This is the Global News Podcasts.

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson and in the early hours of Tuesday the 20th of January, these are our main stories.

Donald Trump says no comment when asked if he could use force to annex

Greenland to the delight of his supporters. We hear from an author who's written extensively on America's

history of buying territory at once, plus a special report on the soaring cost of living in the United States.

Also in this podcast.

I was raided at my house and I was able to escape.

But prior to the raid, I got information that there was a plan to attack me at my house and harm me.

Uganda's opposition leader Bobby Wyne tells the BBC he's been forced into hiding

after what he believes was a rigged presidential election.

Donald Trump has told the Norwegian Prime Minister

that he can no longer think, in his words, purely of peace and that he wants complete and total control of Greenland.

He said he would follow through on his threats to impose tariffs on eight European countries if the autonomous Danish territory doesn't become part of the United States.

There is some opposition in America

to his plans. The Democratic Senator Chris Coons has urged Republicans to rein in Mr. Trump.

I think it's important that we try to lower the temperature, that we work across the aisle

and find proposals for a path forward that would allow an action by

Congress, both to restrain President Trump's misuse of tariffs against NATO allies and to restrict

his ability to threaten a NATO ally with force. And frankly, I'm hopeful that Republican colleagues will be successful in talking

President Trump out of this. But if they aren't, we need to be prepared to act in Congress on a

bipartisan basis because this is very dangerous. But Mr. Trump has many supporters.

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