this is deja vu news live from berlin independence after more than three hundred years ukraine's orthodox church formally severs ties with moscow and new to create grant autonomy to an independent ukrainian church that until now has been overseen by russia will go to kiev to talk about the implications. also coming up the pope francis urges the european union to do more to help migrants and stop arguing over

their fates we see what life is like for those trying to reach the e.u. with the mediterranean island of cyprus also coming up in the next fifteen minutes of gold coated backlash it's a star football player this golden piece of steak has landed by me next month the great unknown lots of trouble i'll tell you more just not. me. i'm sorry so much got to thank you for joining us the newly founded ukrainian orthodox church has gained formal independence from moscow in what is an historic split church leaders formally received a decree of independence at a ceremony in istanbul turkey being the global center of the christian orthodoxy for the ukrainian church it marks the end of more than three centuries of russian influence ukraine's president petro poroshenko had campaigned for the break which has. provoked anger in moscow. let's bring in matthew cooper

a journalist with the key have post he joins us from the ukrainian capital for more on the story matthew thank you very much for joining us now this is a pretty significant day the first mass of an independent ukrainian orthodox church after more than three centuries of russian control tell us more about the lead up to the split. good evening thank you for having me this is been a very significant event and it happened actually quite quickly when you consider it discussion started around october very quickly it was it became clear that ukrainian orthodox church would receive this decree of independence that would give it independence from moscow then the two unrecognized ukrainian orthodox churches that existed in ukraine they were unrecognized meaning they were seen as schismatic or non-canonical voted to unite their neck to elect a new leader metropolitan epifanio and very soon they received almost and the most being the degree the decree of autocephaly that may not mean

a lot to the average person but that is essentially the decree of independence for the church and it's extremely significant for believers of the ukrainian orthodox churches that were not subordinate to moscow because until this moment they were unrecognized there with their church was on recognized by the metropolitan of constantinople but this is also orthodox christians in ukraine has not tell us more about that. well this is a divisive issue because there are there are for first of all political aspects but there's also a very deep religious aspect a person can be very a very big hatred of ukraine while simultaneously being added to the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate so this is a this has divided this divides orthodox christians granted who are already in some ways divided but it has received a lot of support both from those ukrainian orthodox christians who are who are not subordinate to moscow whose churches were not support to moscow previously and also

from many ukrainians who themselves are not particularly religious but who are patriotic and view this as a step towards greater independence for ukraine from moscow and it should be said also that to some degree the direction in which people move may be affected by the direction of their priests if the priests are supportive or want you to join this new ukrainian unified church then maybe they will go too but if not they will stay with the. moscow of the mosque warrior church not the only mention the mosque that was not very happy about this step tell us more about whether this will further stoke tensions in the region. well i think this will further stoke tensions that said tensions are already quite high and of course they have been since two thousand and fourteen when russia annexed crimea and supported separatists in the eastern donbass region at the same time tensions have risen most recently at the end of november russia seized three ukrainian boats that were attempting to cross into the sea of us all through the carriage straits and

captured twenty four russian say are ukrainian sailors so this is already a highly tense moment and i think ukraine is concerned and is preparing for the possibility of greater tensions the ukraine the orthodox church of ukraine the newly formed one that just received recognition has warned about the potential for what it called religious provocations in some regions of the country with the idea that these provocations would be used to form a media image in the russian media an image a negative image of ukraine in the russian media so far though it's unclear what what russia's response will be it is it is suggested that this that ukraine was that the that the patriarch of constantinople gave ukraine the ukraine orthodox church independence in return for money that was said that's not true there's been accusations this is entirely politicized but so far there these are just accusations all right matthew cooper a journalist with the kiev post eking to us from the ukrainian capital thank you so much. well francis says enter the debate over migrants stranded in the

mediterranean sea calling for them to be given a safe port in which to dock the part us walk out was celebrating mass at the vatican he called on european leaders to show solidarity and stop arguing over the fate of migrants rescued last month by two humanitarian ships are currently stuck off the coast of malta as e.u. members decide which country should take that part 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 that their problems are still far from over it's just a ninety minute flight from istanbul to turkish occupied northern cyprus from there it's a short drive through the buffer zone to southern cyprus and the european union more and more asylum seekers from iraq and syria are making the journey because shelters are overrun many how to live an 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 lowering them to travel freely to the north of the island. some of these nationalities are exploited or fucked up for turkey for certain there are agreements with these contras little company does a call to. 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 says so sustainability and that has led to a situation of homelessness and destitution that has their e alarmingly 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 now to some other stories making headlines around the world one of the plotters in the bombing of a u.s. battleship has died in an american air strike al qaeda operative jamal was killed and damage the attack he is suspected to have led against the u.s.s. cole in the year two thousand killed seventeen american servicemen. british prime minister theresa may is that her country would be in quote uncharted territory if london's parliament rejects her brags the deal she was speaking to the b.b.c. may have been struggling to gain support for her plan to leave the e.u. but the vote expected in mid january should be a second read. several hundred women have marched in paris and other french cities hoping to reclaim the so-called yellow vest protest movement from violent activists this after clashes in paris on saturday the protests began last year over

