rebels anymore it's particularly aiming civilians be infrastructure hospitals and all both things marcus kayyem from the german institute for international and security affairs in berlin with the latest on happenings there on the ground in syria thank you so much mark thank you. in other news here in germany the center left social democrats have started voting on whether to enter a second coalition with angela merkel's conservative party members have a little over a week to cast their ballots and the results will be announced on march fourth the deal has deeply divided the s.p.v. as rank and file and it's a battle that is pitting the party establishment against its future leaders. nothing is more important for the social democrats over the next ten days and these kind of town hall meetings the party's grassroot is deeply divided as to whether they should agree to a grand coalition deal or not and the face of the rebellion against american led coalition is this young man kevin kuhn at the leader of the party is used to going he's trying to get members to vote no. on. off i believe that we can ex