after firing. badly damaging the. french heritage. with shocking we find comfort in the fact that there are no victims but it's french historical heritage could have been faster. than hundreds of gathered for a vigil to the damage of the city. and the song is awarded by a group of peace just days after being locked up in the u.k.

we speak to a nobel peace prize laureate and over the personally. i think we have to acknowledge . and i want to personally for all he has done for us. european politicians urge the e.u. not to follow the u.s. example when it comes to the middle east. so joining us this evening this is r.t. international. friends has been coming to terms with a fire that left one of the world's most famous buildings the cathedral in paris in ruins investigators believe the blaze may have been the result of ongoing restoration work on the cathedrals roof inspired both of which collapsed.

it's very moment hundreds of prisoners have gathered for a vigil the singing praying contemplating the devastation that was caused to the historic cathedral let's go live to the french capital artie's shala do the sleeves phone the sad events yesterday evening and she hopefully now can just give us a sense of the atmosphere in the city tonight shot. well a crowd has turned to it plus salma share about one hundred fifty meters away from a not quite done cathedral this is one of many vigils being held around france this evening i have been taking place in other cities is just me your name it say a holes and we also know that apart from the singing the chanting here this opportunity to show solidarity with what happened. just

a little earlier this evening in paris that all of the cathedrals the bells actually rang out at ten to seven in the evening local time to mark twenty four hours from when that blaze in govt the heart of the city had not done the jewel of course our will to heritage sites it's been that it was nominated back in nineteen and ninety one might believe that fire ravaging the building bringing down as he said most of the roof and also that famous gothic spire now president matt cohen has said that he will rebuild not on cathedral and he said he will do that within five years. but you want to get it we will rebuild not radomir even more beautiful and i wanted to be completed in five years we can do this. well that restoration he. he says will take five years that's an incredible feat to

achieve that given some of the damage that we've seen. from the images over the last twenty four hours and there was a huge reaction a huge outpouring from people as a result of that fire last night here on the streets of paris thousands upon thousands of people gathered and they watched and waited with bated breath to try and find out what was going to happen next how much damage there would be in fact just before i believe it was eleven o'clock last night local time when the card actually erupted into huge celebrations and claps and that was after the news came that the firefighters the five hundred or so firefighters that we're working on that fire had managed to be able to stop the building from collapsing which will of course say that restoration work many people described their hearts as breaking over that fire some had said that paris had had it so ripped out these are some of

the people that we have spoken to. it's french it's part of arthur burns with it we managed to preserve it for eight hundred years and today unfortunately it went up in flames i think it touches everyone it's poignant it's heartbreaking the firemen did all they could but there are some things will never get back. shocking we find comfort in the fact that there are no victims but it's our french historical heritage and we all share memories of when we visited but now it's fragile and other buildings like this one are fragile there's a whore imagine my consternation an outreach how is all this possible was there not enough safety equipment not have intervened faster it really troubled me they could have been faster was helicopters and was water and sand flown from the sky into the

fire the have this very useful measures in other countries. well there was a reason that they didn't use a water from helicopters and that's because they were trying to keep that structure stable and they thought that if the pressure of water coming down from helicopters that could actually cause further damage to not done well what do we know about what's been damaged so far well we understand that there is damage to paintings also damages to fresh within the side not on the organ too but some good news there was a human chain that was formed by the emergency crews last night and they were able to recover a number of important items and relics particularly a very important christian relic the holy crown of thorns which christians can date back to the fourth century but some believe was actually worn point jesus as he was

being crucified now that rest away shin were present back on and said it's going to take place in five years time and the donations have been coming in thick and fast hundreds of millions of euros already pledged the majority coming from some of the richest families in france in fact two families have pledged more or two hundred. million euros each which of course well eight that restoration well just before we give you a recap of what happened in the last twenty four hours let's just take a moment we'll see you watch this vigil here in paris for the people once again coming out and showing solidarity and showing how much this cathedral meant to them. you.

