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The surgeons who think they could be close to finding | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
This man was paralysed from the chest down. | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
A cell transplant repaired his spinal cord, a technique surgeons | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
This will be history, this will change history. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
If we succeed, we will find a cure for paralysis. | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
We'll be looking at the long-term implications it could have | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
for three million people who are paralysed. | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
Also tonight: Facebook is set to pay millions more in tax in the UK | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
from next year after criticism and public pressure. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
A bomb disposal robot is sent in after a device explodes under | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Police in Los Angeles carry out tests on a knife apparently found | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
How the 15th century Italian painter has influenced artists and designers | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Andy Murray got | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
Great Britain's Davis Cup title defence off to a winning start | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
against Japan's Daniel but Dan Evans lost against | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
Surgeons in Poland say they could be close to finding | :01:15. | :01:34. | |
Two years ago the team announced that this man - | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
a former fireman who was completely paralysed from the chest down - | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
could walk again after a cell transplant repaired his spinal cord. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Now they're launching a worldwide search for two people whose spinal | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
cords have been completely severed to see if they can reverse paralysis | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh has this exclusive story. | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
He is the paralysed man who walked again. | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
This is Darek Fidyka in 2014, after his regenerative cell | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
transplant, documented by the BBC's Panorama. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Now, a bigger test, to ride this tricycle. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Remember, this is a man who had been completely | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
paralysed below his chest after being stabbed. | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Now, he is relearning how to control his legs, | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
sending commands from his brain down to his muscles, | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
and receiving sensations back, all flowing through his | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
The effort is as much mental as physical. | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
TRANSLATION: If I really think, I can feel each muscle, | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
The brain is very important and I appreciate it | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
plays a crucial role in cycling, or any other exercise I do. | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
The big question now is whether Darek's extraordinary | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
achievements can be repeated in other patients. | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
Only a clinical trial can show whether or not the cell transplant | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
does indeed represent a revolution in the treatment of paralysis, | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
which would make it one of the greatest | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
That's why his surgeon is launching a worldwide search, | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
via a website, for two patients with highly unusual injuries. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Their spinal-cord must be completely severed, | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Help them, and it will silence any doubters. | :03:32. | :03:43. | |
We can prove once and forever that we can repair | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
There would be no speculation if we succeed to reconstruct. | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
This would be history, this will change history. | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
If we succeed, we'll find a cure for paralysis. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
The patients will have one of their olfactory bulbs, | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
at the base of the brain, shown in green, removed. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
It processes the sense of smell, and is the only part of the nervous | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
In a second operation, cells from the | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
bulb will be transplanted into the spinal-cord to provide | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
a pathway for nerve fibres to grow back. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
The patients selected for the trial will | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
undergo intensive physiotherapy, both before and especially | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
In all, they will have to commit to spending three years | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
living at this rehabilitation centre in Poland. | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
The research will be independently assessed by this team | :04:36. | :04:44. | |
They will use equipment like this magnetic stimulator | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
to monitor the patients' neurological pathways | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
As a proof of principle, I'm very excited, because | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
this is a novel treatment that holds a great deal of promise. | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
This would open up hope that an alternative | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
But it is going to take some years to refine it. | :05:05. | :05:16. | |
The treatment will cost ?250,000 per patient, | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
and is being funded by a small British charity set up by a chef, | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
David Nichols, whose son was paralysed in a swimming accident. | :05:25. | :05:35. | |
If the trial is successful, it might mean patients | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
For Darek, the return of muscle control and sensation has brought | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
other improvements, like bladder control and sexual function, | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
which he says are just as crucial to his growing sense of independence. | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Extraordinary, but how long before we know whether it works? It will | :05:49. | :06:11. | |
take a year to search and select those two patients and may be a | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
further two years before we know whether this treatment can reverse | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
paralysis. If surgeons can do this in patients with a severed | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
spinal-cord they will move on to patients with the more common form | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
of compression injury and there are 3 million people in the world who | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
are paralysed and this will only help a small proportion of them. It | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
is expensive and complex, the surgery, and it requires a huge | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
commitment from the patients. That man is nearly four years post | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
transplant and he still undergoes hours of intensive physiotherapy | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
every day, and they are no easy games will stop but even a partial | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
recovery like his will give people hope, that is why this is so | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
important and promising. Thanks for joining us. | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
Facebook is set to pay millions of pounds more in tax in the UK | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
The company - which has global profits of more than ?1 billion | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
every three months - faced heavy criticism | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
