on the turkish side of the border with syria charles ardai one says no power can stop the turkish offensive in syria until it reaches its goals how close or how far are they to achieving that goal what are the latest situation on the ground. will bear in mind that the sound behind me russell lane was a focus point for the pope's described is the 1st stage of this military operation operation that's been going on for over a week now and there has been fierce fighting here throughout the morning a lot of artillery fire we believe as strikes we've heard jets. story and the fighting seems to be very close to the border as well it's not like it's a couple of kilometers away it's very close to the border fence which was which would suggest that the kurdish forces are very well dug in there according to the turkish military they say they've made some gains to the south west of here they also say they've made some gains west of the town of money which they took control of a few days ago we understand the situation in mumbai. everybody is concerned about potential flashpoint town for the west we und