International pressure is growing on russia to abandon its support for syrias president assad in the wake of last weeks chemical weapons attack on a rebel town. Tonight western Foreign Ministers from the g7 group of industrialised nations have been meeting in Northern Italy to consider a co ordinated response which could include support for new sanctions on moscow and damascus. The us secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, said america would hold to account those who committed crimes against innocents anywhere in the world. From lucca our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins reports. Contemplating italys past glory and syrias present horror, borisjohnson and Rex Tillerson were turning up the International Heat on president assad and his russian backers. This morning Rex Tillerson deliberately started his day at a memorial to note the atrocity in 1944, the massacre of local villagers, and drew a direct parallel to the gas attack last week. We will rededicate ourselves to holding to accoun
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International pressure is growing on russia to abandon its support for syrias president assad in the wake of last weeks chemical weapons attack on a rebel town. Tonight western Foreign Ministers from the g7 group of industrialised nations have been meeting in Northern Italy to consider a co ordinated response which could include support for new sanctions on moscow and damascus. The us secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, said america would hold to account those who committed crimes against innocents anywhere in the world. From lucca our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins reports. Contemplating italys past glory and syrias present horror, borisjohnson and Rex Tillerson were turning up the International Heat on president assad and his russian backers. This morning Rex Tillerson deliberately started his day at a memorial to note the atrocity in 1944, the massacre of local villagers, and drew a direct parallel to the gas attack last week. We will rededicate ourselves to holding to accoun
long it takes to whatever it takes. so i m hoping to be in dc next week. i m hoping to travel with seven other chairs of foreign affairs committees from across europe. and we are going to make the case to our american counterparts that, yes, there of course are difficult conversations to be had domestically, but the amounts of gdp that the us is committing to support ukraine is nowhere near as much as countries like lithuania are using, countries like estonia. but do you seriously think american politicians, particularly in a presidential election year, are going to listen to people like you? oh, i hope they do, and in the past i ve been able to have very blunt conversations. in fact, the last time i went to dc i remember my american counterpart saying, guys, if the brits are saying this, we should be listening. and we saw only a few weeks later more agreements made to support ukraine. we do not have a choice. ukraine is fighting for all of ourfreedoms. let s not repeat the mistak
so i think you have to be concerned about that at all points. for me, it s about moving away from the language of however long it takes to whatever it takes. so i m hoping to be in dc next week. i m hoping to travel with seven other chairs of foreign affairs committees from across europe. and we are going to make the case to our american counterparts that, yes, there of course are difficult conversations to be had domestically, but the amounts of gdp that the us is committing to support ukraine is nowhere near as much as countries like lithuania are using, countries like estonia. but do you seriously think american politicians, particularly in a presidential election year, are going to listen to people like you? oh, i hope they do, and in the past i ve been able to have very blunt conversations. in fact, the last time i went to dc i remember my american counterpart saying, guys, if the brits are saying this, we should be listening. and we saw only a few weeks later more agreement