fighters and their families leaving the last rebel-held area in the city of homs. this is part of a russian-backed evacuation deal signed earlier this week. pope francis planning to visit egypt next month. the egyptian government says the pope is expected to heat with the country s top muslim cleric during the trip. the pope s visit is scheduled for april 28th and 29th. kelly: thousands of travelers evacuated a busy airport in paris after french soldiers shot and killed a man. authorities say the man wrestled a female soldier to the ground and tried to steal her weapon. john huddy is live many this our middle east bureau with more details about this. reporter: well, kelly, people screaming, people running, gunshots, those were some of the descriptions of today s airport attack in paris, and tonight, kelly, we re starting to learn more information about the attacker including the fact that french officials say that he was suspected of islamic
ask your doctor if switching to eliquis is right for you. welcome back to cnn news room following the crisis in syria. the evacuation deal that could safe thousands of lives in eastern aleppo is back on. hundreds of people were e volcano waited sunday. thousands more are trapped in freezing temperatures there. convoys were stopped for hours after an attack of buses heading to other besieged areas. cnn has more from the turkish, syrian border. reporter: after a weekend of desperation and disappointment, there finally appears to be a light at the end of the tnl. the u.n. is referring to them as limited evacuations. we understand about five buses or so filled with people being
that was a really profound observation. you got a mean case of the detox blues. don t start a war you know you re going to lose. finally you can now find all of netflix in the same place as all your other entertainment. on xfinity x1. a warm welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. you re watching cnn news room. it s good to have you with us. i m george howell with your headlines. people have been evacuated from eastern aleppo. this is in addition to people taken on sunday. activists say 15 buses have left two other besieged areas including in the evacuation deal. small planes belonging to the russian defense ministry crash landed in siberia, but all
stories. it s unclear when thousands of civilians trapped in freezing temperatures will be evacuated from eastern aleppo. the red cross says they hope the evacuations will resume in a few hours. syrian government has confirmed the new evacuation deal. that, according to reuters. the last evacuations were suspended on friday. both china and the u.s. say an american underwater drone seized by china in international waters will be returned. the drone similar to the one seen here was grabbed by the chinese navy in the south china sea earlier this week. the u.s. says the drone was measuring ocean conditions. u.s. president-elect donald trump returned to mobile, alabama at a final stop on his whirlwind thank you tour. he told the crowd that mobile was important to him because his presidential campaign first took hold there in 2015. the us president-elect never
it could take place but more getting hurt. there was shooting from one of the militia groups on the ground and they had could cancel the whole operation. today there was actually a bigger development, there were buses set on fire. we have seen that dramatic footage. this is a very stark reminder, that starvation is being used as a weapon in this war, not just by the syrian government but also some of the militant groups on the ground. in this case there are a couple of smaller villages encircled by militants and laid siege to by the militants including elements of al qaeda. as part of this evacuation deal, people in the villages were supposed to be released and at the same time people in eastern aleppo, the rebels and family and as well as civilians were to be released. that release never happened because of buses going to the villages were set on fire. we don t know who set the buses on fire but it did happen in territory where al qaeda has a presence. what may have ended up happening