this is still the news live from berlin people across the globe mark international women's day tens of thousands have taken to the streets to show you this all the down are see an appreciation of what women do all around the world as the main givers during the pandemic of many women accounting their losses rather than gains also coming up. kerry and megan in an explosive interview with oprah winfrey about their break with the world family that includes accusations of racism and indifference to mental distress is in suicide. plus hitting the gym again

after months of pandemic in juice couch potato latkes and hopes that germany's economy can finally start getting back into shape too. i'm jarryd rated welcome to discard the world has been mocking international women's day at a time when the pandemic is placing extra burdens on many of them a un commission says the global health emergency has forced women to take on more housework home schooling and caring while in many cases also losing their jobs and the isolation and stress of lockdowns has led to a surge in domestic violence which again mainly to fix women across the world they've been speaking out. decked out in pink these women and it's

a nice capital are determined to weather the rain and make their voices heard on a day that celebrates women they're protesting against a rise in violence and gender disparities much of this amplified to join the pandemic. element bad i'm optimistic violence has increased alarmingly and the number of femicide is an important indicator in this respect in the 1st 2 months of this year there were 15 fantasize. on the streets of kiev thousands of ukrainian women and men took it a step further their demanding authorities ratify a law that protects women from physical sexual and emotional violence at home more than 2000 cases were reported to police in 2020 the lockdown brought on by covert 19 has unveiled a haas reality for many. years some are way to slow down year by quarter we're not in the room we want to be i grew up in a family where my father kept beating my mother he was not held responsible for it

such cases are covered up there is no working law you see. if he has no way. in the philippines activists blame the government for not doing enough to address the vulnerabilities that many women face they want more to be done to tackle unemployment and poverty. and in pakistan the festive feeling echoes demands for social justice and better education the u.n. says progress for gender equality is slow and the loss in effect of the pandemic is beginning to show women are paid less than men with the gender pay gap sitting at 23 percent certainly education is in trouble is you know it to be looking thanks to this one or the areas of progress in the last 2 decades especially has been girls' education in the region devastates. all those is because. very hot. and of course women outside the

lever my kids in a row with even the. changing in the east skills that's how to play absolutely for the solace of the chiefs and the jokes of. this skills that we do not even state to we get it where it will most police was it hold. while women are the ones paying the highest price to call for everyone to play their part continues to resonate around the world. and our correspondents have been following the women's muchas around the world he's using han in istanbul lisa lewis in paris and been misjudged it in islamabad. pakistan of women are determined to go out of your dominant and picked out their ass in front of. their women and. i love them the 1st 2 credits and have opportunities for the next influx are

enjoyed. every year the march on international women's day here in paris it is like a huge street party but protesters have been telling me that the situation for women in france is still dire even more so since the beginning of the case with 19 condemning women have been taking over a lot more for. they've been victims of domestic violence and more women than men lost their job over the past fear women family earn about 23 percent less than men in the country and experts say that this wage gap is likely to widen in the cave with 19 pandemic. many women have gathered here in central istanbul despite a heavy police presence police have blocked all the main roads leading to the city center they have even close metro stations to. largest crowds from gathering but as

you can see the women took to the streets they are here and they are making some noise they brought drums think brought posters who was what they want is gender equality but they are also here to draw attention to what they say also skyrocketing rates of gender based violence here in turkey to one well known rights group more than $300.00 women last year alone and they say the pen demi has this problem even. more here today to speak up and to demand better protection against violence from their government. and the words yulia han in istanbul and earlier lisa lewis in paris and been his job it in islamabad well it's an interview that's already created shock waves around the world britain's prince harry and his wife meghan unloading on linus inside the world family the couple who have stepped back from official duties and maintain they've been cut off

financially had plenty to say and they eagerly awaited sit down with talk show queen oprah winfrey. one stunning revelation follows another in this 2 hour interview being watched by millions meghan describes the hardship and racism she experienced as part of the british royal family the duchess of sussex said there were concerns about how dark the skin color of the couple's son archie would be the british press are having a field day but if that wasn't enough to shock the royals loving nation meghan also revealed thoughts of suicide. prime minister boris johnson refused to be drawn. so i've spent a long time not commenting on iraq family matters and i don't intend to depart from that today many see parallels to harry smother princess diana who also found herself unprepared for life in the pressure cooker of the royal family. the

