Denies reports he wanted to resign over tensions with the president. Hello im Maryam Namazie and london youre watching aljazeera also coming up aid agencies appeal for four hundred thirty four Million Dollars to save the lives of or hinge a muslims playing massacres in myanmar. Spains stock market takes a hit as catalonia moves ahead with plans to declare independence. And we speak to the cambodian opposition politician just a day after she escaped a country exile in thailand. U. S. President donald trump has arrived in las vegas in the wake of the worst mass shooting in modern American History. Of sundays attack which left at least fifty nine people dead and more than five hundred injured as investigators are learning a lot more about the gunman Stephen Paddick sixty four year old killed himself a swat teams closed in on his hotel room and his partner is now being questioned by the f. B. I. After returning from the philippines lets go live now to Heidi Joe Castro in last vegas first of all whats the latest on the investigation and the partner of the attacker who has now been brought back from the philippines. Well mary mary who is the livid girlfriend of Stephen Paddick may be the one person who can shed some light on the possible motive behind this attack Police Officers and the f. B. I. Escorted her through the los angeles airport after she arrived there tuesday evening they should they say she had. In the philippines during the attack her family remembers reportedly telling the press that she had no idea this was going to happen and in fact patrick had sent her away prior to planning this attack Police Officers though still will question the girlfriend about what she knew of the preparations especially given the discovery of dozens of weapons that paddick purchased that were contained both in the two homes that the couple share and inside the hotel room and as far as combing through the evidence in that hotel suite on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay which became the snipers nest that patty used to kill fifty eight People Police have found disturbing signs of premeditation there were cameras installed within the people whole of the hotel room and outside in the hallways to alert paddick to the approach of Law Enforcement they also found devices called bump stock which allows someone to modify a rifle into an automatic weapon and the suspicion is that is exactly what he did in order to inflict such carnage merriam and also all eyes on president trumps visit to las vegas one of the expectations in terms of the approach he might take and particularly the language in rhetoric he might use. While this hospital behind me credited with saving some one hundred lives sunday night will be the president s first stop here in las vegas his motor coach is approaching as i speak here according to the White House Trump will meet with survivors some forty who are still hospitalized at the moment as well as with the nurses and doctors who poured into this building in order to rapidly respond to the crisis what we are unlikely to hear from donald trump is any mention of gun control reform. He has already been asked about that so that this is not the time to initiate that discussion but there is some hope even from gun control advocates that perhaps this republican president might be the one that initiate some change given Donald Trumps foot flop nature in two thousand he actually stated in his book that he did support some forms of gun control reform since becoming a president ial candidate and now in the White House Trump has reversed adamantly saying he supports the Second Amendment right to bear arms in the United States and receiving the endorsement and generous donations from the National Rifle association most famously after the attacks in paris and in orlando trump said that people would be safer if they carried more guns certainly a controversial statement here now in las vegas and in fact even as he makes his approach here and as republicans have demure to saying that this is the time to thank those who save lives its not yet that time to discuss any sort of gun control reform theres certainly a heavy presence of Community Members and leaders who are going to host a counter event as truck makes its way here in which they will push for some action of gun control laws to be tightened mariyam you very much. In las vegas. To other important developments in the u. S. The secretary of state has been forced to deny persistent media reports that he was considering quitting the Trump Administration three months ago Rex Tillerson made an unscheduled appearance to refute stories that Vice President mike pence and all of the senior officials had to persuade him to stay on in july. The few specifics that have been the wrone officially reported this morning. The large phrase that has never had to persuade me to remain the secretary of state because i have never considered leaving this post through that question repeatedly. For some reason it continues to be mis reported theres never been a consideration in my mind really sure at the appointment of the president and im here for as long as the president feels like to be useful to achieving his objectives lets meet to call him out at Us State Department in washington and pass his we had the rights to listen directly addressing the issue of his resignation but other important comments that hes alleged to have made he didnt want to address. No and he was asked about this and its sort of a basic rule of p. R. If you come under two of the three things mentioned in the story but dont talk about