Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Will Chalk, and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 7th of January, these are our main stories. The US says it's discussing options to, as it puts it, acquire Greenland, including the use of military force. Ukraine and its allies say they've made progress in talks to ensure the country's security in the event of a ceasefire with Russia. And the Venezuelan military and government continue to crack down on dissent.
Chapter 2: What are the implications of the US threatening to annex Greenland?
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Over the course of countless TV interviews, press conferences and speeches, Donald Trump has made a lot of claims. And it means sifting out the ones he's immediately planning to follow through on isn't always easy. But one idea, that the US might take over Greenland, seems to be increasingly picking up steam. So much so that it dominated a meeting of a group of Ukraine's allies, the so-called Coalition of the Willing, in France on Tuesday.
The meeting was supposed to be about security guarantees for Ukraine. A number of those guarantees were established, but the Paris meeting also made a joint declaration on the issue of Greenland, after Donald Trump again threatened to try and annex the island using force if necessary. Greenland has been owned by Denmark since 1814, and the European statement promised to defend the vast North Atlantic island's territorial integrity.
Trina Mack on suomalainen puheenjohtaja ja osa maailman ulkomaalaisjärjestelmää. Hän on suurin piirtein uskonnollista ulkomaalaisjärjestelmää.
People have the right to self-determination and we have to respect state sovereignty. Now it's quite obvious that the current US administration has a very flexible approach to international law. But a lot of European countries, Nordic countries, Canada has come out in support of Koreans' right to independence and protection. What counts right now is that other countries step up and stand firm on international law.
I asked our North America correspondent David Willis whether the Americans were really threatening to invade Greenland if Denmark didn't hand it over voluntarily. It could really hardly be plainer. I have to say, well, a statement from the White House press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, says the president and his team are discussing a range of options to acquire Greenland and that utilising the US military is one of those options. And that statement calls...
Greenland's acquisition, an important foreign policy goal and a national security priority of the United States. It was no doubt intended to counter the statement that is European leaders support for Denmark and the claim by Denmark's prime minister that a military attack by the US would
as he put it, spelled the end of NATO. Meanwhile the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that the United States wanted to buy Greenland from Denmark, not invade it. And the Reuters news agency, quoting an unnamed senior US official, reported that another option was forming a so-called compact of free association, in other words a close security alliance with Greenland.
We've heard lots from the US, from Donald Trump especially, about why they need Greenland, why they want Greenland. But have we heard anything as a justification for why they should have Greenland?
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Chapter 3: How are Ukraine and its allies progressing in security talks?
Faisal Islam. Lähtökohtaisesti tämän podcastin jälkeen, ei vain komputeja, on myös hi-tech-ympäristöjä. Mutta onko se todella tarpeeksi?
Mikä tässä kampiksessa hiertää? Prisma. Big selection. Little prices. Niin? Sä et kuule sitä. Kuule mitä? Sano se sana monta kertaa. Mikä sana? Little. Little. Joo. Little. Ja vielä? Little. Jatkat vaan kunnes kirkastuu. Little prices. Little prices. Little. Little. Prisma. Big selection. Little prices.
Ensimmäisenä mennään Venäjän tilanteeseen. Yksityiskohtainen presidentti Delcy Rodríguez on osoittanut seitsemän päiväaikaa, jolloin yksityiskohtaiset yksityiskohtaiset olivat tappaneet Nikolas Maduroa. Donald Trump juhlaa Maduron puolustuksen ja puolustuksen Yhdysvalloille.
Residents of Caracas say military personnel are visible on every street corner of the capital, as the government of Delce Rodriguez continues to crack down on dissent. This man told the BBC that while he was happy at Maduro's downfall, he hasn't been marking the event publicly. On the outside, in the streets, it is quiet, it is nervousness. There is still the same secret police, the same political police, the same Gestapo police.
For more, I spoke to our correspondent Will Grant, who is on the Colombian border with Venezuela. I started by asking him about this military presence.
Yksi taso, josta uskon, että Venäjän hallituksen tehtävä on tärkeää, on se, että he olivat aina menettäneet sääntöä, kun Venäjän sääntöjen sääntöjen sääntöjen sääntöjen sääntöjen sääntöjen sääntöjen
Joten tämän tasolle se ei ole todennäköistä, mutta tietenkin se tarkoittaa enemmän repressiota, enemmän rikkoja. Ja älä unohda, että Venäjällä on toinen ryhmä armeijan, joka on militia-ryhmät, lojaaleja.
to both Nicolas Maduro, but more broadly to the Bolivarian revolution. They have been out in force too. And to have these sort of armed civilian militias known as colectivos intimidating the populists, turning out in force, as we were hearing from that Venezuelan in the clip there, it really does paint a very, very intimidating and frightening picture, particularly when we add the uncertainty of not knowing exactly what's coming next.
We've heard lots of comments from Donald Trump on this, and I think in a lot of them he sounds quite celebratory about the military action. How's that going down in the region? Well, I think obviously there are those who never wanted Nicolas Maduro in power, you know, haven't wanted to see him there for a long time and voted against him only to see him remain in power after the last election. So they have that relief that he's gone, but they can't turn out
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Chapter 4: What is the current state of dissent in Venezuela?
