marsha allison has made his 1st public appearance since the earthquake visiting the devastated area of a leper assad along with his wife visited wounded patients in a hospital. according to state media, some international aid we understand is finally begun to reach the country. but some organizations are uneasy about working with a saw due to his role in the countries civil war. for more now, we want to go to ben t sheller of the berlin based heinrich girl foundation. she is a foreign policy expert. she's written extensively about syria. it's good to have you with us tonight. there's a lot to go through here of this disaster, the geo politics of syria with these warring factions, controlling different areas in the region. how are the internal divisions within serial? how are they complicating rescue efforts? when obviously is really complicated because the parties are politicizing age, mainly the regime, for example, is not allowing age is for all borders of syria. it has now just a day said that or a can be delivered to cross line. and that means it has to go through damascus 1st and