we begged for a piece of bread. >> reporter: madia is on theout skirts of damascus. people are receiving aids without food or necessities because government forces and allies blocked off that area too. the aid deal is making many trucks to the more than 40,000 people as well as to the ville littles of in idlib under siege by rebel forces. >> the real solution to this predicament, to the plight of the people besieged in these towns, the real solution is for the siege to be lifted. >> reporter: this brother and sister have been smuggled out of madia and into lebanon, but their father was taken from the car by syrian authorities. >> translator: it's under siege. we would go for three days without food, and then we would go and get it and eat it. >> translator: we would go around madia, but it wasn't really a school. we wouldn't read. all the kids would go stavring, their head spinning and flowing up and no one able to write or read or comprehending anything. >> there are 200,000 people under siege by i sisil. those who escape know how bad it can get with when they don't

♪ >>> an agreement is reached in syria do deliver aid to the starving people of madia on monday.ello. i am mary ann nemazi. german police break up a far right protest over new year's eve attacks in cologne. opposition protesters broke over a deal with serbia. back behind bars, mexico's top drug lord is returned to the prison he escaped from six months ago. >>> aid agencies are in a race against time to get vital food and medicine to besieged towns in syria where tens of thousands of people are starving. as winter sets in, families have been burning furniture for warmth and resorting to eating leaves and cats and dogs. the situation is bad in madiat sources say an agreement has been reached with the government for aid to be delivered there on monday. in return, aid will be allowed in to two opposition held villages in the north. the crisis has caused an outcry after pictures of hungry children emerged. >> what's your name? >> noah. >> noah, how long have you been without food? >> four days. >> what have you taken from the hospital to survive? >> this packet. >> this packet of salt

commission documenting war crimes in syria is reportedly gathering evidence from residents of madia. the chairman has told reuters news agency, the residents have given details of how they have been graved of food in violation of international law. the world health organization has urged the syrian government to allow mobile clinics and medical teams to assess the extent of malnutrition in madia. trucks carrying aid reached the besieged town. >> it was very, very heartbreaking to see that definitely food, medicines, other humanitarian aid was very much needed we have seen people who were waiting for us at the checkpoints who still couldn't really believe when the first truck were entering that this aid is actually reaching them. people were really anxious, were coming to us, asking: did you bring more food because we are really hungry. >> the u.n. says the number of people who migrated to foreign countries surged by 41% and the last 15 years to reach 244 million in 2015. >> reporter: people at this refugee center in serbia come from afghanistan. they say they left their homes because

so what is happening for example today in madia, even if it is really striking, and the images we see really striking, i would say it's not only besieged areas that are at steak. it can be everywhere. so to say it's in the governmental areas or the areas where go doesn't have access, we are basically talking about -- like a huge frustration from all of the different humanitarian access such as [ inaudible ] where we basically have almost no way to get access to people. >> melissa fleming telling us that they have managed to get to only 10% of the people. the people number at least 400,000 people. they might be further down the road than the people we have seen in our reports today, who are living on leaves and grass. in this century at this time, in what was a civilized country, how are we seeing these medieval images of people apparently being starved to death. that's a war crime. >> like, what is -- what is striking, as you say, specifically because of like what we are seeing, and once again i liken it to the fact that -- you know, like unfortunately for the west and for journalists

can't en ensure the delivery of cartons of milk to children of madia.hey say despite the delivery of aid people continue to die of starvation. >> the aid is about to run out. it was delivered more than 10 days, the u.n. and the redcross know the aid we have can't last more than 15 days. we have lots of hunger here. >> others are as angry with the divided opposition as they are with the syrian government. >> this is a message urging to unify. it's not just assad's barely bombs killing us. rel bombs killing us. you need to unite. >> 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. mohammed jamjoom, al jazeera. sglshing /* /-. >>> tensions between turkey and russia have escalated after turkey said their airspace was violated. erdowuan's words, the russian state news agency says the country denies any such thing actually happened. nato secretary general warned russia to fully respect nato airspace and called for calm from both sides. there was alre

at least three dozen people have died of starvation in madia so far and that number is expected to climb. >> more sites including the syrian government that has the primary responsibility to protect syrians are committing these atrocious acts. >> it is a deteriorating situation on the ground, the obama administration is standing behind its strategy to end the conflict. >> when you take a look at the battlefield inside of iraq and syria, there is important progress being made by the united states and the coalition. >> the russian military now respond to go to crisis as well saying friday that a new objective of russian forces in syria is providing humanitarian aid. >>> let's turn to keba and frank. walmart making headlines on friday. >> yes, major headlines. a big announcement from one of the largest companies in the world, walmart. >> the retail giant will close 169 stores worldwide, 154 right here in the u.s. >>> good evening. one of the stores that walmart is closing, of those stores rather in california one in oakland and the closing there is going to cause pain for a community that i

they have 350 tons of aid going in to madia and 175 tons going into those towns in idlib as well.he red cross convoy left damascus carrying desperately needed aid in western syria. but there are demands that more needs to be done to help many others in need. >> what is going on now, giving aid to people is not good enough. the united nations have done this exactly three months ago and look at where we are at now. >> to the north supply trucks aid organization trundle through idlib both convoys have arrived at the same time as part of a deal negotiate with the syrian government a few days ago. pro government forces have blockaded the area for months. they are cut off by armed rebel groups. people say they have been reduced to eating sandfuls of salt, tree leaves, rough, 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 food program said that the aid carried will meet the needs of 40,000 people but only for one month. the u.n. said there are 400,000 people trapped by

ban ki-moon blasts all sides of the syrian conflict as a second convoy reaches the besieged town of madiathis 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

al jazeera america ♪ >>> an agreement is reached in syria do deliver aid to the starving people of madian monday. hello. i am mary ann nemazi. german police break up a far right protest over new year's eve attacks in cologne. opposition protesters broke over a deal with serbia. back behind bars, mexico's top drug lord is returned to the prison he escaped from

i was recently in madia and the children had not been vaccinated for ten months and the vaccines are the syringes and needles were there but didn't have advocate health personnel to carry this out and also when the soldiers and people were for getting their food supplies so they couldn't even have the strength to come to the health centers. they need actually mobile teams to reach their homes because if they don't have the strength to seek care we need to reach them and i live in a town on the vast coast of norway and we have 40,000 inhabitants, the same number as madaya and in madaya they had two certified doctors a gynecologist and he was trying to do his beth best and treating malnutrition and do this work and i'm appealing to you and also all the political partners to try to help the people of syria to get their basic rights and try to protect the most vulnerable, the children and let them get the right for their vaccination. thank you. >> elizabeth thank you very much. so there you have it, people are dying before the eyes of our humanitarian workers. john director of operations