To celebrate it anyway because of the intimidation we've just been talking about. And maybe they don't necessarily share that celebratory tone that you're referring to that Donald Trump is showing when he addressed Republicans and so on. Because they just don't feel that. Because at the moment it is so uncertain. It is so dangerous for ordinary Venezuelans.
They feel like the thing is on a knife edge. They are of course trying to return to a semblance of daily life. I was talking to a Venezuelan friend. She said people are out shopping. They're beginning to think about sending their kids back to school after the holidays next week. Things like that. The semblance of normal life. But it is anything but normal in so many ways. The United States has just launched...
I mentioned you're on the Colombian border. What about reaction from Venezuela's neighbors in the region?
It's been an interesting one from Colombia in the sense that the first thing they did too was move troops to this border region where I am. And they are showing a pretty clear presence. There are tanks at the border crossings. There are troops in larger numbers. 30,000 more troops were sent here. They in part are monitoring the movement of irregular forces as they put them. That is the left-wing rebel groups again who are protected by and who have been allied to Colombia.
The left-wing revolution in Venezuela. So there is tension really all over. That's this side, and of course out to the Caribbean there's the question of Cuba, which is so dependent on Venezuelan oil and really doesn't know what Del Cid Rodriguez will mean for their future either.
Will Grant there on the Venezuelan-Colombian border. Now President Trump has said very little about the continuing repression that Will was mentioning in Venezuela. But he has said he'll work with the new president, Delce Rodriguez. Whatever his plans though, Donald Trump appears to have sidelined the opposition leader Maria Carina Machado, who late last year won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to bring democracy to Venezuela.
She said she wants to return home, but it's not clear when that might happen or what kind of reception she would get. Our South America correspondent Ioni Wells reports. Maria Corina Machado has long been the main face of Venezuela's opposition. She was banned from running in the last elections in 2024.
but she attracted huge crowds on the election campaign. Opposition parties united behind a candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, to take her place, and afterwards they published tallies from electronic voting machines, which they said definitively showed they, not Nicolás Maduro, had won the election. She has been living in hiding ever since, but briefly travelled to Oslo last year to collect the Nobel Peace Prize. Donald Trump had made it clear he believed he should win the prize, and there was some speculation that
It is why he claimed in a news conference on Saturday that she did not have support or respect in Venezuela. Despite this, she continued to praise his intervention in an interview with Fox News. I do want to say today on behalf of the Venezuelan people how grateful we are for his courageous vision, the historical actions he has taken against this narco-terrorist regime to start dismantling this structure and bringing Maduro to justice.
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Chapter 5: What advancements are being made in quantum computing?
Verified funeral videos and interviews with family members and friends, BBC Persian has confirmed the identities of at least 15 people reported dead since the 28th of December. Human rights group's HRANA says at least 35 people have been killed. This violent crackdown by the authorities coincided with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's first public reaction to the unrest, when he said that rioters must be put down.
Iranin regiimi on jo käsittelemässä alueellista huolimatta ja järjestyneellä ekonomialla. Nyt se pitäisi käsitellä isoimmista protesteista vuonna 2022.
Merlin Thomas. For generations, the humble plastic Lego brick has been a big part of children's toy boxes and the shelves of some slightly nerdier adults as well. But if you've got fond memories of making pew-pew and zoom noises as you played, that might soon be a thing of the past. Because after much secrecy, Legos unveiled some smart bricks, which it says will allow toys to come alive.
Aina Aslam built this report. Lego hasn't changed for nearly a hundred years. You build an item out of tiny colorful bricks and then harness your imagination to play with it. The new 2x4 bricks look the same, but have a tiny chip, sensors, LEDs and mini speakers. So you can now move around what you've built and, depending on what you're doing, the bricks light up and make sounds. The technology was demonstrated in a toy car at the CES show.
Toi-ekspert Peter Jenkinson sanoo, että Lego's new creation is revolutionary and will allow the Danish company to move with the times. It features NFC, which is near field communication inside.
which enables these smart bricks to sense motion, position and distance. So it's a super clever brick. It's the biggest thing they've done for 50 years since they introduced the minifigure. Lego has also released smart minifigures with different personalities and smart tags as part of the new high-tech world. The first smart sets will be Star Wars themed, so you'll be able to have realistic lightsaber fights.
Here are two D2s hard to impersonate bleeps. And give Darth Vader a dramatic entrance. The Brits will also communicate with each other to decide whether you've delivered enough laser blasts to blow up a spacecraft.
But many have voiced concern that in an age where children are turning to video games and iPad screens, introducing technology could undermine LEGO's historic strength. Josh Golan is from the NGO Fair Play. Adding these smart bricks is actually going to undermine children's creativity and imagination, which was really the strong suit of LEGO. And when we transfer that power of who's making the noise, who's driving the play,
Who's creating the story around what's happening with the toy? From the child to the toy maker, we really lose a lot of what's so special about toys and play. But LEGO's vice president Tom Donaldson says bricks that play back will inspire children. There's no screen in sight. There's not even a power button on this thing. But the LEGO Smart Brick responds to what kids do, generating reactions to their actions. It becomes an instrument for their play and it unleashes their imagination.
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