As president supporter rico criticism continues on the island for the u. S. Governments relief effort following Hurricane Maria and details revealed of a secret weapons shipment from north korea bound for egypt in breach of international sanctions. At least fifty nine people dead more than five hundred injured in las vegas after the deadliest mass shooting in modern u. S. History the gunman sixty four year old steven paddock was found dead by police in the hotel room that he opened fire from twenty three guns were found in the room a father nineteen at his home north of Las Vegas Rob reynolds reports. This is the moment when a harmless sunday night out became a nightmare. Twenty thousand concert goers were enjoying a Country Music festival when suddenly death rained down from above terrified they scrambled for safety. And then one after the other and we were lying on the floor i know to get out to ride and just to stay. He was safe because just about everything that was going on. Here at home i just. We can do for people who are in our pool and we went through the Airport Parking lot. And down hill and through the pot on the everywhere perched in a snipers nest on the thirty second floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel sixty four year old Stephen Paddick fired off hundreds of bullets from a fully automatic military style machine gun the carnage lasted for ten minutes as police broke down the Hotel Room Door patrick killed himself on monday morning the scale of the atrocity became heartbreakingly clear we are currently standing at five twenty seven for individuals injured and individuals that have died or passed away fifty nine Police Called patrick a lone wolf you apparently had no criminal record no history of Mental Illness and the f. B. I. Said he had no connection with any overseas groups such as eisel or al qaida it wasnt evident that he had weapons in his room we have determined that there has been employees going to and fro from his room and not in a nefarious was noticed at this point thats what we know now police hope paddocks female companion Marilou Danley might provide clues as to his motives friends say shes been out of the country a somber President Donald Trump addressed the nation we pray for the entire nation to find unity and peace and we pray for the day when evil is banished and the innocent are safe from hatred and from fear trump plans to visit las vegas on wednesday. Among the many Unanswered Questions are how patrick got a hold of a fully automatic machine gun which even in the us with its remiss of gun laws is not obtainable without a special license las vegas has always been known as a city where people from around the world come to gamble take in a show and generally have fun but from now on this citys history will forever be shadowed by one terrible night when music gave way to mass murder robbery and its al jazeera las vegas. Live now to las vegas and harris and the gallagher is there and one of the latest developments. Will adrian the key question here of what are the motives behind this attack and we still dont have any clearer picture of what happened here we do know that Stephen Paddick had more than forty weapons and arsenal of weapons twenty three of which were in the hotel behind me here and nineteen of which were in his home also Law Enforcement officials found explosives there but let me just talk to you a little bit about the atmosphere here in las vegas its ten oclock on a monday evening normally at the area around here will be packed with tourists it would be incredibly busy it is eerily quiet right now at my feet there are drops of blood all over the place abandoned shoes from when people run away from the concert the palm trees over my shoulder here thats where the concert was weve actually met a couple of people whove been retracing their steps from sunday night one gentleman we talked to at length was right by the stage when those shots first rang out he said many people in the crowd thought it was a joke they thought somebody was playing the sounds of gunfire through the speakers some other people thought it was fireworks he said he didnt realize it was serious until he started to try and run away and he saw a Security Guard lying in a pool of blood that was one of several bodies hed seen he was clearly still in shock wanted to very much talk about it and get it out of his system but you could see that this was somebody whod been through something very very shocking and clearly wanted to talk to about it talk about it to words so you can only imagine the thousands of lives that have been affected by this tragic occurrence the biggest mass shooting in modern u. S. History and ive covered a fair amount over the past ten years but this is pretty unprecedented we know that steven partick planned this in advance he booked a hotel room a few days in advance but the big question here is how did he get twenty three when. Bins into a large well known hotel we heard from a Law Enforcement official that staff were going in and out of the room clearly nobody saw anything suspicious or they simply didnt report anything but we have lots of Unanswered Questions here but i think the main one is what was this sixty four year old retirees motive for carrying out such a heinous act so its fair to say that that las vegas and he is a city in mourning tonight or most people people that you talk about this the state of shock that people are in that. It really is remember this is the entertainment capital of the United States this is where people come to gamble they come to take in shows they come to watch big names singing in and putting on various shows thats what people come here for to have fun basically but there were twenty two thousand people maybe