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Thank you. It's Wednesday, 29 January. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

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

All right, let's get ourselves briefed.

First, as they work to trim waste across government

agencies, the Trump administration has pulled $50 million in taxpayer funding allegedly earmarked

by the previous administration for the distribution of condoms in Gaza. This is clearly a story that needs investigating.

Then following months of tense negotiations,

the U.S. military is transferring 90 Patriot Missile interceptors

from storage in Israel to Ukraine,

marking the single largest delivery of weapons from Jerusalem to Kiev since Russia's

invasion nearly three years ago. But first, our afternoon spotlight, and I know based on the

tease that you're keen to get to our afternoon spotlight, the Trump administration's decision

to temporarily freeze foreign aid has drawn attention to a rather bizarre use of taxpayer

funds, and that, of course, would be the condoms for the people of Gaza.

Kay, the Trump White House claimed Tuesday that the Biden administration had earmarked tens of

millions of dollars for a condom distribution program in the Gaza Strip, an expenditure that was reportedly discovered

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