U.N. authorized to monitor the ongoing evacuation from Aleppo by Syrian government

The Syrian government has authorized the United Nations to send an additional 20 staff to east Aleppo, where they will monitor the ongoing evacuation of thousands of people, a U.N. spokesman said on Tuesday. “The task is to monitor and observe the evacuations,” Jens Laerke told a news briefing in Geneva. “We do not have independent U.N. access to the buses, so we are not able to enter and access people; that does not take away from the protection concerns that we do have and continue to have,” he added.