more at the concert on sunday night celebrating a country and western show and the bullets rained down on them we heard the gentleman i spoke to earlier he said he felt like it lasted for half an hour it lasted for about ten minutes but if you seen that video and you heard just how rapid those shots were its simply shocking and some Law Enforcement officials are saying that his semiautomatic weapons were modified to become fully automatic that means he was able to let off between four hundred to eight hundred rounds per minute from the thirty second floor of the hotel over my right shoulder here right down to a crowd of more than twenty thousand people it is a city in mourning but its also a city i think thats polling together lots of people going to local hospitals to donate blood there is talk of there being a shortage of blood donors but i think the people of las vegas are stepping up to try and do what they can to help but definitely this is a city in mourning and as i said before it really eerily quiet adrian and even i think sandy going to go live in las vegas twenty three guns found in that hotel room there in las vegas a further nineteen paddocks home north of las vegas in mesquite aljazeera is hiding joe castro has been there. Police say this house behind me was the primary home of Stephen Paddick and his girlfriend its located in a Quiet Community of retirees about ninety minutes north of las vegas that tranquility interrupted monday when Armed Police Robots and officers combed through this house and discovered in armory eighteen guns thousands of rounds of ammunition and materials to make explosives neighbors i spoke with said they were shocked to discover that this seemingly ordinary and reclusive man who lived next door turned out to be this mass killer meanwhile steve paddocks brother told reporters that his brother was a sixty four year old retired accountant who loved to gamble but showed no signs of violence now with no criminal record and no known affiliations with religious or political groups Police Officers investigators continue to be at a loss as to what drove this man to commit a massacre. Now to other news catalunya government is calling for International Mediation to resolve the crisis sparked by sundays vote on secession from spain trades unions have called for a general strike on tuesday with widespread public anger of the riot Police Tactics nearly nine hundred people were injured ten thousand officers were sent into catalonia by the madrid government to stop voting john hendren reports from barcelona. Defiant catalans want to turn a disputed secession vote into an independent nation. Is a strong nation and i think. Ill only do it in doing great things and i dont just ben is because of the bio names because of the. I dont like spain because of. Catalonia as leader asked the world to accept his regions vote for independence and broker a divorce from spain a woman of. The moment calls for mediation and there has to be internationals used to be effective we demand called for a formal independence vote from the Regions Parliament the response from the European Union was swift and to secessionist disappointing under the spanish constitution yesterdays vote that got the loan you know was not to go in madrid Prime Minister marianna real horror met with his cabinet as his country faced a constitutional crisis catalonia might be on the verge of declaring itself an independent nation but the day after the referendum looks pretty much like the day before theres a healthy economy here and a booming Tourism Industry and many people say thats just the point with or without spain things here will run pretty much the same. In barcelona but the day after the referendum looks pretty much like the day before theres a healthy economy here and a booming Tourism Industry and many people say thats just the point with or without spain because here the runs. Pretty much the same. In barcelona catalonia protested against the violent spanish crackdown. At the poles Spanish National police in riot gear descended on polling sites with but tongs and rubber bullets injuring more than eight hundred cattle on. Tourists in barcelona crowded the sidewalk for a new spectacle a confrontation between demonstrators and Spanish National police who carried out the crackdown. By get out i was defending the school and police kicks me to the ground and told me leave now opal kill you as catalonia returned to Something Like normality the rift with spain seemed wider than ever john hendren aljazeera porcelain. Iran has deployed dozens of tanks along its border with iraqs autonomous kurdish region following last weeks secession referendum that the deployment as part of joint military drills with Iraqi Armed Forces the referendum was held in the finance of the government in baghdad as well as neighboring iran and turkey baghdad has rejected any prospect of dialogue with the Kurdish Regional government unless the referendum is an old one iraqs former leader Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against the iraqi kurds of a province in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight that attack is often cited as a reason for support of kurdish autonomy but despite the history the provinces turned out in last weeks secession referendum was low as Charles Trafford reports. Almost thirty years ago during the final days of the iran iraq war the people of this town were victims of an atrocity that shocked the world. Almost sixteen thousand nine hundred eighty eight iranian soldiers were in the area when iraqi war planes dropped chemical weapons in and around the kurdish town of junk. Its estimated. Up to five thousand people were killed in the Chemical Attacks on how about just now you think that the people