Save lives and stop the shooter meanwhile police are still trying to establish what motivated Stephen Paddock to open fire on thousands of people attending a concert across from his hotel investigators are questioning paddocks girlfriend who was in the philippines at the time of the shooting because like her lawyer said she had no knowledge of paddocks plans and that she wished to cooperate fully with police had a killed at least fifty eight people on sunday evening before shooting himself as police stormed his hotel room. U. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has denied a report that he came close to resigning over the summer theres never been a consideration in my mind to leave our star at the appointment of the president and im here for as long as the president feels like to be useful to achieving his objectives. A spokeswoman later rejected another claim in the report that tillerson had referred to President Trump as a quote moron earlier this week some commentators were urging tillerson to step down after a tweet by trump appeared to undermine tiller since efforts to deal with north korea. Spains government has rejected castle and calls for mediation in the crisis over the regions bid for independence the Prime Ministers Office issued a statement saying it would not negotiate over anything illegal and will not accept blackmail. This after catalonia is regional president confirmed he will push ahead with independence from spain and urged madrid to accept mediation carlist pidge to morrow said hell ask the Regions Parliament to declare independence after reviewing the results of sundays disputed referendum on the question. Amnesty International Says e. U. Countries of sharply increased the number of people being deported to afghanistan despite the countrys poor security situation more than one thousand afghans were sent back in two thousand and sixteen almost three times more than in the year before the un says violence killed or injured about eleven thousand four hundred civilians last year. The Royal Swedish Academy of sciences has named three researchers winners of the nobel prize for chemistry they are a shock to bushay of switzerland the german born american your name frank and Richard Henderson of britain but their work helped develop cryo electron microscopy a technique that enables scientists to see details of molecules. Not backing down catalonia as leader pledges to push ahead with independence from spain the country looks poised for a major showdown as both the e. U. And madrid urge at hearings to the rule of law im sorry kelly in berlin this is the day