The outskirts of damascus its been on the heavy bombardment by the government and its allies including russia at least five hundred people have been killed there in the past week. As director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the institute and a professor at the university of york and he says the u. N. Security councils resolution allows for further conflict. It is almost common and that when you have this kind of positions which does not give you a specific start date or time that all parties on the ground will try and gain as much as possible theyre trying to gain more ground as they push forward because they anticipate that at some stage the resolution will come into interaction but so far i think this phase of the coming few hours will see all parties trying to perform we should also remember that back in september two thousand and sixteen. Some of those fighters were in the liberal and before that they were in hands and in homes now all of them have been displ