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Are taking shelter in coxs bazar close to the border with me and theyre fleeing violence in myanmar as a northern Rakhine State aid Officials Say camps are getting too crowded thousands are at risk of disease that sit inside story next the news hour after that of away. With. Turkish troops on the border with syria uncle are supporting what was a serious military operation against al qaida in fighters but could this be the beginning of more direct involvement in the war and what will be the cost of this is inside story. Or and welcome to the program and it is the problem turkey is launching a Major Military campaign in syrias Northwestern Province of idlib just across its border its backing the Free Syrian Army which moved into the area on saturday much of adlib is controlled by. An alliance of factions spearheaded by former al qaida affiliate turkey wants to ensure security in the region where some of the most violent conflicts of the Syrian Civil War have taken place during the talks in may russia turkey and iran signed a deal to establish deescalation zones and syria which included adlib ancora says it isnt sending its forces and just yet providing logistical and telegin support turkish president of iran gave more details but. We have opened up a space in our region with Operation Euphrates Shield and now we are making efforts to take a step forward by maintaining security in a lab today there is a serious operation in a lab and it will continue because we have our brothers there who came to live fleeing violence in aleppo we cant tell them whatever happens happens you can either die or survive we have to extend our hands to our brothers now this step has been taken and it is underway we get to our guests in a moment but first this report from from gaza and turkey near the border with syria. Turkish artillery shelling a to hit a sham positions inside syria. The former al qaeda Affiliate Group controls most of province and this border area is the focal point of what turkish authorities refer to as a serious campaign. And the Free Syrian Army is sending reinforcements to that i had. The starting point for the new cross border campaign. Thank you but to hail a sham which has thousands of fighters is vowing to fight to the death news of the new campaign is raising concerns for civilians in there. If the turkish army enters back by russian planes that have committed a massacre a few days ago an army is that is for sure and acceptable to me and to any muslim who rejects the presence of occupiers in our country. The russians are the first and last and i mean of the Syrian People are backing Bashar Al Assad how can they be supporting the Syrian People. The new push by turkey comes after an agreement with russia and iran last month to set up a deescalation zone in. The turkish army will be operating in the city while the russians will be deployed outside the province it is one of four deescalation zones the others are the askers of the capital damascus or the border with jordan a lot of them parts of homes. Zones what established after iran russia and turkey decided to set aside their differences and find a permanent solution to the syrian conflict. The new operation could be part of a broader deal between russia turkey and iran but we dont know who would run one. Victor from the prominence and what will become of moderate opposition factions and the thousands of civilians living in the area. As iraq. Well lets bring in our panel now from istanbul and met in the go to charge a columnist for monitors turkey pulse from moscow hala felgenhauer a defense analyst and columnist with nowhere to setter and via skype from at it so as late Joshua Landis the Sandra Mackey chair and professor at the department of international and area studies at the university of oklahoma welcome to you all mr goodchild whats at stake for turkey here. First let me say this to a fact first one this is not a surprising military more meaning to it we have been waiting for this for almost a mile amount and second this is not an turkey is unilateral decision sort of for a negotiated outcome at the moment to we are discussing. Process so right now their own kind of Strategic Thinking is extremely important first of all separation of daws a radical element simon the bad guys from dawes a moderate simon a good guy says this is their first objective has been trying to achieve according with the you know those with this i stand out talk and also a second one is i think extremely important ankara has been trying to rise or they. Affiliated to i. P. G. Of forces currently are controlling our friend count on in the west of euro fits mr landis on what mr go china saying that the what is going to have to do here to separate the socalled good guys the bad guys the moderate elements of the opposition with those you know deemed terrorists just how difficult is that going to be for ancora to do given the difficulties in doing that so far in the civil war in the last several months the Al Qaeda Affiliated groups have taken over italy products putting them right. Border battle however and other crossings with turkey this is embarrassing for turkey the United States mcgurk the head of the coalition the american head has called this the biggest conglomeration of al qaeda people its since nine eleven he said something has to be done about it and hes been pressuring