iran, iraq, syria and turkey. in three of those, in syria turkey and iraq the kurds are on the move. they have achieved essentially a modicum of in the case of iraq almost statehood, in the case of syria an autonomous region they control and they hope will solidify once assad is gone and in turkey, a great deal of political gains and a sense of identity and the turks need to do that. the turkish government to its credit did start negotiations with the kurds. but in many ways when the syrian conflict started the turkish government got scared and almost freaked out by the gains the syrian kurds were making. the problem from the turkish government perspective, very closely aligned with the turkish, kurdish movement the pkk, and while they were negotiating with them, is considered a terrorist organization. so it was the growing influence of the pkk, especially in syria, that forced essentially mr. erdogan to kind of change policy and start change his tune on the peace process. and then once that bombing happened in sou

more forcefully in syria, all of those things are not happening. turkey saying that bashar al-assad is a main driver, the engine behind the instability and extremism in this syria. that point has been ignored more and more over the last few days and weeks especially after the paris attacks. turkey is now saying to everyone, to moscow as well as to london, paris, and washington, look, you can't ignore us anymore. we have a vision about this issue. we have red lines on this question. you need to take us into consideration. >> it was a huge gamble then on turkey's part. what do you make of the international response, particularly america's first response, which was to say, it wasn't us. we weren't involved at all. i mean this is a symptom, as you say of perhaps the world in action, isn't it? that if america had been involved more forcefully in syria, and had a plan for syria, none of this wouldn't have happened. russia wouldn't be there, turkey wouldn't have needed to react in the way it has. >> from washington, of course the perspective is, look when we act

as former eu ambassador to turkey and syria, how will this change relations between the eu and turkey? mark: i think we have now a the middle east war has come to the eu. attacks,ame knife rifle attacks, car bombs. for the first time on european soil, we are seeing multiple suicide bombers. this is entirely new. are shocked.eople the belgian connection is not new. have a war from within. it is triggered by people in syria. some people may have come from syria through turkey, but we have many people in france, in belgium, and elsewhere who have gone and come back to syria, to and from syria, via turkey. the reinforcement of security measures will affect the relationship with turkey. this has been discussed yesterday already, and this is now going to be a very big factor. so far, turkey was perhaps less active against islamic state, and certainly not totally sealing the border. this is going to be a huge request from the europeans on turkey. anna: you are talking to us from brussels, marc, and you mentioned the belgian connection. explain that belgian connection to us and paint a pictur

a man who fought in what were called the fish wars. ♪ we are following breaking news from the turkey-syriader a russian plan was shot down. >> the plane strayed into turkish air space and downed after a number of warnings and moscow denies it was over turkey and flying a mission in in syria and both pilots ejected and one is believes to be dead and at the hudson institute and specializes in affairs and joins us from washington d.c. and thanks for being with us, the downing of this russian jet how does this complicate things in an already complicated scenario? >> well, one complicated thing in the first place was russian intervention in syria to shore up the regime of bashar al-assad which is russia's ally in syria and which significantly can train the options in syria and areas that the european and americans were thinking about such as establishing a no fly zone and russia made it more complicated. the border between russia and turkey has been one of the hot spots of the conflict from the start between syria and turkey i mean one of the hot spots of this conflict. this is where the border

turkey immediately released an image they say shows the root of 24 that appears to crossed syria's bordero turkey. thatrime minister insists its country only carried out the rules of engagement and the russian airplane had been warned 10 times. >> we have never been a country that designed against another country. everyone should know that turkey has the right to respond if its airspace is violated, despite repeated warnings. mark: this is what everyone feared would happen when russia began military action in syria, that crowded airspace could provoke incidents. turkey is a vital nato member and has the military alliance behind it. there is fear this could escalate fast. so, why did turkey strike now? in recent days, russia has targeted this minority, the syrian turkmens. they have been fighting against the assad regime and are supported by ankara. they say that their fighter shot and killed the russian pilots, but turkish authorities say that is not true and both pilots are alive and they are trying to get to them. fireball in the sky, the first time a russian jet has been shot down by a

more than 50% of turkey's gas is supplied by russia. but the war in syriaas soured their relations. president bashar al-assad is a major reason for the increasing tensions. russia backs assad, whereas turkey is doing everything possible to bring him down. >> the incident and previous tensions on the borders and issues of violating turkish air space and so on and so forth is a symptom of a greater problem. i think the message turkey is sending by confronting and downing this fighter jet is not only to moscow, it's also to washington and paris. and says something very simple. you can't maneuver politically or militarily in syria and ignore us at the same time. >> reporter: tensions escalated in september when russia launched air strikes against isil and syrian opposition fighters. last month government leaders complained that two russian jets had violated turkish air space. russia's targets also triggered a harsh response from turkey. turkish leaders called for the united nations security council to hold a meeting to discuss russian air strikes in syria. more

