and michelangelo's frescoes in the sistine chapel are brought to life in a new high tech extravaganza even the vatican museum approaches. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program south africa's chief prosecutor has announced that he is charging former president jacob zuma with corruption the blue . early a.n.c. party forced zuma to resign as head of state last month after gives of corruption related scandal he will now be prosecuted on a variety of corruption charges including fraud racketeering and money laundering the charges stem from a multi-billion dollar government arms purchase in the late one nine hundred ninety s. when zuma was deputy president. and for more let's bring in journalist alice van gelder who is following that story for us from cape town bookham to you alice you know political big man like zuma they rarely have their day in court. how much of a surprise is it that charges are being brought against him now. well these are actually were charges that were already on the table in two thousand and nine and that seems to cross security i actually decided to abandon the ca

and michelangelo's frescoes in the sistine chapel are brought to life in the new high tech extravaganza even though that it can be approves. i'm sumi so what's going to thank you for joining us well it is another salvo in the standoff between russia and western allies over the poisoning of a former double agent in britain and remarks made a short while ago british foreign secretary boris johnson said it was likely that russian president vladimir putin personally ordered the nerve agent attack on circus grip all and his daughter let's listen to what johnson had to say. all quarrel is with putin is criminal and with his decision and we think it overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of of the u.k. on the streets of europe for the first time since the second world war that is that is why we are at odds with russia all right let's get more on this latest development we have our correspondent to emily share when standing by for us in moscow and in london journalist josh bloom good to see you both josh let's start with you boris johnso

. >> he actually was the great patron of michelangelo. he rebuilt the wle of st. peter's.oned michelangelo to do the dome. >> in 1508 pope julius ii commissioned the most famous work in the modern vatican, the ceiling of the sistine chapel. >> della rovere was driven by personal ambition, grandiosity. he wanted michelangelo to get finished with the sistine chapel so he could get to work on his, julius', tomb, which was never finished. >> despite his motivations, art flourishes under the della rovere pope and the papacy becomes stronger and more powerful than ever. >> he's a warrior pope who actually goes into battle leading his own soldiers wearing silver armor. that is to aggrandize himself to some extent, but it's also part of a vision of a papacy that has to be underpinned by power. >> pope julius ii continues flaunting the power of the papacy until his death in 1513. by then another powerful italian family has been patiently plotting to take over the papal throne, and the young banking heir will take renaissance opulence to levels of excess from which the church may ne

a center for the university of rome is built and michelangelo draws plans to rebuild st.ust have to live with the paradox of these are the product of sin, but they are not themselves sinful. they're wonderful and the world is better for them. >> borgia commissions so many works of art in the name of god and his family, that the image modern christianity has come to equate with jesus christ, is the -- while alexander vi continues to collect bribes and adorn the vatican. an old rival hatches a plan to take him down. >> the man who will turn out to be rodrigo borgia rival would be -- >> borgia and de la roveri's rivalry dates back to when they were both cardinals. but when borgia wins the papacy in 1492, de la roveri -- >> he basically leaves in a sulk. >> de la roveri exiled himself to france and attached himself to the french and began -- >> de la roveri convinces the king of france to capture naples and on his way to sack rome and dethrone the pope. >> two years after rodrigo borgia comes to the throne, his soldiers flood the alps towards rome. it's a major catastrophe. >

the live show universal judgment michelangelo in the secrets of the sistine chapel is set to debut in rome on thursday the nine million euro production features acrobats dancers and special effects it honors the life and work of the renaissance artist. and i want to show the spirit that exists between michelangelo and his works of a journalist with least we'll put it out there. the production was created in cooperation with the vatican museums held in the auditorium conciliatory only two shows per day are scheduled to run for at least a year. prince harry's fiance meghan markle made her first official appearance with queen elizabeth on monday the royals attended a special commonwealth day service at westminster abbey. today is a celebration of the commonwealth which currently numbers fifty three member countries. there's always a good reason to celebrate but sometimes it's the location that puts the icing on the cake when it comes to a really good party you can celebrate at home with a small circle of friends but some people rent a room or even a whole by maybe you sort of braided in

of introvert-- - oh, michelangelo was antisocial, reclusive, didn't get along with leonardo, sort of was disrespectful quite a bit in the public squares when he'd run across leonardo, but leonardo was also a misfit, and this was fine in florence in the 1470s. - well, i wanted to ask you about that, the environment in which he worked and lived, really was a contributor, in some ways, to his success, right? it allowed him to be-- - yeah, you had to be in florence, in the 1470s, with the medici family as great patrons, a lot of tolerance, a lot of diversity, 'cause leonardo gets there as a 12 year old from a village nearby, the village of vinci, of course, and he's gay, left-handed, illegitimate, vegetarian-- - vegetarian, the worst! the worst possible thing! - with all due respect to vegetarians in the audience-- - and onstage. - yeah, and onstage. - it's okay. - although i think he was a vegetarian, but he kept his shopping list in his notebooks, i love his notebooks, and he bought eel and seafood, so i think was a pescetarian. - he was thinking about straying, exactly. - he strayed o