american poet amanda gorman treated magnus living the life they anna should have if only those around her had been as brave as she was meghan isn't living a life without pain but a life without a prison on the streets of london some people empathized with meghan. talking a ball colby would talk about this song about how this feels like. we have full of people especially it doesn't sound like this world cup being a sure thing if he put it before lloyd zach he was gay not because somebody pays a kid keep a view that we don't know about i think it's a good thing the joyous news that the couple is now expecting a girl was almost drowned out by the allegations now many expect answers from the house of windsor which is unlikely to happen they're supposed to is never complain never explain. but the duke and duchess of sussex have proven that some matters

cannot be resolved behind closed doors. and earlier we spoke to do you correspondent challah shallots elson pill in london to find out how people in the u.k. are reacting to this interview. and dominated all the front pages all the conversations that we hearing with people on the streets this of course is an explosive interview it really was just one allegation after another and just to give you a sense of how big this was. the couple revealed during that interview that the gender of that child that they're expecting a girl they will say said that they actually got married 3 days before the world wedding that big spectacle that so many of us watched those revelations alone would have been enough to dominate the news agenda here in the u.k. today but no we had a real explosive insight into the some of the in a walk ins of the royal family some of the the relationships particularly between

harry and his family and to the world family has this mantra that we all know about never complain never explain and and this is the royal couple here harry and meghan and did did both in this interview now that detractors will say that they are a century trying to trade on that titles that they have said that they want to step away from the royal family to try and avoid publicist see but here they are one of the most publicized into us in decades the critics also say that it was an extremely sensitive time for this interview to go on and when her a grandfather prince philip is in hospital but not on the other side of the spectrum there are many who feel that whether it's been a real outpouring of support for the couple but taking some of the claims that have been made by by meghan regarding her treatment regarding some of the same is that. during her time in the palace one for example we know she said during the interview that there were conversations concerns about the color of her unborn child's skins

they really damning damning claims that. and that was chill some pill in london there's plenty going on today here are some of the other stories a brazilian supreme court judge has and now hold the criminal convictions against former president louisiana. the clearing of the convictions could see a run in next year's presidential election against current leaders. brazil's prosecutor general says it will appeal the decision brazil from 2003 to 2011. fit death toll after a series of powerful explosions in equatorial guinea has risen to $31.00 hundreds more were injured the blasts flattened a military camp and nearby neighborhoods in the largest city bought up the president has blamed negligence by soldiers responsible for storing explosives.

the trial of former u.s. police officer derek jovan over the killing of george floyd has been delayed until tuesday as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the courthouse the judge received a last minute order to consider adding an additional murder charge last may the former police officer knelt on mr floyd's neck as he pleaded that he couldn't breath. here in germany after months of lockdown a small measure of normality is returning in line with the cautious coronavirus reopening strategy announced last week by the chancellor merkel boss restaurants and most non-essential businesses remain closed bought some sections of the economy are once again welcoming customers. time to get back in shape after the enforced inactivity of lockdown james like this one in limiting the number of mosques are essential and time slots have to be booked online but the fitness friends just glad

to be back. of course it's a great feeling to finally be able to do some real sports again after 3 months of just jogging and a few pushups at home despite the restrictions with the mosque and everything it is of course a bit more freedom again you don't trick me if i hired a retail to those relief after months of window shopping only this clothing store in north rhine-westphalia can finally let customers in again here too only those who booked a slot can enter the system is called click an meet yeah that's click and need it's not really under shanks click and meat is of course a chance to make some money whether it will be the same turnover that we would normally make i doubt that because the customers don't want to book a fixed appointment and spontaneous purchases are completely out. up to spawn time quite the phone complex neck in many parts of the country nis e m's are opening to a trickle of well spaced visitors and in some winter resorts even ski lifts of

started operating again. to check if more activity means more infections there's a promise of one free corona test per week for everyone here in our tests are available but not many came to get one on monday morning partly because of confusion about what was on offer. this time to. para long time it was not clear which groups are supposed to come in and what was actually being asked of the test centers in the end we were able to open this morning we got the documentation at half past 7 and we got going but there were some nervous moments before that. germany emerges from lockdown people 1st have to get used to the new rules building strength and stamina is also a good idea the government has warned it will be months yet before the pandemic is over. your up to date is up next is d. w.

