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Tuesday: Turkey - US Ambassador, NDP: national childcare, Viking hoard found, and more...

Instead of launching airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, Turkey attacks Kurds inside Turkey -- further confusing its would-be allies...Opposition leader Tom Mulcair announces a national childcare strategy with a price tag of five billion dollars a year -- which he says will pay for itself...and Derek McLennan tells us about the moment his metal detector went off -- and the...
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As It Happens28:21Oct 14 - Turkey: US ambassador, failure to replicate, Frankenstein pumpkin (Part 1)

Instead of launching airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, Turkey attacks Kurds inside Turkey -- further confusing its would-be allies...Opposition leader Tom Mulcair announces a national childcare strategy with a price tag of five billion dollars a year -- which he says will pay for itself...and Derek McLennan tells us about the moment his metal detector went off -- and the moment he realized he had discovered a thousand-year-old hoard of Viking treasure.

Part One

Turkey: US Ambassador
As US officials ask Turkey for help defending the Kurdish town of Kobani, Turkish warplanes begin bombing Kurdish targets at home. The former US Ambassador to Turkey talks about whose side Turkey is really on.

Failure to replicate
in a rare move, one scientist has gone public with his failure to replicate the results of his own study.

Frankenstein pumpkins
Tony Dighera has invented a unique pumpkin -- one is molded like a human head. And its features will be familiar to anyone who's a Boris Karloff fan.

Part Two

NDP: national childcare
Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair explains why children are the future -- and how the future as his party sees it is super-expensive, but worth it.

Viking hoard found
With one enormous discovery of Viking treasure more than a millennium old, Derek McLennan makes up for months of strolling the drizzly Scottish countryside with a metal detector.

Part Three

Chess tournament follow-up
Organizer and grandmaster Maurice Ashley describes what happened at the Millionaire Chess Open in Las Vegas.

Big Al election
Jack Goulet, whose running for deputy mayor of Lakeshore, Ontario, says his competitor, incumbent Al Fazio, has given himself an unfair advantage by listing himself as "Big Al" -- the name on his local bar -- on the ballot.

From Our Archives: Ali Mazrui obit
From our archives, As it Happens host Barbara Frum speaks with Kenyan academic Ali Mazrui on January 1st, 1980. Professor Mazrui died yesterday. He was 81.

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