defeat evil. we want to defeat them. we didn t want anything else. but freedom. so there you see carol some of the voices of those who we believe are being evacuated out of the rebel enclave after they re gone will no longer be a rebel enclave and the syrian government will take full control of that city. many of those leaving now for many of them, of course, it s a very bitter moment they never wanted to leave their district. they never wanted to leave aleppo. and it s also a move into a very uncertain future because the place that they re going to, they don t know what s going to await them there. it s a combat zone, as well. there s some heavy fighting in those other rebel areas, too, carol. frederik pleitgen reporting live for us from beirut, lebanon, thanks so much. still to come in the newsroom, president-elect trump calls a meeting but his children steal the spotlight. is it a conflict of interest taking shape even before
century. those loyal to assad and militias have all but crushed anti-government rebels. the u.n. human rights office has cited accounts of women and children being burned alive and families choosing suicide over surrender. we should note independent var fick kags of these accounts is impossible at this moment. rebel fighters were due to leave aleppo as part of a cease-fire agreement. however air strikes continued trapping tens of thousands of civilians. late this afternoon several news outlets began reporting the cease-fire agreement was back on. u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power addressed the crisis in aleppo yesterday. to the assad regime, russia and iran, your forces and proxies are carrying out these crimes. your barrel bombs and mortars and air strikes have allowed the militia in aleppo to encircle tens of thousands of civilians in your ever-tightening noose. it is your noose. three member states of the u.n.
fick kags of these accounts is impossible at this moment. rebel fighters were due to leave aleppo as part of a cease-fire agreement. however air strikes continued trapping tens of thousands of civilians. late this afternoon several news outlets began reporting the cease-fire agreement was back on. u.s. ambassador to the united nations samantha power addressed the crisis in aleppo yesterday. to the assad regime, russia and iran, your forces and proxies are carrying out these crimes. your barrel bombs and mortars anair strikes have allowed the militia in aleppo to encircle tens of thousands of civilians in your ever-tightening noose. it is your noose. three member states of the u.n. contributing to a noose around civilians. are you truly incapable of shame? is there literally nothing that can shame you? joining me now correspondent for nbc news.
morning is that the rebel forces were supposed to evacuate the area and then the rebel forces were going to move in and take over all of aleppo. what we re seeing there is full-on war activists saying they are hit by many artillery shells. but the cease-fire was supposed to end all the fighting in aleppo. here s how it came about. after years of holding out against syrian government forces and months trying to fight off a massive final assault, the last remaining rebels and civilians are set to leave aleppo. allegedly guaranteed safe passage in return for full government control of this ancient city. the past weeks have been among the most brutal in the five-year civil war as pro-assad forces kept taking chunks of territory away from the opposition, tens of thousands of civilians fled. a mass exodus under fire that i witnessed first hand. there is a massive, almost
solution because the human suffering is so big and tens of thousands of people have been killed. hundreds of thousands have been forced to leave aleppo and syria. it is an urgent need to find a peaceful negotiated political solution to syria. is even a temporary humanitarian cease-fire possible? nothing has been accepted or agreed to so far. we have seen it is extremely difficult to reach an agreement on temporary cease-fire. even more difficult to implement that kind of agreement. we have to continue to work for it. because we see the suffering every day. we see people being kill. we see attacks on hospitals, on aid workers. there is no alternative to continue to press forward to support and do whatever we can