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and career. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it s newsday. glad you could join us. it s newsday. glad you could join us. it is 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7:30am in pyongyang, where north korea s state television is reporting that officials are considering a missile attack on the us territory after donald trump up his rhetoric dramatically over north korea s nuclear ambitions, saying pyongyang would be met with fire and few we threatens the us. mr trump spoke after a washington report cited us official said north korea had produced a nuclear warhead small enough to fit inside its missiles. let s have a listen to his comments. north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. he has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as i said they will be met with the fire and fury and, frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never ....
1am in london and 8:30 in the morning in pyongyang where north korea s official news agency said it was considering missile strikes near guam, where us strategic bombers are based. it follows news from us intelligence officials who say north korea has produced a nuclear warhead small enough to fit onto its ballistic missiles. earlier donald trump warned north korea that any further threats would be met, as he put it, with fire, fury and power. north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. he has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as i said they will be met with the fire and fury and, frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. our correspondent nick bryant has the analysis from washington. american presidents have often sent the strongest rhetoric at north korea. you will remember george w bush described the country as being part of the axis of e ....
the border is not a national emergency. they will raise drugs pouring in over the southern border. if you look at the statistics of the drug enforcement agency, where they seize most of the drugs is actually not at the southern border, it s at legal ports of entry where they re mixed in with other items. that s where they ve seized the vast majority. it s something like 70,000 pounds. compared to 10,000 pounds at the southern border. if there s a drug emergency, it s at legal ports of entry through 18 wheelers. that s where the a bigger drug emergency with opoid addition than we do with what s coming across the southern border. i appreciate chris wallace real time fact checking sarah but at the end of the day they will continue to insist on the lie and it s going to take that kind of journalism to push back. ....
And he s saying we have a drug emergency, but most we re facing a crisis and he s not coming through. so what would be the crisis? this is a question for a lawyer, whether or not his emergency power, he has to prove the emergency he declares is an actual thing. i m not sure that it is. that is dangerous, danielle. so we re saying that we re not sure if the president of the united states, whomever it is, could hallucinate an emergency and therefore proclaim an emergency. just the thought of that has me absolutely terrified. because there is a crisis at the border. the crisis at the border is the fact that children are dying in u.s. custody, right? that s a crisis. the fact that we don t know how to reunite children separated from their families. that s a crisis. so there is, in fact, a crisis. there is, in fact, an emergency. that this administration and this president has created. right? and so the idea that he could potentially tweet and say that i ve declared a national emerg ....