to ukraine now and we're getting reports that representatives of three orthodox churches have agreed to create an independent ukrainian church ukrainian president petro poroshenko said metropolitan a pick any of the keith patriarchs church will head the new church the move would fulfill a centuries old dream for many ukrainians and further deepen the rift between ukraine and russia. to ukrainian faithful turn out to support an independent ukrainian orthodox church one that doesn't answer to moscow this is and will likely help ukrainian president petro poroshenko campaign to be reelected next year in fact he's been a driving force on saturday he said that the creation of a new church is another declaration of ukraine's independence. three different ukrainian church organizations met saturday to elect a leader who can spearhead a united and independent church in ukraine. that's something that some sections of ukrainian society have been calling for since at least the one thousand hundreds. well this is a great historical event our own independent church is being created in ukraine we've

to ukraine now where representatives of three orthodox churches are holding a historic meeting in the capital kiev they helped unite behind a single ukrainian orthodox leadership if that happens it will be a big step towards an independent church that breaks away from russia and further deepens the rift between the two countries do you cranium faithful turn out to support an independent ukrainian orthodox church one that doesn't answer moscow this schism will likely help ukrainian president petro poroshenko has campaigned to be reelected next year in fact he's been a driving force on saturday he said that the creation of a new church is another declaration of ukraine's independence. three different ukrainian church organizations met saturday to elect a leader who can spearhead a united and independent church in ukraine that's something that some sections of ukrainian society have been calling for since at least the hundreds. but this is a great historical event our own independent church is being created in ukraine we've been waiting for this wonderful historical event for hundreds of

ukrainian religious support for the russian orthodox church has been waning for a long time support for an independent church has grown since the rumbling conflict on the border between the ukraine and russia began in two thousand and fourteen. yeah. i think a lot will change. god willing the war in the east of our country will come to an end. because we want this and pray for this and the independent ukrainian orthodox church. to gold in one joint voice. and ask him to send peace to our country. this will be a big blow to russian president vladimir putin and to russian influence the russian orthodox church will lose a third of its congregation in one go it will also probably lose legitimacy as the leader of the global orthodox church putin likes to say that ukrainians and russians are one people united under one church but once ukrainian orthodox independence comes to pass moscow will have to rewrite part of its script. saturday's early bundesliga games are in the books so let's take a look now at the results so far on match day fifteen stuttgart upsets hats a berlin of the trust me he

thorny issues lying ahead will be the fates of the many parishes and monasteries that the russian orthodox churchne. there are plenty of people who think they should now be handed over to the new ukrainian church. russia has already made its displeasure clear and has cut its ties with the ecumenical patriarch, the head of the global orthodox church in constantinople. jonah fisher, bbc news, kiev. several thousand people have taken to the streets of rome to protest against racism, and oppose the government's tough new anti—migrant law. the bill, passed last month, makes it easier to expel migrants and limits residency permits. italy has become the main entry—point for migrants crossing the mediterranean to europe. caroline rigby reports. singing. at times, it seemed more like a carnival than a protest. thousands marched through rome to the soundtrack of bob marley, drawing on the singer's lyrics to make their point. they called for unity and an end to racism. translation: we cannot accept indifference. we remind the government that giving dignity and rights to the invisible people means building i

thorny issues lying ahead will be the fate of the many parishes and monasteries that the russian orthodox church now be handed over to the new ukrainian church. russia has already made its displeasure clear and has cut its ties with the ecumenical patriarch, the head of the global orthodox church in constantinople. jonah fisher, bbc news, kiev. there‘s to be another change in president trump‘s administration. he‘s announced, via twitter, that his interior minister ryan zinke will be leaving his post. mr zinke has been embroiled in a number of ethics investigations. he‘s also faced criticisms by environmental campaigners for promoting oil drilling and coal mining. dan johnson has more from washington. he isa he is a game hunter who swaggered into washington on horseback. but there were protests as the sort of millions of acres the drilling and miners, rolling back environmental protection and supporting the president‘s energy policy and putting fossil fuels first. time and again he visited areas devastated by fire but never really accepted climate change could be to blame. the temperatures are ri

christianity because russia has been enraged by this move and has split away and the russian orthodox church now the largest is really completely independent of constant constantinople and ukraine however you have many pro russian clergy still in ukraine of course and pro russian. orthodox christians so there is tension separate to everything else this underlying tension and power is using this as a means of breaking as you said in the introduction breaking politically from russia so a pile up of tension all round but a colossal weapon it would seem for pari at par shanker because there are thirty million plus orthodox christians who are going to go into this independence church and really this. is a massive political maneuver for him and along with all the complications along the way that go back centuries and tension on the streets also because a lot of nationalists want to take it out of pro russian clergy and pro russian congregations there have also been moves by the security services to actually interview russian clergy several russian clergy interviewed about exactly what their motiva

