terror attack there. authorities in the united states and europe knew the main suspect was a potential threat. a german investigate show that he was linked to an isis recruiting cell and discussed launching an attack. brian todd has details from washington. reporter: frightening new video seconds before impact. newly released footage of the truck speeding through an intersection in berlin towards the christmas market. now german authorities are more confident than ever that this ma man, believed to be seen in this video, was the driver of the truck that killed a tozen people in berlin. translator: we were able to find finger prints on the outside of the truck, on the door and the door pillar. reporter: now new information on amri s ties to an isis recruiting network and what
and it is clear this morning that it was not intelligence that led authorities to him. on the outskirts of milan. it is clear that this was happenstance, that he looked suspicious to the authorities, they asked him for his identity, he pulled out a gun, a gun fight ensued, he s dead. the most wanted man in europe and this is how he is caught. how concerned should the authorities be right now? well, they should be concerned because he s not only touched germany with the attack but obviously went through france and then italy. italy s not that surprising given his background there and the years that he spent in italy. but the question is, who who was he coordinating with in either france or italy and was he on his way to essentially a safe house? in the history of counterterrorism this is not that surprising that he s captured because of some, you know, just a sort of random patrol. remember, new york, new jersey, just a few weeks or few months ago, he was caught outside of a bar. th
break news on the main suspect in the berlin truck attack just hours after anis amri was killed in a police shoot-out last night just outside of milan isis has released a new video. this video appears to show the 24-year-old tunisian man pledging allegiance to isis leader. there is no mention in the video of the attack on monday. it s not clear when this pledge of allegiance to isis in this video when this was all shot. let s go to journalist chris burns from berlin with more on the investigation. and obviously the shoot-out that led to amri s death. walk us through what happened. i know you have some breaking news on frankly how much german intelligence knew about what a threat amri was before the attack.
you want to have nuclear stability. this is not a race that anyone s going to win or lose. we don t want to have to use nuclear weapons but deter our adversaries and that s a serious business that every president from harry truman on has done successfully. listen to general mattis. listen to the chairman of the joints chief of staff. listen to the career foreign service on these issues before you tweet out in 140 characters, it s not mature. it s not reasonable. ambassador nicolas burns thank you, errol louis, we appreciate it. thank you all. still to come the suspect in the berlin market attack shot and killed overnight. we have the latest on all of that how it went down. also the syrian government says it now has control of aleppo after more than four years of civil war there. so what happens now? take one.
happen. i think now that he is captured and killed, the bigger question is, is why did this a continue remember? this itinerary is bizarre for a variety of reasons. and so they have to figure out what was motivating him in all of those countries, and who was there to help him. of course, you know, the voices across europe speaking out right now. we are expecting to hear from german chancellor angela merkel, the french foreign leader blasting this calling it a security disaster talking about the open and porous borders because of the schengen agreement which has been in place for decades but allowing him to travel without the checkpoints through multiple countries. paul this you ve also got these two overnight arrests in germany. police looking at if these other people were planning another attack in a mall at a christmas market. could this all be part of the same network? yes. i think in fact in a presser german officials held a few moments ago they said they