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This is BBC World News Today with me Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
A crackdown on the buying and selling of people - | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
the BBC gets exclusive access to a Spanish police raid aimed | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
at breaking a European human trafficking ring. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
The criminal gangs have trafficked thousands and forced hundreds | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
of women into prostitution through intimidation and violence. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
TRANSLATION: I have scars all over my body. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
and beat me until blood came from my ears. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
One day, when she came for the money, I couldn't pay. | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Greece is warned to carry out proper checks on migrants, | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
of "serious neglect" of its obligations. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
The race to find a vaccine against the zika virus - | :00:47. | :00:58. | |
we're with the American scientists taking on the challenge. | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
And the art of gardening - we'll brush up on the Royal | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Academy's new blockbuster exhibition with its curator. | :01:04. | :01:21. | |
We start with a special BBC report on what's believed to be one | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
of the biggest human trafficking rings in Europe. | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
Organised criminals, from Nigeria, have trafficked hundreds | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
The group is still being investigated - | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
and the BBC was asked to delay broadcasting this story to ensure | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
the safety of the women giving evidence in court. | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
The gangs are increasingly using British airports as a gateway | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
into Europe, according to the Spanish police, | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
who've given the BBC exclusive access to one of their raids. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
the city of dreams, standing proud, | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
with its rich heritage and architectural jewels. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
But after night fall, in the back streets, | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
This is where undercover police have been monitoring a trafficking ring | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
and its victims, watching every move. | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
We joined the assault teams as they prepared to strike | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
at locations in Barcelona and several cities nearby. | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Around 250 officers taking part in the biggest operation yet | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
who call themselves The Heir Lords. | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
Around 8am, they close in on an apartment block. | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
hunting for one of the targets on their list. | :02:44. | :02:56. | |
Well, the police are inside now, questioning suspects. | :02:57. | :03:10. | |
While they were carrying out the raid here, more than 20 other | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
buildings were being hit simultaneously. | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
This has been a long time in the planning. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
The investigation into this criminal network began a year-and-a-half ago. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Police detained the group's main leaders | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
and gathered evidence of their lucrative slave trade. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
The gang charges its victims about ?28,000 to get to Spain, | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
then forces them into prostitution to pay off the debt. | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
Police say those arrested are part of a sophisticated criminal | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
enterprise that spans the globe, with representatives | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
in cities in the Middle East, Africa, the US and the EU. | :03:54. | :04:04. | |
The head of the Anti-Trafficking Unit told us a key figure | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
is based in London, bringing women into the UK | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
He says the gang is looking more and more to Britain | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
One of the main new ways to enter victims | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
is through the airports of Great Britain. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
It's a different system to traffic people and it needs always forgeries | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
and is more expensive, but is more secure and we have | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
Here, in downtown Barcelona, the Nigerians are believed to have | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
made millions from women working the streets in the shadows. | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
Here, in downtown Barcelona, the Nigerians are believed to have | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
made millions from women working the streets in the shadows. | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
They are kept in line by threats to their families back home | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
and by physical abuse from Madames, who act as enforcers. | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
We met one young woman who was trafficked from Nigeria | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
She says she and her child were brutalised by her Madame. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
TRANSLATION: I have scars all over my body. | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
and beat me until blood came from my ears. | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
One day, when she came for the money, I couldn't pay. | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
She hit me on the head with a bottle. | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
Police hope more women will be able to escape the streets here now | :05:26. | :05:36. | |
the Nigerian traffickers have been rounded up, | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
but they say their barbaric trade in human beings will continue | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
Orla Guerin, BBC News, Barcelona. | :05:43. | :06:02. | |
We're taking you live to the US state of Oregon now - | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
where a man has been killed during a shoot-out at a wildlife | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
reserve, which had been occupied by an armed militia group. | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
The authorities are giving some more details, let's listen in to the FBI. | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
As I conclude, I want to share my promise to the citizens of this | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
county, to the people who live here, who work here, or are raising their | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
families here. We will continue to look for safe, peaceful procedures | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
at how to bring this to a peaceful conclusion. We recognise that the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
sooner we do so at this and that this community can begin to heal. | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
Thank you. Good morning, I am the US attorney | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
for the district of Oregon, I have been coming to this kindly for the | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
last 15 years on behalf of the US attorney's offers, for various | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
work-related responsibilities, and through that time I am keenly aware | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
of the concerns important to this community. I have seen first-hand | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
the Passion in this community. The passion that has followed suite of | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
life. Clearly this has been disrupted by the armed occupation. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
The FBI, Hardin County Sheriff offers, the sheriffs Association and | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
numerous law enforcement agencies from around the state have been | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
working hard to resolve the situation in a peaceful manner. To | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
