for the last 48 hours, seraj and his fellow volunteers have been recovering the dead and the injuredis colleagues in the bombardment and in the last a0 days his division lost four volunteers. he spoke to us from douma city in eastern ghouta, where he was seeking shelter from the ongoing bombardment. testimony from the front line, there. joining me now is geert cappelaere, unicefs's regional director for the middle east and north africa. thank you for coming in. how does eastern ghouta compared to some of the other names that have become grimly famous in this syrian war such as aleppo? the situation is comparable with what we've seen over the past seven years. very comparable from the point of view of the children. today once again dozens of children have been killed in eastern ghouta, several children have been killed in damascus. children simply continue paying the highest price of a brutal war that is not of their making. a un envoy said it has the risk of becoming a second aleppo and he hopes we have learnt lessons from that. what lessons have we learnt from aleppo that we did not