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🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | All of a sudden, US troops left their observation posts along the Syrian border. |
0:08.8 | After the White House said it wouldn't stand in the way of a Turkish invasion. |
0:12.9 | Turkey has confirmed that its ground forces are on the move after launching an aerial |
0:16.8 | attack overnight. |
0:18.2 | It comes after the abrupt US pullout from the area. |
0:21.7 | The Kurdish army has released a video of its fighter jets bombing Kurdish positions as |
0:27.3 | the nation presses ahead with its invasion. |
0:30.2 | The best time to get these 66 women and children out of the Al-Hawqam was before the Turkish |
0:37.0 | invasion. |
0:38.4 | The government had little appetite, I must say, to get these people out of Syria before |
0:42.7 | the invasion. |
0:43.7 | I don't detect a great appetite now. |
0:45.8 | It's certainly now a lot more complicated. |
0:49.2 | Their future looks really, really uncertain. |
0:52.2 | If they do get out, perhaps too Kurdish. |
0:56.4 | Yesterday, on the daily, we met Komal Debussy, who for months has been lobbying the Australian |
1:02.7 | government to bring back his daughter and grandchildren, who were being held at a detention |
1:08.5 | center in Syria for the relatives of ISIS fighters. |
1:13.6 | When we left off, Komal had just received a call from a journalist that President Trump |
1:19.6 | had just announced he would withdraw US troops from the Syrian border. |
1:24.4 | And it was expected that the Kurdish forces who had been guarding the prisons as allies |
1:29.6 | of the US would abandon their posts, leaving the prisoners' lives in imminent danger. |
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