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Shrinking. we have cnn's senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is reporting from the incredibly dangerous front lines of aleppo. >> driving through a destroyed wasteland, that until recently was one of the main battlegrounds in syria. aleppo's hanano district was in rebel hands until last week when government forces moved in with crushing firepower. a 13-year-old shows me where a rocket landed next to his house, and describes the fear he felt. we were very, very frightened he says. normally you would hide in the basement but luckily that night we slept on the first floor because tha...

The shift in momentum in favor of the syrian military and also the boost in morale that many of their soldiers have gotten. troops loyal to syrian president bashar al assad tell us they believe they could capture all of aleppo, syria's most important battleground, very soon. the rebel headquarters was right here, he says, so the loss of this district was a big blow to them. you can see how our shelling is pounding them. that shows that their morale is collapsing. rebels left behind a makeshift cannon when they fled here last week. so far the opposition hasn't found a way to shore up their defe...

Is there any sense on the ground that when this is over, when the fighting stops, that there's any life there for them? >> well, you know, i think that's going to be very difficult. and we were speaking to these children and it really is quite sad to see the state that they're in right now. they have absolutely nothing all their belongings have been destroyed. and they've also been really traumati traumatized. a lot of them really are scared. they're jumpy every time they hear mortars go off, which still happens a lot. you can feel just how traumatized they are. if you're asking about the futu...

Msnbc or fox? >> they need it. they need it because we're eating their lunch on a daily basis. >> you take my point. you take my point. how would they feel? every time you intervene in the marketplace, the other side says what about me? where's my side of the equation? it's a dodgy road to go down. >> what about the families who just had their bacon saved by donald trump? >> it's a great public relations victory for trump. no question. >> greg, richard, sorry to get you so exercised at this time of the morning. thank you, gentlemen. >> okay. meanwhile, the air strikes are intensifying in syr...

Tweet. last message, under heavy bombardment now. can't be alive anymore. when we die, k 200,000 still inside. bye. fatemah tweeted. an air strike destroyed their home. bana's familiar face covered in dust, clearly shell-shocked, now homeless. there's nothing left to, said, she told us afterwards. the whole world watched and was silent. others like this 31-year-old english teacher were inspired by this family. >> this is bana from inside aleppo. >> reporter: he tweeted, he, too, hoped the world would save eastern aleppo and his 9-month-old baby girl, lamar. two weeks ago he told us, everyone a...