become citizens. to margaret's your platform going from. this is d. w. news line from a court in hong kong has convicted a group of pro-democracy activists including media tycoon jimmy like the group are found guilty of an authorised assembly jury in the protests in 2019 we'll take you live to hong kong. and the 2 trillion dollar make over for the united states

president biden sets out pounds from not serve infrastructure spending programs. in france is heading into lockdown for us time president mccrone says that the shutdown already in place in some regions will be extended to the entire country for at least one month. and head of 100 welcome to the program a court in hong kong has found 9 a prominent pro-democracy activists and politicians guilty for their role in anti-government protests in 2019 the verdict marks the latest crackdown by china on dissenting voices in hong kong sentencing of the group will take place at a later date but they could face up to 5 years in prison among those convicted media tycoon jimmy and the veteran activist the chook young phoebe kong had the

chance to speak to him before the verdict was an elst. a small flat in downtown hong kong weather woes only museum dedicated to the now see 18 i tell them in krakow is located the military repression in beijing 32 years ago changed the course of many people in china and hong kong including leach again i was there during the during for the massacre and i was the pain propre days after my relieve pressure to hong kong i crash that i would spend my life time in 5 people or mockers in china and. 5 we're not being very. street i case on leisure again is facing a difference fades critics and i don't massive cracknell being carried out by the chain this time honest most liberal and democratic city hong kong in the wake of anti-government protest here an age this which organizing and attending and authorizes and that's really over

a 1000000 people took part was one of the few without power and questions every one of the defendants a high profile figures apart from media tycoon jim you lie or a former lawmaker icons of the opposition movement like martin lee lewis know this father of 2 marcus issue of the charges carries a maximum 5 year choto right this case is just the tip of the iceberg with over $10000.00 others arrested for is the 1st among the ny charges for which he's on trial beijing's recently post ripping national security law and his overhaul of the city's electoral system intensify the fear. denies hong kong's tenement morning vigil every year calling for an end to china's one party who for decades and that had to make him a prime target and beijing security this year he will likely be absent for the very

1st time in this era in a way they're going to go now i would convert my selby. this is already. a blessing for me i would only have to go to jail after 40 years. in hong kong and but i'm ready to pay the price and ready for something witnessed hong kong long struck the 64 year old activist not optimistic he believes that he will continue to fight for democracy and to define the e.u. . wealthy becoming joins us live now from hong kong what more can you tell us about these verdicts and what lies ahead. well today's 7 of the prominence defendants were found. to have already pleaded guilty in the earlier trials so the rally we're talking about

happened back in 2918. that was one of the largest really turning 19 anti-government movement in hong kong so the defendants during the trial they argue that this is an unconstitutional prosecution and the british are assembly right because they have the right to host peaceful assembly and they originally opposed this approve. approve an assembly to be held in the park but there were too many people joining the rallies so there were only the crowd over the park to ease overcrowding but at the end today we see the judge from hong kong. basically. rejecting all of these defense arguments and saying about she doesn't think this will in. fact. and she thinks the public should also apply to a peaceful assembly of francis if you can tell us more about who's been convicted

so far. yes among the conflict the nikon fact defendants it was. was an outspoken critic of the chinese and hong kong government support that case he's the media tycoon and now also detained for the national security cases at the moment and the rest of the age defendants they were all along make us in hong kong and they were very senior figures and iconic figures representatives in the opposition chems so this is indeed a huge setback for the opposition came that these because they have joined and led many of the peaceful and iconic marches in hong kong of these verdict today is really a landmark ruling for hong kong and what do you think it will mean now for the pro-democracy movement there just

mentioned this is this is a huge political blow to the. space. a lot of the stuff. to position off the national security and also later the overhaul of the whole system and now this case will also i suspect to be have to have a bearing on other scene we're trying to be guarding the 2019 protests that some of the defendants. in the story he is facing 9 charges in total so many of the charges are similar to through to the ones we are seeing today is they suspected that many of the defendants in an authorised assembly they may have to be confessed to because of these verdicts today ok that's life for us in hong kong thank you so much. well u.s. president joe biden has set out plans for a 2 trillion dollars per pound fall and infrastructure spending he's called this

a once in a generation investment that will create millions of dollars while giving roads utilities and the american industry a badly needed upgrade i'm proposing a plan for the nation that rewards work not just rewards well the bills of fair or common to give everybody a chance to succeed is going to create the strongest most resilient you know great of a connery in the world. when the plan is being compared with his predecessor franklin roosevelt's new deal following the great depression in the 1930 s. but biden's program is also facing tough opposition. road builders in the u.s. will soon have plenty of work to do infrastructure in the world's largest economy is in poor condition across the board. butte roads power or water me and many

