Protest Police Violence during sundays independence referendum thats a scab on leaders call on International Mediators to resolve their worsening just beautiful with madrid. The e. U. Blocks braggs the talks from advancing to the next stage of lawmakers to london before discussing our future relationship we must first settle the divorce. Also coming up on a National Holiday that celebrates the past germans are asking questions about the future germany celebrates twenty seven years since reunification but in the wake of the recent a general election is the country more divided than ever. And one of the most recognizable voices in rock silenced tom petty of the heartbreakers and traveling wilburys dies after a heart attack at the age of sixty six. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us gunned down while enjoying their Favorite Music fifty nine people are dead and hundreds injured in a her horrific attack on a Country Music festival in las vegas the man who murdered them opened fire from inside the high rise Mandalay Bay Hotel spraying hundreds of bullets into the crowd of concert goers on the other side of the Las Vegas Strip then he took his own life well the shooting has renewed the debate over gun control in the u. S. In las vegas locals and survivors are rallying together to comfort each other. The grief and horror of a city in shock a quiet candlelight vigil replacing the customer glitz of the last vegas strip tales of heroic bravery emerging from the worst mass shooting in modern u. S. History. Although they were dead or alive as many people as a possible. Baby introspection were just trying to repeat the one story. But you have been cleared of anybody whos alive. Stayed with the Police Department for their church some comfort in coming together for young people caught up in the tragedy. Get down on my teammates by my side and just yet do we express the gratitude that you feel for people being was interesting was taking me to if you have a look at together for you. This is the killer sixty four year old Stephen Paddick a wealthy high stakes gambler he often got free rooms and meals from Las Vegas Casinos in return for his big spending at patricks home in the nevada town of miskito police recovered nineteen guns in addition to the twenty three found at the Las Vegas Hotel where the fatal shots were fired but well youre concerned as anybody would be and we were that somebody close to home would. Do Something Like that but. Today this seems to be happening all over the place and so you just dont know who neighbor really is certainly never expected to see. It like this happen in our Small Community where everybody is just friendly Loving Police say its still too early to speculate on patricks motive i know that you are all very eager to find out exactly what his motive was or what was going through his head or what he was doing up to two weeks ago i promise you the sheriff will provide that information why. We have confirmed it it doesnt make sense for us to put out information that is not accurate and isnt timely and reliable. With the investigation into the massacre in las vegas still in its early stages the debate on gun control which has divided america for decades can only intensify. Well just a short while ago a u. S. President donald trump told reporters he would be talking about gun laws quote as time goes by well lets go to our u. S. Correspondent cussen phenomena hes standing by in las vegas high cost and how much pressure is mounting on trying to tackle the countrys gun laws. Well there is some pressure. I would be surprised actually if you would see some Decisive Action on this clearly time and again after every mass shooting schalke this horror this this belief there are calls for tighter gun laws but at the same time theres also always pushback from the gun lobby from those who believe that the right to be protected and probably will be the same again there will be calls for tighter gun laws especially with regards to semiautomatic automatic rifles but in the end not much will happen simply because the progun lobby is too strong like us and President Trump and malani are due to travel to las vegas tomorrow and how are they likely to be received. I think the people here in las vegas are expecting the president to come forward to the city come for the people here the victims that he. Basically does what he already did on monday staying above politics trying to help to unite the country of course that is difficult because he is such a divisive figure because he has during his campaign and since he became president also always supported gun rights gun laws and so i dont think he will do much in that respect but were not expecting really a hostile reaction or anything people are still shocked and they want to mourn for the victims and theres not much appetite here in las vegas at least for a political discussion. And what about the witnesses youve been speaking to some of them and survivors as well how are they dealing with what has happened what its really tough for even for those people who didnt suffer any physical harm but of course they are having major problems coming to grips with this of course this is a traumatic situation of people going to a concert trying to enjoy themselves and then suddenly theres blood and chaos everywhere theres one woman from texas i talked to she said that basically shes still trying to come to grips with this she experienced how her husband when they were trying to run away was trying to assist a man who was bleeding from the chest wound who had been shot and ds images will stay with the victims and the survivors for a very long time right and to give us catherine phenomenon reporting for us from la thank you thank you catherine. Well lets get more on the debate about u. S. Gun laws now with a devious columnist men hes been following the