Amna: Welcome to the news hour.

Tonight president trump announced what he called the framework of a deal over Greenland, the Danish island that until today he had threatened to take over if needed by military force.

Geoff: There are not a lot of details at the moment but the president said it would allow the U.S.

To build missile defense bases and mine for minerals under Greenland's ice.

But even though president trump has taken an off-ramp, many Europeans and Canadians say the damage has already been done to the U.S.

Relationship with its most trusted allies.

Nick schifrin starts our coverage.

Nick: In Davos today after a week of threats against the u.s.

's closest allies and a threat of takeover of nato territories, president trump walked back.

Pres.

Trump: We have a concept of a deal, I think it will be very good deal with the U.S.

And also for them.

Nick: A deal for Greenland, which is been part of the kingdom of Denmark since 1621.

Trump said he would no longer tariff and would allow the U.S.

To expand its military.

Pres.

Trump: A new golden dome and they will be involved and they will be involved in mineral rights and so are we.

>> It is not specific enough to know how long this lasts.

Pres.

Trump: Forever.

It will be forever.

>> For Greenland?

Pres.

Trump: Forever.

>> You can be assured absolutely , your allies will be with you.

Nick: The announcement after trump met the nato secretary-general rutte who says it will boost nato presence around Greenland and arctic in block Russian and Chinese access to Greenland.

Earlier today trump took the military option off the table for the first time.

Pres.

Trump: I would use force.

I don't have to use force.

I won't use force.

Nick: He saved his greatest grievances for America's greatest allies.

Pres.

Trump: The U.S.

Is treated unfairly by nato.

We have helped them for so many and never gotten anything.

It is the U.S.

Alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it.

Nick: Never mind the Greenland and Denmark insisted the island is not for sale.

>> A military agreement during days of peace.

Nick: Never mind that for 77 years the U.S.

Has agreed to collective defense of all members territory.

Pres.

Trump: All we are asking for is to get Greenland, including rights, title and ownership because you need ownership to defended.

You can't defend it on police.

Nick: Greenland sits on the shortest route between the U.S.

And Russia and for decades hosted multiple U.S.

Air defense bases.

But after the cold war the U.S.

Closed all but one, which today is the U.S.'

northernmost base.

Pres.

Trump: Greenland is sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the U.S., Russia and China.

>> The threat of additional tariffs for security reasons is simply wrong.

Nick: Trump's threats have deeply damaged transatlantic trust leaving Ursula Von Der leyen to argue the U.S.

Is shooting itself in the foot.

>> If we are now plunging into a dangerous downward spiral between allies, this would only embolden the very adversaries we are both so committed to keeping out of the strategic landscape.

Nick: Yesterday of all countries, Canada suggested a new world order in which relatively smaller countries resist the superpowers, even neighbors.

>> Let me be direct.

We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

The middle powers must act together because if we are not at the table, we are on the menu.

We should not allow the rise of hard power to blind us to the fact that the power of legitimacy, integrity and rules will remain strong if we choose to wield them together.

Nick: Even if there is a Greenland deal, this week perhaps finally proves trump's art of the deal and pressure tactics threaten the U.S.'