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it is grander it is monumental it is horrible to see rethink we have learned growing up in smoke centuries of our heritage. love. love. leave. all of. this. and it's very sad it's one of the great monuments of france we've got far away so it's devastating that a monument like this is burning. and in motion. i say this to you solemnly we will rebuild this great cathedral together

we will appeal to the greatest talents to help restore not true them because this is what the french people expect and this is what our history deserves it is our destiny. around five hundred firefighters fought to contain the devastating fire we spoke to the president of the international association of fire chiefs thomas jenkins explained the difficulties in tackling search and. our fire safety is number one because we have to make sure that we can back out plates tomorrow as well and that's tough to balance when you're dealing with emotionally charged incidents when you have circumstances were civilian lives are being threatened and in a case like this where you're dealing with property it's a you know happy that has value what you would consider normal property so just. unbelievably historic call for hairs fibers i'm sure that's a sentiment that is shared worldwide that we want to see this fire be extinguished

we want to see the property preserved as much as it can be and we want to see all those firefighters go on to say. the world is sharing in france's shock leaders around the globe have also expressed their condolences to the french nation saying not for dummies not just part of french identity but the world have a change so horrible to watch the massive fire not for a dam cathedral in paris perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out must act quickly i'm following the not saddam for a minute by minute not just on the perry belongs to all humanity what a spectacle what horror i share the emotion of the french nation which is ours as well my thoughts so we the people of france tonight and with the imagine says services who are fighting the terrible blaze it milton's on coffee joe former deputy director of culture at unesco and just go bandar and says that this will be more about reconstruction rather than restoration. now all we think distraction that one yesterday i mean all this is gone. we have to completely different thing

and what we have to be down is really a major reconstruction just a. major construction project on this will. difficult to say today. how much it cost but certainly on the order of that many many hundreds of millions of dollars even in a way was also a symbol or what more that society can do for the morning because you know about one hundred years ago under putin years it will if you know when to all major more . regimes and there's been a lot worse. for your generation and so many memories feeling it. we have to renew the safeword and be able to. bring it to the future.

just days after being dragged by police from his asylum refuge and locked up in jail wiki leaks co-founder julian assange has been honored by some members of the european parliament they granted him an award for journalists whistleblowers and defenders of the right to information and orders given to nobel peace prize laureate margaret maguire who has volunteered to hand it to him in person. for the . two surely you have no signs of atlanta . stralia national was arrested last week when his asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london was revoked and his citizenship suspended he was convicted by u.k. court of breaching bail there's also been charged in the u.s. with conspiracy to hack a government computer science faces extradition to the u.s. and up to five years in prison or though some fear the whistleblower could face more serious charges the moment he steps foot on u.s.

soil earlier we spoke to mark mcguire he wants to hand over the award to the whistleblower. very happy to identify and receive the prize on behalf of jillian the science and i have asked that i be allowed to visit julian assange and belmarsh prison in london and i hope that will be granted i just think it's very important that we acknowledge julian assange a for the great sacrifice that he has made for us all one our must ask the question why didn't this happen before i nominated this year for the nobel peace prize for his work for peace and trying to end war and suffering of the people he knew when he published through recchi lakes he knew he would be a wanted man. and he was governor. i think we have to acknowledge julian assange and thank him and i want to do that personally for all he has done for us i

was deeply shocked that julian assange was arrested from the ecuadorian embassy so treated so badly dr died of them say julian assange. is there or is his human rights and he should be freed immediately and under no circumstances sent to america for a jury trial because if that happens we are become poorer and live in a very dark word for our children. revealed donald trump called former u.s. president jimmy carter for the first time over the weekend to discuss relations between the u.s. and china counter reportedly criticized america's current warmongering foreign policy and encouraged them to follow the chinese example by spending the military budget differently. china has not wasted a single premium war and that's why they're ahead of us in almost every way and i

think the difference is if you take three trillion dollars and put it in american infrastructure you'd probably have two trillion leftover would have high speed rail road we have bridges that aren't collapsing we have routes there are maintained properly you notice they spent three times more than china on defense in twenty eight teen much of the budget goes on military operations conducted in many parts of the world china on the other hand spends money on bolstering national security and countering terrorism it's nine hundred seventy nine beijing has conducted almost no military offensives over the u.s. considers china a potential major threat to international security. issues you know there is a problem the problem though is when china does business in places like latin american often it just injects corrosive capital into the economic bloodstream giving life to corruption and the road to good governance the strategy of china is

