it's Wednesday 24 July welcome to the president's Daily Brief I'm Mike Baker your eyes and ears on the world stage let's get briefed we'll start today in the Middle East where details are emerging of a secret meeting between the US Israel and the United Arab Emirates UAE to discuss plans for Gaza after the war ends we'll have those details later in the show we examine the risk of war in Europe as NATO announces it is placed half a million troops on high Readiness to defend the alliance against potential Russian aggression h plus the Fallout from history's biggest it outage continues with some Airlines claiming that the turmoil could last for weeks and in today's back of the brief ahead of Venezuela's election later this month the nation's embattled president Nicholas Maduro is warning that a loss at the polls for him could lead to a bloodbath and Civil War