frederik!) >> stephen: the last time we saw each other was 2003 when we were doing a movie called "strangers with candy" ( laughter ) that's called a "cult hit." ( laughter ) you played the love interest for amy sodaris. i think they have a clip of you in the movie right now. >> hey, who's that? wow, check out the (bleep) on that arm! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: 13 years ago. did you know that movie cost me $3,000 to be in? >> stephen: what do you mean? we paid you, right? >> well, no -- well, yes, you did. but this is a testament to how much we love doing what we do that we would pay to do it. it was something called a local hire only role so they only want to pay someone from new york or new jersey to do to role. they didn't want to pay to put somebody up. >> stephen: you were from los angeles. >> yes, and i flew myself, pretended i lived here, stayed in a hotel and slept on people's couches. it would have broke about even but in the middle i had to fly home for one weekend. >> stephe

let's get to cnn's frederik pleitgen live in damascus. a lot of tension.ew tension this morning, fred. >> reporter: you are absolutely right, john. a lot of tension and part of it has to do with the fact of the hum humanitarian aid has not reached the places necessary. it is not only the syrian government holding it up, there is no safe passage for the vehicles through the rebel held territory to be able to reach the people inside eastern aleppo. you have more breaches of the cease-fire taking place. you had that apparent air strike by the u.s.-led coalition in azore which hit forces. you hit air strikes on the eastern district of aleppo. they are killing people in the air strikes. i was in aleppo, which has been one of the most severe hit towns. we heard a lot of the shells going on. the cease-fire in trouble. people in aleppo are very worried about that, john. >> people not getting the help needed. fred pleitgen, thank you. >>> three minutes to the top of the hour. let's get an early start on your money. a rough commute to wall street with delays in mass

cnn's frederik pleitgen tracking the latest developments live in syria. in new york, the u.n. secretary-general outraged that this u.n. was hit and targeted. >> reporter: yeah, word from the secretary-general ban ki-moon, which we haven't heard before, president obama also saying he believes there's no military solution to this conflict. both sides should get together and negotiate. right now, that's not happening. the russians have come out and cat gorically denied that they are in any way, shape or form involved all of this. they say they were tracking the convoy earlier that day when it stopped tracking it when it actually reached the warehouse it was supposed to go to. and they say they have no idea who hit it. they also suggest there may have been rebel groups in that area to hide around that convoy to move around the battlefield. of course, that's a very contested area out there. you just said it, the u.s. believes that russian jets is responsible for that bombing. certainly, right now what you have here in syria is the u.s. and russia supposed to f

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frederik pleitgen picks up the story on what is called death row. >> reporter: good morning. it was a quiet night, george and christine, in aleppo. the cease-fire is pretty much holding. we saw airplanes over the sky and we heard artillery shells and mortars fired as well. the big question on this friday is aid finally going to reach the eastern parts of the besieged city? that is something the united nations is working on. at this point, the trucks are still stuck between turkey and syria. there is a chance it could happen today, but there are still administrative hurdles. permissions from the syrian government and safety guarantees of free passage by rebel organizations to make it to that area. the u.n. says it is going its best. the route that aid is going to take is called the castello road. it seems there are preparations to allow that aid to get through. very difficult in the very complex battle field to put a timeframe. we have been traveling around the city. i can tell you the destruction in aleppo is epic. we visited families in a frontline district and many living i

we have cnn's frederik pleitgen live with more from moscow. there wasn't a deal and now there seems to be something on the table. what were the differences then and what has been resolved? >> reporter: well, it doesn't seem as though everything has been resolved. it seems there are differences there. it is interesting. you have a different read on things coming out of washington and then coming out of here in moscow. u.s. president obama was saying he thinks there are issues of mutual trust prevents agreement from happening. but then president putin came forward after the 90-minute meeting with president obama and said he thinks both leaders talked about the problems they have with the negotiations still going on. he believes a deal could happen quickly. he then said he believe it is could happen within the next couple of days. both the u.s. and russia acknowledge they say that the negotiations are so important that they want them to be pressed forward as fast as possible and the russians are saying there could be a meeting with secretary of s

