to go this is the news hour live from the headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes you were bleeding out you feel like you wouldn't have made it. if someone had stepped by the time i got over the wall of my parents or a shot of me in las vegas stories of courage and heroism emerge in the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history. in a rare televised address sprains king comes down firmly on the side of the central government in its standoff with cotton oh yes i know there's a lot of good news. in the recent this hour at the u.s. president visits storm hit puerto rico meeting officials he's hashmi criticized on twitter and a gun battle in the port highlights the long running tensions in the disputed kashmir region. thank you for joining us more details are emerging about sunday nights my shooting in las vegas what police still don't have an answer on why steven patrick a retiree with no current. reckitt carried out the attack let's bring you up to speed with what we know police say patrick set up cameras around the mandalay bay hotel room from where he launches a time it was from here that he opened fire on concert goers below for nine minutes but he's want to question padlocks girlfriend mary lou donnelly who is returning from the philippines they say patrick made a large international money transfer to her home country in the days before the shooting at least one hundred thirty people are still in hospital forty five in critical condition fifty nine people died in the shooting making it the deadliest in modern u.s. history let's go live to heidi who joins us from vegas heidi what's the latest police are saying about the investigation what more are we learning about the killing. folly investigators say that the arsenal stephen paddick pad was even bigger than previously thought they discovered after combing through his second home in the city of reno nevada and even bigger stash of weapons ammunitions and electronic devices they also said that there was clear indication that this planned attack was premeditated there were things called bomb stops found on the weapons that were confiscated in the hotel rooms these are basically do it yourself kits that you can order online and modify weapons to make it a semiautomatic or automatic the sheriff of los vegas also said that paddock use cameras in and outside of his hotel room for surveillance purposes. i'm not aware of any transmission but there was cameras there was cameras located outside of the break and inside the room along with the firearms. i don't know what the specific numbers you know. what i think is a big he was looking for anybody to take him into custody so the investigation continues heidi a lot of questions still need to be answered i wonder though how are people the people who've been affected by this tragedy how are they coping and also the people who live in las vegas this is a city where people go to have fun how have they been reacting to what happened. there certainly the shared sense of pain here is still palpable the sheriff also said that of the five the fifty nine victims who were killed still three remain to be identified and the community has rallied around these victims as well as the more than five hundred who have been injured there have been donations with lines outside of blood bank standing was ours wanting to give blood also people bringing monetary and material donations to the convention center but that's not it this is also about the acts of heroism that were displayed over and over again as this attack unfolded one man was shot in the leg as he was trying to help his wife and another woman over a wall he said that he was leading out near death when a stranger an army reservist who happened to be tending the concert as well came to his aid. by the time i got over the lot my pants are already in my shoes for blood so that i when i made it i know i would. you know i'm very thankful that james was there to help me i mean we were we were getting away and i just we came across him he was in the bed of a pickup truck. there was a makeshift tourniquet was kind of around his knee just leave the wrong spot and just walked up there and he was actively bleeding i just did the bell got it out where it should be tighten it down to stop the bleeding. and we hung out there for ten fifteen minutes and some. say here in a pickup truck came in they do we need a ride he said yeah we threw mall in the bed of the truck in we took off to the hospital. and those two strangers bonded forever by that moment were reunited this morning but there are many other stories of also attempts to save lives i did not have such. happy endings were strangers made friends with people in the crowd only to know by the end of the night or the next morning about other person had to seize thank you so much for that heidi. in las vegas. in other world news spain's king has intervened in the crisis over catalonia describing sunday's secession referendum as illegal and undemocratic in a rare public address he accused regional authorities of dividing society and putting the economy at risk earlier hundreds of thousands of catalans demonstrated against a violent security crackdown during the vote sonia gago has more from barcelona. if the spanish government thought breaking up the referendum would win the war with catalonia it's been proved already quite 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 as brutal and. the people are defending what they have to defend the people are ready we will see if the government is ready this week. the what if you the riot squads reviled within the region were nowhere to be seen the protests were police by local catalan officers the firefighters seen here as heroes received ovations every time they arrived. at the university square the crowds