. >>> one of america's closest mideast allies, turkey is stepping up its military presence along the border with syriaeporter: turkey is the only natomember that shares a border with syria. that border stretches for more than 900 kilometers. since the start of the war in syria, two and a half years ago, the turkish military has increased its presence along the border, but after the suspected chemical attack last month and talk of possible militay intervention lead by the united states, the government is preparing to engage. it's now sending more reinforcements to the borders, and relocating its f-16 fighter jets to bases closer to syria. but some analysts say turkey remains vulnerable. >> translator: turkish forces are very strong on line. taking precaution measure against chemical weapons is never enough. it is very costly and not easily applicable. the military is ready for it, but chemical attacks are used against civilians. we all know there is not enough gas masks or protective gear. >> reporter: the agency has sent several gas detectors to its frontier, and sent inspectors to check for traces of

. >> he has a report from the turkey/syria border. >> they are surviving on crumbs. the family lived like this. thy is a teacher with a comfortable life when she set to turkey after her home in northern syria was bombed, her husband killed, near children orphaned. >> >> translator: the other day he got up -- >> he has a fever. there's medical care for him. winter is approaching. there are 2,000 syrians calling homes here and a face for the refugee camp but there's no room. the camps already thoeld twice as many people as they're supposed to. if the u.n. general assembly state with syria, people wait. it's surrounded by human extrament and the sting t-fp of urine. the toilet is a mile away and only water source a public -- on a nearby street corner. >> the majority of people here do not know much about political proposal put their message to the international community is simple. help the conflict in syria whichever way possible because they cannot live in these kinds of conditions. >> he was an accountant in the mill taeurbgs his wife an engineer. they aban tkapb aba

. >>> in syria rebel fighting with the rebel groups near turkey. joining us in takkya turkey. now they're fighting each other, the rebel groups. >> indeed, richelle, rebels fighting inside syria belong to various groups, divide he groups, with huge ideologic differences. on the one hand you have the al qaeda linked fighters. on the other hand, you have fighters belong to the free syrian army, the largest group of fighters backed by the west and largely perceived to be a more moderate group. what we saw today is essentially in fightings that started 24 hours ago when fighters belonging to al qaeda demanded that the moderates from the free syrian army hand over a german doctor operating near the turkish border. they accused that german doctor to be a spy. the more moderates refused to hand him over. infighting, and al qaeda took control of that crucial town. this is particularly interesting richelle because infighting has been one of the most problematic issues. prevented western countries from wholeheartedly supporting the rebel groups fearing weapons would fall into the wrong h

>> jim maceda on the turkey/syria border. thanks, jim. >>> it was one of the most talked about moments of the day when 64-year-old diana nyad proved to us all that age is just a number and reminded us why we should never give up on a dream. nyad finally accomplished hers, becoming the first person to swim from cuba to key west without a shark cage or anything else for that matter, but just sheer determination. nbc's kerry sanders is in key west. kerry, good evening. >> reporter: well good evening, natalie. after swimming 112 miles, she came up right here on the shore, understandably exhausted, barely able to catch her breath. the hundreds who gathered here were also gasping, in awe. after 54:52.18, diana nyad finally stood up and walked to shore. sunburned and fatigued, she enters the record books, when so many thought she was too old to swim across the florida straits. she first tried this 35 years ago. four times she failed. today finally success. >> never, ever give up. you never are too old to chase your dreams. it looks

the only more than reporter allowed to report from damascus lately, and kallisa ward is near the turkey, syriaborder and spent time with rebels inside syria earlier this week. we'll start with elizabeth. what are you hearing? >> you know, bob, wob oone of t saddest things is the war is it's silenced the capitol. two years ago when the demonstrations were opeople thought they would have a choice between the dictatorship, bashar al-assad and something brlt. that's no longer the case. we have assassinations and bombings on the dorstep of damascus. people now think they have a choice between bashar al-assad and something worse. and that's what the syrian state media hammered away at them. al-queda fighters on the outskirt of the city waiting to rush in and kill you all in your beds. people are afraid, especially the christians and minoritys here. they think that more than military strikes might be the green light for a rebel offensive that would turn the city into a blood bath. they're really hoping and feeling fearful and hoping that president obama will find an alternative to military strikes as

