Food supplies enter besieged suburb of Syrian capital

Some people have been escorted across the border. Credit: ITV News

Food supplies have begun entering a besieged suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus.

In an apparent goodwill gesture by President Assad's government ahead of peace talks, aid was allowed through to those holed up in Yarmouk, a predominantly Palestinian community in the south of the city.

And as ITV News correspondent Dan Rivers reports from Damascus, there were scenes of overwhelming relief as a lucky few were given safe passage out of the warzone: