that we are trying to send with the renovation of the church together with the bulgarian prime minister. is extremely important the bulgarian orthodoxhurch is one of the most important in the christian orthodox world built originally one hundred twenty years ago its cast iron skeleton gave rise to its popular nickname the eye and church. its iron parts were cast in vienna and shipped via the danube and the black sea destined for then constantinople it was one of the first major prefabricated structures in the world. there is of course a neo baroque influence and there's also a gothic one if we can even speak of a click he says i'm it's a mixture of many styles the economy starts wall is made of killed it would stop but what's interesting is these icons. are very different from the classical orthodox iconography there of a much more innovative style. with. the lion's share of the restoration costs were borne by the turkish state part of ankara's wider efforts to restore synagogues chapels on churches critics accuse turkey of doing little to respect christian minority rights but both the turkish and bowl garion leaders have wanted the

iron frame turkish president or one and bulgarian prime minister for cobras off attended the inauguration ceremony and the church follows the bulgarian orthodox form of christianity and the project's completion comes despite an often turbulent relationship between bulgaria and turkey. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you in germany a first day of talks between chancellor angela merkel and the social democrats on forming a new coalition government has ended on a positive note the country has been without a new government since the election more than three months ago. more news coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime has our website dot com i'm still here in berlin thanks for watching. the latest technology.

calendar so now the orthodox church has part of your truck church celebrates christmas on december the twenty fifth so that's if you have any greek orthodox or romanian orthodox or bulgarian orthodox or syrian friends. many of them. you should do wish them. every christmas ok we've just been listening to sergei braun surrogates an expert in russian or at midnight. incredible pictures there from one of russia's most iconic places of worship and one of the most important days in the religious how to. orthodoxy well so we will be going back there and also we'll be showing the entirety of the service on our website. surrogate will be back you can go to our t.v. dot com for more. shows seem wrong. just don't call. me. to say proud to stay active. engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. and what politicians do so to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be close this is what before three of the people. interested in the logs. ninety minutes into the program welcome back on in century new book about donald trump rocketed to the t