but she fled to turkey after her home in northern syria was bombed. husband killed, her children orphaned. >> i tied the two blankets i brought with me and made this tent to shelter us. the other day it rained. we gotta be salutely drenched. >> reporter: here if a month now, her four-year-old has a fever but there is no medical care for him and no warm clothes as winter approaches. there are 2,000 syrians who now call this park home. they came here hoping for a place in the ref gentlemen camp but there is no room. camps already hold twice as many pimas they are supposed to. and as the u.n. general assembly debates the state of syria, these people wait in squalor surrounded by human ex-ca. and the stench of urine, the closest toilet a mile away, the only water a tap on the street corner. the majority of merely do not know much about critical proposals or diplomatic negotiation buzz their message to the community is simple. help, their choice cannot be death in their hometowns or life in these kind of conditions. he was an accountants in the military hi

syria. in southern turkey, along an ancient trade route. it's now a smugglers' town where fighters have crossed into syria by the thousands. >> translator: if muslims anywhere are oppressed we have to support them. >> reporter: this man dropped out of college tofight in syria. he agreed to be interviewed only if he could hide his face. the u.s. is considering launching military strikes against syria. will that help you? >> translator: we have a prayer, oh, let them fight. >> reporter: in turkey, he showed us his safe house and his war supply. a uniform. this will be the first time you'll ever wear anything like a uniform. he says this is the happiest moment of his life. >> you're smiling. i can see even through the mask. >> i am happy. >> reporter: why are you so happy? >> translator: because this was a dream for me, to wage jihad. >> reporter: the smuggler who helped him told us he personally has moved 300 foreign fighters from turkey to syria in the last four months. and in this area now there are many other smugglers doing exactly the sam

al jazeera on the turkey/syria border. >>> to talk more about this we have from washington, d.c. a senior fellow and director of the u.s. and europe/turkey project at brookings institution. thanks for being here. we appreciate it. let me first ask you. why do you think turkey has been so vocal about syria? >> i think it goes back to august 2011 when the prime minister sent his minister to make one more effort to try to convince bashar al assad to adopt reforms. he failed. this was the ramadan period. the violence began to hurt people, and then from then on turkey severed its relationship with the team. since the situation on the ground has gotten worst, the prime minister and his foreign minister have been nanding that the assad regime should go. it has stretched the ethical dimension of it as well. >> what do you think is in turkey's interest to see the assad regime go? >> the turkish fwovt is -- government is convinced that the regime of assad has perpetrated crimes that are unacceptable for the regime to continue. earlier on you did mention also that there were almost half a mi

syria. i will talk to one of the most concerned parties, president gul of turkey, which is of course syria's neighbor. and you might have heard that in iran's delegation to the new. was t was the only jewish member of parliament. we'll talk to him. here's my make it. for the past self-years, the president of iran has held a breakfast meeting with a small group of journalists during the u.n. general assembly. in recent years, that event was a depressing routine. mahmoud ahmadinejad dressed in his shabby suit would saunter in, ramble and rant about the dangers of america and deny the holocaust and taunt us, his invited guests. rouhani arrived eloquently attired and he spoke intelligently and precisely on every topic discussed. the meeting was off the record but we were allowed to share some observations. i was struck by rouhani's optimism on the nuclear issue which he said could be resolved in a short time. the world wants to be assured that our program is peaceful, he said, and we want to help them gain that confidence. rouhani admitted that economic sanctions against his country have taken a

