:00:04. > :00:07.President Obama calls the shooting of 16 Afghan civilians by an
:00:07. > :00:13.American soldier heartbreaking, but says it underlines the need to
:00:13. > :00:16.bring US troops home. As more details emerge about the
:00:16. > :00:24.shootings, he insists he will stick to the schedule for the US to
:00:24. > :00:29.withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014. It makes me more determined to make
:00:29. > :00:35.sure we are getting our troops home. It is time, it has been a decade,
:00:35. > :00:38.and frankly now that we have got Bin Laden, we are in a stronger
:00:38. > :00:41.position. As David Cameron prepares to fly to
:00:41. > :00:44.Washington tomorrow for talks with the president, we will be assessing
:00:44. > :00:48.the increasing strain on relations between Afghans and Western forces.
:00:48. > :00:52.Also tonight: Paralysed by a stroke. The severely disabled man who wants
:00:52. > :00:58.a doctor to kill him wins his battle to take his case to the High
:00:58. > :01:02.Court. In him ideal world, what he would like is for me to give him a
:01:02. > :01:05.sedative so that we can be with him and he can go to sleep, and then
:01:05. > :01:08.for a doctor to come and end his life at.
:01:08. > :01:11.Hosepipe bans come into force in less than a month across parts of
:01:11. > :01:18.southern and eastern England with warnings the drought could spread.
:01:19. > :01:23.Israeli air raids kill six more in Gaza, bringing the death toll to 25.
:01:23. > :01:28.Israel says it is only striking back at militants to of firing
:01:28. > :01:31.rockets out of Gaza but inevitably, that isn't the way things work, and
:01:31. > :01:33.last night, one of their missiles hit this house.
:01:33. > :01:39.And a helping hand onto the property ladder. The new-build
:01:39. > :01:44.properties that can be bought with just a 5% deposit.
:01:44. > :01:49.Coming up on the BBC news channel: A boost for the Cheltenham Festival.
:01:49. > :01:59.Kauto Star is fit to race and will go for a third Gold Cup victory on
:01:59. > :02:07.
:02:07. > :02:10.Good evening. President Obama has called the shooting of 16 Afghan
:02:10. > :02:13.civilians by an American soldier heartbreaking but he says its makes
:02:13. > :02:19.him more determined to get US troops home after more than a
:02:19. > :02:24.decade in Afghanistan. He has insisted that the killings will not
:02:24. > :02:27.affect US strategy or the timing of the withdrawal. Tomorrow the Prime
:02:27. > :02:30.Minister flies to Washington, where he will hold talks with President
:02:30. > :02:38.Obama about plans for America and Britain to hand over to Afghan
:02:38. > :02:43.forces in 2014. Our world affairs editor John Simpson reports.
:02:43. > :02:47.In Kandahar and the rest of Afghanistan, there has been an
:02:47. > :02:52.uneasy silence, while people see what happens to the unnamed
:02:52. > :02:57.American soldier who carried out this massacre, shooting children in
:02:57. > :03:02.the head and beating and killing women. Most Afghans seem to want
:03:02. > :03:08.him handed over to Afghan justice. It won't happen.
:03:08. > :03:13.TRANSLATION: I personally feel very sad. Even I am ready to go to the
:03:13. > :03:18.side of the Taliban to fight Against these foreigners. President
:03:18. > :03:22.Obama knows an apology isn't enough, but he got on -- straight on to
:03:23. > :03:27.President Karzai to try to limit the damage. It will not be easy.
