We have more from Vice President JD Vance's interview with BBC's US partner CBS News.

The Ohio Republican spent much of the time defending Donald Trump's unprecedented number of executive actions. He alleges that the president - in his first week - has "accomplished more than Joe Biden did in four years".

"It's been an incredible breakneck pace of activity," Vance says.

"While we've done a whole lot, we can't undo all of the damage of Joe Biden's presidency," Vance adds.

"We've done a lot, and I think the president is to be commended for actually coming in and doing something with this incredible mandate the American people gave him.

"He's not sitting in the Oval Office doing nothing. He's doing the American people's business, and I think they're going to see a lot of good effects from it."

A group of senior Senate Democrats on Monday will seek to pass a resolution that formally condemns the pardons of rioters convicted of assaulting police officers on 6 January 2021, according to reporting from CBS News, the BBC's US partner.

While the resolution is unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled Senate, the move is an attempt to turn up the pressure on Republican lawmakers, who must decide whether to defend the pardons - potentially alienating voters - or to take a public stand against them, risking the wrath of Donald Trump.

“I refuse to allow President Trump to rewrite what happened on January 6 - armed insurrectionists, incited by Trump himself, broke into the U.S. Capitol and violently assaulted Capitol Police officers in their attempt to overthrow a free and fair election,” said Senator Patty Murray, a senior Democrat from Washington state.

In one of his first actions after re-taking the White House last week, Trump pardoned and commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people charged in connection to the 6 Jan attack, making no distinction for the more than 600 individuals charged with assaulting or resisting police.

Such a sweeping order is not supported by the American public. A recent Associated Press survey, external indicated only two in 10 Americans approve of pardoning most of those involved.

And in the days since, some Trump allies have struggled to balance their views on the pardons with their public support for the president.

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Hours after he became US president, Donald Trump signed a blanket pardon that effectively freed all the rioters - including those convicted of violent offences - who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

In an interview with BBC's US partner CBS, US Vice-President JD Vance says he believes Trump made the right decision.

"We looked at 1,600 cases and the thing that came out of it... is that there was a massive denial of due process of liberty, and a lot of people were denied their constitutional rights," Vance says, claiming the Department of Justice's prosecution of the rioters was "politically motivated".

"The president believes that. I believe that and I think he made the right decision," Vance tells CBS, adding "we rectified a wrong, and I stand by it".

Vance's comments come after earlier statements he made to US media two weeks ago, saying "if you protested peacefully on 6 January and had Merrick Garland's Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn't be pardoned."

As we've been reporting, Trump has doubled down on his comments that Canada should become a US state, renewing the same sentiment he shared earlier this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

"We have a tremendous debt with Canada, we're not going to have that anymore," the US president told global business leaders on Thursday.

"As you probably know, I say you can always become a state... Canada has been very tough to deal with over the years," he said, adding the US doesn't need Canada's cars, lumber, oil or gas.

In this 85-second video, you can see Trump talk about Canada and how companies that make their products in the US will get the "lowest taxes of any nation":

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As we reported earlier on, US President Trump last night suggested that Gazans should relocate to Arab countries such as Egypt and Jordan, after he described the Gaza strip as a “demolition site”.

This contradicts US foreign policy, which has consistently opposed the forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, and has been committed instead to the creation of a Palestinian state.

Trump also said "you're talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing".

Here’s a short roundup of how groups in the region have reacted to Trump’s comments:

• "Forcibly displacing” people who are finally returning to their homes amid the ceasefire would be “impossible, impossible, impossible”, Palestinians in Gaza have been quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency
• Hamas, too, decried Trump’s statement. Speaking to the BBC, political bureau member Basem Naim describes how Palestinians have “endured death and destruction” for 15 months, and will therefore “not accept any offers or solutions, even if they appear to be good intentions
• Arab League spokesperson Gamal Roshdy says the middle-east political organisation rejects Trump's proposals, which it considers "against the notion of [the] two state solution." He says that removing Palestinians from Gaza is "tantamount to undermining the Palestinian cause completely"
• Not everyone opposes the proposal, though. Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right-leaning finance minister calls it “a great idea” and says he will work to implement this plan “as soon as possible”

Egypt and Jordan have yet to react officially to Donald Trump’s Air Force One comments - we’ll bring you them as soon as we get them - but meanwhile there’s more on Trump’s proposals in our explainer piece.

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked Donald Trump for providing "tools" Israel needs to "defend itself".

As a reminder, Trump said yesterday that he had instructed the US military to release a shipment of 2,000lb (907kg) bombs for Israel that former US President Joe Biden had blocked.

"Thank you President Trump for keeping your promise to give Israel the tools it needs to defend itself, to confront our common enemies and to secure a future of peace and prosperity," Netanyahu says in a post on X., external

Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has also thanked US President Donald Trump for "yet another display of leadership by releasing the crucial defence shipment to Israel".