the third people are going to assume its true so heres that the third thing was that he wont talk about is the report that he called the president an expletive moron after one of the National SecurityCouncil Meetings said he was going to get into that that was just playing to politics but there is this story that has been a consistent story that hes fed up that hes had outburst and that he basically said i dont want to do this anymore and he is denying that part of the story of the first time weve heard that though and if you look at possibly why the secretary of state would be so frustrated because on pretty much every major Foreign Policy issue he has been undercut by President Donald Trump either personally speaking or tweeting about certain things so its been made pretty clear by so see its close to the secretary that he is frustrated but hes coming out now to deny these allegations in part i think probably for an audience of one he was trying to address the concerns the president might have because we know one thing about this president the one thing he cannot stand will not tolerate is to be insulted and obviously coming from a cabinet secretary again unprecedented not denying he said it but say that he never wanted to quit and yet it has been a very difficult summer with a range of Foreign Policy challenges emerging and what appeared to be the president undermining his secretary of state at times does it look. Position is untenable going forward. Well you know Foreign Policy experts are all saying the same thing is basically a cut that other countries are not going to think the secretary of state actually speaks for the president. And if he doesnt have that authority well why listen to him in the first place lets take a couple of examples first the g. C. C. Crisis tillerson in this building came out and said the embargo needs to stop the blockade to stop more than just about an hour later the president basically sided again with the blockade in countries we believe that after that episode tillerson had a bit of a meltdown and since then we have not heard the president on the g. C. C. Issue rebuke his secretary of state which is called for negotiations north korea has been a huge issue consistently we see the secretary of state say he wants diplomacy to work that it can work he came out just over the weekend on a visit to china and said that the u. S. Was in fact speaking with officials in north korea only to have the president come out in a series of tweets saying that hes wasting his time he should save his energy so its not clear how successful he can be a secretary of state if he doesnt speak for the president and on many issues now weve seen that he simply isnt on the same page as his boss thank you. Well now aid organizations are appealing for four hundred thirty four Million Dollars to save the lies of range of muslims fleeing violence in northern me and the humanitarian workers a struggling to deal with the surge in new arrivals more than eight hundred thousand ranger refugees are sheltering in bangladesh half a million of them have arrived in just the last five weeks over half of them a children twenty four thousand pregnant women need Maternity Care and five hundred thousand people leave food Human Rights Watch says manaus military massacred dozens of revenge on august twenty seventh two days after an attack by a range of fighter sponsored Army Crackdown the un increasingly believes that crimes against humanity is being committed it says its received reports of women and children falling victim to killings rape and forced displacement well ive just come back from a day and. I spend a lot of time sitting in wait people who play it for all me and i have stories that. Are a very violent section so i am from lost if im like only its only later it was with me on that they say its exactly the same we are very very sad about. Well al jazeera is mohamed reports now from tangled camp in cox is bizarre. To give you some idea of the scale of this crisis this encampment that were in right now this didnt exist in coxs bazaar which is on the border of bangladesh and myanmar more than a month ago now there are at least twenty thousand people here thats according to aid workers weve spoken with as well as some of the Army Officials that are just beyond that wall there distributing much needed aid to these regions are refugees now even though aid is being distributed throughout the day fact of the matter is you talked to some of the new residents of this encampment they tell you how much more is needed and matches a short while ago with a young mother she has a nine month old baby girl her babys head was burned in the past couple of weeks when her village in myanmar was torched shes concerned that her baby doesnt get the medical aid that it needs that she will die and at this point in this camp they dont have the kind of medical supplies for babies that the baby would need in order to be treated correctly the scale of this even in front of your eyes is almost unfathomable its very hard to comprehend and it seems as though there is absolutely no end in sight for the time being so had fully on the program. Turkish court finds forty three former soldiers guilty of trying to kill president jawan in an attempt to. And including relations why a trip to russia by saudi arabias king sound line is being seen as highly significant. How i was still raining or has been raining fairly heavily on the caspian shoreline of iran and you see the cloud which is going across it took minutes done but the thing that fell out of it two hundred millimeters like