christianity because the russian orthodox church the moscow patriarchate has decided to pull away from the constantinople parts ya kates of therefore you have a divorce divided church a colazal divide down the middle now russian orthodox church practices go back centuries in ukraine but this is like the politics of the country the religion goes alongside the complication is now that with pro russian worshippers and clerics there is tension ultranationalists have already taken his house on fire bombing one church and there are tensions on there also arrest being made and several clerics and worshippers have been arrested by the security services and questioned about the possibility of inciting hatred so there is this really bad odor in some parts alongside what is seen as a major political move for power shango in being allied to this move to unify a new ukrainian church breaking away from russia and or thank you very much. in a few moments we'll have the world weather for you with my colleague kelly standing by but also still ahead here on the news out buying to press

thorny issues lying ahead will be defeats of the many policies and monastery is that the russian orthodox churchere are plenty of people who think they should be handed over to the new ukrainian church. russia has already made its displeasure clear and has cut its ties with the ecumenical patriarch, the head of the global orthodox church in constantinople. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: a new tomb dating back around four and a half thousand years — is discovered in egypt. after eight months on the run that saddam hussein has been tracked down and captured by american forces. saddam hussein is finished because he killed our people, our women, saddam hussein is finished because he killed our people, ourwomen, our children. the signatures to only a few minutes but they brought a formal end to three and half years of conflict, conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives. before an audience of world leaders the presidents of bosnia, serbia and croatia put their names to the peace agreement. the romanian border was sealed and silent today, romania has cut itself off from the outs

the new new nafta and i want to shift gears something very important what's going on with the orthodox church in ukraine where all of the so-called conventional all day you were green and also the church. took place in kiev it was presided for some reason by president poroshenko talk to me about separation of ultra lunatic who figures yes a political figure official the real ukrainian author of the church please don't listen to western media when they call with russian orthodox church it's the ukrainian orthodox church of dawn and most from russia financially you know the boy their own bishops their metropolitan sits on the council of russian orthodox church no russian reporters are seated or they are signing up so this official ukrainian orthodox church protested these conventions they did that them all to bishops or only two were forced to read them even though there were searches by there you're going in security agency you know there was several people were arrested steele they didn't go forward to this convention they said it was not economical about the political event and what's the re

ukrainian orthodox church now he's previously also given an award to . over you know the porch and his support provided them there so i think that pretty much sums up what is actually going to be reacting to this well i mean people are dismayed by that they are also they're also tell you fight because you have all their facebook you have photos of these ukrainian priests you know there was even a flash mob for you know priests and their supporters put their inscription i am radio for a surge by ukrainian security service and and talking about the us you know just a few months ago there was a similar to the areas event for a shame for the ukrainian president gave the order. of the wise to general breedlove all the people of the need for supporting ukrainian independence the problem is that the y. started as their brains not good at that which is in russia so if you are a slow divine voice told you no reception from his grave one thousand years later then he is a symbol of ukrainian independence and that he is all that was given to an american general. it'

the all the docs churches within ukraine even though they might have a bend towards the russian orthodox church surely the head of the cranium church must pull some weight within his own country. well there are all ukrainian churches it's just jurisdiction it is different you've got three sections of moscow but their needs are the biggest church that's the biggest church in the ukraine that's why it's quite difficult for the ukraine as a show orthodox church. to have if you like of this kind of considerable clouds it's a minority church but it's quite close to the ukrainian government although within ukraine you know if you're keith but you arky there is a considerable number of people who want in the independent church so it's quite difficult a difficult situation in ukraine the speed of the churches it within the churches and what they're doing now is trying to create air a unity the first step was actually an acct all but when the but constantinople they communicant part of the ark recognize the legitimacy of the ukrainian church as if the ukraine to the two craning church is kiev but the ar

it's the ukrainian orthodox church dorna most from russia financially you know the boy their own bishops their metropolitan sits on the council of russian orthodox church no russian reporters are seated or they are signing up so this official ukrainian orthodox church protested these conventions they did that them all to bishops only two were forced to attend even though there were searches by their your green security agency you know there was several people were arrested steele they didn't go forward to this convention they said it was not economical about the political event and what's the reaction in the western media i'm called france twenty four you know how did they report about it this morning they said that ukraine is finally coming out of russia although russia's influence although some ukrainians are still loyal to the long. march. so i'm going to quote that sums up the import of this you know what is actually happening behind the scenes here this patriarch of this separatist splinter ukrainian church filler and we stop until you know the last few hours when he was

