Months ago. Aid agencies are in a race against time to get vital food and medicine to besieged towns in syria where tens of thousands of people are starving. As winter sets in, families have been burning furniture for warmth and resorting to eating leaves and cats and dogs. The situation is bad in madiat sources say an agreement has been reached with the government for aid to be delivered there on monday. In return, aid will be allowed in to two opposition held villages in the north. The crisis has caused an outcry after pictures of hungry children emerged. Whats your name . Noah. Noah, how long have you been without food . Four days. What have you taken from the hospital to survive . This packet. This packet of salt . The International Committee of the red cross was last allowed in last october and is hoping to be let in again next week. We are absolutely clear on what he with do need and what the people of madia and zeladoni and other parts of syria, what they need in regular uni am