and the representative of the icrc corroborated this two days ago on the syrian tv saying there is no starvation problem in madaya this is where i want to arrive. hold on hold on hold on. this is october 18th. december 27th, we asked the resident coordinate to send immediately convoice of humanitarian assistance, again, to madaya and kefraya and al foua. the dunn not send. when we asked them why you didn't they say we are facing logistical problems. today, 65 trucks. why it took so long as you said? actually it will there were no starvation in madaya. the problem was that huge humanitarian assistance and medical assistance was distributed ininside madaya as i said, october, december, and now. the main problem is that the armed terrorist groups steal the convoys and the trucks, and they deviate them to their own warehouses and storage. and then they resell it to the civilians with ur with, you kno, prohibittant prices and the civilians cannot afford it. the problem is this, the terrorists are stealing from syrian red crescent as well as from the united nations and they are keeping thes

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. >> 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. people have been losing consciousness one at a time then each day, it bottoms more and more. five or six have died in the last week. >> you say you haven't had supplies for six months. what are people eating then? >> there is one united nations food truck which got access in the last three months approximately. this food is enough for one family for up to 10 days but if the family is big, then it's not enough. we are desperate to eat anything, even leaves off the trees and insects. >> when's the l

"france 24" spoke to the icrc. aid to syria is a very lengthy operation. ablee really hoping to be asdeliver the following days this aid is very much needed. -- a deal in september was supposed to allow aid in. but only one delivery was made, and that was in october. 23 patients, including six babies it was supporting in my daya, have died in the last five weeks. molly: syria's civil war has waged for nearly five years. it has proven a breeding ground for the islamic state p recruits are coming from many places around the world, and in france some 600 people are thought to have traveled to syria to join i.s. over one third of those are women. joining us now to discuss this trend is an expert who specializes in this movement. we have seen an increase in the number of women leaving france to join i.s. or other jihadist movements in syria. what do you make of this trend we are seeing? >> this number confirms a trend which is true for women and for men. we saw that in 2015 women and men from france and from other western countries joined the islamic state, and

right now, those -- as we were off loading the latest medical supplies by the icrc, we already seen thatin supplies had been packed on the small vans and being carried out to the houses of the people. in order to get proper grasp of how those supplies were distributed to the people, we will have to come back, and monitor how it's being done, and hope we will be able to enter not only madaya, but other towns in the following days also to bring more supplies. >> okay. really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. thanks very much indeed. >> thank you very much. >>> iraqi rescue workers have been searching through think rubble of a bombed out shopping center in baghdad. suicide bomber and gunmen stormed the mall on monday. isil says it carried out the attack in the mainly shiite district of the capitol. >>> three palestinians have been shot dead in the occupied west bank. a 21 year old was killed here bethlehem. two other teenagers were shot dead in separate incidents near hebron. both were accused of attempted stabbings. 154 palestinians and 21 israelis have died since violence esca

>> i'm the spokesperson for the icrc in syria and i do not have the first-hand information about people stranded there at the moment >>> what is the effect that winter is having on syrians inside syria as well as refugees in bordering countries? >> yes. you're absolutely right, the winter made hundreds of thousands of people in syria already more vulnerable. we are in the middle of a very cold period, especially here in the country. many people found it very, very difficult to keep their houses, resorting to desperate solutions, to heat their houses by burning items. very little food is also available. people are worried-- people are left without electricity for days, months. there are little running water. the winter will see the syrian people suffer the most >>> thank you for speaking to us from damascus in syria. at least 40 people have been killed following an attack on a military training center in libya. a truck bomb hit the site in the town of zliten. civilians were among the injured. they were taken to a nearby city. elsewhere in libya, huge fires raging at one of the country's

