assad vanquished the rebel forces here after four years. about 400,000 people have been killed in the civil war. for many months the eyes of a 7-year-old have been the window on aleppo. she's now in turkey, where holly williams found her. >> reporter: bana alabed has just lost a front tooth and loves harry potter. so far so normal for a 7-year-old. except just three days ago bana and her family escaped the nightmarish violence of aleppo. and before that, as they lived under siege, bana and her mother, fatima, ran a twitter account that turned her into a social media sensation. >> we are still alive. >> reporter: with more than 300,000 followers, it showed the devastation of war through a child's eyes. what was it like living in aleppo when the bombs were falling? "it was really frightening," bana told us. "they're killing children, and we don't want to die." >> you live under siege. you live under bombs. there is no words that describe this situation. >> reporter: now in the safety of turkey bana seems to be enjoying her celebrity. she's al

it's now in the hands of president assad's forces. but from the carnage here, the convoys of people have been continuing through the night and today, thousands of people being evacuated from the final rebel-held area of this city. the temperatures here have been below freezing, so those people are not only cold and hungry, they are traumatized and exhausted. they have lived through six months of siege here and through four years of war. remember, president assad's forc force's tactics were surrender or starve. many of the people are hungry, indeed. no update yet on the 47 orphans who were evacuated yesterday. the u.n. said some of them were in critical condition. but from the twitter feed of bana, the 7-year-old who chronicled the suffering of her city, a new tweet calling for peace across syria. now to that end today in moscow, russia, iran and turkey will hold talks aimed at restarting the peace process. the u.s. not involved very much on the sidelines, but the prospect for peace is core indeed. because over the last 24 hours, presi

but i think the assad regime is on a roll. ening it's got the backing of russia and iran and hezbollah, and it's hard to say who is going to stand in their way in this steady fight against the insurgents. >> sreenivasan: randa slim, what happens to u.s. support considering that there is this shift in momentum militarily? what happens to the aid that we're giving to these rebels? >> look, i mean, we have now a new administration that's going to take power in january, and we already have heard from mr. trump during the campaign that the priority of his administration will be focusing on fighting isis, and that he's against nation building, against regime change. so i'm going to-- i would expect us to move into some kind of security dialogue with the russians about what to do in syria. however, the russians have the baggage, and that's iranian baggage, they're going to bring to them with any kind of dialogue with americans and you have contradiction in an american administration that wants to engage with the russians be, but also

can the assad regime and rebel groups build hope for peace? more live from the middle east coming up next. >>> a new cease-fire now under way in syria. you are looking at live pictures from aleppo. you see it foggy and peaceful. something we have not seen in a long time. the new cease-fire part of the deal brokered by turkey and russia including a return to peace talks after more than five years of war. turkey's president calling the deal historic opportunity, but russian president vladimir putin acknowledging the path is fragile. what is the latest on the ground in syria? cnn's ian lee has more on the ground from syria. good morning, ian. >> reporter: good morning, alison. we have been talking to people on the ground in syria. so far the cease-fire is holding. there have been reports of sporadic fighting, but by and large, it is quiet. the cease-fire is three parts. cessation of hostilities with allies with russia and syria. the second pardon part is credit ta creating a dialogue. the third part is negotiation. they hope to go to the negoti e

victory in aleppo would be a huge step to ending the syrian war says president assad. president-elect is time magazine's person of the year, but with a caveat. he leads a divided state of of erica. divided states of america. 75 years after the date that would live and in the. a survivor of the pearl harbor attack. my direction was, "lord, i will be with you in a minute." katty: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. the syrian government claims it has retaken the old city of aleppo, which has been in rebel hands for four years. residents assad says restoring control of the whole city will be a huge step towards ending the area's civil, describing aleppo as the last hope for the rebels. they leave behind thousands of civilians still trapped in use turn aleppo. lyse doucet is in the government held part of the city. lyse: in the dead of night, a terrifying escape. smashing through the wall of somebody's help, their only way out. these families ran for their ringingross the lines, the oldest and the youngest with them. relief to have

