the more you find this person extremely attractive, quite fascinating. the grandson of pioneering photographer sergey prokudin—gorsky. that's all from witness history this month at the british academy. we will be back next month there've been violent clashes with more first—hand accounts between police and the public, as mass protests took place of extraordinary moments in history. in the lebanese capital beirut but for now, from me, against the country's and the rest of the witness leadership. some government buildings were briefly occupied history team, goodbye. by protesters demanding a change of regime after tuesday's explosion. donald trump signs executive this is bbc news. orders aimed at providing aid welcome if you're watching here to us workers suffering the economic impact in the uk or around the globe. of the coronavirus. the move comes after talks i'm james reynolds. our top stories: with democrats on a rescue package broke down on friday. the lebanese army retakes mr trump's proposals include protection against eviction, government buildings in beirut extending zero interest loans after they were stormed by protesters angry over for students and increasing hello there. pressure is on to tuesday's explosion. unemployment benefits. bring in the harvest. there is heavy rain and thunderstorms france is sending in the forecast for next week. thousands demand regime change on the streets. equipment and technical at the moment, protesters are hit by tear gas, advisors to the indian ocean it's all about how island of mauritius high the temperatures a police officer dies after its prime minister are going to get. in the violence. appealed for urgent assistance it wasn't quite as hot on saturday to contain a worsening oil spill there. as it was on friday. president emmanuel macron said but still, the temperature in teams were being deployed from the nearby french hampshire reached 3a degrees. the highest temperatures were island of reunion. in sussex and at frittenden in kent, and it's these sort

face coverings have become of areas that we'll see japan remembers the victims compulsory in more public the focus of the heat of nagasaki, 75 years spaces in england and scotland. again during sunday. after the atom bomb people visiting museums, we start with some very high cinemas, and places of worship will have to cover their faces temperatures in the morning was dropped on the city. in the south—east corner of england, in england and the new rule perhaps 19—20 degrees. applies to any sales area again, it's cooler as you had no compromise in congress further north, maybe 11—5 on how much to fund out—of—work that's open to the public in in the north—west of scotland. scotland. katy austin reports. americans, so president trump forces though his plans with executive orders. the big screen is back. in between, we have a paradise polluted. ten of cinema chain vue‘s 90 got this zone more oil spills from a stricken sites reopened yesterday, of cloud that's pushed ship off the coast of including this one in in off the north sea. london's shepherd's bush, and there may be 1—2 light after more than four months closed. showers in that as well. so, are you a little any shower threatening the far south—east should move away. bit excited? gradually, the sunshine develops more widely, the cloud gets burned back onto some of those north sea coasts. too excited to say a little bit. we have got that onshore and what are you going to see? breeze keeping it a little bit cooler as well. i'm going to see dream build. things are different, with that sort of wind direction, including one—way systems it will be cooler and enhanced cleaning. across eastern scotland than western scotland. booking online and getting your and in northern ireland, ticket on a mobile phone app temperatures will reach 20 are encouraged, and there degrees. is no pick‘n‘mix here. now in england and scotland cinemas, face coverings are mandatory, although vue says it won't police them, recognising some people have valid exemptions. you do need to wear a face the heat,though, is really focused covering around most parts on the south midlands, of the cinema, but while you're southeast wales, the west eating or drinking, country, southeast england and east anglia. for example, munching your 33—34, possibly even 35 degrees to the west of london. popcorn as you watch the film, into next week, the heat you don't need to be will slowly subside, and it is only very slowly,

wearing it. but we have got this increasing risk of some torrential and seating is allocated rain and thunderstorms. that could start to develop in a way that there is a safe on sunday night into monday distance between different morning, and the focus household groups. that does limit how many people looks like it's more of these western areas with those storms pushing their way northwards. now, large parts of the country can be at a showing. will still be dry and quite sunny. more sunshine, perhaps, around some of those north seacoasts. but, again, the highest we think approximately we will be running at temperatures are towards the around 50% capacity. southeast of the uk. it depends on the layout now, what's happening is that of the screen and the layout higher pressure is less in charge of our weather. of the cinema itself pressure is falling and the nature of the group from the south, sizes that come in. we've got a weather front trying to push in from the west as well. vue‘s phased restart so the air is essentially reflects what's happening across the country. destabilising, which is why last weekend, 272 uk we have got this increased cinema sites were open, risk of some very around a third of the total. archaeologist li xiuzhen. it's thought lockdown cost heavy and thundery rain. now to something more modern. the devil is in the detail, the industry at least £500 and there is still a lot million, and so far, the british artist henry moore of uncertainty. box office takings have been revolutionised the world but it looks like on tuesday, low, both because of the lower of sculpture during the 20th most of those downpours capacity and because century, changing the way are moving northwards blockbusters have we see the human body across northern england and scotland. and setting his work but later in the day, in a natural landscape. we could see some developing further south across been postponed. parts of england. there were nine new releases his daughter, mary moore, talks this week compared to 17 to us now about her memories in the same week last year. of her father and the ideas that might mean a bumper crop still some strong sunshine and, again, the focus of those in 2021, but one expert says that inspired him. higher temperatures not all cinemas will will be across eastern 00:02:56,347 --> 2147483051:38:12,888 and southeastern 2147483051:38:12,888 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 parts of england. newsreel: the work of survive until then. henry moore has been seen in almost every

