good morning welcome to breakfast with louise minchin and dan walker. everywhere and anywhere — 0ur headlines today: the battle to save notre dame. including pristine mountain ranges. firefighters work through the night to bring the flames under control. and finally in the times — the roof and the spire of the 850—year—old cathedral have more pregnant at a0. collapsed after being gutted by the flames. the costs of parenthood is forcing the cause of the fire is unknown. women to delay pregnancy until their 40s, according to the latest research by the uk office for national statistics. president emmanuel macron described it as a "terrible tragedy" but pledges to restore the gothic structure. with me is david buik — a market commentatorfrom core spreads. translation: we will rebuild this he will talk us through the stories. cathedral altogether and it is david, i don't know about you, but undoubtedly part of the french destiny. everybody says we were just watching these are live pictures of notre dame this morning. as this all unfolded, the shock, but we'll bring you the very latest fom paris throughout the programme. the deep sadness. well, everybody in other news: has been to paris. they do not have skyscrapers. it is the most beautiful city. this beautiful cathedral just dominates the skyline. you have to go back to the

days of victor hugo carrillo the hunchback of notre dame and even thenit hunchback of notre dame and even then it had this wonderful spectacle —— and the hunchback. it is an unmitigated disaster. it will be interesting to hear, why was interested to hear from kevin conko interested to hear from kevin conolly and ramzan karmali about the $113 million being given towards the restoration. go back to 1992, windsor castle, had a small but devastating fire, the costs surprised me putting that right. it was only about 32.5 million. you cannot compare apples with pears. it will be interesting to know what the international responses. you never think of france are being quite tied to charity is the same way we are in this country. they are having great difficulties with feeling overtaxed, but i'm sure the response will be fantastic. absolutely. this is ca ptu red fantastic. absolutely. this is captured on the front page of le figaro. they say in front of this

terrible spectacle of desolation we saw the solidarity and sadness of the whole world. that is what really struck me. it was all the different commentary coming from all over the world stop even president trump, angela merkel, theresa may, all saying how devastated they were personally. people were weeping in the streets. when you think about it, going back, it's about the french revolution in 1789, two world wars, napoleon, everything has stayed in place. as with these wonderful old buildings, there is too much wood in them. and when you try to restore them... and the restoration was under way. thankfully, because of that, a lot of the art and artefacts were moved. that is a saving grace. this article in the telegraph, as you mentioned, has got a wide angle picture. it is talking about the 13th century gothic masterpiece and how people just got asked, you could hear it around the city is this fire

collapsed. when you are in the middle of this forum, you can't tell until you said, the detail in the architecture, whether it was the ga rg oyles architecture, whether it was the gargoyles or everything that goes with it, it blows your brains away. it is beautiful. what is interesting is the president's reaction to this, emmanuel macron, who went there to give his speech before the cameras. he was actually due to give a televised speech anyway last evening, in terms of the national debate about the protest that have been going on for weeks and months. he was going to give his response about how they have been discussing it around the country. could this bring the country together?” it around the country. could this bring the country together? i don't think do any harm. when you talk about the french people in france, france is probably the most conservative country in the whole of europe. it doesn't like change. monsieur macron, who has the right ideas of how he wants to change the french economy and bring an upgrade to them, you have to be very careful

with the french. don't push them. they take their time to embrace change, think is the best way to say. i think this will be incredibly important to make sure it is focused on its restoration as soon as possible. as soon as possible by taking time. slowly and extremely well. of course a devastating fire. let us hope most of the very important let us hope most of the very im porta nt a rtefa cts were let us hope most of the very important artefacts were saved. we don't know yet. the investigation is under way as to why that started. let us move on to other stories. this is the front page of the financial times. this is something that came to light yesterday, the former boss of vw, martin winterkorn, and four others charged with fraud and criminal offences because of their alleged role in the diesel emissions scandal. this is a decade—long scandal. this was shocking when it came to light. up

until 2017, it costs vw about 30 billion euros, a substantial amount of money. it is still one of the main players in the global car market. very much so. if they are found guilty they face up to ten yea rs found guilty they face up to ten years in prison. all they can say is this could not have happened at a worse time. the german car market is ina worse time. the german car market is in a serious state of disrepair. germany's economy almost went into recession last quarter, not quite. i understand much is looking a bit adult. but knowing that the trade—off with china, which has been so trade—off with china, which has been so important to people like vw, has literally fallen off the precipice for the time being, they need to regroup as a nation on an industrial scale and, obviously, mrs merkel is very focused on this. this comes is really bad news. not good news at all. in some ways, you know, is this justice being done? all. in some ways, you know, is this justice being done ?|j all. in some ways, you know, is this justice being done? i think it tells

