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Clarissa ward joins us from moscow. november of 2015, turkey shot down a russian plane on the turkish syria border. it was an su-24 fighter jet. there have been tensions over the last several years, not to mention going back decades between turkey and russia but as muhammed said, of late the two nations had been negotiating on these cease-fire attempts in aleppo. >> reporter: no, it's extraordinary how much the relationship between turkey and russia has improved since the shooting down of that plane which was possibly an all-time low. we have seen russia and turkey cooperating really quite clo...

Targeted a foreign dignitary, let alone someone as high as an ambassador. we were talking earlier about this. there have been some tensions in the past between turkey and russia but just in the last few weeks we have seen a lot of those tensions die down. president erdogan made a very public visit to visit vladimir putin and we know the two have been speaking on the phone several times, at least seven or eight times just in the last few weeks, hammering out this evacuation and temporary cease-fire deal in syria. so this comes at a very crucial time not just for turkey but also with everything ...

>> reporter: well, this attack comes at such an interesting time because today, the evacuations went on uninterrupted. over the weekend there were some problems and it was on again and off again. there were no evacuations over the weekend. but today was actually that first bright glimmer of hope after a dark period. the evacuations went on uninterrupted. turkish officials just today announced that 20,000 people had been evacuated from the eastern part of aleppo. these are people who had been under siege for several months. they were running short on food and water and many of them needed medic...

>> reporter: it appears shelling is continuing. there's no sign that this cease-fire, it's a complicated way to describe it, appears to be pausing to let those thousands of people trapped in an ever-shrinking area of rebel territory, to let them out and head towards rebel-held areas northwest of aleppo. that never really got under way at all. the biggest question here is how many people are still trapped in that area. an estimate from the u.n. special envoy suggested 1500 fighters in the midst as well, a large part of those possibly related to al qaeda. showing tu complicayou the comp of radic...

Breaking news, families who are hopeful to finally escape aleppo, syria are now trapped once again as the cease-fire, the very temporary cease-fire appears to be collapsing right now. up to 50,000 civilians cannot escape. they are trapped and around them, above them, shots, bombs, as pro-government forces are pushing in and on to the city. i want to show you the very latest tweet coming from the mother of the 7-year-old girl that everyone has been following, tweeting out their final messages. she and her family are documenting their struggle to survive. here's the latest from the mother. she w...