clear. they take economic control of countries the united states has also been very clear with our security partners on the threat posed by one way or another chinese telecom companies as chinese law requires them to provide beijing's vast security apparatus with access to any data that touches their network or quitman. we must protect our critical telecom infrastructure the existential threat presented from the people's republic of china every university in america has penetrated to gain as much intelligence about america pretty much everything they do is in one way or another in influence operation and many of those influence operations are designed to have psychological effects on us the russian charges of political meddling or especially ridiculous when one considers the array of threats posed by the people's republic of china. u.s. congressman ron paul hopes that qantas recommendations to prove useful in developing u.s.

china relations. i thought he was pretty shrewd and he acknowledged to the president president trouble he says you know you're right you ought to be worried about china because they're getting way ahead because they're smart enough not to waste too much money on their military and you know and he was claiming that we as americans spend too much and this is this is true and i think there's a you know a pamphlet put out many years ago by an austrian economist henry hazlitt it was entitled instead of what and you know when you run it when you spend money on something like military instead of why and it was mentioned introduction maybe it would have been spent on infrastructure or health care or who knows what but every time they say well it's absolutely necessary we do this because it creates jobs when you build weaponry but no i think it's fascinating i think it's great that he did talk to the president and the president president carter reminded him that

china has not been at war since we started diplomatic relationships again one nine hundred seventy nine when when carter was president so and he also threw out the number he says you know only sixteen years of our two hundred forty years of history have we've been at peace so we as a nation have generally endorsed war much too generously. a. number of former prominent european politicians have expressed their discontent with america's israel policy in a letter to british newspaper the guardian they say the e.u. must recognize jerusalem as a capital both a visual and an independent palestinian state meet all of the reports. donald trump's decision to go his own way when it comes to finding a solution to the israeli palestinian situation coupled with no real response to this decision from any major leaders but that's prompted a group of former european leaders to pen an open letter in condemnation of the

u.s. policy and of europe's reactions well putting their signature to this letter include the former foreign secretary of the united kingdom david miliband the nato secretary general mr salado the former foreign minister of germany. we are very concerned. europe is completely silent while america strong is and non-si to put forward a unilateral peace plan these is the reason why i think we need a week up call for euro to be again trying to be. fully sized lie i mean as you look for him paul is your approach e.u. leaders have had very little to say about donald trump's very visible and very

vocal support for israel in fact it's been pretty much the same as when the golan heights were recognized by the united states when the u.s. moved its embassy to jerusalem with the latest idea from the president that israeli citizens should be immune from prosecution in the international criminal court since the creation of the i.c.c. the united states has consistently declined to join the court because of its broad unaccountable prosecutorial powers any attempt to target american israeli or our i personnel for prosecution will be met with a swift and vigorous response. to this idea that the united states. and their friends are somehow above international law something that's called out of my former european leaders in their open letter unfortunately the current us administration has departed from longstanding u.s. policy and this insists now from established international legal norms it has so

far agonized only one side screams to jerusalem and demonstrated to disturb an indifference to israel aside from an expansion one of the lynchpins of the e.u. is a project is multiple nations coming together to find a peaceful resolution now the situation when it comes to israel in palestine is already difficult and it becomes even tougher when you see the unilateral approach being taken by the united states those who've been involved in and seen close to plough mysie at its highest levels say the european union needs to be more vocal and also needs to bring more countries into the process it is not only america it is europe. other players russia is why don't the players that can be helped to find a balance. if you still america remains keep player if you

want to succeed but europe has been always and will be in the future and another key player it is usually to try to get a lasting peace we doubt rely. on european legal efforts but this is our point we see europe silent we see europe not engage in talks and these is the time to deal with the european union and trump are already butting heads over trade and defense spending there isn't any particularly you leader that stands out as the one who would stand up and challenge the united states's unilateral approach to. it's the israeli palestinian situation peter all over r.t. berlin. russian state dimmers passed the bill dubbed the internet isolation law lawmakers claimed it will help and shore russia's security on line of the critics claim is an attempt at censorship early my colleague jacqueline berger discussed

