at canterbury cathedral, archbishop justin welby condemned the attacks.hat, on this holiest of days, seeks to undermine the reality of the risen christ, to say that darkness will conquer, that our choice is surrender or death. the queen, who is 93 today, also attended an easter service at st george's chapel, windsor. and in paris, worshippers were invited to attend mass at saint—eustache church, on the other side of the river to notre—dame. during the service, archbishop michel aupetit handed over a bible rescued by firefighters from notre—dame — a sober moment on what is normally a joyous day in the christian calendar. martin bashir, bbc news. in ukraine, the current president, petro poroshenko, has conceded defeat to his rival, the comedian volodymyr zelensky. exit polls suggest mr zelensky, with no prior experience of politics, has won a landslide victory. he stars in a ukrainian tv show as a fictional president and is said to have won the presidential election with nearly three—quarters of the vote. there's disagreement amongst climate change proteste

he oversaw conservation work on both westminster abbey and canterbury cathedral, and has visited the have been to the roof and how do you feel?|j watch the roof and how do you feel?” watch the fire last night for an hour and watch the fire last night for an hourand a watch the fire last night for an hour and a half on the television and heartfelt them —— sympathy goes to the people of france in the catholic church today, it's horrific absolutely horrific. the roof of course has been so badly damaged and falling in part, what's your advice now in terms of starting the restoration project? the first thing they are doing and that's getting they are doing and that's getting the artifacts out and safely to another place with the roof is missing, the next thing is start to put ina missing, the next thing is start to put in a temporary roof, and a suitable form so that it can work and study the building. and then what needs to get engineers practically together is gothic structure is all about balance. this is what i mentioned last night, it's something that would punctured the stern baltz.

at canterbury cathedral, archbishop justin welby condemned the attacks.e murder of innocents in sri lanka, the utterly despicable destruction that, on this holiest of days, seeks to challenge the reality of the risen christ, to say that darkness will conquer, that our choice is surrender or death. the queen, who is 93 today, also attended an easter service and in paris, worshippers were invited to attend mass at saint—eustache church, on the other side of the river to notre—dame. during the service, archbishop michel aupetit handed over a bible rescued by firefighters from notre—dame — a sober moment on what is normally a joyous day in the christian calendar. martin bashir, bbc news. there's disagreement amongst climate change protesters this evening over whether to pause the protests which have been going on in central london for a week. this morning one organiser said they were considering a change in tactic, moving towards negotiation, but by this afternoon others insisted the direct action protest would go on. more than 830 people have been arrested.

the archbishop of canterburyjustin welby this morning leading a service in canterbury cathedral calledri lanka in prayer, condolence and solidarity. the will to power leads to the murder of innocents in sri lanka. the utterly despicable destruction, that on this holiest of days, seeks to challenge the reality of the risen christ. the queen, today celebrating her 93rd birthday, led the royal family to an easter service at saint george's chapel in windsor. and in paris, catholic worshippers who would normally go to notre dame for easter gathered instead at the nearby church, st eustache, a stand—in cathedral. until notre—dame itself is rebuilt. james reynolds, bbc news, rome. the headlines on bbc news. at least 200 people have been killed in sri lanka after eight explosions at hotels, and churches during easter services. pope francis has condemned the attacks at an easter mass in the vatican, saying he is close to the christians hit by ‘mourning and pain' this easter. 27 foreign nationals are believed to have been killed in the attacks. a global study of stolen passwords has found that t

to the architect, john burton, who oversaw conservation work on both westminster abbey and canterbury cathedralf notre dame. he was also the 18th surveyor of westminster abbey after sir christopher wren. i asked him what his advice would be for starting the restoration of the project. the first thing, they are doing, getting the artefacts out and into a safe place because of the roof is missing. start with a temporary roof form. so that one can work and study. then one needs to get the experts, engineers particularly, because gothic structure is all about balance. this is what i degraded that something would puncture those strong vaults last night. the vaults stayed in position and the fire burned on top of it. here we sadly had the puncture of the vaults and therefore the buttresses are pushing in and that has to be sorted out. a lot of fire water has gone in. it had to. that will change the material point considerably. the smoke damage. all sorts of things. i have rebuilt a lot of church roofs following fire and it is actually the preparation thatis and it is actually the preparation that is