news africa with my colleague told me a lot in perth is always more on the details we new south bend it didn't help you don't call we're also on instagram and twitter to. lunge are great in berlin thanks for watching. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers one official information as a journalist i have worked off the streets of many characters and their problems are almost the same core to social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption we can afford to stay silent when

it comes to the fans of the humans on seeing the microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny paris and i work. this is v.w. news africa coming up on the program women in conflict zones we visit rebel territory in the democratic republic of congo where one woman is fighting driven by a desire for justice. since they killed my father and what they killed everyone in my family that's the only reason i became a fighter and we meet the all but trying to get syrian union children to appreciate their culture as they learn to read.

hello i'm told me a lot of glad you could join us we begin in the democratic republic of congo where the east of the country has suffered from years of fighting the region is ruled by a complex web of armed groups with different interests and motivations it's difficult for outsiders to get into parts of the area but. again the rare access to rebel held territory where she met one woman who is bearing the wounds of conflict but with a little glimpse of hope from now on it's what they call it no man's land because not the government and also no specific rebel group controls this area that makes it also quite dangerous the red i mean this is no man's land begins and this is where also the fighting happens on a regular basis. we are on foot the beauty of the landscape cannot distract from the constant fear of kidnap or being caught up in

fighting. as soon as we get close the rebel militia sends an escort to take us to that base. one of them is mummify either she joined the militia almost 20 years ago after another group attacked her village the man killed her parents with machetes 6 of them raped her she was just 15 she'd already been married the same group that killed her husband. i felt defeated my life had defeated me i saw what they had done to me and how they killed my family i couldn't continue my life like it had been and this is issue really so i decided to become a fighter and drive them out was i was a. given the chance she'd shoot them on the spot she says when a former teacher began recruiting people to take revenge she joined him many in her

group survived similar. it's a militia of traumatized damaged young people. they killed my father they killed everyone in my family that's the only reason i became a fighter. after terry vinge and survival they control around 20 villages in the area security for food in a deal they say is consensual but we saw our local people running in fear from them the idea of consent is complicated for everyone. it's only when we are alone that says this. i hear that other people run away from the group but i think how can i run i have no one to help me i have no land i have no one who could help me build a life. she would like to trade her gun for the life she had before as a farmer in english if the myself i would have had

a good life with my husband one like other people have but that was taken away from me so i did not like that. so. now she pours what hope she has in her children that they will have choices one day. what the neuberger what if god blesses me i could at least give them an education of their blessed at least that i can never get another job so i cannot help them by myself. so who is helping women who are survivors of conflict let's not speak too because. she is the nigeria director of the organization of women for women international as she joins us now from the city of justice in my jury it's good to have you on the program you're going to zation works with women around the world but in my jury here how are these women affected by in security do you have any examples. oh yes i

do have a lot of examples in the example of women that go to bed in the night and then we go out we. junkies on their control over night stick to say everything and when i say they have a thing they lose their homes they lose loved ones they lose children in some cases the i am shocked that. i have read novels or we may have to run away from the our regional homes and become displaced to women in other places though in other towns so that they can so i find to be a family go way way less out of a family but. and then there are that we just trauma oh such experiences so we have a lot of women and our situation and us concrete and unfortunately i think that not enough is being done that way for women international congress or the state of the

so called. beauty i like. from your experience because when you look at the issues of insecurity in nigeria you have for example boko rahman and the kidnappings but you also have intercommunal conflict and in those cases how can women be the leaders in conflict resolution. oh well in part in a particular community where we've walked the kind of a monkey food i'm stronger than 8 others by the way just on the nation's program we had we made was that we saw that program become changes and creating. capers and teaching halt in 6 shows the internet for me to be actually typing out programs piece along green ginsberg and i had the edges and if i was in the avocado feet i didn't fall off and they were all part and so how did this process i was the youngest son i was as bad as i was to look at the ocoee the as