were even bigger thousands every side road was much bitterness here about the perceived silence from the european union after what happened on sunday. but on tuesday night the spanish king addressed the nation in a call for unity but slammed the referendum as illegal. you know they're still going to. we have all been witnesses to what has been happening in catalonia will be ultimate aim on the part. of declaring illegally independence for catalonia this will have little effect on the largely republican cattle and there is still nothing from the spine. prime minister who has no interest in engaging the catalans of political mediation for madrid this is strictly a legal issue. that means the call from the capital a president for talks is likely to get nowhere and the clock ticks away on the self declared timeframe of independence this week that is a crisis for spain and for the european union and nobody seems to want to grasp the media. but a few hundred meters away from the protests the streets were quiet and many who don't want spain broken up have been getting on with their lives but they are the ones making all the noise momentum so far remains with the secessionists this is the politics of brinkmanship that everyone waiting to see who will be the first to back down. barcelona. now while an overwhelming majority of those who voted on sunday were in favor of breaking away from spain figures show that fewer than half of all registered voters cast a ballot this coming week will be critical in what is already spain's worst political crisis since the end of the franco dictatorship in one nine hundred seventy five koppen hall has this report from barcelona. this is a warning from catalan unions to madrid that they can cripple spain's biggest regional economy. and maintaining pressure for secession diverse labor and political factions also with each other the right to shape their plan b. the public is the. president there's little doubt all cotland sectors are doing is putting their pieces on the chessboard out there for how you play this piece is going to be an advantage or not so a general strike is important to introduce working class values into the process in addition to applying pressure on central government. catalonia as government agreed to call a plenary session. the capitol and parliament within forty eight hours of a yes vote to declare independence political sources say that could begin as soon as wednesday or slate is next week anti secession parties make we call the meeting millions of people went to the polls despite the state and police violence and millions of people voted and the outcome was a clear massive yes for the catalan republic so we have to obey the mandate of the people we had already stated that we had already discussed that and approved that in parliament it was a binding vote so now we got to deliver. friday oct sixth is a symbolic day with some sources suggesting this is when catalonia may declare independence on that date in one nine hundred thirty four then leader g.'s com pine's declared catalonia an independent republic but the rebellion was short lived and compliance was arrested. madrid ruled the referendum illegal catalan officials remain defiant under article one five five even a majority senate vote the central government could take control of all catalonia economic and political affairs that would block the breakaway. this article could be invoked because this regional government only recognizes its own laws we are disappearing the verdict of the supreme court and the spanish constitution we've never had a situation where regional government wants a session. the european union views the political turmoil as an internal spanish affair and has expressed no intention to mediate suggestions for a political solution range from reform of the constitution to creating a more federal system. barcelona spain. joining us. now is director of iberian studies program at stanford university he is live from palo alto very good to have you again with us on al-jazeera so what do you make of what the king said today in his speech he expressed the position of the government basically opposition to the vote but no words about the shocking scenes we saw on sunday in boston a police beating voters he made no appeal for dialogue was this a missed opportunity for him. that is correct it is a silly mistake on the part of the king it's a spanish monarchy it's no secret it has had trouble in recent years it's a question institution in catalonia particularly although he remains strongly popular in spain. this king's popularity has been very low in colonial and i think that what he's done basically last night with with his speech is to burn all the bridges he has adopted the hard line the spanish government and given absolutely no option to the government but to stand by the man did the popular mandate that he got on sunday at the polls so it was a missed opportunity then to push the two sides towards dialogue do you think there's still a chance that that could could see a word we heard the cost monita sierra leone that you know he would declare independence in a matter of days uni natural independence it seems that both sides are really sticking to their positions it is dying also possible here. that is correct although it has to be modulated the fact is the catalan president has appealed to international mediation and asking for mediation also means that one is willing to negotiate something so from my point of view i see the spanish side as being entrenched and the cuttle inside having to abide by the popular mandate and yet still giving a last chance to the spanish government to sit at the table and accept some kind of external ruling. because it is now apparent that even the monarchy the king who symbolically would have been the mediator has