last year ukraine's president petro poroshenko announced the creation of a newly independent church independent of moscow that is with rival congregations fighting over church property some are being left out in the cold. praying in the cold. it's not their usual church but these moscow patriarchate supporters say they don't have a choice the decision by the leader of the world to dock christians in faraway istanbul to recognize the independent ukraine a church soon hit homes in this isolated village. within weeks supporters of the two rival confessions were locked in a standoff suddenly the village of granite to head to priest father said he must go patriarchy and father of the ukrainian church. supporters of the ukrainian church collected signatures soon they had to go as majority begin the congregation in favor of joining the body and within a matter of days they had the keys to the village church. father said he of the moscow patriarchy insists the whole procedure was rigged villages he says were tricked into signing the petition but that was just the beginning. this is ripping the communit

constitutional amendment that commits the country to joining the european union and nato president petro poroshenko says ukraine will make a formal bit to join the e.u. by twenty twenty three although he admitted that date is rather ambitious the move was welcomed by european council president donald tusk it's likely to provoke anger with moscow a chinese woman nicknamed the ivory queen has been jailed for fifteen years in tanzania for smuggling yang fangirl and one of africa's most notorious traffickers was convicted of organizing the sale of more than two thousand kilograms of ivory tusks all tanzania's elephant population has more than half in the past decade due to poaching for their tusks. now every year they give the freedom of speech award to an individual a group of individuals who have championed human rights and free speech in the media often at great personal risk and this year the award goes to a journalist on about hernandez who you see here behind me for her work investigating mexico's drug cartels and exposing corruption in the mexican government her books on our katic such trafficki

to show amendment that commits the country to joining the european union and nato president petro poroshenko says train will make a formal bid to join the e.u. by twenty twenty three although he admitted that day is ambitious the move was welcomed by european council president don i'll toss but it is likely to anger neighboring russia. to the champions league knockout stages now in a classic battle of titans from england and germany it was liverpool hosting byron munich in the first of the two leg match up and defense was the ultimate winner. liverpool are pressured by in munich from the get go it paid off being this site we're creating them more and the better of the chances but liverpool's dominant display lacked the killer touch side human a with perhaps the best chance of the game but he couldn't quite get his footing right by unabsorbed on the pressure adopting a more defensive approach it was effective have a poor where unable to break down by anstey fans with both sides shouting each other down this one ended in a goalless draw but if the first leg is anything to go by it certainly se

president petro poroshenko says that ukraine will make a formal bid to join the eu by 2023, althoughadmits that date is ambitious. the move was welcomed by european council president donald tusk, but it is likely to anger russia. europe and the u.s. are at odds over the fate of european citizens who traveled to syria to join so-called islamic state. washington is putting pressure on countries such as germany, france, and the u.k. to take back captured fighters and their families and to put them on trial. dw met one german woman who is an i.s. wife, but who fled as u.s.-led forces attacked isis's last stronghold in syria. reporter: the refugee camp in syria, home to many of the so-called islamic state wives and their children fleeing the terror group's last stronghold in the country. among them, 19-year-old d leono. she was one of the last german i.s. wives to leave the city. her german husband, an i.s. fighter, is refusing to give up, but he let her and the children go. >> i would say that it was when i.s. lost control when things got really bad. just before i left islamic state, it

constitutional amendment that commits the country to joining the european union and nato president petro poroshenko says that ukraine will making formal bid to join the e.u. by twenty twenty three although he admits that date is ambitious the move was welcomed by european council president donald towse but it is likely to anger russia. europe and the us are at odds over the fate of european citizens who traveled to syria to join so-called islamic state washington is putting pressure on countries such as germany france and the u.k. to take back a captured fighters and their families and to put them on trial d.w. met one german woman whose and i s. wife but who fled as u.s. led forces attacked isis is last stronghold in syria. the refugee camp in syria home to many of the so-called islamic state wives and their children fleeing the terror group's last stronghold in the country among them nineteen year old nora she was one of the last german i.a.s. wives to leave the city of. german husband and i asked fighter is refusing to give up but he let her and the children go. i would say that it was when i as

economic cooperation has been a lot of discussion surrounding why it's trying to and i understand petro poroshenko who is sitting here and saying we're trying to territory for russian gas would like to remain that way and i showed him over and over again that we will give him all our. time sheets and so it remains that way secondly a molecule of russian gas remains a molecule of russian gas regardless of whether it comes through ukraine or by way of and also to see us move to that is the question of how dependent we are on russian gas if it cannot be resolved by deciding which pipeline it's coming no one wants to be unilaterally dependent on russia if we received russian gas during the cold war not only in the d.d.r. where i live but also in west germany and i don't see why the times and situation today should be so much why us and we can no longer say that russia remains a partner. for the c.e.o. of german energy julian winter sure has also spoken out in favor of north stream too he said that if europe was to turn away from russian gas well russia could then in turn look to export to china and th

