World leaders still ‘miles apart on Syria’

British prime minister dismisses efforts to back Bashar al-Assad

World leaders remain “miles apart” over the Syria crisis, David Cameron conceded as he dismissed any prospect of any “phoney” solution that involved Bashar al-Assad.

The British prime minister is at the United Nations in New York where talks between Western allies and their Russian and Iranian counterparts have failed to break the deadlock over taking on IS.