. >> and kindra, you were crossing from turkey into syria on a daily basis. why did you get involved with this? oh why did you put yourself at risk, and how are you trying to work with children? >> yes, thank you. it was something i felt i needed to do. i'm from aleppa, syria. my family is there. the crisis was getting so massive, if there was something that i could do as an artist a creative person, i had to do something. as a human being it's our responsibility to take care of these kids in some shape, way or form. i created a program of art and, which is what we brought to these kids. we were crossing the border with our team every day into syria from turkey. we built a playground at the largest refugee camp with our partners on the ground, the foundation that we worked with there, at the ultimate camp, and you know, we needed to way to bring joy to give these kids some kind of sense of carefree childhood that had been robbed from them because of this tragic situation going on. >> why is joy important? we're talking about large-scale problems, how does it

you were just up in that neck of the woods on the syria/turkey border.are better fighters and have won key battles for the rebels but this situation, where groups with common names are fighting and killing each other must be worrying observers and there's one particular battle going on in the last couple of days. >> that's right. it's the second day of fighting now, michael, between the more moderate rebels from the free syrian army and al qaeda-linked group of rebels, hard line group, called the islamic state of iraq and syria or isis, a strategic here near the turkish border. fighting under way for a second day. these al qaeda fighters, these are tough cookies, you could say. a lot of foreign jihady volunteers, many have come through turkey to syria to volunteer and fight. they're from places like north africa, chechnya, all over the world, really. and they really frighten many syrians i've been talking to because they've been imposing on opposite controlled parts of syria hard line sharia islamic law that some syrians say is almost like medieval law,

from the turkey/syria border. the did yo turkish government lt itself exposed. >> translator: the assad regime has not lived up to the promises. it has a long time. >> reporter: there's plenty at stake for turkey. pushing for regime change even before the debate over chemical weapons began, turkey has given substantial support to the syrian opposition. the leadership operates out of istanbul. >>> what is this gos the the be for children of syria? >> reporter: for the past two weeks, syria's neighbor has been sending reenforcement to the border area. the opinion polls here show that unlike the government, the majority of turkish people do not want to see turkey involved in the co the conflict along ths southern border. thousands of refugee have with been coming in to the country. with nearly half a million refugees here, the government said expect to spend some billion dollars to support them. even if they find an end to chemical weapons it's not likely to end in their plight. >> translator: we have hope. >> >> tra

he said that syria would strike back against its neighbors, israel, jordan and turkey if it went along with the u.s. military strikes. lebanon is already seen its share of violence. and syria also said it was knot behind that chemical weapon attack last month. now we talked to a syrian on the border with lebanon to get his opinion. he certainly feels that the regime was responsible for the attack and he knows what should be done. take a listen. >> translator: there must be a military hit. he killed people with chemical weapons, bashar assad did. it was on tv. women and children were killed. there must be a military response by the americans or the european union. they have to make a move. >> melissa, we're also getting more indications of a possible major blow to the assad regime. a good source of mine in the free syrian army, that is the opposition force against bashar assad, claims that a former syrian defense minister, a real assad insider, has defected last night. has gone into turkey. syria is denying it. we don't have independent confirmation but if that is true, it could be the

areas a report from the border between turkey and syria. >> reporter: every day, more peach reach this checkpoint, but many are stuck. the turkish authorities say the refugee camps are full. the fleeing people don't know when they can cross. >> translator: i lost my house due to shelling. i have to look for a place to live in safety for my children. otherwise, our lives would be wasted. >> reporter: some manage to enter turkey and wait for space at a camp. this man says he and his family have been waiting for two months. >> translator: we don't have anything. no water, no bed. >> reporter: according to the u.n., turkey hosts more than 2,000 refugees in 20 camps in 10 provinces. 200,000 more are registered, but living outside of the camps. the greater challenge, though, is those in what they call known camp settings. many syrians have slipped into turkish border towns like here. since they are not registered as refugees and don't have passports, they can't get public support. 26-year-old hussein tabsho is one of them. he lives with 20 family members and relatives. they're from a suburb

