bad as well because there has been some pretty ambitious goals set forward including president emanuel mcconnell who thinks that they can do this in five years. well absolutely i mean i think everybody agrees that they want the church to be standing again fully standing as soon as possible but some people are saying you know five years is too fast this will take more time because we need to needed to be nice you know and we need to pay attention to every little detail on the other hand there are this saying you know everything is coming together all our craftsman will be working on this and we all want to chip in so this is really possible if we all stand together. lisa lewis in paris thank you lisa. thank you let's get more now on that restoration effort of the cathedral we are joined by elkan algal she is a professor of architectural history and conservation at the technical university of munich thank you so much for joining us this afternoon and i'd like to begin by asking you we've heard about mark target of five years in order to rebuild notre dame how do you see that is it realistic well t

five years to restore the casie jewel french president emanuel mccall wants to rebuild not a dam in paris within just five. mr president mcconnell's time frame is probably aimed at completing with a stage an exterior more time will be needed of course to restore it to its former glory when this cathedral was nearly destroyed people were shocked and saddened the famous french writer marcel proust called its shelling a crime against art the fire not to dam in paris has produced similar emotions and it desire amongst the french to rebuild. in paris people come to reflect on what happened reconstruction will be expensive but more than a billion dollars has already been raised the national heritage foundation of france has been in and day. it is with calls from people in companies offering to nations all skills one of the great talents i think is also to out all the people on the floor able to work on it you know are all the craftsmen. or the companies who work on this kind of the thing are very specialized so perhaps we have to train new people it will be a new sort of job government leaders in france have yet to decide whether or not

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