turkey to do something about it i think in that sense turkey needs to step forward as and perhaps try to negotiate with the rebels themselves to withdraw and this be modeled on the operation around to rebels taken a year ago in which turkey stepped into Northern Syria north of aleppo and pushed out isis and isis withdrew pretty rapidly and f. S. A. Free syrian army groups that had been trained and helped by turkey moved into the area so this may be a similar operation with negotiations by turkey on all sides because the Free Syrian Army is very anxious they say we do not want turkey which has helped the so much with their revolution to end up hurting the Syrian People he does not want them to work with russia extensively so this is very delicate for turkey mr felder how what is russias involvement in this going to be you know turkey and russia have been on opposing sides of the Syrian Civil War theyre coming together now to fight the heat so how is this going to work well russia and turkey have be in congo for almost on the brink of war in the end there for fifteen beginning of sixteen since then the everything has changed now russia and turkey are working together through the process there has been the fact the separation of syria and the kind of zones of influence but of course everyone the saying this is not permanent these are not zones of influence this is just provision though but provisional thing. Stand strong and so right now turkey is. Assuring itself in the bible which was kind of this ignited to turkey to keep the peace there and keep the bad guys at least being officially prominent but then of course that talk about pushing out the fighters here are from a former. Somewhere out of it live i dont think thats practical but because theres nowhere for them to go if in the north of syria during the. Year for shield they were pushed out to other parts of the controlled for by isis here right now everyone has gathered from different parts of syria into it leave and theres nowhere they can go so the only way they can go is to go kind of underground to pretend that theyre not. But that they are Free Syrian Army that has been done during the Syrian Civil War the same fighters can have different flags that have been different maybe uniforms are the same but then you wait mr thats most likely whats going to be there i dont expect any real big fighting happening i think there will be superficial skirmishes mr landon a lot of negotiation mr landis what do you make of that what will happen to the fighters of the sham and what would losing it lead mean for groups like them and syria are they just going to be driven underground well thats a big question so far the Turkish Operation is not to go all the way to the city. Which is the real headquarters of these a list of these al qaeda groups but to take a. Band of syria thats closest to the Turkish Border and get rid of the al qaeda fighters from that area yet. Can withdraw already there been reports of some turkish camps and trucks being escorted by the head in a sham fight or so we dont know what negotiations that going on between turkey and hes to had a sham they may fall back allow the turks take this full court order in order not to provoke a full on battle because this would undoubtedly be a losing battle for them it would push turkey closer to russia and to the assad regime which they dont want but it is a very uncomfortable position for tided a sham because the more they pull back the further they are the closer they are to assads troops and russia and assad will be coming for them eventually from the other side from the Southern Side and theyre going to get sandwiched between turkey and the assad troops assad is hoping to drive all these people into turkey itself and thats going to be the final negotiation will they stand and die as isis have been doing or will they work out some agreement with turkey in order to flee into turkey and get refuge there. To go to town want to role do you see turkey playing and what mr landis has said also in the stablished meant off at lead as a day escalations on. Let me say this first time in the aleppo war russia has expanded after experiencing to other poor Russian Strategic Decision Makers i think come to conclude that siege warfare in syria is not working so right now they have an different plan right now and they are trusting on the ankaras mediating power on those. Sunni armed groups in and around it there so i think this is the plan that they are planning to follow first they are coming with a. Sort of proposal to daws armed groups right now in operating in and around to sleep if you want to live it lip than we have an proposal for you. For your families you know you can go to the north of here to resettle there to rehabilitate and to reintegrate meaning that at the end of the day if they accept this proposal and say yes then we vote expect the expiration of your official packet so another option if they prefer to stay in it meaning that they also accept this is a grim truth for them they are the radical elements so i think. Russia needs uncorrupt mediation not to turn it. Into a c. H. Warfare so they want to provide to my way out of those. Sunni arab armed groups in and around it so if they accept this proposal and say yes we can we can see a sort of transfer of pause fighters and their families im talking about around fifty to sixty thousand people to do not