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withdrawn from sale in the horsemeat scandal and three arrests | :00:46.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