after it was revealed that in 2014 - it only paid around ?4,000 | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
The move is likely to put more pressure on the way other | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
multinationals like Google, Amazon and Starbucks pay their tax | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
Here's our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed who broke the story. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
They like to portray themselves as the cuddly social media site, | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
but of course Facebook is a very serious and very profitable | :07:32. | :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. | :07:42. | |
that spend millions of pounds advertising on Facebook. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
Facebook, apparently, have chosen, of their own volition, | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
to change their tax arrangements, and that shows it's possible for any | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
And so to have companies bleating it's not their fault, | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
it's just the international tax laws, that really is not the case. | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
They have the choice about how they set up their tax arrangements. | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
Facebook is one of a number of controversial, often | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Google and Apple have also faced criticism for their tax affairs. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
At present it routes most of its UK sales through Ireland where business | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
taxes are lower and corporation tax there is 12.5% compared | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
And for a global company that makes a significant difference. | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
The company pays a very low amount of tax in the UK, | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
That is less than many people pay in income tax. | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
For a company that globally makes over ?1 billion of profit every | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
three months that has caused controversy. | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
From April Facebook will abandon that structure and start accounting | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
for sales activity in the UK, that is set to increase its tax bill | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
With the first payment made to the Treasury in 2017. | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
That could cheer up this man George Osborne, who has said | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
he would like global multinationals to pay more tax. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Whilst we offer some of the lowest business taxes in the world, | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
we expect those taxes to be paid and not avoided. | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Political pressure was growing on Facebook and the tax | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
There is also the small matter of its often young audience. | :09:24. | :09:33. | |
They may have received criticism and they may have just internally | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
reviewed it and decided, given their position, | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
and their position with millennials and centennials, | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
Given their purpose as a company, they may have thought this | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
is something they should do and they should be congratulated | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
for having made that course of correction. | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
The tax authority HMRC is investigating its tax affairs. | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Put November 2017 in your diary, the date when Facebook | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
will announce its first payment under the new structure. | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
Will it be large enough to put this tax controversy to bed? | :10:10. | :10:26. | |
A prison officer has been seriously injured in Belfast after a bomb | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
Police fear the attack could be the start of a campaign of violence, | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
by dissident Republicans, to mark the forthcoming centenary | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
of the Easter Rising - the rebellion against British rule. | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
Chris Buckler is in Belfast for us tonight. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
There has been widespread condemnation of today's attack but | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
there is also deep concern about further attacks. The police are | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
convinced the dissident Republicans will try to overshadow | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
commemorations for the centenary of the Easter Rising in the most | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
sinister way possible, by attempting to murder soldiers, prison officers | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
and police officers. Members of the security forces are on high alert | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
tonight, and I should warn you my report contains flash photography. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
If 1916 was a year of rebellion, dissident republicans want to make | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
This morning they planted a bomb that exploded under this van, | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
seriously injuring the prison officer who was driving it. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
The police say it was an attempt to murder and they are fearful | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
that this is just the start of a campaign to kill, | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
to coincide with the centenary of Ireland's Easter Rising. | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
When I say I'm deeply concerned, I mean I'm deeply concerned. | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
I believe that there are people within dissident Republican | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
groupings who want to mark the centenary by killing police | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
officers, prison officers or soldiers. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
The Easter Rising was an attempt in Ireland to break away | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
from British rule and is being marked by official events | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
And Irish Republicans are amongst those concerned that dissidents | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
will try to steal attention away from the commemorations | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
There can be no justification for anybody going out with a gun | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
or a bomb against the backdrop of the massive transformation that | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
has taken place in our society over the last 20 years. | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
It is just over three years since another prison officer, | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
David Black, was shot dead as he drove to work, | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
by a group calling itself the New IRA. | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
And there is an ongoing dispute between the prison authorities | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
and dissident republican prisoners at Maghaberry, | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
Northern Ireland's high security prison. | :12:27. | :12:35. | |
We've lost 30 officers in the past through these attacks. | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
It did not change anything within the prisons and this is not | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
going to change anything, attacking prison officers. | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
The police say they have already started to increase security ahead | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
of Easter, a necessary precaution against this rising threat. | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
A heavily pregnant woman has been stabbed in the West Midlands. | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
The victim, who's 40, was airlifted to hospital this | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
afternoon from Sutton Coldfield town centre. | :13:02. | :13:02. | |
Tonight, police say her baby has been delivered safely but the woman | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
A number of passers-by who tried to intervene, | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Our Correspondent, Kathryn Stanchesin reports. | :13:09. | :13:21. | |
