:00:07. > :00:12.Tonight at Ten: One of the world's best-known athletes, Oscar
:00:12. > :00:16.Pistorius, is facing a murder charge. He was arrested after his
:00:16. > :00:20.girlfriend was shot dead at his home in South Africa. He'll appear
:00:20. > :00:29.in court tomorrow. Police say there have been previous domestic
:00:29. > :00:36.incidents. I can confirm that there has previously been an incident at
:00:36. > :00:39.the home of Oscar Pistorius. blade runner made history at London
:00:39. > :00:42.2012, taking part in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. We'll have
:00:42. > :00:44.the latest from Pretoria as many South Africans struggle to take in
:00:44. > :00:46.the news. Also tonight: More beef products
:00:46. > :00:48.withdrawn from sale in the horsemeat scandal and three arrests
:00:48. > :00:54.are made. An avalanche in the Cairngorms
:00:54. > :00:58.claims the lives of two people. Another man is in a critical
:00:58. > :01:00.condition. Ed Miliband announces that a future
:01:00. > :01:03.Labour government would reintroduce a 10p rate of income tax.
:01:03. > :01:13.And the young Picasso. A new exhibition explores the influences
:01:13. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:16.in his early life. Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC
:01:16. > :01:26.News Channel, I will have the Europa League goals from tonight
:01:26. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:39.and this has to be one of the best. Good evening. One of the world's
:01:39. > :01:42.best-known athletes, Oscar Pistorius, is facing a murder
:01:42. > :01:47.charge after his girlfriend was shot dead at his home in South
:01:47. > :01:51.Africa. Police revealed that they had been called to the house in the
:01:51. > :01:54.past to deal with domestic incidents. Pistorius made history
:01:54. > :01:56.last year when he became the first double amputee to compete in the
:01:56. > :02:05.Olympic Games. Our correspondent Andrew Harding reports from
:02:05. > :02:11.Pretoria. There has never been anyone quite like him. The Blade
:02:11. > :02:16.runner, a global sensation. It is a gold medal again for Oscar
:02:16. > :02:20.Pistorius. Today the police say that South Africa's Oscar Pistorius
:02:20. > :02:25.is and murder suspect, accused of killing his girlfriend. The
:02:25. > :02:31.shooting happened here at his home in a closely guarded suburban
:02:31. > :02:37.estate. We can confirm that a third year-old woman did die on the scene,
:02:37. > :02:41.of gunshot wounds. -- 30 year-old woman. The 26 year-old man has been
:02:41. > :02:46.arrested and charged with murder. The police so that neighbours heard
:02:46. > :02:49.loud voices and arguments at the home overnight and then gunshots.
:02:49. > :02:52.The police say they have been previous domestic incidents at the
:02:52. > :02:56.home. They have distanced themselves from speculation that he
:02:56. > :03:01.could have shot his girlfriend by accident after mistaking her for a
:03:02. > :03:05.burglar. The police were surprised to hear over the radio to hear that
:03:05. > :03:09.allegations have been made to that the deceased had been perceived to
:03:09. > :03:15.be a burglar. He was surprised and those allegations did not come from
:03:15. > :03:21.us. The dead woman has been identified as Reeva Steenkamp, a
:03:21. > :03:26.well-known South African model who had been dating Oscar Pistorius
:03:26. > :03:31.since the autumn. They are rarely out of the headlines. She was a
:03:31. > :03:35.really vibrant personality with a wicked sense of humour. The fact
:03:35. > :03:39.that she was so beautiful was there but that was not the main thing.
:03:39. > :03:44.She was a great person and fun to hang out with. The news has stunned
:03:44. > :03:49.South Africa. He is a figure in South Africa, a persona. It is very
:03:49. > :03:53.difficult to take it all in. Oscar Pistorius was taken to hospital for
:03:53. > :03:57.full medical examination and he is now being held at the small local
:03:57. > :04:01.police station. In the morning he will be taken to court and police
:04:01. > :04:04.are expected to argue that he should not be granted bail. For
:04:04. > :04:09.Oscar Pistorius it has been a remarkable life. He was born
:04:09. > :04:13.without fibula bones in his lower legs. They were amputated when he
:04:13. > :04:22.was a year old. By the age of 17, with the help of revolutionary
:04:22. > :04:25.prosthetic legs, he blossomed into a successful athlete. Gold at the
:04:25. > :04:29.Paralympics followed and then in London last year he competed with
:04:29. > :04:34.able-bodied runners, a watershed moment in sport. But his friends
:04:34. > :04:39.say that his career has taken its toll. I believe that success and
:04:39. > :04:43.money has changed a lot of people. For me, personally, Oscar de change,
:04:43. > :04:47.from the guy that he was 12 years ago to the guy that he is now. I
:04:48. > :04:51.think he became a very different person. Now Oscar Pistorius is
:04:51. > :04:56.preparing for his first appearance in court tomorrow, a rather
:04:56. > :05:00.different arena for one of the world's most iconic athletes. For
:05:00. > :05:04.the latest, let's go live to Pretoria. As you mentioned,
:05:04. > :05:10.preparing for that court appearance tomorrow. What has been the impact
:05:10. > :05:14.of this story in South Africa today? It has been a devastating
:05:14. > :05:18.blow for South Africa. This country used to produce so many heroes.
