look. the fire is finally out notre dame cathedral in paris attention now shifts to how the eight hundred fifty year old landmark can be rebuilt it's. fully back to watching al-jazeera live from doha also on the program sudanese protesters keep up the pressure on the military commanders who have taken power demanding civilians be put in charge. libya's un backed government ops the state of emergency to the highest level as its

forces try to fight off a war old so offensive and from the mosques to the streets many muslims in indonesia threatening to protest if it's any cheating in wednesday's election. thank you for joining us a huge fire that tore through one of france's most injuring symbols the notre dame cathedral has been extinguished the world heritage site in paris has too tall for eight hundred fifty years to wars and revolution but early monday evening a fire broke out that raged for more than eight hours with devastating effects. our friend says culture and interior ministers are at the scene of the cathedral right now to assess the damage the day after this fire some of france's richest people are pledging money to rebuild their heritage site let's listen in

to the french minister. of the obesity is rhodesia religious mythology religion for several of those courage and were involved in the two towers. to attack the far from which allowed to save the building and we know now since a small. and we were a quarter of an hour half an hour away from the collapse and i would give the floor to the minister of culture now i also would pay homage to all the fabricated. mobilizes. operations last nights and this morning the works of the treasure precious. all right on french officials at the scene of the fire while the fire has been extinguished now but

that northward dam cathedral a day after that fire raged and destroyed much of the building live to david chaytor who's in paris for say that the worst seems to have been avoided the fire has been extinguished huge relief i imagine tell us about what's happening at the scene there and the latest in the investigation. well there's a there's a story now going out to about the a remarkable hero who saved many of the religious relics precious religious relics stored in the cathedral and that is the chaplain of the paris fire brigades father fournier and he rushed in to the building with the firefighters determined to save the blessing sacrament and also the crown of thorns engraved in gold of course a crown of thorns that is said to have been the actual crown of thorns was put on the head of jesus christ for the crucifixion he went in without

a new fear. the whole of that he did wrong with. burning embers raining down on the building but he showed no fear at all he got those very precious relics out but we still don't know exactly how many of the paintings seventeenth century beijing's were rescued by the fire teams but they all showed remarkable heroism and four hundred firefighters managed to stop the blaze keep it away from the bell towers behind me and we heard from that interview just run that they're only half an hour away. from. the basic need now is for the teams all construction engineers and the architects to look at the safety of the building is it how close to collapse is it will it be just. dand as it is or will they have to reinforce it with more buttresses that's what's going on.

but the basic fear is that it was a renovation work. where the fire started there were filling the spire with with hot lead and maybe a drop of hot lead went under those beams old old dreams which were tinder dry and that's what causes huge delays i see behind you david that their cell crowds gathering outside the death eater on the disaster has stirred emotions in france no doubt but also around the world tell us about the mood in paris to go. while the mood in paris is still as it was last night a sense of shock and disbelief that this gothic masterpiece such a central part of the the soul of france itself has been so badly damaged but at least those bell towers are still standing and that was in doubt but eventually the firefighters managed to fight it off but whole area surrounding the will not

advance is crowded with people both parisians and tourists all getting photographs all looking pretty stunned by what's happened here and essentially though the word is going out worldwide for help in building donations and so far two of the branches richest business been donated more than three hundred million dollars to that effort to renovate this jewel but it's a toss could take up to twenty years and a huge cost but the appeal is going are world wide crowd funding if you like to restore this symbol of france and we wait more details on that but essentially every effort is being made to sorry about the police whistles . to rebuild. usual is sacred. hearts of the french thank you for that david chaytor of reporting there live from paris well no to

a dom cathedral is one of the finest examples of french coffee architecture constructed during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is said to be built over a roman city called new tests the last time the cathedral suffered major damage was during the french revolution in the seven hundred ninety s. the main tower is a sixty nine meters high and where the tallest structure is in paris until the eiffel tower was completed in eight hundred eighty nine and the full extent of the damage is still being assessed says david mentioned there as believe that its world famous organ is still intact along with its two bell towers well let's speak to nick webb now who is a lecturer in architecture at the university of liverpool he joins us live from there very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so europe of course is full of historic structures that have been rebuilt following damage during both war and in peace time do you think the loss to north is recoverable

