to confront so deep a life as a shadowed by trauma. ice of life starts january 24th oh d w. the business dw news line from berlin. donald trump, the steps of his threats to take control of greenland and the panama canal. the president elect refuses to love using military force to get his wayne samuel securities at stake. also coming up on the program, social networking join meta is ending it's fact checking program on facebook and instagram. instead, implants to rely on it to users to moderate is content and united states sanctions, the leader of sedans are as f militia of accusing him of directions as forces to commit genocide. the

i'm aaron tilden in berlin, thank you very much for joining us. us president elect donald trump, has refused to rule out military force to gain control of both the panama canal and greenwood. since when in the election from has repeatedly expressed his desire to take over the strategical, important waterway and the island during his 1st term in the office, trump expressed an interest in buying greenland, which is an autonomy his territory of denmark. a long time us allied in need of a number, but the governments of greenland and denmark have repeatedly rebuffed his offers. from has once again set his eyes on greenland posting on his side truth social on monday. he said to greenland is an incredible place and the people will benefit you tremendously if and when it becomes part of our nation. we will protect it and cherish it from a very vicious outside world. make green and great again,

your position and on tuesday, the future presidents doubled down on his claims or even refusing to roll out military most military while we were waiting for national security purposes. i've been told that for a long time, long before i even ran, i mean people have been talking about it for a long time. you have approximately 45000 people there. people really don't even know if denmark has any legal rights to it. but if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security. that's for the free world. i'm talking about protecting the very well from may beach we maxwell, his son, bundle junior, was on a brief visit to green and officially as a tourist and not holding talks with officials. and the official it's in denmark has made it very clear several times that greenland is not for sale. confederate, it has infect, chosen, and new damage. coat of arms was

a prominent pulled up at depicting greenland. many see it as a statement of solidarity. greenland is a self governing territory but belongs to the kingdom of denmark. and on each step of some is definitely a correlation between the new code of honor and the politics in denmark about stronger recognition of greenland and the federal islands yang can indicate it's credible the royals do admin. the king, frederick has a close connections agreement on a much love for internet. i'm store, store cabinets, and trump had already expressed his desires to own reading. and during his 1st presidency, the island nation has a strategic location. and the optic for trade and defense, and the bounty of natural resources. let's get more from dw correspond, janelle, do a lot on in our washington studio. so do you know, president elect trump is known for his hyperbolic rhetoric? should we actually take his interest in greenland seriously as well is

repeated mentions over the years, are an indication of seriousness. then i guess it is fair to say that he might be pretty serious at this time as well. now you mentioned in the report that i he already tried to by greenland in his 1st term. in fact, so he had to postpone a state visit in 2019 to denmark after the danish prime minister said that greenland wasn't for sale. and that was an absurd idea. this is something that she has had to say again this time around and so has off the prime minister of greenland itself. and, you know, we have to say that, so his refusal to rule out the economic and military co, ers, and those in themselves are quite serious pronouncements. now this is trump, we don't know how much action will follow on from speech, but of course he is hard to ignore. last month, the danish government actually said that it was boosting defense spending for

greenland after remarks made by trump again about how he was interested in buying greenland. danish officials have said that that was purely coincidental and not at all connected to trump's remarks, but it's hard to imagine that trumps are known to be walla tile. foreign policy was completely absent from their minds. now on the face of buying agreement sounds kind of bizarre. do we know why trump is so interested in the territory? so yeah, he's called buying greenland an absolute necessity. and he really does seem to be looking at it from several spot standpoints. one is the security standpoint. uh greenland of course is located between the us and europe. it strategically important at a time where russia, china, and the us are vying for a control over the arctic. greenland is also rich and natural resources. we're talking about oil and gas and we're talking about rear or it's metals. so there are

plenty of reasons for trump to be interested in greenland now as to whether greenland itself is interested in trump dot bit. we really don't know but interesting to note that. so greenland is quite in a specific time. politically speaking, there's an independence movement there that has been gaining some momentum over the last few years. uh, independence from denmark i should say. but whether they would really just want to switch ownership from the danish hands to american hands, as is quite questionable, really instead of i don't know, be able to determine their own futures. you have at least the question of the hour now this whole comes while we're having vague threats of military action against american allies like green and greenland of denmark and panama. and also suggestions that the us could try to annex canada or the signs of things to come from the us as foreign policy under trump to, to yes. so, you know, those are, those are quite remarkable statements that he has been making. he's talked about

taking over the panama canal from panama, is talk to about making candid all the 51st aid. he's called the border between the us and canada and the artificial line. so really i think it's difficult to say whether he has a concrete foreign policy goal in mind when he says these things. but i think it does betray a certain kind of mindset. perhaps it's a mindset that harkens back to his a former role in life as a realize stable goal where it was important for him to take land and own structures. but that is just me speculating, but i think there is something to it perhaps. so when he talks about his vision of america, what he's really talking about is a more expansionist vision. when he talks about making america great. again, perhaps what he actually means is going back to america with more imperialistic impulses. and i do have the feeling that so this is another layer to america 1st