:05:18. > :05:22.These days they are few and far between and if what the police are
:05:22. > :05:26.saying about these murder charges proves to be correct, then it is a
:05:26. > :05:30.heavy blow for this country. Of course there is still a lot that we
:05:30. > :05:36.do not know about this case and tomorrow could be very revealing.
:05:36. > :05:45.We are hoping to her in court tomorrow whether prosecutors argue
:05:45. > :05:49.about whether he should be given bail, we are hoping to hear the
:05:49. > :05:54.details. The case that is being built up against Oscar Pistorius.
:05:54. > :06:03.We may learn some more tomorrow. We may learn what sort of defence
:06:03. > :06:05.Oscar Pistorius plans to mount. Thank you.
:06:05. > :06:08.Three men were arrested earlier this evening on suspicion of fraud
:06:08. > :06:11.as part of the investigation into horsemeat labelled as beef. Police
:06:11. > :06:14.said a man had been arrested at a slaughterhouse in West Yorkshire
:06:14. > :06:17.and two more at a site in West Wales. Both premises were searched
:06:17. > :06:20.by the Food Standards Agency on Tuesday. During the day some beef
:06:20. > :06:29.products were taken off the shelves by the supermarket Asda, as our
:06:29. > :06:32.correspondent Fergus Walsh reports. The scale of this processed food
:06:32. > :06:38.scandal keeps growing. Until now, all of the products affected have
:06:38. > :06:42.been frozen, but tonight ASDA withdrew a fresh beef bolognese
:06:42. > :06:49.sauce after it tested positive for wars make. Three other beef
:06:49. > :06:56.products have been withdrawn as a precaution. -- tested positive for
:06:56. > :07:03.horsemeat. This is one of two men are arrested in Wales on suspicion
:07:03. > :07:07.of fraud, along with another from Yorkshire. They are accused of
:07:07. > :07:11.passing off horsemeat as before but both firms deny wrongdoing. It has
:07:11. > :07:14.also been found that a significant amount of horsemeat contaminated
:07:14. > :07:19.with the drug bute may have been entering the food chain overseas
:07:19. > :07:24.for some time. Six horses from this abattoir and Somerset were sent to
:07:24. > :07:26.France in recent days and could be included. Labour says the
:07:26. > :07:30.Government is paralysed by incompetence. The ministers have
:07:30. > :07:34.been asleep on the job on this. They cannot kick on hiding behind
:07:34. > :07:42.the Food Standards Agency officials. They have been catastrophically
:07:42. > :07:48.slow to act. In fact all horses sent the export will be required to
:07:48. > :07:53.have a negative bute test. Bute is an equine painkiller which is also
:07:53. > :07:58.used to treat serious arthritis in humans but serious side-effects are
:07:58. > :08:03.rare. Health officials say you would need to eat 500 horsemeat
:08:03. > :08:08.burgers to get a single dose of this drug. The Chief Medical
:08:08. > :08:12.Officer at said no processed foods containing horsemeat had tested
:08:12. > :08:20.positive for bute in the UK but if that happened it would not be a
:08:20. > :08:25.threat. If phenylbutazone has got into the diet through horsemeat,
:08:25. > :08:29.then the level will be so low that it is unlikely to impact on human
:08:29. > :08:36.health. Human health, please don't worry. The yuck factor is another
:08:36. > :08:41.matter and whether there are criminal issues is a third. Food
:08:41. > :08:49.scares are nothing new. In 1948, Britain was shocked to discover
:08:49. > :08:55.that black market profiteers had been passing off horsemeat as
:08:55. > :08:59.before. Tomorrow the Food Standards Agency will reveal the results of
:08:59. > :09:03.standard tests on beef products and consumers will find out if yet more
:09:03. > :09:06.have been contaminated with horsemeat.
