to safety. instead, they re running for their lives once again. a convoy meant to take these east aleppo residents out of the besieged area under fire. this eyewitness says he was part of the convoy stopped, he claims, by an iranian militia fighting on the side of president bashar al assad. the syrian government has a very different account. it says rebel fighters in the convoy were carrying concealed weapons and that they are to blame for the violence that reportly left a number of people dead. evacuations that had already succeeded in getting thousands out of eastern aleppo grounded to an immediate halt as the blame game began. russia making a puzzling announcement saying it believed the evacuation of east aleppo was complete and that only hard line rebel fighters remained in
besieged areas under fire. [ shots ] this eyewitness says he was part of the convoy stopped, he claims, by an iranian militia fighting on the side of syrian president bashar al assad. the syrian government has a very different account. it says rebel fighters in the convoy were carrying concealed weapons and that they are to blame for the violence that reportedly left a number of people dead. evacuations that had already succeeded in getting thousands out of eastern aleppo ground to an immediate halt as the blame game began. russia making a puzzling announcement, saying it believed the evacuation of east aleppo was complete and that only hardline rebel fighters remained in the enclave. turkey, which helped negotiate the agreement, shooting down those claims. the red cross and unicef for their part say tens of thousands of people, including more than
hundreds of children are trapped in the area and face certain death if not rescued. the out going secretary of the united nations, ban canbanki mos it is not enough. aleppo is a synonym for hell. as i told the security council three days ago, we have collectively failed the people of syria. cnn s fred pleitgen introduces us to those trying to escape the violence. reporter: they were supposed to be able to brought to safety. instead, they re running for their lives once again. a convoy meant to take these east aleppo residents out of the besieged areas, under fire. this eyewitness says he was part of the convoy, stopped, he claims, by an iranian militia fighting on the side of syrian president bashar al assad.
we do know that one of the convoys that was supposed to leave eastern aleppo and many had left without incident, was held up apparently by shiite militia fighting on the side of the syrian government. they didn t let it proceed. apparently some people were killed in the process of that. eventually, that convoy had to be turned back and all the convoys were then suspended, all the international aid workers on the ground there trying to ye oversee this had to leave as well. usually as in situations like this, both sides blame each other. the government says the rebels were trying to smuggle weapons out. the rebels saying it was the shiite militia that didn t like the way this deal was being implemented. at this point in time everything is stopped. the russians are saying they believe eastern aleppo is empty anyway. however, the turks say that isn t the case and this needs to get back on track as fast as possible. kate? i can t even agree on that if people are in eastern aleppo at this
there was shooting. apparently several people were either killed or executed, and then that convoy got turned back around. what happened afterwards is that the syrian government said that they believed that the people onboard that convoy some of the rebel fighters on it, had been carrying weapons they weren t supposed to carry. however, the opposition said that they believe it was a shiite militia fighting for the government that stopped this convoy, executed some people because they weren t happy with the agreements to get this evacuation going and the with that it was going to be implemented. now, the bottom line in all of this is that right now no one is being evacuated. what what we re hearing, there are rebel factions and the senior government and other powers as well trying to get this started again, but there s mixed messages about all this, because russian are saying they believe the evacuations had already been completed, and that there were only hard-line rebel fighters left