for the past. twenty. hundreds of millions of dollars of donations are pledged to help rebuild france's fire ravaged. headquarters and. also ahead sudan's military council had a public prosecution agreeing to one of the main demands of the protesters a long time ally of algeria ousted president resigns we'll look at what it means for protesters who want all of the old guard gone and we're at the shanghai auto show to see how electric car makers are wooing.

hello attention is turning to the enormous task of rebuilding france's most enduring symbol there in paris after the world heritage site was severely damaged by fire take a look at the live pictures right now some of its treasures were saved from the flames which tore through the cathedral's roof and brought down its fire as you can see well some of france's richest people are pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild russia japan and the vatican are also offering to help from paris bernard smith reports. history and it took just under twelve hours for much of it to go up in flames on tuesday morning just put out the last of one of the most distressing and shocking fires paris is.

more than two hundred thousand kilos of lead and thousands of mediæval oak beams in the roof caught fire easily and fast reuben morris true true of. all in all the structure is holding up well but some weak points have been identified especially around the ceiling also the gable end of the north transept that has to be secured this is led to the evacuation of five nearby residential buildings. the interior of the cathedral was destroyed as the roof. burning cinders rained down into the cathedral this firefighters battled the flames and to save the building and some of its unique paintings and statues some of been moved to paris his town hall on the mia disposition we have dedicated a big room to store these pictures in the works of art including the crown of thorns and the syn luis tunic they are saved. investigators won't be allowed inside to make a full assessment until experts a satisfied that the stone walls are structurally sound it's really.

not all regions but it's the whole of france but also the whole of humanity because it's a symbol not only for the christian world it's a symbol for the unity. of. language it's so unique in the world there's only one. before the fire broke out the catholic church was asking for around one hundred seventy million dollars to fund restoration work the state offered about forty five million dollars now money is being pledge from across the world but it'll cost many hundreds of millions of dollars more to restore not to down to its former glory bernard smith al-jazeera palace zone the week owen is a professor of architectural history at new york university and he thinks not all is lost. emotionally everyone is devastated and stretched but let's be clear that the main stone structure of the cathedral is standing the stone galt's have been

sometimes the local lead them out east what has burned essentially the roof structure two thirds of the roof which is basically who wouldn't carpentry extremely important historically because it was still the original woodwork so this seems to be largely gone together with the spire which fell down so spectacularly. then which was reconstruction of the nineteenth century you need self a great piece of work but by no means a medieval object so would say that 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 it

will fire was brought from the exterior scaffold these into the church and i would say that far is often a problem but also one shouldn't forget that in many fires more damage is created by water is generated by immense our poor ace of water than by the far itself so we know we have a pure becomes another another curse sudan's ruling military council has sacked the prosecutor general and two of his aides demonstrations have continued in the capital hartill for an eleventh day calling for civil euro have a market has been following developments from khartoum. the military council has announced that it has dismissed the state attorney as well as his aides they're saying it's part of reforms to the judicial system and part of a response to demands made by political parties and protesters on the streets political parties the protesters have been saying that the judicial system is

politicized and favored the former ruling party and they say that they will not stop protesting and till they are reforms made not just to the judicial system but to the national intelligence and security services as well as handing over to power to a civilian interim government now political parties amateur councils are deferring on the mandate and the role of the transitional government the council wants to be the one supervising that government and they will want the political parties to become prime minister and members of the cabinet the political parties are saying that they cannot take a cabinet they cannot speak of prime minister if they're not sure that the it is that the council will not interfere in the day to day affairs of the government meanwhile hundreds of people continue to make their way to the protests to the protests in front of the army headquarters in tottenham and they have been called for sit ins in front of army headquarters around the state by the sudanese professional association the body that is spearheading the protest since last december there saying that if our is not handed over to civilian government that is

independent from the from the interactions and has nothing to do with the military counts and then the protest will not end so far the african union has given sudan fifteen days to form a government that was yesterday so they're now left with two weeks to form a government and they're nowhere near forming fat government and it's not clear yet with the difference between them and between political parties and the council and the amount mandate if they will meet that deadline. and the u.s. says it will consider removing sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism if there is a smooth political transition with significant changes in its government the trumpet ministration had suspended talks on normalizing relations with sudan after the military. last week to algeria where the chairman of the constitutional council tell you quit his post antigovernment protesters have been calling for his resignation saying he's part of a ruling elite that their it gainst elections are expected in july following

