Stay calm on Greenland UK tells Trump and EU

BBC-podkast is supported by ads outside the UK. Sama lappuolella. Tämä on järjestelmää, että se on tullut tullut. In 1999, 4 russian erityisesti on tullut. Mutta nyt on jo noin, että se on tullut. Se on tullut, että se on tullut, että se on tullut. Ei järjestelmää, ja se on tullut, että se on tullut, että se on tullut. Tämä on tullut, että se on tullut, että se on tullut, että se on tullut. Mä oon BBC.com, ja se on tullut, että se on tullut. voidaan jatkuvaa seuraavaa vastuudessa. 13-9 jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen jälkeen katsotaan. Japana, jota jälkeen jälkeen katsotaan jälkeen jälkeen katsotaan jälkeen katsotaan jälkeen katsotaan jälkeen katsota Jatkuvaa jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen katsotaan. Jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen katsotaan. Jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen katsotaan. Jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen katsotaan. Pohjaan katsotaan, että jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen ikäännäysin jälkeen katsotaan. Nor is it helpful to frame efforts to strength and greenland security as a justification for economic pressure? Our political correspondent Rob Watson gave me his assessment. It would be fair to say that amongst America's European allies here's the the leader of what might be described as the softly, softly approach Valerie that let's take it diplomatically, let's not turn the heat up any higher, but it is it is difficult domestically here in the UK because of course there are plenty of politicians and of course plenty of ordinary voters who think come on sequer, tell Donald Trump what you really think that this is all completely unacceptable. In other words have a sort of love actually moment that film where the British Prime Minister takes it to a fictional American president that that isn't going to happen and he repeated. The argument he's made really ever since President Trump's inauguration which is look you know whatever however angry you might feel about stuff. The relationship between the US and the UK is so important for us in terms of our security and in economics you have to keep talking. Yeah but what happens if Mr Trump isn't up for calm discussions? Well that is the great question Valerie and it was put to him after his statement in Downing Street by several of my colleagues and he refuses to countenance that saying that he believes that there will be a diplomatic solution that he doesn't think that this will come in any way to sort of military action or anything remotely like it but. But that is the key question I mean what does happen if this talking and if this diplomacy doesn't work I mean I think that would be a crisis of absolutely existential proportions for the west. Rob Watson so what might happen next Kelly and Shaw was the deputy assistant to the US president for international economic affairs in the first Trump administration. She told the BBC she believes Mr Trump is prepared to negotiate. I think there's a negotiated outcome here what we'll see the president in Switzerland this week in Davos with a number of European leaders I would imagine there'll be some very frank conversations. But when I see the president threatening tariffs what I hear is I want to negotiate something here and so I think we'll ultimately see something that works for Denmark something that works the United States and something that works for Greenland. As Kelli and Shaw mentioned there European leaders emitting this week on Thursday to discuss their response and it's thought they'll consider a raft of retaliatory measures. One potential issue while our Brussels correspondent Nick Beak says not all the countries are on the same page. This feels like a precarious moment for the EU because it's been on this rollercoaster ride for the past year trying to placate or charm or manage Donald Trump but this is the most dangerous turn yet. And what you've got is openly some EU leaders accusing Donald Trump of blackmail the dilemma here is if they don't do anything they can look weak and that may embolden Mr Trump even further over Greenland. If they go too far then there's the risk of a trade war with the US their biggest partner. President Macron of France he says the EU really needs to be tough at this moment he's talked about using the EU's trade bazooka as it's known. Basically this would be counter tariffs. It was a weapon that they designed originally to basically deal with bullying by a hostile external country and at the time they were thinking of China. You know they won't think in the United States but you've got people like Georgia Maloney of Italy saying that a trade war would be really damaging to both sides. She says there needs to be a diplomatic solution to this and she's tried to characterize this as a misunderstanding of the EU and the US position on Greenland but I think the problem is that the positions of the two sides you know they're poles apart and they're completely incompatible with each other. Nick Beak, well as all this is unfolding President Trump has linked his aim for control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 telling Norway's Prime Minister he no longer feels obliged to think purely of peace. He's blamed the Norwegian government for the decision though it's not in that government's gift. A global affairs reporter Pommos told me more. The text started by reiterating America's claims over Greenland Donald Trump said the world would only be safe if the US had total and complete control over Greenland. He then questioned why Denmark currently had sovereignty said it was just there were no documents to support this and it was just down to the fact that a Danish boat landed there a few centuries ago and rather ominously he said plenty of American boats had landed at Greenland. And yes as you say we're done to say that because Norway hadn't given him