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and over the border food and medicine finally arrive for people suffering in some of syria's besieged towns>>> oil prices continue to fall, crude is now below $30 a barrel. >>> president obama prepares for his last state of the union address. ♪

. >>> aid agencies are trying to get food and medicine in to besieged towns in syria, where tens of thousands are starving to death. images of emancipated bodies and hungry children led to an international outcry over the use of siege tactics by all sides in the war. in the former mountain holiday resort, 152,000 people have been cut off from aid since july. volunteers hand out the few supplies they have left >>> are we not arabs as well. i swear to god we are arabs. these children - what wrong have they done. what wrong did this child commit >>> people have been reduced to scrabbling for food in the streets. residents say they've been forced to ate cats and dogs. some are ill eating leaves from the trees and grass. >> i was brought here because i was poisoned. i was eating herbs from the ground. let the world see and hear about this, and know there are people here dying of starvation. >> stocks of medicine are running low, and doctors are struggling to cope. hospitals provide what little they have to try to keep people alive. . >> 8 of the first, 2016. what is your name? >> noah. >> noah. ho

are making their way to a besieged town. rts say people have been eating grass and their pets to survive. let's bring in our regional correspondent. can you confirm the convoy has reached the town? reached they has town. some 50ff from damascus kilometers away. there was another convoy earlier in the day on a much longer journey. ,p into the north province where two towns are under siege by opposition forces. is to just get food into those affected areas for some 40,000 people. in the next couple of days there will be a second delivery bringing in other much-needed goods including medicine and basics given that it is winter. heating will now be very difficult. warm blankets and other such things that they desperately need. genie: tell us more about this area that has been cut off. it's not just this one town under siege. across the country as a whole , as we speak, a number of towns and suburbs of damascus have been under siege. and perhaps not as seriously affected as this one. it is like the situation in the camp where peop

this has become a tried and true method of besieging towns. ey've done it in homs, zabadani, the huta area, the two big shiite towns north of idlib that have been for several years now been besieged by the rebels, kefraya and al-foua, and a big hunk of dar azur besieged by the islamic state. all sides are so exhausted that they are using the cheapest method to win and that is besieging, they don't have to send their soldiers in, it will be a slow and painful which is using civilians as hostage which is against the law. this is like the end of world war ii to use another analogy when all sides were destroying humans in great numbers. you can think of hiroshima or nag sacknagasaki or dresden. people don't care about human suffering or if they do care it's very difficult to get them to act on it. and it underlines how desperately the international community should be concentrating on stopping this civil war. >> he was absolutely right wasn't he josh landis when he said there aren't 400,000 people under siege here, we can break it down into little

chief ban ki-moon blasts all sides of the syrian conflict as a second convoy reaches the besieged town of madia. this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up, isil claims responsibility for coordinated attacks in central jakarta. seven are dead, and five are attackers. >>> a baby and child among the dead after a police station was bombed in southeast turkey. >>> a report says corruption was embedded in world athletic's governing body and the leadership must have known. plus. box office hit "mad max" makes the running with ten oscar nominations. the united nations secretary-general says the starvation of people in the besieged town of madia amounts to a war crime by the syrian government. ban ki-moon criticized all sides in the conflict for committing atrocious acts. bank ki-moon said the people were in desperate need and are treated worst than hostages. a second international aid convoy arrived in the town. they needed supplies and they made their way to the area in 44 trucks. news came of the death a 3-month-old baby of malnutrition in a village near by. let's go live to our di

aid organizations have been allowed by the government to deliver supplies to some of the besieged townse red cross says the trucks could start to arrive soon. >> we expect that the humanitarian operation, the joint operation should take place in the coming days. >> reporter: meanwhile, a plea to the world. >> translator: let the world sea this and hear about this, and know there are people here dying of starvation. >> reporter: for those trapped in these besieged towns, the hope is whatever help they get, won't be the last. rob matheson, al jazeera. >>> al jazeera's ca care -- caroline malone is at a syrian refugee camp. >> reporter: it is pretty miserable today. there has been hail earlier on, and rain now, and it's getting pretty cold. people are not ready for these kind of temperatures. they are getting some support, something like 150 usd a month for families -- these are families of six, seven people, but that is just not enough for them to survive on. they need something like 4 or 500 a month. they need to buy everything from the basic food, fuel, things to keep them warm, like bl