a second thing is that syria will never be whole again even if assad is able to roll up the rebels, he still has isis and still has the kurds. syria is going to be a problem for presidents for a long time to come, jenna. jenna: as we continue to watch the news. thank you so much for your time. >> thanks for having me. jon: in this country mega watt entertainer dolly parton pledges to help, her heartfelt message to those who lost and everything the fire disaster. stand-off that left police officer dead, what we are learning from the suspects and hostages held in harm's way? you didn't read your car insurance policy. you just stuck it in a drawer somewhere and forgot about it. until a dump truck hit your pickup truck and now you need a tow truck. does your policy cover the cost of a tow truck? who knows? you didn't read it. you can't even find it. the liberty mutual app with coverage compass™ makes it easy to know what you're covered for and what you're not. call liberty mutual for a free quote today at coverage compass™ gives you the policy information you need at a glance. availabl

what is the difference between assad and hundreds of women and men being executed by isis and assad? what is the difference between these two? they both are exterminating. assad and russia are at war with humanity. aleppo will be president obama's legacy unless he decides to make a decision. will his legacy be that his inaction has led to the genocide of the syrian people or will he in his final weeks of his presidency listen to his secretaries of state and build a legacy as the savior of the syrian people. mr. obama, you get to decide that. >> nora, i hear you on the geopolitical ramifications of all this, but personally on your family are they hopeful they will get out? tell me about their lives? are they eating? are they getting medical assistance? tell me about them. >> there's no food, there's no medicine, there's nothing normal. there's nothing normal like millions of syrians that are suffering across syria. they're not living under any kind of normal conditions. many of my family have been killed. they've been displaced. many have become refugees and are suffering abroad and t

he identified assad as the bad guy. he said assad has to go. when the president of the united states announces to the world that a dictator has to go and then doesn't follow through there are consequences to that to how the world begins to perceive american forces. the reason why putin was able to step into this is that he saw that obama was not going to step in. >> appreciate the perspective. thank you very much. >>> president obama putting pen to paper on a new round of executive orders. will they impact how history remembers his eight years in the white house or will they immediately be overturned? that's next. the data you don't use.y ovr and right now get four lines and 20 gigs for only $40 per line. you'll even get the iphone 7, the samsung galaxy s7, the pixel phone by google, or the motoz droid for only $10 per month. no trade-in required. hurry, these offers end soon. get the best deals and the best network, only on verizon. isjust wanna see ifa again? my score changed... you wanna check yours? scores don't change that much. i haven't

the assad forces are likely to take over aleppo, but it won't solve the problem, because assad run what is still in many ways a minority regime in syria. he is an alawite, minority of 15% in syria. maybe has support of some sunnis, clearly i think he does, but there are a large number of people in syria who are in violent positions against the assad regime. saying simply, well, let assad handle it, isn't going to work, and it is out of that context, out of that, that civil war in syria that all of these jihadi forces get formed and out of those bad lands in syria, groups like isis and al nusra have formed, so he will still need a syria policy beyond saying, just hand it over to assad, and it will have to be a policy that involves a much more, you know, much more active sense of what it is you're trying to prevent. >> and you write something so interesting where you talk ab t about, you look at this internal strife in syria, and that causes a lot of refugees to flee, and then you have this age of mass migration you describe. you link that to what we are seeing as the rise of populism, no

something that bashar al assad will most likely enjoy. also the obama administration has taken a very hard line toward the syrian regime saying assad must go. we have not heard that tough rhetoric from trump. likely things will change on january 20th. >> thanks for that, ian. >>> united kingdom criticizing secretary of state john kerry for his skmencomments on israel week. a spokesperson for theresa may said it is not appropriate to good after the government of the ally. may's office said it considers the construction of settlements illegal, they are far from the only problem in the conflict with the palestinians. kerry went after israel's government and the most right wing in the nation's history and portrayed the settlements as the biggest obstacle standing in the way of peace. >>> france raising terror tax to help support victims. citizens will pay $1.70 more on the property insurance policies. that is a spike of 40%. the cash goes directly to a fund set up for victims of terror attacks that have and could still hit the country. more t

