kate moody, thank you for going joining us, what's the very latest?are seeing the firefighters are saying they can save some of the structure? >> absolutely. we're hearing from the french president in just the last few moments, judy, saying the worst has been avoided and that those two dual bell towers so emblematic of notre dame will, in fact, be saved. of course there's no going back from what has been catastrophic fire this evening. t broke out minutes after the cathedral had clos the public around 6:45 local time here, and within miutn, really, the entire roof had been engulfed in flames. wet aw thary tall, about 300-foot spire collating ab an hour into the fire. that was one of the most dramatic images that we'd really seen of the evening. then the entire roof, this vaulted woodwork roof that has en really in place since medieval times was engulfed in ames as well and we are rubbed almost entirely, reay destroyed. a small bit of good news, most of the stonework wil be able to stay standing. a lot of people are saying notre dame, as we kno iit, pe

kate moody, france 24, in paris, thank you. let's take a closer look at the priceless artistic, religious and cultural history at risk, with elizabeth lev. she is an american-born art historian now based in rome. i spoke to her a short time ago via skype. elizabeth lev, thank you very much for talking with us. what was your reaction wen you first hearabout this fire? >> it's a kind of shock that comes from having read about, as an histian, destruction of monuments, the fires that have taken placen monuments hundreds of years ago. i never thought i would livuge thsomething like this. i never thought that i would personally feel that separation of a work of art that you assumed would always be there, would see me born, it would seee me. i never thought i would outlive a great work of art. >> woodruff: we don't know yet, of urse, what all had been lost, but what is at stake here? a >> thee several hundred fire officers trying to get the works of ah art out of the cathedral. it is the cathedral itself which is a work of art. it's t

kate moody with aural the business. emma james with media w watch i ready to go. good evening to you. it's the 104th anniversary of the armenian general side. that's been marked around the world and for the first time an official remembrance day here in france. >> absolutely. it seems like the a armenian genocide doesn't get the kind of attention you'd expect given that 1.5 million died in it. one of the strtrongest i images beingg shared on linine is this it's's very simple but obviousl veryry recogninizable instatant. ththe ottomaman empiring embodi onon the lefeft in 191915 and o right-hand side, adolf hitler in 1959 -- 1949. the words saying by preventing the -- acknowledging the previousus we could have prevented the following. there's a quotation from adolf hitler made during a speech in 1939. who after awful speaks to the annihilation of e armenians.. he d does seem toto be e embold by the facact that peoplee just forgot the suffering of the or meanians and another person very well worth paying attention to and reading his author. is this he's written lots

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