Giving thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. We start this hour with breaking news because syrian militants backed by Turkish Forces have launched an offensive against the syrian army in water province but russian airstrikes have helped to repel them. Of course one thing is that an office in the studio with me is been following events for as the escalation seems pretty concerning what exactly is happened and do we know much about the situation on the ground at the moment what the situation is very concerning in some of the worst as collations in syria in years i have to say and basically what happened terrorist factions of launched an offensive on the syrian positions trying to trying to push the syrian army out of the province they were supported by turkish artillery fire too so syria had to ask russia russias air force to intervene and together the syrians and russians repelled the attack but again it was supported by the officials syrian by the official turkish army and
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