arwa damon. >>> it stands in the middle of many of syrian affects.here's another reason that the government wants it back. a key highway, once right through idlib, the road from aleppo to damascus also thinks turkey and jordan to syria. on tuesday, syrian forces took control of the highway. also, the city latakia, a syrian stronghold. and there's a russian air base nearby, russia is an ally of the government. i'm joined by the president of med global, a group for medical missions of doctors to provide health care to war disaster. he has visited aleppo four times. and last week addressed the national security council on syria. doctor, thank you for talking with us. i want to speak first what you said to the security council about the situation. >> with the situation isn't idlib, i was in idlib, the first week of january, after the lamp wave that started at the end of the december. and at that time, there were about 260,000 people who were displaced. now, there's about -- more than 800,000 people who are displaced. because of the bombing and west of al

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they're running out of places to go as the ai shad regime -- we find arwa damon with more. what are you seeing were arwa? >> reporter: it is absolutely heart breaking to watch these families have been to flee repeatedly as the fighting closes in. in fact, reuters was just reporting that a helicopter was shot down. we saw from where we are a ball of flame dropping down from the skies just a short while ago. but people here are really feeling as if the flight -- the fighting is closing in on them. you have large, sprawling camps throughout but you also have smaller makeshift camps being established as families leave. this family in this tent, they arrived yesterday, but they're actually planning on leaving again because the fighting is closing in on them. and they've already been displaced numerous times. they don't know where to go. and if you just take a look at these conditions that they're having to live in, the children don't even have proper shoes. this is who we met earlier today. she was telling us that sometimes she looks at her kids and she just wishes that they woul

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and arwa damon has been reporting on the plight of the refugees. crossing on the turkish side of the border where many have gathered. >> reporter: hi, just to set the scene for you, that is the border crossing that these refugees are hoping to get through. turkey has in fact opened its side of the border, it is no longer stopping people who want to cross into europe whether via land or via sea. now, there has been quite a bit of tear gas going back and forth at this location. we saw that bit earlier. and now a group -- this group has pushed forward and appear to be staging something of a sit-in. you see mostly men here and that is because they are the ones who are sort of on the front line of this effort to try to force the border open. but on either side of this, there are hundreds of families, women and children, who have come here because they think that somehow they are going to be able to getting across. and this happened because on frid friday, there were statements being made attributed to a senior turkish official and others that stated tha

arwa damon shows us. >> reporter: there are make shift camps like this that you find throughout thesery close to the border with turkey because this is where people think that they might be able to find some sort of refuge. 800,000 people have been on the move since december. but when it comes to safety, there is nowhere inside syria that is actually guaranteed. this is a family who we met earlier. we've been speaking to them. they just arrived here last night and they say that they are not entirely sure that they will come -- [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: the bombing is still very close to us here. it is very hard. there is no proper heating. the kids don't even have proper shoes, warmth, the ground. she's been burning what she can here. coal, wood, at times even rubber when she's had to. one of her kids is actually sick back there. [ speaking foreign language ] she has a fever. it was because of the cold temperatures. the temperatures here can drop below freezing. and this is a big issue for a lot of these families. we spoke to a family whose baby died from the cold, th

ar arwa damon, turkey. >> thank you for shining the lite on all of these, you know, children. the people in syria, cnn has a list of the vetted organizations working on the ground there. and you can find the list by going to cnn.com/impact. i'm brooke baldwin and thank you for being here. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> remember, during impeachment when the republican senators said that president trump really cared about taking a stand against corruption?" the lead" starts right now. breaking today, a pardon and clemency spree. president trump is giving a get out of jail free card to the man who tried to sell barack obama's senate seat, and he pardoned a former nypd commissioner who was also convicted. and now, it is bernie sanders who is the front runner who is pulling away. >>> the judge says that she is going to sentence trump

our senior international correspondent arwa damon, she's in the midst of it. has been all day, from northwest syria. the only western journalist in the region right now. arwa, the pictures, the images you're showing us from there moving, heart breaking, tell us about the situation on the ground. >> reporter: you know, jim, a lot of the times people don't know where to go. the road that we're on actually leads up to one of the main camps here. but it is completely full and even there people don't feel safe. we just met this family, they arrived a few days ago, but they're thinking about moving again. and we have been talking to suad here, it is her family. i'm going to translate for you what happens when i ask her how she's feeling because she's so emotional. they don't have any options. we can only thank god. we can only thank god to keep us patient. she has actually been watching the traffic going by on this highway, because quite often it will get clogged with trucks piled high with people with their belongings. this is the family that has come out, this is

cnn's arwa damon traveled to idlib where more than 900,000 people have been displaced and are tryinge relentless air campaign by the syrian regime and the russians and arwa joins us now live. arwa, the stories that you've brought us in the past few days are just so gut wrenching, they are searing to everyone watching, obviously we've heard from viewers about it and i know that you are no stranger could covering war zones, but i'm just wondering if you can share with us what has struck you most about going to idlib province and all of the parents and the children that you met there. >> reporter: alisyn, we have made multiple trips there and this time it just felt so different. this time it was the fact that of the many things that are so striking, the children, how they walk for hours. we met a family who had walked for seven hours in the dark of night and one of the kids -- and it was freezing cold -- look, i had on big winter boots, two layers of they are malls, she was wearing flip-flops with soaking wet socks. she was exhausted, but she didn't cry and she didn't complain. we met a

cnn's arwa damon is the only western reporter that has traveled to idlib province. warn you some of the video you're about to see is disturbing. arwa joins us now from turkey. your reporting from there has been heart breaking, staggering. tell us what you've learned. >> reporter: it's tragic, alisyn. to put it in the words of the u.n.'s emergency coordinator. he says if the situation stays like this, we are going to be looking potentially at the world's largest pile of rubble strewn with the bodies of a million children. just how bad does it need to get for the world to take action. there is barely enough light to see as we head towards the tent in one of idlib's camps. a couple nights ago temperatures dropped well below zero and the family didn't have enough to burn. i fed my baby and he went to sleep, still in shock. at 6:36 the children woke me up screening. i touched him and he was icy. the doctors told them he froze to death. her husband walks out before he breaks down. she doesn't have a photograph of him alive. just this image as they said their final good-by

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arwa damon has more on this. a lot going on. >> reporter: yeah. there really is.eport is hard to watch. like just about every single report coming out of syria is. but lost in the politics and the military speak is often the plight of the civilian population. and their plight stopped being part of the calculus a long time ago. moments earlier, the children were playing in the schoolyard. it was around 4:00 p.m. when the strike came in. but they weren't there because classes had just let out but rather because that school like many others had been converted into a shelter. >> reporter: the man walks around the corner and speaks to a woman who says she has shrapnel in her foot. not all survived that strike or the others that hit the same day. many that had been housing those fleeing the violence elsewhere. the activist walks through the school. the classrooms converted into living spaces. we think we are safe, but then the war planes come and take everything from us, she says. russia has rejected calls for a cease-fire stating that would be a capitulation to terrori

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