michelangelo once said it was he is r free the form from the bondage of stone. del colle says his process is similar. so we're going to see a replica of this statue emerge from this block of marble. >> ( translated ): that statue over there is trapped inside this block. all we have to do is remove the extra marble. that's how sculpture works. you can take stuff away, but you can't put it back. this type of marble is the top of the line for sculpture. it has a very fine grain, and its very own particular transparencygives it warmth and makes the statue softer in appearance, more human. >> reporter: today, that softero humah has made it a hot commodity in modern construction around the world, from colossal buddhas and temples to luxury hotels and hd bathrooms. roughly one llion tons of it are quarried every year at the source in rrara, a couple- urs drive northwest of florence. deep inside the guts of the apuan alps, you'll find cathedrals of a different making: wall-to-wall, a floor- to-ceiling, solid carrara marble. what once took an army of oxen and brute force

i want to be like arinze stanley egbengwu, michelangelo. that is myself among great artists.the sweat is from the work i did. my family, work hard for me. 0nly11. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter. i'm @bbc mike embley. hello there. 29 degrees celsius was the high yesterday. that was in northern ireland. there will be a dramatic dip in the temperature here during the day ahead. we had and will have a dramatic drop in temperature for parts of scotland. you can see we had a few shower clouds yesterday. we had a few light showers across the southern half of the country. just a smattering of rain for some of the gardens. we will, i think, see perhaps a little bit more during the day ahead. the change in scotland and northern ireland was brought about by this band of cloud in a weak weather front. the odd spot of drizzle. the noticeable change is a dip in temperature. for many of us, temperatures are higher than wednesday morning. a bit more comfortable for sleeping, i'm sure. this weather system is not bringing much weather. just a line of cloud. th

i want to be like isaac and michelangelo. that is myself among great artists.y family, work hard for me. impressive, just 11. a reminder of our top story. british police say two people who've fallen critically ill were exposed to the same type of nerve agent used in the attempted murder of a former russian spy and his daughter. a police spokesman said the use of a novichok nerve agent had been confirmed by chemical weapons research experts. he said there was no evidence that the couple had been deliberately targeted. the bbc‘s security correspondent, gordon corera, says one theory is that they were contaminated by some of the substance discarded following the attack on sergei and yulia skripal in salisbury in march. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter — i'm @bbcmikeembley. hello there. 29 degrees celsius was the high yesterday. that was in northern ireland. there will be a dramatic dip in the temperature here during the day ahead. we had and will have a dramatic drop in temperature for parts of scotland. you can see we had a few sho

the people of michelangelo an expert in the construction of fortifications. according to his design on the back hills of mount scabrous i found him into being the first in the modern era to be conceived on a drawing board. valletta. like a grade twelve streets around the breadth and nine the length of what was until then of a can spit of land and crowning the whole development at the point of the problem tree was fought and so bitterly fought over in the famous scene which. for all its jim actually plant the town has nothing static or rigid about it the up and down of the streets the colored facades of the houses with their wooden balconies silhouetted against the blue of the sky convey a feeling of mediterranean lightness. the peaceful it ill of the town was dependent on protective wools malta had been weakened and fear during new takesh attack master builder and suckle valetta with towering ramparts who not the rock built stone on stone forbidding and impregnable . ratch across the peninsula the builders dug out a ditch fifteen meters deep in a stony bedroc

getting an equaliser which never came gaps appeared in their defense martyn olsen brought down by michelangelo lang given his marching orders. given a free kick it was the last action of the game sweden through to their first world cup quarter final in twenty four years. the syrian army offensive in the south of the country has caused tens of thousands of people to flee their homes but neighboring jordan has refused to open its borders to any more refugees tanya credit reports from the golan heights where the build up of syrians displaced by the fighting is growing. more and more tense and makeshift homes are being set up near this village on the syrian side of the golan heights over eleven thousand syrians are said to have reached the area near the fence to the israeli occupied golan heights the assad regime has launched a massive offensive in nearby province shown here on unverified social media footage thousands of syrians have been driven out of their homes since mid june the area in syria's south west is one of the few remaining opposition strongholds it's a sensitive area because of its

yeah, and michelangelo "only" painted the sixteenth chapel.aybe don't keep 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. do this. 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!

sculptures scattered around the new target when you're used to it used to belong to renaissance artist michelangelo. leone from crowds father was an art dealer from frankfurt this link between wine and dark counter does imagination and in one nine hundred eighty one he bought the estate and began making wine. the invited a range of international artists to design labels for his bottles. including dato for yoko ono and good progress. when the media says that's it ok idea is that the label expresses in some way the essence of the wine. thing afterwards we invite the artists here and give them one hundred twenty bottles with a label they designed. the only one who did it on the wind was yoko no irony she doesn't drink it so we gave her one hundred twenty bottles of all of oil instead of . a percent of county classico produced here in tuscany is exported. around the world. well from wine back to find dining for a final cause we have another michelin starred restaurant for you this one is rather unique however as it serves up exclusively vegetarian food music to my is as i am a veggie the head chef of b

. >> i think of the quote from michelangelo that our greatest danger might not that be we aim and weiss but that we aim too low and we hit. up ambassador huntsman may not call this a summit. i just checked the home pages of sputnik and rt both of them refer to it as summit. the russians may view this as the world views this with a little bit more alacrity. the president may be going into this to get what he wants. he may get it. he may just want this meeting to be getting to know you meeting. we need to spend time with people who could be our allies, our friends. he may walk out of there getting everything he wants. and so might vladimir putin. granted it may not be as visible with -- as the north korea meeting and they were both shaking hands. 'm wondering if they'll walk out and think they're both winners. >> i'm sorry, this is what the president's director of national intelligence said on friday about russia. take a listen. >> we know you run the shop. we know you're making the decisions. you can't pass it off to oh, that's some hacker down somewhere where we don't know. we know w