About term time holidays. Its about the state taking the rights of parents away, when it comes to making decisions about their children. Not the welcome he was expecting for the french president ial candidate Francois Fillon well have the latest from the campaign trail. Theres a dramatic start to the masters, with the world Number One Dustinjohnson pulling out. And an inspired work of art, or expensive folly . We have an exclusive on the latest work by damian hirst. And coming up in sportsday on bbc news dustinjohnson walks off the first tee and out of the masters. The world number one wont play at augusta after injuring his back in a fall at home. Good evening. In an apparent major shift in policy, the Trump Administration says syria has no future under bashar al assad, after the deaths of at least 80 people, killed in a suspected Chemical Weapons attack this week. The authorities in damascus have denied any involvement, but tonight, the us Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson said there
Singapore, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Welcome. It is midnight in london, 7am in singapore, and 2am in moscow, where the us Secretary Of State has been trying to improve faltering relations between two of the worlds biggest powers, but in the end, there was no hiding the differences. After nearly two hours of talks with his russian counterpart and even Vladimir Putin himself, sakho tim Rex Tillerson said there was a disparity between the two countries. We will get the view from Washington A Little later on newsday, but first of all, from a place in moscow, here is our reporter. The last time he was in russia, Rex Tillerson was an oil man, doing multi Million Dollar deals with the kremlin, Drinking Champagne with Vladimir Putin. He even got an award from him. But in moscow, today, it was a political deal Secretary Of State tillerson was seeking over syria, not easy with Us Russian Relations at their worst since the end of the cold war. He met his russian counterpart, sergei lav
Prove, to find the truth. But we will continue to insist. Thank you. Secretary Rex Tillerson, i want to ask about your conversations with putin about syria. You predicted assad would leave power through political transition, how would you compel him to participate in a political transition that leads to his own departure. Our War Crimes Charges a table and how long will the us wait for russia to come around and four Sergei Lavrov if i make your government and United States governments seem to be miles on the syria issue, on ukraine and other issues. Did you feel you have cleared up any of those issues you mentioned earlier today . Since you had those discussions with Rex Tillerson. We discussed at length the future role for assad, whether it be ina the future role for assad, whether it be in a future political process or not. Clearly our view is that the brain of the assad family is coming to an end. They have again brought this on themselves with their conduct in the war at these past
Heartened by the fact that tillerson is in moscow, that he is talking to the russians who are talking back to him, if not necessarily politely. This was an camera, for the sake of the journalist in our look outside the journalist in our look outside the room and once anyone leaves the room it is what matters inside the room. It is interesting that putin said that he was not aware that it was possible for the Russian American relationship to deteriorate underobama, and he american relationship to deteriorate under obama, and he is now saying it is really bad, considering he went to so much effort to fix the us election, you must be really annoyed. It is like youre watching annoyed. It is like youre watching a film. This is, were laughing about it, but this is serious, the us navy, as donald trump says very powerful submarines, heading towards the korean peninsula, you have russia america saying the one step away from law. Wanted away from the war. Now, it is all serious. Luckily, i thin
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