i have never considered leaving any books. rex tillerson denies reports he wanted to resign as u.s. secretary of state of attentions withdrawn. a very very sad day from the person.

this is the u.s. president heads to last vegas to meet survivors of sunday's shooting which police say was planned in great detail. you know on maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera oh so coming up aid agencies appeal for four hundred thirty four million dollars to save the lives of revenge of muslims playing massacres in myanmar. turkish court finds forty three former soldiers guilty of trying to kill president won in an attempted coup. in spain stock market takes a hit as catalonia moves ahead with plans to declare independence. the u.s. secretary of state has been forced to deny persistent media reports that he was

considering quitting the trump of ministration three months ago rex tillerson made an unscheduled appearance to refute stories that vice president mike pence and all the senior officials at to persuade him to stay on in july. russia few specifics that have been irani officially reported this morning the vice president has never had to persuade me to remain the secretary of state because i have never considered leaving this post i ventured a question repeatedly for some reason it continues to be mis reported there's never been a consideration in my mind really sure at the appointment of the president and i'm here for as long as the president feels like to be useful to achieving his objectives. let's beat patty call him he's at the u.s. state department in washington and patty if anything this extraordinary conference by rex tillerson only seems to of fuel speculation about tensions with his boss.

it really is an extraordinary moment let's think about this we have the united states secretary of state coming out to refute a report and here is i think probably what brought him in front of the cameras the report is that after a national security council meeting the secretary of state looked at some of the staff and called the president a moron now if we know one thing about donald trump it's that he does not like to be criticized by anybody much less a secretary of state so it interestedly people asked the reporters in the room asked rex tillerson and he was taking questions did you call him a moron and he said i'm not going to get into you know those petty political arguments that just seemed to divide the administration so he's not saying that he didn't call the president of the united states a moron but he is pushing back on the allegations that he had to be convinced to stay inside this administration after being undercut so many times by the president to apparently liked what he saw with rex tillerson he tweeted out this the n.b.c. news story has just been totally refuted by secretary tillerson and v.p.

pence it is fake news they should issue an apology to america in all caps so this is what president likes to do whenever there's any sort of negative reporting he simply calls it fake news and i have to say if you talk to members of his base is key supporters they simply don't believe the news media anymore so that is likely to hold sway now if this is going to continue we'll see because trump does not like to be called names fight anybody if there's more reporting that could put the secretary's position as untenable he is though trying to basically put this back in a box say it didn't happen i wasn't going to leave it think it's important to point out that the n.b.c. news story had four reporters on it and a dozen twelve a dozen sources and you know as president just the personal differences so often when we speak from the state department the issue of trump and to listen in that varying position seems to come up on a number of foreign policy issues. and to listen survive in his post

in the long term future. you know that's the big debate here in washington there's been report after report after reported incident after incident of donald trump undercutting his secretary of state let's start with the g.c.c. crisis we were in this building rex tillerson came out and said it needs to stop the blockade and not just about an hour later with his secretary of state sitting in the front row the rose garden president came out and basically contradicted him and kind of threw him under the bus said rex tillerson and i agreed that the blockade should happen taking credit for north korea repeatedly we've seen the secretary of state come out and talk about diplomacy and he came out over the weekend and said that there are ways that the u.s. directly speaks to north korean officials only to how the president come out and say basically in a tweet in tweets that he was wasting his time talking to the president called kim jong un little rocket man so again undercutting his secretary of state we're seeing a growing chorus of calls from people who really know foreign policy in the country

in this country saying he's not effective and when he speaks to other countries they don't believe anymore that he speaks for the president of states and there are calls for his resignation he's saying right now not leave and not go anywhere that is of course unless president trump changes his mind and his tune stay tuned to twitter all right thanks very much patty called high and say across developments for us in washington d.c. well now president trump himself is expected to arrive in last vegas this hour you'll meet the survivors and first responders of sunday's mass shooting which left at least fifty eight people dead and more than five hundred injured as he left the white house said investigators are learning a lot more about the gunman. well it's a very sad thing we're going to pay our respects and to see the police who doesn't really affect the job or diversion or. you know they're learning a lot more and. that'll be it out to the appropriate times in

