This is al jazeera live from doha also coming up so its clear to me that he has connections with with terrorist groups chairman of the u. S. Joint chiefs of staff tells congress that Pakistani Intelligence Services have ties to groups warns of punitive action but you have seven days to get out thats what the u. S. Tells cubas diplomatic staff in washington will tell you why. And in a rare televised address spains king comes down firmly on the side of the Central Government and its standoff with catalonia. Police say the gunman behind the last vegas mass shooting had nearly fifty weapons including a dozen with devices that made them fire automatically Stephen Paddick killed fifty eight people and injured more than five hundred when he opened fire from a hotel room on an outdoor concerts and he gallagher reports. A steven down on a crowd of concert goers on sunday night newly released Police Body Camera footage shows panic and confusion. Offices scramble to locate the source of the gunfire and get members of the public to safety this is a dramatic snapshot of the moments before public was located on the thirty second floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel police gave more details of how events unfolded the suspect i can tell you that we know now that he fired off and on for somewhere between nine and eleven minutes we know that the suspect fired over a dozen or so volleys and we know that the firing by the suspect ceased to nineteen we had patrol officers actually working another event at the mandalay bay. Who heard the shooting and they took it upon themselves to form up into a team enter the stairwell begin ascending the floors and also evacuating hotel guests the swat team had to arrive first Officials Say several searches of now revealed the full extent of products arsenal currently forty seven firearms have been recovered these firms recovered from three different locations those locations consisted of the hotel room as well as verdi embassy skeet nevada they were purchased in nevada utah california and texas the gunman purchased rifles shotguns and pistols. Inside Politics Hotel room assault rifles can be seen on the floor many of them modified to fire more rounds whats not clear is why a retired sixty four year old accountant carried out the shooting but his longtime girlfriend Mary Lou Donnelly has now been described as a person of interest steven products Family History is also emerging his father benjamin product was at one time on the f. B. I. s most wanted list for bank robbery and theft President Trump also declared without citing any evidence that paddock was mentally unbalanced he was the sick man a demented man. Lot of problems i guess were looking into him very very seriously investigators say theyre also looking at patricks financial history described as a high roller he gambled heavily and sent large sums of money overseas whats clear is that steven part of plan does attack well in advance even installing a camera outside his hotel room to watch for approaching police his motives however remain a mystery this is a man with no criminal record and someone who neighbors describe as a recluse as this city continues to mourn its dead its a question many want answered but so far the reasons remain unclear and they gallacher aljazeera Las Vegas Nevada stephen paddocks girlfriend Marilyn Donnelly has now returned to the u. S. From the philippines she was met by federal agents at the airport investigators in las vegas there are still poring over what they consider to be an active Crime Scene Police say that some of the numerous guns belonging to the dead gunman have been sent to f. B. I. Laboratories for analysis rob reynolds has more on the weapons used and the sometimes contradictory gun laws in the u. S. This is the gun shop where mass murderer Stephen Paddick bought part of his arsenal was talking how he was new to the area kind of visiting all the firearm stores in the area firearms laws in nevada where paddock lived are extremely lax says criminal justice expert William Souza people are able to. Buy semiautomatic. Weapons handgun rifles assault rifles people also are able to openly carry. Weapons on them in any edition as much as you want there are no restrictions in terms of the amount ammunition that you can buy or any modern weapons they can buy for that matter what weapon tatic used in his killing spree is especially alarming it appears that you know the individual who who did this was was using fully automatic weapon such weapons can fire nine bullets per second that was the kind of gun fire that was coming out of the window the thirty second floor of that hotel and he had massive firepower fully automatic weapons are in most cases illegal. But there is a loophole there are kits available that are legal to buy on the internet that allow an individual with some technical skill to convert a semiautomatic weapon to fully automatic fire Police Confirmed paddocks modified for rapid firing we are aware of a device called a bone stock. And. Enables an individual to speed up the discharge ammunition dump stocks can be bought online for about one hundred dollars one of the many loopholes in our gun laws in the United States that while it is illegal to take an existing semiautomatic can transform it into a fully automatic weapon that is illegal and then to own that weapon thats illegal under federal law its not illegal to sell the kit that allows you to do it. Reeled in Las Vegas Massacre sparked new gun control legislation unlikely with the current political configuration in power in washington d. C. The Republican Party in control of congress and the presidency you will see