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and we'll look at the second day of climate change protests in london. it took 15 hours to control the fire at notre dame — it'll take farfar longer to rebuild it. and already 100s of millions of euros have been pledged to help do that. the roof is largely gone. but the main stone structure, including the two towers, is still standing. these images show the extent of the damage. and as you'll have seen the gothic spire is gone. now we have an idea of what the firefighters were greeted with. here are some of the pictures. on the ground, firefighters worked through the night. here you can see gaping holes in the roof — and debris everywhere. incredibly the altar looks to be intact, along with the pulpit and pews. some of the stained glass windows have been damaged here's another. but it's believed this famous window survived. these are some of the other relics and artwork that were saved — some of the items will be moved to the louvre museum which is nearby. these statues, which usually sit atop the cathedral‘s roof, also survived — they were removed last week as part of the restoration work. the mayor of paris tweeted that firefighters, police and others formed a human chain to rescue the priceless artefacts inside. this is one of the most important relics that was rescued. the holy crown of thorns which many catholics believe was worn byjesus on the cross. this french journalist says... this man father fournier — the chaplain of the paris fire department — went in with firefighters to save the crown. it's still not clear what caused the fire. french prosecutors say the blaze was probably an accident. police have been questioning workers involved in the restoration. the french president emmanuel macron tweeted: ‘we have so much to rebuild. so yes, we will rebuild notre—dame cathedral, even more beautiful, and i hope that it will be completed in five years." here he is a short time ago. translation: throughout history, we have built towns, ports, many have burned down, many have been destroyed by wars, revolutions, and each time, each time we have rebuilt them. the fire and notre dame reminds us that our history never stops. never. and that we will a lwa ys stops. never. and that we will always have trials to overcome. and what we think is in some sense indestructible can affect be destroyed. all the material and spiritual assets of france are fragile and we should never forget that. and it is up to us, the men and women in france today, to ensure throughout history this great continuity which is at the centre of the french identity. this fire dominated newspaper front pages all around the world. from spain. to greece. a very striking image there. in croatia, a man reading the story. israeli and palestinian newspapers to japan, lebanon, and mexico and the us. these are pictures coming in from paris at the moment showing one of the vigils taken place, there has been music, people gathering to express their sorrow and what has happened but also their commitment and determination to help rebuild the notre dame cathedral. that will be aided by the hundreds of millions of euros that have already been pledged for the restoration. let's run through some of those involved. the billionaire francois—henri pinault, ceo of the group which owns gucci and yves saint laurent, pledged e100 million. another e200m was pledged by bernard arnault‘s family and its company lvmh — which includes louis vuitton. french cosmetics giant l'oreal has promised to give e200m and total, the french oil giant, has pledged 100m euros. air france says it will offer free flights to anyone involved in the reconstruction. it's worth saying here — there have been pleas to help restore the crumbling building well before now. these are some of the bits that have been falling off. for years, the cathedral was caught in a dispute between the city's archdiocese and the french state over who should pay for repairs. in the end, a charity was set up calling for donations from overseas. that helped to fund the restoration work which was under way when the fire broke out. at the moment, funds do not seem to be an issue. johann vexo is the choir organist of notre—dame — he was there when the fire alarm first went off. music. i think i don't realise yet. i didn't see the building after the fire. i think it will be hard to see, so i am a bit afraid of seeing it over the next few days probably. but i am devastated. let's go live now to lyce doucet in paris. you have been there all day. i wonder which conversations have stood out. it is really been touching care to be steady and care on the banks of the river sand, it would be such a beautiful and evocative seen even in the most un—ordinary of days here in paris. but standing here today to see people streaming care from all walks of life. a lot of people wearing berets, children bringing along their two young people bringing their people, people from all around the well but there was one old parisian in particular who really marked me. he talked about how his mother, 80 years old, called him today in tears saying she didn't believe that notre dame would be rebuilt in her time. and how his 16—year—old son who had taken notre dame for granted and said this was such a dame for granted and said this was sucha an dame for granted and said this was such a an important moment for him to understand the things we take as a terminal and back and go so quickly and how you must cherish them. —— take as eternal. and will them. —— take as eternal. and will them to return again. so you really get a sense of how much notre dame has mastered and the people's lives andi has mastered and the people's lives and i think it has to be said it matters a lot more now. in the last 24 matters a lot more now. in the last 2a hours come over fred a lot of