of. And we can then see the expiration of your child and here is the case here is the tricky issue if this is the case then i think expansion of the euro shield packet is unnecessary and im expecting the expression of to do rest so there is all ation of offering count on a day and off to day world work what foreign currency moscow sought expansion of your official packet to the west and containment of you for an aspirin count on currently under the council of y p g o four of those will their demand of today make our car and my school happy it and its anchor and moscow are happy if they can establish these deescalation zones mr felt and how how far will what does that mean for for the civil war how far do these deescalation zones god towards ending the war do you think. Well the immediate success from the Russian Point of view of the coalitions live band central syria and southern syria is that all capable units can be concentrated or most of them in the roles or province where right now the main action is happening and where russia and the supporting the prous had groups hopes to take over or maybe the most important syrian natural gas and oil assets to give the Assad Government some kind of source of stable income which it doesnt have right now and fully depends on handouts from tehran and moscow so thats where the action is happening and here there should be right now a cease fire thats very important so right now more or less the russian main opponents are not really the fighters in the province but the kurds the Syrian Democratic forces supported by the americans which are moving also into the arrow zoran also taking over partially some of those oil and gas assets and the main problem is there and the russian right now propaganda and the Russian Ministry of defense is actually. Claiming that the americans are together with isis and the kurds are together with isis so there you have more or less russia and turkey having the same enemy and that same enemy seems to be the way p. G. And mr landis just how much of turkeys interests and backing moscow its mission for syria right now you know stems from the rejection of the u. S. Backed Kurdish Forces in syria who of course turkey season is an extension you know of the kurds that theyre fighting in their country well its very important and thats why turkey has lived away from the United States and towards russia because. The United States by choosing to enter in on the side of the kurds and co bonny two years ago and then push it with the kurds down towards isis territory has of course thanked serious kurds and moved them just as american support for iraqs kurds get towards independence of some broad degree of autonomy and the kurds of Northern Syria are expected to come out of this civil war with a broad degree of autonomy if not independence and that of course has driven turkey into the arms of russia and caused them to look for a way to move together in provinces like diddler. So that they can Work Together with the kurds and keep the kurds firmly inside syrias orbit and we have we will see how to get there with her from the syrian foreign minister and want him lately saying that he can see greater autonomy for kurds in a post civil war syria mr goodchild if that is of course next to could is controlled often that weve been talking about does talking also have its sights set on some kind of by the train move on off and do you think. The end of today i think this is the anchor our strategic objective for me. If our career has been moving you know its military. Forces right now we are talking about then commando better than waiting at the border line and also mechanized infantry better than. Involving around five to six hundred soldiers and they are there to be deployed to a city centers to monitor. The escalation zone but at the end of the day i think uncorrupted primary target is our friend and according to conquer a threat perception of incomes for our so the isolation and containment of aspirin to prevent the establishments of p. K. K. Or kurdish corridor or stretching from condi in the region in northern iraq. Since our region and also from those two continents in the east of your Affairs Syria and coburn you cant close and this is us in canton stretching from eastern military and so this is a worst Case Scenario for our car our nightmare scenario kyra has been thinking that its desperately in need of preventing peace to happen so the forney nothing count on is the primary target for ankara and therefore and how could turkey do you think make a military move on afrin without russias approval. Most likely not and there apparently is some kind different tented if it were just understanding between moscow and ankara that afrin right now is going to be a separate case right now there russia has established a small. Military mission in for him its also important for russia to see that the are free in encore a controlled by the kurds does not become a kind of american the americans dont appear there so that russia would kind of try to keep the turks out of it for the time being and i think the un karrar agreed to that must work we are free and will be. Surrounded to some extent but going in right now is not an option thats believe in that theres an agreement on to do it mr landis how do you think the u. S. Is looking on at this cooperation between russia and iran and turkey first of all in setting out