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it's disinformation. people and power investigates india fake news and agitprop on al-jazeera. and eight hundred fifty year old paris lie and ravaged by fire france looks at how it can rebuild they're not a feature in the heart of its capital. hello again i'm a senior editor with al-jazeera live from doha round so coming up a longtime ally of the algerian ousted president resigns we look at what it means for the protesters who want all of the old guard gone. sudanese crowds keep up the pressure on the military commanders who've taken power demanding civilians be put in charge. and we're at the shanghai also shared to see how electric calming
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has a wooing chinese by. now attention is turning to the enormous task of rebuilding france's most enduring symbol the not the jewel in paris after the world heritage site was severely damaged by fire some of its treasures were saved from the flames which tore through the cathedrals roof and brought down its france's richest people are pledging millions of dollars to rebuild the cathedral and russia japan and the vatican are also offering help david chaytor reports. and unimaginable sites. 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. out hundreds of firefighters and
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emergency services were there within minutes as thick smoke rose above the city people watched in shock and disbelief. so the spire collapse was shocked it's eight hundred fifty years of history it's heartbreaking we sat on it as night fell far vytas feared that the twelfth century cathedral will collapse completely but after working tirelessly for hours they managed to bring the fire under control the french president promised to rebuild not a dam the cathedral charity said by so many of them the body sin of those who are not is our history our literature imagination the place where we have lived all our great moments 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
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come here. as daylight came the stream of tourists from brazilians continue to flow around the cathedral all of them experiencing shock and disbelief of the damage to the coffee masterpiece. firefighters say the fire has now been extinguished and the paris prosecutor has opened an inquiry. a french architect who specializes in the renovation of these ancient buildings has said that he thinks the problem might have been when they started renovating the actual spire in the cathedral about two weeks ago now they use a hot lead and he believes that maybe some of that hot lead began to eat into the timbers in some way or there might have been a drop of it that dropped on to the timbers now these are very ancient oaks eight hundred fifty years old some of them and described it as like. a. forest
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of of beams dating back to the medieval times and that would have been fatal for the structure of the roof the fire really took hold very quickly and because of the size of the vault underneath all the air the fire needed to keep burning was readily available so that it would appear to be according to this french architect the reason for the far one of the main reasons for the fire. the mayor of paris has announced an international donors conference to raise funds worldwide to help rebuild the cathedral. two of france's richest businessmen have already pledged more than three hundred million dollars but money will to replace the treasures of art that could not be saved from the flames. let's go live now to david to get the very latest and david it is almost twenty four hours since the fire broke out and still the assessment is being made as to how much was lost in
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the fire. that's right i mean all around me the crowds are thinking the same thing those are a sense of grieving and mourning here as well still as disbelief that this this cathedral this gothic masterpiece has been a part of political and cultural life in france the very soul of france for more than eight centuries has been so badly damaged but concern of course for the works of art we've heard some remarkable stories about the chaplain of the fire fire brigade in paris who rushed in with the on p.a. the firemen when those burning embers still talling and those filled with smoke to rescue the most precious relic believed by the catholic church to be the crown of thorns placed on jesus christ's head before the crucifixion that is
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safe as well as other relics and of course the sacrament of the altar and there are many many paintings there which might have suffered the fire damage and water a lot of them were taken out but sun couldn't be taken at the time because of the danger of the fire spreading but overall it is a remarkable miraculous escape from many of these works of art and assessment on the roads the classic rose windows. the heat the sheer heat to the far might of melted some of the lead holding the gars panes together but they have it seems with . a terrible blaze the same can't be said of course for many of the other relics that were in the actual spire which collapsed during the course. yes of the fire and parisians and others will be probably rather heartened by the fact that and an awful lot of money has already been pledged to help with the rebuilding.
