damascus be happy with the handing over of such an important city to rebels that are currently still fighting the regime so a potential flashpoint is looming it seemed and that s how far you countries are willing to go to to stop this offensive that we ve heard about because i mean we already have a number of countries halting the the export of weapons to turkey if it were up to some countries for example. economic sanctions here or the very least an e.u. wide embargo as you know as of now we have embargoes weapons embargoes of sometimes reasons but not the whole of the european union but as things stand at the moment it appears that you foreign ministers here are struggling for wording to condemn what is happening in northern syria and that is because some countries are very concerned that the turkey s e.u. migrant deal that is keeping many migrants out of the european union because turkey
a complete us now from our correspondents. standing by in luxembourg at the meeting of e.u. foreign ministers and during jones is joining us from istanbul welcome to both of you and henri that like to begin with you what did everyone wanted to meet with a potential attack here now on man bit. well for prisoners one that has been a target an objective for well over a year among beaches and extremely important tiles it s a major hub of communication top sitting on a main highway connecting syria with iraq and beyond that it is the gateway to syria 2nd city of aleppo and the present heard one has saying that he had to deal with the united states that they would promise the withdrawal of syrian kurdish militia if they took it more than a year ago they said america rene so much and now he s saying that we determine now to take the city i return it s what he says is its rightful owners and that is reference to the syrian free syrian army forces which have been fighting with damascus regime a
in to syria as fighting continues along a 200 kilometer stretch in the north of the country now in just the past few hours the turkey backed free syrian army is reported to have taken the city of tell about fighters there have been removing flags of kurdish backed troops in the area to raise their own flags it s part of a coordinated push directed by the turkish government after american forces started to withdraw from the region. and there to one has indicated that turkish troops are also ready to launch an assault on the syrian city of mandates which is held in the west of the country now syrian kurds in this area. turkish media reporting that the country s forces were preparing for an operation on man beds and were put this in at the city s edge having pushed into the area in the last 24 hours