threat in europe, and also with those very large travel flows to syria and iraq. and back. it just costs millions and millions and millions of dollars to follow people 24/7 around the clock. you can t just put people in prison unless you can actually prove in a court that they ve commit add crime. sure, and if you can figure exactly who they are. it seems to be in this case. thank you both. i want to talk more about this berlin attack and the suspect. here with me is peter vittig, german ambassador to the united states. ambassador, thank you very much for being with us and our sympathies are with your country at this time. how is your country healing as they move forward from this attack? brianna, let me first of all say how overwhelmed and moved we were to see such an outpour of solidarity and support by our american friends, by citizens, by officials.
i m very frustrated myself, at the russians. but nooimt sure that s the way to move them or find common ground. as a country we need to do a lot better job putting together coalitions and not just issue blood-curdling statements about the other side. quickly, if you can what do you they president-elect trump needs to be cautious about when it comes to syria and dealing with russia as he heads into the white house next month? well, he sure has to be more cautious about russia than he appears to be. i mean, he needs to understand that they, their interests and their attitude does not align with ours. i think the first thing is, we need to have a kind of clear understanding from the russians where this could come out. if they think it s going to come out with business as usual, with bashar al assad at the head of a very narrowly defined, very
russia s ambassador to turkey. the pictures you about to see are graphic. we warn you. the turkish ambassador shot and killed at an art exhibit. the entire incident caught on camera. turkish authorities detained 12 people for questions and the statement for owners of the art center of revealed the gunman was not screened before he entered the facility. just showed his badge and was let in. as the gunman fired he shouted, do not forget aleppo. do not forget syria. this is an assassination that comes at a piv pivotal moment. these two countries supported opposite sides of theive issal war in syria. russia, instrumental in president bashar al assad bsh sh to include syria and aleppo. just yesterday, talks held on syria and the united states left out of the conversation. a spokesman for the kremlin says that nearly all dialogue between russia and the u.s. has been
dialogue is frozen, they don t communicate, yet we know it s the contrary does that concern you? yes. it concerns me a lot. in fact, this inability to kind of work with russia has been extremely problematic over the last few years. i hasten to add a lot of this blame can be laid at the doorstep of vladimir putin who seems unwilling to kind of meet anyone halfway. at the same time i would not say it s 100% at his doorstep. our problem in syria, take a position early on essentially untenable, unforcible, the notion bashar al assad must go, and then we d begin to sort of talk about what lay in the future for syria. and clearly, that position has led us nowhere and, in fact, kind of led us to be in an isolated position, as we are now. what about these talks between russia, iran and turkey on syria?
being left out. russia, iran, turkey, talking about syria. how should the state department handle this? we are being left out, but i think it s important to understand so is the u.n. so are all of the sunni arab states who have a big stake in the outcome in syria. so i wouldn t exactly bet the mortgage on any success in these moscow talks, but i think it is significant that russia is trying to look ahead. they re seeing aleppo as a sort of culminating point where they can now kind of look forward to what kind of system can be put in place. it s obviously very disappointing that all of that dialogue between russian foreign minister lavrov and u.s. secretary of state kerry appears to have led nowhere. again i think we have is a really difficult time dealing with countries that don t necessarily speak our language. we ve seen in this, in the u.n. debate, where it has been a lot of naming and shaming, and i understand.