we have frederik pleitgen live for us this morning in damascus. hi, fred. >> reporter: hi, christine. the u.s. is saying it is not really paying attention to the syrian government. they say they're agreement for a cease-fire was not the syrian government, but with the russians. they expect the russians to bring the syrians back into the fold to try to stop the violence in syria. from all accounts of word in the aleppo area, it looks as if the cease-fire is dead. you don't have the strikes that hit the aid convoy, but you have fighting in eastern aleppo. the rebel-held area. strikes were raining down like quote rain in that area. at least 30 people were killed and many wounded. the efforts to try to save people from the rubble were also hampered by the fact there is no electricity. all of this happened in the dark. very difficult for the rescue crews to operate. there is the international outrage about the convoy being hit. at this point, unclear who hit that convoy. the united nations only saying it was hit. not saying it was an air strike or grou

cnn's frederik pleitgen is in damascus for us.e cease-fire looks all but gone. >> reporter: that is right, christine. the two things the cease-fire was supposed to achieve. it was supposed to give the people in syria respite from the violence that has been going on for five year. it was supposed to get humanitarian aid for so many in the area that is badly needed. now things have stopped with the convoy hit. it is unclear if it was hit by a plane or whether or not a ground fire. certainly the u.s. seems to believe it was hit by a jet. no coalition planes were in the area at the time. they say it must have been the russians or syrians who hit the convoy. the u.n. said because this happened they are suspending all aid deliveries in the country. at this time, it is not safe enough. 12 people were killed in the bombing, but also aid to 78,000 people was destroyed as well. christine. >> fred, thank you for that in damascus. >>> new developments in in the new york and new jersey bombings. the clues that led the police to the suspect and

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frederik pleitgen is one of the few western journalists in syria right now.s me live from allepo. fred, is the syrian government purposely refusing to allow the aid to get in? >> reporter: well, that could potentially be one of reasons why it's not getting in, but there also seem to be obstructions really coming from all sides of the equation. the u.n. says right now trucks at any point are ready to go, but they're still stuck in customs at the border between syria and turkey and a wagts the permission from the syrian government to be able to move. but there is also a lot more to it. they also have to get security pe missions also from the many rebel factions that hold a lot of the territory leading up to allepo and so far the u.n. says it hasn't gotten the adequate security guarantees around al s guarantees of safe passage. and then of course you need negotiations that basically involve both the regime and as well as rebel forces to make sure that they can make the transition from rebel held territory to the government held part of allepo and ba ththen ba to

joining me now, matt rivers at the g20 summit in hangzhou and frederik pleitgen in moscow. russian and u.s. talks are over. no deal reached on syria. this is very frustrating. what happens next? >> well, it really is a little bit surprising to those of us here at the g20 following these talks. yesterday there was a feeling of optimism that there might be some sort of deal. as late as yesterday afternoon, really, there was some thought here that we could be talking about an agreement that may have been reached between the russians n the u.s. in terms of coming up with a new ceasefire deal and perhaps coming to an agreement on some sort of cooperation between russian and u.s. forces in their ongoing fight against isis. it was late yesterday evening here that's secretary kerry from the u.s. came out and said negotiations would end for that day and pick up today. it wasn't just a few hours ago we heard from a senior u.s. official saying talks between both sides have ended for now with no deal in place. in terms of what happens next, that's the big question. i think it centers o

cnn's international correspondent frederik pleitgen joins us now from beirut with the latest.ood morning, fred. >> reporter: hi, john. i think all this shows how fed up washington is with the way the russians have been conducting the peace negotiations and results on the battle field. we have to keep in mind a week ago a cease-fire was supposed to be in place in all of syria. especially in and around the aleppo area and the humanitarian aid was to get in there as well. in the end, the cease-fire collapsed and that is when the russians and syrian government, especially the russians stepped up the bombing campaign on the rebel-held district. there is not talk of any hum humanitarian aid getting in there. secretary kerry and the white house fed up. they don't have very much faith left in the way the russians are conducting negotiations. the russians say they are willing to negotiate in the peace talks, but the u.s. said russia has not done enough to differentiate groups on the ground. really right now very little chance for diplomacy and less chance for russia and u.s. cooperatio

cnn's frederik pleitgen is live for us on the ground in damascus.d diplomatic scuffle is not helping things. >> reporter: you are absolutely right, christine. it is tragic for the people on the ground. especially in the contested areas. i was in aleppo yesterday. some of the very destroyed neighborhoods and there were people moving out of tents and moving into the bombed out ruins of houses and trying to clean those up. they said we really hope against all the odds this time the cease-fire might hold because at this point in time, they really don't have very much of anything else. however, the big problem is it is not looking that way. we have seen over the weekend especially in the aleppo area there was increasing number of breaches, christine, of the cease-fire. shelling we heard in the nighttime hours and air strikes we heard as well. later, a group saying there were three air strikes on rebel held areas in the aleppo area. the problem is aid is not getting through the areas. the u.n. says the trucks are still stuck on the border with turkey and

