p.g. and afrin and will now advance to monbiot an area controlled by u.s. backed kurdish fighters. the operation we've launched mend all of branch to cleanse africa of terrorists successfully underway starting from member we will continue for you in the games which are being played along our borders and we will cleanse our region completely of this trouble. what we're hearing from the turkish president is that he will now extend his military operation in northern syria to include the town of mann bridge which is around one hundred kilometers to the east of afrin which is where for the past few days the turkish military has been battling it out with syrian kurds who are backed by the united states now once the turkish military moves into man bridge this could potentially put the turkish army in direct conflict with the forces belonging to a major turkish nato ally namely the united states washington is known to have some two thousand special forces on the ground in syria and while none of them are thought to be in the afrin area they are deployed amongst various kurdish enclave that

operation that is happening in that region and those are pro turkey syrian opposition rebels who have entered the afrin region and that's currently controlled by the white p.g. which is of course kurdish forces and this attack has already been threatened by anyone for about a week now saying that because the y.p. g. has an alliance with the p k k who turkey considers to be terrorists that this has been coming for a while now and he also promised aired on also promised that this is only the beginning of what's going to happen that his forces will continue on to man now man bridge is a nearby city that the turks have been calling on the kurdish forces to back off of for a while now and so everyone is saying that that's the next stage that we'll be seeing here and what may have been a factor in bringing this conflict to a head really is the fact that last week the u.s. coalition in syria announced that they would be working with syrian democratic forces to establish a new syrian border forces train and implement that in the area and the u.s. back is of course also aligned with the. game connected to p.k. k. which is. were all this problem is coming from and th

or fills its promises and protects liberated areas including afrin and i mean any of the weapons have been provided to the white p.g. by the united states the americans haven't kept their promise since man page lately trump statement saying that they won't give any weapons to the white p.g.a. any more have created a crisis of trust. and he's really trying to takes a look now at how turkey in america have turned from friends to almost foes. unbelievable is this real nato member telling daddy you know i mean for me to come in behave yourself or all point a gun at you am i exaggerating a bit mr aired on didn't say that these exact words but turkey's got a prime minister who pretty much did anyone who gives logistical support to the white b.g. is turkey's target for the record the white b.g. equals the kurdish army and for all these years who's been giving the kurds all kinds of support right. the kurds were extended in all of branch that's what ankara calls its military op but where does that wipe e.g. get its guns. tapered on couldn't care less why washington's been helping the kurds to destroy eisel for this man the

and don thanks very much. for the kurdish why p.g. militia in syria says it has forced back turkish troops trying to enter the northwestern region of afrin turkey's military announced it has so far struck one hundred fifty three kurdish militia targets in the region it's part of an offensive and calls operation all of branch but it threatens to further inflame the nearly seven year old conflict in syria turkey civilians cheering on the tanks headed towards the syrian border. many support and kurds light is military operation dubbed olive branch. he's inside of turkey why shouldn't we be placed. take his air and ground forces have been pounding kurdish positions in africa and that targeting the y. page a militia which is backed by the us. took his tanks have been shelling the kurdish controlled syrian on clay and fighter jets have been bombing from the sky and chris says the y. page a is a syrian army of the kurdish workers party opaque. it considers that a terror group. could just on workers party and the why p.g. in syria they couldn't stand worker's party is on the terror list of the us and the e.u. the organization that works within s

military is they hit in legitimate self-defense and number of refugee centers as well as camps belonging to the y t g now they want p.g. controls the afrin area in northern syria the turkish government considers the wikipedia as having an alliance with the p k k who they say are a terrorist organization since last week we have been hearing and career threatening that it's going to launch this operation in the afghan area particularly off to the united states issued a statement saying that it was going to train as well as implement a border protection force that would see the syrian democratic forces involved now the u.s. backed if is aligned with the y.p. gene that he took so again so you understand why took you so angry over this whole issue but of course you also have the kurds in the afghan area who have taken to the streets in anger and frustration as well they have denounced the statements made by the turkish president and those sentiments were echoed in front of me to a cliche embassy in london where. around a hundred and fifty people gathered they were holding placards and they were chanting that the turkish government is a terror

p.g. kurdish forces in the golden syrian region of afrin they want to push the fighters who they say are terrorists from the area and create a buffer zone along turkey's border the un special envoy for syria says the ninth round of talks come at a very critical time in the conflict let's go live out of the al-jazeera is what a need is there so hala who is in vienna so far. well certainly. both delegations are here in vienna and the government delegation actually arrived at the u.n. building behind me just a short while ago in a chewed starting talks with the u.n. envoys to funded mistura then later in the day you will have the opposition delegation coming here and holding its first round of talks for this for what is called the geneva nine meeting now what is on the table i think you don't really get a direct answer about that what we did hear from the opposition some words along the same along to fund them is to have said that this these were critical talks and quite decisive talks but when you do press them on why it's so critical that answer is quite vague at the moment the opposition says it's here because it st

this operation fall beyond afrin looking men being this is another syrian kurdish enclave a stronghold of the white p.g. . rated that they will be looking at that region and even beyond that to talking about removing the whole of the presence of the syrian kurdish force from turkey's southern border so this operation at the moment appears to have a long term perspective and it's all about what turkey sees removing the threat of this why peachey militia we should accuse of being linked to an insurgency inside turkey but this militia is a key ally of the united states and u.s. forces are present in several areas where the kurdish militia based now the united states has supported kurdish militia against the so-called islamic state in syria what position are the americans taking in this conflict. well it's very very unclear i mean the americans have been very ambiguous in its reaction initially calling on turkey not to intervene but since the intervention america has not called for. an end to the operation and this is creating a great deal of dismay among the syrian kurdish forces they feel very much betrayed because it was in the u.s. his announcement of cre

now turkey has launched an air and a ground operation on the city of afrin that's in northern syria this is all because of the presence of the k. p.g. fighters there at least five thousand people have been displaced in five days of fighting ankara wants to create a thirty kilometer deep buffer zone to protect its border with syria the turkish president says two hundred sixty eight fighters have been quote neutralized in the operation so far but the can kurds say that's an exaggeration while the turkish president and the u.s. president have had a telephone call they've been talking about matters of common interest we can talk to our correspondent. joe castor who's in washington d.c. first of all tell us about this telephone call because each side is differing from the other as to what exactly went down. that's right according to the white house description of this call between president donald trump and turkish president heard of on is that trump in full sized his concern of this escalation of violence at the turkish kurdish border and warned against risking a military conflict between the u.s. and turkish forces there now as you me

kurdish held on klav of afrin that's in northern syria after days of shelling turkish jets have carried out air strikes on the border district targeting the kurdish why p.g. and turkey's president says the next target will be the syrian town of man bench which the us backed kurdish led forces captured from i saw in twenty sixteen stephanie decker has more now from the turkey syria border. shortly before sunset on saturday turkey launched its air campaign on a three turkish officials had said all we that the operation was in. the hand of much of the president to one spoke just a few hours before the jets to call them or call them go to go to the we would wipe out this corridor or step by step starting from the west africa operation has to factor started in the field this will be followed by bad being which since the promises by. kept so far nobody can say anything whether we do what is necessary. throughout the morning along turkey's western border with are freed the turkish army had brought in bulldozers gravel and concrete blocks appearing to build up their defenses along the border with syria. tank shelled specific locations on the mountain and hours later