solidarity with the kurds and correspondent. is one of the demonstrations here in berlin say that thanks for joining me tell us about the protests happening here in berlin and across the german germany today. well yes kurdish organizations have called for demonstrations to protest turkish military offensive in syria and today in the berlin you can see behind me there are around 2000 people expected for these demonstrations 550 police officers will be working today to make sure that the protests go peacefully and this is the one this is the protests going on here in potsdamer platz and there's also going to be a smaller one with the 200 people in my car and also all over germany in 13 different cities there will be demonstrations and one of the biggest ones being in cologne. other fears it here in germany about the potential for conflict between