grief and 2a hours come over fred a lot of griefand a 2a hours come over fred a lot of grief and a lot of sadness and shock. is there any anger how this building is being treated up to this point and how this could have happened? as i am listening to you, ican happened? as i am listening to you, i canjust happened? as i am listening to you, i can just hear happened? as i am listening to you, i canjust hear right here in the night the sound of a choir rising, absolutely so simple get so bitter. it seems to strike the right note at this hour. not long it was this time last night when this beloved cathedral, this magnificent gothic structure was engulfed by an orange ball of flame. and how this is used relief is just wafting through this a paris night sky and people coming together spontaneously to sing hymns, right on the banks of the river. how do we understand from the conversations you had a good knowledge of the city, why this particular building appears to be resonating so emotionally with people in the city? it dominates the paris skyline, it dominates it both in the history and its longevity in people say the eiffel tower is something that the tourists flock to visit to get their pictures taken but it is only not mark much than a hundred years old. this is nearly nine centuries of history. —— it is not more than 100 years old. you have reported it has survived the weathers, the wars, the kings have been crowned here. presidents have been crowned here. presidents have been buried. this is been a place where parisians come both to celebrate and to mark, this is been really in a trickle part of her recent history. you mentioned before i was distracted by the beautiful hymns that are sounding in the night, yes people are now saying perhaps we ta ken night, yes people are now saying perhaps we taken for granted and it was months ago where officials from the cathedral were saying the cathedral is crumbling and we need your support. we need the funds to rebuild this precious heritage. and they didn't get the response they wanted. and now, everyone in paris and far beyond wants to do what they can to keep this extraordinary building alive. thank you. we can hear that music now. we will keep you up—to—date on all of the developments from paris. let's wish now to cairo. —— let switch. —— let switch. the egyptian parliament has approved changes to the constitution that could keep president sisi in power until 2030. these changes will now be put to a referendum in the next 30 days. this is one image from back in 2013 when president sisi took power after overthrowing mohamed morsi who was egypt's first democratically elected president. since then he's won two elections — though in questionable circumstances. the bbc‘s sally nabil is covering this story for us in cairo. she has the very latest on this. actually, all the amendments have been just approved by the parliament with a sweeping majority, it is a settle m e nt with a sweeping majority, it is a settlement of amendments they would extend the president sisi term, which is his second and supposedly the last, extend this term from four to six years. an exceptionally, the amendments would allow him to run for a third term, so this is another six years. he will stay in power if he chooses until 2030. that is more than a decade from now. also, it gives way for more military intervention in and public life because that is an article that says the army should be the guardian of the army should be the guardian of the constitution and several state and these two articles in particular, the one related to the presidential terms in the wind related to the army will have drawn sharp criticism from opposition forces, they say this is militarizing egypt and turning it into a one—man state. militarizing egypt and turning it into a one-man state. stay with us. talk about the opposition now. we know there are people who don't what the changes to happen. last week the internet monetary net block highlighted 311,000 internet domains had been blocked in an attempt to restrict opposition campaign when i see news like that, my guess is that this referendum is only going one way. this issue. all expectation say that these amendments will be passed through the referendum. —— that issue. like they passed today to the parliament. actually it had been talking to people over the past few days and to my surprise, many of them didn't know what these amendments are about. they seem to be losing interest and what they cared about is their current status quo, and their living conditions and high prices, and those who object the amendment say we just don't want the situation to continue the way that is because living conditions are very dire in practise are very high, but they do not know exactly what these amendments are about. opposition forces are really concerned that they will concentrate all the powers in the hand of one man who is the current president because they will also let him stew tightly controlled the judiciary. they are also saying they don't have a chance to object because the government currently controls all the mainstream media and they are giving them no room to express themselves. briefly if you waited, sally, what does the president say to criticisms that this is anti—democratic? to criticisms that this is anti-democratic? he didn't say a word. no statement from the presidency whatsoever regarding these amendments. since the parliament started debating them about two months ago. parliament speaker repeatedly said that it is not about the presidency, the presidency has nothing to do with these amendments and it is only the majority blanco came forward with these proposals, but parliament is full of president loyalist. thank you. stay with us on outside source — still to come... the american museum of natural history refuses to let brazil's