president. resignation earlier this month demonstrators fear they won't be free nor fair antigovernment protests began in february after. announcing he was running for a fifth term and earlier this month the army stepped in to remove beautifully and said it would back a transition period to elections in july but the demonstrators are not satisfied they want all revenants of the old guard gone including interim president. stephen mcnerney is executive director of project on middle east a mocker see if things tell you belies his resignation is a significant move but not enough to satisfy the demands of the protesters. he was one of four of the main figures have been targeted in this past friday protest which was the eighth consecutive friday with widespread protests across nigeria along with the interim president. also 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 as the head of the constitutional council but certainly there are other kind of key figures that are targeted by by the opposition by the protests and this is not going to be sufficient to satisfy the demands of. citizens who really want a genuine transition led by independent thinkers not by entirely figures from the old regime turkey the ruling party has formally appealed for a rerun of last month's mejor election in the country's largest city istanbul the opposition see candidate clinched a narrow victory there last month and turkey supreme electoral council has to rule on the demands president already won served as mayor of istanbul in the ninety's

and launched his political career there so a loss in istanbul will be seen as a symbolic defeats barker has more from istanbul. the polity have now officially launched a complaint with the supreme council calling for the moment over the results here in istanbul and. the electoral council has a week to decide what to do next. two weeks it's going to supply lections took place. for the results here in istanbul has been pending because of a dispute over the election initial results put the opposition c.h.p. . point two five percent of the not. it led to the act party contesting the result with president believing that the entire vote here in istanbul was marred by irregularities delightful helpful overly allow for a partial recount of the vote there are dozens of ballot boxes still to be counted

a result is expected soon a potential loss to the c.h.p. party here in istanbul would be a big blow for the act party am for president personally he began his political career here in istanbul as mayor of the city in the one nine hundred ninety s. but in the past twelve months the economy here in turkey has been in trouble inflation is at twenty percent the value of the lira has plummeted by thirty percent and fears about the government's humbling if the economy may well have been reflected in the results here in istanbul and also in the capital ankara where the opposition also took control in libya the u.n. recognize government has launched an air strike targeting camp of fighters loyal to warlords and if i have to add it happened in the outskirts of the capital tripoli the government there has pushed that state of emergency to the highest level as they defend the city from fighters backing have to. meanwhile demonstrators in

tripoli are accusing france of interfering in libya's internal affairs they think france is supporting have to his military operation aimed at capturing the capital more from more than one heads in tripoli. forces loyal to the e.u. and back to tripoli based government have been gaining ground on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli recently government forces have taken control of a bridge that is on the southern outskirts of the capital tripoli namely near us one a neighborhood and it's very close to their disused international airport the government forces have been also gaining ground on another part of the city namely in ames our area they say that they have managed to push have to back to the old locations overnight grad missiles launched by have to his forces landed in residential areas and at the same time warplanes with the government of national accord targeted the

headquarters the headquarters of a military base belonging to the world really for have to in algebra area that's in the central desert of libya now seventy six people have been killed so far and four hundred four hundred seventy five have been wanted that's according to the tripoli based government we know that have to the forces have been recently losing momentum especially with the fact that there is a wave of anger against health that in the west of libya and also from international institutions especially with the with the residential areas being targeted by heavy weapons from have to his forces recently have to his forces have been retreating on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli and also planes belonging to warlords really for have to have recently stopped targeting government forces areas especially after the government managed to shut

down pro have to work or plane on sunday. still ahead on al-jazeera why police in greece say their hands are tied when it comes to stopping violence inside university campuses we'll have the latest for you on flash floods that have killed at least ten people in afghanistan. we've got some bad weather coming into the levant over the next couple of days but still a fair bit of cloud driving from the black sea into the caspian sea further ace we have still got want to live the showers now in the process of pulling away from afghanistan where because we have seen some deadly storms recently still a few storms around some lively showers there as you can see for wettest take a bullet fifty degrees celsius brought the skies come back in balance but then we

do still have some wet sabots on this wintry weather still spilling out of turkey on wednesday afternoon that will make its way further east it will tend to pay to routes first it does look a tad better not quite as much in the way of disturbed weather coming through a couple nineteen celsius in the sunshine we will see things improving as we go through the coming days fair bit of cloud still larry and sue us of western iran a little bit of that wet weather that cloud just driving its way across central parts of saudi arabia but for the most part across the right and punish the it does that lousy fada driving getting into the the mid thirty's here in doha it's a little bit of clout there up towards and old parts of the gulf as you make our way through thursday with a chance of still it's also some right around the east of eastern fringes of south africa and there's going to cling on through wednesday and thursday.