no action by either branch of government to tighten up gun laws americans have come to realize that no concert nightclub school or theater can ever be safe from a determined gunman with eight in his heart rob reynolds aljazeera las vegas. Well we continue to hear more stories of heroism from the last Vegas Shooting like this account from a man who found a victim bleeding after being struck by a bullet. I mean we were getting away and i just we came across it was in the bed of a pickup truck. There is a makeshift tourniquet it was kind of around his knee it was really wrong spot. Just walked up there he was actively bleeding i just did the belt. Where it should be tighten it down to stop the bleeding. Then we hung out there for ten fifteen minutes in some. Savior in a pickup truck came in they do we need a ride said yeah we threw mall in the bed of the truck and we took off to the hospital by the time i got over the wall of my pants and my shoes for blood so now i when i made it. You know im very thankful that james was there to help me. Saying that Jennifer Lopez and country star jason old enough both cancelled shows in las vegas following the deadly shooting on sunday was on stage when suspect Stephen Paddick opened fire on the crowd at the concert. The rest of the days news the number of people confirmed dead in the u. S. Territory of puerto rico following Hurricane Maria has risen to thirty four President Trump visited the island on tuesday two weeks after the hurricane struck already accused of botching the government response his remarks there have generated even more control the see. The reports from san juan. Its clear that donald trump has made up his mind about the success of his administrations relief efforts in puerto rico during a selfcongratulatory event shortly after landing the president praised the military to local officials and members of his cabinet for the Emergency Response and suggested that the crisis in puerto rico wasnt as bad as the aftermath of other hurrican disasters if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died. And you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally over and nobodys ever seen anything like this after learning the president did shake hands with the mayor of san juan who strongly criticized the administrations response is too slow she was reported to have said as they shook hands its not about politics its not clear what the president s response was youll see him is a u. S. Army veteran this is his response to the president s comments i think that we definitely cost a lot of money to the states but they also have said think about how many soldiers we lost how many lives we lost three percent of the United States so theyve given us a lot of money yet but weve been given a lot of lives others didnt take Donald Trumps comments too seriously he is the way he is. But. Progress is being made according to the governor petrol stations banks and supermarkets are reopening telecommunications have been restored to forty percent of customers and truck capacity at the port is back to sixty percent of normal but fifty five percent of the population is still without Running Water ninety five percent are without electricity and despite the president s words no audit is complete of those who died Community Groups say there are still areas untouched by government help the president satisfaction with relief efforts is more evidence of the disconnect between the white house and this u. S. Territory has long been a belief here among the three and a half million u. S. Citizens and puerto rico that theyre not listened to in washington they call even vote after all and now there are very real concerns they wont be this into as reconstruction begins she had zero. But during his visits trump also said that puerto ricos debt may have to be written off earlier this year the u. S. Territory filed the biggest bankruptcy in u. S. Municipal history with that amounting to seventy two billion dollars he told one u. S. News agency news agency that were going to have to wipe that out youre going to say goodbye to that he said. Antonia moto is a latin america analyst he says the President Trump has to be taken seriously but not literally when we go when we got to puerto ricos debt hes not talking about somehow pushing for a full pardon of that debt but that debt was already you know the program has been defaulting on its obligations for a couple of years its been operating under a law called prometa which is of a qualified Bankruptcy Law that was specific to puerto rico so already it was pretty clear that most of the the banks that had. Standing puerto rican debt were never going to get paid in school that they would probably have to and that debt would be paid some sort of a discount now with this complete and utter catastrophe in puerto rico. Its very difficult to imagine that puerto rico is going to be able to pay anything back its going to be desperate for funds to be able to rebuild were going to weather up tight banks he announces there then. Over one hundred fifty suspects arrested in colombia nationwide crackdown on kidnapping and extortion. The launch of sputnik it was sixty years ago. Last time a manmade object was sent to space. How i wish still struggling to clear away the right that were seeing just around the black sea just around the caspian sea. You have your clout there that stretches all the way across into the foothills of the him alas just around is back to. My stand still saying what it was perhaps a wintry night you know just over towards almighty still some rather wet weather there just into northern parts of iran pushing up towards the south of that is