border after ankara downed a jet in the region of province in turkey near the province of latakia in syriaey says the plane was repeatedly warned before its military took action and russia confirmed the plane crashed it says in syrian territory but denies having violated turkish air space and syrian activists say one of the two pilots was killed and we are monitoring developments from a turkish city near the border and rory is standing by in moscow and lee barker is at headquarters in brussels and this is a moving story where you are, what is the very latest? >> basically the turkish army has just released a radar map with it says it shows the course of the russian s 24 as it got into the turkish air space and with a red line that it said was a violation of the turkish or the russian fighter jet and we've also heard from different sources that one of the pilots was killed and that the russian helicopt helicopters had been hovering in the area in latakia with a search and rescue mission. that mountainous area under control of the rebels so different factions are now operating on the ground

is working with kurdish fighters in syria and in iraq. turkey is bombing those kurdish fighters in syria. so the whole thing becomes very confusing. in proxy wars of the past, you kind of knew who everybody was backing. here it's really layer upon layer, and that's part of the issue that i think came out of the u.s. and the nato statements today, that this lack of coordination, we've seen it between the u.s. and russia in the past with planes getting close to each other over syria and now we saw this. there's been a call in the nato statement for everybody who is doing anything mill taerl in the area to coordinate with each other. >> right. you're right. it's an absolute mishmash and completing groups. turkey as you noted when it joined the air campaign to allow the flights out of the airbase on its territory in southern turkey, they have concentrated much of their targets on many of the kurdish forces that are nominally or at least associated with those forces that the united states is not only backing but depending on to take the fight against

we've got turkey saying that it has shot down a russian military jet close to the border with syria. these are pictures of that jet coming down in the border region. turkey is saying this because the plane violated its airspace. turkish military saying that it warned the pilot of plane before it shot the jet down. russia has confirmed that it was an su24 plane. crossing to our correspondent in turkey. that that's-- he is on the border. getting a few more details of the incident and what happened within the last hour, what are you hearing there? screw the turkish officials said that the moment the russian fighter jet violated the turkish airspace, they have been in touch with the plane, given the pilot ten warnings in five minutes and that when the warning was ignored, their fighter jets shot down that plane. the witnesses on the ground say that they saw the auto pilots ejected from the plane. we know that some turkmen fighters operating in that area have been deployed in the mountainous area to search for the two russian pilots. this is an area where there has been some intense fighti

between turkey and nato member and ally of the united states and many european countries, and russia will not help the very cautious attempt to maybe work together on the war on terror with regard to syria. >> turkey shoots down a russian fighter jet near the syrian border. moscow is warning serious consist r. consequences. >> president obama hosts the french president at the white house. >> fighting for his land, a native american activist gets one of the nation's highest honors. >> this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy. >> russian president vladimir putin is walking it a stab in the back, the shooting down of a russian war plane by turk i can fighter jets. these i am macies show what happens. both pilots are reportedly dead. nato has called an extraordinary meeting at turkey's request to discuss what happened. we have a report from the turkey-syria border. >> we haven't heard from president erdogan or the prime minister, but the army posted some statement, a radar map they say shows how the plane violated the turkish air space and then a statement saying that 15 kilometers before the so-called 24 got into the turkish air space, it got a first warning, the

turkey shares a long border with syria and has said bashar al-assad has no role to play in the future. the growing divide between turkey and russia under mines international push to find a way out of syria's ongoing war. >> reporter: it was the angry language of betrayal meeting with the king in turkey. vladimir putin says he shot it down and it was a stab in the back. >> translation: instead of contacting us immediately they contacted their partners. >> reporter: russia defense minister strew says it is not true that the souk 24 was in airspace or it was warned by turkish jets. >> translation: there were no attempts on the part of the turkish jet to communicate or maintain visual contact with the pilots. a rocket hit the plane over syrian territory. where the plane fell was 4 kilometer away from the border. >> reporter: foreign minister sir way levy rove-- sir gay levy on rove-- lavrov advised russians that it was unsafe for them to travel to occur key, one of their favourite tourist destinations. a military of response of sorts too. a russian warship is being sent to the latakia coa

