the lead. a nation in mourning france vows to rebuild the cathedral of not tradin after it caught fire a blaze that has burnt the very heart of paris. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program. not backing down algerian protesters keep up their demands for democracy as another powerful member of the old guard resigned.

evil and sit down the military council sacks three top prosecutors as demonstrators rally for an eleventh straight day. and the first shipment of humanitarian aid arrives in venezuela as the u.n. estimates that more than a quarter of the population is in desperate need. the great symbol of paris the not cathedral has a narrow escape total destruction after a major fire engulfed it on monday almost nothing remains of the roof after flames spread through its medieval timbers and sent a wooden spire crashing into the quiet area attention is now shifting to efforts to rebuild the twelfth century cathedral with the nation's flooding in from across the world nearly eight hundred fifty million dollars worth of money has already been pledged that includes the city of paris which has promised fifty six million dollars and france's two leading actually goods billionaires who have both vowed to

commit hundreds of millions more algeria's bunnet smith has our report. it was a hellish scene inside one of christianity's most important cathedrals. burning cinders rained down on the center of the cathedral such was the danger from falling debris that a robot firefighter was used. as legendary gargoyles overflowed as thousands of liters of water was pumped onto the flames. eight hundred years of history were taken just eight hours to go up in flames the altar what's left of it is now exposed to the heavens. such as the importance of not to the french that the president addressed the nation. what we saw last night in paris is this ability to mobilize and unite and when during our history we've both cities ports churches many have been burned or have been destroyed by wars

revolutions by our own fault each time we rebuilt them the fire of our lady reminds us that our history never stops and that we will always have tests to overcome. not had been undergoing renovation when it became engulfed in flames more than two hundred thousand kilos of lead and thousands of mediæval open beams in the roof court fight easily and fast. four hundred year old paintings hanging high in the cathedral have been damaged but firefighters and staff formed a human chain to save other artifacts. thrones golden candelabras german crusted crucifixes and other relics will be transferred to the louvre museum for storage but this united nations world heritage site will need to go through a careful lengthy and expensive restoration process it's really a side which is dear to or not all the reasons but it's the whole of france but

also the whole of humanity because it's a symbol or not only for the christian world it's a symbol for the unit. of it is an accurate tactile language is 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 will cost many hundreds of millions of dollars more to restore not redound to its former glory twenty four hours after the fire and there is still a sense of shock to believe what you did when you were here i felt it out of the emotions last night with my children as we were watching t.v. so here i am now i'm sad but at the same time very happy to see the french people united we needed that to get to the scene i'm a catholic but even if you're not it's part of your life it's unimaginable it

disfigures paris. as people prayed and marched through the streets. messages of support came from other faiths france's chief rabbi offered friendship and support the french counsel of the muslim faith called for donations to help restore what it called the heart of the history of france bernard smith al-jazeera paris. well our shelling has been heard in the libyan capital tripoli it comes after the un recognized government launched an as strike on a camp of fighters loyal to warlord. it was carried out on the outskirts of tripoli the government there is raised its state of emergency to its highest level as it defends the city from fighters backing hafta. joins us on the line now from tripoli

now the fighting currently taking place appears to be on the periphery of the capital but is it your understanding that the fighting is moving closer to the heart of the capital tripoli. it came sooner than later and apparently some little areas have just been taken by grad and hauser according to eyewitnesses. and a spokesman. minister of health and the aaa big government. actually an official person at the ministry of health said he spoke to a look at the vision. the way to go i said to movement was killed and ten other civilians were rounded indeed except religion to belong to ten and civilians including women and children as you know that have to the person who had

been buying publicly and shelling given to the ads with heavy weapons returned and the government of national accord is accusing behest of. committing war crimes by targeting civilians or residential areas with heavy weapons and air to strike around find redemption and the end need to pull a fifty fifty chance had been said by god and how did it listen in the last one and two hours i personally heard the huge explosion and that was in lot of food neighborhood which. ten kilometers from tripoli to disinter that witnessed. rocket men being gay and some people say that one of the rockets hit a house and. the whole the whole family which will be good everybody in