a very very sad day for me personally thank you well last vegas police a new details are emerging about the mass shooting suggesting that it was meticulously planned officials say stephen paddick set up cameras in an outside his hotel room to watch for at least a sixty four year old killed himself a swat teams closed in officers found an arsenal of weapons in his room and at other locations across nevada paddocks partner is now being questioned by the f.b.i. after returning from the philippines let's go live now to heidi joe castro in las vegas and so what more are we learning about the paddocks potential motive. right so police at this point say they still have no idea what caused this sixty four year old retired american accountant wealthy by what we've been told by his family and with no political or religious affiliations to commit this mass atrocity

they are hoping now with the arrival of his girlfriend mary lou danley who just returned to los angeles from the philippines last night they are questioning her now as to what she may have seen if she had suspected anything this is a woman who did share two homes of paddick reportedly having been together now for about a few months now according to her family who live in australia she reportedly had no idea this was happening in a bath was sent away by paddick abroad as he was planning to commit this crime now police say that she is not a suspect they do call her a person of interest and she may be the one person who holds the key as to what caused this to happen patrick was described as a loner who had very few friends of any at all the strange for members of his own family and so his girlfriend may just have to be the one person who exists that my

have the answer to this mystery mary and what about president one of the expectations from his visit to las vegas. right so he should be touching down in about half an hour las vegas and according to the white house the president will be here to support the wounded and to meet with the brave first responders who may have saved untold lives on sunday night the president will be visiting this hospital behind me you mc which is the leading trauma center in the city and credited with saving more than one hundred lives on sunday. what trump is not expected to address though but perhaps he'll be asked is gun control the president said earlier that this was not the time to discuss that but he does have an interesting history with his opinions on gun control back in two thousand trump did write a book in which he stated some support for stricter gun control laws but as we know

since he started his presidential campaign and now in the white house he has been avidly supported by the national rifle association he declares himself a supporter of the second amendment right to bear arms in the united states and perhaps most famously after the orlando massacre and after what we saw in paris donald trump had said that people would be more safe if they carried more guns in the future that opinion here may not be so popular in las vegas already some community leaders have said they will host an event to counter the president's visit in which they will advocate for more strict gun control laws we've seen that debate played out over and over again miriam after each mass shooting in the united states really nothing has resulted thus far and that the question after every one of these events is always what will it take will that happen next mariyam right i do joe castro in las vegas thank you well police say the gunman had modified

several of his guns to make them fire far as we've been hearing forty seven in total have been found across three locations with many sent to f.b.i. lab or trees for analysis runnels has mold. this is the gun shop where mass murderer stephen paddick bought part of his arsenal was talking how he was new to the area kind of visiting all the firearm stores in the area firearms laws in nevada where paddock lived are extremely lax says criminal justice expert william souza people are able to. buy semiautomatic. weapons handgun rifles assault rifles people also are able to openly carry. weapons on them in any edition as much as you want there are no restrictions in terms of the amount mr ammunition that you can buy or any modern weapons they can buy for that matter what weapon tatic used in his killing spree is especially

alarming it appears that you know the individual who who did this was was using fully automatic weapon such weapons can fire nine bullets per second that was the kind of gun fire that was coming out of the window the thirty second floor of that hotel and he had massive firepower fully automatic weapons are in most cases illegal. but there is a loophole there are kits available that are legal to buy on the internet that allow an individual with some technical skill to convert a semiautomatic weapon to fully automatic fire police confirmed paddocks gun modified for rapid firing we are aware of a device called a bone stock. and. enables an individual to speed up the discharge ammunition both stocks can be bought online for about one hundred dollars one of the many loopholes in our gun laws in the united states that while it is illegal to

