until it invented completely new things and top of the ancient giants who had recently been its teachers even the. catapult europe out of the darkest miniatures into a. british. hearts of people twenty second d. w. . across france this evening a chorus of church bells tolling in unison in unity a hymn of solidarity for our lady in paris it has been forty eight hours since the fire engulfed notre dame cathedral the cause is still under investigation today

firefighters deny claims that they were too slow to respond saying what matters is that no one died including notre dame i bring golf in berlin this is the day. to live as normal we've always trained for all kinds of catastrophes but when we saw the roof on fire for real it was something else supposedly priest was reading the gospel who. knew exactly what she called because it put the first part of her face inside the cathedral there to please don't let a president stress what's really important it's a total michael as i said to the people of france an approach that will never be too much money. also coming up tonight the ballot

counting looks good for indonesia's president a successful reelection campaign but even on election day there was no hiding the country's politics of division. what i say to all my supporters remain calm and you not be provoked to take violent action. on guard the ballot box because the ballot box is the key to our victory that. led to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the rest of the world welcome we begin the day with the firefighters from notre dame at this very moment two days ago firefighters in paris were in the middle of what they say was the most difficult fight of their lives battling a nine hour blaze which eventually gutted the roof of the church and brought down its nineteenth century spire once a day those men and women gave their first accounts to the public telling of the horror that they had trained for and then came face to face with on monday evening

there were uncomfortable questions today more they too slow in responding why did it take two fire alarms before anyone noticed the flames well those firefighters today denied being slow they said they responded quickly and were prepared adding that their training allowed them to save many artifacts and they insisted that they were the only thing standing between the flames and a total loss of notre dame. it don't double up i guess whom the wind was finding the fire so the brigade commander had to take decisive action if we sent a team to tackle the fire by the towers and comodo that it was spreading by the northern tower near the bells there supporting beams are made of wood if the fire had reached it the tower would have been lost to history. and if we'd lost the battle for the towers then we would have lost to the cathedral you memorial day

everything would have collapsed in a domino effect. such as a close call on monday evening in paris i'm joined tonight by gong they had he is chief restoration architect for the vienna cathedral known as st stephens he joins me tonight from the austrian capital mysteries that are it's good to have you on the show you have heard the accounts from those firefighters in paris today just like the rest what is your reaction to what they said today well of course i've heard yes and i can imagine that this was the heaviest show player ever had to do it because it's such a complicated building and of course to have a spire that reaches up almost two hundred meters buffer the earth. will live a normal equipment is not made for this and of course there is another component the. mythological meaning of such

a building the symbolic meaning that makes it even more difficult i think to to handle these cases do you agree that the concede role had a very close call on monday evening with with total destruction. yes when i saw first the pictures i was really afraid that the big spy in the center of the cathedral built fall down and really it's did and at this moment i thought it would really destroy all the vaults and the fire would get into the cathedral and now we know that it did steal a little part of the vaults but if i had it not really go into the interior of the house and in were you were you surprised that the damage was not more extensive. i was not surprised because in my opinion the damage is enough is really

a lot of destruction if the whole roof is burned and its biggest spy of the cathedral is totally destroyed but fortunately the main structure of the caustic stone building seems to be in not such a bed situation but of course it's possible that they've discover more damages from the fire that has not destroyed the stone but we can distance and has some problems that may be found later on i'd like for you to take a listen to what the firefighters said today about the burning roof of the cathedral take a listen as you get us off to school said it to him it was a catastrophe and we've always trained for all kinds of catastrophes but when we saw the roof on fire for real it was something else. we tried to intervene very

quickly even though we knew that such a huge fire would almost certainly destroy the roof and in us we did a bus stop. they paint there a horror scenario and i want to ask you after seeing what happened at notre dumb monday are you asking yourself more often could this happen to us in vienna. of course we suddenly. fault all of the possible problems that would have and actually we have already planned a project of improving the fire warning system in our roof but actually dave cathedral has lost its wooden structure already in the last days of world war two when one thousand and two hundred tons of large would totally and also roof construction fell into the trench and we also had to fight inside so now we have a steel construction on the roof so this big fire probably would not happen to us

but we all listen they should improve our. systems to prevent holes will smaller fires of course and i want to ask you about this this goal of rebuilding the french president mr macro and he wants to do that within five years there's also an international competition for a design to replace the spire which collapsed what do you think about that the you know the international competition and also this five year deadline well i think that it's a very ambitious to try to get busy in five years on the other hand i'm glad that such a mighty person asst the french president. presents disco and i hope david can do it if they if the. force isn't strong dedication

we feel now we lost on i think this would be possible also some resource works maybe the last four decades but in five years i think it could be possible to have the cathedral in. good shape so visitors and messes could be held inside as it was before do you think that paris could learn something from vienna when it comes to replacing the roof because now that the wooden roof nurtured om is gone they have to think about a twenty first century replacement would you advise them to do what was done in vienna and to think about maybe have steel in steel beams or something like that as a good replacement well i think it's not allah will season to

advise them and in france they have good specialists and good technicians and david to make i am sure good decisions for this i could just tell them if they would like to hear how it was stunning vienna because the i think did a good job in these difficult times replacing the roof and construction with an iron construction which would has half the weight of the old construction and the other half wait they invested in a horizontal concrete which protects the vaults. to the roof construction so we have the same total weight on the walls because the weight of the roof is also important for vaults to be stabilized i think that was a good job but maybe today seventy years later they have even better ideas i would be happy to be oscar but i think the we. well they made us the best.

