Spain. Another Significant Development in spain. Spains Constitutional Court has suspended an upcoming session of Catalan Parliament. This is designed to stop a planned declaration of independence. The court says that would be a breach of the constitution. Bear in mind, the same court said the referendum would breach the constitution and the organisers went ahead anyway. Were also seeing signs the fallout is impacting the economy. Spains fifth biggest Bank Sabadell will shift its registered domicile away from catalonia, a Company Spokesman said thursday, after threats by the regions leaders to declare independence. The catalan minister for external relations has spoken to the bbc in the last hour or so. This is what he said. That is a new attempt from the Constitutional Court, which is by the weight very politicised body, it is not newco, to impede the normal voting of the catalan institutions. It isa voting of the catalan institutions. It is a new attempt to take control of the Catalan Autonomy and that shows very well we are not confronted very well to a question of legality. This is a political question and it needs to be addressed politically. Any attempt by the Constitutional Court, we simply feel even more the frustration of the catalan society. Catalonia is in the north east of spain. Its one of countrys richest regions and has its own culture and language that date back to the middle ages. Until the spanish civil war in the 1930s it enjoyed broad autonomy, but general francos dictatorship eroded that. After his death in 1975, catalonia regained much of its autonomy within spain. Fast forward to 2010 and the Constitutional Court handed down a ruling that rolled back much of the autonomy. Since then, the topic of full independence has not gone away. The bbcs Damian Grammaticus is in barcelona. Hes been looking at todays developments. On the ones that you have the government of spain saying this is a legal matter and what the Catalan Government is trying to do is illegal. Today the Prime Minister said the way to resolve this was for the catalan side to drop their talk ofa the catalan side to drop their talk of a unilateral declaration of independence, to return, he said, to a legal path and at that point he would be prepared to talk. On the other side the catalan side, as you heard, i saying this is a political matter. More than 2 Million People cast a vote for independence in that referendum on sunday. What we had today interestingly was the intervention of the socialist party here in catalonia which brought this court challenge, asking the Constitutional Court to block that meeting of the Catalan Parliament on monday because the socialist party said it would infringe their Constitutional Rights to represent cata la ns Constitutional Rights to represent catala ns and the Constitutional Rights to represent catalans and the Constitutional Court has agreed with them, it has barred that meeting from going ahead. The question is whether the cata la n ahead. The question is whether the catalan side now proceed anyway ignoring this court ruling as well. Iam ignoring this court ruling as well. I am guessing those who want independence do not see spains Constitutional Court as a neutral arbiter. No, they do not and that is one of the reasons why they reject this. They rejected the intervention before that poll was held. At that point the Constitutional Court again was very clear. It said the independence poll was illegal. Spains constitution talks about an indivisible country, so the Constitutional Court said that poll would not go ahead. The catalans did anyway. That is the basis for the government in madrids position. It said all along it will not enter into negotiations while it believes it is being blackmailed, its words, bya it is being blackmailed, its words, by a Catalan Administration that has called this poll. That is why it is calling for the catalan side to drop their approach if they want any talks. Both sides are entrenched in their positions and what happens on monday may be key. Damian on a busy thursday night in barcelona. The partner of the Las Vegas Attacker Stephen Paddock has told authorities she had no idea he was planning the attack. She described him as kind, caring, quiet. Were also learning more about paddocks movements before the attack. A week earlier hed checked into the ogden hotel on the Las Vegas Strip its not far from the Mandalay Bay Hotel from where he carried out the shooting. It remains unclear what his plans were. Nor do we know his motive. This though was interesting from clark county sheriffjoseph lombardo youve got to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point. In what form though . Again there are only more questions. James cook has the latest. The golden glass was shattered by a man intent on mayhem. Why police still dont know, but they say theres evidence Stephen Paddock had planned to survive the attack and that he may have had help. They want to know why he went on a weapons buying spree ayear ago, buying spree a year ago, although he had been amassing an arsenalfor years. We know Stephen Paddock is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and living a secret life, much of which will never be fully understood. So far, there has been a lot of attention paid to the actions of the man who was in that building and what he did, firing down on this concert below. But what many people who were at that gig have told us is that they think the focus should be on the response and the bravery that was on display there. Kristin babik showed immense courage. The 24 year old kept running from the bullets, even after she had been shot in the back. I felt something hit me really hard and then i felt something splatter on my back, so i thought it was either somebodys drink, it kind of felt like a paintball or Something Like that. Its not fair and its not right. And now ill forever have to