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let's cross to our correspondent, jasper mortimer, who was following developments for us. we have just heard erdogan said if --l send refugees continues s to pour in frorom europe.. >> he e should be taken serious. already thihis year, the nunumbf thefugees crossing the gncnc to greek islands has inincreased subsbstantially -- the number of aegean seaossing the to the greek islands has increased substantially.y. ,he eu said d in a statement criticizing the incursion into syria. the e eu said it wouould not hep turkey by contributing to the --- refugugees in northeheastern syria. it is thehe kurdishsh heaeartlaf syria, while most of f the refugees are e ethnically arab.. hundredsds of thousandss of sers refugegees into northeasterern a wowould change the demographics. in a statatement cririticizing e inincursion la n night, ththe eu said explicitly y any a attemptt demographic change would not be acceptable. >> sticking on that front, on turkishe landed towns. it is not just the towns in syria being impacted. ellis more about that. >> t the syryrian kurds aree rockets and -

president recep tayyip erdogan with the goal of trying to secure a ceasefire deal overall civil jasper mortimer is in akron joins us now. i'm just what can you tell us abouot the situation in qabbani and how the news that. syrian troops have entered this town is significant. well thehe latet from thehe syrian observatory from human rights s which is a monitotoring group based in london. is that ththe syrian kurdh militiaia have allowed.. both goverernment forces and russian i into kobani so thisis brings thehe russianans up to oe turkisis walled u up for thehe t time sincece the s syrian civilr begannight yeaears a ago. now dorms p psident thehe other one said todayay he didn't mindd if the syrian governmenent army tok over man beat. which is aboutut thirty kilometers south of the turkish border because at least then man beats won't be under the control of terrorists which is his tererm foror the syrian kurdisish militia and i a assume that he will take mee or less the same l line with kababbani u know thahat the- syrian government takes it well then. in the syrian kurdish militia loses control