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Today in Focus

Will Trump’s board of peace replace the UN?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

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4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Trump’s board of peace includes Putin, Netanyahu and Tony Blair. What on earth will it do? Julian Borger reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:07.0

Today, the Board of Peace with a billion dollar price tag.

0:16.0

What do you call an elitist club that's welcomed men wanted for war crimes, billionaire businessmen, and Tony Blair as its members?

0:26.6

Well, of your President Trump, it's his brand new Board of Peace.

0:31.6

The president called it the greatest and most prestigious board ever assembled at any time.

0:38.2

His list of invitees includes Vladimir Putin.

0:41.4

The Kremlin said it was studying the proposal and hoping to get further clarification.

0:45.5

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to join the so-called Gaza Board of Peace

0:50.9

despite facing an international criminal court arrest warrant for war crimes in the strip.

0:56.0

If only it was a joke.

0:59.0

Months ago, the President promised that bringing peace to Gaza would come in phases.

1:03.0

This long and difficult war has now ended in an unprecedented achievement.

1:09.0

Virtually the entire region has endorsed the plan that Gaza...

1:12.6

Through a 20-point peace plan sketched out by the White House.

1:17.0

And as world leaders gather in Davos amid a blizzard of global tensions,

1:21.5

we're now apparently in phase two of that process,

1:24.5

in which mention of Gaza, of bringing security and hope to Palestinians, has been

1:29.2

sidelined. And instead, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Vladimir Putin

1:35.3

have been invited to join an international board chaired by Trump in the name of global peace.

1:42.0

One of them, accused of leading a genocide against Palestinians, the other

1:46.9

for crimes against humanity in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin's invitation, a leader who shows no

1:54.0

interest in any kind of peace deal, being invited to this Board of Peace, which is supposed to

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