Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Several major U.S. allies have used the World Economic Forum in Davos this week as a platform to directly challenge President Trump's territorial claims to Greenland and new tariff threats. Trump has walked back both.
Today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was the latest leader to implore European countries to rally in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of his country nearly four years ago.
Chapter 2: What challenges did President Trump face at the World Economic Forum?
We have more from NPR's Joannika Kicis.
Zelensky said Europe loves to talk about the future but avoids taking action today. And he said Europe has not faced the reality of the changing world order. Zelensky asked, what if Russia attacked a NATO country?
Who will respond? Right now, NATO exists thanks to belief that the United States will act, that it will not stand aside and will help. But what if it doesn't?
He said Europe must learn how to defend itself and that Ukraine will help. Zelensky has suggested forming a European armed force of up to three million troops. Joanna Kakisis, NPR News, Kyiv.
Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. are expected to hold talks in the United Arab Emirates starting Friday.
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Chapter 3: How is Ukraine's President Zelensky urging Europe to respond to Russia?
Meanwhile, President Trump has introduced his Board of Peace. Critics view it as an attempt to replace the United Nations' role in resolving global conflicts. U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is participating in talks in Moscow today over a possible peace deal in Ukraine. Here's Villa Marks.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, Witkoff confirmed he'd travel on to Moscow from Switzerland for further talks with Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin. Witkoff said he thought the U.S.
mediating team had made, quote, a lot of progress and insisted the remaining negotiations were now focused on a single outstanding issue, describing how a suggested tariff-free zone in Ukraine would be, quote, game-changing for the country's economy.
Villa Marks reporting. As Minneapolis remains unalert amid a contentious ICE crackdown, the Trump administration has now sent agents to Maine. The governor says people who don't have criminal records are being detained. Maine Public Radio's Patty White reports.
Governor Janet Mills says she takes allegations of criminal activity seriously, but that's not what the ICE operation seems to be about.
We're hearing about people who have not been engaged in criminal activity. who are being torn from their families, from their schools, from their businesses, and who are in fear, and their families and their communities are in fear. And that's just not right.
Mills, a Democrat, says President Trump's immigration crackdown appears to be centered in blue states. As of Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security listed 12 people arrested in Maine as being among the, quote, worst of the worst. For NPR News, I'm Patty White in Portland, Maine. This is NPR News.
Senator Amy Klobuchar filed the paperwork today to build out a campaign for governor of Minnesota. This in the aftermath of Governor Tim Walz's abrupt exit from the race as federal allegations of state government fraud on his watch intensified. The Oscar nominations for Best Picture this morning included films from Norway and Brazil.
NPR's Neta Ulibi reports they're part of a rising number of non-English language films and actors to be recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year.
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