A Magic Johnson welcome to the Program Thousands of people are fleeing the rebel held damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta for the third day in a row backed by russian airstrikes Syrian Government forces have intensified artillery bombardments of the area russias military says some three thousand people are leaving hourly through a humanitarian corridor or monitored by Russian Troops more than Thirteen Hundred civilians have been killed and thousands more wounded and made weeks of relentless fighting. The tide of human misery leaving the rebel held Eastern Suburbs of the capital damascus reached flood proportions on saturday as russian bombers gave support to Syrian Government forces on the ground russias military said some three thousand people an hour were leaving nearly forty five thousand in the last three days meanwhile syrian and Russian Forces have stepped up their offensive on the rebel enclave the russians are determined to turn a humanitarian disaster into a Public Relations vic