a whole and see how and why the father's will really show peace in their community a game because his focus is some of those people have to be there for me it is for well over 5 there are some cases like this article last for many of the last 2 states as. in the results asked the sample the women because the competition is going hard and they have and they enjoy the season such. so yes i go right and very briefly how does everyday life in these communities you work with stop women from achieving their potential what are these things they have to overcome. well our 1st and foremost i would say peace on with god is to go. out for. the. know to take the responsibility off finally and. in the same

why god. activity or your skill that is to use. this being made. i think it's very proper before create seeing not only our problem is. to think all right we have to leave it there for now because when you see nigeria director of women for women international thank you thank you very much and still on in palm and we turn now to a woman hoping to inspire syria leone's next generation vicki remote has used her platforms as a media intrapreneur an activist to raise awareness on challenges affecting women and girls and now she wants to go further with a new book series for children vicky removal is awaken on to come in story books

for children in serially on the part of a series that she hopes will help children celebrate the african culture. to reach this year remove published a face in this series i got my laughs. with these and last traditions she tells the story of a serial union father who teaches his daughter about local games and food. this book is the 1st officer trained in the post-war serial yawn she wants kids like his son luke to relate to local characters in story books. so when i wrote the book i was thinking specifically about doing an early reader book i would teach you know that sounds a vowel sound to children like my son. and i thought yes i really want to center it

on a cereal union family on a cereal you know me and girl that whether you're selling and child at home or in the diaspora when you pick this up the names and the character and he will see yourself in them. this local printing press has been busy producing more copies of the book due today huge demand among parents whom are brought. already sort of core pieces to have story books that african children to learn how to read but at the same time identify with african characters and illustrations excites some parents. someone who's been teaching her child how to read since a very young age this is perfect to add to the collection and i think it's also perfect for i would say the modern parents bringing up children. learn about their culture and that they're happy about their culture and that enthused about

their culture. it's not all about story books she's also passionate about the world countries go. serially only young girls today given the state of education given the state of health care given the lack of social protection with regard to gender based violence things like. female genital mutilation child rape which is really. just scaring the high end seriously and given all these things i know that if they continue like this these girls will not be like me and i don't mean be like me is like be like vicky but have the same amount of opportunities so they can also believe that they can and they can dare to . say the government has declared reap in violence against girls in national emergency hoops her books can contribute to positive change in the country in the

long run she dreams of an even greater reach promoting values while teaching via world. that's it for now we leave you with the hash tag message to my sister campaign a project from women for women international inviting you to send a message of hope friendship and sisterhood to a woman survive a war on this international women's day here are some of the received we'll see you next time bye for now.

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new adventures in 360 degree. to explore. her interest starts. you don't want her to just 363. now. choose to challenge that's the theme of this year's international women's day but the pandemic has hampered efforts to shake up the status quo and slow the already long march to equality. we look at how an overwhelmingly male venture capital scene makes it hard for berlin's female led startups to gain financial footing. this is d.w. business i'm. so glad you can join us. now it's international women's day and the

u.s. treasury secretary is calling for her government to do more to improve working conditions for women speaking to the international monetary fund's crystal gore gave on monday janet yellen said the global pandemic had an extremely unfair impact on women's income and employment opportunities take a listen women 1st because they tend to be disproportionately represented in the service sector that's been hardest hit have seen tremendous job loss and min because women still disproportionately have the responsibility for caring for children with children out of school. there and responsibilities for taking care of sick will look to our family we have dropped out of the labor force disproportionately

as well. now our financial correspondent yes carter joins us now from new york yes can you tell us how much of what yellen said there will really translate towards concrete help towards women in terms of getting back on their feet after the pandemic. i don't own them standing here in front of a local elementary school and clearly most of the kids at least i'm in this city are still not back in school on a regular basis and mostly women actually take care of their children and we've heard stories from many women who actually had to quit their job search and take care of the kids if anything will really change substantially in the near future remains to be seen one of the cornerstones there would be affordable child care especially in the city child care is really expensive and other one would be paid a leaf so if women can't go to work that they would get compensated for that those