given the card you talk about international mediation john but it seems like no one is interested in mediating in this crisis the european commission made a statement saying the events in cost and when you were an internal issue for spain why do you think europe is choosing to look away here just how difficult a position does this put the e.u. in. the e.u. isn't in a very strait jacket to say it quite clearly because it. has a hard time so far refuses to. take a position it. could hurt the interests of one of the member states and then of course because it is terrified of the dillon secession would said a precedent for a number of other possible sessions within other nation states of the european union and lastly because all of this has not been said too often catalonia as a contribution to the european union taking contradictions contribution through spain to spain is in fact superior to that of france the second european economy and some voices have already pointed out the economic consequences of a catalan exit from spain would be more that are stating to the to the e.u. than bragg's it has to mean so what happens next any of you in this crisis with both sides sticking to their positions are we in for the long haul here and not a lot of people saying this is the worst crisis since one thousand nine hundred seventy five is that an exaggeration or do you think we're really in for for something big. yes indeed i mean everything is up for grabs but it does look like spain will almost immediately very very soon invoke article one fifty five of the constitution that is it will suspend the government self-government and anything can happen at that point depending on people's reaction but it does seem from what we've seen in today's in barcelona and throughout colonia that people are not likely to lead their their position their votes be stolen now by the by the spanish government invoking that article and shutting down their institutions. could there be violence. let's hope not but it is not to be ruled out i have news now that some people are being called some army members are being called to the headquarters of the our nations to be a little bit of some kind of preparations in the army. and the other part of your question it was. to do with the invocation of external mediation right is not my my invention i have not proposed these these is the title and president's proposal the e.u. is refusing to take that role as of now. we don't know things can change very rapidly but i should also point out. that with them on his not called specifically on the european union to mediate he is called on any international mediators. everybody's now mystified as to what will happen next and it's very hard to predict uncertain times for spain thank you very much for speaking to us here on ramon very senior director of the iberian studies program at stanford university thank you for your insight. the white house says it's preparing a twenty nine billion dollars disaster aid request for congress after hurricane struck puerto rico texas and florida present visit at puerto rico two weeks after the island was hit by hurricane maria he met those affected by the storm during his first official visit there and some officials including the man on the capital of puerto rico san juan have strongly criticized u.s. relief efforts she reports from san juan. it's clear that donald trump has made up his mind about the success of his administration's relief efforts in puerto rico during a self-congratulatory and then shortly after landing the president praised the military local officials and members of his cabinet for the emergency response suggested that the crisis in puerto rico wasn't as bad as the aftermath of other hurricane disaster if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that. and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overpowering nobody's ever seen anything like this after landing the president did shake hands with the mayor of san juan who strongly criticized the administration's response is too slow she was reported to have said as they shook hands it's not about politics it's not clear what the president's response was you'll see mccann is a u.s. army veteran this is his response to the president's comments i think that we definitely cost a lot of money to the states but they also has that think about how many soldiers we lost how many lives we lost three percent of the united states so they've given us a lot of money yet but we've been given them a lot a lot of others didn't take donald trump's comments too seriously he is the way he is in fact that's why can't he say that. progress is being made according to the governor petrol stations banks and supermarkets are reopening telecommunications have been restored to forty percent of customers and truck capacity at the port is back to sixty percent of normal but fifty five percent of the population is still without running water ninety five percent are without electricity and despite the president's words no audit is complete of those who died community groups say there are still areas untouched by government help the president satisfaction with relief efforts is more evidence of the disconnect between the white house and this u.s. territory has long been a belief here among the three and a half million u.s. citizens of puerto rico but they're not listened to in washington they call even a vote after all and now there are very real concerns they won't be this into as reconstruction begins she had zero sound one. plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including warnings for pakistan and its intelligence agency from the pentagon chief and america's top military officer plus the palestinian prime minister holds a unity cabinet meeting in gaza as part of another push to end the rift among