key industries have long since moved abroad. with his 2 trillion dollars package u.s. president joe biden wants to give the entire country a make over. was in extreme distress his administration plans on modernizing 32000 kilometers of road while repairing foundations of bridges. half a 1000000 new charging stations will be built to accommodate the ever growing number of electric vehicles biden also wants to bring industries such as chip production back to the united states today computer chips are still mostly produced in asia. the whole project is expected to take 8 years to complete some of the funding will come from a corporate tax hike from 21 to 28 percent biden supporters say the program will create millions of well paid jobs and strengthen america's ability to compete with china. yes but republicans or me congress are already voicing opposition

especially towards the corporate tax increase you know it's biden's predecessor slashed the rates by 14 percentage points to their current level. let's take a look at other stories making headlines around the world new york city police have arrested a man for assaulting an asian woman in times square surveillance footage hish shows the man kicking and stomping the woman according to law enforcement the victim did suffer serious injuries including a fractured pelvis hate crimes against asian americans have brought jaring the pandemic. the libyan coast guard has intercepted a boat carrying dozens of migrants local authorities say the raft had capsized libya is a major route for migrants seeking a better life in europe it agencies say many of them face human rights violations and poor living conditions while they are held in detention centers.

and the united nations is warning of a humanitarian crisis in mozambique hundreds of people are still trying to feed the town of palma off turn off group gains control of the northern town last week. now france has extended its current virus lock down for one more month president in mind in mcallen warns the country risks losing control of the pandemic if action isn't taken soon enough cases are rising in france with almost 60000 new infections reported in the past day intensive care units at hospitals all of affronts are running out of free but at this medical center an hour north of paris there i.c.u. unit is full and they've been forced to temporary beds to cope. feel this wave hitting us hard and we're hanging on people need to be explained

that they should not gather we had a mother and her son die at the same time in 2 different intensive care ohm's all because of a family gathering it's unbearable for us it's a very difficult situation to manage. spring weather has drawn people on to the streets despite the dramatic surge of covert 1000 cases images like these led medical experts to demand stricter measures and the government responded as of saturday and nationwide curfew will be reimposed schools and nonessential shops will close. president emanuel mcconnell pleaded for cooperation. of the coming months each one of us must make an extra effort and this is what i ask of us collectively this evening. my car also promised to increase the number of i.c.u. beds from the current 7000 to more than 10000 and to speed up the sluggish

vaccination program across the country. contrary to his european neighbors maicon didn't tighten restrictions when numbers dramatically increased in january. many people here in france are now angry that he didn't take stricter measures because now obviously the weather is getting better and everybody feels like you know having more freedom and they wouldn't have minded so much to stay at home for 2 months for the last 2 months when it was raining really so many people here fear that this is not enough. the latest lockdown will be in place for at least a month. cora hopes to reopen some cultural venues even restaurants and cafes by mid may. well here are some other developments around the pandemic a court in brussels has ordered the belgian government to lift all of lockdown measures within 30 days to carrying it was illegal and violated human rights the

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w. the less sucker by leonardo da vinci when it was 1st shown in $1499.00 they created shock waves through italy and beyond changing the world of art for ever but a 20 year restoration effort has revealed the awful truth of the original fresco only some 20 percent is still visible simply put we can no longer seen or understand why this painting had such a devastating impact. or can wait. this

is the incredible story of a hub across europe following a trail of clues and documents hidden for centuries that suggests that layla go and his workshop painted another last supper a huge life size can squat none other than the king of france does that painting still exist if so can it reveal the secrets of the original fresco. this is where a story starts in milan the most important fashion and business city in all of modern italy and in that sense not much has changed even in the 15th century milan was a bustling city filled with artists and musicians. of older cities states and italy the duchy of milan was the most powerful the most exuberant and the

wealthiest buy for no wonder that many kings in europe wanted to conquer. to killie because the man in charge the duke named little because for tips it was a tyrant who had ceased power in 14 he was unlike many other such rulers he was desperate to cloak his illegitimacy with the splendor of a renaissance school. the juke had many projects the monastery complex called the tolls of the pov via a new church built right here in milan called the sometime out a a delegate outside but the biggest project of all was this massive cathedral deliberately designed to be the biggest church building in all of italy so naturally the city was a magnet for young artists and sculptors from all over the region. but while they