>>> aid finally arrives in besieged syrian towns but the government is denying it is starving its own people. hello. you're watching al jazeera. live from our headquarters in doha. also ahead on the program, fans pay tribute to the man who changed rock in roll as david bowie dies from cancer. thousand new zealand south korea sign a deal with samsung for employees who fell sick while washing for the company. -- thousands in south korea. the mexican government releases of friday's raid on joaquin guzman's hideout >>> we begin in syria where desperately needed food and medical supplies have finally reached three besieged towns. under a deal reached with the government an aid convoy left on monday bound for madaya. they of also been also delivered to two other villages. oppositions are surrounding these places. in eastern ghuda 160,000 people are said to be in urgent help. 9,000 people are tracked in the towns. i.s.i.l. fighters have cut off 200,000 people in parts of the eastern city of daralzour. a report from u.n. headquarters in new york. >> reporter: trucks carrying food and medicine

--in the besieged town. it is a convex and ever-changing situation. some towns are held by rebels and are under attack by pro-government forces. other towns are held by government forces and are under constant siege by rebel fighters. these demonstrators took to the streets to protest against the siege. they accuse the assad regime of violating truce agreements and deliberately starving the population. "this is a reaction to the stopping of our people and all the towns that have been part of the regime. the team is reached the deal's the presence of organizations like the u.n. others have a warning of tit-for-tat reprisals. "we demand that this fraudulent truce ends. either they burn or the siege is lifted from our brothers." as the political and military situation remains as intractable as ever, more evidence of people suffering emerges. this video purports to show avoid who hasn't eaten for a week. -- a boy who hasn't eaten for a week. what he would like best, he says "something sweet." >> let's bring in the spokesperson for the near and middle east

people in the besieged town say they are starving to death. let's talk about this. crossing to damascus, a spokesperson for the international committee of the red cross. the reports coming out from there seem to be horrific. we're reporting families eating leaves, they're having to resort to eating grass. what are you hearing about the situation there? are you able to confirm this information? >> well, when we went to there, and from our contacts in the besieged towns in the north, already in act we hearing about very dire humanitarian situation on the ground from lack of foot, lack of medicines. that was october. now we expect that the situation for those towns and other areas in syria, because we're talking about four million people living in very dire conditions >>> how can you clarify this information when there is a siege on this city? >> say it again? >>> how do you clarify the information and how difficult might it be for clarification when there is a siege on the city? >> first of all, we managed to have contact in those towns with representatives of the loc

he made the call as food and medicines finally reach three besieged towns. an aid convoy arrived monday. supplies have been delivered to the pro government villages. opposition groups are surrounding these places but many areas are not included in the deal. 176,000 people are said to be in urgent need of help in another area. 9,000 are trapped in madaya and another town. the u.n. said is as i will cut off 200,000 people in parts of the eastern city. we have a report from u.n. headquarters in new york. >> trucks carrying food and medicine finally arrive in madaya, a town of more than 40,000 people where they've been eating their pets and after that survived on a diet of soup made from grass. >> we witnessed a lot and suffered a lot. people killed cats to eat them. others ate grass. i saw people sitting on garbage and eating from it. we need to break the siege. >> it is reported that as many as 28 people have starved to death, but at the united nations, the syrian ambassador seemed to dispute all this. >> the information concerning the humanitarian situation i

. >> caring aid to besieged towns in western area. there are demands that more has to be done to help many others in need. >> sending aid is not enough. the united nations have done this three months ago and looked a where we are at now. >> to the north supply trucks from the aid organization trundled through idlib pro government forces have blockaded the area for months. areas are cut off by armed rebel groups. people say they have been reduced to eating handfuls of salt, tree leaves, cats and dogs. >> are we not arabs as well? i wear to god we are arabs. these children, what wrong have they done? this child, what wrong did he admit? >> the world food program said that the aid carried will meet the needs of 40,000 people but only for one month. the u.n. said that there are 400,000 people trapped by various sieges across syria. activists say it's vital they're lifted. the u.n. has more aid convoy planned across syria but their delivery depends on the war inside if they let that aid through. al jazeera, in the syrian-lebanon border. >>