the family was wanted and their house the house was completely destroyed by the explosion we know that despite the fact that. so the international institutions have been calling for call you have been longing against that they want to get it hurting civilians but so far it seems that newton one of the libel factions of the ground is responding money there. ok well thank you very much for now mahmoud i had reporting from tripoli where fighting has reached the periphery of the capital mahmoud telling us they have been two deaths ten others have been injured but of course there are fears about what fighting between these rival factions could mean for the people of tripoli with the use of heavy weapons and indiscriminate shelling in this fighting so we'll stay across that bring you more later if we need to

moving on now to algeria the chairman of the constitutional council has quit his post it would have been in charge of a process to draw up a new constitution following the resignation of this month of president a deal as these pacifica anti-government protesters continue to take to the streets demanding a complete overhaul of the political system which they say is dominated by a military elite victoria gamey reports. celebrations on the streets of. the resignation of time. he quit as chairman of algeria as powerful constitutional council the country's highest judicial body which oversees presidential and parliamentary elections to millions of protesters he represented an establishment that is corrupt and ineffective he was an ally of former president up to these beautifully who himself stepped down earlier this month after all jiri and demanded his twenty year rule and.

belize's decision to quit is unlikely to quell the two month long protests algerians want to revamp of the entire political establishment there's a 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 following belize's resignation algeria's army chief guy salah said the military is looking at all options to find a solution to end the cry. this is to her i'd like to reconfirm that all perspectives are available in order to overcome all the difficulties as soon as possible for the sake of the nation's supreme interests regardless of personal interests. on the streets the discontent continues the same protesters who wanted beautifully out are unhappy with the appointment by parliament nothe week about to caught

a big seller as interim president the protesters would want obviously dissident president of the constitution the council. employees. would resign the person would take all the done to be with you which is a good but we do the prime minister and his government to go the new president will nominate a new minister and this new prime minister will form the technocratic government. derian the concern the old guard maybe maneuvering to maintain its influence they say they're determined to continue pushing for real change victoria gate and be there. to see dung on the pressure from protest leaders the country's ruling military council has sunk the public prosecutor and to live as a a previously played a key role in locking up government critics of these are recent scenes from the capital hard to my protest has continued to demand the military is a taken power step aside and let civilians take charge less than

a week after president of model bashir was deposed they fear nothing will be done to end repression or the economic crisis in the country. about morgan has more 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 conditional 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. i will not stop protesting until there 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 council 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 but political parties are saying

that they cannot take a cabinet they cannot speak of prime minister if they're not sure that the 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 pro to the protests in front of the army headquarters in tottenham and they have been calls for sit ins in front of army headquarters around the state by the sudanese professional association the body that is spearheading the protests since last december they're 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 council then the protests 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 mandates if they would meet that deadline. the u.s. says it might consider removing sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism

if there is a smooth political transition saddam was put on the list in one thousand nine hundred three with a moral bush's government accused of financing and supporting u.s. designated terror groups that version was director of policy for the u.s. special envoy to sudan on the president barack obama he says washington should give incentives to ensure a smooth transition. this discussion is not new it's been part of ongoing bilateral negotiations with the now fallen regime in sudan the discussion is happening again inside the administration here in washington as to whether that does ignition could be lifted more quickly so should some of the demands of the protesters be met should a civilian led government be put in place should the terms of a transition be articulated right now policymakers in washington are are trying to find a way that they could lift that designation sooner in many ways as you mentioned it prevents debt relief and foreign assistance and other forms of cooperation but

above all it's a scarlet letter that really denotes sudan as a kind of pariah state it was al jazeera live from london much more said bring you on the program hundreds of people have been made homeless in afghanistan as heavy rains and flooding destroyed houses and farmland also in egypt the president looks set to enhance his grip on power off to parliament to prove sweeping new changes to the constitution. hello there we have a little weather feature that's pushing its way over the southern parts of australia at the moment you can see it on the satellite picture here just grazing the south coast as it nudges its way eastwards and ahead of it we're seeing a few thunderstorms develop the whole thing is working its way eastwards as we head through the day on wednesday still some showers out of it particularly if you parts

