Anxiety spreads in Denmark amid US demands to take over Greenland

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4.6 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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President Donald Trump keeps insisting that the US "needs" to take over Greenland, which is controlled by Denmark. Protests in both Denmark and Greenland have denounced US threats to seize the territory. Also, Julio Iglesias, the 82-year-old crooner who's sold more than 300 million records over his long career, could soon take center stage in a Spanish courtroom over sexual abuse allegations. And, a look at the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and his global message against oppression. Plus, the story of a revolutionary woman who led Africa’s independence movements.

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0:00.0	President Trump threatens new tariffs against European countries that defy his demand to take over Greenland.
0:11.0	People in Denmark can't believe what they're hearing.
0:14.0	It is a betrayal against the values. It's a betrayal against essentially everything I grew up with. I'm Carolyn Beeler. On this
0:24.8	MLK day, we'll hear about King's pilgrimage to India in 1959. This India trip was an opportunity
0:31.9	for King to retrace Gandhi's steps and to see physically on the landscape how Gandhi and tactics could work.
0:39.2	Also today, the daughter of an African revolutionary tells her family's story.
0:43.6	My home was like a cauldron of political conclave every day.
0:51.2	Those stories and more today on the world.
1:03.4	This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thanks for joining us on this Monday holiday.
1:08.5	UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer tried today to bring down the temperature in the diplomatic standoff between Washington and Europe over Greenland.
1:12.3	President Trump keeps insisting that the U.S. needs to take over the territory, which is
1:17.2	controlled by Denmark. But European leaders are standing their ground.
1:21.2	Starmor said today that this can all be resolved through calm discussion.
1:25.5	He also said this.
1:26.5	Any decision about the future status of Greenland belonged to the people of Greenland
1:34.2	and the kingdom of Denmark alone.
1:38.0	On Saturday, President Trump said he was ready to impose new tariffs on eight European
1:43.0	countries because of their support for Denmark.
1:46.2	Italy's prime minister, George Maloney, spoke with the president over the weekend and told him new
1:50.9	tariffs would be a mistake. The public came out to protest in both Denmark and Greenland,
1:56.9	denouncing U.S. threats to seize the territory. The world's Josh Coe is based in the Danish city of Arhus.
2:03.3	Josh, what are you hearing there from people about all of this?
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