picture. moonlight, best picture. moonlight, this morning, how it happened and who is taking the blame. the nation s governors come to the white house as president trump touts his first weeks in office. we ve accomplished almost everything we ve started out to accomplish. while a group of republicans launches a push to have a special prosecutor look into the trump campaign s ties with campaigns ties with russia. will the issue be front and center when the president speaks o joint session of congress for the first time since tomorrow night. today exclusive, rare interview with former president, george w. bush as he joins us live in studio today. monday, february 27, 2017. from nbc news, this is special edition of today, at the oscars with matt laur and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning. welcome to today on this monday morning in honor of the oscars. producers of our show have decided to inform me who i amco hosting with t
beyond simply modelling. yes! a steam train reaches 100mph on britain s mainline rail network for the first time in 50 years. and coming up in the sport on bbc news, an historic night for leicester in spain, and a big challenge too they face atletico madrid in the first leg of their champions league quarterfinal. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. in the space ofjust over a year and a half, at least seven babies died during or shortly after birth at one nhs trust in shropshire. and the cluster of deaths was avoidable. five of the babies died simply because their heart rate wasn t being monitored properly during labour. their deaths have prompted such concern that the health secretary, jeremy hunt, has now ordered a review of the shrewsbury and telford hospital trust. but it says its mortality levels are in line with the national average. our correspondent michael buchanan has this exclusive report. basic errors at this trust have caused healthy babies to die.
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 t
education secretary is using the school easter holiday to make a big speech about education in england tomorrow. we will ask if he has a strategy, or just a tomorrow. we will ask if he has a strategy, orjust a few ideas. and are we reading too much into the united airlines saga? good evening, and welcome to bbc news. us president donald trump has tonight described the syrian leader bashar al assad as a butcher and demanded an end to syria s civil war after the suspected chemical attack in idlib province. meanwhile, the us secretary of state has been in moscow for a round of high level talks on syria. he said relations with russia are at a low point and must improve. he was speaking in moscow after talks with president putin and the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov with syria top of the agenda. mr lavrov said the discussions had been substantial and that certain issues were time bombs inherited from barack obama s administration. from moscow, our correspondent, steve
the mp for eastbourne, caroline ansell. the white house spokesman, sean spicer, has admitted he made insensitive remarks about hitler s use of chemical weapons. the first lady melania trump has received an apology and damages from the daily mail, over allegations about her work as a model. also coming up. a suspect with islamist links has been detained, in connection with the bomb attack on the borussia dortmund football team. last night s events didn t keep fans away from this evening s re scheduled match, which has taken place amid tightened security. good evening to you and welcome to bbc news. rex tillerson has held talks in moscow with his counterpart sergey lavrov the meeting was described as frank. the politicians said they found common ground. president putin earlier said relations between the countries had deteriorated. the meetings took place in week after the chemical attack on syria. yesterday the g 7 blocked a plan to face more sanctions on the assad regime and