessor, the very symbol of her party, was brought in by police | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
today, makes this a very dangerous moment for her. | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
There has been a wintry start to spring for large parts of northern | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
England, with heavy snowfall causing travel disruption across the region. | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
Yorkshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire were worst affected, with more than | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
100 schools closed. There have been problems on the roads, with many | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
closed or described as hazardous, and forecasters are warning of more | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
cold weather to come. Leeds Bradford Airport was forced to suspend | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
flights this morning but has since reopened. | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
He's recognised as one of the greatest Renaissance artists. | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
Tomorrow the paintings and drawings of Sandro Botticelli go on display | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
in the largest show of its kind in the UK. | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
But the exhibition comes with a twist. | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
His masterpieces will appear alongside works | :24:23. | :24:23. | |
of modern art, design, fashion and film, all inspired by him. | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
Will Gompertz has been to take a look. | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
The Birth of Venus, one of the most iconic images in art, | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
instantly recognisable and much copied, by the likes of Andy Warhol, | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
David LaChapelle, Dolce and Gabbana, and anyone fancying a go | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
The only snag is that the original masterpiece by Botticelli | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
It hasn't left Italy since the 1930s, when Mussolini sent | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
it out on tour as part of a charm offensive. | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
But the good news is that Venus has made the trip. | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
It is thought that Botticelli painted | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
these two near identical Venuses after his famous original | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
It's also thought he had a little help from from friends. | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
One of the problems with Botticelli is that he had a large workshop full | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
of young artists who would paint paintings to his designs. | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
Which begs the question, how can you tell which are by a master | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
To answer that question I have tracked down the show's curator, | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
This is one of the masterpieces of the exhibition. | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
It's an absolutely beautiful painting by Botticelli | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
The execution of the drapery, the landscape, of this still life | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
here, everything is absolutely exquisite | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
And this quality speaks for a Botticelli authenticity. | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
These portraits are a highlight of the show. | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
Seeing them makes the fact that Botticelli was largely | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
forgotten for hundreds of years all the more baffling. | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
He was, in part, rediscovered by the Victorians, most | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
notably the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, artists such as Edward | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and their friend William Morris. | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
They admired the simplicity of Botticelli's line | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
Rossetti even went as far as buying one of his paintings to which, | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
it is said, he added a touch or two of his own. | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
There are many works in this show echoing and emulating Botticelli | :26:43. | :26:44. | |
but none really stand comparison with the paintings produced by this | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
That's all from us. Time for the news where you are. | :26:56. | :27:00. |