there's a battle for the soul of the conservative party there are those on the right wing you say mikkel is taking the party too far to the left and the fear is all that that battle that's been lighting for for a long time may now break out into the open our political correspondent simon young . aminta stage in german politics sunday think you are. the turkish military has struck and quote neutralized more than $100.00 military personnel in the syrian province of the shelling was retaliation for a syrian strike earlier in the day in which 5 turkish troops died the assad regime is now on the offensive in the province the last stronghold of anti government forces in syria the past week has seen a significant escalation in tensions between syria and turkey syrian forces last week killed a number of turkish troops as part of its campaign to retake the province and for more on this now we want to bring in our correspondent dorian jones he's standing by in istanbul good evening to you dorian the turkish armed forces are being hit directly by 0 an army is this kind of a benchmark in this escala