are not oh this artist wasn't from lombardy he was from florence the most exciting city in all of italy a wellspring of the renaissance what was he doing painting at fresco in milan. answer may be found in a small village outside of florence called village. ludo was a natural child the son of a farmer's daughter katina one day had a role in the hay with a promising young notary cole said peter of course mary's was out of the question a bright future awaited said pietro provided he married a wife from the prestigious family. that's why labor nardo was never truly part of the creative circles of florence around lorenzo the major with artists like the betty. or michelangelo these were folks who wrote latin

sonnets and could hold their own in fine society there not i was never part of that . but said piero never forgot his son and was only is ready to use his connections to help him get work but the lack of a proper education left young leonardo at a major disadvantage. instead he was apprenticed to the workshop of one of the most prolific artists of florence and that i am here. here leonardo learned how to mix pigments prepare panels or transfer a large fresco drawings cold cartoons to a plaster wall. and eventually for allowed him to paint one of the angels in his panel of the baptism of christ it's obvious that leonardo's angel is much more

beautiful than the rather dire angel to the right painted by frodo peel himself so how did he create such lovely and jelly faces the answer by using a new invention called oils. as most of florence still use the flat collars of tempera paint which dries quickly leonardo had begun to experiment with the quince mixed with oils the technique 1st developed in northern europe day adventists all hast severus extemporaneous that in order to create that's where you dimensional object you pretty much have to mix every single color that you put in there or crosshatch it see or get the feeling that i mention but with oil you didn't have that problem you can have an incredible range from black to white collar seamlessly and sell this was a huge shift for for the artists and the renaissance. and there is

a classically trained artist who painted a live size re creation of the sistine chapel for the motion picture angels and the . and how were these orals me well they were ground up pigments that could be anything from bones through dry parsley to accost famous ultra and blue that came from a cost on that was so expensive that it cost more than actual gold and its own weight my god more than gold yes it did. the 15th century to quote the cento was a an exciting time to be in florence it was a time of rebirth the renaissance the revival of the ancient world and the arts and science in literature and in engineering here for example philippo brunelleschi used roman engineering to create this vast dome over

the dew moment the cathedral of florence. while burlesque he was taking measurements of ancient temples and rome he had discovered that when you draw as street or a building all the horizontal lines seem to converge to a common center what today we call the vanishing point. little ascii had discovered the laws of linear perspective it revolutionized the renaissance art suddenly painters could create an illusion of 3 dimensional space as if the image they painted was a window on another world. you know for us it's almost impossible to imagine the impact of this innovation why because today we are surrounded by simulated images of fall of billboards television cinema they have conditioned our brain to interpret flat images

as 3 dimensional reality but in the middle ages men and women never had that experience before and so they must have been utterly amazed by a painting like this one. the crucifixion by massaging the 1st fresco in history to use linear perspective. people in those days most of thought it was some form of magic to see space weather was only a flat wall. leonardo was also trained in the magic of linear perspective in the workshop of his master of ocular and he too was amazed by the possibilities but as he began his 1st major painting they are now realized that linear perspective had one major drawback. it tended to see by fall the figures and inhibit their expressive power and many

paintings the figures became like puppets fixed on a rigid grid 10 years later leonardo would write how to give you figures a pleasing air. look about you. when you see a beautiful face remember its features and fix them in your mind. so what layer nardo is saying is don't let geometry deprive your characters of feelings of emotions of psychological drama and the 1st bold attempt to do just that as a painting that hangs right here in the 0 feeds it called the adoration of the magic. unfortunately the monks who commissioned the panel weren't interested in moving the boundaries of italian art they simply wanted a pretty picture of the native any that people could recognize and worship. and so

the work was stopped and the painting remained unfinished it would take nearly 2 decades before layer nordo group realize his great vision he talked about wanting to create his work of fame he could see but unless he's work of fame you can see donna tell us works of fame and he wanted to create his own and so his destiny he felt he lay with a large a large core with a grand patron and a single person who was going to be writing the checks and that happened to me yet most powerful man in italy in me the 14 eighties and for the ninety's was the duke of milan load of equals 4 and so that's why he went north in 1482 to begin working for a summit it was in effect the prince and not just a group of monks that's why a layman are decided to turn his back on the forms and that's why he came here in milan filled with ambition not as an artist but as an engineer

a military and had it he even prepared and then press a picture for the jew a catalogue of all of us military towns. methods for destroying every fortress were strong and is built on a rock. i can also design different types of can between her and stones. like a hailstorm. leonardo's hopes came to me and it took several years for a joke little vico to finally noticed the florentine artist but the project he gave him a huge equestrian statue ended in failure the only thing that remains of this massive project are his studies. live in arthur was ready to tackle the

