in syria come a new aid convoy is now going into the besieged town of mattia. 50 trucks traveled up from damascus build with flour, medical aid another much-needed products. -- and other much-needed products. a regional correspondent has more. >> this is part of the original plan for aid. the second phase of that operation. one similar to the first bringing in much-needed food aid, blankets and other goods, as well as hygiene products. the convoy is on the edges of the town. several vehicles go in ahead to plan how they will disperse that aid. where it will be stored and so on and so forth. you have one convoy going through, another going much further to the north. -- and toto answer those towns at the same time. -- they have to enter those towns at the same time. convoytents of the aid were requested specifically. people have been eating bread for months on end. the first question people ask them, do they have a piece of bread. that after the first four vehicles entered the town, you could see the smiles on the faces of people because they feared this was all that was going to come. the

convoys bring food to 40,000 residents of mattia -- of my diet -- monday i, some of whom have been reduced to eating grass. to beg for refugees deported in the town of leipsic. leipzig. but we begin with the developing anry out of istanbul, where explosion killed at least 10 people and injured 15 others in sultanahmet. -- of --eptive a occurred again president aired again has said that a suicide bomber of syrian origin was responsible. aresecurity officials saying that a high probability islamic state group was behind the blast. the attack at the heart of one of the most visited cities in the world, plays a role in the coalition against islamic state in syria and iraq. it is believed at least six germans, one norwegian, amongperuvian tourist are the wounded. let's listen to what the president had to say. >> a deadly blast at the heart of istanbul. the sultanahmet district, a major tourist attraction, was rocked by the explosion tuesday morning. police quickly arrived at the site in sultanahmet square. >> it was chaos. everybody was running. the police were not expecting it. they were clear

hundreds of people wait on the outskirts of mattia -- madaya. town 50 kilometers from damascus has been under siege from government forces for six months. >> we've tried again and again to get permission from the different parties on the ground. we've put in at least 10 official requests since december. the food is being used as a weapon of war. this is a siege, and people are deliberately blocking. >> we've managed to do a fairly complicated agreement. an accord made last thursday under u.n. supervision allows for aid to come here. that's in exchange for the simultaneous passage to two villages in idlib province. dozens of trucks left damascus on monday for the three locations. pack up inside, enough food to feed the population for a month, medicine, blankets, and special nutrition products. the eakthrough comes after images of starvation shared across social media sparked international condemnation. doctors without borders say 28 people, including six babies, have died of starvation since the start of december. witnesses say people have surviv

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