this was wrong to teach children away from their appearance and herd them into a school against their will there was no mother no father figures they put is. when we sort of looked after so i don't remember the children's names. kind it is dark secret on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera bowing to pressure from protesters sudan's ruling military council has sacked the prosecutor general and two of his

aides it's one of the kids a man's of the protest leaders of what military leaders to immediately see the power to civilians the chairman of algeria as constitutional council tell you but i is has stepped down antigovernment protesters have been calling for his resignation saying he's part of a ruling elite that they are against and experts are trying to protect the remaining structure of france's national symbol that ultra dumb cathedral which has been badly damaged by monday's fire soffits most precious treasure as happened safe from the flames france's richest people are pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild. well the cathedral is one of the finest examples of french gothic architecture it was home to invaluable works of art and artifacts explains why it's so important to the french. days before the devastating blaze. as 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 golf 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 a damaged 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 footage from one nine hundred sixty four shows notre dame as its 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 imagined that a little more than half a century later much of it would be devastated by fire damage. weiland singer he says universities is becoming increasingly common as mainstream political parties enter student politics students and staff members are coming under attack by anarchists and criminals and some believe the law from the one nine hundred eighty s. aimed at protecting students from police brutality is instead tying police down from athens explains. once a year the student body in every greek university elects a representative to the rector's council to vote on academic and administrative

masses it's taken so seriously that national parties have created proxies to campaign for the student vote but today democracy is disrupted a group of people dressed in black shows up with thick wooden poles some of these people have been spotted on campus before and may be responsible for attacking a faculty member eighteen months ago. this was hospitalized after he lost his attackers to stop spraying graffiti on campus walls in practice. there are many teachers professors of the university cannot express free. their thoughts because they're afraid that there will be attacked by these people in my case after this incident i have another five times that. groups from various other universities or people were not in the university where entering in the classroom and creating problems or sometimes twice in my life

this is exactly the opposite effect to what legislators intended nearly half a century ago when they passed a law forbidding police from entering campuses the asylum law was meant to guarantee unmolested elections university asylum was born after police force their way onto the campus of the athens polytechnic under the military regime that ruled greece in one nine hundred seventy three since then students and faculty have suffered bodily harm hundreds of times on campuses across greece but police have only been invited a handful of times police can enter campuses if invited by the rector's council all risk of serious crime is reported but in practice the council is slow to act and the police are reluctant to enter we know that whenever there is more and more policing then we have watermark incidents like this happening at the schools at the united states these are very well. guarded institutions

ok we do it we have equal problems in europe this is why i say that violence is something that we have to deal with and his social eleven politicians from all sides agree that universities have a problem they just disagree on how to solve it jumps. since. macedonia's health authorities have declared a nationwide measles epidemic with more than one hundred sixty cases registered since the beginning of this year this follows a warning from the world health organization that measles cases worldwide have tripled so far this year that's compared with the first three months of last year. maybe even worse as only one in ten cases is being reported africa is particularly affected with a spike of seven hundred percent more than twelve hundred people have died in madagascar since september most of them children measles is highly contagious but

the says it's entirely preventable with vaccinations in poor countries where fewer people have access to vaccines communities are vulnerable to the virus countries with high vaccination rates the spike in cases is being put down to bogus anti vaccination messages on social media katrina kritzinger from the world health organization says such a large outbreak of measles is very unusual. i think that there's many outbreaks going on now it's law unprecedented to see so many outbreaks in so many different countries there are quite different in scope but the all stems fundamentally from the same problem which is unvaccinated children a failure to reach everybody who needs and deserves his lifesaving vaccine the key problem both in the wealthy countries with good systems such as in western europe and united states which are also experienced outbreaks as well as some of the less developed countries is really access to the vaccine and really understanding why

parents don't get their children vaccinated so it's really imperative to the public health community and for medical doctors to really work with parents understand the barriers are to vaccination a number of countries have quite. weak health systems that are gassed are being one of them and it's estimated that the rate of a coverage for the single dose the muses containing vaccines about fifty eight percent that means every year more than forty percent of children who are eligible for this vaccine do not receive it and this is largely an access issue over the years especially with an island country like madagascar the number of children who are susceptible to measles accumulates and when we do have an introduction of a measles case then in an outbreak setting it's really just quite explosive that's exactly what we've seen in madagascar which explains the huge number of cases that have been reported in the country as well as a very unfortunate entirely preventable deaths at least ten people have died and many more are missing and floods in afghanistan warnings of flash flooding have been issued across two thirds of the country charlotte dallas reports from kabul.

