back have basil that is being portrayed in forty five minutes and honored but he doesn't want to take part himself a really. terrific actor a studio is a workshop i'm hard at work here i can't put up with disturbances in the workshop i can't have an audience in there even if it's just a camera no one. is going. to want to do in two thousand and eleven a sensation that south is in london the collection of talent do economists going under the hammer masterworks of the twentieth century including nine by the guy. bosler. boss and it's his paintings also sinister and aggressive at this junction they fetched record prices. one buyer paid three point two million pounds for spectrum not a man with a giant fantasy dating from one thousand nine hundred sixty five the highest price ever paid for a boss in its. full gallop bozza lives in exhaustible creator of pictures stagnation is a foreign word time and again he comes up with lee interpretations of well known motifs dogs hanging light and airy in the gallery of his be left today also go patch in south book because it is a shy basel it's a cer

georg basil that's the rebellious painter and sculptor likes to paint portraits this way these days basil that still loves to swim against the stream an exhibition of his life's work is about to open an. art turned upside down an ingenious concept which paved the way for basel it's in the one nine hundred seventy s. it helped the artist blaze his own path between abstraction and realism as a young artist he resisted the demands of his teachers to commit to a set style. since i couldn't do that i tried to replicate my subjects i fought against expectations and tried to do something else and ended up with the portraits of my friends which are all upside down. buzz in its works to teens and provoke he adores conformity and the mainstream works from six decades including the hero portraits from his early period are on exhibit at the foundation. in tribute to the artist eightieth birthday the show also has recent works on display fresh from his studio job i've been working on my own pictures for a lifetime and all of them are present in my mind really present and i try to improve them or conti

has been levied off the bathroom and doesn't affect i've always noticed with basil it that he's a. incredibly sensitive to statements he sees as negative almost like a seismograph. only i get to. call it shows hoffman recently retired curator at munich's modern art museum that pina could take them all down the exhibited thousand hits as early as the one nine hundred seventy is she devoted a whole room to him presenting a cross-section of his different periods to many as it may feel like pain is on crazy they're very sensible very deliberate very controlled people know if they do something they know precisely why they're doing it the you on basel it's not just a paying ten graphic artist and sculptor he's also a passionate collector of africa not and mannerism drawings his friends say he absorbs everything like a sponge one of those who infused about very early on with the collector and. too often they became friends. puzzle is if you can peer over there at it dr oziel it's is a family man with a nice wife and well brought up children who had sold a can down under stress from the ou

i agree with every word that basil said. what i also think, the president is committing a serious political mistake. this is the "new york times" show that he is losing ground among every single demographic because the country, including middle of the road republican voters who may have voted for him sort of thinking, well, i hate him a little less than i hate hillary are abandoning him. the reason they're doing it, they are des prt for statesmanship. you talked about the president using the white house literally as a stage. they're sick of having a white house which is a substitute for the apprentice. they're sick of having -- >> yet he still believes -- >> more about ratings than anything else. >> he still believes he is the best person to give his message. and, vivian, talk to me about messaging. because you wrote this weekend that the president's style of going public with his sort of gut initial reaction and then having to modify it later, it has completely -- different as so many things are in this white house. >> that

east germany started inverting his paintings in one nine hundred sixty nine his retrospective at basil's found us around by our features many of these images bustle it has continued working with upside down imagery to the present day. at the course the other one but it was kind of a i love the idea and i can hardly believe i invented it because i had this idea when i was totally unknown with my peers or my competitors a result of the gimmick. but i think it's a great way to paint pictures that are unlike anything done in the past and be a lot or unlike what others do. over the course of a career that spanned six decades georg basle it's also made a number of mostly monumental stone chairs the b d m group one of his most famous is on view in the garden or found out soon by a. help to mark basil it's his eightieth birthday the retrospective features some eighty paintings and ten sculptures on loan from renowned european and u.s. house collections. oscillates co curated the exhibition. but i was quite anxious beforehand i didn't know if all the artworks would live up to the expectations of

