larding in care homes i think it's horrible so what have you to be the 1st facility to have these vaccinations and to have another tool to keep serious infections out of the harm even infect soon also has to heighten the an occupation of priority groups in germany is expected to run until mid 2021 when the vaccine is expected to become free and available to everyone. else could move north again ocean dominic is a member of germany's bundestag for the green party and a member of the health alliance advisory board welcome to t w the european commission president has described this as a touching moment of unity for europe is that the way you see it well yes everybody's pretty much relieved that after 11 months we are able to introduce a vaccination all over europe and also be in germany. but still it's not the end of our fight against a pandemic it's just the beginning of

a huge and major step to fight these awful disease. we know that 60 to 70 percent of us need to be vaccinated in order for a society to gain this base herd immunity can we get to 60 or 70 percent without beings vaccinations being mandatory. well i think it doesn't have to be mandatory but we have to have accu-chek information campaign to yeah get all the people to be vaccinated for it necessary urgent money to keep it which it's not will not happen which out information and also explaining to people why it's so important ok that's what's necessary do you think that germany will achieve that. well you know at 1st of all we need to have enough vaccine for a huge come pain at the moment we only got really small amounts so it'll take

a while and it's until we are able to back to 80 knots people but from. mates 2020 on we need to have like a full come pain running who informs everybody and i think there's still a lot of work to do i'm german chancellor angela merkel has had trouble getting very gentle leaders to agree to lockdowns us haga she wanted on this as she wanted do you see that as a weakness in germany said federal political system. yeah of course it is a weakness i germany was kind of the champion in the spring this year 2 sites of fundament but we we lost the lead and now we are behind and we're really trying hard to get numbers stalin and to yeah it gets a situation under control and i think like regional differences where and major disadvantage you know all of our strategy still. being like

a united. team to fight up on them they would be much better and i totally agree with chancellor merkel. as she said we read needs to step together and step forward to fights on dummy thank you so much for joining us to talk to dr jaenisch adama dime from the bus talks health advisory health alliance advisory board. thank you so much. to take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines a chinese citizen journalist has been sentenced to 4 years in jail for reporting from drew on during the early months of the pandemic for the lawyer as young john was detained after shooting a number of videos criticizing the government's response to the outbreak a lawyer says she's been accused of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. us president donald trump is signed into law $2.00 trillion dollars worth of

pandemic relief and other public spending after a delay of nearly a week is decision restores unemployment benefits to millions and averts a chaotic government shutdown the president had previously threatened to block the bill. britain leaves the a used common market and customs union in just a few days the u.k. left the e.u. in january but remained aligned with the blocs trading in regulates rules during a year long transition period the 2 sides struck a last minute trade deal on christmas eve the british government insists that u.k. businesses are ready for becoming changes but senior figures in government have acknowledged that the last minute deal these little time the business is to prepare fully. the w. correspondents have been told in europe to examine what the u.k. is departure means on this side of the channel today brussels bureau chief alexandra found naaman is in amsterdam welcome alexandra why did you choose that

the city feel 1st stone. well we are here in amsterdam field because this city is becoming an increasingly popular destination for brics it's impacted companies companies operating in financial sector i see advertising industry the media and many of them have to sided so relocates to the neverland to be able to be operational in the european union and to talk about the advantages we are joined here by you are not on the ha search you are had to offer the go as currency cloud and fin tech company and you are to have you have quarters. but. and i'm saddam why i just got that's correct their currency clouds in tech company launched in 2012 we have offices in london and in new york but we decided to expand

an opus and open an office here in amsterdam well we've always had plans to come times to rex this really accelerated those plans for us because you were afraid you were not able to do business in the you opinion yeah i think for us off to the referendum of became clear that there was a real risk that as a u.k. licensed entity we would lose the ability to service our european customers with our u.k. license so the best way to mitigate those effects was to expand and set up an office in another your member state so we did a tour of europe looked at many different countries but decided on the netherlands and i think particularly house down because they really just as access to a lot of top talents and netherlands has a really safe regulatory environment and here particularly here in amsterdam there's a really cool and strong in tech sector and now the u. of p. and union and the u.k. agreed to on a trade agreement but this agreement that still has to be ratified it since little

about financial services so what do you think about it. yeah that's correct just very little about financial services in the free trade agreements. this was our assumption all along that would be very hard for the u.k. and the e.u. through to negotiate those financial services so it sort of fell a date at their decision to come here to amsterdam 2 years ago already thank you very much so this is our 1st station during our breaks it's goodbye to again and i'm saddam back to you feel. that i'm thank you. in the air quality index of the world's most polluted cities bishkek is top of the list of. the population of around a 1000000 and for many years the winter months have seen choked with smog as people use cold to heat their homes since coal is cheap changing to a less polluting fuel won't be easy especially now that the coronavirus pandemic is