have a bullet in my back. For no reason. The girlfriend of the man who inflicted such suffering says he was kind, caring and quiet. Marilou danley has now been questioned by the fbi. A lawyer read a statement on her behalf. He never said anything to me or took any action that i was aware of, that i understood in any way to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen. Get down, get down. The rapidity of the shooting was made possible by a device called a bump stock, which can make a rifle fire continuously. Now congress may debate debate a ban, but change is not guaranteed this country has a capacity for staring at the faces of its dead and doing nothing. James cook, bbc news, las vegas. Inevitably gun control has been a central issue since the attack. And theres been a lot of attention on this bit of kit. Its called a bump stock. It turns semi automatic rifles into fully automatic weapons and it was used by Stephen Paddock. Thats significant because fully automatic weapons are illegal in america. Bump stocks arent, though. In fact since sundays attack, sales appear to have surged. This is a gun website in the us. A quick search of bump stocks brings up four options all are sold out. Another manufacturer called slide fire, simply has this message we have decided to temporarily suspend taking new orders in order to provide the best service with those already placed. Bump stocks were approved for sale in 2010. Theres a push to reverse that. On wednesday, Democratic SenatorsDianne Feinstein and Richard Blumenthal introduced legislation to ban them. Its not just democrats. Republican senatorjohn cornyn says i own a lot of guns and as a hunter and sportsman i think thats our right as americans, but i dont understand the use of this bump stock. The White House Press secretary has been talking about this a short time ago. Right now our focus is, right now ourfocus is, as right now our focus is, as we have said over the last couple of days, is on healing and uniting the country. The investigation still continues to be in very early stages. We know members of both parties and multiple organisations are planning to take a look at bonn stocks and related devices. We would like to be part of that conversation and we would like to see a clear understanding of the facts and input from the victims families, from Law Enforcement policymakers. We expect some other important fact finding effo rts some other important fact finding efforts on that and we want to be pa rt efforts on that and we want to be part of that discussion moving forward. The National Rifle association has been strangely silent on the issue of gun control. In the last few hours, the National Rifle association has also released a statement. The nra believes that devices designed to allow semi automatic rifles to function like fully automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations. But it also adds, banning guns from law abiding americans based on the criminal act of a madman will do nothing to prevent future attacks. Anthony zurcher is in washington. This was a point that james this was a point thatjames made at the end of his report. It does not matter how shocking these attacks are, on the whole america does not tend to move much on this issue. No, American Public opinion is pretty settled. When you look at the polls, it has become a highly partisan issue, not only by republicans and democrats, democrats are in favour of increased gun control and the others are in favour of gun rights. But there is also an urban and rural split in this country. In the big cities there tends to be support for gun control and in the rural states they tend to be more in favour of gun rights. It is almost like a cultural issue as well that is dividing our nation and makes it difficult to reach of any sort of compromise or consensus on difficult to reach of any sort of compromise oi consensus on where to go when you get one of these high profile attacks. Go when you get one of these highprofile attacks. What did you make of the mri statement. It appears to be open on the issue of semiautomatic weapons being made fully automatic and perhaps more regulation is needed 7 fully automatic and perhaps more regulation is needed . It is open to it and it is part of its strategy whenever there is an attack like this to go into an art for a little while. They lay back for a while and then they come in and try to shape then they come in and try to shape the debate something more favourable for them and they are doing that here. They are calling for an administrative response rather than administrative response rather than a legislative response. They want the Trump Administration to review bonn stocks and increase legislation on them, but not new laws. If you try to debate new laws in congress, that could open up another can of worms for gun rights advocates where you are looking at not only banning bar stocks, but also doing further regulation of so called assault weapons and rivals, may be debating background checks. All those things are generally popular among the public at large, but they are rigorous lee opposed by the National Rifle association and they do not wa nt Rifle Association and they do not want the possibility that even a vote coming up on that in congress. Given this will be the last time we speak this week and the speed of american politics, what is coming down the track next week that we need to be aware of . We saw a report in the Washington Post coming up that donald trump may announce that he is decertify irans compliance with the nuclear agreement. There is a deadline on october the 15th and he may give a speech on october the 12th announcing this change. That will have a big effect on us and iranian policy and it will force congress on whether to continue the obligations of the nuclear treaty. I would keep a very close eye on that. I expect we will be talking on