The Latest: UN official urges accountability in Aleppo

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian action (all times local): 4:20 p.m. The U.N. appropriate adviser for Syria says the accomplished 24 hours accept been the a lot of affecting so far in "the bloody, bitter, alarming action of Aleppo," and warned that those amenable would be captivated answerable for the bloodshed

Speaking to reporters in Oslo on Tuesday, Jan Egeland said he hopes the activity ends anon so that altruistic plan can begin. Several bottomless letters of accumulation killings accept emerged from Aleppo over the endure 24 hours. The actual insubordinate fighters, forth with bags of civilians, are trapped in a rapidly shrinking ascendancy amidst by Syrian troops and affiliated militiamen.
It marks a above defeat for the rebels, who bedeviled eastern Aleppo in 2012. Egeland said it was important that "those who accept orchestrated and organized this beforehand and this activity accept that they are answerable for what all of the armament do." 

3:20 p.m. 

Russia says it is fed up with calls from the United States to arrest the angry in Aleppo, area government armament are on the border of active rebels from their endure actual ascendancy in the arctic city.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists Tuesday that "we are annoyed of audition this whining from our American colleagues in the accepted administering that we charge to anon arrest aggressive action." 

Lavrov said that while advancement Russia to arrest aggressive action, the U.S. did annihilation to abstracted abstinent rebels from "terrorists" in Aleppo. He aswell criticized Western governments for what he said were "untrue" accusations that Russia was blocking aid convoys to Syria. 

His remarks, fabricated during a appointment to Serbia, were agitated by the Russian annual bureau Interfax.
Russia is a key accessory of Syrian President Bashar Assad and has been accustomed out airstrikes in abutment of his armament for added than a year. 

3:15 p.m. 

The U.N. animal rights arch says the "crushing of Aleppo" doesn't bulk to the end of Syria's war and insists it could become added alarming "if the all-embracing association continues to collectively choke its hands." 

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein on Tuesday decried the action in Aleppo, including "the wanton annihilation of men, women and children," and warned of a accessible echo in places like Douma, Raqqa and Idlib that are controlled by action fighters or the abolitionist Islamic State group. 

In a annual Tuesday, Zeid said all-embracing law requires that all humans bedfast accept to be advised humanely. But he aswell alleged for "urgent measures" to advice assure those who flee, "given the abhorrent almanac of approximate apprehension and ache in Syria even above-mentioned to the alpha of this conflict" about six years ago.
He said U.N. admiral were documenting rights violations adjoin the Syrian humans "with the close confidence that one day those who are amenable will be captivated to account." 

2:55 p.m. 

The U.N.'s children's bureau is admonishing that dozens of unaccompanied accouchement are trapped in a architecture beneath blaze in eastern Aleppo and is calling for their actual aborticide from the insubordinate enclave.
UNICEF said in a annual on Tuesday that there could be added than 100 accouchement trapped in the architecture in eastern Aleppo, according to letters from an bearding doctor in the city.
UNICEF bounded director, Geert Cappelaere, says it's "time for the apple to angle up for the accouchement of Aleppo and accompany their active daydream to an end." 

Pro-government armament accept launched a barbaric beforehand on Aleppo's few actual opposition-held neighborhoods, accoutrement bags of civilians beneath bound abundant fire. There are bottomless letters that government armament are killing civilians.
Cappelaere says that UNICEF is "deeply concerned" over the counterfeit letters of the "extrajudicial killings of civilians, including children." 

1:25 p.m. 

The U.N. altruistic aid bureau says its ally in Syria accept recorded about 37,000 humans who accept fled eastern Aleppo amidst the latest beforehand of pro-government forces, but that bags of others accept not been counted.
Spokesman Jens Laerke of OCHA on Tuesday decried the "complete accident of humanity" in Aleppo, and said that untold bags are believed to abide abaft in shrinking areas captivated by insubordinate fighters.
Laerke said in Geneva that his appointment has that "many civilians accept not fled, and may be ambuscade whether they can."
He says the U.N. and its partners, including the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, are actively alive to get "blanket access" beyond the city-limits — not just in western Aleppo that has continued been controlled by government armament and their allies. 

1:10 p.m. 

French President Francois Hollande is acute for Russia to facilitate altruistic aid to civilians trapped in rebel-held locations of Aleppo.
Hollande said afterwards affair Germany's adjudicator in Berlin on Tuesday that the Aleppo "humanitarian bearings ... is unacceptable."
He says there are 120,000 humans who are getting "held hostage, there is no added chat for it — who are victims of bombing, who are victims of repression." 

Hollande says aggregate accept to be done to acquiesce the population's aborticide and get aid in through adequate corridors, and that Turkey and decidedly Russia will be apprenticed on that.
He says that "without the Russians, there is no Syrian administration that can backpack out operations" and that Russians "will be amenable for a bearings that they helped actualize if they do annihilation to acquiesce admission for altruistic aid."
Hollande aswell says it's time to forward "a altruistic ultimatum" but didn't specify a time frame. 

12:05 p.m. 

The U.N. animal rights appointment says it has accustomed letters of Syria's pro-government armament killing at atomic 82 civilians as they entered the endure actual strongholds of the rebels in eastern Aleppo.
Spokesman Rupert Colville of the U.N. animal rights appointment says the letters blab pro-government armament entering homes and killing some civilians "on the spot" in the above insubordinate enclave. 

Colville batten to reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.
He says 11 women and 13 accouchement were a allotment of those reportedly dead in four neighborhoods of the increasingly-shrinking insubordinate ascendancy in the city-limits of Aleppo.
Colville says the letters came in backward the antecedent black and that he doesn't apperceive absolutely if the killings took place.
9 a.m. 

The All-embracing Committee of the Red Cross is advancement those angry in Syria's Aleppo to do all they can to assure and additional noncombatant lives. 

The ICRC says in a annual on Tuesday that bags of humans with no allotment in the abandon "have actually boilerplate safe to run."
The affecting address came afterwards Syrian aggressive appear the antecedent day it acquired ascendancy of 99 percent of the above action ascendancy in eastern Aleppo, signaling an approaching end to the rebels' four-year authority over locations of the city. 

ICRC says a deepening altruistic accident and added accident of activity can be averted alone if the basal rules of warfare — and of altruism — are applied. 

Retaking Aleppo would be President Bashar Assad's better achievement yet in the civilian war.