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Thank you. It's Friday, 14 February.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

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

And I hope your Valentine's Day is going swimmingly.

All right, let's get briefed. First,

on the heels of President Trump's proposal last week for the U.S. to take control of the Gaza Strip and relocate its Palestinian population, Arab leaders led by Saudi Arabia are now scrambling

to develop an alternative reconstruction plan.

Later in the show, a suspected Russian drone struck the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine overnight damaging its protective shell.

Ukrainian President Zelensky called it a, quote, terrorist attack and proof that Vladimir

Putin is not serious about pursuing peace.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

President Trump's surprise proposal last week for the U.S. to take control of the Gaza Strip

may have left the Arab world stunned, but it also appears to have forced regional leaders to

address the problem of post-war governance

in the battered enclave sooner than they likely had planned. According to 10 sources, that's a lot

of sources that spoke exclusively to Reuters, Saudi Arabia is now spearheading urgent Arab efforts

...