Adults church for me said this ties with moscow offer more than three centuries a new decree wrong so an independent Ukrainian Church that until now has been overseen by russia. And japans real you called by yeah she has one ski jumping sprint stages full hills tournament the twenty two year old is only the third person to ever win all four events that will help. You. Im christine one welcome to the program. Several hundred women have marched in paris and other french cities hoping to reclaim the socalled Yellow Vest Protest Movement from violent activists this after clashes in paris on saturday the process began last year over a now scrapped fuel tax but has grown into a broader uprising against affording Living Standards but the demonstrations keep veering into violence and the women in our next report say thats not what they want. Theyve got the same demands but it was women only in the high does jackets on the streets of paris and other cities theyre hoping to show the movements more pacifist side these women are determined and strong they can see that were many and we wont give up. We wont give up thats what it says on their placards too and on the front line with the police theres no sign of violence it was a different story on saturday when violence broke out in paris some yellow vest protesters wanted to storm a government building and were prepared to use a lorry to do it a restaurant on a boat on the sand was such a light and some groups took on the Police Including a professional boxer who assaulted officers hes been identified and is jude to be charged. President mark wrong condemned the violence. Labor minister nuclear penick coal went on french t. V. And called for order of you know most election violence has never solved the problem and is never a solution. Those who resort to violence and tolerates it are going against the principles of democracy its. President marco announced that he would meet the demonstrators and invited them for talks but to you insists he wont be swayed on his reform agenda. Ok now to some of the other stories making news around the world u. S. National security advisor john bolton says hes countrys pullout of troops from syria will be gradual it signals a far less of dropped withdrawal than initially thought speaking with the israeli Prime Minister bolton save the pullout would be done in a way that would ensure the defeat of the socalled islamic states. And one of the processes in the bombing of a u. S. Battleship has died in american air strike al qaeda operative jamal al the dolly was killed and given the attack he is suspected to have made against the u. S. S. Cole in the year two thousand killed seventeen american servicemen. At least thirty five people have been killed in an accident at a gold mine in afghanistan reports suggest there was either a flash flood or a tunnel collapse at the facility in the Northern Province Police say several of his were injured and royal officials in malaysia say King Mohammed the fifth has stepped down they gave no reason for his resignation which follows a lengthy leave of absence and room is that hed married a former russian beauty queen its the first time a malaysian one of has abdicated before completing their rotating five year rule. As fighting continues in ukraines east of between Government Forces and russian backed rebels divisions are emerging elsewhere this time in the church on sunday ukraines all the docs church broke free of russian influence often more than three centuries and it came as all the ducks christians celebrate Christmas Eve is will. Diving into the cold waters to retrieve a wooden cross is one way of celebrating the baptism of christ thats how all the dots christians celebrate their Christmas Eve in istanbul the city thats been the center of the Orthodox Church for centuries. The i. C. Did came after a more somber ceremony here marking ukraines historic break from the russian Orthodox Church which it had to answer to for centuries. Patriarch bartholomew the first orthodoxies Global Leader signed a decree to make it official the Ukrainian Church has severed ties with the moscow affiliated Church United some form of schisms and could create a few more of ukraines president Petro Poroshenko was present at the istanbul ceremony he had pushed for the move seeing it as a further act of ukraines independence from russia but. The rhetoric of it will complete the assertion of the independence of the ukrainian state strengthen religious freedom and into confessional peace it will strengthen the rights and freedoms of citizens. But of all of pauls us who argue. But the break has provoked a furious response in moscow where supporters of the Russian Church see very different motives for the move. Through what is happening in the church now is because parra shango and his circle want to divide the wealth of the church its the only reason and not because of faith. With her but they did give me a break you know i knew better. But bartholomew the first said that ukrainians had desired ecclesiastical independence for centuries and never accepted they were part of the Russian Church whatever the religious implications the new move could help bolster poroshenko political position with elections coming up in march this statement of independence could play to his advantage. But. Pope francis has entered the debate over migrants stranded in the Mediterranean Sea calling for them to be given a safe in which to dock the pontiff spoke of bracing mass at the vatican he called on european leaders to show solidarity and stop arguing over the fate of the migrants risking it last month by two humanitarian ships they are currently stuck off the coast of miles as e. U. Members decide which country should take them. Now the plight of migrants at sea continues to make headlines but many also travel by air and land from turkey to reach the e. U. On the mediterranean island of cyprus even then their problems are still far from over. Its just a ninety minute flight from istanbul to turkish occupied Northern Cyprus from there its a short drive through the buffer zone to southern cyprus and the European Union more and more Asylum Seekers from iraq consider are making the journey because shelters are overrun many have to live in overpriced hotels or on the street a family of