After Trump's removal of Maduro, European leaders reject his demands for Greenland
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. The divides opened by the Trump administration's weekend operation to remove Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro widened further today. |
| 0:10.2 | European leaders denounced increasingly aggressive statements by Mr. Trump and top officials about an American seizure of Greenland, a territory of NATO ally Denmark. |
| 0:21.0 | Late today, the White House press Secretary shared a statement with the PBS News |
| 0:24.8 | Hour saying, quote, Greenland is a national security priority of the United States. |
| 0:29.6 | The president and his team are discussing a range of options, and, of course, utilizing the U.S. |
| 0:34.7 | military is always an option. |
| 0:37.4 | Meantime, as Nick Schifrin reports again |
| 0:39.5 | tonight in Venezuela, tensions and concerns are running high. As Venezuela heads toward an unknown, |
| 0:48.1 | future one family mourns the past. Jose Gonzalez says his 80-year-old sister Rosa was a kind woman, impeccable in |
| 0:56.1 | her conduct, and one of the few civilians killed in the Friday night raid to capture |
| 1:00.6 | Nicolas Maduro. The family says the attack destroyed her Caracas apartment and inflicted |
| 1:05.8 | a fatal wound. |
| 1:06.8 | It caught us all by surprise. We never thought it would be like this, this way. But it happened, |
| 1:13.3 | and it's something unavoidable now. |
| 1:16.1 | A now unavoidable new future for Venezuela without Maduro, but his police state remains |
| 1:21.5 | intact. Today we filmed these scenes in Caracas, where normally bustling streets are |
| 1:27.2 | relatively quiet. |
| 1:28.9 | Busy neighborhoods are closing early. |
| 1:31.2 | And police are everywhere. |
| 1:33.5 | Residents are scared because while Maduro is gone, Venezuela is still led by his lieutenants, |
| 1:40.3 | new president, Delci Rodriguez, sworn in yesterday by her brother Jorge, at least publicly, |
| 1:45.6 | defiant, alongside Maduro's son, U.S. sanctioned Nicholas Ernesto. |
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