anybody... when you think about how shocking it was at the fact that they were actually allegedly had devices in the cars to cheat emissions regulations. isn't it interesting that people want to cut corners. it does not matter what walk of life. the regulator across the spectrum, financial markets, industrial, technology, cryptology, you are in the dock now. and you will behave otherwise you are likely to be found out. let us hope that is true, given what has been going on. exactly true, given what has been going on. exa ctly sto p true, given what has been going on. exactly stop at the front page of the guardian, wins can low micro plastics all over the world. these are the tiny little bits of plastic, particles within lots of products we use. could be pretty devastating. they are saying that something like 300 million tons worth of plastic is produced around the world every year. we are getting better, but are still pretty bad at it. when people have finished with it and they go to

be destroyed, these particles fly all the way, whether it is china and the paddy fields, on top of mountains, it is all part of the climate change, part of the pollution game. however much people wa nt to pollution game. however much people want to say does nothing to do with me, it isn't going to affect my grandchildren, 0no, brother and sister, it will affect you now and you will have to do something about it. let us talk about your grandchildren. you have quite a few. you were very hands—on, you have two gorgeous daughters who have had children. this article, costs for swimming to delay pregnancy until their 40s. this is news from the 0ffice their 40s. this is news from the office for national statistics. would you make of the story? —— costs for women. i don't think it is just about costs. it is cultural. it is also about career. when i started work on my head to say, in 1962, any manager in the banco was working at, lady, was earning half what the same bloke was for the same job —— bank.

it was disgraceful. the number of appointments within that bank of managerial status, about 150 people, three, sally. it wasjust... now it is absolutely getting near enough, the gap is closing, it is still unacceptable for the same job. as you so rightly say, careers are much more important. they not more important, but they are something to consider. a lot of women to get it established for the study have children. which is what i did. they had made between 32 and 38 years old, my three children. it meant they could come back to work. there are issues like flexible working... technology, pay, all kinds of issues. i think people today, across the spectrum, are far better educated. they want the opportunity to express themselves having had that education for doubles the cost of property and other things has gone up dramatically. married couples, couples, when they established themselves... it has

implications for women who decide to delay for a long period, because, of course, over the age of a0 the risks are greater. but there is also the risk that they may not be able to fall pregnant. exactly. infertility. it is interesting to note that the only age group, according to the 0ffice only age group, according to the office of national statistics, that went up was the 35—a5 bracket where it was up to .6%. the others fell marginally. they found that interesting —— two .6%. marginally. they found that interesting -- two .6%. david connett has been great to have you on the briefing. thank you for your company. thanks for your comments and stories about your feelings about what has happened in paris. do have a look. have a really lovely day. i'll see you soon. hello there, good morning. there's more spring sunshine and more spring warmth on the way as we head towards

the easter weekend. the weekend just gone was quite chilly, temperatures about 12. an easterly wind and the air coming all the way from the baltic. but look what happens over the next few days. a lot of that blue, colder air gets pushed away and it really heats up across central parts of europe and that is where we are going to get our weather coming from. we will be developing this south—easterly breeze and it will be warming up everywhere. mid—20s perhaps by saturday. on monday, in the sunshine, it felt pleasant enough. we had temperatures here in london of 15 degrees. likewise in liverpool, merseyside. we've also had this cloud coming in very slowly from the west which has been bringing with it patchy rain and drizzle. earlier on it was quite windy as well in northern ireland and here in cornwall, unseasonable weather. the winds are easing down and the rain is edging its way further eastwards. the clearer skies ahead of it are filling with cloud so it's frost free. temperatures five or six degrees. rain for northern ireland heading

across to wales and the west country. the rain in the south petering out to a certain extent. the rain lighter and patchy in the afternoon heading into western scotland. eastern scotland, eastern england likely to be dry, a lot of cloud around. best of the sunshine towards the east coast and north—eastern parts of scotland. the winds won't be as strong on tuesday but still an onshore breeze coming into eastern scotland, north—east england. so a little bit on the chilly side here. under the cloud, temperatures typically ten or 13. a touch higher in the london area if it brightens up. more especially for cornwall and devon where we should see some sunshine. more sunshine on the way on wednesday. some mist and fog around early on across wales, west midlands and the south—west. some patchy cloud developing and you could just squeeze out a light shower through the east midlands towards the south—east of england. unlucky if you catch those. generally it is dry, more sunshine and more warmth as temperatures climb to 17 or 18. it's set to get warmer over the coming few days as well. still high—pressure around scandinavia but we're drawing up our air from central parts of europe. not only is it warmer but it's also drier, so more sunshine around as well.

a dry few days and temperatures rising everywhere. the peak of the temperatures will be on saturday and it could get 2a or 25. then starts to cool down a little bit and we may see some rain arriving in the north—west.