assad negotiated to pursue what he's doing now. which is the ever elusive military solution for syria. this is something the state department said was an impossibility. it's quite a possibility. and rick is right. the next stop is idlib. the reason that the regime -- when i say the regime is russia and iran which are calling the shots. most of the atrocities being committed with being done by iranian militimilitias. they want to go to idlib because it justified turning idlib into a kill box. they can drop all the bombs they want. this is the next province they have to liberate. that's the game plan. they're hoping to do this in the period between barack obama leaning office and donald trump entering office and finding his bearings. i must say the trump campaign and the trump administration such as it is shaping up to be does not seem to want to pick any fight with putin or assad. quite the opposite they want to work with them to eliminate isis. >> how do you see the trump administration handling this yesterday. trump said yesterday

that's one of the reasons why iran is invested in preserving the regime of assad. and russia wants to protect him as well. >> a lot of terrified, desperate, hungry, embattled people in aleppo at this moment. >>> we're reporting breaking news tonight. two senior u.s. intelligence officials telling nbc news that russian president vladimir putin was personally involved in efforts to disrupt the u.s. presidential election. that conclusion, they say, is based on intelligence derived from diplomatic sources is and others including spies working for america's allies. just before this story broke, i talked about the russian cyber attacks with illinois senator dick durban where bipartisan efforts are under way to discover what happened. >> i agree with senator schumer, chairman mccain and others, this cannot be a partisan issue. let me remind all of you the senate intelligence committee on which i and the chairman of the committee sit are conducting a complete review of this matter. >> i'm joined by dick durban, democrat from illinois. let me start by asking what you want t

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that means presdent assad stays, at least for 110w. presdent assad stays, at least for now. we said at the white bg group is not involved in this agreement. what does this mean for the kurds? —— the what does this mean for the kurds? -- the ypg what does this mean for the kurds? —— the ypg group. what does this mean for the kurds? -- the ypg group. it means a couple of things. one means a large swath of things. one means a large swath of syrian territories is outside the process. this agreement only affects western syria anyway. the other issueis western syria anyway. the other issue is that the kurds are backed by the united states, which is away from the table here, so the us is twice removed. we will see if donald trump will put the united states back into this and back this process , back into this and back this process, or will stand back. are you surprised that this is a turkish russian leading instigation rather than one coming from washington? no. washington retreated from its position in syria some time ago and was unable to come up with the results it sough

they will never accept assad and the notion it's assad or isis. it's going to get very s messy very quickly. >> i want to get to economy. here is what steve moore had to say. he has been an adviser -- economic adviser to the trump campaign about why the markets have been responding so well to his election. >> people are saying this say president who takes growth and business seriously. i think that's why you have seen this dramatic increase in the dow jones. >> we can put up a look at the dow, how it has done this year and since the election. tom, quickly, your thoughts on whether trump can take credit for this or if it's just part of the natural cycle. >> regulation is a big thing. the business community is very excited about that. the reduction of regulation. other things at the productivity collapse, the skills gap that we have. labor participation rates, those are things that are more difficult, more structural and things that brought 8,000 jobs back, that ain't enough. we shall see. the devil will be in the details. >> a lot of work on capito