cnn's frederik pleitgen is in aleppo and has this report. >> reporter: good morning, george and christineuiet night in aleppo. we did hear airplanes circling and we heard artillery shells fired and what appeared to be mortars fired as well. the big question on friday is aid finally going to reach the besieged eastern parts of the city. it is something of course the united nations has been working on. at this point, the trucks are still stuck on the border with turkey and syria. what we hear on the ground is there is a chance it could happen today, but of course, there are administrative hurdles. permissions from the syrian government on one hand and on the other hand, safety guarantees of free passage by rebel organize saations to make to that area. the u.n. says it is doing its best. the route that aid is going to take is the costello road. i was able to go there yet and it seems there are preparations under way to try to allow that aid to get through. again, very difficult in the very complex battle field to put a time frame on when that will be. we have been traveling around the city.

cnn international correspondent frederik pleitgen tracking the developments live from damascus, syriaguarantees of security not quite there, right, fred? >> reporter: no, not quite there yet. and christine, at this point in time, unclear exactly when the securities are going to be there. and that's not the only hurdle that united nations and other aid groups face as they try to liver aid to those besieged areas specially, of course, aleppo which has 200,000 under seei siege in that part of the country. certainly, humanitarian aid very, very important for that area. on the one hand, they need permission from the syrian government to actually move their aid trucks into aleppo. they say they have about 40 trucks packed ready with aid to go to the turkish border. it has not been forthcoming yet. the syrian government said they're not going to allow any aid trucks to enter especially those coming from the turkish border which is the closest area to aleppo getting in there. negotiations are still going on, very difficult and unclear when those provisions are going to get there. certainly wa

senior correspondent frederik pleitgen is following the latest from moscow.ter: it still hinges on a lot of differences the two sides have over exactly how that deal is supposed to look. we have to keep in mind this is more than a cease-fire agreement with russia and u.s. it would lead to cooperation on the battle field as well and coordinating the air campaigns. that is where the u.s. has the major issue. they still say the russian air strikes in syria are producing way too many civilian casualties. they want the russians to curb that quickly. the two sides have issues is which groups do you strike and which do you not? they are working together with al qaeda and some working with isis. some are vetted by the u.s. and are only opposed to bashar al assad and those should be left alone. there are a lot of technical details as both sides say. they seem to be quite major technical details that are in the way. you also have the issue of humanitarian access especially in aleppo, which john, is under siege again by bashar al assad forces. how do you get goods in th

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cnn's international correspondent frederik pleitgen joins me live. what happened to the ceasefire?ll, the ceasefire is pretty much in tatters at this point in time, jake. the u.s. says in the form of secretary of state kerry that he doesn't believe that the ceasefire is totally over, that it's totally lost. however, when you look on the ground it looks a lot different than that we've seen over the past 24 hours a marked increase in air strikes, especially around the eastern districts of aleppo, which is, of course, the rebel-held part of that townment th . then the attack on the convoy which was a huge blow to the ceasefire. not only does it show the fighting is really back in full force, it also stops one of the premises that the ceasefire had in the first place which is to try to get aid to the people as well. some 78,000 people were supposed to get aid from that convoy. 18 of the 31 trucks were destroyed. the local head of syrian red dress crescent was killed in that. >> the u.s. and russia negotiated the ceasefire. how are they responding to one another? >> reporter: you know,

cnn's senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen made his way there.ng on the ground? it seems like there is activity on the streets. >> reporter: it really is almost a tale of two cities here in aleppo. we drove in earlier today. on the outskirts, the destruction is absolutely unbelievable. there was an area that we went through called ramusa, where some of the heaviest fighting took place before the ceasefire went into effect. there you can almost not find a building that either wasn't heavily damaged or completely flattened. the same goes for a lot of the other districts close to the front lines. then you have other places in aleppo where life is almost normal. of course, there are shortages, people don't have a lot of things. at the same time, they do try to lead a normal life as much as they can. there almost is a real divide here in the city where you have people suffering very badly. some of the neighborhoods we went to today there were people who were picking up branches to try to make fire so they could cook something. in other places people r