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hello everyone hope you had a wonderful
holiday week had some good fun good food
and friends and family time I am pumped
to be back with you it's Monday December
2nd welcome to CNN 10 where I tell you
the what letting you decide what to
think let's get you your news our 10
minutes has begun we start in Paris
where we are getting our first glimpses
at the historic renovation of the
notredam cathedral 5 years after a
devastating fire collapsed its roof an
iconic Spire the fire happened on an
April evening in 2019 the cause is still
unknown though authorities believe it
was accidental thousands of onlookers
gathered in Paris and watched around the
world for hours as firefighters worked
to put out the blaze raging in the
UNESCO world heritage site at the time
friend president Emanuel macron vowed
that that beloved Landmark would be
rebuilt and he set an ambitious plan to
do it in five years now just a week
before its grand reopening on December
7th president macron toured the
cathedral praising everyone involved for
participating in what he calls the
construction project of the century
restoring this massive Monument was no
small task the organization responsible
for the work estimates the cost of of
the renovation at around 700 million
euro or $737 million all of it raised in
donations from around the world before
macron's last site visit few had seen
the meticulous work of Architects
Artisans scaffolders roofers sculptors
painters and master Crafts People Who
carefully brought the cathedral back to
life CNN saskia Van Dorne gives us a
look at the cathedral's storied history
including the fire that reshaped its
future notredam de meaning Our Lady of
Paris known simply as notredam is a
medieval cathedral built in honor of the
Virgin Mary it stood for over 860 years
through revolutions the fall of Empires
and world wars at the physical and
spiritual heart of France's
Capital when a fire tore through nadam
in 2019 French president Emanuel
macron's words spoke for a nation
around 13 million people visited each
year before the blaze drawn by its
Exquisite works of art and Priceless
religious artifacts a masterful example
of Gothic architecture the project began
under King Louis iith and took around
200 years to complete a site for
religion State occasion and at one point
monarchy Henry V 6 of England was
crowned King of France there in for
1431 it was plundered and partly
destroyed during the French Revolution
renamed briefly as the Temple of
reason it even set the stage for the
coronation of Napoleon as emperor in
1804 a scene recorded in one of the
Lou's most celebrated paintings one of
countless works it's inspired including
literature like the hunchback of notam
which helped motivate extensive
Renovations that added everything from
the chimeras seen today to The Spar that
fell in 2019
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luckily many of noam's treasures
survived the fire its Bells were
restored and recently rang again a crown
of thorns said to have been worn by
Jesus was saved even the rooster a
French national symbol which sat a
taught the Spy containing sacred relics
was rescued although now a reimagined
bird inspired by a Phoenix Rising From
the Ashes sits fittingly in its place
and second trivia unlike most fish most
eels are kadamus meaning they spend most
of their lives in freshwater rivers to
return where to reproduce lakes oceans
tributaries or
estuaries answer is Oceans Where kadamus
eels migrate to
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spawn Britain has a history with eel
that stretches back to the 11th century
but in recent decades over fishing and
blockages in the water have seen the
number of eels returning to British
rivers fall by 95% this week on call to
Earth We join a school in Somerset at
the Forefront of the Grassroots movement
to protect the eel's
future can you see all where the orange
and the yellow is is where there's eels
so there's lots and lots and lots of
eels a few hundred years ago and then
this is a picture of today and the blue
means that there's no eels some of them
are dying easily why might they have
died go on I think because people keep
putting like these barriers in the water
and then the E can't get to where they
wanted to
go in the story of Britain William
conqueror in 1086 started to collect
taxes in eels that's how significant it
was
everybody was eating it eel was so close
to humankind and really we've gradually
lost that relationship where all this
sort of engineering has strangled the
life out of eel not just in brit across
the whole of Europe and North Africa and
now it's critically
endangered there's like barriers that
the eags can't get through in the they
can't get to eat their food and stuff so
they can't grow as big and they could
die this not that many of them less and
they're close to being
extinct where we live in Somerset that
used to basically be a bog but humans
have done something very clever which is
to help us to live on it by draining it
but if you're a tiny little baby eel you
need to swim past all of these barriers
well lots of eels can't get over these
barriers in the water so that is why we
have got them in your
classroom we've had 20 elvers and we've
been feeding them to keep them healthy
at the start they kept hiding in the
filter machine and under the PS and in
the ports so we couldn't really see them
and over time they started adapt into
the tank and we like to see them and
they like to see us too
young people have a really beautiful awe
and natural wonder for the world I love
the the children might never have
encountered an eel before unlike some
other sort of more charismatic big
species that you see a lot of I think
there's something really special about
them having that actual personal
interaction with the eel oh my God it's
looking at me it's all part of a bigger
restocking project you've been amazing e
parents and I really appreciate you
looking after them for a little while
they're going to go back to the river
except over one of the barriers so they
can get to where they want to be I'm
going to be happy when they're gone why
because they're going to be out in
the the eels are a key component in that
fresh water everything eats eel it's the
basis of the food chain you can see this
one's heartbeating hopefully I'm
inspiring some children to be
conservationists in the future wouldn't
that be amazing they can then go on and
spread the word and we can really get a
community movement going on well it's
time for these guys to go back into the
riverse I think if you want to engage a
community a really good place to start
is with the young people oh that's so
reging we've already started to turn the
corner and we're making a difference so
e is a story of Hope if enough of us
want to make a difference we can band
together and make positive change happen
well now that I know more about European
eels I actually really want to help them
if I see other eels getting stuck behind
barriers I will go help
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them today's story getting a 10 out of
10 is bananas well one banana and a very
expensive one after $6.2 million winning
auction bid some might wonder what a
person would do with an art piece that's
just a banana duct tape to a wall well
answer is eat it the art actually titled
comedian has been drawing attention
since it debuted in 2019 and while the
peace might not be appealing to everyone
this cryptocurrency entrepreneur is the
latest in a line of art buyers to pay up
for the rights to own the work and eat
the famous banana no thank you all right
superstars it's about time for me to
Banana Split but before I do my favorite
part of the day you we are sending a
shout out on over to Ashtabula Ohio to
send some love to the dragons at
Lakeside High School rise up thank you
for spending part of your day with us
we'll see you right back here again
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