social media aspect of the story carl what are people saying i mean this is a familiar conversation for americans we hash it every time theres a mass shooting theres been and unfortunately many of them you know how do we prevent these what role should gun control play and this was a discussion that happened last night in fact it was being led by many different us late night talk show hosts a lot of them went on air and they had some personal please for stricter gun control in fact they have a few clips here of some of what they said of american law and some say its too early to talk about gun control for those victims last night its far too late just like many of you i woke up this morning to the devastating news coming out of las vegas another mass shooting this time somehow Even Deadlier than all the other Mass Shootings and they say that this was the worst in American History but every shooting is the worst for someone if youre not willing to do anything just be honest and tell us this is how it is this is how it will continue to be instead of say this isnt the time to talk about it just say were never going to talk about it if its going to be thoughts and prayers from here on out the least you can do is be honest about that and actually the most emotional response came from jimmy kimmel hes also a late night talk show host hes from las vegas he had a tearful words for his viewers take a look what he said children without parents. Fathers about sons and mothers about daughter through laws ive been reading comments from people say this is terrible but theres nothing we can do about it but i disagree with that intensely because of course or something we can do about it there are a lot of things we can do about it. But we dont which is interesting because when someone with a beard attacks us we tap phones we invoke travel bans we build walls we take every possible precaution to make sure it doesnt happen again but when an american buys a gun and kills other americans then theres nothing we can do about that you know these shows are often about comedy but. Not karl you we have seen these types of emotional pleas after previous mass shooting in the u. S. Is there any reason to believe that this time will be any different i mean it doesnt look like this conversation is really shifting very much both sides are kind of digging in their heels but interestingly there was at least one person who said that what happened in las vegas did change his mind about gun control and thats actually somebody that was there and were talking about a member of the band level ninety five wizard his name is caleb keiter hes a guitarist he performed at that festival in las vegas and in reflecting on the shooting online he says that witnessing the massacre did shift his views on gun control and he writes ive been a proponent of the Second Amendment my entire life until the events of last night i cannot express how wrong i was we actually have members of our crew with concealed handgun licenses and legal firearms on the bus and they were useless we need gun control right now he says my biggest regret is that i didnt realize it until my brothers on the road and myself were threatened by it you know americans as weve been saying weve witnessed so many shootings different massacres and the feeling is at least online that even this one the worst in history may not shift that debate the debate continues congressman from our social media desk thank you very much. Moving on to some other news now and spains interior minister has accused the Catalan Government of inciting rebellion it is the latest escalation between madrid and catalonia as leaders who brought separatist tensions to a head with their attempted referendum on sunday Pro Independence groups and trade unions called for a strike in catalonia today as well as protests at the Police Violence which overshadowed the weekends ballot. Parts of barcelona at a standstill today. Others meanwhile pulsating to the rhythms of separatism. The demonstrations angry at times. And then defiantly still. These barcelona firemen holding up their arms in silent protest at sundays Police Violence. Support for the strike wasnt universal but enthusiasm for independence appears to be spreading. I feel like it serves the independence we have a different culture we have a different language and i support it but im not sure what will happen because its its a scary situation we dont know what the Spanish Government is capable of. What youre seeing oktober the first how that went. With public transport in barcelona providing only a limited service there were mixed reactions from people trying to get to work. On the one side its a hassle to get to work in the middle of a strike. Is i thought he was suffering this because a few have decided to behave in an improper way. On the other hand i understand the circumstances surrounding the strike. Its those circumstances that offending political passions and fostering calls for outside intervention. Give you correspondent a fine if a char is in barcelona for us hi funny good to see you there are huge protests today tens of thousands of people are there fears that we could see more violence. Indeed have been a lot of protests sumi all across catalonia today a lot of protests here in barcelona as well one just ended behind me in front of the office of the mayor and also in front of the office of the president of catalonia who both supporting dependents and people want to basically make sure that the message gets across to moderate to the Political Capital to the capital of spain that catatonia wants independence for the most part the protests where not violent at all they were allowed of course and people rich chanting democracy demanding independence for for catalonia but i can say that as far as as far as today is concerned it has been almost like a festival