happen, because if they can have that psychological impact then very much it feeds into theirtive they can control, influence and intimidate people. if more incidents like this happen after berlin, and i fear it is not necessarily an isolated incident, maybe we will see more problems emerge. thanks for joining us. we will speak to you again later. meanwhile, turkish police arrested a man who fired several shots outside in ankara. this happened in the same neighborhood where russia s ambassador to turkey was killed on monday. the u.s. has closed its embassy and consulates in turkey on tuesday. swiss police are looking for a man who hopped fire on worshippers in zurich. three men were wounded. a body was found nearby, but authorities haven t said it was related. still to come, more on the russian ambassador to turkey s
turkey downed a russian aircraft, close to the border. he was just beginning to rebuild that relationship with russia. both presidents are saying this is an effort to drive a blow between the two countries. but it was more yobd beyond that. russia s reaction was to cut off trade ties. that cost the turkish is suffering. and politically, diplomatically, and economically, a lot at stake. this, essentially, if you will, singing from the same hymn sheet at the moment, there s a lot to be done, john.
i m max foster live from london. top story right now is that police in berlin are investigating the truck crash at a christmas market as an act of terrorism. 12 people were skilled and four dozen are injured. the truckh a polish plates and a passenger found dead inside the truck cab was a polish citizen. police arrested a man near the crash site. the u.s. president-elect donald trump is speaking about the latest attacks in europe. he tweeted on monday, today, there were terror attacks in turkey, switzerland and germany and it is only getting worse. the civilized world must change thinking. in a separate statement issued on his behalf, he said innocent civilians were murdered in the streets as they prepared to celebrate the christmas holiday. isis and other islamic
assassination was working on his own or part of affiliated with some bigger group. what we have to bear in mind, of course, as the backdrop to all of this is that russia and turkey are on opposite sides in the syria war which is raging next door. russia supports the government of bashar al assad, turkey supports rebel groups fighting assad. there s a lot of people inside turkey sympathetic to the turkish position inside syria. there have been protests outside the russian consulate in istanbul in the last days and week goes. clearly there s a lot of animosity in the turkish population to what russia has been doing inside syria, and this appears to be the latest expression of that. how then might this affect the operations of both turkey and russia in syria, do you think, or will this just be kept as a separate issue? reporter: well, it is not
agreed this is a provocation and there isn t any dispute. reporter: so a provocation, a provocation to undermine the sort of the unity that they were building, remembering that just over the past few weeks they ve been working together, russia and turkey, to help bring a ceasefire. it was a very fragile ceasefire that broke down in aleppo, but to get all of the civilians out of aleppo. it was president erdogan talking to president putin that helped build that ceasefire. max. is there any indication that he was working as part of a group or whether this was a personal grievance? reporter: there are rumors circulating, but they re only rumors. certainly the mayor of this city is speculating about his ties to ties to the group that this government alleges was behind the coup in the summer, but there s absolutely, absolutely no evidence that s