that s why the kurds are so nervous in this area ok so it s a last week to turkey accuse the u.s. and russia of doing nothing to ensure that kurdish forces are withdrawing from this this order region today russia you serious kurds are failing to abide by the russian turkey deal so what are kurdish troops in the area doing. well it s really very hard to verify what actually is going on on the ground independent reporting is very difficult but what it appears to be seeing is that moscow is losing patience with the kurds because since america now sees the walking back its initial declaration of pulling out of the area this seems to be emboldening the kurds and possibly holding out from pressure from moscow for it to finally join up with the massacres and fall into the massacres control and that is a key objective of moscow in its long term goal of bringing new bringing stability to syria now they see that the with the kurds possibly up becoming more restive
allied with the kurds says the fighting is moving towards kabbani the station here to prevent a turkish attack. was waddles and the one that the turkish backed militias are trying to block a road in that leads to where we are here but the syrian army is making sure this won t happen just. that it will be. the hospitals in northern syria are full of injured civilians this father survived an attack on taliban yet which is in the turks are safe certain 2 of his children were severely injured 2 others are dead. i saw an airplane over our house we were packing our belongings into our car we wanted to flee and then a turkish plane bombed those were civilians not military and we were at home but home. from the kurds point of view everything started going wrong the moment the
u.s. pulled its troops out of north eastern syria the americans presence had prevented any turkish offensive u.s. troops did return but only to guard syria s oil fields against the islamic state they re not here to protect kurdish civilians anymore and that s why the kurds feel betrayed and why as well as fighting back militarily they re also boy causing all turkish products that are every little we spend on turkish goods will be invested in bullets used to kill our sons. ramsey the owner of the shoe shop in kabbani says he hardly sells any shoes made in turkey anymore but he says he understands why. we re scared they re coming here to drive us out or kill us we just want them to go to get out of the whole region or ramsay s turnover has fallen by 2 thirds people aren t spending money anymore he says because they re certain they ll soon have to
flee from a turkish attack. more on this from correspondent dorian jones in a welcome doria i ll kurds in kabbani right to be worried about a turkish attack. well syrian kurdish forces are accusing turkey and the militias it is supporting of seeking to expand the areas under its control in 3 different areas now why ankara now strongly denies that it says its forces are only we acting in self-defense but why the kurds in kabbani and for out this area are so concerned is that turkey initially sought to control an area 400 kilometers long and 30 kilometers deep as a key to his objective of returning up to 2000000 syrians currently under turkish military control is a strip of only 100 kilometers and that is seen as well short of the area needed to return these refugees and one of the key urban locations is called bani in part of turkish parents to resettle large amounts of syrians currently living in turkey and