turkey's prime minister says the aim is to create a thirty kilometer safe so staff dekker reports from the turkey syria border. the border echoes with the sounds of war turkey's offensive on africa is now well under

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elsewhere in syria seventy dekker has more from him tucker. the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border present one has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area baffling for almost a week now there has been sporadic shelling. inside africa and thousands marched on thursday in protest to turkey's aggression how the party and that's the goal of this large demonstration is to send a message to the world and especially to turkey concerning the turkish threats we will not be a fright. but we came here to protest against the attacks on offering we will stand by a free and outreach why p.g. . thirteen is one of three autonomy as kurdish enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p why do party and its armed when the y p g turkey sees the y.p. g. as an offshoot of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it together with the u.s. in europe consider a terrorist organization but the y.p. g. has been working with the u.s. to push ice a lot of syria not enough lean but further east of the euphrates

turkey's forces along its southern border continues to battle kurdish forces in northern syria step dekker is in a talkie on the turkish syrian border. the border force the specifics of it and the americans have broken it down that they will be training or at least establishing a thirty thousand. border force and what we saw there what you mentioned with the u.s. accused rex tillerson sort of backing off because of the anger that this school's in ankara the turkish president. saying that this was an army of terror and not turkey was going to drown this army because of course what you referred to they see the white would form the backbone of this force as a terrorist organization thing to be gay gay it's complicated but it's basically they don't want to see any of these fighters on their force and now you have the u.s. backing off some more human rights campaigners have praised ethiopia's decision to free opposition leader mir good teena who was detained during a violent anti-government protests in two thousand and fifteen a government released more than four hundred others as part of what

but it isn't there's no indication at least that for now it's going to be wrapping up any time soon dekker live on the turkish syrian border for us stephanie thank you still ahead on al-jazeera refugees are sleeping rough on the streets of northern greece is growing them burst cross the turkish border. african leaders try to end months of deadlock over a controversial ethiopian dam project. hello there we've got another weather system that's working its way across parts of europe at the moment is showing up very clearly on the satellite picture is this link of cloud here the leading edge of that is making its way across that very cold air that's in place over the northeastern parts of europe so here we're seeing that what weather turning creasing a wintery as it makes its way across russia the areas to the south well there the cloud is breaking up so not a great deal of what weather here is whole on choose day but it is still having an effect on the weather because it's bringing the air down from the north so the eighty's turning a bit cooler for some of us belin instead of ten will get to

also has forces in the area and turkey is actively seeking support in its planned offensive seventy dekker reports from an taqiyya on the turkish side of the border where turkish tanks have been massing this week. the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border present one has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area baffling for almost a week now there has been sporadic shelling. inside after the thousands marched on thursday in protest to turkey's aggression. the most is the goal of this large demonstration is to send a message to the world and especially to turkey concerning the turkish threats we will not be afraid of you know that we came here to protest the attacks on offering and we will stand by a free and our troops. is one of three autonomy kurdish enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p y d party and its armed when the y p g turkey sees the y.p. g. is an offshoot of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it together with the us in europe consider a terrorist organization but the white b.g. has been working with the us

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backed kurdish led forces captured from eisel and twenty eight sixteen staff dekker has more now from the turkey syria border. turkey launched its air campaign shortly before sunset and this follows a week of increasingly strong political rhetoric coming from the president from the prime minister from the foreign minister from the minister of defense saying that ankara was going to lose its attack on our freedom that it had every right to do so to clear his border from what it calls terrorists where there's now been heavy bombardment from the sky there's also been the mobilization of thousands of members of the free syrian army this is the group that turkey supports in side syria and the attack certainly seems well underway the y.p. gee this is the group in control of our fleeing that sure he considers a terrorist organization says there has already been civilian casualties it is going to be an incredibly difficult situation for the civilians u.s. government has shut down after the senate refused to pass a funding bill thousands of government employees are now off the job although ess

duckies president is very into crush the group which he views as a terrorist organization seventy dekker reports. the border echoes with the sounds of war turkey's offensive on africa is now well under way the ground operation started on sunday turkish soldiers supporting free syrian army fighters inside syria. turkish president dredger type edging defiant as he addressed a large crowd in the city of course and. this is a national struggle and then this national struggle will crush anyone who stands against us let this be known. it's been a week of rhetoric politicians promising that turkey was going to attack a free to rid of the y.p. g. kurdish fighters that i'm pro considers terrorists but they're also the u.s. is best ally on the ground in fighting eisel regardless of international complications turkey is fully committed to this offensive we're on turkey's border with africa and throughout the day we've heard the sound of jets in the sky also intense artillery and machine gun fire outgoing from a turkish base behind that mountain although why p.g. are extremely well trained they know

been covering the happenings on inside syria right across the border from turkey do we have staff dekker. i can hear you richelle can you hear me yes we can go ahead. we're in the city which is just south of the border with turkey this is an area that. has the syrian rebel this is part of the eastern front and we've been taken in by the turks here on a sort of a media tour this is the center. city before they took us a little bit closer to the front lines because of course there is going on with the why it is relatively quiet today i have to tell you we've just heard friday prayers are now in the center of the city we've just heard from turkey's president again he's talking every day richelle these days and you've been saying that he is going to rain is not going to be the beginning of this they're going to take this all the way to the border with iraq and that means the u.s. is very very very complicated when it comes to the politics but i think it is interesting we haven't been here in a long time. a city that sort of secured the area for us but basically there's a lot of life is norma

turkey's prime minister says the aim is to create a thirty kilometer safe so staff dekker reports from the turkey syria border. the border echoes with the sounds of war turkey's offensive on africa is now well under way the ground operation started on sunday turkish soldiers supporting free syrian army fighters inside syria. turkish president dredger type edging defiant as he addressed a large crowd in the city of. this is a national struggle and then this national struggle to crush anyone who stands against us let this be known. it's been a week of rhetoric politicians promising that turkey was going to attack a free to rid of the y.p. g. kurdish fighters that i'm proud considers terrorists but they're also the u.s. is best ally on the ground in fighting eisel regardless of international complications turkey is fully committed to this offensive we're in turkey's border with africa and throughout the day we've heard the sound of jets in the sky also intense artillery and machine gun fire outgoing from a turkish base behind that mountain other why p.g. are extremely well trained they kn