ambassador to the un's message to turkey following an emergency meeting of the security council kelly craft says turkey is now responsible for the security of both the people in the region and i sold prisoners there it comes as european members of the security council urged turkey to seize the operation. meanwhile turkish forces have intensified their military offensive in northern syria for a 2nd day there have been air strikes and artillery fire along a broad front turkish forces have crossed into syria through at least 3 entry points meanwhile kurdish forces say they have repelled turkish ground attacks there are also warning if a humanitarian crisis as thousands of panicked residents have begun to flee towns well the nato chief u.n. stoltenberg says turkey needs to avoid more human suffering in northern syria. i have a state the icons on turkey to show restraint. to ensure that their actions in syria are michoud and proportional to. avoid even more human suffering we have to remember that to be a need to continue to stand together in our common bond against a common enemy which is isis

to turkey following an emergency meeting of the security council kelly craft says turkey is now responsible for the security of both the people in the region and i still prisoners held there it comes as european members of the security council urged turkey to seize the operation. we are deeply concerned by the turkish military operation in north he's syria we call upon chucky to seize the unilateral military action as we do not believe it will address truckies underlying security concerns renewed still it uses the northeast will further undermine the stability of the whole region exacerbated civilian suffering and provoke further displacements which will further increase the number of refugees and i.d.p.'s in syria and in the region would have a correspondents covering developments at the united nations and from cali on turkey's border with syria but 1st looks at how turkey is military operation has played out so far. turkish airstrikes and artillery bombardment are targeting the defenses of the kurdish led syrian democratic forces as the turkish army advances into northeast syria on some f

kelly craft now one possibility i'm hearing is that the u.s. which had wanted to have some sort of joint language from all of the security council and certainly had come up with a draft as had the europeans for joint language that she might make a statement in her capacity as the u.s. ambassador giving the u.s. his position and that she might possibly come here to this podium that is still a possibility in the next few minutes of course this is a difficult situation with regard to the u.s. because of the confusion that we've seen in washington in recent days starting with that statement from the white house after president trumps called president early on which he seemed to give the turkey a green light for this operation and all the subsequent statements we've seen from the state department from the pentagon and from president trump trying it seems walked back part of that statement so expect during in the next few minutes to hear from the e.u. 6 members of the new there are 5 currently sitting on the security council but a stone you're joins in january so that's why it will be 6 ambassadors up here i understand that the french ambassador who's