:09:06. > :09:10.A meat processing plant in the South of France, whose meat ended
:09:10. > :09:12.up on the shelves of Tesco and Aldi as well as in some Findus products,
:09:12. > :09:14.has been accused by the French government of knowingly selling
:09:14. > :09:17.horsemeat labelled as beef. Ministers claim the firm Spanghero
:09:17. > :09:26.has been engaged in fraud, as our correspondent Christian Fraser
:09:26. > :09:29.reports. They pointed the finger at the
:09:29. > :09:34.Romanians, criminal fraud in the shadowy reaches of the European
:09:34. > :09:37.Union. Tonight it was the French company Spanghero in the dock. The
:09:37. > :09:43.Minister for Consumer Affairs, Benoit Hamon, said the audit
:09:44. > :09:49.Romanian horsemeat and sent it out as European beef. -- at they
:09:49. > :09:53.ordered Romanian horsemeat. Spanghero were the first to stamp
:09:53. > :10:00.horsemeat as beef. An investigation shows that they knew they were
:10:00. > :10:06.Labour link beef meat which was strongly suspected to be horsemeat.
:10:07. > :10:09.-- labelling beef meat. The volume of the January shipment was 42
:10:10. > :10:14.tonnes and they made half a million euros from the fraud, it is
:10:14. > :10:19.estimated. The owner of the company believes that they received beef
:10:19. > :10:24.and sold back what they thought was beef. The horsemeat in question was
:10:24. > :10:28.sourced at two abattoirs in Romania, travelling through this cold
:10:28. > :10:31.storage facility in Breda in the Netherlands. They believe they
:10:31. > :10:41.ordered the horsemeat and processed it as beef for Comigel in
:10:41. > :10:48.Luxembourg, who supplied for Findus. These would be 100% horse. Another
:10:48. > :10:51.figure in that chain, Jan Fasen, a Dutch meat trader. In January 2012,
:10:51. > :10:56.Jan Fasen was convicted at this court house in Breda for the
:10:56. > :11:04.fraudulent mislabelling of meat as part of a criminal network. The
:11:04. > :11:08.court said that he labelled imported Mexican and Brazilian
:11:08. > :11:14.horsemeat as halal beef. They also said the buyer knew that the
:11:14. > :11:17.documents had been fortified and an appeal is pending. Jan fuss and did
:11:17. > :11:26.not return our calls but his lawyer says that he denies wrongdoing and
:11:26. > :11:30.is not the suspect. -- Jan Fasen. He has parked 200 tonnes of horse
:11:30. > :11:34.trimming at this facility with the retail value of 1 million euros. He
:11:34. > :11:40.has never been suspended from trading. But you knew he was under
:11:40. > :11:46.investigation? Yes, four years ago. Did you stop trading with him?
:11:46. > :11:54.Why not? It was not necessary because the law says that he can do
:11:54. > :11:58.his business. Even though he is under investigation, the
:11:58. > :12:02.authorities continued to give him the green light? Yes. So in France
:12:02. > :12:07.and Britain, yet more evidence tonight of the systemic failure in
:12:07. > :12:09.Europe's meat-processing industry. The convoluted supply chain
:12:09. > :12:16.involves some unscrupulous companies and at the end of that
:12:16. > :12:19.line is the consumer. It is their trust that is being tested.
:12:19. > :12:23.Police in the Scottish Highlands have confirmed tonight that a man
:12:23. > :12:27.and woman have died following an avalanche in the Cairngorms.
:12:27. > :12:31.Northern Constabulary also say that a man is in a critical condition at
:12:31. > :12:35.Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. It is understood all three were buried in
:12:35. > :12:39.snow when rescuers found them. Lorna Gordon is close to where the
:12:39. > :12:49.avalanche happened. Tell us more about what we know of the events
:12:49. > :12:55.
:12:55. > :13:00.It happened in a valley just off this road. There were 12 walkers
:13:00. > :13:05.and climbers in two separate groups when the snow land ice shifted.
