2025-01-08
29 分钟Donald Trump has threatened to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal. Also: the climber who spent an earthquake up Mount Everest, and the Italian residents who are banned from becoming seriously ill.
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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 Wednesday 8th January, these are our main stories.
The US President elect Donald Trump has refused to rule out using military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
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US President elect Donald Trump has ramped up threats to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, saying he can't offer assurance that he wouldn't use military or economic coercion.
He also said eliminating the artificially drawn U.S.
canada border would be beneficial to national security.
And his intervention comes on the day that his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.
Visited Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory in the Arctic, while answering a journalist's question during a news conference in Florida.
It was difficult to separate humour or bombast from genuine policy.
Just how likely is it then that the next president of the United States will try to take these territories with military force?