Children beg for parents after second Aleppo shelling in 24 hours
Video report by ITV News Correspondent Dan Rivers
Hospitals in Aleppo were filled with the screams of bloodied children today as the city was shelled just 24 hours after an alleged chlorine gas attack.
Scores of residents of the al-Sukkari area of the city were injured, and footage was captured of children begging to be taken to their wounded parents.
The fighting in Aleppo underscored the severity of the civil war, which has claimed an estimated 400,000 lives over the past five years of the conflict, according to the UN special envoy for Syria.
The main Syrian opposition group, the Higher Negotiation Committee (HNC) met with global foreign leaders in London today to try and launch a blueprint for peace.
Under the HNC's plan, there will be six months of negotiations with the Assad government to try to agree to a temporary truce, and then a full ceasefire.
Assad would then step down and power would be handed over to a transitional administration, which would then run the country for 18 months.
A new constitution would follow, and then UN-supervised elections.
However, the prospect for peace seemed distant for ordinary citizens trapped in the carnage of today's shelling in Aleppo.
Local resident Wissam Zarqa told ITV News: "We don't believe in politics anymore, but what we need is time."