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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. we've heard injuries to civilians and fighters that remain inside. finally those differences have been smoothed out between the different vested interests in this conflict, turkey, russia and iran have finally come together to make this happen. there will, no...

The watchful eye of russian military drones. president bashar al assad released a video message celebrating what he calls the liberation of aleppo. itn's 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. it's all finally over. the wider war in syria, though, is very far from that. >> msnbc's has been watching all of this. the tragedy of aleppo is unspeakable. it reminds me of serbnecia and other hoer ho...

Defeat of the rebels in aleppo. secretary of state john kerry says it's time to end the conflict once and for all. >> it is imperative that key actors step up and do their part. i call on the entire international community to join in exerting pressure on all parties to go forward with the process that has been laid out for some period of time now, to abide by the cessation of hostilities, to bring an end to the cruelty start nging in alep which lays the groundwork to take steps particularly in aleppo. >> dan rivers is inside that city and has more. >> reporter: after four long years, the battl...

Civilians, still trapped in there. this afternoon we saw really terrible things as buildings were being hit with artillery. couldn't tell you what the buildings were. they looked like apartments, wolf. but we also saw really bright burning material over to my left, which looked like it could be something like phosphorous. no way to confirm that, but clearly, all of this would be profoundly in contravention of the norms of wore, the geneva convention and lots of other international law besides. whether it con stuconstitutes w it's impossible for us to say. if schools are specifically targeted. ...

The syrians are saying, no. that wasn't the case. it was the rebels, in fact, changing the number of people that wanted to come out. it's all a bit academic now, because the fighting is in full swing behind me, as you can probably here. the only good thing is perhaps a call from the president and putin trying to put it back together between russia and turkey, whether that can smooth over the difference with iran, we'll have to wait and see. an evacuation happening tomorrow instead. >> dan, we heard very strong language over the past 24 hours from top obama administration officials, including s...