:03:27. > :03:32.The massacre came just as the protests over the burning of the
:03:32. > :03:37.Koran at a big American airbase were starting to die down. In
:03:37. > :03:41.January, these pictures emerged of American soldiers urinating on the
:03:41. > :03:46.bodies of dead Afghans. The massacre is far worse. It is
:03:46. > :03:54.already causing nervousness in Washington. We recognise that an
:03:54. > :04:00.incident like this is inexplicable and will certainly cause many
:04:00. > :04:06.questions to be asked. One such question: We'll President Obama
:04:06. > :04:12.managed to get President Karzai to a Greek about NATO's role in
:04:12. > :04:19.Afghanistan after the combat troops leave -- get President Karzai to
:04:19. > :04:24.agree. If he does not get this, the pull-out could look like a defeat,
:04:24. > :04:28.uncomfortably reminiscent of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
:04:28. > :04:34.back in 1989. In previous American wars, massacres like this have had
:04:34. > :04:40.a bigger effect on public opinion back home. My Lai in the Vietnam
:04:40. > :04:44.war, Haditha and others in the Iraq war. Before this latest massacre,
:04:44. > :04:48.American polls indicated that well over 50% of people wanted the
:04:48. > :04:54.troops pulled out quickly. To night President Obama said he shared that
:04:54. > :04:59.view. It makes me more determined to get our troops home. It is time,
:04:59. > :05:04.it has been a decade, and now that we have got Bin Laden and weakened
:05:04. > :05:10.Al-Qaeda, we are in a stronger position than we were three years
:05:10. > :05:15.ago. As a Briton, an opinion poll tonight suggests that 73% of people
:05:15. > :05:20.want a withdrawal -- as for Britain. David Cameron says the British
:05:20. > :05:24.troops still have a job to do. are there to train up the Afghan
:05:24. > :05:29.army and police so that the country is able to look after its own
:05:29. > :05:33.security, it to make sure it is not a haven for terrorists without
:05:33. > :05:36.having foreign troops on its soil. Britain will have to take account
:05:36. > :05:40.of whatever the Americans do, but with France possibly pulling its
:05:41. > :05:45.troops out by the end of this year, and public opinion in the West
:05:45. > :05:52.hardening, withdrawal is likely sooner rather than later, with it
:05:52. > :05:55.looks like a defeat or not. -- whether it looks like.
:05:55. > :05:59.Our political editor is in Downing Street and will be travelling with
:05:59. > :06:03.the Prime Minister to Washington. His Afghanistan going to dominate
:06:03. > :06:07.the talks? These talks were scheduled a long
:06:07. > :06:11.time ago and are nothing to do with the latest incident, but they have
:06:11. > :06:15.ensured that Afghanistan has gone right to the top of the agenda. In
:06:15. > :06:19.public, you are hearing the Prime Minister and President saying the
:06:19. > :06:24.same thing, and no doubt they will in Washington. We have a good plan,
:06:24. > :06:29.we shall stick to the plan. The plan says that the combat role of
:06:29. > :06:34.troops will come to an end some time, yet to be defined, in 2013
:06:34. > :06:38.and troops will start to withdraw in large numbers by the end of 2014,
:06:38. > :06:43.but what they will have to discuss tomorrow is whether that is still
:06:43. > :06:48.practical. How to sell it to a sceptical electorate. And just as
:06:48. > :06:53.importantly, what on earth they do to the mounting hostility of
:06:53. > :06:58.another Electorate: The Afghan one. How important is this trip for
:06:58. > :07:02.David Cameron? It is important because impart the
:07:02. > :07:06.symbolism of what everybody insists we must still call the special
:07:06. > :07:10.relationship is so important to any prime minister. Tomorrow, some will
:07:10. > :07:12.raise the doubts as to whether it is as special as ever and the
:07:12. > :07:22.president and the Prime Minister will try to answer that in pictures
:07:22. > :07:26.and words. The Prime Minister will be the first world leader welcomed
:07:26. > :07:32.on Air Force One, to sit and watch a baseball game, the President's
:07:32. > :07:36.favourite. But they are doing that not just because the images matter
:07:36. > :07:42.but because this year, they need each other. Not just because of
:07:42. > :07:45.Afghanistan, not just because of Syria, but also because in private
:07:45. > :07:50.they will ask each other a question: Could this be the year
:07:50. > :07:53.that there is a war between Israel and Iran?
:07:54. > :07:58.A severely disabled man who wants a doctor to be able to kill him
:07:58. > :08:02.legally has won the right to have his case heard in the High Court.
:08:02. > :08:06.Tony Nicklinson has been paralysed from the neck down since he had a
:08:06. > :08:11.stroke in 2005. He can't speak but his mind is unaffected. He says his
:08:11. > :08:19.life is intolerable and he wants to be able to end it. Fergus Walsh
:08:19. > :08:24.reports. Letter?
:08:24. > :08:29.His mind is intact but Tony Nicklinson cannot talk. He is
:08:29. > :08:33.paralysed from the neck down. He communicates with his wife, Jane,
:08:33. > :08:37.by head movements and blinking. Today a judge ruled that the court
:08:37. > :08:42.should hear his plea that a doctor be allowed to kill him when he so
:08:42. > :08:46.wishes. He says, I am delighted that the issues surrounding
:08:46. > :08:50.assisted dying are to be aired in court. Politicians and others can
:08:50. > :08:56.hardly complain about the courts providing a forum for debate if the
:08:56. > :09:00.politicians continue to ignore one of the most important topics. It is
:09:01. > :09:06.no longer acceptable for twentieth- century medicine to be governed by
:09:06. > :09:09.twentieth-century attitudes to death. This takes the law on
:09:09. > :09:13.assisted dying way beyond current boundaries and the Ministry of
:09:13. > :09:17.Justice says it is Parliament and not the courts that should decide.