turkey shares a long border with syria, and said that assad has no role to play in the future. he growing divide between turkey and russia undermines the international push to find a way out of syria's ongoing syri sir civil war. >> rory challands has been following the reaction and has this from moscow. >> it was the angry language of portrayal, vladimir putin confirmed turkey had shot done a russian plane. he described it as a stab in the back. we've always regarded turkey not only as a close neighbor but also as a friendly state. i don'state. turkey addressed the nato partners as it was it was us who downed the plane, not vice versa. >> a rocket tipped the plane over the syrian territory. the plane fell in territory four kilometers away from the border. according to preliminary data one of the parties was killed in the air. >> russia's first respond was diplomatic. sergei lavrov canceled wednesday's scheduled visit to turkey. the second response was commercial. it was advised it was unsafe for them to travel to turkey one of their favorite tourist destination. a russian warsh

it happened in the skies in turkey near la tack i can't province over the border in syria. syrian activists say two pilots have been killed. turkey says the plane was repeatedly warned before its military took action. al jazeera's rob mathieson has the latest. >> a russian jet fighter you go plunges to the ground, shot down close to the syrian border. >> this is a tab in the back. the pilot did not threaten anyone. the plane was shot down in syrian air space. this tragic event will have serious consequences for russia and turkey's relations. >> both pilots parachuted to the ground. russian military helicopters are searching for them near the border. the syrian option says it has the body of one of the pilots and that the second one is also dead. turkey released a map which claims to show a russian plane flew across its border, sake the pilots were warned several times before the aircraft was shot down. >> until recently, turkey had been careful not to an tall nice russia because it knows this kind of i understand can happen. turkey warned russia on a number of occasions that

russia's targets inside syria also triggered a harsh response from turkey. day turkish leaders called for the united nations security double to hold a meeting to discuss russia's airstrikes against syria. many have headed to the turkish border, but it seems that the shooting down of the russian jet is going to shape regional and international politics especially towards syria. this could be the spark for a wider war that has already led to this fight between turkey and russia. al jazeera. >> palestinian driver has rammed his car into a group of soldiers. the israeli military said three people were hurt. the incident happened at a checkpoint in the occupied west bank. it comes as the u.s. secretary of state john kerry visited prime minister benjamin netanyahu and he met with palestinian president mahmood abbas, and has condemned the outbreak of violence in which 24 palestinians and 16 israelis have been killed since the start of october. >> i know the situation for palestinians in the west bank n jerusalem, gaza, is at this moment very dire. that there are ext

the turkish military confirming its f-16s shot down a russian war plane near the turkey/syria border.a violated the air space and ignored repeated warnings. russia says it stayed on the syrian side of the border. this is expected to further complicate the coalition to fight isis and remove bashar al assad from syria. and nato telling cnn, the alliance is monitoring the situation closely and we are going to bring you more details as we get them. >>> a new round of street attacks by palestinians to report. israeli soldier knifed to death in the west bank. in jerusalem, two palestinian gir girls stabbed by an elderly man before being shot by a officer. secretary of state john kerry in the middle east hoping to calm the violence. let's good live to jerusalem and bring in cnn's oren lieberman. >> reporter: good morning, boris. at this point, very low in the issue of the leaders coming together for a solution. kerry is trying to get practical steps to put an end to the violence and ease the tensions here. it is not just kerry, but netanyahu and abbas as well. benjamin netanyahu was in washi

turkey says it violated its airspace near the border with syria. rossed into turkey's skies. russia says the plane was brought down by artillery. turkey says an f-16 jet brought it down. crew is seen on video parachuting to the ground. turkey shot down a russian drone recently. syria sent warplanes to saying it was fighting isis. inncois hollande is washington today. he will meet this morning with president obama. he wants to build a coalition against the militants who took responsibility for the paris attacks. he met yesterday with british prime minister david cameron. cameron says parliament in britain could vote next week to let british jets attack islamic state targets in syria. in belgium, it is extending its state of high alert for another week as police search for a suspect linked to the parents attack. the lockout will be easing starting tomorrow as schools and subways are reopened. areicans traveling overseas being warned by the state department. the government says terrorist groups are likely to be planning attacks in several regions. amer

turkey says that the jet was shot down after it ip vaded turkish air space after several warnings, but russia says that the jet was flying over syria and not turkey. and we have important development developments with nick paton walsh in istanbul, and we also have our military analyst mark hertling is joining us. and now, mark, they are saying they had every right to shoot down this s-24 >> they have said it very straight forward that under the rule rules of engagement they saw a russian aircraft entering the air space, and they showed a map that it was shown to be flying through, and they gave ten separate warnings, and then their f-16 shot down the aircraft. that video there you can see the two pilots ejecting and the scenes on the ground which are turkmen and syrian rebels there, and explaining why they are talking turkish firing at it, and saying, yes, take one of them live maybe for the prisoner exchange, but we do know that on the russian state tv that russian sources are saying that one of the pilots was in fact killed from fire from the ground as well. so a potential first admission of a death here. that will escalate the t

