Trump: Board of Peace to forge 'everlasting peace'
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
President Trump says his Board of Peace will help forge 'everlasting' peace in the Middle East and the wider world, but a number of European countries have refused to join the body. We hear from the president’s former Deputy National Security Adviser.
Also on the programme: US envoys head to Moscow to meet with President Putin in latest round of Ukraine peace talks; and the nominations for this year's Oscars are out, with vampire horror Sinners receiving a record-breaking sixteen nods.
(Photo: US President Donald Trump holding charter for his Board of Peace initiative in Davos, Switzerland, on 22 January 2026; Credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsAv from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.3 | We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:15.7 | And coming up, the Oscar nominations are out. |
| 0:18.2 | We'll also be hearing about the film with multiple nominations that still |
| 0:21.5 | lost tens of millions of dollars at the box office. I love one battle after another and I think |
| 0:28.0 | that we should talk about it with nothing but praise so we can encourage films like that to |
| 0:31.0 | continue to be made. I don't think that we should be collapsing business and industry articles and |
| 0:36.4 | criticism. I think there are two separate |
| 0:37.7 | things. One battle after another has 13 nominations, and there's a film that's topped that this year. |
| 0:44.4 | Find out which in 15 minutes. And there's something of a cinematic double bill today on News. |
| 0:48.7 | There's a new documentary about the 99-year-old filmmaker and comedian Mel Brooks. |
| 0:53.7 | We'll hear what his son Max thinks about it. |
| 0:57.3 | But we are going to begin once again in the Swiss Resort of Davos, setting for the World Economic Forum, |
| 1:02.2 | although you'd be forgiving for thinking that this annual shindig of presidents, prime ministers and corporate giants |
| 1:07.7 | had turned perhaps predictably into the Donald Trump show. |
| 1:11.5 | On Wednesday, it was all about his keynote speech and what he had to say about Greenland, |
| 1:15.8 | although that was all turned upside down by the end of the day. |
| 1:19.0 | Today, though, Davos provided the backdrop for the unveiling of President Trump's self-styled |
| 1:23.1 | Board of Peace, an outfit that also plays into, well, the theme of this week. America abandoning |
| 1:28.9 | multilateralism in favor of going it alone. Please welcome the chairman of the Board of Peace, |
| 1:35.7 | the President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. About 35 countries are so far signed up to join the Board of Peace. |
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