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I'm Jason Palmer.

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Thank you. day, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. For as long as megachurches have existed, America has done a pretty good line in them,

but what they're offering is changing. Our correspondent finds that fire and brimstone is out,

crosses too sometimes, and a business-like manner is in.

And remember when you only listened to a podcast? How very monomedia. These days you can often watch them too. We ask why the cameras have been turned on to a classically audio medium.

But first...

It was another extraordinary weekend. Donald Trump reiterated his determination to reach a deal

for America's complete and total purchase of Greenland. And he said he'd imposed 10% tariffs on imports

from eight European countries, all of them his fellow NATO allies, who'd sent troops to support

the territory. European leaders vowed not to be bullied. Denmark currently runs the autonomous

territory. Its Prime Minister said that Europe won't be blackmailed. Speaking to the BBC,

Danish MP Lars Christian Brask described Trump's threats as a personal vendetta.

You cannot sell a population. It's modern slavery.

A few weeks ago, many people would have struggled to locate Greenland on a map.

Now the clash over this Arctic island risks tearing apart the global

order.

I think this is the biggest crisis in the transatlantic relationship in either of Donald

Trump's two presidencies, much more serious than anything we've had in the past.

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