a second wave of ada trucks roll into three besieged mountain towns in syria. -- aid trucks. time now for our business news with stephen carroll. shares of her know have pollen by 20% in paris after reports that its offices were searched by fraud investigators last week. officials told news agencies renault siteswer were searched. deals withforce competition and fraud issues. the company has refused to comment for now. the slump in shares today has wiped 5 billion euros off the company's value. a pretty bleak day in the european markets today. pretty hefty falls across all main european markets. paris trading down to with that news coming from renault. big falls in frankfurt and london. an extension of the cell up we tune across global stock markets saw across global stock markets. oil falling below $30 a barrel. still near those 12 year lows. >> the french president is set to unveil his new plan to cut unemployment on monday. >> at the same time the number of people out of work is close to record highs. that has led french politicians and business leaders to suggest that une

aid instruct have arrived at the gates of the besieged syrian town of madai.hey're delivering food and medicine to tens of thousands of civilian who is have been cut off by the government. at the same time an aid convoy is set to deliver aid to towns in idlib province, which is surrounded by rebels. >>> talks to reviving the peace process in afghanistan has been held in pakistan. it includes the u.s. and china will pave the way for talks to resume with the taliban. >>> south african students are protesting because hundreds of thousands of them are unable to find an university place. they're demanding government spending to fund more university places and lower fees. >>> china's stock market continues their poor start of the year. the shanghai index closed found and lost all of its 2015 gains last week falling by nearly 10% in five days. investors are worried about the health of the chinese economy. the one continues to weaken as oil prices continue to fall. rob mcbride has more from hong kong. >> the gloom of last week carrying over into this week with continu

>>> help is finally on the way for people starving in a besieged syrian town after a deal was reached to allow aid in. you're watching al jazeera live. coming up in the next half hour, police in the german city of cologne clash with far right demonstrators protesting attacks on women. mexico begins the process of extraditing drug lord joaquin guzman to the united states. singing his praises, we explain the growing popularity of argentina's answer to robin hood. aid agencies say a deal has been reached to get food and medicine into besieged towns in syria where tens of thousands of people are in danger of starving to death images of emaciated bodies and starving students have have led to international outrage. in the holiday resort of madaya around 40,000 people have been cut off from aid since july. volunteers are handing out the few supplies they had left. the situation in the town is deterioratin deteriorating. >> i've been speaking in madaya and the situation is grim. about a week ago, nine days ago now, and the situation became much, much more dire. all food supplies in the town h

soon. >> we hope that we would have the first aid trucks carrying food for the people who are besieged in the town. we'll be bringing more and carrying humanitarian supplies reaching these besieged areas which would clu include baby food, blankets, children winter clothing, water, water purifiers, medical supplies. >> well syrian state tv said that the government is ready to take part in peace talks in gentlemein geneva. they have mandated a list of groups that would be classed as terrorists. many say they'r they've had theory doubts. >> this video is said to have been filmed by volunteers from the opposition syrian civil defense aid group. the pictures were taken using camera mounted on aid workers' helmet as they find victims buried beneath the rubble. more than a million syrian refugees have sought shelter in neighboring lebanon, but with harsh conditions and food supplies running desperately low many are struggling despite the help from aid groups. we have reports from lebanon. >> the six-month-old has a serious burn across his face and head. his family can't afford to buy wood, so his mother

as we mentioned, it's an incredibly grim and desperate situation in the besieged town of madaya. for a snapshot of just how much basic aid is neat, here's a firsthand look at a child who is stuck inside the town. muhammed says he hasn't eaten in more than a week. this 7-year-old is one of 40 those people here struggling to survive. even the leaves and plants they've been living on are no longer edible because of snowstorms. spokesman for the international committee of the red cross said they are working as fast as they can to deliver aid. >> the icrc yesterday evening alongside with the u.n. goals granted the access to the areas of madaya and for kafrya. we expect the human operation, the joint operation madea we spoke earlier to a man living close to madaya. >> we've been under siege for more than six months. nothing has been allowed in during that time. people are hungry. so far, 30 people have died because of hunger and it's increasing day by day. >> give us an idea of the daily toll. when you say it's increasing daily, how many people are dying daily? >> it's come in stages. p