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that is an extraordinary response isn't it martin french president emanuel mcdonnell said in a very emotional speech here at notre dam last night during the blaze that he wanted the world to help in providing funds for the rebuilding the complete rebuilding of natural dam and the response has been immediate and very effective thought of course only from france itself where something like four hundred million dollars has been pledged by leading french businessman and and totally oil group but across the world because something like thirty thousand people visited this site every single day thirteen million over the course of the of the earth so right across the world there are many tourists and of course catholic organizations who have been equally shocked as the parisians seeing the damage to the. great institution that cathedral behind me so the money is coming in it could
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take up to twenty years to completely renovate the site but that money is coming in and that will be a great relief to the people of paris the president of paris and to roman catholics across the world david live in paris thank you very much but we've been speaking to john louis cohen who's a professor of architectural history at new york university and he thinks not all is lost. or emotionally everyone is devastated and stretched but let's be clear the main stone structure of the cathedral is standing the stone galt's had been sometimes the local lead to muddy waters burned essentially the structure two thirds of the roof which is basically who wouldn't carpentry extremely important historically because it was still be original woodwork so this
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seems to be largely gone together with the spire which found them so spectacularly . and we was a reconstruction of the nineteenth century you need self a great piece of work but but by no means a medieval object so would say that the the cathedral as long lost its hat but it is still standing and is perfectly rebuild it will apparently what happened was fire and it's very often because of fires of such historical buildings an accident on the building site for the restoration of part of the structure so what fire was brought from the exterior scaffoldings into the church and i would say that florist often the problem but also why shouldn't forget that in many fires for more damage is created by water generated by
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immense are pouring salt water than by that far itself so we know with pure becomes another another curse. the chairman of algeria is constitutional council. has quit his pose antigovernment protesters have been calling for his resignation saying he's part of a ruling elite that they're against president abdelaziz bouteflika stepped down on april the second after weeks of mass demonstrations for his twenty year rule to end elections are expected in july that demonstrators fear they'll be neither free nor fair well seaven mcinerney is the executive director of project on middle east democracy and he thinks tire belise is resignation is a significant move but not really enough to satisfy the demands of the protesters. he was one of four main figures have been targeted in this past friday protest which was the eighth consecutive friday with widespread protests across nigeria
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along with the interim president. of the new prime minister. as well as the army chief of staff. now so this is significant resignation but the same time i don't think it's enough to satisfy the demands of the protesters who really want a genuine transition that it's led by an independent figures we haven't heard yet who who will be replacing him at the head of the constitutional council but certainly there are other key figures that are targeted by the opposition by the protests and this is not going to be sufficient to satisfy the demands of. citizens who really want to genuine transition led by independent figures not by entirely figures from the old regime protests is a battle in the streets of sudan's capital for the eleventh day they're demanding the military leaders to take compile step aside and let civilians be in charge the
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country's military leaders are facing pressure from around the world including the african union to hand power to a civilian authority to move on reports from khartoum despite a military coup ousting bashir last thursday and his successor twenty four hours later the sit in and protests continue to occupy we insist on continuing with this revolution until our demands are met our demands are new 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 to all parts an inclusive government for the transitional period but and that the military supervision that's something those on the streets refuse to accept protests that have been here in front of the on. headquarters and fortune for more than ten days and they say they are ready to stay for even longer if their demands are not met they want the dismantling of the security intelligence agency as well as
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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 to reform the security agency and the judiciary and says it 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 that it was a 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 our michigan thought we know 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
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four years sudanese professional association the group spearheading the protest say the way to end this attend is clear we want the government to be handed to us we mean. body we want to make a council to be council and a new council to be formed which is really in major media the media by civilians with some military visitation and this is our main demand then we want also 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 sudan continues under the rule of the military and the sitting continues he will morgan al-jazeera hutton. coming up in just a little while we'll have the latest on the flash floods that have claimed at least ten lives in afghanistan.