:09:17. > :09:22.At present, any doctor who gave a lethal dose, even with the aim of
:09:22. > :09:27.ending suffering, would be charged with murder. It is that law which
:09:27. > :09:31.Tony Nicklinson is challenging. The judge said the courts were being
:09:31. > :09:37.asked to cross the Rubicon, which separates the care of patients on
:09:37. > :09:42.one side and euthanasia on the other. The courts have intervened
:09:42. > :09:46.in end of life decisions before. Tony Bland, crashed in the
:09:46. > :09:51.Hillsborough disaster and left in a vegetative state, was allowed to
:09:51. > :09:54.die after judges ruled it was in his best interests. The courts
:09:54. > :10:02.ordered conjoined twins at Great Ormond Street Hospital to be
:10:02. > :10:06.separated, despite knowing it would mean one would die. But this doctor
:10:06. > :10:12.who specialises in the care of terminally ill patients is deeply
:10:12. > :10:15.worried about this attempt to permit euthanasia. My concern is
:10:15. > :10:19.that by setting a precedent, it would fundamentally change the
:10:19. > :10:23.relationship between doctors and patients and an expectation that we
:10:23. > :10:29.are able to deliver something that currently within the 0 we cannot
:10:29. > :10:32.deliver, namely to actively kill our patients -- within the law.
:10:32. > :10:36.law on assisted dying was successfully challenged by Debbie
:10:36. > :10:41.Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis and wanted protection for her
:10:41. > :10:45.husband if he took her to a Swiss research organisation. Tony
:10:45. > :10:50.Nicklinson has even few options and could take his own life only by
:10:50. > :10:56.refusing food. Starvation is a horrible way to go and Switzerland
:10:56. > :11:00.is not what he wants, so this is his only way out really. The judge
:11:00. > :11:07.said Tony Nicklinson's case raised questions of great social, ethical
:11:07. > :11:10.and religious significance, which will now be fully aired in court.
:11:10. > :11:15.Hosepipe bans are to be brought in across south and eastern England in
:11:15. > :11:18.less than a month's time. Some areas are experiencing the worst
:11:18. > :11:22.conditions for over 30 years after two unusually dry winters have left
:11:22. > :11:24.reservoirs well below normal levels and land cracked and parched. Seven
:11:24. > :11:32.water companies will introduce water restrictions, five of them
:11:32. > :11:39.from April the 5th. Jeremy Cooke reports.
:11:39. > :11:43.Early spring. The reservoir should be full. Instead, two extremely dry
:11:43. > :11:48.winters have left many English water regions high and dry.
:11:48. > :11:55.Hosepipe bans on the way, truly exceptional conditions. This is
:11:55. > :12:00.very similar to the situation in 1976. In February 1976, the ground
:12:00. > :12:06.level, reservoir and river levels now on lower than they were then.
:12:06. > :12:11.It is serious but a situation that we have planned for. Which water
:12:11. > :12:21.companies will impose restrictions? They range from Anglian Water to
:12:21. > :12:27.
:12:27. > :12:33.I have never seen it... Water restrictions will not only affect
:12:33. > :12:39.farmers. Gardeners are also suffering. This man is putting less
:12:40. > :12:44.crops in the area. We only had 60% of our crops and the problem is
:12:44. > :12:50.getting bigger and bigger. It is a real big concern in East Anglia at
:12:50. > :12:54.the moment. Monitoring it, the Environment Agency, which says that
:12:54. > :13:00.unless there is serious brain soon, the drop zone could extend be on
:13:00. > :13:03.south and eastern England and stretch as far as Wiltshire and
:13:03. > :13:09.Shropshire. Across you'd suedes of England, rivers are now worryingly
:13:09. > :13:15.low. -- across huge swathes of England. What we are looking at
:13:15. > :13:19.these levels more likely to be seen in the middle of a dry summer.