agencies entered the besieged town for the first time in months on monday. the yuan repeatedly wanted that they risk starving to death -- the you and repeatedly warned that they risk starving to death. reporter: the weather wasn't right and negotiations for access went to the wire. however, the first batch of aid went on monday to the three besieged syrian towns. madaya in modesto's has food for 40,000 people for one month. residents have confirmed reports of starvation. who killedomeone mothergave them to her pretending they were rabbits. i know other people who collect food in the trash and others who eat grass. reporter: the u.n. confirms the suffering in madaya is the worst seen in the country's civil war. >> children are collecting grass to eat. it is one of the last international resources available. there are landmines around. we were told that an incident in which a child lost both legs. un warned that hundreds of thousands of serious face a similar fate. >> tracking areas besieged by the various parties to the conflict. the use of siege and starvati

aid agencies are in a race against time to get vial food and medicine to besieged towns in syria where people are starving. as winter sets in families have been burning furniture for warmth and eating leaves, cats and dogs. sources say an agreement has been made in agreement. in return aid will be allowed in two opposition held areas in the in order. >> what is your name? >> nua. >> how long have you have you been without food? >> four days. >> what have you taken from the hospital to survive? >> this packet. >> this packet of salt? >> well, a spokesperson for the worl aid to the middle east spoke. >> we'll have aid trucks carrying food for the 47,000 people who are besieged in the town. in addition there will be other how man tearan supplies on this convoy. hopefully also on sunday we'll be reaching for areas that will clue baby food, water purifiers, american supplies. >> well, syrian state receive said that the government is ready to take part in peace talks in geneva but only if it contain a list of which opposition figures will be involved. they also demanded a list of groups who

to shift control from military to civilian attacks. 16 people have starved to death in the besieged syrian town of madaya since aid convoys arrived there earlier this month. that's according to doctors without borders. 30 others are known to have

. >> reporter: showily, and tragically late, some aid finally arrived in the besieged town of madaya today. trucks loaded with food, medicine and blankets. the people, 15 miles from damascus, have been starving for months. 40 have starved to death since december. by phone, i spoke to a person from a syrian-american family trapped. >> your five children are starving? >> we have nothing to eat. >> how do you feel with that? looking at these >> i can't tell you the feeling that my kids, my little kid, he is just three years old and he's saying, i'm hungry. i need food. i want to eat. like, all day long. >> reporter: hard to imagine, she sent me this picture of her son. but so many children are like that now. i've been surviving on water for seven days this child says. around 40,000 people live in madaya. the supplies delivered today expected to last a month are like rations for a prison. madaya wasn't the only destination for aid convoys today. simultaneous deliveries arrived in two other syrian towns suffering a similar fate, except they are cut off by anti-government rebels. >> food i

we will look at why. 16 people have starved to death in the besieged syrian town of madaya since aid convoys arrived there earlier this month. that is according to doctors without borders. 30 others are known to have starved to death previously. lifting the blockade to towns of madaya is a key demand to syria's demands before entering into the talks in geneva. the human toll continues to groet. syrians are thought to be among 40 people who drowned when a boat sank between turkey and greece. we will have more on that at the moment, but the report following holds some disturbing images. >> reporter: it is continued suffering like this that syrian activists hope will make a meaningful impact in geneva. demonstrators in various parts in syria are imploring diplomats remember the plight of their people, from those having too little fooled to those taking cover from too many bombs. >> we have daily kills. many civilians are killed by bombs. just remember this, okay. >> reporter: from a war zone as the talks of starting and stalling in switzerland, many syrians say they are not hopeful. >>

can't ensure the there deliver of milk to the children of madaya. >> reporter: those in the besieged town of madaya tell al jazeera that despite the delivery of aid people continue to die of starvation. >> translation: the aid is about to run out. it was delivered more than 10 days ago and the u.n. and the red cross know that the aid that we got can't last more than 15 days. even now we still have lots of hunger here. >> reporter: others are as angry with the divided opposition as they are with the syrian government. >> translation: this is a message urging you to unify. it's not just bashar al-assad barrel bombs that are killing us nor russia's missiles. you need to unite. >> reporter: but unity and agreement have been in short supply so far in geneva. where negotiations haven't even started yet. while in syria, the death and devastation continues >>> our diplomatic editor joins us from geneva. what news of the representatives, have they arrived yet? >> reporter: i've moved from the u.n. headquarters which is on the edge of geneva, by lake geneva, to the center of geneva. just outside a

aid organizations have been allowed by the government to deliver supplies to some of the besieged towns. the international committee of the red cross said the trucks for madaya could start to arrive soon. >> we expect that humanitarian operation, the joint operation of the syrian operation and the u.n. should take place in the coming day. >> again in madaya a plea to the world. >> let the world see this and hear about this and know that there are people here who are dying of starvation. >> for those trapped in these besieged towns, the hope is that whatever help they get won't be the last. rob mathison, al jazeera. >> despite syrians. too long the international focus has been on air strikes and not on the innocent people affected by the civil war. al jazeera's karen lyon maloney haal jazeera's caroline maloney. >> marching in solidarity with people marching nearby, including some from the areas where people are trapped. >> translator: we came to lebanon because of the regime air strikes. they destroyed our homes. they burned our fields. there is nothing left in zabadani. they put them i

there was no way of verifying them, because the town was besieged by forces. the scale of the suffering was clear when the u.n. aid workers were able to reach the town. this boy can hardly muster the strength to say i'm tired of this condition, get me out. they are among the hundreds starving. some report people forced to eat leaves and stray animals. after weeks of negotiations, the eight convoy reached tens of thousands blockaded by government forces and reached the villages besieged by rebel fighters. >> it's the first time we were able to reach two areas, controlled by two different sides of the conflict. what we found is a large degree, a large number of the children that we screened had to be labelled as malnutritioned. one boy that we met on site died in the hands of our doctor. there are 14 others, where parties to the conflict have been imposing siege. >> reporter: but the syrian government denies suffering and said aid is looted by terrorist groups. >> there's no shortage of humanitarian assistance in madaya. >> reporter: rebels say they blockaded tow

there was no way of verifying them because the town was besieged by government forces. the scale of the suffering only became clear when u.n. aid workers were finally april to reach the town. this boy can hardly muster the strength to say i'm tired of this condition, get me out. he is among the hundreds starving with some reports of people forced to eat leaves and stray animals. after weeks of negotiations, aid convoys reached people. they reached villages besieged by rebel forces >> the first time we were able to reach two areas controlled by two different sides of the conflict and what we found there is that a large degree, a large number rather of the children that we screened has malnutrition. one boy that we met on a site sadly died in the hands of our doctor. there are 14 other around syria where they are in siege >> reporter: the government denies the issue. rebels say they blockaded towns but they haven't commented on the suffering of civilians caught up in the conflict. the united nations inquiry has found that the bashar al-assad government has been using starv

let's return to those delivery in besieged syrian towns and we go to the logistics office and part ofonvey we talked about that went in the town of madaya on monday and joins us from skype now from damascus and thank force joining us and tell us more about your journey and what you experienced. >> we got in there quite late last night. it was dark. i was very called and it was quite miserable. people in there, their first question to all of us was do we have food so there is obviously quite an issue with food. there are approximately we estimate 42000 people in there and at the same time simultaneously there was food and the same items that went into madaya as you mentioned earlier. >> and what type of food did you take in? >> we took in basically a ration wp ration that we give out to all of the people in syria who are in need of food assistance. it has rice in there, it has enough to keep a family going for one month and we will be going back again in a few days with wheat flour to also give to the families. >> the u.n.'s humanitarian chief has said up to 400 people are in need of u