deescalation zones and syria you know attempting to resolve the syrian conflict which the us has not been able to and also seeing moves possibly against the Kurdish Forces that they support. Well theres two different issues here one is al qaeda. And there i think that the United States is very pleased to have turkey moving in and trying to address this issue along with russia United States does not want al qaeda surviving in Northern Syria as far as the kurds this is a very difficult problem for the United States i think increasingly we will see the United States remain in Northern Syria where theyve been Building Bases but today there was a big fight within the American Administration about how long and how much military support to give to the kurds and whether that was sacrificed relations with turkey because Rakhine State<\/a> aid Officials Say<\/a> camps are getting too crowded thousands are at risk of disease that sit inside story next the news hour after that of away. With. Turkish troops on the border with syria uncle are supporting what was a serious military operation against al qaida in fighters but could this be the beginning of more direct involvement in the war and what will be the cost of this is inside story. Or and welcome to the program and it is the problem turkey is launching a Major Military<\/a> campaign in syrias Northwestern Province<\/a> of idlib just across its border its backing the Free Syrian Army<\/a> which moved into the area on saturday much of adlib is controlled by. An alliance of factions spearheaded by former al qaida affiliate turkey wants to ensure security in the region where some of the most violent conflicts of the Syrian Civil War<\/a> have taken place during the talks in may russia turkey and iran signed a deal to establish deescalation zones and syria which included adlib ancora says it isnt sending its forces and just yet providing logistical and telegin support turkish president of iran gave more details but. We have opened up a space in our region with Operation Euphrates Shield<\/a> and now we are making efforts to take a step forward by maintaining security in a lab today there is a serious operation in a lab and it will continue because we have our brothers there who came to live fleeing violence in aleppo we cant tell them whatever happens happens you can either die or survive we have to extend our hands to our brothers now this step has been taken and it is underway we get to our guests in a moment but first this report from from gaza and turkey near the border with syria. Turkish artillery shelling a to hit a sham positions inside syria. The former al qaeda Affiliate Group<\/a> controls most of province and this border area is the focal point of what turkish authorities refer to as a serious campaign. And the Free Syrian Army<\/a> is sending reinforcements to that i had. The starting point for the new cross border campaign. Thank you but to hail a sham which has thousands of fighters is vowing to fight to the death news of the new campaign is raising concerns for civilians in there. If the turkish army enters back by russian planes that have committed a massacre a few days ago an army is that is for sure and acceptable to me and to any muslim who rejects the presence of occupiers in our country. The russians are the first and last and i mean of the Syrian People<\/a> are backing Bashar Al Assad<\/a> how can they be supporting the Syrian People<\/a>. The new push by turkey comes after an agreement with russia and iran last month to set up a deescalation zone in. The turkish army will be operating in the city while the russians will be deployed outside the province it is one of four deescalation zones the others are the askers of the capital damascus or the border with jordan a lot of them parts of homes. Zones what established after iran russia and turkey decided to set aside their differences and find a permanent solution to the syrian conflict. The new operation could be part of a broader deal between russia turkey and iran but we dont know who would run one. Victor from the prominence and what will become of moderate opposition factions and the thousands of civilians living in the area. As iraq. Well lets bring in our panel now from istanbul and met in the go to charge a columnist for monitors turkey pulse from moscow hala felgenhauer a defense analyst and columnist with nowhere to setter and via skype from at it so as late Joshua Landis<\/a> the Sandra Mackey<\/a> chair and professor at the department of international and area studies at the university of oklahoma welcome to you all mr goodchild whats at stake for turkey here. First let me say this to a fact first one this is not a surprising military more meaning to it we have been waiting for this for almost a mile amount and second this is not an turkey is unilateral decision sort of for a negotiated outcome at the moment to we are discussing. Process so right now their own kind of Strategic Thinking<\/a> is extremely important first of all separation of daws a radical element simon the bad guys from dawes a moderate simon a good guy says this is their first objective has been trying to achieve according with the you know those with this i stand out talk and also a second one is i think extremely important ankara has been trying to rise or they. Affiliated to i. P. G. Of forces currently are controlling our friend count on in the west of euro fits mr