of south australia and victoria and then that will continue its journey eastwards as we head into thursday behind it cooler than it has been so twenty in melbourne twenty two in adelaide towards the west a good deal of clouds there with us in perth and this feature waiting in the wings is going to bring us some or all the heavy rain and strong winds as we head through the later part of the day and into friday over towards new zealand we've got a few showers just flirting with the northern parts there's a state be with us as we had three wednesday elsewhere loss of dry weather around and a fair amount of sunshine but in the east they'll be quite a bit of low cloud around and that should burn away during the day they move over towards the north and for so over policy japan well here there's a good deal of cloud on wednesday and in the south that's where we are most likely to see some shop outbreaks of rain towards the north it should be falling temperatures there rising quite a lot now to give us a poor zero up to around twenty degrees for same beijing will be as high as thirty as we head into wednesday.

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a man you're macron has vowed to rebuild the not true dump cathedral in paris within five years after it was severely damaged by fire on monday evening nearly eight hundred fifty million dollars has been pledged to help with these efforts in algeria the chairman of the constitutional council has quit his post it would have been in charge of a process to draw up a new constitution after the resignation earlier this month of president abdul aziz beautifully. and that shelling has been heard in several parts of the libyan capital tripoli it comes less than twenty four hours after the u.s. backed government launched an asse strike on a camp of fighters loyal to warlord khalifa haftar near tripoli. now at least ten people have died and many more are missing after floods in afghanistan warnings of flash flooding of been issued across two thirds of the country in kabul reports . this mean heavy consistent rain in kabul for nearly a week in the city simply isn't up to deal with this is the result of 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 further 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 thracians all the homes in this area we talked to some residents about their homes and where they will live no. more so 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 their children i said forget about the house we could rebuild it but get your children out my home is also brogan and everyone is worried about the safety of the. people especially this. board. there is not good

quality. 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 are in twenty four of thirty four provinces the worst of province is herat and the far worse there are hundreds of homes have been destroyed thousands of acres of farmland many people have been. 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 rains are coming through there is room for the displacement as rains continue. now to developments in egypt the parliament has approved constitutional changes that would allow president abdel fatah sisi to stay in power until twenty thirty the amendments need to be put to a public referendum within thirty days if approved the presidential term would be changed to six years it would mean that sisi could extend his current term to twenty twenty four and then run again for another six year term he would also be

given enhanced powers over the parliament the judiciary with the right to appoint the public prosecutor and a third of a newly created parliament and additional calls guaranteeing the army's role as protector of the constitution would also be put to the people. most of the founder of the british arab network and author of egypt the nation in crisis he said he spoke about the implications of an extended presidency. is a brutal dictator and he will do anything to cling to his. he coude the judiciary to say anything you want he's got the medium and has complete control under control i think he really destroying egypt as a country i mean if you see egyptian currency egyptian pounds lost seventy percent of its value during sisi reign so what would you expect egypt will be next

twenty years he want stated his about eighty two eighty three years of age it's amazing it's just shocking well first shipment of red cross humanitarian aid has arrived in venezuela which has suffered more than four years of recession marred by shortages of food and medicine the eight shipments the result of an agreement reached with the opposition and the government of president nicolas maduro the juror had blocked previous efforts to deliver assistance and is tonight the existence of a humanitarian crisis our correspondent yes he is in town on the venezuela colombia border. the first shipment landed in caracas main airport on tuesday after much armed wrestling between the venezuelan government and the opposition rival the west complicated by the fact that president nicolas maduro four years the night the existence of an economic crisis in the country let alone trying to address it and

this had been further complicated by the fact that opposition force oblique tried to enter a that that was sent here on the border between colombe and when this well a by the united states and which the government of venezuela thought it was a political tool to try and push nicolas maduro out of office but now this first shipment it did indeed arrive since the worsening of the situation inside the country convinced my daughter to reach a deal with the international red cross and the off position the red cross will be responsible for the distribution of this aid and to make sure to avoid any possibility that this will be politicized by any of the factions in the country. washington d.c. it's a fork of two title rivers connected to the atlantic ocean making the us seat of

