Greenland’s prime minister says the territory is ‘not for sale’
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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The foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland met with US Vice President JD Vance today at the White House today for talks. Also, a discussion about what the end of Temporary Protected Status for Somalia by the Trump administration means for Somalis. And, a look at why international adoptions have largely been a failure. Plus, a little-known amateur tennis player from Sydney beats some of the world's top tennis players at an event ahead of the Australian Open.
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| 0:00.0 | U.S. threats to invade Greenland are also threats to NATO. |
| 0:08.9 | This is an unprecedented situation we've never had in NATO history. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Marco Wurman. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:15.5 | Today we get the European perspective on Washington's designs on Greenland. |
| 0:20.4 | Also, protected status for Somali refugees in the |
| 0:23.5 | U.S. is ending. They could now be sent back to Somalia. My biggest worry is what to tell to my mother. |
| 0:29.5 | She's sitting in a locally displaced camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, and she's more worried than I am. |
| 0:35.4 | Plus, a big game for an amateur tennis player in Australia and the Netherlands band's fireworks |
| 0:40.8 | could be a lonely fight. |
| 0:42.5 | A lot of people will go to Germany, to Belgium, to Poland, to all the other countries to get fireworks |
| 0:48.7 | because all the borders are open. |
| 0:51.7 | All that and more today on the world. |
| 0:59.8 | This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:04.8 | And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for tuning in today. We begin in Washington where Vice President J.D. Vance hosted a closed-door meeting at the White House with top diplomats from Denmark and |
| 1:09.4 | Greenland. On the agenda, |
| 1:11.2 | the future of Greenland. President Trump is not backing away from his threats to seize Greenland, |
| 1:16.9 | which is a semi-autonomous part of Denmark. But Greenland's leaders, along with their counterparts |
| 1:22.5 | in the European Union, are less than thrilled with the idea of the U.S. takeover. To say the least, the world's |
| 1:28.9 | Matthew Bell begins our coverage. As the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland were meeting |
| 1:34.0 | with Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the White House tweeted a cartoon. |
| 1:39.6 | It shows two dog sleds bearing the flag of Greenland with a fork in their snowy path ahead. On one side is the |
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