as people are singing songs or singing the National Anthem ever and this could be a Tipping Point when it comes to the atmosphere here in barcelona for example is when ever you see the National Spanish police crossing the street people are getting aggressive supporters of independence getting aggressive because of course everybody here has images in their minds from sunday and the question really is if this Tipping Point may result in violence at least so far thats not the case and funny youve been speaking to some of those protesters today what are they saying are they Still Standing firm behind their regions push for independence. It really depends who you talk to a lot of young people as as we proved in this report previously supporting dependents and they say its just about time to cut in on your becomes this status of independence others are taking to the streets to simply condemn violence and then again there are others who say they are just worried there are other stay at home so also alleges spain is split over this question but also catalonia itself doesnt really know whats next and it seems like the standoff between madrid and barcelona is going to continue to funny both sides dont seem to be ready to back down here catalan leaders have said they want to see some sort of International Mediation how likely is that to happen. Well there is going to be a meeting at the European Parliament tomorrow where they are going to put this topic on their agenda but thats not a clear sign yet that for example the European Union brussels is going to be a medi a tour in between madrid and barcelona in fact a lot of politicians in europe have called for a dialogue that this is a domestic issue and spain and catalonia must talk to each other and solve this problem so far it doesnt seem to be the case because both the Regional Government here in catalonia and the Central Government are talking separately from each other so the question is if thats going to change in the coming days and whether theres some sort of a negotiation a base exists for negotiation possible and finally just briefly looking at this from the perspective of madrid you know what options does that Central Government as you said have now Going Forward to find some sort of a path for dialogue. As for right now it at least it doesnt look like theyre looking for dialogue because if you are listen to the voices coming from the Regional Government what theyre interested in is calling out the independents and if this is going to happen that the Regional Government off catalonia declares independence then the consequences may be that madrid is going to strip them off completely of the determination or of their autonomy by invoking article one hundred fifty five but as i say at this point theres no dialogue inside as a sage really depends on also what europe is going to say tomorrow and whether there is a mediation possible through a third party. The chair reporting for us from barcelona thank you funny. Well spanish football giants barcelona have thrown their way behind a general strike in california today another strike was called by labor unions and protest that Police Violence and bars have confirmed it will cease all commercial activities in solidarity and the club is synonymous with catalan identity and a president shows that mighty about the miles said it wanted to make its indignation known for the world to see us going on the group the club would like to express its solidarity with all citizens who on sunday defended democracy most cherished possession and also we express our support to the eight hundred ninety three people who were victims of aggression we wish them a quick recovery long live barsa and long live cuts alone you know these are the all the continuing protests the strikes have taken an economic toll as well monica is here with more on that indeed so we i mean the catalonia is spains richest region of course its economic powerhouse if you want and the crises could threaten that status so lets find out more about the economic implications by talking to a businessman in the region carlos and i by the way our Vice President of the impresario sick of the lumia catalonia is Business Association good to have you with us first of all i mean you are there right in the maid of it and your experience you live it every day what is the situation for business at the moment. Hello everyone hello to all of the audience well at the moment as you can imagine the situation after its of instability we live in Uncertain Times unfortunately provoked and its something i think its very important for you to be aware of this because the Regional Government the Regional Parliament clearly violated the regional laws in the constitution last september the six weeks this is the origin of any trouble when you have a party that wants to play it out of the peach but but they still have i think the that they do have some support i mean we could see that certainly during the referendum activity on on sunday and those separatist catalans who supported they say that the region would be economically better off outside of spain given the economic power they have do they have a point. Absolutely not it is like believing that really our wealth you know and our Industries Come out of nowhere or they live in a vacuum you know i always put this example when we talk about economics and businesses many people dont understand is like parser you know possible actually we just talk about the bar suppressing the right a barge that made important factor of success in the last decade they won as you know for Champions League its not messi. Its the spanish meaning what i mean and they dont understand that they are you pretty shocked when i talk when i tell them the truth of how a business and how Society Works play in ensuring the Spanish League barsa with around what really