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Hi, Mike Baker here. I'm still out in the desert. It's an amazing trek into great cause,

raising awareness for the UK's Special Forces Benevolent Fund. While I'm gone,

Mike Slater is stepping in to deliver the President's Daily Brief.

Thanks, Mike. It's Friday, 17 January 2025. Welcome back to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

Mike Slater filling it for Mike Baker. Let's get briefed. Today, President-elect Donald Trump is urging Israel to keep their fragile ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah and Lebanon from falling apart,

just as the Israeli security cabinet votes to approve the breakthrough ceasefire deal with Hamas and Gaza. Later in the shelf, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday upholding the law,

requiring China-based bite dance to divest its ownership of TikTok by Sunday or face a ban.

President Joe Biden has already said he won't enforce the ban in his last day at office,

leaving the fate of the popular app in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight, as momentum builds behind finalizing the breakthrough ceasefire agreement

in Gaza, advisors to President-elect Donald Trump have reportedly warned Israel not to let their

fragile truce with Hezbollah and Lebanon collapse. The warning comes as senior Israeli officials

have indicated in recent days that the Israeli military will remain in

southern Lebanon beyond the current 60-day ceasefire.

Leaders in Jerusalem have been highly critical of the Lebanese army, saying they're not

moving fast enough to deploy their forces to a buffer zone along their border with Israel,

according to an exclusive report from the Jerusalem Post.

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