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Shooting inside the concert hall. you can hear what sounds like gunfire as members of the band take cover. 89 people were killed inside the concert hall. this morning the european union has called for an emergency meeting of justice ministers later this week to discuss europe s response to the attacks. we now know that at least one american citizen was killed. she was a 23-year-old design student from california. president obama is in turkey today for the g-20 economic summit. turkey s capital ankara suffered a suicide bombing in october that killed more than 100 people. the skies have been darkened by the horrific attacks that took place in paris just a day and a half ago. ....
And syria but also other countries like afghanistan going through turkey, boarding those rubber raftsz, then, then apply asylum once they arrive in europe. the attacks in paris are adding to new urgency to the g-20 summit of world leaders getting under way in turkey. this morning president obama pledged u.s. help in hunting down the perpetrators. nbc s ron allen is traveling with the president and joins us from antalya. i imagine much of the summit will be dominated by talk of these attacks and the response from united states, france and other allies in how to respond to this. reporter: exactly, frances. yes, it is the dominant topic now. this is usually about economics and business. some of that will be discussed but it is hard to ignore it is impossible to ignore what ....
Light inspiring people across europe to show their support. candles in their windows defying the darkness terrorists try to spread. nbc s erica hill reporting. now to paris and christopher dickie, foreign editor for the daily beast. chris, i know you know this country and the french people very well. you see the resilience and the strength and comforting side of this city now, but long after today and the days of mourning, how will this change parisians for better or worse? well, i think the big risk is that this will drive a wedge between the immigrant communities and their descendants and the franco french. that is clearly the intention of these attacks. they are meant to drive a wedge in frank society to divide it. what we see here is a demonstration by a lot of french ....
Is not a u.s. war to fight. it is a european and u.s. and arab ally struggle. again, primarily it s going to be sorting out sunni versus shia muslim trying to sort out world war i boundaries that don t make sense. by the way, frances, i think one of the major failures of european union and u.s. policy is not providing massive humanitarian support to these refugee populations on the border of jordan and turkey. but is that the difficulty here in knowing that we re getting these reports that one of the attackers may have slipped in with a syrian passport via greece? well, i mean that s obviously going to happen. if you re going to dump a million refugees into europe, obviously you re going to have people coming in hidden in that body. but the big issue is why would you put a million people into europe instead of stabilizing them into jordan and turkey. ....
Investigation may be continuing given that at least five were arrested in belgium and also talking about the sharing of information, how that will be implemented advancing their investigation and finding out more behind these attacks. i want to bring in now from washington, d.c., the martin j. gross fellow in the program on arab politics where he focuses on syria and u.s. policy. andrew, i appreciate your being with us here. want to talk about this specifically with the war in syria and europe s refugee crisis where many some of the more pressing topics among these world leaders takes place. outside of strengthening partser inships with our allies what kind of results with come out of the meetings in turkey, specific lip with the migrant crisis and now in europe and given the fact one or more of these attackers may have gone through greece with a syrian passport? very good questions. ....