. ♪ >>> michelangelo are used to jumping off things for fun but still get scared for good reason. >>hey're kind of crazy. >> they're trying to build up the courage to go out there on the plank of death. >> i was thinking or not at all. if you lose your balance, you clip one of those little support pieces there. >> [ bleep ] legs are shaking like a [ bleep ]. >> you have to kind of commit to it. looks kind of high from the ground. >> just a little bit. >> now jelly legs starts making his way across. listen to the relief. clearly he's forgotten to breathe. [ sighs ] >> it's like okay, made it. turns around, his body seems to do it easier. oh man look at you, [ bleep ] off. >> they're acting like it was the scariest part of the jump. turns around, get a cracking view. >> holy [ bleep ], this is amazing. >> and does what he's[ bleep ]. >> oh, yeah. oh. >> that's intense. >> i'm happy enough just watching this on video. i don't need to try this one. it looks scary enough. >> yeah. >>> they're out for a ride when -- >> oh! >> see what went wrong. >>> and mr. beast has a problem. >> watch.

. >> reporter: salvatore owns michelangelo cafe. it was packed when customers evacuated. food is still on the table today. he's worried about the future. >> three jobs, 12 year s s to o this business. >> reporter: we're told at least eight people were displaced in the fire. no word yet on a cause. as for what's next for the building, we're told that an engineer's report is expected and then the upper exterior walls in the back are expected to be braced. >>> the fire has been one of the top stories on our website, nbc bayarea.com over the past 24 hours. chu check out video from the scene right there. >>> we've learned a shooting on an east bay freeway left a child injured. it may be the result of road rage. it happened on interstate 80 in. the chp says one victim is a woman in her 50s. the other victim is a young girl age 5 or 6. >> approximately 9:00 p.m. a shooting occurred on 80 at willow avenue. an adult and a young child for injured, both transported to a local hospital to receive medical care. >> he says the woman who was shot suffered moderate injuries and the littl

. >> reporter: inside michelangelo restaurant half eaten dinners are still on the counter where customers left them saturda when owners told them to run. as a fierce fire engulfed the upper floors of this building on union street. six businesses below, restaurants and bars were heavily damaged by smoke and water including the liquor store this man has owned for ten years. >> you feel like you lost your kid. your business. this is a kid to me. love it. >> reporter: the building now red tagged by the city. inspectors are concerned the front of it could collapse. drone view 7 captured the inside of the building from above. not much left but charred debris and brick walls. remarkably no one was hurt. firefighters stopped the fire from spreading to nearby buildings, but san francisco's supervisor criticized the fire department's response saying it took too long to put water on the fire. >> with my own eyes, they completely, totally failed to address this working fire in a quick, efficient way. >> reporter: fire chief jo anne hayes white. >> once we determined there were no more safety problems

michelangelo painting the sistine chapel. images filled the theater.en its creative director has a hard time describing. >> it is easier to say what is not. there is ballet but it is not a ballet. there is a lot of beautiful music by john metcalfe and sting but it is not musical. it is a very technological show. >> ballots treat michael ang as a sort of superhero. and turn the hall into a second cystei sistine chapel. >> what did you think? >> belissimo. >> you liked it. >> usually we do a one off. so we, it is a quick and the it is finished and it is gone. this time it keeps going. i open up the door to the fake sistine chapel. >> he let us peek backstage to see how the show works. what the cast wears, and how he took inspiration from spectacles the catholic church has staged. >> this is the coffin of john paul ii, which for to me which i love ceremonies, that was one of the best ceremony i ever done. >> he takes images people strain to see in real life and expands and animates them. he pushed to create this production and got the blessing of the vati