2 paid leave and affordable childcare those are 2 of the big cornerstones that has been discussed for quite some time with that's going to eventually change under the biden administration remains to be seated. well a lot to change their own terms a work life balance but meanwhile yellen also has taken pains to call on fears that help on the way now won't translate to further hurt later what more can you tell us . now you know well i mean janet yellen is repeating that the bigger the better also when it comes to the aid package that might land on joe biden's testim within this week one concern clearly is that was all the money that's a getting spent that the debt load is going to increase quite a bit and the other topic is some inflation you also see the inflation. scare a result of money putting down on the table is also spoke in the stock market at least when it comes to technology shares the nasdaq composite down another

a good 2 percent on the monday session on the other side was all the reopening that slowly taking place and you had the dow jones industrial average at some point to today well a buffer 32000 points even if we couldn't hold that mark when the market close to that is what janet yellen at least it believes that it's definitely worse taking all the debt now to spur economic growth and that this grows eventually will pay off for the year which they're flawed if that's really going to be the case and if all the money is going to be well spent is also another development that we will follow closely and the next couple of weeks and month out something for you to do thank you yes car to a new york there for us. now here in germany only 16 percent of startups have female founders many of them say getting access to financing is a challenge as a woman as the venture capital scene here is dominated by men now if the venture is

targeted towards women customers that makes male investors lose interest even faster. from her. founders katie ernst and christina taylor wanted to bring a sometimes taboo topic to the open menstruation but instead of tampons and pads they sell period underwear they clued up on this look if they catch is in the crotch we've put a multi-layered membrane system into the crotch one side of it wicks away the liquid away from the body so that it feels totally dry at the same time it gets soaked up and doesn't really go. wash dry repeat and the stain of all product is ready to be used again. there on line shop ran up sales of 10000 euro's on their 1st day of business if it was like everyone was waiting for it which is not surprising we've seen so much innovation yet for the decades for

periods to nothing if they may have had customers from the outset but finding venture capital prevail are harder. but i'm no mental and then there was one time where a male investors said they didn't want to invest in us because we're a women's project and he'd recommend women as investors which is scandalous because there are very few female investors meaning a lot of doors would be closed. on. men have traditionally dominated berlin startup scene almost all venture capital companies here are led by men as part of the business angels network but tina schmitz is something of a rarity. with regards to women in particular when comes to funding there are still some barriers so for example in venture capital which is kind of my field there are a lot of men sitting on the other side of the table which can be sort of

intimidating or they simply don't quite understand how you tick and especially venture capital is really about getting into the founders head so there's a lot of trust involved there's a lot of empathy involved that you need to need to accumulate. cauchy interest you have pumped their own money into along with some crowd funding inside a year it was turning a profit and for that you founders is only the start. if you want a name from. today as companies are setting the scene for the future the future of code of tech of innovation and what it's only being done by one type of person white men in their mid thirty's from middle class backgrounds that it's lacking so many ideas and devoid of innovative power and we need those as a society. to be. to india now where thousands of women farmers held sit ins and a hunger strike in the capital on monday to protest against you agricultural laws

and to mark international women's day take a look. in front of the makeshift stage in gaza poor a group of more than 200 women have gathered some of an estimated 20000 who turned out across india to protest on international women's day we are here to fight for our rights as well as his sons' presence as women as you as students as working women i their voices are adding to the ongoing chorus calling for the government to drop planned farming reforms they fear the changes will eventually lead farmers landless and at the mercy of big corporations women founders already worse off than their male counterparts fear that they'll be left destitute. and actually out on the couch today is our women's day and we're here because prime minister modi is not revoking these black laws against us we're here to get these laws repealed and will not leave until then. good. indian prime

minister narendra modi's government says the laws are necessary to modernize india's agree culture families have rejected an offer to put the laws on hold for 18 months saying they won't settle for anything less than a complete repeal women constitute an invisible workforce in india's farming sector nearly 75 percent of rural women in india who work full time are farmers according to n.g.o.s fam india but less than 13 percent of women own the land they till. now to some of the other global business stories making news. crude prices have jumped airing monday trading following a missile and drone attack on saudi arabia's oil industry using rubber rebels say they carried out the assault to the ironical facility. these target in roster noura include one of the world's biggest oil ports. germany's highest court has set