greatest most ambitious. composition of his young career a series of 13 live sized portraits of men seated at a table for a wall in milan. how did the last supper project come about and who asked leonardo de painted. this may come as a surprise but you really don't know what we do know is that the jokes for tended to favor home grown artists like giovanna don't want to follow that may not have been particularly in magilla tip but they delivered their work on time and on budget like this fresco of st peter bartter. what we do know is that the job had chosen this church to become the pantheon of his dynasty. actually it was part of

a dominican convent and the abbot white away saw as opportunity so he asked the joke if he would build him a new or factory place to have meals for the monks complete with frescos. a reflector he was usually decorated with 2 paintings a last supper and the crucifixion of christ. the last supper illustrated the institution of the eucharist. whereas the crucifixion depicted the redemption of mankind to the suffering of jesus but you come to a points of christian theology the the most important for us go destined for the south wall was the crucifixion of christ this did you gave to giovanni dum want to fun know whose family had been working in the cathedral of milan for many decades. of the op but who was going

to paint a north wall. lane out of the vinci up to this point but lay it out or have done other than the failed question project in the 2 small portraits was the production of plays and masks for the entertainment of the jew can his court. was he truly going to be given this monumental fresco but laid out a was in effect a special effects man for the duke and so i i guess we would think of him as a sort of a combination set designer costume designer and special effects person for these spectaculars that lot of a cord have staged maybe a couple of times a year in the line and. that is why lou nordo was determined that with this fresco he was going to stomach the moment.

and they probably would have been expecting that he would have done a last supper akin to all of those that have been done primarily in florence in tuscany sienna for the previous 200 years but of course he did something quite different that archetype showed christ breaking bread thus establishing the 1st eucharist but like a skilled film director leonardo picked a far more dramatic see the moment when jesus the claires that one of the men in the room is a traitor. that noose literally explodes from the center and hits the apostles in various poses of shock disbelief sorrow even anger the full panoply of human emotions is laid bare the same idea that had galvanized his adoration of the manager some 25 years earlier leonardo wanted action and then he also wanted the emotion and the dramatic intensity of what happened in

in those seconds in jerusalem and that of course is one of the magnificent things about the painting he brings that to life and we see that and instantly i think we can understand what's happening there is that hold for techs of human drama that's right where everyone is react. differently they're asking each other there's a credulity there's disbelief there's anger there's in the cases of a light same joy he just appears to be coming awake and there's being interrogated by st peter and so he does he takes each of each of these 12 and gives them. some characteristics some you know with facial expressions hand gestures things like that in order to take us into the character but here is the great tragedy most of these beautiful expressions are no longer visible today but i said metal is not it at that. often it has because of unusual teeth on a patrik upon

a technique because you have been an opportunity that if i say book called the thoughts express you direct pluck it out was not as you want to said especially don't add on to sender and. unlike one thought of fun or who used conventional fresco techniques leonardo could not resist experimenting with his pick means to try to create the same optical effects that he had pioneered with his aural pig to use the result was catastrophic. i think the thing that's so interesting about him is that he's got different intellectual interests and so he's trying to achieve different goals with paint and he's asking different questions of them larry keith is the head of conservation and keeper at london's national gallery but also i think he really was in sydney and exploring. nuances of tonal gradation all those kinds of distinctions that i think are really not possible to achieve in

france. in 1517 influential cardinal named luigi dada gone and his secretary and tonio debate this went on a tour and among others visited the convent in milan to see the last supper. as the b. artists would write it is most excellent although it is beginning to decay either because of the down most of the wall or some of the fall of the clay. in the centuries since the 1st go continued to deteriorate. because it was adjoining a kitchen so all the moisture was trapped in the wall. in the end there's really no way to know what leonardi great masterpiece looked like. or is there.

long before until new year's visit another even more distinguished visitor came to my home with an army into this was the newly crowned king no friends leader 12 just one year after his elevation the king marched on milan to claim the city as his home. and what was the 1st thing that king louis did after he set himself up here in the castello sports are the answer is in the book written by lay on our toes 1st biographer george of us our. has for sorry says the king went on a visit he went to see the last supper. they could wish deeply pressed by the actual service picture of him composition and execution and he convinced that he

should take it back to his king so he tried to find haka techs who could build a framework of wood and i have to safely transport the fresco back to france with the regard for expense so much to he want to have it. but since it was painted on a wall it's majesty could not have his design. but kings aren't used to being told what they cannot have and so louis decided on an even bigger gambit but for that he needed leonardo himself at least that's our theory. even though leonardo was in milan and he was wanted back in florence to finish another 1st go to battle of and beyond and the whole of the $500.00 of the pilots were done a security so he wasn't in a position to stay in milan and do whatever the king had in mind for him but then something extraordinary something that changed everything.