that have suffered such an appalling atrocity would be fully behind the referendum on eventual secession from iraq but the province of roger had one of the lowest turnouts in the vote there were no flanks or sign celebrating the referendum here there was a less than fifty five percent turnout in her lap just sixteen percent of those who did vote said no to the eventual future independence from iraq. She recently lost eight members of his family in the Chemical Attacks three decades ago he says the Kurdish Regional government has let down that the people have little trust of the government because of corruption and there is fierce competition between parties to maximize their gains life for every day people here is going backwards. In recent years theres been growing opposition in protests in this area over delays of government salaries. The federal government in baghdad stopped paying the seventeen percent from the budget in two thousand and fifteen because it accused the kurdish government of not sharing its oil revenue people here say any oil money the government in your bill has made has not been fairly distributed throughout the region. There is a difference between the rest of k r g and economically speaking the government in a bill has been neglecting the people of the lab services and infrastructure life is hard here there is a lot of support for opposition more than ninety two percent of those who voted said yes in the referendum but there are a lot of people in this province even ones who suffered so horrifically under the saddam regime who disagree. That aljazeera northern iraq. A weather update next year and i was there and then well take a look at why japan is being criticized for its response to the global refugee crisis even though its one of the largest donors financial aid. And the end of the line for thousands of workers at a time about a fracturing plant in australia well tell you why. However still got more clout and rain across northern parts of the middle east well nary a cloud just spilling out to turkey straddling the black sea into the caspian sea and that wet weather still lehr across georgia armenia and azerbaijan extends all the way into becky stan as well where we may well see some snow rain that we have just around the turn increasingly wintry around the foothills of the himalayas then as we go on into wednesday couple should be warm and dry twenty nine celsius thirty nine celsius there for kuwait city but look further north still some very heavy rain up towards the caspian sea northern parts of iran again seeing some lively showers now showers in the forecast across the middle east this warm and dry doha getting up to thirty nine celsius or so over the next couple of days with more hazy sunshine right across the region plenty of sunshine into Southern Africa right over the next day or so she settled a little more cloud just around the western cape knotting a little further race would send an increased here as we go on through wednesday some very heavy showers for the eastern cape showers continuing to just around the therapy and hollers but fewer and further between more showers there into the gulf of guinea and well see some law as for god im glad the area. On counting the cost of the worlds Fastest Growing startup created a new labor market but can that Business Model clear the regulation roadblocks ahead plus the fact as a play as Oil Prices Enter a bull market counting the cost at this time. A lot of the top stories this hour on aljazeera the number of people dead following sunday nights match shooting at last vegas has risen to fifty nine five hundred twenty seven people were injured in the shooting the deadliest in modern u. S. History police have recovered twenty three firearms from the hotel room when the gunman fired from out of for the nineteen from his home north of las vegas. Catalin is government is calling for International Mediation to resolve the crisis sparked by the vote on secession from spain the regional president has demanded the removal of about ten thousand Spanish Police sent in the lead up to the right for. The u. S. Government says the progress is being made in Recovery Efforts in puerto rico almost three weeks after the island was hit by Hurricane Maria large parts of the u. S. Territory are still without Running Water or electricity and many are facing Food Shortages u. S. President donald trump is due to visit on tuesday his administration has been accused of a slower response in puerto rico compared to the one after recent hurricanes in texas and florida. Truthfully i dont think will make much of a difference whether he comes or not if it were up to me id tell him to stay where he is. Because in reality i see things really really stuck the ides really slow and reaching people out of syria sure habra tansey is in puerto ricos capital sanaa authorities very keen now to give us regular updates of indicators to show that they are making some progress in the aftermath of maria here are some of the latest figures we have forty five percent of the population here now has access to Running Water eleven percent of the cell phone towers are back online five percent of the electrical grid is working seven hundred fifty nine of one thousand one hundred twenty petrol stations are accepting customers from hospitals and now either running on generator power all the electrical grid so there is some progress here however that also suggests theres a great deal to be done that means ninety five percent of the electric electrical grid still isnt working the fifty five percent of people in puerto rico have no access to Running Water what were hearing from a lot of Community Based groups is theyre the ones that are going out especially into the interior and