they are watching closely in syria as well. >> reporter: indeed, both syria and turkey watched the marksf president obama very closely and dell, so summarize really the three key points, there are three highlights from that speech, very strong words by president obama on syria. number 1, he specifically put the blame on the syria regime on august 21st, saying that to suggest that anyone else other than the regime used chemical weapons would be quote, an insult to human reason. that is not likely to go down well in damascus or in talks with russia who has supported syria throughout this crisis. secondly he made it very clear that president assad should be facing consequences if he fails to comply with this chemical weapons deal that is being discussed between russia and the united states. thirdly, and most importantly, very strong words president obama had when it comes to the faith of assad. he said to suggest that syria would return to a prewar status quo was simply a fantasy. he made that very clear that the future cannot factor in to the feature of assad as a president. these are rema

we have more from the turkey/syria border. >> reporter: speaking to syrian activists inside syria, many of them express skepticism about this chemical weapons deal. they were worried about the regime's compliance. one even specifically told us it's like the international community is procrastinating when it comes to dealing with the bashar al assad regime. ordinary citizens tell us while some don't know the details of the deal because, of course, there is significant infrastructure damage in the country and something as basic as watching television is quite the luxury for many people. others expressed concerns about the fact that this is specifically a weapons deal that is only concentrated or focused on chemical weapons and many told us what about conventional weapons? the main tool by which many syrians, 100,000 syrians will killed over the past two and a half years? a lot of skepticism and concern from within syria. a contrast, of course, to that mood of celebration and how this deal was held in the united nations in new york. >>> a lot of rain and flooding for people in the pacific

syria. i volunteered i went to turkey in a refugee camp there i met a salafi group and i trained with them for about two and a half months and then we illegally crossed the border into syria. or says as a selfie a fundamental muslim he had to get involved. with so much sunni syrian brothers suffering here i saw an al-jazeera arabic and other channels the kids are also suffering i took up arms and i was ready to use them but when i came here i didn't see the enemy. in a separate building they show west weapons including handmade bombs and green maids seized from militants these are the instruments of global jihad that syria as a battlefield to bring foreign fighters and violence this prison may be full but beyond the walls raining men with many causes remain free to continue their fight. damascus syria. and. seeing the brutality of the war at firsthand in syria's ancient christian sanctuary of la luna which was liberated from jihad as forces earlier this week she spoke in real time reports on the situation there on her twitter feed and find out the latest by following her online . to be in the

al jazeera, on the turkey/syria border. >>> >> we are following breaking news in an attack in an american consulate in afghanistan. five attackers have said to taken part. nine have been killed. the province is in western afghanistan about 80-miles from the border of iran and al jazeera jane ferguson is following the story from kabul. she's on the phone. what can you tell us? >> caller: well, all we know is this attack was what is commonly called a complex attack with several suicide bombers. there were five attackers who attacked the consulate. it is believed they were trying to enter the building and detonated themselves after gunfire went off it' believed that initially four of them detonated them rather quickly and there it was gun battle between the last one. as you said there he was killed. but it's also believed another private security guy helpin tk s killed as well. we're also hearing that there have been 17 people injured. we're not hearing any confirmation as to whether any american citizens have been injured in that attack. jane, just to give us some perspective here. if this

part of that story and she joins us now live from the turkey syria boarder. >> yes, john, the united nations basically described the disaster as one of epic proportions. one of the wester we would have witnessed in our lifetime, and just to give you an idea, when the united nations general assembly was meeting exactly this time last year, we were talking about 20,000 people whoa are killed as a result of the conflict in syria. of course, the united nations talking about a third of the population being displaced as a result of this. 5 million was in the country, and 2 million refugees outside the country placing extreme pressure on neighboring countries such as turkey, jordan, and lebanon. of course, here in turkey, some 500,000 syrian refugees alone, and it is something that we have heard president obama reference in his speech today, saying this united states has pledged a fresh 300 million u.s. dollars to deal waythis humanitarian disaster, something that both the heads of state of turkey and jordan pleaded for in their speeches. and it is important to remember, these are not -- th

