agnes poirier can join us now from paris and agnes the scenes you're witnessing at the moment.s you're witnessing at the moment. ifi lift my scenes you're witnessing at the moment. if i lift my eyes i can see a lot of fire and a lot of smoke, clearly smoke in the skies. and a lot of people have gathered and there are a lot of police and firemen. they have tried with very high praise to use the water. the fire is very high building. there 0r it is devastating. yes, i saw the spire collapse. you have to realise that there are a lot of scaffolding! —— scaffolding that there are a lot of scaffolding! — — scaffolding is. that there are a lot of scaffolding! —— scaffolding is. and perhaps something that happened at work because all the back of notre—dame is only surrounded by scaffolding from bottom to high. building renovation work had been going on? absolutely. this started a month ago. and they were going to be very nice works. for the moment it is just stupor having looked exactly at the works and i see them all the time and presumably the neighbours in the vicinity, it's the wor

notre dame fire was at its worst — and among the people we spoke to on air was the journalist agnes poirieroverlooks the catherdral. overlooks the cathedral. at one point she spoke about being on the verge of tears — well — this morning she tweeted with more optimism. dawn in paris. #notredame is still standing. hurt yet magnificent. and we've been speaking with agnes again — to hear how paris is responding. so this morning i couldn't sleep. i we nt so this morning i couldn't sleep. i went around 5am and it felt like being at the bedside of a beloved pa re nt being at the bedside of a beloved parent who is injured, and there we re parent who is injured, and there were quite a lot of us and we waited for don to break and she was still there. it was an amazing site and a nyway there. it was an amazing site and anyway yesterday we went to bed in utter despair and this morning we we re utter despair and this morning we were slightly reassured, especially after president macron spoke yesterday saying we are going to rebuild notre dame and it feels today that it is something that is possible. yes