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Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Power Plays: From Greenland to Ukraine

Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Sky News

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.0224 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Britain and France promise to put troops on the ground if a ceasefire is reached in Ukraine. Is it a significant moment towards peace?

The White House says it wants to take over Greenland before the end of Donald Trump's term as President - why is it so desirable?

And there’s new proposals to changes to road safety including a tightening of drink driving laws.

Sophy and Wilf have the day's news in just 10 minutes.

Transcript

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Hello, you're listening to Cheech, the podcast where we cut through the scrolling and the shouting to bring you what you need to know in 10 minutes.

0:46.8

I'm Safie Rich.

0:51.3

And I'm Wilfred Frost. It's Wednesday the 7th of January and here's what's happening today.

0:56.1

So we've got a significant moment potentially when it comes to peace in Ukraine because Britain and France have promised to put troops on the ground if an agreement is breached.

1:01.4

Meanwhile, the White House says it wants to take over Greenland before the end of Donald Trump's term as president.

1:08.9

We'll be discussing that.

1:10.2

We've also got the government's big new road safety strategy.

1:13.3

It's all about booze limits and also I test for over 70s.

1:17.6

We'll bring that to you.

1:21.0

A big meeting of the Coalition of the Willing in Paris yesterday and hugely significant

1:26.8

conclusions to it, most notably that boots on the ground

1:31.0

from the UK and France could be part of a ceasefire deal going forward. Also, the wording from

1:39.5

Kirstama and others to say we're closer than ever to a peace deal. That was echoed by his President

1:44.2

Zelensky, but perhaps most importantly by Steve Wittkoff, the US negotiator who's seen as

1:49.9

at least well plugged in, let's say, generous framing with Russia. We've yet to hear what Russia

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