if you flash floods in this sort of terrain in the forecast the potential for more on the still there these thunderstorms and into the mountains just the north of toronto on itself looks dry as by john looks dry back out through the caucasus now we are free of clouds but that line does exist and it heads towards tashkent might even catch the north of afghanistan where of course were now talking about snow in the hindu kush satele that dry sunny temps are coming down baghdad. But thirty four breezes picked up down through the gulf the still the high surtees from doha down to abu dhabi about the breeze now it has come off the saudi desert his big deal turning around to the north by on notice nothing really over the region peninsula from the point of view of cloud the potential for showers down in yemen is there and maybe gets a bit stronger on friday but its unlikely event a likely event so this is now a dry part of the world and cooling down and it could be opposition is warming up and has been particularly wet in many parts of south africa included but look at the amount of cloud across the country. Mack quick look at the stories making headlines today u. S. President donald trump has arrived in las vegas to meet with survivors and First Responders of sundays mass shooting which left at least fifty nine people dead and injured more than five hundred. Meanwhile the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has been forced to deny reports he was talked out of quitting three months ago amid tensions with president trump. And aid organizations are appealing for four hundred thirty four Million Dollars to save the lives of random muslims fleeing violence in myanmar. Moving to all the stories were covering a court in turkey has convicted forty two soldiers in a major trial linked to the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen forty seven people including many military officers were accused of trying to assassinate president rush of type one most of those convicted were given life sentences on the night of the coup two policemen were killed in the hotel where one was staying the president says it was bombed minutes after he left. People have been arrested over the failed q. Many are accused of being members of the movement which the government says orchestrated the attempted overthrow more than fifty thousand people are in jail awaiting Court Proceedings on charges linked to the coup four hundred eighty one senior servicemen and civilians are on trial in ankara they face charges of murder treason and attempted murder in istanbul thirty journalists and newspaper executives are charged with being members of an Armed Terrorist Organization and people are still being arrested last week alone more than a thousand people were taken into custody they join tens of thousands of teachers and Public Sector workers whove been detained meanwhile turkeys president is vowing to take decisive steps to stop kurdish leaders declaring an independent state from iraq where as you type is in town run for talks with the iranian president Hassan Rouhani on secession efforts both countries oppose their plans to form an independent state by also discussed expanding economic ties through increased gas exports from iran to turkey. We correspond with the iraqi Central Government as far as were concerned this referendum is illegitimate we have already taken certain steps but from this moment onward more decisive steps will be taken as irani says he would jacks the kurdish referendum vote as a foreign sectarian plot as far as we concerned iraq is one single country syria is one single country and we do not accept the geographical border changes in any way whatsoever we do not wish to exert this pressure but the wrong decisions made by some of the heads of the Kurdish Regional government need to be compensated for. Im sure there is and are simmons has been following developments on this istanbul. Two president s who are backing opposing sides in syrias war but on iraq their next door neighbor theyre absolutely adamant that theyre together with the iraqi Central Government and theyre planning further action no details on this no indication as to whether its in the security area in terms of military action or whether its more economic action sanctions thats unclear what is clear is that theyre determined to put more pressure on and this is going on all now its a slow bleed effect of rouhani said that no way could there be any alteration of the borders in iraq or indeed syria and we heard from turkeys president urged one that he felt the need to be stronger steps taken against the kurds in iraq the leadership that is as far as the overall picture goes there is going to be more cooperation between the turkish army and the rainy and military that has already been agreed by the two chiefs of staff of the respective countries but as far as any joint operations are concerned it isnt seem a likely prospect and furthermore this alliance so to speak will definitely not be long term however there is corp right across the board particularly on trade with a lot of commercial deals being worked on between the two countries. At least fifty people have been killed and eighty others injured by an as strike in syria is there as or province its not clear who carried out the strikes in the town of. This amateur video reportedly shows the nearby town of mayor dean being bombed u. S. And russian backed forces a separately trying to retake the region from i sell. Now saudi arabias king sound minus touched down in russia for the start of a five day visit this is the first time