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It's Monday, it's a day of, it's a two-per-day-old. It's Monday, 9 December.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

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

And coming to you this week from where are we?

Oh, the Middle East.

Let's get briefed.

A historic day in the Middle East, as the region comes to terms with the fall of one of the world's longest-running family dictatorships, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been

toppled by rebel forces.

He fled the country shortly before the rebels took over Damascus.

Later in the show, governments around the world react to the fall of the Assad regime with a mix of, well, let's call it hope and apprehension.

We'll break down the response so far.

Plus, Ukrainian President Zelensky reveals the military death toll for Ukraine's forces in the Russian invasion,

as the U.S. prepares another billion-dollar aid package.

And in today's back of the brief,

we'll bring you the latest updates on the hunt for the man who killed United Health Care's CEO in New York City this past week. But first, today's BDB spotlight. Five decades of Assad family

rule came to a crashing halt over the weekend as rebel forces ousted

Bashar al-Assad's regime and forced the despot to flee. His decades-long grip on power is over,

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