country in the world. if you were to look at large or small, it's not he has made a staggering total really about that. of something like 900 it's about which cinemas went sculptures, many of them into the covid lockdown with liquidity and cash in the bank. immense, as well as thousands this is — it's really challenging for everyone. there won't be the same level of drawings and nearly of demand for the next two a thousand graphics. i mean, i can't belive... or so years, but those cinemas ..because his work seems that deserve to survive so comfortable that you can't because they've been great believe there was a feeling before will be great that it was dangerous, going forward, and others that it was outrageous will need some restructuring to move forward. and that it would defile youth. the cinema industry his first exhibition was in 1928. is confident people already his work was want to return. causing controversy. the art schools that he was studying in called his work the big questions are whether they will be keen ugly and disgusting and that to see the old favourites currently on offer and, of course, how confident they are. katy austin, bbc news. he'd fed on a cesspit. now on bbc news, witness what took people aback history brings you five amazing was a manner of expression that stories form the world of art. emphasised the sexual nature of his subjects and rejected the realistic treatment of the human figure. it was considered to be hello and welcome to a special primitive, decadent and savage edition of witness history and in a way, it was. with me, razia iqbal, he wanted to arouse in us the

here at the british academy deepest forces and instincts. in london as we present henry moore: a great five amazing stories deal can still be done from the world of art. with 3—dimensional forms as a means of expressing what people feel about themselves and about nature and about the world around them. coming up, how the acclaimed my father and his generation british sculptor henry moore changed modern art. looked rather to ethnographic we speak to the man who wrapped works, what they called the reichstag in 1995 and a nigerian artist inspired primitive works. by the oil pollution of her homeland. my belief is that no matter plus the pioneer who what advances we make photographed tsarist russia in technology, and in the controlling of nature, in colour. the real basis of life is human relationships. but first, we go to china, it is through them that we where in 1974 an accidental are happy or unhappy. discovery revealed one in 1950, his daughter of the wonders of the world. mary, who had been born during the war, was now four years old and a great a vast terracotta army source of pride. which lay buried beneath our home and his studios the earth for more were kind of interchangeable. than 2,000 years. he had a few basic subjects archaeologist li xiuzhen worked on the astonishing find. that he could not help from returning newsreel: it is a vast to again and again. pottery army that is slowly one of them was being unearthed from the tomb where it has lain for more 00:04:56,834 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 than 2,000 years. the reclining figure.

what is the particular significance of that? it may be that it connects the human figure with landscape more easily than what a standing figure could. and landscape is one of my great obsessions. another one was the mother and child. i have done many mother and child structures and most of them have been this idea of the larger form, in relationship with the smaller form in a protective sense and a sense of a gentleness and tenderness. moore remains a countryman at heart. his studios are surrounded by fields, hedges and woods. he is happiest seeing his sculptures in the open air. there was an exhibition in florence in 1972, which was a remarkable exhibition and it was a first in many, many ways.

moore assembled in the fort and the ramparts, nearly 200 sculptures and 100 drawings. the big sculptures in the open air, each one sited by moore himself, was what made the exhibition unique. one would have to travel the world to see so much at any othertime. my father was very worried. he thought that people wouldn't go. tourism back in the 1970s was not quite such a big deal and getting to places was much harder. but in the end it was a fantastic success. something like 400,000 visitors. i think they need to be set outside. i always want to go up and touch them. but you can go up to them and run your hand around them. he wanted sculpture to be part of everybody‘s life and experience and enrich their lives. and we should go on

fighting that fight. henry moore's daughter, mary. certainly the power of sculpture lives on in our next story. sokari douglas camp is an acclaimed artist based in london, but the inspiration for her work comes from her homeland of the niger delta in nigeria, a world of rivers and creeks that has been devastated by decades of pollution from the oil industry. i like metal because it has tensile strength that is fantastic. something very small can hold up something gigantic. i love the fact that you can stretch it in the most incredible way, make things that look like fabric and look soft.

my childhood started off in independent nigeria and i was sent to boarding school in england so i had one foot in nigeria and one foot in england. my people, the kalabari, live on 22 islands in the niger delta and our transport was by boat. dugout canoes that women could take out and they would gather periwinkles on the mudflats and make the most incredible stew. you had oysters growing on the roots of mangroves, dangling in the water. nature was full. gradually these things have been dying out because of pollution. because of the way that oil is being extracted there. newsreel: oil was discovered in the niger delta in 1956 and now nigeria is one of the largest oil producing countries in the world.

