the u.s. deals with a growing religious divide. beginning in syria where an offensive by government forces is being blamed for threatening fragile peace talks involving the warring sides. at least 45 civilians are known to have died in the northern province of aleppo on tuesday. activists say they were killed by russian air strikes which is supporting a significant government push to cut off aleppo city. emergency workers are searching for survivors and amid the destruction small signs of hope. this child was trapped in rubble for hours. he was presumed to have been killed. a rescue crew found him you just in time. its advance began late on sunday and has taken a string of villages, including these. the regime is trying to link up with territory control. the aim is to cut off rebels inside the aleppo city, the largest city in syria. our correspondent has the very latest on the turkish side of the syrian border reporter: the opposition is describing this as the most intense
louder copy into iowa, we are here with christian fraser at the iowa caucuses they have all been under way now, but the indications are that it is a tight race between the four frontrunners who were trying to eat, be the person from the party who is going to unseat donald trump in november. and nick bryantjoins me now from joe biden hq. any sense of what the mood is? no, we haven t spoken to that many people, because we have come straight from a caucus ourselves, just across the road, it s a big basketball arena, always remarkable to see this communal act of democracy out in the open, as you know people indicate who they are going to vote for by sitting in designated areas. it was in a basketball arena and after the first round of voting, they saw something which they reckon is pretty rare, which is five candidates meet the threshold of 15%. those candidates, in ascending order: eliza bath warren came top, pete buttigieg came second. amy klobuchar, came second. amy klobuchar,