the bulgarian captain sofia on a two day visit to the european union's poorest country the pope is expected to discuss the complicated relationship between the catholic church and the bulgarian orthodox church which is the dominant religion in the balkan country that in his opening address he took up an issue that is close to his heart the plight of refugees here which has taken a hard line stance against migration to open their hearts to quote those who knock at your door. and for why i'm joined in the studio by martin got a religious affairs analyst. and the pope has begun his visit in bulgaria by the beginning of the vague touchy subject of bulgaria its hardline stance on tell us more about what the pontiff said and why well indeed i mean it is it is not only a controversial issue as sort of as actually projecting himself to the very center of the political debate right now in bulgaria and to be quite honest i mean beyond bulgaria to sort of the european the european discussion immigration journal bulgaria has a coalition government which brought in to bring two government to central extreme right wing or right wing parties both of them with very strong gratian positions. and the

both at the level of the liturgy you know really has one of the most complicated i mean the bulgarian orthodox church as one of the most complicated relations with the vatican and a lot of it has to do with the fact. that the lease is so it's really a small minority and you know way i think that what you know the about to get it's kind of pointing the finger to it's not only you know in relation to immigration to those that come from the outside but really also about you know those people that are actually belong to minorities and can see their to being somehow marginal or not authentic elements of sort of the communion inside vulgarly itself. so to say the other outside but also the other inside bulgaria it is quite clear that there are the church that actually has a strong association being a national church with nationalist nationalist movement that's not find this very comfortable and has actually decided to go the magic road they're sending a choir of children to events but they will not actually hold together with the pope say what is on the pope's agenda brigade well mostly i mean the conversa

he also met the head of the bulgarian orthodox church, patriarch neophyte, and on his arrival urged bulgariansancis' three—day visit will also take him to north macedonia. roman catholics make up less than 1% of the population in both countries. holly hamilton has all the sport. it's been another dramatic day in the premier league — one that's ended manchester united's dreams of champions league football next season. they were held to a 1—1 draw by huddersfield, which means they can't finish inside the top four and will have to settle for europa league football next year. we haven't deserved to be in the top four. we have chased the pack, we have been given chances. the league is so tight. it's a good league, loads of good teams, and when we got the opportunities we weren't able to really gra b the opportunities we weren't able to really grab them. today was just a confirmation of a long season. in the end, the table doesn't lie. bad news for arsenal, as well — their hopes of a top four finish are all but over after they too were held to a 1—1 draw by brighton. unless they win the europa leagu