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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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