"The region is safer when Israel has what it needs to defend itself," Saar says in a post on X, external.

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Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham says he thinks pardoning “people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently” is “a mistake”, though he’s not surprised President Donald Trump has done it.

His comments come after Trump pardoned nearly 1,600 of his supporters who were arrested over the 2021 US Capitol riot. At least 600 of them were charged with assaulting or obstructing federal officers.

Speaking to NBC, external, Graham warned the blanket pardons could “get more violence”, adding, “because it seems to suggest that’s an OK thing to do”.

However, he noted that Trump was simply following through on a campaign promise, so “it is no surprise” he acted on it.

“But I’ll be consistent here – I don’t like the idea of bailing people out of jail or pardoning people who burn down cities and beat up cops, whether you're a Republican or Democrat,” he adds.

Donald Trump has wrapped up his first working week back in the White House, so let’s take a look at some of the key decisions he’s made so far:

• Immigration: Trump has ordered a halt to the physical entry of migrants at the southern border, restarted efforts to build a Mexico border wall, and also moved to deny citizenship to children of migrants in the US illegally or on temporary visas
• Climate and health: Trump has begun withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement and signed an order to start pulling out of the World Health Organization
• Gender and diversity: He’s declared the US will only recognise two sexes, male and female, and ended all government programmes promoting “gender ideology” or diversity initiatives
• TikTok: Trump delayed a ban on TikTok by 75 days
• Pardons: He’s pardoned nearly 1,600 Capitol riot supporters, far-right group members, and 23 anti-abortion protesters
• Secret files: Trump has ordered the release of classified documents related to the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr

Read more: What Trump has done since taking power

Greenland, the world's largest island, is located in the Arctic.

It is the world's most sparsely populated territory. About 56,000 people live there, mostly indigenous Inuit people.

About 80% of its territory is covered by ice, meaning most people live on the south-western coast around the capital, Nuuk.

Though a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe since the 9th Century. It is also home to Danish and US military bases.

The economy is mainly based on fishing. Large subsidies from the Danish government account for about a fifth of GDP.

In recent years, there has been increased interest in Greenland's natural resources, including mining for rare earth minerals, uranium and iron.

These may become more accessible as global warming leads to some of the ice covering Greenland to melt.

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Brazil’s foreign ministry is seeking an explanation from the US government over allegations of “degrading treatment” of Brazilians who were on a deportation flight from the US.

In a thread on X, Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs suggests “incidents” took place at Eduardo Gomes airport in Manaus involving citizens who had been transported by the US government.

According to Reuters news agency, the plane had been carrying 88 Brazilian passengers and 16 US security agents and made an unscheduled stop in Manaus, having intended to fly to Belo Horizonte.

Upon arrival, Reuters reports that the passengers were in handcuffs and alleged that they had been mistreated during the flight. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva then arranged for the country’s air force to help the passengers complete their journey.

Donald Trump has vowed to crack down on immigration and promised to remove undocumented migrants since his re-election in November.

The US president has expanded the scope of expedited deportations of undocumented migrants, which can now occur anywhere in the US, as opposed to a previous limit of areas within 100 miles (161km) of US international borders.

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Donald Trump's administration fired at least a dozen federal inspectors general overnight, according to the BBC's US partner, CBS., external

Inspectors general look for waste, fraud, abuse and misconduct in federal agencies, and they would monitor Trump's agencies and appointees.

Mark Greenblatt, who was nominated by Trump in his first term as president to be the inspector general of the Department of the Interior, told CBS yesterday that he was "stunned" when he received the notification that he was fired.

Hannibal Ware, who was also fired, has argued in a letter to the White House obtained by CBS that he "does not believe the actions taken are legally sufficient".

Trump described the firings to reporters aboard Air Force One yesterday as "standard" and a "very common thing to do".

The White House has not commented on the firings.

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In addition his comments on Greenland and Gaza, last night Donald Trump also praised Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer - saying he's done "a very good job thus far".

Asked about his relationship with Sir Keir while on board Air Force One, Trump told the BBC that they would be having a call "over the next 24 hours".

"I get along with him well. I like him a lot," Trump said of Sir Keir. "He's liberal, which is a bit different from me, but I think he's a very good person and I think he's done a very good job thus far."

"I may not agree with his philosophy, but I have a very good relationship with him."

Sir Keir and Trump spoke by phone following Trump's re-election in November, with Downing Street saying at the time that the two had agreed the relationship between the UK and US was "incredibly strong" and would "continue to thrive".

Donald Trump started his second term as president last Monday – and so far he's focussed his efforts on signing a series of executive orders and travelling around the country.

Here are some photos of his event-packed first week back in the White Office.

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Decades of US foreign policy has committed to the creation of a Palestinian state, with Gaza as a key part. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects this.

The US has previously said that it opposes any forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza or the occupied West Bank, with then Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying last year: "They cannot, they must not, be pressed to leave Gaza."