landis on what mr go china saying that the what is going to have to do here to separate the socalled good guys the bad guys the moderate elements of the opposition with those you know deemed terrorists just how difficult is that going to be for ancora to do given the difficulties in doing that so far in the civil war in the last several months the Al Qaeda Affiliated<\/a> groups have taken over italy products putting them right. Border battle however and other crossings with turkey this is embarrassing for turkey the United States<\/a> mcgurk the head of the coalition the american head has called this the biggest conglomeration of al qaeda people its since nine eleven he said something has to be done about it and hes been pressuring turkey to do something about it i think in that sense turkey needs to step forward as and perhaps try to negotiate with the rebels themselves to withdraw and this be modeled on the operation around to rebels taken a year ago in which turkey stepped into Northern Syria<\/a> north of aleppo and pushed out isis and isis withdrew pretty rapidly and f. S. A. Free syrian army groups that had been trained and helped by turkey moved into the area so this may be a similar operation with negotiations by turkey on all sides because the Free Syrian Army<\/a> is very anxious they say we do not want turkey which has helped the so much with their revolution to end up hurting the Syrian People<\/a> he does not want them to work with russia extensively so this is very delicate for turkey mr felder how what is russias involvement in this going to be you know turkey and russia have been on opposing sides of the Syrian Civil War<\/a> theyre coming together now to fight the heat so how is this going to work well russia and turkey have be in congo for almost on the brink of war in the end there for fifteen beginning of sixteen since then the everything has changed now russia and turkey are working together through the process there has been the fact the separation of syria and the kind of zones of influence but of course everyone the saying this is not permanent these are not zones of influence this is just provision though but provisional thing. Stand strong and so right now turkey is. Assuring itself in the bible which was kind of this ignited to turkey to keep the peace there and keep the bad guys at least being officially prominent but then of course that talk about pushing out the fighters here are from a former. Somewhere out of it live i dont think thats practical but because theres nowhere for them to go if in the north of syria during the. Year for shield they were pushed out to other parts of the controlled for by isis here right now everyone has gathered from different parts of syria into it leave and theres nowhere they can go so the only way they can go is to go kind of underground to pretend that theyre not. But that they are Free Syrian Army<\/a> that has been done during the Syrian Civil War<\/a> the same fighters can have different flags that have been different maybe uniforms are the same but then you wait mr thats most likely whats going to be there i dont expect any real big fighting happening i think there will be superficial skirmishes mr landon a lot of negotiation mr landis what do you make of that what will happen to the fighters of the sham and what would losing it lead mean for groups like them and syria are they just going to be driven underground well thats a big question so far the Turkish Operation<\/a> is not to go all the way to the city. Which is the real headquarters of these a list of these al qaeda groups but to take a. Band of syria thats closest to the Turkish Border<\/a> and get rid of the al qaeda fighters from that area yet. Can withdraw already there been reports of some turkish camps and trucks being escorted by the head in a sham fight or so we dont know what negotiations that going on between turkey and hes to had a sham they may fall back allow the turks take this full court order in order not to provoke a full on battle because this would undoubtedly be a losing battle for them it would push turkey closer to russia and to the assad regime which they dont want but it is a very uncomfortable position for tided a sham because the more they pull back the further they are the closer they are to assads troops and russia and assad will be coming for them eventually from the other side from the Southern Side<\/a> and theyre going to get sandwiched between turkey and the assad troops assad is hoping to drive all these people into turkey itself and thats going to be the final negotiation will they stand and die as isis have been doing or will they work out some agreement with turkey in order to flee into turkey and get refuge there. To go to town want to role do you see turkey playing and what mr landis has said also in the stablished meant off at lead as a day escalations on. Let me say this first time in the aleppo war russia has expanded after experiencing to other poor Russian Strategic<\/a> Decision Makers<\/a> i think come to conclude that siege warfare in syria is not working so right now they have an different plan right now and they are trusting on the ankaras mediating power on those. Sunni armed groups in and around it there so i think this is the plan that they are planning to follow first they are coming with a. Sort of proposal to daws armed groups right now in operating in and around to sleep if you