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Thank you. It's Monday, I'm like December. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. Welcome to the BDB afternoon bulletin. Let's get briefed.

First, former Syrian president Assad is speaking out from his exile in Russia for the first time since the collapse of his regime this past Sunday.

Although you have to ask yourself why anyone would care, what an overthrown, brutal, despotic dictator has to say.

But we'll have those details.

Then, from the U.S., an update on the unidentified drones that have baffled officials across the tri-state region as federal authorities announced plans to deploy a state-of-the-art radar

detection system in New York to solve the mystery.

But first, our afternoon spotlight, deposed Syrian President Assad as broken his silence from exile

in Moscow, issuing his first public statement on the Islamist rebel uprising that toppled his

family's dictatorship after 50 brutal years ruling over Syria.

Assad, who fled the country on December 8th, as the rebels took control of the capital city

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