badly damaged but still standing france begins to grapple with what's been lost in a massive fire that engulfed notre dame cathedral in paris president emmanuel michel has vowed to rebuild the cathedral which has towered over the city for centuries the wars and revolutions. i'm fully back to you watching al-jazeera live from doha also on the program sudanese protesters maintain their rage against the military commanders have taken power demanding civilians be put in charge and libya's u.n. box government apps this state of emergency to the highest level as its forces try

to fight off a wall it's offensive. thank you for joining us france's asking for the world's help to rebuild paris is notre dame cathedral after the centuries old landmark was engulfed in flames crews and insides now assessing the damage firefighters worked through the night trying to save not only the structure but countless works and auto stocks inside from paris. i reports. an unimaginable sight not for time because the jewels ravaged by flames a symbol of paris and french history collapsing in smoke it was seven o'clock in the evening local time when the fire broke out hundreds of firefighters and emergency service workers with their within minutes as thick smoke rose above the city people watched in shock and disbelief when to lose it all is awful we saw the

sparkle. shocked it's eight hundred fifty years of history it's hard wrecking one of the. chaotic scenes as police try to evacuate the area. does not sound good legal. ground no paramount to. learning center started raining to the ground and that is why police here are trying to put everybody back well there is a payoff for what they're worried about is more of that roof collapsing they're worried about the smoking talks a little worried for people safety as night fell firefighters fear that the twelfth century cathedral would collapse completely but after working tirelessly for hours they managed to control the fire. the french president visit the site and promised to rebuild not to damage the cathedral he said that was cherished by so many in of the. not is our history our literature imagination the place where we have lived

all our great moments our epidemics our wars our liberation it is the epicenter of our lives it is the standard from which distances start and from which we can measure ourselves from paris it is full of books of paintings it is a cathedral that belongs to all frenchmen and women even to those who have never come here. firefighters say the fine could be linked to renovation work in paris this prosecutor has opened an inquiry whatever the cools the site of a cathedral the distant majestically in paris for centuries crumbling in ours is deeply sad and people across the city and the world. al-jazeera parents. or leaders around the world are voicing sorrow and solidarity with france iran's foreign minister expressed sadness about damage to what he described as an iconic monument adding that iran starts with the french and all catholics e.u. commission chief said notre dame belongs to the whole of humanity and in asia the

south korean president said the french spirit of liberty equality and fraternity will never be done by flames well it sounds speak to robert aldridge who is an art historian and professor of european history at the university of sydney he joins us via skype from there thank you so much for being with us on on to zero so the structure of notre dame is considered safe now the north tower is saved but the roof we know has collapsed what do we know about the priceless works of art and the relics inside what's been salvaged she think. i don't think we have a list and it may be some time before we do have a list there are of course many traders inside notre dumb the religious articles the paintings and sculptures the books the vestments are many of them i'm sure were preserved perhaps kept in vaults that kept them safe from from the fire but now of

course there is smoke damage there is water damage there's probably damage because of the work the firemen had to do in it maybe of quite a long time before we know our so there that damage was and before we have a list of those objects but some of the works we understand were removed for restoration work before the fires so hopefully those have been saved tell us a bit more professor about the op works that are inside the cathedral but also some of those that are carved into the buildings if the area and their villages and historical significance. yes well i'm gothic cathedrals such as this one is absolutely full of symbolism and so there are carvings on the outside paintings on the inside that tell us a lot about christian beliefs many people know the humorous gargoyles they're often reproduced on a list cards and t. shirts but there are also a number of religious paintings and statues of saints there are not just aesthetic

objects but in the middle ages and afterwards for catholics are objects of veneration so the cathedral is a museum it's a treasure house but it's also a very active place of worship for catholics fortunately some of the religious relics were removed and as you mentioned some of the statues particularly the ones on the spire had been taken away already as part of the renovation work that was in progress and what what about those big rolls windows that date back to twelve hundred sixty what do we know about the fate of those windows. i understand although i'm not sure that i have full information that one of them was damage. sustained last of course ken jenne suffered great damage because of the heat as well as the fire itself the glass can break the the lead can melt are and

the the colors can be changed but i'm afraid i don't know the exact. situation of those very stunning and important pieces of artwork that have survived for so many hundreds of years professor not a dom as you said is a magnificent icon of french history french culture a fine example of high gothic architecture for how our historian like yourself i imagine this is a tragedy do you think the cathedral can be resurrected to what it was. french president has a know it's a war to rebuild it and certainly i think they will do so or a building like notre dame has an accretion of changes that have accumulated through history this is not the first time that there has been some sort of disaster there it's not the first time that there has been a necessary progress process of renovation and reconstruction so perhaps they

