Trump launches 'Board of Peace'
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
US president Donald Trump has launched his Board of Peace - promising a new era of peace for the Middle East and beyond.
The board is part of Trump's 20-point plan to end the Israel-Hamas war. The UK says will not yet be signing up the board over concerns about Russian leader Vladimir Putin's possible participation. We'll ask how it will work -- and get the view of a former top UN official.
Also in the programme: Can President Trump pressure President Zelensky over concessions to Russia?; and we'll have the latest on a landslide in New Zealand.
(Photo shows US president Donald Trump taking part in an announcement for his Board of Peace initiative in Davos, Switzerland on 22 January2026. Credit: Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:13.7 | Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. One year ago, almost to the day, Donald Trump |
| 0:19.7 | announced at his presidential inauguration, |
| 0:22.4 | my proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker. |
| 0:26.4 | Today, a stage was set, and I'm not talking metaphorically, a stage was set for his latest grand project in the service of all that. |
| 0:35.9 | The president's much-vaunted Board of Peace |
| 0:38.8 | with a signing ceremony at the Swiss ski resort of Davos. |
| 0:43.2 | The Prime Minister of Hungary. |
| 0:51.1 | The President of the Republic of Indonesia. |
| 0:56.0 | Sitting in two rows on this Swiss stage, President's Prime Ministers and foreign ministers from 19 countries, from Argentina to Uzbekistan, and all of them, awaiting the arrival of the leader of the 20th country. |
| 1:11.1 | Please welcome the chairman of the Board of Peace, the President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. |
| 1:21.2 | And then the president was back in the place he has made his own behind a live mic with the world's press watching and listening. |
| 1:28.9 | Well, this is a very exciting day. Long in the making and many countries have just received |
| 1:37.3 | their notice and everybody wants to be a part of it. Well, maybe not everybody. Notable absentees |
| 1:43.3 | include any major European democracy |
| 1:45.0 | or any other permanent member of the UN Security Council. President Trump had this appraisal |
| 1:50.0 | of those who were on stage with him. Let me see. Yeah, every one of them is a friend of my couple. |
| 1:57.8 | A couple, let's see, a couple I like, a couple I don't like. |
| 2:02.9 | No, I like, actually, at this group, I like every single one of them. |
| 2:05.9 | Can you believe it? |
| 2:06.7 | Usually I have about two or three that I can't stand. |
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