rival factions and a tennis turn around for world number one rafael nadal survives the scare in his first match since winning the u.s. open details coming up later in sports with joe. first a power military base in indian administered kashmir has been attacked by separatists fighters one officer and three fighters were killed pakistan based group has claimed responsibility when a smith has a details. kashmiri separatist fighters were holed up in this border security force building after managing to get into the camp before dawn on tuesday indian police say they were well armed with guns and grenades. where the attack happened at four in the morning we were sleeping and suddenly we heard the gunfire and explosions and later found out that militants have stormed the border security force. one border guard officer was killed and three others wounded in the attack which lasted ten hours. three fighters were killed. a group called jaish e mohammad which once pakistan to have control over all of kashmir said it carried out the attack. on the border security forces they recovered food clothing weapons and tools from a tunnel they uncovered under the border days before this attack near the airport it's the second tunnel they've discovered this year. india regularly accuses pakistan of training fighters who cross the line of control which separates kashmir between the two countries. for meters long and wasn't finished we found the story of equipment nearby alert border guards prevented a major attack and foiled in the various attempts by pakistan. pakistan always denies helping the attackers who cross into india both countries claim kashmir. out of twice gone to war over the region. al-jazeera. u.s. defense secretary james mattis has told the senate washington will again try to work with pakistan he said the u.s. will give him another chance to help in afghanistan before taking what he described as a punitive action that says the top u.s. military officer general joseph dunford accused pakistan's intelligence agency of having ties to armed groups for more on this said straight to our correspondent osama bin javid has covered pakistan extensively and the statement from dunsford came as the pakistani foreign minister arrived in washington and on the heels of a secretary of defense secretary mattresses visit to new delhi what does this suggest about the term administration's strategy on pakistan and afghanistan well it's all all interlinked bog standard strategy for pakistan is absolutely linked to what it is one of goddess and the trumpet administration has been trying to sell the strategy as something new that it is doing and critics have been calling it it's kind of you know the old wine in new wattle trumpet ministrations so that it's going to send more troops and pakistan has been met with some really harsh criticism by the administration saying that it will not be business as usual anymore pakistanis to go after these hardline groups on its own soil as well its support for the afghan taliban but this is the pakistani intelligence service that the united states military has used to build ties with the taliban this is the same service that it's used in the past to try and negotiate to get a negotiated settlement for the issue in afghanistan the ongoing war the longest war in the u.s. history which is caused trillions of dollars as well as thousands of u.s. soldiers lives so pakistan is going to be crucial in this strategy and you see that this is again an approach that we've seen multiple times in the trumpet ministration where one top official says that they have ties to do groups and terrorist organizations where matters frozen in all of drugs and says is use willing to work again sort of a good cop bad cop sergeant regret is the strategy that we're seeing at play here. will this be translated in islam but remains to be seen because this like you said comes on the heels of mattresses visit to new delhi it comes as a slum was becoming more and more rary of increasing links between the united states india and afghanistan and obviously it's been accused of using these proxy groups in afghanistan to try and counter that narrative now but even before. trump took office relations between washington between the u.s. and pakistan had soured where does this leave pakistan what is you know what steps are they likely to take next i mean if the relations with washington continue to deteriorate what other options do they have who are they going to turn to what we we've been seeing this downward spiral ever since the bin laden operation the relationship has never prospered as it was before the operation since then pakistan has taken a number of strategic steps to build a much stronger ties with china it's doing this multi-billion dollar project of infrastructure with china the chinese military is a much more entrenched and working with the pakistani military we've seen last week that the pakistani military has gone and gone out and has drills with the with the russian military for instance so pakistan is looking for alternatives in the region which will hold which kind of converges interests within the pakistani government and not just iran and russia not just china and russia pakistan has built much better relationship with iran as well militarily which is going to be crucial if the support from the united states for pakistan's military continues to falter and which is going to make the u.s. very angry presumably if it's not about is are turning to china and to iran i mean when when we hear of punitive actions against islamic law what are they considering well from what we've heard from you various u.s. officials they are considering an expansion of the drone strike program which we've seen in the last few years dropped down there or not every target was being. taken out the