Hello im Barbara Starr youre watching aljazeera live from london also coming up on the program. Pro independence catalans shut down roads and stations in a region wide protest that Police Violence during sundays referendum. Kurdish leader and former iraqi president Jalal Talabani dies just the week after his people vote for independence President Trump flies to puerto rico to survey the damage done by Hurricane Maria and their role in just skeptical theyll ever be able to return home despite assurances from yemen. Hello thank you for joining us the f. B. I. Is investigating the history of the sixty four year old former accountant who carried out the worst mass shooting in modern u. S. History detectives are trying to work out why even paddock opened fire from a hotel room onto a Country Music festival in las vegas at least fifty nine people were killed and more than five hundred others injured had a killed himself in his hotel room before Police Arrived he had twenty three weapons with them and they found many more guns in his home as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition for u. S. President donald trump has praised the last vegas police for their response to the shooting and this missed questions about gun reform. Well nevada the state where the attack. Happened has some of the most relaxed gun laws in the United States its state constitution gives every citizen the right to keep keep and bear arms for security and defense as well as for lawful hunting and re creational it allows people to buy a handgun shotgun or rifle without a permit or automatic assault weapons and machine guns are also legal as long as theyre registered. Well lets go live now to hide the usual castro in less vegas for us so heidi i mean we see this again and again dont we we have these Mass Shootings and then the debate over gun laws gets reignited is that whats happening now is there more movement now to reform those gun moles. Thats exactly right barbara this is a repeating refrain that weve heard many times in recent u. S. History and though there is local talk now from politicians at the state level also from the federal level that this may be finally the incident to motivate real gun reform laws as weve seen history play out little action has resulted in the past and in fact theres been so much skepticism about that to members of congress caught it a moment of silence for the gun victims of this massacre because he said that he believe that there was little that would become of it now what we do know is that when a Police Officer stormed into the suite in the mandalay bay who is helping jaime were sixty four year old Stephen Paddick that was holed up on sunday night killing those fifty nine people the concert goers below what they found were at least twenty three weapons some of which may have been modified into automatic weapons that although illegal in the United States is easily done with just a forty dollar kit purchased from the internet we also know from his gun Record Keeping that many of his weapons confiscated from this hotel you know. From his home or legally purchased what more that was known about Stephen Paddick is very little. Why would a retired american accountant with no known political or religious affiliations commit the deadliest mass shooting in modern u. S. History the question has so far stumped investigators monday Morning Police combed through the primary home of sixty four year old Stephen Paddick in misc eat a Peaceful Community of retirees ninety minutes north of las vegas patagonia his house which police say he shared with his girlfriend who is currently traveling outside of the country neighbors say other than dana reckless he was rather ordinary knowing that its just a guy that looks so normal and and you just walk down the street look and say hello to is capable of turning in and doing what he did last night is Unbelievable Police say patrick had no criminal record the f. B. I. Says paddock was not affiliated with any armed group as my brother was a member of the gunmans brother told reporters patrick was a wealthy Real Estate Investor and gambler who showed no signs of violence just nothing i mean its on the Public Record he did stuff we went to college he had a job. And you know we own some apartment she sold some apartment we i mean theres theres nothing there was no indication. Nothing thats whats so. I mean. I mean i cant even make something up theres just. Theres nothing. Nothing so far to give police a lead in to why this massacre happened. Well heidi that still the question isnt really a motive but in the meantime how is the last Vegas Community responded and how is it managed to help the hundreds of people affected directly by this tragedy. Thats right now even as families go about the grim business of identifying the dead the Community Held several vigils last night where people from all all around las vegas and the area were there with candlelight to remember the victims Donation Centers have been filling up with food as well as with supplies and also people have been standing in lines for six to eight hours to give blood and there hasnt been a lot of praise a lot of commendation for the response of the community but in the end of this is a reaction in the criticism im hearing from many sides is that rather than simply so strange as a real action each of these tragedies weve been seeing more needs to be done to prevent that barbara. Starr live for us in las vegas hiden thank you. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across catalonia to demonstrate against Police Violence during sundays referendum protestors are surrounded the hotel and palau which is housing some of the national Police Officers around nine hundred people were injured on sunday when Spanish Police tried to prevent the voting in the controversial poll some police were seen firing rubber bullets storming into polling stations and the police women and by their hair results show that voters overwhelmingly backed in the pen. Lawrence lee is in barcelona force lawrence a lot of tension right now any sign of a breakthrough in the stalemate yet yet. Complete deadlock still i wouldnt want it tension the atmosphere here is if anything exuberant frankly this is session is really have the tiles up and you know that those extraordinary scene of a half an hour or so ago when they started playing a song from the franco era when when when the council on what had but talking repressed by the Franco Regime the entire crowd including every teenager started saying again it just shows you how deep the historical skull is all in the sense among this that this session is that right systematically abused by madrid for generations even since spain has been a democracy and patiently the attempts by madrid to crush the referendum on sunday have and was not independent spirits among this enormous crowd is still there and given that and given that this is a crisis of democracy both the state and the european if you are going to apply from both brazil but from both the great brussels today has been complete silence. So. If the Spanish Government full breaking up the referendum would win its war with catalonia it was dead wrong this crowd gathered outside the office of the ruling Spanish Popular Party denounced the Prime Minister as a fascist and the Police Action on sunday was brutal. The people are defending what they have to defend the people are ready we will see if the government is ready this week. For the reviled god civill riot squads were nowhere to be seen the protest was policed by local castle and offices the firefighters seen here as heroes received evasions every time they arrived. The mood in some reaction rate that being chanting run for a must go to the street will always be as the race of the Popular Party spains ruling party does not run in. Catalonia. At University Square the crowds were even bigger thousands up every side road there is much bitterness here about the perceived silence from the European Union after what happened on sunday. And they are treating as badly we are demanding some some things and they are not hearing us but they dont want independent catalonia they want to be a united spain yeah but we have our own faults and no one no one tries to understand what our faults. So what happens now nothing from the spanish Prime Minister who has no interest in engaging the cattle hands in political mediation for madrid this is strictly a legal issue. That means the call from the council and president for talks is likely to get nowhere on the clock ticks away on the self declared timeframe of independence this week but is a crisis for spain and for the European Union and yet nobody wants to grasp the immediacy of this. Of course if you go a few hundred meters away from the protests the streets are quiet and the many who dont want spain broken up get on with their lives but they are the ones making all the noise the momentum remains with the separatists. Theres a clearly very bought state because on the one hundred saying there are no grounds for a legal referendum no grounds for kaplan independence whatsoever and they wont have it and yet increasingly youre finding european politicians are going to be debating the european parliaments about this tomorrow saying youve got to compromise advantages in the way and thats impossible for madrid to counter those remember it is difficult for madrid it could potentially be enormously hard for the compliment as well because the verge of eventually you get here is not an independent counsel only potentially a member of the European Union and yet the things that they seem to be entirely ignored or forgotten is its a being member of the European Union who have to get the concerns of every other e. U. Member and that includes spain conceived of course there like lawrence lee live for us in barcelona thank you. Well just days after iraqi kurds voted in their own secession referendum iraqs former kurdish president Jalal Talabani has died at the age of eighty four the veteran leader of the kurdish struggle for selfdetermination stepped down from office in two thousand and fourteen after suffering a stroke two years earlier imran khan looks back at his life. He was the first kurd to serve as iraqs president Jalal Talabani was the leader of the Patriotic Union of kurdistan one of the two main kurdish groups that dominate iraqs northern kurdish region he was one of the longest serving kurdish politicians he was just a teenager when he entered politics joining the Kurdish Democratic party in one thousand nine hundred six as a law graduate Baghdad University he went into hiding to evade arrest for his political role as found in secretarygeneral of the Kurdistan Student Union after graduating from law school in one nine hundred fifty nine he was called to serve in the iraqi army where he commanded a tank unit. When the kurds sought independence and rose up against the Iraqi Government