russia claims the plane did not cross in to turkey from flying from syria. turkey says it gave the pilots 10 warnings before firing. one one killed by ground fire. russian president putin is warning turkey of, quoting now, serious consequences. >>> good news for people living in hoboken. a boil water advisory has been lifted but work continues main and a valve that left some areas without any water at all. anthony johnson is in hoboken tonight with an update. >> you can see right behind me the road is a lot cleaner and a lot clearer than it was last night. the water in this area certainly has gone down. what they actually did, hoboken is now tied in. most of the water has been restored. about a mile away from the scene over in jersey city, they still have a serious problem. >> reporter: residents are filling buckets of water to take to apartments on the higher floors to cook, flush toilets and drink at the newport center high rise. the faucets on the upper floors are still bone dry. many high rises in this part of jersey city still have low pressure, discolor

criticizing her, the only real lever to close off the refugees is somewhere near turkey, between turkey, syria, and egypt. if you look at europe, where is a leader of mrs. merkel's stature -- if there's anybody, somebody who can work with turkey and the surrounding countries to have a solution that keeps more refugees there, it is still her. terry: as we mentioned at the beginning, chancellor merkel is the goto leader in europe when it comes to addressing these questions. it does however bear repeating, the question, where does chancellor merkel stand on the refugee crisis? you mentioned, andreas, that german voters don't like chaos. the chancellor's position on the refugee crisis has been moving over time. on one hand, she is very generous, but she has been playing a bit of policy hopscotch lately. >> the chancellor with a teenage refugee on tv in july, a performance dismissed by many as coldhearted. you know yourself in palestinian refugee camps in lebanon, there are thousands of people. if we say you can all come, it would be too much for us to manage. in early september, tens of thousands

meeting for a few hours from now what happen today when a russian plane crashed on the border of turkey and syria. turkey says that shut down -- shot down a russian warplanes, claiming it violated turkish airspace. russia has denied the plane crossed the syrian border into turkish skies. i am joined by jasper mortimer. what are the turks saying about the plane and what it was doing? which they say it was in syrian airspace for the entire flight -- the russians say it was in syrian airspace for the entire flight. a radar analysis has been released, which shows that the cute that was shot down across the tip of the turkish spur. it landed on the other side of the spur in syria. turks say they warned the plane. the border is a jagged affair and goes up and down, east and west. it is over heavily forest it territory. fly at high speed. it would have been easy for the pilot to make the error of crossing into turkish territory. what impacthis: -- will this have on relations between turkey and russia? >> the foreign ministers coming here. it is a visit that was scheduled last week. the fact that it has

from the turkey syria border this man is lucky to have survived another airstrike on rebel held idlib province. dozens more sir yajz are dead. make shift hospitals medics struggle to deal with the high number of casualties. these images ahave become part f life in many rebel held areas since the russian airstrikes began. opinionzition fighters accuse russia of carrying out this attack as well. have maintained their target are what they call terrorists. but activists say hundreds of civilians including children have been killed in recent waves of intention bombardment by russian jets and the syrian air force. the town is important for being close to the turkish border and an entry point to idlib province. it was the last city the government lost to rebels when they took over in may. syrian officials say it was captured by the al-nusra front. despite losing control of most of the country, president assad and his alleys insist it is vital to the fight against groups like isil. the syrian opposition along with their western and gulf alleys don't agree. >> today, the syrian people have a n

it happened near the turkey-syria border and despite russia's denials.. turkey is insisting the plane violated its airspace. abc's elizabeth hur reports. " " a russian marine.. killed.. while searching for the two russian pilots.. ejected from their fighter jet.. shot down by turkey.. that's according to russian military officials now vowing to destroy anyone threatening their air forces.. ((sot)) putin "speaking in russian.." vladimir putin.. is calling the shootdown a "stab in the back by the accomplices of terrorists"... blasting turkey.. a nato member.. the showdown between the two nations prompting nato.. to call an emergency meeting. ((sot)) nato secretary general jens stoltenberg " the information we have from all the allies is consistent what we have got from turkey.." turkey is maintaining its air force brought down the russian jet only after repeated warnings were ignored.. claiming the russian pilots were told 10 times in a 5 minute-span at they were violating turkish airspace.. ((sot)) col warren " we were able to hear everything that was goin

