brokered talks of ending the five-year conflict enter the second day in geneva and carolyn malone has >> reporter: russian air strikes in syria have allowed the syrian government to regain lost ground while also killing hundreds of people. now it appears they are coming to an end. russian president vladimir putin says they achieved what they came to achieve, back in december that was helping bashar al-assad what they call terrorists. >> translator: i believe that the goals with the ministry of defense and armed forces have over all been fulfilled and i order the minister of defense as of tomorrow to start a pull out of the military grouping from the syria republic. >> reporter: they were told about the decision a statement from assad said it was a joint one, the syrian opposition is cautious, the timing of the announcement was significant and made while u.n. led talks were going on in geneva, the message from putin to diplomates it's their turn. >> our diplomacy received the marching order to achieve a political settlement in syria so i think it should be well we believe we have helpe

the european commission is urging turkey to respect the freedom and here is carolyn malone. >>> usedgas, water cannon and plastic bullets for people demonstrating media freedom and taking a stand after they raided opposition of a popular newspaper replacing editors with state representatives. >> translator: where in the world have you seen this before, this didn't happen when hitler was in power let alone turkey and incidents going on in syria are not much better. >> hundreds of protesters tried to block the newspaper offices on friday night. but riot police pushed through the crowds and by early saturday morning they got into the building. they pushed out journalists covering the story and evicted the editors. >> it has been heavy for the last three, four years and anyone who is speaking against the government forces is facing either court cases or prison or such control by the government. >> the police were acting under a court order to replace the management of the newspaper, the daily turkish paper has a circulation of 650,000 copies more than any other newspaper. it is run by a

carolyn malone, al jazeera. >>> well the refugee crisis on the border of greece and macedonia is nowd that a state of emergency should be declared. that is according to one of greece's regional governors and 13,000 are trapped at the border crossing after it was closes to syrian refugees and want to travel to macedonia, hungry and australia and they are due to hold talks after emergency summit on monday as they try to find a solution to the crisis. >> the republic needs to open immediately the borders and the european union needs to implement severe actions against the countries that are closing borders today, whether they are members of the european union or candidate members. this is unacceptable what they are doing. >> reporter: we are on the greece-macedonia border and has been following the journey of those arriving at the makeshift camp. >> reporter: if a state of emergency in this area is indeed declared it would pave the way for funds to be released to improve the living conditions in this camp. these are the latest arrivals and the only place they found to set up their tent