a sitting saudi monarch is ever. Sept first on russian soil. Will have top level talks with president putin war on syria will top the agenda along with discussions on bilateral investments and potential cooperation in the oil markets or chalons is following events from the russian capital for us or tell us more about why the saudi king is there and why now. Well i think the main reason why hes arrived is because of the changing landscape of middle eastern politics. America is still the preeminent global power in the region but you could argue that its influence there is weakening and so traditional allies of the us like saudi arabia like turkey like egypt and israel have all been coming to moscow recently their leaders have essentially hedging their bets. Bloodier putin is a leader who realizes the changing tapestry of the region and he is in many ways responsible for it because of his intervention in the in the syrian conflict and he knows that perhaps saudi arabia and the others are not going to give up on their partnerships with the United States but hes still willing to do deals with them as well i think the Saudi Arabian king is going to be here to talk politics certainly theyll be discussing iran theyll be discussing syria and various other problems of the region but the main progress i think thats going to be made on this trip is in the economic sphere theyll be talking about a joint energy fund to the tune of one billion dollars for investing in the Energy Industries theyll be looking at various Investment Opportunities in russia. Talking about continued cooperation in Cutting Oil Production to boost Energy Prices so yeah i think the they will be doing politics but certainly theyll be doing a lot of business as well thank you very much for a chance in moscow. Parties in catalonia are preparing to debate in from spain millions of an independent country would remain in the European Union between france and spain but with things really go as smoothly as they think lawrence lee reports from barcelona. The wisdom of the crowd is difficult to resist particularly when the atmosphere is as relaxed and happy as it has been in barcelona. The singalong here is to a protest tune dating to the franco dictatorship when catalan traditions were systematically repressed that every teenager knows the words speaks volumes about the historical enmity toward madrid so secession beckons can catalonia go it alone why not give it a try they say democracy is pure and beautiful they think spain is a proper democracy and. Its not when they are. Believing that they have the power to shut us out. From government beyond their money and. Our money and theyre not eternal. You know when theyre spending the money that they are shopping for to take things not hard for everyone. To leave spain camp here has all the momentum they think historically this is their time in the sun the idealized version of events is often presented to you here is over. Free from the tyranny of madrids an independent sovereign republic able to make its own way and sit happily among the European Community of nations will things would things really be so simple. Of course another european country voted for historic change recently to the u. K. To leave the European Union but the essence of the argument was similar we want to be free from the control of others. It was convincing enough to win the arguments but now the u. K. Is riven with disagreements and the e. U. Is blocking its key demands. So when he was Pro Independence council and m. P. s how they can possibly stay in the European Union when spain would veto it you get an answer slightly less inspiring than the mood of the crowd whatever as a couple only got stuck outside the European Union as long as i was i would be a defroster what happened. Would be a better thirdly photo to benefit you feel yourself if you did not realize that for example you know the way. Bridges the roads are part of the all of the you know because if you know how to get exactly like your exit come by you know government it could be then like like like iceland thats what they say well were not saying the. Real thing goes you have economic governance when you know all the difficult comparable questions the u. K. Never asked itself borders trade agreements the rights of cattle lands in spain and spaniards in catalonia nobodys bothering to ask about any of its but if they do jump off the cliff to independence they will have the European Union to deal with it could be incredibly messy gloriously aljazeera in bustling. With tensions boiling over in cash money or spains stock market has taken a hit panicked investors down spanish stocks causing countries benchmark index the ibex thirty five to four more than two percent and drop below ten thousand points for the first time to the middle of two thousand and fifteen at the height of the eurozone debt crisis. The European Union has ordered an isnt around two hundred ninety five Million Dollars in back taxes despite selling goods from warehouses across europe for almost a decade i was in channel to sales for luxemburg the e. U. Says it had a special deal that meant it paid less tax and other Companies Use also taking action against ireland to make it claim back more than fifteen billion dollars owed by apple todays decision to order luxembourg to recover im paid tax from amazon and for ireland to the u. Court for failing to recover on pay tax from apple. I hope that. Both decisions seem. Message that Companies Must pay their fair share of taxes as the huge more durex of companies do. The deputy leader of cambodias Main