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Greenland's future
Analysis: US likely to exploit the slightest division in the meeting on Greenland

If a majority of Greenlanders really believe that they do not want to belong to the US, it will be very important for the Danish and Greenlandic delegations going to Washington next week to show unity. This is what TV2's correspondent Lotte Mejlhede tells her own channel.

- If the Americans suspect the slightest division, they will exploit it, and then the pressure on Greenland will be even greater, she says.

On Friday, Donald Trump reiterated that the US needs Greenland. At a press conference, he said, among other things, that the country can take over Greenland "the easy way or the hard way".

The president did not really say anything new, believes Berlingskes' Kristian Mouritzen. The big question is whether Trump is serious, he says in the DR program P1 Morgen.

- Or if it is just an insane negotiating move, as if he were negotiating for some land in New York.

Trump also says that the US wants to take over Greenland because of the risk that both Russia and China want to occupy the island. That is not how the Greenlanders and Danes see it, according to SR's correspondent David Rasmusson, who is on site in Nuuk.

- They see it as if Greenland is part of NATO. In the event of an attack, it would be protected by NATO troops, he says.

The climate threat  Global challenges
The world's richest have already blown their climate budget

It has only been ten days into the new year, but the world's richest one percent have already used up their share of the carbon dioxide budget. This is shown by an analysis from the British Oxfam, writes The Guardian.

According to Oxfam, the richest one percent in the UK emits more carbon dioxide in eight days than the poorest 50 percent do in an entire year. Those who are worst affected by the emissions are communities in poor and climate-exposed countries.

For the world to reach the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, the richest percent of the world's total population must reduce their emissions by a full 97 percent, according to the report. 

The IS attack in Palmyra
New US attacks on IS targets in Syria

The US is carrying out new attacks on IS targets in Syria, several media outlets report. It is the second retaliatory attack after two US soldiers and an interpreter were killed in an IS attack in Palmyra last month.

"If you harm our soldiers, we will find you and kill you anywhere in the world," the US Central Command, Centcom, said, according to the AP.

On December 19, the US attacked around 70 targets in central Syria in response to the attack. 

ICE shootings in Minneapolis
29 arrested at protests in Minneapolis last night

29 people were arrested in Minneapolis, USA, last night in connection with protests against the immigration agency ICE's presence in the city, Mayor Jacob Frey said on Saturday.

Police Chief Brian O’Hara said one officer was injured in the protests, Reuters reported. There was no word on the extent of the injuries.

Frey said the majority were demonstrating peacefully but also urged those who resort to violence to calm down, according to CNN.

“We will not respond to Donald Trump’s chaos with our own chaos,” he said.