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989-898. It's Thursday, the 21st of August.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, Israeli officials are preparing for their planned takeover of Gaza City,

calling up 60,000 reservists

for the effort, with the aim of dealing a death blow to Hamas. The offensive comes as Prime

Minister Netanyahu, weighs a last-minute ceasefire proposal that could free half of the remaining

living hostages in the enclave. Later in the show, a coalition of reformers inside Iran are calling on the Mullahs to suspend

their uranium enrichment program and reach a deal with the U.S. to ease sanctions as the country

grapples with a deteriorating water crisis. Now, who here thinks it's going to go well for those

reformers inside Iran?

Plus, a U.S.-led ground raid in Syria kills a senior member of ISIS who was poised to become

the terror group's next leader. Finally, in today's back of the brief, Israeli and Australian

leaders are beefen, trading increasingly personal barbs after Australia moved to recognize

Palestinian statehood and barred a member Prime Minister Netanyahu's ruling coalition from entering

the country.

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