patrick young talking to a little earlier to syria now where the head of russia's orthodox church is calling for unity and an end to the bloodshed picture because it is the latest effort by moscow to try and mediate a peace deal and move comes as the arab league decided to suspend serious going to ship sparking public fury in damascus meanwhile dozens more people have reportedly been killed across the country on sunday and the latest wave of crackdown on anti-government protests let's get some perspective now from journalist action and joining me live from london how significant is it that eighteen arab nations have now turned against another arab nation are assad's days numbered well you know bill over in europe the bankers of replaced two democratically elected the arab league well it's a bunch of dictators and they want to spend another dictator i think the arab league is pretty meaningless except the western media seem to love the story but i think the massive demonstrations in support of us versus the casualty figures and the general context make this a very very worrying and di

sorry about that this is the leader of russia's orthodox church picture out carol as we've mentioned before has begun a peacemaking visit to syria for talks with president assad he called on syrians to i'm sorry we're going to drop that story straight away because you can see the story i'm just telling about doesn't match the pictures we have on screen i can carry on now with the relevant story in our world update a powerful explosion has killed six people in northwest pakistan the bomb was placed in a cart left unattended in the khyber province near the afghan border they want to so far claimed responsibility but officials blame previous violence in the area on taliban is n'est militants this comes just a day after a dozen people died during a gunfight and a mortar attack in the same region. the crippled fukushima new. plant in japan has opened its doors to journalists for the first time in eight months porters had to wear protective suits and mosques before being allowed in the site suffered a series of meltdowns and explosions after being hit by the country's devastating earthquak

. >> there are about ten million christians in greece. 91 percent belong to the orthodox church, tyler james, cbn news. >>> coming up on "christian world news," why is this church celebrating the nation of israel? who are the important people from across to join in? >> welcome back to "christian world news" israel finds itself under escalating attacks by a worldwide campaign to delegitimize the jewish state. a new group is mobilizing support among legislatures around the globe. chris mitchell has that story from budapest, hungary. >> reporter: at the rally, pro-israel parliamentarians came from africa, north america, europe and yur gay. >> they plan to show their support for an undivided jerusalem. ? >> >> they are working to transform the passion into legislative action. they brought together the heads of the caucuses to budapest. >> they are members from 10, 15, 20 other parliaments. it strengthens them and helps them to understand what political initiatives are being taken out of the countries and do the same thing. >> foundation has established 20 caucuses around the world with 10

in the latest wave of crackdown on anti-government protests this comes as the head of russia's orthodox church visits the country and have bid to bring an end to the bloodshed author and journalist tom thinks the conflict in syria is being fueled from abroad and could drag on for some time. many syrian soldiers have died in the conflict they don't normally report here they just said civilians where are they getting the weapons from. exhibiting in the dubai said the profits are up place of profits a very good in the middle east at the moment what i think i fear and what many analysts may be fearing at the moment is that a saudi backed proxy war will continue and there will be an insurgency that is fighting in syria against the assad government to continue to cause instability in syria and beyond and this will be a sort of slow burn for normal with the united states and europe thinking a kind of backseat almost and also forget that turkey has been actively involved in the even told us diplomatic staff and as i understand because of rising its own citizens to leave syria turkey is playing a game

country in a fresh wave of crackdowns on government protesters this comes as the leader of russia's orthodox church hatred carol begins a peacemaking visit to syria for talks with president assad he called on syrians to build an open peaceful society and reinforce national unity for avoid civil war the visit follows the arab league's decision to suspend the country until a peace plan is brought in a move added persons of pro-government supporters in syria who rallied and storm several foreign embassies in response. a powerful blast has killed six people in northwest pakistan the bomb was placed in a car to left unattended in the khyber province near the afghan border there was claims courts ability for the blast but officials have blamed previous violence in the area on taliban and isil missed militants this comes just a day after a dozen people died after a gunfight and mortar attack in the same region. the crippled fukushima nuclear plant in japan has opened its doors to journalists for the first time in eight months reporters have to wear protective suits a loss for being allowed in the site suf

