of the debate hall here in westerville, ohio outside of columbus where in just hours 12 democratic candidates will face-off. but rt world lead. president trump announced in 24 hours weapon pence will head to turkey to attempt to broker a ceasefire between turkey and syrian kurdish forces. it is seemingly an attempt by pence to clean up what critics are calling president trump's mess which now has a body count. after the president essentially gave the go ahead for turkey to attack the kurds in northern syria when he pulled troops from the region. don't take my word for it. the former ambassador to combat isis brett mcgurk tweeted trump officials are working over time to say that he didn't give this gift to russia and iran and i don't envy them but it is false. boris sanchez breaks down the white house cramble over syria.