that we're going to end up talking about more and more as, as administration progresses. now we truly are leaving an interesting times. i'm afraid we have to leave it there. that was due to the original dum, allow on. thank you very much for your analysis to the social networking join. meadows says it was crap fact checking on facebook and instagram. this was originally put in place to stop the spread of misinformation. but c, e o. mark soccer works as most content model ration will now be done by users adopting a community based model similar to that used by x change marks of reversal of policies. dr. burke has long championed just by criticism from conservatives over alleged censorship. the meta ceo acknowledge the shift was partially triggered by the election of donald trump. we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content, but the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes, even as they accidentally censor, just one percent of posts. that's millions of people, and we've reached

a point where it's just too many mistakes in too much censorship. the recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech. so we can get back to our roots in focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms. joan donovan is an expert on this information. she told us more about mark soccer birds decision. it wasn't surprised at all that they're rolling back. fact checking. one of the things that i think did surprise some people was that sucker bird took a trip down to morrow alonzo. and then came back and promptly made a $1000000.00 donation to trump's integration fund. and now what we're seeing is the rolling back of policies that were specifically instituted to deal with the political suppression that trump was having on the us public by lying to them at scale using meta products as well as twitter and youtube and other

social media platforms. in the us as a que sedans r s. s militia of genocide saying it has systematically murdered and raped members of certain ethnic groups and are for the by new administration has imposed sanctions on r. s. f leader. the home of the hunt on dogwood saying he bears responsibility for the actions of his finders. tens of thousands have been killed and see done. since the war between the countries army and the r s f broke out almost 2 years ago. political analysts, how would the theater joins me now? she's the founding director of confidence. advisory, thanks for joining us. so these sanctions come after 20 months of fighting. why is the us acting now? well, you know, the us has been under tremendous pressure both internally from congress as well as outside from civil society activism. human rights organizations to really make

a dent in this, impunity that we're seeing. and it's finally now come to a, uh, does a nation of the end rather determination. what happens then is genocide and that the are as of have been responsible for a lot of these crimes. it of course also says that the cities on ford has also been guilty of all crimes. i think would significant developers in terms of timing is that it comes right at the end of buttons tom. so effectively, he's not the one who's going to have to deal with the political rep, a cushions of also mentioned in the united arab emirates, in the same designation. and he's as ministration is not the one who's going to have to actually put in place. some of the god wrote and some of the actual, you know, um practical implications of what the sanctions mean. well that really is the question. knowing biden's kicking to can down the road. what exactly does this mean for the r s s leadership? i think this unequivocally, you know, huts, their ability to say we already dismiss organization and we can have international credibility, their credibility with shots, with many people who's done before,

you know, almost as soon as this was started, the aim of the game for the ours. if we from the opposite wants to get international recognition, international credibility, recency that have been talks about setting up a, a government in our as of areas. and this, we need deals a heavy blow to those aspirations. and that, that, that government could eventually result in any kind of international recognition and the disability. so the timing is really helpful in terms of, you know, put pushing that kind of setting up a government to a later stage or hoping to get some way to. it's entirely because of putting a government in place now in our safe areas, effectively splits the country. so the timing is useful. but what i think, what we, i think we need to see is a lot more of a sense of what this looks like in practical terms. not just symbolically know. you mentioned the united arab emirates there for a 2nd. and they have been accused of back in the r as, as how crucial is external support to sustaining the conflict as

well. the most i've ever, it's is one of the biggest factors of the, our associates, probably the biggest back a by far as it needs on forces to invest. he has a whole different group of countries and sort of supporting it from iran to russia, to egypt. the saudi arabians guitar and tacky and but they are assess, relies almost entirely on the u. e and some small support from russian permanency group, the voc wagner group. and so if the light's ever m as were moved to stop supposing the reset this with hampstead, the ours, that's the ability to keep prosecuting this will. i don't think that b u e will be as moved to stop supporting our assess stinky. because the united states has designated the are as, as a set of actions. as a genocide, we have seen that actually no international actor is moved by the suffering also needs to provide humanitarian does also supply the atrocities committed by any of the sides. the political calculus here really to the united of m as if the result is that will continue to come out and to what extent it can continue working with

the r assess if there are several meet its demands that go so many of the other actors in the region as well, but the show what this designation does do is how do they are assess ability to say that they have the kind of future that they had imagined before. all right, that was on the line was how was it half from the conflicts advisory? thank you very much for your analysis exam. and here's a reminder of our top story. at this hour, you took us prisoner elect. donald trump has refused to will as a military force to gain control of the panama canal and greenwood. since winning the re, election from has repeatedly expressed his desire to take over the strategically important waterways and islands. and social networking joint matter has ended its fact checking program chief executive mark zuckerberg says the movies in depth, restoring free expressions on popular platforms like facebook and instagram

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