the russian foreign ministry where andrei karlov who is this ambassador from russia to turkey was laid to rest. president putin, the russian president, was in attendance, paying his last respects. the foreign minister of russia sergey lavrov did the eulogy, saying that ambassador karlov had the highest human qualities and he was a great -- he made great contributions to development of relations between russia and other countries. you know, this was intended, and this is the suspicion, if this was intended to draw a wedge, drive a wedge between russia and turkey, whose relationship has been very rocky over the past year or so, then it seems to have failed because both turkish and russian leaders say they're not going to be distracted from their policy of normalizing relations and they're going to work together even more closely, in fact, to try and find a solution to the crisis in syria with russia and syria on opposite sides of that conflict. this seems to have brought them a little bit closer together. >> matthew stay with us. we want to bring in jill dougherty, of course from the