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From Our Own Correspondent: Trump in Trouble?

12/10/2019

Trump in Trouble?

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Trump in Trouble?

Double trouble for President Trump - Ukraine and Syria.

Twin sources of trouble for President Trump - the impeachment inquiry and the withdrawal of US troops from Syria. But just how much trouble is Donald Trump in?

President Trump and his supporters remain defiant in the face of the impeachment inquiry against him.  But many of Mr Trump's political allies are troubled by another issue: the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, which has allowed Turkey to attack Kurdish targets in Syria. Jon Sopel says Syria may turn into Mr Trump's bigger problem.

The Kalash are a mountain people who live in a series of valleys in the Hindu Kush in northern Pakistan. They number only a few thousand today and there are concerns that there's increasing pressure upon them to convert to Islam. Emma Thomson has been to visit.

There's a fuel crisis in Cuba at the moment and if you want to fill up you'd better be prepared to wait of several hours.  As Will Grant reports, the government is taking other measures to save money, such as asking civil servants to work from home.

China's economic influence spreads far and wide. It has reached the city of Sihanoukville in southern Cambodia where billions have been invested in industrial infrastructure. But Vincent Ni encounters ambivalent attitudes there to people of Chinese origin.

Earlier this year the British government imposed a temporary export ban on one of JMW Turner's masterpieces, The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne.  Lucy Daltroff has been to the source of his inspiration.

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