russia backing bashar al assad, turkey backing various rebel groups opposed to assad but they've come together now. they seem to have ironed out their political differences on that level, at least enough to try and get together and forge this agreement. and three agreements according to vladimir putin the russian president have been reached now and he's announced them already. the first one is that cease-fire which takes effect from midnight local time in syria. the second one is the police. a situation very important in a country as volatile as syria the third agreement is for all the parties to get to the, and this is probably the agreement with more far-reaching consequences. to get together in kazakhstan next month in central asia, to start a peace process. to talk about bringing an end to conflict in syria permanently. now, what the russian foreign ministry has said is that we want to see the united states involved in this. and we hope that donald trump, when he assumes office in the white house, will take part in this process. but, it looks like with or without the participation

how does he interact with assad? how does he confront the crisis in syria and isis even though he had so much support from working class americans disgruntled by the wars, wearied by them. to be this noninterventionist candidate. >> i think we cannot discount how his personal conflicts of interest wipe up influencing his foreign policy. we don't know which banks he is in debt, if his children are still running his company and there is a hotel to be built in dubai does that influence his reaction if their government acts in a way we don't know or turkey or other countries. these entanglements become really important. this is a republican strategist to said to me repeatedly, you start to have anything with the trump name on it around the world becoming an instant terrorist target. how do we react to a world in which the name of the president of the united states is plastered all over hot spots around the world. >> of all the people you interviewed over the years, chuck, no one is less predictable, i would guess, than d

if you take out assad's air, then you are essentially putting us in there as a force. and the force might then be threatened not only by russians but consider the turkish government, which that had a relationship in terms of oil. lots of other factors. that's the problem. one last point on this. to karl's notion, the american people did not want to go in. given what happened during the bush years, they did not want more boots on the ground. >> first of all, again, thank you for the straw man argument that we need a half a million people on the ground. we didn't need that. we needed decisive action. chris, the point that chris brought up is absolutely right. if we had acted in 2009, '10, '11, '12, before the russians appeared, if we destroyed the syrian air bases, there would have been no air bases from which to russians could project their power. president obama succeeded at something that no president since 1972 has been able to achieve. that is he has brought russia back into the middle east. and he's also given greater authority and power in the region to the irania

president assad and his allies have won themselves some options. their victory in aleppo does not end the war. thousands of rebel fighters have been bussed out to the neighbouring province, idlib. the regime and its allies will want to win it back. the question is when. they might decide to make eastern ghouta their priority. it is horrible because rebel groups that control that have weakened themselves by infighting. —— vulnerable. foreign powers are shaping the battlefields. turkey has troops fighting in syria and backed some of the rebel groups in aleppo. but it watched while russia and its allies destroy them. that is because turkey needs russia to stand aside while it hits the kurds. they are now its main target. while you still personnel, the west was also a bystander. that is because the syria policy of the americans, british and their friends, never policy of the americans, british and theirfriends, never coherent, has failed completely. aleppo, though, looks to be a turning point. tonight, britain's foreign secretary said again preside

how does he interact with assad? how does he confront the crisis in syria and isis even though he had so much support from working class americans disgruntled by the wars, wearied by them. to be this noninterventionist candidate. >> i think we cannot discount how his personal conflicts of interest wipe up influencing his foreign poll see. we diplomat know which banks he is in debt, if his children are still running his company and there is a hotel to be built in dubai does that influence his reaction if their government acts in a way we don't know or turkey or other countries. these entanglements become really important. this is a republican strategist to said to me repeatedly, you start to have anything with the trump name on it around the world becoming an instant terrorist target. how do we react to a world in which the name of the president of the united states is plastered all over hot spots around the world. >> of all the people you interviewed over the years, chuck, no one is less predictable, i would guess, t

and so clearly the president has kind of -- enr assad. so clearly the president has kind of -- ambition to get the deal with nd iran and the view that maybe if we get iran on our side we could deny sunni radicalism and that world view which is a failure and has taken us from the position we were in in 2009, with the green revolution where had you a chance for a once in a generation change in the regime of one of america's biggest enemies to the disaster we have and because of the pursuit of the nuclear agreement which is a disaster. >> let me bring juan in then i'll come back to you. whatever the reason for the obama policy, whatever the justification, in addition to the humanitarian carnage that happened here, the fact is that assad now seems secure in holding one the power and iran and russia are stronger in the middle east. i mean, that's not a successful policy, is it? >> no, i mean. we've got a problem here in terms of russian influence because i think when we talk about no-fly zones, safe zones on the ground, all that, you have to t