:13:19. > :13:22.of England is at drought or at higher risk of drought and that is
:13:22. > :13:26.why we are working with water companies and others to make sure
:13:26. > :13:30.that we balance the needs and use water in the wisest way possible
:13:30. > :13:34.and the most efficient way possible, and that we protect the environment
:13:35. > :13:39.at the same time. Water levels are now so low that even if there is
:13:39. > :13:48.rain, the hosepipe bans that come into force on April fifth are
:13:48. > :13:51.likely to remain true about the summer. -- throughout the summer.
:13:51. > :13:53.Droughts have become a regular occurrence in some parts of Britain
:13:53. > :14:03.while water levels have remained abundant in others. So what options
:14:03. > :14:05.
:14:05. > :14:10.are there for preventing water We have this assessment. Go dry
:14:10. > :14:13.winters in a row, the result, revoyeurs running low, drought
:14:13. > :14:21.conditions that could last months and may be more common in the years
:14:21. > :14:27.ahead. So, what should Britain do? One solution is trafring water from
:14:27. > :14:31.north to south -- transferring water from north to south. A
:14:31. > :14:35.national water grid could supply a drier England. The Scottish
:14:35. > :14:41.Government like the idea. We have massive resources and we are
:14:41. > :14:47.willing to help those resources to help the south-east of England
:14:47. > :14:52.solve its water shortage. But could this work? This map was
:14:52. > :14:57.drawn up 40 years ago, but deemed to expensive, nothing has changed
:14:57. > :15:02.since. It cost as lot of money to move
:15:02. > :15:06.water long distances, the viewers know that water is heavy.
:15:06. > :15:13.It is expensive to be pumped. More likely are cheaper local
:15:13. > :15:19.schemes, this canal bringing water to the Severn to the River Thames.
:15:19. > :15:23.Another is to build more reservoirs, this is one in Essex, but it took
:15:23. > :15:28.years to get off the ground and Thames Water failed to get
:15:28. > :15:32.permission for a new reservoir near Oxford, but there will be pressure
:15:32. > :15:36.for more. More reservoirs, ministers have
:15:36. > :15:40.accepted that, but there are all sorts of things, metering, asking
:15:40. > :15:44.people to use less it could be part of the overall solution in the
:15:44. > :15:48.future. Desalation is a third possibility. Thames Water has built
:15:48. > :15:53.a plant to make salty water drinkable, but the costs much
:15:53. > :15:59.running it are high. All of the options require investment over a
:15:59. > :16:03.long period. That is never easy, the water is divided up between the
:16:03. > :16:06.privatised companies, so who pays? Regions that need the water or
:16:06. > :16:12.everyone? Which leaves another possibility that we are all just
:16:12. > :16:16.more careful about how much we use. That is one of the aims of today's
:16:16. > :16:20.warning, to encourage people to use less water to. Buy a little time to
:16:20. > :16:24.work out what to do. In Syria, opposition groups have
:16:24. > :16:29.accused Government forces of killing up to 47 people in the city
:16:29. > :16:33.of Homs in what they have called a cold-blooded massacre. State
:16:33. > :16:37.division blamed the latest deaths, including women and children, on
:16:37. > :16:40.terrorist gangs. The violence in the country dominated a special
:16:40. > :16:50.meeting of the UN Security Council chaired by the Foreign Secretary,
:16:50. > :16:50.
:16:50. > :16:53.William Hague. We have this report from the UN. Allah ak blah!
:16:53. > :16:59.Akbar. A year of deadly force since the
:16:59. > :17:04.Syrian uprising started. This is Deraa where it began. This appears
:17:04. > :17:09.to show the unarmed demonstrators running away from regime bullets.
:17:09. > :17:13.Elsewhere, it's become an armed insurrection against the regime.
:17:13. > :17:18.The rebels are getting more skillful, attacking an armed
:17:18. > :17:22.vehicle, but the President's men are still much stronger. Accurate
:17:22. > :17:27.journalism is difficult without being there, but this, according to
:17:27. > :17:31.reports from Homs was the aftermath of a massacre of civilians,
:17:31. > :17:36.including women and children. The man filming this burning building
:17:36. > :17:43.in Homs asks if the world is watching to please save us.
:17:43. > :17:45.Kofi Annan, the UN and Arab League envoy is watching. It was received
:17:45. > :17:49.by President Bashar al-Assad over the weekend, but the President with
:17:49. > :17:54.his own supporters and a still- strong army, believes he is in a
:17:54. > :17:59.fight he can win. In Turkey on his way out, Kofi Annan voiced growing
:17:59. > :18:05.international anger and frustration. The can Iing of civilians must end
:18:05. > :18:09.now. The world must send a clear and
:18:09. > :18:14.united message that this is simply unacceptable.
