us on many thanks for the song from the german institute for international and security affairs we're going to take you back to munich now to the munich security conference and listen to some of the answers that the french prime minister it lawfully giving during the question and answer sessions that we are thinking about that. and now regarding the question of our values. that support you know the basis of europe and that should guide the defense sector. i look as though it's a question that and france we do not face for the first time this question came up when we discussed the constitution in france and the content of it here appear in constitution as well as all the facts are values that we want to use that we already claim as our values and that that would have deserved being mentioned in the european constitution and the traditional answer is simple nora ephron prime minister you will it all is we will always tell you this. we know our common history we know how the european civilization came about we know how crucial diligence have been. in the creation of these values and in t

institute for international and security affairs there in berlin good morning marcus what do you make of the syrian army's plan to back kurdish militias fighting turkish forces in africa and i think it's a rather clever move because it serves two purposes first it keeps turkey it be a regime which always requested of president assad to be removed it would be a band that it. keeps the kurds at bay and allows the syrian regime to push you path of territorial integrity to keep syria together turkey has massive military resources and says it won't leave until the kurds have been ejected at least the kurdish why p.g. fighters is the kurdish syrian alliance capable of repel ng the turkish offensive indeed the turkish military capabilities are overwhelming it's the biggest military contributive nato with seven hundred thousand soldiers on the arms to be honest i'm not really through how fog took you will proceed or advance in northern syria because actually they have accomplished what they wanted to to accomplish to tame the kurds to put it this way and now the kurds obtain both the syrian r

all both things marcus kayyem from the german institute for international and security affairs in berlin with the latest on happenings there on the ground in syria thank you so much mark thank you. in other news here in germany the center left social democrats have started voting on whether to enter a second coalition with angela merkel's conservative party members have a little over a week to cast their ballots and the results will be announced on march fourth the deal has deeply divided the s.p.v. as rank and file and it's a battle that is pitting the party establishment against its future leaders. nothing is more important for the social democrats over the next ten days and these kind of town hall meetings the party's grassroot is deeply divided as to whether they should agree to a grand coalition deal or not and the face of the rebellion against american led coalition is this young man kevin kuhn at the leader of the party is used to going he's trying to get members to vote no. on. off i believe that we can explain to the people why a no vote to this grand coalition deal which i am c