turkey is providing them with arms, assistance, logistics, and above all, safe passage into syria. >> turkey has gone beyond the line by its act ofgression against the russian jet fighter simply for the reasons that this jet fighter was discharging its mission, fighting terrorism and terrorists who are affiliated to turkey. and the russian air jet fighter over the past five days have succeeded in destroying many oil repertoires and tankers carrying syrian oil into turkey and in the long run, the rug air defenses along with and in cooperation with the syrian counterpart succeeded in putting an end to president erdogan's greed and enterprise. that's why he carried out this act of aggression candidly against the syrians. >> with rewards to questions addressed to me about the resignation have assad, we collectively very, very a long time were saying and president said the same yesterday again, that only syrian people allowed to decide who will govern syria. >> there should be no external committees that will be deciding who can and who can't. it's just simply impossible. this is our weste

the war of words is escalating over the downing of a russian military jet near the turkey-syria border. one pilot died after the urky shot the russian jet out of the sky on tuesday. a second pilot was rescued. turkey released audio recordings wednesday saying it proves repeated, it repeatedly warned the russians not to approach the turkish airspace and they were in danger. >> the navigator of the plane who ejected as it was going down says he didn't hear any of those warnings. moscow says this was an act of turkish aggression. new york city's hate crime task force is handling the case of a postal workers. the incident is caught on camera. the woman and her sister were walking down the street in block. >>> let's take a look at traffic, nbc traffic alert reporter jessica boyington, taking a look at 295. >> right around the black horse pike no problems a. work zone, not active right now. we still have lane restrictions in the area spound from 38 to this point at the black horse pike. if you are headed out the door on the 42 freeway this morning into philadelphia, northbound, this is usual

both in syria and in turkey. and the turks were contending, are contending, that the russians repeatedly bomb the turkamen encampments, who are not -- not part of the revolution against assad, whom the russians are supporting. the truth will come out fairly quickly, because -- >> right. >> -- of gps and other electronic means we'll be able to tell where that aircraft was. >> fluid situation. colonel jack jacobs joining us this morning on "first look." we appreciate it, colonel, thank you. >> you bet. >>> also breaking overnight the u.s. military confirms that four army crew members have died after their helicopter crashed at the fort hood military post in texas last night. the crew was taking part in a routine training mission aboard a uh-60 helicopter, similar to this one. an investigation is under way and the names of the deceased are being withheld pending notification of next of kin. >>> donald trump is not backing away from what many call an urban myth. last night he again insisted he saw thousands and thous

kayla, and myself at post nine as we are watching events both in washington and, of course, on the turkey-syria racheting up overseas after turkey shot down a russian jet, a fighter jet, near the border with syria. russian president vladimir putin calling that attack a stab in the back. our john harwood is at the white house this morning with more. good morning, john. >> good morning, carl. you know, the french president, president obama are now meeting. we're going to find out in roughly a half hour or so whether there are any new policy changes coming out of that meeting. we've seen president obama after the paris attacks saying he would have an intensification of his current strategy, but not a fundamental change in it. francois hollande on is on a diplomatic tour. he will be seeing angela merkel of germany and vladimir putin of russia, and, of course, the new tension injected by the shootdown by turkish forces of the russian plane which had the turks said had violated their airspace injekts a new level of

they know that's not going to happen without the help of turkey from where many people from places like syriaravel on to grease and further through the balkans to places like the macedonia border and those scenes that we have seen of desperation as countries start to strengthen their own frontiers for turkey, what they will get out of it, apart from that $32,000,000,000 is, as you are referring to, perhaps visa travel, visa-free travel within the the eu in the near term. but longer term, the turkey prime minister has cleared stated in the last two hours that he really sees something happening in terms of turkey restarting talks to join the bloc. >> we are a european nation. the rest of our continent belongs to us, to all of you. for the future of european continent continents,tie is willing to do everything -- turkey is willing to do everything not just to respond to the refugee crisis but the issues, regarding the future of our continent. we want to be a member of the european family add and as a family member i can assure you turkey will be contributing to these success in europe. >> how li

turkey shoots down a russian bomber. it can derail syria. turkey says they ignored multiple warnings. russia says its jet never strayed from syrian territory. russian news agencies reports one of the two pilots was killed as was a russian marine trying to rescue them. a second pilot was rescued, and is with the army now. the head of nato urges calm. >> that calm echoed by president obama. let's bring in cnn's ian lee for the latest. ian, russia is saying this was an operation targeting isis, be you this area where it happened isn't an area known for isis activity, right? >> reporter: that's exactly right. we do not have real evidence, proof of isis operating in the area. who is operating is turkmen rebels. they ethnically have close ties with turkey. turkey has been backing them. turkey warned the government of syria as well as the russians from attacking them. they see them as their close relatives. president erdowan talked about this a little while ago. take a listen. >> we do not have any intention to escalate this matter. all we are carin

