Donald trumps talk of a new arms race. And why a third of the homeless say they have been attacked on our streets. And coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, well look ahead to the start of a busy christmas fixture list, with chelsea top of the tree. But can they stay there . Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The man suspected of the berlin Christmas Market attack has been shot dead by police in italy. Anis amri had been missing since the attack on monday it appears he left germany for france, before crossing into italy, able to move undetected around the continent despite a europe wide manhunt. Italian Police Stopped him in the early hours this morning at a Train Station in milan, shooting him dead after amri fired on them. The italian Authorities Say his fingerprints match those found on the Steering Wheel of the lorry which killed twelve people and injured dozens more. Our europe correspondent Damian Grammaticus has the latest. Anis amris brief violent
He stages the whole thing. Love triangle . Thats what we thought. What was real . What was pretend. This is as diabolical as any case ive ever seen. Was the missing man the killer . Or was the real killer hiding center stage . Thats when the light bulb went off. This son of a bitch is dirty. The curtain was about to come down. Theyre trying to say im somebody i am not. This is my name. This is my life. This is my entire future. Reporter places please. There is an empty theater. A script full of twists. A troupe of actors and someone who set the stage for an unbelievable tragedy. Im buying it. Im buying it hook, line, and sinker. Reporter all of it so well done. It was hard to tell what was i just remember his performance being very, very real. Reporter this is a story of a man who seemed to be at the end of his rope. It looked like he was having some sort of panic attack or heart attack. Reporter but on this stage at the final curtain, the darkness remained. Because this story wouldnt
And it was captured on a surveillance video. The man is seen fighting off the attack in the video, a sunny day, his birthday when two men wearing orange hoodies demanded his wallet and demanded his wifes jewelry from her neck. One of them hit him in the neck with a gun. I was real mad. I was thinking of my wife. Reporter he hand his wife ended up cuts and bruises and is otherwise okay. He report it had to Oakland Police and picked up the video and hasnt heard anything sinsz and he contacted the councilman. Wanted me to follow up to see if anything had been down because other senior women have been robbed the sam way that hes been robbed. Reporter Oakland Police told us they were investigating the incident but so far have made no arrests n. Oakland, laura anthony, abc 7 news. In breaking news tonight, a manhunt for a stabbing suspect has ended in gunfire in concord. In the end the suspect was quitly injured by officers who say that suspect stabbed a police dog. Abc 7 News Reporter berna
Passengers on board went missing ten miles into egyptian air space. The jet was going from paris to cairo. At this hour no signs or calls the jet was ever in distress. The Egyptian Aviation Ministry says it will have a News Conference about 7 30 our time. Well update you then. Tom Costello Just did an interview on msnbc saying at this hour, terrorism is the leading theory for this flights disappearan disappearance. Back to you. Good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. And im eun yang. We also want to check our forecast. Chuck bell telling us what we can expect. Rain . Yes, but not as much as weve been dealing with and the rain will be coming to an end as we get toward the later half of this morning. Rain will be ending briefly. Well get 24 dry hours in a row from this afternoon up through your friday afternoon and evening. But there is a super soaker it looks li saturday. Right now though on your thursday morning, a couple showers here southern Prince Georges County, northern charl
Studio this morning. Youre taking a live look right now. This is chef steve beatty all the way from canton. He was part of cake wars on food network and took home the grand prize. He will be carving with us this morning for three hours, and we will have to check out and see what he creates. Brian 6 01. If you have any snow in the yard it wont be there much longer. Its monday, march 7th. Tia this is how you want to start off a monday. There. We want to tell you that meteorologist sam roberts is not in the house with us this morning. She, unfortunately, got sick. She came in and created the forecast for you. So what were going to tell you with. This is from a reallife expert. We have to deliver it to you, so here it is. In the last three hours if you look at your screen right now, this is a map here in northeast ohio. What youre looking at is clouds coming in from the southwest, and so some of those clouds forecast for today. Look at the current temperatures, though. Beautiful start. Bri