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		</div><p>Russian president Vladimir Putin has held out the hope of an indefinite halt to his country&#8217;s air strikes on Aleppo after meeting French and German leaders, who condemned Moscow&#8217;s actions in the Syrian city.</p>
<p>Russia had promised an eight-hour pause today in attacks on the city by Syrian government forces under the cover of Moscow&#8217;s air power in order to allow suffering civilians to leave and to give rebels safe passage.</p>
<p>&#8220;We informed them of our intention to continue, as much as possible, considering the situation on Syrian territory, a pause in the air strikes. We are ready to do this for as long as there are no clashes with rebel formations entrenched in Aleppo,&#8221; Mr Putin said after meeting German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande in Berlin.</p>
<p>Mr Hollande called the situation in Aleppo &#8220;unacceptable, intolerable, unbearable&#8221; ahead of the meeting in Berlin aimed primarily at tackling problems in Ukraine.</p>
<p>He made the comments following a meeting with Rahed Al-Saleh, the head of the White Helmets volunteer civil defence force that digs the dead and injured from collapsed buildings, and a Syrian delegation from Aleppo.</p>
<p>Mr Hollande said: &#8220;What is at stake, in the end, it&#8217;s the honour or the shame of the international community.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lt Gen Sergei Rudskoi said the &#8220;humanitarian pause&#8221; in Aleppo would last from 8am to 7pm, three hours longer than had been announced originally.</p>
<p>He said the break in hostilities should allow both civilians and militants safe exit out of the city.</p>
<p>Two of eight humanitarian corridors out of Aleppo were reserved for militants &#8211; one offering an exit towards Turkey and another leading to the neighbouring rebel-held province of Idlib, he said.</p>
<p>Russian and Syrian warplanes halted air strikes on Aleppo on Tuesday, and Lt Gen Rudskoi said they had kept at least six miles away from the city.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Syrian president Bashar Assad told a Swiss television interview that a photo of a five-year-old boy covered in dust and blood inside an ambulance that drew worldwide attention was &#8220;forged&#8221;.</p>
<p>He rejected the iconic image in August of Omran Daqneesh following an air strike as &#8220;manipulated&#8221; and said he would send the journalist conducting the interview photos to prove his claim.</p>
<p>He also told state broadcaster SRF that Thursday&#8217;s planned pause in fighting in Aleppo was an important step &#8220;but not enough&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said civilians wanted to leave the city but &#8220;terrorists&#8221; would not let them.</p>
<p>In the wide-ranging interview in English, Assad rejected claims that he was a war criminal, brushed off criticism from US secretary of state John Kerry, and portrayed the White Helmets teams as a &#8220;facelift&#8221; of al Qaida-linked militants in Aleppo.</p>
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