.>> the owner of michelangelo's restaurant says they will be closed for at least a month due to water damage.>>> now to a heated showdown outside of an oakland coffee shop. today, dueling protests squared off over the shop's refusal to serve cops. the business says it is trying to keep the peace but kpix 5's kiet do shows us it was anything but peaceful.>> reporter: they call themselves supporters of the so-called patriot movement. two dozen gathered in oakland sunday morning at a cafi on fruitville avenue. it was not just any random spot, it was the cafi that made national headlines last week for refusing to serve uniformed police officers. the word quickly got out to cafi supporters and the patriots were soon outnumbered and shouted down. this is a facebook live video from one of the patriot organizers lindsay grapple. at one point early on, the confrontation escalates. you can hear what sounds like a taser. after about 20 minutes, the patriots regrouped and confronted mayor libby schaaf. shaft made national headlines earlier this month when she warned residents about an impending i

beyond to the company or your own where you have various epics coming together there is the air of michelangelo and then ancient rome with the statue of emperor marcus aurelius. in all these two big sculptures are replicas of the ancient greek originals. and there's the beautiful son. and daughter charlie has these different areas conduct a dialogue with each other and that's what makes this city so extraordinary that it was such a just a stone's throw away it's the roman forum it was the centerpiece of ancient rome and today a key area for excavation the forum gives an idea of what life was like in rome in the days of julius caesar. and that was just. i don't know put it best so much it. would like to be both an ancient and a modern city. but when are we started digging we find a roman villa on our account we still. just have to accept all over on being a museum. and should it also it can only adapt to modern times in a limited way up at the level that we thought one of the vantage is of driving through romana vista is that it's easy to escape the stressful city traffic jam you culum hill offe

yeah, and michelangelo "only" painted the sixteenth chapel.eep your face so close to the paint cans. sorry, buddy, i'm getting a golf lesson and then i'm playing with a client, but i'll try to make your next performance. (doorbell rings, thud) phil! little busy. oh, you always do this. you cram stuff in the freezer without thinking about it. i opened the door, and a frozen turkey almost fell on my foot. i keep pulling it to the left. are we sure the house is level? are you not the least bit sorry? i could have broken a toe. honey, i'm sorry for dozens of things every day that actually happen. if i start apologizing for things that don't happen, how productive of a person would i be? hey, your golf pro's here!

[laughter] but let's be fair what about michelangelo? david incorrectly said be careful but on the other hand you are born in the right time you can talk back soon you'll be be 17 and 18 and then you are 80. [laughter] and then you have to find a new doctor. [laughter] it does take courage to be 16 and ask a question you are guts gutsy. >> my question is what gets you most excited in the morning? >> other than the alarm clock? and what keeps you up at night? >> to tell a story gets me up in the morning i get excited about ideas although i'm not sure exactly how to portray them of all the horrible things that are happening in those children keep me up and how to help them i've done a million shows about gun control that is why only fly delta and united. [applause] i thank you have to support the people and so for the first time i see a light in the tunnel there was no light before. yes that does me up at night because i wanted is like to send kids in the school in the morning you're wearing that it told you not to her that and then you ne

. >> and michelangelo was damaged also. >> really? >> he is closed about six months, he said. >> we will be holding fundraising in the neighborhood to raise funds. >> and water damage of adjacent buildings. it was like the second largest fire in recent history in terms of the water used to put it out. >> i was over in berkeley. i could just see this. >> i was at tomaso's. in the restaurant. >> i wanted to bring up one other topic. i've become much more interested in the newly emerging cannabis industry and i would like to make a suggestion that the equity program expand somewhat to include older potential workers, retired people, people that are having a hard time finding work. the cannabis industry is very, very much customer sieve service driven and i think we should look to include that category of people who often have a very hard time finding work, even part-time. i just wanted to bring that up. >> president adams: especially when 65% of employees need to be from san francisco. >> right. and i've been working a little bit at a ca

my list of pokers is bigger than this book but let's be clear and are we gonna lock up michelangelo orecause if he had pushed david incorrectly. you have to be careful. on the other hand i thank you are born in the right time and you can talk back in soon you will be 17 and 18 in one day you will be 80 and then you'll have to find a new doctor. [laughter] thank you but it takes courage to be 16 and asked a question. you are gutsy. >> my question to you is what is the thing that gets you most excited and up and out of bed in the morning and -- >> other than the alarm clock? >> what is the thing that keeps you up at night? >> what gets me up in the morning is the thought to tell a story, a story that people might be interested in in some form or another and i get excited about ideas. although i'm not sure how to trade them but what keeps me up at night is the i cannot cry, all the horrible things in the world that happen. parkland keeps me up at night and those children can be up at night but i don't know how to help them because i've done a million shows about gun control but i can't ge

