Obama gives Putin his best death stare at G20 summit. Obama gives Putin his best death stare: Tense moment the world's two most powerful men squared up at the G20 summit in China.
Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin have met for 'pull-aside' meetings at the G20 summit inChina but failed to agree on a solution to the Syrian civil war.
Washington and Moscow support opposing sides in the bloody five-year conflict, which has left 300,000 people dead and forced millions to flee.
The two leaders discussed Syria at closed multilateral meetings but could not reach a deal to ease fighting in the war-torn region.
But in their final face-to-face meeting before Obama leaves office in January next year, they agreed to keep up negotiations over a cease-fire agreement.
A senior US administration official said they had a longer-than-expected discussion during a 'constructive' meeting.
It comes as Syrian government troops - backed by Russia - resumed their siege of the city of Aleppo.
- Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin have failed to agree on solution in Syria
- Comes as Syrian government troops resumed their siege of Aleppo
- But two leaders have agreed to keep up negotiations to reach agreement
- A deal to get aid to Aleppo's civilians and at least partially stop Russian and Syrian bombardments had looked likely, before talks collapsed
