normal in most cities around the world is something unusual for many in the it could dorian capital quito especially when it comes to the prices. for 11 days the country was completely paralyzed by protests against cuts to fuel subsidies and the resulting leap in the cost of petrol. the import of 60 percent of ecuadorian people are extremely poor so who would be affected by these feelings creases of course the people of ecuador not important business men. who are against rich left against right the protests or numerous clashes between demonstrators and security forces at least 6 people died in the violence and over 500 were injured. the international monetary fund had insisted the government council feel subsidies as part of its attempt to balance the budget that turned ecuadorians dissatisfaction with their leaders into outrage. people have not seen a single penny. but nonetheless their governments have taken out a 1000000 loans. people don't see these loans. those are annoyances. you can't see the current government with so many loans building roads hi joy electric power building

to be correspondent dorian jones joins me now from istanbul good evening to you dorian the turkish military operation it has now gone from just an air assault to a ground assault what do we know i mean troops forces have actually crossed the border now right. well that's right the turkish defense ministry in a statement has said that the operation has begun saying soldiers have crossed across the syrian border into these. by the syrian kurdish militia this follows. by turkish jets and turkish pounding. bases. possibly the turkish military expediting this operation into previous operations in the past couple of years of the air strikes last a full days even one case a couple of weeks this to. me a few. these operations ground operations this could be closely in reaction to the growing backlash in washington you just heard u.s. president trump again threatening to destroy turkey's economy if he if they go too far again so there is a realization. now with the ground forces on the ground this spring tempo in the operation and without the risk of more civilian casualties what do we know

correspondent dorian jones is standing by in istanbul good evening to you dorian what kind of operation are we looking at here dorian we just saw in that tweet from rich a thai air to one the goal here is to neutralize terrorist threats but is he talking about the terrorists being the kurds or is he talking about the terrorists being the isis prisoners that are in the area. speak to touch officials they'll say it's both but let's be clear the primary objective of this operation is to drive back the syrian kurdish militia that has been on turkey's border for several years has said that this group is a terrorist organization linked to a kurdish insurgency site turkey and they say that they have been committed to removing this threat from it and it will point to the fact that it has getting support from the international community saying that they are respecting turkey's right to protect its borders now this operation is going to be a major operation this is been in the planning for months turkey plans to create a 30 kilometer deep. safe zone as president calls it and it's going

correspondent dorian jones joins us from istanbul welcome dorian as a tell us more about the turkish military operation. well there has been this ongoing bombardment from the air within hours of the announcement of the operation jets have been relentlessly pounding towns across the syrian border here at least 4 possibly 5 towns have been struck took issue tillery 2 have been bombarding the area along with mortar fire there have been some reports that the syrian kurdish forces have retaliated using small fire and mortars attacking nearby turkish border towns and this is just the very beginning of what is seen the turkish forces are laying the ground for a major ground offensive possibly they can start at night in the early hours of the morning part of a very major operation that turkey has been planning for many months i what are you hearing from northern syria. well it's very difficult to get a real report from what's happening but we do understand that from statements released by the syrian kurdish forces if the scribed major panic in town centers with the airstrikes claiming at lea