. >> since michelangelo helped build it, the most obvious change inside st.hat pilgrims now take selfies. the vatican library may have gone digital but only to preserve ancient wisdom. in the artifactry, mosaics are still handmade yet to millions this ancient church seems radically different thanks to the pope in the newest mosaic. francis the reformer was an obscu obscure jesuit from argentina five years ago but made it known he would be one of the most liberal fathers in ancient history. he was asked about hoax smosexuy and said the five words that shook the weather, whom am i to judge. allowing priests to marry, divorced catholics take communion, all open for discussion under this global pope who also stands as the anti-trump. when he says those who build walls instead of bridges are not christians, does he know what he's doing? >> oh he knows what he is doing. he is a great political figure of our time. >> while fans love that, resistance worry frances is either a herotic or conservative or both. >> there is a con glomeration of people with different conc

i mean, are we going to lock up picasso and michelangelo wax if you push david incorrectly?he other hand, i think you were born in the right time and you can talk back. and soon you'll be 17 and 18 and one day you will be 80. [laughing] and you will to fight and you doctor. [laughing] thank you, but you know, it takes courage 16 and ask a question. you are gutsy. [inaudible] >> my question is what the thing that you most excited and up in the morning? what gets me every morning is a thought that helps me -- i get excited about ideas. although not sure exactly how to portray them. what keeps the up at night is all the horrible things that are happening. parkland keeping up at night. of those children keep me up at night. i do not help them because i've done and doing shows about gun control and i can't get through. that's what i think i will only like delta and united because they said no more nra. [applause] i think you have to support the people who have taken very strong stance in this, for the first time i see a light in the tunnel or to was an ally in the. it's just, i f

here's a look. [ bell tolli ining ] >> reporter: since michelangelo helped build it, the most obviouse inside st. peter's is that pilgrims now take selfies. the vatican library may have gone digital, but only to preserve ancient wisdom. and in the pope's art factory, mosaics are still handmade. yet to millions, this ancient church seems radically different thanks to the pope in the newest mosaic. francis the reformer was an obscure jesuit from argentina just five years ago, but he made it very clear very fast that he would be one of the most liberal holy fathers in history. he was asked about homosexuality and said five words that shook the catholic church -- who am i to judge? he then embraced muslim refugees and said god redeems the atheist, allowing priests to marry, divorce catholics to take communion, all open for discussion under this global pope who also stands as the anti-trump. >> when he says those who build walls instead of bridges are not christians, does he know what he's doing? >> oh, he knows what he's doing. he's really a great political figure of our time. >> reporter

. >> reporter: to michelangelo's sublime sculpture. >> we see jesus right off the cross, dead, lyingre the places pilgrims rarely see. >> how many books are here? >> at present, the library holds 2 million. >> reporter: the vatican library. filming is highly restricted here. this 1,000-year-old manuscript is fascinating. >> the black writing is dated 886. >> reporter: the parchment used with even more ancient writing underneath. >> look at that, you can see the writing underneath the writing. that's amazing. >> reporter: liturgies for holy week written in the language jesus spoke. >> is it true that hundreds of years ago you could borrow books from this library, but if you were late bringing them back, you'd get a note from the pope? >> yes. yes. >> that's a lot of pressure. >> reporter: words and worship resonating through the centuries, repeated across rome in its 300 churches. >> to celebrate holy week in rome, i don't know if it gets better. as catholics, this is home. >> reporter: the spirit of easter alive today, in this ancient holy city. just a quick explanation of the servic

. >> michelangelo was working on the dome while this was being built simultaneously in the gardens. > religion, science and philosophy here. >> a monk was the founder of modern genetics or the belgian priest who came up with the big bang. there were a lot of great scientists who were catholic priests. >> reporter: jones, from indiana, helps manage pope francis' twitter account. >> he's the author of the tweets themselves. so he's definitely involved. and -- in the process itself. social media can be a very rough place. but you have to be there if you want to reach out to people. >> reporter: though here to the sanctity of the papacy preserved. what do i have to do to be retweeted by the pope? >> keep hoping. >> reporter: keep praying. >> keep praying. >> reporter: modern life can be surprisingly normal around the vatican. young trainee priests at the north american college practicing for a clerical soccer cup. >> we don't spend 24 hours, 7 days a week in prayer. >> reporter: father michael baguette from virginia. >> there is this hunger and longing for god. if it can happen to me, it