. >> reporter: and let's speak to anita who is managing development on the syria, turkey border for usd anita we have been hearing about the stalemate in the fighting on the ground in syria for a while now but do the syrian deputy prime minister's comments still come as a surprise? >> well, it's an interesting statement and a very interesting and fluid time in the political dynamic here. the game has always been by both sides i think to arrive at a negotiating process in the strongest position possible and the syrian government certainly and the syrian armed forces have been gaining ground back in resent months, perhaps not as successfully as they have made out but there is no question that with infighting breaking out among opposition fighting groups, all over the north of the country at the moment, they have never looked better. so is there a stalemate? yes, i think you could probably describe it as a stalemate. is it extraordinary the syrian government should admit to it? perhaps no, perhaps it's part of the very -- to use the word calculated i think it implies perhaps a pejorative

. >>> tensions are escalating between turkey and syria. the border is getting more dangerous. just days ago, turkish forces shot down a syrian helicopter that entered turkish air space. that was a car bomb at the border on wednesday injuring at least 12 people. >>> the rebels say the injured were fleeing the civil war. they blame the syrian government for the blast. it's on one of their supply routes. france and russia disagree on ways to bring peace to syria. a major dividing point is a u.n. resolution allowing military action. the french foreign minister and his russian counterpart minister lavrov met in moscow to discuss the situation. france agreed to set up a framework to scrap all chemical weapons held by the syrian government. but they disagree over key issues. he referred to a request to allow military action in case diplomacy fails. they were divided over a u.n. report on a chemical weapons attack in syria. >> translator: according to our own foreign intelligence, we believe this report proves the responsibility for the chemical attack lies with the syrian regime. the

. >>> now in-to-syria with rebel groups along the borders of turkey. ll us more about who exactly is fighting. >> reporter: really, richelle, rebels fighting the regime in syria belong to different groups with huge ideological differences. on the one hand you have the al-qaeda-linked fighters. on the other hand you have fighters belonging to the free syrian army, which is believed to be a more moderate group and is backed by the west. now the fighting that we're currently seeing started roughly 24 hours ago between these two sides. we understand that the al-qaeda-linked group wanted a german doctor and aid worker operating to be handed over to the group because they're accusing him of being a spy. now the moderate fight necessary control of that border town refuse to hand him over and we saw these clashes. this is interesting because attempt to mediate between the two sides have failed, and now we're seeing more brigades and more reinforcements beginning to fight. this is the largest fighting between rebels in syria, and its taking place i in a particul

. >> trace: speaking of not agreeing, apparently there's heat between syria and turkey. ting has been raging on in syria but the fighting in the last two and a half years has stayed inside syria but more and more offer the violence is spilling over into turkey, with syria's military accusing its neighbors of trying to escalate tensions, saying the turkish military shot down a syrian helicopter today, and in a statement six-ya said an mi17 helicopter was mistakenly crossed into turkish air space. turkey confirmed it did some fact shoot down a syrian helicopter. they say this helicopter refused to leave turkish air space. so the tensions are bubbling up as everything is going on around the world and the expugn now the border is getting even more violent. >> trace: thank you. a possible record-breaking property grab involving a new york city highrise. all because of where the owners apparently sent the rent money. that's next. >> trace: prosecutors say this could be the government's biggest property grab ever. a new york city highrise thought to be worth more than a half bil

very, very dangerous in our region, especially as it's going up in flames everywhere, in egypt, turkey, syria, libya, everywhere you look. and iran is watching this very, very carefully and those words i heard also in the corridors of power in iran, they're saying to themselves, if it's taking so long, so little international support, if there's doubt about support, actually in the united states and in congress about chemical weapons being used in damascus, what's going to happen when they turn to us and we actually produce nuclear weapons? and iran should be made very, very aware that it could never become nuclear and in a way, whatever happens in syria will send a message to iran and i hope it's a loud and clear one. >> ambassador gillerman, thank you for your insayings today. appreciate it. pope francis calling for a global day of fasting and prayer for peace in syria and to oppose any military intervention in that country. in a couple of hours, the pope is set to host a mass vigil in st. peters square. the pope is not just calling on catholics to fast and pray but believers of all faiths.