year woman illustration had narrowed down the list of targets that it was taking out and also the status that the united states has given pakistan in the last seventeen years as a major nor new to us that is supposed to be downgraded all of this is happening as you said the pakistani foreign minister is right now in washington d.c. trying to salvage this trying to see if there is a way out but it is going to be a tough few months if not years ahead for a box on u.s. really osama bin javid thank you very much for that iraq has stopped selling dollars to leading bang seen its kurdish region and banned foreign currency transfers they're stepping up its retaliation for the current secession vote state television says parliament voted for financial sanctions in order to preserve the interests of the kurdish people iraq's neighbors iran enter key both with the substantial kurdish minority are back in baghdad but the kurdish regional leadership has announced plans for presidential and parliamentary elections next month. now the first kurdish leader to be president of iraq jalal talabani has died at the age of eighty four the leader of the kurdish struggle for self-determination stepped down from office in two thousand and fourteen has suffered a stroke two years and yet imran khan looks back at his life. he was the first kurd to serve as iraq's president jalal talabani was the leader of the patriotic union of kurdistan one of the two main kurdish groups that dominate iraq's 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 of baghdad university he went into hiding to evade arrest for his political role as found in secretary-general 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 were 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 iraq's president. the movement suffered under saddam hussein especially in the widely condemned massacre what kurds were gassed in one thousand nine hundred eight. 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 iraq at a stand in one thousand nine hundred two and a p u k k t p joint interest ration was established. but the underlying tension between the two parties spilled into armed confrontation dubbed the fratricide war in one thousand nine hundred forty taliban and again fled to iran after the k d p called on saddam hussein's 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. by i saw in two thousand and fourteen the kids began to demand self-determination eventually a referendum on suspicion happened this month with ninety two percent voting for their own country while the kurds voted taliban he was in germany for medical treatment he died in a berlin hospital aged eighty four after their still ahead on. a controversial new anti-terrorism law. a new book on brakes a medical profession plus. their young son and they have millions of followers online i'm sorry not be telling you why social media but things like read left. are on the right. gathering across the primaries of north america big area cloud on the right streaming through the northern plains pushing towards the midwest this. cloud will bring some showers long spells of right bumping into an area of high pressure struggling to make in the east with progress but we will see some rather wet weather just around the lakes through ohio pushing down across missouri oklahoma radicals northern parts of 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thousands of catalans demonstrated against the evolving security crackdown during the vote. and us present donald trump has told quite a rico officials on a visit to the island that they should be proud thousands of lives were not lost trump compared hurricane maria to what he called a real catastrophe like katrina. forced to flee violence in myanmar say they're skeptical about every patry ation deal the country has struck with bangladesh human rights organizations and refugees themselves are concerned they could be worse off if they go home from young gone in the. report. a deal has been made for their return but the refugees continue to stream into bangladesh by now familiar accounts of violence and terror. the killing shooting and setting fire to our homes we could not tolerate this then we crossed hills and jungles and reach here after travelling for three days maine maya and bangladesh have agreed on a plan to repatriate some of the more than half a million rahane just who fled here since fighting began in late august and what the united nations has described as textbook ethnic cleansing the humanitarian crisis in bangladesh is profound but it's unclear how many wrote him to be allowed to return here to me in modern ranger are excluded from citizenship mean mouth or it is however required that they prove residency in order to return but many refugees say they fled without their papers that they were birds in the violence for those who can return there is little bit after the human rights organizations saying half of all right hinge of villages in rock and state have been burned the government says it will appropriate or land and that those who are allowed to return will be sent to a resettlement camp in northern rakhine withrow hinge or unsure whether it's safe to leave bangladesh and the repair tree asian process many feel is designed to keep them out of me and mark the growing humanitarian situation in bangladesh is expected to worsen as the flow of refugees there continues. al-jazeera. and people from myanmar's or hinge or hindu community are also crossing into bangladesh about one hundred twenty families have so far arrived in refugee camps last month the bodies of forty five hindu villagers were found in mass graves in rakhine state the on mars military denies killing them blaming muslim fighters instead. they slaughtered hindu people for seven days we were completely surrounded and cordoned