the assad regime are going to arrive in those talks in a pretty strong position. toone can say that thanks the agreement between the russians and the turks, which doomed the fate. one can say the regime is in a tough negotiating position. reporter: what about that demand that existed as a precondition for talks to go ahead? the demand that the regime of bush are al-assad -- the regime will come toassad an end. >> also because turkey seems to have abandoned the rebels and the events in aleppo attest to that. relies any condition in regard to the regime. toit is very difficult imagine a scenario in which after the fighting is over and all of the syrian people have been through, that they begin to accept the shot al-assad as their ruler once again, given what they have been through. most unfortunate because the syrian up riding best syrian uprising has been the bloodiest and the longest. none of the arab uprisings have succeeded. it seems that syria is no exception. >> we understand seven of the rebel groups have been invited, but the radical islamist groups are not

president assad and his allies have won themselves some options. their victory in aleppo does not end the war. thousands of rebel fighters have been bussed out to idlib, the neighbouring province. the regime and its allies will want to win it back. the question is when. they might decide to make eastern ghouta their military priority. it's part of the suburbs of damascus. it's vulnerable because rebel groups that control it have weakened themselves by in—fighting. foreign powers are shaping the battlefields. turkey has troops fighting in syria and backed some of the rebel groups in aleppo. but it watched while russia and its allies destroyed them. that's because turkey needs russia to stand aside while it hits the kurds, now its main target. and while east aleppo fell, the west was also a bystander. that is because the syria policy of the americans, british and their friends, never coherent, has now failed completely. aleppo though looks to be a turning point. tonight, britain's foreign secretary said again that president assad must go. but the d

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the assad regime has made significant gains in recent days. over saturday and sunday, it towns cutting up and northern sector. rebels say the neighborhood is still in their hands. since the start of this latest offensive, forces loyal to aside have recaptured 40% of east alep po from the rebellion. bombs fall daily on civilians. the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says six civilians were killed close to 50,000 civilians have escaped with only what they can carry. thehly 30,000 have reached neighborhood held by kurdish forces in the north. 20 dozen others have pledged to areas like this one held by the regime itself. >> thailand's monarchy begins a new era with the country's crown prince set to take the throne as the new king. the 64-year-old inherits the crown after the death of his father. widely regarded as the father of the nation, he passed away in october after seven decade rule. asked him to talk us through the process. --he will be referred to as he flew back from germany where he has been spending a lot of time these pas

ambassador points a finger at syria but also russia and iran for propping up the assad government. russia says it's tired of the u.s.'s constant wailing. so respond to that but i wanted to get what the u.n. is saying and other officials are saying. >> right. i watched the whole security council meeting and it was amazing and samantha power was righteous in her indignation saying there was no shame on the syrian side and the russian side. as far as we know, since the resumption of the campaign in eastern aleppo, it's russian munitions but not the russian air force, it's the syrians using barrel bombs, but there's a lot of confusion there, there's a fog of confusion at the end of -- a long, horrible war that looks like the end of stalingrad. the u.n. proved virtually like a eunuch, unable to do anything to stop this war. but it is going to stop in aleppo and the troops will be coming out of the city. we're very worried about the separation of men from women because people are fearful of a srebrenica situation but the news was delivered today by vitaly churkin that fighting had stoppe