. >>> the final round of aid has been delivered to besieged towns, aid agency given access to towns near the border with lebanon. people have been suffering malnutrition for weeks now due to a lack of food after the towns were besieged by syrian and isil fighters. much needed fuel and medical supplies were also delivered to the northwest. >>> planned talks in syria's civil war are likely to be delayed, no agreement on who will be invited to take part in the discussions in geneva next week. james bays reports. >> stefan, the u.n. envoy who is supposed to mediate talks between the syrian government and opposition in a week's time, but it's touch and go whether they'll now go ahead, according to the french foreign minister. >> obviously, we hope that the negotiation will take place, that there are some questions which have to be dealt with. >> the u.n. in new york ambassadors arrived to hear a briefing by video conference from his office in geneva, all still expressing a determination the talks must start on time. >> the talks do go ahead this month and what we are going to hear from stench

staying in syria, aid agencies are trying to get food and medicines into besieged towns where tens of thousands of people are starving to death. in is an international outcry. in the former mountain holiday resort of madaya around 42,000 people have been cut off from aid since july. volunteers are handing out the if you supplies they have left. >> translation: are we not arabs as well? i swear to god, we are arabs. these children what wrong have they done. this child, what wrong did he commit? >>> antidepressant agencies have supplies of food and medicine ready to leave damascus and they hope the first trucks will arrive in madaya on monday. the regime has agreed to let aid in as part of a deal which will also see supplies delivered to people in foua and kefraya. they have been blockaded by rebel groups but there are thousands more who need help. around 106,000 people are said to be cut off further and nine thousand are trapped in the other towns. u.n. says i.s.i.l. fighters have cut off 200,000 people in parts of deir as zor. they need help but it's not clear when they will get it. a

in the besieged and starving syrian town of madaya they wait for aid. the trucks could arrive by monday if they are given access. meanwhile the aid group doctors without borders says it has identified 250 people in the town with severe acute malnutrition. people need immediate help and that since december 1 the number of people who have died of starvation is up to 23. al jazeera's rob matheson has more on the agonising wait for help. >> reporter: a starving victim of a syrian siege. this man is one of thousands of people trapped by block aids. he says he has been forced to eat grass. >> translation: i was brought here because i got poisoned. i was eating herbs from the ground. >> reporter: in the grip of winter madaya is one of several towns and villages cut off from food and medical supplies by proceed government forces. -- pro-government forces. there are block aids of towns in the north of government forces and their allies. in here salt is handed out in an attempt to provide any sort of suss ten answer. >> translation: are we not arabs as well? i sw

he made the call as food and medicine finally got there, reaching three besieged towns.er a deal, an aid convoy arrived from damascus on monday. supplies have also been delivered to the pro-government villages. opposition groups are surrounding those villages, but there are many areas not included in this deal including in the east around 176,000 are said to be in urgent need of help. 9,000 people are trapped in a damascus suburb. and the u.n. says isil fighters have cut off 200,000 people. james bayes reports from u.n. headquarters in new york. >> reporter: trucks finally arrive in madaya. a town of more than 40,000 people. where they have been eating their pets, and then survived on a diet of soup made from grass. >> translator: people killed cats to eat them. others and it grass. i saw people sitting on garbage and eating it. we need to break the siege. >> reporter: as approximate -- many as 28 people have starved to death. but the syrian ambassador seemed to dispute this. >> the situation in madaya is based on false information l. >> reporter: we have seen reports of

aid organizations have been allowed by the government to deliver supplies to some of the besieged towns. the international committee of the red cross said the trucks for madaya could arrive soon. >> we expect the joint operation of the ayc and the u.n. should take place in the coming day. >> meanwhile, in madaya, a plea to the world. >> that the world should know this and know that people are dying of starvation. >> for those trapped in the besieged towns, the hope is that whatever hope they get won't be the last. rob mathison, al jazeera. >> and joining us to talk about the food convoy heading to madaya is rob burke, in our studio, jerald, welcome, good to see us. they see pictures like this and say how can this happen? any answers? >> it's a terrible situation, tens of thousands of starving people. very unfortunately, they are caught in the middle of the war and in fact they are not the only ones, 400,000 inside syria in a similar predicament. >> what's gone on to get permission to get this food convoy in? because it's a multi-agency effort right? >> correct. we have been working very

