巴黎圣母院大火起因调查 BBC news . Hello , I ' m Jerry Smit . Prosecutors in Paris say the blaze that devastated Notre Dame Cathedral overnight was an accident , not arson .
There ' s speculation that it may be linked to a two - hundred - million - dollar project to restore the nineteenth century spire . Temperatures reached eight hundred degrees Celsius . From there , Hugh Schofield sent this report .
The extent of the damage to Notre Dame is both shocking and reassuring . Nearly the entire roof has been destroyed . It consisted of hundreds - of - meter thick oaken beams and was in itself a rare feat of craftsmanship .
The spire too has gone , collapsing dramatically into the inferno , and some of the stone vaulting inside the cathedral has also been destroyed . But the essential structure of Notre Dame emerges from its ordeal unscathed .
A court in Moscow has sentenced a Norwegian to fourteen years in prison on charges of spying on Russia ' s nuclear submarine programme . Sixty - three - year - old Frode Berg had denied the charges . Sarah Rainsfield reports .
Frode Berg ' s lawyer said the Norwegian reacted calmly to the guilty verdicts and he now hoped diplomatic efforts will help him avoid the fourteen - year sentence he ' s been given .
Mr . Berg has decided not to appeal his conviction , but to push for a pardon instead from president Putin . This tale of espionage has baffled observers ever since Frode Berg ' s arrest ,
accused of posting envelopes containing cash and instructions from Norwegian intelligence . Prosecutors have said the information sought concerned Russian submarines .
His Norwegian lawyer has said he didn ' t realize the risk he was running . The Russian Parliament has given its final approval to a bill creating a domestic autonomous Internet .
Under the new law , it will no longer be up to local Internet providers to block access to banned information . This will now be done by the state . Critics are concerned the law will allow censorship .
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