Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're starting with two stories which may seem rather different,
but they're deeply linked by the fact that they've got a lot to do with American military and diplomatic power.
Excuse me, I'm not talking about Venezuela.
We'll come to that later in the programme.
The two stories are Ukraine and Greenland.
Ukraine first, because just before we came on air,
after a meeting of the European allies who called themselves the Coalition of the Willing,
a meeting in Paris with the Ukrainian President and two senior envoys also in attendance,
the French President Emmanuel Macron,
the British Prime Minister Kirsten Stammer and the Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky signed a joint declaration on security guarantees in the event of a ceasefire.
This is what Mr.
Stammer had to say.
We signed a declaration of intent on the deployment of forces to Ukraine in the event of a peace deal.
This is a vital part of our ironcast commitment to stand with Ukraine for the long term.
It paves the way for the legal framework under which British,
French and partner forces could operate on Ukrainian soil.
Shashank Joshi is the defence editor of The Economist.