What actually is Trump's 'Board of Peace'?
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, President Trump has wrapped up his second and final day at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The President held an inauguration for his new “Board of Peace” and met with Ukraine’s President Zelensky - which Zelensky said included agreeing post-war security guarantees for his country. BBC chief North America correspondent Gary O’Donoghue and the Economist’s Shashank Joshi break it all down.
And the former Labour Minister Andrew Gwynne confirmed his plans to retire on medical grounds triggering a by-election that could pave the way for Andy Burnham to run and ultimately launch a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer. Political correspondent Joe Pike joins Adam to explain why polticos have been speculating.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.8 | Hello, it's another day where the world's news has been dominated by one man, Donald Trump, in one place, Davos for the World Economic Forum. |
| 0:15.3 | Although a slight twist today, three different geopolitical crises have come under his purview. |
| 0:20.4 | We will untangle them all on this latest episode of Newscast. |
| 0:24.5 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:26.8 | Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. |
| 0:29.8 | I was the tappletail in the class. |
| 0:31.1 | Can I have an apology, please? |
| 0:32.4 | I trust almost nobody. |
| 0:34.1 | Then daddy has to sometimes do strong language. |
| 0:36.6 | Next time in Moscow. |
| 0:38.2 | I feel delulu with no salulu. |
| 0:40.0 | Take me down to Downey Street. |
| 0:41.8 | Let's go have a tour. |
| 0:43.6 | Blimey. |
| 0:45.3 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. |
| 0:47.4 | Last time I was in here, we got the breaking news that Donald Trump was climbing down over |
| 0:52.5 | Greenland. |
| 0:53.1 | He wasn't going to levy tariffs on Denmark and its |
| 0:55.8 | European allies, and he's going to start a process of negotiation that somehow would end with America |
| 1:01.0 | having a greater toehold in Greenland. We have learnt very little about what that future deal might |
| 1:07.1 | look like, even though about 24 hours has passed. But Donald Trump has still been |
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