syria >>> many thanks. breaking news for you this hour from al jazeera. we're getting these pictures which we understand show turkish war planes shooting down a jet near the border between turkey and syria. just to be perfectly clear, there are conflicting reports as to whether the aeroplane was shot down or whether it crashed. that's all we know at the moment. there is one news agency saying that what happened, happened because it violated airspace. however, that is predicated on an assumption that it was shot down. we do not know that as of yet. we will get you more on that story as soon as we can. we will just rule that vt for-- roll that for you one more time. certainly if that war plane went through the coming few seconds that you're seeing there on your screen, that was definitely something utterly catastrophic happening to the aircraft. you can see there as it goes into flames, its trajectory altered dramatically as it heads down towards the ground. a volatile situation there on the ground in syria. easier, perhaps, when that type of news breaks, to tell you what we don't know rather than what we do know. we will get the information to you as soon as possible. our corre

you video, apparently showing a russian warplane on fire crashing into the mountains along the turkey- syria border. turkey says it shot down the judge because it flew over turkish airspace and ignored repeated warnings. the two pilots ejected but there are conflicting reports about their conditions at this point. the russian jet was presumably on a bombing mission against isis in syria. russian president vladimir putin called the downing of the plane a quote, step in the back. and says the incident will have serious consequences for russia's relationship with turkey going forward. now, nato has called an emergency meeting in brussels, two hours from now, to discuss this issue. we're going to have a live report on this developing story coming up at 6:30. also this morning, president obama will host french president francois hollande at the white house. this is the first face-to-face meeting between the two world leaders since the paris attacks 11 days ago. they have spoken on the phone several times, but they will discuss increasing international efforts to target isis. president hollande is

sergey lavrov, russian foreign minister was to go to turkey tomorrow to discuss syria. that trip has been canceled. the russian foreign minister advised russian citizens to abandon their plans to go to turkey on holiday. turkey is a major vacation spot for russian tourists. millions of russians go there every year. and the association of russian tourists has chimed in as well saying, look, we're not advising people to book from russia package holidays to turkey anymore either. and so, you know, this is just the start of the -- of the response that we're expecting from russia. we're not expecting them to declare war on russia -- sorry, on turkey or anything like that. but will there be an asymmetrical response, the start of which we are now seeing. >> but it makes it all the more complicated when you have the hope of many that we could see some sort of aalliance form between united states, france, russia and turkey as needed in this fight against isis. fred pleitgen to you, you are outside this emergency nato meeting just called in the wake of this. who is meeting inside?

their reclusive neighbors. ♪ >>> russia has questioned whether turkey has any real intenning of fighting what it describes as terrorism in syriaian foreign minister made the comment after his meeting with the syrian counterpart in moscow. it's the latest in the war of words between the two countries. after turkey shot down a russian fighter jet. >> translator: we have a lot of questions about ankara's true intennings, and its level of real commitment to eliminate terrorism in syria, and its interest in the normalization of the political situation in syria. >> translator: isis militants receive free passage, they receive medical weapons -- medal help and weapons from turkey. >>> moscow will suspend visa-free travel from turkey starting january 1st. turkey president has offered to meet vladimir putin at the climate talks in paris next week, but he is standing his ground saying russia's actions in syria are dangerous. >> translator: yes, it is playing with fire to attack syrian opposition who have international legitimacy under the pretext of fighting against isil. the whole world admits turkey is rife in this incident. this is a

turkey contended the syria-bound russian plane had entered turkey's airspace without permission. the act already prompted russia to deploy surface-to-air missiles inside syria to protect its aircraft carrying out air strikes in syria. now russia will restrict the import of certain turkish goods and prohibit travel agencies from selling tours to turkey. earlier today, turkish president recep erdogan expressed regret for shooting down the russian plane. >> ( translated ): we are really saddened by this incident. we wouldn't have wished this to happen, but unfortunately it did. i hope this will not happen again. turkey has never been in favor of triggering tensions and clashes, and we never will be. >> sreenivasan: joining me now to discuss russia's economic response is kimberly marten, a professor at barnard college, columbia university here in new york. why this back and forth? why this escalation on the part of rush hour and really attempted de-esque alation on the part of turkey? >> well, turkey isn't de-escalating as much as they could. they did not follow standard practice in s

