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 evil .
it s 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 8am in seoul, where the head of the us military, generaljoseph dunford, is getting ready for talks on north korea s nuclear and missile threats. he s to meet president moonjae in and south korea s defence minister. afterwards he ll go on to china and japan. the bbc‘s richard galpin reports. on the pacific island of guam, people turned out in large numbers on sunday to pray for peace. they are now potentially in the firing line as the stand off between the us and north korea continues. pyongyang has threatened to fire missiles toward this island which is home to major us military bases. we re here to pray for the leaders of those countries to remain calm and think about the people and the lives of the people we have here. in japan, anti aircraft systems were deployed at the weekend to shoot down any north korean missiles aimed at guam. this area of southern japan would lie on the flight path. this is the most serious crisis in th
anniversary of the death of elvis presley, we head to manila where the king s music lives on. it s 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in new york, where donald trump has made a fiery and at times angry defence of his reaction to the clashes in charlottesville over the weekend. he had been hoping to talk about his plans for america s infrastructure, but instead was drawn into a series of exchanges with journalists on why he had not issued an immediate condemnation of racist and neo nazi groups. in response, he seemed to hold civil rights groups equally to blame for the violence. what i m saying is this. you had a grip on one side and you had a grip on the other and they came out each other with clubs, and it was dishes and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch. but there another side. there was a grip on their side, you can call them the left, you ve just called them the left, you ve just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other gr
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