monday. Thank you to anthony. In a few minutes we will hear from brazil. Prosecutors have arrested the head of the countrys olympic committee. He is suspected of being involved in corruption that led to rio getting the olympics last year. An investigation by Watcher Police has concluded that so edward heath would have been questioned about several alleged offences, including the rape of a boy, if he were still alive. But the police stressed the outcome is not to say that the former Prime Minister was guilty. The purpose would have been to obtain his account in relation to the allegations made against him. It is clearly inappropriate to speculate what his response would have been to the allegations put to him and no inference of guilt should be drawn by the decision to interview him. His account would have been as important as other information and evidence gathered as pa rt information and evidence gathered as part of the wider investigation and would have informed the next stages of the investigative strategy. This is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. Our lead story is spains Constitutional Court has suspended a planned session of the catalonian parliament, amid fears its separatist leaders would declare independence. It comes after a referendum vote over the weekend, which the Spanish Government declared unconstitutional. Lets bring you the stories from the bbc world service. Lets bring you the stories from the bbc world service. The Russian Defence ministry has drafted a law to ban social media posts by professional soldiers and other military personnel. The bill says photos, videos and other material uploaded to the internet can reveal military details useful to an enemy. Russian soldiers posts have revealed forces deployed to ukraine and syria in the past. A 77 year old former german spy has been convicted of tax evasion by hiding more than 17m in offshore accounts. He was nicknamed the germanjames bond and he claimed he thwarted a plot to poison pope benedict. World service radio. This is one of our most read stories on the bbc news app and with good reason. Thats a 7. 8m long python which is now dinnerfor a village in indonesia only after it lost a battle with a security guard. The guard, for reasons best known to him, tried to catch it on his own and a fight ensued. The man nearly lost his arm, but emerged victorious. In case you fancy trying it yourself, the python was chopped up and fried before being served. Lets talk about the head of bristols olympic committee. He is accused of acting as an intermediary in facilitating a bribe that went to a member of the International Olympic committee. There are lots of interesting details to this story. A p pa re ntly interesting details to this story. Apparently he had 16 bars of gold stashed in switzerland. He has not commented today, but last month we heard from his lawyers who said, the entire journey of the real olympics from the bid to the closing ceremony was conducted within the law. We have a response from the ioc. The main point is that they are fully cooperating with the investigation. The bbcs correspondence in brazil is katie watson and heres she has more details. He was arrested on thursday, but he was investigated last month, his house was searched and he was questioned and he had his passport seized. He is alleged to have facilitated a bribe worth 2 million to african ioc members, basically buying votes for a bit for rio. This is part of an investigation which itself is part ofa investigation which itself is part of a much bigger corruption investigation. You might have heard of operation carwash, the countrys biggest ever investigation. He has been implicated in this massive corruption scandal, but this is just showing the legacy of the rio games is far more scandalous than sporting sadly. Id allegations that he acted he alone or is he part of a broader conspiracy to use corruption to get rio the games . Well, the Committee Director general, who is also arrested, certainly the two men have been investigated and arrested gated in the case known as operation fairplay, but a former governor of rio was imprisoned for 1h years in june again because of dealings with kickbacks involving the stadiums and the stadium is being built, especially rios main stadium. U nfortu nately especially rios main stadium. Unfortunately the image that is coming out of the rio games is far from the odd person acting alone and it is part of a much bigger culture of corruption sadly. What is the process for Carlos Nuzman and those investigating him . Well, Carlos Nuzmans lawyer has said that they remain. They deny any wrongdoing. The Court Process takes a long time here in brazil. There are people here in brazil. There are people here every day who are arrested for new issues of allegations of corruption. This is again sadly one more name in the pot, if you like, of corrupt individuals. The process no doubt will be a long one certainly. But the investigation is not over. Even operation carwash is very much still under way. Even the president is implicated in corruption investigations, so it goes right to the top. Corruption investigations, so it goes right to the toplj corruption investigations, so it goes right to the top. I want to go back to the lead story, catalonias plans to declare independence and the Spanish Governments efforts to stop that happening. Meanwhile, it seems some Big Companies are planning to move their headquarters elsewhere in spain in order to avoid any fallout from catalonia potentially breaking away. Various reports suggest two banks caixa bank and Banco Sabadell are considering a move. While news that Pharmaceuticals Company oryzon will shift its hq from barcelona to madrid sent its shares soaring yesterday. One expert explains why these companies are so keen to make the move. The government is in a tricky situation because it wants to declare independence, but