want to live it lip than we have an proposal for you. For your families you know you can go to the north of here to resettle there to rehabilitate and to reintegrate meaning that at the end of the day if they accept this proposal and say yes then we vote expect the expiration of your official packet so another option if they prefer to stay in it meaning that they also accept this is a grim truth for them they are the radical elements so i think. Russia needs uncorrupt mediation not to turn it. Into a c. H. Warfare so they want to provide to my way out of those. Sunni arab armed groups in and around it so if they accept this proposal and say yes we can we can see a sort of transfer of pause fighters and their families im talking about around fifty to sixty thousand people to do not of. And we can then see the expiration of your child and here is the case here is the tricky issue if this is the case then i think expansion of the euro shield packet is unnecessary and im expecting the expression of to do rest so there is all ation of offering count on a day and off to day world work what foreign currency moscow sought expansion of your official packet to the west and containment of you for an aspirin count on currently under the council of y p g o four of those will their demand of today make our car and my school happy it and its anchor and moscow are happy if they can establish these deescalation zones mr felt and how how far will what does that mean for for the civil war how far do these deescalation zones god towards ending the war do you think. Well the immediate success from the Russian Point<\/a> of view of the coalitions live band central syria and southern syria is that all capable units can be concentrated or most of them in the roles or province where right now the main action is happening and where russia and the supporting the prous had groups hopes to take over or maybe the most important syrian natural gas and oil assets to give the Assad Government<\/a> some kind of source of stable income which it doesnt have right now and fully depends on handouts from tehran and moscow so thats where the action is happening and here there should be right now a cease fire thats very important so right now more or less the russian main opponents are not really the fighters in the province but the kurds the Syrian Democratic<\/a> forces supported by the americans which are moving also into the arrow zoran also taking over partially some of those oil and gas assets and the main problem is there and the russian right now propaganda and the Russian Ministry<\/a> of defense is actually. Claiming that the americans are together with isis and the kurds are together with isis so there you have more or less russia and turkey having the same enemy and that same enemy seems to be the way p. G. And mr landis just how much of turkeys interests and backing moscow its mission for syria right now you know stems from the rejection of the u. S. Backed Kurdish Forces<\/a> in syria who of course turkey season is an extension you know of the kurds that theyre fighting in their country well its very important and thats why turkey has lived away from the United States<\/a> and towards russia because. The United States<\/a> by choosing to enter in on the side of the kurds and co bonny two years ago and then push it with the kurds down towards isis territory has of course thanked serious kurds and moved them just as american support for iraqs kurds get towards independence of some broad degree of autonomy and the kurds of Northern Syria<\/a> are expected to come out of this civil war with a broad degree of autonomy if not independence and that of course has driven turkey into the arms of russia and caused them to look for a way to move together in provinces like diddler. So that they can Work Together<\/a> with the kurds and keep the kurds firmly inside syrias orbit and we have we will see how to get there with her from the syrian foreign minister and want him lately saying that he can see greater autonomy for kurds in a post civil war syria mr goodchild if that is of course next to could is controlled often that weve been talking about does talking also have its sights set on some kind of by the train move on off and do you think. The end of today i think this is the anchor our strategic objective for me. If our career has been moving you know its military. Forces right now we are talking about then commando better than waiting at the border line and also mechanized infantry better than. Involving around five to six hundred soldiers and they are there to be deployed to a city centers to monitor. The escalation zone but at the end of the day i think uncorrupted primary target is our friend and according to conquer a threat perception of incomes for our so the isolation and containment of aspirin to prevent the establishments of p. K. K. Or kurdish corridor or stretching from condi in the region in northern iraq. Since our region and also from those two continents in the east of your Affairs Syria<\/a> and coburn you cant close and this is us in canton stretching from eastern military and so this is a worst Case Scenario<\/a> for our car our nightmare scenario kyra has been thinking that its desperately in need of preventing peace to happen so the forney nothing count on is the primary target for ankara and therefore and how could turkey do you think make a military move on afrin