the archbishop of canterbury this morning leading a service in canterbury cathedral called on peoplewith sri lanka in prayer, condolence and solidarity. the will to power leads to the murder of innocents in sri lanka, the utterly despicable destruction that on this holiest of days, seeks to challenge the reality of the risen christ. the queen, today celebrating her 93rd birthday led the royal family to an easter service at saint george's chapel in windsor. and in paris, catholic worshippers who would normally go to not redam gathered at the nearby church, a stand in cathedral. until notre—dame itself labour's deputy leader says the party must promise another brexit referendum in order to counter the electoral challenge posed by nigel farage. tom watson said labour could "not sit on the fence" but the ex—ukip leader said a new referendum "would be a total insult" to the labour supporters who voted leave. britain has been granted an extension to leaving the eu until 31 october. ukraine is heading to the polls to elect its next president. voters will decide whether to elect the country'

at canterbury cathedral, archbishop justin welby condemned the attacks.ka, the utterly despicable destruction that, on this holiest of days, seeks to undermine the reality of the risen christ, to say that darkness will conquer, that our choice is surrender or death. the queen, who is 93 today, also attended an easter service at st george's chapel, windsor. and in paris, worshippers were invited to attend mass at saint—eustache church, on the other side of the river to notre—dame. during the service, archbishop michel aupetit handed over a bible rescued by firefighters from notre—dame — a sober moment on what is normally a joyous day in the christian calendar. martin bashir, bbc news. the swedish teenage activist greta thunberg has addressed climate change protestors in london tonight. she told the audience they were making a difference. extinction rebellion, the group behind the week long demonstrations are meeting tomorrow to discuss the next steps of their protest with some debate about whether to pause their direct action, as our correspondent jon donn

in cathedrals most recently i think in canterbury.has been recently restored admittedly not after a fire but nevertheless is still missing in place which which can be restored it looks as i say in this case that much of the existing stone if not all of it can be retained in the question looking close up and seeing exactly how good the condition of it turns out to be and of course we're just looking at pictures here of the interior of the cathedral. clearly a great deal of damage was done but how much worse could it have been because french authorities have now revealed that really it was just minutes away from complete destruction i think there's been a very very lucky escape looking at it last night when we saw the spire come down crashing through the walls into the name of the central altar it looked as if the situation was extremely perilous after his most amazing job bill to prevent the damage from becoming so much worse. our present macron was speaking earlier and he said that the cathedral could be rebuilt within five years is t

a little earlier and spoke to heather newton, head of conservation at canterbury cathedral and a formerhe told me it would be a complex restoration project. i don't think they will have any problem in recruiting skills. i'm in, there are enormous numbers of people who are highly skilled in every discipline one would need for a project like that. you're going to need project managers, you're going to need engineers, you're going to need architects. consultants. there are very skilled craftsmen. is notjoss stone, it is timber, it is glass, it is metalwork, and textiles as well. as yet we have no idea of the damage that was caused to the interior of the cathedral and there will be losses there that will have to be replaced or at least conserved so that things that can be damaged can be put back into use and will be a record of what has happened to. are there techniques, materials, things that modern mason work can do that your forebears back that modern mason work can do that yourforebears back in that modern mason work can do that your forebears back in the 12th century, one of my favouri

cathedral. us president donald trump donald trump said it was horrible to watch events unfold. while the archbishop of canterburyas also praying "for everyone in france and beyond who watches and weeps for this beautiful, sacred place where millions have met withjesus christ". in other news: statins don't work well enough for around half of the patients who use them, according to new research. millions of people in the uk take the drugs, which are designed to lower cholesterol. a study published in the 'heart‘ medicaljournal, says it's unclear why some people don't respond, but it's thought some people don't follow the instructions properly, but there may also be a genetic reason stopping the drugs from being effective. a group of elite prison officers, trained to deal with riots and hostage—taking, was deployed on more than 600 occasions atjails in england and wales last year. that's a 60% increase in four years. most of the call—outs involved prisoners climbing onto roofs or safety netting. the group also helped to search for ammunition and explosives. the ministry ofjustice said incidents were mainly non—viol