Ankur Desai

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I'm Ankur Desaihan at 16GMT on Wednesday the 21st of January. These are our main stories. 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. 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.

Kaikki Yhdysvallat pyytää Greenlandin kautta. Meillä on enemmän Davosista, jossa Yhdysvallan presidentti on puhunut maailmanlehtiä. Myös BBC on nähnyt kuvia, joissa on ollut kymmeniä viktejä Iranin protesteista, jotka olivat näyttäneet vanhemmille yrittäjille, jotka yrittävät tunnistaa sydäntä. Myös tämän podcastin jälkeen. Yhdysvallan presidentti.

Kiitos, että katsoitte.

We start in the alpine town of Davos. In normal times, a small and quiet, somewhat picturesque upmarket Swiss ski resort. But these are anything but normal times. It's currently home to the World Economic Forum, a gathering of the global elite, 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 on those countries that support Denmark's sovereignty of Greenland.

But instead, President Trump, in a wide-ranging speech lasting for around an hour and a half, said he wanted immediate negotiations to acquire Greenland for the United States, although he wouldn't take it by force. 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.

It's been our policy for hundreds of years to prevent outside threats from entering our hemisphere. And we've done it very successfully. We've never been stronger than we are now. Mr. Trump said that U.S. ownership of Greenland was a small ask over a piece of ice. And it would be good for NATO. But then went on to attack fellow NATO members for not pulling their weight. And mocked the French and Canadian leaders directly. Christian Fraser has been speaking to our Europe correspondent Nick Beek.

Luulen, että presidentti Trumpin sanottua, että hän ei käyttäisi sotilaallista vahvistusta Greenlandiin, kuten sanoit, on erinomainen sano. Mutta tietenkin se ei pohjaa ongelmaa, että hän haluaa sen. Ja luulen, että monille eurooppalaisille, jotka kuulevat tämän, niin kyllä he olisivat kuulleet hänestä puheenvuoronsa Skotlannin ja Alemman ja hänen yllättävän eurooppalaisen alueensa.

I think a lot of people would have seen this as a pretty bitter and angry diatribe. In places it was just historically inaccurate as well as being insulting. The central point for Mr. Trump, he believes that he should be able to get Greenland. In the European point of view, he does not mention, he disregards it, the fact that Europeans say that it's their sovereign territory and that it's simply not for sale.

Mr Trump saying that it will actually strengthen the NATO alliance, not destroy it, if he were to take Greenland, and he repeatedly referred to it as being our territory, part of North America, and said absolutely it was not because of the minerals or because of wealth, it was for American security and global security that he was going to get it. It's the way he speaks to some of his closest allies. It's almost oblivious.

Kyllä, ja se on taustalla ja välineellä. Taustalla hän kuitenkin sanoo, että hän tykkää yksilöistä, joko yksilöistä tai kansallisista, joita hän uskoo olevan hienoja ihmisiä. Mutta sitten hän sanoo, että hän tykkää Emmanuel Macronista, jolloin ihmiset voivat ajatella, että se on vaikeaa uskoa. Joten siinä on aina jotain, mitä hän tykkää, ja myös tärkeää. Ja luulen, että Daneilla tietenkin tuntuu, että hän on aika huonosti tästä, koska...

Mr. Trump went back to the Second World War and talked about the role and the influence of the United States in the victory during the Second World War. And then his position was that the Americans made a big mistake by giving it back, talking about Greenland. But of course it wasn't the Americans to give back, it's never been part of America.

Ja myös suomalaisille, joilla oli suuri kontribuutti ja palkki, joita he tekevät Afganistanin kampanjan aikana. Jokaisella ihmisellä he kärsivät todella paljon siitä, kuinka monta henkilöä oli tullut sinne, heidän työntekijöiden ja naisen. Ja menemisessä Kopenhagenin, ihmiset todella tuntevat tämän hyvin vahvasti.

He dragged the European Union and other allies to this 5% spending target for spending on the militaries, all those countries in NATO. Most people now say that that's a really vital level that they meet if they are going to meet the...

The threats of a rapidly changing world. But I think the way things were presented today, it would be fascinating, Christian, to see what the Europeans do next. They've got this big summit in Brussels tomorrow. Do they take a breath? Do they say, you know, apart from the sound and fury...

Is Mr. Trump going to go through with this tariff threat on those eight countries, including the UK, France and Germany? Will they kick in on February 1st, or will he kick it not into the long grass, but will he have a little pause on this? It would be fascinating to see whether they hit back, or they try and take some sort of sting out of this and take a beat. Nick Beek reporting there, and we'll have more reaction and analysis on the later edition of the Global News Podcast.