president receive an award at its site. we'll be live in sao paolo for more. labour have announced their plans to scrap the national primary school tests known as sats in england. children in england take the tests — in grammar, reading and maths — at the end of primary school to measure their progress. labour leaderjeremy corbyn said his proposals would end what he called the "regime of extreme pressure testing". i visit primary schools all over the country and i talk to children about it as well as in my community. the stress levels are huge. i question the necessity of them. other countries don't test children as much as we do. we test children more than i think any in the world. and results are no better because of that. i think what we should have is much more teacher involvement and teacher assessment of how children are progressing and take the stress and strain off of teachers. when a fifth of all teachers say they are ready to quit the profession because of the stress levels and the workload they are under, surely that is a warning to all of us. i'm ros atkins. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: president macron of france has promised to rebuild notre dame cathedral within five years. let's go to new york. because the american museum of natural history has cancelled an event where brazil's presidentjair bolsonaro — was due to be honoured. now it's not the museum's event — the president was to receive a person of the year award by the brazilian—american chamber of commerce. others were less enthused. that's because the president came into office promising to cut back environmental protections. last week he said he might open up a vast section of the amazon rainforest to mining — and that he would pardon people who've been fined for deforestation. paige west, a professor of anthropology in new york... the museum for its part says... katy watson is in sao paulo. we have talked a lot about the promises the president has made. to what degree has he made good on those commitments to cut environmental protections? he has that just over environmental protections? he has thatjust over 100 environmental protections? he has that just over 100 days environmental protections? he has thatjust over 100 days in office and actually i think the feeling is here in brazil, there have been a lot of talk with very little done. in fact, approval ratings are at the lowest for a ny in fact, approval ratings are at the lowest for any first—time president in the first three months of office since the country return to democracy in the 1980s. he made a lot of promise, he still maintains he wants to develop the amazon, he said in an interview thatjust a few days ago that he wanted to develop a plan for the amazon, with the us, he has come to the us, has first foreign visit to meet donald trump, a man that he admired. so as all of these things combined come you can see why perhaps it was a very tricky gala and dinner they were trying to plan and actually there's been a joint statement from the museum and from the american brazilian chamber of commerce saying that perhaps the museum wasn't an optimal place to hold this event and it will be held somewhere else on the same day. at the same time. given what you are describing to me, this is the least of the worries for the president at the moment. perhaps they have been other things that have taken president. it wasn'tjust other things that have taken president. it wasn't just the amazon he talked about during his campaign. the big campaign promises were trying to cut down on corruption, draining the swamp in brazil, boosting the economy, one thing and the amazon and development plays into that knees had to push through reforms and pension reforms that are most needed in this country, but very unpopular. but the feeling is that here is that perhaps he is being a little i'm statesman—like. he spends a lot of time on twitter, he has made some faux pods there on social media. and there is a feeling of is this man going to deliver what he promised. financial markets are worried, people who didn't vote him in ourthinkingi worried, people who didn't vote him in our thinking i told you so. and those who did bohinen and are waiting to see whether beyond 100 days he might be able to get a few more reforms to do. thank you, katie. now in the past few minutes apple and the chip—maker oualcomm have agreed to settle all ongoing lawsuits, putting an end to a blockbuster legal battle. michelle fleury is in new york for us. she's been there every step of the way. this is a big one. tell us for people like you who haven't followed, the background. there was a lot of licensed line between these two companies. they have now announced what was meant to be the start of a trial in san diego today, but actually all litigation between these two companies has come to an end. apple will pay also some money towards qualcomm, essentially what you have here is a corporate divorce that has been resolved. mainly because the two companies need each other, they rely on each other, qualcomm obviously sells a lot of its technology to the smartphone maker. apple needs what they make to power some of its devices. i think as one of my colleagues reported pointed out, the big loser and all of this is intel, because apple had turned to intel as this disputed up and going gone now that assumption of think it will turn back away from intel and back to oualcomm now these two have resolved their differences. a little tight on time. we will leave it there. thank you. the fate of india's jet airways hangs in the balance. the board met in delhi to decide whether to suspend all operations. but we didn't get a statement after that. it's reported its trying to secure emergency funding. here's one aviation analyst in delhi. the ceo, following the meeting, has written to the employees