yes of course it's recoverable i think what's important here is how we restore it so we go back and use the medieval techniques that were used in the first place to reuse modern techniques or make sure both there is interest saying the spine that collapse is not an original component of the cathedral it was added in the one nine hundred say century just right how complicated lengthy and expensive is it going to be to restore the fetal and we talk about the methods and techniques what operates what is precisely needed in terms of techniques and methods. well i couldn't comment on the length of time of construction etc. what i can say on your point about the nineteenth century piece cathedrals have a long history and they are evolving works of architecture so often the norman beginnings than the gothic interventions i mediæval interventions as well as

nineteenth century interventions so the fact that the pre trying to first century interventions to help with rebuilding kind of adds to the lineage of what's cathedral is in terms of the methods that we have available to us probably the most crucial thing is a laser scan that was taken of the cathedral but what about the materials will they be able to find the materials the original materials that were used to to rebuild the cathedral there's a possibility yes if you look at a parallel case which was the problem in germany when that was destroyed by allied bombs in the second world war it remained rubble for about fifty years or so and then when they came to rebuild but they sifted through the rubble and they found pieces that could then be put back into the new structure when it was rebuilt so it's possible but once obviously the damage has been assessed they could be looking

through that rubble to find pieces that they can recover and then place back into the reconstruction thank you so much for speaking to us nick webb from the university of labor for joining us there thank you for your time the center of the world news nine protesters are back on the streets us to dance capital for the eleventh day demanding civilian bill the country's military leaders are facing pressure from around the world including the african union to hand power to a civilian authority here morgan has a report from car too. 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 protests that have been here in front of the army headquarters and hearts on 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 there were five 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 death eighty 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 to reform 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. 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 use and women if they are ready today and agree on anything we are ready to execute our machine. 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 their way to end the sit in is clear we want the government to be handed to us . buddy we want me to consider to be considered a new council to be formed which is civilian and major media media by civilians with some military to visitation and this is our main demand then we want also to the transitional government we all its executive rights and to extend the transitional period to four years but as political parties and other

groups negotiate the terms of a new government together continues under the rule of the military and the sitting continuance. and the military council has confirmed its commitment to the saudi led military coalition in yemen deposed president bashir had sent hundreds of soldiers to the war torn country in twenty fifteen to help fight the rebels a senior military official told local media they'll remain there until the lines achieved its goals as a first major foreign policy announcement by the country's new military leader is still ahead on al-jazeera how the streets of karachi in pakistan have become a whole box a. once again welcome to look at the international forecast plenty of spring sunshine making its way across japan at the moment everyone high pressure very much in

charge here so that's keeping it settled and sunny a little bit of cloud there will make its way across the east china sea pushing over towards the korean peninsula but even here with humility fine and dry by where to start i think the cloud will just ease over towards japan twenty celsius in tokyo and sheltered by the mountains eastern side of japan does do quite nicely for the south there are some spots of rights watch out for over the next couple of days process guys come back in full thursday where the weather started to show his hand once again. easing into the sea of japan by this stage seventeen eighteen celsius the cross the korean peninsula said temperatures falling away a top twenty four celsius the beijing it's looking largely dry it's a little cloudy saw some clouds so into central and southern parts of china the system bits and pieces of always a possibility that rain developing further as we go through hong kong we settled on sunday here it's going to be twenty seven celsius for your son sides here across

the philippines over the next day also we got small obvious showers pushing towards thailand be a wall of the sunshine it was of course malaysia a much we did this year. twenty one n.h. to assert your individuality it's ok to argue with people and it's ok to disagree with people but also a period when childhood dreams can collapse with reality compromising i don't think i'm pretty good at compromising in two thousand and six south africa up revisits the children of apartheid for the third time and like their country much has changed over the past fourteen years the teen who are twenty one up south africa i'm noticing.

they're watching al-jazeera live from doha a recap of our top stories crews say the fire that devastated paris is notre dame cathedral is now fully out they managed to save the main structure about its spire and roof collapse demonstrators scenes around the capital are continuing their push for an immediate transition to civilian though the military leaders are facing growing international pressure in. tuning from the african union to cede power to a civilian authority. now in libya the u.n. backs government has launched an as strike targeting a camp of fighters loyal to warlords for have talked it happened on the outskirts of the capital tripoli the government there has pushed its state of emergency to the highest level as they defend the city from fighters backing after.

