in the church of santa croce, a series of frescoes painted around 1320 were to have a revolutionary effectn florentine painting. here, the great merchant families competed with one another to commission the leading artists to decorate their chapels. in the chapel of the bardi family, professor john white of university college, london, describes how these medieval images came to life. this is a franciscan church, and the franciscans were the passionate preachers of the late medieval world. they used their words to tug at the emotions of the faithful. and at the same time, the painters increasingly tried to bring the gospels and the stories of the saints to life before their very eyes. at first, as you can see in this late 13th century saint francis altarpiece, they did it with stiff, imposing figures and with bright, doll-like symbolic scenes and images. and here next door in a much-ruined fresco, i'm afraid, painted probably only 30 or 40 years later, you can see the revolution represented by the art of giotto, the great contemporary of the poet dante. here is a new soft, warm reality, a n

major parties in coalition government and outside always agree to stock up the capital so there's only croce upon sovereign budgetary rights and the parliament is not defending those but basically that's the last bargaining chip our sovereign budgetary rights and i just clarify that by e.s.m. you mean the european stability mechanism not say a pox whereby all the countries put money in and it's given out to those countries that need it most will not work in your opinion yes that years and missed the big part european money will be distributed somewhat like the. i.m.f. and it should the money should flow to countries and problems against certain under certain conditions at this point how it's constructed we give ever more money to that as a result saving solving their problems. and the money is just flowing in basically exacerbating and prolonged poor along the current unsustainable situation now german chancellor angela merkel's always been a big supporter of the eurozone saying it must stick together is there a chance that german fiscal decisions are being made based on political decisions