. >> now to a developing story out of syria where residents of one besieged town say they are literally being starved to death. up to 30,000 people have been trapped inside the town under tight guard by forces loyal to president bashar al assad. many families are said to be so desperate they're eating grass and leaves and killing and eating their pets. wow. >> also in paris, memorials are being held today remembering the 17 people killed in the "charlie hebdo" attacks. exactly a year ago. french president francois hollande was there for the ceremonies but this morning, the vatican calling an the cover of the magazine's anniversary issue behalf fa mus. the magazine suggests that god is the real assassin saying the very idea of god is what fueled the hatred leading to the attacks. >>> staying overseas there are no doubts about north korea's bombshell announcements. still, the explosion was condemned by the united nations security council and others even china appearing upset and supported the u.n. resolution. it's not certain if north korea's strongest ally on the council will allow new e

over hundred thousand civilians stuck in besieged towns earlier this week. this is a all up -- follow-up to that. we expect to hear about inditions of civilians several towns in syria. reports from unicef officials that have been able to make it in with aide c onvoys. one official says that at a clinic, unicef officials watched fromyear-old roboy die malnutrition right in front of their eyes. towards --rd reap reports that parents have been so desperate to alleviate the suffering of their children. they have been giving them sleeping pills to make it a little bit easier for them to face that suffering. anchor: arendt this testimony there -- horrendous testimony there. the do people think arendt's outcome of the security council meeting could be? reporter: it really is to put thosere on on side of all responsible for putting these towns under sees -- under siege. this is ahead of political talks between the syrian regime and the opposition leader on the 25th of january. syria on envoy for monday. he is expected to raise the issue as well and perhaps to say to

. >>> as we have seen this week, food aid finally began to arrive in several besieged towns in syria where dozens of people have starved to death. the u.n. sect general ban ki-moon called it a war crime, saying people are being held hostage and worst. and worse, he said, hostages get fed. keir simmons has more. and we warn you again, some of the images you watch. >> reporter: starved and trapped by syria's civil war, these filmed by opposition activists after medical help finally arrived in the city of madaya. today the desperate stood in line beside an ambulance. parents begged aid workers to rescue their children. >> they ran after us. they said, i don't want to go. take my children out. i don't want them to live here any more. they are going to die before my eyes if you don't take them out. >> reporter: six people died yesterday a local volunteer told nbc news. others report 32 deaths by staerve rvation in a month. aide workers who have reached the town report severely malnourished children. while they were there one 16-year-old died before their eyes. one grandmother in her 60s e

people in the besieged town of madaya are saying that they are starving to death. you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. at least 65 people are killed in a truck bomb attack on a military training center in libya. stock markets in turmoil. china suspends trading after share prices plunge. france's president warns that the attack still weighs heavily on the country a year after the "charlie hebdo" attack >>> dying in slow motion. that's how people trapped in the syrian town of madaya described their situation. the mountain town has been besieged since july and its 30,000 residents are starving to death. some have resorted to eating leaves and grass. viewers might find some of the images in this report disturbing. >> reporter: my name is mohammed and i haven't eaten in more than aa week. his body starved of any nutrition has little more than the skin covering its bones. he is one of almost 40 thousand syrians being starved to death in madaya. it has been under siege by government forces for months now. there is no food or medicine here. while

. >> that says the starvation of people in the besieged town amounts to a war crime.sil fighters have launch add series of bomb blasts killing two civilians five of the attackers also died. at least six people including a baby and a child have been killed in south eastern turkey. >> the trial of those involved has ended in the guilty verdicts the full story can be told. paul brennen reports. >> what security guards discovered on april the 7th was both shocking and amazing. the wall of the safe deposit vault concrete more than a meter thick, had been drilled clean through. from the ransacked boxes inside, around $20 million worth of valuables had been snatched. c.c. t.v. clearly showed the burglars going about their crime. they had entered the building not once, but on two nights. leaving no fingerprints it looked like the perfect crime. the crime doesn't pay. and six weeks later the police swooped and the story took a new twist. three of the ring leaders were well passed retirement age, brian rita is 76. of the other four, the youngest was 48. the details of the caref

