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Turkey boosts troops to enter Syria

Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.

The Kurdish administration in northeast Syria has urged civilians to mobilise to resist a planned Turkish military incursion.

Also in the programme: We hear from a migrants trying to get into Melilla, the Spanish city which borders Morocco; and three scientists have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries.

(Photo: Turkish forces positioned on the border with Syria near Akcakale. Credit: AFP)

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Wed 9 Oct 201913:06GMT

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  • Wed 9 Oct 201913:06GMT

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