physicians for human rights has also documented the blocking of humanitarian aid, including deliberate of medical supplies from humanitarian convoys. just today, the un came out asking the russians, the iranis, the turkish authorities, to push the syrian government to allow for humanitarian aid. apparently, the syrian government has not authorised aid for the past two months. the syrian government has denied that it deliberately attacks hospitals or other civilian targets. but physicians for human rights say they have documented 11 attacks on this one hospital alone in eastern aleppo last year. could a mistake be made that many times? at this point i think it is on them to prove it is not deliberate. as we have documented attacks on health care facilities that are in remote areas, where they really could not have wanted to hit anything else. as we have documented double attacks where the same facilities are being hit as first responders are there, as ambulances are leaving with patients. as we are documenting attacks on hospitals that have been built into caves in order to protect them

population of four hundred thousand momen is the director of research investigations the physicians for human rights and she joins us now from new york when you see the pictures coming out of the east and it seems extraordinary doesn't that the u.n. security council should be delaying any action to stop this devastation it's extraordinary but it is not out of what has happened over the course of this conflict russia has used its veto eleven times already to block any action on stopping the carnage in syria and what we're seeing you stand with that right now is certainly extreme but it is unfortunately not out of the ordinary more of the same that we've seen throughout this conflict physicians for human rights is one of the groups responsible for these big red billboards that have been put up outside of the u.n. headquarters in new york calling for action what's been the response to that campaign. so far what we're seeing is and this was positive some of some more action in terms of what we just heard the swedish ambassador say some more frustration open frustration by the ambassadors of the security

their rights are thrown out the window they're no longer human beings in mass mentality and that thinking is pretty ridiculous isn't it. homer venters actually. director of programs at the physicians for human rights wrote an essay. and to the press that we strongly condemn president decision to pay attention center open the facility is a symbol of u.s. torture and injustice known around the world and that's true we've seen it time after time it has bad optics you're never going to fix the optics that get no it's not how we do things it's not how we should do and again this is sort of rhetoric that gets thrown around that's not really helpful no and it's estimated right now that keeping a prisoner in. keeping all the place open and all that mess is four hundred forty million. and i'm sorry i don't want four hundred forty million of my tax dollars wasted keeping one time obey open so we can torture and throw people in there and let's remember that a lot of the people thrown in there were people just going to handed over by local warlords they weren't even real high on the food chain of terrorism majority in there but ultimately at the end of the day most people were essential. people i

director of programs at the physicians for human rights read in a statement to the press that we strongly condemn president decision to kuantan i'm a paid attention center open the facility is a symbol of u.s. torture and injustice known around the world and that's true we've seen it time after time it has bad optics you're never going to fix the optics that get no it's not how we do things it's not how we should do and again this is sort of rhetoric that gets thrown around not really helpful no and it's estimated right now that keeping a prisoner in costs keeping all that place open and all that mess is four hundred forty million. and i'm sorry i don't want four hundred forty million of my tax dollars wasted on keeping one time obey open so we can torture and throw people in there and let's remember that a lot of the people thrown in there were people just kind of handed over by local warlords they weren't even real high on the food chain of terrorism majority. you were there but ultimately at the end of the day most people were essentially like just people in their own country we picked

director of programs at the physicians for human rights read in a statement to the press that we strongly condemn president decision to kuantan i'm a paid attention center opened a facility is a symbol of u.s. torture and injustice known around the world and that's true we've seen it time after time it has about optics you're never going to fix the optics that get no it's not how we do things it's not how we should do and again this is sort of rhetoric that gets thrown around not really helpful no and it's estimated right now that keeping a prisoner in costs keeping all that place open all that mess is four hundred forty million. and i'm sorry i don't want four hundred forty million of my tax dollars wasted keeping one time obey open so we can torture and throw people in there and let's remember that a lot of the people thrown in there were people just kind of handed over by local warlords they weren't even real high on the food chain of terrorism majority. you were there but ultimately at the end of the day most people were essentially like just people in their own country we picked up m