elsewhere into areas where authorities have not reached and are supplying food and medical help really very much communities doing it for themselves which is one of the reasons why dollar drums tweet suggesting the Puerto Ricans are in great sin or expecting the government to do do everything for them have gone particularly badly those those sorts of tweets of course donald trump will be visiting shortly. Bangladesh and man man have agreed in principle to set up a repatriation plan for more than half a million revenger who fled violence and men miles Rakhine State the deal was made after a representative from in miles leader Aung San Suu Kyi traveled to bangladesh for talks with its foreign minister me and mass taken foreign diplomats and u. N. Representatives on a tour of Rakhine State the area from where most of the ranger refugees have fled now while japan is one of the biggest donors to global refugee assistance resistance programs its been criticized for accepting very few out of thousands of applications last year only twenty six people succeeded from tokyo scott heiler met a refugee a syrian refugee who is one of the few who made it to japan use of jodi fled his home in syria in two thousand and twelve he got word Security Forces were after him hiring a broker he thought he was headed to the u. K. But instead the broker brought him to japan saying it was temporary that was five years ago he opened a restaurant near his home an hour outside of tokyo but had to shut it down recently admitting Japanese Culture and language are difficult adjustments japan does not have refugee laws like European Countries i dont think japans decision regarding if you jesus for japan follows a very strict interpretation of the one nine hundred fifty one Un Refugee Convention with a heavy burden on proving persecution under fire from human Rights Groups japan only accept twenty to thirty refugees a year. Last year more than ten thousand applied for asylum and only a small number were from syria since the war started only around seventy syrians have applied while he waits for Refugee Status you said has been allowed to stay on humanitarian grounds his family joined him three years ago we have. Talkies our is a former Un Refugee Agency executive he feels japan should open its doors wider and take in two hundred to three hundred refugees a year and these people are really strong. Inspirations and. We have only twenty. First my dear. Neighbor soon he also feels that lack of exposure to refugees by japanese people contributes to their image of who refugees are and what they might be able to do for the country so if there are more refugees in japan so talk is our thanks stereotypes can be broken many people in the country want their government to do more good and there is no system in place for helping refugees and the government is not doing enough. No more if you g. s come to this country because the trouble that they shouldnt be neglected i think its important to be willing to accept. While japans not accepting many refugees it has contributed billions of dollars in global refugee assistance last year one hundred sixty four Million Dollars alone went to the u. N. H. C. R. Yousif might not agree on its policies and ended up in japan by accident but its where he sees the future. How can i go to another country and start all over i cannot afford it i would love my children to be like the japanese people i want them to have a future to have right to be japanese and with a new syrian Student Program ramping up in japan uses family might be welcoming more compatriots to their adopted homeland but in the hundreds not the thousands its got harder aljazeera tokyo. Now does era has learned that strained relations between washington and cairo stem from the discovery of a secret weapons shipment from north korea bound to egypt the United Nations report obtained by our team details the connection between pyongyang and cairo pretty culhane reports from washington. Whenever u. S. President donald trump meets publicly with his egyptian counterpart its all smiles who havent you personality that is capable of doing the impossible thanks. Things got a bit frostier a few months later when the u. S. Delayed or frozen around two hundred ninety Million Dollars in military aid meant for egypt the Washington Post says that was in part because of what was on this ship in july of two thousand and sixteen u. S. Intelligence officials started tracking down as it made its way from north korea to egypt a month later u. S. Officials told the egyptians they wanted it searched according to this u. N. Report they found this on board hidden under iron or seventy nine crates containing parts that could create twenty four thousand three hundred eighty four rocket propelled grenades and materials to build more than four thousand additional ones there are reports those are meant for the Egyptian Army who later blew them up under u. N. Supervision this report also indicates the u. N. Is also investigating whether north korea shipped spare parts for scud missiles to egypt that is likely to put a further strain on the u. S. Egyptian alliance because President Donald Trump has made isolating north korea a top priority experts say the u. S. Is going to keep a sharp focus on north koreas ports u. S. Intelligence agencies are doing. Tracking of all ships entering and leaving north korean ports they can also through satellite observation get the images of what is being loaded onto ships the North Koreans are believed to sell weapons cheap around the globe the Trump Administration believes that money fuels its Nuclear Program and they are reiterating that it needs to stop at the same time monday the white house seemed to contradict their own secretary of state who said