religion is now following the politics of ukraine with an independent ukrainian orthodox church the decision was made back in october by the patriarch of constantinople a decree was issued that led to the breakaway immediately almost of the russian orthodox church splitting causing a major schism in christianity that goes back centuries in terms of its history and what's happening in ukraine will be the formation of a unified with a new pattern who will start to be appointed in this service on december the fifteenth now the president of ukraine. is very much allied to all of this the politics is intertwined in the religion and that's controversial in many quarters but he made the announcement although it's the clerics who will go forward there are complications thirty million people involved in this thirty million people faithful to the orthodox church but there are many many russians many pro russian. congregation who feel very differently and also their clergy as well also tensions on the streets in some areas with nationalists demonstrating against the pro russians and even near arrest ce

thing to look for here is what will be the approach to the moscow patriarchate so to the russian orthodox church as linked to moscow of. after yesterday's meeting will they lose churches will the ukrainian state promote efforts to get people to join the new ukrainian church there i think we could definitely see the russian government coming under some kind of internal pressure to react. tell me about the politics behind this move president bush and co he'll be facing a difficult reelection march russia called this a campaign ploy or was this mainly for shango who pushed for the creation of this new church well he definitely has invested an awful lot of diplomatic capital and political capital in these efforts and it was striking to see him on the stage just a with the bishops something you don't really expect to see in twenty first century europe having said that the this is a movement these independent ukraine churches have been in existence since the early ninety's since ukraine gained independence from the soviet union and given the situation that ukraine finds itself with this defacto situat

thorny issues lying ahead will be the fates of the many parishes and monasteries that the russian orthodox churchho think they should now be handed over to the new ukrainian church. russia has already made its displeasure clear and has cut its ties with the ecumenical patriarch, the head of the global orthodox church in constantinople. jonah fisher, bbc news, kiev. archaeologists in egypt have made an exciting tomb discovery, the final resting place of a high priest, untouched for 4,400 years. it's located in the sak—ahra pyramid complex just south of cairo. experts are calling it ‘one of a kind'. nick marsh has more. in a year of landmark discoveries, egyptian archaeologists have one last trick up their sleeve, and it was this private tomb buried beneath the sand, untouched and unlooted for almost 11.5 millennia. we found two levels, like this. the upper level, we found 18 niches with 2a statues. in the lower level, we found 26 niches with 31 statues. excavators say the tomb belonged to a high priest who served during the 5th dynasty rein of king neferirkare. what makes it unique are the tombs e

in ukraine the largest and oldest was part of the russian orthodox church but now moscow patriarch kirill has banned the ukrainian branch from joining the new church. this is about determining what kind of church should exist in ukraine. but church i go to war created by gold for a fold church that serves the devil that he. hardly any priests who belong to the russian branch attended the founding ceremony the new ukrainian church leader appealed to them to join. but it was the doors of our united ukrainian church will be open to all to see the ceremony ended with a rendition of ukraine's national anthem the already that relations between moscow and kiev are now worse. all right let's cross now to nick calmly who's standing by for us in kiev hi nick relations between k.f. and moscow have been steadily worse ningbo ukraine's new national church make things even worse now. good afternoon on your well it seems like those relations couldn't get much worse short of a full scale military conflict but this officer doesn't help we've had some furious reactions from moscow talking about schi

and a historic museum here where a religious leaders have to form a united ukrainian orthodox church and so full a centuries old dream russia is not against. and christine will go welcome to the program we begin with breaking news from poland where the u.n. climate conference has now agreed for roles for implementing the twenty fifteen paris agreement it's funny two hundred countries unanimously adopted the full bill that will govern if it's to cut emissions and curb global warming the summit in the city of president so went when into overtime good crowd. disciplines being stuck on how countries should report reductions in greenhouse emissions and how to finance the fight against climate change in foreign nations. now some critics have already said that the deal is not ambitious enough the climate conference as president however called the agreement a historic moment the overall impact of this package these positive to the worst. move for us one the major step towards realizing the vision and shrine in the paris agreement. and ambition that will ensure that our children and they will