take an existing semiautomatic and transform it into a fully automatic weapon that is illegal and then to own a weapon that's illegal under federal law it's not illegal to sell the kit that allows you to do it. the most biggest massacres for new gun control legislation unlikely with the current political configuration in power in washington d.c. the republican party in control of congress and the presidency you will see no action by either branch of government to tighten up gun laws americans have come to realize that no concert nightclub school or theater can ever be safe from a determined gunman with aids in his heart rob reynolds al-jazeera las vegas. well more on one of our top stories this hour aid organizations appealing for four

hundred thirty four million dollars to save the lives of range of muslims fleeing violence in northern man maher humanitarian work as a struggling to deal with the surge in new arrivals more than eight hundred thousand ranger refugees are sheltering in bangladesh often million of them have arrived in just the last five weeks over half of them children twenty four thousand pregnant women need maternity care and five hundred thousand people need food human rights watch says man was military massacred dozens of revenge on august twenty seventh two days after an attack by wayne jeff i just found in on the crackdown the u.n. increasingly believes that crimes against humanity a being committed it says it's received reports of women and children falling victim to killings rape and forced displacement. well i just got back from a day and i spent a lot of time sitting waiting. for all me and i had stories

in a very violent section so i had them from lots of different age of like of each and he laid it was with me on that they say it's exactly the same we are very very instead of the bad stories and his errors mamma chamchamal reports now from the time kali camp and coaxes bazaar to give you some idea of the scale of this crisis this encampment that we're in right now this didn't exist and cox's bizarre which is on the border of bangladesh you ma'am are more than a month ago now there are at least twenty thousand people here that's according to aid workers we've spoken with as well as some of the army officials that are just beyond that wall there distributing much needed aid to these were hand to refugees now even though aid is being distributed throughout the day fact of the matter is you talked to some of the new residents of this encampment they tell you how much more is needed i met just a short while ago with a young mother she has

a nine month old baby girl her baby's head was burned in the past couple of weeks when her village and me and more was torched she's concerned that her baby doesn't get the medical aid that it needs that she will die and at this point in this camp they don't have the kind of medical supplies for babies that the baby would need in order to be treated correctly the scale of this even in front of your eyes is almost unfathomable it's very hard to comprehend and it seems as though there is absolutely no end in sight for the time being. silicone point us off our living relations why a trip to russia by saudi arabia's king so money is being seen as highly significant. why we will never we excuse me. we were just fine in a. nine ten divided party or out of the shadows by. a prankster and even the

slogan behind had. hell as a semi persistent line of rain this been on and off for a couple of weeks and sichuan to shanghai is back again for thursday and the likelihood of it raining fairly heavily is quite high so this is rather sudden dry a bit of flooding seems possible the feet of the moisture is still there on the south coast a chance there from hong kong back towards vietnam the chances thunderstorms here are also quite high but in between it's dry but as hot as it was for she was about thirty one degrees but that's getting warmer and it looks like friday will be a dry spell rain is gone completely in the forecast in shanghai i think it was a sunny twenty four degrees monsoon rain still falling it's not receding that quickly to be honest to potential develop drank cold cuts and may well keep that

rain back but the heaviest is further south hydrabad back towards carolina and down towards sri lanka the chances of shari rain still quite high on the forecast proves the point so where is dry is still quite warm thirty five degrees crush is about thirty two mark no showers in this particular forecast but they are now reaching as finals as not poor humidity is come down the breeze is picked up down the gulf though house thirty eight is now rather more bearable thirty eight the se humidity has gone down.

documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. good mind are the top stories for you now u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has been forced to deny reports he was talked out of course in three months ago tensions with trump. last vegas police a new details about a mass shooting on sunday that killed at least fifty eight people suggest it was a really planned and aid organizations are appealing for four hundred thirty four million dollars to save the lives of ranger muslims fleeing violence in myanmar as

they struggle to deal with the surge in new arrivals and and a dash. of courting tuckey's convicted forty two soldiers in a major trial linked to the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen forty seven people including many military officers were accused of trying to assassinate president. most of those convicted were given a life sentences on the night of the coup two policemen were killed in the hotel where one was staying a president says it was bombed minutes after he left. huge numbers of people have been arrested over the failed coup many are accused of being members of the good inist movement which the government says orchestrated the attempted overthrow well in fifty thousand people are in jail awaiting court proceedings on charges linked to the coup four hundred eighty one senior servicemen and civilians are on trial in ankara they face charges of murder treason and attempted murder in istanbul thirty

journalists a newspaper executives are charged with being members of an armed terrorist organization and people are still being arrested last week alone more than a thousand people were taken into custody they join tens of thousands of teachers and public sector workers who've been detained meanwhile turkey's president is vowing to take decisive steps to stop kurdish leaders declaring an independent state from iraq or his interim for talks with the iranian president hassan rouhani on kurdish secession efforts both countries oppose their plans to form an independent state they also discussed expanding economic ties through increased gas exports from iran to turkey now at least fifty people have been killed and eighty others injured by an as strike in syria as there is or prominence it's not clear who carried out the strikes in the town of daraa this amateur video reportedly shows the nearby town of may dean being bombed u.s. and russian backed forces

a separate trying to retake the region from i still. saudi arabia's king salmon is is about to touch down in russia for the start of a five day visit the first time a sitting saudi monarch is ever set foot on russian soil thing so mine will have top level talks with president didn't have to sit in the war on syria of course will be on the gender along with discussions on a lateral investments and potential cooperation in the oil markets roy challenges following events for us in moscow why is the saudi king there. well the saudi king is joining a long list of middle eastern leaders he's come on the heels of the turks the jordanians the egyptians the israelis essentially i think hedging bets because of the changing power dynamics in the middle east and i think putin the arch

realist that he years is certainly noticing this he was commenting earlier on today and ruminated is there anything that's permanent in the world so i don't think so in the country i think everything changes and he was saying that basically because he's been asked about u.s. power in the middle east and how whether he was aware that the saudi arabians were would never give up on their partnership with the americans well that might be the case but that doesn't mean that the russians can't do good business with partners in the middle east as well and that's certainly what putin is counting on essentially there is a thawing of relations between saudi arabia and russia going on at the moment the saudi arabians have certainly softens their position when it comes to syria i think the russian intervention in syria has changed dynamic completely and now a saudi arabia is saying that it is giving its supports to the of the russian raney

and turkish brokered the escalation zones so there's some movement there there's also the two can talk about economically they have been cooperating for some time now in curbing output of oil in order to bring oil prices up again the saudi arabians of course would also want to talk to the russians about iran and i don't think they're going to get that much traction on russia perhaps softening its partnership with iran. very much roy chalons watching that trip very closely the saudi king is june in moscow cash money as president says he plans to declare independence from spain in days millions of catalans hope an independent country would remain in the european union but with things really go as smoothly as they're hoping for and see reports from barcelona.

with some of the crowd is difficult to resist particularly when the atmosphere is relaxed and happy as it has been in barcelona. the singalong here is to a protest tune dating to the franco dictatorship when castle and traditions were systematically repressed that every teenager knows the words speaks volumes about the historical enmity toward madrid so secession beckons can catalonia go it alone why not give it a try they say democracy is pure and beautiful they think spain is a proper democracy and. it's not when they are. believing that they have the power to. defeat us from government beyond their money and. our money and they're not returning. you know and they're spending the money that we are shopping for to think things not work for everyone.

