US forces withdraw as Turkey advances in northern Syria

The US plans to evacuate 1,000 troops from northern Syria as Turkey military advances. Amid the unrest, family members of Islamic State fighters are reported to have escaped a camp that housed thousands of displaced people. It was at this camp a BBC journalist met three orphaned children, from London. Their parents had taken them to live in the Islamic State's caliphate five years ago.

Also in the programme: We go to Poland where the governing Law and Justice Party looks set to win today's elections ; and to Tunisia where the north African nation is holding its second election since becoming a democracy.

(Photo:A Turkish-backed Syrian fighter fires towards the border town of Ras al-Ain on October 13, 2019. Credit: Nazeer Al-khatib / AFP/Getty)