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
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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
Your government and the United States government seems to be miles apart on the syria issue, ukraine and other issues. Did you feel that youve cleared up any of those issues you mentioned earlier today since youve had those discussions with Secretary Tillerson . We did discuss at length the future role for assad, whether it be in a future political process or not. Clearly our view is that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. And they have, again, brought this on themselves with their conduct and war these past few years. We discussed our view that russia, as their closest ally in the conflict, perhaps has the best means of helping assad recognize this reality. We do think its important that assads departure is done in an orderly way, an orderly way, so
achieved. This is a very high legal hurdle in order to bring such charges against an individual, so i would not suggest to you that all of that evidence is in place. But i think the longer time goes by, its possible that th
Conference for over half an hour and really didn t give an inch to each other, as you point out, secretary of state tillerson said relations are at a low point. he talked at one point about a steady degradation of relations. they were completely on opposite sides when it came to syria and assad s responsibility. i would have to say, i wouldn t give tillerson quite as strong as high grades as you apparently did, melissa. i thought you could see a contrast between sergi lavrov, who seemed very comfortable and completely unyielding, giving long complicated answers, in which he went back to u.s. foreign policy in kosovo and iraq and libya, and sudan, to say that the u.s. seems to have this fixation with ousting dictators and countries end up in much worse shape afterwards.