the u. S. Was looking to talk to north korea theres a difference between talking and playing diplomatic pressure we still strongly support putting diplomat. The pressure on north korea which were continuing to do that now is not the time simply to have conversations with north korea we asked but didnt get any sort of response from the Egyptian Embassy here in washington d. C. But it is clear that trying to ministration is sending a message to egypt that when it comes to dealing with north korea that will come with its own set of costs. Aljazeera washington thousands of workers at a manufacturing plant in australia said to lose their jobs if the motor giants announced that its to stop production thomas reports from said try to started making calls in australia back in one thousand nine hundred sixty three and in the fifty four years since more than three million tires a callus have rolled off its production lines in this country the closure of a factory in melbourne within the direct loss of two and a half thousand jobs but about a three thousand people depended on that factory for their livelihood because they were in supply Chain Companies some of the classic totem poles were brought back to the melbourne factory on tuesday for a ceremony to mark the closure of the factory last year ford closed its last. Factory plant in australia and in two weeks time holden which the australian brand name for General Motors is called as i now know where in the world it will close its last factory and that will mark the names of all car manufacturing you know right here costs are simply too high compared to manufacturing costs elsewhere in asia but some say the closure of the car industry in australia isnt necessarily a bad thing it marks the transition of australias economy toward Civil Service for insight. And it also suggests australian workers are getting jobs in high attacking the strings elsewhere. American singer tom petty has died in hospital after suffering a heart attack the sixty six year old musician rose to fame in the one nine hundred seventy s. With his group tom petty in the heartbreakers before going on to have a hugely successful solo career Diane Estabrook looks back on his life. As a rock n roll icon tom pettys career spanned four decades and produced a string of hits in the one nine hundred seventy s. And eightys the florida native is best remembered as the leader of tom petty and the heartbreakers which rose to fame in the mid night hundred seventy s. Releasing hits that included breakdown American Girl and refugee. The heartbreaker sound was known as heartland rock its lyrics often reflecting feelings of isolation partly inspired by peggys impoverished childhood in two thousand and two tom petty and the heartbreakers were inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame. In one thousand nine hundred eighty eight petty gained fame again in the supergroup the traveling wilburys teaming up with rock legends Bob Dylan George harrison roy orbison and jeff lynne the groups selftitled album quit triple platinum and went on to win a grammy. Later petit enjoyed success as a solo artist releasing three albums he also had his own satellite radio channel on sirius x. M. The heartbreakers remains a fixture in the singer songwriters live Group Performed off and on over the past forty years patti toured all last summer with the heartbreakers playing more than fifty shows in twenty four cities the group wrapped up its fortieth Anniversary Tour at the Hollywood Bowl on september twenty fifth in interviews following the tour petit said he wanted to keep playing with the band but not at that hectic pace he said he wanted to spend less time as a rock and roller and more time as a grandfather to his four year old granddaughter dion estabrook aljazeera. With. Any of us a dream figure here and have the top stories on our. As there are the number of people who have died after sunday nights mass shooting in last vegas has risen to fifty nine five hundred twenty seven more were injured in what is the worst ever mass shooting in u. S. History police have recovered twenty three firearms from a hotel room that the gunman fired from and another nineteen from his home north of las vegas earlier the last vegas Sheriffs Department gave an update on the situation these past twenty hours have been trying and we know we have a long way to go im proud of the courage and resiliency displayed by all our First Responders on this event i also want to appeal to you in the public and the media we know of no known threats in our Las Vegas Area if we did know of anything that could harm the safety and security of our citizens we would tell you that in our department would act upon that please allow our department the ability to do what they do the best investigate crime and keep you safe castle in years government is calling for International Mediation to resolve the crisis sparked by the vote on to session from spain trades unions have called for a general strike on tuesday with widespread public anger over riot Police Tactics. Iran has deployed dozens of tanks along its border with iraq saw a ton of us kurdish region following last weeks session referendum that the deployment as part of joint military drills with Iraqi Armed Forces the referendum was held in the fires of the government in baghdad as well as neighboring iran and turkey the Us Government says that progress is being made in rehabilitating puerto rico almost three weeks after the island was hit by Hurricane Maria large parts of the u. S. Territory are still without Running Water or electricity u. S. President donald trump is due to visit on tuesday at the us sing a tom petty has died after suffering a heart attack he rose to fame in the one nine hundred seventy