victims being evacuated from aleppo and talking about setting up a camp to thous 80,000 people. that's massive. turkey will play a big role. >> last question to you, taking aleppo would give bashar al assad control of the five biggest cities in syria. does that effectively end the moderate rebel's hope of overthrowing his regime, does this mean that the fiflt fighting may not be over but the war is decided. >> there's not much in aleppo right now. the cost of reconstructing and rebuilding it is going to be exorbitant. strategically, the opposition has no chance of overthrowing the regime and that was decided not by the free syrian army or al qaeda or anybody else except the western powers that chose not to intervene in the conflict. i'm hearing reports now that