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US sends mixed messages on Turkey's offensive in northern Syria
President Trump now says Turkey's invasion of Syria is not America's problem.
US President Donald Trump has said that the Turkish assault on Kurdish forces in Syria is not America's problem. But US Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are trying to get Turkey's President Erdogan to halt it.
Also in the programme: the future of artificial wombs; and the revival of the hump back whale.
Photo: Smoke rising from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain on the eighth day of Turkey's military operation against Kurdish forces. Credit: AFP/Getty Images
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