communist revolution. 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 a fire engulfed notre dame cathedral the cause is still under investigation today firefighters denied 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.

that julie was no mother we've always trained for all kinds of catastrophes but when we saw the roof on fire for real it was something else supports a critic. of you exactly what you think of the first term. inside the cathedral that if we don't have a president stress what's really important is a total number 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. well i say to all my supporters remain calm and you not be provoked to take violent action or. guard the ballot box

because the ballot box is the key to our victory. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all the round 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. don't gobble it up i guess soon as the wind was funding the fire so the brigade commander have to take decisive action if an. we sent a team to tackle the fire by the towers and comodo that the heat 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 more but everything would have collapsed in a domino effect. such as a close call on monday evening in paris i'm joined tonight by gong he is chief restoration architect for the vienna could think drill known as st stephens he joins me tonight from the austrian capital mysteries that are it's good

to have you on this show so you have heard the accounts from those firefighters in paris today just like the rest of us 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 stroke they ever had to do it because it's such a complicated building and of course to have a spiral that reaches up almost two hundred meters buffer the earth. will live normally 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 all these cases do you agree that the cathedral 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 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 destroy a little part of the vaults but the fire did not really go into the interior of the house and were you were you surprised that the damage was not more extensive. i was not surprised because in my opinion the damage is enough that 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 the gothic stone building seems to be in not such

a bad situation but of course it's possible that they've discovered 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 mclaughlin we saw the roof on fire for real it was something else supposedly we tried to intervene very quickly even though we knew that such a huge fire would almost certainly destroy the roof and then as we did the pasta. they paint their 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 de cathedral has lost its wooden structure already in the last days of world war two. 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 always should improve our. systems to prevent holes a little smaller fires of course and i want to ask you about this this goal of rebuilding notre dame 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 this in fife yes on the other hand i'm glad that such a mighty person assist the french president. presents this goal 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 mrs 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 in there today 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 our position to advise them and in france they have good specialists and good technicians and david make i am sure good decisions for this i could just tell them if they would like to hear how it was done in vienna because the i think did a good job in these difficult times we placing the roof in construction with an

iron construction which has half the weight of the old construction and the other half wait they invested in a horizontal concrete layer 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 the cathedral mr see it there 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 came here for. my prayers to.

discuss. i feel very grave because that is that we have a right a dual appoint of a. president to another term for election results to give the. fifty five percent of the vote of his rival the former general. it is a victory may be 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 this election was largely a referendum on the performance of the current president. in particular his economic policies he campaigned on his work improving infrastructure and hoped 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 that 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 another five. years to carry out his policies that was clear richard sennett reporting there i'm joined now by my colleague videotape ligo and zipper and she's the head of w.'s indonesian service

good evening to you video the official results we understand won't be announced until next month in may but it looks like we'll win reelection 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 back then he got to run forty five percent but this result is also actually not really surprising since all of the service conducted before the election already predicted him as the winner even some of the service said that it's just more than ten percent to rubble but we must remember it's still not the official numbers the indonesian election commission. said 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 office of the priesthood 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 innocent people on muslim so both bodies is for sure tries to get the votes and most of this time for the cons of this muslims i would say basically problems to be uncle of through himself to that

will take them to group to get the votes that will be due to hasn't got a boys playing the religion card and i must say it's actually he managed to get the young conservative muslim behind him like five years ago who got the million votes and took with choice of running mate modified if he's made to keep up it probably strategy he is surely true his model i mean it's not actually what peaceful the us wanted it was basically a surprise because i mean it is a man who had center his friend you know vice a ph i have not much to prison for blasphemy in two thousand and seventeen actually wrote an actual if it didn't sit degrees of reform his brand then it's going to dictate his stance on advocating religious freedom what about. moving forward now 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 this. i don't know what he's planning but the critics say it's like if i may sail the critics say it's

a lot of bad economic policy like you said before and but mostly people also saying about the human rights issue as. to has an extra lead. did what do you from a sister is a followers five years ago you know like you signed off on executions by firing squad and you volunteer have to govern confront the country mess killings so let's just hope that he actually is going to do it without regarding having the conservative muslim backing him that he really is still going to tackle the human rights issues that needs to be done everything he could be his last legacy it's his last term yet we definitely will see him this upcoming term videotape that will go in support of the head of 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. 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 violet 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. everyone thinks the jacaranda trees are so 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 have only been here since the nineteenth thirties 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. that color is

something fundamental to our culture. and this south american tree is now deeply rooted in that culture. among less than for residents of the mexican capital to become something more than just a beautiful tree up but i'm a little sis 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 cleaning diego's daily workload will go back to normal. to south korea now where your age is just a number insult 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 new board for example automatically is one year old then turns to the following year for example but it's a method that is increasingly causing well you might imagine confusion you need someone celebrating one hundred days since have passed but in south korea she's already two years old she was born when she was born a 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. that being in that situation i didn't know whether to laugh or cry. south koreans are accustomed to this unusual method of age calculation many critics

say the tradition is out of date you know make a one to home this started a campaign to abolish it. there are a number of ways of counting age in our country. that people find it so confusing. 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 go there you insults mother says this system puts her daughter at your disadvantage. she cannot flip the mike other 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 interact . then you know has out which actually concerns that little you and so this blissfully unaware off at least from the.

records they say are meant to be broken but south korea of k. pop superstars bt as well they may be doing 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 brad you got some info our boy in want me please 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 yet 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 the first all i see e-mailed a pop group 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 performers 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 these are 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. it's a lot like britney spears is death dance school in seoul korea he see there's intense dance and 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's so controlled just take someone like a britney spears it's the same thing with your name the way you dress the way 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 and 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

a key because. that's what i'm here for brotherhood that that you very much because the k. pop reports. 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 the w. news or you can follow me or got t.v. don't forget to use that stag very day we're going to leave you now with the sights and sounds of those bells ringing out in france in solidarity with notre dame and remember whatever happens between now and of tomorrow yes another day will see that it.

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at the historic note for down procedural in paris was such an event onlookers watched in shock as the flames ravaged their way from the rooftop to this fire.