government vulnerable to rising sea levels and climate change yet the frequent flooding within view of the white house is a topic president trump hasn't addressed has said that he does not think global warming is man made al-jazeera is highly jocasta has more. thirty six million people visit washington d.c.'s national mall each year drawn to its monuments spring cherry blossoms and the tidal basin one hundred year old reservoir that takes its name from the tides flowing in and out of the potomac river but lately the tides have been rising too high here we're seeing. the sidewalk of a cherry blossom walkway around the title basin flooded completely impassable this happens twice a day a result of sea level rise and increased urbanization the bravest visitors may not mind the water but most people have to step around puts in danger the purpose of

this place it's a formal garden for americans and their guests to wander through and it's also the place where some of our most historic people are memorialized thomas jefferson writer of the declaration of independence is lucky to have a high perch above the waters but the sea wall beneath him is crumbling the white house where the president lives overlooks the tidal basin you can see it clearly from here across the water but despite having evidence of climate change literally outside his window president trump has decided to remove the united states from the paris climate accord and he's called climate change a hoax i don't think he cares it's it's not going to make him any money to save the environment and he won't be here when it oh oh doom and gloom and so out of the cars. the united nations says the world has just twelve years to stop a climate change catastrophe in washington it's the local government that has

stepped up we're kind of on our own now and so we're putting really a lot more money of our own in d.c. into innovation research and development and we just don't have the partnership with federal government and that's sad frustrating will this delicate beauty survive and what monument will there be to those who had a chance to save it. castro al-jazeera washington. the number of measles cases is skyrocketing rocketing around the world with the disease reported in one hundred seventy countries north macedonia has just declared an epidemic after nearly a thousand cases were registered just this year katrina kritzinger from the world health organization says such a large outbreak of measles is very unusual for unprecedented to see so many outbreaks in so many different countries there are quite different in scope but the all stem 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 who are also experienced operates 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 really imperative to the public health community and for medical doctors to really work with parents understand the barriers are to vaccinate. violence on campuses in universities is becoming common some believe that it's because of a law that prevents police from entering the campuses and protecting people but others say it's important to keep the police out. 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 matters it's taken so seriously that national parties have created proxies to campaign for the students but today democracy is disrupted

a group of people dressed in black shows up with couldn't 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 asked his attackers to stop spraying graffiti on campus walls in practice. there are many teachers professors of the university cannot express free. they thought 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 they threatened 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 refer 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 one or more incidents like this happening at the schools at the united states these are very well regarded institutions again 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 level politicians from all sides agree that universities have a problem they just disagree on how to solve it jump. since. welcome back just a quick recap of the top stories this hour before we leave you the french president emmanuel macron has pledged to rebuild not for don cathedral in five years after it was severely damaged in a file on monday evening nearly eight hundred fifty million dollars has been pledged to help rebuild the cathedral almost nothing remains of its roof off the flames spread through its medieval timbers and sent the would inspire crashing into the quiet area said the rebuilt cathedral would be even more beautiful. of a crafts we are

a people of builders and we have so much to rebuild we will reconstruct this cathedral of not within five years or even more beautiful we can do it we will do it. in our other top stories this hour at least two people have died during shelling in the libyan capital tripoli the violence comes after less than twenty four hours after the un back government launched an asteroid on a camp of fighters loyal to have to two weeks ago eastern libyan forces began an advance on tripoli but the fighting it so far been limited to the southern districts. in algeria the chairman of the constitutional council has quit his first allies would have been in charge of a process to draw up a new constitution after the resignation this month of president abdul aziz beautifully antigovernment protesters continue to take to the streets demanding a complete overhaul of the political system which they say is dominated by the military elite. meanwhile in sudan the ruling military council there is sacked the

public prosecutor and two of his aides the move comes after pressure from protest organizers who continue to demand that military to step aside and let civilians take charge less than a week after president of model bashir was deposed they fear nothing will be done to end the repression. and egypt's parliament has approved changes to the constitution that could let president abdel fatah sisi remain in power until twenty thirty the amendment now needs to be put to the public in a referendum on the proposed changes sisi could extend his current term by two years and stand for another six year. what's it for myself in the team here in london when he's from doha later. in australia more women are being locked up than ever before what's driving this alarming development one on one to two x. inmates live blog behind bars on zero zero.

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