and shown a very brave face assuring them of a return to better times. i think the reality is a bit different. it is believed to be we're hearing that the board asked the lenders for only 57 million after 225 million offered. but that was refused. so one wonders what tomorrow will hold. that is causing a lot of disruption, not only in the domestic sector, but also in the international sector. jet airways has dropped all of its flights in amsterdam, the plane was repossessed by one of the lenders, and in india, and in india, of course, we know the problem was that mumbai is the hub and the commercial capital. if nothing takes off from mumbai, there are going to be lots of issues for passengers. the british consumer group which is warning that amazon is full of fake five—star reviews. amazon has responded — saying it is using automated technology to weed out the fakes. here's more from jen copestake. so which looked at 1a different consumer products, popular tech products and these are everything from smart watches, cameras, wearables, fitness devices and they found that these products are being flooded, the amazon store is being flooded with fake reviews. so there are many thousands of 5—star reviews with products and brands that people may never have heard of on the online store. and these are being displayed prominently, so ones that people would be very keen to perhaps buy and this is a real problem they found for the amazon store. a lot of these reviews could be written by bots, they could be people who are behind the products that nobody has heard of, a new, maybe small chinese company, somebody from these companies are writing the reviews. they haven't said specifically who is writing them and they didn't look in specific details about that. but you can imagine this might be people automating and cutting pasting reviews and in their interest to push their reviews up to the top of the search list. inafew in a few minutes we will turn back to the latest from notre dame. hello. the classic weather across north america during spring time is of four warming sunshine of course but also the risk of intense showers and thunderstorms, these thunderstorms can often contain tornadoes and large hail and that is what we saw over the weekend. that is the area of low pressure which is responsible for that and now exiting the eastern seaboard of canada. in taking the strong winds and the heavy snow with it. in the short term we have an area of high pressure bringing finance on the weather on tuesday across much of the united states but would look to the united states but would look to the west for the next developing area of low pressure bringing some showers and snow to the rockies with this system is expected to blossom as it moves these words into the central plains. wednesday and thursday, looks like we will see a squall line develop with violent thunderstorms in the midwest down towards the deep south. in some of the storms once again could contain very heavy rain with large hail, and the risk of possible damaging tornadoes. we will have to watch this space. across south asia, a mixture of very high temperatures but also intense thunderstorms across the north of india and into pakistan. parts of the storms producing very strong winds, which i dust storm which led to some fatalities. temperatures have been reaching the admit of a0 celsius over the past week across central and northern india, those temperatures have came down a little bit but expected to rise again towards the end of the week into the weekend but we also will see further showers and thunderstorms across the northern parts of india but in particular across the south and into silica as we head out into friday and the weekend. thanks to a disturbance there. —— into sri lanka. that temperature will rise back to the a0 celsius mark. thunderstorms clear from the north, they will return with a vengeance across parts of sri lanka at the next five days. crossing into york, this big area of high pressure bring the dominant feature. has brought us some fairly cold winds over the past week, but for the rest of this week, week, but for the rest of this week, we will start to import some warmer air in the south and temperatures are expected to rise. we still have some pretty unsettled weather across the eastern mediterranean. low temperatures and heavy showers and choppy seas. somewhat and pretty breezy and cold weather pushing into portugal and spain from wednesday onward. but for our shores, wednesday, we see this warmer air across moving across our shores, those temperatures are really expected to rise from wednesday on and reaching the low to mid 20 celsius in places, even heading into the eastern weekend but also a bit cooler on easter bulimic use and cost and with the warmer days which is the frost free nights two. stay tuned to the channel and you can see your full tuned to the channel and you can see yourfull uk tuned to the channel and you can see your full uk weather for the week and an half an hour. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. the fire is out — now they're figuring out how to rebuild notre dame. hundreds of millions of euros have been pledged to help. president macron has promised to rebuild the cathedral within five years. the fire and notre dame reminds us that that history never stops, never and we'll always had trials to overcome. egypt's parliament has given president al—sisi a longer term of office, meaning he could stay in office until 2030. he's also been given more influence over the judiciary. and we'll talk about the winners of pulitzer prizes for journalism — they include journalists who reported the massacre of rohingya muslims by the military in myanmar. let's look at the impact of the fire of notre dame. as you would expect the stone structure fared far better than the wooden roof. this is structural engineer david biggs. there is a long history of the cathedral is having fire is through the mediaeval ages and being restored and rebuilt. we have always known these buildings that had timber routes are susceptible to fire. they've known that since started building. what we will learn now, i presume there will be more effort put into fire suppression systems up in that space. another cathedral that famously suffered fire damage was york minster in the north of england. in 198a a fire caused its roof to collapse. lessons from that disaster are still being put into practice today. this is durham cathedral, also in the north of england. like notre dame, it is world heritage site listed by unesco. it was built in the 12th century — and has been undergoing restoration works over the last three years. this is the dean of durham. following the fire in york minster, whenever that was, 2030 ears ago the fire compartment, compartmentalization was introduced in durham so that the fire couldn't spread from one bit of the roof to the other, we have fire detection equipment, we had a permit system whenever any particular works are done to make sure that if you're doing hot work using lead or fire or something like that that after where cools down. but you are always on guard and particularly in a period when doing renovation work, that's a classic time for that to happen. another world heritage site undergoing restoration work is the palace of westminster. back in 183a, most of it was detroyed by fire. over several decades it was comprehensively rebuilt into the building we know today. and since the notre dame fire, some have suggested, this building could easily be next. our chief political correspondent vicki young is one of them — she tweeted @tweet @bbcvickiyoung — "people really need to start paying attention to this. all of us who work there know how bad things are." these are pictures of westminster, places are crumbling and there is extensive rewiring needed. those responsible at parliament replied saying @tweet @ukparliament "fire safety is something we take really seriously. last year we completed a significant proportion of improvement works to enhance fire safety measures. @tweet @ukparliament "works include fire door upgrades, fire safety signage, and a high—pressure water mist system. we also have teams of fire safety officers patrolling the palace 2a hours a day to spot any issues." just across from the houses of parliament is westminster abbey which is a medieval church. it showed solidarity with notre dame today. it did this earlier. it rang its bells at 5:a3 local time — exactly 2a hours after the fire broke out. that's just one example of solidarity being shown for the people of paris. pledges are now pouring in to help pay to rebuild the cathedral — they've already reached the $700—million mark. but people were less quick to open their wallets before the fire. the friends of notre dame charity group struggled to get the funds for much—needed restoration work. here's the dean of durham again on the importance of building preservation. a great reminder actually, to the rest of us that these things need taking care of, and if we want them to be here in another thousand years, that doesn't happen on its own and it requires us all to chip in and in some way. the french insurance giant axa says it provided insurance coverage for two of the contracting firms that were working on notre—dame restoration. police have begun questioning the workers involved according to the prosecutor's office. axa said its staff are fully collaborating with the investigators. if you want to see more images of what happened, and at the work being done today, i needless to say access through our app. brexit. just because things have gone a little quiet — this hasn't gone away. the new brexit deadline may be in october. but actually we need to be focused on may. on 23 may, the european elections start. the uk will take part — unless the uk's parliament passes theresa may's brexit deal before then. the uk government hopes that will still happen. this is the eu's view. one of the consequences of our decision is that the uk will hold the european elections next month. we should approach this seriously. as uk members of the european parliament, will be there for several months, maybe longer. mr tusk was speaking during the last session of the current european parliament. a new one will be elected in may. now remember, theresa may changed her tactics on getting her brexit deal through. she gave up getting enough of her own mps on side — and turned to the opposition labour party. its leaderjeremy corbyn says the government's not shifted its position enough. so expectations are low. but this was the foreign secretary yesterday. i'm not directly involved in the talks myself, but we don't know if they are going to wake and it may be that we need to find a way to rebuild the conservative dup coalition, but i think the absolute priority for the prime minister is to get brexit over the line before the 23rd of may, so that we don't end up fighting the european parliament elections, which i think would be a huge disappointment. if that happens if you get tricky. this is recent polling on voting intentions in the eu elections among uk voters. just 17% say they would vote for the conservative party. and while theresa may doesn't want the uk to take part. that's the breakaway party. speaking of change... electoral commission website showing that today a group of former conservative and labour mps who formed the independent group has been approved to stand in the elections. they cannot stand in the elections. this is one of the number of challenges to the big parties there. i spoke to nick eardley in westminster. i asked him if getting the deal passed by 22 may was realistic. the government