comes anywhere near their bombers. they said all their bombers will have fighter escorts. so they potentially close off syria s airspace, if they choose to do that to nato countries. it could be a flash in the pan they could let this go. there could be serious consequences on the days and weeks ahead. interesting, mathew, you look at all these countries with differing interests and little coordination. thank you so much for your report. the latest on the manhunt for a new suspect in the terrorist attacks. he is 30-year-old mohammed abrini. they believe he drove a key terrorist two days before the attacks. we are learning more about abdelhamid abaaoud, he returned to the shootings at the bataclan concert hall where police were still battling the gunmen
markets and perhaps ties with turkey, turkish oil market is highly dependent on russia. will suffer because of it. reporter: but it s his potential military aggression that s scaring leaders from the middle east to washington. putin is moving anti-aircraft missiles what could hit planes over turkey to a base inside syria. experts say putin could bomb the ethnic turks who live inside syria and are allies with the turkish government. a u.s. official tells cnn there s concern tonight for the safety of american pilots flying in the area who could be caught in a crossfire. the russians for example have now said that their bombers are going to be flying with fighter escorts. one could imagine without too much difficulty even by mistake a dog fight involving six or seven turkish and five or six russian planes. now, steven piefer says an incident like that could escalate this into a broader conflict or could be a wakeup call to avoid more hostility
there should be a dialogue to make sure that happens. putin used fiery rhetoric. he is going to ensure it doesn t happen again through steam. there are surface-to-air missiles being deployed in the western part of syria near the area where this plane was shot down. he says jets on bombing missions will have fighter escorts as well. so it definitely seems like tensions are rising. but the international community is trying to do what they can to lower them. now, ian, we know, obviously, turkey is an allie. they called an emergency meeting yesterday. do we know if they are making preparations militarily to prepare for any kind of escalation? reporter: it doesn t seem right now that there will be any sort of military escalation as far as any more direct action between the two countries. what we re seeing right now from russia is punitive measures going after the turkish economy.
rebels that are fighting isis, especially in northern and eastern syria. overnight we got word that four c-17 aircraft, u.s. air force, moved into the skies over that area of syria. backed up by fighter escorts in the sky and air dropped 50 tons of ammunition to the rebels in more than 100 pallets hitting the ground. this is ammunition, grenades, small arms types of things that these rebel groups desperately had needed for weeks. they had said they were running out of ammunition. the u.s. was deciding whether it wanted to support them in this way and last week, president obama approved the plan. expect to see more of this. this is a coalition of about 5,000 arab tribes, militias, along with kurdish groups up in this region that have been having a lot of success, the u.s. believes, in battling isis. they needed ammunition.
rescue operations needed. it may be too technical for kids that just want on know when santa will arrive at their house. considering last night the website had 22.3 million visitors from 235 countries all around the world. reaction is widespread. health advocates say this is taking away from the beloved tradition of it all. it is inappropriate to have fighter jets either protecting santa or tracking santa. children who want to track santa perhaps this isn t the time in their psyche development for this kind of a message. but norad stands by his product and says the video is intended to be lighthearted and meant to reflect more of norad s world when it is not tracking santa. in fact, norad videos have linked fighter escorts and santa since the 60s but this is the first time it is jets have