if assad's forces do win back aleppo what does that mean for syria? >> i mean, i think there are two major consequences. number one, essential syria, which is what the russians and iranians are trying to help mr. assad put back together, the coast, largely populated areas, aleppo, homs, damascus, will remain under syrian control. second i think the fall of aleppo symbolically and practically will represent a huge psychological and material loss for the opposition. they simply now have no realistic path to challenge the assad regime. isis, of course, will retreat into the desert, they'll continue to launch their insurgencies, and they still control a third of the country. so the fall of aleppo will not end the war. but it is likely to change the war in a pretty dramatic and decisive fashion. >> quick, one more beat on this. for americans who say, look, i care about isis. i can't -- the united states can't be the world's policeman, we can't fix syria, there are 100 guys like assad out there. i only care about isis. what do you say to them? >> i mean, if

russia trying to prop up the assad assad is a war criminal. we just saw great video of aleppo. aleppo has been destroyed. so many people killed in aleppo. almost a half million civilians killed in syria overall and russia and iran have some culpability for this. it's frightening that now turkey may be cooperating with russia and iran. a ardewan softened his position. but the u.s. maintained its policy which is that assad has to go. that the smarter solution for syria. really the only solution for syria. assad must step down and then there has to be a political resolution in syria in order to stop the fighting. >> and david, have you thoughts on how this relationship will change when president trump gets into office? >> that's right. trump has praised russia for bombing syria. even the human rights organization observing the bombings and have information from the ground show that most of these bombings are killing civilians and in some cases killing the u.s.-backed rebels who the u.s. is backing. trump said that is a positive thing. it is not positive and i fear that trump may a

iran is engaged in popping up the assad regime. there there are multiple wars that are taking place in the strategy that has been developed has not worked how we need to engage the international community and look at strategies that could end the human disasters that are taking place. assad will never have the credibility to be able to lead syria, work in in a way that we can get a transition to new leadership within syria. >> host: was the first step to making that happen? >> guest: you have to work with russia. work with with russia to get a meaningful cease-fire so that the civil war bombings stop and shooting stop and humanitarian assistance can get into save lives. and work on a process that will lead to a transition a new leadership in syria. then allow those forces to concentrate collectively against isis. >> host: gene in illinois, republican is on the air. >> caller: hello. analysis of pollsters have come out since the election and they clearly see a change in the numbers after clinton, that smug, old woman called half thi

military momentum going in assad's direction. i don't think we will see any changes immediately. much less talk between the administrations. >> so if there is momentum going in assad's direction, as you well know, president obama, secretary of state john kerry, that whole team are saying assad must go. he's still there, still there in a major way and causing lots of harm to his own people. vladimir putin saying he's fine with assad being in power. what happens when donald trump becomes president trump? how does that play out? >> well, i don't think and other analysts don't predict there will be significant changes to russia's 60-year alliance with syria. really, for 60 years, they have been partners. we are going to have to wait and see what happens. i don't think we will ever involve ourselves to the point where we will take a greater role than russia is right now. i think we just have to wait it out but i don't believe we are going to see any major changes in the of a trump administration with regard to what russia and iran are

they will never accept assad and the notion it's assad or isis. it's going to get very s messy very quickly. >> i want to get to economy. here is what steve moore had to say. he has been an adviser -- economic adviser to the trump campaign about why the markets have been responding so well to his election. >> people are saying this say president who takes growth and business seriously. i think that's why you have seen this dramatic increase in the dow jones. >> we can put up a look at the dow, how it has done this year and since the election. tom, quickly, your thoughts on whether trump can take credit for this or if it's just part of the natural cycle. >> regulation is a big thing. the business community is very excited about that. the reduction of regulation. other things at the productivity collapse, the skills gap that we have. labor participation rates, those are things that are more difficult, more structural and things that brought 8,000 jobs back, that ain't enough. we shall see. the devil will be in the details. >> a lot of work on capito

