examines the few traces the remains of the existence. of the true. church january 11th on w. . this is the w. news a live shot from berlin downtown nashville is rocked by a huge blast 3 people are injured after a motor home explodes damaging buildings and shattering windows you'll hear from someone who watched it happen also coming up on the show. european union nations start to pick through the post of breck's a trade deal the 2000 page document still needs to be ratified by the british and

european parliament. and the show it must go on music concerts have almost become a thing of the past because of the coronavirus fantomex but a few are still happening on a very small scale revisit a one to one concert with one musician and one member of the audience. i'm kyra phillips and welcome to the show we start in the u.s. city of nashville in the state of tennessee where a car bomb explosion has wounded at least 3 people and caused widespread damage eyewitnesses in the city's downtown area say they heard a loud boom in the early hours of christmas morning followed by black smoke and billowing flames the blast blew out windows and damaged nearby buildings and police say there's evidence that the explosion was intentional. this aerial footage shows

the extent of the damage from the explosion the force of the blast from the recreational vehicle smashed windows and sent to preflighting. luckily the early hour of the day the streets of central nashville were largely empty when the explosion happened police had already arrived on the scene after receiving a phone call reporting gunshots in the area. has also responded they encountered an r v that had a record saying that a potential bomb was dead nate within 15 minutes of service upon hearing that decided to evacuate the buildings nearby. it's thanks to this quick response that the human toll was not much greater investigators are now looking into the possible motive behind the explosion i think people will do there was not an accident. and from that but i'll take a little bit of time to get to the bottom of it and i do think it was clearly done

when nobody was going to be a room it would be a different message if it was you know. on a friday. dime time nashville was sealed off to me f.b.i. have appealed to the public for any relevant information. please tell us what you know. we need leads we need your help. president donald trump has been briefed on the matter. earlier betsy williams and i when this was lives directly across the street from where the vehicle exploded she told my colleague phil gale however unfolding. this started about 430 this morning central time and we heard gunshots out on the street and they were very loud and you know we're in a big entertainment district and and so we were concerned about that but then it happened again and so a few minutes later so we called 911 and then the gunshots happened for the

3rd time and it was it that was very loud and it was like it was from an automatic weapon but i think it back on that now were they really firing the shots or what that some recording that they were had out there i don't know but then after the 3rd series of gunshots we heard we noticed an r t y r parked right across the street. and coming from the r.p.g. was the computerized voice meant that you're saying a back you wait now evacuate now this vehicle has a bomb it will explode evacuated now and so this went on for about 30 minutes and we were or about that you know it's not like i was sitting there looking at my phone trying to figure out what the time was on this but. it was a it was about 30 minutes that that happened and then it started on

a countdown where it said this vehicle will explode in 15 minutes and then in 14 that in an instant well you know we started really gathering our things back at my cat in her carrier i got my son he was staying in another apartment that was also overlooking 2nd avenue and we were all very concerned about all this in a way my 85 year old sister was staying in another apartment that was on the other side of the building on the backside overlooking the river and so we all went down and got in the car. are and where and we went across the bridge over to lp field. and are next on stadium colony they will be sealed to snakes on stadium and we went over there and sat there for about 20 minutes and which deals with going from where you were soft we could see the back of it yet we couldn't see the 2nd avenue side

we could see 1st avenue which those streets weren't parallel to one another so. so then we went back i said well i'm you know clearly this is nothing's going to happen so drove back came back down 2nd avenue headed north on 2nd avenue and got to broadway which is our main thoroughfare through our entertainment district in nashville where all the honking dogs are and and i was sitting there because the police did have 2nd avenue blocked off and i and was trying to decide am i going to go park darko back you know and and then they exploded and the fireball from that thing rose past the top of the a.t.m. to the property that was sitting there and and you know i've seen all these other picture since and it completely blew out the entire front of the 3 to 4 buildings that are just north of ours blew out all of our windows blew out windows on the

back side of the building the reverse side of the building blew all of those windows out. and also blew windows out on 3rd avenue which was a block over. that was betsy williams an eyewitness from nashville speaking to us earlier. by european union countries have started to assess the post of bracks a trade deal reached with the u.k. on christmas eve the 2000 page document still needs to be accepted by the british and european parliament's a long awaited agreement means trade across the english channel will remain tariff free british prime minister boris johnson is pleased with the deal but it could cost him a whole new set of headaches. the doors of the e.u. council closed britain has been a strange from the block since january and now the trade deal is finalizing the divorce. e.u.

