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hello, good morning. iam annita mcveigh and welcome to bbc newsroom live. the us director of national intelligence has rejected suggestions made by donald trump that official agencies leaked claims russia had compromising material on him. in a statement, james clapper said he had called the president elect to say the information had not come from the us security services. meanwhile the bbc understands the ex mi6 officer who is believed to have prepared the memo containing the unsubstantiated claims is now in hiding. christopher steele, who runs a london based intelligence firm, is believed to have left his home this week. our washington correspondent laura bicker has the story. donald trump s not a huge fan of the press corps, but he had a message to send to the media and to us intelligence agencies. he believes they leaked unsubstantiated allegations that his election team colluded with russia. it is all fake news, it is phoney stuff, it didn t happen. there are al ....
ofa we don t see this as the beginning of a new campaign. we ll be live throughout the day in beirut, moscow and washington with the latest reaction to the unfolding events. the other news. a romanian tourist who fell into the river thames during the westminster bridge terror attack has died. a sharp rise in the number of accident and emergency departments turning away ambulances in england. good morning, it s friday the 7th of april. welcome to bbc newsroom live. russia has strongly condemned us missile strikes on a syrian airbase, describing them as an act of aggression against a sovereign state. it has provoked anger from russia. 59 tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from two american navy warships in the mediterranean. their target the shayrat airbase which donald trump said was the airfield used to launch what he described as a horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians earlier this week. six people are said to have died in the air strikes and the base i ....
good evening and welcome to bbc news. the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, has pulled out of a planned visit to moscow on monday in the wake of the suspected chemical weapons attack in syria earlier this week. in a statement he said he deplored russia s continued defence of the assad regime. our diplomatic correspondent james robbins reports. this was president trump s message to the syrian government and its russian backers yesterday, delivered with force. the united states and her allies reject syrian denials they used a chemical weapon against civilians, including children. now britain has followed up with a diplomatic rebuke. borisjohnson has called off talks in moscow on monday and issued a written statement instead. developments in syria have changed the situation fundamentally. we deplore russia s continued defence of the assad regime even after the chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians. we call on russia to do everything possible to bring about a politic ....
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 regi ....
any, you can go and e mail, social media, and the hashtag is bbc os. if you thought once the russians and americans got face to face things might improve i m afraid you ll be disappointed. rex tillerson and sergey lavrov held a joint press conference a couple of hours back in moscow. first of all, here is the secretary of state. expressed the view the current state of us russia relations is that a low point. there isa relations is that a low point. there is a low level of trust between our two countries. the world s two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship. we further discussed approaches to improving our channels of communication. we had a lengthy exchange of views regarding the situation in syria. and shared perspectives on possible ways forward. the russian foreign minister was a little more positive. my minister was a little more positive. my sense of the negotiations, with the plethora of problems, there are quite a few perspectives for our ....