indicated he s concerned about russia s influence on the election or their continued influence, jake. our colleagues at cnn have been reporting that the cyber hacking attacks by russia against russian political institutions are continuing, even with the election over with. there are certainly issues here, concerns here, that are going to be a problem for donald trump when he takes the white house. so far we have not seen him speak skeptically or critically of russia at all. maybe that will change when he gets over those 270 electors and he does not see any more hurdles between the path of him and the white house. that s a big maybe, jake. thank you both. appreciate it. we re going back to the breaking news in turkey where the russian ambassador was killed, the gunman saying, don t forget aleppo. next we ll go to aleppo where evacuees are escaping horror of war. stay with us.
when you see this turkish riot police officer, you hear what he says, he says god is great, don t forget aleppo, don t forget syria. do you see his motorizations as a radicalized islamic terrorist or someone that is more a nationalist? it s hard to know at this point, but what is your instinct? turkey has the distinction of being hated by all sides in the syrian civil war. in the syrian civil war, you have kurds and isis and the assad regime, but they all fight turkey at the same time. you re seeing a government employee, whose job is to be apolitical, carry out a political murder. so this points to a very dangerous trajectory for turkey. for a very long time, turkey was known as a country of stability.
welcome back to the lead. we re following several breaking stories today including, you re looking right now at images of berlin. a truck plowed through a christmas market in west berlin that s now being investigated as terrorism. we know now that at least nine people have been killed, dozens more, perhaps as many as 50, injured. what the russian government is calling an act of terrorism, another incident, a gunman assassinating russia s ambassador to turkey. that also took place today. after killing the ambassador of russia to turkey said don t forget syria, don t forget aleppo. i want to talk about this with senior director james woolsey. thank you for joining us, i appreciate it. let s start with berlin. we know it s being investigated as an act of terrorism. we know the state department issued a warning telling
ri russian ambassador. he was shouting, don t forget aleppo, don t forget syria. a 22-year-old member of the riot police squad. he was killed in a shootout. stark to see this. we re not airing the actual footage which is airing other places. this targeted assassination clearly is showing the pressure that exists between the russia russia obviously having its impact in aleppo where they are marginalizing isis in that area. with that being said, i saw photo photos that isis was able to take control of the russian military base. you are seeing this tension between russia, between isis and then, that puts pressure on the russian-turkish relations which back in november of 2015, the turkish shot down the russian plane, which created a lot more tension in that area. the key will be how will putin
how someone with the background in firearms training could have infiltrated that event happening at the art gallery, shoot the ambassador. when you look at the footage, clearly he knows how to handle a firearm it wasn t a point blank shooting, he was several yards away. the aim with a good and he was able to say a number of religious slogans, don t forget aleppo and syria. towards the end he said that everyone who has been part of this oppression will have what s coming to them and said death was the only way that was going to remove him from the building. clearly he had an indication he was not coming out alive. wow. clarissa, you re in moscow. we know the timing could be significant, one day before the leaders of iran and russia and turkey are getting together to discuss what s happening in aleppo. we have vladimir putin s