. >> he came to syria through turkey. two men met him in syria where he joined a large bombing brigade. >> my job was to prepare bombs for cars. our teachers showed us how to make bombs, which ingredients to use, and how to cook it. >> the man you saw in the farewell video is driving the car. they say after the father dies, the sun should continue. >> we have to finish what we started. >> next to a military airport in damascus. the prisoners here are charged with either terrorism or spying. this newly built unit can accommodate 1200 people and it is almost full. an officer tells us not to get too close as the prisoners can be dangerous. there are people here from egypt and palestine, but many came from europe as well. the algerian has spent most of his life in france where he married a french woman and led a normal life. he was recruited by an islamic group. >> i went to turkey and i met a lovely group. we illegally crossed the border in syria. >> as a fundamental muslim, he had to get involved. >> i saw my brothers suffer

jihad, to bleed for allah and no other. >> nbc ease jim maceda joins us live from near turkey's border with syriaf the story. the other dynamic is the humanitarian cry circumstances refugees flooding into turkey and other places from syria. you've had an opportunity to speak with some of those people. >> reporter: that's right, tamron. we spent most of the day talking with the refugees who, as you say say, are flowing in -- actually, tens of thousands now. just as foreign fighters that is we saw speaking with richard flow into syria from here, the syrian refugees are flowing into turkey. they make the point, many of them make the same point about how extreme, almost medieval the fighting and the fighters have become inside. they talk about the fighting even among rebel groups now themselves. you know, that young fighter that you just saw talking to richard, he is certainly more extreme than, let's say, your average free syrian army soldier, but there are groups of foreign fighters, thousands of them inside, who are much more extreme than even that young masked man. one person i spoke to today arr

turkey. we've been talking about the situation in neighboring syria. ld the united states strike damascus or not? what do people in the region think? soli ozel is a professor of international relations at turkey's university and fawaz gerges is in london. he is the author of "obama and the middle east, the end of america's moment." welcome, both. soli, let me ask you, if the united states miscalculated about the durability of the assad regime, so did syria's next-door neighbor, turkey. the prime minister also thought assad would go and declared he was going to go and seems to have been caught in a similar miscalculation. turkey has been trying to build up some kind of moderate, legitimate alternative to assad as a political leadership and has very little to show for it. take us inside, what is going on? >> well, to begin with, i think most everyone in the world that wanted the assad regime to go made the same miscalculation thinking that the result is syria would be something similar to what happened in tunisia and then in egypt and you can say even in

incidentally as well, a share against intervention in syria's neighbor turkey is even higher. syria's president ausada says that he had nothing to do with any chemical weapons attack. there is no evidence linking him to it. in the u.s., that claim is backed up in a letter to president obama written by former military analysts. i was told about the mood on capitol hill and why he thinks the president may be softening his stance. >> last friday, kerry went before the cameras and said we got to do this and here is the, not intelligence, mind you, but the government assessment meaning the white house had a chance to massage it and edit it. it didn't hold up to scrutiny. apparently the military got to the president. i see some evidence of this. the next thing we know, the president has changed his mind on saturday afternoon and the only thing that really intervened was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff telling the president, look, it's going to be really hard to explain why we have to do this now. we can do this tomorrow or next week or next month. we don't really have to do

citizens not to travel there. >>> turkey is taking steps to tighten security along its southern border with syria. this comes ahead of a possible u.s. military strike targeting the administration of syrian president bashar al assad. the country's military leadership has dispatched several dozen military vehicles to at least two border areas and opened six field hospitals. local media quote the governor of a province in the border area as saying that shells fired from syria have recently landed on the turkish side. they also say militants have been found hiding among syrian refugees and that the border area is no longer controllable. turkey had already deployed 20 fighter jets to the southeast and special vehicles to seven border sites to test if chemical weapons have been used. the country has been helping rebel forces against the administration of syrian president bashar al assad and is in favor of u.s. military strikes. >>> the u.s. unemployment dropped last month to the lowest level in more than four years, but employers created fewer jobs than analysts had expected. leaders at the federal res

