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It's Friday, 20 September, welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker,

your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed.

We'll start things off with an update on Israel's covert operations inside Lebanon,

as reports emerge that Israeli operatives didn't just rig Hezbollah's pagers to explode, they actually

built the devices as part of a years-long Trojan horse operation.

Then we'll move to the war in Ukraine as the European Union

green lights a 39 billion dollar loan for Kyiv that will be paid for using

Russia's own assets frozen inside Europe since Moscow's 2022 invasion.

But first, our afternoon spotlight.

I want to return to the events this week in Lebanon as a clearer picture begins to

emerge regarding just how Israeli operatives managed to remotely detonate thousands of

pagers carried by Hezbollah militants as part of an unprecedented intelligence operation.

An exclusive report from the New York Times which spoke with 12 current and former defense

and intelligence officials who were briefed on the attacks

reveals that the mysterious Hungarian company linked to the pagers that would be

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