if it did that, it would find itself out of the eu and all these companies would find themselves out of eu regulations. It is a huge concern for banks because they would not be able to do business anywhere else in the eu. It is a huge concern for pharmaceuticals. All these companies are likely to consider moving these companies away. For madrid that would be positive. At the moment we have only seen madrid versus independence forces in catalonia. If businesses started to speak up, madrid would be it had a bit more backing on its side. Indias government is finally opening up the coal sector, saying foreign firms will be allowed to both mine and sell the commodity. Its also going to start exporting coal. Until now its only been for domestic consumption. Devina gupta explains. We are talking about the worlds fifth largest coal reserves of about 300 Million Tonnes a year here in india. But the news is that only a fraction of it is currently mined by the state owned mining companies, thatis the state owned mining companies, that is 650 Million Tonnes. 150 Million Tonnes is still important. When i spoke to the minister earlier he told me in the next six months Foreign Companies will be allowed to come and bid for coal mines here in india and not only take out coal, but sell it in a free trade environment. That is the news coming in now. I feel like i have to do this story a few times over. I feel like i have to do this story a few times over. Us markets are hitting fresh all time highs today. Tech stocks are leading the charge. Samira hussain is in new york. It does not seem to stop. And to be perfectly honest my eyes glaze over every time i see these record highs because it has been so often. This is the 43rd record high this year. That is a lot of record highs. The dow went up by 115 points this year. The big push has to do with what is happening in washington. The house passed a 4. 1 trillion budget bill and that is seen as a big move towards getting that tax reform up and running. That has a lot of bank stocks cheering because it means there will be less regulation and they will be benefiting from some of they will be benefiting from some of the reforms that the republicans wa nt to the reforms that the republicans want to put in place. Is anyone looking at these 43 record highs and thinking this might look like a bubble. There are those questions about whether or not there is a bubble and there are some people who believe some sectors are very overvalued. But we have been talking about this for months and there seems to be no end to the euphoria. Because of these moves to overhaul the tax code, and these are things that markets have been looking for for many years, but as we know it remains to be seen if it actually happens. I look forward to speaking to you again about another record high next week we will take a short break and we will continue with some of the biggest stories around the world. Thank you forjoining me. I will give you a rough sense of what we will expect to see in the British Isles in just a second. First of all, i want to move you across yet again into the florida area and more widely across the usa and canada. We have seen already quite a bit of rainfall coming back into the devastated areas in florida and there is more rain to come on friday. The contrast between the temperatures north and south is making for a very active weather feature. Lets drag you a bit further south. Just as one revolving system further south. Just as one revolving syste m m oves further south. Just as one revolving system moves away from the Western Shores of south west mexico, our eyes a re shores of south west mexico, our eyes are focused now out towards the western caribbean again because this mass of colour is indicative of a tropical depression at the moment which on friday may become a tropical storm. Thereafter it may well become something of a hurricane. There is a lot of doubt about its tracks or whether the upper atmosphere will support the creation of a hurricane. Some meaningful rain in the Southern States of africa. Some pretty heavy downpours in the west african states, as indeed there are to be had on the western side of india. The monsoon trough is dragging away that prospect and we see the temperatures rise as it continues its journey southwards and eastwards over the coming days and weeks. Colour again catches the eye on the south western corner of china. For flooding into the border into vietnam and cambodia. Heavy rainfall will be the order of the day in the southern portions of japan on friday and maybe impious of south korea as well. If this time last night you we re well. If this time last night you were experiencing wet and windy weather, it was all thanks to this system as it chimed its way through the heart of the British Isles and it has brought that combination of very wet and windy conditions into northern parts of europe. On friday we will see the head of that system close by to moscow, followed by some stiff winds, and there could also be some coastal flooding into the low countries. What about the uk for the forthcoming weekend . On saturday you can barely see us for the low pressure. But out of a chilly saturday night and sunday it looks to bea saturday night and sunday it looks to be a much drier affair. More details in a few minutes. Hello, im ros atkins. This is outside source, and these are the main stories here in the bbc newsroom. The pressure is ratcheting up in spain as the Constitutional Court suspends a planned session of catalonias parliament. It isa it is a new attempt to take control. We are not confronted with legality. Police investigating the Las Vegas Attack now believe the gunman received assistance but his motives remain a mystery. Afghanistans president has told the bbc wants a peace deal with the taliban. And africas first female head of state is stepping down. Is is close to stepping down