makes them both of them very strong in the synergies of our competition and collaboration are a key factor for any successful business i mean we are in the spanish market we are part of it the rest of us spain its by far our most important clients so you say is it consistent you say catalonia being part of spain as it is at the moment is a win win situation economically for both sides how do you as a businessman how do you shield yourself from the Current Crisis not yet knowing what the result will be. Well right now what we feel is uncertainty and the stability and definitely this is going to bring a lot of massive exodus of companies we already seen that until now we have to draw the line between september the six before and after before september the sixth it was very uncertain there was a lot of instability we saw two thousand companies in five years living catalonia we saw a decrease of Foreign Investment yes the different investment alone increase our little bit because the whole it despite its economy was growing at a rate of more than three point five but barcelona is growing two percent why madrid is growing eleven and the spanish average is growing eight percent in terms of Foreign Investment it means there is some uncertainty in many investors dont trust but this is before september the six which was enough i mean bad enough right now its uncertain we dont have that out of course as you can imagine but its going to be dramatic in terms of tourism in terms of investment i mean whos going to invest in catalonia there is when you have a regional that is the that is the big question who invests when you have uncertainty well all the best colors that even though we are there Vice President of the catalonian Business Association thank you so much for talking to us. My question. So catalonia wants to split from spain britain wants to leave the e. U. But talks brecks it somewhat not really going that well do they thats right monica they dont seem to be going on the news today about that you want to delay the next phase of brags that negotiations lawmakers in the European Parliament have voted overwhelmingly not to advance talks on the u. K. s withdrawal to the next stage because there hasnt been enough progress made in settling the divorce itself. Little five hundred fifty seven to ninety two votes it was an overwhelming majority with which european lawmakers slammed the British Government for their lack of progress on bracks the negotiations theyre fighting amongst themselves like ferrets and such well the u. K. s National Interest however we define it is ignored by them its only shame on them it is not good enough for europe its not good enough for the u. K. Either so in its final resolution the European Parliaments declared sufficient progress has not yet been made on major issues such as Citizens Rights the irish border and the financial settlement. A surprise for lawmakers. Chairs that believe. The tiniest little bit in their own propaganda and they were surprised that they were so successful in fooling the british people and unprepared as they have that they now are in the mess that they created so in a way its not a surprise just last week u. K. Prime minister theresa may appear to have broken the stalemate in negotiations after signalling for the first time her country is ready to settle the exit to the six hundred thousand british parliamentarian say the criticism is unfair when. The great state isnt it you have not given one iota its all very well holding twenty seven Member States together in terms of unity but quite frankly what we saying now is a first so what and see it from the parliament in terms of the negotiations they are not serious and the sooner this country the United Kingdom leaves the better. Says well todays low thats not binding into reflects the current mood in the e. U. Parliament the body that will have to approve any final deal between the block a. Little bit to have to tell you this good friday hoffman of standing by at the European Parliament where that vote took place a bit earlier today hi max how bad is this for braggs the talks Going Forward. Well the European Parliamentarians here put the blame squarely on the government in the u. K. Saying they had not made the progress in the three key areas to me that theyre supposed to settle before moving on to the second phase of the negotiations where they want to talk about future relationships just a reminder those three elements are the border between Northern Ireland and ireland very very tricky issue the brags of bills of the money that the u. K. Has to pay or owes the European Union and of course the rights of e. U. Citizens that remain in the United Kingdom thats something thats very dear to the European Parliamentarians here and they all think that as long this is not settled there will be the stalemate were seeing more or less we wouldnt talk about failed negotiations but theyre certainly not advancing as they would have to to be able to have a deal in about a years time max what are the sticking points in those three kid areas that you mentioned why havent negotiators been able to make any progress there well if you look at the different issues for example the brags that bill threesome a Prime Minister of the u. K. Has acknowledged that they do some money but its far less than that what the rest of the you things that they should pay its a lot of details very complicated stuff but the bottom line is were talking about twenty billion euros or up to one hundred billion euros now in Northern Ireland ireland that borders explain complicated because they dont want to have the border neither nor neither island but how are you going to do that because Northern Ireland will no longer be part of the e. U. Being part of the u. K. And ireland will be part of the European Union so huge potential for stress here and so