four receives seven hundred thirty five euros in aid per month. The number of Asylum Seekers arriving in cyprus has shot up fifty percent since twenty seventeen. Authorities are angry with turkey for allowing them to travel freely to the north of the island. Some of these nationalities are exploited the fact that a turkey have signed or agreements with these countries little government is acquittals the Un Refugee Agency says the three to five year period for processing asylum applications is creating major problems because migrants are forbidden to work during this time it is extremely challenging for them to find employment and self sustainability and that has led to a situation of homelessness and destitution that has set their e. L. Armine increased. Only five percent of the Asylum Seekers in southern cyprus are housed in this camp the rest have to find a home for themselves and pressure is growing to find a solution and quickly. All right football star frank berry has been fined by his club by in munich over the fallout from and ostentation the french player came under fire under intense criticism on the social Media Channels over an expensive piece of state which he defended in a string of posts filled with insults and ops seen a tease and ill join me in the studio is d. W. Reporter Sharda Charles and charlotte what is this all about as you just said it was an expensive steak that kicked this whole thing off and were not just talking about any old expensive steak this really was their e berry expensive i think you need to look at the videos that he posted on his social media accounts to try and understand exactly what were talking about there we are thats what he ate this week that is a steak covered in gold. How much do you think that it costs in that restaurant. Six hundred years. Quite a bit will not actually double in fact it costs twelve hundred year as hes eating there at a restaurant in dubai owned by the. Bass something of an internet sensation himself personally is video resulted in him getting a lot of flak on his social media accounts twenty uses found his extravagance hard to swallow he got a lot of abuse as did his wife his child his mother and also the french press was quite critical as well hes not generally very popular in the french press but he really did come under under fire for these posts so what did mr levy have to say surely the criticism well he hit back in a big way he was not a cool calm should we say about some of that criticism he posted on his return counts and answer counts from accounts yesterday tweets laden with a series of expletives profanities we actually she cant say them on air but lets just say that he leveled some attacks that his critics mothers and grandmothers ill let you use your imagination that the kind of thing exactly. He might have posted but he ended by saying that his critics had nothing but pebbles in his shoes so in essence what he ended up doing was turning. More contains twitter storm into something thats a lot more serious and how have we seen people respond to that yeah well prior to this twitter storm that he provoked with those offensive tweets you could find people on social media willing to defend him by and fans for example they made the point well he earns some eight million year a year he can spend his money however he wants there are also people who pointed out that these restaurants and by so pay they attract a series of celebrities i mean his twitter account basically a roll call of the rich and famous and not just football is a lot of rap as well there you can see a posing with the messy. Very famous Football Players as David Beckham sample my england stall other celebrities have posted tweets from the restaurant including the German International manuel neuer so a lot of stalls there do you go to the restaurant ripley is not the first and yet he got the most for our thoughts and came these offensive tweets and by and had to react as you said that theyve now find him so that they say its not becoming. A place to post offensive tweets like that said to be a huge find thats been leveled at him so just by not actually paying for that steak got it for free is ended up being quite expensive new to him but having said that there are one or two people who have come out and sort of defended him one of them is his teammate Thomas Muller who said we know that emotional has been measured through his whole career and hes a team player lets want to be easy to find the end everyone knows who is in the wrong. But in these moments where he feels hes been treated unfairly weve been viciously attacked and sometimes he blows a fuse you cant really control himself. Even though there are some times where things worked out better than this time. But its true that he does get attacked a lot of things also this one of your feet i think it was you had german media there not being quite that the giving one newspaper bitesize and here in germany is calling them to be suspended suspended as that other editorial saying he just doesnt belong by munich so a lot of criticism the right charlotte thanks for that ski jumping for his tournament has come to a close in austria and the twenty nine hundred champion is japans rio you kobayashi security overall victory on the tour in style winning all four events only two of the jumpers have a portal that feat in the sixty seven year history off four hills. The high flyer of the winter has written himself into the history books rio you kobayashi claimed a four hills grand slam with victory in austria hes just the third man to achieve that feat and ski jumping is most prestigious tournament. In bishops horse in the twenty two year old struggled initially he was in fourth place at the end of the first round but then kobayashi recorded a huge second jump of one hundred thirty seven point five meters that was enough to see off the competition just as he had in garmisch part in kitchen and innsbruck it was a good day for germany ski jumpers to mark his eyes and a clear lead after the first round and although he ended the day in fifth that was enough to keep him in second Place Overall and he was joined on the podium by his countryman stephan liar but the day and the tournament belonged to rio you kobayashi. 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