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It's Thursday, 19 December. 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, disturbing discoveries from Syria, where mass graves found following

the downfall of the Assad regime, suggests hundreds of thousands of people were tortured and killed under the repressive regime

since the Civil War began back in 2011. Then, an update on the war in Ukraine, as President Zelensky

warns the West that Kiev doesn't currently have the military strength to retake their captured

territory from Russia. But first, our

afternoon spotlight. I want to begin with an update out of Syria, where mass graves, uncovered

since the overthrow of the Assad regime, are exposing some of the worst war crimes and human

rights abuses since Nazi times. Officials with the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a U.S.-based

Syrian advocacy organization, said they believe there are more than 100,000 bodies buried at a mass grave

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