crucial to teach equally important city in northern syria it sits upon a vital motorway that connects northern syria with iraq and ultimately with iran and beyond that it is the gateway to aleppo syria s 2nd city so all sides in the syrian conflict have been true striving to get control of mom bridge now that the u.s. have withdrawn it is now seen as possible leaves the turks can now seize it and present one speaking today said that this is returning to its rightful owners and who he means by that are the syrian arab forces that have been fighting the regime while now allied with turkey the syrian free army and. taking hold of man beach as part of his wider strategy of returning between one and 2000000 syrian refugees back to syria many of them with the opposition to the syrian regime now the syrian regime damascus to term and to take back money bitch and crucially the syrian kurds who are currently holding it as part of the deal have said that they will hand this
a car to suspend voting in some of their key strongholds. and internees in struggle to get back to daily life often last weekend s devastating tsunami we never meet the fisherman whose boat has gone and so have the tourists who used to buy his fish . plus a look back at one of the hardest hitting stories of two thousand and eighteen beneath the egyptian women confounding stereotypes and fighting for respect in the boxing ring. hello and welcome i m on the thought she the syrian army says it s and to have the kurdish head town of mom bridge where turkey has threatened an offensive the flashpoint town in northern syria has been under kurdish control since they captured it from the so-called is. mixtape in two thousand and sixteen when turkish
backed syrian rebel forces started massing yemen which only of the three the kurdish why p.g. militia of their own wish to mask is to intervene in turkey views the vie p.g. as terrorist and has threatened to attack the town. i spoke to our correspondent in beirut earlier and asked her for more on the syrian army s presence in mom bridge well it s very clear the syrian soldiers are on the ground right now they re poised at a city and flag in it is not yet nor how many of them are there yet but it s also to a certain extent it s relevant because on this side of the border which is in syria the two major players now since the u.s. has announced that it will be drawing its troops would be the syrian soldiers and the kurds and the girls have been invited to sit ins to come in the way b.g. has said that we re moving out of this area we would like the syrian forces to come in and avoid a turkish invasion that because the kurds know once the americans leave they will