Turkey's Syria offensive: 100,000 flee

On day three of Turkey's large scale military offensive in north-east Syria, the UN says 100,000 have fled the fighting. President Erdogan says he'll press ahead with the operation, in spite of threats from other countries.

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(Photo: Displaced Syrians sit in the back of a pick up truck as Arab and Kurdish civilians flee amid Turkey's military assault on Kurdish-controlled areas in north-eastern Syria, on 11 October 2019 in the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad. Credit: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)