:18:14. > :18:18.But here in New York, it is still theUnited Nationss, the United
:18:18. > :18:22.States, France, Britain, say that President Bashar al-Assad must go.
:18:22. > :18:25.Russia and China, so far, are watching his diplomatic back.
:18:26. > :18:32.The United Nations Security Council has failed in its responsibility.
:18:32. > :18:36.That is absolutely right, but it does not mean in any way we stop
:18:36. > :18:41.trying. We have to continue to talk to Russia and China. But no change
:18:41. > :18:46.in the Security Council. The Western supporters of the Arab
:18:46. > :18:52.League, blame the Syrians for the killing.
:18:53. > :18:58.The Russians say that is not true, that they are fighting combat units.
:18:58. > :19:02.The Russians say that hasty changes to Syria could make the situation
:19:02. > :19:07.more dangerous, not less. While the Security Council is divided nothing
:19:07. > :19:12.is going to change quickly. Longer term it is hard to see how
:19:12. > :19:21.the Assad regime can survive, but for now, in Damascus, they may
:19:21. > :19:26.believe that they have this crisis under control.
:19:26. > :19:34.Coming up: What lies beneath? The intricate search for a lost
:19:34. > :19:37.Leonardo da Vinci in Florence. Plans to make it easier to buy a
:19:37. > :19:42.newly built home in England have been unveiled by the Government.
:19:42. > :19:47.They are offering people a chance to buy a home of the value of up to
:19:47. > :19:52.�500,000, with a deposit of just a%, but the scheme's been criticised as
:19:52. > :19:56.a desperate measure to do little to boost the housing market.
:19:56. > :20:01.Since the credit crunch, the housing market across the UK
:20:01. > :20:06.stalled and it never really re- started. Sales have halved, 800,000
:20:07. > :20:13.lower a year. 40% fewer homes are built per year, down 66,000.
:20:13. > :20:17.Deposits for first-time-buyers have doubled to 20 percent.
:20:17. > :20:23.-- 20%. David Cameron was at a development in London today to
:20:23. > :20:28.launch one way of kick-starting the market. Lenders accept 5% deposits
:20:28. > :20:32.for homes in England in an change for a guarantee that limits losses.
:20:32. > :20:36.We have lenders not lending, so the builders can't build, the buyers
:20:36. > :20:39.can't buy. It needs the Government to step in and help unblock the
:20:39. > :20:43.market. The guarantee, partly provided by
:20:43. > :20:48.the taxpayer is welcome news for 20-year-old Harley Angus in
:20:48. > :20:52.Cambridgeshire, along with 1 million other house hunters, she
:20:52. > :20:57.could not afford the deposit, but this would help nicely.
:20:57. > :21:01.This is fantastic. With the 5%, it will really help people out.
:21:01. > :21:05.If people like Harley Angus are encouraged, the Government says
:21:05. > :21:09.100,000 more homes could go up. The idea is that buyers will find
:21:09. > :21:13.it easier to buy, so builders will be able to build more new homes,
:21:13. > :21:17.but how much difference that will make to the overall housing market,
:21:17. > :21:20.where most people are purchasing old moment homes is not at all
:21:20. > :21:27.clear. In fact, only one in ten mortgages
:21:27. > :21:32.is for newly built homes. So other buyers simply pli would not get the
:21:32. > :21:37.help. -- simply would not get this help.
:21:37. > :21:42.It will not help those not buying a property for the first time, what
:21:42. > :21:45.mortgage funding is left should be spread around this scheme. 20,000
:21:45. > :21:47.have registered to say that they are interested in the scheme, but
:21:47. > :21:52.Labour is concerned it is not enough.
:21:52. > :21:55.It is right to help those who want to buy to be able to realise their
:21:55. > :22:00.dreams, but the question is will the scheme work, will ordinary
:22:00. > :22:04.families be able to get a mortgage at a price that they can afford?