far at least people here believe and also michelle the chief negotiator of the European Union concerning the rights of citizens in the u. K. Really what the u. K. Has offered is just not sufficient ok max and just briefly if you can what is the next step. Next steps are were probably going to see the delay theyre not going to decide to go into the second phase of the negotiations in october when the leaders come to brussels and then its up to anyone how long this will take to get to the second stage so far progress as everybody here basically has said has been very slow no indication if this is going to change. That the European Parliament in strasburg thank you max. Youre watching d. W. News still to come the nobel prize for physics has been awarded for proving a one hundred year old theory our science correspondent a lot more. Tom petty one of rock musics most to celebrate a recording artist has died from a heart attack Marcus Miller from our culture desk will be here to discuss his enduring legacy. And twenty seven years after german reunification why he is the countrys president talking about new walls going up that story and more coming up in the next thirty minutes. Without real freedom. And that is the life of the woman in saudi arabia. Those some restrictions mean. Struggle of saudi women for gender equality and. The secret traveling should. Be five minutes on d w. Beat the germans. And surprising aspects of noise and culture in germany. U. S. American music takes a look at germany idiosyncracies at their traditions every day lives and language i can just come out of my lungs and so im young group. Nickerson triggered by a d w dot com the german. Hijacking the news. Were arguing from the news is being hijacked journalism it still has become the script is reality show its not just good vs evil us versus them black and white. In countries like russia china turkey people are told its that zone and if youre a journalist there and you try to get beyond that you are facing scare tactics intimidation. And i wonder is that where were headed is world. My responsibility as a journalist is to get beyond the smoke and mirrors its not just about being here for balance or being neutral its about being true. Twenty was born golf and i want to be done. Welcome back youre watching news our top story las vegas is mourning the fifty nine victims of a mass shooting yesterday after a gunman opened fire on a concert on the citys famous strength before killing himself its the deadliest mass shooting in modern u. S. History. And catalan separatists protest against Police Violence with a day of strikes and demonstrations the regions leaders have asked for International Help resolving their dispute with madrid after voters in a referendum over the weekend backed breaking away from spain. German president my has warned of new walls as the country marks twenty seven years since reunification time i was referring to a rise in right wing sentiment thats on the far right the a. F. P. Enter the German Parliament for the first time in last months election he said the result of that allow. Actions show that the country is divided styler was speaking in the western city of mindset a state ceremony held to mark reunification. Under mao the walls have sprung up less visible without barbed wire or death strips but walls nonetheless which stand in the way of our joint togetherness minds in view. Our chief Political Correspondent well linda crane is at the celebrations in mines where the german president was speaking a little bit earlier in the day in melinda got to say so youre at a park where people are celebrating to get today and the question of how together is germany now twenty seven years after reunification. Well like the weather here the picture is mixed certainly if you look at economic and material indicators east and west have converged unemployment is at about the same level in both parts of germany although eastern germany definitely does lag in productivity and it continues to lag in g. D. P. But as the president pointed out in the hall that you see behind me in fact perhaps the more grave barriers are the invisible ones a recent survey confirmed exactly what president steinmeier described that over sixty five percent of germans say that there is a kind of an invisible berlin wall in peoples minds and certainly that was indicated in the recent election the results showing that overall across the country the twelve point six percent share for the far right alternative for Germany Party but if you look at the results in the east that party came in first in some Eastern States with as much as twenty seven percent of the vote so clearly very flecked in a good deal of frustration disappointment and disillusionment in many parts of eastern germany so and what is the german president and other german leaders chance on a medical there today as well what are they suggesting needs to be done. Well both the president and the host of this years celebration who is the minister president of the state of run then palatinate both of them pointed out that. Ation and division can threaten democracy itself and the president called for germans to find a new way of talking to each other of listening to each other and he also told them not to take democracy for granted nor unification he said after twenty seven years there is still a good deal of work to be done to make sure that that german and germany does Grow Together in future to do these more in the crane there reporting there from the celebrations taking place in mines today melinda thank you very much. So mixed political and social success twenty seven years on but what about economically monica has more well so many also mixed one might say because twenty seven years ago west germany inherited an east German Economy that lay in tatters some two trillion euros were transferred by