a high bar for prosecutors seeking damages from audi in connection to manipulated diesel motors used in some of its cars according to the ruling senior management must have been aware of the fraud in order for the company to be held liable. normally a site in ski resorts cable cars can also provide useful transport solutions under over idea of circumstances in latin america other increasingly being used for public transport mexico city has just opened its cable bus line. life's problems can seem so much smaller when seen from above things like traffic chaos the newly inaugurated cable car line connects the working class suburb tape back with the closest bus station in the valley in 5 minutes it covers a distance that once took an hour. that. very good very comfortable it would be useful for

a lot of people who live up here in my case for instance my son goes to school in this area and it was hard for me to get back from the center of town. now just shy of 2 kilometers long the cable bus will gradually be extended to over 9 kilometers bringing mexico city's densely populated suburbs closer to the city center and the sentiment it's not just a new conflict transport system but a social program or social transport why because having the best transportation for the most media areas of the city we reduce inequality the best way to tackle inequality is investing where historically we haven't invested we're going to look our is up to 10 passengers though social distancing restricts that to 6 at the moment. the cable bus is billed by austrian company dopamine or. and a resemblance to a ski lift is purely coincidental. and that's it for me

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it's methods who can take action next with strong forests and create. a very warm welcome to this special edition of arts and culture special because we are concentrating on one subject indeed one man none other than leonardo da vinci who painted the most famous picture in the world the mona lisa this year is the 500th anniversary of his death he's still considered the greatest painter of all time and yet perhaps only around 15 or so paintings of his have survived to this

day this is extraordinary when you think of the influence he has had on the artistic world since that this important anniversary is being marked in many different ways throughout the world. leonardo di said pietro da vinci borne an illegitimate child on april 15th 1452 in italy a tuscan polymath was a man a head of his time and his discoveries in art and science change the course of history and 500 years on the world is celebrating. digital onto a with the giants of the renaissance. was always a visionary. he anticipated things that were only invented years after his death. i believe that if you were alive today he would have developed many of his inventions using digital techniques. and maybe he would have projected

a new holographic flying machine into this. body like here at the fabric of dell the poor a museum in milan leonardo da vinci 3 d. even let's visit his meet the man himself the immersive exhibit links the past with the present and gives a view is the opportunity to experience many of da vinci's creations all under one roof. the exhibition at the queen's gallery in london draws together the threads of the rene science man's feverish curiosity these drawings gave davinci room to explore the universal laws he believed underpinned all of creation. the drawings show that leonardo was a serious practitioner of sculpture architecture engineering. scientist of many different feels he saw himself as a fully rounded figure drawing is the activity that pulls it all together. the

collection has been together since the artist's death and provides an insight into the masters in workings. weaving davinci this tapestry woven purely of silk with gold and silver thread is inspired by davinci the last supper to mark the anniversary the vatican museum hosted a study day to coincide with the conclusion of a year and a half of restoration work on the 500 year old clash between the it's probably one of the earliest interpretations of the great last supper of leonardo in milan time and it to me. one of the earliest but it certainly wasn't the last the last supper is the most reproduced painting of all time. clowery intervention italian artist daddio graham bought and took 8 hours ploughing lines and curves to complete the portrait the work measured 27 square kilometers but it didn't last

long it was dug under a few days later. and are joined by the author of that report melissa holroyd 500 years after 500 years waters davinci most remember. his most remembered as an artist and also as an inventor as a scientist his work in anatomy was hundreds of years ahead of its time also what he has taught us in terms of flights yeah that was only really explored at the start of the last century they also asked very very important questions he asked why is the sky blue how does the hot work how did the valves in the heart work what is a sneeze what is a your own why do we shiver when we're cold this in 3 no stopping them i'm ready also because he was such an insatiable polymath he also told us

a lot about the integration of these different disciplines and to think that this was all 500 years ago yeah ok but here we are 500 years ahead and there has been a discussion of that he was such a genius and he maybe had a t.h.d. this attention deficit in our directive to sort of what you say. i think he's sure he frustrated a lot of people who commissioned him to do work he sometimes he took years to finish things sometimes he never finished things he even got you know got slack from the pope the pope got on his case he was employed for 3 years by the vatican and then after 3 years they said that's enough and the pope said of him alas this man will never do and never do anything for he begins by thinking of the end of the work before the beginning so he was in that he was in the torrijos extensive plan a starting and not finishing he was also left handed and there's also evidence to