off the area when they went to another area that's when we managed to escape we had to cross a river in a canal and all this while my children were hungry and asking for milk and rice i could only give them water a man accused of being one of the world's most wanted people smugglers has appeared in court in italy prosecutors say he's made any read and their retreat and responsible for sending thousands of people on boats from libya to europe hundreds of them drowned on the way but the rich korean government and the man's lawyers say it's a case of mistaken identity and he's an innocent refugee. israel's prime minister has given his first public response to the reconstitution process between rival palestinian parties fatah and hamas benyamin netanyahu demanded that hamas recognize a state of israel dismantle its military wing and cut ties with iran meanwhile the new palestinian unity government held its first cabinet meeting in gaza reports. after the grand gestures of welcome on monday twenty four hours later the palestinian unity government was keen to show it was in gaza to do business smiling on the image of egypt's president sisi the broker of this deal prime minister rami handler presided over an initial cabinet meeting receiving reports on the humanitarian crisis and calling on israel to ease it. is a low was. the prime minister has called for the siege on gaza to be lifted and for the international community to help lift the unjust blockade the situation in gaza is tragic. but many want rapid action from the new government itself among them protesters who say they lost palestinian authority pay without cause ten years ago during the factional fighting. to say we are victims of division of my salary has been cut since two thousand and seven we one hundred dollars to restore our salaries because this money is for our children the p.a. is imposed more recent measures reducing salaries to its staff and electricity supplies to the strip which may have succeeded in pressuring hamas but at a cost a few hours power a day for instance isn't enough for the treatment plants to work each day the restrictions remain more rule sewage pause into the mediterranean so far hamas remains publicly patient we were hoping. not to think in the first moment but i think you know we expected from the government to take more actions. at a restaurant overlooking the sea representatives of all garza's political faction sat down to lunch hamas leader ismail haniya so. the reconciliation had to work at all costs but this is just the latest display of unity between these two rival political factions over the last couple of days so far though this really has been display what we're waiting for is to see whether this new unity government will stick whether it can address the humanitarian crisis that still prevails here in gaza. and dollars said the magic word was quote the enabling of the unity government to take real power in gaza echoing the message the president mahmoud abbas who met egypt's security chief in the occupied west bank earlier in the day our boss told egyptian media that the restrictions on gaza would only be lifted once it was clear the new government was fully up and running the initial handovers of ministries did take place on tuesday but more might depend on the next round of talks between fatah and hamas in cairo next week a bid for the bridging ten years of division eric was it al-jazeera gaza al-jazeera is demanding the release of his journalist model saying has now been in prison in egypt for more than nine months he's accused of broadcasting false news just spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny authorities have refused to allow him to be transferred for specialist treatment on a broken arm and injury he sustained in jail. the french fundamental has voted to adopt a controversial anti-terrorism bill that will bolster the powers of the security forces extra powers for police and intelligence services under a state of emergency will become permanent critics warn civil rights will be infringed but authorities argue the law is needed to protect citizens at ash about their reports some paris. a majority of m.p.'s passed the new counter-terrorism law that incorporates many of the special powers given to the police under the state of emergency the interior minister says it's a way of combating an ongoing threat. we are still in a state of war even if i saw my have suffered some military defeats more than two hundred people have been killed in attacks in france in the past two years in mass a people pay tribute to the latest victims two women killed in the city's train station on sunday under the new law police can raid homes and arrest suspects without warrants and place people under house arrest without a judge's order rise ation while the government says that the new law will protect people critics say gives the police far too much power and will lead to human rights abuses they say falls under a permanent state of emergency and. suddenly we find ourselves with a law which integrates the tools of the state of emergency but without the country being in exceptional circumstances. it's a prospect which frightens tony a few days after the paris attacks and twenty fifteen police raided his house during the night terrifying him and his young children. i found myself on the floor face down hands tied my children and wife taken to the back they shouted where are the weapons. placed under house arrest until a court declared his innocence he believes he was targeted for being muslim and belonging to a shooting club. secure fulfillment issues i don't trust well if you shoot for sports and you are a muslim it's not acceptable it was before the attacks but now it's assumed you are a terrorist. the government's due to lift the state of emergency next month