Aid reaches starving Madaya, other besieged Syria towns

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Aid convoys arranged by local and international organisations have reached three besieged towns in Syria, where thousands are trapped and some have died of starvation.

The UN says the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters have cut off 200-thousand people in parts of the eastern city of Deir ez Zor.

Al Jazeera’s Diplomatic Editor, James Bays reports from UN headquarters in New York.

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