:22:04. > :22:07.And some MPs have been asking whether the taxpayer really should
:22:07. > :22:14.guarantee mortgages, warning that the tactic could fuel another
:22:14. > :22:18.housing bubble. Six Palestinians have been killed
:22:18. > :22:24.by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza today, bringing the number who is died in
:22:24. > :22:28.raids that began four days ago, to 25. More than 240 rockets have been
:22:28. > :22:34.fired from Gaza into Israel since Friday. Two Israelis have been
:22:34. > :22:38.seriously injured, but Israel says that its Iron Dome air defence is
:22:38. > :22:43.succeeding in intercepting the vast majority of missiles firing at it
:22:43. > :22:49.We have this report from Gaza city. Another day, and another funeral in
:22:49. > :22:52.Gaza city. This time it is for a 65-year-old
:22:52. > :22:56.mand he 35-year-old daughter. More than 20 people have been killed
:22:56. > :23:00.here since Friday. It is now the worst violence between Israel and
:23:00. > :23:03.Gaza in three years. Like these two, more and more casualties are
:23:03. > :23:08.civilians. A ragged shoe and a pool of blood
:23:08. > :23:11.mark the spot where they were killed this morning. Caught in an
:23:11. > :23:17.Israeli counterstrike. A few minutes' drive away, the
:23:17. > :23:21.debris of another fresh bomb site. The smell of burning is still
:23:21. > :23:25.pungent in the air here. Israel says it is only striking back at
:23:25. > :23:29.militants who are firing rockets out of Gaza, but inevitably that is
:23:29. > :23:35.not the way things work. Last night one of their missiles hit this
:23:35. > :23:41.house in the north of Gaza, where 30 member -- 13 members of the same
:23:41. > :23:45.family were sleeping. Amazingly no- one was killed in this destruction,
:23:45. > :23:49.but 29 members are in hospital, including nine children.
:23:49. > :23:53.The man who owns the house d'you not deny that he supports the
:23:53. > :23:56.militants. One of his sons has been killed already.
:23:57. > :24:01.TRANSLATION: I have another two sons, I am ready to sacrifice them
:24:01. > :24:04.too. This all began on Friday, when
:24:04. > :24:09.Israeli missiles tore apart this car.
:24:09. > :24:13.Inside was the leader of a Gaza militant group. Israel says an
:24:13. > :24:20.attack by the group was imminent and the killing justified.
:24:20. > :24:23.Since then, militants in Gaza have hit back. Sending more than 130
:24:23. > :24:28.rockets into towns and cities in southern Israel. In response,
:24:28. > :24:33.Israel has rolled out the latest hi-tech answer to the Gaza rockets.
:24:33. > :24:37.It is called the dome dome, its job to shoot down the rockets, before
:24:37. > :24:42.they hit Israeli towns. The citizens of Israel know that
:24:42. > :24:46.they have an active defence. It is not just to help us take shelter,
:24:46. > :24:50.it is us as the military and the government of Israel have made a
:24:50. > :24:55.decision that we will actively act against the rockets.
:24:55. > :25:01.The Iron Dome missiles may make Israelis feel slightly safe fr, but
:25:01. > :25:05.as the conflict -- safer, but as the conflict terns the fifth day,
:25:05. > :25:09.another generation on both sides is learning to hate an enemy it has
:25:09. > :25:15.never met. It's not been seen for 400 years,
:25:15. > :25:21.but a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci may have been found hidden
:25:22. > :25:27.behind another work of art on a wall in Florence. An art historian
:25:27. > :25:32.heys -- says he has discovered traces of paint, but some have
:25:32. > :25:35.dismissed this. The walls of Florence's old Town
:25:35. > :25:40.Hall, every where you look there is is a masterpiece, but it is claimed
:25:40. > :25:50.that the greatest piece of work is hidden behind it Australianing.
:25:50. > :25:54.There is a fresco here by Pissar,, there are paints here discovered to
:25:54. > :25:56.have been used by Leonardo da Vinci. It could be the The Battle of
:25:56. > :26:03.Marciano. The lost da Vinci.
:26:03. > :26:07.Having found organic materials, well, it cannot be just a
:26:07. > :26:10.coincidence. This image, a copy of the The
:26:10. > :26:15.Battle of Anghiari gives an idea of what Leonardo da Vinci painted
:26:15. > :26:19.before he abandoned the work. At the press conference it was claimed
:26:19. > :26:26.that Giorgio Vasari had hidden the painting behind a wall, on to which
:26:26. > :26:32.he had then painted his fresco and then added clues, such as the
:26:32. > :26:36.phrase, "Seek and you should find." Like a detail from a Dan Brown
:26:36. > :26:41.thriller. Many art historians a far from convinced.
:26:41. > :26:45.I don't wish to pour cold wateren o this, but if it is discovered to be
:26:45. > :26:49.true, it will be one of the biggest things of its time in the ordeal