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Today. It's Thursday, the 9th of April.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

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

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, U.S. and Iranian officials are set to meet face-to-face for the

first time since the war began, as talks kickoff in Pakistan. At least that's the current plan,

but Tehran's opening demands suggest a deal may still be a long ways off. Later in the show,

British officials expose a covert Russian submarine operation targeting under-sea cables

and pipelines, raising new concerns about Moscow's hybrid warfare playbook. But first, today's

afternoon spotlight. For the first time since the war began, U.S. and Iranian officials are reportedly

expected to sit down face-to-face, with talks set to begin as early as tomorrow

in Islamabad, Pakistan. Now, this comes as part of that fragile two-week ceasefire window,

or whatever the word is for a ceasefire that, where the firing hasn't actually ceased,

and key conditions for the ceasefire or whatever it is have yet to be met, but essentially it's a lull

or a pause in the fighting, perhaps meant to give both sides time to negotiate towards something

more permanent. And according to multiple reports, senior officials are already on their way,

with Vice President J.D. Vance expected to lead the U.S. delegation. Now, before those talks even begin, we've already

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