in one nine hundred sixty one taliban he led battles in iraq he also led Diplomatic Missions in europe and elsewhere passionately pleading the kurds case in one nine hundred seventy five he split from the k d p and joined the p u k eventually rising to become iraqs president. The movement suffered under Saddam Hussein especially in the widely condemned television massacre where kurds were gassed in one thousand nine hundred eight room then came iraq invasion of kuwait in one thousand nine hundred one after kuwait was liberated a no fly zone and safe haven for kurds was established by britain france and the us. Elections were held in Iraqi Kurdistan in one thousand nine hundred two and a p u k k d p joint administration was established. But the underlying tension between the two parties spilled into armed confrontation dubbed the fratricide war in one thousand nine hundred four taliban and again fled to iran after the k d p called on Saddam Husseins forces to help defeat the p u k the four year conflict ended in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight with taliban and Masoud Barzani the k d p leader signing a peace agreement. After the two thousand and three invasion of iraq by the us and the takeover of huge areas of iraqi territory. I saw in two thousand and fourteen the kurds began to demand selfdetermination eventually a referendum on happened this month with ninety two percent voting for their own country while the kurds voted taleban he was in germany for medical treatment. After airstrikes by the u. S. Led coalition in syria have killed forty five people in the syrian city of raka many people have been displaced by the fighting as the attack on lyons of kurdish and arab armed groups continues to push eisel out of itself the cleared capital the s. D. F. Has been fighting this year and has now taken almost all of the city backed by airstrikes and special forces from the u. S. Led coalition so whats more to come in this half hour including the French Parliament adopts a counterterror law making state of emergency measures permanent. Tributes pouring in for the musician tom petty who has died at the age of sixty six. Hello there heavy rain is falling across parts of china at the moment its mostly in the northern part of our map where were seeing the wettest of all weather and thats still going to be with us as we head through wednesday and into thursday the change of thursday really is that its slipping a little bit further towards the south so still some heavy outbreaks of rain and thats gradually nudgee its way toward shanghai to the south of that where you can see all the feeding in from the sea so bringing in a lot of humidity and that will give us a fair amount of cloud and quite a few showers around the coast as well over towards india and theres plenty of rain here all across this section in the central belt and it looks like some of the wettest the weather is going to be in the east around kolkata that that will gradually begin to work its way westwards as we head through wednesday into thursday so more of us will begin to see some more shop downpours to the northwest of that though its fine and dry now just still very hot so new delhi up at thirty five and forcing karate will be up at around thirty two now here in doha the winds are fairly brisk as we head through wednesday that we working their way from the northwest so itll be a dry heat thirty nine degrees will be our maximum but things do change as we head into thursday the winds come in from the say that will drag down the temperatures a little here. A new year and many new developments for this chinese religious fledgling democracy the Village Committee has retrieved peoples land but approval is fleeting frustration grips the villagers and as the saga began over a year before revolt is in the air police call. The six point zero is filmed over five years. Chinas democracy experiment at this time on aljazeera. A reminder now of the top stories on aljazeera u. S. Officials are investigating the motive of the gunman behind sundays attack in las vegas the worst mass shooting in modern American HistoryStephen Paddick killed at least fifty nine people and injured more than five hundred other. Tens of thousands of catalans have protested against violence by spanish Police Officers during sundays referendum on secession and iraqs former president and the leader of the kurdish struggle for selfdetermination any has died at the age of eighty four. U. S. President donald trump has landed in puerto rico thirteen days after the u. S. Island territory was devastated by Hurricane Maria hes juggle to meet the governor as well as read it residents affected by the storm and to examine relief efforts trump has been involved in a war of words with the mayor of puerto ricos capital some one who was been strongly critical of federal relief efforts he says the operation has been a success well hes currently being briefed on the situation there and just had this to say. Now i hate to tell you puerto rico but youve thrown our budget a little out of whack because weve spent a lot of money on puerto rico and thats fine we saved a lot of lives if you look at the. Every death is a horror but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overpowering nobodys ever seen anything like this and what is your what is your death count as of this moment seven. Sixteen people certified sixteen people versus in the thousands. So thats going to she had seen sun while i