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this was eastern ghouty filmed by a local resident. hustnity, love, felt in the desperate places. and this was 24 hours earlier, another assertion of humanity, white helmet civil dense risking their lives to rcue children after an airstrike. war is the reality in syria. since it started, every lecease-fire has faid, and nothing suggests the latest attempt will be any different. jeremy bowen, bbc news. laura: for more on the violence and the role russia is playing in syria, i spoke earlier with the former director of russian affairs in the natiocurity council under president clinton, who is now a professor at american university. the truce declaredesy russia onlyrday quickly collapsed. both sides are blaming each other. does it seemo you like moscow can get damascus tobserve this humanitarian pause, as they are calling it? >> there is a question now that the russians have propped up assad and ensured that he has essentially won whether th can really control him as they eythought ight. they certainly have a tremendous amount of leverage, and the problem has been that thess ns don't