a now scrapped fuel tax but have grown into a broader uprising against falling living standards but the demonstrations keep varing into violence and these women say that's not what they want. i. they've got the same demands but it was women only in the high vis jackets on the streets of paris and other cities they're hoping to show the movement's more pacifist side these women and determined and strong they can see that we're many and we won't give up. we won't give up that's what it says on their placards too and on the front line with the police there's 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 set alight and some groups took on the police including a professional boxer who assaulted officers he's been identified and his jew to be charged. the president mark on condemned the violence.

lay the minister knew he had penacoli went on french t.v. and called for order as you know most election violence has never solved the problems and is never a solution. those who resort to violence and tolerate it are going against the principles of democracy. president mark on announced that he would meet the demonstrators and invited them for talks but he insists he won't be swayed on his reform agenda. football star frank above the has been fined by his club fired munich over the fall of from an ostentatious neal the french player came under intense criticism on a social media channels or an expensive piece of steak which she defended in a string of posts filled with insults and upset of these let's get more on that with our reporter charlotte shell some hill she is here with us in our studio she's

been looking into this story for us charlotte tell us what's been going on now that wasn't just any old expensive steak it was an extremely expensive steak i think you really have to take a look at the videos that really himself posted on his social media accounts of him eating steak i mean if you just take a look at it is actually covered in a gold leaf right there and it is absolutely enormous i mean how much do you think it's day by doctors i'd say around five hundred bucks is actually a little bit more than that is actually twelve hundred years that you can pay for that gold state everybody is eating at a restaurant from the famous turkish restaurant has sold he's now you know he's got a chain of restaurants where he sells states like that and rebury what did to show often and post that image online but he found that there was a lot of backlash on twitter for that video not just online on twitter but also from the french press where he's not been very popular in the past it's not just been aimed at him it was aimed at his wife his mother his child he really got quite

of abuse so what how is he responded to that criticism or he didn't take it lying down he hit back in a very big way actually he posted a couple of tweets yesterday laden with profanities expletives he called his critique. n.d.s. angry he leveled from explosives that his critics mothers and grandmothers all let your imagination. tell you what exactly he said that we can't say also but he really did. really hit back in a very very big way and what he's done essentially is turn what was it as a bit of a twit to storm into something a lot more serious now how people responded to his response well before that twitter out but he did have some support for his videos online his fans was saying hey you know what this guy and an estimated eight million euros a year he can spend his money however he wants and there were people as well who

pointed out that the restaurant where he posted the video from is constantly full of celebrities in fact if you look through salt bays the restaurant has twitter account is basically a who's who of famous people i mean it was. messy and. very famous football is david beckham as well that on the left the former england player . who are now all day as well has been there is that restaurants and people are saying you know why did rebury come and come in just say much slack but off of that out. there's very hard to find anyone who's willing to defend him i have to say and by munich themselves as we said at the beginning now find him they said it's completely on except of one of the players a role model to act like that on social media have not said how much they find him but it's meant to be a huge amount one person who has sort of come out to support him as his teammate. he gave a statement earlier where he said that he is known for being emotional and emotional

throughout his career and called him a team player that's a listen it's a five years it's a funny and everyone knows who is in the wrong. but in these moments where he feels he's been treated unfairly we've been viciously attacked and sometimes he blows a fuse he can't really control himself over the movie does it that's even though there are some times where things worked out better than this time. but it's true that he does get attacked a lot also listen i do feel that their kid would. german media is not quite as patient though about this whole outburst they've called for him both sides for example the german newspapers call for him to be suspended other outlets in editorials have said he shouldn't play for by munich atoll so a lot of people very angry about this was our best story really interesting stuff there charlotte charles until thank you so much for bringing us that story. and one more item for you unusual i say formations are drawing visitors to one of the world's great salt lakes the shores of the salt lake in northern china has turned

into a magical landscape of crystals because of the winter chill there the crystals are only created under certain weather conditions. thanks for watching good news christine money will be here at the top of the hour with an update on your headlines stay with us. and for. language course the. video for you. anytime anywhere.