the death toll from the worst mass shooting in u.s. modern history could have been much higher. hello this is al jazeera live from doha. also ahead and this is going to. repeat the u.s. president visits storm hit puerto rico meeting with officials he is harshly criticized on twitter. in a rare televised address spain's king comes down firmly on the side of the central government in its standoff with catalonia plus. i think it's clear to me. it's connections with with terrorist groups the u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff tells congress pakistani intelligence services have ties to on groups and has warned of punitive action. thank you for joining as more details are emerging about sunday night's mass shooting in las vegas but police still don't have an answer on why steven patrick i retire with no criminal record carried out the attack let's bring you up to speed with what we know police say that all set up cameras around the mandalay bay hotel room from where he launches a toc it was from here that he opened fire on concert goers below for nine minutes police want to question paddles 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. hearing more stories of heroism from the vegas shooting like this account from a man who found him bleeding after being struck by a bullet. i mean we were getting away and just we came across and he was in the bed of a pickup truck. there is a makeshift tourniquet it was kind of around his knee is clearly wrong spot. just walked up there and he was actively bleeding i just did the bell got it out where it should be 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 said yeah we threw mall in the bed of the truck in we took off to the hospital. over the wall of my pants are already in my shoes for blood so now i when i made it i know i would. you know i'm very thankful that james was there to help me. live not. just on the investigation what. well not much about the killer himself getting some more details about how he planned the attack also those stories of heroism pouring out over the last couple of days and we know that all but three of the fifty nine victims have now been named but let's catch up with the latest in what will be a long and complex investigation. these are the first images from inside stephen paddocks hotel room high above the las vegas strip assault rifles a clearly visible police have now carried out searches of products other properties and found even more munitions. numerous electronic items. two shotguns and a plethora of ammunition. so we have served search warrants at three separate locations that would be the room at the mandalay bay. the muskeg location in the reno location it's also thought that product may have modified some of the weapons used in sunday shooting a.t.f. is participating in that evaluation i can't give you an answer on whether any of them are automatic or not but we are aware of a device called a bump stop. and. enables an individual to speed up the discharge of ammunition i don't want to give you any more details on that but in partner with the f.b.i. the a.t.f. they're sending those weapons back east to the crowd f.b.i. crime lab what's not clear is why a retired sixty four year old accountant carried out the shooting but his longtime girlfriend mary lou danley has now been described as a person of interest steven paddocks family history is also emerging his father benjamin patrick was at one time on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list for bank robbery and thing after president trump also declared without citing any evidence that patrick was mentally unbalanced he was the sick man a demented man lot of problems i guess that will look good to him very very seriously investigators say they're also looking at products financial history described as a high roller he gambled heavily and sent large sums of money overseas. so the investigation is still going very slowly that key question that people here in las vegas want to know is why stephen partic carried out this meticulous attack that took so many lives and at the moment there is no clear answer we're getting some details about his family history some details about his finances but this was a man who was seemingly wealthy on several properties had no real reason to do this remember the f.b.i. say there is no link with any terrorist organizations either here or overseas and president trump of course will be here on wednesday presumably to visit many of those victims in the hospital and he has just said in the last few hours that gun control that issue that is highly politicized here in the united states is not on the table thank you very much for that andy andy gallagher live for us in vegas and as andy mentioned there present donald trump well traveled to vegas on wednesday. his praise nevada police for their response to the mass shooting and dismissed questions about gun reform the attack has reignited the debate over gun control in america tom argument has this report from washington. two days after the massacre by a lone gunman firing hundreds of rounds a minute president donald trump was avoiding the issue of tighter restrictions on guns we started about. once a proponent of gun control candidate trump won the backing of the national rifle association by promising to make gun ownership even easier a promise he's repeated since entering the white house as your president i will never ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms never. each time a mass shooting happens forty nine killed in orlando last year thirty three killed at virginia tech university in two thousand and seven twenty seven at a primary school in connecticut in two thousand and twelve the call goes out to tighten regulation of guns especially in curbing access by the mentally ill this problem of mass execution. is a uniquely american problem despite the fact there's no evidence that we have a higher rate of mental illness than any other country but in february signed legislation that rolled back a regulation aimed at blocking some people with severe mental health problems from buying guns. meanwhile the republican controlled congress has rejected attempts to end a major loophole in existing gun controls most states do not require any background checks for private sales at gun shows republican congressman steve scalise who was critically wounded by a lone gunman just three months ago joined the chorus of condolences for the victims of the los vegas shootings but like his fellow republican leaders schoolies has reiterated his opposition to more gun control even after las vegas trump is unlikely to become a convert to gun control but the latest mass shootings have for the moment at least put a halt to the drive in congress to weaken restrictions on the purchase of guns silencers and armor piercing ammunition tom ackerman al-jazeera washington. the death toll from hurricane in parts of rico has now climbed to thirty four the news comes as the white house says it's preparing a twenty nine billion dollars disaster aid request for congress after hurricane struck by to rico texas and florida present visit in puerto rico two weeks after the island was hit by the powerful storm some officials there including the mare of the capital san juan have strongly criticized u.s. relief 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 event shortly after landing the president praised the military to local officials and members of his cabinet for the emergency response i'm 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 died and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overpowering nobody's ever seen anything like this after learning 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 him 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 have to 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 but we've been given a lot of lives others didn't take donald trump's comments too seriously he is the way he is is like that. but there is. 