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Become something of a tussle between brexit optimists who can only see the upside and the party pooper is to stress the difficulties. We will be speaking to the number one optimist. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. President trump has described Stephen Paddock, who murdered 59 people in las vegas, as sick and demented. Las vegas police in their latest update say theyve found no evidence that the gunman had any contacts with foreign or domestic extremist groups, and no Hidden History of lawbreaking or hate speech. For the latest on the investigation and the aftermath, heres john sopel. Sirens. Radio we got shots fired. Sounded like an automatic firearm. Sunday night in las vegas, and the first reports of something going terribly wrong. The stress in the voices of the police, evident. They have located where the firing is coming from, and the impact hes having. Stephen paddock is now dead and police are searching the hotel room on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay, which had become his armoury. At a News Conference Police Revealed paddock had set up cameras. There were cameras located outside the room and inside the room, along with the firearms. He had set up how many cameras . I dont know specifically. What do you think . I anticipate he was looking for anybody to come and take him into custody. So what do we know about Stephen Paddock . The 64 year old was a former accountant who had invested in property and was a serious high stakes gambler. But he had no criminal record. He lived in this house in the quiet town of mesquite, 80 miles from las vegas, with his partner, marilou danley. His father was a bank robber, who, while on the run from the authorities, was described by the fbi as a psychopath with suicidal tendencies. The president , on his way to puerto rico, and who will be visiting vegas tomorrow, had this to say about paddock. He was a sick man, a demented man. A lot of problems, i guess, and we are looking into him very, very seriously. But we are dealing with a very, very sick individual. But any review of gun law seems a long way down the line, if it will happen at all. Meanwhile, more details are emerging about the massive arsenal that paddock had assembled. Some came from this shop in utah. Average, everyday joe blow. Nothing stood out. It was just normal timing, for him to come in. He was talking about how he was new to the area, visiting all the firearms stores in the area, found something on our shelves that he really liked, and it took him a couple of different trips, you could say, before he ended up purchasing. And paddock came here, too, to buy a rifle and a shotgun. The owner of the shop said the background checks were fine. There were no red flags. An expert on the guns industry last night on television was asked, how much ammunition are you allowed to buy. The answer was simple how much money have you got. Last night, normal people did what normal people do in the face of such tragedy. They came together to commune, to remember those killed and injured. America has been here many times before, and in all likelihood, will be here again. On this, history does repeat itself, regularly. Jon sopel, bbc news, las vegas. Thereve been two major developments in catalonia tonight, after sundays independence referendum and scenes of police brutality. King felipe of spain, in a rare televised address, said the catalan leadership had behaved irresponsibly. But the regions president of the region said a declaration of independence will now come within days. From barcelona, fergal keane. There was an energy today that felt as if it could shape history. A shared anger bringing hundreds of thousands the streets. Why have you come here . I came here because of the state, against the violence. Are you here for independence . Not exactly. But others were. And as with the occupying forces. Translation since i was a child i was a separatist and i still am, this man says. This friend tells me we are different to spain in our culture, our way of acting and being, many things. The roads will a lwa ys being, many things. The roads will always be ours shall this man to get across catalonia, highways were blocked. Firemen guided polling stations and have become local heroes. This demonstration has drawn people from across the political spectrum. The question now is whether or not it prompts them into further confrontation with madrid. Tonight, as the demonstrations continued, a highly unusual intervention. Faced with the threat ofa intervention. Faced with the threat of a broken country, king felipe went on television, taking a tough line against the separatists. We are living in serious times for democracy, he said, condemning what he cold the illegal actions of catalonias leaders and not once mentioning the violence used by police against voters at the weekend. But in a bbc interview tonight, the catalan president was defiant. Would go ahead with the declaration of independence. Translation we will probably do this when we have the votes in from abroad. At the end of this week or thereabouts, so we will act at the end of the week at the beginning of next week. What is remembered is that people from outside catalonia we re that people from outside catalonia were unleashed against them. It has created anger and a sense of the world and felt on both sides of the independence debate your. Translation i am not in favour of independence. I am translation i am not in favour of independence. Iam not translation i am not in favour of independence. I am not a separatist. The attitude the Spanish Government has left us all surprised in catalonia. We do not understand what the strategy of the government was when he sets thousands of police against defenceless people. Spain and catalonia, a relationship relentlessly troubled by the past. The new ruler of spain rides into the city of this country. After the victory of the dictator franco, catalonias identity was suppressed. This mass grave remembers those killed here by this regime. Somewhat cata la n killed here by this regime. Somewhat catalan nationalists, others leftists and republicans. In a time of