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Interview with Aleppo’s MP Fares Shehabi.
Interview with English teacher Wissam Zarqa, who is in the besieged eastern part of the city.
Air strikes and barrel bombs have hit rebel-held neighbourhoods in eastern Aleppo, as Russia announced the start of a major operation in the Syrian provinces of Idlib and Homs.
Residents in Aleppo have been told they have 24 hours to leave the eastern area of the city. We speak to a teacher in Aleppo, Abdulkafi Alhamdo, who is refusing to leave.
Today Channel 4 News has been with government troops on the front-line in the Syrian war as they exchanged fire with rebel forces mounting an offensive.
Interview with Fares Shelabi, MP for Aleppo.
There’s a sense of grim inevitability in Aleppo tonight that the war is about to get worse. Russian might and strategy is clearly in play. We see their soldiers at all the key points.
This is the story of Aleppo – told with the help of one incredible filmmaker in the city who reveals the humanity of many of those trapped inside one of the world’s most dangerous places.
Welcome to Aleppo, Syria. The relentless bombardment. The curse of barrel bombs. The growing list of casualties. Behind every statistic, there is almost unimaginable human suffering.
For most of the last five years there has been a small oasis of colour and life amidst the destruction and grief of rebel-held Aleppo. It’s the garden centre, which has supplied plants and blooms and foliage to people in that part of the city.
13-year-old Mohammed, who – unlike so many in Syria – does not want to flee, but dreams of growing up to become an architect, so he can help rebuild his home city of Aleppo.
Barrel bombs, indiscriminate weapons responsible for the deaths of 11,000 civilians in the Syrian civil war, are the increasing weapons of choice of the Assad regime.
One of the oldest and most beautiful cities in the world is now in ruins after four years at the centre of Syria’s bloody war. Drag the cursor across each image to see the destruction.
Lindsey Hilsum
The Syrian government knows it’s in a strong position. If the rebels don’t agree the ceasefire, they may be crushed. Previous ‘local ceasefires’ have been a euphemism for surrender.
The Syrian government has said it is willing to suspend its aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of the northern city of Aleppo so a local ceasefire can be tested, a UN mediator says.