sides to reach a functioning and detailed agreement for the evacuation of citizens. it says, that is what it is missing here. that evacuation agreement needs to include the following, the specific time, locations, evacuation routes, and other logistical details. the people who maybe voluntarily evacuated, and whether the agreement also allows assistance to be brought into cities, noting that the icrc is not and cannot be in any way a guarantor of a cease-fire agreement, or of its implementation. fighting continues with ukrainians and russians blaming each other for the shelling that is putting lives in danger. it is, as you say, a desperate situation for 200,000 people trapped in mariupol right now, with no connection to the outside world. i was speaking yesterday to one woman. her parents are stuck there. she went away on holiday. the war broke out. and, she s been unable to
beginning of the year when they shut down their operations room. and therefore they don t have much influence over those groups either. so the russians may simply be doing this as a tactic to buy time whereby some sort of evacuation agreement will be worked out whereby the rebel fielgters, the opposition fighters amend their families will be evacuated probably to the northwest province where we re seeing a really concentration of opposition members and their families but at this point it s not at all clear where the vote will go. we know that the french president and angela merkel has communicated, written a letter
unicef and united nations children s fund. i know you re on the phone with us. the story that we just saw from a hospital in aleppo, it s just surreal auto and that s the aftermath of one bombing, just one. what do you know about this new evacuation agreement and whether it s going to work? yes. you mentioned, the situation is extremely bad, and we are concerned about the well-being of the children who are still in the besieged place in aleppo. they ve been waiting for days in the freezing cold. these are hundreds of children who are vulnerable who have lived for months with the bare minimum to survive and we are deeply worried about their fate.
newsroom. good to have you with us. i m george howell. i m natalie allen. here s a check of top stories this hour. turkish armed forces say 13 soldiers were killed in an explosion in how do you say it? kaziri. thank you. a bus carrying off-duty soldiers was hit by a car bomb near a university campus. 48 more well wou are wounded,t it doesn t include civilian casualties. we ll continue to follow the story. rebel groups in aleppo say it s reached a new evacuation agreement with forces. the evacuation process stopped in the city on friday. rights groups say that militant rebels broke a cease-fire. the u.s. military is demanding china return an underwater drone seized by one of its warships. the pentagon says its unmanned underwater vehicle, is similar to this the one here, was snatched in the south china sea near the philippines. it claims the drone wasn t spying, just measuring ocean
belt walked into a police station and detonated it. syrian state-run television reports one person injured and the building damaged. in aleppo, conflicting reports on the urgent evacuation of thousands of refugees out of the besieged syrian city. syrian state television saying evacuations suspended because, quoting now, terrorists breached the evacuation agreement. u.n. saying hundreds of children are trapped in east aleppo and face death if not evacuated, but russian state-run media says the evacuation of the area is complete and the only people remaining are armed militants. our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen coving all of this, now in beirut. fred, where do things stand right now in aleppo? reporter: you re right, wolf, it is confusing and conflicting information coming out of aleppo. you said the russians say they believe that the evacuations are already complete and there is