ambassadors convened on christmas day to signal the start of approving the thousands of pages of fine print all member countries and britain are expected to ratify the agreement. the e.u. is chief negotiator michel barnier expressed regret saying there was no winner and breck set and calling the separation a lose lose situation while britain's prime minister barak's johnson made merry exulting the agreement as his christmas gift to the nation because this is a deal a deal to give certainty the business travelers and all investors in our current crew from the 1st of january a deal with our friends and partners in the the agreement may have a version of the economic chaos of a no deal breck's it but commentators warn that britain may have opened a pandora's box of troubles not least scottish dissatisfaction most of us and strong would rather be part of the european union when the british are. to draw

trigger for myself but this is definitely. a fitting because it's been so long it's happening over the balls rolling i think we should just finish it. up but i do appreciate the people in scotland on the wall actually what's disturbing you personally i. if you are still going to be part of your. doubts that we are. going to pay for school to be part of you. there are already codes for a 2nd independence referendum to be held in scotland in the coming year and this is not the only unknown post brix that the u.k. will be in completely uncharted territory and let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making headlines british soldiers are helping to direct traffic and assisting in the mass testing of thousands of truck drivers waiting to cross the english channel into france french authorities reopen the border travelers from the u.k.

on wednesday ending a 48 hour closure but only to drivers who tested negative for coronavirus thousands of trucks remain stranded. russia has opened a criminal case against opposition activist nope of sobel an ally of kremlin critic alexei navalny sopel supporters a say she rang the doorbell of an alleged security service agent involved he says it took part in a failed plot to kill him russian authorities however say her actions constitute quote violent trespassing and they took her in for questioning. residents on the portuguese island of madeira have been evacuated after floods and rock slides destroyed at least one home a firefighter and captured this footage of rising waters inundating roads as well as a cemetery in the north of the island there are luckily no reported injuries. pope francis has given his traditional or be at or be a blessing at the vatican in rome but it looked

a drastically different compared to previous years toned down of course because of the coronavirus pantomimic. what a difference a year makes this is pope francis last christmas simpy to square throne with the faithful awaiting his benediction. a year of coronaviruses left its ravages and the square is empty the pontiff himself banished from his balcony to give his blessing inside the vatican to a smaller audience than usual to avoid drawing crowds francis intertwined the virus with his eternal clean of social justice. today in this time of darkness and uncertainty due to the pandemic several lights of hope are appearing such as the discoveries of vaccine and these lights to bring hope to the world they must be accessible to all. and he called for divine help in ending war

around the world for the sake of the children. faces touch the consciences of all men and women of goodwill. so that the causes of conflicts can be addressed. and courageous efforts can be made to build a future of peace and. use the pontiff thing was the same as it has been for centuries but if she is she. disapproves the man you have stamped out. at all be to the city and the world. and around the world cultural life has come to almost a complete standstill but now one organization has come up with a novel way to bring music to listeners $1.00 to $1.00 concerts feature one musician and one a person has an audience you might find even stranger is that ahead of every

concert the musician and the listener must 1st stare into each other's eyes for a full minute to make the experience more intimate initiative started in germany and is now being performed. music connects us it transcends borders the only 2 people at this concert at the dillema seymour in rome and attalia and a german it's almost impossible to achieve greater communication between artist and audience carolynn a partition plays front and your hand sebastian back on the flute very intimate experience. and. it was unique nobody has ever played just for me no stranger has ever stared into my eyes for one minute i think both of us were a bit nervous but only after a minute of intensely staring into each other's eyes does the musician decide what to play a concert in rome is a rare experience in corona times the concept came about with close cooperation

between the german embassy and venues like the. cultural life has come to a complete standstill as a result of the pandemic which is led to a thirst for real musical experiences. lived from thrives on contact with the public and that's commonly interrupted it is of course very difficult for us at the moment and especially here in italy where there is very very little support for artists. they want to one concert is a way of strengthening relationships at a time when the virus is keeping people apart. the hunger for culture is enormous especially now people want to experience art if they want to experience culture culture is one of the primary means of communication between germany and italy so i think it's a great project that is bringing people together. despite

