brent: let's bring in our correspondent emily scherwin an d julia hahn tonight. flesh this deal out for us between two countries on opposite sides of the syrian conflict. emily: two countries on opposite sides of the conflict but they have agreed to create this demilitarized zone. idlib -- in didlib by mid october. that's zone will be 20 kilometers wide and will be the short by russian and turkish forces. they will also withdraw all heavy weaponry from that zone. radical rebels will have to pull out of the zone according to vladimir putin. this is into the cease-fire that turkey had been pushing for, it is more of a compromise but it is a step in the direction of peace and toward what turkey wanted from vladimir putin. brent: from where you are standing, julia, is this the deal that idlib province has been waiting foror? julia: it isis a glimmer off ho. idlib residence have been bracing for the worst. it is a diplomatic success for turkish president erdogan. he prevented that massive offensive by the assad vernment a and a russian allies. he convinced climate --

julia hahn reports on the turkish side of the syrian border. lia: two days ago there were airstrikes here again. thank god it was nothing worse. julia: she she's her sister only on whatsapp videos. she lives in a village near idlib, across the border in turkey. he fled idlib six years ago. his sister remained behind. >> her house was destroyed in an airstrike. she left with her children to our parent's village. fatima simply did not believe the war would last this long. julia: he shows me how he lives in turkey, in a makeshift tent camp with his wife and five children. they all share one space. >> we live here because nothing else is possible. you should see this place in winter. the ground outside gets muddy and it is eyes cold. it -- and it's ice cold. it's a really hard life. julia: as difficult as life might be here, they are at least in safety. years ago turkey effectively closed border with syria and build the wall several hundred kilometers long. aince -- since, new refugees have not been allowed to enter. the reflex of that can be seen h

let's go now to dw's julia hahn following the story for us in istanbul. good evening to you, julia.clipsing these bilateral talks is this countdown to this major offensive in idlib, home to three million people. i mean, the two men, what have they said about this impending military campaign? julia: when it comes t to the current situation in syriaia in ididlib, the twowo ministers are basically on the same page. they agree that a major offensive on idlib has t to be prevented, as you alalready mentioned,d, becauause it couldd to what they call a humanitarian catastrophphe. millions of civilian lives arere atat risk, andnd turkey, especi, fears another wawave of refuge trying to cross itits border tuturkey alreadydy hosts more tn three million refufugees from syria. this number r could go up p by another r million or e even re,o this would be e a huge finanancl burden for turkey. so i guess he was not happy to hear the german minister sayay that berlin is considedering to boost its humanitarian assistance to countries like turkey, should such an offensive really happen. brent: the tu

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future of syria after this war ends and what our correspondents really sure went in moscow and julia hahn on the turkish border with it live province syria to both of you thank you. well six months to go and we're still hoping for a deal and that is the state of brakes at negotiations as far as the u.k. is concerned with no deal on the table british prime minister theresa may is she's now forced to defend her proposal for leaving the european union but it's not at all clear whether she will get the three hundred twenty parliamentary books that she needs to get the plan through especially amid all that rebellion by some of her conservative party make. but in an interview with the b.b.c. may put it this way it's either her deal or no deal as i say i believe will get a good deal will bring that back from the european and the from the e.u. negotiations and put that to palm and i think the alternative to that will be not having a deal because i don't think there will be a i don't think that negotiations will have that it won't be we will leaving all the twenty ninth of march two thousand and n