Opposition Party has told aljazeera she wants to see sanctions imposed on her country. Fled to thailand on tuesday and says she would have been arrested if shed stayed behind cambodias Prime Minister has said theyll be no let up in the crank down on what she calls rebels and traces in the accuses of plotting a revolution why in a reports from bangkok this is day one in exile for moussaka who and clearly the gravity of her decision is still sinking in i dont want to live as a fugitive i want a voice. But there was cannot be heard even captured the deputy leader of cambodias Main Opposition Party decided to leave for neighboring thailand she says she would have been arrested if she stayed as senior officials in the government confirmed personally with me that it is him and then the end rest will come sometime this week otherwise i would not have fled the country the government believes she became a soaker and others a parting with foreign governments to overthrow Prime Minister when sam last month came soca was arrested and charged with treason and. We are hopeful it is very lucky for us that cambodia has found and arrested the traitor if the Opposition Party continues to defend this traitor it means the party is also a traitor so there is no time left for this party to operate in cambodias democratic process anymore in response around half of the Cambodian National rescue parties members of parliament have now left the country the situation in cambodia continues a pattern of police in attacking the west for trying to interfere in the running of his country and an increasing reliance on china for investment and support when kim soca was arrested the Chinese ForeignMinistry Said it supports the cambodian governments efforts to protect security and stability who has been in power for more than thirty years but the opposition has been steadily gaining support critics believe the Prime Minister is scared of losing next years election the only party capable of defeating him is in tatters but its leaders believe their challenge can still be resurrected there is hope if it is this action taken. By the International Community through. Trauma issues such as pocket that sanctions like visa sanctions like suspension of Technical Assistance to the government musak who isnt sure how long shell be out of the country but however long it is she says she wont give up the fight for true democracy in cambodia where in her bangkok. Scientists in the United States say theyve made a major breakthrough in detecting cancer with a new handheld device mass spec and simply presses against a patients skin and within seconds it gives a diagnosis of whether cancer is present it works by placing a droplets of water against the skin which left a sample of metabolites from the tissue sample can be instantly tested with ninety six percent accuracy. What we have now can take anywhere between thirty minutes of two weeks. And with them as they found we can get information in about ten seconds. So quick reminder of the stories making headlines this hour u. S. President donald trump arrived in las vegas in the wake of the worst mass shooting in modern American History hell meet survivors and First Responders of sundays attack which left at least fifty nine people dead and more than five hundred injured trump says investigators are learning a lot more about the gunman stephen part it sixty four year old killed himself a swat teams closed in on his hotel room his partner is now being questioned by the f. B. I. After returning from the philippines the u. S. Secretary of state rights to listen has been forced to deny reports that he was considering quitting three months ago to us and made an unscheduled appearance to refute stories of the Vice President might pence how to persuade him to stay on in july. Rush a few specifics that have been eroni officially reported this morning. The Vice President has never had to persuade me to remain the secretary of state because i have never considered leaving this post. Question repeatedly for some reason it continues to be a mish reported theres never been a consideration in my monthly sure at the appointment of the president and im here for as long as the president feels like to be useful civi is objectors. Aid organizations are appealing for four hundred thirty four Million Dollars to save the lives of range of muslims fleeing violence in all the myanmar as they struggle to deal with the surge in new arrivals in neighboring bangladesh more than eight hundred thousand ranger refugees are sheltering there off a million of them have arrived in just the last five weeks. A court in turkey has convicted forty two soldiers in a major trial linked to the failed coup attempt in two thousand and sixteen forty seven people including many military officers are accused of trying to assassinate president reagan. Most of those convicted were given life sentences. And at least fifty people have been killed and eighty others injured by an airstrike in syria is there is or province based amateur video reportedly shows the nearby town of mayor dean also being bombed u. S. And russian backed forces a separately trying to retake the region from myself. Up to date with all of our top stories much more on everything coming up in about twenty five minutes time when ill be back with the news hour thats off the inside story which starts now. Iran and turkey join forces to oppose couldst secession and iraq the guest for just strongly opposing on crack at. The beyond an economic and what more can be done and as military intervention and option this as and sides to avoid