have been pounded by air strikes. the indiscriminate barrel bombs dropped on the civilian neighborhoods in addition to the intense artillery shells. we are talking about hundreds of people killed and nearly 1,000 people injured this past week. as you also mentioned, there are reports of at least one incident of a suspected poison gas being used that led to the killing of a family of six. we have seen hospitals attacked. four hospitals in eastern al lep aleppo. schools, both in the east and in the regime controlled west, have been hit. we heard this is a preliminary operation in eastern aleppo. there is a ground push and the
people in this city, this is their reality. will ripley, thank you for the report. it s also a reality in yemen. people there just like those in aleppo have been caught in the middle for so long. they need food, they need other supplies and we hear there is a seize fire. a 48-hour cease-fire began about an hour ago. reports say that the peace could be extended if the rebels and their an lies honor it. we are hearing some humanitarian aid, though, that it might take some to the conflict areas during the cease-fire, so we ll continue to watch that. now to mosul, the united nations trying to sustain aid operations for citizens. they are stressing the need tore more funding to keep going at their current rate.
unclear just how effective he s going be able to be. and we know china stands ready to avoid the failure of the tpp with its own massive multi nation trade deal. it s said that deal would lower or eliminate terrorists but wouldn t have the same high standards protecting things like intellectual property, labor standards and it would leave u.s. companies at a disadvantage. so this is going to be a difficult can potentially a difficult trip for president obama who is scheduled tomy with china can s xi jinping and malcolm turnbull during the trip. thank you. this is a brutal scene, but it s becoming all too common in alep aleppo, syria. a little girl was found beneath the rubble after an air strike and what happened next. plus, a dying teenager gets her wish to have her body frozen
civilians. and both sides are accusing each other of having committed terrible things. there are some medications that are already gone according to doctors we re speak, in the city. markets are running very low, people are running out of feed and winter is coming so they can t grow food like many are doing just to survive. let s talk about the hospitals. i don t want this to be lost on people who are watching. you go to a hospital, you think you re going there to get treatment, to get better. but people go to hospitals in many parts of syria and they find themselves targets of bombardments. explain what s happening there in aleppo and in other hospitals around syria. people are afraid to go to the hospital right now, even if
they are sick or injured because the hospitals have been targeted and especially just in the last week. at the beginning of the week, it was either eight or nine hospitals that were functioning and now the consensus is there are four hospitals that are operating and not even fully operational. all of the trauma centers have been put out of commission for now. in the past, hospitals that have been bombed, they have been able to get them repaired and get them up and running quickly, but that has become difficult because supplies are running low. this has gotten the attention of the u.s. spokesperson, that not only syrian war planes, but russian planes are targeting aleppo and other rebel-held parts of syria. i can t speak for the syrian military or the russian military. i don t know whose airplanes are