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taiwan as it emerges the apartments that were toppled were built with tin cans. and also news from new hampshire thousands of syrian refugees are trapped at the border with turkey. as many as 30,000 people are trying to reach safety, but turkey has only allowed a small number to cross the border. they re fleeing heavy fighting with the syrian army attempting to retake aleppo and russian air strikes pounding their homes. live to our correspondent. what is the latest on the humanitarian crisis? reporter: there is a humanitarian tragedy. like you mentioned, tens of thousands of people are on the move in search of safety, really, in the turkish border is closed. they re not able to cross into turkey. there are many front lines on the ground in northern syria. in fact aleppo province as a whole is a battleground because of the intense russian air strikes. the bombardment is only escalating, the air strikes are targeting roads as well as towns. so the people are on the mo ....
with people brave enough to hunt these. inside and outside syria doubts are growing that the pause in fighting agreed on by world powers this week will actually happen. a deal is more likely to fail than succeed. on the ground government forces supported by air raids are trying to ensieshgel raids in the largest city of aleppo and captured strategic high ground after forcing opposition fighters out of the small town on the road down into aleppo, they are now in a position to move further towards the city to the next rebel-held town. on friday government forces captured the village as they attempt to close the circle around aleppo city and also took another town from the rebels. government forces have now essentially captured most of the rebel supply routes into aleppo. and zaina has more on the turkey-syria border. reporter: this high ground gives the syrian or my and its allies an advantage. the main rebel supply line to the west to the northern side of aleppo is n ....
the u.n. says it has encountered technical difficulties dropping aid to the town of darazar. it has been develops in th develop there has been developments in the planned cessation, in the last hour the syrian kurdish fighters, the ypg has said they will abide by the cessation of the hostilities. there s lots to talk about. let s go to more what is happening. let s speak with james bays as the u.n. in new york. so the world food program saying they ve had technical difficulties. we have no idea what the difficulties were. there is statements that they re having meetings on the ground with their partners that they would make a drop. it is clear that they did drop aid in deir al-zour, so we have to speck bait what was the problem. did the aid go to the wrong people, to the wrong place. remember in is a place surrounded by isil. i don t want to speck bait very further because we re getting limited information from the united nations but earlier on we were told this is ....
from traveling to lebanon. and coming up later in sports. sepp blatter and michel platini have their bans from football reduced from eight years to six. the u.n. says that it has delivered its first drop of aid to th a besieged syrian town. the trucks were unable to reach the town last week because of isil-controlled territory. there has been a development in the planned cessation treaty. and the last hour the syrian kurdish fighters, the ypg said at a the they will abidely the cessation of hostilities. we have more now on the latest developments. as a meeting of the u.n. security council to discussed humanitarian situation in syria, the stinging criticism of the syrian government of delaying and blocking aid to besieged areas from the u.n. humanitarian chief stephen o brien, they were putting bureaucratic obstacles in the way. he had a rare bit of good news about the town in syria. earlier this morning a wef plane dropped the first cargo of 21 tons of items into ....
first, the u.n. says it has encountered technical difficulties in an air drop of aid to the besieged syrian town, aid drugs also couldn t reach the town last week because it s surrounded by isil-controlled territory. there have been developments as well on the planned cessation of hostilities in syria. russia has confirmed it started negotiation with his rebel groupings and sear i can t s main opposition group, the hnc says it will accept the deal for two weeks. also just hours ago syrian kurdish fighters the y.p.g. said they would abide by the cessation of hostilities. our diplomatic editor james ways reports from the united nations. reporter: at the security council there was stinging criticism of the syrian regime. the u.n. s humanitarian chief told ambassadors the government had delayed aid delivery to his the besieged town and blocked until no now assistants. the number, scope and, complexity of bureaucratic and other or identicals that is placed in the pat ....