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how the weather does look pretty much cross china at the moment patterns of class sweeping in from west to a step process guys coming in behind for a time latest band of wet weather just pushing away from the southeast and cold to twenty seven celsius in the sunshine for hong kong on wednesday off may day comes and that's one that's going to drift its way further east which is because throughout the day pepping up in the process southerly winds will have temperatures in hong kong again into the upper twenty's and not too bad here but the central policy will see more of the web pattern right shanghai gets up to humidity thirty degrees celsius if have those kind of temperatures and some across much of india recently a cloud on the right continues to make its way a swiss this is the same in the fall northeast of india we had some violence thunderstorms steady thunderstorms that are ripped through the area they are now in
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the process of easing away the want to see the showers that surround that east the sod all been with us into the far north east of india at the moment what a cloud up towards northern possible in the us a new delhi much colder than it has been recently twenty six celsius even that cool down in recent bodies remember we've been getting into the forty six thirty four represents something of an improvement we'll see prices guys coming in with this day. fly catamaran ways and experience economy class like never before count out and
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ways going places together. take a look at the top stories here it out zero in the chairman of the algerian constitutional council tire belise stepped down it was one of the main demands of protesters you see him as part of the ruling elite lawyers and several others are protesting in the capital algiers as well as in other cities demonstrators in sudan's capital are continuing their demands for immediate transition to civilian rule protests is also called the party of the pres president omar al bashir to be disbanded. experts are
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trying to protect the remaining structure of france's national symbol the not true don cathedral which has been badly damaged by monday's fire some of its most precious treasures though have been saved france's richest people are pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to help rebuild it. well the cathedral is one of the finest examples of french got sick architecture and was home to invaluable works of hours and hours of facts behind jem june explains why it's so important to the french people. days before the devastating blaze renovations began on notre dame cathedral scaffolding went up and for the first time in more than a century statues came down a crane lowered these copper figures representing the twelve apostles and four evangelists onto a truck. for years church officials had sought funding for much needed restoration work on the present landmark the cathedral is one of the most striking examples of
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got the construction in the world but the last time major work had been carried out was in the eighteenth century this video from two thousand and seventeen shows some of the erosion of damage gargoyle pinnacles with broken tops fall and chunks of masonry on the inside priceless artifacts and majestic stained glass windows for both tourists and worshippers the views were all inspiring. one of the most iconic examples of architecture in france notre dame cathedral dates back to the twelfth century and is a unesco world heritage site it has survived two world wars is the seat of the archbishop of paris and a center of the catholic faith. this put it from one nine hundred sixty four shows notre dame as it eight hundred anniversary was celebrated a week of festivities which saw french spanish italian and german cardinals taking part at that time the church had already survived many threats no one could have
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imagined that a little more than half a century later much of it would be devastated by fire damage jazzier. in libya the u.n. backed government is also a strike targeting a camp of fighters that a loyal to the warlord after it happened in the outskirts of the capital tripoli the government there has pushed its state of emergency to the highest level as they defend the city for a fight is backing have while speaking in rome the deputy prime minister made my teeth said hafter cannot be trusted to help the country recover from years of conflict. after this looking for a basin of interest and that's why he's not the is the get to the libya or take control of the country by forces that's why it is not. we have we have people in the parliament. we have people on political arena libya who from the east can view what's important for us the government is to keep the country united
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for peace where demonstrators in the libyan capital are accusing france of interfering in libya's internal affairs i think france is supporting have military operation which is aimed at capturing the capital they also want the world to do more to stop the bloodshed our correspondent lockwood up to one head has been to an area affected by the fighting. this is one of the apartments that were hit by a random rockets in the libyan capital tripoli here in the neighborhood this is one of the biggest neighborhoods in the libyan capital tripoli neighbors here tell us that a grad missile. this way and shuttered this wall here as you can see and inside the apartment it almost destroyed everything inside the apartment and. there are also some cars down stirred. that were also
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partly destroyed by the explosion now the owners of this apartment the word provide and they left soon we had one person wanted by the explosion and it seems that this is neighbors tell us that this is the missile that hit the apartment and exploded inside the apartment this is this seems to be a grad missile and here here in this kitchen there is a gas cylinder and. people here are very grateful that it did not explode because had it exploded it would have would have caused a huge fire in the whole bently building there's also this is also part of the of the grad missile now everything here. is partly destroyed by the
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explosion and since the waters parted between forces loyal to the warlords. and others do it to the government of national accord on april fourth several civilian locations including civilian properties and houses have been hit by random rockets and the government of national accord is accusing have the forces of committing war crimes by targeting civilian areas with heavy weapons and airstrikes . to cheney and supreme rallies in support of their king's position on the israeli palestinian conflict king abdullah has warned that donald trump still to be unveiled peace plan has ignored the question of how to divide territory between israelis and palestinians plays a key role in israel and palestine as custody in the. compound which is home to both muslim and jewish holy sites. at least ten people have died many more missing
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in floods in afghanistan warnings of flash flooding have been issued across two thirds of the country and charlotte palace now reports. this when heavy consistent rain in kabul for nearly a week in the city simply isn't suited up to deal with this this is the result rivers flooded this river rose to this level on monday and in the last twenty four hours about sixty homes have been destroyed in this immediate area police and council have started to distribute sandbags so we've got some here lining up trying to protect the homes from destruction and children here taking the sandbags dragging them and trying to build some type of of a bag to protect the homes as this river surges and threatens all the homes in this area we talked to some residents about their homes and where they will live now. when i had a call from the renters of my house there's a flood and i told them to get out. because it was so dangerous for the children i
