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protected if something goes wrong. It's Thursday, December 14th.

It's Thursday, December 14th.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker.

Your eyes and ears on the world stage.

Let's get briefed. A showdown is brewing in Brussels today between Hungary and their

fellow European Union members as tensions mount over whether to grant additional

emergency aid to Ukraine and allow them to begin

proceedings to join the EU.

Also, Iran has issued a new threat to the U.S. over plans to establish an international maritime task force to protect

shipping vessels in the Red Sea from Iranian-Bakuti militants, warning the US that any efforts would face quote extraordinary problems.

But first our afternoon spotlight.

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