A special police task force raided the Din Daeng flats in Bangkok, making many arrests, after a riot policeman on duty in the area was shot and seriously wounded on Wednesday night.
stepsister and opening fire in a mosque near also has denied the accusations and asked to be released 21 year old philip man s house made the statement at a court hearing the court ruled that he can be held for 4 weeks while an investigation continues. funerals have been held for 5 russian engineers killed last week by an explosion at a nuclear weapons research center a spokesman for the center says the blast occurred as the engineers were testing a nuclear isotope power source for a rocket engine russian environmentalists are calling on the kremlin to release details of reported radioactive leak. and we stay in russia where the interior ministry says it has launched a probe after a video of a riot police officer punching a female protester in the stomach when viral video was shared by several russian
stand together. andre karlov was shot in ankara. we re about to play it, you may find it graphic. [ gunfire ] alla akbar. he shouted god is greatest. what is the latest we have now? we have the everyone teer yore minister come out a few hours after that horrific video of the ambassador getting shot emerged. and identify the attacker as riot police officer. we know where he went to high school, we know where he went to police academy. we know he s been in the riot police for the last 2 1/2 years.
turkey and russia have vowed to work together to get to the bottom of this. and just a short while ago, turkish security officials said that it does not seem in his estimation that the gunman was operating alone. that the attack was well planned, well executed, and he did not think that this was the work of a single amateur. what happened last night was the russian ambassador was at a typical diplomatic function, the opening of a russian-sponsored photography exhibit. he was delivering his opening statements, and then just moments into his remarks, a security guard, we now know he was an actual riot police officer, off duty at the time, pulled out his pistol and shot the ambassador in the back. and then made the statement that you pyed a short while ago, yelling to the assembled crowd, including journalists, that this was he had sworn allegiance
when you see this turkish riot police officer, you hear what he says, he says god is great, don t forget aleppo, don t forget syria. do you see his motorizations as a radicalized islamic terrorist or someone that is more a nationalist? it s hard to know at this point, but what is your instinct? turkey has the distinction of being hated by all sides in the syrian civil war. in the syrian civil war, you have kurds and isis and the assad regime, but they all fight turkey at the same time. you re seeing a government employee, whose job is to be apolitical, carry out a political murder. so this points to a very dangerous trajectory for turkey. for a very long time, turkey was known as a country of stability.