help to mark basil it's his eightieth birthday the retrospective features some eighty paintings and ten sculptures on loan from around european and us house collections. oscillates tokyo rated the exhibition. i was quite anxious beforehand i didn't know if all the artworks would live up to the expectations of this fantastic space in this fantastic museum with all these visitors movies and popular calm i had a really bad and possibly a guilty conscience. but now that the works are on the walls i have to say bravo to augusta was you so are. at eighty gayle bassinets is among germany's oldest living artists is clearly enjoying the bounce surrounding his upcoming birthday bob despite his commercial success he's maintained his ability for reinvention. everybody likes a show off everyone likes get to go clothes for it but of course subsides quickly and is discarded swiftly if it is conformist and. gail bassinets was born hans-georg karen in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight in the village of deutsche positives which inspired his ideas. by allowing showing some of his early works like bre

third he'll be celebrating his eightieth birthday a date the swiss for lesser known by allowed near basiltook as its cue for a retrospective. the world isn't upside down but georg proselytizers world there's the german artist who grew up in east germany started inverting his paintings in one nine hundred sixty nine his retrospective at basil's performed by our teachers many of these images. has continued working with top side down imagery till the present day. eternity because others have the discovered i love the idea and i can hardly believe i invented it because i had this idea when i was totally a moment with my peers or my competitors or to the gimmick. but i think it's a great way to paint pictures that are unlike anything done in the past from your loss or unlike what others do for. over the course of a career that spanned six decades proselyte says was i made a number of mostly monumental sculptures to be d.m. group one of his most famous is on view in the garden or found out soon by a. pal to mark prosecutors eightieth birthday the retrospective features some paintings and ten sc

helps him out basil it's his eightieth birthday the retrospective features some eighty paintings and ten sculptures on loan from around. european and u.s. are collections. oscillates co-curator the exhibition. but i was quite anxious before hand i didn't know if all the artworks would live up to the expectations of this fantastic space in this fantastic museum with all these visitors and. i had a really bad and possibly a guilty conscience. but now that the works are on the walls i have to say bravo to augusta was you so are. what will. at eighty gayle bassinets is among germany's oldest living artists is clearly enjoying the bounce surrounding his upcoming birthday but despite his commercial success he's maintained his ability for reinvention. everybody likes a show off everyone likes getting applause for it but of course subsides quickly and is discarded swiftly if it is conformist. gale bassinets was born hans-georg counting one thousand nine hundred thirty eight in the village of joy which inspired his ideas. by a lie in showing some of his early works like break night down the d

so over st basil's cathedral one red square. and hundreds of thousands gathered near berlin's brandenburg gate to watch a spectacular display. it's all about the moments before. it's all about the stories in some ways. it's all about george chance to discover the world from different perspectives. join us and inspired by distinctive instagram murders at g.w. stories the topic each week on instagram. who. gave. hello and welcome to a special edition of q no dedicated to a master of movie melody german film composer and cyma for decades now he has been one of the most creative musical talents in hollywood. working on around one hundred fifty films including classics like rain man the dust of hoffman. ridley scott's epic. and the unforgettable line for which he received an oscar in nine hundred ninety five. and rarely ventures out of his california recording studio these days but now despite suffering stage fright he's made an exception in order to take his classic soundtracks on the road it's european tour as a film music odyssey

so over st basil's cathedral one red square. then hundreds of thousands gathered near berlin's brandenburg gate to watch a spectacular display. they make a commitment they find solutions. they inspire. africa on the. stories of both people making a difference shaping their nation. and their continent. w.'s new multimedia series for africa. dot com africa on the move. this week on world stories. the struggle against plastic waste in sound home am trying to. violence against homosexuals in russia. we start in india where a third of the population can't read or write though every child has a legal right to education literacy is especially low among girls from poorer segments of society. saudia khan has already been in class the entire day but she's still eager for more. hardly anything can stop this thirteen year old from pursuing her love of learning taking their studies of importance whatever everyone so i did up to gone to school even if i'm tired if i have then if the what if i'm all the states of that day most of them this wee

basile president nicolas maduro made the announcement on new year's eve on the issue is i'm announcing an increase of forty percent of the national minimum wage and of all salary scales nationwide of teachers military police doctors public workers a lot of political. but still only brings the full time minimum wage to just under eight hundred thousand baht of r.'s a month or the princely sum of seven dollars on the black market that would only pay for about two kilos of pork a venezuelan stable when it's available the wage hike comes after the government failed to deliver on a promise of lowering port prices for traditional christmas meals. blamed portugal for failing to deliver pork imports. last week hundreds of people took to the streets in the poorer parts of the capital caracas to protest the food shortage millions of venezuelans are unable to afford three meals a day. i don't think yet that name where hungry now the people are hungry there is a famine the government says the local food supply committee should hand out food every fifteen days but it doesn't arrive he said you know

