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Confirming it was indeed a russian warplane that was taken down by that fire. they say though on a number of different levels they dispute the turkish account. first of all, they deny this warplane went into turkish airspace. they say it completely stayed inside syrian airspace where russian is carrying out air strikes against rebel groups opposed to the syrian president. they also deny that this plane was brought down by an air to air missile. turks say the f-16 interceptors were scrambled and ...

This hour. the turkish military confirming its f-16s shot down a russian war plane near the turkey/syria border. turkey claimed russia 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 st...

Washington. with we have the chief white house correspondent jim acosta standing by and the chief national correspondent john king and our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, and our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. and i will get to you in a moment, jim and john, but lets talk to christiane. it is the first time that a f-16 plane blocking turkey has shot down a russian warplane, and this is representing a serious problem. i want you to listen to what the pre...

They ejected from the su-24 warplane, there is already some suggestion that it is a criminal act if not a war, a crime against a war crime, if you will, if you are shooting at parachuting pilots. you have served in europe and commanded these kinds of positions, and this is clearly a tense situation. is that in fact a war crime to shoot at ejecting pie lots? >> yes, it is a violation of the law of the land combat, and if someone is parachuting or unarmed at the timef of an attack like this. and a...

Airspace, they clearly acted very quickly here in taking that plane down. the problem is weve got a lot of countries now involved in this effort. and if we simply allow these countries to do their own thing, russia to drop its bombs where it wants, the french to attack whatever targets they want, the saudis to be involved in yemen on their own, if we allow everybody to kind of do their own thing, we are going to lose the opportunity to consolidate the effort against this enemy. isis is our enemy...

The other pilot, his fate unknown. >> thank you so much for that. the kremlin calling the downing of their fighter jet a serious incident. for more reaction from the russians to our breaking story, we turn to cnn international correspondent matthew chance live in moscow. matthew? >> reporter: the russians are confirming a couple aspects of that turkish account. they are saying that the plane was brought down. they confirm a russian warplane has crashed inside syria. they are also saying, this is...

All over the video you are about to see. chilling. vladimir putin calling it a stab in the back. a russia war plane is engulfed in flames igniting a new diplomatic crisisis. turkey says the plane invae inv its air space and ignored for around 5 minutes. two pilots did eject from this plane. you are going to see that shortly. there you see the jet crashing into the mountains of turkey. the pilots eject. they parachute to the ground. not necessarily to safety. this territory largely held by syrian...

For months if not longer, and you heard how complicated and difficult it is from the policy perspective and the president is candid that he knows that as he faces pressure here at home, and he tries to step up and do more in cooperation with the french and others he is doing so in an ugly political environment here at home. >> and yes sh, is it is a very y tense political environment here in the united states. jim sciutto, the suspicion is that the turks shot down this russian warplane, this air...

Served as defense secretary and cia director under president obama, president clintons chief of staff, former u.s. congressman as well. mr. second, thanks very much for joining us. the russians say what happened today, turkish decision to knock out the russian warplane is going to complicate the situation. you want more coordination, a unified command, if you will, in the war against isis. how much does this incident that happened today jeopardize all of that? >> well, wolf, first of all, its go...

Turkey this morning where there are reports that a russian warplane was shot down near the turkish boarder with syria. the turkish president says the aircraft was shot down by turkish warplanes after violating the countrys airspace. however, the russian ministry of defense says the plane was shot from the ground, and was flying above syrian territory at the time. turkmen fighters say they are searching for two pilots in the turkish mountains right now. nbc news joe fryer is in london with more d...