international correspondent, clarisa ward, the only journalist on the ground in northern syria. tell us what you are seeing and also just respond so what the president said and what that would mean or if it is even true, clarisa. reporter: well just to start out with what we re seeing. syrian and kurdish forces are saying that turkish troops are crossing the border into syria. this is now looking like some kind of a ground military incursion. earlier on the any day we saw chaotic scenes. we arrived at one town just after a series of turkish strikes on that area. thick, black smoke filled the air. we saw hundreds and hundreds of civilians pouring out of the town carrying their children, often whatever clothes they had on their back, a couple of suitcases and mattresses and we saw one car strapped to the roof and i saw an elderly woman having trouble walking and picked up by a young man and