it happened along the border between turkey and syria. footage from turkish television shows a warplane going down in flames, in what looks like a wooded area. you can see a plume of smoke trailing behind the plane. the turkish president confirmed the news early this morning. saying the russian jet violated its airspace. according to the turkish air force the jet was warned ten times before being shot down. let's bring in nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel, who is live for us in istanbul. russia -- richard, what is russia saying this morning? what else can you tell us about this incident? >> well, we have two contradicting accounts. the turkish government, as you said, says that a jet violated its airspace. that the jet was warned ten times over the course of five minutes. and that two american-made f-16s operated by the turkish air force engaged that plane, shot it down. the pilots appeared to have ejected. the russian government, however, the russian defense ministry, is -- has a totally different version of events. it s

not doing enough to prevent the foreign fighters from going back and forth from europe through turkey to syria, and back through turkey again. as i said, turkey is not a perfect ally. many of their actions in recent years, i have been very opposed to including the way they have turned against israel, and going back to 2003 not to allow president bush to bring the troops into iraq. through the northern border, and all of that, i would say, that the i am not crazy about turkey. on the other hand, russia, now, they have violated a number of countries' air space, and being provocative and you have seen what they have done in the ukraine and bombing allied forces with us in syria right now. so under those conditions, i would say in this instance, turkey is right, and the larger issue is that if a nato ally is threatened by russia, and do we stand by the ally, and i say that we have to. >> and there are allegation, and elements of the u.s. military central command pressured to sugar coating some of the intelligence estimates about isis, and the war against isis to make it sound more rosy than it was

turkish president claims parts of the jet entered in turkey. syria this morning. president obama points the finger atmos cow over -- at moscow. >> if they keep threatening the allies of freedom and enemies of assad, you can find another incident like this. they part the missile ship in the coast. it's important for vladimir putin to back off and put his ego aside and do this for the safety of the region. >> cheryl: russian president denounces turkey's shootdown and warns of significant consequences. prime minister saying that turkish companies may lose their russian market share. >> nicole: we are ashley webster live in paris with the latest. good morning, ashley. >> ashley: good morning, to you, nicole, yes, indeed, life is slowly getting back to normal in brussels, today's schools and universities and part of the subway system opened again for business although a strong army and police force very evident and officials reporting that they are still looking for roughly ten more suspects that could be linked to the terror attacks on november 13thment

continue to follow break news after russia says one of its warplanes has been shot down on the turkey/syria border. details are just starting to trickle in. angie goff is gathering everything we know so far and will bring us an update in a few minutes. >>> something else we're keeping a close eye on this morning, the weather, look at these temperatures, very cold out there. a lot of you below freezing this morning. chuck bell will let us know whether or not we will see a warmup in the next 24 hours also ahead. >>> 4:56 now. this will be the first thanksgiving for gaithersburg man who lost his wife and two young sons in a tragic accident. it was december 8th, 2014, when a plane crashed into the neighborhood where ken gimel and his family lived setting their house on fire. ken and his 8-year-old daughter airable were not home at the time. he said he still has his bad days but he's very thankful for his daughter. >> there are some days that are still very tough. it is not always a daily thing, just a day that is overly stressful and you start drifting and your emotions get the better of you. b

syria and iraq. france and russia are now in the war. nato member turkeys involved up to its eye teeth, but as he saw in the russian jet shootdown, not always with the same priorities as its assumed allies. stop me when you think we have reached something that sounds like world war 3.0. it's the inside story. ♪ >>> welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. no, i'm not suggesting that this conflict is as extensive or threatening as the total war fought in every corner of the globe in world war ii. but when the list of combatants in iraq and syria is as long as this, it makes both the war on the ground and diplomacy at the bargaining table extremely complex. exhibit a, turkey's recent shootdown of a russian military jet in the skies over syria. turkey says it warned the jet repeatedly. russia denies that took place. turkey has refused to apologize, russia has laid on economic sanctions. al jazeera america claimed responsibility for the paris attacks. france is fighting back hard. >> we would like to see russia concentrating its efforts to fight our common e

