Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, I'm Kim Vinnell in Whanganui, New Zealand. It's Wednesday, January 14th. Today, Trump urges Iranians to keep protesting and promises help is on its way. Greenlandic and Danish foreign ministers head to Washington, D.C. Trump touts his economic record on a trip to Detroit.
Chapter 2: What does Trump say to the protesters in Iran?
And Apple chooses Google's Gemini to revamp Siri. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. President Donald Trump is urging demonstrators in Iran to keep protesting, saying in a Truth Social post that, quote, help is on the way. He declined to elaborate on what exactly that means.
Trump also says he's cancelled all meetings with Iranian officials until protesters stop being killed. Weeks of anti-regime protests have left some 2,000 people dead, according to Iranian officials, which is the first time Iran itself has given a death toll. EU foreign policy chief Kaya Khalas says additional sanctions on Iran are being considered.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of the Greenland and Denmark meeting?
The heavy-handed and brutal response by the security forces is unacceptable and exposes a regime afraid of its own people.
while German Chancellor Friedrich Mörs says he believes that the Iranian regime is in its final throes and may only last weeks. Sources are telling Reuters, however, that regime change in Iran is unlikely unless ongoing protests or international pressure force defections at the top of the Iranian establishment. Greenlandic and Danish foreign ministers will meet US Vice President J.D.
Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington later today amid increasing threats by President Trump to take Greenland by any means necessary.
Chapter 4: How does Trump justify his economic record during the Detroit visit?
Head of the meeting, Greenland Prime Minister Jans Fredrik Nielsen, reiterating that the Arctic island, which is a Danish territory, is not for sale. Trump, though, appears undeterred.
We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not, because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland. And we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.
Our reporter Jacob Greenholt-Pettersson is in Greenland and says Trump's threats may have backfired.
Chapter 5: What changes are being made to Siri with Google's Gemini?
In recent years and the last few times I've been in Greenland, there's been lots of talk about independence. But this time around, the seriousness of the threats from Trump seems to have really sunk in. And those threats have actually pushed Greenlanders closer to Denmark and not away from Denmark. We spoke to one pensioner, Charlotte Heilman.
And she said she couldn't imagine living as an American. She certainly did not want to become part of the United States. She said, we're part of Denmark and we're part of NATO. And she didn't understand why all these threats kept coming from the United States.
President Trump flipped off and appeared to swear at a Ford factory worker who criticized his handling of the Epstein controversy during his visit to Michigan. TMZ first published the video, which captures their exchange, and the White House has not disputed it.
The inflation numbers just came out and we have very low inflation. So that would give too late Powell the chance to give us a nice, beautiful, big rate cut.
Before boarding Air Force One for that trip to Detroit, he used December's Consumer Price Index to advocate for a rate cut from the Federal Reserve. But the report shows prices for a number of everyday items is continuing to rise. And as our Fed reporter Howard Schneider explains, that complicates Trump's hope for a January rate cut.
People buy food and energy and those prices went up a bit smartly. The food inflation was the biggest in a few years. So that's not great news for consumers or for the Trump administration heading into midterm election year. But the tariff pass through seems to be kind of crawling to an end.
So you should get some disinflation and should pave the way for, you know, one, two, some are even saying three rate cuts this year. Here's the issue. It's really going to take until April before the data is clear of the noise from the shutdown. So even though this is a pretty Fed positive report, it's not going to change the outcome for January, which seems pretty baked in in a pause.
No reason to make a call on rates yet.
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