the Nobel Peace Prize he didn't have to think purely about peace when it came to foreign policy decisions now. I should emphasize Mr Trump did say that peace would remain a predominant consideration but nonetheless he made clear his thinking had changed because Norway hadn't given him the prize as you say it's particularly odd because it isn't the Norwegian government that gives it it's an independent committee. The Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Casturis says look I have repeatedly tried to explain to Donald Trump it's not us but it seems the message didn't get through. Now everybody listening to this is going to wonder why does the Nobel Peace Prize means so much to Donald Trump. It's hard to understand is it I mean as so often in explaining Donald Trump's stance I think you know political analysis will take you a certain amount of the way but you do need a psychologist I will have a go I think it's partly because of his relationship with Barack Obama. Donald Trump really was contemptuous for Barack Obama he was part of the birth movement which claimed completely falsely that Barack Obama had been born abroad in Africa and therefore wasn't allowed to be president. And then what did Barack Obama do he had the temerity not just to be elected but to be re-elected and he got the Nobel Peace Prize now many think Donald Trump's thinking if it was good enough for Barack Obama it's good enough for me. And you know can't underestimate how overestimate how much he wants is he's actively lobbied for the prize this just isn't the done thing and last week it emerged that the woman who did get the Nobel Peace Prize last year the Venezuelan Maria Machado flew to Washington and presented Donald Trump with her Nobel Prize Award and there he is grinning holding up this award as if he won it. I mean you know just compare it for comparison if last year's winners of the the note the Pulitzer Prize for German Journalism for some reason decided that they'd been a terrible mistake and really the Journalism Award should have gone to Paul Moss and they they could turn up at the office and hand over the medal to me but the fact is that wouldn't mean that I'd won and yet Donald Trump seems to act as if it does this really is a top issue for the US president. Paul Moss and for more on this story you can go on YouTube search for BBC News click on the logo then choose podcasts and global news podcast there's a new story available every weekday next to the worst train crash in Spain in more than a decade according to the country's civil guard as we record this there are still no clear answers as to why a high speed train bound for Madrid derailed and barrelled into an oncoming train killing at least 39 people. And entering more than 120 survivors from the crash in angeles here say the initial impact felt like an earthquake the first thing we noticed was a sudden breaking although we remained in place but we didn't have time to react when in a fraction of a second another much stronger impact came which calls suitcases clothes and people to be scattered all over the carriage. The impact was like a sudden blow the lights went out I was sitting in the last seats of the carriage and I was thrown over I don't know how many times I rolled over I don't know how but I hit my back there were people screaming and all the suitcases fell on top of people's heads. Our correspondent Guy Hedgeko is close to the scene of the accident. We know that a train heading from the southern city of Malaga heading north some of its carriages were derailed just as another train was heading the other way heading south that second train was then derailed by the collision and it was pushed down an embankment ever since then a rescue workers have been working first of all to pull survivors out of the wreckage a wreckage that we were in. It was twisted metal carriages that have been turned upside down and then more recently we've been told that the rescuers work is probably more about recovering bodies because the local authorities here in Andalusia have said that they believe that the death toll is probably going to increase even further. Guy Hedgeko in Spain still to come in this podcast I think it might be a bit of a fork in the road you know because do you respect films as a great popular art form or do you treat cinemas kind of like a glorified screen saver has the way that movies are made produced and consumed changed forever in the age of the smartphone. If journalism is the first draft of history what happens if that draft is flawed in nineteen ninety nine four Russian apartment buildings were bombed hundreds killed but even now we still don't know for sure who did it it's a mystery that sparked chilling theories. I'm Helena Maryman and in a new BBC series I'm talking to the reporters who first covered this story. What did they miss the first time the history bureau Putin and the apartment bombs listen on BBC dot com or wherever you get your podcasts. Japan is set to hold a snap election on febru 8th it's been announced by the prime minister sanayetakeichi who's been in office in september and is currently enjoying popular support I got more from our correspondent in soul jikkwan well mistakeichi came to the office with a promise of boosting Japan's economy which has been sluggish for many years and her party the liberal democratic party barely managed to hold onto power in the last election and now has a minority government. So she has a really ambitious stimulus bill that she wants through the parliament and this is supposed to deliver the economic boost that she promised so to push that through with ease she wants a large majority and she feels now is the time. And tell us more about her she is Japan's first female prime minister and has big plans for the country doesn't she she does I mean she is the first female prime minister and she is also a conservative prime minister here and she is really flying high on her