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The President's Daily Brief

PDB Afternoon Bulletin | December 26th, 2024: Did Russian Air Defense Cause Deadly Azerbaijan Crash? & Pakistan Escalates Attacks On Taliban in Afghanistan

The President's Daily Brief

The First TV

News, Politics

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin:   First, we’ll look at the deadly crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight over Kazakhstan on Wednesday, as evidence mounts that it was likely caused by a Russian air defense system. Then, Pakistan is escalating their fight against the Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan, unleashing a series of airstrikes that killed at least 46 people late Tuesday night. It’s just the latest incident to raise tensions with the Afghan Taliban government, who vowed retaliation. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Officer 2.m. It's Thursday, 26th December. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. All right, it's, to be fair, the late afternoon bulletin. I'm on the road still. It's the Where's Waldo game. Coming to you this week from East Asia.

0:56.2

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. Let's get briefed.

1:01.0

First, we'll look at the deadly crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines flight over Kazakhstan on Wednesday

1:08.1

as evidence mounts that it was likely caused by a Russian air defense system.

1:14.5

Then, Pakistan is escalating their fight against the Taliban and Afghanistan, unleashing a series

1:20.7

of air strikes that killed at least 46 people late Tuesday night. Now, it's just the latest

1:26.8

incident to raise tensions with the Afghan Taliban

1:29.4

government who, not surprisingly, vowed retaliation. But first, our afternoon spotlight. We'll begin

1:37.2

with the Christmas Day tragedy out of Kazakhstan, where an Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed on Wednesday

1:42.7

in an incident suspected to be caused by Russian

1:46.1

anti-aircraft fire. The flight was setting from Baku, in Azerbaijan to Groszny and Russia,

1:52.4

but was diverted for unknown reasons over an area where Moscow's air defenses have been engaged

1:58.4

in intense aerial battles with Ukrainian drones in recent weeks.

2:03.1

After turning around and flying east over the Caspian Sea, the plane struggled to stay airborne

2:08.2

and ultimately went down over Western Kazakhstan, killing at least 38 people, and that's

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