c.t.v. news channel joining us tonight from toronto thank you. well the united nations has told a donor conference in brussels that a fresh humanitarian crisis must be avoided in syria tensions have escalated there after a suspected chemical weapons attack in duma earlier this month with international stakeholders in the crisis at loggerheads the u.n. says more needs to be done for ordinary syrians. the war in syria has claimed an estimated half a million lives according to monitors as hopes for peace are shattered daily aid organizations have run out of funds to provide humanitarian assistance at a conference in brussels donors are trying to raise three and a half billion dollars to help poor refugees who work together to make it to full instead get rid of slaves wherever we can until that i do support those communities . and the host come to see to shoulder the enormous responsibilities they have taken all over the people. of the eleven million syrians who've been driven from their homes six million are internally displaced while more than five