Trump latest: Trump hails 'incredible' Davos trip - and promises Greenland 'deal' will be 'amazing' for US

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• Donald Trump, with the help of son-in-law Jared Kushner, unveiled his "master plan" for the future of Gaza on his second day at the World Economic Forum; 
• It came after US president fronted an elaborate signing ceremony to inaugurate his 'Board of Peace' initiative;

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• Both big set-piece events in Davos came as the international community was still digesting Trump's dramatic U-turn on further European tariffs and Greenland;
• But NATO chief Mark Rutte told our lead world news presenter Yalda Hakim that Trump was simply trying to focus European attention on the Arctic region;
• As he jetted back across the Atlantic, Trump hailed his "incredible time" at the event and promised the proposed Greenland deal was "being worked on" and would be "amazing" for the US

• Elsewhere, Greenland's prime minster said the territory was "ready to negotiate" its partnership with the US, but that its sovereignty was a  "red line";
• EU leaders also met for an emergency summit in Brussels on the developing situation around Greenland.

There has been "no formal agreement" regarding Greenland after recent developments at Davos, the country's foreign minister has said, though she noted uncertainty remains.

In a statement after Donald Trump retreated from his threats to use tariffs as leverage to seize the Arctic island, Vivian Motzfeldt said she viewed the news from the World Economic Forum as "positive".

She said she and the Danish defence minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, met with NATO chief Mark Rutte on Monday to outline their "red lines". Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

She said they explained that sovereignty, territorial integrity and the Greenlandic people's self determination were not subject to negotiation.

"No formal agreement ‌has been entered into regarding Greenland... ⁠The government of Greenland ‌has not asked the secretary general ‍of NATO to negotiate on behalf of Greenland, but the secretary general has conveyed our position and red lines directly to ​President Trump," Motzfeldt said.

 "From my perspective, this is positive news from Davos."

Motzfeldt in Greenland on TuesdayReuters

‌Finland's President Alexander Stubb ​has said he ⁠would like a NATO plan ​for ​bolstering Arctic security ready ‍by the alliance's summit in ‌Turkey in July.

"In an ideal world, we would have ‌something ready ⁠by the NATO summit ‌in Ankara," ‍Stubb told the Reuters news agency on the sidelines of the World Economic ​Forum earlier.

Stubb said he was confident that Europe would present a united front on Greenland at the EU leaders summit in Brussels, which is now getting under way.

Donald Trump is the "leader of the free world" and if he is worried about something, "we better listen", NATO chief Mark Rutte - who has been hailed as something of a Trump whisperer - has told Sky News.

After the US president stepped back from his threats to take over Greenland by force, Sky News's lead world presenter Yalda Hakim unpacks what happened in Davos.

Watch her analysis of what is really going on, and see her interview with Rutte, here:

The UK is "ready to play its full part" on Arctic security, Sir Keir Starmer has said, after Donald Trump pulled back on his threats to impose tariffs or take military action to bring Greenland under US control.

The prime minister spoke to the chief of NATO, Mark Rutte, and the pair discussed "the progress made by allies on Arctic security in recent days," his spokesperson said.

"It was vital that NATO allies continued to work together to step up security cooperation in the region, they agreed," the spokesperson added.

"The UK stood ready to play its full part, the prime minister said."

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Donald Trump has taken to social media as he flies back to Washington from his eventful appearance at the World Economic Forum.

"It was an incredible time in Davos," the US president said on Truth Social.

The structure of the future deal for Greenland is "being worked on" and will be "amazing" for the US, Trump said.

He added his newly inaugurated Board of Peace was "very special" and something "that the world has never seen before".

In the same month he ordered strikes on Venezuela and threatened to seize Greenland, Donald Trump has been inviting countries to join his "Board of Peace". 

The US president and disruptor-in-chief has pitched the board as a mechanism to rebuild Gaza - yet its charter does not even mention the territory. 

Russia has been invited, while still waging war on Ukraine – so what is this so-called Board of Peace? Can it achieve a lasting solution for Palestine? And is Trump trying to replace the United Nations? 

Find out in the latest episode of the Daily podcast...

Kaja Kallas, the EU's top foreign affairs diplomat, has just arrived in Brussels for the emergency summit.

She tells reporters the transatlantic relationship has "definitely taken a blow" in the last week.

Disagreements between allies like the US and EU only benefit Russia, Kallas says.

Asked about Donald Trump's Board of Peace, she adds the bloc can work with the new body if it is narrowed down to focus on Gaza.

By David Blevins, US correspondent

He has boarded Air Force One in Zurich, leaving the World Economic Forum digesting the impact of Trump 2.0.

Donald Trump's participation there has demonstrated two things - the extent to which the world gravitates towards and around him; and the extent to which he thrives on validation. 

From Greenland to Gaza to Ukraine, everything revolved around the 79-year-old president of the United States.

NATO boss Mark Rutte gave a masterclass in the art of approval, massaging the ego of the world’s most powerful man. Many will criticise him for that, but it produced the desired result - a "deal" on Greenland that appears to do little but reaffirm the status quo. 

But it has taken threats to seize Greenland by force or declare a US/European trade war off the table, for now.

Nineteen world leaders queued up for a picture with the president as they signed up to his Board of Peace for Gaza – more validation.

And Volodymyr Zelenskyy adopted the same tactic, comparing Europe's approach to Greenland with Trump's approach to Venezuela.

Pics: Reuters

The Ukrainian leader thanked Europe for security guarantees but added: "The backstop of President Trump is needed." There is it again – validation.

His "top-billing" speech lacked energy and he clearly mistook Iceland for Greenland several times, but Trump achieved what he went to do.