and even then the icrc says they saw hunger in the eyes of its residents.3 patients in a patient they support have died of starvation including six babies but in the twisted reality of syria's war, it does have to get this grim for help to arrive. the u.n. says the syrian government has agreed to allow aid convoys into madaya and two other towns also under siege. >> this is an area that's completely besieged and surrounded by mountains covered in snow so the food is through tunnels and extremely expensive and we expect also that irreversible damage to some of these children who witnessed some of the worst weapons of war which is starving them. >> reporter: syria's cruel and harsh war, now into its fifth year, has seen scene e es like before and worse. these stills are being circulated by activists said to show children eating leaves and it's hardly the only portion of the population severely suffering from the war. hardly the only atrocity. arwa damon, istanbul. top of the hour, 7:00 p.m. eastern, 4:00 p.m. pacific. i'm poppy harlow this sunday evening. tha

and even back then the icrc said they could easily see hunger in the eyes of the people.rward to today. that hunger has resulted in death. according to doctors without borders, jake, since december 1st in one of the field clinics that they support 23 patients have died. and among them six of those patients were babies. they were under a year old. residents and activists have been warning that this would happen, but the sad reality is that when it comes to syria, yes, the situation has to get this dire for help to arrive. the u.n. finally announcing that aid would be arriving. the world food program hopes to have those trucks into these areas soon, but jake, this is not the only area in syria undergoing situations like this. and this most certainly is not the only atrocity transpiring in that war torn country. >> arwa damon, thank you so much. >>> coming up, how do police officers prepare for active shooting situations? we get an inside look at the training they go through coming up. hey pal? you ready? can you pick me up at 6:30? ah... (boy) i'm here! i'm here! (cop) too

the opportunity we had thanks to the efforts of all partners, including members of our movement, the icrcan access people in need. but that's only one access that we have. we need many more, and we need to be on -- to have permanent access to people so they do not get trapped in situations they do not have control over. there is no surprise that once we get there, we find this dramatic situation being described. people are hungry. people are sick. children that are experiencing something that a child should never experience. now it's a wound in our humanity that is a wound on our humanitarian soul that we need to heal. the way is heal it is if we cannot very quickly solve the problems, the humanitarian space be guaranteed and be protected on a permanent basis so people will get the support they need. >> and many of the aid workers who finally made it into madaya talked about coming to tears at the sights of they saw. some people without enough energy to even eat. what can you tell us about the approximately 200,000 people, most of them, women and children, trapped west, near the iraqi bor

even then the icrc said they saw hunger in the eyes of residents. patients have died of starvation including six babies. in the twisted reality of syria's war, it does have to get this grim for help to arrive. the u.n. says that the syrian government has agreed to allow aid convoys into the area and two other towns also under siege. >> this is an area that is completely besieged and surrounded by mountains covered in snow. the little food that gets to them is through tunnels and is extreme leexpensive. we expect -- extremely expensive. and we expect irreversible damage to some of the children who have witnessed some of the worst weapons of war which is starving them. >> reporter: syria's cruel and harsh war now into its fifth year has seen scenes like this before and worse. these stills are being circulated by activists set to show children eating leaves. and it's hardly the only portion of the population severely suffering from the war. hardly the only atrocity. arwa damon, cnn, istanbul. >>> still to come, north korea gives cnn an exclusive tour o

i spoke to a member who's on the aid convoy from the icrc, the red cross, talked about people greeting the convoy with cheers, smiles. one young girl comes up to him and asking if, in fact, they brought food because she was hungry. some of the most severe cases of malnutrition, those people aren't coming out on to the streets he said. they're too weak to even walk. but it is not just the town of madaya surrounded by forces which are loyal to the regime of bashar al ashad. two other towns to the north facing a similar fate and food also delivered today. 21 trucks to those towns and there it's the opposite scenario. people inside the town considered to be pro-regime who are being besieged, cut off, trapped, imprisoned by the rebels so it is a very brutal tactic. where the opposing sides effectively taking entire villages that oppose them hostage and starving them. >> and the pictures have been just absolutely horrific. richard engel, thank you for the update. appreciate it. for more on all of, this i'm joined by a syrian american activist, he was born and raised in madaya. his mother, gr