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Mother explained why they are still in aleppo. >> reporter: jake, since banas home was bombed, the family has been on the run. there have been fewer tweets and many questions about the familys spate, and also some people have raised doubts about the authenticity of their twitter account. on sunday banas mother spoke to cnn exclusively from an undisclosed location in eastern aleppo. heres some of what she told us. >> i feel that we are really targeted from the regime people, so i cant tell anyone...

Intense bombing and shelling continue. a mass exodus is growing. tens of thousands of terrified civilians are streaming out of eastern aleppo on foot, many too exhausted, too mall nourished. let me bring in frederick polite kin. he was in aleppo and is monitoring the situation. you saw hundreds if not thousands of syrians fleeing aleppo. tell us about the conditions for them. >> reporter: jake, you know, over the weekend, in fact just a couple of hours ago, we were on the southern front in alepp...

Vladimir putin must disregard the fact that vladimir putin is a murderer, a thug, a kgb agent whose airplanes as we speak have been targeting with precision hospitals in aleppo who have committed atrocities throughout the region and has destabilized ukraine, invaded ukraine, trying to destabilize baltic countries, and the list goes on and on. this guy is a thug and a murderer and i dont see how anybody could be a friend of this old time kgb agent. >> let me turn to china if i could, senator. cnn...

Is someone who has said that the u.s. policy shouldnt be in russias interest. we should have an adversarial relationship with russia. he again is someone whose views in the foreign policy arena are very different than what donald trump has espoused. >> in that interview he comes up for investigation as well. >> rex tillerson believes in climate change. they said the science behind climate change was something thats going to come up in the conversation. >> this is going to be a lot of fun. well b...

Seen the syrian government sources say there are still pockets where the rebels hold control but it really isnt very much anymore. so it looks like it could be on the brink of the rebels losing their final foothold there in the face of devastating fire power. covering the syrian civil war for a very long time now, the amount of the fire power we saw the past couple of days in aleppo is something i havent seen in that civil war before, the amount of mortars and air strikes is something that seems...

He will join me in just a few minutes. every minute feels like death. tweets from a little girl who knows nothing but war. theyre still trapped inside aleppo and tell cnn they fear the syrian regime will kill them. good afternoon, welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. today the senate majority leader voiced support for a full congressional investigation into russian meddling into u.s. elections as we learn new details about russia would have been acting this way though there is some disagreem...

Soccer game. most of the victims police officer. a splinter group of the kurdistan workers party have claimed responsibility. in sky row, egypt, the first funeral services now being held after a suicide bomber killed dozens inside a coptic christian church. it happened during a worship service sunday morning ripping through a section of the church for women. at least 25 parishioners died. nearly 50 others were injured. egypts president says three men and a woman have been arrested. the syria...

Counterpart sergey lavrov will reach an agreement for a ceasefire in aleppo. this as syrian forces have temporarily suspended all military actions in the war-ravaged city today to help 5,000 civilians flee. cnn flews on the ground say they can still hear shelling and explosions in addition to rifles. fred pleitgen takes us inside aleppo, syria. >> reporter: in the last 24 hours the syrian air force has escalated its air strikes on the rebel held areas in the east of aleppo. at the same time the ...

Their grip on aleppo, syrian armed forces continue to pound the besieged areas, many killed and wounded in the crossfire. we came to this crossing as a man was being evacuated, claiming he was shot by rebels as he tried to flee. they shot me as i was running out, he says. they dont allow anyone to get out. they said, are you going to the regime areas? the opposition strongly denies its fighters would harm civilians but the rebels do acknowledge they wont be able to hold out in aleppo much longer...

Course, especially more children suffering in the middle as unicef said, chris, that about 100,000 children might still be trapped in besieged areas of aleppo. chris? >> oh, gosh, its just so heartbreaking. fred, thank you very much for sharing all of that. well, the situation in syria is one of many international crises facing president-elect trump. and trump is sending shockwaves through the international community with some of his calls with foreign leaders bucking decades of u.s. diplomacy...