newsreel: the ogoni people say their homeland has been ruined by oil. we are going to demand our rights peacefully, nonviolently and we shall win. ken saro—wiwa, poet, environmentalist, and leader of the ogoni people. the nigerian government says he is a murderer and has sentenced him to death. ken saro—wiwa tried to get the oil companies to behave differently by talking. there was no violence involved. nigeria's military leaders provoked a storm of international outrage today when they went ahead with the executions of nine human rights activists, including the playwright and activist ken saro—wiwa. no—one could believe it, no—one could believe it. pure, pure sadness, yeah. ken's memorial was extremely

important to me, to make sure people remembered him. this is a mini version of the real bus, the real bus is life—size. the memorial had ken's name on a banner at the front, and then on top of the bus were barrels with the names of the other eight that were killed at the same time. on it, it had words that ken saro—wiwa said in one of his last interviews, before he was executed. the battle bus had quite an adventure. the environmentalists from nigeria decided that they would like the memorial to travel to nigeria, and when it got to lagos port it was arrested by nigerian customs.

because it was believed that it would cause havoc. it's still locked away. it's still arrested. our problem is global. our clothing, toilet seats, lipstick, everything has this crude oil element to it. it's an incredible product. it's a magic product. and yet it is killing us. so it keeps on turning up in my work. the wonderful sokari douglas camp. remember, you can watch witness history every month on the bbc news channel, or you can catch up on all our films, along with more than 1,000 radio programmes, in our online archive. just search for "bbc witness history." our next story takes us to germany, where in 1995 a public art project was seen by millions. it became a symbol for berlin's renewal after the fall of the wall and the

collapse of communism. it's the story of the couple who wrapped the reichstag. newsreel: it's an eccentric dream, but one that a husband and wife team have cherished for nearly a quarter of a century, and this weekend the bulgarian—born artist christo and his wife jeanne—claude began wrapping the german parliament building in silver fabric. it is very difficult to explain if you don't see it. no drawings, no sketch, no scale model can match the complexity of the project. the fabric is actually, it's not completely touching the stone, the surface of the structure. the project started in 1972. the cold war is still in full speed, you know, the berlin wall was built. permission to wrap the reichstag was refused three times.

if the wall were not fell down, probably we'd never do the reichstag. for more than two decades, the artist christo and his wife jeanne—claude have wanted to work with the building that, for them, symbolised the cold war. you know, i was born in bulgaria in 1935. highly soviet—ic, communist country. and i escaped to the west alone, speaking only russian and bulgarian. coming from a communist country, i tried to do something involving the east—west relations. it's been bombed and set on fire, seen war and revolution. but never before has the reichstag been wrapped in silverfabric. we never can believe what is the project until we see it for real. christo himself is paying for the project, helped su bsta ntially by sales of his sketches and other work. the reichstag cost us $12 million in 1995. which is probably today about $20 million or $25 million. this project, we need to build an entire structure of engineers, specialists, lawyers, services. very much like building a highway or a bridge or an airport.

it was wrapped by nearly 100 rock climbers. they came down, installing all this 100,000 square metres of fabric and matter for one week. jeanne—claude and myself, we are both together artist. and this, i miss so much jeanne—claude today. we were partners, we lived together, we would fight together. it was like an adventure that you cannot repeat it. newsreel: this novel treatment is, they say, in the classic tradition of art. the reichstag was a victorian building with lots of ornaments, decoration. suddenly it was changed, like a sketch. like what is essential, of the height, the width, the forms, they are all hidden by this fragile material that moved with the wind. it was in constant motion.

newsreel: the building took on a shrine—like nature and was treated with something approaching reverence. it is very special and it always changes with the light. first time in history probably that this building is nice and makes people happy. i came to germany especially to see this project, and i think it is great. for two weeks, the area has witnessed one continuous party, with scenes reminiscent of when the berlin wall came down six years ago. everybody who comes to see the project, and there were five million people in two weeks in the reichstag, they know that they were seeing something that would never happen again. newsreel: last night was the final and the biggest party, with 100,000 people swarming around the building well into the early hours. today the dismantling work began and germany's former and future parliament building came blinking into the summer sunshine.

after two weeks it's gone forever. cannot be repeated. something happened, it will stay forever in that particular unique moment. the world —famous artist christo. and for our final story we go back more than 100 years to a time when the tsar still ruled russia. while the world was using black and white film, a pioneering russian photographer, sergey prokudin—gorsky, developed a new method of colour photography and used to document life in russia before the revolution. the results, as you'll see now, were stunning. my grandfather, sergey mikhaylovich prokudin—gorsky, was one of the pioneers of colour photography. it is a unique example of this quality of colour. this is close to a

100—year—old production. at that time, you have to realise, that the only photographs in colour were taken indoors. and he was probably the first to do a lot of work outside. this is a very nice picture on the mariinsky canal, where he had done a lot of shots. you really feel you are seeing something natural. you can really feel that this guy was very so pleased, probably, to be taken. and at the same time, the composition of the picture

is great. he was able to travel anywhere in the empire. he got permission from the tsar to travel everywhere, even the part which was very difficult to access. bukhara is today in uzbekistan, but at the time it was turkestan, which is really in the south—east of the empire, bordering iran, afghanistan and china. my grandfather was somebody who was extremely open—minded. he was really a renaissance man. in his work he tried to show the different category of people in terms of religion, origin. this is a jewish school with, i would say, the teacher and some pupils. at the origin, the images were obtained by projecting the free negative on glass in black and white, through a colour lens for the projection, creating the colour.

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