without russias approval. Most likely not and there apparently is some kind different tented if it were just understanding between moscow and ankara that afrin right now is going to be a separate case right now there russia has established a small. Military mission in for him its also important for russia to see that the are free in encore a controlled by the kurds does not become a kind of american the americans dont appear there so that russia would kind of try to keep the turks out of it for the time being and i think the un karrar agreed to that must work we are free and will be. Surrounded to some extent but going in right now is not an option thats believe in that theres an agreement on to do it mr landis how do you think the u. S. Is looking on at this cooperation between russia and iran and turkey first of all in setting out deescalation zones and syria you know attempting to resolve the syrian conflict which the us has not been able to and also seeing moves possibly against the Kurdish Forces<\/a> that they support. Well theres two different issues here one is al qaeda. And there i think that the United States<\/a> is very pleased to have turkey moving in and trying to address this issue along with russia United States<\/a> does not want al qaeda surviving in Northern Syria<\/a> as far as the kurds this is a very difficult problem for the United States<\/a> i think increasingly we will see the United States<\/a> remain in Northern Syria<\/a> where theyve been Building Bases<\/a> but today there was a big fight within the American Administration<\/a> about how long and how much military support to give to the kurds and whether that was sacrificed relations with turkey because United States<\/a> wants good relations with turkey they understand the value of turkey turkey is date its a big economy big military they want it as an ally but they cant abandon the kurds missa go chon is turkey still interested in regime change in syria at all or has it given that up to fight the kurds and to fight the. To hottest on its border. I think its inevitable rescind regime change change is all about foreign car right now. I mean the Decision Makers<\/a> are out there thinking that you know. Should stay and unity of syria right now is extremely important saw and also ankara as i said before the primary in a more primary target these daws you know p. K. K. Affiliated y. P. U. Forces in the north of syria so unclear is in a sort of dilemma right now to play the enemy of my enemy is my france right a. J. So here who is the enemy. To play with it and. Fight against the other enemy so i think at the end of the day what we will see is a sort of initiation of negotiations between ankara and this is inevitable saw ankara needs such support. How can i say to contain this. Expansion and consolation of dollars carefully edited by peter forces in the north of syria i saw on car i think it down there today we will see initiation of negotiations between south and im sure that this month is going to be very soon as the Falcon Howard<\/a> just last question to you what role do you see russia playing in this engagement in shaping the future of syria right now world the russian strategy is clear and rather watch a call so right now this is the most important thing is the military operation in their roles or against the you after over Services Today<\/a> in the main target this not just simply to destroy isis which was like and three years a kind of or get some kind of grew organization there in the syrian iraqi border area but to take over and control the gas and oil assets to give the mask mask. Income money for them to begin to rebuild syria and then theres going to should be different kind of negotiations to somehow integrate parts of the sunni opposition groups into a reformed pro i said or i said government which will to more or less restore the control over syria maybe a bit federalized but still more west united syria and russia would keep a Strong Military<\/a> bases permanent bases in the coastal tartarus and in. Me me im thats the future that russia sees mr felgenhauer thank you very much for that thank you to all our guests met in gold challenge Pavel Felgenhauer<\/a> and Joshua Landis<\/a> and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website aljazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our Facebook Page<\/a> thats facebook dot com forward slash a. J. Inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a. J. Inside story from Elizabeth Rodman<\/a> the whole team here by for now. Facing realities your president said that there would be a complete audit a hundred percent audit that audit hasnt happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying then that the future of the g. C. C. Will be in doubt here the story. On talk to aljazeera at this time. Aljazeera. Where every. Nine hundred sixty seven and the six day war was at its height a u. S. Spy ship the u. S. S. Liberty monitor the conflict from International Waters<\/a> suddenly she was attacked by the warplanes of americas closest regional manager israel over two hundred were killed and wounded the front part of the ship was just read with what happened that day has long been the subject of cover up a mystery now the truth can be revealed the day Israel Attacked<\/a> america a Major Investigation<\/a> at this time on al jazeera. Right. 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