. >> a red cross convoy left damascus carrying desperately needed aid to the besieged town in westernyria. there were demands that more has to be done to help many others in need. >> what is going on now, dropping or giving aid to people is not good enough. the united nations have done this exactly three months ago and look where we are at now. >> to the north, supply trucks from the red crescent aid organization go through idlib. both convoys had to arrive at the same time, as part of a deal negotiated with the syrian government a few days ago. pro-government forces have blockaded madaya. people have been reduced to eating salt, tree leaves and cats and dogs. >> are we not arabs, as well? i swear to god, we are arabs. these children, what wrong have they done? >> this child, what wrong did he commit? >> the world he food program says the aid carried to ma die i can't will meet the needs of 40,000 people but only for one . activists say it's inviting a the sieges are lifted. >> they want to deliver aid to many areas of syrians, but it can't. madaya and these two towns in idlib are par

lifted as the humanitarian crisis grows and 16 started to dead in madaya since they reached the besieged towner this month and people are city dying trying to reach europe and at least 37 died mostly syrians drowning on saturday when the boat struck rocks and capsized as they attempted to arrive at the greek island of lesbos from turkey and we have more from geneva. >> reporter: a very large group of press here quite chaotic scenes when they arrived here because we all want to know the position, the exact position of the main opposition grouping. and solomon when he came here who was their spokesman said they still believe that the u.n. resolution at the end of december means there are things that should be put in place now before talks take place. he said they were not the -- his group's conditions, they were conditions of the u.n. security council and i then pressed him as to whether these conditions had to be met before they would sit down for talks. >> you say all conditions, if those conditions are not met will you engage in talks? >> we are ready, we are here to make this a success. we

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mounting international criticism, the syrian government allowed supplies to be brought into the besieged townof madaya. people there have been trapped for months by a government blockade and without supplies since october. the town's 40,000 residents received food, medicine and other humanitarian aid that was prepared by the united nations and the international committee of the red cross. the need was critical. >> translator: around one to two people pass away every day because of a lack of food. and there are between 200 and 300 cases of fainting daily. >> officials at the u.n. security council confirmed the severe malnourishment in the town. >> around 400 people have been identified who must be evacuated immediately. we must seek to do this and put the arrangements in place as soon as at all possible for medical treatment. >> syria's ambassador to the u.n. told reporters his government was committed to cooperating fully on aid delivery. but warned some of the supplies have been looted by armed terrorist groups. >>> fans from around the world are mourning the death of rock legend david bowie

ahead are rds over who is responsible for starving civilians in syria as food finally arrived in besieged towns there. sam sun says it has reached a final agreement with employees but not everyone is happy. bringing the classroom to children in nigeria >>> a world news for you with a breaking story out of turkey. there has been an explosion in the turkish city of space pacise tan bull. -- istanbul. no information on the cause of the explosion. what do we think happened here? >> the information is very, very sketchy at this point. we don't know the cause of the explosion. we understand that from eyewitnesses it was quite a powerful explosion. nobody has commented yet on the reason or the cause of it. it took place in front of a building which is behind a mosque. we understand there are some injuries. we don't know if anybody has lost their life yet. ambulances and fire engines have rushed to the scene. i'm 2 kilometers from the scene and i can hear the sirens from here. the blast was heard from other neighborhoods. that's the information we have right now >>> we're looking at the very latest pic

in syria, humanitarian aid has finally arrived in the besieged town of madonna -- madaya. at least 30 people died of starvation and more needed urgent evacuation. meanwhile, the u.n. has warned there are other town suffering in syria on similar levels. reporter: for many, it was the first bite of food in weeks. the supplies arrived to late -- too late for two dozen people who are said to have starved to death. >> i know someone who caught cats, slotted them and gave them to his mother pretending it was rabbit. i know others who collected food from the rubbish and some who ate grass. >> my son has hepatitis and he has to leave. i have a medical report. there is no medication or doctors here. he has had the iv in his hand for three days now. reporter: 400 people need to leave as desperately as possible . the situation has caught the attention of the international community, but other towns are just as hard hit. >> we have managed to get for trucks into the rebel held town's -- towns in another province. in addition to madaya, where we are now, in damascus province. reporter:

. >> the besieged town of mad die yeah.inated apacks in central duke cat that, seven are dead, and five of them are attackers. the world health organization declares the ebolabr