as we mentioned forces no oil to the government to trying to defend the city from scientists who bought paula twenty four hopped on his ah lie to a rival administration in eastern libya and has launched an offensive to in his words raid tripoli of terrorists the interior minister says have ties committed crimes against humanity by bombing residential areas that are still unity of the heart of the military operations commanded by the word or thirty four 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 libya's deputy prime minister ahmed my teeth says have ties not a real reliable partner in helping shape the country's future have to be for a business interest and that's why he's not. is the get to the libya or take control of the country by forces that's why he's not going to we have we have

people in department who can be deniable we have people who political arena libya who from the east can view what's important for us the government is to keep the country united for peace. more now from al-jazeera as mahmoud abdullah had in tripoli. in the recently it seems that the world have to is losing momentum even on the ground alongside international situation as you know that this military offensive has been denounced by civil in international institutions including the united nations and the european union and on the ground it seems that the forces loyal to the government of national accord are gaining momentum currently they're gaining ground taking in more locations that were taken control of by have forces now at this moment the government forces are

advancing in the neighborhood in the southern western outskirts of the capital tripoli but overnight have to his forces launch a day grad missiles that landed and residential areas again that's according to a government sources now in another front light in ains are on the southern in the seven eastern outskirts of tripoli the government forces have managed to take control of new locations that were taken control of by have to his forces on the ground as you know that have to his forces have been recruiting civilians to fight for them and have to himself has been trying to raise his soldiers. and warning against any defection by this civilly ns crew did among his forces. developing news out of algeria where the chairman of the constitutional council tired belies has tapped down it was one of the main demands of protesters who see

most part of what they call the ruling elites meanwhile lawyers have joined protests in the capital as well as in other cities but isn't abdelaziz bouteflika resigned earlier this month after weeks of demonstrations people in jordan have been rallying in support of the king's position on the israeli palestinian conflict king abdullah has warned that donald trump to be unveiled peace plan has ignored the question of how the divided territory between israelis and palestinians have been reports that jordan has been kept out of the u.s. plans jordan plays a key role in israel and palestine as a custodian of jerusalem a mosque compound which is home to both muslim and jewish holy sites. a large hardline muslim group is frightening to protest during indonesia's elections and when say if it suspects cheating is going on president joker we don't know is expected to win a second term in office but his main opponent is already making allegations of the

regularities as a claim that's being seized upon by some who want to take indonesia in a more conservative direction when he reports from jakarta who who can't a mosque known for its conservative preaching there was a final message for worshippers before the election campaigning in places of worship is illegal and while the a mom was careful with his words it was clear he wants his followers to vote for. to become president spoke the. indonesia is the largest muslim majority country in the world and is becoming increasingly divided along conservative and moderate lines. has partnered with hardline muslim groups who want indonesia to embrace islamic law or even become a caliphate they end the presidential candidates a religion there are signs of cheating in the electoral process and say they're prepared to act limited at the if we can prove they are cheating we will resort to

people power we've been patient but enough is enough we have huge power we can gather millions of people and we can easily take over the palace and parliament there provided no evidence of the alleged cheating but the groups have shown they can get big numbers onto the streets in two thousand and sixteen they protested against the then governor of jakarta a christian who was eventually jailed for blasphemy. also said there was cheating in the last presidential election that he lost to joko widodo but the case was thrown out by the courts. throughout the campaign joko widodo has enjoyed a double digit lead in most polls if the accusation by his opponent of irregularities goes unproven than the threat of street protests may just be viewed as a desperate. move in the dying stages of the bid to become president. as he's known here has been criticized by some for not being religious enough so in a move seen as trying to attract the conservative vote he's chosen muslim cleric in

as his running mates some of his more liberal supporters view it as selling out for the sake of votes but others believe he had no choice and cannot avoid that. he is a very happy family president he has no political party he has no family because. he has no money he is just a small one is your creator who numb the list became president of indonesia as both he and his challenger chased the conservative muslim votes moderate indonesians may be concerned about any deals that might have been done that could see this country head in a more religiously conservative direction wayne hay al jazeera jakarta. taiwan's leaders have criticised china for flying military planes south of the islands they say china for bombers and use warships in waters around the island. in wayne says beijing's actions only strengthens taiwan's resolve to defend itself china's armed

forces yesterday sent a large number of military aircraft and naval vessels into our vicinity the actions certain taiwan and other like minded countries in the region as president i want to tell you that tehran is not intimidated these action or actions only serve to strengthen our resolve our military forces have the capacity determination and commitment to defend taiwan and not allow coercion to dictate our own future. the rage families have paid tribute to the three hundred four victims of this a wall free ferry disaster five years ago since the passenger ferry capsized families through flowers into the water off south korea's west calls to remember those who died the ferry fell into trouble on route from incheon to j.j.