the pandemic theys $11.00 concerts are providing magic german and italian encounters in rome during the christmas period. well there's something for everyone and that's your news update at this hour and a richardson in berlin for me in the entire team here thanks so much for watching choose from more news you can of course get it on our web site. dot com or on social media at the news. young moroccan emigrants. they know the police will stop the. to the road is not the solution. they know their flights could be fatal. but bad news is not an option shattered dreams starts january 18th on t w. it

is the most famous most expensive and most mysterious painting in the world. each year millions of people visit the portrayed in the louvre. the mona lisa has remained a star among works of art for centuries. because fanatics attempted to destroy the painting it can only be admired from behind armored glass. but what makes the mona lisa so special. the small painting shows nothing more than a portrait of a woman. or does it reveal something more than. it

was painted by one of the greatest geniuses who ever lived leonardo da vinci. and with mona lisa he left behind more than just an image of a woman. her gaze appears to wander off yet always meets the viewer. 2 she wears no jewelry her clothing is dark as if she were in mourning and yet she smiles mysteriously. leonardo didn't leave behind any sketches of the portrait. no visible brushstrokes mona lisa appears to be made out of flesh and blood. ringback 'd

yet her biggest secret remains who was shooting whose portrait is leonardo showing us. well to solve this puzzle the louvre placed its most famous painting under scientific scrutiny using the most modern techniques. the painting was examined using x. rays spectroscopy ultraviolet an infrared pictures among other techniques to uncover its secrets. the masters painting technique was examined beyond the surface work or actions made to the painting was anything over painted did leonardo paint the piece in one

session or did he work on it for decades. these questions must be answered in order to resolve the most puzzling question of them all. who is the woman behind the smiling yet melancholy face. who was leonardo's mona lisa. is this not a portrait. but rather an imaginary image of an ideal beauty. experts have been wondering this for centuries. there seems to be proof of only 2 explanations but he cancels the other out

documentation comes from 2 different chroniclers 'd but these written records are not compatible with one another. the most accepted theory is based on biographer george over sorry according to him the portrait depicts lisa. the wife of the florentine soaked merchant francesco dowager condo who commissioned the piece in 1503. this contradicts a note by the chronicle antonio to be artists from 1517 in which leonardo da vinci claims to have been commissioned by giuliano dimity. just like the 2 chronicles contemporary leonardo scholars also have divergent theories. people until an artist story in from florence

believes the officially recognized theory that the painting depicts lisa condo. i believe that play an audio actually painted get our dini the wife of francesco del joconde. probably around $1503.00. 23 roman historian robert perry considers a new and revolutionary theory in which the portrayed woman is an entirely different person. i think the painting is connected with rundown. it has nothing to do with morris or. the 1st clue leads to florence the majority of the great renee songs artists lived and worked here as did leonardo da vinci. ga

over sorry also worked in florence he chronicled the biographies of many italian artists. next to his work as an architect asari documented the biographies of great italian artists today these make up one of the most important foundations of art history levitated a pure. italian e was 1st published in 1550 m. revise in 1568. today the original manuscripts are housed in the if it's the library. most of the artists whose lives were sorry chronicled were already dead at the time of the sari researched very carefully. so

too with leonardo da vinci on just a few pages for sam he wrote down his whole life story. in it he also mentions that little nadia painted the portrait of mona lisa for francesco derringer condo her husband and it's in the possession of king france is the 1st to france. he labored on it for 4 years. and ultimately left it unfinished. these words gave the painting its name. mona lisa. who was this mona lisa of whom were sorry what and who was her husband francesco damage a condo. francesco was a stock much good acquired some wealth but wasn't part of florence is an elite. he

was a nouveau riche businessman. was it really possible that a renowned painter like leonardo accepted a commission by an ordinary businessman or did french just go down to congo and his wife climbed the ranks of society. out of his courage or gone to a francesco del joe condo was well known in the city seem pushy because he's just an ordinary merchant he was also a public and charismatic figure out who mom had it up not a live answer who because. you say it out when your lease was very young. and for saudi to find so very beautiful to see what i mean to marry her husband also spoke very highly of her and it does that mean that in his testaments francesco refers to her as a bona fide

a woman if you should move in this is an unusual description for woman getting those who are only i have yet to find a similar description in other testaments. are more you not on a bonafide a woman can signify a noble woman the big. with high principles who works hard and has a personality. that is going to hold the green chicagoan develop a bust or solve the. lease and condo was francesca's 3rd wife. the birth of their 2nd child a move into a new home could have been the occasion for the commissioned portrait.

