Aleppo

Jon Snow interviews Ole Solvang, deputy director of emergencies for Human Rights Watch, Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, and Reem Assil, chair of the Syrian Platform for Peace.

The pressure on Syria and its Russian allies to guarantee safety for those leaving Aleppo is coming from all sides, from the UN chief Ban Ki Moon to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. But amid all the promises, the fate of Aleppo’s people depends not on words, but on action.

It is a hellish corner of a city already reduced to hell on earth, but in the past few minutes Russia says all military action in Eastern Aleppo has stopped, with a deal to allow militant fighters and civilians to leave. This programme has just learned that buses carrying the most badly injured people out…

Sources say some 110 medical staff remained in eastern Aleppo’s last remaining hospital as of midnight last night.

The Syrian army has said it is in the last moments before declaring victory in the battle to recapture the eastern part of Aleppo. Today, the situation has become more desperate by the hour for the remaining civilians.

Russia is claiming that just 7 per cent of East Aleppo remains in rebel-held hands, as Syrian government troops continue their advance deeper into the city. Diana Magnay reports.

In Syria, the exodus of civilians from the besieged eastern side of the Syrian city of Aleppo continues. The United Nations now says that more than 30 thousand people – mostly women and children – have fled the area. But there are increasing reports that men of fighting age among the evacuees are being detained…

Rescue workers claim that at least another 45 people have been killed today as the bombardment of east Aleppo by regime forces intensified. With the United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss their plight, around 50,000 people are now reported to have fled their homes in the east of the city in the last 72…

Interview with Fares Shehabi, the pro-regime MP for Aleppo.

Interview with Karin von Hippel, former deputy assistant secretary of state at the US State Department.

More than 20,000 people are estimated to have fled East Aleppo in the last two days, as rebels battle to stop Syrian forces and their allies advancing further into their territory – a key battleground of the five-year civil war.

David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, and Yasmine Nahlawi, of the Manchester-based Syrian advocacy group, Rethink Rebuild.

Interview with Mark Toner, deputy spokesperson for the US State Department.

The frontlines in the battle of Aleppo are shifting, with Russian-backed Syrian forces now boast they’ve taken almost half of the besieged rebel-held east. But for the quarter of a million people who’ve been trapped under heavy bombardment for months, the future is no more certain.

All hospitals in Eastern Aleppo have been reportedly forced to close after the relentless bombing of the besieged half of the city. This leaves an estimated 300,000 residents without medical care. We have footage from inside the paediatric hospital there.