She's alive! Rescuer bursts into tears as he pulls a newborn girl from rubble of bombed building in Syria after two hours of digging - and the footage makes BBC newsreader Kate Silverton cry too
- Air strikes on city of Idlib trapped the baby girl under rubble on Thursday
- Thousands killed since Russian bombings began on September 30, 2015
- At least 20,000 civilians have also been wounded in the Russian raids
- Doctors Without Borders said 'bombs are raining' on east Aleppo
- More than 100,000 children remain trapped in east Aleppo
- The United Nations warns that a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding
- Russia and U.S. have traded blame for last week's ceasefire collapse
- WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
A Syrian rescue worker has been filmed breaking down in tears as he heroically pulled a 30-day-old baby girl from the rubble of a bombed building, in the city of Idlib on Thursday.
White Helmets volunteer Abu Kifah recovered the girl alive after two hours of desperate digging and held her close before the pair were rushed off in an ambulance to one of Syria's horrendously overcrowded hospitals. 
The footage proved too much for BBC newsreader Kate Silverton, who cried live on air after watching the clip.
 Saved: Syrian White helmet volunteer Abu Kifah and his colleagues were able rescue a 30-day-old baby from under the rubble in the city of Idlib on Thursday
Heartbreaking: After recovering the baby girl, Abu Kifah burst into tears and held her tight to his chest while he got into an ambulance and took her to one of the makeshift hospitals in Idlib
She continued reporting the next story but tears could be seen running down her cheeks.
Speaking about the display of emotion, Silverton later tweeted: 'To all of you sending thoughts - thank you - no words really - my job to be inscrutable & impartial but I am also human.'
One viewer tweeted: '[D]emonstrating utmost poise & professionalism following an extremely distressing piece on Syria. Kudos, Kate.'
At least 11 civilians, including seven children, died during attacks on Idlib, nearby Jarjanaz and central Hama province on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
An agonising 365 days have now passed since Russia began its 'barbarous' and relentless bombing campaign on Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad.
Putin's bombs have killed more than 3,800 civilians in this time, a monitoring group said on Friday as international outcry mounted.
'Bombs are raining from Syria-led coalition planes and the whole of east Aleppo has become a giant kill box,' Doctors Without Borders (MSF) director of operations Xisco Villalonga said on Friday.
The aid charity appealed to the Syrian government and its Russian ally to stop bombing rebel-held eastern Aleppo, warning they were provoking a 'bloodbath' among civilians in the city. 


 
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