kate moody has more. millions of sure in the year of the goat as the lunar new year is underway. our top story. first, leaders of france germany, ukraine and russia spoke on the phone this morning. they agreed to make a push to impose a cease-fire decided last week for eastern ukraine. the conversation came after a massive assault ride a pro-russian rebels on the railway junction of debeltseve that pushed kiev to pull thousands of troops out of the town. ukrainian president petro poroshenko is now calling for international peacekeepers to help. petro poroshenko: we think the best option would be a police auction from the european union. we are sure this would be the most effective and the best guarantee for security in a situation where the promise of peace is not kepyt -- not kept by russia. genie: let's bring in christina in kiev. the ukrainian president had a phone conversation with leaders of france, germany and russia. what more do we know about what was said? christina: mr. hollande said he spoke with the leaders about violations to the cease-fire and consequences. violence

kate moody has the details. >> optimism on the streets of tripoli as libyans marked four years of the beginning of the uprising that toppled muammar gaddafi. behind the celebrations is a country on the brink with a week internationally -- a weak internationally-recognized government. many fear libya's future is being threatened by the growing presence of the islamic state group. they brutally beheaded 21 egyptian coptic christians kidnapped from a coastal town, which prompted cairo to launch airstrikes on i.s. targets across the border. on wednesday, president abdel fattah el-sisi -- ahead of the meeting, egypt's foreign minister felt it was important to take a coordinated stance on military operations in libya. >> what happened in the initial intervention of nato has, in some ways, being a participant in creating the political vacuum that has resulted in the repercussions and threats we currently face. >> egypt is asking the arab league to endorse a joint force to combat the growing terrorist threat it sees across its border in libya. >> on a lighter note, we will go to the united st

it is time now for a look at the business news with kate moody. we are going to start out with that german parliament. kate: it unlocks emergency funding, an additional 700 billion euros. germany holds around 70 billion of the 240 billion euro debt. that is nearly 1/3 the biggest contribution by nearly any eu country. the surveys suggested only 21% of the german public support the loan extension. german lawmakers were voting on whether the reforms suggested by athens earlier this week go far enough to meet its obligations. the greek government has vowed to fight corruption while trying to fulfill its election pledges to help those most in need and hire more public service workers. the finance minister said the extension was a necessary step to give athens more time, but not necessarily more leeway. >> we have to bring grace into a situation -- bring greece into a situation where financial markets trust greece again. it is called competitiveness. for greece, there is a longer road to go than any other european country. kate: that news has done littl

kate moody has more. >> no to putin, yes to europe. some 2000 hungarians march east to west on monday protesting the biggest prize of the putinization of their country. >> right now we are a free nation, and we want to make decisions on her own without any ruler like putin. >> politically, we belong to the european union. we should not be making friends with russia during a time of war. we should be getting closer to europe, not to russia. >> hungarian prime and mr. v -- prime minister viktor orban has earned the nickname "little putin." orban says hungary cannot turn its main energy supplier. although he supported eu sanctions against moscow, orban has been vocal about their negative and economic impact. the meeting may prove more symbolically important for putin as he attempts to show he still has a friend in europe. it will mark his first bilateral visit to an eu country since june. >> in other news, another 40,000 people took to the streets of the danish capital to patriot to the victims of last week's shootings. the killings came

kate moody has the story. >> the service was dissolved this week but it is becoming the center of the scandal that has gripped the country. >> we are going to -- from when he started working there in 1972. >> his whereabouts are unknown but he was a feared figure where his career spanned four decades. >> he used to have an excellent relationship with the government. >> he had been working on a report that accused the president of shielding a group of iranian's. in a bid to win business and contracts with tehran, he was found with a bullet in his head a day before he was to testify before lawmakers. the president suggested he had taken his own life, but more recently she suggested he was killed by members of the intelligence service. authorities claimed this document did not exist. later, admitted it had been found in his apartment. pressure and scandal continue to mount against the government. >> an update on the plane crash in taiwan. both trans asia engines shut down. 58 people plummeted into a river. 15 people survived, which happened after takeoff. eight people remain missing. wil

. >> kate kelly is dieing to get in on this but i have to bring in michelle caruso-cabrera. you have some breaking news this time on russia. what's going on here? >> moody's russia to junk. they cite the continuing crisis in ukraine. the decline in the price of oil. the exchange rate shocks that they've had obviously which has undermined russia's economic strength, also their medium term prospects. so i have to tell you, the downgrading of russia's sovereign debt is a bit controversial because they don't have that much of it. the issue is that they don't have a lot of dollars coming in like they used to and so they have to really figure out where they're going to -- how they're going to put that cash out into the system. they're going to have to make choices about what kind of debts they're going to roll over. but their actual sovereign debt isn't that big in size but there's a lot of commitments for the dollars they bring in. moody's downgrading russia to junk based on the crisis in crew crane, the fall in oil. they say the risk is rising though it's still very low that the international response to the military crisis in ukraine is going to trigger a de