:13:05. > :13:10.Three were buried in the snow. Mountain Rescue teams, a number of
:13:10. > :13:14.them, as well as two helicopters and Serge dogs were in the area
:13:14. > :13:20.very quickly. They found the first individual and got them out within
:13:20. > :13:25.one hour. Some time afterwards, all three of them were airlifted to
:13:25. > :13:32.Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. This evening, the tragic news that two
:13:32. > :13:35.have died. The other nine were walked off the mountain unhurt. The
:13:35. > :13:39.conditions were said to be sunny and a little bit windy. There had
:13:39. > :13:44.been warnings of the potential for avalanches in the area. Tonight,
:13:44. > :13:54.the tragic news that two have died and it is yet another reminder of
:13:54. > :13:57.just how dangerous the Scottish Ed Miliband, the Labour leader,
:13:57. > :14:02.says he wants to reintroduce a 10 pence starting rate of income tax.
:14:02. > :14:05.He said it would be funded by a new property tax on homes worth more
:14:06. > :14:11.than �2 million. He admitted that the last Labour government had made
:14:11. > :14:20.a bad mistake when it scrapped the band in 2008. Downing Street said
:14:20. > :14:24.that the remarks were a stunning admission of economic incompetence.
:14:24. > :14:28.Ed Miliband believes his response to the squeeze on living standards
:14:28. > :14:31.could be the key to winning the next election. The Labour leader,
:14:31. > :14:35.visiting a training centre in Bedford, said that his priority was
:14:35. > :14:42.to help those struggling to pay the bills. He was also facing up to bad
:14:42. > :14:45.decisions that he and others had made in power. We will put rise a
:14:45. > :14:49.mistake made by Gordon Brown and the last Labour government. We
:14:49. > :14:54.would use the money raised by a Mansion Tax to reintroduce a lower
:14:54. > :14:59.10 pence starting rate of tax. It would move Labour one from the past
:14:59. > :15:04.and put Labour where it should always have been, on the side of
:15:04. > :15:07.working people. The so-called Mansion Tax was first mooted by the
:15:07. > :15:11.Liberal Democrats. Critics say it would mean a costly re-evaluation
:15:12. > :15:17.of all properties. Labour estimate there are around 70,000 houses with
:15:17. > :15:21.more than �2 million, most of them in London. A Mansion Tax set at 1%
:15:21. > :15:26.on these properties would raise about �1.7 billion. On average,
:15:26. > :15:30.that would mean a bill of �24,000 a year per property. If the money
:15:31. > :15:35.raised is used to pay for a 10 pence income tax band, it would add
:15:35. > :15:40.up to a tax break of �100 a year for basic-rate taxpayers. It is
:15:40. > :15:44.hard to see what the rationale is for a 10 pence tax rate, when you
:15:44. > :15:48.could achieve an almost identical result in a simpler way by further
:15:48. > :15:54.increasing the tax free allowance in income tax. In the 50s, Harold
:15:54. > :15:58.Macmillan came to Bedford. An economic boom led this Tory Prime
:15:58. > :16:04.Minister to observe that most people had never had it so good. Ed
:16:04. > :16:08.Miliband Said today people would wonder if they would habit so good
:16:08. > :16:11.again. At this hairdresser's, they have noticed costs going up and
:16:12. > :16:15.they think that the rich could pay a bit more. I think it's a good
:16:15. > :16:20.approach. It depends how it is done, but it is something that should be
:16:20. > :16:24.debated. Every day, household things are costing more,
:16:24. > :16:29.electricity and gas is costing more. Everything. There is a squeeze on
:16:29. > :16:33.people, really. Bedford is a seat that Labour must win if Ed Miliband
:16:33. > :16:36.is to become Prime Minister. Privately, the party acknowledges
:16:36. > :16:40.that to do that they will have to come up with a clearer message on
:16:40. > :16:44.the economy. Simply opposing government cuts will not be enough.
:16:44. > :16:49.Today was about Ed Miliband saying that he is on the side of those
:16:49. > :16:55.struggling to make ends meet. The Conservatives say Labour's record
:16:55. > :16:59.on tax speaks for itself. Labour has no credibility on this issue at
:16:59. > :17:04.all. It was Ed Miliband and Ed Balls that got rid of the 10 pence
:17:04. > :17:07.tax rate in the first place. Miliband hopes that broadening
:17:07. > :17:14.Labour's message on the economy will strike a chord with voters.
:17:14. > :17:24.Still to come: Enjoy it while you can. The Picasso masterpiece on its
:17:24. > :17:25.