personal popularity. No Japanese prime minister has been this popular since 2012 when Shinzo Abe was in power now she is clearly leveraging her popularity to have an election win here. She said today that this is a vote for her vote liberal democrats to keep her in power so she might also be betting that the public is now ready for some stability. She is Japan's fourth prime minister in five years but her win is also far from guaranteed come February. Japan is still going through the cost of living crisis and while she is popular her party is not. And she has made controversial comments hasn't she on Taiwan that have angered China. Tell us more about that. Well back in November when she was just elected Miss Takaiichi suggested that Japan could send its military to defend Taiwan. This is the self governing island that Beijing still holds claim and of course this is a red line for Beijing it made Beijing very very angry and they pulled out all kinds of tools to retaliate including export control and you have to remember that China is Japan's number two trading partner and this is very much concerning to many businesses in Japan. But it also had contributed to her popularity in fact her popularity went up after the spat with China especially among her conservative base and they really see her as a brave politician who is standing up to what they see as China's bullying. Jake Cohn, the Gremlin says President Putin has been invited to join Donald Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza. A draft charter has been sent to 60 countries inviting them to take up three year memberships. A global affairs correspondent Sebastian Usherch will be more about the Board of Peace and what would it make of the invitation to President Putin to join it. I think there's a certain amount of confusion about all these different boards that there are over Gaza. The Board of Peace actually is the kind of big oversight one which leaders of the world are being invited to and in fact the way that's being presented is it won't just be about Gaza but if it is successful in Gaza it will then be like almost an alternative UN. So at least 60 invitations have been sent out. I don't think President Putin should feel too special about his invitation but obviously when you have something called the Board of Peace and you are sending it out to leaders who essentially have invaded other countries it does bring that all into quite sharp relief. I mean the other groups that are involved in Gaza there's the Palestinian one, the Tech and Cratic one which is meant to deal with the day today running of Gaza if it ever gets going to that extent. Their names were announced last week Israel is not happy with some of those names as you would imagine. There is also an executive board which is a lot of regional senior officials are involved in that but also Trump's special envoy Steve Whitkopis son-in-law Jared Kushner Tony Blair is on that one that's the one which will be you know actually taking an active role in the reconstruction of Gaza. This Board of Peace at the moment seems to be more a kind of symbolic membership maybe a bit like Mr. Trump's own club Marilago they have said that for permanent membership you need to pay a billion dollars. So what does it tell us about his ambitions for this is it just about money or is it about prestige as well. I think it's always both when it's President Trump but as I say this Board of Peace where are that goes I mean in a sense it's not I think the essential part. Of the way that Gaza if we ever get to that stage is rebuilt I think it's those other boards which are the ones which are going to be directly involved in the reconstruction and in trying to find a new way of governance that will really matter but I'm sure there are many countries not many of so far said they've signed up hungry certainly one but many who will be tempted to sign up but they may book at the idea of paying a billion dollars to do so. Sebastian Usher an international medical trial is investigating whether a simple finger prick blood test could be used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease it involves a thousand volunteers over the age of 60 in the US Britain and Canada the BBC's medical editor of Fergus Walsh reports. Playing tennis is one way 66 year old Michael Sandberg stays healthy so reducing his risk of a host of diseases including Alzheimer's Dr Sandberg a London GP is keen to know how his brain is aging I think if you pick it up early people can do better with what's available. So what we're going to do I'm just going to clean your finger here and then I'm just going to do the little finger prick that's why Michael is having this finger prick test a couple of drops of his blood are being collected as part of a trial to see whether it can spot risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. Thank you that's all it is. Three straight forward. His sample ends up the dementia research institute labs in London where it's analysed Dr Giovanni Lalli from the Medical Research Charity Life Arc explains. We are looking at the presence of three proteins that have been linked to Alzheimer's disease so so called blood based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and analysing the concentration the levels of this proteins may tell us whether a person is at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Michael also has a highly detailed pet brain scan which uses a radioactive tracer to detect the rogue proteins called amyloid and tau that accumulate in the brains of patients who get Alzheimer's but only two in a hundred Alzheimer's patients ever have this kind of detailed and expensive analysis. So how does the finger prick test compare to the scan? Hello Michael. Hello. Come in and sit down. Today's results day. Michael is given his results by Dr Ema McSweeney, a neuro radiologist from recognition health. To Michael I'm really pleased to be able to record both