Senior Official: Russia Knew About Chemical Attack In Advance

But both polls showed only about a fifth of those polled want the USA leader to take further military action against the Damascus government.

Johnson will call for the G7 to demand Putin pulls his troops from Syria, at two days of talks in Lucca, Tuscany, starting on Monday. The Syrian government has denied it was behind the assault.

The top American diplomat plans to use his meetings with foreign ministers from the Group of 7 industrialized economies – normally a venue for wonky economic discussions – to try to persuade leading countries to support the USA plan.

“We rededicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world”, Tillerson said. The Foreign Secretary was branded a “poodle” by both the Kremlin and other British politicians, for having his “diary managed from across the pond”.

The US attack on Syria came after a suspected chemical attack had killed at least 87 people in Idlib’s rebel-held Khan Sheikhoun last week, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

There is a “high degree of confidence” that the chemical unleashed was “a nerve agent like sarin” that can short-circuit the nervous system within seconds, they said. We can not miss this moment.

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations are gathering for a meeting given urgency by the chemical attack in Syria and the USA military response.

Russian Federation and Syria have both denied culpability in the chemical attack on April 4, saying their jets bombed a rebel base that contained the “toxic substances” that killed nearby civilians.

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has cancelled a scheduled visit to Moscow next week, his office announced on Saturday, saying “developments in Syria have changed the situation fundamentally”.

“Three months ago Syria wasn’t really an issue for them but our push and recent events have made a difference”.

Trump took to his Twitter page to explain why the US strikes didn’t crater the runways.

“You know, the interesting thing, Chuck, is, when this chemical weapons murder happened to so many people, Russia’s reaction was not, ‘Oh, how frightful, ‘ or, ‘How could they do this to innocent children, ‘ or, ‘How very bad is that?’ Their initial reaction was, ‘Assad didn’t do it”.

The US missile strikes on the Syrian airbase drew support from many nations, including United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

Warplanes had taken off from the base on Friday.