west german taxpayers since then to prop up the east then chancellor helmut kohl also known as the father of german unification promised that very soon flowering landscapes would appear in the east of that nobody would be worse off well that is not the case to this day differences between east and west remain and theyre quite steve just take a look at disposable income with an average per capita income of nineteen thousand euro the lowest earning regions are still mostly located in the former east germany here in dark red areas with a per capita income of twenty one thousand euros tend to be those bordering the former east due to the limited investment in these areas during the cold war in contrast germanys wealthiest regions theyre all in the former west you have hamburg the rhineland of area in the south battenberg him back in the south as well having an average per capita income of twenty three thousand euros or more but there are also examples where east and west have grown together and that is right here in cheering you know which would be somewhere right here in the middle there. A company well from the east and west reaping the economic rewards for unification. Around a hundred people work here at proprietary limited in highness off the ring which was once in east germany close to the border with varia in west germany they manufacture technical ceramic components the workforce here was born and bred on both sides of the border in this if im from west germany but it doesnt really matter its decided to go on he said you know some of us are from the west some from the east but we all get along with each other very well so i think that what you meant in one still uses the expressions in their seat and aussie but actually nobody cares go to. The factory stand in the middle of what used to be no mans land between the ranger and the various on the death strip between east and west germany. This in here you know i mean right in the form of border strip there used to be rifles on tripwires and landmines. Like everyone around here. Remembers the time when germany was divided only a few metres from the factory theres still a small piece of wall as a reminder the citizens of the g. D. Were told it was for their protection. They were under special observation here in the border zone then on the nineteenth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty nine everything changed all and noid i was there when these pictures were taken. From the east people came running towards the still closed and heavily guarded border. Town bands from both sides were also there peacefully and without violence they broke the wall down. There. Was an alley have you look if they all rushed over there everyone was in each others arms and then the two music clubs united and played together then we all marched over in the direction of highness dauphine it all and noise about what ran from west to east and rare scramble in the g. D. R. It was coming in the opposite direction. No one knew how long the border would stay open they didnt want to go to highness doff and then suddenly find that the border was closed again and they couldnt get home the guards were here with machine guns nobody really knew what was happening and like it was there was always the events of that evening are impossible to forget since then a lot has happened for and they are scramble and the others here things have gone well in a reunited germany. Before me how does one its im very happy that so many people in this area havent found work here in this part of franconian aside from many have come here because unemployment is very low theres this. Season either hes. Even so many young people have moved away highness doff has just seven hundred inhabitants much fewer than before the wall came down theres no butcher no baker and no supermarket it was mainly the older people who stayed near everything we believe that were disadvantaged in terms of the pension and in the ceramics business thats not something people are worried about and the employees are happy that theyre paid in line with western wages but theyre aware that the atmosphere is not so rosy everywhere in germany and in. London in the new federal provinces the former Eastern States the unemployment the lack of work lower wages although i really think that people have been left behind then youre from the same emotional me im fifty a lot of them but the people who work in this factory dont feel like theyve been left behind theyre grabbing their fight with both hands just like they did in one thousand nine hundred nine. Now then is bitcoin poised for a breakthrough top wall street Bank Goldman Sachs could become the first major firm to start trading the nation currency the company says its exploring how just clients interested in bitcoin to other Digital Currencies sources say goldman would likely create a team to trade the currency much as it already trades euros and Treasury Bonds such a move which make a mainstream entry for the eighty year old cyber currency. That india is one of the few places in the world where typewriters still in use in many businesses but earlier this year colleges in the Financial Capital by announced they will be phasing out a manual typewriter in courses but many people remain fiercely passionate about their typewriters our india correspondence on your phone the car sent us this report from the capital danny. The sound of a long forgotten outside a local court in delhi street typists still earn a living from a machine thats obsolete in most parts of the world. Has been working at this exact spot. Punching out. Rent agreements and other legal documents on a secondhand machine. She makes about five to six dollars a day just enough to make ends meet. Manual typewriters a really heavy they cant get done we dont have to worry about electricity radius we dont need a printer