yasser munif, can you respond?the syrian regime early understood the importance of the ,edia and creating discourse the military aspect of the conflict. it was able to create a parallel reality, unfortunately, and create media paralysis and propaganda that is relayed by a number of different networks, including russian tv, but also a number of different websites and news outlets here in the u.s., for example, counterpunch and others, who are basically repeating such silly things. anyone can verify the there is a siege around aleppo. it is not difficult to do. if journalist want to really to to people on the ground -- talk to people on the ground and get their views, it would be very easy. the syrian regime basically understands and is using the media and that type of discourse as a weapon against the revolution. basically, trying to confuse the different audiences and telling them that there are different truths, biases, basically creatingng confusion and challenging what is happening on the ground. nermeen: today