faced with such disaster, the un, which already helps care for millions of syrians, appealed for some national solidarity. we are hoping that everybody puts the interest of the people first. we keep the politics aside, all authorities move away from the issue, from the politics, and put the interest of the people first. in damascus, the capital, citizens are rallying around giving blood. so far, grassroots relief efforts seem to be the best hope. but it s not clear whether aid collected and delivered in damascus will make it across the front line into rebel held idlib province. back in aleppo, russian troops, whose intervention salvaged the rule of the assad family, are helping the syrian red crescent alongside algerian rescue workers. the damascus regime says its allies,
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so as you can hear, a dire need for lifesaving aid supplies and as we heard earlier, the syrian government is appealing for international help. some countries have responded planes have been arriving in damascus and aleppo loaded with supplies, flights coming from iraq, iran, the uae and egypt. but the main route for getting aid into syria is by road from turkey. and this is the condition of the road leading to the main crossing, at bab al hawa. the un gave us this update earlier. luckily today we are hearing that the road is opening. we do have a possibility, hopefully to access, to access the border. we are working with our turkish counterparts to also give us all the support. but i think we have a glimpse of hope there that the road is accessible, and we can reach, we can reach the people. so, a potential lifeline of aid may be able to get
the white helmets that the uk helps to fund, are experts. they ve been digging out survivors of the assad regime s air strikes for much of syria s long war. the geological faults that brought down these buildings cut right across the front lines and zones of influence that have devastated syria since 2011. this is aleppo, syria s biggest city, back in regime hands since the rebels here were defeated in 2016. now syria has a huge natural disaster on the back of the man made catastrophe that broke the country. in aleppo hospital, every bed has its own tragedy. only three members of this man s family survived when their home collapsed. 13 of them were killed. they were, he says my father, my mother, my brother, his wife, and theirfour children. and the wife and two kids of the brother who was rescued with me also died.
dealing with a population of a million people. there is a lack of supplies and aid kind of on every single level. medical centres are overrun. there is a lack of medical equipment as well. on our part, we are also facing a lack of tools and equipment to properly respond to this. something like diesel fuel or fuel to power our digging equipment and our ambulances and our cars. so a dire need for life saving aid supplies and as we heard earlier, the syrian government is appealing for international help. some countries have responded planes have been arriving in damascus and aleppo loaded with supplies, flights coming from iraq, iran, the uae and egypt. but the main route for getting aid into syria is by road from turkey. and this is the condition of the road leading to the main crossing, at bab al hawa. the un gave this update today.