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World Service,08 Oct 2019,53 mins

President Trump defends decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria

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President Trump has defended his decision to pull US troops out of northern Syria but he repeated his warning to Turkey not to take advantage of the withdrawal. Over the past 24 hours the hashtag sex for grades has been trending on Twitter after the BBC's Africa Eye went undercover to examine allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers at universities in West Africa. The American writer Jonathan Safran Foer tells us why what we eat is destroying the planet.

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