More than two million Palestinian refugees, most of whom have been granted citizenship, live in Jordan, according to the United Nations.

They are descendants of some of the approximately 750,000 Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes in the conflicts surrounding the formation of Israel.

Asked about Trump's comments, Abu Yahya Rashid, a man displaced in the southern city of Khan Younis said:

More: Trump says he wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza

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US President Donald Trump has suggested relocating Gazans to Arab countries such as Egypt and Jordan.

He described the Gaza Strip as a "demolition site" following Israeli bombardments.

"I'd rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change," Trump said.

He added that moving Gaza's residents could be done "temporarily or could be long term".

Trump said he had already spoken to Jordan's King Abdullah II about his idea and planned to speak to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi today. Both Egypt and Jordan have previously rejected such proposals.

Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad, an extremist group which fought in Gaza, have firmly rejected the plans.

"Our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip endured death and destruction for 15 months in the biggest crime known to humanity in the 21st Century, without leaving their land and homeland," Bassem Naim, a member of the Hamas political bureau, tells the BBC.

"Therefore, they will not accept any offers or solutions, even if they appear to be good intentions under the title of reconstruction, as announced by US President Trump's proposals."

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With just a week under his belt as the US president for the second time, Trump 2.0 has ushered in a more emboldened commander-in-chief.

Some things from Trump's first term are the same - a personal Diet Coke dispenser in the Oval Office, Fox News on Air Force One's television screens instead of CNN - but a noticeable difference is his confidence and the speed with which he is making his mark.

And after four years out of office, former administration officials say Trump's slew of first-week executive orders and actions signal his team has returned considerably more prepared than when they first arrived in January 2017.

"It's been much more disciplined, on-point and issue-focused," said Lawrence Muir, a former official in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the new administration has "hit the ground running", particularly on the immigration agenda.

• Read more about how Trump's second term has given him a chance to reshape his legacy

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As Donald Trump doubles down on his interest in Greenland, and the prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark have said the island is not for sale, how could this unusual situation play out?

Here we look at four possible scenarios for Greenland's future:

• Trump loses interest, nothing happens: Trump's move could be just bluster, a move to get Denmark to boost Greenland's security in the face of the threat of both Russia and China seeking influence in the region
• Greenland votes for independence, seeks closer ties with US: There has already been a general consensus in Greenland that independence will happen eventually, and also that if Greenland votes for it, Denmark will accept and ratify it
• Trump steps up economic pressure: The US may drastically increase tariffs on Danish goods, forcing Denmark into concessions of some kind over Greenland
• Trump invades Greenland: The "nuclear option" seems far-fetched, but with Trump failing to rule out military action it has to be considered

Read more on each of the possibilities

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Despite Trump's apparent confidence, the prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark have both previously said the island was not for sale.

Greenland's PM Mute Egede said use of the territory's land was "Greenland's business", though he did express a willingness to work more closely with the US on defence and mining.

Meanwhile, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said earlier this month that "Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders", and only the local population could determine its future.

Frederiksen reasserted her position in a heated 45-minute phone exchange with Trump last week, according to a report in the Financial Times, external.

The newspaper quoted an anonymous European official as saying the conversation was "horrendous", and another saying Trump's interest in acquiring Greenland was "serious, and potentially very dangerous".

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Greenland lies on the shortest route from North America to Europe, making it strategically important for the US. It is also home to a large American space facility.

In recent years, there has been increased interest in Greenland's natural resources, including mining for rare earth minerals, uranium and iron.

Though the island has wide-ranging autonomy, it remains part of the kingdom of Demark.

But there is a general consensus in Greenland that it will eventually become independent, which could pave the way for a new kind of relationship with the US.

President Trump's claim that the people of Greenland "want to be with us" may come as a surprise to some of the island's residents.

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Good morning and welcome as we continue to bring you the latest from Donald Trump's first week back in office.

Trump kicked off the week with a speech at the World Economic Forum in which he laid out his plans to boost the US economy and warning that "nothing will stand in our way".

Doubling down on his suggestion that Canada could become a US state to avoid tariffs, yesterday he told the BBC: "They do almost 90% of their business with the United States, whereas with us it’s the opposite."

"It’s irrelevantly small. So I don’t want to spend hundreds of billions of dollars supporting a country unless that country is a state. And if it is a state, the people of Canada would pay a much lower tax," he adds.

Trump also renewed his appeal for Denmark to relinquish control of the autonomous territory of Greenland to the US - saying it's an "absolute necessity" for international security.

"I think we're going to have it," he told the BBC while on Air Force One last night, adding that the island's 57,000 residents "want to be with us" despite Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen firmly stating that Greenland is not for sale earlier this week.

To top off the week, the US president called Gaza a "demolition site", saying he had spoken to King Abdullah II of Jordan about the possibility of his country and Egypt taking in displaced Palestinians.

Stick with us as we bring you the latest developments and analysis on Donald Trump's second term in office.