President Trump again threatens to annex Greenland
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The US claims that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority to deter threats from Russia and China in the Arctic. Washington hasn't ruled out the use of military force. Also: Ukraine and allies say they've made progress in talks to ensure the country's security in the event of a ceasefire with Russia; the Venezuelan military and government crack down on dissent; the anti-government protests that have engulfed Iran; an inside look at one of the world's first quantum computers; and Lego's high-tech upgrade.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Will Chalk and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 7th of January, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.9 | The US says it's discussing options to, as it put it, acquire Greenland, including |
| 0:23.3 | the use of military force. Ukraine and its allies say they've made progress in talks to ensure |
| 0:28.8 | the country's security in the event of a ceasefire with Russia, and the Venezuelan military |
| 0:34.3 | and government continue to crack down on dissent. |
| 0:40.2 | Also in this podcast, we get the latest on the anti-government protests that have engulfed Iran. |
| 0:46.4 | And... |
| 0:47.1 | We actually ran a benchmark computation on this chip, which took just a few minutes, |
| 0:52.9 | but it would have taken 10 septillion years on today's |
| 0:56.7 | top supercomputer. An inside look at one of the world's first quantum computers. |
| 1:06.5 | Over the course of countless TV interviews, press conferences and speeches, Donald Trump has made a lot of claims, and it means sifting out the ones he's immediately planning to follow through on isn't always easy. |
| 1:19.8 | But one idea that the US might take over Greenland seems to be increasingly picking up steam, so much so that it dominated a meeting of a group |
| 1:28.5 | of Ukraine's allies, the so-called Coalition of the Willing, in France on Tuesday. |
| 1:33.8 | The meeting was supposed to be about security guarantees for Ukraine. |
| 1:37.2 | Now, a number of those guarantees were established, but the Paris meeting also made a joint |
| 1:42.4 | declaration on the issue of Greenland after Donald |
| 1:45.4 | Trump again threatened to try and annex the island using force if necessary. Greenland has been |
| 1:52.0 | owned by Denmark since 1814 and the European statement promised to defend the vast North Atlantic |
| 1:58.5 | Islands territorial integrity. |
| 2:05.8 | Trina Mack is a Danish MP and a member of the country's Foreign Affairs Committee. |
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