initiative with our correspondent. it's called the bill on separate internet and it is aimed at creating domestic told to the independent internet here in russia as a measure of the lawmakers behind these documents say to protect the country from cyber attacks from cyber threats while technically this means that if russia one day is cut off from the global network it will still be able to function to operate without being affected the altar's of this bill say that is simply a response to america's two thousand and eighteen strategy or national cybersecurity that they found aggressive this is their word it is supposed to come into force later in the year but it still has to be approved by the parliament zapatero or the federation council and then signed into law by russia's president which will likely happen with no delay with no problem with ludmer putin known as a big fan of the idea of independent internet when russia believing that it is

a tool to lee in the interests of the russian people and the cyber security of this of course very important these days but critics claim that this could lead to russia's isolation online and will help state censureship are they right to be concerned with iraq. even among the state duma deputies in russia they say it will allow senses shape that they too will become the government's instrument to put more control more regulation on online life and technically yes it will give russia's governmental institutions watchdogs whoever will be responsible for that more authority as more technical options more power to control the you tonight but again as the supporters of this bill say it's all for the sake of the country's national security well just leaders say that this law is aimed at protection from external cyber threats that could theoretically paralyze the internet in the country do those fears have any grounds while many believe that these theories are

quite real early in february the american newspaper washington. he's published an article claiming that the u.s. military had one spec in two thousand and eighteen minutes to block one russian group from internet access just because they believed it was dangerous it was involved in the alleged interference in american elections so that is quite serious and that article cited a number of us high ranking officials with no names given though claiming that that was just the beginning of a massive cyber complain against trash well if these claims are real and these threats are real from the russian authorities point of view it absolutely makes sense to to protect the country including by introducing this law. subject of illegal immigrations or double trouble foreign off on twitter piling pressure on his democratic rivals failure to back his border security plans on friday the president suggested all undocumented people should be shipped to

so-called sanctuary cities if the democrats don't like them. we could fix that in so fast if the democrats would agree but if they don't agree we might as well do what they always say they want they want more people in their sanctuary cities well we'll give them more people we can give me a lot we can give them an unlimited supply and let's see if they're so happy they say we have open arms or always say they have open arms let's see if they have open arms trump also sarcastically agreed with pop star and left wing social like to be sure you stated that l.a. couldn't take more illegals as it has to katherine its own citizens including homeless ones stance came as a surprise to many she previously been a vocal defender of immigrants and even claimed she was ready to take some home to protect them the show isn't the only democrats who objects to trump's proposal. i say he's trying to put americans against each other and make us less safe he is injecting fear into our country notion that is unworthy of the presidency of the

united states and disrespectful of the challenges that we face as a country as a people to address who we are a nation of immigrants the idea of using these human beings as a kind of pestilence to spread around the country like a form of plague that you want to impose on your enemies is really grotesque spoke to legal media analyst lionel it feels that the democrats the real talk. what trump has been saying and others rational people is we have immigration yes we have in the harbor the statue of liberty bring those you're retired in your emma lazarus but we've got to have some kind of an order here the left as we call them hollywood's it doesn't matter your i hate monger so he says you know what i'm going to do i'm going to give you a neighborhood that all of us out whoa whoa wait a minute hold it hold it the democratic party they love to talk about things like

free education free health care free stuff you want it you got it right or how we're going to pay for it bring these people in who's going to take i don't know they love the bumper sticker they hate the fine print they hate the well how do we do this they love to talk about everything from collusion to grab to corruption here getting what they've been asking for unlimited on set or on a conditional disk masses of humanity. of dreamers be careful what you ask for. i stay where this is a inning you've been watching international. her place. i've been saying the numbers mean something they've met or the us has over one trillion dollars in debt more

than ten white collar crime happens each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent world market thirty percent some with one hundred to five hundred three per second per second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember in one one business show you know for a minute the one and only boom but. it'll .