Trump wants 'immediate negotiations' to acquire Greenland
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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US President Donald Trump says he is seeking immediate negotiations to acquire Greenland. He told world leaders at the Davos World Economic Forum that he wouldn't use force to take the semi-autonomous Danish territory. Also: The BBC has seen photos of hundreds of victims of the bloody suppression of protests in Iran that were shown to relatives trying to identify the dead. The man who assassinated the former Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has been sentenced to life in prison. Safety measures are introduced in Pakistan to protect people from kite flying, and OpenAI adds age prediction to ChatGPT to strengthen safety for teenagers and children.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Ankara to Sion at 16 GMT on Wednesday, the 21st of January. These are our main stories. |
| 0:17.2 | Donald Trump has told the World Economic Forum he wants immediate negotiations to acquire Greenland for the United States, but he won't take it by force. |
| 0:25.9 | People thought I would use force. I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland. |
| 0:34.7 | We'll have more from Davos, where the US president has been addressing world leaders. |
| 0:39.3 | Also, the BBC has seen photos of hundreds of victims of the bloody suppression of protests in Iran |
| 0:44.7 | that were shown to relatives trying to identify the dead. |
| 0:50.5 | Also coming up in this podcast. |
| 0:54.2 | Yamanai, say, please. Thank you. Also coming up in this podcast. Sounds outside court to supporters of a man who assassinated the former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after being sentenced to life in prison. |
| 1:07.6 | We also explain a new report from the United Nations, which has declared what it |
| 1:11.4 | describes as the dawn of an era of global water bankruptcy. And the authorities in the Pakistani |
| 1:17.6 | city of Lahore have launched a drive to install safety rods on motorbikes to protect riders |
| 1:23.7 | from potentially deadly kite strings ahead of a festival. |
| 1:33.7 | We start in the Alpine town of Davos. |
| 1:38.5 | In normal times, a small and quiet, somewhat picturesque upmarket Swiss ski resort. |
| 1:40.8 | But these are anything but normal times. |
| 1:45.4 | It's currently home to the World Economic Forum, a gathering of the global elite, |
| 1:50.0 | who are waiting today to hear from President Trump. It's fair to say, European leaders were braced for impact, waiting to hear what the US president would say about plans to impose tariffs |
| 1:55.2 | on those countries that support Denmark's sovereignty of Greenland. But instead, President Trump, |
| 2:00.8 | in a wide-ranging speech, |
| 2:02.2 | lasting for around an hour and a half, said he wanted immediate negotiations to acquire Greenland |
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