a negative and both correlate which is brilliant so in terms of risk at the minute you're well down you're not even on the radar. Michael that must be a relief. It's a huge relief so one of the most frightening tests I think you can do probably be honest. This is of course just one set of results scientists will need to analyse the findings from all one thousand volunteers on the trial in the UK and North America before they know how useful the finger prick blood test is at spotting Alzheimer's risk but Dr Ema McSweeney is hopeful. It's a very important moment. If this is successful it provides a ubiquitous accurate test which can detect the presence of abnormal amyloid protein in the brain without complicated expensive investigations. And that report was from our medical editor Fergus Walsh. Our attention spans now so short that the way films are made are being affected because we can't concentrate long enough to take in a full length movie. The filmmakers and actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck said in a podcast that special effects and plot scripting are changing to accommodate a world where people are easily distracted. Netflix, you know, a standard way to make an action movie that we learned was you usually have like three set pieces one in the first act one in the second one in the third and they kind of ramp up in the big one with all the explosions and you spend most of your money on that one in the third act that's your kind of finale. And now they're like can we get a big one in the first five minutes we want people to stay tuned in and you know it wouldn't be terrible if you reiterated the plot three or four times in the dialogue because people are on their phones while they're watching. So is this a case of art adapting to suit life or is life ruining an art form? Anna Foster spoke to Tim Roby film critic for the telegraph and the TV and culture journalist Hannah Verde. I think it might be a bit of a fork in the road you know because do you respect films as a great popular art form that bring people together whether it's your family or whether it's you know a room full of strangers and allow you to escape everyday reality. Or do we treat cinemas kind of like a glorified screensaver that's just on in the background while everyone doon scrolls through their social media feeds and waits for the world to end i mean i i think i know which side of that i'm on but i'm worried that netflix is on the other side now. Yeah i suppose Hannah as well to an extent it's where you watch it if you're in the cinema is i wasn't saying socially unacceptable people still do it you still see people pull out the phone and give it a quick check but if you're at home it's a very different experience. Well it should be legal to pull out your phone at the cinema is a beautiful spectacle you're watching but when you're at home realistically who isn't watching two or three screens at the same time and also with netflix i find the younger generation watch subtitles just so they can get distracted by their phone and catch up very quickly which i think ruins it but this is how we're consuming it now yeah i mean there is a question i suppose Tim isn't there we we do it a particular way because we've always done it. A particular way but is that the right way yeah i'm guilty of it myself i have a pretty bad phone addiction but i do try at home if i'm going to stick a film on to allow that to be a bit of a sanctuary to put the phone in the other room or something and i you know without wanting little television as a medium i understand people sticking the teleon in the background while they do all manner of things you know do the ironing you watch the TV etc but these films that netflix are paying for they're paying a hundred million two hundred million dollars for these productions. And they're just giving up if they're just saying well it's probably just the second priority to everyone's you know phones at this point so i think that's real shame because they should be using that money ambitiously and saying well let's challenge the viewer and maybe see if they can concentrate and follow the plot yeah i guess as well Hannah on the flip side of that they've spent all of that money and if people are watching it and simultaneously on social media saying how good it is yeah maybe that's maybe that's a good thing for their for their business model at least. It's a win-win but i think netflix has evolved really well to match her attention span so i think if you look at the whole and carbon adaptations you get a cliffhanger at the end of every episode to keep you there and netflix has been very clever knowing what it's doing there and yes if people are hashtagging it on social media, watching along with social media then you know it's more promotion which is what they need and that's how they can spend the money on it and it's good quality as well i don't think you lose the quality it's just that people can use it in a different way. Hannah Verde and Tim Roby and that's it from us for now but there will be a new edition of the global news podcast later if you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it send us an email. The address is global podcast at bbc.su.uk, you can also find us on x@bbcworldservice, use the hashtag global news pod. This edition was mixed by Alana Bowls, the producer was Charles Sanctuary, the editor is Karen Martin and Valerie Sanderson until next time bye bye. If journalism is the first draft of history what happens if that draft is flawed? In 1999 four Russian apartment buildings were bombed, hundreds killed, but even now we still don't know for sure who did it it's a mystery that sparked chilling theories. I'm Helena Merrimon and in a new BBC series I'm talking to the reporters who first covered this story. What did they miss the first time? The history bureau, Putin and the apartment bombs. Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your podcasts.