you know, assad is their guy, he's in power. and it's -- i don't know how we could even ever make up this lost ground, lost effort. so the question is what does happen from here on out? >> well, what's going to happen in the next 38 days is russia, assad and iran are going to continue these types of operations. i don't think the ceasefire's going to hold. they're going to take this battle forward, and what they're trying to do is insure that when president trump comes into office january 20th that the narrative that they've been pushing for two years, that it's either us or isis, will actually be a reality on the ground. because there will be no rebel resistance left because the russians, iranians and assad are using every military tool, every proxy on the ground to punish the population of syria and to push the rebels into the arms of isis. so that's what we're looking at the next 38 days. charles: zudhi, we've got to have some pretty eclectic or strange coalitions particularly in iraq. after watching how we allowed the syrian

second, it means ignoring the fact that assad is responsible for the death of nearly half a million of his own people and you have to come to a conclusion at some point that even if you're fighting isis, do you want to be seen propping up somebody of that type? and thirdly, there is no plan right now over what happens once assad is gone and there's no particular prospect that he'll leave anytime soon and this is what i think we saw president obama struggling with today. president obama knows that when the history of his presidency is written, syria will be the one big open scar. pete: he seemed to sort of acknowledge that today. juliet: he did and he said he couldn't it in that he's been successful. president obama doesn't admit to failure easily and it was also the point in his press conference where he seemed the most emotional. pete: he sort of said what can i do? the american people don't want this there were not good options. the military was tied down. juliet: sometimes he talks about if i were smarter, maybe i could have come up with something else. he made it clear he's revisit

president bashar al assad calls renewed control of aleppo a significant development. he said the liberation of the city has changed the situation in syria. but the u.s. secretary of state had stronger words. >> the assad regime is actually carrying out nothing short of a massacre. and we have witnessed indiscriminate slaughter. >> kerry said assad must resign to allow for a political transition. >>> in another major story involving the russian president a senior white house official has suggested putin was directly involved in interfering with the american election. washington announced in august that they were responsible for cyberattacks in june. the servers were hacked and led to leaks of party officials' e-mails. the white house deputy national security adviser pointed to vladimir putin's involvement in an interview with msnbc on thursday. he said he doesn't think things this big happen in the russian government without putin knowing about it. he also said russia had been carrying out cyberattacks in europe in a bid to sway election results. washington is consider

that chance has gone well president assad remains russia and iran's man. it will not be easy for his coalition to move from aleppo to victory in syria but now, they have the momentum. studio: a survey of rough sleepers suggests they are 17 times more likely to be a victim of crime than the general public. the charity crisis says homeless people are regularly attacked and abused. there are thought to be about 4,000 people sleeping rough in the uk at any one time. the report found 30% of those questioned said they had been deliberately hit or kicked. nearly a third said they'd had things thrown at them and 7% said they'd been urinated on. the charity says it demonstrates again the need to prevent homelessness. 0ur social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan reports. voiceover: for some people, voiceover: forsome people, rough sleepers have no value. 0ne stamps the head, the other kicks the legs. are used to come in here and sleep on the trains. it was safe and it was warm. corky was homeless for five years, he took to sleeping on commuter trains after an

and they may be worse than assad. they may be worse. and if assad never happened, if you didn't have a problem in syria, you wouldn't have the migration. yowouldn't be talking about all of these countries with what's going on in europe. and now they're talking about taking 200,000 people that we don't even know who they are and bringing them to the united states. the whole thing is ridiculous. so i'm not justifying putin. but you watch -- he'll get bogged down there. he'll be there. he'll spend a fortune. he'll be begging to get out. he's going to be anti-israel. explain what you mean by neutral. >> no, i'm very pro-israel. in fact, i was the head of the israeli day parade a number of years ago. i did a commercial for netanyahu when he was getting elected. he asked me to do a commercial for him. i did a commercial for him. i am. i don't want to be -- look, the hardest thing to do is that in terms of deals, if you're a deal person, right, the ultimate deal is that deal. israel, palestine, if you're going to make it, that probably is the