because the group will not look exactly as it was before the fire but this may be an opportunity to address some issues for example to put in new security devices or fire alarms that will protect it from the future building live not too dumb as a vault through the centuries and no doubt will continue to change as it moves on we certainly hope that it is resurrected thank you so much for speaking to us robert aldrich an art historian professor of european history at the university of sydney thank you for joining us some artists here thank you let's turn to other world news now and protesters have spent another night on the streets south sudan's capital demanding the military council that's taken power be disbanded and replaced with civilians less than a week after president obama care was the polls demonstrated nothing will be done

to end repression or the economic crisis there ensuring he morgan has our report from khartoum. despite a military coup ousting bashir last thursday and his successor twenty four hours later the sit in and protests continue. we insist on continuing with this revolution until our demands are met our demands are known and clear bringing down the regime completely they're angry because they feel their revolution is being stolen by the military council that overthrew bashir the council has appointed members from the military to run the country it's promised an all party inclusive government for the transitional period but under the military supervision that's something those on the streets refused to accept protesters have been here in front of the army headquarters in khartoum for more than ten days and they say they're ready to stay for even longer if their demands are not met they want to dismantling of the security intelligence agency as well as accountability for the roof of members of the former regime but most of all they want to civilian government in a country that has been ruled by

a military leader for more than thirty years. the military council says it won't use force to disperse the protesters something activists say they attempted to do on monday morning it has issued orders three from the security agency and the judiciary and says it's arrested officials from the previous government who will be held to account but it insists protest groups and political parties must agree on the structure of a transitional government the second version of the guy that was if we need to agree on the basis of forming the government the ball is now in their court there was a question on the timeline for the ball is in the cultural political forces and the other bodies that i mentioned from organizations youth and women if they are ready today and agree on anything we are ready to execute i am a she gets hot enough that we have met with the military council and told them that we want a transition period of no more than one year while others wanted to be as long as four years sudanese professional association the group spearheading the protests say the way to end the sit in is clear we want the government to be handed to

a civilian. body we want me to consider to be canceled and a new council to be formed which is civilian major media the media by civilians with some military visitation and this is our main demand then we want also the transitional government we've executed the rights. to extend the transitional period to four years but as a political parties and other groups negotiate the terms of the new government sudan continues under the rule of the military and the sitting continues he will morgan al-jazeera heart and. meanwhile sudan transitional council has confirmed this commitment to the saudi led military coalition in yemen deposed president bashir sent hundreds of soldiers to the war torn country in twenty fifteen to help fight the rebels a senior sudanese military official told local media that remain there until the

arab alliance achieves its goals as the first major foreign policy announcement by the country's new military rulers. the u.n. security council is being to consider a stronger measures if yemen's warring parties don't make better progress towards pulling their troops away from a key red seaport the who data agreement was reached back in december but has been delayed repeatedly yemen's government which is backed by the saudi led coalition and the who the rebels they're fighting accuse against cuse each other breaking the true smy kana has more from the united nations. the parties to the conflict have agreed to a phased withdrawal from the port city of the data that's according to special representative martin griffiths who says in the past week both the yemen government and the hutu rebels have agreed to implement the two stage withdrawal that was agreed to back in february however there's been no timeline established for the

first phase to begin and while the conflict continues so too does the humanitarian crisis the council was told that some seventy percent of yemen's population are in need of humanitarian relief over the last two weeks fighting for schools nearly one hundred thousand more people from. about half of other areas in which is an extremely poor what's the scariest history and one hundred to three hundred thousand displaced people. you have to just if you can only choose from this week's main water source which serves two hundred thousand people if i actually damages or cuts off this city very quickly see a major catastrophe and the bleak news given to the council that the un is simply running out of money the council was told that if donor nations do not increase their contributions the u.n.

will be unable to carry out any humanitarian operation. libya's u.n. backed government has bush said state of emergency in the capital tripoli to the highest level. forces loyal to the government to try to defend the city from fighters who by warlords the halftime are after has allied to a rival administration in eastern libya has launched an offensive to in his words rid tripoli of terrorists the interior minister says have to has committed war crimes crimes against humanity by bombing residential areas. still ahead on al-jazeera a desperate journey the plight of african refugees hoping for a better life in europe. on the investigation into donald trump's finances and the big bank at the center.

