Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of the G8 Summit going on in Northern Ireland, to discuss Syria.  And they didn’t agree on how to deal with the bloody civil war, as they back opposing sides.

Both Presidents say they shared a common desire to stop the violence, but the body language told the rest of the story. Obama and Putin looked tense as they addressed journalists afterwards, with the Russian president regularly looking at the floor.

“Our positions do not fully coincide, but we are united by the common intention to end the violence and to stop the number of victims increasing in Syria,” Putin said.

President Obama said the two agreed to push ahead with trying to set up peace talks in Geneva, even though neither the rebels nor the Syrian government have yet fully committed to taking part.

The Syrian civil war has dragged on for more than two years, and has left an estimated 93,000 people dead.