A brutal attack in broad daylight. In a side street in Sutton Coldfield | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
town centre, heavily pregnant woman was repeatedly stabbed just yards | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
from a busy shopping centre. As these eyewitness pictures show | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
emergency services were quickly on the scene. Speaking exclusively to | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
the BBC this man gave first aid to the victim. I saw the guy on the | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
floor, being restrained by the police. Try to get involved and then | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
moved towards the woman and tried to trick the woman as best I could. -- | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
treat. I saw lots of blood it was a difficult thing to see. West | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
Midlands Police say members of the public intervened, a brave act in a | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
dangerous situation which left two men with minor injuries. I would | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
like to thanked the individuals of the public who got involved and who | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
have dived into a situation with complete disregard to their safety | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
and their actions should be commended. A 41-year-old man has | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The area remains | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
cordoned off while investigations continue and officers are keen to | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
reassure the public they are not looking for anyone else in | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
connection with the stabbing. The woman remains in a critical | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
condition after giving birth but the baby is reported to be doing well. | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
-- and the baby is reported to be doing well. | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Some of the day's other news stories. | :14:55. | :14:55. | |
Two men from Syria have been jailed for four years in Turkey | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
in connection with the death of the three-year-old Syrian boy | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
who drowned while trying to reach Greece with his family. | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
Aylan Kurdi, seen here on the left, drowned last September and his body | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
It focused the world's attention on the risks facing migrants trying | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
Hundreds of Syrians in rebel-held areas have taken advantage | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
of the current truce to hold small anti-government protests. | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
Demonstrators in parts of Homs, Aleppo, and Damascus called | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
The partial ceasefire came into effect across Syria a week ago. | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
The leader of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood, has criticised | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
the Government for deciding to hold the EU referendum so close | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
to the Welsh Assembly elections in May. | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
She was speaking at the party's annual spring conference and said | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
she supported Britain's membership of the EU. | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
Police in Los Angeles are carrying out DNA testing on a knife | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
said to have been found at the former home of OJ Simpson. | :15:50. | :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. | :15:57. | |
OJ Simpson was cleared of their murders in 1995. | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
Our correspondent James Cook is in Los Angeles. | :16:00. | :16:12. | |
The OJ Simpson trial split the United States, not least along | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
racial lines, Simpson was a famous American football star when he was | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
accused of the murders in Los Angeles, and more than 20 years on, | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
this heartbreaking case is back in the headlines. | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
OJ Simpson, accused of murdering his ex-wife, | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
A bloody glove which did not appear to fit was at the heart of the case. | :16:35. | :16:44. | |
Orenthal James Simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder. | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
As the sport superstar learned his fate in 1995, | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
it felt like the whole world was watching. | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
At first, Simpson had run, fleeing in this white vehicle, | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
with police and paparazzi in hot pursuit. | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
When Simpson's house was demolished in 1998, | :16:57. | :17:06. | |
a knife was reportedly discovered and handed to a police officer, | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
I do not know whether he was retired at the time | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
that he allegedly received this item from the person who claimed | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
they found it on the property, or whether | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
he was still in fact an LAPD officer and retired some time after that. | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
It is being treated as we would all evidence. | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
They are going to study it and examine it for all forensics, | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
including serology and DNA, and hair samples. | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
The law of double jeopardy means OJ Simpson cannot be tried again, | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
He lost the civil case brought by the victims' families, | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
and is now serving 33 years for armed robbery. | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
This extraordinary story, it seems, never ends. | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
Researchers in the United States say they may have found the first | :18:00. | :18:09. | |
evidence that the Zika virus does cause birth defects in babies. | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
which is spreading rapidly in Central and South America, | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
normally only causes mild symptoms in adults. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
But there's growing concern that if pregnant women are infected, | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
their babies can be born with damaged brains. | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
With an unusually small brain, Caroline will never develop | :18:24. | :18:32. | |
She is one of hundreds of babies born in Brazil with the condition | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
It is a terrible outbreak made more worrying because so little is known | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
Last month a doctor at the centre of the crisis showed me | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
The white dots marked damage in the babies' brains. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
She was convinced that the cause was the Zika virus, but establishing | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
So, teams of scientists have been investigating, | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
that key question of whether Zika is to blame. | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
Today the World Health Organisation said it was looking | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
The evidence that there may be a causal relationship has continued | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
to accumulate and as importantly we have not seen the counterfactual. | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
The fact that there is evidence it is due to something else. | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
Other than the fact that the Zika virus is carried by mosquitoes. | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
Because the threat only emerged a few months ago there has not been | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
One study found traces of the virus in the fluid of pregnant women. | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
Another spotted Zika in a handful of babies born with damaged brains | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
So, in a new project, scientists took samples of the virus | :19:44. | :19:55. | |
and applied them to humans stem cells, the kind | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
