here for leadership on syria, but it s new occupants may weringly inherent an affair comply handed to him elsewhere. lebanon right now, senior international correspondent clarissa ward joins us from london. the evacuation supposed to start hours ago. has anyone been bused out? what can you tell us about what s happening there in aleppo right now? reporter: at this point, no. no evacuation appears to have occurred. in fact, the two mean tried to broker the deal, turkish president and russian counterpart vladimir putin and agree according to turkish state media the evacuation should still go ahead. supposed to happen 12, 15 hours ago really and seems that some inconsistencies how the iranian militia perhaps on the ground, maybe the syrian regime, too, viewed this deal caused shelling
air strikes and believe isis only has between 12,000 to 15,000 battle-ready fighters adding the terror group is no longer able to replenish its ranks. for more on this fight, fwling our senior international correspondent ben wedeman joining us from erbil in iraq now. ben, you re not far away from mosul, second largest city in iraq under isis control now since 2014. what are you hearing about the battle to try to liberate the city? reporter: certainly initially there were quite dramatic advances by the iraqi army, but now that they are actually within the city limits of mosul itself, on the eastern side, what is proving to be quite a difficult battle, in fact. today isis taking advantage of the bad weather, the heavy rain that was going on for much of the day, a counter attack in three separate neighborhoods in eastern mosul, and what we saw
use nuclear weapons if need be? he s not going to sit back. send a clear and concise message which has he done she a flaed will defend america s interests and america s people. reporter: important to point out trump s tweet came out on the heels of russian president putin saying russians wanted to enhance their own nuclear capabilities. overnight, sort of a state of the union press conference was asked about trump s tweet and the relationship with the united states. he said trump s comments on nukes was nothing new and added that relations between the united states and russia could not be worse. john? all right. boris sanchez, outside mar-a-lago in florida. thanks a lot. now to moscow and fwling our senior international correspondent matthew chance, there covering events. matthew, we just got a look at this letter sent to donald trump