but tony worries that the new law will encourage discrimination and lead to all the french people having their lives turned upside down natasha buchla al-jazeera paris three u.s. scientists all found gravitational waves in space have won the nobel prize in physics barry barish kip thorne and raina west led a team which observed for the first time ripples of energy created by saws exploding and black holes colliding but i'm shy and predicted so-called gravitational waves over a century ago by their existence remained largely theoretical. the new c.e.o. of ober has met transport officials in london as a ride sharing company five sikkim stacks the license in the city last month transport for london deemed unfit to run a taxi service every few years to renew its license because of how the company reports criminal offenses and how it performs background checks on its drivers. more evidence is emerging of divisions at the top level of the us government over the iran nuclear deal the agreement with iran signed by the obama administration and five other nations in twenty fifteen has to be certified by the us president every ninety days the next said line is coming up in twelve days donald trump has hinted he's going to try to undo the deal but his defense secretary appears to be contradicting him particle hain has more it was a simple question that greatly complicated the understanding of what the trump administration thinks about the nuclear deal do you believe it's in our national security interest at the present time to remain in the g c p o a as a yes or no question. yes senator i do that doesn't seem to be where his boss is after all president donald trump took his time on the world stage to say this frankly that deal is an embarrassment to the united states and i don't think you've heard the last of it believe me the president said he's made his decision his secretary of defense says it's still being debated but mattis made clear what his advice is the point i would make is if we can confirm that iran is living by the agreement if we can determine that this is in our best interests then clearly we should stay with it i believe at this point in time absent indications to the contrary it is something the president should consider staying with but that's not what the president promised on the campaign trail and he is still facing strong lobbying from those against the deal comes from certain circles in the republican party it comes from the israeli government not so much the goal but from netanyahu himself the israeli professional a lead the civil servants the military they understand perfectly well that this agreement is a useful agreement and postponing any real challenge from the iranian nuclear program trump often says he respects his generals will find out by the next deadline tobar fifteen if that extends to the iran nuclear deal as well political gain al-jazeera washington. now a group of leading psychiatry's sand mental health professionals have declared the us president dangerously mentally ill they have made the assertion in a book called the dangerous case of donald trump n a twenty seven experts give their opinion on trump state of mind but they are questions over whether this is ethically responsible after the one nine hundred sixty four us presidential election the american psychiatric association introduced the goldwater war the caring it's unethical to diagnose public figures without a personal examination that year a magazine had published a survey of psychiatry's survey use on republican candidate barry goldwater who suffered a massive defeat but there's no legal process on so-called remote diagnosis and a court ruling has said mental health experts have a responsibility to speak out when they determine that someone poses a physical danger to others but the books added to dr bandy forensic psychiatric says the group has acted ethically what we are doing here is assessing dangerousness dangerousness is different from diagnosis you don't need to have all the information to be able to assess dangerousness. it is about the situation rather than the individual it is about basically. the person and the influence they have and the access to weapons that they have and we have while we're not making a diagnosis we all agree that we have seen enough to be very concerned that the person appointed to protect the health and safety of the public is actually a threat to those things so we're we're back basically acting on another ethical rule called the duty to warn and it can go further to the duty to protect. it is essentially if someone is a danger to others or the public we have a positive duty to warn and can be legally held really liable if we do not do so and in an emergency situations it can also extend to persons we have not had relationships with basically it is in order to safeguard. the safety and survival of individuals and the public in any other situation. mental health professionals are often called upon to respond to emergency situations we have legal authorization and all fifty states to incapacitate an individual if necessary. remove them from access to weapons and then what that calls for is full evaluation which might then include diagnoses we are calling for a full evaluation essentially there is nothing to exclude the president from. the actions that we would normally take with legal authorization but given that it is the president we are trying our best to inform the public of the danger who may not be aware of the seriousness of the situation and calling on lawmakers to provide for official means for. to allow for an emergency evaluation that is such as through a commission that would help form a separate and independent expert panel who can also recommend the types of evaluations and records that would would help give us a fuller