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in front mostly of the land so the only part of the mediterranean being affected is the east and that means rain spreading into the valley not the skies a much clearer the sand has settled for egypt for example in terms of the land on the north coast only but only slowly rising. for the congolese the journey to the order means unimaginable hardship i prefer to live no because. cutting through chance a good life and limb on a dangerous journey through the jungle. down on to the rails and nearly died. our children go to school and live because of the prank risking it all the democratic republic of congo on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories the centuries old snorter dam cathedral in paris has been badly damaged by fire crews managed to save the main structure but it's fine spire and roof collapse present it mannion mccall as promised it will be rebuilt after several delays the u.n. envoy cmin says the government and who the rebels have agreed to withdraw troops from the port city of her data both sides have said they will hold back several kilometers and demonstrators in sudan's capital are continuing their push for an immediate transition to civilian rule protesters also want the party of deposed president omar al bashir to be disbanded while for more on the crisis in sudan i'm

not joined by abraham hussein most about all who is a professor at the community college of kottayam joins us on al-jazeera not thank you so much for coming in the military council has made a number of moves it seems to appease protesters in recent days including cancelling the nighttime curfew but it doesn't seem to satisfy them do you expect the military council to buy out any more demands by the protesters including this transfer of power to a civilian government. the military council did it is because of the presence of the ministry there's. even more from them. the further that this military council is just meaning. previously because the core of the establishment is still there isn't it. so there was a demanding of the former to do you expect that they will deliver some.

changes but if the president. they did offer to have a civilian prime minister why is that not enough for protesters because it is very difficult in this crisis to choose the independent prime minister this is the most important. problems that's real face who will be the prime minister but i expect that this is the problem. and is it really independence it is in this year and on that question who can be a prime minister a civilian prime minister is there a figurehead it matching from the protest movement that could you know take on this role is that somebody that they are looking up to. you that there was that there is city a city go to store in this issue if it is. the previous three year their own

figures in the military council second there is that this you know parties also they have their own figures they want to book themselves but these traditional parties don't necessarily represent what protesting in the streets right people are put at this thing that are new to them now and they are us yes is a bit of that of the young people they will not accept this because they think that this movement is for their own movement and. definitively that i minister. should be experienced person but this is not is it is that those people will accept . till now i can sit. in for those people young people they will not accept. that someone from the drive this in the pot this could be. thank you so much for coming in and speaking to us about the situation in sudan. i'm sure we'll be talking about it some more in the coming days the brain hussain muslim uncle is professor at the community college of qatar joining us here

on al-jazeera thank you. for hundreds of african refugees and migrants are waiting in northern nigeria hoping to cross the mediterranean sea and reach europe the recent spike in fighting in libya might have slowed the flow of illegal migration but it hasn't stopped it from agadez in the share reports. doda cooks the evening meal of vegetables and rice but he's focused on only one objective get into europe despite the dangers. the twenty seven year old gambian arrived here in the city of i got this two weeks ago in gambia a good job. but i have no. you cannot go my family. i'm the eldest son of my mother my father passed every twenty forty miles schools where any had any sponsors and not many dos last ones they don't want to help you

so my brothers and my sisters are going to school is my motto used to go market sell and if only i was. just a few meters away you score travellers while away time playing a board game they arrived more than a year ago with no money but still determined to reach their destination. and compare europe to live in held. in europe you can compare with africa. i know it's very dangerous to get to libya because of the fighting and the abuses but it's a better option to proceed and to get back to a life of poverty and misery a few years ago at least one hundred thousand africans passed through this year to get to libya and into europe the e.u. and have since reached an agreement to stem the tide of people trying to cross the mediterranean. in return just government gets funding. and thousands of people smugglers who are probably support an income to stop the trade you don't know if

you move. they made promises they didn't fulfill less than ten percent of the people smugglers receive support the reste have not seen anything that's the reason why it's so difficult to stop this trade. this is a main road linking the city of are going to to libya but human traffickers are found new routes to smuggle desperate migrants are voiding police and military checkpoints along the way but the troubles have become more dangerous and many africans have died on their way to libya the incidence of murder torture and slavery has not stopped those trying to make the journey most of them still believe getting to europe for a better life. it's worth the risk with the grease al-jazeera i get has gotten me here. in the united sates congressional investigators are pursuing the president's business dealings by issuing subpoenas to multiple financial institutions to house

committees have subpoenaed bank as part of the investigation the german bank has been chums long term lender the house intelligence and financial services committees have also demanded documents or institutions including j.p. morgan chase bank of america and citi group john hendren has more from washington. two u.s. congressional committees are looking in to deutscher bank they are subpoenaing information between the bank donald trump and his trump organization and they are specifically looking for any information having to do with transactions involving suspected money launderers from russia and eastern europe this is not like the robert miller probe which was looking into possible collusion between the donald trump campaign and russia this is looking into financial ties between president trump and his organization and other countries now donald trump was a bit of a pariah in the banking industry he had a defaulted on long lines his company had declared bankruptcy as nevertheless he

managed to get deutsche of buying to lend him two billion dollars for various projects and at the time he was he took office as president there were three hundred million dollars in active projects funded by georgia and just to give you an idea of what a bad risk he was at least perceived to be in order to build trump tower in chicago who needed five hundred million dollars and he was willing to secure that with forty million dollars of his own money when he was unable to pay that his company ended up suing deutsche bank declaring that that was an active god because of the financial collapse of two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine trump actually asked the bank for three billion dollars in damages for that in the end they settled that deal and then trump turned around and asked the bank for the money to pay back that forty million dollar loan so it is

