Newsweek in plain Finnish | Sunday 11.1.2026

Newsweek update. Greenland. Elderly man’s death in nursing home. Espoo bridge accident verdict. Pakkanen.

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Newsweek renewal

This is a news week in plain Finnish.

Yle has slightly revamped its weekend news programs.

There is still one news item of the week on Saturday’s program, which we will cover extensively.

This Sunday’s program now features a lot of news from the week, and we’ll briefly cover them.

Greenland’s capital Nuuk in aerial view.

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Trump says that if the US doesn’t get Greenland, Russia or China will take it. Photo: Odd Andersen / AFP

Greenland

The first topic is Greenland.

The USA has started talking again about wanting to annex Greenland to the USA.

US President Donald Trump first spoke about Greenland about a year ago.

Now Trump has started talking about Greenland in a threatening manner again. He says that the US needs Greenland for security reasons.

Trump says that if the US doesn’t get Greenland, Russia or China will take it. That’s why the US wants Greenland.

Trump’s remarks have Denmark and European leaders worried. Experts and leaders of various countries say that the military alliance NATO will face a crisis if the US takes over Greenland.

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Police are investigating the death of an elderly man, which occurred in a nursing home in Turku. Photo: Yle / Ari Welling

Death in a nursing home

Next, news of a death in a nursing home.

The police are investigating the death of an elderly man, which occurred in a nursing home in Turku.

The elderly man died in a private nursing home in Turku at the beginning of December.

The case is exceptional because the elderly man was tied to a chair and may have strangled himself with the chair’s straps.

The police suspect that a crime may have been committed while caring for the elderly person.

The police are investigating whether the nursing home staff acted improperly or whether some other crime has occurred.

The nursing home is also investigating what happened to the elderly person.

Emergency vehicles, construction site and bridge structures.

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A temporary pedestrian bridge collapsed in Espoo in May 2023. Photo: Kristiina Lehto / Yle

Espoo bridge accident verdict

Now the news about the Espoo bridge accident verdict.

The Western Uusimaa District Court issued a verdict this week regarding a bridge accident that occurred in Espoo about 3 years ago.

A temporary metal bridge collapsed in Tapiola, Espoo, and many people were injured.

The court sentenced the project manager of a scaffolding company to a suspended sentence of 5 months for causing danger and 19 counts of aggravated assault.

The court says the project manager failed to ensure the durability of the bridge. Six (6) schoolchildren suffered permanent injuries.

Winter landscape with people enjoying sledding on a snowy slope.

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It has been really cold in the north. The severe frost has disrupted flights and ski resorts. Photo: Eeva Kuivas / Yle

Frost

Finally, the topic is frost. It has been really cold in Finland this week. In Lapland, it has been 30 degrees and even 40 degrees below zero in some places.

Finnair has canceled flights to Kittilä and Rovaniemi due to the freezing weather. It has been so cold in the north that there is not enough anti-icing for aircraft.

The cold weather has also hampered the operations of ski resorts.

This was a news week in plain Finnish, see you again, let’s hear it!