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Putting up far more resistance than expected but things are getting urgent is civilians in the west of mosul run out of supplies. >> bret: benjamin hall in london. russia's federal security service as it has arrested a suspected planner of the st. petersburg subway bombing. 14 people were killed along with the bomber. officials say today's arrest came just outside moscow. suspect is believed to have helped prepare the suicide attacker. at least eight other people have been arrested in the investigation so far. back here at home, prison reform is a hot topic in more than a dozen states. a massi...

To the jihadi romantic narrative and on this brainwashed mission. how much help did he have in that? that is what we are trying to find out now. >> reporter: yes. cnn got a hold of nearly 350 pages of german intelligence papers that show he was implanted in a group led by abu allah. a hate preacher now in custody. that organization worked effectively in germany to recruit people and train them and hiking them for ten miles with backpacks. that is the training and influence that anis amri had in preparing for this attack. we heard he had said he wanted to be a suicide attacker. this was a guy a...

And training people with backpack trips ten miles long to like a boot camp to train them. that is what amri was part of. he also was, through surveillan surveillance, he was heard saying he is ready to be a suicide attacker in an attack, but not found to be a big fish or serious candidate for that kind of thing. even though he was held for a while, by authorities, pending his deportation back to tunisia, he was released because of a technicality. here we are now, miguel. >> what is public sentiment? you had the situation in france and belgium where people were on the radar and didn't act aggre...

Where this attack took place and that at some stage during the visit the group split up and a dozen or more people decided that they were going to take a little break from the touring and go shopping. those people who broke off and went shopping were not affected. they were -- they survived. but the other people who stayed with the guide, the guide also injured, were targeted by this suicide attacker. so, most if not all of the victims the people who were most severely injured or killed were from that german tour group. the turkish government says it will and is cooperating with german authori...

Now i want to update you on another breaking story we've been following this morning out of turkey. officials are now blaming a member of isis for a deadly explosion at a popular tourist spot in istanbul. ten people were killed and 15 others hurt in that blast this morning. you see that huge fireball caught on camera erupting at the scene. turkish officials say most of the dead were foreign tourists. nbc news has learned most of them were german. our own richard engel joins me from istanbul with the latest. what else are we learning about this person responsible for the attack or persons? >> r...