moving yet up until then leonardo only portrayed men and women of nobility these people were interesting to him a star such as himself could choose his own subjects why did he paint lisa down to conduct. leonardo return to florence around 1500 tremolando he was 48 years old restless without family and didn't have any large commissions on the horizon. will not go beyond that when playing otto came to florence he didn't have any commissions or work. and we know that portraits are the bread and butter of painters doing it and that is to say they are the simplest commissions and also the

best paid so it is easily possible that francesco del joe condo commissions laid auto to portray his wife in the morning. but doubts arise there's a condo family trade register resides in the lucky vo story codell institute. and it is the basis of their tax report. florence had a highly advanced tax system the so-called catastrophe. as part of this its citizens had to claim all of their incomes and expenditures. in this trade register all movement of money and assets were meticulously recorded . the summary mentions that leonardo received the commission in 1503 so

a record of the expensive portrayed must certainly have been made. but in 50 no 3 there is no reference to the expense of a painting. there is no record of a commission to leonardo in the entire trade register. there is also no mention of such a valuable painting in the inheritance. you can imagine how desperately i searched for clues of a commission or payments. not even in the testament is there mention that this painting existed. i think francesco would have certainly claimed it since it was a painting with a rising and secure value the whole thing is incomprehensible. print

just go would have most likely shown the portrayed by the famous painter publicly and would not have risked event or tax evasion. in lynn on his record there is also no trace of a commission by francesca money apparently didn't change terms. from just goes testament is archived in florence's arche view destructo there in there is also no mention of the great masters valuable artwork. leonardo apparently never delivered the painting to francesco. bizarre he writes about an incomplete portrays the mona lisa and the louvre however is completed down to the very last detail. i mean this year story here except of the commission at

a time in which he had no work is it that he introduced himself to the merchant who wanted a painting of his wife and simply agreement then he painted only the head. dates that he interrupted the work for other commissions and left it all on finished never delivering the painting to the merchant not even the head. and there are no traces of this painting in florence with the traces left by the motion a couple must be available in the archives it was in one documents old testament strachey the with that the the crystal and yet this painting by leonardo shows up with the way to the. way his or they stab me if we had finished the painting and limited then a record within the family would exist if a painting by a famous artist like leo nardo was a very valuable commodity and that while at this. they left me a bit dated wes appears we know absolutely nothing about this but he. says that she

would meet the. hasn't really been lost. the mona lisa as described by her sorry last is the painting in the louvre the different one. much about leonardo seems unexplainable today very few artists have captivated people's imaginations as he has. one reason for this is that he started so many paintings that he never finished like that of st jerome in the wilderness. yet these works count among out history's most famous.

battles with the end a ration of the magi leonardo often lost interest in his paintings after he solved challenges or figuration and composition finishing the pieces became too tedious. this was also the case with the fresco for the council hall of blood so vecchio. it was to become his largest work commissioned by the city government leonardo chose the battle of hungary ari has his motif. leonardo received the commission in $1503.00 the same period during which he worked on lisa condo's portrait. restless as he was leonardo left even the biggest project the florence commissioned incomplete is it plausible that he behaved similarly with mona lisa. only to finish it later most of ready made it is very likely that blaine otto puts

the painting aside. he didn't finish it and never delivered it it was most likely completed at a later time made. less aisy so i think that's this theory in which the painting was begun in $1503.00 and finished later is the most plausible and it's also the one i personally believe and we'll put it i mean if you . when did leonardo finish the painting. let's assume in old age among after he started it. 'd must have carried the painting with him throughout much of his life.