battering the country's economy evolution reports. coal is selling like hotcakes in the freezing cold winter temperatures in the city of bishkek average at minus 6 degrees celsius call is an essential good because homes on the outskirts aren't connected to the city's central heating network. by a lot of these bags sometimes 20 at once as you can see there are private houses all around here and they all heat with coal. that. made headlines several times in december for being the number one most polluted city in international air quality ratings but people here say the smog is a problem every year in the winter. it's just. it's like this when you leave the city the sky is clear but. i think this is because of the negligence of the

government no one is monitoring the situation and the smog is a direct consequence of that. i think it's just far it's definitely because of the winter do you really think it's pollution or the words that is a given in your. lies in a valley and smog covers it like a lid kid it is authorities admit they don't know the exact source of the pollution the country's prime minister recently said this mainly coal powered heating plant could be behind up to 20 percent of the emissions he ordered the government to look into switching to gas. for now though air quo. the sensors in the city show the air is hazardous to people's health the concentration of cancerous particles is several times higher than the norm here in the center you can sometimes even smell the smog it smells burnt and city authorities say that the air quality is so bad that people should actually be wearing masks like this one. but environmental activists feel

authorities are all talk and no action they're protesting against the city's latest planning document they say new buildings are blocking the wind and locking the smog inside the city. the plan is only in the interest of the construction lobby the building companies and big all of dark so you can just go. in other countries they would have declared an emergency situation by now but here they just pretend nothing's happening. but for now local environmental inspectors are stuck in forcing existing norms today they're checking the quality of the coal used to heat the boiler at this local school even many government institutions are still heated with coal. regular people will keep eating with coal because it's the most cost effective we can ban the use of coal in the winter people have to live they have to cook. once everyone has access to

a gas connection and to an affordable electricity supply there's simply won't be small here anymore. so when you. but kyrgyzstan's gas provider raised prices this year and the coronavirus has hit the country's cash strapped economy hard so for now the move away from coal and from this layer of smaug fields far off . a many brands have had to go virtual during this pandemic including the european timber sports championships yes 14 competitors lined disciplines based around cutting involving access on solar power source social distancing roles my intentions couldn't compete directly against each other so. went through their paces in the venues and no one knew the outcome until all the elements were streamed together in a live broadcast on the day polish. 2 bit ski emerged

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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. 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 more corrections 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 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 each 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 to conduct the wife of the florentine so much and francesco down gioconda 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 team. just like the 2 chroniclers contemporary leonardo scholars also have divergent theories. people and an artist or ian from florence believes the officially recognised theory that the painting depicts least condo.

i believe that play an audio actually painted get our d.n.a. the wife of francesco del joconde. probably around $1503.00 and in milledge english into 3 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 with. the 1st clue leads to farms the majority of the great renee songs artists lived and worked here as did leonardo da vinci. ga over sorry also worked in florence economical the biographies of many italian artists. next to his

work as an architect for sorry documented the biographies of great italian artists today these make up one of the most important foundations of art history levitated a pure chill leonti architect. or tory italia any was 1st published in 1550 and revise in 1568. today the original manuscripts are housed in the if it's the library. most of the artists whose lives were sorry chronicle were already dead at the time of the sari researched very carefully. so too with leonardo da vinci on just a few pages for sammy wrote down his whole life story. in it he also mentions that

little painted the portrait of mona lisa for francesco dirge a condo her husband and it's in the possession of king francis 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 are sorry what and who was her husband francesco down to come to hong. francesco was a stock much good acquired some wealth but wasn't part of florence's elite. he was a nouveau riche businessman. was it really possible that a renowned painter like leonardo accepted the commission by an ordinary business

man or did francesco down to conduct and his wife climb the ranks of society. out of russia's greater honda or francesco del ger condo was well known in the city seen bush admitted he was nice just an ordinary merchant he was also a public and charismatic figure legal mom had it up he never answered to become. a doctor in your lease i was very young. and 1st sorry to find so very beautiful to see what i mean to marry her husband also spoke very highly often and if it is the me in his testaments francesco refers to her as a bone a feat a woman that if he should move in this is an unusual description for a woman getting those who are only i have yet to find

a similar description in other testaments. no more you are not on a bona fide a woman can signify a noble woman with high principles who works hard and has personality. that is going to go on dipping she could go and develop a post or some of the. lisa down your condo was francesco's 3rd wife. the birth of their 2nd child a move into a new home could have been the occasion for the commission portrait. and yet up until them 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 calm down. leonardo return to florence around 1500 trauma lungs 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 other 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 out in

a mall. but darts arise there's a condo family trade register resides in the lucky vs store a codel instituto deli no 20 and it is the basis of their tax report. florence had a highly advanced tax system the so-called kotov. as part of this it 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 portrait 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 because i think francesco would have certainly claimed it since it was a painting with a rising and secure value the whole thing is incomprehensible she's begun already of you should. 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 hams. from just goes testament is archived in florence is a key view destructo there in there is also no mention of the great masters valuable artwork. leonardo apparently never delivered the painting to francesca. bizarrely writes about an incomplete portrait of the mona lisa and the louvre however is completed down to the very last detail. you see what i mean the years surely he except of the commission at a time in which he had no work at that which he introduced himself to the merchant who wanted a painting of his wife and simply agreement then he painted only the head if

they study 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 couple must be available in the archives in one documents old testament strachey the with that the decrease that and yet this painting by leonardo shows up with no way to the. usual day stanley if we had finished the painting and a little bit then a record within the family would exist if a painting by a famous artist like leo nardo was a very valuable commodity while at this. they left me advocated wes appeared we know absolutely nothing about this but he. says that's what i mean the thing. hasn't really been lost. the mona lisa as described by her sorry lost is the

painting in the louvre the different one. much about leonardo seems unexplainable today very few artists have captivated people's imaginations 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 art history's most famous. as with the end a ration of the magi leonardo often lost interest in his paintings after he solved challenges of figuration and compositional finishing the pieces became too tedious

. this was also the case with the fresco for the council hall of palace so vecchio. it was to become his largest work commissioned by the city government leonardo chose the battle of hunky ari has his motif leonardo received the commission in $1503.00 the same period during which he worked on lisa condos portrayed. restless as he was leonardo left even the biggest project of 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 are made. to let a.z. so i think that's this theory in which the painting was begun in 1503 and finished later is the most plausible and it's also the one i personally believe we'll britain i mean. when did leonardo finish the painting. let's assume in old age long after he started it. busy then leonardo must have carried the painting with him throughout much of his life ready. 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 or 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 art historian alexander pairing these discoveries further confound the mona lisa theory

. if you go on to say 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 knollys so we see it 1st because it was determines that a painterly process was fairly continuous and going to new release or fall. he would have had to paint it in 2 completely separate stages to sweden and then stopped when to suit churches will clearly be identified with today's methods and tools. of all over. them but to go on to launch of the landscape it would have had to have been new since s.r.t. didn't mention one at all but i know long soft. the great biog.

ans 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 and 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 . no larry ruffled. bizarrely didn't have any written sources his biography is based on all of accounts that circulated influence.

at. ask lee to have you with if he yet trade back that if he had he got that wish that this means he wrote part of the history of drew condors poetry was the mona lisa or based on such oral accounts of passed from person to person. who we never saw the painting this he described what he invented that those who do look. up from where does the painting in the louvre stamp. their 2 portraits one of them lost. this new idea takes us to the end what's on the watch prompts. leonardo died here in 1519 at the advanced age of 67. in 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 them the artistic genius had already achieved cult status. leonardo lived in a manner next to the chateau called clue to see. an incident occurred in this small frenchman on 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 monalisa 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

chronic liar antonio de beatus witnessed cardinal law drag 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 demented to another one is of the young same jail 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 them st anna with maria and baby jesus on her lap is housed in the louvre. so do is the painting that b. artist described of saint john the baptist. is the painting that was made for juliana. also in the louvre is it the mona lisa. equired wrote. the painter a was commissioned in rome by giuliano dimiter. as a result of an affair he had with a woman from will be no reality made you figure brown danny or. rather your big question to get. 'd 'd a new name surfaces made it to. 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 to squander. it was charismatic had a powerful name and an influential brother. his brother lived in rome his name was given me to many change and he had high aspirations later he became cardamom and finally pope. as

pope lear the tent he made history as a sensitive our patron as well as a scrupulous and powerful politician. to strengthen the clergy's power and influence over the battling italian city states and had a weakness for the beautiful things in life. some . truly honor his extravagant brother arrived in or been or where he was a guest of the plot so to collar. here he had several chambers known as the magnificence quarter. juliana big airport and your mamma was

a poet he had been raised by his father lorenzo who was a great writer he wrote poetry amber is interested in women having the slightest interest in politics known everyone is free to pull. a o'day for their load visual grammar. really only use brother was a great politician the exact opposite that my that he was wrong about everything and it is great passion was politics. really corporate i mean. i was an avid hunter back but he made the top dog then a politician w.b. . giovani domenici pope leo the tent took care of his brother giuliani throughout his life he also financed his extravagant lifestyle.

giuliano had come closer fast. but one of these flames had serious consequences. in the marker region the plot so do color looms over the town. the tragedy involving giuliano the many trees that would eventually lead to the mona lisa took place. for the poor 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 foundling people of the gospel. records were found in the university library of beano regarding

a certain in politics. and politics would later become cardinal but was poisoned to be age of $24.00. but he was born an orphan. how did he acquire the name may teaching. who were his parents. for the wreck or stock meant his birth how he became. i'm an orphan and later a medic. the name of his mother also appears particular brand dani a young woman from beano.