European leaders commit to post-ceasefire security guarantees for Ukraine
Newshour
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
After a meeting in Paris of the European allies who call themselves the "coalition of the willing", with the Ukrainian president and two senior US envoys also in attendance, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukraine's President Volodomyr Zelensky signed a joint declaration on security guarantees in the event of a ceasefire. We hear military analysis of the Ukraine agreement and also the latest US threats to annex Greenland.
Also in the programme: as the authorities in Venezuela turn up the repression, we hear from a one-time protestor in Caracas; and why anger is growing over an AI-powered tool for sexual content on Elon Musk's social media platform X.
(IMAGE: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, France's President Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer deliver a press conference upon the signing of the declaration on deploying post-ceasefire force in Ukraine during the so-called 'Coalition of the Willing' summit, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, January 6, 2026 / CREDIT: Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to News Hour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. |
| 0:17.3 | We're starting with two stories which may seem rather different, but they're deeply linked by the fact that they've got a lot to do with American military and diplomatic power. |
| 0:27.8 | And I'm not – excuse me, I'm not talking about Venezuela. We'll come to that later in the program. |
| 0:33.6 | The two stories are Ukraine and Greenland. |
| 0:40.2 | Ukraine first, because just before we came on air, |
| 0:42.9 | after a meeting of the European allies who called themselves the Coalition of the Willing, |
| 0:45.5 | a meeting in Paris with the Ukrainian president |
| 0:47.7 | and two senior envoys also in attendance, |
| 0:50.7 | the French president, Emmanuel Macron, |
| 0:53.4 | the British Prime Minister Kirstama, |
| 0:55.4 | and the Ukrainian President, Vladimir Zelensky, signed a joint declaration on security guarantees in the event of a ceasefire. |
| 1:04.2 | This is what Mr Stama had to say. |
| 1:06.3 | We signed a declaration of intent on the deployment of forces to Ukraine in the event of a peace deal. |
| 1:15.2 | This is a vital part of our ironcast commitment to stand with Ukraine for the long term. |
| 1:22.9 | It paves the way for the legal framework under which British, French and partner forces could |
| 1:29.8 | operate on Ukrainian soil. Shashank Joshi is the defence editor, the economist. Given that there |
| 1:37.2 | may have, there have been many rounds of meetings of this coalition of the willing, how significant |
| 1:43.4 | did he think this one might turn out to be? |
| 1:46.8 | I think this is a little bit more important than many of the previous rounds you discuss, |
| 1:52.4 | not because there's a formal announcement, but I think because this, for several reasons, |
| 1:57.9 | amongst Europeans, there is a little bit more optimism that the process of |
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