>> it's coming from across the border from turkey, basically syria. bolt countries are as i will on opposing sides with regard to that conflict. turkey feels aside from the fact that russia is essentially backing somebody they consider to be a dictator or a despot of the regime, they are taking advantage. moscow believes turkey isn't just supporting those apposed to assad but accuses them of supporting isil or daish as it's known. turkey claims russia is tarting opponents of bashar al assad as he made clear in his speech earlier today. >> they claim to be fighting against daish, however, they are in areas in the north which is populated by turk mapps. there is no daish there. do not deceive us. >> this cob applicant in syria is spilling over, having an effect on turkey's relationship with countries which were considered friendly countries, particularly in light of the huge economic deals and trade that goes between moscow and ankara. for now at least from a turkish perspective, they are hoping that this will be nothing more than an unfortunate incident

turkey wants russia's air attacks to stop. it insists isil is not operating in that part of northern syria, and that russia knows this. rory challands, al jazeera, moscow. >> not long ago turkey released audio recordings, we're preparing those for you. but in the meantime these are the words that we managed to work out at the moment. this is the turkish air force speaking. you're approaching turkish air space. change your heading south immediately. now let's go to al jazeera's jamal live in ankara. so we have an en pass. the co-pilot, who is alive, said not in turkish air space, no warning. we've recordings released head to head between the two countries. how have they brokered an agreement between themselves without these matters escalating further? >> well, that is an interesting question, david, because the day started off from the turkish perspective they believe they made all the right diplomatic overtures towards russia. president erdogan and prime minister both said that they did not want to--they wanted, rather, to de-escalate. they did not want the situation to get worse. they stood by what the military did. t

turkey. the kremlin has decided to deploy its air defense system to its base in syria. turkey's military has released what it calls warnings to the russian flight or jet he for it was shot down. -- before it was shot down. >> barely discernible but the turkish army says this recording proves it did or in the russian jet before it was shot down, but it directly refutes the account given by the surviving russian pilot. warnings, notno radio or visual. there was no contact whatsoever. that is why we kept our combat course as usual. if they wanted to warn us, they could have shown themselves by heading on a parallel course but there was nothing. a rocket hit our tale completely unexpectedly. we did not even see it in time to take evasive measures. >> both ejected from the plane after it was hit, but one of the pilots was shot dead as he parachuted to the ground. the captain denies crossing into syria's airspace. >> and aunt identified plane was warned -- an unidentified plane was warned 10 times and five minutes because it was heading to our border but despite the warning, i

it happened along the border between turkey and syria. footage from turkish television shows a warplane going down in flames in what looks like a wooded area. you can see a plume of smoke trailing behind the plane. the turkish government said the russian jet violated its air space. the jet was warned ten times before being shot down. let's bring in nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel live in istanbul. what more do we know at this point? >> reporter: there's a major dispute right now in the circumstances of this plane that was shot down. a russian sekoy 24, it was flying on a counterterrorism mission inside syria and that it was shot by ground fire, that the pilots ejected. the fate of the pilots at this stage is still unclear. the turkish government, however, has a different version of events. it said this russian jet violated turkish air space, was warn ten different times over the course of five minutes and then after being warned those ten times was engaged by two turkish operated by u.s. made american f-16 fighter jets

turkey says it was because the russian su-24, a sucoy bomber violated turkish airspace on its way to carry out a bombing run in syria. turkey says it was simply defending its border when an unidentified aircraft was warned repeatedly and failed to acknowledge and respond to those warnings. russia has responded furiously, accusing turkey of being in bed with terrorists. russia insists its plane was targeted by turkey in syria and is vowing some sort of punishment, vowing some sort of response. >> i think it's very important right now for us to make sure that both the russians and the turks are talking to each other, find out exactly what happened. >> reporter: in moscow, president vladimir putin was furious. this was a stab in the back by the associates of terrorists, he said. it certainly does escalate a very tense situation already, at a time when president obama and others are calling for more unity. richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >> russia says it will terminate all military contact with turkey and they won't retaliate militarily against turkey but warned in the future it will shoot down anything that threate

russia would go after turkish interests inside syria going after rebel groups that backed by turkey tong down one of their planes. >> ian, i heard reports from turkish media they targeted turkish aid vehicles in syria. have we been able to confirm that independently? >> reporter: we are hearing from one of the aid groups that stated their vehicles were not targeted. this happened across the border from turkey inside syria. we are told the aid vehicles were empty at the time or majority of them were empty. this is an area where aid goes to a lot of the people who desperately need it inside syria. we're hearing reports at least seven people were killed in the attack. >> ian lee monitoring a delicate situation. ian, thank you. >>> the angry words with russia and turkey come as russian president vladimir putin and french president francois hollande prepare to meet later this morning. hollande will try to persuade putin to go all-in against the coalition against isis and away from bashar al assad's regime. the downing of the jet is complicating that effort. french lawmakers voted 325-0 to c