Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpore from Dublin, Ireland. Here's what's coming up. The world weeps for Notre Dame as hundreds of millions pour in to rebuild. Why it's so cherished and global reaction including from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi?

Why it's so cherished and global reaction including from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi,

my exclusive interview with the most powerful woman in Washington.

She's here in Dublin with a stern warning for Britain about Brexit and the Good Friday peace agreement.

Plus, a drug dealer had become my identity rather than something that I did.

And I never wanted that to become who I was.

A tale of survival, the award-winning novelist Mitchell S Jackson, sits down with our Alicia Menendez. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in Dublin. Today Paris

mourns its lady as Notre Dame smolders, but last night's catastrophic fire is out and miraculously much of the cathedral's

gothic structure remains.

While the cause of the devastating blaze is not yet clear, what is clear is that the city of lights has been

profoundly shaken and much of the world is too embracing Paris from afar and

grieving a shared cultural loss from the people on the street singing hymns

to the heights of power in Washington where President Trump tweeted God bless the people of France

and much closer to Paris here in Dublin, so did the powerful speaker of the House

Nancy Pelosi.

A committed Catholic herself, she said, the site of Notre Dame burning was nothing short of

heartbreaking.

She's here in Dublin to address the Irish Parliament

as it marks its centenary on Wednesday

and also the 21st anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement

which brought peace to Northern Ireland

and was broken by the United States, Britain and Ireland.

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