find a dry warm and sunny kuwait getting up to well the made to high thirtys once again still a few showers in place for tehran all eighty degrees celsius for the west that well hes decided that the levant dry pleasant warm and sunny as is the case too across the Arabian Peninsula any wet weather here. Rather more humid just tucking in as we go on into thursday but plenty of sunshine nevertheless sunshine will be replaced by right across parts of Southern Africa over the next couple of days we got some very heavy rain coming into central parts of south africa pushing across the eastern cape as we go on through thursday could be heavy enough to cause some localized flooding continue just around ethiopia maybe want to. Maybe more whether for good west africa. The nation to its core and exposed to hundreds of. Brides just. Sometimes take a spot or an edifice to blow up a personal fight against corruption as in my plan. I come out of my car in an exclusive documentary aljazeera is an. Extraordinary battle for just. At this time. Again the top stories this hour on how to zero. Las vegas police have released body camera footage showing officers trying to locate the source of the gun fire some of sunday nights mass shooting Stephen Paddick killed fifty eight people and injured more than five hundred others but he opened fire from a hotel room into an outdoor Concert Police say he had forty seven guns in three locations and the death toll in puerto rico following Hurricane Maria has reached thirty four u. S. President donald trump told puerto rican officials that they should be proud that thousands of lives one lost in iraq and maria he controversially compared the disaster to what he called a real catastrophe like katrina on his first visit to puerto rico. U. S. Defense secretary James Madisons told the senate that washington will again try to work with pakistan on afghanistan before taking what he described as punitive action the top u. S. Military officer general Joseph Dunford has accused pakistans Intelligence Agency of having ties to. Groups an accusation that pakistan denies some of in job reports these are some of the taliban fighters the thirty nine Member Alliance has been trying to defeat since two thousand and one donald trump is the third president whos come up with another new strategy to win the war and of learn to stand his defense secretary and joint chiefs chairman have bearden public hearings before the senate and House Armed Services committees to explain this strategy shift and once again u. S. Officials say pakistan is among the reasons they have failed its clear to me that the i. S. I. Has connections with with terrorist groups and if i could just follow up on something secretary mabus i think over the last several years weve had a bilateral approach to trying to effect a change in pakistans behavior. Its not about says the latest round of accusations are absurd the cia paid pakistan millions of dollars to set up the fight isnt going to stand in the one nine hundred seventy s. Pakistan has also played a role in u. S. Led efforts to mediate between the taliban and government and the state department has reiterated that the only solution is a political one focused on not just afghanistan but also india and also incorporating pakistan that is sort of a regional approach. The key element of that is eventually getting afghan afghans to talk to afghans and that would it would certainly include the taliban getting them to talk to one another. And is against indias increasing role in of oneness than the foreign minister is in washington to try to remind the administration about pakistans sacrifices during the last sixteen years the government says its economy lost billions of dollars in addition to the debts of more than eighty thousand people pakistans ties with china are strengthening as the relationship with the us deteriorates i cant say the Top Administration is taking a radically harsh more vigorous approach to pakistan but i think they want to give the pakistani. The impression that they might. In washington storm is somewhat softened since last month the defense secretary says hes going to try one more time to work with pakistan. Seventeen years on of lot of fun i mean if war some of the job lead others there. Fifteen cuban diplomatic staff have been expelled from the United States the u. S. Says it took the decision after have failed to protect its stuff from alleged sonic attacks in havana cuba as government denies accusations that it was involved and is calling the response from the u. S. Reckless and unfounded latin america editor Lucien Newman reports. Yes cuba is fuming over washingtons decision to expel fifteen more cuban diplomats for what it calls unfounded charges of mysterious acoustic attacks against u. S. Diplomats in atlanta and many. The Foreign Ministry energetically protests and denounces this unfounded and acceptable decision along with the pretext used to justify its that the cuban government has not taken the appropriate measures to prevent these alleged incidents from occurring. After months of inconclusive investigations more than sixty percent of u. S. Embassy staff here is packing up to go home ordered to leave cuba to protect their health from possible news sonic attacks that have reportedly seriously damaged the hearing of more than twenty u. S. Diplomats since last year this according to the u. S. State Department Cuba has repeatedly denied any involvement and says the u. S. Is withholding information to help get to the bottom of the reported acoustic attacks. Down the street from the u. S. Embassy people who say theyre desperate to be reunited with their loved ones