in ukraine the largest and oldest was part of the russian orthodox church moscow patriarchate kirill has banned the ukrainian branch from joining the new church. this is about determining what kind of church should exist for in ukraine was the church of god or created by god for a fold church that serves the devil right he will hardly any priest who belong to the russian branch attended the founding ceremony the new ukrainian patriarch appealed to them to join but over the doors of our united ukrainian church will be open to all to see the ceremony ended with a rendition of ukraine's national anthem and the already bad relations between moscow and kiev and now worse. egypt's has unveiled a spectacular grave that's more than four thousand years old the tomb was found in a buried ridge at the acropolis off's a car a fostanes burial ground some twenty economic to south of the west of the west of the capital cairo archaeologists described the find as exceptionally well preserved . everyone wants to look. at the grave that had been closed for more than four thousand years. the man

out spiritual independence in ukraine kiev fulfills a centuries old dream of creating a united orthodox church independent from russia moscow is not immune. to it and then those of a small church in the netherlands have been holding round the clock press for more than six weeks to prevent full sorry teens from deporting a local immigrant family that she told the bids arrests while a religious service is on the way. i'm on you tube as mckinnon thanks so much for joining us. talks on climate change in poland finally produced an agreement late on saturday nearly two hundred countries unanimously adopted a rule book allowing the paris climate pact to become operational by the year twenty twenty and chairman of the conference called it a historic moment but critics say the purely voluntary agreement just does not go far enough it is sold outside. there was visible relief when two weeks of intense negotiations finally came to an end and cut to the chair delegates from almost two hundred countries had to overcome major divisions in their quest to reduce global warming while protecting the economies o

about granting autonomous powers for national churches but there's still no conclusion in sight he also stressed that the separation is something orthodox believers do not actually want and october constantinople overturned a centuries old activate union to sever ties between kiev and moscow then both of the russians and ukrainians churches responded in turn to cut away from constantinople r.t. got the thoughts of a professor of church history you created him go and is really in the way trying to force canonical bishops on canonical church to participation in various quote unquote council of unification so paul farhi of this procedure for series of strategy was to threaten with confiscation of churches and monasteries and they started to pull this plan into life with which arabs always has one of the most respected monasteries in the ukraine we could go to break their agreement. will not be able to use the premises anymore or the second step is trying to get a lot of the caves in kiev which is like the holiest place of both ukrainian and russian belorussian and also and all of. this. raids had called her. apartment the residence of four

religion is now following the politics of ukraine with an independent ukrainian orthodox church the decision was made back in october by the patriarch of constantinople a decree was issued that led to the breakaway immediately almost of the russian orthodox church splitting causing a major schism in christianity that goes back centuries in terms of its history and what's happening in ukraine will be the formation of a unified with a new pattern yok who will start to be appointed in this service on december the fifteenth now the president of ukraine. is very much allied to all of this the politics is intertwined in the religion and that's controversial in many quarters but he made the announcement although it's the clerics who will go forward there are complications thirty million people involved in this thirty million people faithful to the orthodox church but there are many many russians many pro russian. congregation who feel very differently and also their clergy as well also tensions on the streets in some areas with nationalists demonstrating against the pro russians and even near arres

in ukraine the largest and oldest was part of the russian orthodox church moscow patriarchate key role has banned the ukrainian branch from joining the new church. this is about determining what kind of church should exist and ukraine was a church of god or war created by god or a false church that serves the devil like he did yet will hardly any priests who belong to the russian branch attended the founding ceremony the new ukrainian patriarch appealed to them to join but over the doors of our united ukrainian church it will be open to all to see the ceremony ended with a rendition of ukraine's national anthem and the already bad relations between moscow and kiev and now worse. let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the father of a seven year old guatemalan migrant who died after being detained by u.s. border agents is calling for an independent investigation officials say there was no sign that jacqueline kalmuck him had any medical problems until hours after she was detained the u.s. customs service reported that she died of dehydration

to kiev now way ukrainian orthodox leaders have created an independent national church the move marks and historic split from russia and has angered moscow but ukrainian president petro poroshenko hailed the decision as a further declaration of ukrainian independence. the move to create an independent ukrainian church marks a historic split with russia ukraine's president petro poroshenko was the driving force behind the new church critics say poroshenko is using it to drum up support ahead of elections next year. poroshenko hopes it will take kiev even further away from russia's influence. first as it's there what kind of church is our church it's a church with the puton. circle church with the most cruel patriarch kirill undergo prayers for the russian state and russian soldiers. in till now there have been several branches of the orthodox church in ukraine the largest and oldest was part of the russian orthodox church but now moscow patriarch kirill has banned the ukrainian branch from joining the new church. this is about to terminating what kind of church should exist in ukraine