constitutional amendment that commits the country to joining the european union and nato president petro poroshenko says crane will make a formal bid to join the e.u. by twenty twenty three although he admitted that date is ambitious the move was welcomed by european council president don't all toast is likely to anger neighboring russia. this is deja vu news still to come on the show a champions league stalemate at anfield wind munich and liverpool playing out a scoreless draw leaving the knockout round tie finally balanced. but first every year deutsche of ally gives its freedom of speech award to an individual or group of individuals who championed human rights and free speech often at great personal risk this year the award goes to journalist on a bell for her work investigating mexico's drug cartels and corruption in the mexican government her books on narcotics trafficking have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide bringing this issue to a broad global audience portly her work has shed light on the collusion between corrupt government officials and drug lords dozens of mexican journa

and nato present petro poroshenko says ukraine will make a formal bid to join the e.u. by two thousand and twenty three although he admitted that date is ambitious the move was welcomed by european council president donald toast but it's likely to anger neighboring russia. while going to russia now and president vladimir putin will be delivering his state of the nation address later today it is a crucial time for the president with opinion polls seeing support for him telling off a less despite voters reelecting the russian leader last year for a fourth term until two thousand and twenty four you know if you travel to putin's hometown of st petersburg to hear what locals think about the city's famed such an icy year was. president putin on russian state television following his victory in the presidential elections last march he won seventy six percent of the votes nass success awaits us yes. so far though there are a few signs of the success and polls say now less than a year later only a third of russians still trust their president we talked to some people in putin's

constitutional amendment that commits the country to joining the european union and nato president petro poroshenko says ukraine will make a formal bid to join the e.u. by twenty twenty three although he admitted that date is ambitious the move was welcomed by the european council president but it's widely to anger russia. the catholic church is facing a new storm of sexual abuse allegations this time involving nuns in the southern indian state of kerala the cases follow a familiar pattern allegations of abuse then cover ups by top clergymen one of the most shocking cases a bishop accused of raping a nun thirteen times over a period of two years the nun in that case says she was ordered to remain silent as church leaders close ranks one of her fellow and sisters is encouraging other victims to speak out our india correspondent sonia from the car has this report. it's early morning in. the church has always been a powerful institution but in recent months its foundations have been shaken by six scandal. a nun in quetta accused an influential bishop of repeated rape when officials speak to actually a

speaking in parliament, petro poroshenko says he sees the moves as strategic mission >>> a suicide bombingree in cairo. streets were cordoned off after the attack the attack comes after a security crackdown under egypt's president. >>> french president emmanuel macron condemning an upsurge of anti-semitism in france saying it is the duty of the french republic of the jewish community came on the day citizens across the political spectrum geared up to march and rally against anti-semitism. >>> and iconic fashion designer karl lagerfeld has died. the german designer was the creative director for chanel and fendi. chairman and ceo of ldmh which owns fendi called him a creative genius he was 85. >>> that's your cnbc news update let's get back to "squawk alley." >> may he rest in peace. when we return, life after the iphone what apple's executive shakeup means for the future of the country. kara swisher joins us with her take dow is down 27 points. dow is down 27 points. stay with us ♪ ♪ lerom plans... to full-blown production. ♪ ♪ let's go from being on-call... ♪ ♪ to being on-line. american e

economic development well north korean two is obviously one contentious issue in understand that petro poroshenko says i'm a transit country for russian gas i would like to remain come to the country for question again i assured him time and time and then that i will support him in every way possible and we will do this and no matter whether there is an election campaign going on now russian gas molecules remains of russian gas molecules being transported by crane or through the baltic sea so the question how dependent how we actually on russian gas. that question cannot be created fired by simply looking at the way it is transported so i say i am ready to not being sort of you know laterally dependent on russia but i remember when i was in the g.d.r. side and i received russian gas anyway but even in the what was then the fed republic of germany they received russian gas during the cold war time so i don't understand really are times today really so bad that russia will all of a sudden not be a reliable partner. it's actually interesting here this set up on my right to have the chinese represent

i spoke with the ukrainian president, petro poroshenko, about that this week. mr.nk you. >> there is a lot of debate over vladmir putin. how are we to understand what you believe his motives are? >> today is a very right time to ask me this question. exactly today, this is five years ago on the 20th of february, we had two very dramatic events in east ukrainian history. first, there was a lunch yan for the illegal annexation to the crimea. putin gives an illegal order to attack ukraine. second, we have a tragic event on the central square of ukraine where pro-putin forces opened fire against the peaceful protesters who are demanding a european future for their country. for putin, the collapse of soviet union was the biggest catastrophe of the 20th century. no holocaust, no, soviet union. this is complete ly difficult t understand. he want to renew the russian empire, the soviet union. he do not have any red line for reaching this. >> bill: you clearly believe that's a threat to your people and your country. i think 7% of the ukraine has been annexed. our president

constitutional amendment that commits the country to joining the european union and nato president petro poroshenko says ukraine will make a formal bid to join the e.u. by twenty twenty three although he admitted that date is ambitious. sixteen u.s. states are suing president trump for declaring a national emergency on the border with mexico from california to connecticut they say that the president is abusing powers trampling the constitution and not telling the truth reasons enough says this man for a change at the white house today bernie sanders the candidate to almost made it in two thousand and sixteen announce that he's running to win in two thousand and twenty tonight the man he wants to replace trump and the americans who are taking trump to court i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. we are running against a president who is a pathological liar a fraud a racist a sexist as that of all we need leadership that brings us together thought.