and us meanwhile the leader of russia's orthodox church patriarch kirill has begun a peacekeeping visit to syria talks with president. the u.n. estimates that more than three and a half thousand people have been killed in the country since anti-government protests began in march. of powerful blast has killed six people in northwest pakistan a bomb was placed in a car left unattended in the province near the afghan border no one has claimed responsibility for the blast but officials have blamed previous violence in the area on the taliban and islamic militants this comes just a day after a dozen people died after a gunfight and mortar attack in the same region. the crippled fukushima nuclear plant in japan has opened its doors to journalists for the first time in eight months reporters have to wear protective suits and mosques before being allowed in the site suffered a series of meltdowns and explosions after being hit by the country's devastating earthquake and tsunami back in march the plant the surrounding area remain highly radioactive. brazilian police are carrying out a massive op

playing is to facilitate the rights to peaceful protests to syria where the head of russia's orthodox church is calling for unity and an end to the bloodshed carol's visit is the latest effort by moscow to try and mediate a peace deal the move comes as the arab league decided to suspend syria's membership sparking public fury in damascus meanwhile dozens more people have reportedly been killed across the country on sunday in the latest wave of crackdowns on government protests author and journalist action returns he told me earlier that he thinks the conflict in syria is being fueled from abroad and could drag on for some time. many syrian soldiers have died in the conflict they don't normally report that here they just say it civilians where are they getting the weapons from lockheed martin exhibiting in the dubai. profits are up they said profits are very good in the middle east at the moment what i think i fear and what many analysts may be fearing at the moment is that a saudi backed proxy war will continue and there will be an insurgency that is fighting in syria against the assad gover

course and check out some other stories from around the globe this hour the leader of russia's orthodox church of patriarch kirill has begun a peacemaking visit to syria for talks with president president assad he called on syrians to build an open peaceful society and reinforce national unity to avoid a civil war of the visit came as the arab league decided to suspend the country until a peace plan is brought in the organization announced the move out and. session in egypt receiving full approval from the leaders of the e.u. and us by the move thousands of pro-government supporters in syria who rallied and stormed several foreign consulates in response. a powerful blast has killed six people in northwest pakistan the bomb was placed in a car left unattended in the province near the afghan border no one has claimed responsibility for the blast but officials have blamed previous violence in the area on the taliban and islamist militants and this comes just a day after a dozen people died in a gunfight and mortar attack in the same region. the crippled fukushima nuclear plant in japan has opened

and to syria now where the head of russia's orthodox church is calling on syrians to end the bloodshed in their country patriarch kirill visit is the latest effort by moscow to try and mediate a peace deal by the move comes as the arab league decided to suspend serious membership it sparked public fury in damascus let's not get some more perspective on this and i'll speak to political analyst janet glazebrook here. thank you for coming on the program today so i don't ask this has called on the arab league to bring any civilian and military observers to the country of course as i was saying in the wake of syria's suspension by the arab league do you think you can still salvage its membership with. oh i don't know for a minute i felt the arab league are all about the most the moment. imposed by the un. so these people don't really represent anyone other than a small amount. or. gary or. both from the arab league really with the war mostly with the pageant owner. he already their agent. and so what do you think if you find any credibility in some of the reports and some of the analysis we

>>> it is the greek food festival, the greek orthodox church, here is more from gale. >> i got my greekutfit and the raven drink for the game and it is all about the food. >> sure! >> i see what you have here. we have favorites here, it is all wonderful at this festival. it is all home made. >> there is a crushed drink on sunday? it is on ice cream! we have a yogurt sunday bar. you can add chocolate sauce and honey and we have the dancers. >> that is friday and saturday and sunday and that will be at lunch today at 11:00. >> they have to practice so much to do the dances? >> they practice. >>> they are award winners, all of them are from the community and that is what it is. we welcome everybody to come and it is free and be part of our community. >> thank you, gail? >> great to see you. >>> speaking of the community, i want to mention this, last night. i was proud to be the emcee at the national aquarium in baltimore. bank of america handed out over $400,000 to non profits, the unsung heros. the president of the bank of america, mid atlantic, thank you. a lot of great things happen inn