thinks it's still possible, but i have to say when i was chatting with folk around here over the last week or so, ithink it's increasingly unlikely, there seems to be a feeling in westminster that those elections will take place, however reluctantly that may be on the government part. the government is still saying that it could pull the european election ballot right up until the day before it's too to happen so the uk that would be the 22nd of may. elections normally happen on a thursday here, so they would be on the 23rd if they do go ahead. there would be some people working really hard to try and make sure they don't. we heard jeremy hunt talk about those talks between the government and labour party. we should just point out, they don't seem to be happening this week, there has not been any high—level talks in the last few days, as far as we know, there are not any more scheduled yet. there's a general feeling in westminster that everybody has catching their breath about using the recess for easter to regroup and take some time to think over what's going on and all that points just now anyway to the european elections taking place. but in terms of what we make at the polling, i feel like we should point out the last elections were won by ukip, a party withoutan np, the elections are necessarily a perfect guide for the state of politics. they are not and it's worth pointing out there has that been a bit of a change and a leg as british politics in the last two yea rs. brexit has gone the whole question of whether we want a close relationship with the eu are none at all with them. into stark relief, but i should also point out that are two new parties coming into this election with varying levels of support depending on who you talk to you, who have not been tried out and and and election so as well as ukip and brexit party there is set up by nigel farage, the man you let ukip into the european elections back in 201a. there is also as he mentioned change in uk, that was set up by the farber —— former labour and tory mps who are so disillusioned with the way brexit has been developed in the uk parliament and they feel a new party is needed to the landscape here so it'll be a fascinating one if it goes i had and it's pretty unpredictable. meanwhile nancy pelosi, the us house of representatives speaker is in dublin for a two—day visit to ireland. here's what she said earlier. people have spoken, they want to leave the eu, that's the decision their country is making. and has made, and as they work it out, not to think for one minute that there is any comfort for them and the fact that that if they leave the eu, they would quickly have a us uk trade agreement. that'sjust not in the cards. if there is any harm done to that good friday accords. don't even think about that. the good friday agreement was signed by the british and irish governments in 1998 — it brought an end to years of conflict known as the troubles. we've talked a lot about the irish boy here and the backstop within the brexit deal. it's a key sticking point. currently, it's completely open; goods and people pass across it with no checks. that's easy because the republic of ireland and the uk are both in the eu. now all sides say they want to avoid a hard border, which would threaten that agreement. keith doyle, belfast. thanks forjoining us, that was quite an intervention. absolutely a robust one from nancy pelosi, the democrats had indicated before that no deal was straightforward, particularly since donald trump previously said he wants to have a continuation of the £13 billion worth of trade between the uk and the us. but those words that she said in dublin tonight were pretty robust, they are saying don't even think about it. no quick bs between the us and the uk at the good friday agreement is at the end and you heard there, the round of applause she got for that and that will be having the third most powerful politician in the usa get that sort of reassurance was really music to the irish government series and you can see by the response he got there. of course, she's coming later up there. of course, she's coming later up to northern ireland and she will —— we have to wait to see if she gets the same robust line. famously in 2016, obama spoke in support of staying in the eu and it went down badly listen brexiteers, i wonder what know that irish politicians who support brexit make of what she had said. they won't be that team but you have to realise the northern ireland agreement, the good flat —— the good friday agreement, underlies everything here, and it does have the support of the vast majority of the support of the vast majority of the population here they had seen p since 1998, and it's a fragile one and they don't want to see anything disrupted. pelosi has said they are not interfering in uk politics, but she is staying and this is part of their ethics, this is part of what they believe in, they're not taking sides in terms of brexit argument, but they do believe the good friday agreement and the peace that it has brought to ireland is fundamental to everything english he is saying is that of overrides everything including any kind of trachea between the us and uk. thank you very much indeed. i'm here in london. return to the climate change protest. day two in london. more than 120 climate change activists are arrested for blocking roads in central london — the protesters say they want to shutt the city down. scientists in plymouth have found the earliest evidence of plastic litter in the ocean — a plastic bag that became tangled in a piece of research equipment in 1965. here's victoria gill. a mission beneath the waves. for decades, scientists have been measuring the health of the ocean by collecting plankton, the most important link in the marine food chain. along the way, though, almost by