i mean this is a if you are you're the chair of the european federation of cathedral architects do you anticipate that maybe they mean you know be calling you or knocking on your door asking for some professional and friendly advice. i think this is possible and of course we will do this also some other members of our european union of course declared that they would be happy to help also with maybe manpower freestore us or stonemason says we have to i mean practice. but still i want to say that in france they have forgotten of capacity for that but it is also to have international contacts yes that is a very good point. chief restoration architect for vienna cathedral mr we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight and sharing your insights

if you do. please let us know we'll talk with you again thank you thank you good evening. my mom's game here florida my president. i feel very grave because that is that we have a right a dual appoint. president to another term for election results to give the. fifty five percent of the vote pulling ahead of his rival the former general. it is. anything but sweet for indonesia's reputation as

a pluralistic society tolerant muslim majority. more on the cost of indonesia's identity politics. today's elections were in many ways a celebration of indonesia as a young democracy and the voters i spoke to here at this polling station one of more than eight hundred thousand across the country told me that they were proud to be taking part in deciding the next five years now and this election was largely a referendum on the performance of current president. in particular his economic policies he campaigned on his work improving infrastructure and hope that the economic figures that the reduction in the rate of poverty and the strong economy would help give him another five years but in the background another debate was taking place this over the role of religion based identity politics many were concerns about a win for his competitor. would be a move in a direction away from

a pluralist democracy that welcomes all forms of religion but voters here today have had their say and have decided to give joko widodo another five. years to carry out his policies it was clear richardson reporting there i'm joined now by my colleague videotape ligo and zipper and she's the head of the w.'s indonesian service good evening to you videotape the official results we understand won't be announced until next month in may but it looks like we will win reelection and can we say tonight with a fair amount of certainty that he will keep his joe well like in the reports show it is the numbers are on fifty five forty five or fifty three forty four at least that's what i saw so it's like eight to nine percent more for its flora jerkily and that's higher than the election in two thousand and fourteen but then he got to run four to five percent but this result is also actually not really

surprising since all of the surveys conducted before the election already predicted him as the winner even some of the service said that he's just out more than ten percent to rubble but we must remember it's still not the official numbers the indonesian election commission k p you will announce it in may and then we didn't know for sure but it is unlikely that the number of the change you know because this is the first time a presidential election in tunisia and before the years the outcome of the preliminary vote guns will always similar to the official response so i would say it's not going to change again in me and what about the i guess the device of the these i did the politics that we saw during the campaign both candidates really tried to reach out to conservative islamic voters in their campaigns how much of an issue was is low in this election. there's no way out of saying it

but islam is really quite a big issue at this election you know like indonesia has the most muslim people in the country and also like ninety seven percent of indonesian people on muslim so both bodies is for sure tries to get the votes and most of this time for the conservative muslims i would say basically problems beyond all of threw himself to that will to conservative group to get the votes that will be due to hasn't got probably explained the religion part and i must say it's actually he managed to get the young conservative muslim behind him like five years ago got the million votes and took with choice of running mate modified if he's made to keep up it probably strategy is strictly true as modified i mean it's not actually what peaceful of us wanted it was basically a surprise because i mean it is a man who had center his friend you know basically to have put my mind to prison for blasphemy in two thousand and seventeen actually right michel if it didn't sit degrees of reform his brand then it's contradictory his stance on advocating

religious freedom what about. moving forward he has obviously made promises to you know conservative muslims is he going to have to deliver a meet or his policy is going to have to reflect that i don't know what he's planning but the critics say it's like if i may say a the critic says a lot about economic policy like you said before. and but mostly people also think about the human rights issue as. we don't a has an actual he. did what he from a system is a followers five years ago you know like you signing up on executions by firing squad and he volunteers have to govern confront the country mess killings so let's just hope that he actually is going to do it regarding having the conservative muslim backing him that he really is still going to tackle the human rights issues that needs to be done i mean i think he would be his last legacy it's his last term yet we definitely will see in this upcoming term videotape the go would separate

the head of the w.'s indonesian service thank you. it is spring here in the northern hemisphere that means trees and flowers are in bloom like the cherry blossoms in japan in mexico jacaranda tree are in bloom right now a beautiful sight to see and it's all thanks to a japanese gardener who wanted to emulate his home country's springtime cherry blossoms. there's plenty of violets petals lying on the streets of mexico city right now but the cleaners here don't seem bothered by the extra workload spring has a private and everyone's and a good mood but. everyone thinks the jacaranda trees are sort of beautiful when the wind blows the flowers from the trees people love to take far as hers. pockets of violence have been blooming across the city since mid munch. jacaranda