mark's orthodox church. they're centering an ethnic food festival and bazaar this weekend.y're on river road 7124. they'll have all kinds of good stuff. it's all homemade. i've got a lot of ethnicity in my family, too. you help yourself. it's going to be a great weekend to take in some ethnic food, really a fantastic fall weekend and the leaves are at peak, too. let's look as we start out with our weather map at the foliage in rock creek park it. is gorgeous, guys. i've seen it better in other years to be perfectly honest, but this is as good as it's going to get this weekend for foliage. the washington area is now at peak. get out and see the leaves because they'll be dropping big time over the next few days. not that we have a real big wind coming, a bit of a breeze tomorrow, but they'll start releasing pretty soon. in my own backyard today it sounded like they were snowing leaves except they were all crackling as they hit the ground. here is a foliage report. we're now past peak for the most part at kline drive. in the red this is us and we are on -- at skyline drive. in

mark's orthodox church. the big festival. >> baklava, cookies and brownies. >> that's on river road from bethesda, today, tomorrow and sunday. we go to the weather graphics, this the weekend we fall back. that's right. we go from daylight saving time to standard time. do that saturday night or if you're up sunday morning, if you just want to be really exact we go from 1:59:59 to 1:00 a.m. standard time there on sunday morning. so might sort of gain that hour of sleep but the sun is going to get a lot earlier than it is today. the sunrise also be a lot earlier. 7:38 on the sunrise today. it's going to be about 6:40 as we get into monday morning. it's cloudy and cool, maybe a shower well south of town. i'm talking is. mary's -- st. mary's county. temperatures range in the lower 40s to the lower 50s. our day planner, clouds around and that will be the case through midday as we see more sunshine develop. noon 55. at least mid to late morning on the clouds. northeast winds to north winds 10 to 20 miles an hour. w

once a week orthodox priest father metafont takes a ferry to meet his flock and hold services in a church on the opposite bank. one of them this is where the first russian settlements appeared on the color peninsula through the british the original settlers were. they made their homes on these banks and mingled with local karelian and indigenous laplanders early here we have a mixture of populations. fishing has always been the main source of income for local people salmon was caught in the river and the rest from the same. small boats manned by three or four fishermen were able to stand up to the heavy seas but in truth back then only half the fishermen survived beyond the age of forty two anyone going to sea in the north must know before hand that they might never be coming back they might simply vanish into eternity a strong gust of wind might bring heavy snow with it with the result that they wouldn't be able to see a thing. in other words they feel that facing the sea is like facing god the riches of this land used to be the breeding ground of numerous rivalries. in the seas fish is

church and school for many years before a closed down. before a closed down, actually, before the end, i had the awesome responsibility for being in this other orthodox school, and what happened is, about a year before our founder passed away, and he -- the principal and the priest passed away, and this other priest took over. one of the children was in my class. we were complaining about it. finally they said -- there is no problem keeping there is nothing wrong. -- there's no problem. there is nothing wrong. there was the chaos of fear that was caused. this was in 2008. this can be checked. so come and now i am in this interesting position -- so, now i am in this interesting position where both my glasses, 25 kids -- classes, 25 kids, will be affected. i have never worked a better place where people are so loving and helpful. absolutely insane and in my opinion. and i want you to consider how this affects all of us. so, thank you. >> hello, i am the mother of the two kids. i am it from russia. i have nothing to do about -- now, my kids can learn. they can learn about their background, and who they are. i am it a single mother. this helps me to educ

church for but not. >> this couple has just arrived from tel aviv, just half an hour pause flight away. the mother of the bride is not jewish, which under orthodox jewish law means that the daughter is not jewish either and cannot marry at home. as in lebanon, israel does not allow civil marriages, although it does recognize them. >> they should change the law. i need to get married here. that is not fair. >> every year, hundreds of israelis make the trip to cyprus to get hitched, either because one partner is not jewish or not religious. the parents of this bride are atheists. >> she is lucky she is in a family that they did not mind, really, because if she fell in love with a traditional family, it could be a big problem. >> if that were the case, she would have to convert, which would not only mean a kosher cooking but spending two years learning and practicing all orthodox rules. >> it is not worthwhile because you need to do too much. >> cyprus is a way out for many couples from different cultural backgrounds, and not just individual couples take effect of the quick and on bureaucratic cyprus approach. at 150 couples israeli couples married