accident, they've produced a historical record of our impact on the seas, using a very old fashioned device. the design of this plankton recorder hasn't changed for a century. it's been towed millions of miles around the ocean. but in recent decades, what it's finding every where it looks is plastic. when plastic gets into the device, it becomes tangled around the instruments inside. and with more than half a century of ships' logs, the scientists now have an exact record of every time and everywhere on the planet that this happens. in 1965, we got a plastic bag ensured on the plankton recorder. that must be one of the earliest pieces of plastic litter then to be found floating in the ocean, rubbish from the land. yes, the other records we have are from ingestion studies, where they look at sea turtles and sea birds, and the earliest records for those are again in the early ‘60s and some of the late ‘60s, so it matches up with those exactly. this project has documented ocean plastic from 1957 to 2016. since 1990, though, the amount of plastic litter in the sea increased significantly. the number of plastic bags found has decreased since the millenium, though it's not clear if that's linked to campaigns to phase then out. —— them out. when one of the 50 recorders in the fleet has finished its mission, it's brought back to plymouth. here, researchers continue to add to a library of samples they've gathered from all over the world. if you walk across to the store, you could pull out a sample it's a mission that first dove beneath the surface around the time plastic was invented. now, it will continue to provide vital information to help reduce the impact of our litter on the oceans. victoria gill, bbc news. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... hundreds of millions of euros have bene pledged to rebuild notre dame cathedral. president macron of france has promised it will be done within 5 years. a local newspaper in the us has won a pulitzer prize for coverage of a mass shooting in its own newsroom. five journalists from the capital gazette in maryland were killed in june. this is the paper's front page today — the mood was solemn as they exchanged hugs like you can see here. it shows them gathering and you imagine the mood was solemn. two reuters journalists who are injail in myanmar have also won a pulitzer for their reporting of a massacre of rohingya muslims. this is wa lone and kyaw soe oo outside court in september last year. they were sentenced to seven years in prison for breaking the official secrets act. however, this was widely criticised as an attack on media freedom. here are their wives reacting to news of the pulitzer. since he got married, he was always telling about the pulitzer prize, he has dreamed of receiving the highest price as a journalist. i'm so proud of my husband, as a babe journalist, i hope winning this prize will be taken into consideration towards his release at the family will be reunited, his daughter was surely be proud of her father. i been talking to the reporting that won the reward. both reporters were investigating the massacre by the security forces, they travelled to the rakhine state, and they got evidence that can read and get the villagers were massacred by the rakhine villagers as well as the security forces. so they came back to the main city and baylor approached by other officers, who have more information so they went to go meet them and on the way back after that meeting, they were arrested by the security and they we re arrested by the security and they were charged and found according to the authorities, that they were documents and breach of the official secret acts of burma and emr, and they were charged against breaking that. but the interesting thing is that. but the interesting thing is that when of the officers who met these two reporters after that, he came out and said that it was a set up. but despite that, the police officer was also imprisoned for a yearfor breaching officer was also imprisoned for a year for breaching police conduct and the sea journalists were sentenced to seven years and for breaching their official secret act and they are still in jail. the cases have been discussed many times by bbc burmese and other outlets, these prizes will put the spotlight back on them again, but in reality presumably it's unlikely to influence authority. that's what the lawyers, who we spoke to today, the lawyers, who we spoke to today, the lawyer said the pulitzer prize needs the journalists were doing their job. they did not break any laws or rules. they were doing theirjobs, that's what you and the international community gave them this highest honour in journalism. so with that, thatjudicial authorities who are considering their appeal case then it would can —— we take into consideration the journalist did not any law. the weld and international community knows that, so that plays on the kind of mind of thejudicial that, so that plays on the kind of mind of the judicial authorities that could be a chance. day two of climate change protests in london. more than 200 people have been arrested today and yesterday. the demonstrators say their aim is to cause maximum disruption. here are some being carried away by police near waterloo bridge. they've blocked key roads around the city — causing big delays to public transport. here are some more people being arrested in oxford circus in london. they were also protesting outside the houses of parliament. there was a big pink and boat playing. they call themselves the extinction rebellion. and there were protests and more arrests in edinburgh. here are some of the protestors. it's really important to me, there is a very legitimate climate and ecological emergency and i want to have babies one day and i will be able to do if the earth is dead. —— not be able. there