there's been heavy consistent rain in kabul for nearly a week in the sense he simply isn't seizing 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 hotel. from destruction and children here taking these sandbags dragging them and trying to build some type of of a bag to protect the homes as this river searches and thracians all the homes in this area we talked to some residents about their homes and where they will live now. 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 their children i said forget about the house we can rebuild it but get your children out my home is also broken everyone is worried about the safety of the. people especially this

area people a lot of really boards you would see there is not do good quality homes because of. the flooding isn't isolated just here in kabul with a swift through the middle portion of the country east to west there are flash flood warnings out in twenty four of thirty four provinces the worst hit province is herat in the far west there 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 know that the ground is sold in and the string rains are coming through there is real fear that maybe further displacement as rains continue taiwan's leaders have criticized china for flying military planes south of the island they say china flew bombers and used worship's in waters around the islands president

sighing when says beijing's actions only strengthens taiwan's resolve to defend itself. also sells her around the world are slumping with many blaming trade tensions between the united states and china but that hasn't stopped global carmakers turning to the chinese markets the country's electric car industry is booming and at the opening of the shanghai auto show they spotlights on new high value vehicles catrina who is their. sports cars s.u.v.s and luxury sedans all standard fare but the difference here is these are all electric battery powered vehicles are taking center stage here in shanghai with comic is showcasing models aimed at younger and chinese consumers the vehicle have to be very smart and very sexy and that's the thing that you actually going to be appealing to you have to have a product really said is why those people was my and also was their body that they

can enjoy their life more. china is the world's biggest comet and last year fifty percent of electric vehicles sold worldwide with purchased here the government's been determined to clean up polluted skies and become an industry leader in the development of electric cars but beijing is now rolling back subsidies planning to remove them entirely by twenty twenty three these subsidies are being taken away china doesn't want to see prices raised so disc up a nice with under a lot of pressure. domestic comic has also faced increasing competition from foreign brands china has started to lift caps on foreign ownership in its industry ford volkswagen and audi have on announced they'll be bringing out that are an electric models here and revving up production and sales is up unclear at this point exactly how much the market will be good but those subsidies are what's

making these car so affordable to the people here so that's what's been doing that would be doing the sales so without them we're we're entering kind of unknown territory here with more electric vehicles on the market than ever before comic is need to distinguish themselves thank living more high tech features this one has a ospital intelligence robot which you can come on to close the windows turn on the radio or even switch on the massage function your constant i know me. plenty of futuristic self driving concept cars are also in short but the most exciting innovations involve how much charge a battery can hold. passenger electric vehicles have a three hundred kilometer range so from automatic battery swapping stations to foster plug in technology the race for electric vehicle dominance in china will come down to his batteries last longest. al-jazeera shanghai.

hello again the headlines on al-jazeera experts are trying to protect the remaining structure of france's national symbol though not saddam cathedral which has been badly damaged by monday's fire soffits most precious treasures have been saved france's richest people are pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild. will has to do with as regards to the treasure it needs to be placed in security. ice quickly as possible as regards to deem important paintings they can be removed as of friday morning seemingly there is no damage to replace the paintings they will be dehumidified and preserved and restored. or bowing to pressure from protesters to don's ruling military council has sacked the prosecutor general and two of his aides it's been one of the key demands of organizers of mass

demonstrations calling for a military leaders to cede power to civilians the u.s. says it will consider removing saddam from its list of state sponsors of terrorism if there is a smooth political transition with significant changes in its government the chairman of the algerian constitutional council to. step down anti-government protesters had been calling for his resignation saying he's part of a ruling elites that they're against. turkey is ruling party has formally appealed for a rerun of last month's election in the country's largest city istanbul the opposition c.h.p. candidate clinched a narrow victory there last month turkey's supreme electoral council has to rule on the demand president served as mayor of istanbul in the ninety's and lost his political career there so a loss in istanbul will be seen as a symbolic defeat. in libya the u.n.

recognized government has launched an air strike targeting a camp of fighters loyal to warlords. it happened in the outskirts of the capital tripoli the government there has pushed that state of emergency to the highest level as they defend the city from fighters backing have to. meanwhile demonstrators in tripoli are accusing france of interfering in libya's affair as they think supporting a military operation aimed at capturing the capital. those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next then it's the news hour i'll see you then.

does the west blogs on its hands in yemen you have it is just the sand in there it's a coalition is using american and french weapons on civilians have been committed and is the international community turning a blind eye this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. four years of war in yemen have killed thousands of people and created what the u.n. say is the.