that's our syria twitter q&a with jeremy bowen, our middle east editor, at 2:30 "gmt." >>> stay with us here on "bbc world news." still plenty more to come, including this. fifa clears russia and qatar of corruption allegations linked to their world cup bids. [car revving] [car revving] ♪ ♪ [car revving] introducing the first ever 306 horsepower lexus rc coupe. once driven, there's no going back. oh no. who are you? daddy, this is blair, he booked this room with priceline express deals and saved a ton. i got everything i wanted. i always do. he seemed nice. >>> this is "bbc world news." i'm rajesh mirchandani. these are the latest headlines. scientists have received their first picture of their space probe after it landed on a comet. they're now studying fresh data from the craft millions of kilometers away. >>> the shiite militant group hezbollah has told the bbc it shares a common enemy with western powers in the extremist of the islamic state group. >>> now, the humanitarian organization msf is to begin clinical trials of three potential treatments for ebola in west africa. me

part of our special coverage of the syria war, later in the day today, our middle east editor jeremy bowen is beginning to be answering your questions, in a question and answer session on twitter, and you can contact him directly by tweeting your questions to @bbcbowen using the hash tag #askbbcbowen, or you can e-mail your questions at bbc.co.uk. >>> let's bring you some other news now. president obama is expected to outline his concerns about democratic reforms in myanmar when he meets the country's president. mr. obama said that while he's optimistic about political change, more work is needed on the reform process, which was begun by the military rulers four years ago. the u.s. president is due to meet him on the sidelines of the east asia summit. >>> demonstrators have once again taken to the streets in mexico to express their anger over the disappearance of 43 students in the town of iguala in september. hundreds of protesters, most of them wearing masks, entered the state parliament building, this is in the regional capital, causing extensive damage. as you can see here. also settin

jeremy bowen, bbc news, damascus. >> the war in syria has changed in aleppo, too. for a long time, the rebel stronghold. our chief international correspondent spent the last few days there. aleppo, one of the world's oldest inhabited cities. one of its newest wars. large swathes of this city are now in government hands. the east is held by the rebels. ancient quarter, a world heritage site, is a battleground. the syrian army took us through its narrow alleys. snipers from warring sides lay in wait. the army is gaining ground against rebels now fighting is much amongst themselves as against the regime. thatare now predicting those areas still had by the rebels could soon fall to president assad's forces. his troops are now besieging those areas using the same tactic, surrender or starve, that has been used time and again in this war. 300,000 civilians are trapped inside trade that means even more suffering. but that's the story of syria's war. every major battle is also a grave humanitarian crisis. hundreds of thousands have already fled into safer areas of aleppo.

jeremy bowen, bbc news. >> other news from around the world, the u.n. german assembly human rights committee approved a resolution urging the security council to take north korea to the international criminal court because of the country's human rights situation. resolution will need to be approved by the entire general assembly and then referred on to the security council. e european space agency said the satellite connected molecules on the comet, and is designed to sniff the atmosphere and detected molecules that is the carbon element for the basis of life on earth. being analyzed. the satellite will drill in the comet surface before the batteries ran out of power. they bull cut into it. in march it was ruled japan had abused the exception of whaling from the 1996 international moratorium. fifa lodged a criminal complaint against individuals connected to the bids for hosting the next two world cups. president sepp blatter acted on the advice of the judge whose cleared russia and qatar to host the 2018 tournament. it follow as report by the ethic comm

we got none that, and it has to be noted that the woman, barbara bowen, who has been on cnn a lot more than i have and a lot more than you have in the past few days, that there's not that kind of agreement where she's concerned. >> they said you guys are so classy that you don't dip into the muck and the mud like other people do. nobody indicated that what happened would happen. i thought there was a good chance the interview would be canceled. obviously it wasn't, and i think we can probably fairly safely say that they had a strategy in place for when the question was asked, which maybe they thought we couldn't use silence on the radio. >>> coming up, cars slip and sliding as mother nature blankets half of the country with freezing tempings in some places. snow even. things aren't warming up just yet. a look at your forecast next. but, first, how we pay for goods and services has changed dramatically in the past ten years. as we usher in the era of mobile payments and the virtual wallet, that's the topic this week in our special series "tomorrow transformed" with richard quest. >> tod