suggest that he was dyslexic and both of these things are associated with a.d.h. day ok but despite all this frustration from people things going again finished he did get loads of commissions though didn't he because he was so good he wasn't a rich man but he was constantly working and he was working on a huge of a of things from designing pageants to designing people's bathrooms as far as his inventions go some of that is disputed a fair amount of that is still disputed while his artistic work is well documented his some of his scientific stuff is not so well documented a german author mathias called he doubts whether he was responsible for all the inventions that are tributed to him and he also says that they didn't all work there is a tank for example which functions by a crank and and echo says that the crank actually means that the wheels turn in the

wrong direction ok so let's find out about this side more about this side of leonardo. as something that was brought to our tension in the 1920 s. i am rather infamous. it was in the early 20th century that the image of later nardo as inventor which he himself never claimed to be 1st emerged driven by benito mussolini to support his fascist ideology the dictator recast davinci as a universal genius and a leading figure of italian creative strength was done and was really initiated an exhibition not just initiated he ordered it to be and it was done and for that exhibition models were created from the vinci sketches for the 1st time. models that simply ignored the errors in the original sketches of the exhibition travelled from milan to the u.s. some enter japan where it was destroyed in an air raid. amazingly the exhibitionist

are gone mostly need is gone fascism is gone but the leonardo culture the cult of leonardo d.m.v. center has remained mute this is a few nothing nada. and that mythology continues to this day ringback. now melissa we don't know how many paintings is as i said 15 or so you think it could be 20 there's lots of discussion about that but he did have these books notebooks 7000 pages of drawings and inventions and all that stuff and he's not really still known as a painter yeah and still there is some doubt about some of those his famous painting the bottle monday has had a long history and for a long time it was lost and then it was found again and some experts doubt whether it's a real division they sought the position of the of the city and they also cite the lack of landscape in the background some say it's probably from the defense he

workshop and the davinci might have had his hand in it a lot of said he might have painted the hair or something but a real davinci no it's still sold at a whopping. $150000000.00 at auction mazie i mean you name davinci just adds no stood so the price of anything doesn't yeah it sure doesn't some expert said that that is partly because of the timing with davinci and things being able to be copied at the time that sort of as also contributed to how well we know him and his fine ok now let's have a look then at his most famous work of course we're talking about the priceless wrong the mona lisa. they are don't even she spent more than 3 years painting portraits of the young woman art historians still don't know exactly who she was. her contours are soft

and undefined eventually called this technique. which means in the manner of smoke . her eyes seem to fall of the viewer her smile is but the slightest suggestion. for hands rest patiently one on top of the other they are not a picnic big division she's brilliant technique and his ability to contrast light and dark when the piece life. mona lisa sits upright is what you get the sense she is about to smile when you put on the opposite that she's closing her mouth we don't know one senses that she might want to say something when communicative. the original is on show in paris france it's been on permanent display at the luther museum for more than 200 years. she's housed on the 1st floor in room 6 of the dead normally protected by and think kane of bullet proof glass. i don't know if we.

have not the mona lisa or the one painting in the movie that everyone wants to see . every day between 203-0000 sometimes 50000 people will come to see her or at least trying to see her. here. with 50000 visitors you have to be pretty patients try and get a close look up or ship to ship. her secrets smile is timeless and mona lisa has become a modern icon of western art her face never goes out of style. and she's got to be the most famous woman in the world have yet and people still don't know who she is exactly and why she was painted she has this mystical. secret aura and i think that's part of the reason why she's so compelling of the people who use her images image advertisers and what have you i think they don't want us to find out the secret behind the mona lisa it's also

a great image because there's an element of promise there it's like she's coming for she's not sort of coming forward and she's not really going back there is something in between that we're looking at the greater tune burke the environmentalist he she is as mona lisa. i think they chose him because they probably think that his lot is a little bit like mine and. what i think greatest law is much sweeter than mine. ok melissa holroyd has been very interesting thank you very much for joining us and thank you for charity into our special edition of arts and culture all the man who despite all the mess and questions about him is on to actually one of the greatest minds who ever graced this and i hope you'll be able to see an event or exhibition about him big or small wherever you are in the special anniversary yeah we leave you with mona lisa once again but with twists to the original goodbye.

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