present and i try to improve more and continue them to to focus on the defaults as it's at eighty basile it still has boundless energy and unrestrained creative power. in the bundesliga there been some surprise results today freiburg produced a performance of the day coming from behind to be a cyst and wreck their title hopes live a close and replace life sis in the second spot after destroying hoffenheim four one away bottom side colona one for the third game in a row to close in on second thought at homburg there were also battling wins for frankfurt frankfurt and mights catch all the goals on our bundesliga show from ten sixteen global mean time on friday top man drew away at heritage two games to come on sunday including leaders by and against bremen. a shock of victory for a german downhill skier thomas to the s.n. as he be a host of more experience competitors at the world cup race and asked and the austrian resort of kids and let me just remind you he did that on the one of the most difficult and dangerous slopes in the world the hanun come up competitors lost themselves in the st

gale basil it is one of those artists who've managed to grow rich in their own lifetime sales of his art enabled him to buy a castle he lived in the den a book near hilda's home for more than thirty years. and they should be the cranes ply their course through the heavens look once look twice and then look at me again. fitted to sing kum for now i find this compromise on the part of painters who paint something you can put in the landscape very bad for it it's a compromise i think a landscape doesn't have to stand comparison with the painted landscape was in fact like. device a lemon is the only valves on the white canvas is the universe and this universe is weightless it has no gravity it has no light and no dark you have to introduce all of that yourself you're not dependent on the earth's gravity heavy weights mean nothing you don't need a caterpillar truck to move a work you can do it in two brushstrokes but once you've understood this image of the canvas then everything is possible including painting things upside down and in principle everything's abstract painting is abstract

the night sky over some basil's cathedral and the kremlin and with the holiday season in full swing in. numbers of tourists enjoying it as well. keep up american hustle out of germany how you can probably delete it from italy i could have lost a kid my mom comes to new jersey i'm. young it's a first time yeah it's the first time that i'm here in new year and there's so many things to see if you went to see the kremlin and it was so. fantastic this is the safest city has ever been and that we've been all over the world for so a lot of a policeman so this feeling like i was feeling the full safety of this life everywhere and the people under the knife and everybody was trying to help us so clean here and leave i like this to think here we will come back for sure because we find the city been amazing. don't you how do you say happy new year in russia and somewhat snow you got it. off a. new yorkers are just welcomed in the new year with of course the traditional dropping of the cursed crystal ball in times square here are some of the highlights from all around the world. who. now at twent

eleven time zones have now seen in the new year already a few hours ago the fireworks went off over st basil's cathedral and the kremlin. has been following all of the action on that square for us i'm here in the heart of moscow right outside of red square and thousands of people have gathered here tonight to ring in the new year and see the fireworks display. and it was amazing and of course not just here in the center of the city where people are gathering and celebrating this points all around that are having the fireworks displays and everything because here and russia new year's is the biggest celebration of the year families get together and have a huge feast exchanged presents and see in the new year together i got to tell you this is the first time i've seen new year's end in the center of moscow and i have no regrets happy new year's everyone. berlin and london have been pulling out all of the stops with their fireworks shows after some impressive displays across. asia and australia take a look. at . you. i. two thousand and seventeen saw plenty of new faces enter the political arena

russia's eleven time zones have now seen in the new year a few hours ago the fireworks went off over st basil's cathedral and the kremlin volga has been following all the action on red square for us. i'm here in the heart of moscow right outside of red square and thousands of people have gathered here tonight to ring in the new year and see the fireworks display. and it was amazing and of course not just here in the center of the city where people are gathering and celebrating this point all around that are having the fireworks displays and everything because here and russia new year's is the biggest celebration of the year families get together and have huge fees exchanged presents and see in the new year to gather and i got to tell you this. it's the first time i've seen new year's and in the center of moscow and i have no regrets happy new year's everyone and as you can see behind me these are pictures live right now from london you can see the famous iowa right there as they bring in the new year in the u.k. now earlier people in the middle east asia and australia were treated to some spect

