they're attempting to open a civilian cord or to the rebel held area let's go to moscow and bring in aaron tilden our correspondent following this for us there aaron what are you hearing where you are about the cease fire. official word coming out of the kremlin or military circles here in moscow about the state of the ceasefire thus far we had heard some reports of sporadic fighting leading up to the cease fire more mortar rounds and rockets supposedly coming out of eastern gotovina aimed at damascus but we haven't heard a lot of confirmation of any type of military action today coming out of the kremlin or of the russian military circles ok with a very fluid situation on the ground there how is russia going to be able to ensure that the cease fire holds in the days ahead. that really is the big question now at least when we're talking about the assad regime russia does have a lot of sway with the government they are their largest international partner partner and they wouldn't have made this announcement of these humanitarian cease fires daily humanitarian cease fires without discussing that fi