stop the threats to public safety and in the significant disruption | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
this has caused to the people of Hardin County. We continue working | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
towards resolution, and we will do so with the primary goal to restore | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
normalcy to the community and highlight the already existing | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
cooperative efforts of local and federal partners in this county to | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
address their own issues, both locally, federally and state. There | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
are currently eight people in custody, seven in Oregon, one in | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Arizona, with the initial appearances here in Oregon. That | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
will be at some in the that the defendant in Arizona will come to | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Oregon for future court proceedings. As was announced last night on | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
behalf of the FBI, these eight people were arrested for the | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
conspiracy to impede officers of the United States from discharging their | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
official duties through the use of force, intimidation or threats. This | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
is an ongoing investigation and they will not be commenting on the case. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Instead we will let the publicly filed documents in the case speak | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
for themselves. In closing, I want to thank the federal state, local | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
and tribal law enforcement officers and agents, who are working well | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
together to support this community in this effort. I want to thank the | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
people of the county, and the local tribe, for their patience and | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
passion for returning this community to normalcy. We will work around the | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
clock until this matter is appropriately resolved. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Let's cross to Jane O'Brien in the Washington studio. | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
I suppose you can tell the authorities do not want things to | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
fill up and to come down the situation with this militia? And | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
that is why it has taken three weeks and the occupiers are still at this | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
bird sanctuary. You have the FBI agent in charge of the operation | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
there saying that last night's arrests was the first step in what | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
was very measured deliberate response in an attempt to resolve | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
this peacefully. They have been working very hard to avoid just the | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
sort of which unfortunately happened last night, when it people were | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
arrested, and one occupier was killed. The FBI is not releasing | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
further details of the circumstances. There is a criminal | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
investigation ongoing. He said there will be some details when the | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
victim, when the protester, has been identified. But we do it now, | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
because he has been identified by his daughter, that the dead man is | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
"LaVoy" Finicum, one of the occupiers, and a very passionate man | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
by all accounts. There have been a number of conflicting accounts that | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
have been given by people who claim to be eyewitnesses. I will not | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
repeat any of them here because we cannot substantiate them. But | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
clearly, this is a very inflamed situation now. The FBI have quite a | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
job on their hands. Thank you for that update. | :10:56. | :11:07. | |
The European commission has accused Greece of "seriously neglecting" | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
its duties by failing to control its borders. | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
It says Athens has failed to properly register, | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
fingerprint and check the identities of migrants arriving in Greece. | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
Our Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas is in Brussels. | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
The Greek government's response has been that it simply cannot turn back | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
boats that are at sea, that would be illegal | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
It can't try to push people back towards Turkey. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
It has to receive them on its shores. | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
And we've heard the Greek government saying that what it needs is greater | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
help from its European partners, and greater assistance from Turkey, | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
if it is to both stop the boats coming and return quickly those | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
who are not deemed to be in need of international protection, | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
so people who are not refugees fleeing war zones. | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
But all of those things are proving problematic and so, | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
in a way, Grease I think feels that it's being caught very much | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
in the middle in this and has to accept people, | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
who then are moving on to the rest of Europe, which is causing problems | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
there for European countries seeking to try to limit those numbers. | :12:05. | :12:17. | |
In France, evidence of tension at the top of government about | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
anti-terrorism policies. French Justice Minister, | :12:24. | :12:24. | |
Christiane Taubira, has stepped down in protest at her own government's | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
plan to strip people convicted TRANSLATION: I am leaving | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
the government I am choosing to be faithful | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
to myself, my commitments, my battles, my | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
relationships with others. The terrorist threat | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
is serious and unpredictable, We have given ourselves | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
a means to do so. And we are determined | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
to put it down. But in doing so, we cannot | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
conceive them any victory, President Obama is calling | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
for urgent action to combat the Zika virus, which has been | :13:00. | :13:09. | |
linked to brain damage in babies. The World Health Organisation's | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
warning the virus is likely to spread to most countries | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
in the Americas, including Our correspondent James Cook sent | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
this report from the University of Texas, where medical researchers | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
are leading the search It is the latest virus to send | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
shivers around the world. There is no vaccine | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
for Zika, no treatment. And in the past few months, | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
it has been spreading fast to more than 20 countries in | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
the Caribbean and Latin America. Last year, when it reached Brazil, | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
it really exploded in the Americas infecting probably a couple | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
of million people at this point. And should people be frightened, | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
especially pregnant women? If I had a daughter of child-bearing | :13:51. | :13:52. | |
