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Intimately involved in the war in syria right now. in fact, on different sides of that war though they have been negotiating for this cease-fire in syria for some time but there have been a number of tensions between these two countries over the last year or so. again, live pictures from ankara where the russian ambassador to turkey just shot and taken to the hospital. muhammed lila joins us live from the turkish/syria border. also with us is clarissa ward in moscow. i want to go first to muhammed right now to give us the latest information on what exactly is going on inside turkey. >> reporte...

Border. you are looking at pictures coming in from cnn turk of this attack on the russian ambassador to turkey. he has been shot at an art exhibition. we need some answers as to who is responsible for this. it is an incredibly, incredibly tense location in this war with a lot at stake. we will find out details and get back to you. stay with us. so, mr. harris, we have your fingerprints on the safe. a photo of you opening the safe. a post using the hashtag "#justrobbedthesafe"

That could endanger u.s. warplanes flying over syria going after isis targets, not just turkish or french or other planes, u.s. aircraft potentially could be in danger. >> exactly right. it has a wide range. and it could include the u.s. air base inside turkey as well as other aircraft that we fly in that region. so i agree with the point that it is a major escalation. and that's part of what we're going to ask the secretary of defense about tomorrow. >> what do you want to hear from him? >> i want to hear a path forward towards successfully degrading isis. >> how do you do that? >> well, the ...

Affiliated with the pkk have eye new political party that's doing very well in the polls. there's an election november 1st. they stand to do exceedingly well, to the point where they might help topple the government. >> is turkey retaliating against them for this instead of isis. >> turkish foreign policy sees everything through the politics of the kurdish question. inside turkey there's a large minority of kurdish nationalists who if they had their druthers would declare around independent state. they've been undergoing a peace process for about three years. it was one of the marked successin...

Authorities here of course because there could be more potential attackers on the loose. of course, for the french, na will be one of the avenues they will be questioning. poppy? >> was he tied to anyone else or was he carrying this out on his own. thank you very much. nic robertson live in france. jonathan, to you. how big is the concern that isis operatives are using turkey as a base to not send europeans who have been radicalized on to syria but rather, turn them back to go home to carry out attacks in their homeland? >> that is a big thing. what really alarms me is that not just turkey but...