He has reminded the world that the US is the dominant player on the stage and that he is the disrupter-in-chief.

We've just been hearing from Europe correspondent Alistair Bunkall in Brussels as European leaders arrive for their summit.

"The last 24 hours in Davos have changed things," he says.

"It's taken the heat out of things here tonight. I don't think it's necessarily taking the significance out of tonight.

"The mood has changed in Europe, it really has. 

"There is a feeling that European leaders need to be united and they need to just take a tougher stance, generally, with the US president. 

"And of course, they really do realise that they need to be more self-reliant."

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is among the European leaders in Brussels today for an emergency EU meeting.

Stopping to speak to reporters, she says she's grateful for all the support Denmark has received from its European allies in the last week.

She adds: "When Europe is not divided, when we stand together and when we are clear and strong, also in our willingness to stand up for ourselves, the results will show."

Watch her comments below...

EU leaders are starting to gather for an emergency summit on Greenland in Brussels.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is among those arriving for the meeting, along with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

Speaking to reporters ahead of the summit, Merz says he was grateful for Donald Trump's change of position on Greenland yesterday.

NATO is the most successful stage between the EU and US, he adds.

Friedrich Merz

Mette Frederiksen

Poland's Prime Minster Donald Tusk and Irish Taoiseach Michael Martin have also arrived for the talks.

You can watch the leaders' arrivals in a stream at the top of this page.

Donald Tusk

 Michael MartinPics: Reuters

Our military analyst Michael Clarke has been assessing where Donald Trump's U-turn on Greenland leaves security in the Arctic. 

"NATO - the non the non-US bits of NATO -  have got a better story to tell on Arctic security than the United States," he says.

"The Scandinavian countries have got the icebreakers which the United States doesn't have. The US has only got three not very adequate ones.

"The Brits have got a marine Corps who are trained specifically to operate in the Arctic.

"So the European members of NATO are far better placed to secure the Arctic from the growing challenges of the ice melts than the United States is, at the moment."

Watch Clarke's analysis...

France ‌has explained why it's not joining Donald ​Trump's Board of Peace ⁠for now.

The body's charter does not ​correspond with ​a UN resolution to ‍resolve the war in Gaza, said Pascal Confavreux, a spokesperson of France's foreign ministry.

Macron and Trump at last year's UN General AssemblyReuters

Some elements of the ‌charter were also contrary to ‌the UN charter, he added. 

The statement echoed comments made by a source close to Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, who had also said that France did "not intend to answer favourably" to Trump's invitation to join the board.

In our Board of Peace explainer below, we have summed up who has joined it so far and who said no.

Tap the link for the full explainer

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After a whirlwind 24 hours at the World Economic Forum, Donald Trump is now heading back across the Atlantic.

The US president can be seen waving as he boards Air Force One at Zurich International Airport.

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Greenland's Prime Minster Jens-Frederik Nielsen is speaking to reporters in the territory's capital Nuuk.

Asked if Greenland would consider the US seeking sovereignty of small pockets of its territory, he says: "We are ready to discuss a lot of things, and we are ready to negotiate a better partnership and so on. But sovereignty is a red line. 

"Our integrity and our borders and international law is definitely a red line that we don't want anyone to cross."

Nielsen says there is "no doubt" the rhetoric of the last year surrounding the acquisition of Greenland is "unacceptable for us".

But until yesterday - seemingly a reference to Donald Trump's U-turn on social media - the people of Greenland "couldn't rule out anything", he says.

He adds he does not yet know the details of the "future deal" that the US president announced yesterday.

Donald Trump may have formed his Board of Peace but the United Nations "is not going anywhere", one of its leading officials has said.

Tom Fletcher, the UN's under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said the body was built for "hard times" and will adapt to the changing nature of diplomacy.

"Six months ago, the big concern was that America was disengaging from the world and becoming much more unilateral," he told our lead world news presenter Yalda Hakim.

"Now I think we're seeing America wanting to play a part in ending so many of these conflicts."

Watch Fletcher's interview...

Reactions to the latest developments in the Greenland feud have also come in from China today.

Donald Trump has notably claimed repeatedly that the security threat from Russia and China was the reason why he needed to annex Greenland.

But Beijing reaffirmed this morning that the idea of China posing a threat to the territory is something that's "completely unfounded".

"China opposes the practice of using China as a pretext for pursuing selfish interests," the country's foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun says.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo JiakunReuters

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is alongside Davos with Donald Trump, has posted about Greenland on social media.

She shared a picture of the front page of today's New York Post newspaper, which says: "Trump announces 'framework' for Greenland agreement - US could own parts of island".

There is a picture of the US president wearing a Viking helmet alongside the headline.

As a reminder, we've had no further details yet on the framework or "future deal" for Greenland that was announced by Trump on Truth Social yesterday.

Trump sidestepped questions from reporters in Davos yesterday when asked if the proposed deal still allowed the US to control the territory.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Davos speech has wrapped up in the last half hour and he has strongly criticised Europe's response to the Greenland dispute with the US.

In short, the president's tenor was that the continent needed to pull together and show more courage.

"Instead of taking the lead ​in defending freedom worldwide, especially when ‍America's focus shifts elsewhere, Europe looks lost trying to convince ‌the US president ⁠to change," Zelenskyy said.

He criticised that European countries had sent "30 or 40 soldiers" on a reconnaissance mission to Greenland.  

"What's the message to Putin, to China?" said Zelenskyy.

Europe was showing the same attitude towards Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he added.

"Europe still remains in Greenland mode: maybe someday someone will do something."

Our defence editor Deborah Haynes is in Kyiv at the moment - watch her analysis of Zelenskyy's speech in the video...