if there was such a time span between the start and the completion of the painting then we can determine that with today's modern methods. and again modern technology has a go at the mona lisa. the results show that the color pigments were applied without significant interruption. using infrared technology historians searched for over painted areas corrections. the genius leonardo made hardly a single correction from the 1st brush stroke to the finished piece. the only overpainting occurred on mona lisas left hand here leonardo corrected the gesture of her finger. aside from that the painting was made in

one session an unbelievable achievement by the master. according to our historian alexander pairing these discoveries further confound the mona lisa theory . the council on to sue the entire study confirms the absurdity of the identity of the loser painting or a painting depicting more lisa would be moved to move more nearly so we see that. it was determines that a painterly process was fairly continuous and continue we would loose or fall to. the he would have had to paint it in 2 completely separate stages in the top when. clearly be identified with today's methods and tools. of all the 1st room for all of them but to go also the launch of the landscape

would have had to have been new since s.r.t. didn't mention one at all. on soft. the great biog. as in another aspect as well. in describing the mona lisa he talks about her eyelashes which could be rendered only by the most delicate of brushes on her brows you witnessed them at their fullest and spouses and how they emerged from the pores of her skin is not really as one can only imagine. but the mona lisa that hangs in the louvre today has neither eyelashes no eyebrows . these are also not detectable using relief imaging. sorry one of the main attests to the mona lisa fieri never saw the painting himself

. sadly no larry ruffled. bizzare didn't have any written sources his biography is based on mia or of accounts that circulated influence. at. ask lee to have you with if he yet trade back if he got that pushed up this means he wrote part of the history of drew condors portrait was the mona lisa or based on such oral accounts the passed from person to person. who we never saw the painting this clearly he described what he invented that those who do . but from where does the painting in the louvre stand are there 2 portraits model from last. this new idea takes us to the end what's on the watch prompts.

me another died here in 1519 at the advanced age of 67. the chapel in which he was in tune is located directly next to the king chateau. leonardo came to him was by invitation of the french king francis the fast by then the artistic genius had already achieved cult status. leonardo lived in a manner next to the chateau called clue to seeing. an incident occurred in the small french manner that steers the mona lisa investigation in an entirely new and revolutionary direction. leonardo brought 3 paintings with him but wonder today is referred to as the mona lisa

a painting of some drum baptist and that was some downloads that he stayed in this manner in closing where you also had a studio. at the. the chronicler antonio to beatus witnessed cardinal law degree of arrogance visit with leonardo enclosed to say on october the 10th $1517.00 he relates the 3 paintings he saw at the aging masters. one of the works is of a certain florentine lady painted from life that was made in honor of the passing of giuliano day many to another one is of the young same journey the baptist the 3rd of madonna with her child seated on saint anna's lap the latter was the most

perfect of them all. today the painting up saint eleanor with maria and baby jesus on her lap is housed in the louvre. so too is the painting that b. artist described of saint john the baptist. is the painting that was made for juliana dimity. also in the louvre is it the mona lisa. equired roe for the brain injury was commissioned in rome by giuliano demitted she . as a result of an affair he had with a woman from the will be no reality made you figure rundown or. your question the government and.

'd 'd the new name surfaces imagine. the ruling family of florence this name is most associated with a renaissance period they were rich scrupulous obsessed with power and patrons of the arts. giuliano domenici was one of the 2 brothers that lived during davinci time. he was a womanizer and a squander. he was charismatic had a powerful name and an influential brother. his brother lived in rome his name was given me to meditating and he had high

aspirations later he became cardinal and finally pope. as pope clear the tent he made history as a sensitive our patron as well as a scrupulously powerful politician. he strengthened the clergy's power and influence over the battling italian city states and had a weakness for the beautiful things in life. giuliana is extravagant brother arrived in or be no but he was a guest of the class so to carla. here he had several chambers known as the magnificence quarter.

giuliano the airport and your llama was a poet he had been raised by his father lorenzo who was a great writer he wrote poetry is interested in women that haven't the slightest interest in politics not everyone is for me this will. play all day for they lloyd visual graham. brioni is would rather it was a great deal to do the exact opposite that my that he was wrong about everything. and it is great passion was politics. i was an avid hunter. but he made it all top 10 a politician. giovani domenici pope leo the

10th took care of his brother julian throughout his life he also financed his extravagant lifestyle. giuliano had countless affairs. but one of these flames had serious consequences. in the marker region. so de carlo looms over the town. the tragedy involving giuliano domenici that would eventually lead to the mona lisa took place. but that the most important source is a document that is housed in the library of the university of. this document is a page in a book of farming

a fact that the people of the us bush. records were found in the university library of beano regarding a certain politic. in politics would later become cardinal but was poisoned of the age of 24. but he was born an orphan. how did he acquire the name. who were his parents. for the record document is birth how he became. i'm an orphan and later a medic. the name of his mother also appears particular brand dunny a young woman from beano.