trees are not native to mexico that only been here since the nineteenth thirty's a japanese gotten a name to go to matsumoto brought the tree from brazil after trying and failing to cultivate the japanese cherry tree since then the violence has only added to the country's colorful landscape. but honestly the sense that color is something fundamental to our culture. and the south american tree is now deeply rooted in that culture. in less than a. few residents of the mexican capital become something more than just a beautiful tree up but a little. for us they are an important symbol in these times i mean heavy debate about migration they show us immigration can be enriching to both peoples lives and cultures and i mean. the explosion of violence color only lasts a few weeks then street cleaner diego's daily workload will go back to normal.

or right to self korea now where your age is just a number and still south koreans traditionally determine a person's age by starting from the day that a child is born and then adding a year to that a newborn for example automatically is one year old then turns to the following year for example but now it's a method that is increasingly causing well you might imagine confusion you know someone celebrating one hundred days and something but here in south korea she joe ready to years old she was more than when she was born on new year's eve a few hours later she was another. when i let my friends know that our daughter was born on december thirty first. some of my

playful friends joked about my baby becoming two years old only hours after her birth. being in that situation i didn't know whether to laugh or cry. while south koreans are accustomed to this unusual method of age calculation many critics say the tradition is out of date you know make you home and started a campaign to turn polish it. there are a number of ways of counting age in our country. that people find it so confusing. you know there are at least four different ways of counting a. south korea is the only country in the world that doesn't like this. you don't. have the insults mother says this system puts her daughter and it's a disadvantage. she cannot flip the babies who were born earlier in the same year

when she stops going to a daycare center there will be a fast difference between all child and doubters in terms of physical and intellectual gross then you know has out actually concerns that little urine so it's blissfully unaware off at least from the. records they say are meant to be broken but south korea became pop superstar's bt as well they may be doing it overdoing it just a little bit three days ago their new release boy with love shattered all previous records clocking up nearly seventy five million views on you tube in just one day now with more than one hundred fifty million views the boy band has also broken the record for fastest music video to break the one hundred million mark b.t.s. is particularly popular on social media surprised for the past two years running the group has been ranked as the most retarded celebrity twitter account in the

universe. who knows the most about hip hop at the big table tonight right here that's right. the whole i've been studying up just for you brian got some info our lawyer gave me plea yeah well look it's having a moments right now. as you can clearly tell it's not just on you tube i mean b.t.s. who we just saw they just headlined saturday night live you may have heard of sell that around. another k. pop group also on the verge of stardom black pink some are calling them the next spice girls oh here they are check them out it's not just for the boys also for the girls as a girl band and they just hit the top twenty five in the u.s. maybe more significantly they were just at coachella earth all i see male way through to perform at that music festival red you know k. pop it's not new it's been growing for a couple of decades i'm sure you remember the big hit style back in twenty twelve or south korean performer side it's more popular now more than ever i would say and

it's starting to go mainstream in the us that's a big deal these groups they mostly sing in korean the english so how did it become so popular that yeah i mean really when it comes to k. pop there is a formula here and a lot of it has to do with star power a lot of the star power in k. pop is very many factures this is what we're talking about here they take these people they put them essentially through and entire program so aspiring singers go to a training center and it's a lot like britney spears is death dance school in seoul korea you see there's intense dancing singing classes students as young as ten years old and they want to become the next big thing if they're signed by a record label they can go through more training even more years of training essentially by the time you're done with these boot camps you're already ready to go you're a seasoned professional performer that's the formula here secondly everything so control just take someone like a britney spears it's the same thing with your name the way you dress that we dance

it's all controlled by the record labels themselves and number three i mean these fans are passionate brand you have these k. pop fanatics they're out there at things like take on this is the convention there's one in las vegas there's one in new york this year very very passionate fans as well you know i have to say hats off to you for using all those terms of key because. that's what i'm here for brotherhood that that you very much because the k. pop reports. yeah let's keep up into the night there all the days always does the governor say she continues online to find us on twitter either at g.w. news or you can follow me t.v. don't forget to use that tag the day we're going to leave you now with the sights and sounds of those bells ringing out in france in solidarity with no turned up and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow gives another day we'll see that.

the e-mail looked on helplessly as the flames spread to. ravage an altered on a better me as the symbol of paris many feel sad and shocked. because i love no two in town tonight everyone went to his room. is it a miracle the cathedral is still standing. in ninety minutes on d w. it's time to take one

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this is g w news line but. there are reports of multiple fatalities tonight after a bus crash is. reports are coming into that leaves twenty eight people have died many of them german tourist we'll go wall to the four g.'s capital the move. across france church bells ringing out in tribute to montreal. as the nation pauses to remember what was lost in the blue.