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>> there were real concerns an hour ago when the u.s. brokered cease-fire was scheduled to end. there could be more fighting. this military offensive by turkey has created more than 170,000 displaced people. these are families mainly kurdish on the move trying to run from the fighting. talents that became ghost towns in the last several hours. people trying to get away from what they thought could be a renewed turkish offensive. that's not happening right now. it might not happen at all. in part due to the agreement between russia and turkey. here's the turkish president. >> translator: both c...

Prevent a resurgence of the islamic state. >> what we have got to do is pull them out deliberately, out of northeast syria, and make our preparations to go home from there. >> turkish offensive caused civilian casualties on both sides and displaced more than 176,000 people according to the u.n. the offensive also soured relations further between the u.s. and nato member turkey. with the u.s. at one point threatening to cripple turkey's economy with sanctions. for now, russia is the power broker. russia negotiated the deal and russian soldiers will enforce it. bret? >> bret: steve harrigan, liv...

The border between syria and turkey, despite a cease fire negotiated by vice president pence with turkey's president erdogan on thursday, both sides blaming each other for the cease fire violations. erdogan has given it a five day cease fire. he said after that pause in the fighting, if all kurdish fighters are not cleared out of the safety zone, he has vowed to crush the heads of kurdish fighters. here's erdogan. >> if it works, it works. if it doesn't, the minute 120 hours expire, we will continue from where we left off and keep crushing the heads of the terrorists. >> reporter: this turkish...

Less holding. there have been some skirmishes today. there was some exchanges of fire. but mostly, it is in the one pocket where you were showing the plumes of smoke around this -- right on the turkish/syrian border. but in general, throughout the length of the area, it has been much, much quieter today than it has been over the last ten days or so. but the profound issues here remain what will happen next. there are deep concerns tonight among the kurds. the kurds are not at all happy with this agreement. they said they are facing ethnic cleansing. about a quarter of a million kurds have alre...

Breaking news this afternoon as turkey targets krdish fighter in northern syria president trump makes his stance crystal clear. "that has nothing to do with us." moments ago president trump asked if he was surprised by turkish president erdogan's decision to move forward on assault on that region. this is what he said. >> it didn't surprise me at all. they've been warring for many years. it's unnatural for us but sort of natural for them. they fight. and they fight long and they fight hard, and they've been tighting syria for a long time and on the border, that's the border with syria and i sa...