let me show you something you can see there are many lights this is the turkish border town of jaylen pienaar now have a look at the other side you can see there as darkness this is where at some point the syrian border starts the town of wrestle einen northeast syria they have no electricity there right now the town used to have about 50000 inhabitants but most of them have reportedly as caped the area today turkey's defense ministry said that the turkish army and their allied forces have captured the town and we have seen video footage of them entering the industrial area. now the kaddish let s.t.'s forces say something very different they say no that's not true they have not taken that town we are still in control of it now there seem to be still clashes because we can hear shelling and we can hear gunfire so there's very conflicting information out there about what exactly is going on on the ground. turkey has reacted with defiance to criticism from of its offensive in syria from other nato members in an exclusive interview with the turkish foreign minister. said ankara would not be deter

show you something on this side here you can see many lights this is the turkish border town of jaylen pienaar but on the other side you see that there is a lot of darkness this is where some point the syrian border starts the syrian border town. now this town has no electricity right now it used to have about 50000 inhabitants but they have most of them have reportedly left the area and now today turkey's defense ministry said that the army the turkish army and their forces have captured. but we are hearing some very different information from the kurdish led as forces they there they are saying that's not true the battle is still going on and in fact there seem to still be clashes because we can hear gunfire and shelling we also had some military airplanes havering us today now the situation on the ground seems to be messy and we get very different information on what's exactly going on there are you hear so that is on the syrian side and how is this operation affecting local people on the turkish side. well the 6th curity situation here at the turkish border is very tan as journalists we ha