growing uncertainty, the wounds of growing uncertainty, the wounds of the spanish civil war act as a warning. Translation this will be influential in the sense that people of conscience when people are demonstrating, protesting and asking for independence. But it cannot be violence. Can be dialogue and peace. There is anger on both sides. Look into the faces of these men. National police hemmed into their hotel. Via the spaniel. Us out, they shout. From this. To this. A vast gulf. The foreign secretary borisjohnson has told the conservative conference that theresa may will make a success of brexit and that the cabinet is united behind her strategy. Mrjohnson had been accused of undermining the Prime Minister on brexit but mrs may told our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg that she values a cabinet which isnt full of yes men. Reporter happy with boris speech . Leading is lonely. But theresa may has to walk her party back from the edge, persuade the tories again before trying with the rest of us that they were right to put her in charge. I recognise that there are people who feel left behind, there are parts of our communities that feel left behind and its governments job to ensure that opportunities are there for everyone. When you make that case now, you make it with passion. But when you talk to your colleagues, mps, activists, some ministers here at conference this week, they dont always feel that. They dont always see that. 0ne told me they worry theres a smell of decay around the conference, that the party is somehow finding itself in a downward spiral. One of your colleagues compared your leadership to gordon brown. There is a real need in this country to ensure that the economy is working across the whole country, that people can feel benefits across the whole benefits of the Economic Growth across the whole of the country. Thats the mission that i set for my government. Thats what ministers and the government have been working to. On many of the things. Its what conference is about. On many of the things that you put forward, Prime Minister, a big, radical look at social care, potentially getting rid of the triple lock on pensions, bringing back more grammar schools binning changes that you wanted to make, youve had to row back on. Youre left as a manager trying to stay afloat. No, what weve set out at this conference is a whole set of policies, a whole set of ideas about how we can actually do things for people that make their lives better. Are you fully behind the Prime Minister . There are here real fears of decline. Do you think youre sackable being foreign secretary . Leaving the foreign secretarys size tens to trample all over the void. 0ther ministers frustrated. Do you think the foreign secretary is in danger of stealing the limelight . What about the home secretary . Was that an eye roll . Party members queueing up to hearfrom him. The Prime Minister advisably, if not verbally, irritated at the attention he grabs. Do you feel after everything youve been through that the you have the authority to do the things that you believe the country needs . Yes, thats what were talking about at this conference. Do you really think that, when weve seen this week, the foreign secretary upstage you again and again, that doesnt look like you have authority. I mean, what would borisjohnson have to do for you to sack him . Strong leadership is not aboutjust having yes men sitting around you. You talk about the authority, what matters is what government gets on and does. This isnt about an individual personality. Its about how we can deliver for people. Its about how we can make a different to peoples lives. The last time i checked, the idea of the cabinet is you have your disagreements in private. Youve got ministers who are privately furious that hes been doing this. If some of your colleagues are furious, arent you . You say that about the collective voice around the table. Ive made the point about having different views. If we look at the key issue, europe and brexit, the cabinet came together. We agreed the governments position. I set out that position in a speech in florence then just straight after the speech, he went off and said a whole load of other things. Well, no, if you look at the issues boris is talking about they reflect the position weve taken in the florence speech. What would he have to do for you to sack him . I mean, have you thought about it . Because the problem is him behaving as he does, for many of your colleagues, it is notjust a distraction, it undermines what youre trying to do. It doesnt undermine what im doing at all. He has been, though, one of the few this week to get this conference to crack a smile. His speech was not vintage, roof raising johnson, but with a loyal oath he cheered them up. Lifting their post election fug. You won. We won. Applause theresa may won. She won more votes than any party leader and took this party to its highest share of the vote in any election in the last 25 years. And the whole country owes her a debt for her steadfastness in taking britain forward, as she will, to a great brexit deal. Cheering and applause a faint chant, not a roar, for mrjohnson. But tomorrow the platform belongs to the Prime Minister. What words, what phrases can secure power within her grasp . As she prepares tonight, a vow that will redefine her mission, to have listened and learned a personal promise of duty that you and her party will decide if she has the chance to keep. Thats a summary of the news now its time for newsnight with evan davies. Boris . Are you going to roar or bite, mrjohnson . Are you a lion or a pussycat . Is this your bid for number 10 . A big blonde bundle of optimism barged its way into a somewhat glum tory conference today, and, in the process, stole the show. It is time to stop treating the referendum result as though it were a plague of boils or a rain on our cattle or an inexplicable abhoration by 17. 4 million people. It is time to be bold, to seize the opportunities. But borisjohnsons speech sounded like that of a leader, so while he can charm a crowd, he can also exasperate his colleagues. Well ask if he should he be optimistic about his own career