in the United States sit under the hot sun uncertain of what to do now that the consulate section is no longer accepting new applications the. Night of leave it as husband is in the u. S. Her daughter has a u. S. Passport but she does not have a visa or the army to go so i had a visa appointment for september the twentieth that was postponed because of her and now this political storm is preventing us from getting together i dont know if or when i can travel according to the u. S. Embassy website most piece of processing in havana is suspended cuban applicants for non immigrant visas may apply abroad something close to impossible for most cubans this embassy will be left with a minimum consular staff and so too will its cuban counterpart in washington after these expulsions this may go down in. One of the more bizarre incidents in the long complex relationship between washington and in fact is now putting in doubt the u. S. Version of events. Proof that the acoustic attacks ever took place in the first place. The Foreign Ministry the cuba has had no access to the alleged victims or their medical records. We call on the competent Us Government or thirtys not to continue politicizing this issue which can provoke an escalation of a conflict with desired consequences. For these people waiting for visas to the us that is collation with its undesired consequences is already a reality. Police in colombia have arrested more than one hundred fifty people in a crackdown on kidnapping and extortion. Around one thousand officers were involved in raids across colombia the Anti Kidnapping task force was responsible for the coordination of the operation and those in charge say its had a Significant Impact on reducing the number of cases look at. What we are showing is the states capacity to continue to fight this kidnapping and extortion phenomenon the most important results are a thirty eight percent decline in extortions this year and a ten percent decline in kidnappings. Police in brazil have discovered a tunnel dug by suspected bank robbers and. Sixteen people were arrested after officers found this five hundred meter tunnel which leads to a bank of Brazil Branch offices managed to foil the suspects plans after monitoring them for over two months at the highest going to head police say it would have amounted to the largest ever bank theft in brazils history. The king of spain has intervened in the crisis over catalonia describing sunday secession referendum as illegal and undemocratic in a rare public address he accused catalan regional authorities of dividing society and putting the economy at risk earlier hundreds of thousands of catalans demonstrated against a violent security crackdown during the vote sania gago reports from barcelona. If the Spanish Government thought breaking up the referendum would win the war with catalonia its been proved already quite wrong this crowd gathered outside the office of the ruling Spanish Popular Party denounced the Prime Minister as a fascist and the Police Action on sunday as brutal and. The people who are defending what they have to defend the people are ready we will see if the government is ready this week. The what if the riot squads reviled within the region were nowhere to be seen the protests were policed by local catalan officers firefighters seen here as heroes received ovations every time they arrived. At the University Square the crowds were even bigger thousands every side road was much bitterness here about the perceived silence from the European Union after what happened on sunday. But on tuesday night the spanish king addressed the nation in a call for unity but slammed the referendum as illegal dos i want you know thats the one i said. We have all been witnesses to what has been happening in catalonia will be ultimate aim on the part of the catalan authorities of declaring illegally independence for catalonia this will have little effect on the largely republican catalans and there is still nothing from the spanish Prime Minister who has no interest in engaging the catalans of political mediation for madrid this is strictly a legal issue. That means the call from the capital the president for talks is likely to get nowhere and the clock ticks away. On the south declared timeframe of independence this week that is a crisis for spain and for the European Union and nobody seems to want to grasp. But a few hundred meters away from the protest the streets were quiet and many who dont want spain broken up have been getting on with their lives but they are the ones making all the noise so far remains with the secessionists this is the politics of brinkmanship with everyone waiting to see who will be the first to back down so you go aljazeera barcelona iraq has stopped selling dollars to leading banks in its kurdish region and has banned foreign currency transfers there stepping up its retaliation for the kurds succession vote state television says that parliament voted for financial sanctions in order to preserve the interests of the Kurdish People iraqs neighbors iran and turkey both with a substantial kurdish minority are backing baghdad but the Kurdish Regional leadership has announced plans for president ial and parliamentary elections next month one hour from Charles Stratford whos on the bus mark a border post in iraqs kurdish region. Thats an iranian tank you can see on the hill there its guns or its pointing towards the kurdish region of Northern Iraq there are more iranian tanks to the left here and now weve been talking to kurdish customs or sources here they say that on the twenty ninth of september members of the Iraqi Interior Ministry came here and