And london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in the evening in washington, where President Donald Trump has been singing the praises of china in sharp contrast to his campaign rhetoric. In an interview with the american cbs network, the us president said he was in constant touch with president xijinping, and believed he was putting pressure on north korea to rain in its leader kim jung uns nuclear ambitions. The relationship ive had with china, its been already acclaimed as being something very special, something very different to what weve already had. On north korea, mr trump warned that a conflict with the country could kill millions of people. But he had some surprising words of praise for Supreme Leader kim kim jong un. Dealing with obviously very tough people, in particular the generals and others, and at a very young age he was able to assume power. A lot of people im sure tried to take that power away, whether i
authoritarian regime in the world and still retain any degree of autonomy in the first place. the root of this contradiction lies further back than you might think. a war between the british and the chinese that began in 1839. you see, in the years leading up to it, chinese cities were effectively closed to international trade except for the city of canton. what is now guangzhou where british merchants flocked to buy tea. as the historian steven platt explained to npr, they exchanged for the only commodity the chinese waned from britain, which flooded china even though illegal. eventually the chinese emperor noticed the dug scourge and his emissaries is seized and dumped all the opium in canton in the river. in response, the united kingdom sent in warships. the opium war ended in 1842 with
legal? the linguist, that s based on the topic words. always words. ari melber, master of words, thank you as always. if you both tweet about it, we both like it. still ahead, the first 100 days of melania trump. we ll look at how she s revised the role of the first lady. also breaking news, deadly tornados hitting texas last night. several were hospitalized after the severe weather. a live report from the town of canton.