Girlfriend at our big macklemore concert in central park. It didnt make it on air, but it was all over social media. I proposed to her on stage. We have the happy couple live to talk about their same love moment. From abc news, live from new york, this is good morning america. What a concert yesterday. Good morning, america. As you can see, dan harris is not here, hes on assignment. We have nightline coanchor and abc chief legal analyst dan abrams in for him. Great to see you. Good morning, great to be here. Its saturday, august 17th. Theres a lot happening. Egypt at the breaking point, protesters refusing to back down. Lawlessness ruling the streets. The Muslim Brotherhood now digging in. The u. S. Embassy in cairo tweeted this morning they will be closed tomorrow as the violence escalates. Also ahead, its the hottest hit of the summer, you know what im talking about, blurred lines, but did robin thicke rip off marvin gaye when he wrote the lyrics . A court battle is brewing, well let
build on moving forward. now that the russian ambassador has been shot and we just got word that he s in critical condition, being treated in hospital, the question becomes now not just what happens in turkey but how does this affect everything that s playing out in syria. because if it was one of these groups, for example, isis that has a presence in syria or one of the al qaeda groups that has a presence in syria, the question becomes not just what happens in turkey but the connection and the domino effect that takes place in the whole region starting in turkey obviously, but then obviously moving on to syria. let s just bring you up to speed. you are looking at live pictures from ankara, in the capital of turkey, where the russian ambassador, andrey karlov was shot multiple times. he s in critical condition. he has been taken to the hospital, the ambassador has. we will update you on his condition when we get it. as muhammed and clarissa ward were telling you, this comes at a crit
syria. russia of course supporting the assad regime in that country. turkey has been supportive of the rebels, although turkey has different interests as well with some of the kurdish fighters that have been fighting the syrian regime. we did get pictures just a short time ago from cnn turk of the attack on the russian ambassador to this country right now. do we have muhammed lila? cnn s muhammed lila is on the border between turkey and syria. what can you tell us? reporter: well, we understand the ambassador was speaking at an art gallery when a gunman or several gunmen burst in. we understand he has been shot. we don t know the latest in terms of what condition he is in. all of this is coming from reports from state media. of course, now that the russian ambassador andrey karlov has been shot, this is a major crisis. we know there have been a number of terrorist attacks in turkey. in fact, just in the last few
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 closely and i should say much to the chagrin of many rebel forces in syria who have started to feel like perhaps turkey was selling them out as part of this rapprochement with russia. as muhammed mentioned, russia and turkey working very closely together trying to broker this aleppo evacuation deal. there s a big summit here in
of course, the real key here will be to try to find out who was responsible for this shooting. was it a turk, was it a syrian, was it possibly a member of a militant group such as isis? only once we have a better sense of who was responsible for it and exactly what the motivation was for it, whether it indeed is related to what s happening at the moment in syria, will we then get a better sense of how russia is likely to respond. that s the key here. we should say that there have been isis-linked attacks inside turkey over the last year. there have also been attacks linked to kurdish separatist groups in turkey over the last several years. we just don t know at this point who is behind the attack. that is something we are going to keep our eye on throughout the day. muhammed lila, while we have you with us, can you give us briefly a quick update on what s happening on the ground inside aleppo with the attempts to evacuate some of the civilians there?