delivered a letter insisting that the iraqis take control of this Border Crossing and the two others that border the k r j now the kurds have refused the Iranian Military say these tanks are all part of joint military exercises with the iraqi army that are happening across the border in iran but that he is not laying the fears of the customs of florida keys here to see if. In such a tense political situation its normal for us to be war discouraged because previously we have faced so many wars and challenges with the displacement of people there want a new wars we understand thoughts between all sides continue to try and find a solution to this crisis iraqi Prime Minister hyderabadi has said he does not want a military solution but is no doubt that tension is increasing in this region and we understand that those joint military exercises happening across the border between the iraq and the Iranian Military said to continue for the next few days the new c. E. O. Of hazmat transport officials in london as the Ride Sharing Company fights to keep its license in the city last month transport for london deemed unfit to run a taxi service it refused to renew its license because of how the Company Reports criminal offenses and how it performs background checks. Sixty years since the first manmade object was launched into space sputnik one was the worlds first satellite and was a great achievement for the soviet union the launch was a propaganda coup for the russians during the cold war and kicked off the space race with america when you go those people who dont. I was a very young child when this flew sputnik had an impact on my career with the technology that was created for rockets to fly for new Space Systems to be created and the necessary infrastructure all of this was predicted in Science Fiction and all of that was carried out through technical breakthroughs it was all very interesting and at some point i decided that this is what i wanted to do and basically became part of my career one hour from rory chalons in moscow i have to say this remarkable construction here is one of my favorite things in moscow a silver rocket streaks towards the heavens atop a metallic plume of exhaust its called the monument to the conquerors of space leaving us in no doubt about it celebrating because although it was the americans who put the first man on the moon it was the soviets who scored the early successes in the space race and when. Satellite called sputnik one became the first man made objects orbit the earth in october nine hundred fifty seven well that shocks the americans deeply and shook their belief in their own technical superiority they realized that they had to catch up with the u. S. S. R. But the soviets were on a roll the first man in space the first woman in space the first space walk and the first space station those were all soviets achievements yes the americans did eventually take the lead but even these days with the demise of nasa is Shuttle Program russian rockets are still the only way now for people to get in this space. Three u. S. Scientists who found Gravitational Waves in space have won the nobel prize in physics barry barish kip thorne and raine advice led a team which observed for the first time ripples of Energy Created by stars exploding and black holes colliding. Good to have you with us the top stories this hour on aljazeera. Las vegas police have released body camera footage showing officers trying to locate the source of the gunfire sunday nights mass shooting Stephen Paddick killed fifty eight people and injured more than five hundred others when he opened fire from a hotel room into an outdoor Concert Police say he had forty seven guns in three locations dozen of the weapons had devices attached to them that made them fire automatically the death toll in puerto rico after Hurricane Maria has now climbed to thirty four during his First Official visit to the island u. S. President donald trump told puerto rican officials that they should be proud that thousands of lives werent lost trump controversially compared the disasters what he called a real catastrophe like trina visit comes two weeks after the u. S. Territory was hit by the powerful storm u. S. Defense secretary james mattis told the senate of washington will give us a lot about another chance to help on afghanistan before taking what he described as a punitive action thats as the top u. S. Military officer general Joseph Dunford accused pakistans Intelligence Agency of having ties to groups the king of spain has intervened in the crisis over catalonia describing sundays secession referendum as illegal and undemocratic. Iraq is to hold Financial Transactions with its kurdish region in retaliation for last weeks secession referendum Iraqi State Television says the parliament voted in favor of the blockade in order to preserve the interests of the Kurdish People the u. S. State department has ordered the expulsion of fifteen cuban diplomatic stuff it has given them seven days to leave the country comes after the u. S. Reduced its staff at its embassy in cuba unexplained injuries to american personnel the. Police in colombia have arrested more than one hundred fifty people in a crackdown on kidnapping and extortion around one thousand officers were involved in raids across colombia those in charge say that its had a Significant Impact on reducing the number of cases and theres the headlines money is fear here on aljazeera after the listening post next. Witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on aljazeera president. Referendum want to. See. You want to guess where youre at the listening post here are some of the stories