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 trucks. passage of the polls 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 on touched by government help the president satisfaction with relief efforts is no evidence of the disconnect between the white house this u.s. territory has long been a belief here among the three and a half million u.s. citizens and puerto rico but they're not listened to in washington they call even a vote of draw another a very real concerns they won't be listened to as reconstruction begins she returns the al-jazeera san juan and other world news iraq has stop selling dollars to leading banks in a scottish region and banned foreign currency transfers they're stepping up its retaliation for the current secession vote say t.v. says parliament voted for financial sanctions in order to preserve the interests of the kurdish people iraq's neighbors iran and turkey both with a substantial kurdish minority have also leveled economic sanctions but the kurdish regional leadership has announced plans for presidential and parliamentary elections next month john stratford reports from border post in iraq's kurdistan region. that's an iranian tank you can see on the hill there it's guns or it's pointing towards the kurdish region of northern iraq there are more iranian tanks to the left here and now we've been talking to kurdish customs or sources here they say that on the twenty ninth of september members of the iraqi interior ministry came here and delivered a letter insisting that the iraqis take control of this border crossing and the two others that border the k r j now the kurds have refused the iranian military say these tanks are all part of joint military exercises with the iraqi army that are happening across the border in iran but that is not allaying the fears of the customs of florida keys here to see it. in such a tense political situation it's normal for us to be war discouraged because previously we have faced so many wars and challenges with the displacement of people kurds want a new war yes we understand thoughts between all sides continue to try and find a solution to this crisis iraqi prime minister hyderabadi has said he does not want a military solution but is no doubt that tension is increasing in this region and we understand that those joint military exercises happening across the border between the iraq and the iranian military said to continue for the next few days. to the head on al-jazeera. i'm nor about the money i'm in rwanda gallery in doha when looking at in a victim john called defining technology in the ninety's. to the near future. and launch of sputnik can't spend sixty years since the first manmade object was sent into space. by the springtime flower of amounted. to the first smoke. hanging on to the showers across southern parts of china at the moment some very wet weather into central areas still seeing some big downpours say shanghai not bad old wednesday thursday the right never really too far away but. for shanghai that wet weather just a little further north will continue to stream into southern china mainly to the west of hong kong hong kong should be essentially settle temperatures here at around thirty three celsius if a little on the humid and sunny here with it off across southeast asia the usual rash of showers for many some big downpours there into the philippines northern possible yes showers pushing further south much of borneo seeing the showers in the heat of the day because are also seeing some of the 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the gunman behind the las vegas mass shooting set up cameras around the hotel room where he launched the attack from steven paddle killed fifty nine people and injured more than five hundred twenty opened fire on a concert on sunday the death toll in puerto rico from hurricane maria has now climbed to thirty four u.s. president donald trump told quite reagan officials that they should be proud thousands of lives were not lost in the hurricane trying compare the disaster to what he called a real catastrophe like a train while on his first official visit to puerto rico. and iraq is to stop financial transactions with its kurdish region in italia last week secession referendum iraqi state t.v. says parliament voted in favor of the blockade in order to preserve the interests of the kurdish people the measures a suspected to target the regional government leadership. spain's king has intervened in the crisis over catalonia describing sunday's secession referendum as illegal and undemocratic in a rare public address see accuse. 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 so. 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 they're. the people who are defending what they have to defend the people are ready we will see if the government is ready this week you know the what if you the riot squads reviled within the region were nowhere to be seen the protests were police by local catalan officers 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 dos so much of the destiny we're going to show. 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 catalans and there is still nothing from the spanish 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 the 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 event. but a few hundred meters away from the protest 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 the events from so far remains with the secessionists this is the politics of brinksmanship with everyone waiting to see who will be the first to back down. barcelona 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 islamabad another chance to help on afghanistan before taking what he described as punitive action that top u.s. military affairs officer general joseph dunford lateral approach to trying to effect the change in pakistan's behavior if you think about the coalition we still have thirty nine nations that are part of the coalition in afghanistan and many other interested nations and so you know to answer the question what one thing might change pakistan i don't know if there is one thing that would change pakistan but i find it hard to imagine that we can't get more cooperation if we can fully leverage the multilateral approach with thirty nine nations that are part of the coalition in afghanistan the u.s. state department has ordered the expulsion of fifteen cuban diplomatic staff and has given them seven days to leave the country this comes after the u.s. reduce its staff at its embassy in cuba citing unexplained injuries to american personnel there many have been suffering from ennis's for the past few months caused by alleged sonic attacks cuba's government denies accusations that it was involved in has called the response from the u.s. reckless and hasty. a