UN Security Council to vote Saturday on backing Syria ceasefire deal

In the final hours of 2016, the UN Security Council will meet on an ambitious but shaky ceasefire in Syria, and decide whether it will endorse the agreement brokered by Russia and Turkey.

Russia is seeking the UN's backing for a deal that many hope might be a turning point in the six-year conflict, but the ceasefire has already been pockmarked by fresh clashes. 

Our UN correspondent Liling Tan reports. 

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