:17:25. > :17:30.From April, a controversial reform affecting millions of people will
:17:30. > :17:33.see the Disability Living Allowance phased out and a new benefit,
:17:33. > :17:37.called the Personal Independence Payment, phased in. Campaigners
:17:37. > :17:40.claim it will result in real hardship for some. Ministers say
:17:40. > :17:45.the current system is out-of-date and is not reaching those that need
:17:45. > :17:50.it most. In the first of a series of welfare reform, Alison Holt
:17:50. > :17:54.considers the arguments for and against.
:17:54. > :17:58.These letters are now being sent to more than 3 million people in the
:17:58. > :18:03.UK, who currently get Disability Living Allowance. The benefit is
:18:03. > :18:07.being replaced by a Personal Independence Payment. The
:18:07. > :18:10.Government says it is essential reform. Many people with
:18:10. > :18:16.disabilities view it as cost- cutting at the expense of those
:18:16. > :18:20.that can least afford it. The idea behind Disability Living Allowance
:18:20. > :18:23.is that it is a benefit that helps people with the extra costs of
:18:23. > :18:28.their disability. They may choose to spend it on support at home,
:18:28. > :18:32.specialised equipment or the additional costs of getting out and
:18:32. > :18:36.about. Personal Independence Payment has the same job to do. It
:18:36. > :18:40.also means that all of those of working age that get disability
:18:40. > :18:44.living allowance will be reassessed. For many players here at this
:18:44. > :18:48.London basketball session, it is already causing real anxiety.
:18:48. > :18:52.mobility allowance is a lifeline for people. What they are doing is
:18:52. > :18:57.a blitzkrieg. They are basically blowing up a system and hurting a
:18:57. > :19:02.lot of people to get to a few. I think that is wrong. This wouldn't
:19:02. > :19:05.happen, basically. We would not be here playing basketball, having fun,
:19:05. > :19:10.haven't I independence. Everybody is in the same boat and worrying
:19:10. > :19:12.about it. The Government insists that the current system is not
:19:12. > :19:16.sustainable. Disability Living Allowance costs more than �13
:19:17. > :19:22.billion each year. They had been a 34% increase in claims in less than
:19:22. > :19:30.10 years, partly due to disabled children living longer and an
:19:30. > :19:38.ageing population. Its estimate the reforms will save two. Twenty-five
:19:38. > :19:41.billion pounds. It estimated 4005 - - 450,000 people will be affected.
:19:41. > :19:44.Stephen Duckworth gets Disability Living Allowance himself and
:19:44. > :19:48.understands the concerns. He says that many of their staff will also
:19:48. > :19:56.understand, as they also have disabilities. We haven't been set
:19:56. > :20:00.any targets to cut benefits. We've been set targets to improve quality,
:20:00. > :20:05.service improvements targets. For those that are most in need, the
:20:05. > :20:09.funding will be there and available for them. But Ian Clarkson, who has
:20:09. > :20:13.Parkinson's, will take a lot of convincing. Past battles over
:20:13. > :20:20.benefits have left him, like many others, with little confidence in
:20:20. > :20:23.what he sees as tick box assessments for PIP. If you have
:20:23. > :20:30.been diagnosed by consultants and they know to what stage of the
:20:30. > :20:37.disease you will be at 10, 12, 15, 18 years, I cannot see how any body
:20:37. > :20:41.that has not got medical knowledge can make a better decision.
:20:41. > :20:49.Government says that there will be independent reviews of the system
:20:49. > :20:52.to insure it works as well as A business consortium that includes
:20:52. > :20:58.the American billionaire investor Warren Buffett is buying Heinz. The
:20:58. > :21:02.company, known around the world for ketchup, soup and baked beans. It
:21:02. > :21:05.is worth �18 billion and is believed to be the biggest deal in
:21:05. > :21:09.the history of the food industry. The takeover has been approved by
:21:09. > :21:12.the company's board but still needs to be backed by shareholders.
:21:12. > :21:17.The recession in the eurozone has deepened, according to official
:21:17. > :21:23.figures, for the last quarter of 2012. The combined output of 17
:21:23. > :21:26.countries shrank by 0.6%, the third consecutive quarter that GDP has
:21:26. > :21:32.fallen. Stephanie Flanders is with me to tell us how bad the figures
:21:32. > :21:35.are. We were not surprised by the fact the eurozone has shrunk. We
:21:35. > :21:39.knew that they were still in recession in the last three months
:21:39. > :21:43.of 2012. This is a bigger fall than people were expecting. It is the
:21:43. > :21:47.worst decline since the height of the financial crisis in 2009.