group of leading. mental health professionals have declared the us president dangerously mentally ill they've made the assertion in a book called the dangerous case of donald trump and it twenty seven experts give their opinion on state of mind but they are questions over whether this is i think lee responsible for the one nine hundred sixty four presidential vote the american psychiatric association introduced the goldwater rule deeming it unethical to diagnose public figures without a personal examination and magazine had published a survey a psychiatrist sues on republican candidate barry goldwater who suffered a massive defeat but there's no legal bar 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 the book's editor dr bandy forensic psychiatrist 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 call 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. a march has been held in defense of women's rights in poland's capital war so demonstrators protested against what they see is discrimination by the conservative government over reproductive rights this comes on the first anniversary of the protests that stopped a total ban on abortion activists say that despite last year's victory their battle isn't over as most terminations remain illegal in poland. germany has long been known as a powerhouse of industrial design and famous for b.m.w. luxury cars siemens high speed trains and other brands the first exhibition to showcase german innovation has opened in qatar scapel nora bird manley has taken a look. at design lab in the center of this exhibition in doha provides a window into some of the most innovative german techniques from the past seventy years from the evolution of the t.v. intricate furniture virtual reality and sport shoes each design has improved leaps and bounds decade by decade. you know looking a back of some of the older designs of some of the. computers and looking at it thinking my goodness how could we even then use those you know twenty thirty years ago looking at what we have now we're so lucky that transmitting design but that's how it all started and that's what we need to show the audience it also traces the development of some of the most famous german cars which have pervaded popular culture germany's post second world war effort to mend it shattered economy so mass production of ferdinand porsches design of the beetle and new designs for the super car porsche. what's what in literally means the people car was one of the first affordable vehicles to be mass produced and now it's the first major car company to announce a push into the mass market with an electric vehicle but it may have taken and the mission scandal to drive the company into a cleaner future two years ago the vaults working group emitted it used illegal software to cheat us diesel emissions tests sparking the biggest industry crisis in its history. it paid heavily up to thirty billion dollars in damages but it's not only an image clean up beat up its principal design a says the future of the electric car may take on an entirely different shape you know we'll be facing a situation to the traditional combustion engine most likely will be reduced by electrical energy and it seems you could say this massive metal blow from the combustion engine disappears but you must design is completely new possibilities. electric car technology has been around for more than a century but with ample supply of oil at the time the combustion engine took the lead but now the future is staring back towards the electric vehicle and it's created a race to sell on a mass scale but many will want to see if the consumers will be as excited as the car makers. nor about a manly al-jazeera doha. it's sixty years since a manmade object was launched into space to first mission of its kind sputnik one was the world's first satellite and was a great achievement for the soviet union the launch was a propaganda coup for the russians during the cold war and kicked off a space race with america there now more than fourteen hundred satellites orbiting the s challenge has more. i have to say this remarkable construction here is one of my favorite things in moscow a silver rocket streaks towards the heavens atop a metallic plume of exhaust it's called the monument to the congress of space leaving us in no doubt about who it celebrating because although it was the americans who put the first man on the moon it was the soviets who scored the early successes in the space race and when asked that ball size satellite called sputnik one became the first manmade object so orbit the earth in october nine hundred fifty seven well that shocks the americans deeply and shook their belief in their own technical superiority they realized that they had to catch up with the u.s.s.r. but the soviets were on a roll the first man in space the first woman in space the first space walk on the first space station those rules soviet achievements yes the americans did eventually take the lead but even these days with the demise of nasa's shuttle program russian rockets are still the only way now for people to get into space. now again i'm fully back evil with the headlines on al-jazeera police say the gunman behind the last vegas mash outing set up cameras around the hotel room where he launched the attack from steven paddle killed fifty nine people and injured more than five hundred when he opened fire on a concert on sunday the u.s. president says he will look at a gun control laws later his show in las vegas on wednesday the death toll in puerto rico from hurricane maria has now climbed to thirty for president trump told officials that they should be proud thousands of lies were not lost in hurricane maria compared a disaster to what he called a real catastrophe like katrina while on his first official visit to the island. sprains king has intervened in the crisis over catalonia describing sunday's to session referendum as illegal and undemocratic hundreds of thousands of castellanos demonstrated against a violent security crackdown during the vote iraq is to stall financial transactions with its kurdish region in retaliation for last week's secession referendum iraqi state television says parliament voted in favor of the blockade in order to preserve the interests of the kurdish people the measures are expected to target the regional government leadership. 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 isn't about another chance to help on afghanistan before taking what he describes as punitive action that says the top u.s. military officer general joseph dunford accused pakistan's intelligence agency of having ties to aunt groups the u.s. state department has ordered the expulsion of fifteen cuban diplomatic staff and has given them seven days to leave the country this comes after the u.s. reduce its staff at its center has seen cuba citing unexplained injuries to american personnel that many have been suffering from illnesses for the past few months caused by alleged tanika tox cuba's government denies accusations that he was involved and has called the response from the u.s. reckless and hasty. you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right after inside story do stay with this. there's a real palestinian reconciliation possible it is a fetus and fighting the palestinian authority is government and gaza. and the west and. i think it has been seen.