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bit of aleppo still under rebel control. this morning russia said the syrian regime now controls 93% of eastern aleppo and more than 10,000 civilians have fled the area in the last 24 hours. cnn s senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is the first western tv reporter inside the old city of aleppo. he joins us right now. fred, first of all, thank you for being there for us. give us a sense of what you are seeing and what the reality on the ground is. reporter: well, the reality is that there is a massive offensive going on by the syrian government. we saw this earlier today when first the russians said there would be a halt in military operations by the syrian armed forces and by their own armed forces but we saw none of that. we saw a lot of shelling, heavy gunfire, mortar fire, jets in the sky. as i m talking to you, i can hear the jets hovering overhead and i can hear intermittent air strikes on the bit of enclave

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