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Clarissa ward joins us from moscow. november of 2015, turkey shot down a russian plane on the turkish syria border. it was an su-24 fighter jet. there have been tensions over the last several years, not to mention going back decades between turkey and russia but as muhammed said, of late the two nations had been negotiating on these cease-fire attempts in aleppo. >> reporter: no, it's extraordinary how much the relationship between turkey and russia has improved since the shooting down of that plane which was possibly an all-time low. we have seen russia and turkey cooperating really quite clo...

Pulled out from performing there because of house bill 2. we should mention the ncaa which hosts some games, championship games there in charlotte and in the state, they decide what they are going to do for the next six years in march so many people, they are telling us the gop leadership desperate to get house bill 2 repealed before that happened. we will keep an eye on this and try to get you more details as they develop. big breaking news this morning. >> nick valencia, thanks so much. we have more breaking news. this out of turkey. word of an attack on the russian ambassador to turkey. p...

Weeks there have been several big ones. of course, none of them have targeted foreign dignitaries, let alone someone of such a high status at the ambassador level. it's unclear how russia or turkey will respond. we are awaiting an official claim of responsibility for who was behind this very deadly brazen attack. >> there has been a great deal of tension between turkey and russia over the last 12 months over the war in syria, right, with planes being shot at, apologies being made, and of course, there are kurdish separatists who have staged some of the terrorist attacks inside turkey. if they ...

All right. we have breaking news in to cnn. i do want to warn you, the pictures we are about to show are very very disturbing. we are getting word of an attack on the russian ambassador to turkey. he was shot while at an art exhibition in the capital of ankara. again, this happened in ankara. i believe we have pictures. if we do have pictures of this scene, can we put them up so viewers can see? there's a map showing you where ankara is. ankara of course, the capital of turkey right now. we are getting this word the russian ambassador was shot in the capital. he's been taken to the hospital. w...

Moscow tomorrow that russia and iran and also turkey are taking part in as part of ongoing efforts to bring about an end to the syrian civil war. turkey's foreign minister is expected to attend that. certainly the relationship had made some dramatic strides just in the last six months, really, particularly i would say since the failed coup attempt against erdogan earlier this summer. we are getting a little bit more information about the ambassador who was shot. we know that his career began in 1976 as a diplomat. he served as the russian ambassador or then the soviet union ambassador to north...