Within three days, up to 90% of them were infected and damage. | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
This is an important finding but because it involves stem cells | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
in lab conditions, it still is not cast-iron proof. | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
Amid all the anxiety for pregnant women like Jessica in Colombia, | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
Even a very basic question like how the virus could damage | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
It's very important that we do understand why the Zika is causing | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
brain damage or whether it might be due to something else, | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
because we need to try and find a way to address the problem. | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
And try to prevent this rise in microcephaly that is occurring | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
A pregnant woman in Brazil, comforted after hearing | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Zika has sread to more than 50 countries, and scientists are racing | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
to understand what that could mean. | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
Meanwhile, Brazil is having to deal with the biggest corruption scandal | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
It centres on the state-owned oil company and involves | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
Today, police detained the country's former president, | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
He was later released and denies allegations of corruption, | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
as Julia Carneiro reports from Sao Paulo. | :21:09. | :21:18. | |
outside Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's house, chaos. News of his arrest had | :21:19. | :21:31. | |
spread. It was taken to a police station for three hours of | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
questioning, the claims he and his family had benefited from illegal | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
payments. -- over claims. We are looking at evidence that the former | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
president and his family received advantages payments. We are still at | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
the investigation stage but we have found no plausible motivation for | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
these payments. After being released, he was given to the | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
headquarters of the governing workers party and he denied any | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
wrongdoing. TRANSLATION: I've been hurt, I feel offended, I did not | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
need this, I feel outraged as if I was a prisoner, but if they have | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
tried to get me they had not succeeded. These corruption | :22:16. | :22:25. | |
investigations have dominated Brazil for months, but the brief detention | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
of the former president signals a new phase and increases the danger | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
for his prodigy president Dilma Rousseff, and for the future of the | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
workers party. At the heart of the detention lies a scandal involving | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
the state run petrol company. It involves overpriced contracts. | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
Prosecutors say they have significant evidence that the former | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
president benefited from the scheme and his not-for-profit organisation | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
is under the spotlight. During his 80 is as president he was the face | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
of the Brazilian boom. -- his eight years. His detention today is a | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
significant moment. When such a moment is involved in a criminal | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
investigation it sends a message to the whole country, that nobody is | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
above the law in Brazil. Today's development increases the pressure | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
on the president Dilma Rousseff, already presiding over a failing | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
economy, the fact that her predecessor, the symbol of her party | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
was brought in by police today makes this a very dangerous moment for | :23:36. | :23:36. | |
her. There's been a wintry start | :23:37. | :24:07. | |
to spring to large parts of northern England - with heavy snowfall | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
causing travel disruption Yorkshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
were worst affected - with more than a hundred | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
schools closed. Forecasters are warning of more | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
cold weather to come. Leeds-Bradford Airport was forced | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
to suspend all flights earlier this He's recognised as one | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
of the greatest Renaissance artists. Tomorrow the paintings and drawings | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
of Sandro Botticelli go on display in the largest show | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
of its kind in the UK. But the exhibition | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
comes with a twist. His masterpieces will | :24:33. | :24:33. | |
appear alongside works of modern art, design, fashion | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
and film, all inspired by him. Will Gompertz has | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
been to take a look. The Birth of Venus, one of the most | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
iconic images in art, instantly recognisable and much | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
copied, by the likes of Andy Warhol, David LaChapelle, Dolce and Gabbana, | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
and anyone fancying a go The only snag is that the original | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
masterpiece by Botticelli It hasn't left Italy | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
since the 1930s, when Mussolini sent it out on tour as part | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
of a charm offensive. But the good news is that | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
Venus has made the trip. It is thought that | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
Botticelli painted these two near identical Venuses | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
after his famous original It's also thought he had a little | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
help from from friends. One of the problems with Botticelli | :25:19. | :25:28. | |
is that he had a large workshop full of young artists who would paint | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
paintings to his designs. Which begs the question, how can | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
you tell which are by a master To answer that question I have | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
tracked down the show's curator, This is one of the masterpieces | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
of the exhibition. It's an absolutely beautiful | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
painting by Botticelli The execution of the drapery, | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
the landscape, of this still life here, everything is | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
absolutely exquisite And this quality speaks | :25:54. | :25:54. | |
for a Botticelli authenticity. These portraits are | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
a highlight of the show. Seeing them makes the fact that | :26:05. | :26:06. | |
Botticelli was largely forgotten for hundreds of years | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
all the more baffling. He was, in part, rediscovered | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
by the Victorians, most notably the Pre-Raphaelite | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
brotherhood, artists such as Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
and their friend William Morris. They admired the simplicity | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
of Botticelli's line Rossetti even went as far as buying | :26:21. | :26:21. | |
one of his paintings to which, it is said, he added | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
a touch or two of his own. There are many works in this show | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
echoing and emulating Botticelli but none really stand comparison | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
with the paintings produced by this | :26:33. | :26:36. |