:21:47. > :21:51.Although it is worse in countries like Portugal, even Germany, the
:21:51. > :21:55.German economy has shrunk by 0.6% with these figures, the first time
:21:55. > :22:00.German national output has shrunk in over one year. I guess it
:22:00. > :22:04.reminds us that, amidst this optimism we have seen in the last
:22:04. > :22:07.few months about the euro, among policy makers at these meetings and
:22:07. > :22:11.also most particularly in the financial markets, it really hasn't
:22:11. > :22:14.fed through to the real economy yet. That is what is going to be crucial
:22:14. > :22:18.if you think of the pressure Ron George Osborne. The positive things
:22:18. > :22:23.he is lucky for this year that might help the economy, the
:22:23. > :22:27.eurozone, the recovery in the eurozone is central to that. It is
:22:27. > :22:30.still not quite there yet. We still have more pieces of the puzzle when
:22:30. > :22:34.it comes to things like banking union. We still have to wait for
:22:34. > :22:37.confidence to feed through to these economies, even on the most
:22:37. > :22:46.optimistic scenario. It could be quite a long time before large
:22:46. > :22:49.parts of the eurozone seek positive The A55 year-old woman has died
:22:50. > :22:56.after a coal lorry crashed into her flat in the village of Fairlie in
:22:56. > :22:59.Ayrshire while she was watching television. The woman's husband and
:22:59. > :23:04.that lorry driver were taken to hospital with minor injuries.
:23:04. > :23:07.The incoming BBC Director General Tony Hall has announced his first
:23:08. > :23:10.major changes to the senior management of the corporation.
:23:10. > :23:15.Former Culture Secretary James Purnell is to take on a new role
:23:15. > :23:19.overseeing strategy. Director of news Helen Boaden becomes director
:23:19. > :23:23.of radio. She stepped aside during the review into why Newsnight
:23:23. > :23:27.dropped an inquiry into the Jimmy Savile scandal.
:23:27. > :23:33.Pablo Picasso's path to greatness is one of the most acclaimed
:23:33. > :23:37.figures of 20th century is the focus of a new exhibition at
:23:37. > :23:43.London's Courtauld Gallery. It is a year in a life story of a
:23:43. > :23:48.relatively unknown teenager who embarks on a remarkable life.
:23:48. > :23:53.This is Pablo Picasso, aged 19 in 1901. Ambitious and precocious,
:23:53. > :23:57.with those famous the PSNI is. A young Spanish artist in Paris,
:23:57. > :24:01.preparing for his first exhibition. Producing up to three paintings a
:24:01. > :24:07.day, often inspired by the art he had seen in the French capital.
:24:07. > :24:14.Here is a hot march to Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec's Moulin Rouge.
:24:14. > :24:20.This one is to Edgar Degas. This one represents his anxiety. You can
:24:20. > :24:24.see the influence of Vincent Van Gogh's heightened reality. He also
:24:24. > :24:28.brought knowledge of artists from native Spain, such as El Greco. In
:24:28. > :24:34.this painting, a combination of all of those influences brought
:24:34. > :24:40.together, perhaps. A young men it starts to find his own voice. The
:24:40. > :24:44.echo of which is still heard by artists today. They are fiercely
:24:44. > :24:50.modern, because of his refusal to consent to acceptable style. I
:24:50. > :24:54.think he has the confidence and ability to push things beyond A-
:24:54. > :24:59.level he is comfortable with. He launches himself into the void. In
:24:59. > :25:03.this show, you see that. It is like a broken egg for the beautiful
:25:03. > :25:07.omelette that you have to make. mother said if he had gone into the
:25:07. > :25:11.Army he would have become a general, into the church and he would have
:25:11. > :25:15.become the Pope. He says he chose painting and became Picasso.
:25:15. > :25:19.painting like the Harlequin behind me is the moment where he finds his
:25:19. > :25:23.own artistic voice, fully in command of line and colour.
:25:24. > :25:30.Choosing a subject that was quite traditional in French art, but
:25:30. > :25:34.totally reinventing it. Absinthe drinkers, but instead of real
:25:34. > :25:39.drinkers he adopts the motif of the Harlequin. This is the last
:25:39. > :25:43.painting in the exhibition, Child with a Dove. For years, it was
:25:43. > :25:51.hanging in a National Gallery, free for all to see. Those days are over.
:25:51. > :25:57.The individual that owns it sold it. Two experts believe it was a buyer
:25:57. > :26:06.might be the last time it is seen in this country. Enjoy it when you