an artifact of what makes the architecture so special well to begin with is it took two hundred years to build it it was genuine to be able to build such a structure we've mentioned oh you're the rose windows which we have unfortunately lost now for ever which were an art piece also an art piece by themselves there's a whole wooden wooden structure that was so collapsing yesterday that's wood dated back to the thirteenth century is invaluable would that we will never be able to rebuild the it exactly that way and it won't have the same as significant that it had it had survived you said eight centuries off history and that is lost does not see the lining i was thinking about was reading about the spier despite i was the first of the first item to be renovated and thankfully a few weeks ago all of the owner of its sixteen state used had been removed to be rest to eighteen so those states years that were before perched on this fire have

survived since that weren't on site at the time all right so so many reasons that make notre dame so special to france really to the world but you know we heard barbara comment a little bit earlier that this could really weigh on in my own mark on his presidency what do you see as any possible political consequences for him or for the mayor of paris for example i need to go well there will be a lot of questions to be answered first by an indigo because indeed the rest of the firefighters was was very. was that was the lady i think that took forty five minutes to come on site and i need i go we'll have to answer for dad it's not it's not thinkable that in a capital city a city where there were terrorist attacks and where there were evacuation trainings and emergency trainings over and over it's not thinkable that it took so long a full five protest to arrive on site now for a man you know my craw. it's like i was saying he's not dressed he's not just so

west constable of this is neglectful policy towards heritage french heritage however he's the sitting president and he's he's going to have to answer for him not on the tree restriction he decided but it was so for all the neglect that has been caused by decades of main dates with presidents who didn't really care about protecting the french cultural heritage that is of course a lot to carry on the shoulders of barbara what is the feeling that you're getting there in paris about the possible consequences going forward and what are we expecting to see at the here today. it's a bit too early to speculate about the political consequences of course is the one who was. the mayor of paris will have to answer some very strong questions about what happened here and how it was possible that things got

moving so slow now it seems in the meantime the firefighters have sort of been able to contain it now they're trying to secure the site and it is going to take days to really assess the the detail of the damage and the full sort of. size of the damage because there might be lots of structural problems the building the walls might have to be stabilized from within we don't know yet but it's just a huge task and it is a very difficult thing because as specialists will have to be brought in from throughout france and maybe even from other european countries from everywhere because you're going to need hundreds of people working on the huge site like this that has been so devastated and there is in this morning you see them go past on their way to work and everybody stops here to look at this site for

a moment and the faces are still somber and the mood is still quite depressed in a sense there really seems to be approved basis of sense of loss after what happened last night here all right barbara vessel reporting for us from the scene there in paris and with us here in our studio thank you both. and we have an extensive coverage of the notre dame fire on our website as well. to some other news now in mexico where more than a decade of a drug war has devastated local communities authorities discover graves of people who were killed by drug cartels in many parts of the country nobody knows how many people have disappeared or died and most of the corpses that are found in burial pits cannot even be identified one of the hardest hit areas is the state of vera cruz and here is a group of mothers searching for their sites. they drive on rolled into the. the center will tell them if

a body is buried here this time it doesn't smell death just promise. but you know. it was christmas eve two thousand and eleven when they saw his son that about a book at a loss for the last time he's been missing since three years ago she found the. other mothers. to look for their loved ones who disappeared. we need. to move we saw that together we're able to put pressure on the authorities . we haven't come very far yet but together we'll go on with our investigation. people are murdered disappear every month in mexico's drug war some because of their links to the drug cartels are this we're just in the wrong place at the wrong time. tens of thousands are missing but the true number is unknown often relatives

don't report cases because they don't trust the authorities about two thousand clinton graves have so far been found in mexico hundreds of them and better growth on this landfill site the mothers are hoping to find more bodies the search often goes nowhere where. we've been here for a week now and we haven't found anything we work nonstop from eight in the morning until three in the afternoon let me a month or two here at the. regional and federal authorities had been rather passive until recently now the new mexican government has launched a national search commission for missing persons but critics say it is cash strapped. the mothers fund their search with ruffles and selling clothes so far as tell us collectible sollecito has found almost three hundred bodies and every corpse every treasure holds them they find is a win for her. that when we find

a treasure i am sad and happy at the same time happy because one more treasure returns home and one more family finds peace a peace that i still don't have that moment and so these women keep on with their search hoping that eventually they too will find closure. prosecutors here in germany have charged former of all sagen c.e.o. martin venter corn with fraud the sprawling diesel scandal over big emissions software has reached the very top of the carmaker then joe klein is one of five executives suspected of approving software that was programmed to deceive inspectors about break up mission votes back and says the software was the point in some levon million vehicles into quote us tonight early knowledge of the cheating. prosecutors are convinced the former fox fog and c.e.o. knew about the exhaust emissions cheating and hid it from the public to hear the former chairman of the board dr of intercourse is in fact accused of

a particularly serious case of fraud a violation of the law against unfair competition and breach of trust for war. if the charges are proven winterkorn could easily land in jail and he's the very man credited with turning fox wagner into the world's top car maker but the news the company had been employing devices to give low pollution readings during exhaust testing instantly hammered the company's share price and its reputation. sure to give me would like to make a formal apology to our customers the authorities and to the general public for this misconduct. please believe me we will do everything necessary to reverse the damage and we will do everything necessary to win back your trust step by step. for shrewd. printer khan had to step down despite claiming he knew nothing about the scandal but prosecutors say he already knew about it in many twenty fourteen and

did nothing to stop it also failing to report it to the authorities and customers. when to cons of storage he was feared by staff who were under pressure to make the carmaker the global leader managers and technicians were afraid to challenge him and all the while folks who are going continue to claim that it's diesel technology was especially clean and environmentally friendly. yet fs from d.w. business is on the story for us hi go ahead first of all let's start out with not invent a car what happens next well worst case scenario for him is ten years in prison that's the maximum sentence for serious fraud here in germany but secondly he'll also have to pay back his bonus so quite substantial bonuses top managers have received up to eleven million euros per year. in bonuses. but first of all the court has to decide whether it actually will put him on trial and that will take some time prosecutors have put together the indictment it's seven nearly seven

hundred pages long and they're supporting documentation of a staggering seventy five thousand pages of evidence so it will take some time for the court actually to decide. what to do and then even if he gets off there's another indictment in the west against him personally so it will get very uncomfortable so this does all gates scandals now which the very top of it doesn't mean that it's over. i don't think so prosecutors say this is only a first step there's another three dozen v.w. employees still under investigation mainly about misleading investors. not divulging information as they should have done by law. and also the current group c.e.o. of the v.w. into consequence i have a d.c. is part of that investigation he is president being investigated he used to be the brand chief of the w. when the whole scandal hit so. unfortunately this is not over for v.w.

and not over for the w. shareholders you are right. to be a business thank you very much for bringing us up to date on that story. all right that is it for us for now we are back with more news in a few minutes we'll leave you with some pictures of onlookers in paris singing as firefighters work to put out the place at notre. dame to a low for. a little. blue who they are so close to. the old way of. the ozone layer he. wanted to play a little. bit. to the oak

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play. this it is. devastated but still standing. after the firefighters fought through the night to save it. takes fire may be gone but officials say the main structure should be intact. that's good to have you with us.