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said forget about the house we could rebuild it but get your children out my home is also broken everyone is worried about the safety of the afghan people especially this really board. there is not good quality. because of. the flooding is an isolated just here in kabul with a swift through the middle portion of the country east to west there are flash flood warnings out and twenty four of thirty four provinces the worst province is herat in the far west there are hundreds of homes have been destroyed thousands of acres of farmland many people have been a peg and put into government facilities in herat city there has been big flooding issues in afghanistan over the winter that had three times as much rainfall as normal and now that the ground assault and the string rains are coming through there is a real fear that maybe further displacement as rains continue. south korea is
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marking five years since the same wall ferry disaster that killed three hundred four people most of those who died were school children but mcbride has more from saw on the new ways developed to avoid similar disasters in future. in the center of seoul the permanent memorial is dedicated to those lost in the say well ferry disaster. the sinking led to a period of national soul searching and painful reflection one south korea's leaders say they've learned from. the say well tragedy is a critical moment for the country because a divided our history into the time before the sale and the time after it was on the morning of april the sixteenth twenty fourteen cargo on board the say will began to shift and made it capsize most of the three hundred four people who died were children on a school trip. this slowly unfolding tragedy was captured on the mobile phones of
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some children who had only minutes to live and recorded them being told to stay in their cabin as the captain and many of his crew were abandoning the ship. in the cold cases the malar the captain was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison fourteen of his crew members were also jailed along with employees of the shipping company for overloading the vessel with cargo but the tragedy had a far more profound impact on the country as a home. the coast guard was also blamed for its slow response and the government for its lack of effective regulations and failure to implement those in place will point out though those tail accident was a shock to the entire nation raising the question of what the role of the state east. has changed a lot of people now think about the easiest answer of the state in terms of protecting its people and it led to a new nationwide emergency response system one that less than two weeks ago proved
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its effectiveness when fire crews were rapidly mobilized to battle forest fires in gang one province for the families of the say while victims some comfort at least the. changes made since the law says might save other lives and future bride al-jazeera so. the world's most cutting edge coal technology is on display at shanghai's alters share in china electric vehicles and driverless cars are expected to dominate the event katrina. 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 car sales 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 here in shanghai now if you came to one of these events about five to six years ago the electric cars would have looked very
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different if they see a little cheaper and certainly not to appeal in 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 artificially intelligent friends which talk shit when you drive an internet connectivity now this market is not big loss on foreign brand make as we've seen tesla for example announced at the going to build the first overseas factory here in shanghai and ford involves mike and also announce that 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
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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 companies and as the industry becomes more cut there are many of these are expected to net survive the next few years now. well certainly if the companies who invest more into battery technology are going to be able to dominate the market in two years. right time for us to take a look at the top stories here it is there are the vatican russia and germany are among the many around the world who are offering to help france repair its national symbol the not. the world heritage site is badly damaged after monday's fire which just royd its roof and spire france's richest people are pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild it some of its most precious treasures they have been saved from the flames the rest to do with as regards to the treasure it needs
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to be placed in security had to move as quickly as possible as regards to the important paintings they can be removed as of friday morning seemingly there is no damage who will replace the paintings they will be dehumidified and preserved and restored. the chairman of algeria's constitutional council tired belise has stepped down it was one of the main demands of protesters who see him as part of the ruling elite lawyers and several others are protesting in the capital loud cheers and in other cities elections are expected in july but demonstrators fear they'll be neither free nor fair demonstrators in sudan's capital are continuing very post for an immediate transition to civilian rule the country's military leaders are facing pressure from around the world including the african union to hand power to a civilian authority in libya the un backed government has launched an air strike
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targeting a camp of fighters loyal to the warlord. it happened in the outskirts of the capital tripoli the government that has pushed its state of emergency to the highest level. damien's have been rallying in support of the. palestinian conflict king abdullah has warned that donald trump still to be unveiled peace has ignored the question of how to divide territory between israelis and palestinians have been reports jordan's been kept out of the us children plays a key role in israel and palestine as custody in the jerusalem's al aksa compound coming up next here it is there is a stream. in australia of being locked up than ever before what's driving this alarming development one i want to explain my long behind on zero zero.
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seven and i really could be here in the stream today in india at the polls where look at three issues surrounding the world's biggest exercise in democracy we want to hear what you have to say about the indian elections what outcome are you hoping for what is the no in our live you tube chat or on twitter. talker i'm reporter record india you are in the stream. a general election is underway in india and for the next five weeks nine hundred million indians will be eligible to cost ballots members of parliament who will ultimately choose the next prime minister today we have discussed the potential reelection of prime minister narendra modi issues of the economy added of role social media is playing in these elections.
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