
Turkey and the US Clash Over Syria
President Erdogan of Turkey slams the US national security advisor over Kurds in Syria.
Turkey and the US have been at loggerheads over Syria in the wake of President Trump's decision to pull US troops out of the country. The Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that the US national security adviser, John Bolton, had made a serious mistake in suggesting the withdrawal was conditional on Ankara agreeing to security guarantees for US-backed Kurdish fighters.
Also on the programme, after the Guatemalan government gave the UN corruption commission twenty four hours to leave, is a crisis coming? And we meet the Japanese woman who forced a tabloid magazine to make a public apology for sexism.
(Picture: YPG fighters in Syria Credit: Reuters)
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