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Thank you. It's Friday, 10 January. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker,

your eyes and ears on the world stage. Let's get briefed. Today, we'll continue our coverage of the historic wildfires tearing

through Los Angeles as a weekend of hopefully calmer winds give residents their first glimmer of hope.

Later in the show, President Elect Trump announced that a meeting is being set up between himself

and Russian President Putin to begin talks on ending the war in Ukraine.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight. We'll begin in Los Angeles with an update on the

devastating fires ripping through the county as firefighters continue to struggle to contain the blazes

while the death toll rises. As a Friday morning, at least five

wildfires were still burning across the area, putting some 166,000 residents under evacuation

warnings. That adds to the more than 150,000 residents who have already been forced from their

homes due to the fires.

The city saw its first glimmer of hope on Friday, as a pause in the fierce winds that

have fueled the spread of the infertals helped crews make some progress on bringing the fires

under control. Officials now see the weekend wind lull as their best opportunity to contain the

fires, but it, well, frankly, remains a race against time, particularly as forecasters warn that

strong wind gusts could return on Monday, and that's according to a report from Reuters.

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