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Aleppo. or other hot spots, places where there are serious refugee crises around the world and instead they focused on something like what they did on friday which certainly made the palestinians happy, they felt they had a plight that was not listened to until then but that kind of speaks to what donald trump was getting thereat and he does have a fair amount of support for that notion in congress. >> theres no question the u.n. has grand failings. theres a lot of successes that go underreporte...

This is my army? >> the americans still have the british surrounded in boston, but with dwindling supplies and rampant illness, washingtons force grows weaker every day. if the british find out this secret, they could easily wipe out the americans. >> here, you have washingtons army willing to die, willing to fight under incredible odds, and they dont have blankets. they dont have guns. they dont have boots. >> not for the last time in american history was a commander given a command without the...

There was nothing that could be done to stay in that boat. >> i was in the current and things happened so fast, that i dont remember exactly the sequence of things. but i grabbed on to that tree. >> grateful to be alive, mike clambers into the tree and considers his options. >> the current was so strong that i couldnt even move a couple of yards upstream. it was very dangerous and i just stayed where i was. >> further down the river, ed has found something to hang on to. >> i grabbed on to that ...

Twitter to capture the plight of war-torn syria is now safely in turkey. she met with the turkish president at the presidential palace as cameras rolled. the two shared a hug and the young girl even said i love you. thats her little brother, by the way. a man suspected of stealing a pot of gold has now been identified by the nypd as julio novello. hes 53 years old and believed to be in the los angeles area. he is shown stealing the gold worth $1.6 million on a surveillance video. that was made...

Aleppoen victims to twitter. she was seen meeting with the turkish president. >> reporter: jake, if you think about this like a marathon, sometimes the most important part of the marathon is the last dash towards the finish line. that is where we are right now in this evacuation process. moments before the end. all of the indications on the ground are that the evacuations are continuing and should finish at some point overnight. in fact, they were supposed to finish earlier today, but there was ...

Witnesses say that they were held in conditions in buses for 24 hours without food and water and werent allowed to pray. many of them had their possessions taken from them and many were trying to be -- the syrian regime tried to persuade many of them to go to the regime areas and many of them refused. they also had reports that some of the people that did decide to go to the regime areas, a small minority, they say, were actually executed. so some of the reports are very harrowing. >> i know we ...

>> nbcs bill neely in aleppo. thanks. 7-year-old bana whose plight in aleppo became known worldwide through social media. she was safely evacuated with her mother from the city. msnbcs cal perry has been following their story. >> theyre out. they made it to the western country side. we have a great photo. we have a photo of her sleeping finally sort of peacefully in a place thats not being bombed. theyre sad theyre leaving. that was the headline of the interview. take a look at what her mom said...

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Aleppo. dan rivers has more from that city. >> reporter: well, after four long years, the battle for aleppo is finally over. the rebels are boarding the 25 buses behind me to be taken out of the city into the countryside. this has been a torturous negotiation which has broken down at time and seen resumed shelling into that rebel enclain. weve heard injuries to civilians and fighters that remain inside. finally those differences have been smoothed out between the different vested interests in th...

The watchful eye of russian military drones. president bashar al assad released a video message celebrating what he calls the liberation of aleppo. itns dan rivers filed this report. >> reporter: across this city and across the world is finally the fighting and suffering that has punctuated this war and has drawn in people from around the world to watch the plight of the people trapped inside. its all finally over. the wider war in syria, though, is very far from that. >> msnbcs has been watchin...