or earlier we spoke to professor daniel serwer he is director of conflict management at johns hopkins school of advanced international studies in washington d.c. he gave us his view on the looming fight for it and america's role in the conflict . i think the international community can do very little now it's up to moscow from terror on to restrain damascus and i don't see either one is willing to sacrifice much in order to do that iran seems to be wanting the fight in include russia might prefer restraint but if the fight begins i expect them to support the us has played a pretty strong role in defeating the a sonic state especially in eastern syria but the president clearly wants to get out the americans are looking for some sort of resolution that will enable that to happen it probably won't happen right away but i do expect eventually that the americans who would drop i'd be surprised if a full fledged salt occurs before friday but i won't be surprised if the person next week so. i haven't seen anything yet that would stop it. that was professor daniel serwer speaking with us earl

i haven't seen anything yet that would stop it professor daniel serwer directs the conflict management program at johns hopkins university sir thank you for weighing in i think and meantime german foreign minister heiko moscow says berlin is working with turkey to prevent what he called a humanitarian catastrophe in syria is it live region my ass made the comments after meeting with his counterpart and president tayyip erdogan and uncorrupt also said germany is working with turkey temper relations between these two countries also on the agenda was the release of seven german citizens who were detained in turkey on political charges after the failed coup two years ago. and you have you say you han is tracking this story for us in istanbul good evening yulia eclipsing of course these bilateral talks is this countdown to this major offensive in the live home to three million people what have the two men said about this impending military campaign. well yes later this was of course and major issue it's a major news issue here in turkey due to the geographical proximity of course and as you