going to affect the russian operations, i can probably, you know, guess at that. if anything, it is going to reinforce the justification that russia has for being inside syria. all along it said it was supporting bashar al assad, it was bombing rebels in syria to prevent the spread of islamic terrorism. it sees this as a threat not just to its own national security but to international security as well, and has tried very much to bring in other countries to that way of thinking, not least of which is the united states. up until now that s been that s been resisted by the u.s. that might change under donald trump. in terms of what the turkish position may be, well, already there are suspicions within rebel groups inside syria the turks are softening their position towards them and moving more towards a russian point of view when it come to syria. the turkish foreign minister is in russia today and will be discussing how to proceed in
this is not going to create d divisiveness between the two nations. reporter: yes. as nick was saying president erdogan said president putin came out with a stern face on television and called it a despicable act. he said it was intended to undermine the relationship between russia and turkey, a relationship which has been improving steadily in the past several months since they decided to rebuild ties following the downing in november of last year of a russian war plane by turkish interceptors. vladimir putin said there can only be one response, stepping up the fight against terrorism, the bandit goes he said must feel it happening. we must know who directed the hand, and he instructed members of his intelligence to work with the turks to get to the bottom of this and to work out whether the guy who carried out the
putin? we will see. but the first signals are it won t be bad. this time, he called suiten and he said, obviously, we have smog to do with this. we rer have sorry. and putin seems to agree. i would not see this as a reason for fallout between russia and turkey. thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. we re are following a separate incident in ankara. turkish police arrested a man who fired shots out of the u.s. embassy. officers led him away. this what happened in the same day the ambassador has killed. china has return to underwater troen, days after it
he was arrested and taken away. so far that leaves five other people that have been arrested in connection with the shooting of the russian ambassador. the gunman s mother, father, sister and also the person he shared an apartment with is who this policeman, the attacker shared an apartment with, have been arrested. the other things that have been happening, more sort of political, diplomatic, president erdogan talking to president putin in russia. they re both on the same page about a joint investigation. president erdogan is saying this was an action that was aimed to try to sort of divide the two countries as they re normalizing their relationships. this is what he said. translator: i describe this attack on russia s embassy as an attack to turkey, turkey s state and nation. after the incident, attack on the russian ambassador, during the talk with mur putin we
been consequences. but it s not a year ago. they rebuilt their friendship substantially. and they say this is not going to derail that process. and we can take that at face value. neither one wants to re-enact the shootdown of the plane. this was not a sanctioned assassination. this is an individual. he may have been affiliated with a rebel group. in that sense, there s no reason for diplomatic relations, between russia and turkey. there is an element in turkish society, that is very much opposed to what russia is doing in syria. obviously, the fact he was voicing support for the people of aleppo when he carried out his asas nation.