it's not the problem of turkey, first of all, but we are the neighbor. so what's happening in syriasequences that -- imminent consequences on turkey. therefore, turkey is very active in this issue. and this should not be misunderstood that turkey wish war or turkey wish to attack on syria. no, that's not correct. what we want to see is that this situation should not continue like this. >> but you want assad gone? >> we want, want a very sound, well-calculated political solution for there. >> do you think that these current efforts to -- for assad to get rid of his chemical weapons, will they work? do you think there needs to be the threat of military force to implement these agreements? >> we should not fool ourself. is it really going to be real cleaning or not? if it is going to be real cleaning, that will be wonderful. that will be good for everyone. but if there's going to be give some time, at the end, still, there will be some chemical weapons there, so that it would be a loss of time. >> i have a few questions on turkish politics. there are many people who say that turkey, is

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turkey. meanwhile syria's president says he's committed to chemical disarmament the process will take at least a year and cost around a billion dollars a shot assad made his latest comments in an interview with fox news highlights available on our web site r.t. dot com. cities across greece have seen violent clashes following the death of an anti fascist musician who stabbed to death by a man with links to the far right golden dawn party police used tear gas to disperse the angry crowds as writers hold wall street finance correspondent in the midst of the frenzy basically the large group of protesters that clashed with the police the police are holding their ground right now as you can see there's fires behind me tear gas is in the air for a little bit difficult to breathe here as you can see in front of me the police are trying to hold their territory on the other side there's basically a group of anarchists black bloc kids whatever you want to call them many of the protesters here have been picking up stones along the side of the road in fact if you can pan down you can see someone trying to

compound was produced and you can see sarin gas was allegedly manufactured in iraq and taken to turkey to syria for the documents obtained by also state that someone was confiscated from the front radicals auntie's pull scott's hands on these claims. in may there were reports coming out of the talk was suggesting that a two kilogram cylinder of sarin gas was discovered in the homes of syrian opposition rebels connected with al qaeda through the al nasra front now at the time russia called for an investigation into the reports but. actually denied that the reports were true and said that no such weapons had been found and laced michael maloof explains that that is indeed a possibility i have. a report from a source who has direct connections with. classified information and he basically told me that the u.s. military did an assessment based upon fifty indicators and clandestine interviews that the sourcing siren originated out of iraq into turkey before some of it was confiscated in may in turkey and that there has actually been more significant amount of crn production both in iraq and in turke

syria. the kurds set up in a thomas region. it is something million of kurds in turkeyave tried to establish for decades to no avail. now that kurds in syria are coming under attack, turkish kurds crossed the border to help. >> syrian kurds live on one side of the border. turkish kurds on the other. for decades, the region has been peaceful. now civil war is raging on the syrian side and the violence is going over. the windows of this cap they were shattered by a grenade fired by islamist militias. now it is -- now the kurdish owners want to give it up. >> they come from chechnya, afghanistan, serbia, and where else who knows. they have the right to defend themselves. >> four weeks the militant islamist of the front have been battling the ethnic kurdish minority with the kurdish side at crazily -- occasionally cut in the crossfire. >> we have been living in fear for months. we could be hit again at any time. the groups are not far from here. we know that for sure. >> the courage to say the turkish army only strikes iraq when a thought's forces violate the border. they h

. >> syria accused turkey of escalating tensions on their border.that's after turkey shot down a syrian helicopter when it apparently entered turkish air space. for more, we are near the turkish syrian border. tell us the turk issue thinking on this. why did turkey react in this way? >> well, you could describe it, i think truly as a perfect storm. it's an intriguing location where this happened. it wasn't a dense population center on either side, but it was a clear border violation or at least according to the map provided by the turk issue military, it was. the sirens around disputing that. the turkish made it clear when one of its planes went into syrian air space and it was fired upon that they would respond. the tensions are much higher because of the planned then stayed american air strikes. the turkish military said the fighter jets that ended up shooting down that requireian military helicopter were in the air patrolling when the violation happened. you've got a little dispute about the details. the sirens say that the helicopter was on a mi