and assad claiming that be basically all the innocence civilians who are trapped in aleppo with out when international organization humanitarian organizations know better and who are on the ground have said unequivocally there are tens of thousands who are still trapped and prepared to leave. right now our biggest priorities is to continue to put pressure where ever we can to try to get them out. do you feel responsibility not wwithstanding notwithstanding. i will help president-elect trump with any advice counsel and information that we can provide so that he once he s sworn in can make a decision.
consent from the syrian government and now the russians or the iranians. it maybe where the aleppo tragic situation unfolding, that in the short term if we could get more of the tens of thousands of sources who are trapped there out, that so long as the world s eyes are on them and they are feeling pressured, the regime and russia concludes that they are willing to find some arrangement, perhaps in coordination with turkey where by those people can be safe. even that, will be temporary but at least it is all a short term issue that s going to arise. unfortunately, we are not there yet, right now we have russians
have they been evacuated from the danger zone? they re still in the rebel-held area of aleppo. we can t independently confirm that because rebel-held area of aleppo is a killing field. i mean, kids are caught out in the open, they re being shot. some of this is broadcast live, not only on russian tv but syrian tv and then you have some social media accounts and started following her in september. last night, we were able to interview her for 10 minutes over skype and a direct appeal to michelle obama. take a listen. this is for the first lady, mrs. michelle obama. i implore you to help us and make us in a safer place because we are so afraid. hello, mrs. obama. please help us.
during the final year news conference. vowing to take action against russia. i think that there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing. some of it may be explicit and publicized. some of it may not be. but mr. putin is well aware of my feelings about this because i spoke to him directly about it. this week, u.s. intelligence determined vladimir putin had a direct hand in an effort to disrupt our presidential election. refugees from aleppo, buses with thousands. rebel leaders blame each other for the delay after a shooting
will, in syria as well. what can you tell us about that is this. the united states military coalition destroyed 15 isis tanks. this is significant because these are previously had belonged to the regime which means likely russian tanks. what happened is that russia and the regime came in and took over palmyra from isis. that was a victory for the anti-isis forces. isis came back in and what you hear at the pentagon is that isis came back to palmyra. ancient city in part because the regime in russia were so focused on aleppo. the scary part, they ve got a lot of weapons, material in pentagon speak and surface to air missiles, potentially. what we know now is the tanks have been taken out, at least 15 of them have been taken out and don t know whether they re surface to air missiles that isis potentially controls without the u.s. or taking thos. our pentagon correspondent