or cables all we need is a machine and a table thats it. Typing is the only work shes ever trained for and shes not giving it up anytime soon. I love this type writer like my own its my only source of income i continue typing very end. But the end has a right for this iconic machine and typing has also become a dying skill as india pushes to modernize and digitize its economy there ever fewer takers for the antiquated technology. Upside down as a result shops like roger on the decline his family has been selling typewriters since the one nine hundred thirty s. In delhi faced with stiff competition from computers has been forced to reinvent his business restoring antique typewriters like these quite some time i was feeling the. End of the grid but most of the. Building and. Somehow he remained. And that is making some business sense. Panton has embraced new technology in order to preserve the old he routinely tricks out websites to get information about the value of his price pressures how you open it his refurbished portable typewriters sell for upwards of one hundred fifty dollars bunter also has. Over one hundred ray machines some more than. The typewriter meters to buy in the hands of skilled repayment. Giving the old machines a much needed to know perhaps theyre stealing from a collector shelf. Or as an expert in a museum. Or itll be auctioned at auction house sothebys well there are a rare one thousand year old ball from china a song dynasty was sold for now get this a whopping thirty seven point seven Million Dollars that makes it the most expensive piece of a chinese porcelain ever sold thats according to some of the base the ball was initially expected to sell for much less the bidding started at around ten Million Dollars it lasted for a full twenty minutes before a phone bidder made to the winning office. Here in germany gay lesbian couples are finally time the knot after a new Marriage Equality law came into effect this weekend so me thats right monica and that law means that a married a famed sex couples or enjoy the same rights as their heterosexual counterparts the better the right to adopt children heres more on the story. Its a very special day for chi and michael their wedding day its also a big occasion for germany the two men one not only be among the first gay couples to get married dont also be among the first to adopt children. Coming in from a d. C. When i look at this development its such a great thing. Im shaking a little compass with that since october first same sex couples have been able to marry and have the same parental rights as heterosexual partners the school b. C. I think its an incredibly big signal to the world and for germany just to say here same sex couples are loving parents wonderful spouses who love each other just like other couples. Now and michael can adopt their foster child once hes officially their son the have overcome the final hurdle to Marriage Equality for gays and lesbians. Now it is a nobel prize weekend a royal sort of academy of sciences in stockholm has announced the two thousand and seventeen physics laureate the Royal Swedish Academy of sciences has decided to award the two thousand and seventeen nobel prize in physics with one have to write in their weiss and the other half jointly to bury seed barish and keep us for all of them members of the largo virgo collaboration and the academy citation runs for decisive could should you chanst for the like o. Detector and the observation of gravitation way. Well lets break that down with our science correspondent Derrick Willams the derek we were talking about this earlier and you said this award this year didnt come as a surprise really no it didnt come as a surprise i mean pretty much if you read all the blogs online everybody was saying it was a no brainer and it was it really is kind of the discovery of the century so far so people werent surprised in the least however i was very happy because it was only the second time in ten years that ive actually gotten a right to defend you ok tell us about what they want for so Gravitational Waves why are these important gravitationally waves or are very important because the way that we have of looking at the observable universe now is very dependent on electromagnetic radiation and that means things like x. Rays violet rays that also means visible light but the thing with with with Gravitational Waves is that they allowed us to see and measure objects that are in the dark part of the universe thats over ninety percent of the universe for example here this is a this is an animation of of the event that took place that was the gave rise to the first Gravitational Waves you see two giant black holes revolving around each other and and when they finally collide theres the rippling theyre sending these ripples through space to the very fabric of space time itself as they revolve around one another now those like ripples when you throw a stone into water they can eventually be be measured as they squeeze and stretch space that theyre that theyre passing through on their way away from this event moving away from this event so thats why theyre such its open to bring a new door to a whole new way of observing the universe so its a very very exciting time to be an astronomer particularly if you decide that you want to enter this field you know pretty spectacular how did this team detect these waves if its taken so long to do so well that depends on that thats part of the problem was was there then by the time they reach us theyre actually incredibly faint and so to be able to detect them you have to build really really nasa of detectors now thats what they did. At the lego universe at the lego project you can see the way that they generally do it is that its two l. Shaped its an l. Shaped giant facility and they shoot a laser through a splitter that that reflects