this is the arcadia adela's thought of the field hands of the state archives of florence with documents that go back over a 1000 years and here we found a truly remarkable letter with a letter that the elite you think of italy chase him up unless an idiot if you didn't fit in the attic with dora the she denies me little question to say then here is a letter from the french king himself king louis the 12th to the gone following year the president of the french republic the signoria asking as we have need of must have not a lot of it she painted the city of florence and want to make him do something by his own hand we beg you to kindly let it all work for us for a period of time and carry out the what we tend here to do.

i think it's becoming clear what the french king once lived in order to do if he can have the 1st school itself he will have the next best thing. copied on canvas that he can take back to france. and what's interesting about is that the king doesn't tell the senior rio what he would like him to do he is very cagey about the thing doesn't say how long because if our theory is correct and he wants leonardo to make a copy of the last supper that would take. a very long time indeed. the idea of such a live size copy was not far fetched leonardo was arguably one of the 1st painters and history who used his studio to make copies of his own works for sale such as the virgin of the rocks painted with his associate and blogger the played he's.

the madonna of the yarn winder possibly painted with his pupil francesco spaniel the saint m. painted with his assistant mel c. and of course the mona lisa painted by his pupil and close companion solomon. there was a good reason for that here in the sometime area of l.a. and that i had a large studio with lots of assistance but he works very slowly and it's difficult to maintain a large studio when you have a very limited output but it's not so hard if you use your best assistants to make copies of your works for sale under the master's supervision of course so what happened to this copy of the last supper. who painted it and doesn't still exist there's only one way to find out and that is to go to france.

today we think of paris as the world's epicenter of our culture and fashion this is where the world kongs for beauty and refinement. but in the 16th century things were very different. people sometimes forget that but in the middle ages it was actually burgundy. which dictated french culture not just an art but also in poetry and music and then came the scourge of the black plague and the 100 years war in which joan of arc would play such an important part.

so by the time i mean the 12th came to the throne france was a mere shadow of its former self and louis was very much aware. he knew that french artists needed to take their cue from the italian renaissance and i think that's why he was so incredibly keen to get the last supper into french . but if that's true and if alive size copy of the last supper was actually made where did it go the answer i think many be hidden behind these walls. this is the shot to dig out your which ones served as the residents of georgia done was. does the west was the most important member besides the king with the 12 are sort of prime minister we've done underline the fact that he was asked

for the flustered. like his master king louis dumb ones was deeply smitten with the beauty of italian art he decided he wanted to build a shock to there was entirely in the renaissance time the 1st one in france and so he brought back scores of italian artists and masons to do just that. but it's not enough just to let the 50 students of this unfold 3 or 425 and restaurants and various lottery. the pupil of new you know to the beach he came here there and what did he do to do lots of things to degrade yourself and one of the most beautiful of the sixty's and to reinforce. the fact that. one of leonardo's leading pupils was working in this chateau around 1509 may be the

missing piece of the puzzle. unfortunately the chapel and much of the shuttle were destroyed in the french revolution and the term world that followed but one work that andrea painted for the shadow still exists a deposition from the cross which today hangs in the loop. central florida what we know of him is that he was from a family of artists we think he was probably what in venice in a period when you know out of his very 1st in line so he wasn't there with him right from the beginning and around 4095 in public came back from venice team on with his brother christopher and which is of course exactly the moment when they're not as they getting to work on the last day. if that's true then salerno must have been present as the great francisco of the last supper took shape on the

refectory wall and since he was one of léonard o's most talented pupils could he have been the one who painted the copy for the french chain in the archives of the chateau we find a key piece of evidence an inventory of all property including printers from the 15 forties one of these paintings is no sin fact on twine i'm going persona the film will say your feast up r.t.d. beetle a last supper on canvas with monumental figures which his grace had brought over from alone. could this be our 1st hard piece of evidence of a live size copy of the last supper on gone past on ours with monumental figures. put this together with what we know that andreas alarie was in guy you know in 1509 and the pieces begin to fall into place. there is little doubt

that solaria was a favorite of the dumb was family and 1507 he even painted a portrait of george's nephew charlotte dunn was trying it was none other than the governor of milan at that time but given the short time frame in which the copy was finished between 15071509 is likely dead not only so lottery 0 but also other later nardo pupils were involved including for example. but here's the next question where is this campus after all if it's as big as we think it is it's not something you would lose very easily. and that's why we find ourselves on the train to enter and belgium to follow the next trail of clones.