The latest on Trump's 'Board of Peace'
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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It began as part of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement to stop the war in Gaza. But the "Board of Peace," a brainchild of US President Trump, has morphed into something with more grand ambitions, at least rhetorically. Also, police in Nigeria's largest city fired tear gas on people protesting the ongoing demolition of Makoko, an enormous informal settlement that stretches out into the Lagos Lagoon. And, fighting continues in Syria between Kurdish forces and the central government. Plus, the Most Reverend Sarah Mullally was formally confirmed as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury at a ceremony held at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
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| 0:00.0 | Makoko is an entire neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria built on stilts. |
| 0:09.9 | It hovers over the water. |
| 0:11.5 | If the potentials of Makoko were well harnessed, it would be one of the top tourism |
| 0:16.7 | attractions, not just in Nigeria, but it's in the whole of Africa. |
| 0:20.5 | That potential has not been harnessed. Now residents are being evicted. I'm Marco Werman. |
| 0:24.8 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Also on the show, President Trump has been touting a new Board of Peace |
| 0:30.6 | to build a stable future for Gaza. Experts are not so sure. Let's check back six weeks from now |
| 0:37.0 | and see if it's done anything useful on peace in the Middle East. |
| 0:40.6 | Plus, how wounded Russian soldiers see their country's war. |
| 0:43.9 | These guys have no illusions about the war and what's happening on the front lines. |
| 0:48.9 | They told me directly our television is lying to us. |
| 0:51.5 | Those stories and more are ahead on the world. |
| 0:58.6 | This is the world. |
| 1:04.2 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for being here today. The idea for the so-called Board of Peace first came up back in September as the Trump administration initiative to secure a |
| 1:09.4 | lasting peace in the Gaza Strip after two years of war. |
| 1:12.9 | But since then, the White House has expanded its vision of what this new entity might be and do. |
| 1:18.5 | Last week in Davos, Switzerland, Trump told the international community that once this board is formed, |
| 1:24.3 | quote, we can do pretty much whatever we want to do. More than two dozen countries |
| 1:28.8 | have joined, but there is a lot of skepticism about the idea. The world's Matthew Bell starts us off |
| 1:34.2 | today with a look at how the Board of Peace is coming together. The charter for President |
| 1:39.6 | Trump's Board of Peace has not been released publicly, but the Times of Israel has posted what it says |
| 1:45.7 | is the full text of the document. It opens by saying that durable peace requires pragmatic |
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