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Of our colleagues. We know it has not been the right way to return, so we are not in a position to say ok, now you come back. This is a process. We are happy because it is true some changes are taking place. Weve reached another stage. Little by little, things are changing and we support our team mates, as we have all this time. The pick of Wednesdays Champions League fixtures sees a stuttering Manchester United travel to germany to take on bayern munich, with the english team taking on the england captain in harry kanes first game in the competition for his new club. Erik ten hags side are mi...

The regime side, they're uncertain what will happen to their safety, cyril. >> ian, give us context about this area. why is eastern ghouta so important to the regime? >> eastern ghouta is east of damascus, about six miles. it's one of the last major held rebel areas on the outskirts of damascus. and really two of the last major rebel-held areas. and when you are just following this war, you've seen the syrian army do this. just go to one part where the rebels hold territory. bomb it. take it. and then move on to the next. and this is where they are now. they did this in aleppo. now they're in ...

Syrian fighter bomber. >> so given that it's an fa-18 -- i'm sorry, i didn't mean to interrupt you there. apologies. given that it's an fa-18, what does that tell that you it was a navy jet or a marine corps jet, another different branch that's fly the horn sunset. >> well, the navy and marines fly the fa-18. i fwlef was a navy aircraft operating off the carrier. we have a carrier in the mediterranean right now. makes perfect sense. but the combat air patrols up there almost 24/7. what's important here is the syrians were actually bombing this fdf -- sdf unit. there is no reason to do that. fo...

However, the kremlin is inviting in coming president donald trump to join in as soon as he takes office. ian lee is monitoring the ceasefire from istanbul, turkey. he joins me live. certainly so much on the line here with this one, ian. how is it going so far and how long has the ceasefire been under way? >> reporter: well, natalie, it started at midnight local time here. we've talked to people on the ground and they've told us so far it has remained quiet. this is a staged process though, and the first stage they are looking for just a cessation of hostilities between the rebel factions and t...

Other militia like al nusra coming to assist the rebel, and now isis, and now on the regime side, once the iranians, and now the russian, and each time it looks like one side might be tired enough to come to the table with the peace deal, someone new comes into the conflict to prop them up, and that is problem here, and as you get more and more different actors coming into the region here, it is so much harder to find the common ground to slow it down here, jim. >> no question, the death toll in the hundreds off thousands. barbara starr at the pentagon and nick paton walsh in istanbul. and a...