age, who was planning a spring break vacation to the Caribbean | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
in the next few months, I would strongly urge her | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
not to go there at this point. These young mothers in Brazil | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
did not have that choice. The Zika virus apparently attacks | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
the brains of unborn children, leading to severe | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
disability or death. And so, scientists from this | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
high-security lab in Texas have been gathering samples | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
in Brazil to find out more. Which animals does it infect? | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
How long does it stay in a human? Are particular mosquitoes | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
that we have positive And so, right now, we're really | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
at the beginning stages and this is the forefront of the work | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
that you're seeing us doing. The ultimate aim is | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
to produce a vaccine. Although that work has only just | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
begun, scientists here say they could have one ready | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
for testing next year. But winning approval from regulators | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
could take much longer. Developing an effective vaccine, | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
it would take a short period of time, but it would take a longer | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
time would be the process of passing it through the FDA and other | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
regulatory agencies And working with insects, | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
which can carry such a dangerous There are around 15,000 mosquitoes | :15:04. | :15:15. | |
in this room from a dozen different countries and they are kept under | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
very tight security conditions to make sure that none | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
of them can escape. The Aedes aegypti mosquito passes | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
the virus from person to person, but people carry it | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
from country to country, meaning Zika could spread | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
anywhere the insects are present, including right here | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
in the southern United States. James Cook, BBC News, | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
Galveston in Texas. The Republican presidential | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
front-runner Donald Trump has pulled out of Thursday's TV debate | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
with his party rivals, just days before voters | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
in the midwest state of Iowa get the first chance | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
to choose between them. The debate is being broadcast | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
by Fox News and moderated by Megyn Kelly, whose questioning | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
during a debate in August He said he was planning | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
to participate until Fox put out a sarcastic statement saying | :16:09. | :16:22. | |
"the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
when they meet with him We will raise some money | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
for the wounded warriors. We will raise some | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
money for the vets. But when they sent out the wise guy | :16:33. | :16:33. | |
press releases a little while ago, I was all set to do the debate. | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
I came here to do the debate. Megyn Kelly is a lightweight. | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
This is a lightweight! This is not a reporter. | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
This to me is just a lightweight. Megyn Kelly shouldn't | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
be in the debate. Megyn Kelly didn't ask me | :16:47. | :16:47. | |
a question, she made a statement last time. | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
I thought it was inappropriate. Everybody said I won | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
the last debate. They said I won all of the debates. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
We had six debates now. Why should the networks continue | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
getting rich in these debates? Following Trump's unexpected | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
boycott, his closest rival, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, challenged | :17:10. | :17:10. | |
him to a one-on-one debate. This race is a dead heat | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
between Donald and me - we are effectively tied | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
in the state of Iowa. If he is unwilling to stand | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
on the debate stage with the other candidates, I would like to invite | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
Donald right now to engage in a one-on-one debate with me | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
any time between now Our correspondent Barbara | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
Plett-Usher is in Washington, and gave us her analysis | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
of Donald Trump's latest move. In the past year or so, | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
he has taken rather sudden and unexpected decisions at crucial | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
times in the campaign and they have always worked to his advantage, | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
so perhaps that is what It has to be said also that, | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
despite his stated anger against Megyn Kelly, | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
the Fox News anchor, and against the network, | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
this kind of position is quite They like it when he stands up | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
to the political and media elite, even if that media elite | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
is Fox News, which many So it's an interesting | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
move at a crucial time. Does it look, Barbara, | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
as if Donald Trump has the clear lead still in Iowa | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
and New Hampshire after that? Well, he doesn't have | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
a clear lead in Iowa. He leads the Republican | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
nominees nationally, but in Iowa, he is neck | :18:31. | :18:31. | |
and neck with Ted Cruz, who you heard in that | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
clip just a minute ago. In terms of his position | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
following this move, it's unlikely it will impact | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
negatively on his supporters. He has a very strong core | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
network of supporters who, as I said, like these positions, | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
so he's still going into Iowa very strong and perhaps | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
New Hampshire as well. I think the question will become | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
more, if he does get to a general election, when he has to face | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
a general electorate rather than a Republican one, | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
whether these kinds of positions and, remember, this whole fight | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
with Fox is about how he treated the anchor, Megyn Kelly, | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
so it can move on from there, with how he treats women, how that | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
would play to a general electorate. British Prime Minister David Cameron | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
has today defended a tax deal struck Last week, Google announced | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
that it is to pay ?130 million, or $185 million, | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
in back taxes to Britain following a government inquiry | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
into its tax arrangements. Critics have claimed that amounts | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
to a tax rate of just 3%. The BBC's Political Editor | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