ukraine's president has hailed the creation of an independent orthodox church as the final step in independencerom russia. after decades of negotiations, an historic council of orthodox bishops in kiev has created a new ukrainian church. the russian orthodox church dismissed the bishops council as illegitimate. now on bbc news, click. this week: tech driven by women, designed by women, and designed for women. oh dear... the children at this north london school have invited lara and me to learn about one of the most important events in british history. it has been 100 years since the first women in the uk were able to vote in a general election. and this vr experience is attempting to demonstrate how important it is to make your voice heard. and now repeat after me, this is my voice. all: this is my voice. before the suffragettes, a woman had to know her place. make noise is an eight minute interactive animated documentary story which you use your voice to interact with and it's about the story of the suffragettes. i walked down the strand and the first shop i came to, which was a jeweller's, ba

if the patriarch ate of a russian orthodox church the queen an orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate was so entirely independent because not everyone knows that but it was almost entirely independent they haven't had the right to. do with him. their own hierarchs their own credits the only thing tying them together with moscow was the spiritual bond they mentioned one another during this man's on the liturgy and right now we see that the link with constantine opera is far stronger than she but she well maybe that is what but solemn you know he wants to do it to get money because he wants to get this territory and get money from these parishes and they'd be doing that at the hearing from washington and it is inconceivable that. someone from us calls the crane and gives advice on this is yet another testimony to the fact that this is being done in the run up to the election campaign the purpose of all of this is to they create in people and the russian people even further the foundation for these actions as purely political this is not to be religious freedoms no it is an infraction of

and so 90% of russians now identify as orthodox when 5% just go. go to church and to the services at easter or other major holidays. so i do think it's affecting them indirectly in the sense of their sense of self-identity and sense of how they see themselves in relationship to the other world. whether it's kind of having a nuts and bolts effect in terms of everyday russians, it's affecting women, married women experiencing domestic violence. it's definitely affecting gay people within the russian federation. so there's nobody sort of promoting the bible here within russia. but in a sense he's providing a certain kind of language and a certain kind of vision that i think has been slowly but surely creeping into kind of the legislative framework. what was your second question? >> i think so. specific kinds of arguments about his arguments about are taken up by alt-right. so the concept was something that there's evidence that putin flirted with it. but it's something which i us don't think he saw as a kind of way forward and was since replaced by something calle

the same to all of a theological rift in ukraine the orthodox faith is split into factions russian lead and ukrainian lead priests and tonics church is one of more than twelve thousand that aligns itself with russia on saturday he must pick sides. orthodox priest will be too cute to save us same trees on ties with russia and creates a new independent church. we will not recognize its legitimacy this is not a council this is a gang of bandits who have gathered to take over the temples and destroy the church what kind of counsel is a. leading up to the making ukraine's religious rapture has had consequences the cathedral of nativity and other production churches were accused of whipping up religious hatred and raided by ukrainian security services years years ago thought i told them you serve the devil and i serve god let's see who is stronger and who's going to win. russian clergy are outraged labeling it the biggest split in christianity in a thousand years. they say it's a ploy by ukrainian president petro poroshenko to shore up support ahead of elections next year pushing coded champion the split he signed a cooperation agreemen

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grace and every orthodox believe a new them by name for they appeared in the same order in every orthodox church. st mary our protectors and intercessor the oldest change of the former principality still standing erected not far from vladimir in eleven fifty six. no way can the form and spatial idea of russian medieval sacred architecture be see more clearly than in this cheche built in pale line stone its walls today on painted it rises gracefully above it square ground. perfect symmetry this architectural jewel with its delicate blind arcades an archaic facade ornaments managed to come through the mongol devastations miraculously unscathed. legend maintains that the protective veil of the madonna lay over the church dedicated to her in the meadows on the banks of the river now. past and present pictures from the town of sue's doll today. the intell is deceptive today those who can't grow their own food with some left over to sell at the market have hardly enough to live on. in the old days it wasn't just some flower seeds and a few hung growing vegetables that was sold against this magnificent

. >> that really is the start of the schism between the orthodox church and the catholic church. >> inmain and pope leo iii unite western europe and the p papacy of rome, they begin to call themselves the greek orthodox church under the patriarch and constantinoble. >> the word catholic originally meant universal. it wasn't until the church at consta constantinoble broke off from its allegiance to the pope that we begin to see references to the roman catholic church as no longer meaning universal, but meaning the church which is centered at rome. >> 200 years after the historic ally anxious between charlamain and pope leo iii, pope urban ii rules the western empire from rome. and the patriarch reigns over the east. until constantinoble finds itself facing a threat. >> slislam is the wealthiest, mt sophisticated. if i was betting at the time, i would have certainly bet that the islamic empire was the wave of the future. >> muslim armies have been steadily making their way through the arabian peninsula, conquering new lands and uniting them under islam. they have long since conquered jer