off of a mirror at the very end and it comes back to the splitter now if nothing is happened while that is taking place then theyll be in phase together here at the end there at the two the two reunited laser beams but if space is squeezed and stretched as the gravitational wave is passing through theyve theyre thrown out of phase and you get a blip you get a blip now the lego facilities there are two different facilities thousands of kilometers away from each other that are obvious that are otherwise identical and if you get that blip in two different facilities thousands of kilometers away from one another you know its not an artifact you just caught a gravitational wave and so thats how the Technology Works its an incredible achievement dark and one that was actually achieved by a team of International Researchers yet weve seen three physicists honor today why is that well this is one of those this is one of those things that people now it is a big science nowadays its not really done by individuals much anymore its done by these Large International teams and and i think a lot of people out there would have liked to have seen the light go team a thousand intern you know people spread out really all over the world but particularly in europe in the u. S. When this particular award instead the committee decided to go at the more traditional route which is what theyve always done and given to the individuals but that said the three individuals really who were most key in making this project actually happen we are going to see the nobel prize for chemistry awarded tomorrow i believe what are your predictions there and i do have one but its its kind of controversial Crisper Technology actually the prize for chemistry i think that its going to be for Crisper Technology jennifer didna and emanuel shop in ca but well have to wait and see ive never gotten to and when youre going to hold you to put those protections to hard work and our science correspondent Derek Williams explaining why the u. Of physics laureates to us thank you very much. Lets move on now to some other stories making news around the world mian maher has told the u. N. 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But this is america the person amendment is what we can protest my hand will be on my heart because i love this country ive had family members that have fought and died in wars so god bless america. The president even sent a lot of stuff like this is like smoke and mirrors to take the focus off what the real. Really is really is really was he started to protest. The folded. Football is our release from politics and now its entering in their Earnings Call being a season Ticket Holder domain name to me no more money watching games than on a couch it was forty years ago. It took me two moves to get rid of a. Man. That musician and songwriter tom petty has died after suffering a heart attack in california the sixty six year old is best known as the lead singer of the rock band tom petty and the heartbreakers which reported a number of hits in the one nine hundred seventy s. And eightys. Well lets talk a little bit more about petty and his band we have Marcus Miller from arts and culture desk with us im mark what made tom petty a stand out as a rock musician when he was a real master of the power power chords and. Punctuating pop lyrics that really sort of worked in the genre and he also had a real gift of penning almost perfect pop rock songs with strong words and great melodic lines that also have a real rocknroll feel to them too a bit of swagger and defiance about the great example of that is probably his biggest hit i wont back down and i think we have a clip of that for us now. Yeah. Thats great music thats really stays which you know where did tom petty get his inspiration for his lyrics also ok well his his sort of musical talent was kind of awoken by the scream of yeah yeah yeah from the beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in one thousand nine hundred sixty four you can hear that in his music but he also cited the Rolling Stones and their more hard edged guitar based style as thats very clear in his sound hes also got an element of the jangly sort of birds the birds Country Sound is as part of the fabric of his music he really loved playing live he got a real thrill out of the spontaneity of that and that feeds into an element of how he wrote music hes told quite a bit about his songwriting but in terms of it being a magical process something that came to him while playing playing his guitar and fooling around in it almost and then these musical shapes would appear and he said he didnt ever want to really analyze that too much lyrical inspiration that came from many sources from the media and headlines in a song like jam in me which he wrote with bob dylan which i think we have a clip of to play now too. That the way he really punctuate his lyrics into the chords mentioned earlier and he worked a lot with other musicians as well danny he did indeed he was a real collaborator i mean thats a real sense of how open he was as an artist and a musician as i said he wrote that song with bob dylan that he also wrote with dave stewart from the eurythmics he wrote the song dont come around here no more with him he collaborated with stevie nicks but. The thing he was most proud of i suppose is a collaboration with the traveling wilburys which was George Harrison alongside Bob Dylan Roy Orbison and jeff lynne from a real sort of super group. Of you among. Playing in the backing track on my way back down earlier more on tom petty is a life and music on our website dot com slash culture from our think culture death thank you very much mark. Youre watching the news a little her act will have your latest news update in a few minutes. Without a real freedom. 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