Laura Kuennesburg explains. How much tax should | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
big companies pay? A rather well-known one, | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
many of us use every day, paid ?130 million in tax | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
to cover the last ten years. It sounds like a lot, but when, | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
in just one of those years, sales in the UK were more than | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
4.5 billion, it doesn't seem quite That's what Jeremy Corbyn thinks, | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
in any case. Many people going to their HMRC | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
offices, or returning them online this week, will say this - | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
why is there one rule for big multinational companies and another | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
for ordinary small businesses The Prime Minister | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
tried to tough it out. When I came to power, | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
banks didn't pay tax on all their profits, | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
allowed under Labour, Investment companies | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
could stop their tax bill by flipping the currency | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
their accounts were in, allowed under Labour, | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
stopped under the Tories. Companies could fiddle accounting | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
rules to make companies pay out of thin air allowed under Labour, | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
stopped under the Tories. But it's a gift for this bench, | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
because for years, that front bench have been among politicians keen | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
to praise Google's success. And when the firm announced, | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
after nine years of negotiations, they were finally going to cough up, | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
the Chancellor claimed Labour is asking the National Audit | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
Office to investigate Google. But remember, there's no suggestion | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
they've broken the law. Big companies' tax bills aren't just | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
calculated by WHERE they do business, but by the KIND | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
OF BUSINESS they do in each country. Ministers have already changed | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
the law to make it harder The government's careful to point | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
out that the deal with Google was brokered by the taxman at HMRC, | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
not a deal that was done in backrooms by | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
ministers themselves. But this is simply too tempting | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
a political attack They'll use every chance | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
to embarrass the government There've been awkward conversations | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
about other big brands. Dozens of countries have signed up | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
today to tighten the rules, but that won't shut down | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
the debate here about Laura Kuennesburg, | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
BBC News, Westminster. Now, it promises to be one | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
of the biggest draws in the London On Saturday, the Royal Academy | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
opens its doors for Painting the Modern Garden: | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
Monet to Matisse. The show will include a monumental | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
Monet never shown in public in Europe before - | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
a depiction of water lilies that spreads across three canvasses | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
and is 12 metres long. It's also an exhibition that | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
reflects on the way artists reacted to the traumas | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
of the First World War With me is Ann Dumas, | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
the curator of the exhibition. If we talk first about, I don't know | :22:23. | :22:37. | |
if it is the centrepiece, but these extraordinary water lilies. We are | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
used to Monet and water lilies but not on this scale. No, this triptych | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
is the climax of the exhibition, including late works by Monet, but | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
not quite on that scale, related to a whole series of works that | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
preoccupied him for the last ten years of his life, from around | :23:00. | :23:09. | |
1915-1926. And do you feel immersed when you walk into this? Yes, and | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
that was the idea, this enveloping Panorama, so the viewer would be, | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
almost as if they were sitting by the water lily pond, looking at the | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
reflections of the sky in the water, just being surrounded by the whole | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
environment. We do associate Monet with gardens in particular but his | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
vision often self, that dual identity? Very much so, his passions | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
were creating a garden and, of course, the wonderful now famous | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
garden in France, and being a painter, and the two were completely | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
intertwined, a total symbiosis between the two. One of the pictures | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
you have shown is that Renoir of Monet. The artist at work. Yes, this | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
is Monet painting his first garden, well before he painted water lilies. | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
We have rainwater painting the painting -- we have Renoir painting | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
this. It is lovely to make these connections. And another connection | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
you make in the exhibition is you have the beauty and the piece, | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
tranquillity of gardens, but you think about what is happening around | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
them, especially with the first bottled water? Yes, particularly | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
true of Monet. When we look at his great water lily paintings, they are | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
so much about peace and harmony and beauty, that you don't really think | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
this is anything to do with the first bottle of water. But we know | :24:48. | :24:58. | |
from letters by Monet that he was deeply affected by the First World | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
War. Both his son and stepson were fighting in it. He was not so far | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
from the area of conflict and could hear gunfire. And at one point his | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
son came from leave, and Monet felt pangs of guilt and conscious that | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
people got so far away were being killed and he is in his garden or | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
studio painting. -- guilt and conscience. But he said painting is | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
what he does and saw it as his patriotic, almost sort of war | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
effort, his contribution, and immediately after the Armistice in | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
1918, he donated two large canvases to the French state, and the idea | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
evolved in connection with the French Prime Minister, a great | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
friend of Monet, and eventually two big cycles were installed in Paris, | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
where they are today. We will have to leave it there, Ann Dumas, thank | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
you very much, obviously a fantastic exhibition. Thank you for being with | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
A cold night to come, but it means tomorrow morning | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
will be a cold but bright start with some frost around but some | :26:08. | :26:11. |