assad's regime is clearly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity." an estimated fifteen thousand civilians -- many women and children -- were supposed to be evacuated, but, the busses taking them to safety never arrived. most of the finger-pointing directed at russia and iran, but, moscow says the u-s is to blame, rejecting any further cease- fire talks, calling the sessions a "pointless hangout" with translated "..we continue to be in contact, but every time we come to some sort of agreement americans roll back from agreements that had been already reached." meanwhile, the obama administration is ramping up pressure on the syrian government to halt their offensive, accusing assad forces of indiscriminately killing civilians who try to escape. power says "..it should shame you, instead, by all appearances, it is emboldening you, you are plotting your next assault. are you truly incapable of shame?" on cam tag turkey says it will continue negotiating save at least some of the people still trapped in aleppo. in jerusalem, john huddy, fox news it's time

the rebellion against president assad in aleppo is over. the final push, three weeks of it, broke through. city's squad, the british-backed white helmets, have given up. they will be evacuated. one rescuer says yesterday we found children under the rubble crying for help, but we could not help them because the regime forces had advanced and the bombardment was intense. the army had help here. russian warplanes and fighters collapse. they have been accused of war crimes, shooting women and children in the streets. >> these reports are untrue. the syrian-arab army would never do such things. the army is securing the evacuation of civilians and the departure of any fighters that surrender. this is an attempt to tarnish the image of the syrian army after its victory. >> it has been three weeks of .ell for most of it and activist has been with his crew day and night. he climbs out of the rubble after his home was hit by a parachute bomb. he watched them fall in other neighborhoods. tonews broke, we were able reach deep inside eastern aleppo befo

assad responded with a violent crackdown. the country fell into civil war with terrorist groups joining the fight to secure syrian territory of its own. that summer the obama administration declared assad must step aside. a year later, this threat. >> a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. >> reporter: another year later, assad's forces killed 1400 using sarin gas. obama decided to walk back from his threat and pursue diplomacy with assad's ally, russia. that diplomacy has turned to disgust. >> the idea that you would target a playground and bomb kids, hoping that you would then convince people to give up because you had killed their kids? what kind of a sick mind comes up with a strategy like that? and what kind of civilized country is going to support those tactics? but that's what russia has done. >> reporter: and now questions of whether the administration should have engaged further in syria, beyond air strikes against isis. >> there has never been a recogn

kurd vs turk vs kurd, suni, shia, oppositionists against assad. it is extraordinarily complicated in the proxyism. you have got differences between egypt and kuwait and the emirates versus saudi, emerate and turk. it is hard to declare we will go in and bomb and do this or that.

assad responded with a violent crackdown. the country fell into civil war with terrorist groups joining the fight to secure syrian territory of its own. that summer the obama administration declared assad must step aside. a year later, this threat. >> a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. >> reporter: another year later, assad's forces killed 1400 using sarin gas. obama decided to walk back from his threat and pursue diplomacy with assad's ally, russia. that diplomacy has turned to disgust. >> the idea that you would target a playground and bomb kids, hoping that you would then convince people to give up because you had killed their kids? what kind of a sick mind comes up with a strategy like that? and what kind of civilized country is going to support those tactics? but that's what russia has done. >> reporter: and now questions of whether the administration should have engaged further in syria, beyond air strikes against isis. >> there has never been a recogn

that is what he and assad's air force has been doing. targeting civilians to the extent that they're doing it is a war crime. assad has been committing war crimes for a long time. they followed this, martha, on ground with iranian quds force be, hezbollah and also regime forces to systematically go into the buildings and kill whatever surviving civilians there are there, murdering families. martha: people being burned alive and horrific reports. we went back and looked at times, because we all remember the times that president obama said we're going to train the kurds, we're going to train some of these moderate rebels, we're going to not be on the ground with them, but provide them enough support so that they can be strong because there was a point, which you documented many times with us, where it was believed if you supported some of those moderates, that assad would fall. there was a tipping point. but what happened in 2014, and president obama talked about it 22 times. but those references dropped off dramatically as soon as russia