moscow's vibrant landscape was illuminated as fireworks a lit up the sky over st basil's cathedral in the quiet kremlin with the holiday season underway large numbers of tourists are enjoying the festivities. who's. come for money not apparently all you can probably delete it from italy i can't pass a kid my mom comes to new jersey i'm. young it's a first time yeah it's the first time that i'm here in new year and there's so many things to see if you went to see the kremlin and it was so. fantastic this is the safest city has ever been and that we've been all over the world for so a lot of all police so this feeling of being the full safety of life everywhere the people are the nice everybody was trying to help us so clean here i like the food here it will come back for sure because we find the city to be amazing. don't you how do you say happy new year in russia and us known what snow you got it. off the . two thousand and seventeen saw iraq of new faces in the war. political arena with plenty of opportunities to get up close and personal with the old guard although things did not al

i am basile and thousands of things celebrates may try when the pendants make sure . he got a government guarantees that they will not achieve their goals. this was the day the terror threat i write. a successive governments ignored repeated warnings to take action. to work backfires. and label will approach and pull them in a not a few. a taste of the year gone by there after a political year which left britain with no overall majority in parliament someone who used to be in the british parliament is that open book us from former liberal democrat m.p. joins me now to take a look back and forwards that events in britain and the european union lembit happy new year a good new year's eve party no doubt whatever can we just get on with it please there is things obviously happening but we are in a country with no overall majority in government twenty seven thousand united or whether we can have an election this year but. that was a cheery moment for me after in the government the conservatives had no overall majority due to the stupendous achievement of david cameron no o

must go ruptured into color as fireworks lit up in the sky over st basil's cathedral and the kremlin with the holiday season underway large numbers of tourists are enjoying the festivities. the proper morning i was out of the terminal all you can probably delete out from italy i come from lost a kid my mom comes from new jersey. young it's a first time yet the first time that i'm here on new year and there's so many things to see we went to see the kremlin and it was so. fantastic this is the safest city we've ever been and that we've been all over the world for so a lot of a policeman so this feeling like i was feeling the full safety lights everywhere and the people i was online everybody was trying to help us so clean here and leave i like the food here we will come back for sure because we find the city been amazing look don't you how do you say happy new year in russia and somewhat snow you got it. off them. two thousand and seventeen is all raft of new faces in the world's political arena with plenty of opportunities to get up close and personal with the old guard vo things did

there are further anniversary is coming up in twenty eighteen german painter georg basil it's turns eighty in january. some fifty years ago many thought he was mad when he began producing upsidedown paintings. today he's among the world's most sought after artists. french actress catherine deneuve will celebrate her seventy fifth birthday in october today dinner has starred in over one hundred films and she's still in demand today. rock n roll legends make jagger and keith richards also turns seventy five this year they founded the legendary rolling stones in one nine hundred sixty two. italian composer ennio morricone will be ninety this year his film music helped earn spaghetti westerns like once upon a time in the west and a fistful of dollars into classics morricone has composed film scores but over five hundred films it is still going strong. so there we have it a lot of joyful events coming up this year including a royal wedding which will surely be a welcome boon to the economy in a wreck that lent. experts estimate prince harry's upcoming wedding to meghan markle could boost the br

moscow's vibrant landscape was illuminated as fireworks lit up in the sky over st basil's cathedral in the kremlin with the holiday season underway large numbers of the tourists are enjoying the festivities. who's. become american has not apparently all you can probably delete it from italy i can't possibly get my mom comes to new jersey. young it's a first time yet the first time that i'm here in new year is there's so many things to see if you went to see the kremlin and it was so. fantastic this is the safest city has ever been and that we've been all over the world for so a lot of a policeman so this feeling because feeling the full safety lights everywhere and the people i was all nice to everybody was trying to help us so clean here and i like the food the here we'll come back for sure because we find the city really amazing. don't you how do you say happy new year in russia and somewhat snow you got it cut off a. two thousand and seventeen. a raft of new faces in the world's political arena with plenty of opportunities to get up close and personal with the old guard though thing

feel moscow about to into colors terry was fireworks lit up the sky over some basil's cathedral and the kremlin but the holiday season underway here a long time since taurus so also enjoying the festivities. you come from miami south of germany how you can probably tell each other from italy i can't possibly get my mum comes to new jersey. yeah it's a first time yeah it's the first time that i'm here in new year and there's so many things to see if you went to see their kremlin and it was so. fantastic this is the safest city we've ever been and that we've been all over the world for so look over policing so this feeling of being the full safety lights everywhere the people are nice everybody was trying to help us so clean here and i like the food here look come back for sure just please find the city believe me see. it don't you how do you say happy new year in russia are somewhat normal but it. also. what two thousand and seventeen saw a raft of new faces in the world's political arena with plenty of opportunities to get up close and personal with the old guard those things didn't alw

