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 Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 18th of January, these are our main stories. Demonstrations in Greenland as Donald Trump threatens export tariffs on eight European countries which oppose his plan to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
Uganda's electoral authorities declare Yori Museveni president for a seventh term despite opposition accusations of widespread voter fraud. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, admits, as he puts it, a few thousand people died in the recent anti-government protests. Also in this podcast. Get off the fence.
We will identify you and come arrest you. Get off the fence. We will come arrest you.
A US federal judge in Minnesota has ruled that 3,000 ICE agents sent to Minneapolis should face restrictions on what tactics they can use. Ever since his first presidency, Donald Trump was keen to get hold of Greenland. But since the audacious US raid on Venezuela, the president has been increasingly strident about his desire to buy the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
On Saturday, he threatened eight European allies with tariffs if they continue to oppose his plan, starting at 10% before rising to 25%. The nations in the firing line include Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany and the UK. Just hours before the announcement, people in Greenland took to the streets to protest against Mr Trump's threats to annex the Arctic Territory. We don't want...
anyone to take our country we want to be our own country we don't want them here tell a message to the world and to donald trump that he should keep his hands off greenland i strongly believe that europe and denmark is a great and very important alliance for greenland and yes i do believe in the world's big alliances to step up and be a part of what's happening at the moment.
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Chapter 2: What trade tariffs is the US threatening over Greenland?
Now it is Trump's duty to support the people. People's hopes are pinned on Trump's words. I consider part of the blood that has been shed to be Trump's responsibility.
In the Mar Aliabad area of Shiraz, security forces are still patrolling on motorbikes, but overall things have gone back to normal.
The Supreme Leader, despite his age, remains defiant. He said that the Iranian nation must break the back of the seditionists just as it broke the back of the sedition. So how significant is this speech from the Ayatollah? Here's Siavash Adelan from BBC Persian.
Up to now, the Iranian authorities had not mentioned any statistics, not even hundreds, let alone thousands. We only had heard about a few dozen security forces, members of the IRGC or the paramilitary Basij. and a handful of ordinary citizens to have died in the hands of what the regime called rioters and vigilantes.
One Iranian official had said two-thirds of the overall death toll is from that category of people. Whether this was a slip of the tongue by the Iranian supreme leader, he's mentally still very sharp at 86, so he probably knows what he is saying. It's very significant that he says thousands of people were killed, but he doesn't mean the protesters.
He is saying that the people affiliated with the government were killed. And Donald Trump keeps changing his word at any second. And when he thanked the Iranian authorities for not executing 800 people, something that wasn't true to begin with. There wasn't even a plan to execute 800 people. And then he comes out and says that he stopped the execution of those people.
And thanks, the Iranian supreme leader, who many Iranians now see as the person who ordered these killings, which some people think it's up to 20,000 people, Many Iranians now feel angry and they feel betrayed because in the height of the protests, it was really many people relying on the promise of Donald Trump to intervene militarily, went out in the street thinking that somehow the U.S.
has thought this out, that there is an actionable plan to stop these terrorists. security forces for massacring the people. And that turned out to be completely false. And now they hear that the president of the United States is thanking the supreme leader.
So you can imagine in the midst of this internet blackout, the sense of frustration, grief, and now abandonment and betrayal, how pervasive it could be now among Iranians.
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Chapter 3: How did European leaders respond to Trump's tariffs on Greenland?
Sentimental Value was the big winner at the European Film Awards, which are regarded as Europe's Oscars. Not only did it win European Film of the Year, but it was also successful in the categories of director, screenwriter, actress and actor. The last going to Stellan SkarsgƄrd, who also won a Golden Globe a week ago for his performance in the film.
For more on sentimental value, here's Tom Brook from a noisy red carpet scrum at the European Film Awards in Berlin. It's a Norwegian film. It's a family drama. It deals with this strange father-daughter relationship. And a lot of people have really actually taken to this film. It's now become the most successful Norwegian film of all time.
And I'm sure when the Oscar nominations are announced on Thursday of the week that's coming up, it will get several nominations. One of the best performances in the film comes from 74-year-old Swedish actor Stellan SkarsgƄrd, who could make history conceivably by becoming the first Swede to win an acting Oscar in his category.
And I spoke to him on the red carpet not so long ago, asking him why this role was important for him. It's about relationships within a family, and it's a remarkably quiet film in a way. It's subtle, and it's about really dark subjects, but incredibly light. It's like a souffle in a way. But I think it's funny. It's entertaining.
So it's really a strange mixture without compromising, without being tacky. Interestingly, I think this event can have an impact on the Oscars race, which is, of course, centered in Los Angeles. The Oscars ceremony will take place on March 15th. Because what happens is the Oscars are determined by the 10,000 voting members of the Academy.
And in the last four or five years, they've expanded their membership to include a lot of international members, many of whom here live in Europe. Those European members will be paying attention to this European Oscars event tonight. I think the thing is that European cinema has a window of opportunity right now.
Most people who are in the film business would agree that Hollywood no longer really makes many films that engage grown-up audiences. They do well with family films, films like a Minecraft movie, and this provides... an opportunity for European filmmakers to get attention for their films.
And I think they're being quite strategic with this event and it could bring fortunes to the European film industry. Tom Brook in Berlin. The kilt is synonymous with Scotland, a knee-length garment which resembles a pleated skirt. Traditionally, it's made of wool with a tartan design.
Given that Scottish football fans are known as the Tartan Army and some of them wear kilts when they go overseas, it was assumed by many that the men's team would do the same at this summer's World Cup. but the players will instead wear traditional suits off the pitch and at formal events. Some fans welcomed the change, but not Marion Foster, a master kilt tailor.
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