assessment. still ahead on al-jazeera talk and go a new speed record in skiing coming up with joe and spores next to stay with us. welcome back a rare and spectacular feeding frenzies taking place on a russian island in the arctic sea about two hundred polar bears are dining out on the carcass of a whale which washed up last week that amounts to almost one percent of the animals remaining population tourists and also from the area for a glimpse of the pawn a bat banquet. time for sports his jail. thanks very much well number one rafael nadal has survived a first round fright at the china open this was the decisive moment of the spaniards match against the french men's one during the first of two match points and it ended up taking the second set tie break by winning four consecutive points and in his first appearance since last month's us open victory eventually punished four six seven six seven five and down now faces russia as karen catching off in the second round. ended juan martin del potro his giant killing run at the u.s. open in the semifinals of the argentinian in the near quarter was pushed in his china open debut for overcoming europe lions europe wise pablo seven six six four del potro now confronts a total of favorite to try. maria sharapova has reached the last sixteen in beijing the russian was a wildcard entry for her fifth tournament since returning from a fifteen month doping ban sharp of beating fellow russian and catalina mark over six four four six six one. and sharp over says she's relishing her next challenge against world number two simona halep the romanian in the name courts with a much easier passage to the third round she was a set up when her opponent magdalen at a paddock over retired because of illness yeah i mean playing someone is always is always a difficult match and our or us open battle was one of the toughest matches of face against her so you can always take a little bit from from each match that you've played in the past but every new day sets up a new challenge and no matter what the record is against an opponent matter how good or bad the matches have been it's a new chance for both of us and yeah i really look forward to it well many football fans will follow their favorite players on twitter facebook and instagram now imagine a football team put together on social media where the fans influence who they will play next it's happening in the u.k. and assad ahead. games rio ferdinand i want you to do to plan to change your name but this isn't a premier league team this is rebel f.c. . the love of football is what unites us and lines and social media influences and bloggers. the grass roots movement mixes football with entertainment aside from life matches good says of behind the scenes fan punditry pranks and challenges they make up most of their online content or a blow to the first video on you and i went really well from there and i continue to put on instagram twitter where all fans are following and keep up tonight. and some styles who came to see their idols a person at this event in london five one to me today the site and read love to see and each year old stars while the football teams regularly engage with their fans online this is also a chance to meet them face to face. stage. and pose for a selfie there are ten facial media of the whole team in the u k and for years following is growing in five a day but in this interaction here with the fans offline and online but the football team's day is behind their growing. and as one of the world's leading football freestylers tells us a fantasy is key you can actually go out to make you want to see us play next and they can actually have their own plane and as soon as you can engage with the audience that's what takes it to the next level oh right now how you doing a welcome to the final episode of the wembley cup. and that's exactly what spencer s.c. did playing two finals at wembley stadium which pulled in over twenty million online views will end the week on a week to week basis some matches played by these teams average more than six hundred thousand views ter video. online following the. some games receive in the lower leagues of english that is given a chance while most of their followers a million years who keep coming back for more convincing traditional football fans might not be that easy they are dummy larkham don't watch are up for a controversial game while social media football team say they are looking to replace traditional football they do believe their biggest appeal is relatability especially at a time when fans are becoming increasingly frustrated by how commercialized and non-personal professional football has become one church easy to get into like one of those you tube life but which on the face of the too small isn't for me this is a big walking is always going to just be got to be the largest crowd for a football match with nonprofessionals and by the looks of it these amateur footballers have found a winning formula to kick the ball and their businesses in the right direction so to al-jazeera london. the best gays in the world are counting down to the start of the olympic season but one former olympian has already been breaking records british skier graham bell is that the fastest toad speed on skis in sweden he reached an average of one hundred eighty nine point zero seven kilometers an hour as he was towed behind a car breaking the previous mark by more than seventy kilometers an hour but the fifty one year old who last competed at the games in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight has no plans to return to competitive skiing after this and that's all the sport for their more later. thanks joe that's. about do stay with us plenty more world news coming up including 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