a storied history with deutsche bank and know that the democrats are taking over these house committees in the house of representatives in congress trump is going to have to sit back and watch as a lot of his financial information that he has sought to keep secret comes out. volkswagen former. former chief executive has been charged with fraud over the car giant's diesel emissions scandal prosecutors say martin went to con knew about the scheme to cheat on a mission tests he's accused of failing to tell customers and regulators of the legal manipulations of diesel engines when to call on resigned shortly after the scandal broke saying he was stunned by the scale of misconduct pakistan's most populous city is enjoying a new lease of life ten years ago kharaj he was known for its violent crime they were regularly targeted killings and extortions and many businesses were forced to shut down then a major security operation was launched to tackle the problem as the story

back home in his native fifty. catches up with his brother and me he's one of many bloggers who fled karachi written violence in the city where they're getting beat. he say he was scared for his family and decided to pack up and leave they spent ten years in dubai we moved out for good and came back all the way after ten years because of the security situation in karachi the target killings and my games and extortions nothing happened to us but then it was scary it was really scary you couldn't have children grew up in a city like that and business is good security situation in karachi is awesome i've seen places in karachi that i never saw in my life mohammad returned to karachi to get medical treatment for his mother and was surprised at how to change he said he

found a calm city one where people felt safe to went you're out the change began in twenty thirteen when a major security operation was launched to tackle the rising level of crime and it's proved. with the number of killings kidnappings and street gangs down it's not only former residents who are turning to the city to order a setback to come to. light. and peace in a city and you can see them everywhere you hear people are rare and fred in the garage arabian sea and its beach front page with families richard paul can relax and take time out of the stress of every day living there returned during normality i didn't got h.p. vertica seen more secure a far cry from the days when people seldom re-injured out of their homes people now feel more secure here and they're enjoying life in the city you can write

a camel for less than a dollar or to go right in a beach buggy for about the same i don't know what i'm going to be they were street crime and people were robbed in prague daylight but now it's gone and we can come without any worries for our safety and we. can go out with our family's garage is pakistan's most multi-ethnic before littered city and foreign diplomats based here are keen to spread the word from a security point of frustration is much and. unfortunately there is still a negative narrative. pakistan which doesn't make an injustice to this kind of a disgruntled normal wrecking havoc. is driving the country. home to more than twenty million people who hope the city has put a stock years of violent crime behind date and can look forward to a bright future cammalleri their older data. israeli scientists say they've

made a significant medical breakthrough revealing the world's first three d. printed hard it's small only about the size of a rabbit but is made with human tissue and blood vessels researchers hope to produce organs suitable for humans in the future though they say it's a long way off yet. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera the centuries old cathedral in paris has been badly damaged by fire firefighters managed to save the main structure but its fire and rules collapsed french president emmanuel michel has promised it will be rebuilt. not periods of history it's a literature the place where we've lived all the great moments wars and liberations the very center of our lives and we measure ourselves in paris from the center the place of books of painting phaedra which is that of french men and women even those

who have never come here the sister it's owls and it's burning it's burning and i know the said internal tremor felt by so many of our citizens. in other news demonstrators in sudan's capital are continuing their push for an immediate transition to civilian rule protesters are calling for deposed president omar bashir sparty to be disbanded and want the head of the judiciary and the attorney general to be socks in libya the minister of interior has put security at its highest level of alert in the capital tripoli. the announcement comes as fighting between forces loyal to the warlord honey for have time and others with the internationally recognized government continues. for says noir to have talk committed crimes against humanity by bombing residential areas in tripoli. part of the military operations commanded by the word

dirty for have to and his militias threaten the civilian put them in danger and lead to a lot of casualties amongst them last night they have boarded the district of tripoli like eloqua and in daraa and acts that are not penalized internationally. and in the united states congressional investigators a fist suing the president's business dealings by issuing subpoenas to multiple financial institutions two house committees have subpoenaed deutsche bank as part of the investigation the german bank has been trump's long term lender the house intelligence and financial services committees have also demanded documents those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next it's inside story to stay with us. in australia more women are being locked up than ever before what's driving this alarming development one on one east meets to x. in my live blog behind by one zero zero.

the as libya's conflict escalates a dangerous double game is emerging the west and regional powers are backing wyvil sides even as they publicly call for calm will they have a corporate and helped stop the violence this is inside story the arab to . to follow and welcome to the program i'm fully back t. ball it's been eight years since the fall of libya's leader moammar gadhafi and the nation is once again at risk of an all out war rival forces are intensifying their fight to control tripoli troops loyal to the u.n. backs government in the capital are trying to stop the advance of the warlords honey for half talk some of his fighters reportedly surrendered their weapons and tanks on sunday.