to the thank you for joining us a turkey says its military has hit dozens of syrian government targets killing many troops the strikes were launched after 5 turkish soldiers and 3 civilians were killed by shelling in the province turkey s the fence minister has arrived at the syrian border he says his forces have killed 76 syrian soldiers in rebel held its leap but syria s main ally russia has contradicted those claims turkey and russia are in opposing sides of the fighting in a glib president had the one says he s told russian officials they should quote stand aside in the conflict. you know. how it s all of us and what we see is an aerial assault by regime forces and it ll it would result in people dying by soldiers and 3 civilians and we concluded that it was unacceptable and retaliation was carried out we responded we did what was necessary and made them pay the cost of their actions by air and land assault is our wish that everyone remember and know the responsibilities