has been an action for way too long and so we are taking radical action to make sure that the government acts on what it is our collective responsibility. my message to politicians in westminster is please do something now. don't take into the long grass, this is way more important than brexit. extinction rebellion wants governments to take urgent action on climate change. last year a un report said limiting global warming to 1.5c above pre industrial levels would require "rapid, far—reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society". tom newton dunn political editor at the sun tweeted: @tnewtondunn "but the protesters are doing no harm, some say? @metpoliceuk have just revealed #extinctionrebellion have closed 55 london bus routes — meaning 500,000 commuters are struggling to get home tonight." and some commuters in london are not supportive either. it's an inconvenience, that's all they really doing, isn't it? well i work and i'm trying to get around. everything's shut down because of all this. costing the city money. you know, protest by all means, but this now, this is ridiculous. chi chi izundu has been reporting on the protests today. they are in fact a new group of number of celebrity academic backers and they've only been going really since last year. they say they are having to take this direct action as they collect, for the government to sit up and take notice. they want an immediate commitment for the government on climate change, in particular, they want to get zero carbon emissions by 2025. they say that unless the government makes that commitment, they will continue to disrupt not only places in central london, but also other places around the world stop they said this action will continue until at least the end of next week u nless they are heard. but i. hello, for many areas of the uk the weather will get warmer day by day, a reminder that we started off the week with temperatures really struggling, 8 degrees in belfast, aberdeen 1a. not far from the seasonal average in the southeast. but as we go through this week, and the weekend i had it, saturday looks like being that he up one where we see temperatures reach about 25 celsius and a very warm spot. for wednesday, we still have the area of high pressure across scandinavia, the last of those winds clipping into shetland but otherwise wind and moving in well from last year, and some with a mild has in the last few days. that said, we start off pretty expensive plot on wednesday morning, and health odd patches all around as well, but the fog and low cloud but tend to break out and we will see it spelled the same time coming through and the best it its reserve for the afternoon. it will feel warmer, temperatures 15 degrees in edinburgh. 19 in the southeast end of feels pleasa ntry afternoon. as we go there wednesday night, that could be cloud blown on to some of our eastern shores, feeding and off the north sea so a bit cloudy with a pianist and fog patches, but not desperately cold. temperatures between five to nine celsius overnight and there is a should be another pretty quiet day weather—wise. high—pressure still firmly in charge, that low cloud will melt away as we go to the morning with increasing sunny skies and bursting onto the scene as he going into the afternoon. it's going to be warmer again with temperatures reaching 17 degrees in edinburgh, 22 transcribe death, but some of the north sea coast kept cooler by the onshore winds, —— credit. so 12 is the expected high in aberdeen. but not feeling too bad because of the breeze and the best of the sunshine. and talking of sunshine, they will be more at back to go around for good friday, we and their weekly sunny skies and high temperatures as well, widely receive the highest pushing into the high teens, and low 20s. 21 in edinburgh. 22 types of temperature in london and fascia around eastern coasts. saturday looks like dry sunny day for most of the uk, but we could see a change to cloudy weather across parts of scotland and northern ireland with the weatherfriend bringing in rain. the change you notices with a change in wind direction, eastern coast warm up as we go to saturday, back then we see highs of about 25 degrees and looks like the warmest day, the second half of the whole weekend, we see that what is system moving from the atlantic with a change on the way, and i don't mean they see rain moving in, first across northern ireland and scotland probably saturday night and into sunday, a change moving and the further south we should have another dry day sunday and still pretty warm as well before we received changed to cooler unsettled weather. bringing about change, all to do with the jet stream, you notice a big trough driving south next week, quite a sharp one as it had an area of the pressure for may not far from getting a complete cut of flow developing and if that happens the gate get a some of the area of pressure, somewhere in the southwest meeting the weather stays up pretty unsettled so we had a change on the way for next week, it stays cooler and windy with rain and the timing of that is still open to uncertainty. saved but onlyjust — notre dame cathedral was 30 minutes from being completely destroyed by the huge fire in paris last night. the french government has praised the speed and bravery of hundreds of firefighters who spent the night tackling the blaze to save the ancient building. the extent of the damage becomes clear as president macron vows to rebuild the cathedral within five years. translation: the fire in notre dame reminds us that our history never stops, never, and that we will always have trials to overcome. singing on the banks of the seine — hundreds gather for a prayer vigil after their cathedral was saved from the flames. also on the programme tonight:

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