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Following a tense week for European nations over Donald Trump’s threats to Greenland, fresh outrage has been sparked as the US President claimed Nato troops avoided Afghanistan's front line.

Trump told Fox News on Thursday: "They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan... and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines."

The UK was among several allies to join the US in Afghanistan from 2001, and a total of 457 British service personnel were killed in the conflict.

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Donald Trump's claim that Nato troops stayed "a little off the front lines" during the war in Afghanistan has sparked outrage from UK politicians and veterans' families.

The US president told Fox News on Thursday that he was "not sure" the military alliance would be there for the US "if we ever needed them".

"They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan," he said, "and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines".

Health and Social Care Minister Stephen Kinnock called Trump’s remark “disappointing”, and said the UK and other allies had "always stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States" and contributed to US-led missions.

The UK was among several allies to join the US in Afghanistan from 2001, after it invoked Nato's collective security clause following the 9/11 terror attacks.

A total of 457 British service personnel were killed in the conflict.

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The website of the London ICC describes it as being part of a global movement of more than 130 churches worldwide.

It claims to be "not your average church", and its student-focused Instagram features slickly edited testimonies from young faces, along with vlogs and vox-pop interviews near university campuses.

People we have spoken to, who were all students when they became involved with the ICC, have raised allegations with the BBC about feeling pressured into making donations they could not afford.

The London International Christian Church told the BBC the allegation that undue pressure was put on the students for donations was untrue.

It said its doctrine was that giving must be "voluntary, in keeping with one's means and never coerced or demanded".

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President Trump wrapped up his second and final day at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The President held an inauguration for his new “Board of Peace” and met with Ukraine’s President Zelensky - which Zelensky said included agreeing post-war security guarantees for his country. BBC chief North America correspondent Gary O’Donoghue and the Economist’s Shashank Joshi break it all down.

And the former Labour Minister Andrew Gwynne confirmed his plans to retire on medical grounds triggering a by-election that could pave the way for Andy Burnham to run and ultimately launch a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer. Political correspondent Joe Pike joins Adam to explain why polticos have been speculating.

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2026 has brought a huge range of important news stories from Venezuela and Greenland to Minneapolis and Washington DC.

The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins has been looking at how Americans feel about what's been happening and about their president.

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After saying he would use military force to take over Greenland, and raise tariffs on countries who oppose him, President Donald Trump has walked back on both threats.

He has also said he has agreed the "framework of a future deal" with Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. But that agreement does not appear to grant him the full control he was seeking.

So why has President Trump changed his tune? And what will leaders across Europe make of this?

We get the details from our Europe correspondent Nick Beake.

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In a speech to world leaders, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky criticised Europe for avoiding to take "action" and called on the continent to "protect itself".

He was speaking after an hour-long meeting with US President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Earlier, Trump said a settlement on the Ukraine war "is coming very soon" as he joined other world leaders to inaugurate his "Board of Peace".

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seemed to challenge Donald Trump in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, declaring that “the old world order is not coming back” and urging fellow “middle powers” to come together.

In response, Trump said Canada gets “a lot of freebies” from the United States and “they should be grateful”.

After striking a major trade and tariff deal with China – the US’s rival superpower – is Carney emerging as the leader of a global resistance to Trump? And does he have an alternative vision for the world?

Tristan Redman and Asma Khalid speak to Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s chief international correspondent.

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Chapters:

00:00 What's the context?

01:44 What did Trump say at Davos?

03:54 What did Mark Carney say at Davos?

06:26 Canada and China

09:00 US threats to Canada

11:28 The so-called '51st state'

14:55 Has the US-Canadian friendship broken down?

19:00 How has the threat to Greenland affected Canada?

US President Donald Trump said his 'Board of Peace' would work with the United Nations, despite a leaked document suggesting it might be designed to replace it.

Founding members of the body, including Argentina's Javier Milei and Hungary's Viktor Orban, sat beside Trump as he touted his administration's achievements on peace.

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump, also took to the stage to promote US plans for the re-development of Gaza, including seaside high-rise buildings on the current Gaza Strip.

Trump ended the ceremony by describing himself as a "real estate person at heart".

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UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said the country won't sign up to US President Donald Trump's proposed Board of Peace yet, because of concerns about Russian leader Vladimir Putin's possible participation.

The board, which gives Trump wide decision-making powers as chairman, is being billed by the US as a new international organisation for resolving conflicts.

Cooper described the board as a "legal treaty that raises much broader issues" than the initiative's initial focus on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Some of the US's traditional allies have not agreed to join the board and notably, no other permanent members of the UN Security Council - the five nations with the most powerful roles in international affairs - have not committed to participation so far.

But launching the board at a signing ceremony alongside world leaders in Davos, Trump said he did not intend it as a replacement for the UN and expressed his belief that it would help forge an "everlasting" peace in the Middle East.

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