to leave spain camp here has all the momentum they think historically this is their time in the sun the idealized version of events is often presented to you here is over. untrained free from the tyranny of madrid's an independent sovereign republic able to make its own way and sit happily among the european community of nations will things would things really be so simple. of course another european country voted for historic change recently to the u.k. to leave the european union but the essence of the argument was similar we want to be free from the control of others. it was convincing enough to win the arguments but now the u.k. is riven with disagreements and the e.u. is blocking its key demands. so when he was pro independence council and m.p.'s how they can possibly stay in the european union when spain would veto it you get an answer slightly less inspiring than the mood of the crowd what happens a couple only get stuck outside the european union as long as i was i would not

like before or after what happened. would be a preferred literally out of the photo to benefit you feel yourself that you did not realize that for example you know the way. bridges the roads are part of the open you know the condition of the stricken exactly like your exit come by you know government it could be the like like like iceland that's what they said well we're not very we are not. real thing goes for economic governance when you know all the difficult comparable questions the u.k. never asked itself borders trade agreements the rights of cattle lands in spain and spaniards in catalonia nobody's bothering to ask about any of it but if they do jump off the cliff to independence they will have the european union to deal with it could be incredibly messy largely al-jazeera in barcelona. or in terms of the other reaction we have seen to this pain stock market has taken

a hit with panicked investors dumping spanish stocks causing countries benchmark index the ibex thirty five to four by more than two percent dropping below ten thousand points for the first time since the middle of two thousand and fifteen at the height of the eurozone debt crisis. britain's prime minister to resign may has been trying to unite conservative party at its annual conference after infighting over breaks in its port action performance the speech didn't go to plan b. phillips reports. she came to manchester hoping to reestablish or thorazine her final day speech was memorable but not as she would have intended. an apology for june's election campaign in which the conservatives lost their majority and went down well i hold my hands are for that i take responsibility i lead to the campaign and i am sorry from there it was downhill

a prankster evaded security and handed the prime minister a document implying she should be fired he was bundled out but how did he manage to get here in the first place is to strange then given the prime minister lost her voice. and it got worse. public sector working together we have bounced back we've created record numbers of jobs. to be to to her credit she carried on insisting that whilst bracks it is inevitable britain remains a global power and we will meet our commitments to international security with the finest armed forces and intelligence services anywhere on the planet. we will build an outward looking britain that cooperates with other nations to

tackle the great challenges of our time like mass migration. and climate change it ended with lettuce falling off the wall behind and sympathy from her husband. the prime minister is trying to convince many doubters both within her party and the country as a whole that she has what it takes she struggled at times in this speech but she's trying to show she has a policy agenda that she's not just an interim leader who will soon disappear off to its ministers were quick to defend the prime minister but that's a lot a lot of die round the world as to whether your party is united behind the prime minister can you tell me are absolutely united behind the prime minister she did the brilliant speech then and really on a fitting you could really feel hugely from the whole you know it was difficult in terms of her cough but you know the whole show. supporters will say the speech show to reserve my best human side her resilience and i will say it was the perfect

metaphor for prime minister for him so much has gone wrong phillips al-jazeera might just. put look at stories making headlines this hour u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has been forced to deny reports that he was considering quitting three months ago to listen made an unscheduled appearance to refuse stories that vice president mike pence had to persuade him to stay on in his post in july to address a few specifics that have been eroni officially reported this morning the vice president has never had to persuade me to remain the secretary of state because i have never considered leaving this post i ventured to question repeatedly. for some reason to be reported there's never been a consideration in my mind are sure that the appointment of the president here for

the president be a lot. of pictures all in all the developments president donald trump has just arrived in last fager as well be meeting with survivors and first responders of sunday's mass shooting which killed at least fifty eight people and injured more than five hundred meanwhile last vegas police say new details emerging about the shooter suggest that it was meticulously planned authorities say stephen paddick set up cameras in an outside his hotel room to watch the police sixty four year old killed himself a swat teams closed in aid organizations are appealing for four hundred thirty four million dollars to save the lives of ranger muslims fleeing violence in northern man mark as they struggle to deal with the surging new arrivals in neighboring bangladesh more than eight hundred thousand ranger refugees are now sheltering there half a million of them have arrived in just the last five weeks. and of course in turkey

has convicted forty two soldiers in a major trial link to the failed coup attempt in two thousand and sixteen forty seven people including many military officers were accused of trying to assassinate president razor type one most of those convicted were given life sentences witnesses next i'll have more news after that.