syria supports the entry of humanitarian aid into the region through all possible cross points, whether from inside syria or across the borders. the white helmets emergency group says people in the region have felt disappointed and abandoned. the basic aid that will now hopefully reach them will make living possible, but their lives in a country still locked in a civil war won t be easily rebuilt. vincent mcaviney, bbc news. ammar al salmo is a volunteer with the white helmets officially known as the syria civil defence. he has been cordinating the team s emergency response, he told me about what it s like on the ground in aleppo. the situation is so devastating, the search and secure operation
you have the secondary needs arising from that, so people who need further care, then you have a significant spike in needs because people are living out in the open, it got down to 7 the last two nights, so people who may have lost their medication as their houses collapsed, and then you have ordinary background, normal primary and secondary problems you d see in any population of this size, so a significantly increased caseload and a significantly decreased ability to deal with that, which is why we and the army are here. seb burn, we have been reporting two more border crossings will be opened up to allow aid to flow into northern syria. is that anything the british military will be involved with? as british military we do not routinely go into syria so that won t be something we will be doing, we are focused on the aid effort in turkey. we have a number of partner organisations who are working inside syria, are present inside syria, and we have
years, more resources. we have had ten years. ten years. we are caught in the middle of a civil war won t admit it. my concern is when we invent blood and treasure we want a positive churn. with we go after al qaeda we get a positive return by killing. there terrorists. there is no positive return by defeating al qaeda by teaching elderly afghans to brush their teeth. on the other hand if we get out and get out quickly al qaeda could end up moving back into the country and could become a safe haven as it was prior to 9-11. the conversation will continue. that is right. a lot of people are fired up about this next story. google is in big trouble right now for using a secret tracking tool on browsers specifically on users of apple s safari. diane lieu sausado has more