international eleven time zones have seen in the new year already earlier the fireworks went off over st basil's cathedral at the kremlin artie's jacqueline novogratz was following all of the action for us on red square. i'm here in the heart of moscow right outside of red square and thousands of people have gathered here tonight to ring in the new year and see the full. works displayed. and it was amazing and of course not just here in the center of the city where people are gathering and celebrating those points all around that are having the fireworks displays and everything because here and russia new year's is the biggest celebration of the year families get together and have huge fees exchanged presents and see in the new year together i got to tell you this is the first time i've seen new year's and in the center of moscow and i have no regrets happy new year's everyone well from rio to hong kong major cities have started two thousand and eighteen in style with breathtaking fireworks shows here are some highlights from around the globe. i. i. all right two thousand and seventeen saw plent

seven as a memorial to the assassinated alexander the second its design was inspired by moscow's st basil's cathedral restoration work is expected to take eight years. cerebellum bagga is one of the most successful three d. illustrators in germany now perhaps says because she sees creative potential in ordinary objects such as fruits or vegetables while her graphic illustrations have made it on the covers of international publications and since she works right here in berlin we thought we'd pay her a visit in her studio. a sunday breakfast made of paper. great made of marbles. made a vegetable. brain made of wool. or even a whole head made of. zahra isn't bad it is a visual storytelling everything around us. serves as a source of inspiration and of materials too so when she's out shopping there has studio in berlin she's also working basically to dial about the i love all materials of course but i've been especially fond of fruit and vegetables for a long time because i thought i would leave because they're so varied and the colors are so vivid there's always an element of surprise because

. >> reporter: lucy long line of mourners continue to arrive here at the basil will he today of saints peter and paul. they're continuing to go in for the viewing which start the at 4:30 this afternoon. we also just saw a ladder truck got here a sign that we have definitely lost a hero. they're all paying respects to the 11-year veteran of the philadelphia fire department after he died trying to put out a fire and rescue people inside the home on saturday. the fire happened on colorado street in north philly. firefighters rescued a resident who later died. lieutenant letourneau was trapped inside for 30 minutes as his fellow firefighters tried to rescue him. but he succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. members of the engine 45 are devastated and so is the entire community. brave men and women within the fire department and we also learned that lieutenant letourneau was volunteer for the red paw relief organization. he fostered animals, rescued from fire scenes. and we talked recent toll a woman who says he saved her life when she nearly choked to death when she was just six years

basile president nicolas maduro made the announcement on new year's eve on the issue is i'm announcing an increase of forty percent of the national minimum wage and of all salary scales nationwide of teachers military police doctors public workers a lot of political. but still only brings the full time minimum wage to just under eight hundred thousand baht of r.'s a month or the princely sum of seven dollars on the black market that would only pay for about two kilos of pork a venezuelan stable when it's available the wage hike comes after the government failed to deliver on a promise of lowering port prices for traditional christmas meals. blamed portugal for failing to deliver pork imports. last week hundreds of people took to the streets in the poorer parts of the capital caracas to protest the food shortage millions of venezuelans are unable to afford three meals a day. i don't think yet that name where hungry now the people are hungry there is a famine the government says the local food supply committee should hand out food every fifteen days but it doesn't arrive you say you know

yes. [ shouts in portuguese ] >> anthony: ox tongue cooked with basil, mint, and pepper. minas. beans, mantioc flower smoked in cured meats. and if you're lucky, fresh eggs. oh, there we go. >> eduardo maya: oh there we go, very nice. that's the tongue -- ox tongue. >> anthony: yup. >> eduardo maya: that's the foot. the pig's foot. >> anthony: right. >> eduardo maya: may i? >> anthony: oh, yes, please. >> luiz otavio: the food from mineas gerais has nothing to do with our climate. >> anthony: yeah, you're right. this is cold-weather food. >> luiz otavio: yes. this meal is nice. >> anthony: yeah, right? >> eduardo maya: it's a very comfort food, isn't it? he prepares the tongue every day. >> anthony: you have a great culinary tradition here of flavors. you have fantastic ingredients, but in upper-class bello horizonte, people are insecure about their food until recently. where did this come from? >> luiz otavio: it's a plague -- italian and french food. >> eduardo maya: i used to say it's a complex. >> anthony: right. >> eduardo maya: like a trauma we've been in from who c