to four hundred sixty seven people seventy six people rather were on board the majority of them were students on a school trade. pakistan's most populous city is enjoying a new lease of life ten years ago a kharaj he was known for its violent crime they were regular targeted killings and extortions and many businesses were forced to shut down then a major security operation was launched to tackle the problem qaida has a story back home in his native fifty. catches up with his brother and me he's one of many bloggers who fled karachi renewed violence in the city would lead you to beat. he 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 there and my games and extortions and nothing happened to us

but then it was scary it was really scary you couldn't have children grow 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 muggings down it's not only former residents who are turning to the city to intercept back to their 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 beachfront families richard paul can relax and take

time out of the stress of everyday living the return journey normality i didn't got h.p. vertica seen more secure a far cry from the days when people seldom are injured out of their homes people know and feel more secure hair 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 not. unfortunately there is still a negative narrative. pakistan which doesn't make any justice to this kind of

religious country. like any other country because driving the country. is 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 altered our. the world's most cutting edge card technology is on display at chiang high's auto show in china electric vehicles and driverless cars are expected to dominate the event trying to you is. over one million electric vehicles were sold in china last year that may sound like a lot but it's only four percent of all the console's in china now the chinese government is hoping by twenty twenty five that electric vehicles will make up twenty percent now because of this expected growth in broome electric vehicles are the focus of this year's order show sure in shanghai now if you came to one of these events about five to six years ago the electric cars would have looked very different to see a little cheaper and certainly not too appealing compared to european competitors

but this show this year it's not the case wristing a focus on luxury electric vehicles electric vehicles which resemble sporty s.u.v.s maybe two or three times the price and also these vehicles such as from neo which is one of the leading electric vehicles here in china are making vehicles which are equipped with out officially intelligent friends which talks you when you drive an internet connectivity now this market is not big loss on foreign brand make as we've seen tesla for example announce at the going to build that those overseas factory here in shanghai and ford in volkswagen have also announced they're going to expand their investment in china with a focus on electric cars now the question with electric vehicles of course is how to charge them most of the cars here can go from three hundred to five hundred kilometers maximum before having to be plugged in and because of that we're seeing new innovative solutions full battery charging including a charging station where you can drive in and have the battery of your electric

cars were placed underneath now today there are over four hundred chinese electric car companies and as the industry becomes more cut forward many of these are expected to net survive the next few years and it will certainly be the companies who invest more into battery technology are going to be able to dominate the market in future years. hello again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera a huge fire that tore through one of france's most enduring symbols notre dame cathedral has been extinguished firefighters have managed to save the main structure but its spire and wolf collapsed french president emmanuel mccall has promised the cathedral will be rebuilt and has urge international experts to help the effets. 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 but six feet rule which is that of all frenchmen and women even those who have never come here this history it's aus and it's burning it's burning and i know the said in a spin turn a tremor felt by so many of our citizens the chairman of algeria as constitutional council thai belies has stepped down it was one of the main demands of protesters who seem a spot of what they call the ruling elite hundreds of people have gathered a knowledge is in several of the cities to keep the pressure on the interim leader abdel kouddous ben salah elections are expected in algeria in july but demonstrators fear they won't be free or fair in libya the u.n. backs government has launched an air strike targeting a campbell fighters loyal to warlord ali for have talked it happened on the outskirts of the capital tripoli the government there has pushed a state of emergency to the highest level as it defends the city from fighters backing have to. demonstrators in sudan's capital are continuing their push for an

immediate transition to civilian rule the military leaders are facing growing international pressure including from the african union to cede power to a civilian authority. the rage families have paid to the victims of the seawall ferry disaster of five years since a passenger ferry capsized four hundred seventy six people were on board the majority of them were students on a school trip. those are the headlines on al-jazeera as always plenty more world news on our website al-jazeera dot com the very latest on all of our top stories on their martin dennis will be with you at twelve g.m.t. for a recap of the headlines on al-jazeera from me fully back to the whole team thank you for watching by for now.

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 ever call parades and help stop the violence this is inside story. at 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

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